TODAY'S NEWS, February 21-24, 2026

Larry Schweikart
Feb 24
8 min read

Updated: Feb 24

HEADLINES: Amazing Zohran fumbles and stumbles in NY; Mexico takes on the cartels; Panama kicks out the ChiComs

THE NEWS OF TODAY IS THE HISTORY OF TOMORROW

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

*First, I am done with X. I got hacked for the third time (Support does absolutely nothing) and was banned once in 2020. So, I am on Truth at @CyberneticsLS a name I had to take because virtually every iteration of my name and/or my businesses were taken. I don't even know what "cybernetics" is nor do I care.

*Second, thank you so much to all the great people in Layton, UT for inviting me to speak at the Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday night. A wonderful artist, Anne Marie Oborn did a portrait of me. Thank you! I'll try to get a picture of that up on Wednesday.

*The new book, America in the 21st Century is out today. You know the drill: if you want an autographed copy, email me at Larry@wildworldofhistory.com and we'll outline a plan.

*Last, I received news Friday that A Patriot's History of the United States WILL get a 25th anniversary ed for 2029!!

IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) The fungus Amazing Zohran insists that New Kabul's $12 billion deficit is all the fault of Eric the Red Adams for not spending enough money. Get it? To a radical socialist/commie, the only sin is not taking more of ordinary people's money to give it to your Marxist thug friends.

2) It is as I have foreseen it. Two years ago I saw the rising DemoKKKrat Civil War over AI/Data Centers. Now, according to Axios, DemoKKKrats are "tapping the brakes" because of "public backlash." Well, 90% of the "backlash" is from higher energy prices which are easily controlled by requiring data centers to supply their own energy. So far, DemoKKKrats are unable to do that. Republicans will, because Big Data is coming and there is nothing that will stop it. But we can make them pay for their own juice.

3) Trump will utter the "name that shall not be named," Lakin Riley, at the State of the Union. DemoKKKrats recoil at that name like a vampire from the cross.

4) Carter Page, one of the Trump people unfairly targeted by the FBI and Mulehead for prosecution under "muh Russia," will get his day in court to challenge the FISA abuses.

5) The Secret Service fatally shot an armed man trying to enter Mar-a-Lago.

6) In case you missed it, the CIA retracted or revised 19 different reports issued in the Zero/Rutabaga era because of "bad tradecraft" or outright bias against conservative groups.

7) Election rigging in Kollyfornia finally hit a wall when, as of today, the top two candidates in the "jungle primary" that was intended to shatter the GOP voter blocs, has done just that to the DemoKKKrats with two Rs now in contention to be the final candidates. Now DemoKKKrats there can't even agree to endorse a candidate.

8) Judge Aileen Cannon just blocked release of Count Dooku (Jack Smith's) files in the Trump case there, calling it a brazen strategem.

9) No details but per Seth Keshel, Republicans have bounced back to a lead in PA voter registration.

10) Louisiana has begun restricting food stamp purchases.

11) An ID man is accused of shooting his sister with a crossbow. Is this what banning guns will look like?

12) File under "I told you so in 2024" when I warned the DemoKKKrats of (then) "three civil wars" that they cannot win. One was "Israel/Jews v. Hamas Murder Pirates/Pales." Well, I was right and a new DemoKKKrat report says so: Cackles' Gaza statements hurt her. But if she had said the opposite, that would have hurt her too, because the DemoKKKrat Party has two totally opposite, embedded elements in their coalition---Jews and Hamas Murder Pirates. Oh, and while I absolutely do not believe that most things Trump does are "5-D chess," this one may well be. He Truthed that the Oleaginous Butyraceous Gruesome dropped out of the presidential race. This is a very clear and deliberate attempt to KEEP HIM IN. Sorta like Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos to keep Cankles in the primary vs. Zero back in 2008.

13) The Department of Ed step by step is shutting down, moving yet two more programs to other agencies.

IN THE EPSTEIN FILES NEWS

14) That didn't take long. Now the New York Slimes is whining that the Eppy Files should NEVER have been released. Gee, why, Slimes? Not enough Trump and too many Molochmunchers? (For history's sake, remember this one? "Lawmakers Criticize Justice Department for NOT Releasing the Epstein Files." This all reminds me of the commie anti-war protesters in 1940 who were marching to keep the U.S. OUT of the European war . . . up to the minute the Nazis invaded the USSR. Suddenly they literally turned their "US OUT OF WAR" signs around and had slogans such as "AID THE USSR NOW!" Ah, must be wonderful to live on the Continent named Hypocrisy.

15) Annnnd . . . of course he was. The loony-tunes shooter at Mar-a-Lago whom security forced into room temperature was "obsessed" with the Eppy Files.

16) An AK lawmaker's chief of staff was arrested on child exploitation and sex trafficking charges. Don't care what party he's in, dump him in the Hades collection truck.

17) Communist Broadcasting System (CBS) news contributor Peter Attia resigned due to Eppy contacts. This guy was particularly disgusting as he refused to leave his "post" when his one-month-old son had a heart issue and was hospitalized and his wife begged him to come home, but he was too busy with Eppy. This is the same evil snot who was "too busy" to look at the China Virus data, even though that was his primary purpose at the Communist Broadcasting System.

18) In Mediocre Britain, Peter Mandelson, who had already resigned as Labour adviser due to Eppy mentions, now has been charged with "misconduct." Interesting euphemism for kiddie-diddling.

