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Sec. Duffy “Disturbed” After Video Shows Tractor-Trailer Barreling Wrong Way Down Highway

Sec. Duffy “Disturbed” After Video Shows Tractor-Trailer Barreling Wrong Way Down Highway

U.S. Secretary Sean Duffy could not believe his eyes after a dramatic video surfaced on X, showing an 18-wheeler barreling down the wrong way on a Missouri highway.

“DISTURBING: We have learned that a truck driver with a Minnesota CDL who couldn’t read basic road signs spent MILES driving the wrong way in an 80 TON truck!” Duffy said.

The video was posted on X by MolonLabeBTC, in which the person in the video can be heard saying the truck driver was a “foreign invader” and was “driving southbound in the northbound lane for about three miles.”

🚨🚨 DISTURBING: We have learned that a truck driver with a Minnesota CDL who couldn’t read basic road signs spent MILES driving the wrong way in an 80 TON truck!

Thanks to Missouri law enforcement, this dangerous trucker is now out of service. @FMCSA is also investigating the… https://t.co/uaghZPwnUS

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) February 26, 2026

Fortunately, Duffy said, “This dangerous trucker is now out of service. @FMCSA is also investigating the carrier, Cargo Transportation LLC.”

Duffy did not comment on the truck driver’s immigration status, and it would be inappropriate to draw conclusions at this moment, but…

The driver. pic.twitter.com/Z0hycXkySc

— MolonLabeBTC (@BtcLabe) February 25, 2026

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— MolonLabeBTC (@BtcLabe) February 25, 2026

The incident highlights what the trucking advocacy group American Truckers United has warned about for quite some time: the Biden-Harris regime flooded the nation with unqualified foreign truck drivers, resulting in a series of deadly highway accidents.

Related:

Trump Admin Closes CDL Loophole That Let Illegal Immigrants Drive Big-Rigs

Nearly 2,000 Truckers Deemed Unfit Are Removed From American Roads

Trump Admin Mandates English-Only Tests For Truckers Seeking Commercial Driver’s Licenses

Duffy and the Trump administration have been working to address these concerns and remove unqualified and undocumented truckers from the nation’s highways. 

Tyler Durden
Thu, 02/26/2026 – 18:00

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sec-duffy-disturbed-after-video-shows-tractor-trailer-barreling-down-highway 

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Cuba asegura que Estados Unidos le negó visas a 8 miembros de su delegación para el Clásico Mundial

Por CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ

Ocho miembros de la delegación de Cuba no recibieron visas para viajar a Estados Unidos para el Clásico Mundial de Béisbol, informó el jueves la Federación Cubana de Béisbol y Sóftbol (FCBS).

Cuba tiene previsto enfrentar a Puerto Rico, Colombia, Panamá y Canadá en San Juan, Puerto Rico, durante la fase de grupos que se realiza del 5 al 17 de marzo.

Entre los cubanos a quienes se les negaron las visas están el presidente de la Federación, Juan Reinaldo Pérez Pardo, y el secretario general, Carlos del Pino Muñoz. Además del entrenador de lanzadores Pedro Luis Lazo.

Una persona con conocimiento directo señaló que todos los jugadores y entrenadores cubanos, excepto Lazo, recibieron visas.

La fuente habló con The Associated Press el jueves bajo condición de anonimato porque no se han hecho anuncios sobre las visas de los jugadores.

El Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos declinó hacer comentarios sobre la queja cubana, al citar leyes de privacidad sobre visas, pero un funcionario de estadounidense, que también habló bajo condición de anonimato por tratarse de un asunto confidencial, indicó que entre los que no recibieron visas no está ningún atleta, sólo directivos y funcionarios.

“La respuesta de Estados Unidos, después de más de un mes desde que se presentaron estas solicitudes, ignora las razones en que se sustentan, los principios más básicos del deporte y los compromisos asumidos por los países anfitriones de este tipo de eventos”, indicó la Federación en un comunicado.

Los cubanos terminaron terceros en la última edición del Clásico Mundial en 2023. El equipo tiene programados partidos de exhibición la próxima semana contra los Reales de Kansas City y los Rojos de Cincinnati en Arizona.

Cuba figura en una lista de siete países con restricciones de viaje a Estados Unidos junto con Burundi, Laos, Sierra Leona, Togo, Turkmenistán y Venezuela.

El año pasado, le negaron visas al equipo Cacique Mara, de Maracaibo, Venezuela para ingresar a Estados Unidos y se perdió la Serie Mundial de Béisbol Senior.

La Federación Cubana indicó que “analizará cómo proceder e informará oportunamente”.

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El redactor de béisbol de AP Ronald Blum y Matthew Lee contribuyeron a este despacho.

Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/cuba-asegura-que-estados-unidos-le-neg-visas-a-8-miembros-de-su-delegacin-para-el-clsico-mundial/ 

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Indiana governor signs Chicago Bears stadium bill into law as Illinois inches closer to a tax deal

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun signed a bill that outlines a financial structure for a Chicago Bears stadium in Hammond about an hour after the state Senate gave the bill its final approval on Thursday, while Illinois lawmakers were inching closer to a tax deal to try to keep the team in the Land of Lincoln.

“We made it clear from the beginning that Indiana is open for business. I’m thrilled to sign Senate Bill 27 to create the framework to build a new world-class stadium in Northwest Indiana. Now let’s get this across the goal line,” Braun said in a statement on social media with a picture of him signing the bill.

