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.

THERE WILL BE MORE BLOOD ON HIS HANDS: Just When You Thought You Couldn’t Get Any More Sick of Barack Obama…

IT’S FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN: Newly released records reveal 725% increase in Medicaid for Illinois children without SSNs.

After more than a year of digging, Statehouse candidate Bailey Templeton’s most public records collection shows 1,085 Illinois children under 18 without SSNs had Medicaid bills of $66 million in 2025. That’s up 725% from $8 million for 450 children in 2021.

“It’s roughly $40 million spent on inpatient treatment, that’s a lot of time for children to be in hospitals,” Templeton told The Center Square Friday.

The data only generates more questions for Templeton.

“It raises questions about what would be called medical trafficking, where things are conducted on to children when they’re too young to be able to consent to these things,” she said.

Or whether there were any medical services — or even kids — at all.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Man Stabs Victim for Saying He’s a Christian.

NEVER MIND: Thinking about ‘mindfulness.’

At Brown’s School of Public Health, students can earn a master’s in public health specializing in mindfulness or a certificate in mindfulness-based stress-reduction teacher training. Yet, across campus from the Mindfulness Center, Brown’s clinical and affective neuroscience laboratory has researched the adverse effects of mindfulness meditation, which include loss of emotion, motivation or joy.

Some universities claim their courses are rooted in Buddhist philosophy, offering a “thin, romanticized” version of Buddhism “as an academic veneer for spa treatments.”

Universities in the U.K. and Australia also offer mindfulness master’s degree, he writes. At the University of the West of Scotland, students can earn a master of science in mindfulness and compassion degree.

Mindfulness practice “can make students calmer but also less inclined to think hard, plan ahead, or engage in demanding work,” writes Schilling, citing a study.

So it’s basically soma.

WELL, GOOD: Trump Sends Tom Homan to Minnesota.

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Govt gave $3.3 million science grant to Northwestern for ‘safe space ambassadors.’

“The funding is designed to address the dearth of under-represented minorities in the life sciences,” the news release stated.

However, Christopher Neefus, spokesperson for Open the Books, told The College Fix that the tax dollars spent on the project detracted from real scientific inquiry. Open the Books is a fiscal watchdog organization based in Illinois where Northwestern also is located.

“The extravagant spending highlighted by Senator Paul comes at the expense of more funding for essential, truth-seeking science,” Neefus said in a recent email. “Rigorous pursuits are too often being sidelined in favor of ideologically charged, discriminatory projects that have nothing to do with research and development.

“Those fighting changes to the status quo have lamented ‘attacks on science,’ but safe spaces and ‘inclusive excellence’ hardly qualify,” he told The Fix.

Yes, but it provides makework for otherwise unemployable lefties.

THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO SHOW UP: Yeah, So China Just Imploded. “‘Imploded’ might be too strong a word, but Communist China just entered the growing ranks of nations with a fertility rate below a single birth per woman — less than half the replacement level. The implosion might not be here quite yet, but it is coming.”

CHANGE: Five ways weight-loss jabs are changing spending habits.

“My weekly food shop’s really gone down,” says Sam Gillson, 38, from Shropshire, who got in touch with BBC Your Voice. He’s lost more than four stone using weight-loss jabs since June.

“I’m definitely buying more fresh foods, and fewer unhealthy ready meal/easy dinner options like pizza, chips and nuggets.”

In the last few weeks, supermarkets The Co-op, Morrisons and Marks and Spencer have brought out nutrient-dense ranges of ready meals, and Ocado now sells a 100g steak, which it said was in response to the growing number of customers seeking smaller portions.

Sam says eating less means he wants to make sure that “the smaller quantity does contain all those nutrients and vitamins you need”.
And it’s not just portion size. It’s also the kinds of foods.

Protein-rich products have been appearing on the shelves as smoothies and snacks.

Jonny Forsyth, food and drink strategist at consumer research group Mintel, says many of these trends are part of a wider shift, with health becoming more important, particularly for younger consumers.

He thinks GLP-1 drugs are “changing the culture”, making it fashionable to eat more nutrient-dense foods and “adding oxygen to existing trends”.

That’s all kinds of good news.

A NEW LOW SO FAR: The Left’s Gun Rights Hypocrisy Just Hit a New Low.

DAVID HARSANYI: Sorry, AOC — protest culture is un-American.

Every loudmouth ignoramus with an opinion has a First Amendment right. You’re not special.

Yet modern left-wing protesters believe their passion and anger imbue them with moral license to demand things and speak over their fellow citizens.

Just watch the video of those self-righteous “activists” disrupting church services in St. Paul the other day, or global-warming cultists shutting down traffic in major cities, or college students using their heckler’s veto to disrupt speeches and debates.

As we’ve seen with two recent shootings in Minneapolis, protest culture can have deadly consequences.

Then again, most of these efforts aren’t organic or spontaneous expressions of political anger anymore.

They are well-funded and well-managed by organizations that see political benefit in creating chaos and turning our country into a revolutionary battleground.

From Lenin to Alinsky, forced confrontation has been a tactic of Marxist activism.

Indeed.

MINNESOTA INSURRECTION: A Special Forces Operator Has Seen This ‘From Anbar to Helmand.’

GRAY-ZONE WARFARE: Researchers say Russian government hackers were behind attempted Poland power outage.

Last week, Polish Energy Minister Milosz Motyka told reporters that the attempted cyberattack on December 29 and 30 saw hackers targeting two heat and power plants, as well as trying to disrupt the communication links between renewable installations, such as wind turbines and power distribution operators.

Motyka called the incident the “strongest attack” on Poland’s energy infrastructure in years, with the Polish government blaming Moscow for the attempt. Local media reported that the attacks could have knocked out heat and power for at least half a million homes across the country.

On Friday, cybersecurity firm ESET said it obtained a copy of the destructive malware, which it calls DynoWiper. This type of malware, known as “wiper” malware, is designed to irreversibly destroy data on computers to prevent them from working.

ESET attributed the malware with “medium confidence” to the hacking group known as Sandworm, a unit within Russia’s military intelligence agency GRU, based on a “strong overlap” with its previous research into Sandworm’s past malware, including the group’s use of destructive malware to target Ukraine’s energy sector.

Tangentially related: Poland sends hundreds of generators to Ukraine as Russia strikes energy system.