YES: Could the Carrington Event happen again? It happened in 1859. Today, it would be catastrophic.

FRED HOYLE CALL YOUR OFFICE: Dwarf planet Ceres may have received organic material from space objects.

ATTENTION MUST BE PAID: Adderall shortage sparks scramble for ADHD medication alternatives.

YEAH, BUT EVERYONE KNEW OBAMA DIDN’T REALLY MEAN IT:

"If you're a criminal, you'll be deported."

— Barack Obama, November 20, 2014

This is exactly what President Trump is doing right now, but Democrats still pretend to be outraged. pic.twitter.com/187AmTNLc4

— Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX) January 27, 2025

#JOURNALISM:

This is the 1st @AP post with the words "egg prices" since February 2023. Two years. https://t.co/4DzbWF0olv

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 28, 2025

NOW OUT FROM MICHAEL WALSH: A Rage to Conquer: Twelve Battles That Changed the Course of Western History.

NEW FRONTIER OPENED: Boom XB-1 Achieves Supersonic Flight: Today a civil airliner, Boom Technology’s XB-1, broke the sound barrier for the first time in two decades. Congratulations!

I MEAN, HE’S NOT WRONG. “A picture of young successful happy people at a trendy cocktail party reads as right wing. A picture of a dad in flannel drinking a beer at Texas Roadhouse also reads as right wing. Right wing is both cool, hip and metropolitan, and down to earth, older, mature, and working class. This is how you know that conservatism is culturally ascendant. We run the gamut. The only pictures that read as left wing are those of ugly, fat, mentally ill, dysfunctional, friend-less weirdos.”

TIRED TAKES FROM A RETIRED PROFESSOR: UToledo law professor: Trump ‘serves wealthy white American men.’

Reality:

Trump approval currently has NO racial demographic signal. Wild!

White – 55%
Black – 57%
Hisp/oth – 58%

— Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports (@Mark_R_Mitchell) January 23, 2025

CHANGE: Air Force Academy drops ‘Diversity and Inclusion Studies’ minor.

My idea of Diversity and Inclusion for the Air Force: We should have a diversity of people who are good at blowing shit up, and we should include everyone who’s good at blowing shit up. Easy peasy.

SINCE 2015: Jon Stewart mocks anti-Trumpers for overdoing their accusations of fascism.

WE SHOULD PROBABLY BE TARGETING IT WITH DRONES, BUT THIS IS A GOOD START: Trump Free Speech Executive Order Targets the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex.

RICHARD EPSTEIN: The Case Against Birthright Citizenship: Trump’s executive order stands on a firmer footing than its vocal critics acknowledge.

I haven’t thought about this enough to have a firm opinion, but it’s not the open-and-shut case some people are pretending it is.

PLEASE CONTINUE THIS STUFF AT LEAST THROUGH 2028:

If you thought people supported deportations before… just keep this up. https://t.co/GKTs5zs9fb

— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) January 27, 2025

WELL, NO: Roger Simon: Is Israel Already the Fifty-First State? Wasn’t it supposed to be Greenland?

And Greenland will be a COFA, associated with the US but independent.

#JOURNALISM:

As he prepares to put LGBTs into camps according to MSDNC, Trump and the Senate GOP install the first-ever openly gay Secretary of Treasury in American history. Trump will likely be celebrating this by dancing with the original Village People.🌈 https://t.co/LtZ9Uij6dS

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 27, 2025

#JOURNALISM:

Of course https://t.co/df2iC3A8bU

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) January 28, 2025

SCOTT JOHNSON: “Big law is another institution that has become an enemy of just about everything in which conservatives believe. The organized bar itself seems to operate as an arm of the left and the administrative state.”

CHANGE IS EVERYWHERE:

BREAKING: Notorious liberal scold and anti-Trump legacy news personality Jim Acosta is out at CNN.