After Braun signed the bill into law, the Bears sent out a statement: “Indiana has taken important steps over the last few months, and we are grateful for the leadership reflected by Governor Braun signing SB 27, establishing the framework for a stadium development in Northwest Indiana. We continue to work on the necessary due diligence and appreciate the ongoing engagement with Indiana state and local leaders.”

What to know about the Chicago Bears’ possible move from Soldier Field

However, Illinois lawmakers were not ready to declare game over.

At the Illinois State Capitol, the House Revenue and Finance Committee on Thursday approved legislation in a 13-7 vote that would allow the Bears to negotiate a special payment to local taxing bodies in lieu of property taxes — key legislation that the team says it would need to aid in its move to Arlington Heights.

The Illinois bill would require businesses with mega development plans, like the Bears, to enter into an agreement for making special payments in lieu of property taxes for at least 20 years.

In response to the bill’s preliminary approval, the village of Arlington Heights issued a statement calling it “an important step in keeping the Bears in Illinois.”

“Based on the feedback we are receiving,” Mayor Jim Tinaglia said, “we are very optimistic that the necessary support will be present for the bill to pass both the Senate and House and advance to the governor’s desk in the coming weeks.”

The bill still needs to go to the full House for approval before going to the Senate, and it’s unclear how much support it has in the Illinois General Assembly. The full Illinois House, however, adjourned Thursday without taking up the legislation, and House members aren’t scheduled to return to Springfield until March 18.

In Indiana, the bill passed the Senate in a 45-4 vote, with Republican state Sens. Liz Brown, Gary Byrne, Chris Garten and Tyler Johnson voting against the bill.

Hammond Mayor Tom McDermott did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Under Senate Bill 27, a stadium authority bill that will create the financial structure for a stadium for the Chicago Bears, the team will be able to move forward with a proposed stadium near the Wolf Lake area in Hammond.

The Chicago Bears are willing to invest over $2 billion in the stadium. The state will invest around $1 billion in the stadium through various financing avenues, House Speaker Todd Huston previously said.

The state will invest around $1 billion in the stadium through various financing avenues. The state will issue a bond for the construction of the stadium, which will be repaid through Hammond’s 12% admissions tax — expected to generate $12 million — once the common council passes it, and a professional sports development area (PSDA) specialized tax district, Huston said.

The state has also asked the Lake and Porter county councils to adopt a 1% food and beverage tax and for Lake County to pass a 5% innkeepers tax, Huston said. The fiscal note stated that the food and beverage tax could generate $12 million to $18 million annually, while the innkeepers tax could bring in $5.4 million annually.

To further support infrastructure costs, Huston said the state will renegotiate its lease with the Indiana Toll Road. The bill allows the Hammond City Council to designate a stadium development district within the city but that can’t include areas of the PSDA. Under the stadium development district, at least 12% of the allocated property taxes have to be transferred each year to the city of Hammond’s general fund, according to the fiscal note of the bill.

The state used a similar approach to finance Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Huston said. The state allocates money in its budget to ensure bondholders know the state has the money, but the state hasn’t had to use that money because the admissions tax and PSDA has funded the bond, he said.

The Indiana Senate had to vote on the bill Thursday because it was amended in the House to lay out the financial structure.

Indiana state Sen. Ryan Mishler, R-Mishawaka, walks to his desk at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis shortly before the Senate passed a bill Feb. 26, 2026, that outlines a financial structure for a Chicago Bears stadium in Hammond. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

State Sen. Ryan Mishler, the bill’s author, said all the taxes will expire when the bonds are paid off. The stadium board, established in the bill, and the National Football League will lease the stadium for 35 years, but it could be extended, Mishler said.

Mishler said he received many calls from Illinois residents who told him that they would prefer a Bears stadium in northwest Indiana. Indiana has good relationships with families that own professional teams throughout the state, like the Simon family that owns the Indiana Pacers to the Irsay family that owns the Indianapolis Colts, Mishler said.

“These families are incredible partners to us. We would be honored to welcome the McCaskey family and Mr. (Pat) Ryan to our partnership group,” Mishler said.

State Sen. Lonnie Randolph, a Democrat from East Chicago, said the Bears considering Hammond “is a major historical event.”

“It’s a major event because of the significance that it projects to the area, to the state and the the country,” Randolph said. “I am hoping that this will be the beginning of future major collaborations in Indiana.”

State Sen. Mark Spencer, a Democrat from Gary, said he’s pleased that the Bears have selected a site in Hammond because that will benefit all the cities and towns in northwest Indiana.

“This legislation positions Indiana not as a spectator in economic competition but as a contender. It says we’re prepared. It says we’re coordinated. It says we are confident in our ability to steward opportunity responsibly,” Spencer said.

State Sen. Mark Spencer, D-Gary, speaks Feb. 26, 2026, at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis shortly before the Senate passed a bill that outlines a financial structure for a Chicago Bears stadium in Hammond. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

State Sen. Michael Young, a Republican from Indianapolis, said the state’s responsibility is to the taxpayers and the state has, in the past, established taxes to pay for bonds and the taxes remain on the books.

“I just don’t like to do that to the people. If we promise them we’re going to use money for one thing and we do it, but somehow it never goes away,” Young said.

State Sen. Rick Niemeyer, a Republican from Lowell, said it’s the third time in his life that there’s been talk about the Bears moving to northwest Indiana, but he said this time feels “serious.”

“I don’t think anybody that lives in northwest Indiana is going to have a problem with the way this is set up, the way it looks and the way that it’s going to be financed,” Niemeyer said.

