The Morning Rant

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Charles is off on holiday.

The United States of America.

What does it mean to be an American?
What does it mean to you?
What does it mean to your loved ones?

It was fairly simple to answer those questions just a few short years ago. And deep down in my heart I believe the majority of people would have agreed upon the following three:
1) Life
2) Liberty
3) Pursuit of happiness

Our country, the redheaded step-child of Great Britain rebelled. And that revolution gave birth to a country built upon guts and rugged individualism. A country built upon the rule of law, Judaeo/Christian beliefs and the credo of treating another as ourselves.

Over the past 250 years our country has made mistakes. But we have always attempted to learn from our mistakes and proceed accordingly.

It is my humble opinion that the United States of America is broken. It is broken and it will not be repaired in my lifetime. And if the violent left keeps the flames burning it may be replaced in my lifetime.

Somewhere along the line, citizens and non-citizens alike have completely rejected the 3 principals mentioned earlier.

Political assassinations have occurred throughout history. Besides the two attempts on President Trump's life. The most recent besides Charlie Kirk, to my memory was that of Minnesota legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman.It was a despicable act, it doesn't matter that she was a Democrat.

“The harm caused by Boelter’s actions was not confined to any one place—it was felt widely, including here in Minneapolis. His conduct endangered the safety of our communities and undermined trust in police. We are thankful to our U.S. Attorney’s Office and all federal, state, and local law enforcement that have worked tirelessly to hold this killer accountable,” said Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara.

He has a tad more testosterone than Portland Police Chief Bob Day

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Pain of Andromache
Jacques-Louis David

The Morning Report — 1/29/26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. The focus yet again is on Minneapolis and two totally shocking stories. Not really. First, as a number of you noted in yesterday's comments the Emshpritzening of America's sweetheart, the de-clitorized criminal immigration fraudster and incest practitioner Bro-Fo Omar was likely a hack amateur-hour fake out.

But this incident reeks of inauthenticity. She appears to make eye contact with her attacker just before he gets up, as if she is signaling to him that the time for the attack had come. She walks toward him after he sprays the liquid on her, instead of running away, as any person undergoing an unexpected attack would be likely to do. And she calmly continues her speech, without any apparent concern for the possibility that the substance could be lethal and that she should go wash it off. . .Both leftists and Muslims in the U.S. have demonstrated a strong affinity for claiming victimhood . . . Omar’s spraying incident, as transparently fake as it is, is one of the clumsiest examples of this technique, but it’s understandable, after having been coddled for years, that Omar would assume that she could get away with anything, no matter how flimsy.

Next is this now deceased Alex Pretti stooge who, surprise surprise was predisposed to being a Democrat/Leftist stormtrooper.

Disturbing new footage shows Alex Pretti armed, spitting at federal immigration officers and smashing the taillights of their black SUV during a chaotic clash more than a week before he was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. The video, which the BBC said it has verified, captured the ICU nurse yelling at agents while they were driving away during a heated Jan. 13 protest before booting the back of the car, prompting them to jump out and tackle him to the ground, according to footage from The News Movement.   The man — who was wearing similar clothing in the video to what Pretti had on when he was fatally shot last Saturday — was taken to the ground by at least five agents, who deployed tear gas into the whistle-blowing crowd during the wild confrontation.

With that, I ask the question are Alex Prettis and Renee Goods born or are they made?

“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than evil.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Bonhoeffer’s insight remains one of the most unsettling diagnoses of moral collapse ever written—not because it flatters our intelligence, but because it strips away comforting illusions. . .

. . . One of the defining features of ideological stupidity is its joyfulness. Evil often appears dour and grim in our imagination, but in reality it frequently presents itself as exuberant, righteous, even celebratory. Once responsibility is dissolved into a collective—“the movement,” “the cause,” “history”—guilt evaporates. The individual no longer bears moral weight. He obeys. And obedience feels liberating.

That is why crowds can chant with glee while calling for harm. That is why activists can smile while threatening federal officers. That is why vandalism is rebranded as “resistance” and intimidation as “speech.” The participants do not experience themselves as committing wrongdoing. They experience themselves as morally elevated.

Another aspect is that beyond Pretti's emotional state and rationale he knew that he also had the political and judicial cover that would shield him from any potential repercussions such as prison, and this attitude likely fed into his fatal delusion/illusion that he was in no mortal danger whatsoever and so could attack with impunity.

And when you consider the following, it's no wonder that he and Renee Good are now moldering in their graves.

A coalition of left-wing district attorneys largely funded by billionaire George Soros launched an initiative to prosecute federal immigration agents in their jurisdictions, setting the stage for a potential showdown with the Trump administration. Many of those same prosecutors oppose mandatory minimum prison sentences for violent crimes and have released murderers back on the streets.

The Project for the Fight Against Federal Overreach (FAFO), led by Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner and Minneapolis district attorney Mary Moriarty and launched on Wednesday, calls itself "an effort to hold federal officials accountable when they exceed their lawful authority." The nine-member coalition plans to convene next month "to share strategies for pushing back against the lawless actions of federal forces in states and cities around the country." Under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, federal agents are generally immune from state prosecution for acts carried out within the scope of their official duties.

