Trump defeats the supreme leader of Iran in a handful of hours. No wars, no prolonged conflict. Just a single precise decapitation strike
All he had to do was agree not to enrich nuclear fuel
Oh yeah, and the neo Nazi socialists are literally imploding again
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/a-tale-of-two-reactions-iranian-civilians-cheer-american-leftists-shriek-as-trump-strikes-iran/
A Tale of Two Reactions: Iranian Civilians Cheer, American Leftists Shriek as Trump Strikes Iran
In Tehran, chants of, 'Freedom, freedom.' In Washington, calls for impeachment.

In Tehran, the U.S. attack on the regime, dubbed "Operation Epic Fury," was met with cheers and dancing from civilians who were overjoyed at the sight of a strike on the home of an Iranian regime official. "I love Trump," they chanted. In Washington, D.C., left-wing pundits expressed dismay and called for President Donald Trump's impeachment.

Ben Rhodes, the former deputy national security adviser known in the Obama White House as "Hamas," was particularly triggered, posting or reposting at least 18 times between the hours of 3:30 and 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning. The Washington Free Beacon has compiled some of the reactions below.

Tehran

Video circulating on social media shows a group of students in Iran expressing support for US and Israeli military action and chanting 'I love Trump."

U.S. economic growth slowed in the final three months of last year, dragged down by the six-week shutdown of the federal government and a pullback in consumer spending. Consumer spending only rose 2.4% in the fourth quarter, a decrease compared to the third quarter’s 3.5% gain.

Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, said the report reflected a “one-legged” economy boosted mostly by artificial intelligence. A separate report Friday showed that inflation, according to the Fed’s preferred measure, accelerated in December, as the cost of goods such as furniture, clothes, and groceries increased dramatically.

Many households, however, have had to take on more debt to fuel their spending. The saving rate dropped in the fourth quarter to the second-lowest figure since August 2008, when the economy was mired in the Great Recession.

https://apnews.com/article/gdp-economy-consumer-shutdown-immigration-0e5caca783b93eaf2231496e3e0f54f3

Overt antisemitism among online influencers — the folks who often make a very comfortable living from podcasting, live streaming and clip farming — has started to break into the real world.

A notable recent example comes via Tyler Oliveira, a YouTuber who rose to fame with stunts like trying to absorb a swimming pool’s worth of water with paper towels before pivoting to “documentaries” that often purport to expose conservative bugaboos — and who has filmed two recent videos focused on Jews.

The two videos — about Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic enclave in New York, and Lakewood, a heavily Orthodox town in New Jersey — fit a mold gaining increasing traction in the second Trump era.
“How do you combat a group of people chosen by God, practicing rampant ethno-nationalism,” he asked Mike Caldarise, an independent journalist from a town near Lakewood.

“You think moving capital and charging interest is something more valuable than what I do or what?” Oliveira asks a random Jewish man in Lakewood who had questioned his profession as a YouTuber.

The danger, though, is real.

Racist online content is making its way into the real world. Federal agencies are sharing white supremacist memes on social media at the same time that immigration agents have been documented arresting American citizens based on foreign accents.

Oliveira seems to be pushing to extend the same kind of racist dragnet that spurred the federal crackdown in Minneapolis to capture Jewish communities, even if he recognizes this approach may not catch on for the time being.

https://forward.com/news/antisemitism-decoded/808060/tyler-oliveira-kiryas-joel-lakewood/

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/suspect-charged-victim-identified-in-fatal-hybla-valley-bus-stop-stabbing/4067105/

A woman found stabbed to death at a bus stop on Richmond Highway in Fairfax County on Monday evening appears to have been attacked at random, police said preliminary information indicates. A man seen getting off a bus with her was charged in her murder.

Stephanie Minter, of Fredericksburg, was the victim, police said Wednesday. She was 41.

Abdul Jalloh, 32, of no fixed address, was arrested after a store employee on Richmond Highway spotted him the next day and called police.

Fairfax County police said they're investigating any possible motive in the killing. Police put out an alert Tuesday morning saying they were searching for Jalloh, labeling him a person of interest, since he was the last person seen with Minter. By Tuesday night, he was taken into custody on an unrelated theft charge.

