THEY’RE JUST LOOKING FOR A BETTER LIFE.
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. https://t.co/4ooEI8j9Tr
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) January 15, 2026
OH, CANADA: Orwell, Sir John A. Macdonald titles among books purged from Ontario school.
In a shocking act, the Thames Valley District School Board has purged numerous classic works of literature, history and political thought from a school library’s shelves. The board euphemistically calls the process “deselection.” Among the casualties of this radical book ban are timeless novels like 1984 and non-fiction works on Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.
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.
Banning Orwell is almost too on-point to be believed.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Refreshing When the GOP Acts Like It’s Winning. “Senate Republicans finally got something right on Wednesday, but it was a close call.”
GREAT MOMENTS IN RESISTANCE THEATER FROM A FORMER US AMBASSADOR:
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? https://t.co/3Of5sL7Adu
— RBe (@RBPundit) January 14, 2026
THAT DOES TEND TO CHANGE THINGS:
That was before your friends started trying to murder them. https://t.co/WXzAQ4W37E
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 14, 2026
THIS LAWSUIT WAS BROUGHT BY KNOXVILLE’S OWN VICTOR ASHE: Suit disputing how Yale picks trustees could reach state Supreme Court. Yale rigged its system; now a measure of accountability may obtain.
COLORADO: Jared Polis’ lame duck legislative session his time to shine.
Good God Almighty, the “democratic” socialists are ripping him apart for his simple social media post: “Today is a moment to celebrate the ouster of the brutal socialist dictator of Venezuela, who has cruelly impoverished this once-prosperous country that sits on greater oil wealth than Saudi Arabia.”
Then there’s a challenge of how God made him. No, it doesn’t matter he’s gay. In fact, that’s a box to check when running as a Democrat. The problem is he was born Jewish.
The Israel-hating, “from the river to the sea” style of antisemitism now rampant in Democratic ranks would never allow a Jew to be their presidential nominee.
Polis for VP? Again, no. Colorado’s ultra-blue electoral votes will go to whomever the Dems nominate. The VP slot will go to someone who brings the ticket a swing constituency; Colorado is a “sure thing.”
So basically, Jared Polis is now Colorado’s Rodney Dangerfield. The question is, will he lean into it?
If he does, it would be the kind of pleasant heart-attack-inducing shock that would go against pretty much everything he did as governor up until now.
COLEMAN HUGHES: Scott Adams Made Me a Better Thinker.
At a time when America’s elites (myself very much included) were struggling to understand Trump’s appeal, Adams strode onto the scene as a kind of “Trump whisperer.” Drawing on his longtime study of the art of persuasion, Adams took what he’d learned and applied it to Trump, arguing that statements which often looked lunatic at first glance were in fact evidence of elite persuasion skills.
I don’t think I bought Adams’s thesis at the time, but when I heard yesterday’s tragic news that Adams had died after a battle with metastatic prostate cancer, it occurred to me that whatever my disagreements with him, Scott Adams influenced the way I think—for the better.
Here’s how Adams’s thesis worked in practice: During Trump’s first presidential run, Adams considered his promise to build a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border and make Mexico pay for it an absolute masterstroke of persuasion—precisely because it was so overly simplistic and technically inaccurate. Fact-checking outlets destroyed Trump’s idea on the basis of all of the financial and technical details—pointing out, for instance, that a solid wall didn’t make sense for many kinds of terrain—and for legacy media, the wall became Exhibit A in proving that Trump was both a racist and a total moron. But for Adams, the avalanche of criticism Trump provoked was a feature, not a bug. Here is how Adams framed it in his 2017 book, Win Bigly:
In order to pull off this type of weapons-grade persuasion, he had to be willing to endure brutal criticism about how dumb he was to think he could secure the border with a solid wall. To make those criticisms go away, all Trump needed to do was clarify that the “wall” was actually a variety of different border solutions, depending on cost and terrain, every time he mentioned it. Easy as pie. But the Master Persuader didn’t want the critics to be silenced. He wanted them to make border control the biggest issue in the campaign just by talking nonstop about how Trump’s “wall” was impractical. As long as people were talking about the wall, Trump was the most important person in the conversation. The Master Persuader moves energy and attention to where it helps him most.