Let this sink in for a moment: Soros DA's vow to hunt Ice Like Nazi War criminals – considering George Soros himself is an admitted and proud actual Nazi war criminal. He and his father worked for the Nazis during their occupation of Hungary by helping them identify and round up the Jews of Budapest and elsewhere, who were then loaded onto cattle trains and shipped directly to the gas chambers and crematoria of Birkenau. they were paid handsomely by the Nazis and allowed to expropriate the dispatched Jews' property/money which was the seed capital for Soros' financial empire that has fueled much of the anti-American and anti-Western subversion over the past 50 years or more.

The chutzpocrisy here is off the charts almost to the point of hilarity. While the torch has been passed to son Alex Soros, that George Soros has not been stripped of his citizenship and deported back to Hungary for being an admitted bona fide Nazi war criminal in violation of his immigration status is an infamy. I know that I and others almost from the moment Trump was sworn in for his first term were shrieking our lungs out for him to act on this and yet to this day, Soros remains untouched and his evil empire is feverishly working to destroy us from within.

The damage to our safety and liberty as individuals and as a society via the installation of pro-crime DAs and Secretaries of State to help grease the wheels of election fraud is incalculable. What we are witnessing in Minneapolis and elsewhere is in no small part fueled by Soros blood money.

Psaki-psircling back to that excellent piece highlighting the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, I now ask, did Alex Pretti and Renee Good get what they "deserved?" That's debatable, but one thing is for sure, America, the safety, security civil rights of the citizenry, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the rule of law got what it desperately needed when those two met their fate. Sad on many levels that it had to come to that, But that said, it's only a start. Those who set them and all the others like them up to be cannon fodder in service to the seizure of absolute power and the dissolution of our nation and society must be destroyed, peacefully and via the processes and rule of law that they themselves have set a match to if at all possible. But the anti-American Leftist political movement and the Democrat Party itself must be eradicated if America is to last past its 250th year if it even reaches that milestone six months from now.

Lurker extraordinaire Victor Davis Hanson is not the first to invoke what happened 165 years ago . . . It's an insurrection if they can keep it:

.Lincoln and the preservationists felt that they easily had the moral high ground of abolition versus the continuance of slavery. Nor did they want a North America of fragmenting, warring nations in the manner of Europe. Something similar is emerging over Minnesota, the South Carolina of our age. . . Once sanctuary states, cities, and counties had established the precedent that, with impunity, they could nullify federal immigration law, then what followed was a logical and mounting descent into the current open defiance of the federal government. How odd that self-described progressives are now acting out the visions of prior kindred nullificationists and neo-Confederates from John C. Calhoun to George Wallace. The reaction of the rest of the nation, especially its conservative half, to Minnesota resembles the 1861 disconnect in the North over the insurrectionary states.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Victor Davis Hanson: Minnesota’s defiance of federal immigration law echoes pre–Fort Sumter nullification, forcing Trump to choose between enforcement and letting blue states slide toward open rebellion.
  Slouching Towards Fort Sumter?
  
• Bonhoeffer warned us.
  Stupidity or Evil: Which is More Dangerous?

Daily Tech News 29 January 2026

—Pixy Misa

• Windows 11 now has a billion users, all of whom hate it. (Thurrott)
  
  I wouldn't advise clicking on that link. It launched multiple video ads all playing at once and choked my browser to the point that I couldn't even close the tab.
  
  Anyway:

  As part of today's quarterly earnings conference call, Microsoft revealed that there are now over one billion Windows 11 users. That's a big milestone by any measure, but here's what I find interesting: It took Windows 11 less time to reach one billion users than it did for Windows 10.

  By three months, and they had to murder Windows 10 to do it.

  Today, the narrative is that everyone hates Windows 11. I complain about the enshittification, which is real. But that started with Windows 10 (or, really Windows 8). And I don't "hate" Windows 11, nor do I see hatred out in the world.

  I don't think you've looked, Paul.
  
  
  
• Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux. (Himthe)

  So there I was, finally grasping the reality of what you're up against, as a Windows user:

  • Random bugs that break basic functionality
  • Updates that install without permission and brick my system
  • Copilot and OneDrive ads appearing in every corner of the OS
  • Copilot buttons everywhere, coming for every application
  • Can't even make a local account without hacking the setup with Rufus (they even removed the terminal workaround)
  • Zero actionable fixes or even an aknowledgment of their fuckups
    

  Sounds about right, yes.

  People often say Linux is "too much work.".

  And I agree. They're completely justified to complain. There's the documentation page diving, the forums, the reddit threads. And, most importantly, you have to basically rewire your brain and stop expecting it to behave like Windows used to.

  But I looked at the list above and realized: Windows is now also too much work.
  And the difference with Windows is that you're going to do all that work while actively fighting your computer only for it to be undone when the next surprise update comes and ruins everything.

  There is also Windows 10 IoT Enterprise Edition LTSC.
  
  Or Windows 7, which doesn't get updates so it doesn't break.

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - January 28, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional, but only if you are in very warm surroundings. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

[Top photo: Winter in Yosemite. Photo credit unknown.]

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Please indulge me for a moment:

Many people know Porsches as the sportscar in Risky Business or Weird Science. Charlie drove a Porsche speedster in Top Gun and Will Smith drove a 911 Turbo in Bad Boys. Maybe you knew a local doctor that had a red one or an uncle with something that vaguely looked like a sporty VW.