State Sen. Dan Dernulc, a Republican from Highland, said while there has been chatter over the years about the Bears coming to the region, “there’s a different vibe now” about the Bears coming to northwest Indiana as Hammond is about a 20-minute drive from Soldier Field.

“It’s really exciting that we’re at this point. To bring them over onto our side is great. Illinois doesn’t have the money, we do because of good fiscal management of our funds,” Dernulc said.

Meanwhile, Illinois lawmakers who represent the city of Chicago may be reluctant to give any incentives for the Bears to leave the city limits without the team doing something for their districts in return.

The bill passed in committee Thursday would create a minimum special payment rate — which would be at least 10% of the property tax rate set on the megaproject site — but that minimum payment would not apply to projects like a Bears stadium that would cost $2 billion or more.

The megaproject agreements will fall under the control of the municipality, and there’s a sliding scale for creating a minimum number of jobs to support the operations of these projects if the businesses invest less than $500 million in them. For a $250 million investment, a company must create 50 new full-time jobs and for a $100 million, a company must create at least 100 new full-time jobs, according to the legislation.

A local review board consisting of members of the local taxing bodies, such as school boards and others, would decide the amount of the special payment, how those payments would be generated and the project’s valuation through a weighted vote based on how much property tax revenue the bodies receive.

The bill also allows for businesses like the Bears to potentially be granted sales tax exemptions on building materials for no more than 10 years, with a chance for a renewal for up to a five-year period.

Prior to construction, there must be a project labor agreement in place and businesses must have a goal to grant 20% of the total dollar amount of contracts for the project to minority-owned businesses.

Even if the bill does pass, the Bears and state officials also need to come to an agreement on infrastructure costs which could cost the state as much as $850 million.

After Thursday’s hearing, state Rep. Kam Buckner, a Chicago Democrat who introduced the bill at the hearing, called the bill a “step in the right direction” and said the Bears can benefit from it but acknowledged there are still issues the Bears need to hash out with the city of Chicago to get support for the Bears to move to Arlington Heights.

“It would have to be attached to the things that I need for Chicago to be whole,” he said when asked about whether he supports the bill that passed out of committee. “This in and of itself is obviously a statewide bill for economic development but it is something that the Bears organization can use. … So for me it’s important that we talk about infrastructure and we talk about Chicago quote-unquote concessions that … are a thing that has to be a part of the conversation.”

Brian Costin, deputy state director of the Americans for Prosperity Illinois, warned in his testimony that the bill would shift the property tax burden to homeowners and small businesses and create exorbitant increases.

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Arlington Heights? Hammond? Chicago Bears could join 10 NFL franchises who left namesake cities for suburbs.

“That shift behaves like an economic cancer, corroding local investment, driving disinvestment … and pushing stable communities towards a fiscal cliff,” Costin said. “This bill is fatally flawed and (it signals) a slow-moving economic disaster, unleashing massive, unavoidable property tax hikes on communities surrounding megaproject districts, potentially across hundreds of (areas) statewide.”

But Buckner noted how, while the legislation is a statewide initiative, local governments would be the ones to decide how these megaproject agreements get structured.

“They know better than the state does on what works for them,” he said.

There were other Democrats at the hearing who raised concerns about how the bill, including state Rep. Rita Mayfield of Gurnee who worried about it could cause some local governments to lose out on hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and state Rep. Sonya Harper of Chicago, who wants to make sure low-income communities with food deserts and have been deprived of other services don’t get neglected in favor of incentives for billionaires.

Also at the hearing, GOP state Rep. John Cabello of Machesney Park said there’s some Republicans who might favor the legislation but still echoed concerns over how the bill could impact average people.

“We have to protect the taxpayers. We really do,” he said. “And though there’s several of us that are willing to work with you, we’re just waiting for that invitation.”

Steve Mahr, the city of Chicago’s acting chief financial officer, expressed the city’s opposition to the bill, saying the team’s departure would have “negative, long-term consequences” to the Museum Campus along DuSable Lake Shore Drive, where the Bears’ current home of Soldier Field is, the Loop and other areas of the city.

“It’s no secret that the city’s goal is to retain the Chicago Bears in Chicago. As Mayor (Brandon) Johnson has said over and over, ‘the Chicago Bears belong in Chicago,’” Mahr said.

Those comments come after the Bears in the last couple of years had considered wanting to see a new stadium built within the city limits — on grounds just south of Soldier Field near McCormick Place or farther southwest on the site of the former Michael Reese Hospital. But then the Bears shifted their focus last year to the site of the former Arlington International Racecourse, which the team purchased a few years ago for $197 million, before ultimately saying northwest Indiana was also in play.

But after the hearing, Buckner said he doesn’t believe Illinois lawmakers are in competition with Indiana.

“I think what they have done there and what they have rolled out has not risen to a level of the pandemonium that’s been surrounding it,” he said. “I think that there’s still people in that state that either don’t know or are unsure about the smorgasbord of tax increases that’s attached to their proposal. We’re doing our job. We’re doing what we’re supposed to do. We’re operating in our lane. And I think the Bears will see that we’re moving in the right direction, and that’s how these negotiations go.”

Chicago Tribune’s Robert McCoppin contributed.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/indiana-governor-signs-bears-stadium-bill-into-law/ 

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Samuel Basallo, receptor domimicano de Orioles, sale de juego tras jugada en el plato

Associated Press

SARASOTA, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — El receptor dominicano de los Orioles de Baltimore, Samuel Basallo, abandonó el juego del jueves debido a molestias abdominales en el costado derecho después de poner out a un corredor en el plato.

