The majority of French voters believe that the far-left La France Insoumise party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon have poorly handled its response to the alleged Antifa killing of a conservative student in Lyon and has been too “complacent” in the face of the violence of the so-called anti-fascist movement.
If you think American politics are violent now, just wait a few years. While not exactly daily occurrences, assassinations and attempted assassinations, arsons, and ideologically fuelled brawls have become sufficiently commonplace that many escape the public’s notice. Americans overall have become not just more tolerant, but even supportive of resolving political disputes with violence. But research shows that those most inclined towards violence are younger people marinating in an “assassination culture” that normalizes physical attacks to resolve disagreements. That bodes poorly for the future.
A heavy police presence is being deployed in Lyon on Saturday as thousands prepare to march in honour of slain activist Quentin Deranque, whose death last week has shaken France and intensified political tensions ahead of next year’s presidential race.
The rally, expected to draw between 2,000 and 3,000 participants, will proceed under tight security despite calls from Lyon’s Green mayor to ban it. Residents along the planned route have boarded up ground-floor windows, fearing clashes with counter-protesters.
Assistant to hard-left parliamentarian among those held over fatal attack on 23-year-old Quentin Deranque
Eleven suspects, including a parliamentary aide to France’s hard-left party, have been arrested in connection with the killing last week of a far-right activist in an incident that has shocked the country and laid bare its deep political divisions.
Quentin Deranque, 23, died on Saturday after sustaining a severe brain injury. The Lyon prosecutor, Thierry Dran, said he had been “thrown to the ground and beaten by at least six individuals” during an incident last week.
Far-left activists in Paris tear down posters paying tribute to 23-year-old Quentin Deranque, who was beaten to death by masked "antifascists" in Lyon last week. pic.twitter.com/TQ0hNUyKww
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) February 16, 2026
It was one of the final days of the Texas legislature’s regular session in 2023. Along with the other staffers in the Democratic House minority leader’s office, I listened closely to the floor proceedings from the office television. SB 14, a bill to ban gender transition treatments for minors, had been called to the floor and a Houston Democratic lawmaker named Shawn Thierry was about to give a speech in its favor that would end her career. As she walked to the dais, her speech in one hand and tissue in the other, the chamber grew quiet. There was visible unease among both her Republican and Democratic colleagues as she began to speak. In a profession that rewards caution and punishes miscalculation swiftly, it is rare to watch an elected official willingly walk the plank.
Lyon: Quentin is dead.
Horrific CCTV shows Antifa cowards murdering young patriot Quentin.
If this was vice versa, it would be all over the legacy media.
Yet nothing!
pic.twitter.com/pfQ4iDIeSm— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) February 14, 2026
I am surprised Macron issued this statement.
Foreign-born Rep. Shri Thanedar openly threatened to prosecute his political enemies this week — a reminder of what Democrats plan to do if they get power back.
During a committee hearing Tuesday, Thanedar — struggling to speak English — threatened to prosecute Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott when President Donald Trump is out of office.
Here is a prime example of the Weimarization of America — to be specific, what is driving an already unstable polity closer to the brink. Click on this link to hear what the Chinese-American leader of the Democrats in the Texas (!) state legislature says. Quote: “Non-whites share the same oppressor, and we are the majority now. We can take over this country.”
Rep. Gene Wu (D) goes mask off:
“Non-whites share the same oppressor and we are the majority now. We can take over this country.” pic.twitter.com/CrxsPqlkLI
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 8, 2026
And …
Cultural erasure isn't genocide when *they* do it. @fancypants_s https://t.co/iJXc7KCaGx
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) February 10, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
It started as a cheeky response on social media to the US secretary for homeland security. Months later, however, a Europe-based project to unmask US immigration and custom enforcement (ICE) agents has racked up millions of views and mobilised hundreds of volunteers.
“What we’re doing is a reaction to a problematic regime,” said Dominick Skinner, the Netherlands-based Irish national behind the website ICE List, of its mission to remove the anonymity that many of the armed federal agents operate under while deployed to US cities.
There’s a clip going around where some obnoxious woman decides that a guy walking out of a Quik-i-Mart is a nice guy and she takes it upon herself, being the heroine and the main character of the epic saga that is her life, to knock his cup of coffee from his hands. He’s a fairly big guy, fit, and he doesn’t lay her out across the parking lot with a right cross. It’s not that she doesn’t deserve it – she does. It’s that he is still defaulting to the male role in a chivalry system that no longer exists. This dumb woman is relying on the very guardrails she has bulldozed; she’s going to try it again, and this time she’s going to lose a bunch of teeth.
White Liberal Woman smacks coffee out of a guy’s hands because she believes he is an ICE officer. pic.twitter.com/GX6UbQjpj9
— Red Line News (@RedLineNewsUSA) February 2, 2026
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) riots by Antifa and other activists since June 2025 may have now claimed what could have been the first killing tied to this anti-ICE operation in Portland, following a Friday-night drive-by shooting. Instead of using an actual gun, however, the angry shooter, a woman, used a reported non-lethal BB-type gun and shot at least one right-wing livestreamer in the face and arm multiple times. Others may have been hit as well.
Portland, Ore. (Feb. 6) — A left-wing female driver in a white Lexus sedan with Oregon plates 478PWF drove by right-wing live streamers outside the ICE facility and fired upon them repeatedly with a BB gun. pic.twitter.com/fIGn2yakpt
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 7, 2026
And …
Anti-ICE activist describes roadblocks and checkpoints constructed in Minneapolis:
“We are literally creating a place that we know who's coming and going in and out of our neighborhoods."
You can’t make it up. pic.twitter.com/oWiPJI3PH1
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 4, 2026
h/t Hermes
Suspected attacks on northern Italy’s railway network have led to severe travel disruption in the region, the authorities say, as thousands gathered for the start of the Winter Olympic Games.
Police reported three separate incidents involving damage to railway lines that they believe are connected to the Games.
A fire hit rail infrastructure between Bologna and Venice, triggering delays of up to two-and-a-half hours, and police later found severed cables and an explosive device in locations nearby.
CHAOS IN THE STREETS: Masked individuals launch fireworks at police after a protest at the Olympics in Italy. pic.twitter.com/97LMlfacVz
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 7, 2026
Anarchists attacking Italian Police and Guardia di Finanza at the Olympics in Milano. pic.twitter.com/IN4Ld9RNQ8
— stefi 🇮🇹 (@Stefi1774) February 7, 2026
You may have noticed that there’s a common element for a lot of the anti-ICE folks that we’ve seen out in places like Minnesota. They’re largely white, liberal women, often middle-aged.
They think they are “fighting fascism,” so they think that gives them the right to act as they do.
IMO liberalism is a disease, and this video is the proof. A bunch of white liberal females in Minnesota circle yoga studio clerks and gang-bully them as if they’re political hostages. Why? A: for apparently not having ICE OUT stickers on the door.
pic.twitter.com/jtPkTwaqzO— Dennis Michael Lynch (@TrustDML) February 7, 2026
It’s art imitating strife.
A mural of a murdered Ukrainian refugee that’s loathed by local lefties for its “tough-on-crime” message and ties to Elon Musk was vandalized in Manhattan — irking neighbors who on Friday called the defacement a “disgusting” act of political “spite.”
Social media has been abuzz for more than a week over the cruelty on display by some disturbing nurses. Marvel at how brazen these “selfless care workers” are in suggesting that colleagues let agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement just die. You may especially enjoy nurse “Chadrick13again” who sounds exactly like the stereotyped gay guy from the cartoon Family Guy but more murderous…