Before Porsches became more broadly known in the 1980s, it was a much different company. The company was only born in 1948 and was smaller than other manufacturers. In the mid 1960s, the 911 succeeded the 356 which was the company's first model. The 911 was simple and sporty with a timeless shape where form followed function. It was not a luxury car.

Porsche believed that motorsport improved the breed. The 911 was a road car but it was raced by the factory and customers alike.

Porsche engineer Peter Falk joined the company in 1959 and rose quickly to head various testing programs, including the first road going and racing 911 cars. He served as navigator in the first international race for the 911, the 1965 Monte Carlo Rally. Racing was competitive R&D and run out of the passenger car business.

In the 1960s, Falk managed the racing program. In the mid-1960s and 1970s, the factory built pure racers like the 917 to challenge for wins at the biggest races. In 1981, the racing program was formally moved from under the passenger car business and Falk became Porsche's racing director.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Porsche moved from chasing others to having everyone else chase Porsche. Porsche did not just win - it dominated. Falk lead an amazing group of people that accomplished amazing things. It was a right place, right time, right people scenario. The engineers were not flashy and let the cars and drivers take the spotlight. It was a time before everything became electronic and driven by computers. Trial and error, intelligence, willpower, and on-the-fly engineering pushed progress.

Porsche claimed motorsport success in the 1980s across many forms of motorsport (including LeMans and Dakar), remarkable for a racing department that was tiny by modern standards.

Most people have never heard of Peter Falk or the people in his orbit but Porsche as a company and motorsport in general would not be the same without their involvement and Herr Falk's leadership.

Peter Falk's earthy race saw the checkered flag on January 23. He was 93.

No, Porsche Peter Falk is not the same as the Columbo Peter Falk.

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Hat tip: Iris

I await the Horde's theological explanation for why Luke is sugar free.

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Two unrelated but random time-related facts:

The Dutch tulip bubble only lasted six months:

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Science!

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Knowledge:

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Sure this has been posted before but think we need some zoomie winter content:

Greyhound causes a zoomie riot at the dog park.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/bqi6Bdy2WD

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) January 27, 2026

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

And as is customary and traditional:

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In memory of Peter Falk, Hans Zimmer with the soundtrack from the movie "Rush" for the big ONT finish.

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Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ?? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Close it up

Toonces: The Next Generation Cafe

—Ace

Playing it off.

Furpile.

This seems like a haiku.

Mistakes were made.

Taking the pet wolf for a walk and howl.

Beautiful Renaissance painting of a chocolate starfish.

Diving in cramped and flooded caves, without air tanks, hits several of my top phobias at once. Now if the diver was also naked and just realized he has to take a crucial high school final exam he didn't even know was on the schedule, it would hit all of them.

Quick Hits

—Ace

Mickey Kaus: Now that illegals are being deported, wages are going up, and rents are coming down.

Mickey Kaus @kausmickey

17h

"Leisure and hospitality" Biden '24 = down 0.81%; Trump '25 = up 1.13%.
"Grocery & convenience" Biden '24 = down 0.17 %; Trump '25 = up 1.05 %
"Landscaping services" Biden = up 1.42 %; Trump '25 = up 2.41 %
"Retail" [big category] Biden '24 = down .15 %; Trump '25 = up 1.32 %

Some categories went down and "construction" only went up a bit (+1.65 percent to +1.71 percent). Still. Overall seems evidence that illegal workers do bid down wages and when they leave wages rise.

Mickey Kaus @kausmickey Do we still need housing Abundance in Los Angeles if illegal immigrants leave? I assume yes, but am having doubts! Walked up the block--three "For Lease" signs, and at the end of the block is a big new apartment house with vacancies.

Murders are also down, he points out. "What a nightmare," he comments.

Shoe @samosaur

Jan 26

Pramila Jayapal, Congresswoman for WA-07, is training citizens to "resist authoritarianism."

This is the "pressure from below" aspect of the color revolution. Mobilizing the grassroots.

She'll apply the "pressure from above" phase of the revolution as an elected official when these citizens she trains protest and riot on the ground.

Video here.

He provides a description of the "color revolution" tactics being used to destabilize and conquer the US, which I'm grateful for, because while I had a vague sense of what color revolution meant, I didn't really understand it.

Shoe
@samosaur

I think we're in a hybrid between a color revolution playbook and an insurgency fueled by oppressor/oppressed sentiments.

The overall goal is the same: enable a minority to gain and consolidate total control "legally" without major bloodshed by convincing the majority they're hopelessly outnumbered and overwhelmed.

"The concept of "pressure from above and below" (sometimes described as the "revolutionary use of pliers") originates from a 1957 analysis by Jan Kozák, a theoretician and member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party's Central Committee."

Without delving into the entire post WWII scenario, Czechoslovakian communists conducted a soft coup in 1948 by exerting "pressure from below" through the use of rioters, strikers and protesters. They created the illusion of widespread chaos at the grassroots levels.

Communists in the government, who held democratically elected seats, came over top and applied "pressure from above" by creating laws to appease the protesters, even though it was the same group of people.

They would use "positions already held within government, parliament, ministries, courts, police, and media to enact legal changes, pass laws, appoint loyalists, and shift power incrementally toward the party."

The idea was to squeeze the majority populace into "apathy and despair" and allow the lawmakers to make concessions to appease the rioters. This ultimately lead to communist overthrow through democratic means.

