Author Archive: Ed Driscoll

January 21, 2026

THE ARTIC SMOKESCREEN: The most dangerous mistake about “Greenland is believing it is about Greenland.”

 

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 21st, 2026

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: As I Suspected, Kamala’s Campaign Was Antisemitic All Along.

According to Kamala’s campaign memoir, 107 Days, Shapiro was taken out of consideration because he “wanted to be too involved in the presidency should they win,” adding, “I told him bluntly that was an unrealistic expectation. A vice president is not a co-president.” She wrote that she had “a nagging concern that he would be unable to settle for a role as number two and that it would wear on our partnership.” Kamala alleged that during their interview, Shapiro attempted to dominate the discussion by insisting on being “in the room for every decision.”

Personally, I never believed that story. I always suspected that deep down, antisemitism played a role. And Shapiro has now confirmed it.

Shapiro, who is considered by some analysts a potential candidate for the 2028 Democratic nomination, made clear he has no intention of letting Kamala rewrite history of what happened during the vetting process, and has now published his own memoir, Where We Keep the Light: Stories from a Life of Service, in which he revealed the blatant antisemitism within Kamala’s campaign operation.

Shapiro was the only Jewish candidate on the shortlist. During the vetting, Dana Remus, Joe Biden’s former White House counsel, working as a senior member of Kamala’s team, asked him a shocking question. “Have you ever been an agent of the Israeli government?” Shapiro writes that he found the question deeply offensive and interpreted it as essentially asking whether he had been a double agent for Israel. When he objected, Remus told him the team was “just doing its job” and then asked whether he had ever communicated with an Israeli undercover agent. Shapiro shot back with sarcasm. “If they were undercover, how the hell would I know?”

The question tracks a longstanding antisemitic stereotype that Jews are inherently disloyal to their own country or secretly working for Israel.

Was Joe Lieberman asked a similar question when he was being vetted to be Al Gore’s VP nominee in 2000?

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 21st, 2026

January 20, 2026

WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS:  AWFLs and Boomers Protest ICE by Buying Salt at Target and Then Immediately Returning It.

So what does this do but make life difficult for the employees and customers with legitimate reasons to use the customer service desk?

Shades of 2011’s Occupy Wall Street terrorizing minimum wage New York bank tellers for kicks and grins:

24 protesters were arrested when a mob stormed a LaGuardia Place Citibank and shouted slogans as two demonstrators closed their bank accounts in protest just after 2 p.m.

“[The protesters] all went in a big flash mob to close their accounts,” said Adrielle Slaugh,a 24-year-old office manager who saw the clash. “There were about 30 of them. They were screaming and chanting while they were going in. Security told them to leave, but they didn’t. They stood in a group chanting things to the tellers. There were locked in, and then they were taken away.”

She said when they were locked inside, they were “pressing on the door — you could see them banging on the glass.”

Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record:

Posted at 9:15 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

QUESTION ASKED: Amelia Rockwell — Can an AI Chick Save England?

Someone on X, presumably having the latest free-speech suppressing actions in Great Britain in mind, even posted a tremendous adaptation of a Normal Rockwell painting (hence the title of this piece, “Amelia Rockwell”):

Why is this significant?

Let us harken back to (revolutionary) Saul Alinsky and his Rules for Radicals. You know, the revolutionaries’ guide whose Introduction includes a hat-tip to Lucifer (no clue there).

[Whenever I mention Alinsky I feel obligated to remind that Hillary Rodham-Clinton was an acolyte of Alinsky – he even offered her a position – and Alinsky invented the “occupation” of “community organizer.” Which, not coincidentally, was the pre-political office “occupation” admitted-to by one B. Hussein Obama. But I digress …]

Alinsky developed the “Rules” (as much techniques or tactics as rules) because they are effective. And if the evildoers have developed effective tactics, should we not “repurpose” them on the side of good?

Two of the “Rules” are applicable to the Amelia phenomenon:

RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different than any other human being. We all avoid “un-fun” activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)

Knowingly or not, whoever created the patriotic Amelia effectively repurposed those two “Rules” – ridiculing the government and in an enjoyable way (at least for us patriots on both sides of the pond).

