THIAMINE NEWS: Unexpected vitamin B1 connection emerges in genetic study of gut motility.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: As I Suspected, Kamala’s Campaign Was Antisemitic All Along.

According to Kamala’s campaign memoir, 107 Days, Shapiro was taken out of consideration because he “wanted to be too involved in the presidency should they win,” adding, “I told him bluntly that was an unrealistic expectation. A vice president is not a co-president.” She wrote that she had “a nagging concern that he would be unable to settle for a role as number two and that it would wear on our partnership.” Kamala alleged that during their interview, Shapiro attempted to dominate the discussion by insisting on being “in the room for every decision.”

Personally, I never believed that story. I always suspected that deep down, antisemitism played a role. And Shapiro has now confirmed it.

Shapiro, who is considered by some analysts a potential candidate for the 2028 Democratic nomination, made clear he has no intention of letting Kamala rewrite history of what happened during the vetting process, and has now published his own memoir, Where We Keep the Light: Stories from a Life of Service, in which he revealed the blatant antisemitism within Kamala’s campaign operation.

Shapiro was the only Jewish candidate on the shortlist. During the vetting, Dana Remus, Joe Biden’s former White House counsel, working as a senior member of Kamala’s team, asked him a shocking question. “Have you ever been an agent of the Israeli government?” Shapiro writes that he found the question deeply offensive and interpreted it as essentially asking whether he had been a double agent for Israel. When he objected, Remus told him the team was “just doing its job” and then asked whether he had ever communicated with an Israeli undercover agent. Shapiro shot back with sarcasm. “If they were undercover, how the hell would I know?”

The question tracks a longstanding antisemitic stereotype that Jews are inherently disloyal to their own country or secretly working for Israel.

Was Joe Lieberman asked a similar question when he was being vetted to be Al Gore’s VP nominee in 2000?

GOOD QUESTION: Have We Become so Cynical, so Jaded, That $9 Billion in Fraud Against the Taxpayer Isn’t a Huge Issue?

NO THANK YOU: Researchers say 1 in 4 people have symptoms of gut-stalling disorder.

“I VOTED FOR THIS.” The Trump administration is at the World Economic Forum to tell them to get stuffed, and if there is ANYTHING I put at the top of the list in my vote it is THAT. And as noted, he’s emboldening other world leaders and CEOs to say the same thing.

Plus: “Donald Trump has offended many European leaders because he has been stern and, to be honest, very disrespectful to them. . . . Trump is treating them like children because they have behaved like children, threatening to run away from home while having depended on us for all their lives. They scream, ineffectually, like toddlers, and Trump is treating them as if they are throwing tantrums.”

IT’S FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN: Entitlement fraud costs taxpayers billions … or trillions, dwarfing Minnesota.

Since 2020, fraudsters have scammed at least $36 billion and as much as $3 trillion in tax money from federal entitlement programs, dwarfing the amount federal prosecutors claim was stolen in Minnesota’s federal food aid scandal known as Feeding Our Future, an investigation by The Center Square found.

The Center Square reviewed all the statements about entitlement fraud cases issued by the U.S. Department of Justice from 2020 to last year, which did not include many of the cases prosecuted by U.S. Attorney’s offices in the various districts and any state prosecutions.

Public safety net programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid lost billions of dollars to scams each year, according to a review of 2,500 DOJ statements, press releases, and fact sheets. The amount ranged from $2.7 billion in 2022 to $14.5 billion in 2025.

Fraud experts said, if anything, the $36 billion figure is too low.

I doubt $36 billion would cover just Sacramento since 2020.

Even at $3 trillion, you might want to take the “over.”

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: 200m Americans warned to brace for coldest winter storm EVER as ‘downright concerned’ forecasters predict -50f weather and 18inches of snow.

(Classical reference in headline.)

VICTORIA TAFT: Sorry to Break up Your Narrative About Renee Good, Lefties, but I’ve Got Some News. “If you look closely, however, the story is changing. The narrative about Good’s later-in-life lesbian ‘marriage’ is quickly evaporating, given an old Irish goodbye by the news media. That doesn’t mean the media have corrected the record, but they have begun to quietly make the inaccurate portrayal of her marital status disappear.”

HAHA, TRUTH.

“Communists think like seven year olds” is the greatest self own to ever be https://t.co/3jOh6HdAzN

— Swann Marcus (@SwannMarcus89) January 20, 2026

THIS IS CNN: CNN Allows Claim That President Was Part of ‘Global Sex Trafficking Ring’ Until Scott Jennings Challenges.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Supreme Court appears likely to strike down California law banning guns in stores and restaurants.

