ICE HAS THE CHANCE TO DO THE FUNNIEST THING:

ICE should setup a checkpoint right down the street. pic.twitter.com/guL6zTIH3J

— Adam Schiffylus (@GogginWalters) February 2, 2026

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE:

American hero https://t.co/mshtukYsZG

— Kaizen D. Asiedu (@thatsKAIZEN) February 1, 2026

Bravo.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Tesla climbs as SpaceX merger talks fuel Musk empire consolidation hopes.

GOOD: A Common Sleeping Pill May Reduce Buildup of Alzheimer’s Proteins, Study Reveals.

TWO-TIER JUSTICE:

My passport was confiscated by DOJ for 4.5 years.

J6ers charged with misdemeanors were given pre-trial house arrest.

Tim Hale was held in solitary confinement pre-trial for 18 months.

And a MN federal judge just granted Don 🍋 permission to take his annual vacation in France. https://t.co/OaP2jyrtCP pic.twitter.com/s3Ev5UUIXL

— Douglass Mackey (@douglassmackey) January 31, 2026

THE “WARMTH OF COLLECTIVISM” TURNS OUT AS USUAL:

Just arrived in NYC where, nearly a week after the storm, the warmth of collectivism has proven unable to melt snow. Or collect trash pic.twitter.com/qcACNnFsBi

— Robert Pondiscio (@rpondiscio) January 31, 2026

UPDATE: Zohran Mamdani Wore Custom Carhartt to Tackle His First Snowstorm as Mayor: Snowstorms have long been an aptitude test for New York City mayors. For this particular blizzard, Mamdani coolly dressed the part.

So he’s flunked the test, but at least he was sharply dressed. (Bumped).

MICROBIOME NEWS: This Common Bacterium Hiding in Your Mouth May Help Trigger Breast Cancer.

#JOURNALISM:

An aspiring artist and war veteran went to a beer hall. Now he and his girlfriend are dead in an underground bunker. https://t.co/inR2sHaHyU

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 30, 2026

HMM. I’M NOT SURE ABOUT THIS: Exposing a ‘mental trap’: The hidden bias behind chronic indecision.

THEY’RE PRICEY: Tested: The Mercedes-Maybach SL680 Made Us Feel Like a Celebrity. Too pricey for me, anyway.

SORRY. MY BODY, MY CHOICE, MY CALIBER: Canada Wants to Know Who You’ve Been Having Sex With Before Letting You Buy a Gun.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Blue Origin pausing space tourism flights for at least 2 years to focus on moon plans.

CHANGE: Gen Z Discovers Dive Bars.

MYSTERIES: Why are so many younger Americans getting and dying of colorectal cancer?

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: Despite DEI bans, some public universities maintain DEI requirements, research finds.

OF CRIME AND COVERUPS: Fordham restricts public media promotion of ICE-defense training: Fordham University’s Immersion Coordinator emailed students about ICE defense training, while asking not to advertise on social media.

THE LEFT HAS TO CONTROL SCHOOLS AND MEDIA AND UNDERMINE PARENTS BECAUSE IT’S BEING OUTBRED:

It is evolution turned on its head, as brilliantly satirized by @MikeJudge https://t.co/CoqQ0FYZK8

— Ken Broad (@Metis65) February 1, 2026

CHURCHMAGGEDDON: When Are Half Your Members Going to be Dead? The tipping point for many denominations is not that far away.

While most major denominations have been experiencing decline for a while, their ship has remained seaworthy. Yeah, some water will lap over the sides every once in a while, but there are still enough buckets and enough laborers to toss it back into the ocean. That won’t be the case in a very short time horizon, and I don’t think many people realize just how quickly the buckets and the workers are going to disappear. . . .

This should come as a shock to no one who is vaguely aware of American religion — Episcopalians are old. In fact, two-thirds of their adult members have celebrated their 60th birthday. In contrast, just 6% are under the age of thirty. Put simply: for every young adult Episcopalian in the pews this Sunday, there will be about ten retirees. Oof.

And they aren’t alone in this. The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod is in almost exactly the same spot. So are the United Methodists, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Evangelical Lutherans. You basically see a whole bunch of mainline Protestants clustered at the top of this graph.

But let me also point out that some big evangelical groups aren’t exactly swimming in young adults, either. For instance, just 6% of Southern Baptist adults are under the age of 30. That’s no different at all than the Episcopalians. Only about one in five are under the age of 45. The Assemblies of God is doing a bit better here, but their numbers are still pretty anemic — 11% in the 18–29 bucket and 19% in the 30–44 age group.

The future belongs to those who show up.

FLASHBACK: Is Methodism’s decline inevitable?

GENERALLY TRUE:

Rednecks are in. pic.twitter.com/SZBQ4FYprK

— Jim (@PapaChico67) January 31, 2026

With the possible exception of Prof. John Robinson.

SALENA ZITO REMEMBERS:

Since 1 January, I have written on what happened 250 yrs ago each day. It is a detailed way to understand the moments leading up to July 2nd; each story is a reminder of how in perilous circumstances facing charges of treason & certain death on the battlefield we never gave up. https://t.co/411Jaivt86 pic.twitter.com/KScPj2sXgB

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) January 31, 2026

CHANGE: Why Governors Are Opting-In To School Choice At Record Speed.

I THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Something very unexpected is happening to Norway’s polar bears: Scientists are baffled by the results from new Arctic research.

Polar bears became the poster child for the peril of climate change for obvious reasons: They hunt seals from the ice, and as fossil fuels warm the planet, the ice where these bears live is melting.

For more than three decades, scientists have been warning that climate change could drive polar bear populations extinct. That message infiltrated the public psyche, perhaps more than any other about the scourge of global warming. . . .

Now, research in the journal Scientific Reports adds yet another wrinkle of hope for the species. The study, an analysis of hundreds of polar bears in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, found that declining sea ice is not causing polar bears to starve. They actually appeared healthier in the last two decades of the analysis, from 2000 to 2019. The overall population, meanwhile, is either stable or growing, according to Jon Aars, the study’s lead author and a scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute.

“I was surprised,” Aars told Vox from Svalbard. “I would have predicted that body condition would decline. We see the opposite.”

Maybe fundraising-letter science is simplistic and incomplete.

THEN IT WAS COMMON-SENSE DEMOCRATIC POLICY. NOW IT’S FASCISM BECAUSE SHUT UP.

They were lying, but still.

— The Red Votes are Coming (@red_votes) January 31, 2026

KURT’S HAD TO WORK SO HARD JUST TO STAY A COUPLE OF BEATS AHEAD OF THE NEWS CYCLE:

When criminal gangs start working for Leftist government, you've just made @KurtSchlichter into a modern day Nostradamus. https://t.co/DZR3HNhxNl

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) January 31, 2026