ONCE AN EXAMPLE OF GOOD, CLEAN GOVERNMENT, NOW A FAILED STATE: How and why Minnesota failed as a state.

LIGHTNING DEAL: BIOptimizers Magnesium Breakthrough Supplement with 500mg. #CommissionEarned

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH OR WHATEVER:

Bushra – a Pakistani Muslim who grew up in the UK – is proof assimilation is not possible for a huge portion of immigrants.

Iranians are fighting for their lives and this bitch is upset that Islamic rule – a thing she has never had to experience – might finally be defeated. https://t.co/C1BEo1FhcL

— Dr. Sydney Watson (@SydneyLWatson) January 11, 2026

RAFAEL BARDAJÍ: The world without Europe.

Europeans are becoming less rich and more poor and feel assaulted on their soil and threatened by another foreseeable great war. Without a change in the continent’s political elites, it is very difficult for Europe to emerge from the current impasse. Unfortunately, E.U. leaders are hellbent on preventing such a change. Hence their growing authoritarianism and their disdain for the deep values of democracy. Spain is a particularly acute case in this area, as its current prime minister has transformed Spanish democracy into a completely hollow shell of values and respect for democratic procedures. But the United Kingdom is going in the same direction, not to mention France and Germany. People are being arrested for praying in the street, but only if they are Christians; people are being fined and imprisoned for giving opinions contrary to government policies because any criticism is judged a hate crime, especially if it deals with immigration. It aspires to judicially eliminate opposition leaders outside the establishment and promotes the illegalization of parties that are not part of the grand consensus born after World War II.

But while this incipient “cold civil war” is taking place, Europe has become invisible as an actor in the rest of the world. It is not a player in the Middle East (for the better); it aligns itself against dictatorial change (see statements on the capture of Maduro or on the Iranian regime); and it believes that by getting cocky in front of its main ally, the United States, it becomes stronger. In Moscow and Beijing, there must be many people laughing loudly.

Read the whole thing.

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:

BREAKING – This man is going viral after revealing that the last woman shot by Minneapolis police was a White woman named Justine Damond, who was killed by a Somali officer after she called for help, and not a single Democrat spoke out or protested. pic.twitter.com/8C8DJYg7ES

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) January 11, 2026

WIKIPEDIA CO-FOUNDER FOUND FAITH: Dr. Larry Sanger was an atheist and a former Professor of Philosophy at the time he was a co-founder of Wikipedia. He’s still the famous website’s founder and a former prof, but he’s no longer an atheist. He explains why this morning on HillFaith.

MARK PULLIAM: Anatomy of an Insurrection: The recent (and ongoing) events in Minneapolis invoke historical parallels that are both instructive and alarming.

The recent events in Minneapolis are remarkable. Last week, an ICE officer named Jonathan Ross shot and killed a deranged 37-year-old anti-ICE activist, Renee Nicole Good, who was interfering in ICE operations as part of a coordinated campaign of obstruction by Fifth Column provocateurs. The unfolding drama is more than a self-defense shooting by an ICE officer who was targeted by a speeding SUV; it is nothing less than an orchestrated insurrection—a rebellion—attempting to nullify the results of the 2024 election and to derail the enforcement of federal immigration laws.

The events were not spontaneous. They were planned, organized, and calculated to produce a violent incident (call it a “George Floyd moment”) that could be exploited by the propaganda press to turn public opinion against President Trump and his commitment to deport the millions of illegal aliens whom Joe Biden allowed to invade the country. Democrats are trying to incite a repeat of the “Summer of Love” in 2020–riots that burned down large portions of Minneapolis and other cities. What is going on in Minneapolis is an attempt to provoke Summer of Love 2.0.

Why do I call what is going in in Minneapolis an “insurrection”? Because that is what it is. . . . Illegal aliens are subject to deportation, period. Obstructing thisis rebellion against federal law and the will of the voters. Insurrection, for short.

Indeed.

LONG WAY TO GO: Arrests, Prisoners, U.S. Warnings — What’s Really Happening on the Ground In Venezuela.

SYSTEMS SHOULD BE HARDENED, NOT SOFTENED: A Fundamental Lesson from the Terrorist Attack on Berlin’s Power Grid. “We are learning that when the power fails, the heat supply also fails—at least when it is supposed to be generated by heat pumps. And to make matters worse, we are learning that in freezing temperatures, heat pumps face total loss due to bursting pipes. . . . We are also learning that during a large-scale power outage, electric vehicles can only help if they happened to be charged before the “bang.” Otherwise, this utility also fails. Until now, there was great resilience associated with being able to rely on two storable systems for 75% of the energy supply: namely, gas for heating and liquid fuel for mobility.”

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMOTION POST FOR (MOSTLY, BUT NOT ONLY) INDIE AUTHORS: The authors, willing to associate with my blog are definitionally to the right of Lenin. Today I threatened people with cat girls. If you’re going to send me books to promote, please pay heed.  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

THE MULLAHS ARE GETTING DESPERATE:  ‘Massacre’ unfolding in Iran as protest death toll triples to over 500, rights group warns.

SOMETHING UNUSUAL MAKING YOU NOTICE YOUR SURROUNDINGS MAKES SENSE TO ME:  Scientists Found a Weird Way to Make People Kinder: Add Batman.

KURT VONNEGUT WARNED AGAINST THIS IN HARRISON BERGERON:  Knoxville Orchestra Plays Sour Notes of Racial Preference over Talent.

WHY THEY HATE HIM – HE’S DEFENDING WHAT THE OIKOPHOBES DESPISE:  My TCW week in review: Donald Trump, defender of the West.

WHERE’S THE FUNDING COMING FROM FOR THIS?  Minneapolis Radicals Begin Distributing Devices to Disable ICE Vehicles.

Also, in the long history of lefty astroturf, this is the most astroturf that ever astroturfed.

THIS IS RIGHT, YOU KNOW?  The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world.

FOR THE LEFT, ‘FREEDOM OF THE PRESS’ MEANS FREEDOM TO ADVANCE THEIR DESIRED NARRATIVE:  Leftist Agitators Stalk and Threaten to Kill Journalist Covering Minneapolis Unrest.

THINK OF IT THIS WAY: The left used to always set up a pregnant female to get shot. These days the best they can do is a deranged lesbian who happens to be a mother. Reality Bites.

I JUST HOPE THIS TIME THE PEOPLE OF IRAN FREE THEMSELVES:  A Question Concerning Iran.

CLOUDFLARE TELLS ITALIANS WHERE TO PUT IT: We don’t know if they did the arm gesture thing.  Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online.

AND FOR THE: eXiles

IT’S A COMMON STORY IN THE WEST:  A Government and a Church that hold their people in contempt.

WITH CARE:  How Do You Determine Truth from Falsity?

WELL, NOW THEN:  Let’s Call All Democrats Criminals.

BANSTURBATORS THWARTED:  Anti-alcohol academics smoked out.  An attempt to rig the US’s drinking guidelines has failed spectacularly.

‘MURICA!  Man who carried Pelosi’s lectern during Capitol riot runs for office.