19) Now we learn that Eppy may have stashed secret files across the U.S., making for a new version of the movie "Rat Race" to see who can find them first.

20) Eppy's plane was found in a GA aviation graveyard.

IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS

21) TX companies end migrant hiring.

22) Meanwhile, Kollyfornia, which is out of money, is spending $35m MORE on illegal "assistance." May this state drop into the sea. I'm looking forward to Chandler Bay.

23) On top of deportations, the WH is launching a two-pronged strategy to prevent states from counting illegals in elections. This is the way. Let's review: since the 2024 election, Trump has deported 3.5 million illegals (say, half of those voted) and the number of Ds leaving the party has now reached close to 2m. That's over three million DemoKKKRats NOT on the rolls for 2026 already. Think of what it will look like by November.

IN CULTURAL NEWS

24) Belief in "creationism" isn't that common, with only about 17% of Christians holding that view. But almost half believe in "intelligent design."

25) Americans are searching for ways to combat the "loneliness" epidemic.

IN ECONOMIC NEWS

26) The DOW plunged over 800 on the tariff news, with companies apparently thinking that, in fact, President Trump will indeed prevent them from using child labor. IBM shares fell the most in 25 years on AI fears.

27) Elon Musk and the Department of War have reached an agreement to use Grok in classified systems. Ahhhh, isn't this how "War Games" started?

28) Mortgage interest rates dropped to a 41-month low.

IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS

29) Me-hee-co took out the largest cartel boss in the country, El Mencho, and retaliation raids took place all over Puerta Vallarta, forcing Americans to shelter in their haciendas or high-tail it for the border. It was a major shoot-out, with 62 people dead.. Jeff Childers, in his "Coffee and Covid," does a terrific job of chronicling the transformation of Claudia Sheinbaum, Me-hee-co's Numero Uno, from saying she would never help the U.S. to the moment she accepted U.S. military help to erase ol' Mencho. Here is Jeff's history lesson:.:

November 2024 — Sheinbaum vows that she’ll never ever cooperate with the U.S. military on drug enforcement, tariffs be damned.
January 3rd — Venezuelan President Maduro ‘relocated’ by special forces from Caracas to N.Y. federal penitentiary.
January 21 — less than three weeks later, President Sheinbaum ships 37 cartel figures to the U.S. for prosecution.
February 22 — President Sheinbaum’s military cooperates with the US military to take out the country’s top cartel boss.

He also points out that in less than a year Trump has either arrested (Maduro) or vaporized the top two drug runners in this hemisphere, and along with nuking the drug boats, American drug overdose and fentanyl-related deaths have plummeted.

30) But wait! It gets better. Trump "quietly" got Me-hee-co to hand over 100 major drug leaders before the raid.

31) The Soviets back in 1980 took their hockey loss like men. The Canucks insist that "overtime rules" were why they lost to the USA. Sniveling little moose-abusers. Not only did the US men win, but so did the women, and an American Alysa Liu, whose father fled Commie China, took first in freeskating since forever. Sigh. I remember the incredible Dorothy Hammill and had such as crush on Linda Fratianni and Janet Lynn. See Jennifer Sey's take on all this. Meanwhile, President Trump wasted no time in inviting the men's team to the SOTU Tuesday night. "I'll send a military plane," he said, as the team erupted in cheers. "The Punisher," Sec War Pete Hegseth, labeled the U.S. goalie the "Secretary of Defense" for his amazing save. Meanwhile, in what is getting to be predictable behavior from women, the women's hockey team declined a trip to the White House. Lib, educated, affluent (mostly ugly) women are going to choke the life out of the USA.

32) Oh, the Huff Post thinks waving the American flag during ceremonies is a "turn off." No, it's only a turnoff for commie lesbian spoogedimples who hate America. Patriot's love it.

33) This is how serious it is getting in Chy-na: the regime there is arresting people for showing videos of overcrowded trains. Meanwhile, in Japan, employees and executives of one of their trains had to make a public apology---all of them---for being late with one train. 34 SECONDS late.

34) UK students won over $20 million in a settlement with University College, London about disruptions in their education and lives due to goofball China Virus closures. 6,500 of them!

35) Some are saying there will be a civil war---a civilizational war---in Mediocre Britain. I say nay nay. The Islamic Wokified Whackadoodles of the World (IWWW) have already won. It will be a mopping up op for them.

36) Panama has formalized the deal to exclude the ChiComs from holding the port facilities on the Canal. Yet another massive win for the Trump administration.

IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

37) HBO's new "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" brings a non-woke, knight-in-shining-armor heroic story to the screen, generating 13 million viewers in its first three days. I am watching Prime's "Dark Winds" season 4, starring the great Zahn McClernon (who also directs) as Sheriff Joe Leaphorn in a 1970s drama set on the Navajo Indian Rez.

38) Netflix stock has crashed after Susan Rice, the hideous right-hoofed henchman of the Zero administration, promised "retaliation" against Trump supporters if DemoKKKrats win. They won't.

39) Da Bears (Chicago Bears) are making plans to flee the hellhole that is Benghazi-by-the-Lake to IN, which, amazingly, would give IN TWO pro football teams and IL none. Now, if they can just convince the Ben-Gals to leave Cincy . . .

40) Actor Robert Carradine committed suicide at age 71.