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In The Mailbox: 01.27.26

Posted on | January 28, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.27.26

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day Finding The Ghost Ship Marie Celeste (1872)
EBL: Crawfish Boil, The Liberation Of Auschwitz, Amelia’s Dream, and Greatest unfinished song of all time?
Twitchy: When “Reporting” Sounds Like A Pep Rally, Another Damning Nugget Just Dropped About Alex Pretti, and A Monster Of His Own Making
Louder With Crowder: NY Governor thinks people don’t know how to shovel snow, so here she is explaining it to you like you’re dumb, What are the odds? Trump sends Tom Homan to Minneapolis, and police automatically start arresting rioters, “Swim mom” bought a bulletproof vest because the government was gonna kill her, claims it’s fascism for some reason, Jasmine Crockett doubles down on racist comments about ICE, and Chicago mayor marches to “abolish ICE,” and of course he’s with a socialist org
Vox Popoli: A Substantive Critique of PZ, Why the Economy is Collapsing, Gun Rights and Realities, An Inspiring Critique, and Blood vs Paper
The Bugscuffle Gazette: So, Iran – Part 3
Cedar Sanderson: Out Now! New Novella!
Mazelit Airaksinen: NYC Therapist Who Wished Hitler “Ended” Jews Still Practicing

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump’s Adaptability Is a Virtue, Not a Vice
American Greatness: American Flags Torched, Riot Police Clash with Protesters Ahead of Trump Davos Arrival, also, Trump Rules Out Using Military Force to Acquire Greenland, But Seeks ‘Immediate Negotiations’
BattleSwarm: Ukraine And The Gamification Of Combat
Behind The Black: NASA makes it official – Oman signs the Artemis Accords, Avio gets two new launch contracts for its Vega-C rocket, Astronomers use AI to discover hundreds of weird galaxies in Hubble archive, Musk says Next Starship/Superheavy test launch in mid-March, and Windswept Martian volcanic ash?
Chicago Boyz: Black Fatigue, also, A Proper Insurrection
Don Surber: The Walz is caving in to Trump
First Street Journal: Sometimes deportation is not enough
Gates Of Vienna: Pennies: To Pinch or Not to Pinch
The Geller Report: Trump Takes Control: Walz Reaches Out and Agrees to Cooperate After Homan Deployed to Minneapolis, also, Schumer Threatening Another Government Shutdown
Hollywood In Toto: All Jimmy Kimmel Does Is Lie (And Cry), also, Are Critics Grading Starfleet Academy on a Woke Curve?
Legal Insurrection: Massive Potomac River Sewage Spill Exposes D.C. Water’s Cracked Priorities, Virginia Judge Blocks Democrats’ Redistricting Amendment, Dozens of Rioters Arrested Outside Minnesota Hotel Where ICE Agents Supposedly Stay, DOJ Reportedly Withdraws Request for Don Lemon Arrest Warrant Over Church Raid, and VCU Medical Nurse Placed on Leave for Allegedly Encouraging People to Poison ICE Agents
Nebraska Energy Observer: Amelia, Avatar of English Freedom
Outkick: Bill Belichick Shockingly Snubbed As First-Ballot Hall Of Famer, Learner Tien Becomes Latest American Player To Shut Down Anti-Trump Question At Australian Open, All-Time Lowball? Report Claims Jets Tried To Cheap Out On Jon Gruden NFL Return, Vanderbilt QB’s Height Lies Exposed Before NFL Draft, But What’s The Problem With It? and Kansas Woman’s Gut-Wrenching Story Of Her Husband & Girlfriend Kicking Her Out Of The Throuple
Power Line: Inside the resistance, Compare and Contrast, Lawfare and habeas corpus, About the “Affordability Crisis”, and Menendez miasma clearing
Shark Tank:  Paul Renner Targets & Spoofs Byron Donalds With Unique Social Media Strategy
Shot In The Dark: Sub-Zero
The Political Hat: Big Brother Is Bartending
This Ain’t Hell: Virginia Senate committee passes bill that would ban magazines holding over 10 rounds, also, Minnesota Guard Aids Anti-ICE Demonstrations
Victory Girls: Librarian Busted For TikTok Trump Derangement Syndrome
Watts Up With That: Data centers are the physical internet, Al Gore Wants to Pay Farmers to Grow Less Food to Fight Climate Change, Trump’s Withdrawal from Collapsing Climate Narrative, The Grid Will Hold – Maybe – But the Bill Will Rise, and Do Renewables Make for Cheaper Electricity?
The Federalist: Stay-At-Home Mom Stands Up To Alleged Homewrecker And Ex-Senator Kyrsten Sinema, SCOTUS Holds The Key To Stopping Virginia Democrats’ Gun Control Gambit, Tim Walz Cannot Be Trusted To ‘Cooperate’ On Immigration Enforcement, Illegal Aliens Kill Scores Of Americans For Every Leftist Who Dies Protecting Them, and Dems’ ‘Unconstitutional’ Bill Would Jail Law-Abiding Virginians For Guns They Already Own
Mark Steyn: Norms and Parameters