Though the precursor to the modern color revolution was rooted in communist seizure of power, post USSR color revolutions employed many of the same tactics by demonstrating against authoritarianism and fraudulent elections (see Serbia 2000, Georgia 2003 and Ukraine 2004).

While NGOs have been linked to the revolutions, "proponents of color revolutions counter that they were driven by domestic grievances and civil society, with any external aid limited to democracy promotion (e.g., election monitoring, civic education) rather than engineered takeovers."

Modern color revolutions became popular due to the themes they used such as specific colors, flowers and "peaceful" means of government overthrow, but the concept behind them is one of a disenfranchised people who seek to throw off the reins of authoritarianism.

What we're currently seeing in the U.S. is more akin to the "pressure from above and below" model from 1948 Czechoslovakia, as elected, sympathetic members of the government provide legitimacy to the riots and demonstrations carried out in the streets. Media cements the narrative by amplifying the messaging while often carrying scripted narratives that are repeated on every outlet by every anchor.

Many are hesitant to call it a full blown insurgency, though insurgency like methods are heavily involved in the "pressure from below" as autonomous zones are created and "protesters" take over legitimacy and sideline law enforcement, medical care, journalists and anyone else not sympathetic to their cause.

An insurgency is generally defined by a long period of time where terrorist tactics are employed such as assassinations and sabotage, and I think a valid argument can be made that many of these tactics have been employed across a national space for a decade or more.

The color revolution aspect of the resistance is employed through organizations such as BLM and No Kings, based in the oppressor/oppressed framework I mentioned earlier.

While these definitions are important and give context, there is one key factor missing from every other color revolution/coup previously mentioned: illegal immigration.

The number one priority of the Biden Administration was to flood the interior with as many foreigners as possible. By absorbing 20+ illegal immigrants, communists and progressives (working in parallel with converging interests), shored up their voting demographic for the foreseeable future. They will fight to the death to preserve it.

While grassroots AND paid actors demonstrate in the color revolution space for either their belief that Trump is an illegitimate authoritarian figure, illegal immigrants being allowed to stay, or simply because they're paid to demonstrate, the communist NGOs and support networks creating the infrastructure and networks, plus the funding streams, are focused on government overthrow.

They've been working in both peaceful and violent spaces for over a decade, and communist rule is their focus. They leverage the media, their people in government and law enforcement, and the emotional ideology of their "grassroots" movements apply "pressure from above and below" with the sole purpose of overthrowing the Government of the United States.

FAFO: Violent Lunatic Women Making Death Threats, Plotting the Poisoning of ICE Agents, and Spitting at ICE Agents Are Getting Fired and Arrested

—Ace

The VCU nurse who urged people to...

1, find ICE agents on dating apps and then poison them with laxatives

2, threaten ICE agents with needles -- filled with saline, she says -- so that protesters can scare them by thinking they'll be infected with a disease or harmed by a poison

3, use a paralytic agent on ICE agents

...has now been fired.

LibsofTikTok isn't content. She wants her nursing license pulled.

A West Virginia AWFL had solicited assassins to murder Trump.

She has now been arrested.

The Jackson County Sheriff's Department in West Virginia announced Sunday evening that a librarian was under arrest after she posted videos seeking to recruit assassins targeting President Donald Trump.

Morgan L. Morrow of Ripley, West Virginia, was charged with one count of making a terroristic threat, the agency posted on its Facebook page. The arrest was announced at 9:31 p.m. Eastern time, hours after Libs of TikTok posted the videos on X earlier Sunday evening.

"Following a detailed evening investigation by deputies and the Jackson County [Bureau] of Investigations, Morgan L. Morrow, age 39 of Ripley, has been detained, arrested, and transported to [South Central Regional Jail] following a social media recruitment of individuals to pursue and assassinate President Trump," the agency's post, signed by Jackson County Sheriff RH Mellinger, said. "Further details will be released as we continue to compile facts and further the investigation. Morrow is charged with one count of TERRORISTIC THREATS."

...

The video, which featured a caption saying, "Surely a sniper with a terminal illness cannot be a big ask out of 343 million," apparently was posted on Morrow's Instagram, and comments showed others proposing the assassinations of White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller as well as tech CEO Larry Ellison and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel.

The ob/gyn nurse who wished for Karoline Leavitt to be torn open while giving birth has had her nursing license cancelled by Florida:

California Defrauded the US Government for Millions to Provide Phone and Internet Service for Their Most Reliable Democrat Voters

—Ace

I speak, of course, about the dead.

Note that the program they afforded allowed them to either allow the US government to verify the claims made, or else California could opt out of this federal verification and do the verification themselves.

California chose to do its own verification.

And then provided phone and internet service for almost 100,000 dead people.

California obtained millions in federal funds to cover phone and internet service for 94,000 dead people, a new report from the Federal Communications Commission has revealed.

The state took in $3.8 million between 2020 and 2025 through the federal Lifeline program, which spends nearly $1 billion annually to subsidize phone and internet service for low-income Americans, according to the FCC's inspector general.

Of the three states named in the report, California collected the most money by a long shot -- accounting for more than 80% of the payments, the report said.

"Gavin Newsom's California was by far the worst offender of these opt-out states," FCC Chair Brendan Carr wrote on X, referencing states that oversaw the program's verification process for recipients. He said that the FCC has revoked the state's authority to manage verification.

