Archive for February 2026

photo credit: rollcall.com You won’t want to miss Simon Rosenberg’s most recent interview with IDP Chair Rita Hart. Here is a link to Simon’s previous August 2025 interview with Chair Hart. Follow Simon Rosenberg/Hopium Chronicles on Substack and other social media outlets. Be a paid subscriber to help support the work. Posted on YouTube February 17, 2026: “Excited to share…Read More

O.K., he wasn’t exactly MAGA. Father was driving up East Washington Avenue while the little kid in back thought he would explode as the imposing State Capitol loomed ever larger through the windshield like a vision from the Wizard of Oz. How great must be this thing called “Gummint!” If Wisconsin were to build its […] Source link davidblaska.comRead More

The collapse of nuclear arms control is not returning the world to Cold War stability, but pushing it into a more complex and less governable nuclear order. As treaties lapse, latent up-arming capacity, compressed decision times, and multi-actor deterrence dynamics combine to raise systemic risk. This article examines how the erosion of formal limits—rather than malign intent—has made nuclear escalation…Read More

This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Feb. 16, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. An artificial intelligence data center development venture has signed a multimillion-dollar deal that will allow it to consume over 40% of a Pennsylvania town’s excess water supply. PennLive reported on Monday that Carlisle Development Partners, a joint venture created by developers Pennsylvania Data Center Partners and PowerHouse…Read More

From the recent gutting of the Washington Post to the rightward lurch of CBS, the sheer proliferation and variation of media failures and attacks on the press during Trump 2.0 are difficult to grasp. Regulatory bodies have become political weapons. Major news organizations have complied and retreated. Media ownership has consolidated in the hands of a few feckless billionaires. Taken…Read More

Gaslighting: When the Conversation Quietly Shifts Political language can illuminate.It can persuade.And sometimes, it can redirect attention so deftly that you almost admire the craftsmanship. In recent weeks, constituents in Arizona’s Congressional District 6 have raised concerns about large-scale deportation efforts affecting immigrant communities. The concern is straightforward: What is the scope of these operations, … Read more Source link…Read More

Following a growing national trend, the NC House introduced a bill in April 2025 that would study the state’s property tax reduction programs with a goal of reform. NC House Bill 432 would direct the Revenue Law Study Committee to evaluate options to decrease property taxes for low-income elderly and disabled residents and disabled veterans…. The post Less Revenue, Fewer…Read More

IS HE JUST MAD OR IS THERE A STRATEGY? More and more people think that the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize is suffering from serious mental degradation. They call him crazy, insane, nuts, flipped, deranged, disturbed, bonkers, lunatic, utterly mad and much more. But could it be that his rantings and obsessions hide a rational strategy?Lately, the owner of…Read More

Since its original formulation and application in the health sector in Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1980s, Cultural Safety has been subject to wide reinterpretation. Its entry into institutional life more broadly has seen it turned it into a concept that allows it to be appropriated by the very powers that dominate the culture wars. The post On the misuse…Read More