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News Reading Rainbow More Butterflies in the Sky! Reading Rainbow Gets 24-Episode Order Mychal the Librarian will return as host By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on February 23, 2026 Screenshot: Kidzuko Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Kidzuko Great news for Reading Rainbow fans! We’re getting more of the show, which recently had four new episodes released on the YouTube channel KidZuko. Millions of viewers flocked to YouTube to see Mychal Threets (aka Mychal the Librarian) taking over the mantle of host from LeVar Burton, and the series’ success was enough for Sony Pictures Television to move forward with a 24-episode run. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony and Buffalo Toronto Public Media are behind the project, with Kristen McGregor, whose previous experience involves working on Sesame Street and Ms. Rachel, on board as showrunner. The KidZuko YouTube channel will still get shorter versions of the upcoming run, but the goal is to find a TV network or streaming platform to give Reading Rainbow a home beyond YouTube. “We’ve been working for several years to bring Reading Rainbow back, and Michael Davies and [Sony Pictures Television’s] Embassy Row have been the ideal partners to help make that vision a reality,” said Tom Calderone, CEO and president of Buffalo Toronto Public Media. “Seeing the impact these first four episodes have already had confirms that the timing is right—and that evolving the series for today’s audiences is both necessary and meaningful.” This news is great news for me, my daughter, and millions of other families! The new episodes, Sony promises, will feature more books (of course), and also more celebrity drop-ins (some actors we saw in the first four included Ebon Moss-Bachrach visiting an animal shelter and books narrated by John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Adam DeVine, Jamie Chung, and Gabrielle Union). No news yet on when we’ll see the new Reading Rainbow episodes, or even where we’ll be able to watch them, but it’s some good news to look forward to in the future. [end-mark] The post More Butterflies in the Sky! <i>Reading Rainbow</i> Gets 24-Episode Order appeared first on Reactor.

Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer of New York relentlessly smears the GOP-sponsored SAVE Act as “Jim Crow 2.0” This bill requires that citizens show photo ID to vote in federal elections. Schumer mendaciously decries this as the Republicans’ freshest flavor of hate, aimed chiefly at blacks. The GOP, Schumer insinuates, stole this idea from Bull Connor, George Wallace, and the other Southern Democrats who brutally enforced Jim Crow 1.0. “Well, we find it racist,” Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., told Lindell TV. She recalled Jim Crow 1.0 poll tests that suppressed black votes “because we didn’t know how many bubbles were in a soap bar.” Senator Alex Padilla, D-Calif., called the SAVE Act a “show-me-your-papers law,” thus heating the rhetoric to full boil atop a “Republicans are Nazis” burner. But if photo ID is a GOP plot to disenfranchise blacks, why is it so common worldwide I used Chat GPT, a vastly underappreciated research tool, to investigate this matter. My queries demonstrated that photo ID ignites passions in America and yields yawns abroad. Internationally, showing photo ID to vote is the done thing. Within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 27 of 38 countries–71%–require photo ID to vote in national elections, including France, Israel, and South Korea. Conversely, Australia, New Zealand, and Switzerland have no photo-ID mandate. Twenty-six of NATO’s 32 members–81.25%–require photo ID. On that list: Italy, the Netherlands, and other long-standing allies, plus newer members, such as Albania, Estonia, and Slovenia. Only in Denmark is photo ID outside the picture. “In the United Kingdom, no one has seriously questioned the need to produce photographic ID to vote,” Tony Sewell CBE, a member of the House of Lords, tells me. “Even in the backdrop of intense division around immigration, we have not even heard of activist groups campaigning against voter ID.” The son of Jamaican immigrants and author of “Black Success: The Surprising Truth” adds, “What is familiar is the way that the Left and progressives have a patronizing attitude toward black people and minorities.” Lord Sewell notwithstanding, the UK and NATO are overwhelmingly white. What about places of color? Voter ID card: Mexico. “Across Latin America and much of the Caribbean, photo ID is universal and expected,” Chat GPT observes. In the Organization of American States, 23 of 35 members–66%–require photo ID to vote. This is true, from Honduras to Jamaica to Argentina. Only Dominica spurns photo ID. According to Mexico’s National Electoral Institute, “only citizens who have been registered in these [voters] lists and who have a photo-voting card may exercise their right to vote.” To cast a ballot, each Mexican’s photo-voting card must match his picture on the tamper-resistant voter roll. Mexico practices strict electoral hygiene. What’s America’s excuse? Nine of 11 Association of Southeast Asian Nations members–82%–require photo ID to vote. Among them: Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand.  