Flotsam and Jetsam - Talarico Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

Matt Margolis at PJM, Journalist Puts Talarico on the Clock, Threatens to Expose Where He Really Was. At Twitchy, 'You Tell Them OR WE WILL': Nick Sortor Drops the Biggest TIK-TOK We've Ever Seen on James Talarico. Nick Sortor @nicksortor, "Good morning, @JamesTalarico! Would YOU like to reveal where you *actually* were these past couple weeks, or should me and @RheinAmacher do it? Please let us know by 1pm ET today! Thank you for your attention to this matter!" Kyle Becker at RedState, says the Mystery of 'Missing' Talarico May Be Solved After Journo Seemingly 'Confirms' Whereabouts. Nick Sortor @nicksortor, "BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week The “flu” thing was a BIG FAT LIE Following reporting by @SaraGonzalesTX and @CarolineWren, a hospital employee told @RheinAmacher and I that Talarico had in fact been a patient at the Lindner Center of Hope near Cincinnati, Ohio, which specializes in around-the-clock mental health treatment. While I sympathize with those dealing with mental health crises, this man is CLEARLY not suited to become a US Senator representing over 30 MILLION TEXANS. The job doesn’t get easier after being elected — it only gets MORE stressful. And Talarico clearly can’t handle it. I pray he gets the help he needs, but Texans need a real representative they can rely on." The hospital denies it, however. Matt Vespa at TownHall wants to know Was James Talarico Admitted to a Mental Health Facility in Ohio? Matt Margolis, Audio Appears to Confirm Talarico’s Stay at Mental Health Facility; Campaign Denies It and Talarico FINALLY Speaks, and I Think He Just Made Things Worse. Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll, "Texas Senate Update - The Ohio mental health center denies treating James Talarico" Quote Lindner Center HOPE @LindnerCtrHope, "Representative James Talarico has never received treatment from Lindner Center of Hope." Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "I wish I could give the benefit of the doubt on this one, but these are the same people who called us liars and conspiracy theorists for 4 years with Joe Biden. You don't get that grace anymore." Quote Just the News @JustTheNews, "Newly released audio raises questions about Talarico’s absence from campaign trial (sic)." Byron York @ByronYork, "Seems odd that Talarico stayed off the trail for so long because of illness without explaining to the public what was going on. Why not just say, I've got the flu, and I can do some brief virtual appearances, but mostly I need to rest for a while?" Quote NBC News @NBCNews, "Democratic state Rep. James Talarico has been off the trail for 12 days. His campaign says he is suffering from the flu and expected to be back in action this weekend." So, we know he's crazy, but did he actually seek treatment? From Twitchy, Uhh, They're Not Here for You: Team Talarico Tries to Take a Victory Lap at Kacey Musgraves Concert. "We won't deny that some people next to the rail as Talarico made his way to the front row (of course) recognized him and were taking videos. But we're pretty sure that most of the cheers in the arena were for Musgraves. Since, you know, that's who the crowd paid to see." Joe Chalfant at TownHall reveals some Influencers Got Payouts to Post Pro-Talarico Content. ATX data @data_atx, "The Talarico influencer army is NOT organic and real NYTimes report out today says tiktokers are being paid $4 per 1000 views for positive Talarico content Back in the day, the Beto fans posted for free!" So, maybe I'll put up a Talarice ad in a Rule 5 post.

Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "While Nithya Raman is desperately trying to delete videos of her recklessly calling people fascists like a psycho, don’t forget…she called me, a fire victim with zero institutional power, a fascist…all because I wanted to get naked drug zombies into rehab so my kids don’t have to see psychos jack off in public. She is just the worst." Quote TheBlaze @theblaze, "LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman says Spencer Pratt represents “fascism” and calls him “Mini Trump”" Will she be worse than Zohran? Scott McKay at Am Spec calls him The Enemy Within, "Mamdani certainly sounds like he’s in league with the enemy." Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal explains The Quiet Rise of Democratic Socialism: How DSA Built Power Across America. I&I explores the question What Do South Americans Know That U.S. Voters Don’t? They tried socialism, and it made things worse. Bob Hoge at RedState, Liberal Anchor Drops a Clownish Line About Communists. House Majority Whip Steamrolls Him on Air.

Politico crows Wall Street and Big Tech’s blue wave nightmare: Elizabeth Warren working with Republicans. "Warren is likely to chair the Senate Banking Committee if Democrats take back the Senate." The Manhattan Contrarian wonders How Can Democrats Possibly Run On "Affordability"? when seemingly all their policies are designed to make things more expensive? Simple, by lying. To wit, from the Free Bacon, Colorado Dem Manny Rutinel Takes Credit for $350 Million Police Fund Proposed by Conservative Group and Passed by Voters, "‘Manny never once reached out to support the campaign for prop 130, which was a ballot measure passed by voters, not legislators,’ Advance Colorado VP says."

PJM's Kathy Salgado report Iran-Backed Houthis Kill American in Saudi Airport Strike. "At least 12 people died and over 300 suffered injuries after Houthi terrorists struck the airport in Saudi Arabia’s capita, Riyadh. One of the victims was an American." Another good reason to eliminate the Houthis. At Homeland Security Today, Terrorism-Related Encounters Surge at Southwest Ports of Entry, Analysis Finds. Now that the porous border has been hardened. "U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Southwest border ports of entry recorded more than 11,250 “terrorism-related encounters” in the first 11 months of fiscal year 2026 — more than twice as many as in FY 2025 and more than 100 times the previous administration’s record, according to a new analysis by Center for Immigration Studies." 

From Forbes, Russian Anti-Plague Laboratory Death Raises Questions On Biosafety And Global Health. The Russians are acting suspiciously, but then, they always do. At Am Great, the Raw Egg Nationalist (great name BTW) wishes A Plague on Your House: What’s Really Going on in Russia? "Russia claimed its offensive biological weapons program ended with communism, but there’s no clear proof it did." Sundance at CTH sees Zelenskyy Runs to Mark Carney for Support Against Donald Trump, I'm sure they'll be a big help. Oil Price.com warns Europe’s Diesel Woes Just Got Even Worse. "Europe’s diesel supply crunch is worsening, with imports hitting a record September low as China suspends fuel exports and Russian supplies remain constrained." At Breitbart Bus Dig, The Weekly Wrap: People Are Worried About Diesel Prices and AI Crowding Out Everything. Speaking of AI, Sarah Hoyt hosts Artificial Stupidity, The Prodigal Frankenstein’s Monster, and a Dead Irishman- A Guest Post By Thomas Kendal. It's actually pretty good. He thinks the AI companies are blackmailing the government to set their monopolies up by threatening an AI catastrophe in the next year.

Hat Hair's John Stossel defends Trillionaires. As Tom Lehrer sang of the "Old Dope Peddler" doing well by doing good. Sundance warns of A Sovereign Economic World Under Construction to Replace Globalist “Western Market Pricing.” At WUWT, Secretary Brooke Rollins Shepherds Another Anti-ESG Reform for USDA. "Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) enacted sweeping reform that will help heal America’s wounded dairy industry by ensuring that the fees farmers pay to advance farming interests no longer go to advancing ESG-related activities and subsidies often directed by interests outside the United States." 

Hat Hair's Duane Patterson still has high hopes Why the 2026 Midterms Might Fool Us All. 

Da Wire sees New Evidence In The Cornell 7 Case that Completely Blows The Accuser’s Story. "We will go into the text messages and this whole timeline." Kyle Becker sees Bill Maher Goes All-In on Cornell 7 Story. It's Enough to Make You Wonder If Frats Should Be Banned,he's not exactly a fan of free association. "Everything that’s inherently bad about men gets worse if you put them in a fraternity. The drinking gets worse, the cruelty, the treatment of women, the tribalism, the peer pressure, one-upmanship, conformity, segregation, nepotism, bullying, elitism, and just general a**holery — boat shoes, for example." Lisa Britton @LisaBritton, "This Reddit user is right… There’s been a war on male spaces for decades now. Fraternities are one of the last still around. We only hear about the negative things regarding fraternities, never the positives, and there are so many positives. Abolishing fraternities is not the way to go!" At Althouse, "What Cornell Teaches Its Students About Sex/From feminist porn awards to guides on group sex, Cornell has promoted sexual liberation as a virtue." "An article by Jared Lederman, a senior at Cornell, in The Free Press. Lots of links to the University's sex guides, such as "Yes, No, Maybe So: A Sexual Inventory Stocklist"."" Do what you want, you can always blame men in general and President Trump in particular later.

MD Kittle at Da Fed thinks Jack Smith’s Twisting Of Justice Makes The Case For Anti-Weaponization Fund. Prolife Press reports Pritzker Threatened Catholic Doctors Who Refuse Assisted Suicide Until a Federal Judge Stepped In. At Hat Hair, Josh Hammer asserts The Left Has Made It Harder to Kill Christa Pike. She Must Die Anyway.

From NYPo, NYC DSA darling Darializa Avila Chevalier claims it ‘doesn’t even matter’ that gangbanger shot by ICE has violent criminal record. No, but his attempt to run over ICE officers does. Sundance hosts Sunday Talks – DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin Sets the Record Straight on ICE Shooting in New York. Tyler O'Neil, The Activist Pipeline That Explains Why Biden’s DHS Only Investigated 496 Visa Overstays Despite Getting 3.1M Tips. Tierney's Real News looks at America’s Long History of Removing Threats, "Why the Communist Ban Still Stands and How Sharia Could Be Stopped."

Nick Ballasy at JTN reports DOJ investigating whether media outlets violated antitrust law after refusing pool coverage. "The investigation follows a move last month by the five broadcasters in the White House television pool to stop pool coverage of Trump after the administration restricted CNN, MS NOW and Politico’s access to the White House." 

Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat, "Andy Burnham is changing the law You will need an I.D to use social media You will no longer need an I.D to vote in elections We can all see what is happening here right?" Greg Lukianoff at the Eternally Radical Idea, Rooster convicted for Shrexting, MN school board censors parents, FIRE sues LA City Council, & more! 

From United with Israel hears Hamas Hails Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Israel Blasts ‘Moral Failure.’ From Ace, The Nobel Peace Prize Is Neither Noble Nor Supportive Of Peace! "Navi Pillay just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and for those of you who are thinking..."Who," (I'm one of them) you would be entirely correct. She is an apparatchik in the international justice racket, first serving as a judge in South Africa..a well-known bastion of the rule of law! She then moved on to the UN, the International Criminal Court, and the International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda ... Her record is depressingly consistent, and it is focused not on freedom, but on her 3rd World sensibility of Western responsibility for the ills of the world.And the Nobel Committee gobbles up that sort of crap! Have there been deserving winners? Sure, but just glance at the list of winners and it is obvious that it is usually hyper-political, self-serving, anti-Western, and also impossibly silly." NYPo opines France’s insane student protests are really about a growing radical Muslim population that wants to get rid of democracy. From the College Fix, Several universities cut ties with foreign groups following Department of War audit. 

From CJ, Harvard Medical School vs. Weight Loss, "A recent panel examined how to treat fat patients “more ethically.”" Defense Opinion opines Weak Math means Weaker National Defense. 

If Sophie Cunningham said black players should shut up and no one cared about their opinions, she’d be kicked out of the league in two minutes. But black players can say white players need to shut up? The WNBA is filled with racist morons. https://t.co/dQdPFPiYeY

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 11, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - MN Mob Invades Church, Confronts Congregation

A bunch of Minnesota "protesters", egged on by failed journolist former CNN talking butthead Don Lemon, invaded a Baptist church in Minneapolis yesterday and confronted the congregation, following word that the name of the pastor was the same a one of the ICE agents that had been doxxed by the media. This is a plain and obvious violation of federal FACE Act, widely used by the Biden administration to jail grandmothers protesting at abortion clinics, but which at the behest of Republicans in Congress, also forbids the same acts at churches. At Twitchy, Don Lemon Leads ICE Protestors to Church - Just NOT How You Think: Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews, "BREAKING - Anti ICE agitators, led by failed CNN host Don Lemon, stormed a Minneapolis church this morning, halting services and holding members hostage because they believed the pastor was ICE affiliated. “The whole point of it is to disrupt and make people uncomfortable.” (video at link). Dave Strom at Hat Hair, ICE Protesters Storming Churches Now; Hotels Kicking People Out. John Hinderacker at Power Line, More Minneapolis Madness: Collin Rugg @CollinRugg, "NEW: Don Lemon tries lecturing a pastor on the First Amendment after a mob of far leftists stormed a church in Minneapolis. Pastor: “This is unacceptable. It's shameful to interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship…” Lemon: “Listen, there's a constitution, the First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest.” Pastor: “We're here to worship Jesus because the hope of the world is Jesus Christ…” Lemon: “But did you try to talk to them?” Pastor: “No one is willing to talk. I have to take care of my church and my family so I ask that you would also leave this building.” Imagine storming a church mid worship and thinking you are the good guys." Insty says HEY, WITH DON LEMON I’M JUST GRATEFUL IT’S NOT SEXUAL ASSAULT. Greg Price @greg_price11, "I'm no historian but I don't think there's ever been a situation in the last 100 years where the people storming the churches were the good guys." Quote End Wokeness @EndWokeness "BREAKING: Anti-ICE mob storms church in St. Paul, MN and shuts service down." Betsy Stauffer at LI, Anarchy: Minneapolis Activists Harass And Attack Anyone They Suspect of Being ICE, "One beating of a passerby stopped when one of the attackers told his comrades, “He’s one of us.”" Seamus (FreedomToons) @seamus_coughlin, "Me and my street militia are going around demanding to see people's papers and shutting down churches. You know, to fight fascism" Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre, "Every protester in this video has committed a federal crime They can all be easily identified Don Lemon needs to be in custody by the end of the day if the administration is to ever be taken seriously again." ABC whines DOJ vows to press charges after activists disrupt church where Minnesota ICE official is a pastor. "U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said her agency is investigating federal civil rights violations “by these people desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers.”" RushBabe, *No more subterfuge. The Leftist insurrection is blatant and dangerous.

At CIS, Is a ‘Civil War’ Brewing in Minnesota over Immigration? "Either get smart or stop lying, because the mullahs are watching." Phil Labonte @philthatremains. "my first impulse is to say, “it’s just talk, for now.” but then i remember the murders of Charlie Kirk, and Aaron Danielson, i remember Alvarado where 11 individuals ambushed officers at an ICE facility, i remember McAllen where a gunman fired dozens of rounds at a Border Patrol facility, injuring a police officer and an employee, i remember Dallas in September where a shooting at an ICE facility left one detainee dead and two others wounded where the attacker used ammunition marked with "anti-ICE" messages, i remember the guy that went to J.D. Vance’s home, and i remember the two attempts on Donald Trump. then i think, “oh, they’re already doing it.”" Quote Reddit Lies @reddit_lies, "Bluesky skeeters are discussing making IEDs to hit ice btw." Matt Vespa at TownHall, The Latest Trump Move Involving Minneapolis Is Going to Trigger a Lib Meltdown. Insider Wire @InsiderWire, "#BREAKING: 2 U.S. Army battalions on standby for possible deployment to Minnesota amid anti-ICE unrest." From News Wax, Pentagon Readies 1,500 Soldiers to Possibly Deploy to Minnesota. Sundance at CTH hosts Sunday Talks – Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Discusses Minneapolis Investigations and Violent Protests and Sunday Talks – DHS Secretary Kristi Noem -vs Margaret Brennan Discussing Minneapolis Violence and reports Minnesota Governor Activates National Guard. "According to the Minnesota Dept of Public Safety, Governor Tim Walz has activated the national guard. However, in a statement on their X account the officials note, the guard “are not deployed to city streets at this time, but are ready to help support public safety, including protection of life, preservation of property and supporting the rights of all who assemble peacefully.”" Ward Clarke at RedState sees a Mic Drop Moment: Noem Calls Out Brennan's Border Blindspot. From Da Caller, ‘As A Muslima’: Rashida Tlaib Blows Gasket Over ‘Neo-Nazi’ DHS Post Of Man Riding Horse. 

Kim "Katie" USA @KimKatieUSA "Sheriff Grady just dropped the truth: 76% of illegals detained in his county have criminal charges. The other 24%? Riding with the criminals. He explains exactly why ICE is flooding Minneapolis, LA, and other sanctuary cities and how easy it is to stop." The Victory Girls report Child Abusers Top ICE List Of Most Wanted. 

Da Caller, Renee Good’s Partner Reportedly Under Investigation By Federal Authorities To Determine If She Impeded ICE Agents. From Breitbart, Judge Bars LAPD’s Use of Less-Lethal Foam Bullets on Protesters. Elizabeth Barcohana @E_Barcohana, "The ICE raids will continue just until we flatten the curve of illegal immigration. We’re all in this together." Katie Zacharia @KatieZacharia, "Stay at least 6ft away from ICE officers as they socially distancing from those infected with the woke mind virus."

News Wax has a Report that At Least 16,000 Killed in Iranian Protests. From 1945, Coercion Without Ownership: The Real Trump Playbook on Iran. Sundance reports Israel Not Happy with Trump Appointed Turkey and Qatar Roles in Assisting Gaza Stabilization and Executive Board. Kareem Rifai @KareemRifai, "They don't teach this in law school, but a feature of international law is that it hibernates and only wakes up when it can be used to defend the hypothetical sovereignty of people guilty of mass crimes against humanity." Quote Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan, "Assassinating Khamenei wouldn’t just be illegal under international law, wouldn’t just be a betrayal of antiwar, anti-regime change MAGA voters, but, with Khamenei also being a religious leader, it could lead to all sorts of terrorist blowback against US interests and civilians. x.com/danielbshapiro…"

John Sexton at Hat Hair wonders How Will China Try to Take Control of Taiwan (Can It Be Stopped?). Driscoll at Insty says BOMB CANADA — THE CASE FOR WAR: Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板 @BaldingsWorld, "It is truly mind boggling the absolute memory hole Canadian activity has disappeared into because people hate Trump so much. Canada for years has had massive Chinese money laundering, drug, intel, and security issues with regards to China something everybody should know. They are not an ally they literally let the PLA train in China a few years ago. The idea that Trump took his actions in a vacuum and that is what prompted everything is just completely afactual ignorance. . . ." Quote Chris McGuire @ChrisRMcGuire, "Canada's agreement to let Chinese cars into their market is an extremely poor strategic decision. But it also shows that without strong and consistent messaging from Washington, even our closest allies will sacrifice long-term strategic interest for short-term economic or. . . "

From Da Mail, European diplomats reveal the 'tough guy' US negotiator leading the charge on Greenland: 'He hates us,' JD Vance. Sundance has Sunday Talks – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent -vs- NBC Kristen Welker, Topics: Greenland and The FED. News Wax, Europeans Reeling as Trump Imposes Tariffs on 8 Countries Over Greenland Dispute. Susie Moore at RedState, Bessent on Greenland, Tariffs, and Why Jerome Powell Is in a Pickle. From Althouse, "Is President Trump serious about annexing Greenland?"/"President Trump strongly believes that we cannot outsource our security." CBD at Ace's, Greenland, NATO, The EU...The Clownshow Continues "So...everyone calm down. Greeenlanders? Take nice big checks written by America, and maybe some good high-paying jobs in our expanding military infrastructure and mining efforts. Denmark? Smile, cash the check, and relax now that you don't have to deal with Greenland. And the EU? Just sit down and shut up. Nobody cares what you think."

Sundance, The Norwegian Nobel Committee Have an Important, Albeit Hilarious, Announcement. "A Nobel Peace Prize laureate receives two central symbols of the prize: a gold medal and a diploma. In addition, the prize money is awarded separately. Regardless of what may happen to the medal, the diploma, or the prize money, it is and remains the original laureate who is recorded in history as the recipient of the prize. Even if the medal or diploma later comes into someone else’s possession, this does not alter who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. A laureate cannot share the prize with others, nor transfer it once it has been announced. A Nobel Peace Prize can also never be revoked. The decision is final and applies for all time."

Bill Murry at Da Fed, How Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Delivering 120 ‘Marshall Plans’ To The U.S. Driscoll sees CNN POLL: 58% declare Trump’s second term so far a “failure.” "The only Republican at CNN disagrees with his employer:" Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "I was reliably told by Democrat pundits that all of their Trump voting friends had abandoned him." Quote InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022, "WSJ POLL: 92% of people who voted for Trump in 2024 are giving him a positive job rating today, including 70% who “strongly approve”" From RCP, The Fed’s Job Isn’t Finished Until Hiring Comes Back.

At Twitchy, FAFO in Real Time: Leftist Gets Secret Service Visit Over 'What She Deserves' Threat to Press Sec: Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz, "The Secret Service came to my door today because of a tweet. No threats. No violence. Just words. That’s where we are now." DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "You are doing the favorite trick of the left: playing victim and crying tyranny at the slightest bit of accountability. You do deserve to be locked up forever, because it’s clear you enjoy nothing more than seeing people die for disagreeing with you. And instead you are free — because the people you so wish death upon are far too generous, far too nice, and far too tolerant. . . .”

Fox 4, Foods that Americans were told to avoid for decades are back under Trump's new nutrition rules. Nora Dimitrova Clinton at LI, sees Cowboys Versus “Soy Boys”: The Politics of Food, Alcohol, and Tobacco.

Matt Margolis asserts Democrats Are So Screwed and a Former Obama Advisor Just Proved It. "In a New York Times op-ed titled “Democrats Will Lose in 2028 Unless They Change Course Now,” Plouffe warns that the party’s long-term future looks bleak. He says the electoral map itself is shifting out from under their feet—and unless Democrats overhaul everything, they’re heading for years of political pain." Josh Barro at Very Serious, The Cult of Jasmine Crockett Shows Democrats are Still Trapped in the Dumbest Form of Identity Politics. "Comedians Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers were right to tell people not to waste money on her campaign. But they had to apologize anyway." Salena Zito at Hat Hair hears that In Reelection Launch, Josh Shapiro Admits Violent Attack Almost Drove Him From the Race, from Democrat anti-semite. 

Insty cites CHRIS BRAY: What Blue Zone Collapse Looks Like: “In my last post, I said that the Blue Zones are functionally insolvent. ‘The well is dry.’ Several commenters responded with the observation that they’ve been hearing this story for twenty years or more, but the Blue Zones are still going, so what insolvency and collapse are you talking about? But the collapse of the Blue Zones doesn’t look like Enron or K-Mart; California doesn’t shut down. The state has 39 million golden geese to cut open. There’s a lot of ruin in a state. But the collapse remains real, and it’s already happening. It looks like this.” Billy Binion @billybinion, "The entitlement here is astounding. California didn’t make these people money. These people made money for California. No one “deserves” it. When faced with crushing financial losses, it’s entirely rational for business owners to move elsewhere. Wealth taxes inevitably fail." Quote Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd, " Kara Swisher on California’s Wealth Tax “You made all your money in California, you ungrateful piece of sh*t. You could figure out a way to pay more taxes, and we deserve the taxes from you.”" Michael Guimarin on X: "I’m coming off private for about an hour so you can read this. The billionaire tax in CA is an example of an irregular warfare action by the Chinese Communist Party on the United States. What it does is push out the people who would fight CCP encroachment into CA. The CCP" / X. Back on private. At Liberty Unyielding, Virginia state tax rate could rise from 5.75% to 13.8%, highest in the nation. Good and hard. Betsy McCaughey at Hat Hair says Time to Crack Down on Fraud. Shouldn't it always be time to crack down on fraud? From the Daily Economy, The Public School Shell Game Makes Phantom Daycares Look Tiny. 

Hat Hair's Larry Elder takes issue with Mamdani's Fantasy World of Equal Outcome as does John Stossel in The Warmth of Collectivism. "In my new video, TikTokers claim capitalism is "ending." They sing about the beauty of communes. One asks, desperately, "Where is my commune?!" Good question. They're hard to find because they keep failing."

Michael Sebastian @HonorAndDaring, "Either we crush the nice guy loser mindset of Republicans or we lose our civilization. The nice guy losers who want to be loved by their enemies are selling us out." Quote Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando, "Democrats take power and immediately disenfranchise their opponents. Red state republicans can either disenfranchise them first, or end up living in a vassal district of a blue state." Atop Da Hill, Authorities’ inaction on threats against Trump voters is alarming. Insty hosts a video, STALIN’S AUTHORITARIANISM WAS LEFT AUTHORITARIANISM, AND THE AMERICAN LEFT WAS LARGELY OKAY WITH IT: Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead, "That’s the same logic used by Stalin’s secret police. “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” You pick the target first, assume guilt, then dig through everything until you can justify a charge. That isn’t the rule of law. That’s prosecution as a weapon. Very authoritarian from the side who is always warning us about authoritarianism.." At Althouse, "Mr. Trump does not attempt to hide his use of law enforcement powers for vengeance. He glories in it...." "His usurpation of law enforcement power threatens us all.... His move to control investigation and prosecution from the White House portends an America where the state uses force to promote the political interests of its leaders, rather than uphold the laws passed by our representatives. . . . Writes The Editorial Board of The New York Times, in "For Trump, Justice Means Vengeance.""

RCW warns The UK’s Free Speech Act is a Paper Tiger — And America is Next.

From TCW, DEI and a stark admission – it’s a war against straight white males. Campus Reform reports ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ to lead Harvard lecture linking drag, politics, and Kamala Harris’ ‘chitthi brigade’, "Kareem Khubchandani is a drag queen who calls himself 'LaWhore Vagistan.' He is teaching two classes at Harvard on drag and 'queer ethnography.'" At Hat Hair, Stephen Moore says we need to Stop Pretending That Colleges Are Nonprofit Institutions.

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Too Good To Be True? marinated and ready for consumption at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - DOJ Subpoenas Walz, Frey in Insurrection Inquiry

I know it's early in the season, but I'd like to propose a trade

John Sexton at Hat Hair reports DOJ Issues Subpoenas to Gov. Walz and Mayor Frey "The Justice Department has issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as part of an investigation alleging that the two Democratic leaders are impeding federal law enforcement officers’ abilities to do their jobs in the state, two people familiar with the matter confirmed Friday...The subpoenas suggest that the Justice Department is examining whether Walz’s and Frey’s public statements disparaging the surge of officers and federal actions have amounted to criminal interference in law enforcement work." What comes around, goes around. Breitbart News @BreitbartNews, "Minneapolis Mayor Frey wants police officers "to fight ICE agents on the streets." The chief of police's reaction is priceless..." unseen1 @unseen1_unseen, "Al Capone didnt like it when federal agents came to his city either." Ace, Trump Again Warns Walz and Frey: Start Enforcing the Law, Or Federal Troops Are Coming "I don't hear Democrats taunting "Trump Always Chickens Out now." Sister Toldja at RedState hears DOJ Has Spicy Clapback After Soros-Backed Philly DA Issues Arrest Threat to ICE. Todd Blanche @DAGToddBlanche, "Go ahead and try." Quote Larry Krasner @LarryKrasnerDA, "“We will arrest you. We will handcuff you. We will close those cuffs. We will put you in a cell. We will set your bail and I'm going to ask for it to be appropriately high," said Krasner." Sundance at CTH, Homan on Minnesota Unrest: “Justice is Coming” … “You Should Hear Something, Real Soon.” PJM's Vick Taft has another West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Feckless Gavin Admits Calling ICE Agents 'Terrorists' Is 'Unfair', but… John Sexton again, Newsom: I Might Have Gone Too Far Calling ICE Agents 'State Sponsored Terrorists'. Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "Talk like this is a greater threat to the peaceful transfer of power and our Republican form of government than almost anything I can imagine" Quote Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries, "REMINDER: To all members of the Trump administration. The incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime." Matt Margolis at PJM thinks Hakeem Jeffries Just Crossed a Dangerous Line That Can’t Be Uncrossed. Guy Benson @guypbenson, "Enforcing duly-enacted immigration laws is not illegitimate, third world stuff. But vowing to prosecute vast swaths of your political enemies as soon as you’re back in power is." From Irons in the Fire, Hakeem Jeffries is a vile, oathbreaking bastard, "who thinks promising to misuse/abuse the Justice Department is fine as long as Democrats do it." At Am Mind, Crying “Fascism!” and Its Consequences. Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar, "It is completely unacceptable that law-abiding Minnesotans are being thrown to the ground, detained, pepper-sprayed, and threatened. This endangers public safety and is fundamentally un-American. From startribune.com." Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "If law-abiding Minnesotans were actually being thrown to the ground, detained, pepper-sprayed, and threatened, I would agree with you. But these are not law-abiding Minnesotans. Not a single one." Rick Moran at PJM, Oglala Sioux Chief Lied About ICE Locking up Tribe Members. Matt Vespa at TownHall sees a Biden-Appointed Judge Issues Insane Ruling on How ICE Should Handle Deranged MN Protesters. Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, ""No one is illegal on stolen land." is the quiet part out loud, driving Dems and Walz on this. They just know you can't say that out loud for fear of sounding insane, so they indoctrinate these kids to say it." Quote Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok "BREAKING: Students from Saint Paul Public Schools in Mn left class to march in an anti-ICE protest, saying they want to "get rid of ICE" and that "no one is illegal on stolen land." Some students admitted to warning illegals online to stay home and avoid ICE, while others . . ." Dave Strom, Too Good(?) to Check: Minneapolis Police Department Bleeding Officers—Again.

John Sexton, NY TImes Takes Another Try at Analyzing the Shooting Video, desperately trying to find some way to not see Renee Good hitting the ICE officer with her SUV. At Twitchy, Criminal Illegal Alien Walks Free After Ramming ICE Vehicles Head-On: Seattle Jury Says Not Guilty. Sister Toldja, DHS Announces Latest Arrest in Minnesota, and the Details Should Make Democrats Do Some Soul-Searching. From Amy Curtis at TownHall, Left-Wing Mobs in Minneapolis Now Stopping Cars and Interrogating Civilians. At Da Wire, Minneapolis Protesters Force Random White Guy To Prove He’s Not ICE "They’re singling him out based on his race, sex, and age — because they don’t like middle-aged white guys." Matt Vespa at TownHall, An Anti-ICE Activist Tried Interfering With an Arrest in California. Guess What Happened Next. Breaking911@Breaking911, "ICE protester who lost his vision while attempting to stop an arrest in Minneapolis: “I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix…They said it was a miracle I survived.” (It was in Santa Ana CA). Shipwreckedcrew, "Officer Created Jeopardy" -- A Wholly Specious Claim As Applied To The Minnesota ICE Shooting.