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The Worst People in the World

Posted on | January 27, 2026 | Comments Off on The Worst People in the World

Heather Schwedel

You think you hate the liberal media enough, but you don’t — and that’s probably a good thing. It would be psychologically unhealthy to hate anyone as much as the liberal media deserve to be hated.

Heather Schwedel is a writer for Slate, which was one of the pioneering political commentary sites back in the dial-up modem days of the 1990s. If you’re old enough to remember when AOL discs came in a box of cereal — seriously, that actually happened for a few months in 1996 — you may remember when Microsoft hired Michael Kinsley (former New Republic editor and then co-host of CNN’s Crossfire) to be editor of Slate.

That was 30 years ago. In 2004, the Washington Post purchased Slate, but when Jeff Bezos bought the Post in 2013, he had no use for Slate, which is now property of a separate firm, Graham Holdings. This trek down memory lane doesn’t do much to explain why Heather Schwedel is on Slate’s payroll, but it does give you some sense of the downward trajectory of Slate’s prestige. The latest milestone on this descent into infamy is Schwedel’s article with this headline, “Well, That Is One Way for J.D. and Usha Vance to Respond to the Erika Kirk Divorce Rumors.”

Could anyone imagine a more perverse and sickening possible reaction to the announcement that the Vice President’s wife is pregnant? Perhaps someone might call attention to the various deranged mutterings of Candace Owens or the despicable smears of Nick Fuentes, but ladies and gentlemen, Heather Schwedel is employed by Slate, which was formerly considered one of the most reputable online journals. It’s not like this was published by some obscure fringe site. No, this vile article was written by a full-time staff writer and, presumably, given the green light by an editor who is paid an actual salary. Among the tasks of an editor is saying “no” to story ideas that will bring disrepute to the publication, and here the editors of Slate have self-evidently failed. Let’s dive in:

The rumors about J.D. Vance leaving his wife for Erika Kirk, which have persisted since the two shared a much-discussed hug in October, were always more darkly entertaining than plausible. But observers have surmised that they took off because they reflected a certain air of uneasiness that has surrounded Vance’s marriage for the whole time it’s been on the national stage. As the highly educated daughter of Indian immigrants, Usha Vance not only doesn’t burnish Vance’s MAGA credentials; she undermines them. When reports of a possible divorce on the horizon began to swirl in November, it wasn’t altogether surprising. Reckoning with all those contradictions was inevitable, right? . . .

Dear God, ma’am! Wes Pruden would have kicked you down the stairs if you had pitched him a story like that. “Rumors” have “persisted” since “a much-discussed hug”? By whom was this discussed? Some podcasters?

Also notice Schwedel’s not-too-subtle recycling of the Nick Fuentes “married a jeet” smear: Usha is the “daughter of Indian immigrants” and therefore “doesn’t burnish Vance’s MAGA credentials” — but if he dumped the mother of his three children to marry the grieving widow of Charlie Kirk, that would burnish his credentials? Exactly what does Heather Schwedel know about “MAGA credentials” and how they are burnished? Where did she gain this expertise? But among the many laughable elements of Schwedel’s first paragraph, perhaps none is as absurd the part where she says “observers have surmised” blah blah blah.

