GO FIGURE:

Weird that ICE are operating in dozens of states, but it only gets violent in the one where we just uncovered a billion dollar fraud ring with probable links to the governor.

— RazörFist (@RAZ0RFIST) January 25, 2026

As my New York Post column for tomorrow notes, it’s a distraction from the fraud. Or at least they hope it will be.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

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KEEPING THE PRESSURE ON: Trump issues four immigration demands to Walz, Democratic leaders.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s Artemis 2 moon rocket is on the launch pad. What’s next? Lots of on-ground tests.

DON’T GET WOBBLY:

Trump has forced the dems into taking the 20% side again. https://t.co/FQoiRjI6CW

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) January 25, 2026

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Study Reveals How Much Exercise You Need Weekly To Control Blood Pressure.

INSURRECTION:

Thread:

🧵🚨 MINNEAPOLIS SIGNAL INFILTRATED

I have infiltrated organizational signal groups all around Minneapolis with the sole intention of tracking down federal agents and impeding/assaulting/and obstructing them.

BUCKLE UP ALL WILL BE REVEALED

Each area of the city has a signal… pic.twitter.com/ATSHlCucWv

— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) January 24, 2026

Recently revealed Signal chats show that this felonious paramilitary operation to disrupt ICE operations is being formally coordinated with Minnesota's Lieutenant Governor and other elected state officials.

This is a criminal conspiracy of immense and troubling magnitude that… https://t.co/bE36mtf8Ik

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) January 25, 2026

Related: The Anti-ICE Signal Chat in Minneapolis Has Reportedly Been Infiltrated…and *That* Name Looks Familiar.

TELL WALZ TO CALL OFF HIS MOBS THEN: Minnesota CEOs call for ‘immediate deescalation’ in the state.

TORI AMOS, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Scientists Just Created Tiny Earthquakes Inside a Microchip.

OOPS: Florida mom sues IVF clinic for giving birth to another couple’s baby.

THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: The 2027 Chevy Bolt Will Stay in Production for Just 18 Months.

SAD: The Long, Slow Decline of the Episcopal Church is Such an Impenetrable Mystery.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Single gene found to influence gut bacteria balance and IBD susceptibility.

THAT’S OKAY, “TOXIC MASCULINITY” IS A FICTION: Most men do not subscribe to toxic masculinity traits, study finds.

HISTORY: This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world’s oldest human-made art.

INSURRECTION:

This is alarming.

The Revolutionaries have an organized and VAST network of people out snitching and spotting and harassing people that covers the entire city and suburbs.

Are regular Americans in Minnesotans comfortable with that? That’s chilling in the extreme. At any moment… https://t.co/36Cem0LRmC

— Sunny Lohmann (@sunnylohmann) January 25, 2026

PROF. BAINBRIDGE: Should Law Professors Dress for Success?

I always wear a suit and tie on the first day of the semester, and the reasons are aptly captured here:

We showed up at law school many years ago not really knowing what to expect. But our civil procedure professor — Richard Friedman at Michigan — showed up on the first day dressed in a suit. It made a helpful impression on us — an impression not so much about Friedman but law school generally. It made us sit up and say to ourselves, ‘oh, right. This ain’t undergrad. We’re being trained for a profession here.’ And that, in retrospect, wasn’t an entirely bad chord to strike early on, we thinks.

I do it out of respect. The rest of the time I generally wear nice pants, a polo shirt, and a nice sportcoat or something like that. It’s a professional environment, and students need to be reminded of that.

TURNABOUT: Indiana U. professor sanctioned for creating ‘hostile environment’ for white students.

IT IS: Yale College Republicans President explains how rampant grade inflation is an institutional strategy.

HAHAHA:

For those not seeing it, I got you pic.twitter.com/r3JI4RUVe2

— Cameron Sagason (@CameronSagason) January 25, 2026

As Mike Williamson notes, we’ve seen this before:

FASTER, PLEASE: The Countdown to Iran’s Liberation Has Begun: Peace talk aside, the ticking in Iran isn’t diplomacy—it’s a death-rattle, as a murderous regime nears judgment and a brutal people pray that liberation, at last, is real.

The suffering of the Iranian people is unspeakable. The huge protests that engulfed the country have subsided, not because the regime’s crackdown is succeeding, but because it has entered the Hitlerian scorched-earth stage. The few reports that are trickling out of the carceral state are heartrending. Back on January 8, we read, “A large group of civilians was driven into the bazaar through fear and gunfire. They were trapped inside, the entire place was set on fire, and machine-gun fire rained down on anyone who tried to escape the flames to save their lives.” Since then, the massacres have become routine and bureaucratized.

A lawyer who was contacted from Tehran reports that several thousand people have been herded into large warehouse halls in Kahrizak. They are being executed in groups and registered as “killed on previous days.” “There is no trial,” he noted. “No due process. There is no real court.” There also reports that the regime is stockpiling bodies, refusing to hand them over to their families. The goal is to wait until the US strikes and then parade images of the bodies as civilian casualties caused by the US to stir outrage among the credulous in the West.

Enemies of civilization are big on false martyrs.

LOOKING AT THE MATH:

I suppose you can conclude that they're lying about the number of successfully arrested targets they have

but maybe they're actually trained fairly well, but only for arresting fugitives and not for handling demonstrators harassing them

— pnorm (@paleonormie) January 24, 2026

There’s no law enforcement agency in this country’s history that has faced the kind of organized and highly funded resistance that ICE is encountering.

UPDATE:

only reason their is chaos in Minnesota is because @Tim_Walz and @Jacob_Frey are doing everything in they can to stir the pot in order to distract us from the fact that they were complicit in a 100 Billion dollar fraud scheme and when melissa hortman found out they killed her.

— Mike (@thinkorswim0712) January 25, 2026

ADDING THE TQ+++ WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, BUT LEFTIST LOGIC DEMANDED IT:

A couple of weeks after J.K. Rowling’s infamous tweet, I was out drinking with a group of gay men.

It came up in conversation, and I was the only one who agreed with her. Not because I wanted to be provocative, but because she had finally put into words something I had been…

— Seán Ako 🇮🇪 (@TheAkoFiles) January 23, 2026

#RESISTANCE: Graham Platner Solicits Donations for Maine Anti-ICE Group Led By Accused Somali Fraudsters.