Thursday, February 19, 2026

Thursday Tidbits

On a cold and cloudy Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) utopian vision runs into reality.

From FrontpageMag, President Trump is deporting the voters whom the Democrats need.

From Townhall, an illegal alien truck driver causes a fatal crash in Hendricks County, Indiana.

From the Washington Examiner, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts approves Trump's White House ballroom.

From The Federalist, the E.U. Parliament officially adopts transgender ideology.

From American Thinker, dogs, beer and bacon can stay, but Islamists don't have to.

From NewsBusters, CNN host Abby Phillip performs a post-Munich cleanup for congresscritter AOC (D-NY).

From Canada Free Press, Californians run away from Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and head for Las Vegas.

From TeleSUR, Argentina is paralyzed by a general strike called by unions protesting labor reforms pushed by President Javier Milei.

From TCW Defending Freedom, left-wingers in the Church of England play the race card over slavery reparations.

From EuroNews, the European Commission convenes an emergency meeting of the Oil Coordination Group after Hungary and Slovakia stop the supply of diesel fuel to Ukraine.

From Free West Media, the security conference in Munich, Germany shows Europe's path to independence.

From ReMixGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz reportedly wants to end anonymity on the interwebz for people who criticize the government.

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian official Gergely Gulyás, the Hungarian government has released the country's crude oil reserves.

From Balkan Insight, digital repression is rife in southeastern Europe.

From the Sarajevo Times, six days of protest in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina over a fatal tram accident conclude, but a new gathering is scheduled for February 21st.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian tourism is presented at a fair in Munich, Germany.  (Have I picked on Munich enough for one post?)

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenia passes legislation to finance rare disease treatments currently available only abroad.

From The Malta Independent, over 150 artists call for the Maltese government to withdraw the country from Eurovision 2026.

From Malta Today, CCTV operators in Bormla, Malta tawt dey taw a putty tat.

From ANSA, according to the NGO Sea-Watch International, a court in the Italian region of Catania has ordered the release of its migrant rescue ship Sea Watch 5.

From SwissInfo, a Swiss AI system "listens" to mountains in order to detect avalanches.

From France24, a French prosecutor seeks homicide charges in the beating death of "far-right" activist Quentin Deranque in the city of Lyon.

From RFI, speaking at a summit in New Delhi, India, French President Emmanuel Macron calls Europe a "safe space" for AI.

From El País, a Spanish police inspector whose accusation of rape led to the resignation of the accused is "devastated" after her identity is revealed on social media.

From The Portugal News, Portugal will attend meetings of U.S. President Trump's Peace Council on Gaza.  (Most outlets refer to the Peace Council as the "Board of Peace".)

From The North Africa Post, a Confederation of Africa Football official denounces the "great injustice" against the Moroccan team in last month's Africa Cup of Nations final.

From The New Arab, Syrian Civil Defense teams rescue a 4-year-old boy who fell into a well near the city of Tabqa.

From Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian Authority claims that Israel opened graves and cut off the fingers of dead landowners to use fingerprints instead of signatures in order to steal land.

From News(dot)com(dot)au, barbers in Afghanistan are under pressure if they trim men's beards too short.

From the Daily Mail, a British couple are sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for "spying".

From NDTV, the Taliban legalizes domestic violence if there are no "broken bones".

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas should be listened to - in Arabic.

From The Daily Signal, the Supreme Court could soon release opinions on some big issues.

From The American Conservative, the recently departed Jesse Jackson was a "complicated man".

From The Western Journal, a 70-year-old black woman whose grandson was killed in Washington, D.C. defends Trump from racism accusations made by the media and Democrats.

From BizPac Review, an ad put out by ICE reaches 20 million views.

From the Daily Caller, Democrats keeps their mouths closed about campaign cashed donated by congresscritter Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), currently indicted for allegedly stealing FEMA money and other charges.

From the New York Post, the Slovakian team has been the surprise of the Olympic hockey tournament, and could be a problem for the U.S. team.

From Breitbart, Riverside County Sheriff and gubernatorial candidate Chad Bianco (R-Cal) promises to support a "path to citizenship" for illegal aliens if he is elected.

From Newsmax, nine members of Trump's Board of Peace pledge a total of $7 billion for relief in Gaza, and five countries pledge to deploy troops.

And from The Guardian, let's all wish the U.K.'s former Prince Andrew a happy birthday.

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