Basallo, cuyo contrato de 67 millones de dólares por ocho años comienza esta temporada, recibió un tiro de relevo y se lanzó para poner out a Matt Vierling, de Detroit, quien se deslizó de cabeza hacia el plato mientras intentaba anotar desde primera base con el doble de Hao-Yu Lee al jardín derecho-central.

No hubo colisión, pero cuando Basallo se estiró y tocó, su brazo izquierdo con el guante se enredó con el brazo izquierdo de Vierling mientras el corredor intentaba alcanzar el plato al deslizarse por la parte exterior.

El mánager de los Orioles, Craig Albernaz, dijo más tarde a los reporteros que la salida de Basallo fue “completamente por precaución” y que no espera que el receptor necesite más pruebas.

“Para mí, podría haberse quedado en el juego, pero yo fui la voz de la razón para sacarlo de ahí y asegurarme de que todo estuviera bien”, señaló Albernaz tras la victoria de exhibición de Baltimore por 6-5 sobre los Tigres.

Vierling estaba boca abajo cuando su cuerpo se torció alejándose del plato. Basallo pareció caer con fuerza sobre el estómago, haciendo una mueca de dolor de inmediato y llevándose la mano al abdomen mientras se giraba para quedar boca arriba. Fue el segundo out de la tercera entrada, y Basallo salió después de que un preparador físico lo revisara durante varios minutos.

Basallo, de 21 años, debutó en las Grandes Ligas el 17 de agosto pasado, menos de una semana antes de concretar el gran acuerdo con los Orioles, el más lucrativo de la historia para un receptor antes del arbitraje salarial. Ese contrato incluye una opción del equipo para 2034.

Basallo bateó para .165 con cuatro jonrones y 15 carreras impulsadas en 31 juegos la temporada pasada, y se espera que tenga muchos partidos como receptor aunque los Orioles también cuentan con Adley Rutschman. Basallo también podría ser bateador designado y quizá jugar en primera base.

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Deportes en español AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/samuel-basallo-receptor-domimicano-de-orioles-sale-de-juego-tras-jugada-en-el-plato/ 

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The Graveyard Of Destructive Ideas

The Graveyard Of Destructive Ideas

Authored by Victor Davis Hanson,

How do destructive ideas and bouts of collective madness so quickly become policy, law, and the status quo?

After all, most have little public support—and are not Western nations supposedly rationally governed?

There is usually a multi-step process on the road to these self-destructive fits of society-wide insanity.

The suicidal impulse so often begins with left-leaning researchers in elite universities (i.e., the tenured in search of a novel, grant-getting theory). They begin insisting that a new existential threat requires immediate government intervention, novel legislation, ample funding, and public awareness of the impending danger.

So out of nowhere, the public is warned that the scorching planet will be inundated by rising seas in a mere decade. Or that millions of transgender youth are our next civil rights frontier, given that they suffer in silence without political advocacy, new laws, programs, and the chance for “life-saving,” powerful hormonal treatments and radical sex-reassignment surgeries. Indeed, the travel time from an outlandish idea by the faculty lounge to liberal status quo is a mere few years.

Next, the media, hand-in-glove with academia, springs into action to persuade the skeptical public to “follow the science” and “trust the experts.” It castigates any doubters as cranks or “conspiracy theorists” who spread “disinformation” and “misinformation”; or as racists, nativists, sexists, homophobes, and transphobes who must be silenced.

Hollywood and sports celebrities often piggyback on the frenzy, hijacking awards ceremonies and pre-game national anthems to out-virtue-signal each other, warning the public that they must adapt and change—or else!

Almost overnight—to take just one example—going to an isolated beach without a mask during the COVID pandemic, showing skepticism about the efficacy or safety of experimental mRNA COVID vaccines, or daring to believe that the Wuhan gain-of-function virology lab (in part aided and abetted by grants and support from Dr. Fauci’s National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases and the National Institutes of Health) was the source of a manufactured COVID pathogen became heresies. And the perpetrators, as always, had to be punished either legally or through social ostracism and cancel culture.

Third, liberal foundations begin funding more “research” to “prove” that partisan “experts” should not be ignored. They also fund activist groups that hit the street to gin up popular support, which often results in the required tumult and occasional violence. They embrace the theory that any disruption will so bother the public that it will support almost anything if it just makes the bedlam go away.

New victims and their oppressors are created ex nihilo.

Yesterday’s radical new policy becomes today’s wishy-washy cop-out, as tomorrow’s once-unthinkable radical idea becomes commonplace and institutionalized. So it was that a few years ago, the public was told of a new and huge victimized group in the shadows, suffering from “gender dysphoria”—an age-old malady known to the ancients and, according to modern researchers before the millennium, affecting about one in 10,000–30,000 people.

No matter—almost overnight, transgenderism joined the gay and lesbian community to become the new LGB—T oppressed. Drag shows, once confined to enclaves in San Francisco or New York, were suddenly mainstreamed into military bases, children’s libraries, and cruise ships. Thirty percent of students on some campuses polled said that they might consider “transitioning.”

Abruptly, professors and students began reading emails appearing from their finger-in-the-wind administrators with strange new runes under their titles and names, identifying their “preferred pronouns”—sometimes the standard “she/her/hers” or “he/him/his,” and sometimes the unfathomable, such as “Ze/hir/hirs” or the plural “they/them.”

