KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Climate Loons — the Wrongest Wrong People in the History of Wrong. “That’s the most irritating thing about the climate change panic-mongers: they’ve never gotten anything right. A couple of years ago, someone referred to my beliefs on climate change as being different because it’s a ‘generational thing,’ which is true. I’m from the generation that was told we were all going to freeze to death. Then we were told that overpopulation was going to make us all starve to death. Then it was the sun that was going to kill us. We’ve been told that the polar ice caps are going to melt away in five years for almost two decades now.”
January 19, 2026
2017 FLASHBACK: Trump and the crisis of the meritocracy. “As I’ve pondered this, I’ve gone back to Tyler Cowen’s statement: ‘Occasionally the real force behind a political ideology is the subconsciously held desire that a certain group of people should not be allowed to rise in relative status.’ I think that a lot of the elite hatred for Trump, and for his supporters, stems from just such a sentiment.”
Plus this; “The elites lost their mojo by becoming absurd. It happened on the road between cultural appropriation and transgender bathrooms.”
IT’S NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT GRIFT: House, feds probe to unravel mystery of ‘Squad’ Rep. Ilhan Omar’s skyrocketing wealth: ‘It’s not possible.’
Oversight panel Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said staff lawyers are exploring the extraordinary step of subpoenaing Omar’s spouse over his allegedly shady business practices.
“We’re going to get answers, whether it’s through the Ethics Committee or the Oversight Committee, one of the two,” he told The Post.
Republicans want to know how Somali-born Omar (D-Minn.) and her politically-connected husband Tim Mynett went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year, according to her 2024 disclosure forms.
“There are a lot of questions as to how her husband accumulated so much wealth over the past two years,” Comer said. “It’s not possible. It’s not. I’m a money guy. It’s not possible.”
Separately, federal law enforcement is also probing.
There’s no mystery here — just details that haven’t been revealed.
HE’S A DEADBEAT CAD: Hunter Biden’s Baby Mama Wants Him Jailed Over Broken Child Support Deal.
What’s the big deal, Hunter? Just sell a couple of paintings!
FINGERS CROSSED AND BREATH HELD: Artemis II Moon Rocket Ready for Move to Launch Pad.
TO DEMOCRATS THAT’S NOT A BUG, IT’S A FEATURE:
Senator….
The US spends $5T on healthcare.
We spend more on healthcare than the entire GDP of all but two countries on earth.
The problem isn’t that we don’t spend enough on healthcare. The problem is that the money goes to your political donors instead of to patients. https://t.co/g8fE0ujAm1
— Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA (@DrDiGiorgio) January 18, 2026
THIS IS JUST SPECTACULARLY BAD MANAGEMENT IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY, AND I PRESUME THE DAMAGE IS ENTIRELY ON PURPOSE: And Suddenly, About 100 Minneapolis Cops Disappeared. “Over the past several days, it appears that Minneapolis police officers have quietly kind of quit in another way.”
STUPID PEOPLE DOING STUPID THINGS:
What a perfect encapsulation of the progressive left: a bunch of white people threatening and assaulting a non-white dude, in the name of tolerance. https://t.co/Iz9bL84nxQ
— Legal Phil (@Legal_Fil) January 18, 2026
Also vicious people doing vicious things.
YES:
When I was young, I believed smart people always saw things clearly and were thus immune to terrible ideas. What I've realized since then is that they do often embrace bad ideas, but unlike dumb people, they're good at coming up with sophistry in defense of those ideas.
— jojo (@jojo193713) January 19, 2026
Related: The Suicide of Expertise.
DEAL OF THE DAY: LEVOIT Top Fill Humidifiers for Bedroom. #CommissionEarned
GOOD LORD: ‘New level of brutality’: Iran doctors put death toll in suppressed uprising at over 16,500.
The doctors said that most of the dead were people under 30 and that at least 330,000 people were injured, with much of the killing coming over a two-day period, the Sunday Times reported. Among those killed were children and pregnant women.
Though the report did not specify the dates, according to previous accounts there was a spike in killings on Friday, January 9, the day after Iran’s regime cut off access to the internet, and it continued on Saturday.
The doctors’ figures were compiled from staff in eight major eye hospitals and 16 emergency departments across Iran. Doctors were able to communicate using banned Starlink internet terminals, tens of thousands of which have reportedly been smuggled into Iran.
Some patients in hospitals died because security forces refused to allow life-saving blood transfusions. In some medical centers, staff donated blood in an effort to save patients, the report said.
“This is a whole new level of brutality,” Prof. Amir Parasta, an Iranian-German eye surgeon who helped put together the network of doctors, told the newspaper.
Never ever ever give up your guns.
Related: Iran plans ‘absolute digital isolation,’ will break permanently from global internet.
THAT’S DIFFERENT, BECAUSE SHUT UP:
Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to suppress peaceful protest, and desegregate Little Rock, Arkansas, at gunpoint. Not the National Guard, but the U.S.’s plain old Regular Army. Equipped with live rounds. For 1/1,000th of what leftists are currently doing in Minneapolis. https://t.co/vpnGe6qgHB
— Sólionath (@Anarseldain) January 18, 2026
AFTER MICHAEL BELLESILES — AND A NUMBER OF “EXPERT WITNESS” HISTORIANS I’VE OBSERVED — I WOULDN’T TRUST THEM ANYWAY: Second Amendment Roundup: Expert Historian Testimony Is Unnecessary in Second Amendment Litigation.
HEH, INDEED:
The people who don't believe in borders are suddenly very concerned over the territorial integrity of Greenland
— Aesthetica (@Anc_Aesthetics) January 18, 2026
A DEMOCRACY, HOW DOES IT WORK?
I thought a functioning republic elected its leaders and allowed them to pursue the policies they promised, but I guess not. https://t.co/b07xgaiHz1
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 18, 2026
When Democrats talk about democracy, they mean rule by Democrats.
“TRUMP CONTROLS THE WEATHER,” NEW FROM THE PARTY OF SCIENCE™: Crazy Professor Claims Trump Will Cause Global Weather Catastrophes.
ON SUNDAYS I DO A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS: Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
REMINDER:
This is needed to save democracy in America https://t.co/jSoISFIQgq
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 16, 2026
IF YOU’RE AN INDIE WRITER, THESE ARE NEWS MAYBE YOU CAN USE: Marketing Minimalism.
AS THEY SHOULD: Child Abusers Top ICE List Of Most Wanted.
WELL, THE ECONOMY IS BETTER, BUT FIXING THE GAPING HOLE LEFT BY THE AUTOPEN WILL TAKE A WHILE: Scaling Down.
THE LEFT IS OUT OF ITS TINY LITTLE MINDS: More Minneapolis Madness [Updated].
IN FACT IT PRETTY MUCH IGNORES IT: Ideology Doesn’t Require Reality.
AS LONG AS THEY HAVE THE FRAUD, THEY DON’T HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF THE PEOPLE: Just a sampling of what the state legislature of Washington has in store for us.
