January 27, 2026

CRIMETHINC: Introducing the Actual Grassroots Lefty Group Helping Organize the Insurrection. “Maybe the most important lesson we learned in 2025 from Data (small-r) Republican’s efforts was that the Left’s ‘grassroots’ efforts are funded by a tangled web of NGOs siphoning your tax dollars, but what if I told you that there is an actual grassroots anarchist organization helping organize the insurrection in Minnesota?”

Posted at 11:10 am by Stephen Green

YOU CAN CHECK OUT ANY TIME YOU LIKE…: California seeks taxes from family who moved to Florida.

According to documents posted online by a family who formerly lived in California, the Golden State is trying to collect income taxes years after the family moved to Florida.

The documents, sent on Jan. 6, 2026, asked for receipts, invoices, canceled checks and other documentation showing that the family moved from California to Florida nearly four years ago. The California Franchise Tax Board, which sent the letter, also asked the family for a “narrative of the circumstances” surrounding the family’s move out of state.

Hari Raghavan, who with his wife, Mitali Gala, was the subject of the investigation by the California Franchise Tax Board, said he and Gala moved from California to Florida in 2021. They tried to sell the home they owned in California when they moved, but weren’t able to do so immediately, Raghavan told The Center Square.

“That spilled into 2022, but it was by no definition a primary residence anymore,” Raghavan said about the California home. “We moved to Florida to establish residency in 2021.”

The Jan. 6 letter didn’t tell Raghavan and Gala how much they owe to the state of California in personal income taxes, Raghavan told The Center Square.

Sacramento seems to have adopted the Goodfellas collection mentality.

Posted at 10:39 am by Stephen Green

HEH: Mr. President, Please Just Let This Man Have a Nap. “Keep in mind that the president is 79, and Rubio is only 54 — young enough to be his son — but it seems like the hardest working man in the Trump administration just can’t keep up with his boss. It’s so bad that when they’re both flying on Air Force One, Rubio says he hides from Trump, hoping he won’t catch him taking naps during trips overseas.”

Previously:

Posted at 10:08 am by Stephen Green

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.”

Posted at 9:06 am by Stephen Green

HI, MELINDA:

Posted at 8:50 am by Stephen Green

THIS SEEMS AN INESCAPABLE INFERENCE:

Posted at 8:41 am by Glenn Reynolds

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.

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green

THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. The Issue Is Always the Revolution:

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll

IT’S ALL LIES ALL THE TIME:

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

HILLARY DEPOSED QADDAFI AND SLAVE MARKETS APPEARED IN LIBYA. BIDEN BUGGED OUT OF AFGHANISTAN AND NOW:

Posted at 7:59 am by Glenn Reynolds

JUDICIAL LAWFARE:

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

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.

Posted at 7:33 am by Stephen Green

WHY THEY FIGHT:

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll