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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
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.
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
THEY LOOK LIKE RAZOR BLADES: Volvo Spent Decades Perfecting Safety—Then Added These Door Handles.
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.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
One of the fun things about the internet is that you can find the peer-reviewed archeological study that the Vice President is referencing even when a PhD historian is telling you that it's a liehttps://t.co/r9V2gO6XVF). https://t.co/EC0I2XvMko
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) January 24, 2026
From Grok: “No, this paper has not been discredited, retracted, or formally debunked. It remains a legitimate peer-reviewed study cited in archaeological discussions on Roman-period infanticide. There are no indications of retraction, major corrections, or widespread dismissal in academic sources.”
ARE WE SURE IT’S NOT JUST PAID MARKETING? Prozac, Lexapro, Zoloft: How celebrities naming their antidepressants out loud is quietly reshaping mental health culture.
JUSTICE DENIED:
This happened because the Chief Judge of the Federal District Court assigned it to this guy so none of the Federal District judges would take the heat for doing this.
Chief Justice Roberts has got an "appearance of two-tier justice" credibility problem for the Federal judiciary. https://t.co/8s86CH88jF
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) January 22, 2026
MARK JUDGE: ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’: Hollywood’s Retroactive Repression.
Ann Lee is a perfect feminist heroine — a blasphemer who promoted a cult of childlessness that led to her own community’s extinction. A movie stressing that point would be fire.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE:
There are literally hundreds of Americans who would be dead if Kamala Harris had won the 2024 election. https://t.co/qsFSReDcV7
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 22, 2026
TRUMP’S SECRET WEAPON: PREFERENCE FALSIFICATION?
I think the only way he could have done this was to articulate what every — or most every — leader in the room was secretly thinking but didn't dare say.
Preference falsification is when people hide or misrepresent their true opinions, beliefs, or desires in public due to…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 23, 2026
He’s too big to dogpile, so he’s a one-man preference cascade.
Related:
Unusual honesty from immigration academic reveals how elite misinformation on sacred topics works: https://t.co/LYp8ChyBXu pic.twitter.com/SW3dD7SBBJ
— Eric Kaufmann (@epkaufm) January 24, 2026
UPDATE: More.
By your allies shall ye be known…
I didn't see "the gay community" speaking up when "the community" decided to switch from the original flag to whatever the second thing is.
Look, I sympathize.
But this is no different from the situation universities find themselves in. A… pic.twitter.com/z1zvNJy0NO— Maynard Handley 🟦 (@handleym99) January 23, 2026
IT’S ALL NARRATIVE MANAGEMENT:
Funny how right after the video of Democrats terrorizing children at a church went viral, these fake stories about "ICE arresting children" started going up on every Democrat account.
— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) January 22, 2026
HMM:
Two more Russian shadow fleet tankers in the Mediterranean Sea experienced an unusual event.
Crude oil tanker "Progress" (IMO: 9306627) is north of the coast of Algeria and drifting. The vessel is declared “Not under command” while transporting 730,000 bbl of Urals crude… pic.twitter.com/OApWPEk0E4
— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) January 24, 2026
Related:
⚡️This is about establishing the template for energy chokepoints as a tool of global compliance.
A naval blockade is a wartime act. It asserts dominion over trade routes and supply chains. When the U.S. signals it may blockade oil to Cuba, it is reactivating the Cold War logic… https://t.co/TDf9kfwbO3
— SightBringer (@_The_Prophet__) January 23, 2026
THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT UNDERSTANDING TRUMP, THEY JUST KNOW THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO HATE HIM:
In the fall of 2006 right after then Sen. Barack Obama announced to Tim Russert on Meet the Press he was seriously considering a run for the nomination of the Democratic Party for president, thousands of reporters, journalists, bloggers and intellectuals flooded book stores for… pic.twitter.com/PkLK5jnVHr
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) January 23, 2026