Newsom's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Of the 116,808 deceased individuals in opt-out states, roughly two-thirds (77,446) were enrolled after their deaths, the report stated.

It's almost as if the Democrat Party no longer votes for billion-dollar boondoggles for the poor, but billion dollar boondoggles to personally enrich themselves and their billionaire donors.

Trump: "A massive Armada is heading to Iran," Ready to Strike "with speed and violence"

—Ace

Iran requested talks with the US to avert a possible military strike. Iran denies they did this, but the government is just a collection of filthy primitive Satanic liars.

Trump transmitted his demands, in exchange for "talks," and Iran rejected them. Among the demands: A completely nuclear-free Iran.

Now Trump warns Iran: Don't make me do to you what I did to Venezuela.

A massive Armada is heading to Iran. It is moving quickly, with great power, enthusiasm, and purpose. It is a larger fleet, headed by the great Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln, than that sent to Venezuela.

Like with Venezuela, it is, ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence, if necessary. Hopefully Iran will quickly "Come to the Table" and negotiate a fair and equitable deal - NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS - one that is good for all parties. Time is running out, it is truly of the essence! As I told Iran once before, MAKE A DEAL! They didn't, and there was "Operation Midnight Hammer," a major destruction of Iran. The next attack will be far worse! Don't make that happen again.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

President DONALD J. TRUMP

Iran has responded, per the NYT:

Iran responded defiantly to President Trump's demand from earlier this morning to "Come to the Table" or face possible military action. The Iranian mission to the United Nations said in its own social media post that Iran was "ready for dialogue based on mutual respect and interests." But it added that "IF PUSHED," Iran would "DEFEND ITSELF AND RESPOND LIKE NEVER BEFORE!"

Marco Rubio was asked about Iran in his Senate appearance today.

FBI Raids Fulton County, GA, Election Headquarters As Part of Probe Related to 2020 Election

—Ace

Remember, it was revealed a few weeks ago that a huge count of supposed "early votes" were submitted without any signatures and without the "tapes" recording these votes. Just poof, 315,000 votes out of literally nowhere.

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor

1h

BREAKING: The FBI has just executed a SEARCH WARRANT at the Fulton County, GA Election HQ, pretty much GROUND ZERO for voter fraud in the 2020 election

Per Fox News, this raid is related to the 2020 election

This is gonna get interesting!

bluestein @bluestein

23m

I'm at the site of a Fulton County elections office where FBI officials confirmed they are conducting "court authorized activity" but declined further comment for now. Trump has repeatedly threatened to open an investigation into his 2020 defeat in Georgia. #gapol

Fox:

FBI agents were seen Wednesday carrying out a search at an election hub in Fulton County, Georgia, a location that became ground zero for concerns and complaints about voter fraud beginning in 2020.

Agents were seen entering the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, a new facility that state officials opened in 2023 that was designed to streamline their election processes.

It was not immediately clear what the FBI agents were investigating, but Fox News Digital is told the probe is related to the 2020 election.

The bureau said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital that FBI Atlanta was executing a "court authorized law enforcement action at 5600 [Campbellton] Fairburn Rd. Our investigation into this matter is ongoing so there are no details that we can provide at the moment."

The Department of Justice did not immediately provide comment.

As Media Convulses Over Ilhan Omar Being Sprayed Like a Misbehaving Kitten, Tim Walz Says He'd "Beat the Shit Out of JD Vance If I Could," and a Democrat Attorney General Candidate Threatens to "Kill" Trump

—Ace

But boy oh boy, Ilhan Omar had her monthly shower a few days early, what a tragedy.

The fawning interview was conducted by professional homosexual grifter Tim Miller for the professional homosexual grifter blog The Bulwark.

In an interview with the always infuriating Tim Miller of The Bulwark, Walz went on a classic Tim Walz rant, lying his way through a rambling discussion in which he portrays himself as a defender of truth, justice, and the Somali way, with Miller treating him as if he were a genuine leader instead of a bumbling mafia boss who has pillaged Minnesota, incited riots, and turned this state into a net exporter of taxpayers and net importer of fraudsters.

[I] want to point out that Walz perfectly exemplifies what he means by "peaceful protest" in that clip, and the irony that Tim Miller and the Bulwark are so proud to put it out as exemplifying the approach they admire so much in Walz.

What do they choose as their teaser?

"I would beat the s*!t out of him now if I could."

And a Democrat candidate for Ohio AG says he will "kill Donald Trump."

Through a, wink-wink, state prosecution that somehow ends up in the death penalty.

See, he's totally not threatening to assassinate the president. Wink-wink.

A Democrat candidate for Ohio attorney general is under fire after posting a video in which he explicitly said he intends to "kill Donald Trump" by pursuing a criminal conviction that would end in capital punishment.

In the now-viral clip, Elliot Forhan, who launched his attorney general campaign in February 2025, attempted to frame the statement as a legal hypothetical, declaring, "I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump," before adding that he would seek a jury conviction "beyond a reasonable doubt" followed by a sentence "duly executed" by the state.

"That is what I mean when I say I am going to kill Donald Trump," Forhan concluded.

The remarks immediately sparked backlash with Republicans arguing that invoking the execution of a sitting president--Donald Trump--crosses a line at a moment when political violence remains a live national concern.

Forhan's history has only intensified scrutiny. During a single term in the Ohio House of Representatives, he was stripped of committee assignments and office access following reported altercations with colleagues.

