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January 21, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION IMPLOSION UPDATE: Up to 25 percent of U.S. colleges may close soon, Brandeis president warns.
Wealthier institutions may have the resources to withstand the transition, but many others do not. Levine said that elite schools, such as Harvard, can afford to wait out disruptions, while smaller institutions face immediate pressure to adapt.
“Higher education is undergoing a transformation. Our whole society is undergoing a transformation,” Levine said, pointing to the shift from a national, industrial economy to a global, digital, knowledge-based one.
That shift, he said, is driving demographic, economic, technological, and political change that universities have been slow to address.
The challenges facing higher education, Levine said, are not new. He pointed to three longstanding criticisms that date back to the early 19th century, including that colleges change slowly, resist change, and cost too much.
“Outcomes better be worth the price paid,” he said, adding that when society changes, higher education often lags behind and scrambles to catch up.
Glenn tried to warn them. For more than 20 years.
YOU DON’T SAY: Gov. Polis’ State of the State energy claims fail the smell test.
Governor Jared Polis addressed the Colorado legislature in his final State of the State address last week. Polis repeatedly invoked his efforts to build “low-cost clean energy,” but it’s the very same wind, solar, battery storage, and electric vehicles that will make higher energy prices for Coloradans his legacy.
Between January 2019, when Polis entered office, and October 2025, the latest data from the Energy Information Administration, the average residential electricity price in Colorado has risen from 11.91 to 16.26 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). That’s up 36.52 percent, compared with an increase of 30.78 percent in the wider Mountain region. Since 2004, when Colorado enacted its first renewable portfolio standard, all-sector electricity rates in Colorado have risen from an average of 6.95 to 12.80 cents per kWh in October 2025
That isn’t a coincidence. The legislature passed an aggressive bill in 2019 requiring the power sector to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 percent by 2030 and, with a 2023 law, reach 100 percent renewables by 2050. Meeting those mandates will require retiring ten more major coal-fired units before 2031, or 4,200 megawatts (MW) of nameplate capacity, which planned wind and solar cannot reliably replace. It’s worth noting, too, that Colorado fell short of its first statutory requirement to reduce emissions overall by 26 percent by the end of 2025, though not for lack of trying.
The Independence Institute, in conjunction with Always On Energy Research, found that the Polis administration has underestimated the costs of getting Colorado to 100 percent zero-emissions by 2040. The true costs would add $114.3 billion compared to operating the current grid, and another $214.6 billion through 2050, while creating massive blackouts.
First, “low-cost clean energy” is two lies for the price of one. Second, I plan to be long gone from Colorado before the worst of Polis’s madness kicks in.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Michelle Obama Exists to Make Hillary Clinton Seem Delightful. “For me, what makes Michelle Obama so insufferable is that she acts as if she is a civil rights crusader from 1957. Despite having been the First Lady of the land for eight years and having her behind kissed in the nine years since she and hubby left the White House, Mrs. Obama would have everyone believe that she’s a permanent victim of oppression. She constantly throws around both the race and the gender cards, and the idiotic masses who voted for her husband lap it up.”
TVS BECAME SPYWARE AS SOON AS THEY BECAME SMART, AND NOW SONY IS HOPPING INTO BED WITH THE CCP:
This is about more than the TV you mount to the wall to watch sports – it’s a natsec issue. It’s about market share, data platforms, and dependency. PRC firms are consolidating global consumer tech as allied alternatives fall behind. Tokyo and Washington have the tools—this… https://t.co/mKjZk52GOA
— Eric Sayers (@DEricSayers) January 20, 2026
COLLECT THE WHOLE SET: US forces seize seventh Venezuelan oil tanker, intensify crackdown on illegal shipments. “The apprehension of another tanker operating in defiance of President [Donald] Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean demonstrates our resolve to ensure that the only oil leaving Venezuela will be oil that is coordinated properly and lawfully.”
MINNESOTA NICE:
One of the protesters who took over a church service and screamed "shut it down" works for Minneapolis's local prosecutor, is married to a St. Paul councilwoman, is running for state Senate, and runs HOMES FOR HOMIES taking Section 8 money and steering it to black criminals. pic.twitter.com/5jsPwobOIn
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) January 20, 2026
Rosiak also posted that Harmeet Dhillon “is already investigating Moriarty for taking ‘racial identity’ into account when making charging decisions, and HUD is investigating Minneapolis for giving minorities preference when it comes to housing subsidies. Lundy is involved in both.”
