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Nobel Prize-winning Columbia neuroscientist resigns over Epstein ties

Lexi Lonas Cochran
The Hill
Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:38 UTC
Dr. Richard Axel neurologist resigned epstein nobel prize
© eff Chiu/Associated PressDr. Richard Axel is a former co-director of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University
A Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist at Columbia University resigned from some of his positions with the institution over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Richard Axel, co-director of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, won a Nobel Prize in 2004 for discovering over 1,000 special receptors in the nose that send olfactory information to the brain.

"My past association with Jeffrey Epstein was a serious error in judgment, which I deeply regret. I apologize for compromising the trust of my friends, students, and colleagues," Axel said in a statement obtained by NewsNation, The Hill's sister network. "I recognize the problems this has caused, and I will work to restore this trust."

Comment: Epstein collected scientists like some collect stamps. He was especially interested in genetics.That's not creepy . . . .







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Victor Davis Hanson on the leftists' mindset: "You owe us."

Victor Davis Hanson
The Daily Signal
Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:31 UTC
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© The Blade of PerseusVictor Davis Hanson
This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today's edition of Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson's own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

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Sami Winc: Two things that came together for me. One was [New York City Mayor Zohran] Mamdani's 9.5% increase in the property tax for New Yorkers, but not that alone. I'm sure our audience has read about that. But I was looking at Power Line. I always like to give a shout-out to them because they have some great articles, and they were comparing New York State's budget versus Florida's budget.

And they came up with, well, it's only half at the state level. So, I thought, well, let's look at the city level, New York City versus Miami. And while the billions that each of them has to spend is not meaningful in and of themselves. So, for example, New York City's budget is $127 billion while Miami's is only $3.4.

But that being said, per citizen, what has to be paid into these cities? And so, for Mamdani, each of his citizens has to pay $14,431 in for his budget. And in Miami, it's just half of that, at just under $7,000 per citizen.

Comment: While VDH has a very good take on domestic politics, his take on Russia is completely off. That's too bad.

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Horrific new data reveals thousands of children mutilated under Biden regime

Steve Watson, Modernity News
ZeroHedge
Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:20 UTC
Signage database
New revelations from the Stop The Harm Database expose a grim reality: between 2019 and 2023, thousands of American children were subjected to life-altering surgeries, hormone treatments, and puberty blockers in the name of transgender ideology.

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"Anathema in the University Mission": Bari Weiss canceled at UCLA

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00 UTC
Bari Weiss
© Getty ImagesCBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss
This week, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was supposed to give the UCLA Burkle Center's annual Daniel Pearl Memorial guest lecture on "The Future of Journalism." It was a wonderful opportunity for students to hear from one of the impactful voices in the media. However, they will not be able to do so after a successful cancel campaign supported by faculty members.

The College Fix reports that roughly 11,000 people signed a petition demanding the university cancel the event, and a leader at the center hosting her talk threatened to resign if the journalist spoke. One of the most outspoken critics was Margaret Peters, associate director of the Burkle Center, who suggested that she would resign even if Weiss were allowed to speak virtually, according to The Daily Bruin. The LA Times reported that UCLA was turning to the common excuse of security concerns to effectively yield to the heckler's veto.
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Most voters want immunity for vaccine companies removed: poll

Zachary Stieber
ZeroHedge
Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:45 UTC
vaccine
© UnknownSticking it to the public
A majority of voters say immunity for pharmaceutical firms should be removed in cases where the companies' vaccines cause injuries, according to a new poll.

Sixty percent of voters responding to the poll agreed that vaccine manufacturers should be stripped of immunity in such cases, including 33 percent who strongly backed withdrawing the immunity.

Majorities across all age groups, genders, and races also supported the immunity abolishment.

Just 27.5 percent of respondents did not think the immunity should end, while 12.6 percent of respondents said they were not sure.

The survey was carried out by Big Data Poll for the 1776 Law Center.
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Former Norway PM Attempts Suicide After Epstein-Linked Raid, Corruption Charges: Report

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:22 UTC
Thorbjorn Jagland
Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway, in Oslo February 12th.
Norway's former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland was hospitalized a week ago after a failed suicide attempt, days after he was charged with "gross corruption" after a police probe into his ties with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, local outlet iNyheter reports.

Jagland, 75, who gave Barack Obama a Nobel peace price less than nine months into his presidency, was charged on February 12 after police carried out an extensive search of his properties - including apartments in Oslo and in Risør.

