BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET WAS JUST STUPID: Foods that Americans were told to avoid for decades are back under Trump’s new nutrition rules.
It’s not needed, as the population is not overwhelming the planet. And if it were, making everyone a vegetarian wouldn’t fix it.
DEMOCRATS ARE A TERRORIST GROUP RIGHT NOW: Anarchy: Minneapolis Activists Harass And Attack Anyone They Suspect of Being ICE.
WELL, DUH. OF COURSE SHE DID. THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A GAME: Renee Good’s Partner Reportedly Under Investigation By Federal Authorities To Determine If She Impeded ICE Agents.
THAT’S ABOUT THIS: Cowboys Versus “Soy Boys”: The Politics of Food, Alcohol, and Tobacco.
AND FOR THE X-Cancelled.
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX creates history: Musk’s Falcon 9 rocket launches to space 600th time.
HEY, WITH DON LEMON I’M JUST GRATEFUL IT’S NOT SEXUAL ASSAULT:
Every protester in this video has committed a federal crime
They can all be easily identified
Don Lemon needs to be in custody by the end of the day if the administration is to ever be taken seriously again https://t.co/0A54AHGuSK
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) January 18, 2026
STALIN’S AUTHORITARIANISM WAS LEFT AUTHORITARIANISM, AND THE AMERICAN LEFT WAS LARGELY OKAY WITH IT:
“Authoritarianism is bad—unless it’s leftist authoritarianism”
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) January 18, 2026
EXERCISE IS MEDICINE: The Best Medicine For Joint Pain Isn’t What You Think, Says Expert.
RIGHT?
I'm no historian but I don't think there's ever been a situation in the last 100 years where the people storming the churches were the good guys. https://t.co/oGwZeQK4kC
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 18, 2026
UPDATE:
"Me and my street militia are going around demanding to see people's papers and shutting down churches. You know, to fight fascism"
— Seamus (FreedomToons) (@seamus_coughlin) January 18, 2026
SPACE IS HARD:
Yesterday China broke the world records：launching two rockets at the same day and both failed tragically. The two rockets are CZ-3B (长征三号乙) and CERES-2(谷神星二号). WOW! Great achievement, keep up!
Below is the launch of CZ-3B： pic.twitter.com/RSf1izTsvG— Bin Xie (@bxieus) January 18, 2026
The attached video is actually of a failed Russian Proton-M launch from 2013, but various sources confirm that China lost two rockets just 12 hours apart this weekend.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I wouldn’t get cocky. Blowing rockets up is an essential part of the process of getting to rockets that don’t blow up. Elon knows…
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Business Is Apparently Selling AI-Hallucination-Filled Documents to Unwary Litigants, Court Says.
SOMEONE SHOULD MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT THIS: Ford’s Betting Hard on its 30-Year-Old V8 to Beat Ferrari Again.
FLORIDA SHERIFF EXPLAINS ANTI-ICE CHAOS: Florida’s Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd lays out the simple facts that explain why riots erupted in Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis. And the villains don’t wear ICE uniforms.
Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned
DISPATCHES FROM STARFLEET LEARING ACADEMY: John Nolte: Free Premiere of Trump-Hating Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Bombs.
Paramount+ made Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s premiere episode available for free and, after a full day, it has amassed only 81,000 views and a dreadful like-to-dislike ratio…
As of this writing, only 3.9K people have hit the “like” button, compared to the 10K that have hit the “dislike” button.
Gee, I wonder what the problem is?
Oh, wait…
Star Trek cadets are now required to get DEI training from an obnoxious lesbian
Yes, this is real pic.twitter.com/qDFp1dfDiO
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 15, 2026
What is that? A smug lesbian virtue-signaling with her strident Karen Power is supposed to be appealing, someone we can relate to, someone to aspire to? Does that teacher look like she should be training people to handle Starships or blowing whistles at ICE agents in Minnesota?
What a joke.
Everyone smelled this turd from a mile away, which is why no one bothered to tune in.
Nolte’s post went up on Friday; here’s where the likes and dislikes stand on its YouTube page as of Sunday afternoon:
I wonder how much money Paramount has left on the table by alienating men from the streaming iterations of the Trek franchise? In the 1970s, even prior to the massive Star Wars merchandizing blitz, Paramount made a fair chunk of change licensing the Star Trek brand to sell plenty of toys, books, blueprints, and wargames aimed at young males. (While Heineken apparently didn’t bother to seek Paramount’s permission to use Spock’s image to sell beer in 1975, an underemployed Leonard Nimoy being furious with the studio that he received zero royalties from the use of his image was a key sticking point that almost kept him out of the first Star Trek movie in 1979.) In the 1980s, sales of videotapes of the Trek movies and especially the old 1966 TV series were added to the mix. The same thing that someone recently posted on X about how Kathleen Kennedy killed Star Wars’ merchandizing and DVD sales dead by making the brand toxic for males applies to Trek as well:
She did so much damage it's mind-boggling. Every single franchise under her control that had originally appealed to the young male market, she tried to change it to appeal to the young female market instead.
Despite failure after failure, she kept doing it.
Instead of learning… https://t.co/EtEHTxFCoz
— FilmLadd (@FilmLadd) January 16, 2026
Absolutely spot-on. She hated the original audience. pic.twitter.com/ztla2yQKy1
— FilmLadd (@FilmLadd) January 16, 2026
Classical reference in headline:
Earlier, from Steve: I (Almost) Watched Starfleet Academy So You Don’t Have To.