Originally published Feb 20, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
Recapping Trending, World, U.S., Political, Market, Culture, Sci-Tech News from February 13-19, 2026
Here are the TOP 10 NEWS TAGS for this Time Period:
- DNC Insurrection
- Epstein Files
- Iran Watch
- Anti-ICE Terror Attacks
- AI Watch
- Transgender Hockey Shooter
- CBS Talarico Interview
- DNC Criminal Media
- Mamdani Watch
- Potomac River Sewer Spill
A. TRENDING
- 3RD TRANSGENDERED MASS SHOOTER IN LESS THAN ONE YEAR KILLS SELF, WIFE, SON – A man presenting as a woman opened fire at a Rhode Island hockey game, killing his wife, his son, and then himself. The killer was Robert Dorgan, who has a long social media history of making violent threats, including to Kevin Sorbo and Alec Jones. He threatened people online saying, “Keep bashing us, but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK.” It could have been worse had a male bystander not intervened, causing the shooter to pull out another gun to shoot himself with. Our publisher, Bill Collier, has a Final Thought on pg. xx that goes deeper on this story.
GO DEEPER ON TRANSGENDER HOCKEY SHOOTER
- FIRST MAJOR ARRESTS HAPPEN IN EPSTEIN FILES – Britain and France have made the first major arrests connected to the Epstein Files while the U.S.’s Department of Justice has announced there are no more files to release, and no more redactions to be unredacted. The highest profile arrest is in Britain where former Prince Andrew was arrested. At home, former Trump strategist Steve Bannon has taken the biggest hit, with emails and texts suggesting he was working to help Epstein overcome his broken image AFTER he was convicted of pedophile-related charges. Bannon has denied the characterization.
We are beginning to suspect that the reason the Trump administration continues to protect the truth from coming out is that they believe the damage to the U.S. and Israel would be worse than whatever happens as a result of hiding such an abominable truth. We note that in the Old Testament prophets, the two great sins charged against Judah and Israel were child sacrifice and whoredom. The truth behind the Epstein Files reveals an international class of “leaders” who have been engaging in both at the most extreme, darkest depths of both whoredom and child sacrifice. Fear the Lord, not men, President Trump.
- RUSSIA AND CHINA JOIN IRAN MILITARY EXERCISES AS TRUMP CONSIDERS NEXT MOVE – President Trump has been moving more U.S. military assets, including carrier groups, into the Persian Gulf region as he threatens war with Iran while continuing to engage diplomatically with Iran. China and Russia have participated in a joint military exercise with Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. At home, the President faces a potential congressional challenge to his authority to start a war with Iran. While protests continue sporadically in Iran, and reports of explosions continue to leak out, the regime appears fully in charge as it continues to slaughter the opposition.
- XI’S HOLD ON CHINA NOT SO SECURE AFTER ALL – Signs within China point to instability continuing in the wake of Chairman Xi’s recent purge of an attempted coup. The coup appears to have been led by the-then second most powerful man in China, Zhang Youxia. Zhang was well-respected by the military, and they appear willing to send public signals they continue to support him.
That signal came through their newspaper, the Liberation Army Daily, which featured an article signaling support for an historic figure like Zhang Youxia. That historic figure is Zhang Guotao, who broke with Mao Zedong in the 30s. This was the first of six similar articles released following the reported arrest of Zhang Youxia.
- POTOMAC RIVER SEWAGE DISASTER TRIGGERED BY DNC INCOMPETENCE, TRUMP PROMISES RELIEF – HHS Secretary Kristi Noem is accusing Maryland’s State Democrat leadership of gross incompetence that led to a catastrophic environmental disaster in the Potomac River. Millions of gallons of sewage water were released into the Potomac because of a faulty pipe.
Noem said, “Thanks to gross mismanagement by Maryland’s Democrat leaders, hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage has reportedly been dumped into the Potomac River—flowing straight through our nation’s capital and endangering millions of people, wildlife, and the entire DC region’s water supply.”
The President has responded by pledging to use Federal resources to attempt to clean up the mess. DC Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has officially declared a public emergency and requested Federal rescue.
- AS ANTI-ICE TERROR ASSAULTS CONTINUE, SENATOR CLAIMS OPERATION IS FOREIGN-FUNDED – The terrorist assaults on ICE agents in the lawful commission of a Presidential order are decreasing, but hardly ending. Public schools run by insurrectionists have built children’s armies, taking them away from learning and into the frontlines of their insurrectionist war.
