ATHENA THORNE: Can We Get These Guys a Pulitzer? “Just for starters, there’s Andy Ngo. He alone deserves a Pulitzer for his work over the years, tracking the organized anti-American forces that flare up periodically with refreshed branding to reflect the cause du jour.”

YES, BUT…: GM Beats Earnings Expectations, Boosts Dividend by 20%.

General Motors reported a $3.3 billion loss in the fourth quarter of 2025 as a previously disclosed write-off mostly related to its struggling electric-vehicle business weighed on the company’s results.
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GM’s $2.8 billion in adjusted operating income in the quarter—which excludes the $7.2 billion in write-offs and special charges related to EVs and other items—beat analysts’ expectations of $2.75 billion, according to FactSet. The company also said it is on track for $13 billion to $15 billion in 2026 adjusted earnings, while forecasts had pointed to $13.7 billion.

GM shares rose as much as 5.5% in premarket trading Tuesday morning.

The results capped a turbulent year in which GM scrambled to adjust to President Trump’s automotive tariffs, while also significantly scaling back its money-losing EV business.

The automaker managed to grow its share of the U.S. market in 2025 while delivering $12.7 billion in adjusted pretax earnings, about $2 billion less than it originally projected before Trump’s tariffs were announced.

GM and its crosstown rival Ford Motor are looking to take advantage of the Trump administration’s about-face on regulations that required automakers to sell cleaner vehicles by ramping up production of profitable trucks and SUVs that run on gasoline, while minimizing EV losses.

Late last year, GM began announcing write-offs related to its pivot away from EVs. They have totaled $7.6 billion so far.

How many billions of tax dollars and shareholder value did Washington piss away?

HMM: The Polling Data Tells the Tale. “A mere 7% think that cracking down on illegal immigration is not important at all. It seems to me likely these are the ones raising hell on the streets of Minneapolis and in their houses of worship there. So once again, the left takes up the self-defeating 90/10 position. Something of a trend is developing here. As good as that is, it does get better.”

WESTERN UNIVERSITIES SHOULDN’T HIRE ENEMIES OF THE WEST, PERIOD: Daughter of top Iranian official ousted from Emory University following massive public outrage, CA Post pressure.

HERE’S WHAT REAL REPORTING LOOKS LIKE, IN CASE YOU’D FORGOTTEN: Andy Ngo: Here’s What I Saw When I Got Inside the Signal Chats Used by Extremists in Minnesota

BEEGE WELBORN: Seems Kind of Funny How All the ‘Organic’ Cockroaches Scatter When the Signal Light Comes On.

Now, to paraphrase another famous intuitive seat-of-their-pants fictional type, I am not a smart girl, but I know what a weird coincidence is.

If one really pays attention, I would have to say we have several all running in sequence in Minneapolis, which makes it an even bigger weird coincidence in itself.

Which I’d bet good money means that, from the beginning, none of this has been a coincidence at all.

You tell me.

The very first thing to take note of is how all these people appeared on Minnesota streets – specifically – with the same printed signs and shrieking the same anti-ICE, pro-illegal immigrant language. It’s awfully peculiar considering that illegal alien deportations had been humming along unabated and virtually unnoticed for years, right up to the point when there was a spike and a 180° reversal of tone and rhetoric.

Fortunately, there are people who chart these things, which helps pinpoint the exact moment the tenor shifts.

Much more at the link.

“CRITICS SAY”: Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’ turns 20, and critics say biggest disaster is its failed predictions.

Gore’s film was a primary catalyst for the climate activist movement, and it generated a lot of concern about global warming following its release. The movie left audiences with the impression that the human race was hurtling toward a dystopian future on a planet baking in unbearable temperatures where extreme weather caused frequent disasters.

Almost 13 years to the day after its release, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was telling people the world would end in 12 years – presumably five years from now – because of the burning of fossil fuels.

Matt Wielicki, who writes about climate and energy on his “Irrational Fear” Substack, was once an assistant professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama. In the early part of his academic career, he taught at a local college.

He told Just the News that he showed “An Inconvenient Truth” to his students. Over time, he began to question the “gloom and doom” narratives Gore presents in his film, he said.

“People took that as a starting point, and they just kept running further and further with it,” Wielicki said.

Gore’s film, however, was full of numerous predictions that turned out to be wrong, and it’s likely that the world will not end in 2031, as Ocasio-Cortez predicted.

