From Hijra to City Hall: Islam, Migration, and the Rise of Mamdani

By Raymond Ibrahim, Feb 20, 2026 *

Twenty-five years after Muslim terrorists killed 2,800 people in New York City on September 11, 2001, a self-identified Muslim has, for the first time in that city’s history, become mayor.

What is the significance of this, and what does it really tell us?

On January 1, 2026, Zohran Mamdani — 35 years old, born in Uganda to Indian parents, Shia Muslim, former housing counselor and rapper (“Young Cardamom”), self-described democratic socialist — was sworn in as mayor of New York City. He has been described by many, including the President of the United States, as a “100% Communist Lunatic.”

Others accuse him of being a closet Muslim radical working to subvert New York to Islam. Their concerns are not unwarranted (not least since Shia Islam is notorious for internalizing taqiyya, a doctrine that promotes dissembling).

Washington Democrats Raid Police & Firefighter Pensions $4 Billion Pension Surplus to Fund Their Spending Spree, ALL REPUBLICANS VOTED NO

Washington State House Democrats have crossed a dangerous line. Billions stripped from those who serve — millions redirected to political pet projects.

In a brazen vote, they moved to siphon $4 billion out of pension funds meant for law enforcement officers and firefighters — the very people who risk their lives daily — to plug a deficit of their own making.

Every single Republican in the state House voted no.

Jesse Jackson has Died

Cooper Williamson

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the famed civil rights leader who marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and later ran for president, has died, his family says. He was 84.

He died peacefully on Tuesday morning, surrounded by his family, they said in a statement.

Jackson was hospitalized for observation in November, and doctors said he'd been diagnosed with a degenerative condition called progressive supranuclear palsy. He revealed in 2017 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which affects the nervous system and slowly restricts movement and daily activities. Jackson called it a "physical challenge," but he refused to let it prevent him from continuing his civil rights advocacy. His father, Noah Lewis Robinson Sr., also had Parkinson's and died of the disease in 1997 at the age of 88.

Long known for his activism and political influence, Jackson spent his life dedicated to pursuing civil rights for disenfranchised groups both in the United States and abroad.

Japan Endangered by Low Birthrates and Mass Migration

By Daniel Greenfield

A few months before his assassination, Charlie Kirk visited Japan and warned that mass migration was seeking to “replace and eradicate Japan by bringing in Indonesians, by bringing in Arabs, by bringing in Muslims”.

With over 100 mosques and over 400,000 Muslims already occupying Japan, even though 95% of Japanese voters oppose Muslim mass migration, a political explosion was bound to occur.

Now, Japanese voters have delivered a striking defeat to the forces of mass migration with a stunning win for Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, [pictured above] whom the media has already taken to describing as a ‘Trumpian’ figure for opposing mass migration, her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which won its largest victory to date, as did a number of other right-wing parties, including the one Kirk was addressing, demonstrating that voters were tired of mass migration.

A Convert from Islam to Christianity Issues a Sobering Warning.

February 10, 2026 by Robert Spencer 

Epoch Times Senior Editor Jan Jekielek recently interviewed Nissar Hussain at the International Religious Freedom Summit. Hussain has a great deal to tell the world about religious freedom, as he converted from Islam to Christianity and nearly lost his life for doing so, not in Iran, or Pakistan, or Afghanistan, but in the new, diverse, multicultural Britain that the left has bestowed upon a grateful world. Hussain told Jekielek that the situation in Britain is, in a word, dire, and it will be in the United States if we don’t wake up to reality regarding Islam and Sharia.

In a video that Jekielek posted on X Friday, Hussain recounts how Muslims reviled him and his family as “kafir,” “infidel,” “unbeliever,” and “Jew dogs.” Jekielek notes that this was not even close to all: “Men confronted him in the street, spat on him, and cursed him—in front of his young children.” Muslims also menaced Hussain’s life in various ways: “One night he woke up at 3am to see ‘seven foot flames shooting up’ from his car. His car was rammed and vandalized so often that insurance companies wrote him off as a walking liability and refused to insure him…. Young men hurled bricks and other missiles at his house at night repeatedly.” Hussain recounted that he felt as if “all hell broke loose…I was dead and buried.”