CHECKMATE:

I’LL SELL A KIDNEY IF THAT’S WHAT IT TAKES TO BUY A SHARE: What Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO Will Tell Us About Mars.

GET READY FOR SNOW: Snow Joe Premium Enviro Blend Ice Melt. #CommissionEarned

HIGHER EDUCATION IMPLOSION UPDATE: Up to 25 percent of U.S. colleges may close soon, Brandeis president warns.

Wealthier institutions may have the resources to withstand the transition, but many others do not. Levine said that elite schools, such as Harvard, can afford to wait out disruptions, while smaller institutions face immediate pressure to adapt.

“Higher education is undergoing a transformation. Our whole society is undergoing a transformation,” Levine said, pointing to the shift from a national, industrial economy to a global, digital, knowledge-based one.

That shift, he said, is driving demographic, economic, technological, and political change that universities have been slow to address.

The challenges facing higher education, Levine said, are not new. He pointed to three longstanding criticisms that date back to the early 19th century, including that colleges change slowly, resist change, and cost too much.

“Outcomes better be worth the price paid,” he said, adding that when society changes, higher education often lags behind and scrambles to catch up.

Glenn tried to warn them. For more than 20 years.

WHAT A SHOCK. I’M SHOCKED. WELL, MAYBE NOT SO SHOCKED: Bill and Hillary Clinton Are in Real Trouble Now.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Up to 25 percent of U.S. colleges may close soon, Brandeis president warns.

YES: Your Church Isn’t Immune: After Minnesota’s Church Invasion, It’s Time to Prepare.

EXTORTION AND DEATH: A Heartbreaking Update on Venezuela’s Political Prisoner Crisis.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: 2026Upgraded Pressure Washer 5000PSI with Adjustable Touch Screen. #CommissionEarned

MASSIVE RESISTANCE IN ALABAMA? WHO WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THAT? University of Alabama social work program set to resume DEI-focused doctoral training despite state ban.

YOU DON’T SAY: Gov. Polis’ State of the State energy claims fail the smell test.

Governor Jared Polis addressed the Colorado legislature in his final State of the State address last week. Polis repeatedly invoked his efforts to build “low-cost clean energy,” but it’s the very same wind, solar, battery storage, and electric vehicles that will make higher energy prices for Coloradans his legacy.

Between January 2019, when Polis entered office, and October 2025, the latest data from the Energy Information Administration, the average residential electricity price in Colorado has risen from 11.91 to 16.26 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). That’s up 36.52 percent, compared with an increase of 30.78 percent in the wider Mountain region. Since 2004, when Colorado enacted its first renewable portfolio standard, all-sector electricity rates in Colorado have risen from an average of 6.95 to 12.80 cents per kWh in October 2025

That isn’t a coincidence. The legislature passed an aggressive bill in 2019 requiring the power sector to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 percent by 2030 and, with a 2023 law, reach 100 percent renewables by 2050. Meeting those mandates will require retiring ten more major coal-fired units before 2031, or 4,200 megawatts (MW) of nameplate capacity, which planned wind and solar cannot reliably replace. It’s worth noting, too, that Colorado fell short of its first statutory requirement to reduce emissions overall by 26 percent by the end of 2025, though not for lack of trying.

The Independence Institute, in conjunction with Always On Energy Research, found that the Polis administration has underestimated the costs of getting Colorado to 100 percent zero-emissions by 2040. The true costs would add $114.3 billion compared to operating the current grid, and another $214.6 billion through 2050, while creating massive blackouts.

First, “low-cost clean energy” is two lies for the price of one. Second, I plan to be long gone from Colorado before the worst of Polis’s madness kicks in.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Michelle Obama Exists to Make Hillary Clinton Seem Delightful. “For me, what makes Michelle Obama so insufferable is that she acts as if she is a civil rights crusader from 1957. Despite having been the First Lady of the land for eight years and having her behind kissed in the nine years since she and hubby left the White House, Mrs. Obama would have everyone believe that she’s a permanent victim of oppression. She constantly throws around both the race and the gender cards, and the idiotic masses who voted for her husband lap it up.”

BRAD THOMPSON: Something Happened.

TVS BECAME SPYWARE AS SOON AS THEY BECAME SMART, AND NOW SONY IS HOPPING INTO BED WITH THE CCP:

This is about more than the TV you mount to the wall to watch sports – it’s a natsec issue. It’s about market share, data platforms, and dependency. PRC firms are consolidating global consumer tech as allied alternatives fall behind. Tokyo and Washington have the tools—this… https://t.co/mKjZk52GOA

— Eric Sayers (@DEricSayers) January 20, 2026