Can Amelia save England? Not singlehandedly of course, but it’s a battle well worth fighting: 

Earlier: Two Tier Keir Has a Problem Called ‘Waifu Amelia’ and It Is Screamingly Funny.

UPDATE:

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

IN SOCIALIST GRIFTER MILLIONAIRE PARADISE OF DAVOS, GAVIN NEWSOM CALLS UPON WORLD LEADERS TO OPPOSE THE UNITED STATES:

Speaking of knee pads being required: The Boss and His Employee Gavin Newsom Confer at Globalist Conference.

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF RICHMOND:

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

SASHA STONE: Springsteen Lashes Out After Biopic Flops.

Who is the movie for? Springsteen fans? Nope, he alienated most of them with his Trump Derangement Syndrome-fueled rants*. Wine moms and resistance libs? Nope, they stopped going to the movies during COVID. Gen-Z would not even know who he was.

His friendship and alliance with Barack Obama and the Democrats meant that he was now part of the ruling class, not the working class, so who was he now? The Democrats took ownership of him, and he did nothing but scream about Trump, even knowing that most of his loyal fans probably voted for Trump. Did he care? Nope.

Not only did Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere flop harder than a wet noodle, but so far, in the awards race, it has all but disappeared. Maybe it will come in with a Best Sound nomination. That’s the best bet at this point.

Read the whole thing, which goes on to discuss Springsteen’s onstage anti-ICE rant during Saturday gig in Red Bank, NJ. This from the Bruce who sang in 1984, “They’re closing down the textile mill ‘cross the railroad tracks. Foreman says, ‘These jobs are going, boys, and they ain’t coming back,’ to your hometown.” As Stone concludes, “Springsteen, more than any other artist, rescued the desperate who had nothing else. He pretended he was one of them, those invisible working-class stiffs no one in American culture really cared about. Now, Trump’s the hero for many of them, and Springsteen is just another screeching lib trapped inside the Doomsday Cult.”

* Miami Steve Van Zandt told the London Times in 2024, “‘When Bruce got vocal behind the Democrats, we probably lost half the audience. There’s nowhere we can’t do business.’ But some places feel like enemy territory now? ‘A little bit, yeah. We’re ten times bigger in Europe. We might play six stadiums in America and sixty in Europe.’”

Not that Van Zandt is eager to mend fences with the Boss’s former base: Steven Van Zandt Is Bruce Springsteen’s Guitarist. He Hates You. He Wants You Dead.

UPDATE: Celebrities Can’t Stop Lying About Renee Good.

Posted at 6:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

GEORGE MF WASHINGTON: Seen The Lights Go Out On Sunset.

I suppose you can still catch a rock show on a Saturday night, it just won’t be Van Halen. And you can grab a drink in one of the Sunset Strip clubs that are still hanging on. But you won’t have any trouble finding parking. And you might be surprised by how empty the streets feel when you stumble out of the club after the show is over in the graveyard hours of the night… those witching hours when, back in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, the real fun was just beginning.

In the end the two erstwhile parents of the Sunset Strip were both mortally wounded by the same monster… a monster called streaming which came disguised, as devils always do, as something that would be “better” for us. That it turned out to be more difficult to stream video than audio was nothing more than a technological stroke of luck which gave Hollywood an extra thirty years or so to figure out a solution which, I’m sorry to say friends and neighbors, we never really did. Quite the contrary, Hollywood has actually been complicit in its own streaming decline. A fact of which I was reminded as Robin and I stood on the empty boulevard outside The Rainbow hugging out our goodbyes.

Looking down at me from a billboard across the street were the faces of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon advertising the imminent release of their new movie “The Rip” along with a big red “N” and the words which, for may of us on the theatrical motion picture side of Hollywood, have become something like a muttered curse… “exclusively on Netflix.” With only two weeks to go, this was the first marketing I had seen for the movie despite the fact that it features one of the best-known and most-popular movie star pairings of the current movie star era, and a director (Joe Carnahan) who has made some really good movies.

But there has been no hype for this movie… there is no buzz at all.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: John Nolte: Newsom Fail – Film and TV Production Drops 20% in Democrat-Run California. “Imagine what it takes to move your production to another state — all the inconvenience and expense. But California is such a disaster, nearly twice as many productions are now shot outside California. Things are so bad in the former Golden State that studios are building permanent production facilities in places like New Jersey and Georgia. They obviously want all the way out.”

Posted at 5:50 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

OLD AND BUSTED: “Never Again.”

The New Hotness? Davos’s Iran invite is a new low.

Davos has always enraged a certain type of equally smug leftist – and now the MAGA crowd and their allies elsewhere – for whom the words ‘globalisation’ and ‘globalist’ respectively are rant catnip. I have always just found the whole thing more amusing than worrying or even important. Not this year, however: Davos 2026 is a shameful event, and those organising it deserve not just to be pilloried but to be covered in verbal red paint.

Red paint, that is, to represent the blood of the thousands of Iranians slaughtered by the regime in Tehran. In autumn, the WEF thought it appropriate to invite Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister, to this year’s event. Aragachi is not just the regime’s main foreign spokesman. He is also a member of its Supreme National Security Council, which in recent days is understood to have ordered the use of live ammunition on protestors. The theme of this year’s Davos event is ‘A Spirit of Dialogue’; some dialogue, when one side is seeking basic freedoms and the other is using machine guns to slaughter them.

After it emerged that Araghchi was due to give his thoughts on the question of ‘How can we cooperate in a more contested world?’ in an event moderated by Financial Times editor Roula Khalaf, Davos has seen sense. In a hastily-written statement published on X this morning, the WEF said: ‘The Iranian foreign minister will not be attending Davos. Although he was invited last fall, the tragic loss of lives of civilians in Iran over the past few weeks means that it is not right for the Iranian government to be represented at Davos this year.’

Good. But the damage is done. We know exactly the mindset – indeed, the amorality – of those behind the WEF. That cannot be undone. As the great and the good hobnob in Davos, innocent Iranians are dying in the streets and hospitals as they fight for their freedom from a cruel Islamist regime.

Right around this time in 2024, Joel Kotkin wrote, “Goodbye to Davos — and good riddance:” “The interconnected world envisioned by the WEF is disintegrating. Indeed, it has fallen victim to the resurgence of history and the rise of powers determined to return us to the glories of the Middle Ages.” Or a much more primitive era, in the case of the mullahs.

QED: Iranian soldier sentenced to death for refusing to shoot protesters, human rights group says.

Related: “There’s a strange sense of desperation at losing the narrative here:”

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

‘THEY’RE GETTING TENDER ABOUT A CHURCH SERVICE:’ Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Defends Left-Wing Agitators Who Stormed Minnesota Church.

Lemon’s live feed could provide useful evidence for federal authorities, who said Monday the protest is being investigated as a potential violation of the FACE Act, which makes it a crime to threaten or intimidate people at houses of worship or patients at abortion clinics.

“I’m looking at a young man in the corner. He’s frightened. He’s crying. He’s scared,” Lemon narrated from inside the church.

But Ellison insisted Monday that the FACE Act does not apply to the church operation, saying it usually applies to anti-abortion protests outside abortion clinics.

“The FACE Act is designed to protect the rights of people seeking their reproductive rights to be protected and so that people for a religious reason cannot just use religion to break into women’s reproductive health centers,” Ellison told Lemon.

But Ellison’s own record contradicts that claim. As Minnesota attorney general, he submitted a brief in a 2020 federal lawsuit that accused a Minneapolis woman of violating the First Amendment rights of parishioners at Dar Al-Farooq, a mosque outside Minneapolis, by filming them without their permission.

In 2015, as a House member, Ellison urged Obama civil rights chief Vanita Gupta to investigate whether a group of protesters in Phoenix violated the FACE Act by holding firearms during protests outside a Phoenix mosque.

Why, I’m beginning to believe that Keith Ellison has his thumb firmly on the lefthand scale when it comes to applying the law:

Posted at 2:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM ABC NEWS: Pam Grier Shares ‘Hanging From Tree’ Lynching Claim on The View — Never Mentioned It In Her Memoir. Grier was born in 1949:

“My mom would go, ‘don’t look, don’t look, don’t look,’ and she would pull us away because there’s someone hanging from a tree,” Grier told Whoopi, Sunny and the others. “And they have a memorial for it now where you can see where people were and left. And it triggers me today to see that a voice can be silenced and if a white family supported a black, they’re going to get burned down or killed or lynched as well.”