Groupthink and mob mentality prevail. Soon, not listing pronouns on correspondence indicts someone as a counterrevolutionary, a transphobe, or, worst of all, a Trump sympathizer.

Fourth, fence-sitting liberal and socialist officials and candidates equate the well-funded activism, the performance-art street demonstrations, and the media fixations on victims and victimizers with growing grassroots support for yet another cause.

This is well illustrated by how initially liberal officials—stunned that 70 percent of the public wanted secure borders, no more illegal immigration, and deportation of the 10 million Biden-era illegal aliens—kept quiet about Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

However, after massive and violent demonstrations in major blue cities—with the deaths of two protestors who confronted ICE officers and tried to impede their efforts to detain illegal aliens—biased media blared out that officers were manhandling “mere bystanders.” ICE is now routinely likened by Democratic politicians to the Nazi Gestapo, well beyond the usual boilerplate smears as “pigs” and “fascists.”

The public buys into the fable that ICE agents were not arresting some 4,000 criminal illegal aliens in Minnesota while elected officials were siccing protestors on them, but were instead “murdering” innocent unarmed bystanders, who were harmlessly protesting ICE’s “goon” tactics.

Fifth, once the delusion—whether it is of a doomed sizzling planet, a utopian open border, the systemic oppression of a huge transgendered victimized class, or the habitual and flagrant shooting of innocent unarmed black males by predatory racist police—is institutionalized, then the government and institutions, public and private, ignore public opinion. And they begin passing laws and protocols once deemed unthinkable.

The once-meritocratic SAT, originally aimed at nullifying the old-boy admissions network at the Ivy League, becomes “racist” and is dropped. “Defund the Police” becomes the elite white activist mantra.

Soon, the politicians’ talking points become gospel, as formerly crackpot “critical legal theory” and “critical race theory” are used to “prove” that police hunt down minorities rather than the criminals among them.

Productive, safe nuclear clean-energy plants are shut down. Billions of dollars are invested—and lost—by government mandates aimed at phasing out internal combustion engines and subsidizing unpopular electric vehicles. Government-built high-speed rail boondoggles waste billions before laying a foot of track.

Schools and public offices must suddenly install “gender neutral” bathrooms. What follows is the surreal sight of biological men competing in women’s sports and undressing with teen girls in locker rooms—acts that just a few years prior would have landed someone in jail.

However, there sometimes occurs a sixth stage, which we might call the “Emperor Has No Clothes” wake-up call, that occasionally stops the lemmings in their mad dash over the cliff.

Gradually, the public wonders why it pays twice as much for electricity as it did a mere few years earlier. Supposedly doomed polar bears appear to be thriving in the Arctic. John Kerry is routinely spotted on a carbon-spewing private jet to get to climate change conferences abroad. California’s “permanent” drought strangely ignores near-record wet years and snowfall. Too little rain proves global warming; too much is proof of “climate chaos.”

Barack Obama, the Cassandra of rising seas, nonetheless prefers to buy and live in multimillion-dollar mansions on the Hawaii beach and Martha’s Vineyard seaside.

A few brave reporters cite China building two coal plants a month, even as it brags about the Paris Climate Accords and urges the West to embrace “clean energy.”

The public begins to wonder why, after mass shootings, authorities mysteriously conceal the transgender status of the shooter or suppress the perpetrator’s incriminating target list and diary.

Quietly, university studies start citing the cardiac, pulmonary, and hematological side effects of the mRNA vaccines.

Some universities, without much fanfare, begin to reintroduce the SAT after remedial math courses have had to expand to accommodate nearly half the entering class.

Economists at last come out of the shadows to cite data that shows the massive COVID lockdowns were a catastrophic blunder that permanently stunted the education of millions of youths and birthed an epidemic of psycho-social maladies that disrupted entire communities.

Accusations grow that the architects of Black Lives Matter embezzled millions of dollars in donations and spent freely on upscale homes for themselves. Data drips out that police shoot no more unarmed black suspects than white, when compared to the relative rates of arrests by race. The Somali community—the supposed DEI face of the new Minnesota Democratic majority—is found to be at the heart of a $9 billion fraud epidemic. And so it is revealed as most ungracious, treating its hosts’ magnanimity as naivete to be exploited rather than as generosity to be appreciated.

On the border, the old mantra that the crime rate of illegal aliens is well below that of citizens is revealed as politically tainted. Estimates emerge that 500,000 criminals or more swarmed the border, as the body count of U.S. citizens murdered and assaulted by illegal aliens grows daily.

In sum, just five years ago, when Joe Biden and his masters took control of the government, the orthodoxy was that we were to restructure the entire economy along failed European lines in order to save the planet.

There were no longer to be the two age-old sexes, but a dozen or more in 2021 America.

“Men” could become pregnant (but only if they were born as biological women).

Tampons were politically correct in male bathrooms.

Preferred pronouns dotted memos.

A swarm of 10,000 illegal aliens a day proved America was compassionate and caring while creating a “new Democratic majority,” given that “demography is destiny.”

Blue-city prosecutors released thousands of criminals either without formally charging them or after merely fining them for lesser crimes.

Racial obsessions destroyed merit-based hiring of everyone from air traffic controllers to pilots to professors to museum docents.

And then abruptly in 2025, these destructive manias began shriveling up and were destined for the graveyard of forgotten collective lunacies.