In East Timor, for instance, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance reports: “There is a permanent computerized register of voters, and those on it are issued with a photographic voter registration card to be presented at polling centres.” Although Vietnam is an exception, Chat GPT states: “ASEAN is overwhelmingly a photo ID region for voting.” If photo ID for voters epitomizes white supremacy, Democrats should explain this:  Voter ID card: Ghana. “Africa is overwhelmingly a photo-ID continent for voting,” Chat GPT says. Invoking the African Union, it adds: “In most AU member states, national ID cards or voter cards with photographs are universal, free, and issued specifically to facilitate electoral participation, often alongside biometric verification.” From Algeria to Kenya to Zambia, 45 of the AU’s 55 members–82%–require photo ID to vote. Only Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, and the breakaway republic of Somaliland fully reject photo ID. Chat GPT observes: “This category is small in Africa and shrinking, as biometric registration and photo voter cards spread.” Voter ID card: Congo. Photo MONUSCO/ Radio Okapi / Myriam Asmani via Wikimedia Commons “Across every major regional organization examined, requiring voters to establish identity at the polling place is the overwhelming norm. In most cases, this means presenting a government-issued photo ID.” Chat GPT concludes. “Systems allowing voting with no identification are rare and typically confined to a small number of countries or exceptional political circumstances. When viewed globally, photo voter identification is the mainstream practice of democratic elections.” The American people should rebuff Chuck Schumer and other Democrat racial bottom-feeders. Photo ID at the polls is not “Jim Crow 2.0” It’s the way the world votes. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Photo ID to Vote Is Perfectly Normal Worldwide appeared first on The Daily Signal.

During his State of the Union Address, President Donald Trump will celebrate his first year in office and lay out a vision for the next three in front of a Congress stuck in a partisan stalemate on multiple issues. In Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s invitation to Trump, he appeared to anticipate an optimistic speech focused on the accomplishments of his second term. “The United States stands stronger, freer, and more prosperous under your leadership and bold action,” Johnson, R-La., wrote Trump. “Together in 2025, your administration and the 119th Congress delivered one of the most consequential agendas in history, and Americans across this great country will experience the tangible results of commonsense governance,” Johnson added. But barring an unexpected, sudden deal between Senate Democrats and Republicans, Trump will deliver his address amid a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. Unlike during recent shutdowns, Trump will have a major platform for his arguments in the form of the State of the Union Address. Senate Democrats have demanded restraints on immigration law enforcement agents—such as prohibiting mask use and requiring judicial warrants for deportations—in exchange for their votes to reopen the government. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both D-N.Y., will be in attendance at the event, but several prominent Democrats will boycott the event. “The two options that are in front of us in our house is to either attend with silent defiance or to not attend and send a message to Donald Trump in that fashion, which will include participation in a variety of different alternate programming,” Jeffries said last Wednesday. Democrats are also likely to chime in on the DHS issue in response to Trump’s address. Schumer and Jeffries have selected Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., to deliver his party’s Spanish language response to Trump. Padilla, who in 2025 was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security press conference after accosting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, has been an opponent of Trump’s immigration law enforcement policies.  In a statement, Padilla previewed how he would speak on the issue of immigration. “We refuse to accept a federal government that weaponizes enforcement agencies against immigrants and U.S. citizens alike,” said Padilla. Trump is also coming to Capitol Hill as Congress raises questions over the White House’s war powers. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., is preparing to force a vote on whether or not to advance their war powers resolution, which would restrain the White House’s ability to use military force against Iran. Another elephant in the room is whether or not Trump will call on the Senate to find a way to overcome the 60-vote filibuster threshold required for most bills to pass. Trump has previously called on the Senate to use the “nuclear option” of a Senate rules change to eliminate the need for 60 votes to end debate. More recently, a faction of Republicans, among them Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has been advocating for forcing a “talking filibuster” to pass the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship and photo identification for voters to participate in federal elections. Lee, who argues that Senate Republicans could enforce rule 19 of the Standing Rules of the Senate to force Democrats to continue talking in order to block the legislation from coming to a vote, has said Trump’s support is important for this to become reality. “I’ve told him, ‘If you like it, you’ve got to help,’” Lee recently told the Washington Examiner of his dialogue with Trump on the matter. “We’ll need encouragement if you want us to do this.” The post The Elephants in the Room at Trump’s SOTU appeared first on The Daily Signal.