The media landscape is unrecognizable from the beginning of Trump’s first term in 2017, and that’s a very good thing for America. pic.twitter.com/j12LEOip2T

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 28, 2025

The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER. Enjoy the water,…

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) January 28, 2025

BREAKING:

California is dropping ALL charges against pro-life journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt who exposed Planned Parenthood selling baby body parts

— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) January 28, 2025

UPDATE: And on the Eighth Day, Trump Said Let There Be Water. And Californians Saw That It Was Good.

A specific variety of bait fish about the size of your fingernail was getting pumped from the California Delta, just east of the Bay Area, into the California Aqueduct that services the rest of the state to the south, grinding up the fish in the pumping stations along the way. The Delta collects from both the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and until 2007, all that fresh water was the primary water supply for all parts south of there – Bakersfield, Los Angeles, terminating into Lake Perris in the Inland Empire. All that Central Valley farmland used it to irrigate and grow crops, eventually feeding all of us, with plenty of water left over to service Southern California. Then this little fish was classified as an endangered species, and the pumps were shut down. The water literally stopped flowing, and the crops dried up. Southern California did not receive the water to which it was accustomed, and also lost out in the Colorado River sweepstakes to Nevada and Arizona. Instead of dealing with Californians honestly, Democratic leadership here blamed the sudden water shortage on climate change.

For 17 long years, farmers and ranchers in this state have been begging for common sense, rationality, and relief from the drought that didn’t need to be. Not one Democrat in this state lifted a finger to fight the bureaucracy on their behalf. It was deemed more environmentally friendly water policy to let all that water flow into the San Francisco Bay and out to sea. It was much more important to protect this freshwater anchovy. How much water, you ask?

An acre foot is the measurement for a vast amount of water. One acre foot is equivalent to 325,851 gallons. 30 million acre feet flow through the Delta every year on average, accounting for roughly half of the state’s snowpack and water run-off. That’s 97 trillion, 755 billion, 300 million gallons of water a year. Over 17 years, since the Delta Smelt being put on the Endangered Species list and turning the pumps off, that’s 1 quadrillion, 661 trillion, 840 billion, 100 million gallons of usable fresh water literally funnelled into the ocean.

Donald Trump just ended the madness.

He’s really standing up for California, instead of letting them stew in their blue juices.

LEARN TO CODE? So Trump Nixed Your Bulls**t DEI Job.

FUNNY THEY WANT TO COME TO SUCH A CENTER OF RACISM AND CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION:

America has the highest legal and illegal immigration, per year, in the world.

People want to live here more than anywhere else.

If the law for entering America is optional, then every other law becomes optional too.

And then we lose the reason why people want to live here.

— Kaizen D. Asiedu (@thatsKAIZEN) January 26, 2025

I REMEMBER WHEN PEOPLE TOLD US J.D. WAS A “NET NEGATIVE” FOR TRUMP: “It’s now become ‘a thing’ among conservatives to wait for the JD Vance ambush of Sunday morning mainstream political media.”

Having hung out with him a couple of times back before he got into politics, none of this surprises me.

THIS IS A PROJECT OF THE INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE, OF WHICH I AM A SUPPORTER.

This is Curtrina Martin & her son.

A few years ago, the FBI set off a grenade in their home & smashed the door in. But their suspect wasn't there. Because the FBI had the wrong house.

The family was barred from suing—and the Supreme Court just agreed to hear the case. A thread. pic.twitter.com/7dLXH37b5b

— Billy Binion (@billybinion) January 28, 2025

My own feeling is that no-knock raids, at least when there’s not an immediate, credible threat to someone’s life, should have no immunity. You should be strictly liable for anything that goes wrong when you break down people’s doors. Get the wrong house? You’re as liable as anyone else who breaks down the door and hurts or kills people.

Though I’d be willing to add corporal punishment, too. 100 lashes in the public square, say. The loss of dignity, as well as the pain, would be an important deterrent to overweening functionaries.

#JOURNALISM:

"Misleading videos" huh? pic.twitter.com/NP7JEXHRMp

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) January 28, 2025

NEXT WEEK WILL BE BUSIER: A Busy First Week at the Trump DOJ.