Tyler Durden
Thu, 02/26/2026 – 17:40

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/graveyard-destructive-ideas 

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Warner Bros. Discovery considera superior la oferta de compra de Paramount que acuerdo con Netflix

Por WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS

NUEVA YORK (AP) — Warner Bros. Discovery ha determinado que la más reciente oferta de adquisición por parte de Paramount es superior al acuerdo de streaming y de estudio que había alcanzado con Netflix, lo que representa un cambio drástico en la disputa por la compra del gigante histórico de Hollywood.

El propietario de HBO Max, DC Studios y títulos populares como “Harry Potter” durante meses se mostró a favor de la propuesta de Netflix. Pero después de que Paramount, propiedad de Skydance, aumentó su oferta por toda la compañía a 31 dólares por acción, además de otros ajustes, la junta directiva de Warner señaló el jueves que la oferta “constituye una ‘propuesta superior de la compañía’”.

Eso podría significar el inicio de una nueva guerra de ofertas por Warner. Netflix tiene ahora cuatro días hábiles para intentar igualar la propuesta de Paramount y ajustar aún más su oferta, que actualmente se sitúa en 27,75 dólares por acción por el negocio de estudio y streaming de Warner.

Warner sostuvo el jueves que la oferta de Netflix sigue sobre la mesa. Y, pese a la decisión del jueves, la junta indicó que “no ha retirado ni modificado” su recomendación previa a favor de dicha transacción.

Netflix no respondió de momento a una solicitud de comentarios.

En tanto, el director ejecutivo de Paramount, David Ellison, celebró la noticia y señaló en un comunicado que la empresa estaba “complacida con el hecho de que la junta de WBD haya afirmado por unanimidad el valor superior de nuestra oferta”.

La disputa por Warner es complicada porque Netflix y Paramount quieren cosas distintas. A diferencia del Netflix, Paramount quiere todas las operaciones de Warner, incluidas cadenas como CNN y Discovery.

Las compañías han pasado los últimos meses en un intenso intercambio público sobre quién tiene el acuerdo más sólido. Y el anuncio del jueves se produjo poco después de que Paramount aumentara las apuestas con su oferta.

Además de aumentar el precio de compra propuesto por Warner, la empresa también aceptó una comisión de terminación regulatoria de 7.000 millones de dólares. Paramount se comprometió también a adelantar una “comisión acumulativa” prometida previamente. La empresa había dicho que pagaría 25 centavos por acción por cada trimestre que el acuerdo se prolongue más allá de fin de año. Ahora aceptó pagar esa cantidad si el acuerdo no se concreta para finales de septiembre, indicó Warner.

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/warner-bros-discovery-considera-superior-la-oferta-de-compra-de-paramount-que-acuerdo-con-netflix/ 

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Hallan 171 cuerpos en fosas comunes en la República Democrática del Congo, dice funcionario

Por JEAN-YVES KAMALE y MARK BANCHEREAU

KINSHASA, República Democrática del Congo (AP) — Las autoridades y un grupo de la sociedad civil indicaron el jueves que se hallaron fosas comunes en una parte del este de la República Democrática del Congo de la que el grupo rebelde M23 se retiró recientemente, mientras los combates en la región se intensifican pese a un acuerdo de paz mediado por Estados Unidos.

El gobernador de la provincia de Kivu del Sur, Jean-Jacques Purusi, informó que las autoridades hallaron dos fosas comunes con al menos 171 cadáveres en los barrios de Kiromoni y Kavimvira, en las afueras de la ciudad oriental de Uvira.

“En esta etapa, hemos identificado dos sitios: una fosa común que contiene aproximadamente 30 cuerpos en Kiromoni, no lejos de la frontera con Burundi del lado congoleño, y otra en Kavimvira, donde se encontraron 141 cuerpos”, declaró Purusi por teléfono a The Associated Press.

La AP no pudo verificar de manera independiente la afirmación. El portavoz del M23 no respondió de momento a una solicitud de comentarios.

La Secretaría Ejecutiva de la Red Local para la Protección de Civiles, un grupo de la sociedad civil en la región, señaló el jueves que quería visitar las fosas comunes, pero el ejército se lo impidió.

La información recopilada hasta ahora indica que las víctimas fueron asesinadas por rebeldes del M23, apuntó Yves Ramadhani, vicepresidente del grupo.

El gobernador y el grupo de la sociedad civil alegaron que los rebeldes mataron a las personas porque sospechaban que pertenecían al ejército congoleño o a una milicia progubernamental.

Organizaciones defensoras de los derechos humanos han acusado al ejército y al M23 de cometer ejecuciones extrajudiciales y abusos.

El M23 tomó el control de Uvira en diciembre tras una ofensiva rápida. Más de 1.500 personas murieron y unas 300.000 fueron desplazadas, según autoridades regionales.

Posteriormente, el grupo rebelde anunció que se retiraría de la ciudad, en lo que dijo era una “medida unilateral de fomento de la confianza” solicitada por Estados Unidos para facilitar el proceso de paz.

La República Democrática del Congo, Estados Unidos y expertos de Naciones Unidas acusan a Ruanda de respaldar al M23, que ha crecido de cientos de miembros en 2021 a aproximadamente 6.500 combatientes, según la ONU.

Más de 100 grupos armados compiten por afianzarse en el este de la República Democrática del Congo, rico en minerales, cerca de la frontera con Ruanda, especialmente el M23. El conflicto ha generado una de las crisis humanitarias más significativas del mundo, con más de 7 millones de personas desplazadas, según la agencia de la ONU para los refugiados.