Guess who she links for this? C’mon, take a guess.

If you guessed Amanda Marcotte, collect your prize. Of all the idiot feminists in the world, Schwedel links the most idiotic for her “observers have surmised” reference. To spare you from reading the entirety of Marcotte’s brain-damaged screed, I’ll quote this one sentence: “Vance’s marriage is an increasingly poor fit for his political brand, which has become increasingly based on praising the virtues of white supremacy and retrograde gender roles.” To use the adverb “increasingly” twice in the same sentence is the sort of stylistic error that bespeaks haste in composition, and one pictures Marcotte furiously typing away with a maniacal expression on her face as she wrote that. What joy she must have felt in that one-two punch of “white supremacy and retrograde gender roles” to characterize Vance’s “political brand.”

Anyway, back to Schwedel’s secondhand rumor-mongering:

If you’re wondering what’s so MAGA about having a kid, it’s not just that they’re having a kid, but that they’re having a fourth kid. The average number of children per American household has been declining for decades, so having four kids in the year 2026 is a bit of a statement. While it doesn’t have to be conservative-coded, it tends to skew that way. It’s also a statement in the sense that it follows more literal statements Vance has made about pro-natalism and how women need to have more babies, and/or the evils of women who choose not to. In fact, the Vance baby is part of a mini baby boom at the White House, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, also expecting. . . .

(Note that I am the father of six children myself, but all of mine were sired long before Trump rode down that escalator.)

[I]t’s important to remember that [Mrs. Vance] is a willing participant in all of this. While it’s tempting to wonder if anyone else in her law-school class has put their career on hold to have four kids, she chose to have all those kids, and to leave her career to support her husband, and to stay with that husband, no matter how increasingly awful he seems both as a force in society and as an individual partner to her. Usha is free to slap “I had this before J.D. went crazy” stickers on her other kids. But if she could ever claim any kind of ignorance, that time is over. She has now seen exactly who her husband has become as vice president. And knowing everything she knows, she concluded that yes, she wanted to have another one of J.D. Vance’s babies.

In conclusion, yuck. Nothing more need be said to condemn this, as it is self-evidently indefensible. It is astonishing how contemporary liberal journalism manages to attract all the worst people in the world, a sort of magnetic North Pole of wrongness. We might be tempted to say that Heather Schwedel should be ashamed of herself, but if she had any capacity for shame, she wouldn’t be writing for Slate, would she?



 

Category: J.D. Vance, Liberals, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 01.26.26

Posted on | January 27, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.26.26

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

It was good enough for Col. Colvill and his men at Gettysburg. It’s good enough now.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day When The Mississippi Ran Backwards (1812), A Day When The Enemy Burned The White House To The Ground (1814), and The Full Scope Anti-ICE Insurgency
357 Magnum: Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0
EBL: Alex Pretti’s Minneapolis ICE Shooting — Here’s the Law (Legal Analysis), Hamachi, The Definitive Address to a Haggis in Edinburgh Castle, Swedish pickled herring, and Dodo The Kid from Outer Space
Twitchy: Fake But Accurate – Journos & Other Propagandists Run With AI Pretti Image, Nurse Says He Won’t Give Anesthesia To Republicans In Surgery, and My Friend Was Murdered By Feds – Send Coffee Money
Louder With Crowder: MN Police Chief says it doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti shooting was justified, Mamdani confirms that, yes, taxpayers will be funding free childcare for illegals, Hollywood actor claims “we” should be a county thankful for immigrants, Bad Bunny hasn’t angered football fans enough, and Body “positivity” ad shows fat man complaining that you are shaming him
Vox Popoli: Immigration and Outsourcing, No Chance At All, A 60-Year-Old Book Review, Why AI Hallucinates, and Championship Weekend
Cedar Sanderson: Forensics For Writers Part 7, also, Winter Storm Chocolate Pudding
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Cowboy Chicken Soup, So, Iran, and So, Iran Part 2
Twilight Patriot: Why Sad Puppies Still Matters
Stoic Observations: No Church Bombings Today, Everyone’s An AI Script Kiddie, and Ferguson Burning Revisited
Upstream Reviews: New Releases
Gab: France Demands We Ban Users – We Say No

