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Today's News with Larry Schweikart

Today's News with Larry Schweikart

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  • TODAY'S NEWS, February 17-18, 2026

    TODAY'S NEWS, February 17-18, 2026
    Feb 19 2026
    IN POLITICAL NEWS Mixed voter registration trends: Democrats outpacing Republicans short term in Pennsylvania, while GOP gains ground in Arizona’s Pima County. Speculation increases over a possible retirement of Samuel Alito. Renewed attention on admissions that the first Trump impeachment was strategically motivated. Broader scrutiny of extremist figures across the political spectrum. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies at 84. New allegations of voter irregularities raised in California and Georgia. Teachers’ unions linked to anti-ICE school walkouts. Elon Musk comments on Christian teachings amid broader public discussion of faith. Reports that the Defense Department may reconsider ties with Anthropic over AI security concerns as rapid AI automation accelerates across industries. Routine staff departures within the Trump administration. Major sewage spill near Washington, D.C., sparks infrastructure scrutiny. Avalanche in California leaves eight skiers dead, one missing. DOJ investigates Portland schools over alleged racial discrimination. New York City mayor advances property tax proposals amid deficit concerns. IN EPSTEIN FILE NEWS Additional historical scandals resurface in connection with newly reviewed files. Business leaders, including figures tied to Hyatt, resign following renewed scrutiny over past associations. IN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION NEWS State Department revokes over 100,000 visas for individuals flagged with criminal records. Fatal crash involving suspect fleeing ICE draws renewed debate. Local police cooperation with ICE increases significantly. IN TRANS NEWS High-profile violent crime involving a transgender suspect reignites debate over mental health and public safety. IN ECONOMIC NEWS U.S. industrial production rises 0.7% in January; factory utilization climbs; durable goods orders jump 7.2%, driven in part by aircraft and AI-related demand. Trump announces a $33 billion natural gas facility project in southern Ohio. IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS Xi Jinping addresses China’s military via video link; reports note Chinese aid activity involving Ukraine. Strategic concerns grow over Svalbard’s Arctic positioning and Chinese presence. IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Robert Duvall dies at 95. Five-year anniversary of Rush Limbaugh’s death marked with presidential tribute. James Van Der Beek dies at 48. Major League Baseball Players Association head resigns amid federal probe. Josh D'Amaro replaces Bob Iger as Disney CEO. IN MEDICAL NEWS MIT researchers report early success using sound waves to reduce Alzheimer’s plaque. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya appointed CDC director. AND FINALLY… Rescuers save 51 dogs after Arkansas shelter collapse. Larry SchweikartRock drummer, Film maker, NYTimes #1 bestselling author A Patriot's History (concept trailer) - https://vimeo.com/40949423Buy Larry a coffee - http://buymeacoffee.com/larrys Want more Larry Schweikart politics, current events, and history? Visit www.wildworldofpolitics.com and become an INSIDER. You'll get exclusive content and ongoing video series. Check out more of Larry Schweikart's take on current events, history, and more on AmazonX: @LarrySchwe94560Truth Social: @CyberneticsLSGettrLinkedInFacebook: @LarrySchweikart Learn more about Wild World of History, the premier site for the nation's top homeschool history curriculum based on the New York Times #1 bestseller, A Patriot's History of the United States, by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen. www.wildworldofhistory.com
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    17 mins
  • TODAY'S NEWS, February 14-16, 2026

    TODAY'S NEWS, February 14-16, 2026
    Feb 17 2026
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) Here is a sober and sane assessment by Shipwreckedcrew of what Pam Bondi is doing and what her remarkable accomplishments are, despite all the Epsteinoid panicans. She will be remembered as a great and extremely effective AG. She just released the FULL Eppy file with no names redacted, over 3.5 million pages. I imagine there will be some late night reading for the pedos this week. 2) This is headed for the VA Supreme Court, but a VA judge put that state's obscene redistricting plan on hold.3) Trump's administration just required absolute receipt verification for every dollar spent. This is a good X post on exactly what that means. Oh, and ol Elon's push for Medicaid data release? Elon wins. ("Finish him!") 4) President Trump will sign an executive order requiring Voter ID. 5) This is the way. Housing and Urban Development has launched an investigation into the Muslim city that is inherently destructive and divisive and in violation of civil rights. 6) The FAA is pushing mandates to require merit-based hiring and pay only for pilots. 7) From 2018 to 2024, the FBI opened 1,200 illegal probes into American politicians, journalists, religious leaders, and academics. 8) Fat Fani Willis is now potentially on the hook for $17 million in Trump attorney's fees and is wriggling. 9) A former team USA figure skater was shot and killed in front of a Starburqa by a convicted ex-felon. 10) Of course they are: CO has introduced a bill to legalize prostitution. IN THE EPSTEIN FILES 11) Another resignation results from Eppy: the top lawyer at Goldman, Kathy Rummier. Then Dubai's DP World CEO, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was caught in the Eppy Pig Sty and resigned. 12) Yale prof David Gelernter was suspended after his name came up in the Eppy files. He was known for losing vision in one eye and feeling in his hand when he opened a package (unknowningly) from the Unabomber. 13) Aaaannnnd . . . the owner of a popular school photography company was mentioned in Eppy's tomes. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 14) ICE has a long term plan to turn warehouses into detention centers. Doesn't sound like Trump is pulling back in any way, shape, or form. So far, ICE has acquired seven of these babies. It's a $38 billion expenditure, so this ain't temporary. IN TRANSOID NEWS 15) The sponsor of so-called "GayDays" (i.e., homosexual celebrations) at Disney pulled out, leaving the festivities in limbo. 16) Two more big "detransitioner" cases are headed to trial. 17) Goooooood. SpewMore is introducing legislation to make the homosexual rainbow flag a congressionally designated flag. This will have a big backlash. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 18) Here is the story of Fed Ex's demise: it was sold to cost-cutting Indians. IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS 19) Rubio had an amazing speech at Munich. 20) Irena Slav on the collapse of the carbon credit market. 21) US embassies are raising cash from foreign countries for the 250th birthday party. IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS 22) AI wars are heating up as Disney sent a cease and desist order to Bytedance for a "pirated library of Disney's copywrited characters from Star Wars, Marvel," and other Disney properties. As Zero Hedge put it, this amounts to a "billion dollar movie in just one prompt." I know the Eppy files are, ahem, sexier (pardon the pun) but this is where the real 21st century battle is unfolding, of humanity's right to itself. 23) What's in your wallet? Snoop Dogg's credit card was declined while trying to purchase a cheeseburger and chicken wings at the Winter Olympics. 24) Ex-NFL star Tre Johnson, dead at 54. IN MEDICAL NEWS 25) High caffeine intake is associated with significantly lower risk of dementia. So I should be safe. 26) A scientist gave himself brain damage by using a secret audio weapon trying to disprove Havana Syndrome. AND FINALLY . . . 27) A policy of placing defibrillators in a TX city's neighborhoods has cut deaths by heart attacks from 10% to 47%. Larry Schweikart (@WallsOther) Rock drummer, Film maker,NYTimes #1 bestselling author Link for Patriot’s History Vimeo https://vimeo.com/40949423 Link to buy larry a coffee http://buymeacoffee.com/larrys Larry SchweikartRock drummer, Film maker, NYTimes #1 bestselling author A Patriot's History (concept trailer) - https://vimeo.com/40949423Buy Larry a coffee - http://buymeacoffee.com/larrys Want more Larry Schweikart politics, current events, and history? Visit www.wildworldofpolitics.com and become an INSIDER. You'll get exclusive content and ongoing video series. Check out more of Larry Schweikart's take on current events, history, and more on AmazonX: @LarrySchwe94560Truth Social: @CyberneticsLSGettrLinkedInFacebook: @LarrySchweikart Learn more about Wild World of History, the premier site for the nation's top homeschool history curriculum based on the New York Times #1 bestseller, A Patriot's History of the United States, by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen. ...
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    10 mins
  • TODAY'S NEWS, February 12-13, 2026