In September 2025--days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA--Forhan posted "F*** Charlie Kirk" on Facebook. He later defended that post despite opening with "Violence is wrong," saying, "I chose my words carefully, and I chose them to communicate my message forcefully."

I mean, he does say, literally, "I am going to kill Donald Trump," but he means legally so it's all cool.

In my book on our age of rage I explore how rage is addictive and contagious. What people do not want to admit in places like Minneapolis is that they like it, they need it. Politicians know that. Even after Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones was shown to have threatened to kill his political opponents and their children, other Democratic leaders continued to support him and he was elected to the highest law enforcement position in the state. Now, Ohio Democratic Attorney General candidate Elliot Forhan appears to be attempting to ride the same rage wave in a video in which he says, "...I am going to kill Donald Trump."

A video is making rounds on X in which Forhan says, "I am going to obtain conviction, rendered by a jury of his peers, at a standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt, based on evidence, presented at trial, conducted in accordance with due process, resulting in a sentence, duly executed, of capital punishment."

Forhan continued, "That is what I mean when I say I am going to kill Donald Trump."

The video shows the thrill of saying (or hearing others declare) that you are going to kill your political enemies. After the thrill-kill statement, Forhan then adds the legal rationale, like a fast-talking commercial warning of product risks. He knows, as with those warnings, people will tune out the perfunctory verbiage. Indeed, like a commercial, he immediately returns to the marketing pitch in saying, "I am going to kill Donald Trump."

This is protected speech under the First Amendment, but it is also reprehensible rhetoric at a time of increasing social unrest. Forhan is trafficking in rage in the hope that it will secure him a political office.

This pledge to hunt a single individual has worked for other Democratic Attorney General candidates like Letitia James.

I don't know if it's protected political speech. A threat against the president's life isn't legal because you wink-wink it.

Ilhan Omar "Attacked"...
with...
Water...

—Ace

Some claim it was staged.

Including Trump.

Or, at least, he jokes that she "probably" sprayed herself, while also not caring if she did nor not.

Rachel Scott @rachelvscott

Just spoke to Pres. Trump. I asked him if he had seen the video of Rep. Omar being attacked and sprayed by a substance.

"No. I don't think about her. I think she's a fraud. I really don't think about that. She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her," the president said.

I asked again if he had seen the video.

"I haven't seen it. No, no. I hope I don't have to bother."

I doubt it was staged. I think it's more of, what do you call it, a nothingburger.

Let me react as the left reacted to Trump being shot: It looks staged to me. I don't see any proof she was actually hit.

Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

There is no more sure-fire way to never face meaningful punishment than to be a major, well-connected American corporation. Even politicians sometimes go down for Party defense purposes, but the powerful corporation never does. Even "landmark" punishments are mere slaps on the wrist, and they laugh all the way to the bank. There is a prime example of this in the news now, courtesy of everyone's favorite big tech hypercorp: Alphabet.

Alphabet - which Google renamed itself when that company decided its original name wasn't quite sinister enough - has settled a class-action lawsuit for recording people's conversations and using them for advertising. The thing everyone assumed Alphabet was doing, and that Alphabet insisted up and down it was not doing, turned out to be something Alphabet was doing. Shocker of the century there. Alphabet is settling its privacy case and paying a penalty.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Birdmen Of Burnley
Leonora Carrington

The Morning Report — 1/28/26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. And the word of the day is "deescalation." And it makes my head explode for reasons that should be all too obvious to anyone with eyes to see. Those who are using this word are the same ones who objected to Israel going after Hamas after its mass-wave pogrom that slaughtered scores of innocent people and kidnapped/tortured hundreds more, the remains of the last one at long last recovered and returned home only a day or so ago.

What ICE and law enforcement are doing in Minneapolis and elsewhere in the nation is merely their duty in rounding up illegal aliens be they merely border-jumpers or violent thugs on top of it. Anyone who objects to this, let alone attempts to impede them carrying out their mission either via direct violent confrontation or political sabotage is engaging in the most severe of felonious acts which come right up to and perhaps cross the line into actual Insurrection.

And so, what is needed is a massive ESCALATION in response to this attack on our government, the rule of law and the safety and security of the citizenry so that those engaging in this insurrection are mercilessly crushed, so as to send an unmistakable message that lawlessness in all its forms will not be tolerated.

If you think I'm engaging in hyperbole. There is a definite nexus between Democrat lawmakers and their stormtroopers on the streets.

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson (D) stated Monday that the state government aims to “partner” with the anti-ICE groups illegally tracking and hounding federal law enforcement agents.

The governor expressed support for the anti-ICE insurgency in his state just one day before the FBI launched an investigation into the Signal chat groups organizing the the anti-ICE insurgency in Minnesota.

Ferguson held a press conference alongside Washington’s Attorney General Nick Brown (D.) to condemn ICE after two agitators in Minnesota were fatally shot by federal agents. Brown was widely criticized last month after he warned independent journalists to stop investigating alleged fraudulent Somali daycare centers in the state or they could be charged with a hate crime.

The governor told reporters that what is happening in Minnesota and Washington is “community, individuals, and grass roots organizations doing their part to stand up for their fellow residents.”

