Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 2/19

[SVPete]

Rhode Island trans shooter’s son, 37, jailed for torching black church a year before dad’s deadly hockey rampage

https://nypost.com/2026/02/18/us-news/rhode-island-trans-shooters-son-37-jailed-for-torching-black-church-year-before-dads-deadly-hockey-rampage/

The troubled, racist son of trans Nazi-loving Rhode Island killer Robert Dorgan was jailed last year for setting a series of fires at a predominantly black church, according to a report.

Kevin Colantonio, one of six children Dorgan had with three different women, is serving a nearly seven-year sentence in a Texas federal prison for using gasoline and a lighter to spark five fires outside Shiloh Gospel Temple Ministries in North Providence in February 2024, WPRI reported.

The church — which the deranged arsonist labeled as a place of worship for “Atheist God mockers” in a text to his family after the blaze — serves a mostly black congregation of 100 and was empty when the flames erupted.
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Locals close to the family told the outlet that Dorgan — who murdered his ex-wife and 23-year-old son, and critically wounded three others when he opened fire during a high school hockey game at a Pawtucket ice rink Monday afternoon — influenced Colantonio’s twisted obsession with race.

The gunman, who went by Roberta after undergoing gender reassignment surgery in 2020, had vile neo-Nazi tattoos on his bicep and a history of spewing antisemitic and racist filth on social media.

Even Rod Serling wouldn't touch this story !

[SVPete]

Hassett says authors of New York Fed tariff study should be disciplined: ‘Worst paper I’ve ever seen’

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/hassett-says-authors-of-new-york-fed-tariff-study-should-be-disciplined-worst-paper-ive-ever-seen.html

In a CNBC interview, the National Economic Council director ripped the report, saying that central bank researchers ignored key aspects of how the duties worked and instead simply focused on prices. Hassett said the research also should have included the upward impact on wages and benefits that U.S. companies see by bringing more production onshore.

“I mean, the paper is an embarrassment,” Hassett said during the “Squawk Box” interview. “It’s, I think, the worst paper I’ve ever seen in the history of the Federal Reserve system. The people associated with this paper should presumably be disciplined, because what they’ve done is they’ve put out a conclusion which has created a lot of news that’s highly partisan based on analysis that wouldn’t be accepted in a first-semester econ class.”

The paper in question was published Feb. 12 on the New York Fed’s website.

Trump must've warned his appointees to be alert for and respond to partisan "studies", leaks, and other BS.

[SVPete]

Kash Patel Says the FBI Found Antifa’s Money

https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/02/18/kash-patel-says-the-fbi-found-antifas-money-n4949677

FBI Director Kash Patel made a statement that could reshape the national debate over Antifa.

Speaking on "The Dan Bongino Show," Patel said the FBI under President Donald Trump has been conducting a financial investigation into how demonstrations linked to the loosely organized far-left movement are supported.

"These organizations don’t operate alone or in silence," Patel said. "They operate with a heavy, heavy stream of funding.

And we started looking into it, and guess what? We found them."

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Antifa has long described itself as an idea, not an organization. Members work in loose networks, often masked and decentralized, and deny the lack of a leadership structure.

Yet coordinated violence has appeared in city after city.

Portland endured over 100 consecutive nights of unrest in 2020. Minneapolis suffered extensive destruction following the death of St. George Floyd. Federal buildings were attacked, officers were injured, and businesses were looted and burned.

Insurance estimates placed the 2020 Summer of Love riot damage at billions of dollars.

Critics have argued for years that such sustained activity needed funding. Travel, communications, equipment, bail, and legal defense don't appear out of thin air.

Until now, federal authorities haven't publicly confirmed tracing a centralized funding stream.
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He also confirmed that the FBI created a dedicated program to follow the money behind coordinated street violence. Agents are reviewing financial flows connected to nonprofit entities and potential foreign backers.

Patel didn't accuse George Soros, China, or any specific foundation. He didn't present the idea of indictments, stating that investigators located financial pipelines and that more details would follow.

This is a story in progress. Interestingly, LIEden's FBI was notably incurious for his 4 years.

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Andrew arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office as King says 'law must take its course'

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested and is in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office - read the police statement in full

The King's brother was arrested at 08:00 GMT on Thursday morning at the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk - here's how the news broke

Live update page from the BBC, will likely change as updates are added. 

[SVPete]

BREAKING: Prince Andrew Arrested Over Epstein Connections

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/02/19/new-prince-andrew-arrested-over-epstein-files-n3812045

Shocking? Perhaps only for the accountability reaching to that level of the elite. Six police cars showed up at King Charles III's Sandringham estate to arrest his younger brother Andrew, the Jeffrey Epstein pal formerly known as Prince. Officially, the police are just claiming to have made an arrest of a man for "suspicion of misconduct in public office," but everyone knows that the butler didn't do it this time:
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CBS News offers more details. The issue is not Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's appearance in the Epstein Files per se, but rather the allegation that Andrew passed along confidential trade-policy material to Epstein. Andrew served as a trade envoy during his Epstein period, and the allegation is that he gave Epstein inside information on which the disgraced sex offender could have profited:
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The former Prince Andrew, now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested Thursday for suspected misconduct in public office after revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein files. King Charles III's younger brother was arrested on his 66th birthday, about two weeks after an anti-royal organization called for police to investigate documents indicating that Andrew shared confidential government information with the late American sex offender when the royal worked as a British trade envoy.
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The Thames Valley Police force confirmed just over a week ago that it was assessing claims against Mountbatten-Windsor that emerged in the latest release of Epstein files by the U.S. Justice Department to determine whether a formal investigation was warranted.

Looks like this was, at least partly, fall-out from the Epstein files released Dems howled for. In Brit-speak, Brilliant!