OutKick reached out to the NAACP to get a reaction to Grier’s claim and for any supporting evidence to support the claim. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, there has not been a single lynching documented in the history of Columbus, Ohio.

Furthermore, America’s Black Holocaust Museum lists the last documented lynching in Ohio as taking place in 1911.

Exit quote: “Did Sunny Hostin or Whoopi ask her why she never told that story? Of course not.”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

WORD WARRIOR: Scott Jennings Scoffs at Cameron Kasky’s Language Limiting Edict on Saying ‘Illegal Aliens.’

However, “It’s this next part where things get more dicey for both CNN and Kasky:” This CNN Panel Discussion on Trump Might Just Land the Network in Legal Hot Water.

* * * * * * * *

Incredibly, Kasky attempted to triple down, but Berman managed to talk over him, sarcastically asking Jennings if he’s satisfied.

BERMAN: Okay, we’ll get to that later. Donald Trump has never been charged with any crimes in relation to Jeffrey Epstein. But we’ll talk about the Epstein files later.

KASKY: Yeah, but let’s be…let’s be serious.

BERMAN: (Looks at Jennings) Satisfied?

I don’t know if Jennings was satisfied, but I’d bet CNN’s lawyers weren’t. Having arrogant brats like Kasky on air without enforcing boundaries is a good way to end up getting sued. Keep in mind that ABC News settled with Trump for $15 million in damages after one of its on-air personalities falsely claimed that Trump had “raped” E. Jean Carroll. Claiming he was part of a “human sex-trafficking ring” doesn’t strike me as any less serious. I’m sure there will be an internal email sent, but perhaps CNN should be a bit more selective of who they put on air. If I were Trump, at the very least, I’d try to extricate a formal correction and apology from CNN and Kasky.

Just another night on CNN’s Thunderdome.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

ADVANTAGE, ELON!

Tweet continues: “Tesla was already inside, shoes off, Wi-Fi connected Tesla already has 39 stores across Canada, a Canada-ready Model Y built in Shanghai, and absolutely zero setup drama Meanwhile, other Chinese brands are still figuring out leases, hiring staff, and finding coffee machines Canada allows 49,000 Chinese EVs per year Tesla’s like: ‘Cool. We’ll take those.’”

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

January 19, 2026

OPEN THREAD: There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to get into the Open Thread, somewhere beyond the Blogosphere.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 19th, 2026

DON LEMON DIGS THE HOLE EVEN DEEPER WITH VILE COMMENTS ABOUT PARISHIONERS IN MN CHURCH INCIDENT:

[If] you’re Don Lemon, this would probably be the time not to continue to dig the hole deeper.

However, it’s Don Lemon, so naturally, he decided to open his mouth and make things worse. He appeared on the podcast “I’ve Had It” with Jennifer Welch. He claimed that he didn’t know they would be going to a church. But he also smeared the parishioners of the church.

And there’s a certain degree of entitlement. I think people who are, you know, in the religious groups like that, it’s not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they’re entitled and that that entitlement comes from a supremacy, white supremacy, and they think that this country was built for them, that it is a Christian country, when actually we left England because we wanted religious freedom. It’s religious freedom, but only if you’re a Christian and only if you’re a white male, pretty much.”

Entitled? Yes, they’re entitled to be able to worship in peace, and not have agitators come storming into their church telling them how to be a Christian. Shutting down a church service isn’t very “Christian.” How dare the parishioners think they should not have to put up with this?

Then, Lemon smears them as white supremacists? How despicable is this?

It’s a rather multicultural white supremacy, apparently:

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 19th, 2026

OLD AND BUSTED: Anarchy in the UK.

The New Hotness? Culture Jamming in the UK! Two Tier Keir Has a Problem Called ‘Waifu Amelia’ and It Is Screamingly Funny.

What makes it even more stunning to watch as Amelia explodes in popularity is where she originated.

Waifu Amelia is the British government’s own creation and has been around for a couple of years.

The purple-haired pistol was a bit player in a nanny-state online game/novel called ‘Pathways‘ created by the government for ‘youths’ in an effort to teach them about right-wing extremism and thereby warn them off.

…Amelia is a supporting character in the U.K. government-funded educational visual novel Pathways, a game developed by Shout Out UK to teach the youth about extremism and radicalization. In the game, Amelia is depicted as a far-right anti-immigration activist with purple hair, a pink dress, a purple sweater and a goth or e-girl appearance, who tries persuading the protagonist to join her cause.

