SCRATCHING THE SURFACE: 5 times conservative clubs were discriminated against in 2025: Conservative students have faced uphill battles on many campuses as they attempt to organize with their like-minded peers.

CHINA IS ASSHOE:

Having depleted fish stocks in its own coastal waters in the early 2000s, Chinese fishing boats are now destroying fishing stock all across the world.

The destruction in South America by the Chinese fishing vessels is unimaginable.

China now accounted for over 80 percent of… pic.twitter.com/Hzcxu6cyLH

— Isabella Anderson (@IsabellaAn67) December 31, 2025

Pirate ships should be taken as prizes or sunk.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: AI sex bots can fuel your kinks and freaky fantasies faster than a human partner: new study.

My forthcoming book, Seductive AI, looks at this phenomenon and its implications.

EUROPE: Two dead and church gutted by fire in ‘unprecedented’ New Year’s violence in the Netherlands.

In the southeastern city of Nijmegen, a 17-year-old was killed in an incident involving fireworks shortly after midnight but police have given no further details.

And in the town of Aalsmeer south of the capital Amsterdam, a 38-year-old was killed in another incident involving fireworks which is still being investigated.

Nine Kooiman, the head of the Dutch Police Union, reported an “unprecedented amount of violence against police and emergency services” across the country on New Year’s Eve.
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Meanwhile, a massive inferno gutted a 19th-century church in Amsterdam. The blaze broke out in the early hours of Thursday at the Vondelkerk, a tourist attraction overlooking one of the city’s top parks since 1872.

The 50-metre-high tower collapsed,and the roof was severely damaged, but the structure was expected to remain intact, Amsterdam authorities said.

The cause of the blaze was not immediately apparent.

Developing…

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Let me get this straight

– In 1913, zero American families paid income tax.

– In 2025, every family paid income tax, and about 2/3rds of it just covered fraud.

We have become a tax-farm for politicians to enrich themselves and anyone who they can import to vote for them https://t.co/eq7JNFxxN1 pic.twitter.com/XGd46U2pJ2

— Arthur MacWaters (@ArthurMacwaters) January 1, 2026

I’ve written here and at PJ Media for longer than I can remember, that when the middle class finally realizes how badly they’ve been ripped off, anything could happen.

Maybe now they’re starting to wake up.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: WOW — This Year Is Really Flying By. “Today’s flashback episode is from New Year’s Day, 2021. I wanted to see where I was coming out of the Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu pandemic year. It was a bit weirder than I’d remembered. Also, this classic episode features some old Morning Briefing formatting, which I hope brings back fond memories. If anything is triggered, please consult your local electric shock therapist.”

THE MIND REELS:

This is staggering:

– the US collects more income tax than the *entire national budget* of every county except China

– and we lose more in fraud than the entire budget of all but four

So, money is clearly not the issue

Politicians raise taxes not because it’s needed, but… https://t.co/eq7JNFxxN1 pic.twitter.com/MlwJO6vUE1

— Arthur MacWaters (@ArthurMacwaters) January 1, 2026

Reminder: We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem — and a fraud & theft problem equal to a significant fraction of global GDP.

CHANGE: New Trump-ordered immigration restrictions go into effect Jan. 1.

Individuals from seven countries will not be able to travel to the United States starting Thursday, according to updated CBP guidance obtained by ABC News.

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump signed executive orders limiting travel from Burkina Faso, Laos, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Syria — with those restrictions now going into effect Jan. 1.

This applies to both immigrants and nonimmigrants, according to the CBO document dated Dec. 29.

The White House says the restrictions are for national security and public safety reasons, while immigrant advocates say the ban targets African and Muslim countries.

Both of those things are not only true, they’re inextricably intertwined.

THE JUDICIARY’S SELF-DELEGITIMIZATION IS ONGOING: The Judicial Coup in Utah Is a Warning to the Nation.

CDR SALAMANDER: “What is one of the fundamentals that we keep returning to here? If you want to know what will be important in and needed for the next large war, look closely at the most advanced small and medium sized wars happening now.”

THIS SEEMS CORRECT:

I think the answer to this is 1) class resentment (the haves are enraged by the have-mores) and 2) it’s becoming increasingly difficult for downwardly mobile urban elites to patch together recognizably adult lives.

‘Socialism’ is a both a false promise and a political… https://t.co/oawPJNgJ3S

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) January 2, 2026

The Education Apocalypse created all kinds of damage downstream, all of which politically benefitted the same side that created the Education Apocalypse.

ICYMI [VIP]: A Very VodkaPundit Look Back at 2025.

A METAPHOR FOR BLUE STATE INSTITUTIONS IN GENERAL:

JUST IN: NewsNation's Rich McHugh finds more apparent fraud in Minnesota, finds one building with *60* "healthcare" businesses registered to it.

