YOU CAN’T GET BLOOD FROM A TURNIP OR MONEY FROM CALIFORNIA:  Feds: California Owes $1B for Covering Illegal Aliens With Medicaid Dollars.

I’VE HELD THEM IN CONTEMPT FOR DECADES:   House Oversight Sends Contempt Resolution Against Clintons to Full House Over Epstein Probe.

HE’S NOT WRONG:  Dissolving the Comfort Monopoly.  The best way to create rugged individuals is to try very hard to break them.

THIS WOMAN IS A COMPLETE TIMWALZ:  Check Out Justice Brown Jackson’s Latest Judicial Word Salad.

My habit of calling her Queijada Brown is an insult to fresh cheese. I gather your common fresh cheese knows a lot more law and is infinitely more coherent. Remember, DEI not even once!

YES. OF COURSE. AND THE USSR’S ARMAMENT AND PRODUCTION DWARFED OURS: Who on Earth believes the reports of totalitarians. Even totalitarians can’t believe anything reported to them. The problem of information is the biggest problem of communism. And yet, these naifs will open their mouths and swallow this crap without question. It makes me despair for mankind.  China has grown by over 500 TWh in the past 12 months.

AND FOR THE X-CANCELLED:  Here

I’m going to absolutely admit their production of pretty bar charts continues to be top notch.  There’s a fool born every minute, and most of them love the PRC.

IT’S AS IF THOSE DEM APPOINTED LOWER COURT JUDGES ARE JUST HACKS:  Appeals Court Puts the Kibosh on Insane Judge’s Ruling That Hamstrung ICE Agents in Minnesota.

I AGREE:  Why everyone needs to be accountable.

I’M SOMEWHAT WORRIED ABOUT THIS, FOR SIMILAR REASONS, BUT ALSO … LOOK, THEY’RE USING AI  MODELS. AND PEOPLE KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE “BRITISH MODEL”:  This is either going to be the biggest wet petard since Covid, or we’re in for a spot of worry and possibly a lot of bother. Like Kim, if I got dark, things got dire:  Uncertain Weather.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED VISAGE:  Migrant Iowa superintendent to change not guilty plea after being charged with claiming US citizenship.

I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR A COMPILATION, ACTUALLY:  Varied And Impactful Changes Realized Since Trump Returned As US President.

WELL, YES. BUT A DECENT RESPECT FOR THE OPINIONS OF MANKIND DEMANDS WE GO VERY SLOWLY:  Bill and Hillary Clinton SHOULD be in big trouble.

So they’ll probably be long dead by the time we engage in some fun damnatio memoriae.

KICK THEM WHILE THEY’RE DOWN. PUTS THEIR HEADS AT THE RIGHT LEVEL FOR KICKING:  US forces seize seventh Venezuelan oil tanker, intensify crackdown on illegal shipments.

TIRED? CONFUSED? DESPONDENT? DON’T BE. JOIN ME IN DANCING:  The Isekai Rag.

OH, I DID. THEY’RE FOLLOWING THE COMMIE PLAYBOOK EVERYWHERE:  I Never Saw This Coming.

They don’t seem to realize that in an era of distributed communications, the playbook is nonsense. They needed the storytellers in the news to convince people of their otherwise thin and unconvincing narrative. And they needed the approved news to be the only source of news.

HOPEFULLY THEY’RE NOT TOO NICE FOR SUCH:  MN Church Stormed by Anti-ICE Agitators Releases Statement Showing Their Actions May Have Consequences.

EURO POSTURING IS SO PATHETIC:

Quick reminder that Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the UK all LITERALLY STILL HAVE KINGS RIGHT NOW. pic.twitter.com/8bbAHJr6Ss

— Gain of Fauci (@DschlopesIsBack) January 21, 2026

HAHA, THAT SHIP HAS SAILED, DUDE.

CA Dem Rep Dave Min defends the Clintons during contempt hearing; says that “bringing criminal charges against a former president” would be a very serious matter.

Right, Congressman. Doing something like that would be unheard of and totally crazy. pic.twitter.com/NLpNS6PCPV

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 21, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

HIPPITY HOP: Blue Origin launching 6 people to suborbital space on Jan. 22. “NS-38 will be Blue Origin’s 17th crewed spaceflight to date.”

This would have been big in 2012.

NYU’S DISGRACE:

Last week, two NYPD Detectives were mistreated while seeking medical attention at NYU Langone – Cobble Hill Emergency Room after being injured on duty during the arrest of a violent perpetrator. Upon arrival, they were met with rudeness, disrespect, and a lack of basic… pic.twitter.com/HHkNR9Mm71

— Detectives' Endowment Association (@NYCPDDEA) January 21, 2026

ADVICE FOR DOOMERS AND PANICANS FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: Being Emotionally Incontinent Does Not Help. “Normal people, queasy because law enforcement tactics employed against resisting people are aesthetically displeasing, suddenly got a good look at their future under Democrat rule. Now they understand why ICE does what ICE does.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Russia humiliated as launchpad explodes and SpaceX spy plot falls apart.

OUTLIVING THE RESEARCHERS WHO STARTED IT: The World’s Longest-Running Lab Experiment Is Almost 100 Years Old.

INCONCEIVABLE:

You mean Trump took two extremely opposite positions only to coerce people into giving us a deal that made us better off in the end? No way. I’ve only watched him do this publicly for like 30 years.

Good thing we all hyperventilated though. I was SURE he was gonna bomb Greenland https://t.co/PNW0DBvGSH

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) January 21, 2026

HMM: Deep tooth infections can quietly fuel inflammation that disrupts blood sugar control, and treating them may benefit overall metabolic health.