Jalloh has a lengthy criminal history, according to Virginia criminal case records, which includes multiple assault larceny, assault and felony malicious wounding charges in May and August 2025.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-secret-service-agents-killed-man-trying-to-unlawfully-enter-trumps-mar-a-lago-2026-02-22/
U.S. Secret Service and local police shot and killed a man armed with a shotgun early on Sunday after he breached a secure perimeter at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, law enforcement officials said.
Trump, who is currently in Washington, was not at the site at the time. The man in Sunday's incident was identified as Austin Tucker Martin, 21, from North Carolina, according to a source familiar with the investigation. Martin was reported missing within the last few days, according to the source.
The incident occurred at a time when the United States is facing a spike in political violence. In 2024, a gunman's bullet grazed Trump's ear during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, and a man later convicted of attempted assassination was spotted hiding in the bushes of a Florida golf course with a semi-automatic rifle while Trump was on the course.
The man was carrying a shotgun and a fuel can, the U.S. Secret Service said in a statement, adding that he was observed at the resort's north gate around 1:30 AM EST.
U.S. Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy confronted the man and ordered him to drop the two items, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said at a press conference on Sunday morning.
The man put down the gas can and raised the shotgun "to a shooting position," prompting law enforcement to open fire, Bradshaw said.
The man was declared dead at the scene. No law enforcement officers were injured.
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the Secret Service "acted quickly and decisively to neutralize a crazy person, armed with a gun and a gas canister, who intruded President Trump's home."
Law enforcement officials did not reveal any information about the motive for the incident. The FBI has taken over the investigation and is collecting evidence from the scene, officials said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-iran-protest-crackdown-death-toll/
President Trump said in a news briefing Friday that 32,000 people were killed during the recent protests in Iran, a far higher number than has previously been reported.

Mr. Trump, who made the remarks while addressing the Supreme Court's ruling striking down his sweeping tariffs, did not offer a source for the death toll. When asked if he had a message for the people of Iran, Mr. Trump said "the people of Iran are very different than the leaders of Iran" and called it "a very, very, very sad situation."

Mass anti-government protests roiled Iran in January until a government crackdown crushed the demonstrations. January 8 and 9 are believed to be the bloodiest, most brutal days in the country's history since the current government was founded in 1979. But an internet blackout has made it difficult to get information about the death toll.

Two sources, including one inside Iran, previously told CBS News that at least 12,000, and possibly as many as 20,000 people have been killed throughout Iran in the protests. One Iranian man was able to get through the blackout and speak to CBS News on a video call, describing what sounded like a massacre of anti-government protesters in a public square. The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency has put the number of arrests at more than 50,000.

Mr. Trump offered support for the people of Iran throughout the protests and crackdown. Meanwhile, U.S. military forces have been building up in the region as he tries to pressure the Islamic Republic to make a deal on its nuclear program.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/jd-vance-minnesota-medicaid
JD Vance announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” more than a quarter-billion dollars in Medicaid reimbursements to the state of Minnesota, escalating Donald Trump’s newly announced “war on fraud”.

Vance said the action was to ensure Minnesota was “a good steward of the American people’s tax money”, part of its crackdown on the state following a fraud scandal linked to residents of the Somali community in Minneapolis, which prompted the administration to send thousands of federal immigration agents into Minneapolis and that resulted in the deaths of two US citizens and widespread protests.

“We are stopping the federal payments that will go to the state government until the state government takes its obligations seriously to stop the fraud that’s being perpetrated against the American taxpayer,” the vice-president said at a press conference in Washington, where he was joined by Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid.

Oz said it was the first time the government had taken such an action against a state. “It’s unponderable that you would take advantage of these precious programs,” he said, adding that while Minnesota was first, other states would be next.

Oz also announced that the administration was imposing a six-month national moratorium on federal funding for people who need durable medical equipment, including prostheses and orthotics. New enrollments for federal funds for such devices would be halted due to concerns about benefit fraud, he said.

Medicaid, the nation’s healthcare safety net for low-income Americans, serves more than 70 million people, including children, pregnant women, older adults and people with disabilities. Minnesota’s Medicaid and MinnesotaCare programs provide healthcare coverage for nearly 1.3 million people in the state, or roughly one in four Minnesotans.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/latin-america/cuba-four-killed-us-boat-violates-territorial-waters-rcna260704
Cuban officials said a U.S.-registered speedboat violated their territorial waters, kicking off an armed confrontation with Cuban border guard troops in which four people on the vessel were killed.
Cuba's Ministry of the Interior posted a statement about the confrontation on Facebook.
U.S. officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A commander of the Cuban border guard was injured and six people on the U.S.-registered vessel were also injured, the statement said.
The statement noted that the people on the U.S.-registered vessel had initiated the firefight.
"When a surface unit of the Border Guard Troops of the Ministry of the Interior, carrying five service members, approached the vessel for identification, the crew of the violating speedboat opened fire on the Cuban personnel, resulting in the injury of the commander of the Cuban vessel," the statement said.
Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla. called for an investigation into the incident.
"United States authorities must determine whether any of the victims were U.S. citizens or legal residents and establish exactly what occurred," Gimenez said in a statement.