According to the report, Norway's Økokrim - which investigates economic and environmental crimes - took the serious step of sending a letter to the Council of Europe requesting that Jagland's immunity be lifted. It was revoked one day before the raids took place. In the letter, Økokrim says that Jagland and his immediate family used Epstein's private apartments in Paris and New York multiple times between 2011 and 2018, and stayed at Epstein's villa in Palm Beach, Florida - with travel being likely covered by Epstein in connection with one of the stays.

Comment: What else was Jagland up to that he would want to consider suicide?

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Are Transfers Replacing Work for America's Poor?

Tyler Turman
The Daily Economy
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:38 UTC
A sign in Los Angeles advertises a store accepting welfare payments
© ShutterstockA sign in Los Angeles advertises a store accepting welfare payments.
President John F. Kennedy once said, "We must find ways of returning far more of our dependent people to independence." President Lyndon B. Johnson sought to meet that challenge by launching the War on Poverty in 1964, insisting that its purpose was not to make people "dependent on the generosity of others," nor merely to "relieve the symptom of poverty," but to "cure it and, above all, to prevent it."

Sixty years and some $20 trillion in welfare spending later, that message appears to have gotten lost. Rather than helping the poor climb out of poverty toward self-reliance, government handouts have instead pulled the ladder away by supplanting work as their primary source of income.

According to January's Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, average total income for the poorest households nearly doubled from 1979 to 2022. But most of that increase was fueled by government wealth transfers.

Comment: See the Sott Focus: US Wars Fund The Welfare State Which Finances The Liberal March Towards Totalitarianism

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Europe's free speech tightrope is growing thinner

Eva Terry
Deseret News
Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:46 UTC
Censor/EU
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Her name is Yona Faedda. In mid-January, she was detained in eastern France. Her crime? Organizing a small group to support recent protests in Iran and to oppose World Hijab Day.

A part of a wider feminist movement that opposes mass migration, this 21-year-old university student and other young French women dressed in hijabs and went to a terrace in Lons-le-Saunier.

They asked other French people if they were "afraid this might be what France will look like in 50 years," Faedda told the Deseret News.

Then she was stopped by the police. They searched her, took her into custody and accused her of "undeclared demonstration."
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Leftist lawyer causes day one mistrial at the first federal Antifa terrorism trial

Andy Ngo
Ngo Comment
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:10 UTC
Antifa members federal trial terrorism
Members of various Antifa groups on federal trial for terrorism, February 17, 2026
One of the woke attorneys for an Antifa terror defendant wore clothing with politically-charged messaging to jury selection

A mistrial has been declared on the first day of the historic first federal Antifa terrorism trial after a woke lawyer for one of the defendants engaged in misconduct.

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman halted the jury selection process after noticing that MarQuetta Clayton, a BLM-activist attorney for one of the defendants, was wearing a politically-charged t-shirt with images of Martin Luther King, Jr. and messaging about civil rights.

Judge Pittman found her clothing could prejudice jurors. His ruling came on the first day of jury selection in Fort Worth, weeks after nine federal defendants were indicted on charges stemming from a July 4, 2025 shooting ambush on the Prairieland ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas. A local police officer responding to the riot was shot in the neck. One of the defendants escaped from the scene, leading to a Texas-most-wanted manhunt for almost two weeks.

Comment: Texas brings down the first Antifa terrorism convictions in US history

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Best of the Web: Caltech astrophysicist fatally shot on porch of his rural home

Clara Harter
Los Angeles Times
Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:43 UTC
Carl Grillmair
© IPAC / CaltechCarl Grillmair worked at Caltech’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center. He was a principal investigator on the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, and his research earned him numerous accolades.
  • An acclaimed Caltech astrophysicist was fatally shot on his porch in Llano early Monday.
  • A suspect, Freddy Snyder, 29, was arrested and charged with Carl Grillmair's slaying as well as carjacking and burglary.
  • Among the scientist's accomplishments was the 'ingenious discovery' of water on a planet outside our solar system.
An accomplished Caltech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the study of distant planets was fatally shot in a rural area of the Antelope Valley on Monday morning. A suspect in the shooting has been charged with murder.

Comment: This is the third "highest profile" tragic loss in less than 4 years.

First one was back in 2022, in what was a classical missing 411 case: Body found in Chile identified as Warwick University professor Tom Marsh: 60-year-old was found dead two months after vanishing from remote mountain observatory

Second case: Who was Nuno Loureiro? MIT professor gunned down in apartment near university

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