K12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Teacher created ‘divisive,’ ‘unwelcoming’ environment for Jewish students: report.

I DUNNO, THERE ARE STILL NEARLY TWO HOURS LEFT: Dear Joe: NOW Are You Done Breaking the Country?

Did you ever have to deal with the last guy to leave the party who wouldn’t take the hint that the fun ended an hour ago and he’s the only reason you aren’t in bed already, sleeping it off? You finally maneuvered him to the front door, the Uber is honking in the driveway, but he won’t wrap up the 12″ extended dance mix of “Goodnight!” and leave.

Presidentish Joe Biden has been on his way out the door since June, and that sound you hear outside is an Uber driver at the absolute end of his patience.

One empathizes.

Much more at the link.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Washington State provides free ‘Queer Pole Fit’ classes.

THERE’S A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN: Facing Trump’s mass deportation plans, some sanctuary cities shift their tone.

Leaders of several sanctuary cities where officials had prominently rejected Donald Trump’s first-term immigration policies are shifting their tone as he prepares to take office again and carry out his mass deportation plans.

Some local officials have softened on how closely they want their cities to be identified with the “sanctuary city” label and have pledged to work with federal immigration authorities. But others have doubled down on their cities being sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants and reject any notion that they’d cooperate with a Trump administration seeking to deport millions of them.

The mixed approaches of officials in some of the largest and heavily Democratic cities in the U.S. underscore the country’s shifting politics on immigration. While leaders in these cities largely — and often loudly — rejected Trump’s immigration policies when he was last in the White House, some are now willing to work more closely with his administration on a top priority or tamp down their rhetoric.

Resistance is futile.

ONLY THE BEGINNING: Donald Trump Is Ready to Fight. So Are We.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Never Mind the Weather — It’s a Bright and Sunny Day for America. “Liberty is once again on the menu and Trump has promised to serve up generous portions of it to a grateful nation. Well, the sane people are grateful, anyway. Those who aren’t celebrating his return to office are too slow to realize that they will also benefit from having a real president again”

LIGHTNING DEAL: Hazmat Suits Disposable Coverall. #CommissionEarned

WALL STREET JOURNAL: How MAGA Is Taking Back the Culture: In sports, entertainment and marketing, displays of conservatism are crowding out progressive postures.

Across many facets of society—in sports, entertainment, the classroom and the workplace—there are signs that MAGA isn’t just retaking the White House. It is gaining a firmer foothold in the broader culture.

Instead of taking a knee to call for social justice, NFL players are doing the “Trump dance” in the end zone at football games. Mainstream entertainers, among them the country singer Carrie Underwood and the rapper Snoop Dogg, agreed to perform at events celebrating Donald Trump’s inauguration, something music stars largely shunned eight years ago.

A new generation of Trump-friendly comedians and wellness influencers is populating YouTube and other social media, while a snippet of audio featuring Barron and Melania Trump has become one of the hottest online memes, with celebrities such as Paris Hilton and brands including Frontier Airlines using it in their TikTok and Instagram posts.

“Every time I walk on campus, I see a few MAGA hats. That’s definitely new,” said Carson Carpenter, 19, a senior at Arizona State University. Conservatism, he said, “has really become intertwined in our pop culture…. It’s really showing that conservatism is cool now.”

Off campus, Americans who once hid their support for Trump now wear it on their sleeves, or their hats. Trevor Traina, a tech entrepreneur and former ambassador in the first Trump administration who lives in San Francisco, said he felt the shift when he co-hosted a June fundraiser for Trump in the ritzy, liberal neighborhood of Pacific Heights.

Instead of the expected protests, Traina said, the event drew “more than 100 people in red MAGA hats walking around Pacific Heights. And, you know, in my life, we’ve never seen anything like that. Republicans in San Francisco used to walk around with Groucho Marx glasses and scarves over their heads, you know, scurrying in the shadows.”

The preference cascade has cascaded.

ICYMI: MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: This Monday, Have A Happy DJT Day.

THE OPERATING ASSUMPTION SHOULD BE THAT EVERYTHING IN GAZA THAT ISN’T HAMAS IS ACTUALLY HAMAS:

Aljazeera documented how Hamas's al-Qassam Brigade fighters emerged from the Nasser Hospital complex with their weapons and vehicles in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, as soon as the ceasefire went into effect, similar to how they emerged from displacement tents 3 days ago. pic.twitter.com/7rYftKYBlS

— Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (@afalkhatib) January 19, 2025

JOEL KOTKIN: This is not the dawn of a new fascist era: There is nothing Nazi-like about Donald Trump or his programme for America.