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Ashes of American Flags, also, On Immigration, MAGA Needs Less Morality
American Greatness: A Citizen’s Guide to Violence in Minneapolis, also, The Countdown to Iran’s Liberation Has Begun
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 72 – Alaska and Names
BattleSwarm: Old And Busted: Youxia In, Xi Out. The New Hotness: Xi In, Youxia Out, Winter Storm Fern T+1: Snow Down, Power Up, and Petteway v. Galveston County v. New York?
Behind The Black: Oman says it wants to sign the Artemis Accords, SpaceX launches 25 more Starlink satellites, “AI isn’t getting smarter. We are getting dumber.”, Russia delays launch of its own “Starlink” constellation, and The profound life’s work of Richard Rodgers
Cafe Hayek: Trump Is Playing 2-D Chess, Badly, Stop the Micromanaging, and A Comparison of Trump 45 to Trump 47
CDR Salamander: Mid-Winter Melee On Midrats, also, China’s Demographic Window To Action is Closing
Chicago Boyz: The Thuggery Precedes the Dictatorship, also, Worthwhile Reading
Da Tech Guy: DaTechGuy’s Diet Phase Three The Final and the Hardest Part
Dana Loesch: On The Minnesota Shooting, 
Don Surber: Time Is On Trump’s Side In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Nickson: How Is Everybody Enjoying Our Lovely Marxist Invasion?
First Street Journal: How wealthy blue staters fight #ClimateChange, also, The internet has not made the left smarter; it has really made them stupid
Gates Of Vienna: A Blizzard of Ice, Giulia Sorrentino: “Islam is Penetrating Our Institutions”, A Narrow Escape, Giulia Sorrentino and Tommaso Cerno Must Be Over the Target, and This is the Face of ISIS in Virginia
The Geller Report: The Two Mr. Trumps, MINNESOTA INSURRECTION – DHS Agents Engage, Shoot Armed Keffiyeh-Clad Rioter in Enforcement Action Against Violent Illegal, INDUSTRIAL SCALE FRAUD – $400 Million Minnesota Medicaid Scheme Operating Out of Single Building, SIGNAL INSURRECTION – Walz Incitement, Anti-ICE Signal Cells, Fatal Confrontation — Minnesota Democrats, Walz Adviser Identified as Admins, and Carny Barker – Canada’s PM Carney Trashes America Under U.S. Protection, Grovels to China, Then Crawls Back
Glenn Reynolds: On Weather Forecasts And “Trusting The Science”, also, Of Squids, Ink, & Minnesota’s Corrupt Machine
Hollywood In Toto: Why Jimmy Kimmel Won’t Pounce on Easy Ratings Boost, We Bury the Dead Is Not Your Average Zombie Flick, This Wasn’t Your Typical Take on Hamlet, Send Help Is the Very Best of Sam Raimi, and Kimmel’s Free Speech Army Silent As Jewish Cancellations Spike
Legal Insurrection: Snowmageddon 2026 Sparks Appreciation for the Reliability of Energy From Coal, Oil, Appeals Court Grants Stay on Restrictions Placed on Agents in Minnesota, Trump Sending Homan to Minnesota, Confirms Investigation Into Rep. Omar, FBI Investigating Minnesota Anti-ICE Signal Chats, and Young Man Who Skipped College to Become an Electrician Now Makes Six Figures
Nebraska Energy Observer: And Now Let’s Meet Maria, Amelia Amongst the Cousins, and Canada and More
Outkick: NFL Commemorates America’s ‘Freedom, Unity, And Founding Ideals’ Prior To Conference Title Games, Budweiser Drops Unbelievably Patriotic Super Bowl Commercial, Disgraced FIFA Boss Targets Trump While Warning Fans Off US World Cup, Ernest Jones Twists the Knife on Rams After Seahawks Beat Former Team, and Sydney Sweeney Pulls Off Incredible Bra Stunt On Hollywood Sign
Power Line: Stephen Hunter – Pretti’s pistol, Minneapolis insurgency, Inside the battle of the Twin Cities, Minnesota revolution in the courtroom, and Trump’s Demands
Shark Tank: FL Health Department Finds Elevated Levels Of Arsenic In Candy
Shot In The Dark: Blame, also, Random Thoughts From A Random Debate
The Political Hat:
This Ain’t Hell: Far-left organizations are providing ICE related information to protesters in Minneapolis, Trump ADA gets grief from GOA, NRA, Federal agent shoots armed illegal alien in Minneapolis, Vice President JD Vance says California’s fraud is worse than that of Minnesota, and Big Navy, “Sorry About That Covid Thing”
Transterrestrial Musings: Lawyers, On The Apparent News Of The Day, and In The Air
Victory Girls: Schumer And Democrats Vow Shutdown Over DHS Funding, also, The Attacks on Usha Vance are Savage and Dangerous
Watts Up With That: “Storm” Chandra, Storm Ferm: Remember Uri (centrally planned electricity ‘transition’ in Texas), Money to ‘Decarbonize’ as Useless as Gym Memberships and Extended Warranties, Germany’s Natural Gas Crisis Escalates … One Storage Site Near Empty …Government Silent, and Mann v. Steyn: Finally Ready for Appeal?
The Federalist: Former 911 Responder Shares Horror Stories Of Mail-Order Abortions, Democrats Are Willing To Die To End Deportations – That Can’t Stop Law Enforcement, NASCAR Ditches Cheap Gimmicks In Favor Of A Playoff Format Focused On Racing, Republicans Rewarding Anti-ICE Violence In Minnesota Will Incite More Violence Everywhere, and Don’t Wait Until You Die To Give Your Kids Their Inheritance
Mark Steyn: Mann’s $9M Jury Lie, “Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah”, Never Leave the House – Martin Scorsese’s After Hours, “Down Under”, and Dress to Kill