Senator Jim Banks (R-IN) has sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, urging her to investigate the foreign funding of the terrorist operation. He wrote, “I urge you to investigate foreign influence behind anti-ICE activism. Progressive groups across the country are organizing protests, economic boycotts, and school walkouts to oppose immigration enforcement, they are inciting the obstruction of federal law.”
- NOTE: We support the rights of Americans to lawfully protest ICE action until it interferes with the lawful commission of a Presidential order. We do NOT support the use of children as political weapons whipped up into an anti-American frenzy by a treasonous class of Progmericans, the leftist public-school teachers.
GO DEEPER ON ANTI-ICE TERROR ATTACKS
- JUDGEFARE INSURRECTION EXPOSED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES – An article in the New York Times called “The Plan for a Radically Different Supreme Court Is Here,” exposes the Progmerican ideological capture of Federal judges and its plans to only accelerate the acts of insurrectionist judges.
The organization cultivating and identifying potential and existing jurists willing to rule based on social justice (Progmerican Rule of Law) over Individual Justice (American Rule of Law) is called the American Constitution Society (which is, in real spirit, the Progmerican Social Justice Rule of Law Society). This is the society the Biden committee used to select the 235 judges now working as one in opposition to the American republic, in lock step with Progmerican rule of law.
Jeffrey Toobin of CNN echoed the plan the article exposed, saying “For now, under Mr. Brest, the A.C.S. seems headed for an approach that looks like the one that Democratic politicians have so far adopted: aimed more at opposition to Mr. Trump’s record rather than on a specific, alternative vision for the Constitution. In his opening message to the group, Mr. Brest described the A.C.S. as building ‘a bulwark against overreach by the Trump administration and the Roberts court. Mr. Brest has pledged that A.C.S. will continue its Biden-era focus on judicial appointments … As for what those judges will stand for — as opposed to what they stand against — Mr. Brest has no clear answer.”
- VA HIGH COURT GIVES GO-AHEAD FOR NEW GERRYMANDERING REFERENDUM – The Virginia Supreme Court has just given the insurrectionist DNC state the go-ahead to push a referendum that will effectively cancel 4 U.S. House seats for conservatives. DNC Virginia looks to cement its hold on American soil by effectively making it impossible for non-Democrats to ever win in the state again. The referendum, the new district map, will be voted on starting this March through mid-April. The move followed the GOP’s failure to secure a gerrymandering scheme favorable to their party in Indiana, a state they fully control.
The courts have failed at all levels to recognize the constitutional violations of gerrymandering as a principle, which allows political parties to create geographically unnatural voting districts to assure their party cannot be defeated in a general election ever again. Now, millions of conservatives will be effectively disenfranchised from the voting rolls. They will be effectively taxed without representation. SCOTUS continues to allow this unconstitutional practice.
GO DEEPER ON GERRYMANDERING WARS
- COLBERT DEFIES NETWORK, SPREADS MISINFORMATION ABOUT RESTRICTIONS ON TALARICO INTERVIEW – Progmerican Late Night Host Stephen Colbert was told by CBS News that his scheduled interview with Texas Democrat Candidate for Senate James Talarico would be required to include an opposite counter, mainly another Democrat candidate running against him in the same Senate Primary.
Stephen Colbert used his show’s dwindling platform to push forth the lie CBS news simply did not want Talarico on the show altogether, claiming, “He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast. Then I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on, and because my network clearly doesn’t want us to talk about this, let’s talk about this.”
The action is seen as a direct challenge to the new head of CBS News, Bari Weiss, whose department was behind the decision. As of this writing, CBS News has doubled down on its counter to Colbert’s claims, but no overt action has been taken in response to what was an overt act of misinformation intended to undermine the credibility of the company that pays his salary. This was not the act of a whistleblower, it was the act of an information terrorist, an agit propagandist, a Marat Molotov-cocktail thrower.
GO DEEPER ON DNC CRIMINAL MEDIA
- UK LOOKS TO “SOCIALLY TRANSITION” 4 YEARS OLD – The United Kingdom’s Department of Education is set to issue guidelines for transitioning children to genders of their choosing. The current draft reveals the department plans on allowing schools to “socially transition” children as young as four. The policy “acknowledged that there is a lack of good evidence on the long-term impact of social transition on young people, but it is clear that social transition should be viewed as an active intervention that may have significant effects on the child or young person in terms of their psychological functioning and longer-term outcomes.”