Jonathan Turley, Murder, She Wrote: CBS Reporter Declares Good Shooting to be “Murder” by ICE. "Given the strong arguments that can be made for this officer, one would think that CBS and other news organizations would avoid a declaration of murder. Even if you disagree with the use of force, it is not true that this can be reported as murder. There has not been a completion of the investigation, let alone an adjudication." The Good shooting. I like that, I think I'll start using it. Matt Vespa, CNN Host Was Not Happy When Scott Jennings Brought *This* Up About the Anti-ICE Ambush in Minneapolis. "On The Arena, host Kasie Hunt was not pleased that Jennings brought up the ambush on ICE agents in Minneapolis by three Venezuelan illegals. Also, he was not having any of the ‘does this bother you’ crap regarding showing identification when approached by an ICE agent." Overton @overton_news, "Scott Jennings just caught Abby Phillip in a bold-faced LIE on CNN — and he couldn’t believe she was denying the truth. Watch till the end to see the proof. As the panel freaked out over the DOJ probing Tim Walz and Jacob Frey for obstructing federal immigration operations, @ScottJenningsKY cut straight to the facts. JENNINGS: “And, look, based on their public statements, it’s pretty clear that…and based on the statements of officials at DOJ, it’s pretty clear there is concern that these two guys have used their positions and their public statements to try to obstruct the execution of federal laws.” “Now, whether that rises to a crime, I don’t know.”" Sister Toldja, Florida Sheriff Shuts Down Woke Reporter and Provides Vital Explainer on Blue State ICE Surge.

PJM's Stephen Kruiser thinks Aging Melba Toast Mobs Are Further Proof of Dems' Irrelevance. More like avocado toast. Althouse, "It wasn’t long ago that casual contempt for white women was the domain of the left, at least that part of the left that took books like 'White Fragility' seriously." ""So it’s striking how easily conservatives, who’ve been stewing over insults to white people for at least five years, have singled out a group of white women as the enemy. But it also makes sense, because everyone hates an apostate. In the right-wing imagination, these women are acting like harpies — an epithet often seen online — when they’re supposed to be helpmeets. Fox News’s Will Cain described a 'weird kind of smugness' in the way 'some of these liberal white women interact with authority.' For MAGA, ICE’s eagerness to put women in their place might be a feature, not a bug."" Writes Michelle Goldberg, in "The Right Is Furious With Liberal White Women" (NYT). Dave Strom, Women Are the Shock Troops of the Left. Zarathustra @zarathustra5150, "56% of liberal women aged 18-29 have literally been diagnosed with a mental health disorder. And that’s only the number officially diagnosed. The real number is obviously higher." Christina Hoff Sommers @CHSommers "We’ve spent years worrying about young men being radicalized online. What if it’s young women who should be our focus of concern?" Zarathustra @zarathustra5150, "Political scientists & data quants have been telling us this for half a decade. Women have moved *radically* leftward, at a scale & speed with no modern precedent, while men have, on the whole, remained largely steady & unchanged. And you can see it across the data." Chris Bray at Tell Me How This Ends The Explosion of Political Noise Is Meant to Cover the Death of the Blue Model, Nothing Else.

Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge, "GDP hits 5.5%. Meaning the American economy is now growing faster than China. - Productivity growth tripled - Wages are growing 3.8% - Layoffs are the lowest since 2022 - Inflation is just 1.7% per Truflation This is the crash legacy media and economists swore was coming." Truflation @truflation "US CPI Inflation today: 1.55% Our inflation index dropped further today, from 1.70% to 1.55%, as cooling spread across multiple categories. The main drivers included the Housing, Food, and Household items categories." From Ace, Mortgate Rates Fall to Lowest Level In Three Years As CNN Grieves, "Before that: Last week, Trump proposed banning large institutional investors from buying up single-family homes, which they've been doing for years, contributing to the high cost of home ownership. You will own nothing and love it, they promised." And Trump Proposes Rule to Make Big Pharma Sell Its Drugs to Americans at Same Price They Sell It To Europeans, Reducing Drug Costs by Up to 90% "Plus: More Quick Hits The era of big government is... continuing." From Twitchy, Lee Zeldin Speaks Slowly to Answer 'a Top Contender for Dumbest Reporter Question Ever'. It's a high bar. Whale Psychiatrist @k_ovfefe2, "Well ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to tell you that the winning has not slowed down a bit. Here is the Thursday Win Report! - Initial jobless claims come in under 200k, near a 56 year low - Empire State Manufacturing Index surges to 7.7. Expectations were 1.0 . . . " From Da Signal, Lawmaker Introduces ‘Common Sense’ Bill to Eliminate Capital Gains Taxes on Home Sales. I&I hopes With America Divided, Will Improving Economy Boost Trump’s Approval Ratings? At Hat Hair, Larry vids, CNN Was Forced to Report Trump's Big Economic Win and It Was Glorious and Trump and Powell Clash as Federal Reserve Faces Unprecedented Scrutiny while Beege Welborn reports Trump Moves to Make Data Centers Pay to Provide Their Own Juice Generation. CNBC forced to admit Taiwan will invest $250 billion in U.S. chipmaking under new trade deal. Sundance hosts President Trump Rural Investment Roundtable Event. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair cites Axios: When Donny Met Chuckie "President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) met at the White House on Thursday to discuss Trump's hold on billions of dollars of funding for the Gateway Tunnel Project in New York."

Driscoll at Insty, Shot: Iran’s Murderous Regime Is Irredeemable. "—New York Times editorial board column, Wednesday. Chaser: This particular Persian excursion, after all, is sponsored by none other than the New York Times, the esteemed paper of record that, in case you hadn’t noticed, is quickly transforming itself into a travel agency of some renown, offering an array of exhilarating (and expensive) cultural journeys for the sophisticated traveller." At the Spec, Roger Kimball wonders Why can’t Democrats speak frankly about Iran? Why can't they be frank about anything. wretchardthecat @wretchardthecat "There are two possible reasons why an unidentified operation against Iran slated for approximately Jan 14, 2026 was canceled or postponed: 1. The resources available were not sufficient to achieve the tactical objectives; and or 2. New strategic opportunities emerged that favored shifting to an entirely different set of plans. Since we don't know the character of the canceled operation (or if it really existed) the only clue to the future progress of the game is what new pieces are now moving."

Ace woke up to find Thwarted True Venezuelan President Presents Her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump, "Trump finally receives his Peace Prize. She had previously dedicated the Prize to Trump when she was awarded it." Art Schaper at Am Great, Trump Arrests Maduro, and The Axis of Evil is Crumbling. "Trump’s arrest of Maduro wasn’t war or nation-building—it was law enforcement abroad, striking narco-communism, curbing migration, and defending American interests without bloodshed." American bloodshed, that is (there were some wounded). The Cubans were not as fortunate. 

Sundance sees Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Bows to Big Panda, Looking for Financial Assistance Against Godzilla Trump "My dear Canadian conservative friends, things look very troubling. You have my deepest sympathies for the events of the next few years that are about to unfold." VodkaPundit at Insty, THE SMART CROWD IS SLAMMING TRUMP TODAY FOR DRIVING CANADA TOWARD BEIJING, BUT OTTAWA HAS LEANED HARDER IN THAT DIRECTION FOR SEVERAL YEARS. Dave Strom sees Canadian Politicians Mourn Islamophobic Hate Crime Committed Against Bondi Beach Shooter.

