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!

[SVPete]

White Liberal Lectures Black Conservative About Race on CNN. It Does Not Go Well.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/02/19/white-liberal-lectures-black-conservative-about-race-on-cnn-it-did-not-go-well-n4949696

You’ve probably never heard of Paul Mecurio. I didn’t. I had to look up his credentials for this article. He’s a white comedian who has worked as a joke writer for Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. On Wednesday night, he was on CNN's NewsNight. For reasons that only make sense to the left, this white boy thought he was the right person to lecture a black Republican on race in America.

It went as well for him as you'd expect.

The segment started with Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton pushing back on the broad-brush claim that the entire Republican Party is racist.

"My issue is calling the entire Republican Party racist, every single person that voted Republican," Singleton, who is black, said. "I mean, just like, come on, that sounds like B.S. And I can't say what I really want to say, but it sounds like B.S."
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His point was simpler: You can't paint 74 million voters with the same brush. "It's fine to be critical of Trump. It's fine to be critical of the administration, but you cannot cast aspersions as if it's entire party."

FBI Secretary Kash Patel ... Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillion ... HUD Secretary Scott Turner ... SecLabor Lori Michelle Chavez-DeRemer ... DNI Tulsi Gabbard ... yeppers, so racist. That's just Trump 2.0 cabinet members; Trump 1.0 cabinet was similarly not all-white.

[SVPete]

Karoline Leavitt Flabbergasted When Reporter Asks Her For Examples Of Trump Being Called Racist

https://dailycaller.com/2026/02/18/karoline-leavitt-ed-o-keefe-trump-racism/

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared to be in disbelief on Wednesday when CBS News White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe asked for examples of when President Donald Trump had been wrongly accused of racism.

O’Keefe cited Trump’s response to the death of civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, in which Trump said he had been “falsely and consistently called a racist.” Leavitt said that her office was prepared to provide a “plethora of examples” of Democrats and the left-wing media accusing Trump of racism.
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“You’re kidding, right?” Leavitt replied. “ I will pull you a plethora of examples. I’m going to get my team in that room to start going through the internet of radical Democrats throughout the years and who have accused this president falsely of being a racist. And I’m sure there’s many people in this room and on network television across the country who have accused him of the same. In fact, I know that because I’ve seen it with my own eyes.”

I'm sure that Googling Trump is a racist would find myriad examples of MSM, Dem pols, and Prog-pundits proclaiming that.

[SVPete]

'Pure bigotry': CNN fearmongers about 'Christian nationalism' in election-narrative tease

https://www.theblaze.com/news/pure-bigotry-cnn-fearmongers-about-christian-nationalism-in-election-narrative-tease

Democrats, the liberal media, and activist outfits have concern-mongered for years about the imagined threat posed by "Christian nationalism," a catchall term used to describe their ideological foes who also happen to be Christian in a nation almost entirely founded by Christians and where today over six in 10 adults are Christian.

CNN appears keen to revive the left's moral panic on-theme ahead of the midterm elections with an hour-long documentary titled "The Rise of Christian Nationalism."

Newly released teaser videos and a corresponding press release hint at the documentary's apparent political purpose: to instill fear in viewers over a supposed movement that host Pamela Brown claims is "working to redefine America as a Christian nation in the home, in a marriage, in schools, and in government" — a movement that Brown reckons is supercharged and unified in the wake of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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Brown apparently believes she gleaned generalizable insights into "Christian nationalism" by chatting with critics and kicking around Christian communities linked to Pastor Doug Wilson, a theologian credited by the Wall Street Journal months ago with leading the rise of "Christian nationalism" under President Donald Trump.

"We embedded with a community under Pastor Wilson’s umbrella and spoke to women who have left the church and are now sounding the alarm," said Brown. "No matter where you live or what you believe, what we learned is especially consequential at this moment."

If you had to resort to W'pedia to find out who Doug Wilson is, I did as well. He's the pastor of a church in Moscow, ID, a small city of ~26K near the border with WA. He is Evangelical, but closer to the fringe thereof than central. His influence on the Trump Administration, to the degree there is any, is with the second term and is not a lot more than awareness of his existence (Hegseth and Wilson are of the Reformed branch of Protestantism).

[SVPete]

DC Mayor Bowser Asks Trump Administration: Help Clean Waste from Potomac River

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/02/18/dc-mayor-bowser-asks-trump-administration-for-help-cleaning-potomac-n2671537

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has declared a local emergency and asked the federal government for help cleaning up hundreds of millions of gallons of spilled human waste in the Potomac River.

On Jan. 19, a 72-inch diameter sewer pipe collapsed near the Clara Barton Parkway in Maryland. It dumped hundreds of millions of gallons of human waste into the River, according to the D.C. Water utility, which manages the sewer line called the Potomac Intercepter. Before it collapsed, that sewer line carried up to 60 million gallons of waste daily from Virginia and Maryland to a water treatment plant in D.C.
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Bowser requested federal support through a Presidential Emergency Disaster Declaration request.

Well, this pragmatism should have at least some Dems howling with rage.