THERE’S A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN:

JUST ANNOUNCED THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS DROPPING MY JANUARY 6 CASE!!!!!!

4 YEAR AND 4 DAYS IN THE GULAG WITHOUT A TRIAL

IM FINALLY COMING HOME!!!! GOD BE MAGNIFIED!!!

MOUNTAINS DO REALLY MOVE IN JESUS NAME!!!

— Jake Lang – January 6 Political Prisoner 🇺🇸 (@JakeLangJ6) January 20, 2025

Much more like this, please. And how about an investigation into those who denied Jake’s — and many others’ — right to a speedy trial?

BILL WHITTLE’S HOT MIC: “In a crisp, pointed, accusatory, ambitious, bold, stirring, decisive and occasionally even poetic speech, Donald J Trump, 47th President of the United States of America, delivers his remarkable Second Inaugural, and Hot Mic host Bill Whittle is there for the play-by-play.”

Good stuff as usual from Bill.

WHOSE GEAR IS IT, ANYWAY? Camera owner asks Canon, skies: Why is it $5/month for webcam software?

“Software development isn’t free, and I’m happy to pay for software I use regularly,” Zipp writes. “However, Canon is a hardware company, not a software company, and they should—due to the lack of standards—provide software that allows you to use their cameras as intended. Aside from development costs, there’s no justification for a subscription model, particularly from a company earning nearly $3 billion in profit.”

Zipp’s pointed complaint made the front page of Hacker News, where commenters immediately got sidetracked into a discussion of UK tariff laws on video equipment, sneakers, cookies, and ethanol. But further in, recommendations appear for the open source Magic Lantern camera add-on software, or possibly CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit) firmware. Whether or not Zipp can better use his camera as a webcam is somewhat beside the point, or at least the point he’s making.

This from the comments was both crude and on the money: “If you charge a subscription for stuff that uses local hardware and doesn’t need to talk to cloud services or anything else that costs the purveyor money, you’re a f***ing piece of s*** and should be ostracized.”

MAYBE THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL THING TRUMP SAID IN AN IMPRESSIVE INAUGURAL ADDRESS: We’re Going to Mars, and We’re Bringing the Stars and Stripes With Us.

BUT WILL THEY THROW THEIR SUPPORT BEHIND ANYONE COMPETENT? Even Hollywood is turning on LA Mayor Karen Bass.

After her election as mayor of Los Angeles in 2022, Karen Bass was a heroine of California’s Left. A former backer of Fidel Castro, she decisively defeated billionaire businessman Rick Caruso, who spent more than $100 million to try and defeat her. With a struggling economy, rising crime, and a high cost of living, Bass’s election seemed to confirm LA’s final transition from a place of political diversity to a single-party city dominated by a well-organised Left and funders from the public unions.

Now, though, Bass “is a dead woman walking”, as a union organiser friend told me this week. The revelations of incompetence, poor planning, and awful communication, combined with the fact that the LA mayor was partying in Ghana when wildfires started in her city, have worked against her, and yesterday angry protestors gathered outside her home. Some charges made by Donald Trump and Elon Musk tying the disaster to DEI and climate policies are exaggerated. But Bass’s lack of interest in public safety mirrors the new progressive script which prioritises “social justice” over actual justice, racial quotas over merit, and climate alarmism over common sense.

Naturally, Bass, Governor Gavin Newsom and their media supporters reject conservatives’ accusations of incompetence. They say opponents are using the fires as a political “piñata”, and blame the damage on climate change. Yet Steven Koonin, a respected physicist and advisor in the Obama administration, has argued that the real responsibility lies with a slew of bad policies which left the city unprepared for the scale of the disaster. Fires have been a regular feature of life here in Southern California for at least 20 million years. Given recent weather conditions, the city should have known what was coming.

Please take note that it takes longer than 20 million years for lefties to learn anything.

I’D SAY, “FASTER, PLEASE,” BUT HEADS ARE ALREADY SPINNING: Trump Is Getting Us Out of the Paris Climate Accords Again.

THERE’S A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN: This is the new White House landing page.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? America Just Kinda, Sorta Banned Cigarettes. “Today, regulators at the FDA announced that they are pushing forward with a rule that would dramatically limit how much nicotine can go in a cigarette. The average cigarette nowadays is estimated to have roughly 17 milligrams of the drug. Under the new regulation, that would fall to less than one milligram. If enacted—still a big if—it would decimate the demand for cigarettes more effectively than any public-service announcement ever could.”

THAT’S RICH, COMING FROM THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR MAN:

Jake Tapper: “We’re about to enter an era of deepfakes and all sorts of misinformation”pic.twitter.com/tfjinWSMO3

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) January 20, 2025

A court of law determined that CNN is disinformation.

INDEED:

What if the Chinese government built a giant tower at their DC Embassy & collected info on US citizens while broadcasting commie propaganda?

We could make them take that down
Right? pic.twitter.com/P1LnYKwjaZ

— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) January 19, 2025

TikTok is a tool of a hostile foreign power.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

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— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 20, 2025

VICTORIA TAFT: An Architect Lays Out a Plan to Rebuild L.A., But Do California Democrats Have the Guts to Do It?

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Assassination of an escort leads to miniskirt ban in world’s least popular parliament.

Detectives immediately knew they were dealing with a professional hit. The criminals had riddled the taxi with some 40 bullets, yet stole nothing from the dying driver and passenger.