Days on End. "A New Day has Begun."

By Thomas D. Pearman* 

Time is all that counts.  I was seeing the musical ‘Cats’ - “Burned out ends of smoky days - street lamp flutters - and then it sputters - and a new day has begun.”  And a new day has begun.  It means not so much to seize a new day - and enjoy it - but that the passing of time is inevitable.  It was sung by the head actress - a cat- who had once been beautiful, glamorous and happy, but is now old, faded and knows she will die soon. 

We are all part of the steady progression of time.  We have come and we will go, just as people before us have come and gone, and just as people after us will come and go.  We will leave great marks, varying marks, or no marks at all as our time has passed.

The passing of time does not escape any of us.  One only has to look at photos of how we looked throughout our life.  It seems situations around us change greatly, and we look older, yet we remain the same person.  It is what is so painful.

It is the desire of wanting to break away from the prison of passing of time that makes us want to do something worthwhile, to strive for success.  It is this quest that will make us happy.  It will allow us to create happy memories as we look back - things we could accomplish - even though we may not be able to do these same things now.

Illinois City Hands Out $25K Cash Payments to Black Residents Under Racist Reparations Program

By Joshua Q. Nelson, Fox News, February 11, 2026:

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson shared a post on X Wednesday defending the City of Chicago’s Reparations Task Force and slamming Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Credit: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s X account.

Evanston, Illinois. will issue $25,000 to 44 residents in reparations payments, the City’s Reparations Committee has announced.

Established in 2019 and approved by the City Council in 2021, the program issues $25,000 direct cash payments to Black residents and descendants of Black residents who lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969.

Evanston was the first city in the nation to pass a reparations plan, pledging $10 million over a decade to Black residents.

The payments are intended to cover housing expenses, Evanston official Cynthia Vargas told the Chicago Tribune.

Underground Bunker Discovered

Carlos Garcia

Residents of a previously serene Albuquerque neighborhood are criticizing city officials' response to the surge in crime allegedly related to renters that built an underground bunker.

The neighbors say there was a rise in stolen cars, stolen packages, and other nuisances after the newest renters moved in. Some of the incidents have been caught on video.

'There was concrete.  There were bricks inside.  It was pretty large.  That was built into the backyard of the house that led into the joining arroyo."*

The Esquibels have been in the neighborhood for several years but noticed the change in the last years.  "We moved here originally because we loved it."  Alandra Esquibel said to KOAI-TV.  We thought the location was great."

The Real Purveyors of Jim Crow

February 10, 2026

Allen West, February 13, 2026

Well, it is Black History Month, and true to form, Marxist leftists, like Sen. Chuck Schumer, need a tutorial reminder of just who the real purveyors of Jim Crow are. Last week, Schumer, a typical useful idiot, ranted, once again, that voter ID is a return to Jim Crow. Well, Schumer, a member of the Democrat party, should simply be reminded that it was his crew who gave us Jim Crow 1.0. Funny, this past Saturday I reached a milestone, my 65th birthday. Yes, I have crossed the Medicare river, not the river Styx.

It made me reflect upon something.

I was born 65 years ago on February 7, 1961, in a “Blacks only” hospital, Hughes-Spalding in Atlanta, Georgia. I grew up in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, the same community that produced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was the cradle of the American Civil Rights movement. My birth was under the first wave of Jim Crow, courtesy of the political party of the jackass. However, before we even get to the Jim Crow history of the leftists, what came before that? Yes, immediately after the Civil War, the southern states, in refusal to fully capitulate, Democrats created what was called “Black Codes” from 1865 to 1867. These statutes encompassed labor control and vagrancy laws, which targeted homeless and unemployed Black individuals as a consequence of labor control measures. As a result, they faced arrest and social restrictions. The purpose of these “codes” was to establish a system of racial hierarchy; they served as a prelude to Jim Crow.

