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Minnesota: @camhigby Exposes Communications of Anti-ICE Conspiracy

Posted on | January 25, 2026 | No Comments

Amanda Koehler

The Saturday morning shooting of an armed anti-ICE rioter in Minneapolis triggered still more mayhem in the city despite below-zero temperatures. It has become obvious to everyone paying attention that the so-called “protests” (which are, in fact, a conspiracy to obstruct federal law enforcement) are being carefully coordinated.

Professor Reynolds confesses that he is unable to tell from online videos exactly what happened prior to Saturday’s shooting, and I feel the same, but the ambiguity of the available evidence hasn’t stopped Democrats from declaring with certainty that Alex Pretti was murdered, an assertion which I sincerely doubt. (Ask any prosecutor about the difficulty of disproving a self-defense claim in such a situation.) While all this controversy was capturing attention, however, independent journalist Cam Higby scored one of the most important scoops of the year by infiltrating a Signal chat group of “MN ICE Watch” activists.

No sooner had Higby begun posting this information than others started identifying members of this anti-law enforcement conspiracy, which apparently includes very well-connected Democrat activists.

If Amanda Koehler, a union-connected consultant who worked on Gov. Tim Walz’s reelection campaign, is an administrator of this network, how many other influential Democrats in Minnesota are part of the conspiracy to obstruct federal law enforcement in the state? Maybe all of them?

Perhaps most disturbing is that “MN Ice Watch” appears to be using law enforcement resources, perhaps the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), to identify vehicles and drivers. This would seem to suggest that local or state law enforcement officials in Minnesota are actively assisting the conspiracy to obstruct federal agents.

The entire apparatus of governance in Minnesota has been turned against the United States. Invoke the Insurrection Act, Mr. President.



 

Category: Crime, Immigration, Minnesota

The St. Paul Three: Anti-ICE Terrorists Now Facing Federal Felony Charges

Posted on | January 24, 2026 | No Comments

William Scott Kelly

Nakima Valdez Levy-Armstrong

Chauntyll Louisa Allen

Normal Americans — the kind of decent people who would never vote Democrat — were horrified last Sunday when video emerged of a “protest” mob storming a church in St. Paul, Minnesota:

The rationale of this “protest” was the idea, currently prevalent among Democrats, that it is morally wrong for Republicans to win elections and therefore, when Republicans are in office, obeying the law is optional.

Democrats never say this in so many words, of course. To express their beliefs as a clear syllogism would immediately expose the invalidity of their arguments, which is why they never debate anymore. Anyone who has watched Scott Jennings single-handedly dismantle leftists on CNN knows this — Democrats can’t win any kind of honest debate, which is why they end up shouting and shrieking and trying to silence opposition.

What happened at the Minnesota church was not a constitutionally protected exercise of free speech, as Samuel J. Abrams explains:

Recent events in Minnesota — where anti-ICE protesters interrupted a service at Cities Church in St. Paul, targeted pastor David Easterwood (who is apparently also an ICE official), then defended the disruption as an exercise of First Amendment rights — reflect a growing confusion about what the Constitution does and does not protect. Similar incidents have occurred in recent years, affecting churches, synagogues, and other religious services across the country. Whatever one thinks of the protesters’ underlying cause, the constitutional question here is not a close one.
“This is what the First Amendment is about,” said journalist Don Lemon, who entered the church with the protesters and defended their actions to a pastor who was asking them to leave. Organizers Nekima Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Louisa Allen have since been arrested for allegedly violating the FACE Act, which prohibits using force, threats, or physical obstruction to interfere with religious services.
There is no First Amendment right to enter a house of worship and engage in conduct that effectively shuts down a religious service, even as part of a protest. Nor does anybody have the right to remain on private property after being asked by its owner or authorized representatives to leave.
The First Amendment offers its strongest protection to speech in traditional public forums — streets, sidewalks, and parks — while also protecting freedom of association, religious exercise, and freedom of conscience. A society committed to free expression depends not only on protecting speech, but on maintaining a clear delineation between protected speech, on the one hand, and unprotected civil or criminal conduct on the other.

