OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Trump has cut the technocratic Gordian Knot — and elites hate it.

RACE AND GENDER PRIVILEGE ON DISPLAY FROM THE CRAZY WHITE WOMAN CONTINGENT:

A white woman verbally harassing a Black man. I wish I would have been there. I may have given her the slap she was asking for!

— Ahava 🪬🇺🇸🧡🐝✡️🎗️✝️🦁 (@angelsweep10723) January 14, 2026

He gave her the proper degree of respect.

NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE JUDICIAL DRAWER:

You gotta be pretty bad as a Justice to get schooled this hard by a lawyer arguing in front of you pic.twitter.com/p7csCQSTb2

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) January 13, 2026

A non-lawyer friend texted that she was listening to the argument and couldn’t believe how dumb Justice Jackson’s questions were — “word salad” was her description, and it’s apt.

DRILL, BABY, DRILL: How Earth’s orbit might help us find oil reserves within the planet.

WHEN SCIENTISTS PLAY CRUEL TRICKS: Scientists Made This Lung-on-a-Chip Breathe. Then They Gave It TB.

NEWS I HOPE YOU CAN’T USE: Warning: These Common Dementia Drugs Can Increase Confusion and Hospitalization.

HOLLYWOOD, INTERRUPTED: Timothy Busfield MISSING: US Marshals join search for Melissa Gilbert’s West Wing star husband on child sex abuse warrant as he says claims are ‘revenge’ after kids were dropped from cast.

UPDATE: Missing actor Timothy Busfield surrenders to cops, denies child sex abuse allegations: ‘All lies.’

HOWEVER MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

you do not hate them enough pic.twitter.com/2zv03neq3M

— Phil Labonte 🇺🇸 (@philthatremains) January 13, 2026

More:

Allow me to be the 1,000,006th person in your replies to ask, "Why do they always look like that?"

— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) January 13, 2026

UPDATE (From Ed):

Compare and contrast. pic.twitter.com/99wEI6fsjG

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 13, 2026

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Under Desk Elliptical Machine. #CommissionEarned

TRIM YOUR NAILS: Toenail Clippers for Thick Toenails-Angled Head. #CommissionEarned

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: The Great Sensor War Behind Self-Driving Cars Just Got Way More Interesting.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

U.S. Offers To Trade Its Liberal Women For Iranian Women https://t.co/k4aivNQ7IG pic.twitter.com/WyAektv2UC

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 13, 2026

NEWS YOU CAN USE: A No-Nonsense Guide to the Home-Defense Shotgun.

VIDEO: ‘President Trump Has Joined The Revolution.’ “On the ground, the situation is escalating very quickly.”

ICYMI: Will There Still Be an Iran the Day After Tomorrow?

TREAT YOUR SHOULDER PAIN: Shoulder-Heating-Pad-Heated-Wrap. #CommissionEarned

IT IS? I HAVEN’T EVEN TAKEN DOWN THE ANKLE HOLSTERS YET. It’s Shoulder Holster Season…How Will You Be Celebrating?

OH MY: Chase Sues Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot—$11,078 United Credit Card Debt, 17 Months Without a Payment.

TRANSGENDER WARS:  Two cases were argued before the Supreme Court today on whether “transgender women” (i.e. biological men) are entitled to compete on women’s teams despite state laws in West Virginia and Idaho that prohibit the practice.  I didn’t listen to the arguments, but I am told that at least two of the Justices and possibly more were specifically interested in the argument that Joe Bingham, Pete Kirsanow, Dan Morenoff and I made in our amicus brief on behalf of the American Civil Rights Project.  That argument was itself derived from a Comment that Pete and I filed with the Department of Education a few years ago.

One way or another, the Supreme Court should uphold the state laws that forbid such foolishness.  I personally believe that our analysis of Title IX is the correct one (though there are other arguments that get to the same result).

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ON THE CHAISE LOUNGE, ENJOYING A NICE “I TOLD YOU SO” MOMENT: Bill and Hillary Clinton Defy Subpoena, Refuse to Testify in Epstein Probe.

IT WAS:

From Scott Adams NYT obit: pic.twitter.com/PATUl0uI2U

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 13, 2026

MY FAVORITE COMPUTER: Apple 2025 MacBook Air 13-inch Laptop with M4 chip. #CommissionEarned

NIFTY: Lockheed Martin delivers record 191 F-35 fighter jets in 2025.

The current annual production rate for the F-35 now stands at five times higher than that of any other allied fighter platform still being manufactured, according to company figures.
Earlier this year, the F-35 programme surpassed one million flight hours.

In 2025, the project team also rolled out its latest software release, TR-3, and maintained a global fleet approaching 1,300 operational aircraft.

Over the same period, the aircraft saw operational use in several military contexts.

These included its involvement in suppressing Iranian air defences during Operation Midnight Hammer, accumulating nearly 5,000 mishap-free flight hours in a US Marine Corps F-35B deployment, and the shooting down of Russian drones over Poland by NATO F-35s.

Not bad for a “failed” platform.

A TECHNIQUE THAT DRAGS ON TOO LONG BECOMES A DRAG:

Feels like this is the No Kings operation transforming seamlessly into a No ICE operation. All the same management and systems and people; just printing new signs.

— ℕ 🌲 🇺🇸 (@Shaysite1786) January 13, 2026