Well, that’s a relief, I guess.

KRUISER: In Praise of Escapism: Missing That ’60s Mix of Civil Unrest and Goofy Television. “While Democrat-induced leftist anarchy hasn’t changed that much in 60 years, the relief we used to be able to get from entertainment has, especially when it comes to television.”

SHE SEEMS NICE: Actress Kristen Stewart says she wants to ditch US, make films in Europe, then ‘shove them down the throat of the American people.’

Stewart, 35, best known for her role in the “Twilight” movies, is eyeing the possibility of moving to Europe, citing her frustrations with President Donald Trump’s policies. Stewart, with a net worth of around $70 million as of January 2026, claimed that she “can’t work freely” in the United States.

“Reality is breaking completely under Trump,” she told the Times. “But we should take a page out of his book and create the reality we want to live in.” Although she goes back and forth between LA and New York City, she said she doesn’t want to stick around. “I can’t work freely there. But I don’t want to give up completely. I’d like to make movies in Europe and then shove them down the throat of the American people.”

She said that because of being in the entertainment industry since her childhood, it is how she “relate[s] to the world.”

Weird, because that no longer seems to be the world relates to her:

The Drinker was justifiably brutal in this one.

CRIMETHINC: Introducing the Actual Grassroots Lefty Group Helping Organize the Insurrection. “Maybe the most important lesson we learned in 2025 from Data (small-r) Republican’s efforts was that the Left’s ‘grassroots’ efforts are funded by a tangled web of NGOs siphoning your tax dollars, but what if I told you that there is an actual grassroots anarchist organization helping organize the insurrection in Minnesota?”

YOU CAN CHECK OUT ANY TIME YOU LIKE…: California seeks taxes from family who moved to Florida.

According to documents posted online by a family who formerly lived in California, the Golden State is trying to collect income taxes years after the family moved to Florida.

The documents, sent on Jan. 6, 2026, asked for receipts, invoices, canceled checks and other documentation showing that the family moved from California to Florida nearly four years ago. The California Franchise Tax Board, which sent the letter, also asked the family for a “narrative of the circumstances” surrounding the family’s move out of state.

Hari Raghavan, who with his wife, Mitali Gala, was the subject of the investigation by the California Franchise Tax Board, said he and Gala moved from California to Florida in 2021. They tried to sell the home they owned in California when they moved, but weren’t able to do so immediately, Raghavan told The Center Square.

“That spilled into 2022, but it was by no definition a primary residence anymore,” Raghavan said about the California home. “We moved to Florida to establish residency in 2021.”

The Jan. 6 letter didn’t tell Raghavan and Gala how much they owe to the state of California in personal income taxes, Raghavan told The Center Square.

Sacramento seems to have adopted the Goodfellas collection mentality.

HEH: Mr. President, Please Just Let This Man Have a Nap. “Keep in mind that the president is 79, and Rubio is only 54 — young enough to be his son — but it seems like the hardest working man in the Trump administration just can’t keep up with his boss. It’s so bad that when they’re both flying on Air Force One, Rubio says he hides from Trump, hoping he won’t catch him taking naps during trips overseas.”

Previously:

Marco Rubio, first of his name, Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, Chief Archivist, Viceroy of Venezuela, Governor-General of Cuba, Storhertug of Greenland, Shah-in-Waiting, Martian Lord High Admiral of the Outer Worlds, and Webelo. pic.twitter.com/LX3qACPSrF

— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) January 13, 2026

SAME GUY WHO SAID HE “DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN” AND BLAMED THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING ON CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO: Bill Clinton says Trump admin ‘told us not to believe what we’ve seen’ after latest Minnesota shooting.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Anarchist Dems Are SO Lucky Trump Isn’t the Guy They Say He Is. “Things are so out of control that in Minneapolis that, if President Trump truly were the fascistic dictator that Democrats repeatedly say he is, there would be so many tanks rolling through there it would look like a snowbound Tiananmen Square. There would be no ‘ICE Watch’ citizen agitator patrols. All would be quiet in the streets of Minneapolis.”

HI, MELINDA:

Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.

Any… pic.twitter.com/CMJN12GhOc

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 27, 2026

FOLLOW THE MONEY…: Funders of Minneapolis Protests Identified by FBI.

FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday the bureau has identified people and groups who are funding leftist protests aimed at Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minnesota.

