The federal police of Canada have a thought for the day: “The radicalization in general: If people express traditional values, then that might be a sign of extremism.” She specifically mentioned white people.  We have heard that in the US also. Under Barack Obama, FBI training manuals echoed the same ideology. As you know, we […] The post Canadian Police Look for Radicals Among People with Traditional Values appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Iranian opposition figure Reza Pahlavi on Saturday said U.S. military intervention in Iran could save lives and urged President Donald Trump’s administration not to spend too long negotiating with Tehran’s clerical rulers on a nuclear deal. The exiled son of Iran’s toppled shah told Reuters in an interview that there were signs that the Iranian government was on the brink of collapse and that an attack could weaken it or accelerate its fall. Pahlavi was speaking on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, where officials from the Iranian government are banned. “It’s a matter of time. We are hoping that this attack will expedite the process and the people can be finally back in the streets and take it all the way to the ultimate regime’s downfall,” said Pahlavi, who is based in the United States and has lived outside Iran since before his father was toppled in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. A campaign of mass arrests and intimidation has led to the arrests of thousands as Iranian authorities seek to deter further protests after last month’s crackdown on the bloodiest unrest since 1979. The protests began on December 28 as a modest demonstration in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar over economic hardship and quickly spread nationwide. Iran’s opposition is fragmented among rival groups and ideological factions – including the monarchists who back Pahlavi – and appears to have little organized presence inside the Islamic Republic. In an interview with Reuters last month, Trump sounded skeptical about the level of Pahlavi’s support inside Iran. The Trump administration has engaged with Iran to see if a nuclear deal can be struck as Washington amassed military forces in the region. U.S. and Iranian diplomats held talks in Oman last week and further talks in the coming week are expected. “People are hoping that at some point the decision will be made that there’s no use, there’s no point, we’re not going to get anywhere with negotiations. Therefore, that’s time for the United States to intervene and do what President Trump promised he will do, to have the people’s back,” Pahlavi said. “Intervention is a way to save lives,” he added. On Friday, in a speech to U.S. troops in North Carolina, Trump said Iran has been difficult in nuclear negotiations and suggested that instilling fear in Tehran may be necessary to resolve the standoff peacefully. Two U.S. officials speaking on the condition of anonymity told Reuters on Friday that the U.S. military was preparing for the possibility of a sustained, weeks-long operation against Iran if Trump ordered an attack. (Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk; editing by Barbara Lewis)

A new Trump-aligned nonprofit is launching to fill a gap in enforcement of the president’s election integrity executive order. Nicole Kelly, senior counsel at Lex Politica, the law firm that represents Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and other Republicans, is the president of a new 501(c)4 called Save Election Day to lead the fight in battleground states to implement the initiatives identified by President Donald Trump’s executive order last March. “President Trump’s executive order that came out last March that really sparked the initial idea here because this organization was founded for one single purpose,” Kelly told The Daily Signal, “which we believe is existential to the future of the United States democracy, which is to lead the fight in the states to implement the key initiatives that were identified and outlined by President Trump.” Save Election Day is particularly aimed at implementing several policies nationwide: one single Election Day; requirements of photo ID to vote; elimination or reduction of mail-in balloting and early voting periods; elimination of post-Election Day ballot receipt periods; and bans on noncitizen voting. “This organization is specifically designed for state law and to lead the fight specifically in the states to implement the executive order,” Kelly said. While other conservative groups have fought bad election laws with litigation, Kelly said Save Election Day will work to actually change those laws. “This organization is actually going to be focused on changing the laws that are on the books through legislation, through ballot initiatives, through administrative actions, constitutional amendments,” Kelly said. “It will, in some cases, necessarily involve litigation, just because, of course, Democrats are going to sue over some of the changes that they don’t want made in elections to clean them up,” she said, “but the focus here will be changing the law that’s on the books, so that when it comes to election integrity operations, whatever is being enforced is actually good law, not just trying to be defensive.” While Kelly says conservative legal organizations have done great work in elections, the needle hasn’t moved enough. “The president has a lot of passion and fervor, and we wanted that same energy for this type of organization to be very action oriented, to make sure that these very important election reforms are made,” she said. While many states have already passed election reform, a lot of work remains, Kelly says. Fourteen states currently do not require any ID to vote, and 11 states currently have ID requirements considered “weak,” allowing voters to sign an affidavit or vouch for identity without presenting photo ID or undergoing a signature comparison. Furthermore, 14 states currently allow mail ballots to be received after Election Day, and 32 states lack any explicit noncitizen voting ban in their state constitutions. “Our priorities are going to be battleground states that have significant impact for Republicans in 2026 and 2028,” Kelly said, “but again, and we’re not going to stop this mission until 50 out of 50 states have all of these tenants of the executive order implemented.” The post Nonprofit Launches to Implement Trump’s Election Integrity Executive Order appeared first on The Daily Signal.

