GRADUALLY, THEN SUDDENLY: How the Democrats Lost Their Manhood.

TRIM YOUR NAILS: XGIZMOO 360° Rotating Toenail Clippers. #CommissionEarned

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: State lawmakers slashing budget of some universities, redirecting funds to trade schools.

HIGHER EDUCATION IMPLOSION UPDATE: University of Oklahoma may cut 16 degrees following review by board of regents.

It recently identified 16 “low-producing programs” at the public university in Norman that should be cut. In total, the regents said “41 programs [should] be deleted and 21 programs [should] be suspended” across all universities.

Specifically, the University of Oklahoma should cut its doctoral program in French, along with its masters’ degrees in drama, French, German, and two in “Interdisciplinary Programs.”

Bachelor degrees in various languages, along with both the bachelor of science and bachelor of arts in geography should also be cut, the board recommended. The minutes for the December regents’ meeting lists the remaining programs that should be ended.

A spokeswoman for the board provided further details on the review process.

“Programs that are not suspended or deleted as a result of that review are then placed on a five-year review cycle,” Associate Vice Chancellor for Communications Angela Caddell said in an email to The Fix. “This effort reflects public higher education’s ongoing commitment to aligning academic programs with workforce needs and ensuring optimal allocation of state resources.”

Anything with “studies” in the name ought to be given a good, hard look.

SWISS AUTHOR SENT TO JAIL FOR BASIC SEX DIFFERENCE COMMENT ON FACEBOOK:
Jailing someone for a scientific observation weaponizes the law against dissent.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Ketanji Brown Jackson Is a Painful Reminder of Biden’s Lunacy. “I would love to have a look at Jackson’s ‘Word of the Day’ desk calendar, it’s gotta be a humdinger. Or, ‘cisginger’ may indicate that her browser history might be, um, interesting.”

ELECTIONS ARE ONLY SACRED WHEN THE LEFT WINS:

We had an election. The mass deportations guy won. So now we’re doing mass deportations. There is no protester veto. It doesn’t matter how mad you are, or how righteous you feel. We voted for it. We’re doing it. https://t.co/D0nB7Gp53l

— Hunter Ash (@ArtemisConsort) January 14, 2026

Remember, if the left wins they’ll throw you in jail for simply suggesting that there might have been fraud.

WELL, GOOD: Trump admin labels Muslim Brotherhood branches in Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt as terrorist organizations.

The departments of Treasury and State announced the actions against the Lebanese, Jordanian, and Egyptian chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood, which they said pose a risk to U.S. interests, The Associated Press reported.

The State Department designated the Muslim Brotherhood’s Lebanese branch a foreign terrorist organization, the most severe of the labels, making it a criminal offense to provide material support to the group. The Treasury Department listed the Jordanian and Egyptian branches as specially designated global terrorists for providing support to Hamas.

“These designations reflect the opening actions of an ongoing, sustained effort to thwart Muslim Brotherhood chapters’ violence and destabilization wherever it occurs,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement. “The United States will use all available tools to deprive these Muslim Brotherhood chapters of the resources to engage in or support terrorism.”

Rubio is awfully busy these days.

Marco Rubio, first of his name, Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, Chief Archivist, Viceroy of Venezuela, Governor-General of Cuba, Storhertug of Greenland, Shah-in-Waiting, Martian Lord High Admiral of the Outer Worlds, and Webelo. pic.twitter.com/LX3qACPSrF

— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) January 13, 2026

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Chicago Teachers’ Union misspells the word “Governor” on leftwing propaganda poster.

KEEP THE CRAZY ONES WOUND UP, POINT THEM IN A DIRECTION, AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS:

He left out the layer behind all the others. The stochastic terrorists.

The doxxers and recorders operate knowing that out there, not formally organizationally coupled to them, are borderline nutcases like the one that shot Charlie Kirk. They know that their job is to provide… https://t.co/LLIf7THAMG

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) January 13, 2026

That’s how they got Kirk, and how they almost got Trump (twice).

I DO NOT TRUST THE SECRET SERVICE:

If O'Keefe's team of relative amateurs can find and exploit a Secret Service agent this easily, imagine how easy it is for trained foreign operatives ? 🙄

And how come the USSS can't find them ?

— Dave (@DilligafDave01) January 13, 2026

ICYMI: Fentanyl Deaths Are Dropping — And Here’s Why That’s Actually Happening.

WELL, HE’S A COMMIE MORON, SO… Zohran Mamdani’s Father Calls Columbia’s Anti-Semitism Task Force a ‘Prosecutorial Agency’ That Acts Like British Imperial Colonizers.

GOOD LORD, YES, THEY’RE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE KILLED:

I’m not kidding by the way. https://t.co/7O1TAfY1DO

— Blake Neff (@BlakeSNeff) January 13, 2026

CHANGE: USAF welcomes delivery of first operational T-7A Red Hawk.

