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January 26, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE;
Starship launch in 6 weeks pic.twitter.com/3HFf4H5cc4
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 26, 2026
FALSE EQUIVALENCE IS A LEFTIST SPECIALTY:
This is retarded. Rittenhouse wasn’t interfering with law enforcement. He was only there because law enforcement was nowhere to be found. It’s literally the exact opposite situation. https://t.co/Iya97aQ6p2
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 26, 2026
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A NEW SUBSTACK ESSAY FROM ME: Of Squids, Ink, and Minnesota’s Corrupt Machine: Tim Walz, et al., try to change the subject, even at the expense of supporters’ lives.
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JAMES LILEKS: The Wolf is at the Door: If I duplicated this article, I could say the Ringman always Posts Twice.
I needed a Ring with a camera, so when the button was pressed a small box in the kitchen said ding-dong, and then I would call up the app to see who was there. In the past you could see who was there by using a thing called “glass,” but somehow the act of seeing them obligated you to open the the door and tell them to go away. That was the genius of the Ring: you could quietly, passively ignore them.
Plus, it recoded crimes! Yes, you could have footage of skulking miscreants, which you could give to the cops, who would do nothing. But best of all, you could customize the ding and/or the dong. What a world! Everything should be customized to conform to one’s particular aesthetic. You can even vary it by season – and here I got a good lesson in the capabilities of dog brains.
Uh oh. That’s never good, either way ….
NOT THEIR BEST WORK: After a Bad Weekend, the Trump Administration Cleans Up Its Messaging on Gun Rights.
BRIAN TRANSEAU, CALL YOUR OFFICE: South African San rock art reveals trance dances and initiation ceremonies.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: On Weather Forecasts and “Trusting the Science.” Notes from a blizzard that didn’t happen. Plus a few thoughts on the current political situation.
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I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: The pandemic’s hidden toll: Millions of chronic conditions left undiagnosed.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HASN’T COVERED ITSELF WITH GLORY IN ITS GUN-RELATED STATEMENTS ON THE PRETTI SHOOTING: This piece from Bearing Arms parses things pretty well.
UPDATE: Larry Correia has thoughts, too. Excerpt that captures his inimitable style:
That whole Noem/Patel narrative is bunk. Lots of Americans exercise their 2nd Amendment rights in public, even when there’s some dumb ass “protest” going on.
What law abiding gun carriers DON’T DO however is fuck around with cops while armed, and if they do willfully fuck around with cops, getting arrested or shot shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to anyone.
A big part of every CCW class is about what to do when dealing with law enforcement, and none of that involves following them around, tailing their cars, honking horns in their ears, throwing shit, breaking shit, meddling in their arrests, “directing traffic”, obstructing traffic, biting people’s fingers off, or just being general fucking weirdo nuisance temper tantrum throwers to provide cover for illegal alien rapists as a diversion because your democrat governor just got caught giving billions of tax dollars to imaginary Somali children and the democrats really want to win the midterms so they can get back to destroying America forever.
That was a run on sentence, but these people are really fucking stupid. And it appears that they’ve had a Signal chat for MN government officials to coordinate this fuckery with the useful idiots too.
Did this particular dude do all that? No. Did he do some of that? Yes. So again, getting shot is a bummer, but not at all shocking.If you want to see who is honest and who is a lying partisan hack dipshit in situations like this, watch for the people who ignore all the context, history, and events which set the stage for a particular incident, who then focus instead on minutia and playing back video frame by frame in ultra slow mo.
Like I said yesterday, just off math and basic probability, if you provoke chaotic encounters against the same bunch of feds, day in and day out, over and over, hoping for a violent altercation, eventually you’re going to get a violent altercation. Duh.
Yes. Indeed, getting that altercation may or may not have been Pretti’s plan, but it’s definitely what the organizers of these riots wanted to happen.
INSURRECTION AND FOREIGN COLLUSION: Anti-ICE Signal Chats: Walz Administration Implicated, Foreign Funding Revealed.
THE EASIEST TIME TO CRUSH AN INSURGENCY IS IN THE BEGINNING: What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
And they generally collapse when you cut off the external support and funding.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Exercise is great but exercise studies…not so much. “It’s easy to believe that exercise or physical activity is beneficial over a lifetime, it’s hard to believe that 5 min/day (the equivalent of walking 400 meters) reduces death by 30%.”
Well, to be fair, if you can’t walk 400 meters you probably won’t live as long.
UTAH IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE: University of Utah class explores ‘Black Trans Lesbian Marxists’ and radical literature.
YES:
Two things can be true at the same time.
🕯️ Alex Pretti’s death is a real and devastating tragedy, and there are several investigations appropriately occurring into the circumstances behind his killing
🎯 A far-left organizing network put Pretti in harm's way and then turned him… pic.twitter.com/lOSv3bDo6Y— Asra Nomani (@AsraNomani) January 26, 2026
BLUE STATE UPDATE: Minneapolis Police Chief: Yes, the Mob Should Rule.