Don Surber explains What Trump wants from Greenland "And yes, their military includes dog sleds." At the Brussels Signal, The Danes protecting Greenland: They must learn from de Gaulle "The cold, hard truth is that great powers do not consult the weak." Leslie Eastman at LI, Game of Tariffs: Trump Incentivizes European Support for His Greenland Acquisition. With tariffs rattling the markets, European troops on the ice, grandiose U.S. senators trying to play peacemaker, and Trump’s envoys vowing that a deal is within reach, the next episode in this Arctic saga promises even more intrigue."

Ace, For Some Reason AP and ABC "News" Cannot Even Guess At, Overdose Deaths In the US Plummeted in 2025 "I wonder what could have caused this. . . . Apparently it's just impossible that stopping fentanyl imports and deporting Tren de Aragua drug-dealers contributed to the decline. It's not even worth a mention. By the way, note that overdoses shot up during Fauci's (and Tucker Carlson's) shutdowns. More deaths that can be laid at their feet."

DOGE State @DOGE_STATE, "At one level, one has to admire the entrepreneurial spirit of the Somali scammers — with just a few Quality Learing Centers, they built an industrial scale fraud operation nearly on par with USAID, a feat which took our best educated deep staters decades to do …" Quote DataRepublican (small r) DataRepublican, "Important thread to read through x.com/SmartMaticEng/…" C3 @C_3C_3, "I’m frantically chugging a 24oz bottle of water my kids forgot they had in their backpack in the TSA line and Somalis are walking through with $700 million in cash. Insane." Beege Welborn takes a look at Hawala Lala Ding Dong Fraud. Plastic Straw Republican @SmartMaticEng. "The suitcases full of cash moving through Minneapolis St. Paul Airport fit the profile of a Hawala money broker settling balances in cash. What is Hawala?" Plastic Straw Republican @SmartMaticEng. "Hawala is a network of money brokers that function like an unregulated Western Union of the Middle East and North Africa. Brokers keep large amounts of cash and communicate outside of the regulated banking system. When you wish to send money to someone in, say, Somalia, where . . . " NYPo, Two scammers plead guilty to $68M Brooklyn adult day care fraud scheme. "Owners Zakia Khan and Ahsan Ijaz, as well as Oasmneah Hamdi, Ansir Abassi, and Amran Hashmi, were among those charged. Wasef and Antao are the sixth and seventh scammers to plead guilty in the case."

Betsy Stauffer at LI says Uh Oh: Mamdani Under Fire for Excluding Black Leaders From Top City Roles “Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. … It has become a problem.” John Sexton reports a Mamdani-Endorsed Candidate Violates the Rules to Make Campaign Stop at a School.

Elon Musk @elonmusk, "This is needed to save democracy in America" Quote Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters "Make this make sense: 1. 85% of Americans (eg, the majority both sides) want a voter ID requirement 2. this would make it one of the most popular policies of all time. 3. yet, while controlling Congress, republicans haven't passed any law to enact this requirement. The SAVE Act would accomplish this, and it's passed the house but stalled in the senate for months. This is an absurdity that can only really be explained by massive incompetence or an incentive to cheat. I'm not sure which it is."

Ilya Shapiro, The Supreme Court Goes Back to Biology Class "Oral arguments over state sports laws underscored the simple truth that sex categories exist for a reason." Back? I doubt Ketanji ever went. Ace, As SCOTUS Debates "Trans Women" Competing in Girls Sports, the World's 671st Ranked Male Tennis Player Easily Beats the Woman Ranked #1; also, Remembering Scott Adams and Dilbert.

Scott Pinsker at PJM notices Who Does The Atlantic Blame for Antisemitism? Who Else: MAGA’s Jews. No really! Slantic, “MAGA’s Jewish Intellectuals Helped Create Their Own Predicament.”

Mike Cantrell at PJM reports Threats so Severe That Riley Gaines Says She Armors Her Infant Daughter "Conservative activist Riley Gaines recently appeared on the Fox News program Outnumbered, where she shared a heartbreaking truth. Because she received numerous death threats while attending the Supreme Court to hear arguments in a case that could ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports, she wrapped her 3-month-old daughter in a bulletproof blanket."

Driscoll at Insty, TOO ON BRAND: School Purges 1984, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, and Others to Promote ‘Diversity.’ "A London, Ontario, secondary school binned more than 10,000 library books between January and March this year under the Thames Valley District School Board’s “inclusive libraries revitalization project,” eliminating more than half of the school’s 18,000-book collection." Dave Strom, The Schools Teach That Activism Is the Highest Good, and It Is Not Going Well. From the Sentinel, Eureka elementary students cautioned that Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk are not role models. Eureka MO, not Eureka CA.

Vic Nava at NYPo, Pentagon to ‘refocus’ military newspaper Stars and Stripes away from ‘woke distractions.’ 

More, more, more, at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.16.26 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 01.16.26 (Evening Edition). Linked at the Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Gets Nobel Peace Prize, Threatens MN with Insurrection Act

Early in the day, Hat Hair's John Sexton wonders Will Trump Get a Nobel Prize Today? (Update: Machado Gave Him the Medal). To thank him for not making her President of Venezuela? Driscoll at Insty, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHECY: Aishah Hasnie @aishahhasnie, "NEW: Venezuela opposition leader MACHADO just told Fox she presented the Nobel Peace Prize to TRUMP today “I presented the President of the United States the medal, the peace, the Nobel peace prize…” Sara Hoyt at Insty, THEREBY SLAPPING THE NOBEL COMMITTEE IN THE FACE: Machado Presented Trump With Her Nobel Peace Prize. "Which, after their farcical award of a Nobel peace prize to the despicable Obama before he did anything, is the least they deserve. A series of kicks in the rear all around the major capitals of Europe is more like what they need." Althouse, "I presented the President of the United States the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom." "Presumably, she did not give him any of the money — about $1 million — that came with the award. That money means much more to her than to our billionaire President, but more important, visitors to the President can't be handing over piles of money. And she wants something from him. She wants a lot. He wanted something too, the Nobel Prize, and now he's in the ambiguous position of sort of having it. You just have the medal. It's like Putin's Super Bowl ring. What do you have when you have the token of winning and you did not win? It's not the token of winning with respect to you, so what is it?" Hat Hair's Dave Strom notes the Capture of Maduro Wildly Popular in Latin America. From Althouse, "Republican leaders were able to garner enough support for their procedural maneuver to kill the resolution after Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Todd Young of Indiana flipped their position..." ""... and joined the effort to stop it from coming up for a vote. The shift brought about a 50-50 tie, which was broken late Wednesday in favor of Republican leadership by Vice President JD Vance, in his role as president of the Senate." From "Republicans Block Effort to Check Trump’s Power in Venezuela/G.O.P. leaders succeeded in pressuring fellow senators who initially supported the measure that would have limited President Trump’s military authority in Venezuela" (NYT). That was close. Sufficient garnering occurred."

