OBVIOUSLY THEY KNEW WHERE THESE PEOPLE WERE. IT’S DISGUSTING THAT IT TOOK A NEW ADMINISTRATION TO MAKE IT HAPPEN: First images of ICE mass deportation efforts show arrests of MS-13 gang members, murder suspects.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
January 27, 2025
CDR SALAMANDER: Condition of the Navy’s Amphibious Fleet And Its Impacts on Marines: the View from GAO. “Amphibious warfare ships are critical for Marine Corps missions, but the Navy has struggled to ensure they are available for operations and training. In some cases, ships in the amphibious fleet have not been available for years at a time. The Navy and Marine Corps are working to agree on a ship availability goal but have yet to complete a metrics-based analysis to support such a goal. Until the Navy completes this analysis, it risks jeopardizing its ability to align amphibious ship schedules with the Marine Corps units that deploy on them.”
WELL, IF “EDUCATED” PEOPLE THINK IT’S OKAY, CAN IT REALLY BE ILLEGAL?
Everyone understood that this was going on, in private business as well as universities. Acquaintances would just outright say "We're looking to hire a woman of color/queer person/etc for this position". I never figured out how to politely ask why they were confessing a crime to… https://t.co/ayEKvPRwmY
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) January 27, 2025
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Drummond Woodsum, a leftist law firm in Portland, Maine with lucrative public contracts, has told public school officials to destroy immigration-related evidence and records to obstruct possible federal law enforcement investigations by @ICEgov or @CBP. https://t.co/MPy8gfabc8
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 27, 2025
MAKE THEM PAY:
They had a choice between following the law and bowing to their most ridiculous cultural revolutionaries. They chose the latter, they broke the law, and now there’s a sheriff in town that’s going to make them pay the price for it. https://t.co/jyD1dqfKSM
— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) January 27, 2025
TRUTH:
The difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 this time around is like the difference between Michael Jordan as a freshman at North Carolina and Michael Jordan as NBA MVP.
— John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) January 26, 2025
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it’s pretty funny that democrats couldve just not fought trump in 2020 and gotten four years of squishy mike pence neocon policies and instead they got a lucius cornelius sulla warlord version of trump
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) January 25, 2025
BYE, BYE GAVIN: Joel Kotkin: LA fires have extinguished Gavin Newsom’s presidential dream.
Two years ago Gavin Newsom was widely seen as a rising Democratic star and likely future presidential candidate. Meanwhile Donald Trump, facing massive legal troubles and the results of his own intemperance, seemed to many, like those at CNN, a fading figure.
How quickly things change. Over the weekend, Trump met with the California Governor as they toured parts of California devastated by the wildfires. As Newsom was forced to greet the President with his cap in hand, Trump wasted no time in attacking the state’s progressive policies. On his arrival, Trump called on Newsom to change the state’s water policies, blaming the spread of the fires on deficient supplies. This is partially accurate: although water policy has been poorly implemented, the immediate issue lay in the city’s failure to maintain fire spending and key infrastructure like water pressure for hydrants and keeping the local water reservoir filled and operable.
Trump’s demands have drawn attention to the state’s self-inflicted wounds, and its pattern of astounding incompetence. In 1971, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith described the state government as run by “a proud, competent civil service,” and enjoying among “the best school systems in the country”. This year Wallet Hub ranked the state last in terms of return on investment for taxpayers.
50 years of Democratic political dominance will do that to you.
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it’s pretty funny that democrats couldve just not fought trump in 2020 and gotten four years of squishy mike pence neocon policies and instead they got a lucius cornelius sulla warlord version of trump
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) January 25, 2025
Of evil will shall evil mar.
OUT: LUXURY GOODS. IN: LUXURY BELIEFS. This makes sense.
Hypothesis: The woke crack up of culture and institutions that started in ~2013 was driven in significant part by the democratization of good taste that happened in the 2010s. Bonus: This also explains why hipsters disappeared.
Prior to around 2010, those who considered…
— Ozmodiar (@cmonjussthetip) December 17, 2024
(Via Marc Andreesen).
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Leftist Jews in NYC are going to keep staying quiet as Jewish owned businesses keep getting targeted hoping their windows will get broken last. It’s so pathetic to watch. This is the “activist” class. They always have something to say, except now.