During an appearance on conservative commentator Benny Johnson’s podcast, Patel confirmed that the FBI’s investigation into the unrest is active and expanding.

“We’ve got … investigations ongoing into the funding of this,” Patel told Johnson, stressing that the protests are “not happening organically” and that investigators have made “substantial progress” in uncovering groups and individuals financially backing them.

Patel also asserted that federal authorities are examining encrypted left-wing chats connected to protest organizers in Minnesota — warning those involved that they “should be worried” if they have violated federal statutes.

…and then cut it off at the source.

ICYMI: Just When You Thought You Couldn’t Get Any More Sick of Barack Obama…

SO IT’S A NEVER-ENDING CRISIS THEN: How to end California’s worsening cost-of-living crisis — politicians must stop lying.

Their cost comparisons show that Californians pay 124% more to own a home, 50% more to rent an apartment, 50% more for gas, 27% more for food, 48% more for water, 45% more for taxes, 51% more for childcare, 101% more for electricity, and 20% more for car insurance.

The only way to fix this cost-of-living crisis is for voters to conduct an intervention at the ballot box in the 2026 midterm elections. Until politicians start losing their seats over the affordability issue, nothing will get fixed.

Reform California, an initiative I founded, is making affordability the top wedge issue in every targeted seat in this November’s state legislative elections.

We need to get the truth out to the voters about why California’s costs are so high. As long as politicians can lie and shift the blame to others, they will never be held accountable and nothing will be fixed.

For example, in the past year Gov. Gavin Newsom has repeatedly blamed California’s entire affordability crisis on President Donald Trump’s tariffs. And for years before that, whenever gas prices rise, Newsom has held a press conference to blame oil companies for “price gouging.”

Earlier this month, Tom Steyer, a Democratic billionaire donor-turned-candidate-for-president-turned-candidate-for-governor, spent millions on campaign ads to blame “monopolies” for high electricity prices.

All of the blame-shifting requires you to believe that tariffs, monopolies and price gouging only happen in California.

The best refutation is the California vs. national cost comparison data in the Transparency Foundation. The numbers prove state and local policies are the real problem.

The solution, as the wise man once said, is “Get the hell out of my way!”

But good luck with that in a state run by progressives and feel-good busy-body ballot initiatives.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Nebraska Targets DEI, Promotes School Choice.

DON’T THROW EXPLOSIVES AT COPS, A LESSON IN ONE ACT:

In Minneapolis clashes, an anti-ICE protester was severely injured after trying to throw a flashbang back at federal agents, losing part of her fingers in the explosion. pic.twitter.com/ZT6YFyOp4C

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 26, 2026

ICYMI: Minnesota Insurrection: A Special Forces Operator Has Seen This ‘From Anbar to Helmand’

PRETTY: James Webb telescope peers into ‘Eye of God’ and finds clues to life’s origins. “The Helix Nebula, also called the ‘Eye of God’ or ‘Eye of Sauron,’ is one of the closest, most colorful and most studied planetary nebulas in space. The well-known and nearby starscape was destined to get JWST’s near-infrared treatment, which reveals cosmic structures only hinted at by other space telescopes.”

YES:

None of this is an excuse for ICE acting improperly, but don't pretend these are ordinary people unknowingly or accidentally clashing with totalitarians. They chose to do what they did, and we need to be honest about the level of opposition to ICE and how it's actually harmful to…

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) January 26, 2026

DON’T FORGET TO THANK THE FOUNDERS, TOO: Thank God for the First Amendment — Europe Is Losing Free Speech

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS RESTING COMFORTABLY: Saudi Arabia to scale back flagship NEOM project.

According to the report, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), who chairs the NEOM project, now envisions a development that is “far smaller” than originally planned, reflecting growing acknowledgement within Riyadh of delays, cost overruns, and flaws in the project’s initial conception and execution.

NEOM, launched in 2017 as part of the kingdom’s economic transformation plans, stretches along the Red Sea coast and covers an area roughly the size of Belgium. Its most ambitious component, The Line, a proposed 170-kilometre linear city, is expected to be radically scaled back and reimagined.

People familiar with the review told the FT that The Line could be redesigned into a more modest project that makes use of infrastructure already built, while NEOM itself may pivot towards becoming a hub for data centres as Saudi Arabia pushes to position itself as a global player in artificial intelligence.

The project was always unlikely at best.