“Make America Healthy Again.” That simple slogan might sound difficult to disagree with, but President Donald Trump’s critics always find a way.   Yet Trump is delivering on its promise.   This month, his administration struck a deal with the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager to bring $7 billion in cost savings on prescription drugs to the American people over the next 10 years.   Then, that same week, the president launched Trump Rx, an online portal to ensure the best priced drugs in the country can be found in a few clicks.  Washington has talked about pharmacy benefit manager reform and prescription drug reform for decades. In his second term, Trump got them done in less than a year.  It’s yet more evidence that Trump has been the real deal when it comes to health reform. It’s not just a slogan: Trump really is making America healthy again.  MAHA is one of the most important aspects of the Trump health agenda. It’s spearheaded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who hails from perhaps the most storied Democratic family in American history and was once a frequent critic of Trump’s.  But at a Heritage Foundation event in early February marking his one-year anniversary on the job, Kennedy said, “It’s a joy to work for [Trump], because he lets me do stuff that I don’t think anybody else would ever let me do.”   What led to such an about-face?  Abraham Lincoln had his “Team of Rivals” and Trump has followed a similar playbook. What many fail to realize is that Trump is not just a change agent. He’s a revolutionary, determined to revamp a tired, broken, and wasteful deep-state bureaucracy. And when it comes to health initiatives, Trump realized that no one has been more innovative than RFK Jr.   In turn, Kennedy came to recognize a kindred soul.   As a member of Trump’s cabinet, Kennedy has been a lightning rod for criticism. Critics predicted no chance of success for MAHA and a short Cabinet stay for Kennedy—if he even managed to get confirmed, which he narrowly was despite united Senate opposition from members of his former party (Kennedy is now an independent).   Kennedy’s disdain for longstanding dietary guidelines from agencies like the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture was considered radical. His relentless criticism of ultraprocessed foods were regarded by the establishment elite as nutty.  But guess what? Americans overwhelmingly shared his concerns.   According to an Axios/Ipsos poll from October 2025, “Nearly nine in ten (87%) of Americans say that the government should do more to make sure food is safe, such as updating nutritional guidelines, adding labels to foods with artificial dyes, or reducing exposure to pesticides. A similar number of respondents (90%) say it should be easier for the average American to understand food safety guidelines.”  Like his boss in the Oval Office, Kennedy has managed to turn this public support into real results. As Politico recently reported, “Over the course of his year in the Cabinet, Kennedy has racked up major wins for his Make America Healthy Again movement by pushing the limits of his executive authority.”  Among those victories, the story noted that Kennedy “promoted new guidelines that track his view that people should replace the ultraprocessed foods in their diets with red meat and whole milk, among other previously discouraged sources of nourishment.”  The American Medical Association, the most trusted physicians’ group in the country, said in a statement that it “applauds the Administration’s new Dietary Guidelines for spotlighting the highly processed foods, sugar-sweetened beverages, and excess sodium that fuel heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and other chronic illnesses. The Guidelines affirm that food is medicine and offer clear direction patients and physicians can use to improve health.”  Even a column in the Trump-hostile New York Times lauded the new guidelines, with Brown University professor Emily Oster writing that “the new nutrition advice is–dare I say it?–overall very sensible.”  Trump’s commitment to improving the nation’s health will be among his most important legacies. From empowering Kennedy to revamp the nation’s food and diet guidelines to pharmacy benefit manager reform to the creation of TrumpRx, the Trump revolution is blazing the way for a healthier America.  That’s something we can all agree with.  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Trump’s Health Revolution Is Moving Faster Than Washington Expected appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Future Shock: President AOC Demands, 'Bring Me the Head of Diego Garcia!'

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