You can read the whole thing. Don Lemon is typical of those in the media who, in becoming “Democratic operatives with bylines,” have embraced the radical “By Any Means Necessary” mentality of the modern Left. Whatever helps Democrats (or hurts Republicans) is good, and anything that hurts Democrats (or helps Republicans) is bad. There is no objective truth in their worldview, only partisan advantage, which is why they are such habitual liars. Those of us who are not Democrats can turn on the TV and observe half-a-dozen such lies in any hour-long segment on CNN (and as little as 15 minutes on what used to be called MSNBC), and the most outrageous element of the media’s pervasive bias is the fact that these partisan propagandists so obviously think they are our moral and intellectual superiors. Now, dear reader, scroll back up to the top of this post, gaze for a while at the mug shots of Don Lemon’s criminal accomplices and ask yourself: “Are these people superior to me?”

Attorney General Pam Bondi doesn’t seem to think so:

The fact that William Scott Kelly called this a “white supremacist” church is a huge clue about the kind of propaganda that is being deployed to mobilize these rioters against law enforcement. Kelly has claimed to be a combat veteran, but this has been disputed; while I cannot confirm reports that he was court-martialed for theft and dishonorably discharged, neither do I doubt those reports. “Bad causes attract bad people,” and Kelly appears to do nothing else except protest everywhere.

All of these culprits rationalized their crimes:

A BLM leader who serves on a school board, a woke TikToker, and a third alleged ringleader of an anti-ICE mob who stormed a Minnesota church during Sunday service have been arrested, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday. . . .
Armstrong allegedly led the raucous group, including Don Lemon, from the Racial Justice Network to storm the church and call out resident pastor David Eastwood, accusing him of moonlighting as the acting field office director for ICE in Minnesota.
A picture of Armstrong being led away in handcuffs was shared by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on X on Thursday morning.
“Religious freedom is the bedrock of the United States – there is no First Amendment right to obstruct someone from practicing their religion,” Sec. Noem said on X.
AG Bondi also confirmed that a second suspect, Chauntyll Louisa Allen, who bragged about organizing the protests, had been taken into custody in a separate X post.
Allen — a Black Lives Matter leader and member of the Saint Paul Public Schools Board of Education — had earlier compared herself to Jesus, saying she had been inspired by his cleansing of the temple. . . .
A spokesperson for the city’s Board of Education told The Post that the district “has been made aware of this incident and is following all applicable policies and procedures” but “does not comment on pending legal matters.”
Later Thursday afternoon, it was announced that an anti-ICE influencer, William Kelly, had also been arrested for his involvement in the church riots.
Kelly, who uses the handle “DaWokeFarmer” on TikTok, was pictured on X being taken into custody while wearing a beanie hat emblazoned with the words “F*ck Trump,” by Noem. . . .
Armstrong, Allen, and Kelly are being charged with “conspiracy against rights,” which makes it a federal crime to intimidate someone in the free exercise of their rights as secured by the US Constitution.

The “Racial Justice Network” decided that this was a “white supremacist church” and why? Because the ACLU filed a lawsuit (Hussen v. Noem) against ICE and named as one of the defendants David Easterwood who, besides a pastor at this church, was employed as acting director of the local ICE office. In other words, the ACLU “doxxed” him, and that’s why this church got targeted even though Easterwood wasn’t even at the church at the time of the “protest.” Once radicals decide that it’s wrong to enforce the law, next they believe that law-enforcement officials are villains, and when they act on those perverse beliefs, bad things happen.



 

Category: Crime, Immigration, Minnesota

In The Mailbox: 01.23.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 24, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Satellite Wars, 
357 Magnum: Road Rage Is Never a Good Idea
EBL: Amelia, Maria, and Eva are defending Europe, MAGA Immigration Enforcement, Norwegian Smoked Salmon, Peking Duck, and David Bowie “Station To Station”
Twitchy: Libs Eat Up “ICE Scared Off My Carrot Pickers” Hoax Because Orange Man Bad, Anti-ICE Numpties Protest JD Vance At His Minnesota Hotel – Just One Problem, and Gavin Newsom’s Media Team Drops Hypocritical Homophobic Memes On SecTreas Bessent
Louder With Crowder: MS NOW analyst says white people are to blame for everything always and, yes, that even means you white liberal allies
Vox Popoli: Cooking With or Getting Cooked, also, Yeah, So, About That
According To Hoyt: Europe So Far Away, The Isekai Rag, The Way We Were, State of (some) publishing, and Betrayal
Cedar Sanderson: Mid-Winter Dreamin’
Jim McCoy: Galactic Merc Level One & Two
Upstream Reviews: Hollywood Fatigue
Gab: Why The Internet Sucks Now