'Potentially Influential Government Officials' in Canada and China Were Paid Excessively by Pfizer

    Dr. Byram W. Bridle, 02/10/26

When I read the article, I found two details in the story to be particularly disconcerting.

First, I learned a new term. Apparently there are “potentially influential government officials (PIGOs)” that pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer target monetarily. This term bothers me and the purpose of the payouts seems to be at odds with conflict of interest policies that are supposed to be enforced in countries like Canada.

Second, alongside China, Pfizer targeted Canada’s PIGOs through a disproportionately large budget. The story focused on the fact that Pfizer may have committed fraud by targeting potentially influential government officials in China with a disproportionately large sum of money (“over ten times the amount of money”) compared to what was paid out to government officials in the United States. However, as a Canadian, I found the following facts to be of concern:

JAPAN FIRST! The Donald Trump of Japan is a woman

Modernity Exit polls from Sunday’s snap election project Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party securing between 274 and 328 seats in the 465-seat lower house—well above the 233 needed for a majority. With its coalition partner, the total could reach as high as 366 seats.

This outcome follows Takaichi’s decision to call the vote just three months after becoming Japan’s first female prime minister. The landslide hands her a clear mandate to advance her agenda.

President Trump has praised her as “a strong, powerful, and wise” leader, highlighting the natural alignment between her vision and America First priorities. The endorsement underscores how leaders who reject globalist orthodoxy are gaining ground.

Takaichi has taken a firm line against mass immigration. She has made clear that rising numbers of illegals and fake refugees will be sent home, choosing instead to strengthen traditional family structures and encourage higher native birth rates to tackle Japan’s demographic crisis—where one-third of the population is already over 65 and birth rates have plummeted.

RFK Jr. Urges US Ranchers to Ramp Up Beef Production

(The Epoch Times)—Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urged American ranchers to boost their beef production while on stage at CattleCon on Feb. 5.

“I’m begging you to increase the size of the herds,” Kennedy said during a discussion with National Cattlemen’s Beef Association President Buck Wehrbein in front of a packed ballroom of cattlemen in Music City Center.

In 1972, the United States had 132 million head of cattle, and that total livestock inventory dropped to 92 million in 2025, the HHS secretary said during Thursday’s event.

“A lot of producers are now, because of fluctuations and the market’s uncertainty, slaughtering the breeding cows, and I’d ask you to stop doing that,” Kennedy added.

America’s cattle inventory has dropped due to years of drought and rising costs, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Born to Be Good: The Science Behind Children’s Inner Moral Codes

By Arsh Sarao 

Five-year-olds know right from wrong.

In a 2025 study, researchers showed young children videos of either a robot or a peer grabbing something that wasn’t theirs or refusing to share. Then they asked a simple question: Was the behavior right or wrong?

The children’s verdict was clear. Stealing and refusing to share were always wrong, period. It didn’t matter whether the bad actor was a playmate or a machine programmed to misbehave.

The children even attributed guilt to the robot, as if it should have known better. “Morality is present even in the youngest children—and it is powerful,” Antonella Marchetti, a professor of developmental and educational psychology known for her work in children’s moral development, said in a press release.

The study naturally invites a question: If five-year-olds condemn wrongdoing, do these judgments begin even earlier—before language?

Chugwater Ranch Rehabs Million-Dollar Racehorses Once Thought Doomed

CHUGWATER — The horses are all warm and chocolate, white and creamy, brown and caramel, their tails calmly swishing as their wide and curious eyes watch farrier Meghan McGann working on the hooves of a fellow horse. 

“This foot isn’t going to look pretty and be comfortable to her,” McGann tells Cowboy State Daily, pointing at a deep notch in the hoof. 