Well, no. There never was, it was always a lie.

SAD! Limp Cheers, Tiny Crowds: March Protesting Against Donald Trump Falls flat. “For an event that billed itself as the ‘People’s March,’ not a lot of people ended up marching.”

To be fair, the way leftists bill themselves is always a lie.

IT’S INAUGURATION DAY:  Dear Trump Administration folks:  Don’t forget my Agenda for Congress.  If you want to make sure SFFA v. President & Fellows of Harvard gets enforced, you’re going to need to reduce the incentives for colleges and universities to discriminate on the basis of race.  (Oh … and before I forget:  When you’re ready, I await your call regarding what should be done at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.  You’re going to want to talk to each of the conservative members.)

WRECKING BALL:

Change is in the air on all sorts of things:

Young people are waking up: In the Harvard-Harris poll conducted a few months ago, it found 18-24-year-olds were split 50/50 on support for Israel or Hamas (left photo).

In their most recent poll (right photo), it found that 79% of them support Israel. pic.twitter.com/L652vRVh4Q

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) January 20, 2025

UPDATE:

🇦🇷🇺🇸MILEI: WE'VE CUT 900+ REGULATIONS AND OFFERED TO HELP TRUMP AND ELON DO THE SAME

"Today we have already eliminated more than 900 regulations, due to more than three per day.

In this line, we have made ourselves available to Trump and my friend Elon to share what we have… pic.twitter.com/haSTYPgDBV

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 20, 2025

ROBERT SPENCER: ‘Forest Bathing’? Time Mag Offers Some Loopy Healing Activities for Sad Leftists on Inauguration Day.

MAKE THEM PAY FOR THIS: Democrats Now Threatening People Who Donated to Trump’s Inauguration. “Perhaps I am too optimistic about the seeming collapse of support for progressive ideas in the general public, but it sure looks like Trump’s magic has been working once again. Elizabeth Warren has always been a crazy leftist harridan, but now she seems to be a crazy leftist harridan with no ability to intimidate.”

Regardless, Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bennett should face a civil rights suit for this, and Congressional ethics complaints. Make the rubble bounce.

BREAKING: Biden Pardons Fauci, Milley, and J6 Committee Members.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Pretty much an admission of criminality.

THE LEFT’S WAR ON WOMEN (CONT’D): Female inmates say they fear transgender cellmates and urge Donald Trump to overturn ‘unconstitutional policy.’

Rhonda Fleming, 58, who is a little more than halfway through a 27-year sentence for Medicare fraud, argues that she and other biological women live in constant fear of attack and stress over having to interact with and undress in front of inmates with male genitalia.

Fleming’s civil suit stated women shouldn’t be forced to share intimate spaces such as bathrooms, showers and dorms with trans women.

But the judge on the case didn’t agree, ruling against her complaint on Wednesday.

Fleming was outraged when she spoke to DailyMail.com and said: ‘What the judge did Wednesday was a farce, it was a mockery of justice. He never intended for us to have a fair trial.

‘It’s like he’s attacking the victim, telling the victim you’re in the wrong, not the victimizer.’

The inmate is hoping that Trump will change the Bureau of Prisons policy after he moves into the White House on Monday – and possibly appeal her case.

‘Trump tried to help in 2018 by changing the policy when I initially filed on this, but as soon as he was out of office, Biden overturned everything he did and brought even more men into the prison,’ she said.

It’s an open question whether Biden knew he overturned anything. It’ll be nice knowing who’s making the decisions again.

I THINK DEMOCRATS THINK THIS TOO, NOW: Don Surber: They should have just let him win in 2020.

MATT TAIBBI: Goodbye to Joe Biden, and Whoever Was President the Last Four Years: The “Invisible Presidency” is an all-time criminal, and must not be allowed to flee.

Flashback: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.

Related: Time for Consequences.

WHOEVER OR WHATEVER STARTED THE FIRES, CALIFORNIA AND L.A. POLICIES MADE THEM MUCH WORSE: ‘I Know Who Caused the Fire’: Were the L.A. Wildfires Caused by Homeless Arsonists?

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE WRITERS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There is also a fun vignette challenge.

YOU’D THINK THE USEFUL IDIOTS WOULD NOTICE WHEN THEY’RE BEING SLATHERED IN BARBECUE SAUCE:  L.A. Fires Demonstrate the Predictable Marxist Pattern that Today’s Obedient Flock Will be Tomorrow’s Barbeque.

WE’VE BEEN TRAINED TO JUMP ON A DIME:  Luckily this appears to be a case of overly honed woke radars. (This is a video.)