TO BE FAIR, THE WESTERN LEFT ROUTINELY LIES IN SERVICE TO THE WEST’S ENEMIES:
One of the most bizarre things about Hamas is that it states explicitly that it's an Islamist movement aiming to replace Israel with an Islamist state, and the Western left insists that it's just a "resistance" movement dedicated to the Palestinian cause fighting "occupation." pic.twitter.com/il5FJxhcsk
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) January 12, 2026
FLASHBACK:
Since Democrats are once again engaged in Kristallnacht-style violence because the electorate rejected their policies, it's time once again for my periodic reminder that all Democrats are fascists.
I love the fact that whenever I point this out, some Democrat invariably…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) March 11, 2025
OLD AND BUSTED: Blofeld.
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NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:
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— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) January 13, 2026
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When you see lunatics screaming at ICE or just acting insane about a far left cause, I want you to remember that they’re signing up to be election workers on Election Day. Does anyone really think they won’t cheat? If so, you’re an idiot. We must prioritize election integrity.
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 13, 2026
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Will There Still Be an Iran the Day After Tomorrow?
BIDEN’S DEI SCOTUS HIRE IS AT IT AGAIN:
🚨 BREAKING: DEI Justice Ketanji Jackson is DEFENDING men in women's sports with an utter word salad at the Supreme Court
"Is treating someone transgender, but does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the… pic.twitter.com/QTkpru6EqO
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 13, 2026
“Idaho AG Hurst didn’t even seem to understand what she asked,” and neither do I, even after reading her question three times.
DISABILITY “ACCOMMODATION NATION” IN THE UNC SYSTEM. And it’s the same just about everywhere else. The perverse incentives to get diagnoses are just too strong. After all, your kid probably has struggles too. Are you letting him or her down by not going the extra mile?
It says an online survey found 31 per cent of Albertans support the province becoming independent. This is up nine points from data collected by the agency in June 2023.
Support for Alberta independence rose across the province — an increase of five per cent in the Calgary Metropolitan Area to 31 per cent and 34 per cent support it in Edmonton Metropolitan Area, up five per cent.
Thirty-four per cent of Albertans living outside of the metro areas support the cause, up 11 per cent, Research Co. says.
Independence is most likely to be supported by those who voted for the United Conservative Party in the last election.
On the opposing side, Research Co. says 62 per cent are opposed to separation.
The Stay Free Alberta campaign needs nearly 178,000 signatures by May 2 to be successful.
An opposing citizen initiative petition called Alberta Forever Canada received more than 400,000 verified signatures according to Elections Alberta – and it has been submitted to the Legislative Assembly.
Albertans could vote on a referendum question potentially later this year.
Independence still looks like a longshot, but it wasn’t long ago that an independence movement anywhere other than Quebec would have been nearly unthinkable.
AND SHE MARRIED HER BROTHER:
According to the New York Times, Ilhan Omar is the face of the Somali refugee community that fled civil war.
This despite the fact that her father was a high ranking officer in the Somali military as it carried out a genocide against the Isaaq people from the Somaliland region.… pic.twitter.com/DUdzrjmUNs
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) January 12, 2026
WHAT DOES “F.O” MEAN? CNN Drops a Truth Bomb on the Left’s Legal Efforts Against ICE
MAYBE HE’S ACTUALLY KRYPTONIAN: For the Cuban Regime, He’s a Supervillain — But in the U.S. He’s the Quarterback.
The notion that Good would be able to drive away from this scene just as easily as she drove into it—and that the armed agents commanding her to exit her vehicle could be safely ignored—is as understandable as it is misguided, the product of a world in which activism and political conflict have become Disneyfied.
Rebecca’s last words to her wife have become a Rorschach test of sorts.
What was once an organized, strategic movement with high stakes and concrete political aims has evolved today into a sort of intramural sport for all comers, from influencers to wine moms to aging Boomers who prefer protest marches to pickleball. And if the ease of participation has swelled the ranks of activists to include anyone with an Instagram account, it has also given the entire enterprise a distinct veneer of unreality, like a theme park populated by actors who spend their days LARPing as cops or cowboys and then retire at night to a dorm where they eat pizza and hook up with the guy who plays their nemesis. In 2026, political protest—and even political violence—might feel like a party, or a movie, but the one thing it rarely feels is serious, until it’s too late.
“Why did you have real bullets?” Rebecca reportedly screamed after Good was shot.