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Relive The Civil Rights Era – Send in The Troops, also, The Hawks’ New Plans for Iran Are Disastrous
American Greatness: A Human Wave of Hope – The Iranian People Demand Freedom, The Czech Republic Shows Europe How It’s Done, Trump Owned Davos, The Grid Is Warning Pennsylvania, and If Britain Bans X, How Far Will It Go To Block Free Speech?
BattleSwarm: Yes, We Have No Bananas (Or Winter Storm T-2), also, LinkSwarm For January 23
Behind The Black: Blue Origin to reuse first stage on next New Glenn flight, Fake scientist Michael Mann slapped down hard by DC superior court, Rocket Lab completes its first launch in 2026, French smallsat rocket startup Latitude targeting a first launch in early ’27, and Blue Origin’s proposed TeraWave constellation: Is it really competition with SpaceX?
Cafe Hayek: Economic Reality Continues Not to Be Optional, “Mr. Tariff” Was No Help, and 2026 Summer Institute on the History of Economics
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Dana Loesch: Oscars – Overreaction Or Woke?
Don Surber: Jack Smith’s perjured testimony
First Street Journal: Are you tired of winning yet? also, Is this really what he wants?
Gates Of Vienna: Arabs vs. Kurds in Antwerp, Run Me Out in the Cold Rain and Snow, and PVV: Seven Dwarfs Revolted!
The Geller Report: Democrat Arizona AG Kris Mayes Says Citizens Can Shoot ICE Agents, Wounded NYPD Detectives REFUSED Medical Care By Doctors and Nurses at NYU Langone Hospital, Mahmoud Kahlil Set to Be Deported to Algeria, President Trump Announces Greenland Deal at Davos, and U.S. Armada Deployed: Trump Moves Massive Fleet Into the Gulf
Hollywood In Toto: H Is for Hawk Will Catch Everyone Off Guard, Melania Was Doomed from the Start (And It May Not Matter), and What Happened to Is This Thing On?
Legal Insurrection: NIH Won’t Fund Research That Uses Aborted Baby Tissue, The Gender Gap in Political Ideology and What We Can Do About It, DePaul University Suspends Students for Justice in Palestine Until 2027, Chicago Hospital Stops Pediatric Trans Drugs Following HHS Threat, and House GOP Defeats Resolution to Bar Trump From Further Military Action in Venezuela
Matt Taibbi: Forget Trump & Greenland – Howard Lutnick Gave The Davos Speech That Mattered
Nebraska Energy Observer: No More Welfare Queens, also, We Are Amelia Too
Outkick: Dabo Swinney Brought Receipts, Goes Nuclear On Ole Miss For Tampering With LB Luke Ferrelli, Buffalo Bills Coaching Search Takes Odd Turn With Interviews Of Rivers And McDaniel, Fernando Mendoza Going Pro; So Now Comes Hard NFL Scouting Scrutiny And Evaluations, Washington Post Reportedly Not Covering Winter Olympics In Person, As Layoffs Loom, It’s Not The Dodgers Ruining Baseball, It’s The Milwaukee Brewers, and Lindsey Vonn Dusts Off Her Body Paint Swimsuit, JD Vance Hobbles The College LIBS & Tiffani Amber Turns 52!
Power Line: ICE and Urban Legends, On the Ground in Minneapolis, The Cities Church case so far, There will be no survivors, and Will the trees explode?
Shark Tank: AG Uthmeier Announces Additional Charges Against Alleged Child Rapist
Shot In The Dark: A Theory, also, Greenland
STUMP: Dangerous Conditions Ahead – Stay Safe
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: What’s Wrong with the Political Parties?
This Ain’t Hell: Arizona AG suggests that ICE agents could get shot under the state’s self-defense laws, Valor Friday, Steve Robinson, SEAL and stolen valor warrior, passes away, DOJ Red Letter Decision, and Retired Flags Support Kelly in Amicus Brief
Transterrestrial Musings: The Largest Wealth Flight In History, Blue Origin, and Latest On The Mann Suit
Victory Girls: Ringleaders Of Church Invasion Arrested, No Warrant For Don Lemon, also, Homan To Spanberger: ICE Deportations Will Continue
Watts Up With That: South Korea’s Developing Net Zero Debacle, The Brain Microplastics Claim and the Collapse of Scientific Restraint, Honeywell CEO Vimal Kapur Asserts Powering Data Centers with Renewables is “Against Physics”, British Climate Crusade Creates Economic Disaster, and For The Future of EVs, What Policy Is “Stupid”?
The Federalist: Here Are 9 Key Moments From Jack Smith’s Congressional Testimony, Vance Promises Attention To Pro-Life Concerns: ‘You Have An Ally In The White House’, Former Iowa School Superintendent Who Turned Out To Be Criminal Illegal Alien Pleads Guilty, Virginia Democrats Want Schools To Push State-Enforced Homosexuality, and 76 House Republicans Help Democrats Kill Measure Defunding Clinics That Perform Abortions, Child ‘Trans’ Surgeries
Mark Steyn: It’s Still the Demography, Stupid, Insurrection and Acts, Live Around the Planet – Donald Does Davos, Done Pretending, and Make Babies Great Again