. . . In a long and sobering post on X, reacting to the new information, former Special Forces Warrant Officer, Eric Schwalm compared the anti-ICE effort in Minneapolis to the insurgencies he fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“With multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close,” Schwalm stated. “From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t ‘protest.’ It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.”

And investigator and Freedom Fighter extraordinaire Andy Ngo is yet again doing yeoman's work in exposing the sophisticated yet all-too-familiar techniques of leftist political terrorism

Andy Ngo, a citizen journalist known for his unmasking of Antifa activists and their violent tactics, infiltrated some radical left Signal groups in Minnesota and discovered the rampant paranoia among the activists who didn't trust anyone, especially other activists. The tactics being used, Ngo observed, "are an evolution of methods tested during the deadly 2020 BLM–Antifa riots, which were centered largely in the Twin Cities." "In recent weeks, numerous Antifa-linked revolutionary anarchist collectives have promoted organizing guides that explicitly instruct extremists on how to carry out obstructionist campaigns," says Ngo. The guides recommend using the Signal messaging app to maintain operational security. It's the operations that are problematic. "Signal has become the preferred platform for mass coordination — used to share real-time locations, vehicle descriptions, and individual targets, as well as tips for minimizing legal accountability," writes Ngo. This is how the activists are able to show up at ICE enforcement actions almost as soon as agents start arriving on the scene. . . I'm familiar with messaging among some radical groups in Europe during the 1970s. Baader-Meinhof Group, a far-left West German Communist terrorist group active in the 1970s, communicated almost exclusively using intelligence agency methods such as drop boxes and "cut-outs." Baader-Meinhof and other radical leftists of the time were paranoid about security, but they still managed to have a small circle where trust was an absolute necessity.  Obviously, the radicals today are sacrificing security for instant communications, but this has bred hysterical fear and, almost certainly, hindered their efforts to organize and obstruct ICE operations.

While it's encouraging that as Ngo notes their paranoia may be hampering their efforts, at the same time they have a truly frightenng level of political and legal cover afforded them by elected officials and perhaps allies in local law enforcement itself. Not to put too fine a point on it but this Bob Ferguson as well as Walz, Frey and everyone else engaging in this needs to swing from a gallows.

Because as is painfully obvious or should be by now, that is exactly what they have in mind for all of us.

Democrat Ohio Attorney General candidate Elliot Forhan announced a plan to execute President Donald Trump, following a hypothetical trial and guilty verdict, in a video posted to X on Tuesday. In the viral video Forhan stated that he would pursue the president’s conviction, resulting in capital punishment. . . “I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump,” Forhan stated. “I mean I’m going to obtain a conviction rendered by a jury of his peers at a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt based on evidence, presented at a trial conducted in accordance with the requirements of due process, resulting in a sentence, duly executed, of capital punishment.”

“That is what I mean when I say I am going to kill Donald Trump,” he ended.

He may be a low rent Roland Freisler but I'll take him at his word.

So, evidently Bro-Fo Omar was doused with some sort of liquid at a town-hall meeting. I don't think it was Jewish Holy water (matzo ball soup) nor was she given the Victor Riesel treatment, not that she doesn't deserve it, but hey, If she soiled her Playtex 18-hour burqa, sowing and reaping baby.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• A former KGB agent-turned-defector, Yuri Bezmenov, has some useful insights.
  The Democrats Will Support Immigration Control — At This Precise Point

Daily Tech News 28 January 2026

—Pixy Misa

• Memory prices may be leveling off - at four times what they were just a few months ago. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Supplies are still very constrained, but people are buying less RAM - either avoiding upgrades entirely or building smaller systems - so prices are stalling in the ionosphere rather than continuing on an intergalactic cruise.
  
  
  
• SK Hynix - one of the big three memory manufacturers - has reported its most recent quarterly results. (CNBC)
  
  No surprise, the numbers are good. Revenue is up 66% over the past year, and profit is up 137%.
  
  Good for them. Not good for you.

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - January 27, 2026 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday ONT is here for all of your end of day needs. OK maybe not all of them. But certainly SOME of them! Come on in, see what's in store, and let us know what's on your mind tonight.

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Probably didn't have that "new car smell"

Elderly Man Driving Busted Up Truck Was a Joke Meme Until Stranger’s Heart-warming Idea to Crowdfund a New One

His truck was the vehicle equivalent of Frankenstein, a green mish-mash of dents and dings and disjointed panels.

The 2000 Chevy Silverado became something of a famous eyesore in South Bend, Indiana, earning sideways glances and second looks wherever Mo Riles went.

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Sure, Mo heard the jokes and saw the sideways glances—but the truck ran just fine. The state of Indiana doesn’t require inspections. And Mo, who worked at a Dollar Tree store, wasn’t in a financial position to upgrade, especially since facing recent health struggles.

So the truck rolled on… at least until Colin Crowel saw the photo. Colin, who owns Carguys Auto Detailing, wanted to do more than joke about the unsightly relic. He figured that whoever was driving it likely needed a pick-me-up, instead of another internet pun.

“I just thought there’s gotta be something more to why this truck looks like this,” Colin said. “I just put two and two together.”

He started a crowdfunding campaign, hoping to raise money for Riles and betting that community support would produce more than social media memes.

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The results arrived quickly. Donations poured in from people all over northwest Indiana and beyond. More than 500 people pitched in to raise over $26,000 for Mo.

