The Morning Report — 1/14/26

Good morning kids. It's all well and good that President Trump has named a few Muslim Brotherhood branches overseas as terrorist organizations. Which should've been done ages ago but the existential threat to whatever shred of America as founded that still exists is right here.

When the Trump administration sent some 2,000 immigration agents to the Twin Cities area, they were met by activists who trailed their movements and harassed them outside their hotels. The activists are members of radical groups that together have received millions of dollars from the Left's premier foundations and dark money networks, including George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a Washington Free Beacon review found. At the center of the unrest is the Sunrise Movement, a left-wing group founded to fight climate change that has since directed its local chapters to fight the Trump administration. For Sunrise Twin Cities, that means tormenting ICE agents on the ground. The group holds in-person "action trainings" on how to "stop ICE & build a revolution." It also maintains a running list of the Twin Cities hotels housing ICE agents and organizes late-night "noise demonstrations" aimed at making it "impossible" for those hotels to operate.

It's a very short walk from childish pranks to disturbing the peace and then ultimately terrorism. The decomposing zombie who attempted to ram ICE agents in Minneapolis didn't just make a snap decision that led to her demise. She was propagandized to the point of brainwashing. No right thinking rationale person would have never put them in the position to be directly confronting law enforcement officers let alone attempt to kill them. They allowed themselves to be absorbed into a death cult to become cannon fodder. Cut off the money and you cut off the lifeblood of the cancer that is killing us from within.

Meanwhile, the citizens' uprising in Iran which has been going on for days has led to ever increasing violence and repression on the part of the Mullahs, which is in direct proportion I assume to the growing fear that their hold on power might at long last be at an end. Beyond crucial moral rhetorical and diplomatic support for the Iranian people, President Trump is upping the ante.

As the death toll from Iran’s crackdown on anti-regime protests reaches staggering levels — with families searching through body bags, over 10,000 arrested, and executions underway — President Donald Trump canceled all talks with Iranian officials, declared “help is on its way,” warned that regime killers “will pay a big price,” and urged protesters to “take over your institutions” against the brutal Islamic Republic theocracy, while the U.S. urged Americans to leave the country.

Is it bluster or will the President back up the tough rhetoric with concrete action, meaning military strikes on regime targets? There are pluses and minuses to be sure, as the erudite Michael Goodwin notes in his analysis of the situation...

American power can make itself known in various ways, as Teddy Roosevelt brilliantly outlined with his famous admonition to “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”

Truth be told, Donald Trump has never been a fan of speaking softly, but his Tuesday comments on the upheavals in Iran still managed to be close enough for now.. . .He noted that “hawkish U.S. policies toward Iran have historically empowered hardliners” and that military action “risks changing the subject from Iranians’ justified grievances against the regime to its international opponents,” namely Israel and the US.

“Trying to appropriate domestic opposition inside Iran risks undermining it,” he adds, and argues that “a pragmatic, hands-off approach should guide U.S. policy in the days ahead.”

Additionally, with Washington increasingly focused on the midterm elections, Trump is already facing domestic controversies, such as the ICE crackdown, and, most important, tough polling numbers on his handling of the economy.

A Real Clear Politics average of surveys taken in recent weeks shows 41% of respondents approving of his economic policies and actions, with 56% disapproving. . . Against that backdrop, and with events in Venezuela still unsettled, a military entanglement in Iran would probably not be popular at home.

That’s not to say the US should turn its back on the brutal regime’s crackdown. But the political reality is that the president can’t afford to turn his attention too far or too long from Americans’ kitchen table issues.

Elsewhere, In the most electrifying news from way out of left field, Associate Justice Kentanji Brown-25 Jackson is a complete embarrassment.

As you probably could have guessed, Jackson struggled through a series of nearly incomprehensible statements about sex, gender identity, and sports classifications. It was embarrassing.

“You have the overarching classification, you know, everybody has to be, um, uh, uh, play on the team that is the same as their sex at birth. Um, but then you have a gender identity definition that is operating within that. Meaning, a distinction, meaning that, um, for, uh, cisginger [sic] girls they can play consistent with their gender identity, w- for transgender girls, they can’t.”

It’s hilarious that Jackson stumbled over the pronunciation of one of the left’s favorite made-up words, all while failing to understand the difference between real girls and boys who pretend to be girls.

