WHY, INDEED?

Why would illegals be at voting locations Shannon https://t.co/9rMy1gCp2G

— Jon 🔬 (@JonnyMicro) January 15, 2026

TAKE THAT, OBESITY: Novo’s Wegovy pill makes ‘encouraging’ start in weight-loss race vs Lilly.

NOT SURE I WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED: Here’s How the Automotive Cockpit of the Future Will Use AI to Entertain You.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Personal Defense Tip: The Castle Doctrine Isn’t Absolute.

GROK GIVES IT TO THEM STRAIGHT:

The prompts were simple.

First, I told ⁦@grok⁩ to look at every single Amelia meme on the Internet.

Second, I said: “Become Amelia, then make a video and tell the British people what you want them to know.”

Here’s the surprising result. pic.twitter.com/dGY0OvKcQ4

— Huff (@Huff4Congress) January 16, 2026

Click through to watch the video, before Keir Starmer tries to ban it.

HAUTE CUISINE: In ancient Arabia, people dined on sharks and stingrays: ‘We know that these were not just ordinary proteins, but proteins from the top of the food chain.’

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: 1 in 5 people say losing their pet was worse than losing a person.

ANYTHING TO PROMOTE RACISM AND SEXISM: Calif. counters FCC attack on DEI with conditions on Verizon/Frontier merger.

THE SUBSIDIES WERE DESIGNED TO MAKE IT IMPLODE: Affordable Care Act enrollments are down amid increased premiums.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Florida nurse caught by hubby having sex with stepson, 15, suffers double whammy of bad news inside prison cell.

INSTITUTIONAL SEXISM: ‘Feminist Collective’ took over political science journal, prioritized DEI: report.

GIVEN GEORGETOWN’S HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM, THAT’S SAYING SOMETHING: Georgetown severs ties with antisemitic UN official after she was sanctioned by U.S. State Department. “Georgetown University recently removed UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese from its website after previously listing her on its ‘Other Affiliated Scholars’ page. Albanese had previously been sanctioned by the U.S. State Department, which accused her of ‘unabashed antisemitism’ and ‘support for terrorism.’”

To be fair, she is awful.

WELL, ONE IS A THREAT TO THE LEFT, THE OTHER IS PART OF ITS STRATEGY:

We’ve spent years worrying about young men being radicalized online. What if it’s young women who should be our focus of concern? https://t.co/i38Se0LvAi

— Christina Hoff Sommers (@CHSommers) January 16, 2026

RACIAL ATTACKS: Minneapolis Protesters Force Random White Guy To Prove He’s Not ICE: They’re singling him out based on his race, sex, and age — because they don’t like middle-aged white guys.

CHANGE: Amherst Lays Off Administrators Behind Sexually Explicit Programming and Announces Communications Chief Will Retire.

CHRIS BRAY: The Explosion of Political Noise Is Meant to Cover the Death of the Blue Model, Nothing Else.

So the legislative analyst is a Democratic Party selection, chosen by and friendly to the progressive supermajority that governs the state. It’s not an office full of fiscal conservatives; it’s the Democratic Party apparatus, professional-class liberals. And they’re freaking out, because holy shit is the idiot governor trying to bankrupt us?

It’s all just collateral damage so long as he gets what he wants out of it.

Plus: “The panic about Blue Zone fiscal disaster is coming from inside the Blue Zones. Here’s Minnesota’s state auditor, Judy Randall, warning that her fraud investigations turned up fabricated documents, a sign of a cover-up inside the state government.”

It’s fraud all the way down, and has been for quite a while.

SALENA ZITO: Pennsylvania dairy farmers celebrate the Whole Milk Act.

OPEN THREAD: Be here now.

SPACE: Analysis-Musk’s Starlink faces high-profile security test in Iran crackdown.

I think Elon should install rods-from-god with home-on-jam capability….

LOL, AMY KLOBUCHAR:

If law-abiding Minnesotans were actually being thrown to the ground, detained, pepper-sprayed, and threatened, I would agree with you.

But these are not law-abiding Minnesotans. Not a single one.

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) January 16, 2026

ASSORTED NEGOTIATIONS APPEAR TO BE AFOOT:

There are two possible reasons why an unidentified operation against Iran slated for approximately Jan 14, 2026 was canceled or postponed:

1. The resources available were not sufficient to achieve the tactical objectives; and or
2. New strategic opportunities emerged that…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 17, 2026

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: We Were Wrong About Restrictive Diets, Decades of Research Says.

IF YOU’RE AGAINST VOTER ID, IT MEANS YOU’RE INVESTED IN VOTER FRAUD:

This is needed to save democracy in America https://t.co/jSoISFIQgq

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 16, 2026

WELL, GOOD: Scientists Discover Natural Protein That Traps and Kills Harmful Bacteria.

SCIENCE: What a study of 67,000 people reveals about sexual desire and age.