The US Air Force (USAF) ushered its first new-generation T-7A Red Hawk advanced jet trainer into operational service on 7 January, when a formal arrival ceremony for the type was held at Air Education and Training Command’s (AETC’s) headquarters at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph (JBSA-R) in Texas.

This recent ceremony comes after the USAF’s first operational T-7A (serial 21-7005) was delivered to the Texas base from Boeing’s fighter production plant in St Louis, Missouri, on 5 December. Having now arrived at JBSA-R, the new aircraft has formally joined the 12th Flying Training Wing’s (FTW’s) 99th Flying Training Squadron (FTS).

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T-38C: Beginning of the End

This recent delivery marks the beginning of a new era in the training of future USAF fighter pilots as the service presses on with its quest to modernise its primary jet trainer fleet. For more than six decades, the service’s now-veteran T-38C Talon fleet has formed the backbone of its fast-jet training syllabus.

However, due to its advanced age and circa-1960s design, the Talon fleet is now struggling with maintenance issues and unavoidable obsolescence, becoming more expensive to maintain and no longer being representative of the technologies and capabilities offered by modern combat jets, such as the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II.

It lacks the modern digital systems and avionics required to prepare new-generation pilots for complex, multi-domain warfighting in fifth- and future sixth-generation fighters, like Boeing’s F-47.

While the USAF will eventually replace its ageing T-38Cs with the T-7A, but this process won’t start until enough Red Hawks have been handed over to the service. According to Cirium, the USAF still maintains a fleet of more than 480 T-38s. Despite this, USAF officials have cited availability issues with the platform as contributing to ongoing delays in the fast-jet pilot training pipeline.

The new plane, which looks a bit like a McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet with a shrunken body and a jumbo-sized cockpit, was “jointly developed by Boeing and Saab.” Here’s hoping it performs much better than some of Boeing’s more recent product.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Trump has cut the technocratic Gordian Knot — and elites hate it.

BEEGE WELBORN: Anti-ICE Types Enjoy Their Alternate Reality Heroics Until They’re Not MORE, CBS EDIT BUSTED.

One of the most befuddling and truly irritating things about all the theatrics surrounding the ICE enforcement brouhaha has been the levels of self-delusion that the Left is willing to indulge in in order to perpetuate the hysteria.

These lunatics have suspended time and reality in their demented and twisted brain housing groups.

An incident can happen, and be filmed without any alteration, then shown right in front of them, and they will immediately devise a different scenario than the one on screen out of whole cloth, as if it were some avant-garde ad-lib theater exercise.

Take, for instance, this episode (below) I watched just a second ago.

A protester has stationed themselves with their ubiquitous cell phone camera shield of steel directly against the front grill of an ICE vehicle. You can see there is a driver behind the wheel.

An agent forcibly removes the protester from the vehicle’s pathway with a good shove.

The vehicle begins to move the second the protester’s skinny frame is out of its path.

All that adds up to ‘the protester was, in fact, blocking the ICE vehicle,’ right?

Not in their world.

HE WASN’T OBSTRUCTING ANYTHING

Rational people survey says: he certainly was until he wasn’t.

Much more at the link, complete with CBS giving off a creepy “Who you gonna believe?” vibe.

Care to comment, Bari Weiss?

LIGHTNING DEAL: Upgraded Electric Pruning Shears,1.4″ Cutting Diameter Cordless Power Pruner with LCD Display. #CommissionEarned

FLASHBACK: When Scott Adams Explained Trump, Persuasion, and ‘Loserthink.’

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Who’s Funding the Aggressive Anti-ICE Tactics Used by Activists Like Renee Nicole Good?.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE COULD NOT BE FOUND ON THE APPLE NEWS APP: Apple News Shut Out Conservatives All December. That’s Not an Accident.

I’M STILL NOT CONVINCED, BUT–  No alien civilizations? After analyzing two decades of data SETI@Home produces 100 signals “worth a second look”.

THAT WAS DIFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:

2016. Obama's Press Secretary is asked about reports that during immigration raids, ICE agents were storming into homes, going room to room looking for illegals, and making children tremble with fear.

I thought only fascist Presidents do that sort of thing.

Why was the press… pic.twitter.com/oQ1UgeJiJg

— MAZE (@mazemoore) January 13, 2026

USAIANS, IN SPAAAAAAACE:  The diner clung to the edge of the galaxy like feces from an unidentifiable pest. It squatted on a lonely interchange where three hyperspace lanes intersected, gravity leaking sideways, the windows tinted against the bruise-colored glow of a nearby accretion disk. The sign outside flickered in seven spectra and one emotional register that translated roughly to HOT FOOD, NO QUESTIONS.

AND FOR: The x-cancelled.

WOW:  Now that long-standing puzzle finally has a coherent explanation: Betelgeuse is not alone.

AND IF YOU’RE: Cancelled of X.