SCOTUS observers have noted that it was not a shining moment for those promoting the transexual madness and that sanity might actually prevail. But of course this is the Supreme Court and the preservation of Leftism and its pomps has been its priority, Heller and Dobbs among a few other rare exceptions notwithstanding.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Lloyd Billingsley: When Somalia-born Minneapolis cop killed the woman who called 911.
  When Mohammed Shot Justine

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• At the center of the unrest is the Sunrise Movement, a left-wing group founded to fight climate change that has since directed its local chapters to fight the Trump administration. For Sunrise Twin Cities, that means tormenting ICE agents on the ground. The group holds in-person "action trainings" on how to "stop ICE & build a revolution." It also maintains a running list of the Twin Cities hotels housing ICE agents and organizes late-night "noise demonstrations" aimed at making it "impossible" for those hotels to operate.
  Who Funds the Groups Harassing ICE Agents in Minnesota? The Left's Premier Foundations and Dark Money Networks Have Given Millions, Records Show.

• Homan’s comments on the show followed a federal Special Response Team swarming Ross’ Minneapolis residence and removing belongings on Friday, according to the Daily Mail. After host Will Cain suggested ICE agents should sue prominent left-wing individuals for defamation, Homan said they likely would and discussed Ross’ situation. (He deserves the highest citation for valor there is! - jjs)
  Tom Homan Confirms ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good ‘In Hiding’
  
• ICE in recent days has arrested Sriudorn Phaivan, a criminal illegal with a long rap sheet, including strongarm sodomy of a boy and a girl.
  Deceased Deluded stooge Renee Good Gave Her Life To Protect Child Rapists And Killers From ICE Arrest
  

• From Iraq to Minneapolis, false moral certainties have replaced facts, turning tragedy into pretext and unrest into strategy—fake wars waged at home with real consequences.
  The Left’s Fake Wars and the Addiction to False Pretexts

  
  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS

• a city council staffer accused of overstaying his visa after being involved in an assault case. . . The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified the man as 53-year-old Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, Fox News reported Monday.
  NYC’s Zohran Mamdani ‘Outraged’ over Detention of Staffer Accused of Assault, Overstaying Visa
  
• "It breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come."
  President Trump Vows To Cut Sanctuary City Funding Starting February 1

• Sadiq Daud, a Somali man, told the outlet, “They just showed up, spraying people and this is not good. Everybody is scared. They are scared for their life.” (Good, vayr ge hargit - jjs)
  Tempers Flare as Hundreds of Somalis Protest ICE Operation at Minnesota Strip Mall

  
  IRAN ON the BRINK?!

• On Tuesday, President Trump took to Truth Social with one of his most forceful statements yet in support of the Iranian uprising.
  Trump Tells ‘Iranian Patriots’ Help ‘Is on Its Way’: Keep Protesting, ‘Take Over Your Institutions’ — Killers Will Pay ‘Big Price’
  
• “In the largest killing in Iran’s contemporary history – carried out largely over two consecutive nights, Thursday and Friday, January 8 and 9 – at least 12,000 people were killed.”
  Trump Calls on Iranians to ‘Take Over Your Institutions’ as Death Toll Mounts
  
• The revolution no one can ignore.
  The Future of Iran in Plain Sight: The Final Battle
  
• A regime in deep trouble.
  Khamenei, We Have a Problem
  
• American power can make itself known in various ways, as Teddy Roosevelt brilliantly outlined with his famous admonition to “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” . . .Ah, but what kind of help and when will the Big Stick swing into action? The lack of specifics is intentional because it allows the president to ramp up the pressure while retaining the flexibility to negotiate and unleash the military if all else fails.
  Michael Goodwin: Using the military for regime change in Iran would be a gamble — don’t turn it into another Iraq

  
  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• For everyone in politics the only thing that matters is hanging on to power. 
  Behind the Protesters are the Ballot Harvesters

• Dr. Abdillahi Hashi Abib, a sitting member of the Somali Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of the People, told the Caller the corruption surfacing in Minnesota and across the United States did not emerge spontaneously, but is a downstream consequence of Somalia’s deeply entrenched system of corruption.
  Pirates Without Borders - EXCLUSIVE: Somali Official Shows How Entrenched The ‘Fraud Pipeline’ Really Is

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Congressman Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) emphasized the urgency of the reconciliation bill during a press conference earlier today, saying, “Republicans in Congress can and must go it alone with the second reconciliation bill.”
  House Republicans Pass Reconciliation Bill Banning Welfare for Illegal Aliens

• ‘If the American people can’t expect the judiciary to stay in its lane, then federal judges shouldn’t expect the American people to follow them.’
  Judge Ho Takes A Sledgehammer To Judicial Supremacy And Its ‘Elite’ Enablers

• The legislation includes significant funding for globalist deep state entities like the National Endowment for Democracy and the Helsinki Commission, along with several million dollars for infrastructure projects in Belize.
  New Congressional Minibus Contains Millions in Anti-Trump Deep State Funding.