    TODAY'S NEWS, February 12-13, 2026
    Feb 14 2026
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) I had this on Wednesday, but it's sooo juicy I had to repeat it: Trump has revoked and rescinded the "greenhouse gas" finding by the EPA, opening the door for more growth and better affordability. But it also opens the doors to the few mental institutions left standing as the DemoKKKrat Terrorists are acting like Lulu Lemon just ran out of see-through crotches. The New York Slimes absolutely moans "Trump Allies Near 'Total Victory' in Wiping out U.S. Climate Regulation." TOTAL VICTORY. When was the last time any administration claimed that? As best I can tell, it was aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in 1945 when the Japanese acknowledged a first class ass-kicking. Anyone remember that EPA chief Lee Zeldin said he would drive a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion? Cult, meet dagger. 2) Speaking of cults, though this more properly belongs in international news, but a transoid shooter in Canada was just the latest to prove that these people are mentally in the same category as frybread. The Hoax News media cannot even begin to report this stuff honestly. ALL transoids need to be screened for mental loopiness.. This BOY, over 6 foot tall, was upset that even after his tranny transition he wouldn't be "petitie." 3) And another cult took a blow, that of the "2020 Election was Legit" (better known as "81 Million Votes my Ass") as President Trump ordered the CIA to turn over all 2020 election intel to a lawyer who had been involved in "Stop the Steal." I hope President Trump realizes that unless he and John Radcliffe personally pay a visit to the globalist coupsters inside that scum agency, they won't hand over anything except A F "I Voted" sticker. 4) Per Seth Keshel, the last of the McTurdite candidates, Karrin Taylor Robson, dropped out of the AZ governor's race yesterday, leaving Andy Biggs, my (good) Congressman to take the seat from the evil Hobbit. 5) A ChiCom businessman currently in jail is behind the biolabs that the FBI hasbusted. 6) President Trump announced numerous new court nominations. Oh, and if Trump is displeased with Pam Bondi, you sure couldn't tell it by his latest statement. 7) President Trump pardoned five former NFL players including the great Dallas Cowboys guard Nate Newton. IN EPSTEIN NEWS 8) Goldman Sachs top lawyer resigned due to, ahem, "mentions" in the Annals of Eppy. "Best massage ever, but not your kind of massage, she tweeted. Now she calls Eppy a "monster," but then gushed at a "day of joy" and called him "Uncle Jeffrey." 9) A French former culture minister resigned from his post at a cultural center after the Eppy files named him. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 10) The Small Business Administration has banned non-citizens from getting SBA loans. 11) DHS stripped deportation protections from Yemanis, sending them home. Meanwhile, two Pakistani nationals were arrested in a $10 million Medicare Fraud scheme. 12) Not only did Tom Homan say special agents are staying on the fraud investigations in Skinny Minny, but also said they had located 3,500 kids lost by the Rutabaga administration. IN CULTURAL NEWS 13) And here we go. Now Muslim activists in New Kabul (NYC) are trying to get dogs banned as pets because they are "non-Islamic." Why don't you let this rectalgiblet know where you stand and adopt a rescue today? IN TRANSOID NEWS 14) This beauty queen says she was stripped of her title because she refused to endorse transoidism. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 15) Not sure I'd be celebrating this as Spotify seems to be but it says its developers haven't written a line of code since December due to AI. I'm betting said developers are shipping out resumes right now. As this techhie writes, the role of the software engineer is shifting from writing code to managing AI robots. Elon Musk says that soon working will be optional. Well, gee, it already is for 50% of the DemoKKKrat Terror Party. But he also predicts prices for goods will drop dramatically and people won't even have to save for retirement any more---not that many do today. See Jeff Childers' discussion of this in his "Coffee & Covid" column today. This study, meanwhile, says AI is failing at over 95% of jobs. Sorta like an illegal. David Blackmon, the Rush Limbaugh of Energy, says really the whole AI race only comes down to one question, "Us or Chy=na?" 16) As Martin Lawrence's character would say in "Bad Boys," "this s . . .t is about to get real." Yes it is. Microsoft's CEO says that most white collar jobs---get it, not just tech?---will be fully automated in the next 12-18 months. Challenger showed that fully 7% of the job losses in January were due to AI. Folks, forget H1Bs: this is the threat. Mercor just hired thousands of lawyers, doctors, writers, and thousands of "white-collar contractors" to . . . wait for it . . . train its AI to take their jobs. Oh, and my little techless friends, it gets better. Anthropic warns that its Claude could be used for "heinous crimes" ...
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