The cuticle was damaged in an injury and, just like fingernails, likely won’t ever grow back correctly. It's dangerous because the notch could catch on something and tear up the horse's entire hoof, so it has to be trimmed. 

McGann's goal, as with all the horses, is minimal intervention. 

Governor Hochul Signs Bill Legalizing Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Steven Ertelt |   Feb 6, 2026   |   7:38PM   |  Albany, New York

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul [pictured right] signed a dangerous bill legalizing assisted suicide, a move pro-life advocates blasted as putting vulnerable residents at extreme risk of coercion, abandonment and premature death while undermining the sanctity of life.

The amended Medical Aid in Dying Act, signed Friday, theoretically only allows mentally competent, terminally ill adults with six months or less to live to request life-ending medication from physicians.

Religiously oriented home hospice providers can supposedly opt out while ensuring patients can kill themselves elsewhere, and violations are defined as professional misconduct under state education law.

The law takes effect in six months to allow for regulations and training.

At the American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU), we don't do comfortable. We do Constitutional. And sometimes the Constitution isn’t easy.

Lori Roman (pictured here).*

I've spent my career fighting for the Constitution, the whole thing, not just the parts that are politically convenient on any given Tuesday.

So, when FBI Director Kash Patel went on Fox News last week and declared, “You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want,” I was concerned. Let's clarify, Director Patel. 

Carrying a gun at a peaceful protest is constitutionally protected. But carrying while committing a crime, such as interfering with law enforcement operations, brings additional criminal charges. Criminal behavior while carrying accelerates the risk to everyone.

The Second Amendment doesn't evaporate because someone is also exercising their First Amendment rights. That's not how the Bill of Rights works. They're not multiple choice. 

13-Year-Old Swims 4 Kilometres to Save Stranded Family

2/4/2026:  

A 13-year-old boy has been hailed a hero by netizens all over the world after he swam around four kilometres (approximately 2.5 miles) to get help for his stranded mother and siblings.

Austin Appleby was on holiday in Quindalup, Western Australia, and enjoying a day in the water with his mother Joanne, 47, and siblings Beau, 12, and Grace, 8.

The family got into trouble when their inflatable kayak and paddleboats were swept out to sea off the West Australian coast around noon.

Montana’s junior senator has thrown his support behind the Trump administration’s push to end birthright citizenship.

Montana Public Radio | By Shaylee Ragar, published 02/05/26, at 5:29 pm, shaylee.ragar@mso.umt.edu.

President Donald Trump’s executive order redefining citizenship was challenged and is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy [pictured here] signed on to a brief supporting the administration’s policy.

Trump’s order relies on a narrow application of the U.S. Constitution’s citizenship clause. It would end automatic citizenship for children of parents who are unlawfully or temporarily in the country. The administration argues such parents are not subject to U.S. jurisdiction.

California Girl Taking on Kaiser Permanente

An 18-year-old California girl is taking on one of the nation's largest medical groups. Chloe Cole alleges that Kaiser Permanente coerced her into transgender medical treatment that she says was grossly negligent and resulted in permanent mutilation and damage to her body.

Cole, who has since de-transitioned, is planning to sue Kaiser, alleging that doctors and staff convinced her and her parents that she should undergo treatments by saying that medical transition was the only way to resolve her gender dysphoria and address her high risk of suicide.

In 2017, Cole says a Kaiser doctor prescribed a puberty blocker for her. In addition to testosterone treatment, doctors recommended surgery and removed Cole's breasts in a 2020 double mastectomy. 

A year later, Cole told her doctor she regretted it.

Virginia assisted suicide bill dies in Committee. Unfortunately, other bills prevailed.

Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, pictured below. 

I have amazing news. The Virginia assisted suicide bill died on February 5 (today) by a vote of 8 to 7 in the Virginia Senate Committee on Education and Health.

Congratulations to everyone who worked with the coalition and/or contacted their state representatives. Lives have been saved by the defeat of this bill. 