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• The State Department has designated the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood as an FTO and SDGT, and its leader, Muhammad Fawzi Taqqosh, as an SDGT, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in a statement.
  Treasury, State Departments Designate Three Muslim Brotherhood Chapters Terrorist Organizations After Trump-Ordered Review
  
• And Western society has criminalized discussion about it.
  The Slow and Silent Islamic Transformation of the West

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• Today in New York, we are witnessing a replay of 1930s Germany.
  Santayana Was Right — Hitler Is Back!
  
• Mamdani ally shuts down group for claiming "that Muslims 'hate America'"
  After 2 Years of Pro-Hamas Riots, NY AG Announces Shutdown of Pro-Israel Group
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• Plenty of people disagree with infant baptism, but it is the traditional practice of the Catholic Church.
  Former President Of Ireland Claims Baptism Denies Babies Their Human Rights

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Workers erupted in applause as Trump made his way through the factory. The president heard from some workers and took selfies with several of them.
  Ford Workers Cheer Trump During Tour of F-150 Plant in Michigan
  
• According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Tuesday, the annual inflation rate for 2025 was 2.7 percent. Inflation for shelter rose 0.4 percent in December “and was the largest factor in the all items monthly increase,” the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Food prices rose 0.7 percent in December while energy prices rose 0.3 percent. Even so, the annual inflation rate for 2025 matched economists’ expectations.
  2025 Inflation Was Lowest Since Last Time Trump Was President

• Let the market run free. (assuming nefarious globalist/communist actors aren't gobbling up housing to destroy the American Dream - jjs)
  Investors Should Not Be Barred From Buying Homes
  
• The move to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes is a step in the right direction, but it won’t fix the major housing affordability crisis we face right now.
  Banning Wall Street From Buying Houses Is Great, But Trump Needs To Do More

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Potential for rolling blackouts and increased electricity rates for consumers.
  AI Data Centers Overwhelm Power Grid, Sparking Supply Crisis and Rate Hikes.
  
• In his post on Truth Social, Trump emphasized his administration’s dedication to protecting consumers from bearing the financial burden of corporate technology expansion. The president stated that his administration is actively collaborating with major American technology companies to secure commitments that safeguard the interests of American citizens, with additional announcements expected in the coming weeks. According to Trump, the companies sucking every drop of electricity possible from America’s grid must “pay their own way.”
  Trump: Big Tech Must ‘Pay Their Own Way,’ Protect Consumers from Rising Energy Costs Caused by AI Data Centers

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

  
  

• This policy has contributed to the lowest gas prices in years in most of the nation. Laughably, California faces prices much high than the average.
  ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ is Back: Federal Oil, Gas Permits Soar Under Trump

  
  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The poll indicates a potential radicalization of the teaching profession, which is likely to influence their students.
  Poll Shows Teachers’ Extreme Left-Wing Bias Is Getting Worse.
  
• Schools’ mindfulness meditation programs come with a hidden cost — the collection of children’s data, which could potentially be misused.
  How To Stop School ‘Mindfulness’ Apps From Harvesting Your Child’s Health Data

  
  L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN

• Comer said he’ll begin contempt of Congress proceedings next week. It potentially starts a complicated and politically messy process that Congress has rarely reached for and could result in prosecution from the Justice Department.
  Clintons refuse to testify in House Epstein probe as Republicans threaten contempt proceedings

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Democrat Texas Senate candidate James Talarico presents himself as a Christian who prays, quotes Jesus Christ extensively, and grounds his politics in faith. However, on several defining moral issues, he does not submit his political ideology to scripture; instead, he reinterprets or ignores scripture to genuflect to his true “god”: far-left orthodoxy.
  Rising Star James Talarico’s Soothing Voice Will Lead Lambs To Slaughter

• Wade faces life in prison if convicted and is currently held on a $750,000 bond. (Projection ain't just a river in Egypt - jjs)
  Far-Left Prof Who Called Trump a Pedophile Charged With Child Molestation.