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In The Mailbox: 01.23.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | January 23, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: They Should Never Have Graduated from High School
Director Blue: Winter Storm Fern
EBL: Ballad of Rorke’s Drift, Bookish, and What Happened to the Pre-Contact Dogs?
Twitchy: Rep. Jordan Alleges Jack Smith Spied On 12 GOP Senators & The Investigation Continues, Government Bureaucratic Incompetence Is A Plague And It’s Time To Stop The Spread, and Tennis Star Amanda Anasimova Drops Reporter Goading Her To Denounce America 
Louder With Crowder: Bearded lunatic screaming at churchgoers has a meltdown after one of his comrades got arrested for invading the MN church, Eric Swalwell lashes out at ICE agents, pledging to prevent them from ANY employment in California, and Chris Cuomo returns to his faux tough guy act, threatens Scott Jennings for calling illegals “illegals”
Vox Popoli: Vaccines are Organized Crime, A Question of Content, More Books, More Better, and Rethinking Human Evolution Again
Cedar Sanderson: Tomato Wyrm – Part 7 & Finale, 
Stoic Observations: A Canticle for Leibowitz, also, ODSC AI Week One, 
Weird Catholic: St. Vincent’s Many Tortures
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Time To Bend That Algorithm

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: From Unicorns To Warhorses
Dana Loesch: Michael Fanone Is A Fake Tough Guy
Don Surber: Art of the Deal in Davos

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Historical Analogies and the Current Crisis

Posted on | January 22, 2026 | No Comments

John Adams (left); John Quincy Adams (right)

Here’s a question most people have never pondered: Why did the North fight the Civil War? The way history is taught, the focus is on slavery and the South, and the motives of the Confederacy are subjected to critical scrutiny in a way that the Union side of the controversy is not. If you start digging around, examining contemporary accounts as I have done, you might begin questioning some of your fundamental beliefs. Sen. Robert Toombs, declaring the causes of Georgia’s secession, pointed to the 1846 Walker Tariff as the underlying grievance that led eventually to the formation of the Republican Party. After decades of protectionist policy advocated by New England interests, the 1846 tariff signaled that “free trade, low duties, and economy in public expenditures was the verdict of the American people. The South and the Northwestern States sustained this policy. There was but small hope of its reversal; upon the direct issue, none at all.” It should not need to be said that Toombs’ argument was tendentious — he was in the position analogous to an attorney pleading a client’s case. But the point is that the basic economic and fiscal policy of the nation were involved in the regional contest and, as Toombs said, by the mid-1840s, the South and the West were in a de facto alliance against the Northeast. But the controversy long predated that.

