STEPHEN KING CAN’T END A NOVEL, OR MAKE A MEME:

This is disgusting. This cheapens the Holocaust.

It's 1940. Gestapo knocks at your door. Where are you going to wind up? No, not in a camp designed to kill you, but you're gonna get sent HOME.

And, you can just go there with $1,000 in your pocket if you say "ok, I'll… https://t.co/Bh5PBxa9mX

— Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 (@marcorandazza) January 23, 2026

I HAD VIRUS REFLUX A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, AND IT SENT ME TO THE E.R. I GIVE IT A LOW RATING TOO. ‘Vitus Reflux’ may be the lowest stakes episode of ‘Star Trek’ ever. Luckily, it’s also a lot of fun.

Oh, wait, what? Vitus reflux? Oh. Well, never mind.

THEY’RE WHAT REALLY MAKES A MONKEY BACHELOR PAD, FOR ONE THING: Snow Monkeys’ Hot Spring Baths Do More Than Keep Them Warm, Study Finds.

“THE TANK COMMUNITY FINDS IT UGLY:” The U.S. Army’s Future Tank: Lighter, Smarter, and a Hybrid. The Tank Community thought the Sheridan and the MBT-70 were sexy.

AREN’T YOU SUPPOSED TO CHANGE THEM OUT BEFORE THEY GET THAT HOT? The Year of the Can: The White Hot Silencer Business 20 Days In. “Here at SHOT Show, the busiest booths are those of suppressor manufacturers, with retailers and buyers looking for what’s new, when it will ship, and what the pricing will be.”

NIALL FERGUSON: How Trump Won Davos: I have never before seen a single individual so completely dominate this vast bazaar of the powerful, the wealthy, the famous, and the self-important.

Related:

As concerns Europe, I think there are four:

1) Trump told Europe: You're killing yourself with mass migration. Stop.

2) Trump told NATO: You've got to spend more on your own defense.

3) Trump told the EU: You're hurting yourselves with draconian regulations.

4) Trump told… https://t.co/I0dFHmujMl

— Byron York (@ByronYork) January 23, 2026

UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!

THE FORECAST IS IN:

Are you in the liquor zone?? pic.twitter.com/HsjHu39Y3m

— Old Row (@OldRowOfficial) January 21, 2026

Related (From Ed):

I’ve been training for this moment my entire life https://t.co/Z4VFuKpDEv

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 23, 2026

I suspect that Steve might be willing to offer an assist as well.

21ST CENTURY SOLUTIONS: New York convict at large after slipping his ankle monitor onto a dog.

MOST OF TODAY’S #JOURNALISM IS JUST MIDWITS POSTURING FOR OTHER MIDWITS ABOUT THINGS THEY DON’T ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND:

4. Many a reader has gotten fed up with “The Magic Mountain,” and she knows it, but I doubt that Susan B. Glasser would regard Thomas Mann as some kind of nut. I picture her denouncing the reader for not digging in, paying attention, trusting the author, and taking the time to understand.

5. It’s not as though Glasser drew upon deep literary experience to come up with material from “The Magic Mountain.” It’s the famous book set in the location where Trump spoke. To quote it is like quoting your last fortune cookie or scrap of litter right at your feet.

6. What does Glasser really know of “The Magic Mountain”? She’s got 2 quotes, and if you go to Goodreads, you’ll find both quotes within the top 6 quotes from the book. They are #5 and #6.

Probably would have been a deeper piece if she’d just used Chat GPT.

OPENING UP BEACHES FOR THE TRUMP SAVISSIVIK RESORT: Amplifying feedbacks could drive Greenland ice sheet to near-complete disappearance.

I’VE BEEN UNIMPRESSED WITH GEMINI. CHAT GPT IS OKAY, BUT I LIKE CLAUDE, AND ESPECIALLY GROK BEST. Has Gemini surpassed ChatGPT? We put the AI models to the test.

GOOD: Exercise and enriched environments help protect brain barrier from stress-linked depression, finds study.

spread them: U. Washington in a tizzy over fake ICE rumors.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Authorities investigate UMass Lowell radio DJ’s threat to ‘kill JD Vance.’

HAHA:

🚨 BREAKING: ICE has now watched more kids in Minneapolis than a Somali daycare. pic.twitter.com/8zufjecsBX

— ☘️𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕪 Ƒʉͫcͧкͭιͪηͣ 𝕄𝕔𝔾𝕖𝕖‎ (@LuckyMcGee) January 22, 2026

BEST UNDER-REPORTED NEWS OF THE WEEK: Finally: Trump Pulls the US Out of United Nations’ International Gun Registry Scheme.

IT’S SPREADING:

To my English-speaking followers: You asked, and I listened! 🇩🇪🇬🇧

Due to massive demand, I’ve added English subtitles to the German Amelia/Maria video. Now the message can be understood worldwide

Please share this and help it go viral. Let’s reach everyone! 🌍#Germany #Maria… pic.twitter.com/s1UdU6w7iR

— Ragnarök (@Neogermane) January 22, 2026

ART OF THE TIK TOK DEAL: It took more than a year to make the deal but it’s finally done. Byte Dance has signed off on an agreement to sell US Tik Tok to a group of American and UAE investors.

SO FAR NO ONE HAS BEEN CANED OR SHOT IN A DUEL, BUT ONLY SO FAR: Andrew Jackson Comes to Davos.

WELL, BYE: Google Guys Say Bye to California: Sergey Brin is joining his Google co-founder, Larry Page, in reducing ties to the state where they built their fortunes.

Flashback: If you tax it, they will go.

All these lefty billionaires fleeing the greedy leftist beast they nurtured. But have they learned anything?

DON SURBER: Jack Smith’s perjured testimony: The press pretended like he did nothing wrong as he lied, lied, lied.

Perhaps they sensed a kindred spirit.

GOOD AND HARD:

“Moderate” voters in Virginia threw a temper tantrum over Trump, voted for a a Marxist government, and now are about to really get it.

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) January 23, 2026

DANA LOESCH: Michael Fanone Is A Fake Tough Guy. Well, when you consider that Sen. Richard “Stolen Valor” Blumenthal is a Democratic tough guy. . .

FASTER, PLEASE: Next Up in Hemisphere Hygiene: Cuba?

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Lawsplainer — Warrantless Searches of Residences To Arrest Illegal Aliens With Final Orders of Removal. “As a legal matter, there isn’t much downside and the upside is the expedited removal of a far larger number of illegal aliens that would otherwise be possible — as the Supreme Court has recognized.”