So the next question is, shall I deal with the rebellion in Iran or Minneapolis next? Let's go with Minnesota! Leading off with Stacy McCain's Crazy People Are Dangerous: Minnesota Lesbian Suicide-by-Cop Edition and Please Stop Slandering Jefferson Davis . At Hat Hair, John Sexton sees even the NY Times admits Prosecuting the ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good Would Be Difficult, and FBI Looking for Illegal Alien Who Assaulted ICE Agents in Dallas, Beege Welborn reports MN Anarchists Loot ICE Vehicle, Score Weapons Locker and Documents, Dave Strom sees Walz Inching Toward Civil War... and MN Democrats WANT Trump to Invoke Insurrection Act and Capt. Ed, Trump Warns Walz: My Next Step Is the Insurrection Act. At Althouse, "If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job..." ""I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State. Thank you for you attention to this matter!" Writes "President DJT" at Truth Social." Sundance at CTH hosts Secretary Noem Remarks on Discussing Possible Use of “Insurrection Act” with President Trump. Ace, After Night of Riots and Attacks on Federal Agents, Trump Threatens to Declare Minnesota to be in a State of Insurrection. At Twitchy, Man Who Stole Rifle From FBI Vehicle During Minneapolis Rioting Arrested. Rusty Weiss at RedState, Homan Vows to Expose Lefty Agitators: Reveals New Plan to 'Make Them Famous'. Ace notes Who's Funding the Domestic Terrorist and Insurrectionary Groups in the US? Why, George Soros, the Ford Foundation, and Democrat Dark Money Groups, Of Course "Seize their assets. We don't tolerate insurrection in this country. And we don't tolerate anyone who tolerates insurrection. Right?"

Michael Barone at TownHall, What's the Matter With Minnesota? Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "Refers to the federal government as an “occupation.” Walz channeling 1860’s Democratic energy here. Unbelievable." Quote Julio Rosas @Julio_Rosas11, "Gov. Walz's livestream about federal immigration operations is having a delayed echo when he speaks: "Let me say once again to Donald Trump and Kristi Noem: End this occupation. You've done enough." Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck, "CNN's @BradOnMessage Todd on Tim Walz: "Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Tim Walz said it was a federal occupation. He put the National Guard on notice. he's everything short of Fort Sumter right now." John Sexton, Walz Changes Course, Appeals for Calm. Caroline Cummings @CaroRCummings, "Per the governor's office: Walz is attempting to get ahold of President Trump directly and is also convening business leaders, members of Congress, other governors to "make an appeal to the administration to reverse course and turn down the temperature."" At Insty, KEEP THE PRESSURE ON: Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "Walz is on the ropes. We’re at the bargaining stage. But Walz has nothing to bargain with." Raised by Germans warns Don't Underestimate Tim Walz. At Twitchy, Dude. So CLOSE! LOL! Mayor Jacob Frey's Whiny 'ICE Invasion' Meltdown Backfires Spectacularly (Watch) Greg Price @greg_price11, "Frey: "Imagine if your city or town was invaded by thousands of federal agents that do not share the values that you hold dear." Funny how this logic never applies to the invasion of illegal aliens." Ace, Minneapolis Mayor and Insurrectionist Jacob Frey Justifes Attacking ICE Agents, Saying Hitting Federal Agents With Shovels Is Just "Defending Our Neighbors" "It's time." Brit Hume @brithume, "If Minnesota's view somehow carries the day, we will be living in a very different county than the one that would not let Southern politicians block school integration during the civil rights era in the 1960's and beyond." Quote Byron York @ByronYork, "Minnesota: Federal law shouldn't apply to us. Minneapolis to ICE: We're tracking you. We're blowing whistles. We're blocking you with our cars. We're getting into shoving matches with you. Some of us are doing more than that. And yet you won't go away. What is it you don'tShow more" Nicholas Giordano @PasReport, "That’s right. States don’t get to decide which federal laws apply to them. We settled that question decades ago, at great cost, and the answer hasn’t changed. These are the same people who constantly warn about “threats to democracy,” yet believe they can bypass the Constitution and congressionally enacted law whenever enforcement conflicts with their feelings or preferred narrative." At Althouse "The last thing we need to do, again, is to make the same mistake when it comes to 'Defund the Police' rhetoric." ""That ended up not actually helping communicate what people wanted. People want a slimmed-down ICE that is truly focused on security." Said Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, quoted in "Abolish ICE? It’s a Slogan Some Democratic Critics of ICE Would Abolish/As Democrats grow more alarmed about the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids in American cities, some worry that calls to eliminate the agency will distract from efforts to rein it in" (NYT)." Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "HOLY CRAP. Border Commander Greg Bovino confirms Minneapolis Police received the STAND-DOWN ORDER, leaving federal agents to face insurrection alone "Even in Illinois, under Governor Pritzker, they still allowed state locals to come in and work with the federal government to make that Broadview Facility safer." "That's all we ask here at the Whipple Facility here in Minnesota, is we want safety, so we can continue to conduct these Title VIII immigration operations!" "Anytime we can work with the state and locals, as we did in Louisiana, somewhat in Illinois, and North Carolina, and other places, that's always a success for all of us." DISGRACEFUL." Mark Hemingway @Heminator, "Look, the moment ICE agents show up in Minneapolis, they’re just as Minnesotan as people that have been there for generations. I’ve been repeatedly told that’s how this works." Sundance thinks Corrupt Minnesota Officials Request Public to Conduct More Chaotic Actions to Coverup Criminal Fraud by Public Officials.

From State of the Day, State of Wednesday: THE ARRESTS BEGIN, "Liberals in Minneapolis have a lot of learning to do, and school is decidedly in session." PJM's Kevin Downey quips It's 10 a.m. — Do You Know Where Your Grandma Is? She's Getting Pepper-Blasted by the Feds. Amy Curtis at TownHall, Florida Woman Tried Messing With ICE. It Did Not Go Well for Her. Beege Welborn, When Resistance AWFLs Don't Realize Not Every State Thinks Their Tantrums Are Adorable. Carl Paulus @CarlPaulus, "The people obsessed with the Confederacy for the past decade have essentially adopted the stance of the fire-eaters. That’s one of the weirder parts of this entire ordeal." Quote Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew, "The ICE Officers are ENFORCING federal law. Those like ICE Watch are lawbreakers when they go beyond protesting and actively interfere in ICE operations." Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, "That was before your friends started trying to murder them." Quote Carl @HistoryBoomer, "None of the ICE agents in this segment were masked. It's almost as if when you dress like thugs, you'll be seen as thugs." RBe @RBPundit, "Hi, Latino here. I give ICE agents a "wassup" nod whenever I see them and the give me a "wassup" nod back. Cops, too. Maybe it's a you problem?" Quote Luis Moreno @LuisMorenolg, "If you're not Latino, married to a Latino, live with Latinos, you really have no idea how terrifying it is to be targeted for the way you look, the way you speak, how you're dressed or even what you're doing. Walk a mile in my shoes has never been truer in this country. x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/…" Driscoll, THE PRESIDENT IS A HEARTLESS NAZI! “You know why you haven’t heard about this story? Because it happened under Obama. Imagine if this happened under Trump. Imagine how many Democrats would fly to Mexico to find this woman and exploit her story,” the tweet goes on to note." Teri Christoph at RedState thinks you should Watch: Karoline Leavitt Absolutely Levels Lefty Reporter After Dishonest ICE Question – 'You're a Hack'. PJM's Sarah Anderson calls it MUST WATCH: Karoline Leavitt Destroys MSM 'Journalist' Over ICE Question.

NYPo ed board, Minneapolis schools betray kids to feed ICE hysteria "Pathetic: Minneapolis Public Schools last week announced they’ll allow remote attendance for students at least through mid-February — and teachers unions are pushing for similar policies throughout the metro region." Mitch Berg at Hat Hair, Saint Paul Public Schools: In Lieu Of Educating... At BA, Cam is concerned, Did a Pro-2A Sign Lead to Illegal Immigrant's Deportation?

