Two teenage girls in the US state of Texas have been arrested for plotting a “mass casualty attack” with pipe bombs and guns, police say.
The girls, ages 15 and 16, were planning an attack at Memorial High School in a suburb of Houston, police told KHOU, an affiliate of the BBC’s US partner CBS News.
The plot – which was shared on social media – was detailed enough that officials deemed it to be credible, CBS reported.
Washington, we have a problem. The United States appears to be retreating into isolationism in ways not seen in a century and a half, with potentially appalling consequences. And we couldn’t be handling it worse if we were Kremlin plants.
If you value the Pax Americana, and you should, we must find some way of persuading our neighbours and long-time protectors not to lay their burden down. Childish abuse won’t get it done. Calling Donald Trump a pro-Russian tyrant will certainly not persuade him or his MAGA supporters to reengage with the world on our terms.
Nasa has upgraded the risk of a potential “city-killer” asteroid colliding with the Earth to 3.1 per cent — the highest level calculated for a collision.
Scientists have warned that a direct hit, which could occur on December 22, 2032, has the potential to release nearly 8 megatons of energy — enough to devastate a city, with the blast radius of about 30 miles.
The object, called 2024 YR4, is estimated to be about 40 to 90 metres wide and is hurtling through space at about 38,000mph. The impact would occur somewhere along a path that extends across the eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian Sea and southern Asia.
Just nudge it to Toronto.
OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre proved one thing over the weekend: he won’t be defined by anyone’s narrative but his own.
For weeks, a debate has been swirling in Ottawa. Fuelled by media, pundits, and unnamed sources, questions have been asked about the need for a so-called “pivot” away from core issues, like axing the carbon tax, and toward a narrative that more directly confronts the existential threat American President Donald Trump poses to the Canada-United States relationship.
I think I found the Delta/Endeavor Air pilot: Kendal Swanson.
FB post August 2023: "Kendal is on path to reach her hours by December where she will be off to the regionals with Delta Propel. I can’t think of anyone more deserving." pic.twitter.com/uUwW3udZjD
— SoTrumpie (@SoTrumpie) February 19, 2025
H/T Neocon
In a triumph for free speech, judges have ruled in favour of a Christian woman dismissed from her job at a school over her religious beliefs
What does a free speech campaigner look like in 2025? Militant, obviously. A bit shouty and emphatic, definitely. Willing to take on all-comers, shielded by an air of supreme self-belief? Incontrovertibly.
How about a shy, slender mother of two with an infectious smile, whose brown eyes film over with tears as she recounts the seven years of hell she has just endured? And who has just celebrated a milestone judgment in the Court of Appeal – but wants nothing more than to disappear from the spotlight?
#WATCH: Karina Gould says Canada as Prime Minister, she's going to create 1 million entrepreneurs…
By fast tracking immigrant approvals and increasing govt backed loans for entrepreneurs to $1M.
This is probably one of the most retarded things I've heard today. pic.twitter.com/iiONqCUP15
— govt.exe is corrupt (@govt_corrupt) February 19, 2025
Where is journalist Travis Dhanraj — previous host of CBC’s Canada Tonight a prime-time news program?
According to speculation online, he is no longer on air due to what appears to be disciplinary action or a leave of absence related to his advocacy for balanced coverage, including the inclusion of conservative voices in public discourse.
An Islamic State-linked graphic is circulating on social media, calling on Jihadists in major European cities to drive into large crowds, as if to emulate the recent actions of an Afghan asylum seeker in Germany. The campaign asks:
What are you waiting for? The streets are full of targets. Run them over!!
Mark Carney, who wants to be your next prime minister, recently released his plan for Canada’s climate policies through 2035. It’s a sprawling plan (climate plans always are) encompassing industrial and manufacturing emissions, vehicle emissions, building emissions, appliance emissions, cross-border emissions, more “green” energy, more “heat pumps” replacing HVAC, more electric vehicle (EV) subsidies, more subsidies to consumers, more subsidies to companies and more charging stations for the EV revolution that does not seem to be happening. And while Carney wants to eliminate the “consumer carbon tax” on “fuels such as gasoline, natural gas, diesel, home heating oil, etc.,” it’s basically Trudeau’s climate plans on steroids.
The government’s fiscal watchdog says a guaranteed basic income program at the federal level could cut poverty rates in Canada by up to 40 per cent.
In a new report, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) says that a Canadian family in the lowest earning group could expect to receive an average of $6,100 in annual disposable income through such a program.
Higher earners could see their income drop because of changes in the tax system to implement the basic income support.
Democrats have cast the Trump administration’s ouster of eight senior FBI leaders as a “purge” and act of “retribution” from a weaponized Justice Department, some likening it to President Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre.”
But former colleagues of the terminated “G-men” say this narrative is backward. FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant evidence via whistleblower complaints and testimony indicating that several terminated leaders routinely used their offices for partisan purposes.
With DOGE, the hits just keep coming.
Elon Musk has used his formidable communications reach to highlight DOGE’s discovery that Social Security, which is going broke, seems to be paying a whole lot of people who shouldn’t be drawing any money at all. With the agency’s solvency window shrinking every year, as fewer and fewer workers contribute while more and more draw benefits, that’s a critical mission.
WTF???
HOLY CR*P
WHISTLEBLOWER: They were incentivized to qualify illegals for LONG TERM DISABILITY to qualify illegals for Social Security FOR LIFE, “So they were set for life”
“They wanted us to try to identify them in such a way that they would qualify for long-term social… pic.twitter.com/woqYi3g6C4
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 18, 2025
H/T XC
Vice President J.D. Vance on Wednesday warned the Ukrainian president against attacking President Donald Trump, saying that ‘badmouthing’ him in public would only backfire.
Vance spoke to DailyMail.com hours after Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky accused Trump of living in a Russian-made ‘disinformation space.’
The extraordinary language on both sides comes at a critical time in the war between Ukraine and Russia, as Trump pushes for a speedy resolution.
Last week the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the erstwhile Prime Minister of Denmark, Nato Secretary General, and fervent supporter of the “rules based international order,” to which Rasmussen has “dedicated much of [his] life,” and that functions as a globalist, antinationalist foreign policy talisman that for decades U.S. taxpayers have financed.
Having returned to the White House, Trump is once again challenging that order with his America first policies and impatience with our allies’ refusal to share the cost of being the “world’s policeman.” Rasmussen fears Trump has “gone rogue” and “no longer exercises his authority over geopolitical gangsters, or becomes abusive toward the world’s most steadfast rule followers” ––by which he means Europeans, especially the Nato nations.