Video at the link. Hopefully the truck found a loving new owner. Maybe Rancher Bob could add it to his collection on his ranch!

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Opposite end of the spectrum as far as the condition of a vehicle. Need one of you smart car nerds to weigh in here. I've seen several of these types of stories lately, but some are obviously fake. I can't find anything overtly fishy about this one. What say you?

1965 Impala 409 Wagon Sat 42 Years, Moscow Family Hid the Time Capsule 42 Years in a Barn

Out of the 2.38 million Chevys sold in 1965, the Impala claimed some 40%. The US domestic automobile production rose to a staggering 8.96 million vehicles that year – and the African gazelle was representing one out every nine of those cars. But the numbers dive drastically when we factor in the 409 powerhouse. With just 2,828 motors made for passenger cars, we’re talking “unicorn eggs” level of rarity.

And that’s just for starters: for the sake of piston-centric fun, let’s add one more bottleneck. Like, say, body style – and I insist that we chose my favorite full-size dress code, the station wagon. Chevrolet didn’t bother fitting people haulers with big-block muscle like it was an all-you-can-eat buffet, so just 82 Impala wagons came with a 409.

I won’t even bother to do the math, it’s more than self-explanatory by now, but I’m not done bringing more rarity into this talk just yet. Of those 82, how many stayed with one family for nearly six decades?

Please check out the link and let us know what you think.

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Which one of you did this?

People are now making videos trolling anti-ICE protesters

I can’t 😭 pic.twitter.com/sdEfcqOtIP

— TONY™ (@TONYxTWO) January 26, 2026

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Careful out there, "ladies"!

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Any of you have a spare atom smasher laying around?

Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold.

Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no amount of chemistry can turn one into the other.

But our modern knowledge tells us the basic difference between an atom of lead and an atom of gold: the lead atom contains exactly three more protons. So can we create a gold atom by simply pulling three protons out of a lead atom?

As it turns out, we can. But it’s not easy.

Who's up for this challenge?

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Cute little video I saw in an X comment (click on the top right bubble for the source). I'd imagine it's quite accurate. Probably the way blue states stay blue. The music is easily recognizable. One month emerald membership to the first one of you to identify the song name and what TV show it is most often linked to.

California might be worse than Minnesota.. pic.twitter.com/W1GZGqnI78

— Sandfort (@Sandfort_) January 27, 2026

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Difficulty level 2 out of 5

What's the common thread / common meaning / common leitmotif?
(It's probably a 1 out of 5 difficulty, but I'm calling it a 2 to make you feel better about solving it).

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Close it up

Cuddles Cafe

—Ace

Eltz Castle

This better not be AI.

Wombats are awesome.

Golden retrievers being goofy.

Baby elephant is a... dick.

Bear cubs orphaned by a fire, and separated since the fire, are finally reunited.

Cats ignore you until it's time to play and no you don't get a vote.

Swan mother is very proud of her first egg.

Dog enjoys a light beating.

I cast Charm Person.

Sassy!

Trump Signs Executive Order to Speed Up Rebuilding LA

—Ace

I don't know if he can do this but someone needs to do something.

President Trump is sidestepping thumb-twiddling California Democrats with an executive order aimed at fast-tracking the rebuilding of Los Angeles a year after devastating wildfires torched entire city blocks and left thousands homeless.

"I want to see if we can take over the city and state and just give the people their permits they want to build," Trump told the California Post Friday in an exclusive Oval Office interview when he signed the seven-page order.

Trump pointed the finger at California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for the painfully slow rebuilding of homes ravaged by the January 2025 Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires, two of the most destructive blazes in LA history.

Wildfires destroyed an estimated 16,000 structures, but Los Angeles city and county officials have only issued 2,600 permits to rebuild so far.

In all, less than 15% of all homes destroyed by the fires have received necessary approvals to move forward, according to the Trump administration.

Trump's order is designed to "preempt" the building permit process -- and empower the federal government to maneuver around the needless obstacles imposed by Democratic leaders.

The order calls out the "nightmare" of delays and "bureaucratic malaise" at the California state and local levels -- and it will almost certainly be challenged by Democrats in power in the Golden State, despite displaced residents literally crying out to be made whole again.

Jessica Rogers, a Pacific Palisades resident who lost everything in the wildfires, burst into tears of joy when she learned the federal government was stepping in to pick up the slack.

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Trump, a former real estate developer, said he was compelled to step in after touring the fire damage a year ago with first lady Melania Trump and seeing the devastation firsthand. He said he was shocked to see that even a year later, "there's nobody building."

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Under the order, the heads of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) will issue regulations to preempt state and local permitting requirements and allow builders to self-certify to a federal agency that they have complied with health, safety and building standards.

Like I said, I can't imagine Trump has any power like this. The feds can't just set aside state laws. Even if the state in question is a basket-case run by lunatics.

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Newsom spokeswoman Tara Gallegos hit back at Trump, calling the president "an old clueless idiot who believes that the state and federal governments can issue local rebuilding permits and LA gets its water from the Pacific Northwest."

Gallegos said Trump has "demonstrated a complete lack of leadership or compassion for this community." She charged Trump is concerned with "picking out gaudy gold décor and new flooring for his unnecessary remodel" as the community is "still waiting for him to grant disaster recovery funding.

"He should keep LA out of his mouth unless he is planning to grant them the federal disaster funding they need."

Such tough-guys!