But what puzzled them was the identity of the victim of the ferocious attack in the centre of Lima, Peru’s chaotic capital, last December. That passenger, Andrea Vidal, 27, was a slim, photogenic lawyer and former congressional aide.

By the time she succumbed to her injuries in intensive care one week later, investigators had begun to unearth a scandal shocking even by the rock-bottom standards of the Andean nation’s ethically-challenged Congress – a prostitution ring allegedly operating within the legislative palace itself.

Politicians initially sought to ignore the mushrooming scandal, which Ms Vidal, who was part of the ring, had reportedly been on the point of revealing when she was killed.

But public pressure finally forced them to act. Last week, they banned female aides from wearing miniskirts and shorts.

Well, that ought to solve the problem.

OUR NEW NORM IS “ANYTHING GOES:”

The fact that Fauci's pardon specifically and explicitly addresses his Covid-related offenses, while being backdated to 2014—the year the gain-of-function ban took effect, which Fauci circumvented by outsourcing experiments to China—speaks volumes as to what this is really about. pic.twitter.com/rRI4fXsx5E

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) January 20, 2025

THE WHOLE PJ CREW IS LIVEBLOGGING: Inauguration of Donald J. Trump, 47th President of the United States.

FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: Trump ‘Transition Official’ Says All the Gazans Really Need Is ‘a Sense of Hope.’ Really?

Trump’s biggest weakness might be how small the pool is of good hires. But this one has got to go.

ONE LAST FU ON HIS WAY OUT THE DOOR: “FOR ANY NONVIOLENT OFFENSES against the United States which they may have committed or taken part in during the period from January I, 2014, through the date of this pardon.”

The whole damnable family.

Related:

Got any follow up comment Ruth? https://t.co/sIElHsNVda

— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) January 20, 2025

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Canoo Inc. Announces Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Filing. “Despite being American-made, successfully delivering to such esteemed organizations as NASA, the Department of Defense (“DOD”), The United States Postal Service (“USPS”), the State of Oklahoma and having agreements with Walmart and others, Canoo has unfortunately been unable to secure financial support from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (“DOE”) Loan Program Office. Recently, the company’s executives were in discussions with foreign sources of capital. In light of the fact that these efforts were unsuccessful, the Board has made the difficult decision to file for insolvency.”

Judging by the press release, the company’s business model was to get government loans to finance the production of EVs for purchase by governments.

NOT EVERYBODY IS PART OF THE CABAL: Even Biden’s Own State Department Credits Trump for Getting a Hostage Deal.

HITTING THE GROUND RUNNING:

BREAKING: Donald Trump to sign 200+ executive orders tomorrow.

Per FOX and Eric Daugherty, they include:
– Declare emergency at the border + issue proclamation closing the border
– Designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations
– Remain in Mexico, Catch and Release will be…

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) January 19, 2025

Soon you will hear the lamentations of their womyn.

I DUNNO, THERE ARE STILL NEARLY TWO HOURS LEFT: Dear Joe: NOW Are You Done Breaking the Country?

Did you ever have to deal with the last guy to leave the party who wouldn’t take the hint that the fun ended an hour ago and he’s the only reason you aren’t in bed already, sleeping it off? You finally maneuvered him to the front door, the Uber is honking in the driveway, but he won’t wrap up the 12″ extended dance mix of “Goodnight!” and leave.

Presidentish Joe Biden has been on his way out the door since June, and that sound you hear outside is an Uber driver at the absolute end of his patience.

One empathizes.

Much more at the link.

THERE’S A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN: Facing Trump’s mass deportation plans, some sanctuary cities shift their tone.

Leaders of several sanctuary cities where officials had prominently rejected Donald Trump’s first-term immigration policies are shifting their tone as he prepares to take office again and carry out his mass deportation plans.

Some local officials have softened on how closely they want their cities to be identified with the “sanctuary city” label and have pledged to work with federal immigration authorities. But others have doubled down on their cities being sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants and reject any notion that they’d cooperate with a Trump administration seeking to deport millions of them.

The mixed approaches of officials in some of the largest and heavily Democratic cities in the U.S. underscore the country’s shifting politics on immigration. While leaders in these cities largely — and often loudly — rejected Trump’s immigration policies when he was last in the White House, some are now willing to work more closely with his administration on a top priority or tamp down their rhetoric.

Resistance is futile.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Never Mind the Weather — It’s a Bright and Sunny Day for America. “Liberty is once again on the menu and Trump has promised to serve up generous portions of it to a grateful nation. Well, the sane people are grateful, anyway. Those who aren’t celebrating his return to office are too slow to realize that they will also benefit from having a real president again”

THE OPERATING ASSUMPTION SHOULD BE THAT EVERYTHING IN GAZA THAT ISN’T HAMAS IS ACTUALLY HAMAS:

Aljazeera documented how Hamas's al-Qassam Brigade fighters emerged from the Nasser Hospital complex with their weapons and vehicles in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, as soon as the ceasefire went into effect, similar to how they emerged from displacement tents 3 days ago. pic.twitter.com/7rYftKYBlS

— Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (@afalkhatib) January 19, 2025

ROBERT SPENCER: ‘Forest Bathing’? Time Mag Offers Some Loopy Healing Activities for Sad Leftists on Inauguration Day.