At NYPo, The disturbing reason Iran appears to have stopped slaughtering protesters. NRO's Jim Geraghty worries about Trump’s Sudden Reversal on Iran. I don't think he's reversing; he's waiting for the time to get ripe. Scott Pinsker at PJM, Idiots at Al Jazeera: The Iranian People Are Rebelling and It’s All Donald Trump’s Fault!, but I already like him! From TNP, WAR? Trump Redeploys Carrier Strike Group to Middle East. From Hat Hair, John Sexton sees US Military Assets Are Heading Toward Iran, Capt. Ed watches NBC: Trump Will Only Order Military Attack On Iran If 'Decisive' and Beege Welborn says Let's Engage in Baseless Speculation for a Moment, Shall We? The Skies Over Iran Have Emptied MORE. Reuters claims an Exclusive: Trump questions support for son of Iran's last Shah inside country. Althouse, Trump questions the Shah's support-garnering capacity. "The news as displayed at Memeorandum:" The problem with the idea of royalty is "regression to the mean". The guy who seizes an empire is very likely to be exceptional, for better or worse. His son, less so, and his grandson might as well be picked out of the phonebook.

VodkaPundit at Insty, OH: Danish intel warned last year about Russian and Chinese military goals toward Greenland and Arctic. Twitchy, Emmanuel Macron Says the French Military Is on Its Way to Denmark and Greenland. AMAC says Europe Should Be Begging Trump to Buy Greenland. Sundance thinks President Trump Identifies the Roadblock to a Ceasefire Between Ukraine and Russia, Zelenskyy.

Sundance, President Trump Announces “The Great Healthcare Plan.” "DETAILS HERE" Getting out ahead of it, Am Great reports Big Pharma Raises Drug Prices for 2026. Matt Vespa at TownHall hears Reconciliation 2.0 Is Getting Some High Marks. This Is a MUST-Pass for the GOP This Year. PJM's Stephen Kruiser thinks It's Refreshing When the GOP Acts Like It's Winning.

Ace cites Trump: "I Don't Think We Need" Antisemites in the GOP "Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Megyn Kelly, and Candace Owens hardest hit. Or are they? Carlson and Owens barely pretend to be Trump supporters, and Nick Fuentes urged his "Groyper" followers to vote for Kamala Harris. "Grandma Groyper" Megyn Kelly, meanwhile, just supports whatever position she thinks is hot with the TikTok generation this week."

From Twitchy, DataRepublican and Walter Curt 'Follow the Money' and EXPOSE Huge Somali Fraud Op at Minneapolis Airport. Walter Curt @wcdispatch, "Okay @DataRepublican, and I did some general numbers on the SomaliFraud cash going through Minneapolis airport. According to reports, over 2 years, they moved roughly $700MM through the airport. That means (if they used $100 bills) they moved 7.7 metric tons of cash, and keep in mind, this is just what was flagged over the past 2 years. Couple notes on that number: That would essentially mean that the Somalis were taking a $1 million dollar duffle bag through the airport — EVERY SINGLE DAY — for two years. Further, we can assume that this is only the money that was flagged. If the Somalis were just wandering through without declaring every cash bag, we could be talking 10x the amount. The question then became: WHY Minneapolis? Well, after some quick discussing with regular travelers of the MN airports. The Somalis run the airport. They’re the ground crews. They’re the airport staff. They’re friggin TSA. We have an airport in the United States of America run by pirates. That’s kind of a problem. More on where we think the money is going later…" Ace, wakes up and watches the New Nick Shirley Video: Somali Pirates Are Defrauding Us for Hundreds of Millions of Dollars by Running Fake Taxpayer-Funded Transporation Companies, "All of this enabled by free-spending Democrats desperate to loot the public treasury to put money in their voters' pockets." At Hat Hair, a Chloe video, Nick Shirley Exposes a SHOCKING Cash-Smuggling Scheme at U.S. Airports — Tim Walz is Screwed, Dave Strom reports Nick Shirley Exposes More Somali Fraud and The Entire Daycare Industry Has Become a Scam. 

The Free Bacon is scandalized when Kamala Harris Buys $8.2 Million Seaside Mansion After Warning 'Sea Levels Are Rising' Due to 'Climate Crisis' "Harris's new home features many of the same amenities—such as a gas stove and fireplace—that the Biden-Harris administration targeted with regulations." In Malibu; as Greg Gutfeld quipped, "she got it at a fire sale." Also, ‘White, Middle-Class Homeowners Are a Huge Problem’: Mamdani’s Communist Housing Czar Called To ‘Undermine the Institution of Homeownership,’ "Cea Weaver’s anti-white statements have already drawn scrutiny from the Justice Department." Amy Curtis, Cea Weaver Identifies the 'Huge Problem' Obstructing Her Communist Housing Agenda, and Guess What It Is. You. 

PJM's Aaron Hanscom has The Video Gavin Newsom Doesn't Want You to See. Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "When people think of 20th Century fascism, they usually think of fully-installed, oppressive central governments. But when you trace the rise of 20th Century fascism, it usually starts with a criminal political party that does everything it can to undermine the legitimate authority of a prior democratically elected government. Fascist governments come to power through denial of legitimate laws, violent protests, media propaganda, the creation of martyrs out of criminals and rigged elections. In the USA of 2026, can you name a political party that seeks to gain power through denial of legitimate laws, violent protests, media propaganda, the creation of martyrs out of criminals and rigged elections? I can. How about you?" Mike Solana @micsolana, "they keep telling us that when they’re back in power they’re doing mass incarceration for political dissidents as if this is as normal a thing to say as “we disagree with your views on abortion” or something" Quote Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries "REMINDER: To all members of the Trump administration. The incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime." Capt. Ed, Axios: Even Some Dems Getting Tired of 'Performative Bull****' Impeachments.

Dave Strom, Fauci Knew That Natural Immunity Was Superior to Vaccine and Still Pushed to Require It.

Capt. Ed, Hmmm: FBI Executes Search Warrant on WaPo Reporter’s Home "Three years ago, keeping classified material at home justified not just full-on FBI raids but felony prosecutions of presidents … at least those who had not reached the non compos mentis stage. At the time, the media treated the search of Mar-a-Lago as a necessary defense of national security, and in some cases, evidence of Donald Trump’s risk to the country. Now, however, FBI search warrants for classified material may suddenly become completely illegitimate when it comes to reporters, at least to the media covering the story. The FBI conducted a search pursuant to a warrant obtained by the Department of Justice in connection with a leak investigation. The target of the seach was Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson, who normally covers issues relating to the federal workforce." She was not the target; the target was whoever gave it to her. 

Jeff Charles at TownHall, Appeals Court Just Handed the Trump Administration Major Victory in Mahmoud Khalil's Case.

Driscoll at Insty cites COLEMAN HUGHES: Scott Adams Made Me a Better Thinker. Christopher F. Rufo @christopherrufo, "I hope my own New York Times obit is even more unhinged and vitriolic. We miss you, Scott, and trust that you'd think your haters are hilarious." The New York Times @nytimes, "Breaking News: Scott Adams, whose comic strip “Dilbert” was a sensation until he made racist comments on his podcast, has died at 68. https://nyti.ms/49lBuDy." From Da Wire, ‘Can Men Get Pregnant?’: Reproductive Doctor Refuses To Answer Senator’s Simple Question. "You wont even acknowledge the basic reality that biological men don't get pregnant. I thought we were past all of this." From Ace, Paramount's "Landman" Takes on Fragile SJW Pronoun Sissies; Newest, Gayest Star Trek Ever Crashes In Ratings. 

Linked at 357 Magnum in Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 17 January. The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Suddenly, A Winning Week awaiting your digital amusement at The Other McCain.