Think of John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams. The elder Adams, having served as George Washington’s vice president, was elected president in 1796. Twenty-eight years later, the younger Adams was elected president in 1824. Both of them served only one term, proving unpopular in office, and the interregnum between their two terms in the White House was filled by an unbroken tenure of Virginians, followed by the presidency of Andrew Jackson of Tennessee. For the first 48 years under the Constitution (1788 to 1836), then, New England had held the office for just eight years. and there was little prospect of them regaining that office because of the changing arithmetic of the Electoral College:

In 1792, there were 132 Electoral College votes; 38 of those votes (28.8 percent of the total) belonged to the New England states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Massachusetts alone wielded 16 electoral votes (12.1 percent of the total) in 1792. Forty years later, however, when Jackson was reelected to a second term in the White House in 1832, the Electoral College had increased to 288 voters, and the New England states (now including Maine) possessed just 50 — a mere 17.4 percent of the total. That total was exactly matched by six new states in the South and West — Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Missouri — each of which permitted slavery. Kentucky and Tennessee, each with 15 Electoral College votes in 1832, now had more representation than Massachusetts, with just 14 votes. . . .

You can read the rest of my latest American Spectator column.



 

Category: Constitution, History

In The Mailbox: 01.21.26

Posted on | January 22, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.21.26

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Riding to Economic Ruin in the EU, also, A Day At The Powhatan Indian Uprising (1622), 
357 Magnum: Hollywood Went Woke, And Now They’re Broke
EBL: Keir Starmer OK with 1st Cousin Marriages In The UK, Red Grouper, The Home, Johnny Walker and Chesterfields, and Why is Greenland Important?
Twitchy: Stephen Miller Schools Sen. Murphy, Who’s Providing “Oversight” In Texas, Minneapolis Kennel Employee Leaves Nasty Note On ICE K-9’s Feed Chart, and Failed Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Fateh Catches Nick Sortor In A Fib (Not)
Louder With Crowder: Entitled woman demands to see ICE agent’s warrant; his four-word response is perfection, Leftist twerp attempts to tell Scott Jennings he can’t call illegals “illegals”, Trump’s latest executive order promises to make mental institutions great again, Jasmine Crockett makes one of her most laughable claims yet, and Hidden video captures teacher freaking out on student who owned her defending ICE against Renee Good
Vox Popoli: The Retreat From Kiev, The End of Australia, and Russia Graciously Accedes
Cedar Sanderson: The Disappointment

