THEY’RE SHOCKED, SHOCKED TO FIND INCREASED TAXES IN THIS DEMOCRAT-RUN ESTABLISHMENT:

🚨 JUST IN: Virginia voters are shocked as Democrats roll out a tidal wave of new taxes — from deliveries to cars, gyms, and even pet services.pic.twitter.com/lH9AsPUJe4

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) January 29, 2026

Gooder and harder, Virginia.

IN OTHER NEWS, I DECLINE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE OLYMPIC DECATHLON: Gov. Walz says he “will never run for an elected office again” once term ends.

WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS? Dhar Mann Named NFL’s ‘Chief Kindness Officer’ As League Kicks Off Super Bowl Creator Blitz.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: ICE Protest Teachers Are Trump’s Reminder to Shutter Dept. of Education. “Look, if the protest brats want to cut off their snotty noses to spite their stupid faces, I’ve got no problem with that. What’s really galling me is that there are schools closing here in Tucson to join the protest. It’s a perfect snapshot of all that is wrong in this country right now. It’s the public school union teachers who are the root of leftist evil in the United States.”

IT’S A MIXED-UP, MUDDLED-UP, SHOOK-UP WORLD:

The irony of seeing a Russian-flagged tanker sail as close as possible to a NATO coastline in order to avoid an attack by Ukrainian drones.#OOTT #Tankers #Russia #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/9WUZ2g6LPO

— TankerTrackers.com, Inc. (@TankerTrackers) January 30, 2026

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Iran rounds up thousands in mass arrest campaign after crushing unrest, sources say.

They said detainees had been placed in secret lockups.

“They are arresting everyone,” one of the activists said. “No one knows where they are being taken or where they are being held. With these arrests and threats, they are trying to inject fear into society.”

Similar accounts were given to Reuters by lawyers, medics, witnesses, and two Iranian officials speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid retribution by security services.

They said the roundups appeared aimed at preventing any serious revival of protests by spreading fear just as the clerical establishment faces rising external pressure.

Things might get exciting again soon, but who knows?

IT’S DIFFERENT NOW BECAUSE SHUT UP:

You can tell Bruce Springsteen is sincere in his disgust for ICE because here he is screaming at Barack Obama after the former President employed the exact same tactics Trump is using now pic.twitter.com/CCliIw6S26

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) January 30, 2026

The needs of the Party are subject to change, comrade.

GOODER AND HARDER, NEW YORK: Mamdani Restricts ‘Gifted’ Student Program Despite Parental Advocate Objections.

SALENA ZITO: Deluzio wants ICE reforms not defunding.

Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA) said in an interview with the Washington Examiner that he is not calling for the defunding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Instead, he wants to see reforms after the chaos surrounding their operations in Minneapolis became deadly.

Deluzio, a Navy veteran and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who completed three deployments, including a tour in Iraq, said the reforms he wants included in a spending bill would focus on ending the detention and deportation of Americans and upholding the sanctity of judicial warrants.

“They’re common sense ones. And if you talk to local cops, they know that deescalation is a part of that,” he said, adding, “Deescalation is good policing, and that’s what we should expect out of our federal agents.”

His pragmatic approach is starkly different from the strident rhetoric made on the other end of the state by Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner, who vowed to prosecute ICE agents at an “ICE OUT” press conference on Wednesday in front of City Hall.

Nationally though, Democrats seem to have become more the party of Krasner than Deluzio.

WELL, YEAH: Democrat Talarico: Billionaires Are Evil, Except When They’re Giving Me Money. “What are mere scruples when there’s all that sweet, sweet gambling money available to stuff into your campaign’s maw?”

IT’S COMPLICATED:

To summarize: Carnegie Mellon took over $1 billion from Qatar and gave the Qatar Foundation a say in the hiring of their VP of DEI, and now the school is being sued by a Jewish student who says the VP of DEI discouraged her from filing a formal antisemitism complaint…yikes. https://t.co/71v1xgAVvv

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) January 29, 2026

Well, the headline is complicated. The reality is pretty simple: Qatar uses oil money and cunning to colonize the West.

EXCLUSIVE: On War-Pounded Border, Israeli Emergency Services and Samaritan’s Purse Build New Station.

NEW YORK CITY: NYPD opens hate crime investigation after car rams into Chabad headquarters building.

STILL NOT GETTING MY HOPES UP UNTIL KHAMENEI IS SWINGING FROM A LAMPPOST OR ON A FLIGHT TO MOSCOW: The Iranian Regime Is in Worse Shape Than Previously Thought.

CHANGE: Elon Musk says Tesla will stop producing its S and X models as it shifts to making robots.

The announcement signals an end of an era. The two vehicles — introduced in 2012 and 2015, respectively — helped to move electric cars from the consumer fringe into the mainstream. They also fueled Tesla’s rise from a startup into the world’s most valuable automaker.

Musk announced the phase-out on a call with investors and Wall Street analysts, saying it was part of his effort to overhaul Tesla’s operations to focus on robotaxis and humanoid robots.

