MY TALK AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY:  Here’s a video of the talk I gave last month at Cornell.  The talk is titled “Why We Walk on Eggshells.”  I am ALMOST finished with a book of the same name that will be published by Encounter Books.  With luck, I’ll be able to blog a bit more once it’s done.

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:

In 2022, Biden and Democrats forced Venmo & PayPal to report transactions of $600+ to the IRS.

In 2026, Democrats don't want a single investigation into the $9,000,000,000 Somali fraud.

Think about this for a moment. pic.twitter.com/Uucgcqv3LX

— Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX) January 7, 2026

My takeaway is that anyone with even a small (but honest) side hustle is too ambitious for the Democrats. But large-scale fraud, now that they can get behind.

Again, follow the money — nobody turns a blind eye to that much theft without wetting their beaks.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Amazon Kindle Colorsoft 16 GB (newest model). #CommissionEarned

A GOOD START: 54 violent transnational gang members, affiliates arrested in NYC in Operation Salvo.

In a press conference on Thursday morning, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that since Operation Salvo began in New York City, authorities have arrested 54 people who are “violent transnational gang members and affiliates associated with Trinitarios.”

She noted that the operation was launched after an off-duty US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agent and his friend were attacked in a park in the city. “These two criminals came and attempted to rob them, and it ended up where they bravely fought back. This officer defended himself and his friend, but not before being shot in the face and in the arm by one of these criminals.”

She criticized the Biden administration for letting these two people into the country, saying that “those individuals have been brought to justice, but those individuals would have never been in this country if they hadn’t been allowed in by the Biden administration, when they ignored our federal laws and allowed them to come in illegally.”

Biden’s “crisis by design” is being undone.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Socialism is a hate crime: On socialism’s human and economic toll.

TIGHTENING THE SQUEEZE:

BREAKING NEWS: Treasury Secretary Bessent announcing tonight from Minnesota:

Starting tomorrow, if you’re on public assistance, you can’t wire money out of the country.

Treasury is derailing the gravy train to Somalia. pic.twitter.com/McQjNjdNMd

— David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) January 9, 2026

THE LEFT TOOK NEUROTIC PEOPLE WHO JUST NEEDED A LITTLE HELP, AND TURNED THEM INTO SHOCK TROOPS:

Women have gone insane. This is a thing that people dismiss but it’s a big deal https://t.co/tJZFJrdmJF

— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) January 8, 2026

More:

Heroic Ice Agent Risks Life To Stop Violent Far Left Terrorist who Abandoned Her Children to Commit Felonies

Fixed the headline for you pic.twitter.com/oqsDVYnvTS

— Tim Pool (@Timcast) January 9, 2026

Much closer to the truth, yes.

And there was this yesterday from the UK: Young women are radicalising.

Orwell knew.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): And this is the thanks you get:

You can literally die in service to the Eternal Progressive Omnicause and Leftists will still repudiate you because you’re White.

It’s just like that soldier who set himself on fire for Gaza and then Leftists began tweeting about how their own followers “better not celebrate a… https://t.co/7LnaeRmHPg

— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) January 9, 2026

FROM CAROLINE FURLONG:  Contact: Angeles.

While removing a prototype sensor from the prow of her new Alliance battleship, the Ausa, Captain Elizabeth Goodwin and her crew encounter a setback when one of the engineers sent to remove and stow the device is injured in an accident. Before the other engineer can help the man, the two are surrounded by amoeboid creatures which seem immune to the effects of vacuum.

Thought to be hallucinations experienced by early spacers who had been alone in deep space too long, these creatures – known as “angel fish” – startle the crew by their sudden appearance. Despite her misgivings, Goodwin allows three of the aliens to be taken aboard for study. But less than an hour after the aliens have been brought on the ship, one of Goodwin’s men is killed and another is seriously wounded.

Her search for both the murderer and the escaped “angels” soon leads to a disturbing revelation. Eventually, Goodwin must decide which threat is greater: an old enemy of the Alliance, or the fabled “angels” encountered by the first explorers from Terra.

PR PRO SCOTT PINSKER: PR Fallout of the ICE Shooting: The WORST Is Yet to Come — and More Bloodshed Is Now Inevitable.

INSURRECTION ACT: Hard Revolution: Minneapolis, Marxism and ‘Riot Ideology.’ “The riots that are likely to erupt in Minneapolis will have nothing to do with the death of a woman who was involved in an altercation with ICE officers. Her death will be the excuse that Marxists use to try and burn down the United States.”

It’s 2026. Not 2020. Or 1968.

Related: Democrats fan flames of ICE hatred and put everyone at risk.

Make them pay.

EVERY DAY: Today in Minnesota fraud.

NO, BUT HEAR ME OUT…  I HAVE CLANKERS!  Further notes on ethnographic collection!  (Yes, it is a video.)

WEIRD, BUT THEN THESE DAYS EVERYTHING IS WEIRD:  Greenland Enjoys Being Courted, Eyeing Trump.

NEITHER. HE’S THE FLAG OF THE PEOPLE WHO’VE HAD ENOUGH OF THE MARXISTS:  EUROPE’S VIAGRA — French Radio Debate: Is Donald Trump the Old Continent’s “Greatest Danger” or Is He “Europe’s Viagra”?

MA! THEY’RE BOGARTING THE OCHAKAN DITCHWEED AGAIN:  Comparing Renee Nicole Good to Charlie Kirk.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS ARE PAYING FOR THE ANTI-ICE PROTESTS:  Many people have noticed that agitators in Minneapolis are well-organized, sporting identical whistles, vests, and signs. Is this a grassroots organic movement? Of course not. Let’s take a look at the organizers and sponsors.

X-CANCELLED? No Problem.

OH THANK HEAVENS:  RFK Jr Scores MAHA Win by Flipping the Food Pyramid Upside Down.

IN ANY CIVILIZED SOCIETY THE PRICE OF ENERGY IS THE DRIVER OF AFFORDABILITY:  If affordability really matters, then let’s look at electricity.

THE MARINE IS RIGHT:  Vance Torches Walz, Media on Minnesota Shooting: ‘This was an Attack on Law and Order’.

“DEBUNKED” IS DEMOCRAT FOR “YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT”:  Prophecy and mythology.

LIKE SAINT ANTHONY PREACHING TO THE FISH!  First of all, everything Trump and ICE are doing with illegal aliens is totally legal. They are completely operating within the bounds of federal law. The deportations are legal. The raids are legal. The detentions are legal. Your Democrat leaders know this, and they know it would be politically disastrous to just say “ignore the law.” Instead, they are attempting to delegitimize ICE while skirting around the full legality of what ICE does.

AND FOR THE: Exiles of x!

Okay, sure, admittedly Publius’s audience is drier.

THIS IS KNOWN AS FAFO:  DHS: Two People Injured in Portland Shooting Tried to Run Over Border Patrol Agents.

YES, THAT WAS HER HAND IN THE COOKIE JAR:  Ilhan Omar Caught Sneaking Carveout For Somali-Led Group In Congress’ Spending Package.

THE LEFT HARPS ON SLAVERY WHILE TRYING TO REINSTITUTE IT:  Chattel.

FOR DECADES THE NRA HAS BEEN MOSTLY AN EFFECTIVE DECOY TO KEEP THE LEFTIES FIGHTING IT, WHILE THE GUN RIGHTS CAUSE WAS MORE ABLY SERVED IN MYRIAD OTHER WAYS:  Kick Them All Out.