In the meantime, we need a total and complete shutdown of Minnesota until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
OUR FOUNDERS COULD TRASH-TALK LIKE BOSSES:
True story:
In the election of 1800 Thomas Jefferson called John Adams “a blind, bald, crippled, toothless man who is a hideous hermaphroditic character with neither the force and fitness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman” https://t.co/W5J84FEpBc pic.twitter.com/42ul4PbyH1
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) January 20, 2026
SALENA ZITO: Why are so many K-12 educators prone to violent rhetoric?
In July 2024, days after Trump was shot, Cassandra Olson, a Sioux Falls School District middle school behavior specialist, wrote, “Shoot—if only he would’ve had his scope sighted correctly” on Facebook. The South Dakota school district acted swiftly, saying in a statement that the staff member “was no longer employed” at the school.
Olson was one of several educators who either lost their jobs or had their teaching licenses pulled for wishing or celebrating harm on Trump.
The volume of educators posting on social media to celebrate the shooting or express regret that Trump survived was unprecedented. It was not surpassed until the death of Kirk, the founder and executive director of Turning Point USA, a conservative organization known for hosting open debates with young people. Kirk’s assassination also prompted celebratory posts from educators online.
Education Week reported that teachers in California, Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas were either fired or placed on leave ahead of investigations into social media comments celebrating or slyly implying their approval of Kirk’s death.
What makes the incident at Propel this past week especially troubling is that it is likely not the last of its kind. It has left many parents asking what sort of influence, or even rhetoric, teachers may be bringing into the classroom, not only in public schools but also in charter and private schools.
Read the whole thing — it’s Salena, after all. But I’d just add that public education is dominated by lefties, and historically lefties aren’t shy about resorting to violence.
January 20, 2026
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
One big difference, among many: The church actually had kids inside. pic.twitter.com/GZgkKw27d9
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) January 20, 2026
Evergreen:
It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.
— Millennial Woes (@MillennialWoes) February 22, 2025
CHINA, MAN: Two men detained for fabricating news claiming two male giant pandas successfully mate in the wild for the first time. “According to the statement released by the Chenghua branch of Chengdu Public Security Bureau, the police launched an investigation after receiving public reports of online accounts spreading false information about the city. The police immediately launched an investigation and began collecting evidence.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s Artemis II reaches the launch pad and the countdown to the Moon begins.
The trip began hours earlier when NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 set off on a 4-mile journey carrying the fully stacked SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. Traveling at a top speed of just 0.82 mph, the crawler moved the massive Moon rocket steadily toward the launch pad.
After exiting the VAB’s high-bay doors, the rollout briefly paused so teams could adjust the crew access arm, a structure that allows astronauts and closeout crews to enter Orion on launch day.
Over the next several days, engineers and technicians will focus on readying Artemis II for a wet dress rehearsal. This test simulates key launch-day activities, including fueling the rocket and running through countdown procedures. The rehearsal is currently targeted for no later than Feb. 2.
During the test, teams will load the rocket with cryogenic, or super-cold, propellants, carry out a full countdown sequence, and then safely drain the propellants. These steps are essential preparations ahead of NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission.
NASA may conduct more than one wet dress rehearsal to ensure the rocket and spacecraft are fully prepared for flight. If additional work is needed, the agency could roll SLS and Orion back to the Vehicle Assembly Building after the rehearsal for further inspections or adjustments.
I’m still not entirely comfortable with the Orion heat shield situation, but NASA chief Jared Isaacman is, so here we go.
SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: French Activist Arrested On-Street While Asking Questions About Radical Islam and Women.
FAIL, BRITANNIA: Britain approves ‘mega’ Chinese embassy in London despite national security fears. “The delays are a measure of the British government’s uncertainty about its approach to China. Britain wants China’s money and diplomatic goodwill, but has long been wary about allowing Beijing to build an embassy that would sit near fiber-optic cables carrying sensitive data for financial firms, and which some fear could be used to spy on Chinese nationals living in London.”
POWER BY ANY MEANS FAIR OR FOUL, BUT MOSTLY FOUL:
In TWO previous elections, Spanberger was about to lose…
Mysteriously, a flash drive with a statistically implausible number of Dem votes appeared…and were somehow counted.
I'm sure her party making an electoral audit impossible on DAY ONE is a coincidence. https://t.co/Y2gMhYfUQb pic.twitter.com/a4N4zrCqU1
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) January 20, 2026
WELL, GOOD: HUD Investigates Minneapolis Race-Based Housing.
YEAH, THAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT:
And what she's writing is "please I hope they find me" because that little girl was sex trafficked by Tren de Aragua. https://t.co/gEUsBuCsal
— John Carter (@martianwyrdlord) January 20, 2026