PICARD FACEPALM: There is now a drag queen named “Erika Quirk” in case you still wonder how low leftists will stoop.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Microbes living in our mouths could hold the key to obesity prevention.

BEWARE: The Deadly Peril in Your Utility Drawer.

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

AN IMPRESSIVE YEAR ONE FOR TRUMP: “MAGA world seems to be down at the mouth lately. Though still months away, the latest polling seems to portend defeat in the upcoming midterms. And yet, looking back over the past year since January 20, 2025, I see not gloomy defeat but an America that has—for the first time in decades—a fighting chance.”

EVERGREEN: New York Times Fact-Checker Needs a Fact-Check.

DEFLATION IS WORSE THAN INFLATION:

The inflation war is over, now it's on to the deflation fight. We need to make sure deflation is the good kind and not the bad kind. We need stimulus like $2000 checks and fed rate cuts to keep up the demand. Tariffs to protect us from importing the bad kind of deflation… https://t.co/MrbxpbxS96

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) January 23, 2026

WHAT WAS LOST. OR TAKEN AWAY. Pictures from the Past are Immensely Radicalizing. “It is depressing. It is a sign of decline. It is intentional.”

IT’S EVERYWHERE, IT’S JUST NOT WHAT YOU THINK:

Ah yes, systemic racism strikes again!

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 27, 2025

MATT TAIBBI: Forget Trump and Greenland. Howard Lutnick Gave the Davos Speech that Mattered: The death of globalization is the real headline from the international self-indulgence festival at Davos.

IT WAS A JOKE MAJOR AMONG UNDERGRADS WHEN I WAS IN LAW SCHOOL AT YALE, AND THAT WAS DECADES AGO. IT HASN’T IMPROVED. American Studies Can’t Stand Its Subject: Eighty percent of articles in the field’s leading journal were negative, while not one was positive.

Imagine if, say, African-American studies approached its subject matter the same way.

American Quarterly is only one journal, but what’s found in its pages captures a much larger problem in education, particularly at the collegiate level. During our research, we contacted University of Texas at Austin historian Steven Mintz, who has analyzed the field of American studies. He told us: “A field that once asked, ‘What is America?’—exploring its myths, music, monuments, and contradictions—now too often narrows its focus to a different question: ‘Whom has America silenced, failed, or harmed?’”

This deeply pessimistic view of the U.S. has taken hold of many young people.

That is entirely by design.

OPEN THREAD: Like Schaeffer beer it’s there, it’s there for you, it’s what you want.

LOL, THE BULWARK ON J.D. VANCE. LIKE POLLING DER STURMER ON CHURCHILL:

This focus group was conducted by the publisher of The Bulwark and it’s being treated as legitimate news. https://t.co/hb1ddwuwKU

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) January 23, 2026

THAT’S NICE, BUT THEY STILL WON’T TELL US WHAT WAS WRONG OR WHO IT HAPPENED TO: Astronauts Reveal Critical Medical Tool Used in ISS Health Crisis.

Which is weird.

PRETTY SURE THIS IS A FEDERAL CRIME:

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Anti-ICE leftists have STORMED the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, infuriating travelers and taking the location hostage

This is utter MADNESS!

Tim Walz has handed control to lawless rebels. Minnesota must save itself!pic.twitter.com/5JbzBeStjO

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 23, 2026

STEPHEN KING CAN’T END A NOVEL, OR MAKE A MEME:

This is disgusting. This cheapens the Holocaust.

It's 1940. Gestapo knocks at your door. Where are you going to wind up? No, not in a camp designed to kill you, but you're gonna get sent HOME.

And, you can just go there with $1,000 in your pocket if you say "ok, I'll… https://t.co/Bh5PBxa9mX

— Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 (@marcorandazza) January 23, 2026

I HAD VIRUS REFLUX A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, AND IT SENT ME TO THE E.R. I GIVE IT A LOW RATING TOO. ‘Vitus Reflux’ may be the lowest stakes episode of ‘Star Trek’ ever. Luckily, it’s also a lot of fun.

Oh, wait, what? Vitus reflux? Oh. Well, never mind.

THEY’RE WHAT REALLY MAKES A MONKEY BACHELOR PAD, FOR ONE THING: Snow Monkeys’ Hot Spring Baths Do More Than Keep Them Warm, Study Finds.