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) January 26, 2025
January 26, 2025
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: The Left Gave Us Trump 2.0: And they’re not going to like it one bit.
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OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
ABOUT TIME: Trump team signals defense acquisition overhaul.
“RAYLEIGH SCATTERING MAKES THE SKY SO BLUE; TESTICULAR HORMONES ARE WHY I LOVE YOU.” Why Is The Sky Blue? The Answer Is More Complex Than You Might Think.
IN OTHER NEWS, LIBERACE TURNS OUT TO HAVE BEEN GAY: Paul Reubens Comes Out as Gay in Posthumous Documentary: The documentary, Pee-wee as Himself, premiered this week at Sundance.
HE’D BE CALLED A SPREADER OF “MISINFORMATION” TODAY: The obscure ‘quack’ who helped pioneer the modern clinical trial.
Francis Hauksbee the Younger, an 18th-century instrument maker and scientific lecturer, proposed a formal comparative study in 1743 to evaluate the “safety and efficacy” of his medication for venereal disease.
Published as a pamphlet “A Further Account of the Effects of Mr. Hauksbee’s Alterative Medicine,” his plan aimed to compare his treatment against others by organizing a controlled trial. The study included a detailed methodology, patient consent and it called for transparent documentation of patient outcomes.
Doctors didn’t know much back then. That said, don’t mock the “opium-laced alcohol tinctures.” They may not have cured anything, but I’m sure they made patients feel better.
A FRIEND COMMENTS: “Hoist on their own PETArd.”
PETA activists attempted to dump a truckload of dirt in front of the ASPCA headquarters but failed because the dirt had frozen. 🤣🤣🤣@PETA, how about stopping the waste of money on ridiculous stunts and teaming up with the ASPCA to actually save animals? Instead, you just end… pic.twitter.com/GbxiB0oXdB
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) January 24, 2025
WELL, THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG:
🚨 BREAKING: Following retaliatory measures announced by President Donald Trump Colombian President Gustavo Petro now is offering his presidential plane to help repatriate deportees pic.twitter.com/Mcei5f1lUi
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 26, 2025
UPDATE:
🚨 Trump just posted this 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/70MWvhJG9e
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 26, 2025
So much winning, but I’m not tired of it yet.
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LOL, no they won't, Colombia already caved.
Morons.
— Usually Right (@normouspenis) January 26, 2025
You can tell who is a disingenuous paid shill by the fact that every single one of them said coffee and flowers were going to be very expensive for Valentine’s Day five seconds after Donald Trump responded to the president of Columbia’s very stupid decision to reject repatriation…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) January 26, 2025
MORE STILL:
I am totally not kidding when I say this is a historic moment. History books will discuss this as much as they discuss Alexander Graham Bell's first words through a telephone.
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) January 26, 2025
As Elon Musk is fond of saying, X is the global town square.
ONLY TRAINED LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS CAN BE TRUSTED WITH FIREARMS: Jacksonville Cop Fired After Shooting Motorist With His Own Gun.
#JOURNALISM:
When Obama was president, these guys were still blaming Bush for the economy in Year Eight, but with Trump, it's 100% his economy after five days. https://t.co/jHkfmObNBi
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) January 26, 2025
I get what you’re doing here but technically data for egg prices won’t be based on Trump’s actions for at least a month because they just released December’s data on Jan 15.
So if eggs are at an all-time high you can still thank Biden. :) https://t.co/tZZipxWG97
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) January 26, 2025
A HARD ARGUMENT TO DISMISS:
People killed by AI: 0
People killed by the State: hundreds of millionsAI safetyists: Let's put AI under the control of the State
— Erik Voorhees (@ErikVoorhees) January 25, 2025
FLASHBACK: The Coming “Symbolic Analyst” Meltdown.
THE NEW SPACE RACE, SLOW-HORSES DIVISION: NASA’s Artemis II rocket booster stacking process reaches new milestone.
MASS-FORMATION PSYCHOSIS: British study finds children citing distress over gender dysphoria rose 50-fold.
YES:
The last week has totally reset my conception of what's possible, in two wholly different dimensions. 🤯
— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) January 26, 2025