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Endangered Christians America Should No Longer Ignore
American Greatness: Pressure Increases On Senate Majority Leader to ‘Nuke the Filibuster’ & Pass SAVE Act, SCAM Act Introduced to Revoke Citizenship of Migrants Who Commit Fraud, Serious Felonies, and House Republicans Pass Reconciliation Bill Banning Welfare for Illegal Aliens
Baldilocks: Saul’s Downfall
BattleSwarm: Ready For Another Deep Freeze, Austin?
Behind The Black: JAXA releases preliminary results of investigation into December 2025 H3 rocket launch failure, French startup The Exploration Company negotiating purchase of UK rocket startup Orbex, Haven-1 launch delayed until 2027, and Communications resume with Mars
Cafe Hayek: Manufacturing Job-Loss Rate, also, Globalization Did Not ‘Hollow Out’ America’s Economy or Middle Class
CDR Salamander: Plan Salamander Operationalized At Wroclaw Airport
Chicago Boyz: America’s Story in Song
Don Surber: Dems distance themselves from trans
First Street Journal: Yet another immigration sob story
Gates Of Vienna: Yet Another Murderous Mohammedan Loony, also, Welcome to Greenland!
The Geller Report: ISLAM IN AFRICA: Muslims Storm Another Church Service, Kidnap 172 Christians in Nigeria as Media and Leftists Deny the Genocide, Hillary, Bill Clinton Face Criminal Contempt Charges After Defying House Subpoenas, Department of Justice to Subpoena Keith Ellison, Tim Walz, Mayor Frey, Other MN Government Officers, and President Trump Addresses Davos
Hollywood In Toto: Celebrities Can’t Stop Lying About Renee Good, The Left Rages Against Lone Conservative Theatre Group, Pratt’s Mercy Will Make You Think (and Howl), ‘The View’ Sinks to a New Low…and Then Another, and Has ‘Landman’ Gone Too Far in Bashing the Left? UPDATED
Legal Insurrection: “A lot of people mistake this as a fight to save education. It’s not. It’s a fight to save the country”, Law Profs Call for More Litigation Against ICE, New Virginia Bill on Federal Benefits Draws Comparisons to Minnesota’s Alleged Fraud, President of Brandeis U. Warns Quarter of U.S. Colleges Could Close in the Coming Years, and Don Lemon: Criminal? Journalist? or Both?
Matt Taibbi: The Fed’s Independence May Be At Stake – And It’s Its Own Fault 
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Hump Day Report
Outkick: Congratulations Brandon Aiyuk, You Foolishly Played Yourself, Bills Owner Terry Pegula Massively Fails Explaining Firing Sean McDermott While Promoting Brandon Beane, Future CFL Star Keon Coleman Gets Put on Blast by Buffalo Bills GM in What Sounded Like a Public Breakup, Playboy Shares Touching Tribute To Cindy Crawford After Daughter Calls Growing Up With Her Naked Photos A Gift, and Is Britney Spears Up To Task Of Touring? Dancing In See-Through, Topless Horseback & Rolling In Sand Says Yes
Power Line: California Forever, A New Entrant In the Race, Invade Greenland? Of Course Not, Mr. Shirley goes to Washington, and NYT v. Trump: The Omar angle
Shark Tank: Bipartisan FL Senate Panel Advances “AI Bill Of Rights”
Shot In The Dark: A Theory
This Ain’t Hell: Pardon puffery, also, Archbishop for U.S. military personnel: Morally acceptable for troops to defy orders
Victory Girls: Michelle Obama’s Mindless Take On “Mindful Shopping”
Watts Up With That: World Economic Forum Elites Should Focus on Economics, Not Climate Change, New Lawsuit Claims Ziploc Plastic Bags Dose Food with Microplastics, and Climate Change is Not Causing Mass Extinctions, Says Bombshell Royal Society Paper
The Federalist: Raffensperger’s Georgia Election Gaslighting Must End, At SCOTUS, Lisa Cook’s Attorney Admits Trump Can Fire His Client From The Fed, Gabbard Blasts Her Former Party After Mob Attack On Baptist Church, Minnesota Democrats Are Creating A Nullification Crisis Over Immigration, and Jennifer Welch, Irrational, Incensed, And Dangerous, Is The Democrat Party
Mark Steyn: Of Necks and Skin, The Best of Eva, Listen Clean, Dark at the End of the Tunnel – Gene Hackman and The French Connection, and Blue Moon

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In The Mailbox: 01.20.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 21, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.20.26 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Ride Public Transit? Maybe When It Is Safe, also Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process
Director Blue: Greenland & Hypersonic Weapons, 
EBL: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, The Fastest Fish You Can Buy, Goth Waifu Amelia, National Championship Cheerleaders, and Steakhouse Fish
Twitchy: MN Troon Rep Demands Escalation, Va. Gov. Spanberger’s Hardcore Leftist Reveal Proves There Are No Moderate Democrats, and ICE Agent Refuses To Show Warrant To Nosy Lib Because “You’re A Nobody”
Louder With Crowder: Actress claims she saw lynchings growing up in Ohio, but the math doesn’t add up, Shorter Sunny Hostin: White people totally deserve to be discriminated against, especially at that church, CNN finds a DeSantis/Haley/Biden voter who was forced to admit Trump was RIGHT about EVERYTHING, Anti-ICE “Episcopal bishop” calls on parishioners to have their affairs in order because they may need to martyr themselves, and Woman Who Stole Conservative Journalist’s Camera Believed To Be The Owner Of Local Autism Center
Vox Popoli: Under the Sea, College Football is Back, A Necessary Revision, Not Our Crisis, and The Academy Unleashes The Gay
Mazelit Airaksinen: Why Israel Is Seen Everywhere & Everything Else Is Forgotten
Defending The Wood Perilous: Dating the Monsters
Incensepunk Magazine: The Signal Priest of Station Noctis
Cedar Sanderson: Tomato Wyrm Part 6,

