WTF?
Tuxedo cats don’t play around 😂
pic.twitter.com/NCTyI8E3Hz— Antidepressant Content (@depressionlesss) February 9, 2026
Even auto giants know it: the electric car boom is out of charge
“I think the customer has spoken. That’s the punchline,” said Jim Farley, the chief executive of Ford.
The American boss was speaking last week as his company unveiled a $5bn (£3.7bn) annual loss, barely two months after it had booked a shock $19.5bn write-down.
The cause? An aggressive bet on electric vehicles (EVs) that backfired spectacularly.
In 2025, sales of the Mustang Mach-E crossover and the F-150 Lightning pickup truck – once hailed by Farley as the “truck of the future” – went into reverse.
WTF?
NEW: Drunk driver slams into the front of a preschool in Freehold Township, New Jersey, hits a mother and her children.
68-year-old Angela Arrigo, who was reportedly picking up a child, was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated.
The back of the car was seen… pic.twitter.com/DAlMpqeMlk
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 18, 2026
Can the U.S. finally just shut up about Canada’s defence spending?
Our trailblazing Prime Minister was at the podium in Montreal. “Over the last few decades,” Mark Carney said, “Canada has neither spent enough on our defence nor invested enough in our defence industries.”
That has to change, he added, setting out plans for far more domestic spending on military hardware because “the assumptions that defined decades of Canadian defence and foreign policy have been turned upside-down.”
WTF?
When an attempted record-breaking jump goes wrong 😳 pic.twitter.com/93VneCH2tB
— Iris Seraphina (@iris_seraphina) February 18, 2026
Andrew leaves police station after Epstein scandal arrest
He left the police station under the cover of darkness. Slumped in the back seat of a car, wild-eyed and exhausted, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor looked like a man with the full weight of the past and the future on his shoulders.
A man born in a palace as Prince Andrew spent his 66th birthday at a police station on Thursday, becoming the first member of the Royal family in modern history to be arrested.
By nightfall, after nearly 12 hours in custody, he was released under caution with more questions to come. The magnitude of his fall from grace seemed etched on his face.
Epstein’s New Mexico Zorro Ranch was a 10,000-acre compound with its own mansion, runway, hangar, surrounded by wide-open desert that made escape impossible.
Multiple survivors say they were trafficked there, summoned to his bedroom and sexually assaulted. The ranch also hosted… https://t.co/afy9dAb0Wl pic.twitter.com/US9utMkqBY
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 15, 2026
h/t patthedog
WTF?
A doorbell camera captured the moment a FedEx driver was delivering a package to a suburban home when things suddenly took a turn. Just as he was about to set the box down, a person wearing a black hoodie and mask rushed up and tried to grab it straight from his hands. The driver… pic.twitter.com/ia8NuZX82J
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) February 19, 2026
‘SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE’: Smith addresses Canada’s population jump outpacing European countries
CALGARY — Premier Danielle Smith’s Chief of Staff, Rob Anderson, says Smith will address staggering immigration numbers on Thursday in a televised address to the province.
Anderson was reacting to a post by David Coletto on X, CEO of Abacus Data Canada on Wednesday.
Watch the tv address of Premier @ABDanielleSmith to Albertans tomorrow.
This absolute insanity needs to stop. It will. https://t.co/iCjlOHF9ld
— Rob Anderson (@FreeAlbertaRob) February 18, 2026
GOLDSTEIN: Ten-year plans are meaningless, which is why Carney loves them
There are few things in politics more indecipherable or meaningless to the average Canadian taxpayer than a government announcing a 10-year plan, which is why Prime Minister Mark Carney keeps doing it.
Ten-year plans give the government lots of runway before it has to produce results.
Canadian Doc ‘Coached’ 26-Year-Old To Qualify For State-Sponsored Suicide, Says Family
The family of a 26-year-old Canadian man who was recently euthanized is speaking out against the law that allowed for his death after a doctor reportedly “coached” him on how to qualify for physician-assisted suicide.
Canada will have to accept higher U.S. tariffs and unthinkable concessions
As the renegotiation of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement looms, game theory suggests Ottawa may have to accept higher American tariffs and make previously unthinkable concessions.
The calculus has fundamentally changed. In previous negotiations, all three countries shared a commitment to the principles of free trade which ensured co-operative outcomes. Now, the United States sees trade through a different lens entirely, one revealed in recent trade deals and policy statements. And while dismissing anything from President Donald Trump’s administration has become fashionable, the logic of their position isn’t entirely without foundation.
Someone with common sense snuck into the Globe and slipped this in.
Trumpism is Working
Maybe, just maybe, we owe defenestrated Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley a small apology. For her ‘out there’ views on numerology, if nothing else. After all, she was rolled as leader on Friday the 13th. I have no idea if she also foolishly walked under an upright ladder, then kicked a black cat while gazing into a broken mirror before heading to the partyroom spill vote. But come on Sussan with two ‘S’s! Even we sceptics of numerology know you should have made sure the spill was held on a different day of the month.
Andrew’s Arrest Over Epstein Files — China Ties Cast Shadow Over Investigation and Starmer’s Govt
LONDON — British police have arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — formerly known as Prince Andrew — on suspicion of misconduct in public office, Thames Valley Police confirmed Thursday morning.
The arrest, believed to set a historical precedent in Britain, came on his 66th birthday. Officers were seen at the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, where the former prince has been living since being evicted from his sprawling royal residence. At least six unmarked police cars were photographed arriving at Wood Farm, his current residence on King Charles’s Sandringham estate, with around eight officers thought to be on site, the BBC reported. Searches were also conducted at an address in Berkshire, likely at the royal estate at Windsor where he previously lived.
Rupert Lowe’s Powellite revolution: He risks splitting the Right
Rupert Lowe deals in the politics of return: illegal immigrants are going back, and so is Britain. The Great Yarmouth MP, formerly of Reform UK, has now launched Restore Britain as a new political party, and on Wednesday evening claimed that it had passed 70,000 members. The launch announcement was marked with a stirring video of Lowe in his farmer’s get-up, as well as a series of semi-ironic nationalist compilations presumably made by Restore’s Zoomer footsoldiers. In one of these, among nostalgic nods to Geoff Hurst and Zulu, 1997 is invoked as the year when everything started to go wrong. Speaking over grainy images of a lost Britain, Lowe sums up his political outlook: “I think the state is bad, and I think the individual is good.”
One area where the state has undoubtedly failed, in Lowe’s eyes, is on the matter of immigration. While Reform has pledged to deport all illegal immigrants, Restore wants to go further. Lowe has promised to scrap the asylum system entirely, also stating last week that “legal immigration will almost come to a complete halt.” The goal is not just to halt migrant influxes but to reverse them. “Net zero immigration is weak, weak, weak. It is insufficient and it is too late,” he said in the speech with which he launched the party. “The barbarians are already in the gates.”
I prefer both his trustworthiness and his policy to Farage.