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart and former New York Times columnist-turned-podcaster and staff writer for The Atlantic David Brooks returned to PBS News Hour on Friday to declare victory for the anti-ICE crowds in Minnesota by comparing them to the Civil Rights Movement and the Underground Railroad. Host William Brangham started with Brooks, “President Trump put—I'm talking about Minnesota—put his border czar in charge of what was going on there. And Tom Homan said, 'Okay, we're going to now start to pull this back.' David, what do you make of this development?” Brooks’s return meant anything resembling a conservative perspective was now gone, “Well, when Tom Homan is the reasonable and cuddly one, then you know we have come a long way. And, you know, I think it's partly because of the awfulness of those videos and the killings. But it's partly because of citizen power.”   On PBS, David Brooks compares the Minnesota demonstrators to the Civil Rights Movement, "I was with a historian yesterday. And she said, learn from the Civil Rights Movement. Everybody should be studying the civil rights movement. That's what they did," while Jonathan Capehart… pic.twitter.com/bxzFqxaY4o — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 14, 2026   He added: You know, we have been talking a lot over the months about a civic movement. And the people of Minneapolis in bitter cold weather behaved in a self-disciplined, humane way that appealed to people across the political spectrum and in a disciplined way. And they turned up the heat and they put the regime in an impossible situation. Either behave brutally and generate more hostility or lose control of the streets. And that's what a civic movement needs to do, put the pressure on the government and expose the moral distance between one side and the other.” Continuing his ode to the demonstrators, Brooks recalled, “I was with a historian yesterday. And she said, 'Learn from the Civil Rights Movement.' Everybody should be studying the civil rights movement. That's what they did. And it worked in this case in Minneapolis, and even the Trump administration had to back down.” Brangham then turned to Capehart, “Do you see it that way too, that this is power of the people?” Naturally, Capehart agreed, “Absolutely. And I saw it from the beginning. Remember, I went to college in Minnesota. And so Minnesota holds a special place in my heart. And I was just there. I wasn't on the show last weekend because I was at Carleton Board of Trustees meeting.” Capehart then recalled his own personal anecdote: What you were talking about in Minneapolis wasn't just in Minneapolis. It was throughout. In Northfield, Minnesota, they were dealing with ICE. And they were dealing with ICE in a very quiet way, not the whistles and the horns, but text chains, people who were observing, taking license plates, letting people know. I went to do something on Friday and the person who picked me up said—apologized for the vehicle and then said to me, I was—quote—‘underground railroading food all night.’ Brangham then interrupted to voice his amazement, “Wow. These are for people who feel that they can't go to the grocery store because they're scared of what—“ Capehart then kept rolling, “Could not—they had not left home. We're talking about people who had not left home in more than a month. And so what you had in Minneapolis, what you had in Northfield, Minnesota, what you have throughout Minnesota are people coming to the aid of their neighbors and their loved ones, standing up for their communities in the face of incredible, I don't know any other word to use, but oppression from the federal government, targeting, targeting their communities.” Enforcing immigration law is not the same thing as enforcing slavery or segregation, and just because Brooks and Capehart would prefer to avoid talking about the full context of the Renee Good and Alex Pretti shootings does not mean that context is unimportant. Here is a transcript for the February 13 show: PBS News Hour 2/13/2026 7:35 PM ET WILLIAM BRANGHAM: President Trump put—I'm talking about Minnesota—put his border czar in charge of what was going on there. And Tom Homan said, “Okay, we're going to now start to pull this back.” David, what do you make of this development? DAVID BROOKS: Well, when Tom Homan is the reasonable and cuddly one, then you know we have come a long way. And, you know, I think it's partly because of the awfulness of those videos and the killings. But it's partly because of citizen power. You know, we have been talking a lot over the months about a civic movement. And the people of Minneapolis in bitter cold weather behaved in a self-disciplined, humane way that appealed to people across the political spectrum and in a disciplined way. And they turned up the heat and they put the regime in an impossible situation. Either behave brutally and generate more hostility or lose control of the streets. And that's what a civic movement needs to do, put the pressure on the government and expose the moral distance between one side and the other. And I was with a historian yesterday. And she said, “Learn from the Civil Rights Movement.” Everybody should be studying the civil rights movement. That's what they did. And it worked in this case in Minneapolis, and even the Trump administration had to back down. BRANGHAM: Do you see it that way too, that this is power of the people? JONATHAN CAPEHART: Absolutely. And I saw it from the beginning. Remember, I went to college in Minnesota. And so Minnesota holds a special place in my heart. And I was just there. I wasn't on the show last weekend because I was at Carleton Board of Trustees meeting. And what you were talking about in Minneapolis wasn't just in Minneapolis. It was throughout. In Northfield, Minnesota, they were dealing with ICE. And they were dealing with ICE in a very quiet way, not the whistles and the horns, but text chains, people who were observing, taking license plates, letting people know. I went to do something on Friday and the person who picked me up said -- apologized for the vehicle and then said to me, I was—quote—"underground railroading food all night." BRANGHAM: Wow. CAPEHART: And so to David's point— BRANGHAM: These are for people who feel that they can't go to the grocery store because they're scared of what— CAPEHART: Could not—they had not left home. We're talking about people who had not left home in more than a month. And so what you had in Minneapolis, what you had in Northfield, Minnesota, what you have throughout Minnesota are people coming to the aid of their neighbors and their loved ones, standing up for their communities in the face of incredible, I don't know any other word to use, but oppression from the federal government, targeting, targeting their communities.

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