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: U.S. Economic Warfare Has Strangled Iran and Venezuela, also, Former Tory Chairman Says The Conservatives Must Tackle Immigration to Survive
American Greatness: Walz, Ellison, Frey’s Offices Served Grand Jury Subpoenas, DOJ About to Drop the Hammer on Don Lemon and Anti-ICE Agitators Who Stormed Minneapolis Church, and Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Claims Anti-ICE Mob That Stormed St. Paul Church Engaged in Protected First Amendment Activity
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 71 – Winter Visitors
BattleSwarm: “Tanks? In My Vietnam War? It’s More Likely Than You Think.”, Celebrity Reality TV Star Porn Star Files For Austin Mayor City Council, Another Illegal Alien Ramming ICE Officers, and Paxton Says DEI Is Unconstitutional
Behind The Black: Computer simulations suggest Jupiter and Saturn have fundamentally different interiors, Australian rocket startup Gilmour Space raises $145 million in investment capital, Update on NASA’s damaged Goldstone antenna, Another Zimmerman op-ed today at PJ Media, and “A new empire has sprung into existence, and there is a new thing under the sun.”
Cafe Hayek: Trump Continues to Pick Americans’ Pockets, On Paul Krugman on China’s Manufacturing Trade Surplus, and A New Low
CDR Salamander: Hegseth At Starbase
Chicago Boyz: The Fire Next Time, MovingSongs, Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride, and The Hunting Party
Da Tech Guy: Why Minnesota? What’s likely been going on and will Keep going on till Trump stops it
Dana Loesch: On NATO & Greenland
Don Surber: EU is splintering
First Street Journal: Now even coffee is Raaaaacist, also, I check Bluesky so you don’t have to
Gates Of Vienna: The Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden, Part 23, We Have a New Dutch Cabinet, and Somalia on the Westerkanaal
The Geller Report: The West Embraces Former Al-Qaeda Chief Ahmed al?Sharaa as His Forces Massacre Kurds, Free ISIS, and Enslave Women, DOJ Moves to Arrest Don Lemon, Investigate Storming of Church, MOTHERS TERRIFIED, CHILDREN SCREAMING as Democrat Protestors Storm St. Paul Church, Three Tourists Shot Dead by Muslim Gunman Outside Disney World, and Schumer Vows to Reverse DOGE Cuts and Expand Spending
Hollywood In Toto: Jillian Michaels Slams Oprah Winfrey as ‘Evil’ for Obesity Defense, Agatha Christie Would Love A Private Life, Pendragon Cycle Puts Christ Back in Arthurian Legend, Labyrinth Made the ’80s SO Much Better, and Dave Smith, Theo Von Fawn Over ‘Brave’ Nick Fuentes
Legal Insurrection: Solar Radiation Storm Slams Earth, Generating Auroras and Threatening Satellites, Former AG Eric Holder Claims ‘There is a Concerted Effort to Re-Segregate America’, Physicians Raise Concerns About ‘Decolonizing Medicine’ Class at U. Maryland, Virginia on Fire: Insane Legislative Blitz on Tax Hikes, Sentencing Rollbacks, and ‘You’ve Just Gotta Live With It’: Minnesota AG Ellison Shrugs Off Church Ambush
Matt Taibbi: Bluesky Brain & X Brain – Two Viral Stories From Minnesota
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Briton on the Gifts of America to the World, Sunday Matinee: Midway, The Indispensable Man, and Last Weekend
Outkick: John Harbaugh Says It Was ‘Great’ President Trump Pushed Him And The Giants Together, “Greatest Sports Stories Of All Time”, BBWAA Elects Carlos Beltran As Steroid-Era Candidates Remain Outside Cooperstown, Final AP Poll Top 25 Is Once Again A Complete Joke, and Abella Danger Unhappy ESPN Showed Her During National Championship, Wants To Enjoy Game Like Any Other Student
Power Line: Voices of Sanity, Can’t stop won’t stop, Subpoenas Served In Walz Investigation, Lemon aid, and 11th Airborne to Minneapolis?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Awards $20 Million In LINE Funding To Address State’s Nursing Needs
Shot In The Dark: Goals?
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Crazy Nature Rights: For Wild Animals; For Bees; For Tax Collectors
This Ain’t Hell: Poll shows Left and right support for political assassinations higher than you think, A New Name You Should know, An LGBTQ+ center is frustrated that a man giving them crap doesn’t face arrest, “Where are the Carriers?”, and Sometimes you get the bear
Transterrestrial Musings: Stop Counting Calories, Poor Hitler, and The Canary In The Coal Mine Of Hollywood
Victory Girls: Don Lemon And Rabid Anti-ICE Loons Invade Minneapolis Church Service, Ilhan Omar Needs To Be Sent Back Home, and Ellison Proves Why DOJ Must Press Charges In Church Invasion
Watts Up With That: Aussie Coal Closure Delayed, to Lower Prices and Stabilise the Grid, Eye-rolling climate science from China, Trump EPA Gets Fraud Out Of Air Pollution Rules, Suppressing Climate Dissent Cannot Prevent Reality From Asserting Itself, and NYT goes full witchcraft, cites an academic declaring Trump will cause bad weather
The Federalist: Because Libraries Push Racism And Queer Extremism, They Deserve Their Massive Federal Funding Cuts, Virginia Democrats Want More Rapists And Murderers On The Streets, If Your Pastor Values Illegal Immigration More Than Your Right To Worship, Find A New Church, Extending Mail Ballots, Banning Hand Counts, And 3 Other Radical Election Changes VA Dems Have Planned, and Don Lemon Made Himself Relevant Again, And Now He Should Be In Federal Custody
Mark Steyn: You Make Me Feel So Young, Dick’s Picks, Not So Legally Blonde, Live Around the Planet – The Not So Secret Service, and The Future Has Shown Up

