OPEN THREAD: Party on, dudes and dudettes.
January 24, 2026
ROCKET SCIENCE ADVANCES EXPLOSION BY EXPLOSION: Rocket Lab’s new Neutron rocket suffers fuel tank rupture during test.
EMPLOYER PROSECUTIONS BEGIN: Contractors accused of disrupting ICE raid at Hardin Valley construction site. “Federal officials have charged two contractors with conspiring to disrupt Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Knoxville earlier this month. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee unsealed a multi-count indictment on Friday against Tyler Shane Wells, 33, of Morristown, and 18-year-old Alexander Bonilla Servin of Smyrna. They are charged with conspiracy to conceal and harbor illegal aliens, conspiracy to forcibly impede federal agents while engaged in performance of official duties, and conspiracy to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, federal agents from discharging their official duties from January 5 through January 13. Bonilla-Servin is also charged with forcibly impeding federal agents engaged in the performance of their official duties.”
Expect to see more of these.
GOING TO COLLEGE AND THEN GETTING OUT? Shrews Can Shrink Their Brains by 30%. Here’s How They Grow It Back.
THEY’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR AN INCIDENT TO ESCALATE OVER: The Narrative™ Is Being Set on Minneapolis Shooting; Trump: INSURRECTION; Sheriff: National Guard. “Few people really know what exactly happened this morning in Minneapolis, and that certainly includes the governor and Mayor of Minneapolis. Yet both of them started making statements blaming ICE for the shooting of an armed man who was resisting arrest, and seemed to be encouraging the citizens of Minneapolis to attack ICE because they are part of an ‘invasion’ of the state.”
UPDATE: So what do I think happened? I can’t tell. I looked at some of the videos, marked with circles purporting to show where the gun was, etc., and I can see the circles but can’t actually tell what’s in them or what’s going on. He allegedly had a permit to carry, but wasn’t carrying it on him as, I’m told, Minnesota law requires, because he was carrying no ID at all, which is slightly sketchy. He had two magazines, but lots of people who carry carry more than one magazine; I do myself on occasion. Obviously the presence or absence of the permit doesn’t mean anything about the validity of the shooting, since that has to be evaluated from the officer’s point of view and they couldn’t have known.
We’ll see. Some of my non-lefty acquaintances think it may have been a bad shoot, others disagree. All agree that going armed to a protest/riot where you expect to be in a tussle with armed men is a bad idea. Mike Williamson points out that when he went to Covid protests, he didn’t even take his pocketknife.
At any rate, experience from the 5-year-old boy “arrested” by ICE all the way back to the Covington Boys in DC indicates that no one should ever accept the opening leftist narrative, as they’re pretty much always false.
SURE SEEMS LIKE AN INSURRECTION: Did Trump Just Signal That He’s Going to Invoke the Insurrection Act?
GOOD LUCK, GUYS: NASA Prepares Its First Crewed Moon Orbit in Over 50 Years.
THE BEER-SWILLING CURMUDGEONS HAVE A PRETTY GOOD TRACK RECORD:
Growing up my dad always walked around ranting like a lunatic. It was the height of the Reagan era and he wore shirts that said stuff like “Kill em all and let God sort em out” and drank the Michelob bottles with the gold foil like he was getting paid to do it.
After a few the…
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) January 23, 2026
BUT LEFTISTS SAY THEY SUPPORT CHINA BECAUSE OF ITS COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW:
This would be like living in a society where Hillary Clinton, Lloyd Austin, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Tom Cruise and Serena Williams can disappear. Remember this next time some little known activist runs over or assaults a US federal agent out of "fear".
The truth is…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 24, 2026
Doctor Developed Wrist Brace. #CommissionEarned
THEY LOOK LIKE RAZOR BLADES: Volvo Spent Decades Perfecting Safety—Then Added These Door Handles.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Chicago’s Ruling Class Meet Up With Minnesota’s Ruling Class: Chicago Teachers Union Go To Minnesota to Show Support.
Yesterday, CTU President Stacy Davis Gates and VP Jackson Potter marched side-by-side with our Minnesota union siblings and community members on a Day of Truth and Freedom, a day of No Work, No School, No Shopping.
We are proud to stand with @MFELocal59, @SPFE28,… pic.twitter.com/FKUV4mNNkh
— Chicago Teachers Union (@CTULocal1) January 24, 2026
HOW THE LAWYERS KILLED PRACTICAL ADULT EDUCATION:
If you want to learn how machines actually work, go watch a mid-century industrial film. The ones shot in black and white, with the clipped narration and the cutaway diagrams. The ones that assume you can pay attention for twenty minutes, remember a sequence, and behave like an adult around rotating mass and stored energy.
Then compare that to most “training” made today. It is either infantilized entertainment, compliance theater, or vendor marketing in a lab coat. It tells you what to click, not what to understand. It teaches substitution, not diagnosis. It gives you a vibe, not a skill. It is worse than useless because it produces the confident incompetent.
This is not because people got dumber or because cameras got better. It is not because “the culture changed.” It is not because we forgot how to teach.
It is because the legal system made truthful instruction radioactive.
The moment you treat instruction as a liability surface, you stop teaching and start lawyering. That is the whole story. Everything else is downstream.
Read the whole thing.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: TurboTax Deluxe Desktop Edition 2025. #CommissionEarned
IT’S COME TO THIS: Don Lemon Claims Illegal Aliens Don’t Commit Crime.
Don Lemon: "Being here illegally is not a crime, it's a misdemeanor."
Ordinary Citizen: "Isn't a misdemeanor a crime?"
— Verbal Riot (@verbalriotshow) January 20, 2026
“So credit where it’s due. I don’t know this woman’s name, but she did a great job. She didn’t yell. She didn’t posture. She just followed the logic to its conclusion and Don Lemon couldn’t survive his own talking points.”
LEFTISM IN A NUTSHELL:
Tim Walz: "I want everyone to get in the faces of ICE agents and resist them."
Leftist: *gets into the faces of ICE agents with a gun… gets shot*
Tim Walz: "This is Donald Trump's fault! Get ICE out of here now." https://t.co/ihSIf7dExs
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 24, 2026

UPDATE:
— ☘️𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕪 Ƒʉͫcͧкͭιͪηͣ 𝕄𝕔𝔾𝕖𝕖 (@LuckyMcGee) January 24, 2026
There are two ways the violence can stop in Minnesota:
1. ICE/Border Patrol can withdraw from Minnesota, abandon the rule of law, and thereby make Minnesota a haven nationally for millions of illegal aliens while also signaling that violence against civil authorities in the…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) January 24, 2026
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Cleaning Tips for Your Shotgun.