Pese a la firma de un acuerdo entre los gobiernos congoleño y ruandés, orquestado por Estados Unidos, y a las negociaciones en curso entre los rebeldes y la República Democrática del Congo, los combates continúan en varios frentes del este del país, con numerosas bajas civiles y militares.

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Banchereau informó desde Dakar, Senegal. Los periodistas de The Associated Press Ruth Alonga en Goma, República Democrática del Congo, y Janvier Barhahiga en el mismo país, contribuyeron a este desapacho.

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/hallan-171-cuerpos-en-fosas-comunes-en-la-repblica-democrtica-del-congo-dice-funcionario/ 

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Pair charged in Hammond shooting in botched marijuana deal

A pair was charged Thursday in a Hammond shooting stemming from a botched marijuana deal.

Jeremiah Moore, 19, of Hammond, and Jose “Hollow” White, also of Hammond, are each charged with aggravated battery, battery by means of a deadly weapon and criminal recklessness.

Both posted a $5,000 bond Thursday.

Hammond Police responded at 1:35 p.m. Feb. 23 to the 7000 block of Van Buren Avenue for a shots fired call. Nothing was there, Hammond Police Detective James Onohan wrote.

Police found the victim, 19, two blocks east on the 6900 block of Monroe Avenue. He was shot in the face and torso. Nearby, investigators impounded a shot-up, bloodied Nissan Altima. He was taken to the hospital.

White and Moore were quickly arrested.

Investigators found a half-dozen 5.56-caliber rifle casings nearby. A blue Honda SUV was hit by gunfire. They also found spots of blood on the block.

A block north, a home on the 500 block of 169th Street was also struck by gunfire. No one was hurt there.

The victim and White both told officers they were the one getting robbed.

Security footage inside a home on the 7000 block of Van Buren showed White getting a gun from a relative’s room. Around 1:22 p.m., the victim pulled up in a Nissan, then White got in the car.

Within a minute, Moore got out of his Pontiac G6 with an AK-style weapon. His face was covered with a balaclava.

The victim appeared injured and tried to drive off toward Monroe Avenue.

“I blew (him) down,” White tells Moore back inside the home on Van Buren. When his gun jammed, he switched to another weapon. Moore estimated he fired six or seven times, according to court records.

White appeared to say over a FaceTime call that he “knows he is going to jail,” according to the affidavit. He claimed the victim “tried to ‘plug’ him” and he shot him, records state.

White’s relative said the police were nearby. He grabbed a gun and told Moore, “Let’s go.” Moore left an AK-style rifle on a dresser, where police later found it.

The victim told police he was there to buy $150 worth of marijuana from “Hollow,” a.k.a. White. When White hopped in his car, the victim said he declined to buy two guns he was selling.

The victim said he gave White his phone to enter his CashApp account. White said something about “trying to play” him, the affidavit states.

Suddenly, White opened fire. As the victim tried to drive off, White yelled for him to unlock the door. The victim said he hit a parked car while trying to drive away.

The victim was shot in both thighs, his chin and a bullet broke his arm.

White told police he agreed to buy a half-ounce of marijuana from the victim for $65. In the Nissan, he thought the child safety lock was turned on, trapping him there. The victim flashed a gun and demanded “everything,” White said.

He claimed the victim fired into the roof and shot out the window to show he was serious.

Ballistics examiners concluded the Nissan’s trunk and driver’s side bumper were hit by gunfire fired from the outside. The driver’s door was shot from the inside.

There was “no evidence” that anyone from the driver’s side fired into the passenger side, as White claimed, the affidavit states.

Anyone with more information can call Onohan at 219-853-6490.

mcolias@post-trib.com

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/pair-charged-in-hammond-shooting-in-botched-marijuana-deal/ 

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Melania Trump presidirá reunión del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, un hito para una primera dama

Por EDITH M. LEDERER

NACIONES UNIDAS (AP) — La primera dama de Estados Unidos, Melania Trump, presidirá una reunión del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU en lo que Naciones Unidas señaló el jueves que será el primer evento de su tipo.

Cuando la esposa del mandatario Donald Trump tome asiento en la silla del presidente el lunes por la tarde, “será la primera vez que una primera dama, o un primer caballero, para el caso, haya presidido una reunión del Consejo de Seguridad”, declaró el portavoz de la ONU, Stephane Dujarric.

Estados Unidos asume en marzo la presidencia rotatoria del consejo, integrado por 15 miembros, y la oficina de la primera dama indicó que la reunión que presidirá “destacará el papel de la educación en el avance de la tolerancia y la paz mundial”.

Melania Trump ha convertido a los niños en zonas de conflicto en uno de sus temas emblemáticos; el año pasado escribió una carta al presidente ruso Vladímir Putin antes de una cumbre con Trump y posteriormente anunció que el esfuerzo había permitido que un grupo de niños desplazados por la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania se reuniera con sus familias.

Todo esto ocurre en momentos en que Trump ha criticado a las Naciones Unidas, asegurando en repetidas ocasiones que el órgano mundial no ha estado a la altura de su potencial. Ha retirado a Estados Unidos de varios organismos de la ONU, entre ellos la Organización Mundial de la Salud y la agencia cultural UNESCO, al tiempo que recortó fondos a decenas de otros.