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In The Mailbox: 01.20.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | January 20, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.20.26 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Heading down to Las Vegas today for a VA appointment in the morning. Hopefully I’ll have the energy tonight to get fully caught up on the linkmongling.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Massive Permian Oil Discovery, also, The Day When Anne Boleyn Was Executed (1536)
357 Magnum: Rick Beato Listened to These Songs, So You Don’t Have To, also Why Do Liberal Women Believe the Law Does Not Apply to Them?
EBL: Ilhan Omar declares the “U.S. goddamn States”, You Nazty Spy, and The Dick Van Dyke Show
Twitchy: Former Reaganite KT McFarland Schools Keith Olbermann After He Calls Her A Moron, Bill Kristol Claims He Knows Men Who Became Women And Matt Walsh Sets Him Straight, and Set Phasers To HA! HA! HA! William Shatner & Stephen Miller Team Up To Take Starfleet Academy Apart
Louder With Crowder: Don Lemon joins angry anti-ICE mob attacking a church, claims he didn’t when he learns it’s illegal, New filings expose how much taxpayer money Teachers Unions send to far left groups, total more eye-popping than expected, Old white liberals are at it again, this time singing spirituals until Target agrees to ban ICE (and other silly demands), Here’s why Trump wants Greenland, and why Europe is just gonna have to deal with it, and Kristi Noem battles Margaret Brennan over ICE detainees, only Noem has facts on her side
Vox Popoli: PROBABILITY ZERO Q&A, Where Biologists Fear to Tread, Oh, George, and The Legacy of Greenland
Based Book Sale: 2025’s Top Twenty Based Fantasy Books
The Bugscuffle Gazette: It was a trap last time
Jim McCoy: Help Your Boy Out, also, The Glyphwright Chronicles, 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Fleet of the 2030s & The Ghost of Transformationalism
Dana Loesch: Don Lemon & Protesters Invade A St. Paul Church, A Quick Broadcast Note, and The Gayest Show On Earth
Don Surber: Trump 2.0 is leaner, meaner, and out of their control
Matt Taibbi: Martin Luther King Jr. Is The Leader We Need, also, Activism Uncensored – Minneapolis In Crisis Part 2
STUMP: Dropping Numbers – Drug ODs, Homicides, Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths

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