Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
January 25, 2026
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:
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
THE GREAT REPLACEMENT:
You get to pay this so 47 illegal aliens can have kids for free. It's racist to do otherwise. https://t.co/6VNPHnzZ7b
— Bo French (@BoFrenchTX) January 24, 2026
January 24, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Party on, dudes and dudettes.
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.”