The notion that ICE agents would have anything but real bullets in their guns may seem astonishing, but it surely speaks to how Renee Good, an ordinary woman in early middle age and the sole surviving parent of a 6-year-old, ended up behind the wheel of a car, in the middle of the street, engaged in a confrontation, the true stakes of which she so devastatingly misapprehended.
WebMD defines “Main Character Syndome” as “the perception that your life is a story or a movie where you’re the central character,” amped up with a massive case of malignant narcissism, causes once sane people to believe they’re starring in their own version of One Battle After Another.
As Jim Treacher writes:
I haven't seen it reported anywhere else that she said this. It's astonishing. An entire generation of "content creators" who don't know how the real world works. https://t.co/ycT7M2Wlkz
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) January 13, 2026
UPDATE:
The woman's wife yelling out "why did you have real bullets"
The woman is playing, shes playing for fun. They dont understand that ICE is targeting narco gangs, cartel members, and often general criminals
Its not a fucking game https://t.co/CrxLOMLJ4X
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) January 13, 2026
IS COMMON SENSE BREAKING OUT IN CALIFORNIA? California voters hate the ‘terribly drafted, illegal’ billionaires’ tax, new poll shows.
The survey conducted by David Binder Research found that the proposed wealth-tax ballot measure initially had a slim majority of support, with 55% of voters saying they liked the idea of the one-time 5% tax on California residents worth more than $1 billion.
But support has since collapsed to just 41% of voters, while those opposed surged to 53% — after respondents heard arguments from both sides, the pollsters said.
“It’s terribly drafted, unworkable, illegal and would have hugely negative consequences to the state’s economy,” said Dan Newman, a political consultant with knowledge of the poll, told The Post on Monday.
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Chamath Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur who co-hosts the ALl In podcast, blasted out a tweet Saturday claiming California has lost $1 trillion in wealth in the past month alone as billionaires have fled the state to shield their assets.“We had $2T of billionaire wealth just a few weeks ago,” Palihapitiya wrote on X.
Tell me again what 5% of nothing is.
BRENDAN O’NEIL: Iran’s uprising and the moral bewilderment of Western youth.
They’re so drunk on anti-Westernism that the first calculation they make when a people rises up is: “Will this help or hurt America?” Fearing that the fall of the Islamic Republic would benefit the US, they balk at the thronging freedom fighters who are hell-bent on bringing about just such a fall. Hurting the white, privileged, colonialist West matters far more to these overeducated fools than freeing Iranians from the bondage of Islamist diktat.
The extraordinary valor of the young in Iran has exposed the moral bewilderment of the young in the West. Inculcated with that cruel, truthless idea that “All cultures are equally valid,” this new generation is struck dumb by a fiery foreign revolt against an Islamic government. They don’t know what to say, or even what to think. Solidarity struggles to take root in soil defiled by the cult of relativism.
The moral caution of progressives as the young of Iran fight for their lives shows just how corrupting the ideology of political correctness has been. How else to explain that we are witnessing one of the most important feminist revolts in history and yet many feminists are silent? Feminists who think being called “sweetheart” is a patriarchal crime seemingly have nothing to say about a staggeringly valiant uprising of women against the feral crushing of their rights by religious bigots.
As for the Western left – they dream of revolution yet bristle and wince at the revolution in Iran. They deluded themselves into thinking the Islamic Republic was a great counterweight against the West, against capitalism and of course against that Jewish state they hate with such curious passion. Having lost faith in the working classes of their own nations, they made a devil’s pact with radical Islam, dreaming it might deliver a deadly blow to the “Western hegemony.” They instinctively fear the mullahs’ fall.
Not least of which because their college professors have programmed them to think, to borrow the Ayatollah’s epithet for America, that Israel is the Great Satan:
“If Iran falls, Israel will have dominance in the Middle East.”
Me: https://t.co/IjhRaZGWIw pic.twitter.com/oS7ykgxfLk
— Nazi Hunters (@HuntersOfNazis) January 11, 2026
THE HIGHER EDUCATION FRAUDFEST: Minnesota ‘ghost students’ stole $12.5 million in loans, sparking calls for new safeguards.
SCIENCE, UNSETTLED:
These are the words of the first 16 scientists of 46 that have left the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) due to the corruption of science within the organisation.
Dr Robert Balling: The IPCC notes that “No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise…
— Andrew Bridgen (@ABridgen) January 12, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
The levels of fraud in academia are insane https://t.co/4REI85E2JP
— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) January 12, 2026
LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE: Court Sides With Father After School Exposed 5-Year-Old to LGBT Books.
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