Maya Forstater of the biological-sex human rights group Sex Matters, responded to the report, stating “Schools are still being left with the idea that they can facilitate ‘social transition’ – which remains undefined – and that they should negotiate this on a case-by-case basis. They are being encouraged to think that children have a ‘birth sex’ as well as some other concept of sex. This has no basis in law or reality, and undermines safeguarding. It should be clear by now that allowing children and parents to think that a child who starts their education as a girl can graduate as a boy or vice versa is a dangerous fairy tale.”
- MAMDANI’S HOLD ON NY HIGHLIGHTS DNC ISLAM IN PRACTICE – If you want to get a sense of what DNC Islam rule is like, New York’s new Mayor, DNC Islamist Zohran Mamdani, is putting to flesh those policies. Already, Israeli companies are being forced out, the Muslim call to prayer is polluting New York airspace, and Mamdani is threatening to raise property taxes by 9.5% if New York state doesn’t give Mamdani the bloated budget he wants (a budget that is almost as much as the entire state of Florida).
Now, Mamdani is also bringing in violent radical Islamists into his government, which includes a former CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) staffer. CAIR is considered a terrorist organization by Americans, though our own government so far has failed to recognize this reality. The operative, Faizi Ali, will now be New York City’s chief immigration officer. Expect an army of violent Islamist radicals to be imported to their new American caliphate HQ, New York City, a fallen city.
B. HEADLINES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
- EUTHANASIA ADVOCACY GROUP MAKES BANK PUSHING SUICIDES IN CANADA – The euthanasia advocacy group “Dying with Dignity” is apparently making millions hawking suicide to Canadians, suicides that have already seen the mentally ill and the medically neglected counted among their victims. In 2024 alone, Dying with Dignity had $9 million in tax free assets. The latest figures haven’t been released yet, but in Canada, suicide advocacy groups are treated like religious groups in America, they don’t pay taxes. The profit for pushing death is high.
- WASHINGTON DEMS PLUG SOCIALIST DEBT HOLE WITH POLICE, FIREFIGHTERS’ PENSIONS – Democrat “lawmakers” in the insurrectionist state of Washington passed legislation that essentially raids the pensions of police and firefighters to the tune of $4 billion. They hope to use the stolen funds to plug a deficit in their budget caused by their own bloated socialist programs.
One recipient of that stolen money will be the “Climate Commitment Account,” which is a de facto DNC-CCP political slush fund that helps arm its street fighters we see across America on a regular basis. These street fighters have been terrorizing cities and burning down businesses for years now. They will receive over half a billion dollars, or 12.5% of the Police and Firefighters pension fund.
- HINDU MOBS ATTACK INDIAN CHRISTIAN HOMES – After Indian Christians refused to denounce Christ, a mob of Hindu Indians attacked their homes, destroying them. Four families, 25 believers, were affected by the assault, which was carried out by 20 villagers. Attacks by Hindus against Christians have only increased under the Hindu nationalist Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide President Mervyn Thomas said of the attacks, “It is deeply concerning to witness the grave and unacceptable assault and humiliation these families have been subjected to on account of their religion. Even more alarming is the failure of the police to protect these vulnerable citizens, which has emboldened the perpetrators. We call upon the district administration and state authorities to intervene as matter of urgency, ensuring the safety of the affected families, restoring their rights, compensating them for the loss of their homes, and holding those responsible to account under the law.”
GO DEEPER ON CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION
- SCIENTISTS THREATEN PLANET WITH PANDEMIC IF WE DON’T END GLOBAL WARMING – A team of Romanian researchers appear to be the tip of the spear of a new climate change content marketing strategy involving dangerous bacteria. The researchers have discovered bacteria in ice cores from 5,000 years ago that appear immune to most current antibiotics. The researchers warn if global warming continues, the melted ice could release these bacteria, leading to a global, catastrophic pandemic.
- LAKE VICTORIA IS FALLING TO A GREEN TOXIC BEAST – The world’s largest tropical lake, Lake Victoria, is going through changes that most people now fear might be permanent. The lake is losing freshwater ground to the spread of a green patina that brings with it toxins rendering the water contaminated. The lake touches the lives of millions of people in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The culprit se
