HMM: Eric Swalwell Could Be Ineligible for Governor or Face Jail Time

SCREEN TIME: Teens are on phones for 70 minutes at school, 300 minutes a day overall.

Teenagers spend 70 minutes of the school day on their phones — nearly all on social media, video and gaming apps — according to a recent study, report Lauraine Langreo and Gina Tomko in Education Week. The average school day is 400 to 500 minutes.

The data came from teens who participated in the nationwide Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, and agreed to install a tracking app on their phones.

Students rarely used their smartphones for education or productivity apps, said lead researcher Jason Nagata, a University of California, San Francisco pediatrics professor. While some were on their phones during lunch or other breaks, rather than class time, that’s troubling too, he said. “It’s important that kids, during breaks, have time to rest, to have face-to-face social interactions with their peers, and also just be outdoors and physically active.”

Overall, teenagers spend about five hours a day — 300 minutes — on smartphones, with nearly two hours of that on social media, researchers concluded. That doesn’t leave much time for an after-school job, sports, a hobby or just hanging out with friends.

This is exactly what the phone’s parental controls are for. Kids hate them, but that’s the point.

FAIL, BRITANNIA: Trump Might Offer Asylum to Jews From WHERE?

SPENDING OF ALL KINDS, BUT YEAH: Colorado due for a reckoning over runaway Medicaid costs.

According to HCPF and the Governor’s office, General Fund spending on Medicaid increased at an average rate of 6 percent from fiscal year 2015-16 to fiscal year 2018-19. However, after the federal government windfall from COVID, General Fund spending blew up, growing at an average rate of 19 percent from fiscal year 2021-22 to fiscal year 2024-25.

Health care is rapidly crowding out most other spending, and is the primary driver of the state’s budget challenges, as those federal funds have since expired.

HCPF now accounts for nearly one-third of the General Fund and is also the fastest-growing department.

Add to that, Manatt suggests that “25 percent of all U.S. healthcare spending may be wasteful, due to overtreatment, low-value care, poor care coordination, pricing failures, fraud and abuse, and undue administrative complexities.”

Governor Polis and HCPF engaged Manatt to analyze Colorado’s Medicaid and CHP+ programs, identify cost-saving solutions, and propose policy recommendations.

I don’t trust them. State spending — adjusting for inflation — grew 31% per capita under my so-called “libertarian” governor since 2018-2019, and the only thing holding back his Democrats is the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), that they’ve steadily chipped away at over the last several years.

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN:

We have not had a single murder this month in DC.

First time since 2013.

Trump’s federal takeover and surge of federal law enforcement have saved black lives in violent DC neighborhoods.

This makes Democrats angry.

Because they do not actually believe black lives matter.

— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) January 19, 2026

IT’S FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN: Medicare Administrator Dr. Oz: Minnesota Fraud ‘Tip of the Iceberg’, Cuban Gov’t Implicated.

BIG MONEY: Elon Musk is looking for a $134 billion payout from OpenAI and Microsoft. “Musk claimed in the filing that he’s entitled to a portion of OpenAI’s recent valuation at $500 billion, after contributing $38 million in ‘seed funding’ during the AI company’s startup years. Along with providing ‘roughly 60 percent of the nonprofit’s seed funding,’ Musk offered recruiting of key employees, introductions with business contacts and startup advice, according to the filing. The monetary estimate comes from C. Paul Wazzan, a financial economist who’s serving as Musk’s expert in the case. According to Wazzan’s calculations, OpenAI earned between $65.5 billion and $109.43 billion in wrongful gains, while Microsoft saw between $13.3 billion and $25.06 billion.”

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Don Lemon Needs a Lesson in YOUR Rights (Courtesy of MLK on His Day).

2026 PREVIEW: Trump endorses possible primary challenger to Sen. Bill Cassidy in Louisiana. “Cassidy, who’s seeking a third term in the Senate, was one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict Mr. Trump in his impeachment trial after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in 2021. A medical doctor, Cassidy has also been at odds with the administration in recent months over HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership.”

INSURRECTION, STRAIGHT UP: Bombshell Email Shows How Minneapolis City Employees Are Instructed to Work Against ICE.

COME SEE THE RACISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Mamdani’s equity czar faces backlash over deleted anti-white X posts: ‘Tax them to the white meat!’

According to the New York Post, Atta-Mensah, who Mamdani praised as his most trusted pick to advance racial equity in City Hall, shared and amplified a series of inflammatory political statements, and her account was deleted within about a week of her appointment on Thursday.

Among the posts flagged by the New York Young Republicans Club critics were multiple comments disparaging liberal white women. In one exchange, Atta-Mensah replied approvingly to a tweet claiming, “we don’t talk about white liberal racism enough,” writing: “Facts! It would need to be a series of loooooonnnnnnnggggg conversations.”

She also reposted part of a thread asking, “Who’s not police but FEELS like police to you?” A reply she boosted called out “white women at nonprofit organizations.” In another post, she reacted enthusiastically to a tweet comparing some white women in nonprofit spaces to Amy Cooper, the woman who became known as “Central Park Karen” after calling police on a Black birdwatcher in 2020, responding: “THIS IS A WHOLE WORD!!!!”

Atta-Mensah also frequently used the term “comrade,” and amplified a statement declaring there is “NO moderate way to black liberation.”

New York is about to learn just how immoderate, good and hard.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Climate Loons — the Wrongest Wrong People in the History of Wrong. “That’s the most irritating thing about the climate change panic-mongers: they’ve never gotten anything right. A couple of years ago, someone referred to my beliefs on climate change as being different because it’s a ‘generational thing,’ which is true. I’m from the generation that was told we were all going to freeze to death. Then we were told that overpopulation was going to make us all starve to death. Then it was the sun that was going to kill us. We’ve been told that the polar ice caps are going to melt away in five years for almost two decades now.”