Amelia was meant to be ‘the far-right, anti-immigration bad girl’ who tries to sway tender and impressionable Charlie to her wrong side of the tracks.

In 2023, Shout Out UK, a company focused on spreading media literacy, political literacy and more via their training programs, released the visual novel “interactive learning package,” Pathways.[1][2] The game was funded by Prevent, a program of the British government’s Home Office.

In the game, players take on the role of a character named Charlie in six different scenarios dealing with online or in-person radicalization.

Scenario two features the character Amelia, a far-right, purple-haired goth girl with anti-immigration views who tries to recruit Charlie into joining anti-immigration groups and protesting against immigration.

As one Reddit user said:

Answer: uk government made a flash based game aimed at preventing college kids from being radicalised into the far-right. But the game plays like it’s for a 5 year old with learning disabilities, and the characters and actions are so ridiculous and out of touch with the real world, that everyone from both sides of the political spectrum is memeing the sh** out of it.

Amelia is supposed to be the “evil” character that leads your mentally disabled character into ThE WrOnG ChOiCeS.

Talk about a spectacular backfire.

The game also treats doing your own research as a negative.

What was also pretty creepy and only reinforced the appeal of Amelia’s forbidden but altogether understandable sentiments was what the British government had the game’s developers doing – monitoring for responses from those 11 to 18 year olds who were playing for ‘incorrect’ answers, which could lead to possible referrals to state extremist intervention programs.

As Glenn has written, “I’m so old, I remember when ‘culture jamming’ was a leftist thing.” Mating it up with AI digital animation and video manipulation technology is also a potentially scary preview of where personally-created videos and a lot more could be headed soon. Last year I wrote, “2013’s Her: Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson Go Twenty Minutes Into the Future of AI.” These Amelia videos show what happens when the AI voice is given a 2D form:

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 19th, 2026

TO BOLDLY GO WHERE GARY LARSON HAS GONE BEFORE: Outstanding in her field: cow recorded using tool for first time.

Cows are not usually credited with thinking on the hoof. They eat, they chew, they stand in fields performing an activity that may look like contemplation but is generally written off as digestion.

They are not typically thought to plan, let alone solve problems. A new study suggests we may have underestimated them.

The research describes what experts claim is the first documented case of flexible, multi-purpose tool use in cattle, observed in a cow named Veronika.

Veronika is a Swiss brown cow kept not for milk or meat but as a pet by Witgar Wiegele, an organic farmer and baker in Austria. More than a decade ago he noticed her using a long-handled brush, holding it in her mouth to scratch awkward parts of her body.

When video footage of this behaviour reached Alice Auersperg, a cognitive biologist at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, it struck her as unusual, largely because Veronika used the brush in different ways to scratch different parts of her body.

“It was immediately clear that this was not accidental,” Auersperg said. “This was a meaningful example of tool use in a species that is rarely considered from a cognitive perspective.”

Yes, the European mind cannot comprehend the notion of cows using tools. But we Americans have been wrestling with the notion of cow tools since 1982, when an early edition of Gary Larson’s classic “Far Side” cartoon appeared in hundreds of local newspapers:

In his 1989 anthology, The Prehistory of the Far Side, Larson wrote:

The “Cow tools” episode is one that will probably haunt me for the rest of my life. A week after it was published back in 1982, I wanted to crawl into a hole somewhere and die.

Cows, as some Far Side readers know, are a favorite subject of mine. I’ve always found them to be the quintessentially absurd animal for situations even more absurd. Even the name “cow,” to me, is intrinsically funny.

And so one day I started thinking back on an anthropology course I had in college and how we learned that man used to be defined as “the only animal that made and shaped tools.” Unfortunately, researchers discovered that certain primates and even some bird species did the same thing—so the definition had to be extended somewhat to avoid awkward situations such as someone hiring a crew of chimpanzees to remodel their kitchen.

Inevitably, I began thinking about cows, and what if they, too, were discovered as toolmakers. What would they make? Primitive tools are always, well, primitive-looking—appearing rather nondescript to the lay person. So, it seemed to me, whatever a cow would make would have to be even a couple notches further down the “skill-o-meter.”