And during Trump’s first presidential campaign, he discerned that voters wanted radical change to immigration policy.
No wonder numerous DNC house organs attacked Adams in their obits:
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. https://t.co/aZGjeuXZjM
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) January 13, 2026
They’ve lost power on many fronts and so one thing they’ve decided to go harder on is these cultural epitaphs.
They think that the threat of posthumous slurring will keep people in line while they’re alive.
But this gracelessness actually does the opposite and signals weakness. https://t.co/3R1AQJMsSQ
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) January 13, 2026
Flashback to when Rush Limbaugh passed away in 2021: Just Why Are Post, NY Times Obits Nicer to Terrorists Than Conservatives?
TIM WALZ, PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1859:
Refers to the federal government as an “occupation.” Walz channeling 1860’s Democratic energy here. Unbelievable. https://t.co/i4zGTHujji
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) January 15, 2026
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." pic.twitter.com/CdYB52CojM
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 15, 2026
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. https://t.co/cyX3EjLPTw
— Carl Paulus (@CarlPaulus) January 15, 2026
STARMER SEEMS TO BE SCARED OF THIS YOUNG WOMAN:
Holy sh*t.
I’ve been banned from traveling to the UK. They revoked my ETA.
"Your presence in the UK is not considered to be conductive to the public good."
3 days after posting this about Starmer. https://t.co/NqWBtaTkZe pic.twitter.com/lm5lZgL2i7
— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) January 14, 2026
REPORT: Trump questions Reza Pahlavi’s ability to garner support in Iran.
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iranian opposition figure Reza Pahlavi “seems very nice” but expressed uncertainty over whether Pahlavi would be able to muster support within Iran to eventually take over.In an exclusive Reuters interview in the Oval Office, Trump said there is a chance Iran’s clerical government could collapse, blamed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for the stalemate in negotiations with Russia over the war in Ukraine, and dismissed Republican criticism of a Justice Department probe of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.Trump has repeatedly threatened to intervene in support of protesters in Iran, where thousands of people have been reported killed in a crackdown on the unrest against clerical rule. But he was reluctant on Wednesday to lend his full support to Pahlavi, the son of the late shah of Iran, who was ousted from power in 1979.“He seems very nice, but I don’t know how he’d play within his own country,” Trump said. “And we really aren’t up to that point yet.“I don’t know whether or not his country would accept his leadership, and certainly if they would, that would be fine with me.”Trump’s comments went further in questioning Pahlavi’s ability to lead Iran after saying last week that he had no plans to meet with him.
Presumably, Trump is playing his cards very close to the vest when it comes to offering any opinions about what is to come in Iran, especially when talking to Reuters, the home of the “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” worldview.
Related: New video from Mark Felton: The Man Who Would Be King — Who is Reza Pahlavi?
Earlier from Felton: The Last Shah — How Iran Changed from Western Ally to Enemy.
LIGHTNING DEAL: MERACH Rowing Machines for Home. #CommissionEarned
OH: Danish intel warned last year about Russian and Chinese military goals toward Greenland and Arctic.
The “Intelligence Outlook 2025” report on the security of the Kingdom of Denmark, released just last month, had warned at great length that “China is preparing for a military presence in the Arctic” and that “China’s long-term Arctic interests include Greenland.” The report highlighted Chinese air-based, seaborne, and submersible activities in the Arctic.
The Danish intelligence report had further assessed that the militaries of China and Russia were collaborating more closely in the Arctic, displaying the growing “DragonBear” alliance between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The report noted that Russia “uses every available tool to monitor and chart the waters between Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the United Kingdom” as “part of the preparations for a potential confrontation with NATO” and as the Kremlin deploys submarines, ships, and planes near Greenland.
The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s annual threat assessment in 2025 also detailed Russian and Chinese ambitions in the Arctic, specifically stating that both U.S. foes had specific strategic interests in Greenland. The Pentagon’s Arctic Strategy — penned in 2024 during the Biden Administration — also warned about growing Russian and Chinese military cooperation in the Arctic.