McHugh says he visited multiple buildings with dozens of "businesses" inside.

When he entered one of the buildings, he found… pic.twitter.com/MGgKjMJmSC

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 1, 2026

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: “Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15M to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants.” “As part of the settlement, Dana-Farber admitted that its researchers used funds from six NIH grants to conduct research that resulted in 14 publications in scientific journals containing misrepresented and/or duplicated images and data. The publications reused images to represent different experimental conditions; duplicated images to represent different testing conditions, mice, and/or timepoints; or rotated, magnified, or stretched images. Further, Dana-Farber admitted that a supervising researcher failed to exercise sufficient oversight over these researchers, and that Dana-Farber spent funds from those six NIH grants that were unallowable. As part of the settlement, Dana-Farber also admitted that another researcher received four NIH grants after submitting grant applications that discussed a journal article authored by the researcher but did not disclose that certain images and data in that article were misrepresented and/or duplicated. The United States contends that Dana-Farber caused the submission of false claims to NIH by falsely certifying compliance with grant terms and conditions, spending grant funds on unallowable expenses, and obtaining grants through false and misleading statements.”

Note that this is a False Claims Act case, which allows a portion of the recovery to be paid as bounty to a whistleblower: “The civil settlement includes the resolution of claims brought under the qui tam or whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act by Sholto David. Under those provisions, a private party can file an action on behalf of the United States and receive a portion of any recovery. David will receive $2,625,000 under today’s settlement.”

I expect many more such claims against universities in coming years.

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HOW TIMES CHANGE: Illinois’ compact fluorescent bulb ban begins to take effect.

State Rep. Nicholas Smith, D-Chicago, introduced House Bill 2363 in February 2023. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the measure in August 2024.

The law prohibits the sale and distribution of screw-base and bayonet-base compact fluorescent lamps. Restrictions on pin-base compact fluorescent and linear fluorescent lamps are set to begin in 2027.

HB 2363’s Senate sponsor, state Sen. Adriane Johnson, D-Buffalo Grove, said toxic pollutants in fluorescent bulbs pose a health risk.
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When “An Inconvenient Truth” documentary was released in 2006, former Vice President Al Gore encouraged Americans to replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents. Many environmental groups also promoted CFLs.

They also produce terrible light, require a warmup to come to full brightness, and the dimmable models are a joke.

Not sure there’s still a market left for them big enough worth banning.

But governments do love banning things, so there’s that.

#JOURNALISM:

CNN: “Hello it’s CNN, are you committing fraud?”

Somali childcare center: “Hi. No, we are a legitimate business. There’s no fraud here.”

CNN: “We have established that there is no fraud.”

— Taya (@travelingflying) January 1, 2026

YEAH, GO FIGURE:

What’s really notable on the Medicaid fraud stuff is how the Democrats have been wanting to expand the number of IRS agents for years to target middle income Americans and gig economy workers, but want no increase in inspectors for compliance with welfare programs.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 1, 2026

LOL, CNN: CNN Humiliates Itself With Hilarious Attempt at ‘Investigative Journalism.’

ICYMI: SHOT:

WOW. Read this carefully.

Over 40 daycare centers reportedly opened in Columbus, Ohio on the same day, all linked to the same inactive shell entity — and together pulled in $14 MILLION in taxpayer-funded subsidies in a single year.

Same paperwork.
Same structure.
Same funding… pic.twitter.com/1PAmycyVG7

— Tony Lane 🇺🇸 (@TonyLaneNV) December 31, 2025

CHASER:

This is 100% not acceptable and any politician who voices this sort of attitude needs to go. https://t.co/fxhUYE1WnK

— Passably Affable (@tbrusletten) January 1, 2026

ICYMI:(How could you have) I have a (gynormous) book out and it is a Prometheus Award Nominee:  No Man’s Land Volume 1.

And it has a sound track which, even though it hasn’t been updated since last year (eh) will be updated this week, because (it was the ’tisms, m’lord) I can’t stand to leave things unfinished.)  Meh. My personal favorite is Thanks For the Boats, but I’m a child of the eighties. ;)

AND SOMEHOW EUROPE HOLDS THIS AGAINST TRUMP:  Trump-Zelensky Summit: Republican Educates French TV Panel on the Fact that Europe Is Leaderless While Only Trump Can Advance Towards a Plan for Ukraine Peace.

BUT HEY, WE SENT WOMEN INTO THE WORKFORCE MOSTLY IN UNSATISFYING CAREERS SO THEY CAN SUPPORT THE ADDED TAX BURDEN ON MARRIED COUPLES: Which in turn supports this bilge:  It’s Not Just Minnesota. The Vast Majority Of Daycare Is A Scam.

WELL. OBVIOUSLY. THEY VOTED FOR HIM:  Biden’s HUD Sent $5 Billion In Rental Assistance To Dead People.