Estados Unidos también le debe a Naciones Unidas miles de millones de dólares. Hasta principios de este mes, el gobierno de Trump no había pagado ninguna de sus cuotas obligatorias para el presupuesto operativo regular del organismo para 2025 ni para este año. Desembolsó 160 millones de dólares, alrededor del 4% de los casi 4.000 millones de dólares que adeuda en total, incluidos los correspondientes a las operaciones de mantenimiento de la paz de la ONU.

El secretario general de la ONU, António Guterres, advirtió a finales del mes pasado que Naciones Unidas se enfrenta a un “colapso financiero inminente” a menos que se reformen sus normas financieras o que todos los países miembros paguen sus cuotas, un mensaje claramente dirigido a Estados Unidos.

Trump también generó inquietud entre aliados de que sus ambiciones más amplias para que la Junta de Paz desempeñe un papel en otros conflictos globales más allá de Gaza eludirían al Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU.

Durante la primera reunión de la Junta de Paz, Trump afirmó la semana pasada que “vamos a asegurarnos de que Naciones Unidas sea viable” y “creo que con el tiempo estará a la altura de su potencial”. Añadió: “Algún día, yo no estaré aquí; Naciones Unidas sí”.

En cuanto a la importancia de que Melania Trump presida la reunión del Consejo de Seguridad, Dujarric lo calificó como “una señal de la importancia que Estados Unidos le da al Consejo de Seguridad y al tema”.

Cualquier país que ostente la presidencia del consejo durante el mes puede elegir el tema de algunas reuniones emblemáticas.

Dujarric señaló que la directora de asuntos políticos de la ONU, Rosemary DiCarlo, informará al Consejo de Seguridad a nombre del secretario general en la reunión del lunes, presidida por la primera dama y titulada oficialmente “Niños, tecnología y educación en conflictos”.

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/melania-trump-presidir-reunin-del-consejo-de-seguridad-de-la-onu-un-hito-para-una-primera-dama/ 

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Termina brote de botulismo infantil vinculado a fórmula para bebés

ATLANTA (AP) — Un inusual brote de botulismo infantil que enfermó a decenas de bebés que consumieron la fórmula ByHeart, retirada del mercado, ha terminado sin que se hayan reportado nuevos casos desde mediados de diciembre, informaron el jueves los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de Estados Unidos (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés).

En total, 48 bebés enfermaron desde 2023. En realidad, esa cifra es menor que el conteo anterior de casos, porque a tres lactantes finalmente se les diagnosticaron otras enfermedades no relacionadas con el botulismo, indicaron las autoridades sanitarias.

Todos los niños que enfermaron fueron hospitalizados. No se han reportado muertes.

Aún no está claro exactamente cómo, cuándo o dónde la fórmula orgánica de leche entera en polvo para bebés se contaminó con el tipo de bacteria que puede causar enfermedad grave, parálisis y muerte en niños menores de 1 año, añadieron las autoridades sanitarias.

La mayoría de los casos se produjeron desde agosto, cuando funcionarios del programa de Tratamiento y Prevención del Botulismo Infantil de California detectaron un aumento alarmante en los reportes de la enfermedad en bebés que consumieron fórmula ByHeart.

ByHeart, con sede en Nueva York, retiró inicialmente dos lotes de fórmula a principios de noviembre, pero, días después, amplió el retiro a todos los productos. Posteriormente, autoridades federales de salud señalaron que no podían descartar la contaminación de productos elaborados desde que la compañía inició operaciones en marzo de 2022. Tiendas de todo el país retiraron el producto, que ofrecía “beneficios casi como los de la leche materna”.

Los investigadores de la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de Estados Unidos (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) aún no han identificado la causa raíz.

En un comunicado, la agencia indicó que había identificado 17 cepas diferentes de la bacteria que causa la enfermedad en muestras de pacientes, latas de fórmula terminadas e ingredientes. Las muestras “se suman a la evidencia disponible necesaria para investigar la causa raíz de este brote”, pero no son concluyentes, señaló la agencia.

Anteriormente, funcionarios de la FDA indicaron que la leche entera en polvo utilizada para elaborar la fórmula infantil ByHeart podría ser una fuente de contaminación.

Las enfermedades causadas por bacterias del botulismo en fórmula infantil son poco frecuentes, y el tamaño y el alcance del brote de ByHeart no tienen precedentes, afirmaron expertos en seguridad alimentaria.

La enfermedad se produce cuando los bebés ingieren esporas de botulismo que germinan en el intestino y producen una peligrosa toxina que ataca el sistema nervioso. Las tasas de mortalidad alguna vez fueron de hasta 90%, pero ahora son inferiores al 1% con tratamiento.

El único tratamiento para la enfermedad es un medicamento intravenoso, conocido como BabyBIG, elaborado a partir del plasma sanguíneo combinado de adultos que han sido inmunizados contra el botulismo. El programa de California es la única fuente en todo el mundo.

ByHeart, que representaba alrededor del 1% del mercado de fórmula infantil de Estados Unidos, anteriormente vendía cerca de 200.000 latas del producto al mes. Padres de bebés que enfermaron en el brote dijeron que eligieron la fórmula, que costaba alrededor de 42 dólares por lata, debido a los beneficios para la salud que se le atribuían.

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El Departamento de Salud y Ciencia de The Associated Press recibe apoyo del Departamento de Educación Científica del Instituto Médico Howard Hughes y de la Fundación Robert Wood Johnson. La AP es la única responsable de todo el contenido.

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/termina-brote-de-botulismo-infantil-vinculado-a-frmula-para-bebs/