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.

I DONATED MONDAY, SO THAT’S ALL I CAN DO FOR A WHILE: Red Cross flags blood shortage, says patients may face ‘serious risk.’

THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Crash and Burn — The Kathleen Kennedy Story.

As the Drinker notes, Kennedy “gambled some of the biggest franchises in Hollywood history on the modern audience. And wow, did she lose big. To paraphrase Chris Gore, she took boy brands that everyone could enjoy and turned them into girl brands that nobody enjoyed. Men felt excluded and disrespected, and women felt patronized and pandered to. The modern audience had failed to show up, and the existing audience was abandoning ship. Kennedy’s greatest gamble had failed, and inevitably it all finally caught up with her.”

I hope the destruction of both the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises was worth it for her. Gene Siskel famously said that the test of a good movie is, “Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?” For Kennedy, the amount of damage control she’ll be engaging in from here on in will be far more fun to watch than any of the product she put up on the big and small screen.

HE’S SUPER CEREAL! Al Gore accosts Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after Trump official’s Davos speech.

Former Vice President Al Gore briefly accosted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after the Trump official’s speech on the sidelines of this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, The Post has learned.

During a Tuesday VIP dinner hosted by billionaire BlackRock boss Larry Fink, where several hundred people were invited, Lutnick delivered a speech that was fiercely critical of European allies.

When he stepped offstage, Gore walked up to him and said, “Boo” – like he was trying to scare him, a source told The Post.

Lutnick laughed and someone at the event remarked, “What an honor to have Al Gore boo,” according to an insider.

We’ve been here before with the Goracle, haven’t we? And with equally predictable results:

And note this:

“I sat and listened to his remarks,” the avid environmentalist told The Post in a statement.

“I didn’t interrupt him in any way. It’s no secret that I think this administration’s energy policy is insane. And at the end of his speech I reacted with how I felt, and so did several others.”

What’s the problem? Al Gore tacitly declared “mission accomplished” to radical environmentalism in 2013, the moment he sold out to oil-rich Qatar:

Al has sold Current, for the magnificent sum of $500-million, $100-million of which is his alone. Not bad for a TV station with less reach and inferior programming to most billboards.

To whom did the Lord of the Upper Atmosphere sell? Why to al Jazeera — which is to say, effectively to the ruler of Qatar, a wealthy country that has nothing else to sustain it but the sale of its huge petroleum resources.

Qatar is about oil, oil and more oil. It is a global warmer’s hell.

But what a paycheck! When Al Gore emerged from his energy-guzzling mansion to address the Senate in 2007 only to refuse to take his own energy reduction pledge from An Inconvenient Truth when presented to him by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Ann Coulter quipped, “I kind of respect him more, it shows he is not stupid enough to believe all this global warming nonsense. He’s trying to get us to believe. Okay, fine, he may be a hypocrite but at least he’s not a moron.”

VITAMIN D UPDATE: The hidden dangers of vitamin D deficiency and how to fix it fast.

KRUISER IS A GIVER: I Not So Humbly Offer My Services as Trump’s First Territorial Governor of Greenland.