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Rule 5 Sunday: All You Can Eat

Posted on | January 26, 2026 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: All You Can Eat

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to @kbdabear on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Not Chinese, but a succulent meal nonetheless.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Amelia Maria And Eva Are Defending Europe, MAGA Immigration Enforcement, Nora Jane Noone, Bookish, The Home, A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms, Goth Waifu Amelia, National Championship Cheerleaders, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Natalie Roser, Fish 691 Landed in Potomac River, Fish Pic Friday – Audrey Svaboda, Thursday Tanlines, Don Lemon Goes to Church, May Get Arrested, The Wednesday Wetness, MDDNR Looking at Striper Bass Reset, A Tuesday Tune – Wildflower, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Palm Sunday 

BACON TIME: Rule Five – Butt It’s Friday

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FMJRA 2.0: Too Good To Be True?

Posted on | January 25, 2026 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Too Good To Be True?

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It was another great week to be a Senators fan. Not only did we take two of three against the hapless Dodgers – the sole loss coming at the hands of Don Sutton, who held us to three runs while the Dodgers scratched out four – but we went on to beat the Hated Yankees in two games, the third being an 0-5 shutout against Wilbur Wood. We’re tied with the Red Sox for second in the division at 39-45, we have a positive run differential for the first time this season (the 15-6 and 13-3 wins against LA helped that a lot) but we’re facing St. Louis and Montreal next week, so I’m expecting a .500 week at best.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

4-2 continues to be good.

Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Update: Three ‘Zizians’ Make Court Appearance
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL
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FMJRA 2.0: Suddenly, A Winning Week
EBL
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Rule 5 Sunday: But First, Coffee
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Ludicrous Irony: Life Advice for Young Men from the Former John Walker Flynt
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.19.26
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 01.20.26 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 01.20.26 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 01.21.26
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Historical Analogies and the Current Crisis
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 01.23.26 (Afternoon Edition)
EBL
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 01.23.26 (Evening Edition)
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Minnesota: @camhigby Exposes Communications of Anti-ICE Conspiracy

Posted on | January 25, 2026 | Comments Off on Minnesota: @camhigby Exposes Communications of Anti-ICE Conspiracy

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 | Comments Off on The St. Paul Three: Anti-ICE Terrorists Now Facing Federal Felony Charges

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 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.23.26 (Evening Edition)

— 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

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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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