The Chicago Bears has had it with Chicago.
The first free grocery store opens in New York and it is working out just the way you’d think it would work.
And the 250th year of our country may be greeted with a bit of a stench.
News
Here is some news:
- The Chicago Bears look to be moving to Hammond, Indiana.
- All this is over a dispute over a new stadium.
- The Illinois House committee meeting that was scheduled for Thursday to discuss funding a new stadium for the Chicago Bears has been cancelled. This cancellation makes a potential Bears move to Indiana feel like a very real proposition.
- New York has opened its first free grocery store in West Village which is in lower Manhattan, New York.
- The pop-up was opened Feb. 12 as a five-day store by cryptocurrency-based prediction market Polymarket. It comes as Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani advances a proposal for city-run grocery stores aimed at easing rising food costs and broader affordability pressures.
- It was billed as New York City’s first free grocery store, with critics casting it as a stunt riffing on Mamdani’s proposal as the prediction-market company faces heightened scrutiny from regulators in various states, including New York.
- New Yorkers need to get a “yellow ticket” in order to get into the store.
- After nearly a decade in Virginia, Boeing announced on Wednesday that it is moving its Defense, Space & Security headquarters out of the state back to St. Louis. This comes just weeks after new Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger took office, replacing Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
- In a major shift in European foreign policy, the Council of the European Union formally announced on Thursday that it has added the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the EU terrorist list.
- A trial in California is going after Mark Zuckerberg and Meta.
- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled Wednesday about whether his company intentionally designed Instagram to be addictive, in front of the young woman accusing Meta and YouTube of hooking her as a child and damaging her mental health.
- He believed he has navigated the safety of young users “in a reasonable way.”
- Zuckerberg was pressed on Wednesday about whether children younger than 13 have access to Instagram. The app technically requires users to be 13 to sign up, and Zuckerberg said younger children are “not allowed on Instagram.”
- A huge sewage spill has leaked millions of gallons of excrement into the Potomac River.
- It could take a year to fix and clean up.
- The cause is the ancient plumping system that hasn’t been updated since the 1960s.
- Donald Trump has decided to have the federal government take over the disaster because Delaware Governor Wes Moore is incompetent.
- Wes Moore is blaming Trump because part of the pipeline was on federal lands and Trump is a racist.
- Drinking water is not affected.
- Just a little FYI: the United States might be attack Iran this weekend.
https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/breaking-news/article/chicago-bears-potential-move-to-indiana-gains-steam-after-illinois-house-committee-meeting-cancellation-on-thursday-162539080.html
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-defense-contractor-announces-major-move-weeks-after-dem-governor-takes-office-win-heartland
https://www.dailywire.com/news/eu-finally-designates-irans-deadly-irgc-a-terrorist-organization?topStoryPosition=undefined&author=Hank+Berrien&category=News&elementPosition=2&row=1&rowHeadline=Top+Stories&rowType=Top+Stories&title=EU+Finally+Designates+Iran%E2%80%99s+Deadly+IRGC+A+Terrorist+Organization
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/tech/meta-mark-zuckerberg-testifies-social-media-addiction-trial
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5740260-potomac-sewage-collapse-repair/
Here They Come, Gavin!
According to the New York Post:
California officials who turned a blind eye to unemployment scams — potentially worth tens of billions of dollars during the pandemic — will now be put directly under the microscope of the federal government.
The US Department of Labor is set to send a letter to the state’s Employment Development Department announcing a “strike team” will soon be touching down in the Golden State to root out theft and abuse, The California Post has learned. The investigation will be similar to efforts currently underway in Minnesota.
Federal investigators have been combing through financial records tied to Minnesota fraud schemes after prosecutors uncovered what they describe as a sprawling web of pandemic-era theft, including the massive “Feeding Our Future” case that allegedly siphoned roughly $250 million in federal child-nutrition funds through fake claims and shell companies.
In total, a staggering $9 billion may have been stolen in Minnesota, according to federal prosecutors. Nearly 100 people had been charged with crimes as of last month.
The breadth of fraud in California, however, could leave Minnesota’s thievery looking like chump change.
The feds provided California nearly $290 billion in relief funds during the pandemic, and EDD was among the largest recipients as it was tasked with rapidly implementing expanded unemployment benefits.
Good for Her
According to the New York Post:
Amber Glenn skated to “Like a Prayer” during Tuesday’s short program. Now she’s in serious need of one herself.
One of the U.S.’s “Blade Angels,” Glenn was left in tears following a massive error in her skate — she landed a double loop instead of a triple — that left her in 13th place with just the free skate to go.
The 26-year-old was just one of two skaters on the day to land a triple axel, but her blunder was scored as an invalid element for which she received no points.
Glenn cried as she approached her coaches at the end of her skate, clutching the pearl necklace of her outfit.
https://nypost.com/2026/02/17/sports/amber-glenn-in-tears-after-error-leads-to-us-figure-skating-heartbreak/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter
https://nypost.com/2026/02/19/sports/usa-hero-quinn-hughes-calls-america-the-greatest-country-in-the-world/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social
This is Just Dumb
Here is AOC’s answer of whether she would create a wealth tax. Which, of course, is yes. Included is Argentine Foreign Minister Patricia Bullrich’s response.