Tuesday – February 17, 2026

Fat Tuesday / Mardi Gras

– National Random Acts of Kindness Day

– My Way Day  (Nothing to do with Sinatra, unless you count him living his life as doing it ‘My Way’)

– National Cafe Au Lait Dat (Coffee with steamed milk)

– Fasnact Day (I’m having one)

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1801 – Thomas Jefferson is elected the third President of the United StatesĀ 
(The House voted to break a tie)
1827 – Chester Stone gets a patent for his washing machine
1865 – Shermaan marches through Columbia, SC and torches the town in his wake
1925 – The first issue of The New Yorker hits stands
1938 – The first color television is demonstrated at the Dominion Theater in London
1958 – Pope Pius XII declares St Clare of Assisi to be the patron saint of television
1960 – Martin Luther King Jr is arrested in the Alabama bus boycott

1968 – The Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Massachusetts
1972 – The Beetle overtakes the Model T as the best selling car
1998 – The US Women’s hockey team wins the first Olympic Gold
2002 – Germany enacts law requiring pig farmers to spend 20 seconds a day with each pig

2015 – The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon premiered on NBC

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

TRUMP ON AF-1

– ON NEWSOM AND AOC IN MUNICH

– HILLARY CLINTON GOT SOME ATTENTION FROM THE PRESIDENT TOO

– OF COURSE, THE SAVE AMERICA ACT RECEIVED SOME SUPPORT

– TALKING ABOUT CUBA AND WHAT’S HAPPENING THERE

– AOC ADDED A SCREW UP ON GEORGRAPHY

– NEW FRAUD STORY FROM NICK SHIRLEY — IN CALIFORNIA VOTER FRAUD SEEMS TO BE RAMPANT

– JASMINE CROCKETT CONTINUES TO DELIVER NEW NONSENSE — ALMOST DAILY

– SWALWELL KEEPS TRYING TO SMEAR TRUMP WITH EPSTEIN FILES — CNN CORRECTS HIM

– CARVILLE HAS A MESSAGE FOR LINDSEY GRAHAM — ‘YOU ARE A LOSER!’

– OBAMA — ABOUT THOSE ALIENS, WHAT I MEANT WAS…

– JEN PSAKI IS NOW PUSHING A CRAZIER THEORY ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES — IS THIS A PIVOT?

– CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST (POLITICAL GRIFTER) JESSE JACKSON PASSES AWAY AT 84

 – JESSE’S APPEARANCE ON SNL, READING ‘GREEN EGGS AND HAM’

More News From DC

–  D.C. STINKS AND WILL SMELL EVEN WORSE WHEN IT WARMS UP — THE POTOMAC MESS

–  MARYLAND’S MAYOR IS NOT HAPPY WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TAKE ON THIS

– THE U.S. AND IRAN ARE TALKING IN GENEVA

–  U.S. REP RANDY FINE LIGHTS UP THE LEFT OVER MUSLIM CALL TO BAN DOGS IN NYC

General News

– PREDICTABLE? SHOOTING AT R.I. YOUTH HOCKEY GAME REPORTEDLY DONE BY ANOTHER TRANSGENDER KILLER

 – THE CRAZY VIDEO OF THE RINK AS THE DEADLY INCIDENT UNFOLDED

– HYATT CHAIRMAN THOMAS PRITZKER IS STEPPING DOWN — ANOTHER EPSTEIN-LINKED PERSON

– LOST FACTORY JOBS AT KENTUCKY PLANT — THE PEOPLE BLAME FORD, NOT TRUMP

OLYMPICS

– TEAM USA WOMEN’S HOCKEY — HEADED BACK TO THE GOLD MEDAL GAME AGAINST CANADA 

– HOW MUCH DO OLYMPIC ATHLETES MAKE? (PODIUM POSITIONS MATTER)

– LINDSEY VAUGHN RETURNS HOME – SHE CAN’T STAND UP JUST YET

– DID YOU WATCH THE U.S. WIN GOLD IN THE ‘MONOBOB?’ (GREAT FINISH)

Other News Catching My Eye

– ANDERSON COOPER WILL NOT BE COMING BACK TO ’60 MINUTES’

– R-I-P SCREEN LEGEND ROBERT DUVALL – GONE AT 95

– A-I HAS REPLACED HOLLYWOOD — CHECK OUT THIS 3:15 ACTION FILM – TOTALLY A-I

– DO WE REALLY NEED TO RE-OPEN THE KURT COBAIN CASE? (SOMEONE THINKS SO)

– YOU DON’T NEED TO GO TO AUSTRALIA TO GET A GOOD PLATE OF KANGAROO