Europe’s pride is hurt, and they don’t want to turn over a vital territory they can’t properly defend or exploit.
GOOD: Victor Davis Hanson recovers after surgery.. “It was cancer surgery, and Victor had a part of his lung removed, and that’s major surgery, and I think it’s fair to say the surgery was successful. It got what it was looking for.”
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.
Another absolutely heartbreaking story of a woman being torn from her family and disappeared by ICE.
Warning, this one is really sad.
Pulled over for speeding, no criminal past. Five children and a husband at home. Disappeared. Deported. A broken family left behind.
You know… pic.twitter.com/3D2FyykqU7
— MAZE (@mazemoore) January 14, 2026
Earlier:
SHOCK FLASHBACK: Obama wrote that Illegal Immigration HURTS ‘Blue-Collar Americans,’ and STRAINS Welfare pic.twitter.com/bEd0GX5BzA
— NumbersUSA (@NumbersUSA) March 19, 2016
Related:
Once again, those Obama deportation numbers are bogus. https://t.co/0htTliFr1F https://t.co/4d7t6nOrXt
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 15, 2026
ONLY SURPRISING TO AMERICAN LEFTISTS: Capture of Maduro Wildly Popular in Latin America.
PROBABLY, YEAH: Bill Maher Says Free Speech Cost Him the Golden Globe. “During a recent episode of the 69-year-old comedian’s Club Random podcast, which aired before the Golden Globes on Sunday, Maher told guest Joel Edgerton, ‘I’ve been nominated for 33 Emmys, and they would never give it to me. That’s not a gag number. That’s a real number. It’s crazy.’ He then rattled off a list of the many categories in which award groups have nominated him over the years.”
Says a lot more about Hollywood awards than it does about Maher, though.
MATTHEW YGLESIAS: GET SOME DRESS SHIRTS THAT FIT! “I want to address the young men of America on the subject of buttoning your top button and wearing a necktie: If this is uncomfortable, that’s because your shirt doesn’t fit. It is annoying that simple S/M/L/XL sizing makes it kind of a crapshoot as to whether any given dress shirt will have appropriate length sleeves for your arms and fit your midsection and also your neck. But if you go to Brooks Brothers or Charles Tyrwhitt (just to name two stores that exist in most cities), they size their shirts with separate neck and arm lengths, and you can get one that fits. Or you can go to Proper Cloth or another “made to measure” place where they’ll sell you a shirt that fits exactly. Unfortunately, all of these options are a little more expensive than what you’ll pay for a shirt that doesn’t fit. But you either don’t need to wear a tie very often, in which case getting one shirt that fits is not a major investment, or else you do need to wear a tie frequently, in which case you shouldn’t be uncomfortable all the time.”
This is good advice.
I have always had a fairly big neck, even when I was skinny and didn’t lift weights; when I was in college I generally covered that my top button wasn’t buttoned by pulling my tie up. Now that I do lift weights, my neck is big (19 inches), and shirts sized for my neck fit me like a tent since they assume you have a big neck because you’re fat, not because you do high pulls and deadlifts and farmer’s carries. I get some shirts custom made at a local fancy clothing shop. I don’t wear a tie all that often, but that means that when I do, the occasion is important and I want to look nice. Shirts that fit aren’t that much more expensive, and they look a lot better. In fact, I remember John Malloy of Dress for Success fame saying that most people can’t tell much difference between an okay suit and an expensive one, but that it’s easy to tell the difference between a cheap shirt and an expensive one.
UPDATE: Link was wrong. Fixed now. Sorry!
WE’RE ALL: Time Travelers.
WHAT IF DRUG BOATS CARRIED MIFEPRISTONE? President Donald Trump has ordered the destruction of at least 35 Cartel-linked boats on the high seas carrying deadly drugs like Fentanyl destined for America. But thousands of unborn American children are killed every month using a lethal drug — Mifepristone — that is routinely delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to anybody.
Pro-lifers on Capitol Hill wonder if Trump would destroy such boats if they were known to be hauling Mifepristone?
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