GAVIN NEWSOM’S PARASITE GOVERNMENT: California Quietly Adds Hundreds In Fees That Inflate Traffic Tickets.

OUCH: Extreme winter storm threat sparks historic natural gas spike. “The contracts for near-term US natural gas futures have skyrocketed more than 70% so far this week, according to FactSet data. That leaves natural gas on track for the biggest weekly increase since 1990 and at the highest price since 2022, according to Bloomberg.”

ICYMI: Up in Canada, They’re Signaling Genuine Virtue for Once (Really!)

READER FAVORITE: Wrangler Authentics Mens Relaxed Fit Stretch Cargo. #CommissionEarned

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Rifles: Find the Right Ammunition.

THAT’S BIG: Wobbling exoplanet hints at a hidden exomoon so massive it could redefine the word ‘moon’ altogether.

PARTISAN BIAS AT CENSUS BUREAU: It’s no secret that the vast majority of federal workers are Democrats, but the results of this review by The Washington Stand of contributions by U.S. Census Bureau workers are stark.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: DHS Slates Mahmoud Khalil for Deportation to Algeria.

MY FAVORITE UMBRELLA: TUMELLA Strongest Windproof Travel Umbrella. #CommissionEarned

A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: ‘Portrait of a Graduate’ is lite on academics: They can’t read, but they have ‘global empathy.’

By the time I got my high school diploma, I could read, write and calculate, dissect a frog and analyze the causes of the Civil War. But that was the last millennium.

Today’s students need more, say educators. The national superintendents’ association urges schools to “establish a high-impact ecosystem by building clarity and conviction for a shared vision of learning. The newly trendy “Portrait of a Graduate” goes beyond academics to identify what “children in your community need to succeed in this rapidly changing, complex world.”

In Columbus, Ohio, for example, the portrait includes “global empathy,” ability to use technology, creativity, adaptability, communications and “critical thinking.”

“As of 2024, at least 20 states and countless districts had initiated ‘Portrait of a Graduate’ reforms, writes Daniel Buck, who directs the Conservative Education Reform Network, in Education Next. Educating the “whole child” is an old idea, he writes. This could be just another fad. However, the Education Testing Service and the Carnegie Foundation are working on tests to measure the unmeasurable. Is Caleb achieving the desired level of good citizenship? Is Emma sufficiently creative and collaborative?

Johnny’s failing algebra but he got an A in Groupthink.

DEMOCRATS SURE GOT IT GOOD:

Scoop: Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused to sign a complaint bringing charges against Don Lemon in connection with the church protest on Sunday, sources tell @CBSNews' @camiloreports @SarahNLynch @MacFarlaneNews and me.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 22, 2026

SPOILER: SHE’S DEFINITELY A LIAR.

"The founders were racist genocidal colonialists, but I cherish the founding document they produced. I'm definitely not a liar." https://t.co/7Ijo1UnrCi pic.twitter.com/M5EbrBb0qT

— Duffyevsky ☦ (@TheIllegit) January 22, 2026

WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY: AI disruptions reveal the folly of clinging to an idealized modern university.

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Things Are Actually Worse Now in Seattle Than During the COVID Lockdowns. “Well, that’s an unexpected achievement — for certain and entirely ironic values of ‘unexpected.'”

SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Human heart regrows muscle cells after heart attack, researchers discover. They used to say that was impossible. Now to make it happen more.

LIKELY STORY: Ms. Rachel caught liking call to ‘Free America from the Jews’ — claims she ‘was just tapping’ to delete in tearful apology.

Last year: YouTube star Ms. Rachel has been accused of spreading Hamas propaganda to children, according to an antisemitism watchdog that has penned a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

LENIN ADVISED, “THE WORSE, THE BETTER,” AND IT’S A LESSON THE LEFT NEVER FORGOT:

China may not be pushing this, but the faction most aligned with China just happens to be. As in Virginia and Minnesota (and California), the effect is to make a state too dysfunctional to govern, live in, or enforce federal law in.

Kneecapping industry is not what we need… https://t.co/AZiCiWbjHG

— Martin Skold (@MartinSkold2) January 22, 2026

I GAVE BLOOD ON MONDAY AND GOT A REALLY NICE SWEATSHIRT INSTEAD OF THE RATTY T-SHIRTS THEY USED TO GIVE OUT: Non-monetary ‘honor-based’ incentives linked to increased blood donations. I think that’s an indicator that they’re having more difficulty hanging on to donors.

“WHAT THE DEVIL HAPPENED TO TUCKER CARLSON?” Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson Absurdly Argues That Islamist Iran Obtaining Nukes Could ‘Be a Good Thing.’

And thus Tucker comes full circle, and is now on the same page as Barack Obama a decade ago: Why the Iran Deal Matters.

HENRY KNOX: The Most Unlikely Hero of the American Revolution.

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EVERYTHING? What Newsrooms Don’t Understand About the Greenland Deployments.

IT WAS A BESTSELLER AND EVERYTHING:

He wrote an entire book about it. You’d think people would read the damned thing.

— Stephen Fleming (@StephenFleming) January 22, 2026

’TURNSTILE JUMPERS CHALLENGE’: Viral TikTok trend mocks NYC’s ‘foolproof’ $1.1 billion subway turnstile upgrades. “One particular group staged a recent late-night ‘Fare Evasion Olympics’ at Manhattan’s Broadway-Lafayette Street station, turning the evasion into a competitive sporting competition equipped with gold medals and a $3 cash prize, the cost of a subway ticket. The competition, organized by comedian Danny Fisher, featured a pole dancer, a parkour athlete, and a rock climber who took home the gold medal by scaling the overhead scanners.”

I get the feeling the Mamdani crew doesn’t much care.

GOOD: Canaduh’s Latest Gun Confiscation Drive is Doomed to Fail…Magnificently.