Legalizing assisted suicide in Virginia, which is to poison people to death, has been a goal of the assisted suicide lobby for many years.

France Spirals Down EU Wealth List Towards ‘Third-World Status’

The Sunday Times, February 3, 2026:

The French are falling behind the north Europeans and are being caught up by those in the east. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Poles will be richer than them within ten years.

While small countries such as Luxembourg and Ireland have a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita that is more than double the European average, if that average is set at 100 then Germany, the bloc’s biggest economy, is ranked at 116, the UK is 99 and France is 98, according to Eurostat’s figures for 2024, the latest available.

As for the Italians, who were 10.1 per cent poorer than the French in 2020, they are now on almost exactly the same footing, a separate study by the European Commission has found. The GDP per capita at purchasing power parity — a measure of income per person accounting for currency differences — is $59,453 in Italy and $59,683 in France.

The figures are all the more striking because the EU as a whole is falling ever further behind the US in terms of economic clout, analysts say. They have provoked an outpouring of despair from commentators, particularly those on the right. 

Mother's Son Killed by Euthanasia.

Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition interviewed Margaret Marsilla, the mother of Kiano Vafaeian (26) who was poisoned to death by euthanasia in Vancouver by Dr Wiebe on December 30, 2025. This 15 minute video - One Mother's Mission, explains how Kiano died by euthanasia.

Kiano was not terminally ill. Kiano was a diabetic that resulted in him becoming legally blind and experiencing some neuropathy. But Kiano was driven to seek death by euthanasia based on his mental health. 

Kiano's mother explains in the interview how shocking it was for her to learn on January 3, 2026. Kiano was originally approved to be killed by euthanasia in September 2022, but his death was averted, at that time, when his mother launched a social media campaign, with the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, to change the mind of the euthanasia doctor.

World's Oldest Rock Art Discovered in Indonesian Cave

By Michelle Starr, 01/22/26.  

Below see one of several photos published in Nature.

Researchers say they have identified the world’s oldest known cave painting off the coast of  the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a finding that pushes back the origins of symbolic human art by at least a thousand years.

The discovery centers on a red hand stencil found inside a limestone cave on Muna Island, off southeastern Sulawesi. Scientific analysis shows the artwork is at least 67,800 years old, making it older than the previous record holder, a controversial hand stencil in Spain dated to around 66,700 years ago, according to the BBC.

Washington State: Man asks another man his religion, stabs him and his dog after learning he’s Christian

Jan 26, 2026 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer 

KOMO News, January 25, 2026:

PARKLAND, Wash. — A man was shot and killed by deputies after a violent stabbing attack on a victim and his dog in Parkland Sunday morning, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office confirms.

According to the PCSO, the victim called 911 at 6:24 a.m., reporting that he had been stabbed by an unknown man near the S S Quickstop Grocer.

When deputies arrived, the victim was in serious condition and told deputies the unknown man had come up to him and asked what religion he was.

In Memoriam: Bob Kafka: Pivotal National Disability Rights Advocate Passes Away at 79

On behalf of the Board of Directors of Not Dead Yet, we express profound sadness at the news that legendary ADAPT organizer, first ally of Not Dead Yet, and pivotal disability rights advocate, Bob Kafka has passed away at his Austin, Texas home on December 26, 2025.

First, our deepest heartfelt condolences to Stephanie Thomas, Bob’s partner. During this difficult time, we will not forget their important work, instrumental in shaping attitudes and policy in Texas and across the nation, that true inclusion of people with disabilities benefits all of society.

In the coming days, we will provide a longer entry, but for now, please find below from Bob Kafka’s long running podcast, Barrier Free Futures, part of an interview between Not Dead Yet’s late Foundress and President, Diane Coleman, and Bob Kafka. It was Bob who came up with our organization’s name, “Not Dead Yet,” as detailed below: 

Not Dead Yet Files Delaware Lawsuit To Overturn Assisted Suicide Law

Dead Yet is proud to join Sean Curran and five other organizational plaintiffs (Delaware ADAPT, Freedom Center for Independent Living, United Spinal Association, National Council on Independent Living, Institute for Patients’ Rights) in a lawsuit against health agencies in Delaware and their use of the End of Life Options Act (EOLOA).  