I imagined, and subsequently drew, a cow standing next to her workbench, proudly displaying her handiwork (hoofwork?). The “cow tools” were to be just meaningless artifacts—only the cow or a cowthropologist is supposed to know what they’re used for.

The first mistake I made was in thinking this was funny. The second was making one of the tools resemble a crude handsaw—which made already confused people decide that their only hope in understanding the cartoon meant deciphering what the other tools were as well. Of course, they didn’t have a chance in hell.

But, for the first time, “Cow tools” awakened me to the fact that my profession was not just an isolated exercise in the corner of my apartment. The day after its release, my phone began to ring with inquiries from reporters and radio stations from regions in the country where The Far Side was published. Everyone, it seemed, wanted to know what in the world this cartoon meant! My syndicate was equally bombarded, and I was ultimately asked to write a press release explaining “Cow tools.” Someone sent me the front page of one newspaper which, down in one corner, ran the tease, “Cow Tools: What does it mean? (See pg. B14.)” I was mortified.

In the first year or two of drawing The Far Side, I always believed my career perpetually hung by a thread. And this time I was convinced it had been finally severed. Ironically, when the dust had finally settled and as a result of all the “noise” it made, “Cow tools” became more of a boost to The Far Side than anything else.

So, in summary, I drew a really weird, obtuse cartoon that no one understood and wasn’t funny and therefore I went on to even greater success and recognition.

Yeah—I like this country.

Heh, indeed.

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 19th, 2026

IT’S COME TO THIS: Zohran Mamdani’s ‘aspirational hope’ for NYC mayor’s residence? Bidets.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has an aspirational hope for his new home at the mayor’s centuries-old official residence.

When the new mayor was moving in to Gracie Mansion Jan. 12 with his wife Rama Duwaji, a reporter asked what he planned to change at the Manhattan residence built in 1799.

“One thing that we will change is we will be installing a few bidets into Gracie Mansion,” Mamdani, 34, told reporters. “That’s an aspirational hope. We’ll see if we can get it done.”

As Jonah Goldberg wrote at the start of the year, “‘We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,’ declared Zohran Mamdani in his inaugural address as mayor of New York City on Thursday. To paraphrase Theodore White’s quip about Barry Goldwater, it was a real ‘My God, he’s going to govern as Zohran Mamdani!’ moment.”

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 19th, 2026

THIS IS CNN: ‘You Have To Make People Uncomfortable:’ How Don Lemon Helped Anti-ICE Activists Storm a Minnesota Church.

Disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon colluded with anti-ICE activists now under investigation for storming a Minnesota church on Sunday—a “clandestine” operation that Lemon helped keep secret ahead of time before publicizing it once it began.

Lemon, who was fired from CNN in 2023 over mistreatment of female colleagues, accompanied Minneapolis lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong on “Operation Pull Up” at Cities Church in Saint Paul to protest the ICE shooting earlier this month of 37-year-old Renee Good. According to Armstrong, the operation targeted Cities Church because an associate pastor is allegedly the acting director of Saint Paul’s ICE office.

“We show up somewhere that is a key location,” Armstrong told Lemon in an interview prior to the event. “They don’t expect us to come there. And then we disrupt business as usual.”

Storming a church is never a good look:

Late last week, another former CNN employee was letting it all hang out during his appearance with leftist podcast host Jennifer Welch:

● Deranged: Acosta Floats Choking CBS’s Dokoupil, Welch Says ICE Is Like ISIS.

● Jim Acosta Helps Dems Make the Pivot to ‘JD Vance Is Worse Than Trump.’ (Plus: Get the TDS Straitjacket!)

In December of 2012, the Grauniad asked: Can Jeff Zucker fix what ails CNN?

Upon his departure a decade later, his fellow leftists at the New Republic concluded: Jeff Zucker Was the Most Craven TV Executive of the Trump Era. The CNN executive’s commitments to “The Trump Show” wrecked his network—and did lasting damage to the country.

Lemon and Acosta’s recent antics illustrate that the hangover from Zucker’s reign of error continues.

Minnesota’s DFL party will of course look the other way at Lemon’s stunt…

…But the Feds? Stay tuned:

UPDATE:

Posted at 2:10 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 19th, 2026
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