IT’S NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT GRIFT: House, feds probe to unravel mystery of ‘Squad’ Rep. Ilhan Omar’s skyrocketing wealth: ‘It’s not possible.’

Oversight panel Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said staff lawyers are exploring the extraordinary step of subpoenaing Omar’s spouse over his allegedly shady business practices.

“We’re going to get answers, whether it’s through the Ethics Committee or the Oversight Committee, one of the two,” he told The Post.

Republicans want to know how Somali-born Omar (D-Minn.) and her politically-connected husband Tim Mynett went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year, according to her 2024 disclosure forms.

“There are a lot of questions as to how her husband accumulated so much wealth over the past two years,” Comer said. “It’s not possible. It’s not. I’m a money guy. It’s not possible.”

Separately, federal law enforcement is also probing.

There’s no mystery here — just details that haven’t been revealed.

THIS IS JUST SPECTACULARLY BAD MANAGEMENT IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY, AND I PRESUME THE DAMAGE IS ENTIRELY ON PURPOSE: And Suddenly, About 100 Minneapolis Cops Disappeared. “Over the past several days, it appears that Minneapolis police officers have quietly kind of quit in another way.”

GOOD LORD: ‘New level of brutality’: Iran doctors put death toll in suppressed uprising at over 16,500.

The doctors said that most of the dead were people under 30 and that at least 330,000 people were injured, with much of the killing coming over a two-day period, the Sunday Times reported. Among those killed were children and pregnant women.

Though the report did not specify the dates, according to previous accounts there was a spike in killings on Friday, January 9, the day after Iran’s regime cut off access to the internet, and it continued on Saturday.

The doctors’ figures were compiled from staff in eight major eye hospitals and 16 emergency departments across Iran. Doctors were able to communicate using banned Starlink internet terminals, tens of thousands of which have reportedly been smuggled into Iran.

Some patients in hospitals died because security forces refused to allow life-saving blood transfusions. In some medical centers, staff donated blood in an effort to save patients, the report said.

“This is a whole new level of brutality,” Prof. Amir Parasta, an Iranian-German eye surgeon who helped put together the network of doctors, told the newspaper.

Never ever ever give up your guns.

Related: Iran plans ‘absolute digital isolation,’ will break permanently from global internet.

“TRUMP CONTROLS THE WEATHER,” NEW FROM THE PARTY OF SCIENCE™: Crazy Professor Claims Trump Will Cause Global Weather Catastrophes.

SPACE IS HARD:

Yesterday China broke the world records：launching two rockets at the same day and both failed tragically. The two rockets are CZ-3B (长征三号乙) and CERES-2(谷神星二号). WOW! Great achievement, keep up!
Below is the launch of CZ-3B： pic.twitter.com/RSf1izTsvG

— Bin Xie (@bxieus) January 18, 2026

The attached video is actually of a failed Russian Proton-M launch from 2013, but various sources confirm that China lost two rockets just 12 hours apart this weekend.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I wouldn’t get cocky. Blowing rockets up is an essential part of the process of getting to rockets that don’t blow up. Elon knows…

THEY REALLY SHOULD TEACH THAT IN LAW SCHOOL:

They don't teach this in law school, but a feature of international law is that it hibernates and only wakes up when it can be used to defend the hypothetical sovereignty of people guilty of mass crimes against humanity. https://t.co/mXIiajG6e3

— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) January 18, 2026

HEH. AND DOUBLE HEH:

Stay at least 6ft away from ICE officers as they socially distancing from those infected with the woke mind virus.

— Katie Zacharia (@KatieZacharia) January 18, 2026

TO MY CREDIT, IF THAT’S THE RIGHT WORD, I DID MAKE IT MORE THAN HALFWAY THROUGH THE FIRST EPISODE: I (Almost) Watched Starfleet Academy So You Don’t Have To. “Somewhere, Worf sheds a silent and very warrior-like tear.”

UPDATE (From Ed): Now it all makes sense:

Wait a minute… pic.twitter.com/57NtaFPIUu

— Jon Del Arroz | Pop Culture & Gaming 🎮 (@jondelarroz) January 16, 2026

WE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SELL SALUTE YOU: Lawmaker Introduces ‘Common Sense’ Bill to Eliminate Capital Gains Taxes on Home Sales.

IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: How Not to Become a TikTok Sensation. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the proper caliber for shooting up an Uber vehicle, how not to become a TikTok star, and why Wyoming really is the Cowboy State.”

IT’S A WORK IN PROGRESS: Abrams M1E3 Tank Prototype Unveiled (Sort Of).

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Feckless Gavin Admits Calling ICE Agents ‘Terrorists’ Is ‘Unfair’, but… “Someday, voters on the West Coast, Messed Coast™ will choose governors who do more than raise taxes, sign laws that compromise the First Amendment, prioritize plants over people, and lie about giving away your money to illegal aliens. Until then, there’s Feckless Gavin Newsom, the unfortunately-named Tina Kotek, and Tax Man Bob Ferguson.”

THE SMART CROWD IS SLAMMING TRUMP TODAY FOR DRIVING CANADA TOWARD BEIJING, BUT OTTAWA HAS LEANED HARDER IN THAT DIRECTION FOR SEVERAL YEARS:

Canada will never be America's 51st state, because they're already China's 24th Province. https://t.co/GF4uSwnxur pic.twitter.com/Qvc1FJXBUB

— Skscartoon (@skscartoon) January 16, 2026