Not Dead Yet opposes assisted suicide laws as blatantly discriminatory and extremely dangerous. These laws treat disabled lives as not worth living and people with disabilities as better off dead. It’s time the citizens of Delaware fought back. 

Our lawsuit argues that implementation of Delaware’s assisted suicide law violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.  Delaware health agencies do so by applying EOLOA and steering patients with certain kinds of disabilities (namely, terminal illnesses) away from suicide prevention services and towards assisted suicide. For example, health agencies fail to apply stringent standards for suicide prevention in Delaware to patients with terminal illnesses and instead – by offering them EOLOA – direct these patients to end their own lives. The Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act are clear that this impermissibly treats individuals differently solely on the basis of disability.  

'Exploding Tree' Warning From Subzero Cold Snap Reaches Into Wyoming

A subzero snap of winter temperatures is expected to hammer the Midwest and reach into northeast Wyoming starting Friday. That’s led to a surge of warnings for people to watch out for “exploding trees.”

That’s not something someone just made up, even if it’s a bit of an exaggeration. Extreme cold can cause trees to explode, and it’s likely to take many people by surprise when it happens.

“It can make you jump if you’re not expecting it,” said Shane Smith, former director of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens. “It's pretty rare, but it does happen and could happen across a lot of the country as this Arctic front moves in.”

Montana-Canada Border Traffic Falls Sharply in 2025

Passenger and freight traffic across Montana’s northern border fell sharply in the first 11 months of 2025, with commercial freight seeing the sharpest decline from a for comparable periods in at least 30 years. The number of inbound people crossing also saw the steepest year-over-year percentage declines of recent decades outside of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Data from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics indicates that full shipping container crossings into Montana for the first 11 months of the year fell 21% from its 30-year peak in 2024. Over the same period, individual crossings dropped 29%. The drop comes after years of sharp increases in freight and individual crossings coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Economy and tourism experts interviewed by MTFP pointed to President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff battle with Canada as a likely explanation for the drop.

Top Stories include Minnesota Governor Tim Walz

THE JUSTICE DEPRARTMENT 

On Tuesday, the FBI served subpoenas to five Minnesota government offices, including those belonging to Gov. Tim Walz [pictured here], Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

The subpoenas are related to an ongoing investigation into these Democrats for an “alleged conspiracy to coerce or obstruct federal law enforcement” during ICE operations in Minnesota, Fox News reported.

“Whether it's a public official, whether it's a law enforcement officer, no one is above the law in this state or in this country — and people will be held accountable,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said. 

OMAR FACES NEW INVESTIGATION

Republicans are probing Rep. Ilhan Omar’s alleged skyrocketing personal wealth.

Wyoming Lawmaker Unveils Bill To Make Ivermectin Over-The-Counter

A Wyoming House Representative from Cheyenne wants to make it legal in the state to sell the controversial drug ivermectin over-the-counter.

Rep. Gary Brown, R-Cheyenne, this month unveiled House Bill 13, which would allow people in Wyoming to buy ivermectin without a prescription.

Used in some cases as a horse dewormer, ivermectin garnered controversy during the COVID-19 pandemic when President Joe Biden’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discouraged its use with slogans like, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Serious y’all. Stop it.”

A group of doctors sued federal agencies in 2022, saying they waged a pressure campaign against them to block them from prescribing the drug.

The FDA settled that lawsuit in 2024.  

If it becomes law, Brown’s bill would also specify that the state doesn’t classify the drug as a dangerous substance.

Brown told Cowboy State Daily on Monday that after watching other states pass this change in recent years, “I became really interested in it.”