“We expect to wind down S and X production next quarter and basically stop production,” he said, adding that the company would continue to support the vehicles for as long as people have them.

“That is slightly sad, but it’s time to bring the S and X programs to an end, and it’s part of our overall shift to an autonomous future,” he said.

When I first showed my wife video of Tesla’s Optimus robot following verbal instructions, she said, “We’ll sell one of the cars.”

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Paxton Investigates Texas Schools for Islamic Terror Ties.

THAT CERTAINLY SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THE INTENT: Anti-ICE protest ‘terrorized’ Minnesota church, left kids scared, parents blocked: DOJ says. “Three activists who participated in the disruption of the church — former NAACP Minneapolis chapter president Nekima Valdez Levy Armstrong, local Black Lives Matter Twin Cities chapter leader Chauntyll Louisa Allen, and leftwing provocateur Da Woke Farmer’ William Scott Kelly — were arrested last week on Jan. 22. They were charged with allegedly violating 18 U.S. Code § 241, with the DOJ saying the charges related to ‘Conspiracy Against Rights Secured by Federal Law, namely, the free exercise of religion at a place of religious worship secured by’ the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, commonly known as the FACE Act.”

THEY DON’T CARE: Homan Schools Dems on Violent Rhetoric, Immigration Enforcement.

TRAVEL: ‘A betrayal’: Southwest’s new plus size policy leaves some passengers unable to fly.

A new Southwest Airlines policy that requires plus-sized passengers to buy an extra seat if they “encroach” onto the seat next to theirs is sparking disappointment, anguish and frustration among leagues of larger bodied people across the U.S. who long relied on the airline as their carrier of choice.

Southwest’s new “customer of size” policy, which takes effect Tuesday, requires plus-sized passengers who cannot fit entirely within one seat to purchase a second one. That’s regardless of whether the seat next to them is empty.

Somebody might end up buying a ticket for that seat.

START SAVING EARLY: ‘Trump Accounts’ For Kids Could Turn Out to Be a Game Changer for the Next Generation.

THE BASICS MATTER: Where in the world is … Greenland? Gaza? Ukraine? Iran?

American students should learn geography, writes Rick Hess. Where’s Greenland? Why would anyone want to control it? “It’s impossible to talk sensibly about immigration, border enforcement, foreign policy, or tariffs absent a clear sense of physical geography.” Furthermore, “a failure to teach bedrock knowledge leaves students adrift in a world of deepfakes and misinformation.”

When he taught a world geography class, his students started class by drilling on capitals, states, nations, continents, oceans and so on as a confidence-building warm-up before discussions, debates and projects. “We’d explore how the Rio Grande, English Channel, oil deposits, or access to fresh water helped to shape history and culture,” he writes. “But this learning rested on a foundation of geographic mastery — of knowing where the Rio Grande or English Channel was and why that mattered.”

The belief that “knowing stuff just isn’t that important” has gotten worse in recent years, says Hess. Some think knowledge prevents “critical thinking.”

Good Lord.

HARDLY SPORTING BUT VERY ENTERTAINING: Gutfeld Returns to ‘The Five,’ Promptly Humiliates Jessica Tarlov Again.

BLUE STATE BLUES: Stalled population growth a sign of Colorado in decline.

Something strange is happening in Colorado — strange enough that the political class should notice.

People are leaving Colorado.

After years of being one of the fastest-growing states in the nation, net in-migration has stopped and may be reversing.

According to Federal Reserve Bank data, the last time Colorado’s population took a dip was 1945. Congrats to our policy makers, who finally achieved something historic no one asked for. The Broncos haven’t won a championship in a decade, but what you’re achieving hasn’t happened in 80 years.

For the first time in 16 years, rents in metro Denver are actually going down. Not “slowing their increase.” Not “rising less quickly.” Going down.

Metro-wide rents are down nearly 5% over the last year. This should set off alarm bells under the Gold Dome. But it won’t.

Before the Democrats took complete control, Colorado was almost always in the top ten states for in-migration. Now it’s in the bottom ten.

YES:

Woke programs are not about helping poor Africans, but 'helping' Western bureaucrats who are supposedly 'helping' poor asylum seekers. Everybody gets helped to a serving of tax dollars.

Follow the money. Once you walk through the door of the Learing Center you're in the…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 28, 2026

OH: Chicago schools refuse to hire Christian college student teachers despite lawsuit.

A Christian college, The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, continues to be excluded from the Chicago Public Schools student teacher program after suing for religious discrimination, the college’s lawyer told The College Fix.

In an exclusive interview, senior counsel on the case Jeremiah Galus said that as of Jan. 7, Chicago Public Schools still wasn’t allowing Moody’s student teachers to work in its schools.

“Excluding Moody from a public student-teaching program solely because of its religious beliefs violates the First Amendment and serves no one — especially students and families who need more well-prepared teachers,” Galus, an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, told The Fix recently.

However, he also said that Moody’s elementary education program, which is at the center of the lawsuit, is still active.

Chicago Public Schools’ Office of Communications refuses to comment.