• Weaver burst into tears when reporters asked her about her claim that ‘homeownership is racist’—and the fact that her mom owns a $1.6 million house
  NYU Deletes Extremist Mamdani Housing Czar’s Information From Website As Cea Weaver Faces ‘Harassment’ Over Calls To ‘Impoverish the White Middle Class’

  POLITICS

• Glenn Reynolds: If the public realizes you can actually solve problems, there will be more pressure to do that — rather than just manage them endlessly. That’s unforgivable. No wonder Trump is the villain in their eyes.
  Trump has cut the technocratic Gordian Knot — and elites hate it

• While Democrats are planning day-one action on the amendments, they also have legislative goals — including a ‘right-to-contraception’ bill.
  Virginia Democrats Move To Establish Limitless Abortion, Ban Guns, And Gerrymander Districts

• The poll showed a stark contrast in party identification across generations.
  Independent Voters Hit Record High As Both Parties Lose Ground: Poll

• "The President gave an appropriate and unambiguous response."
  Trump Flips Off Auto Worker During Ford Plant Visit

  
  MADURO TAKEN DOWN

• The takedown of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, and the apparent subservience of his successor, will have far-reaching consequences in Russia, Iran, and Communist China, but also in Europe.
  The Dominos Begin to Fall
  
  
• Trump’s arrest of Maduro wasn’t war or nation-building—it was law enforcement abroad, striking narco-communism, curbing migration, and defending American interests without bloodshed.
  Trump Arrests Maduro, and The Axis of Evil is Crumbling
  
• A major victory for American interests.
  Maduro’s Downfall

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The U.S. aims to secure strategic advantages in the Arctic, potentially altering diplomatic relations with Denmark and Greenland.
  Trump’s Arctic Policy Chief Suggests Next Move on Greenland Coming in ‘Weeks or Months.’
  
• A tiny country freaks out over a giant chunk of ice.
  In Denmark, Hysteria over Greenland
  
• Around 350 tractors rolled into Paris on Tuesday morning demanding “concrete action” from their national government against the impending Mercosur trade deal with Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, which is set to be signed by EU chief Ursula von der Leyen in Asunción on Saturday.
  Farmers Blockade Paris with Tractors over EU Trade Deal with South America
  
• The outcome of the appeal will determine whether Le Pen can run in the 2027 French presidential election.
  Le Pen Appeals Ban on Running for Presidency.
  
• The profile of a cruel and evil man.
  How a Vindictive Erdogan Rids Himself of His Perceived Enemies

  
  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Meanwhile, two high-profile MAID cases have recently drawn controversy and media attention in Canada. One of the cases features a physician who previously bragged about euthanizing 400.
  HHS Warns Canada’s Assisted Suicide Organ Donation Pipeline Crosses Ethical Red Lines
  
• Why is it only a ‘crisis’ when a spending program expires on Republicans’ watch?
  Democrats Who Let Covid-Era Child Tax Credits Expire Now Cry ‘Crisis’ Over Lapsing Obamacare Giveaway

  
  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The first time in the ISS’s 25‑year history that a mission is being ended early because of a medical problem.
  NASA Orders First-Ever ISS Medical Evacuation as Crew‑11 Returns Early to Earth
  
• Considering the numbers of stars in the galaxy, and the recent data that shows most have planets, it seems strange that there have been so few candidate detections, and even these are questionable. Could it actually be the case that we are the first sentient intelligence species in the Milky Way?
  No alien civilizations? After analyzing two decades of data SETI@Home produces 100 signals “worth a second look” (Almost none here on Earth- jjs)
  
• If Isaacman was so committed to transparency and truly believes NASA’s investigation was based on “the best engineering judgment available”, why doesn’t he release that report, unredacted? Has he even looked at it himself?
  Isaacman makes it official: Artemis-2 will fly manned around the Moon, despite Orion’s heat shield concerns

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "I'm optimistic that it will be in our favor, in the favor of common sense, and in the favor of the overwhelming majority of the American people."
  Women Rally At Supreme Court Steps As Justices Weigh Landmark Cases To Protect Female Athletes
  
• How are courts supposed to be able to ‘determine whether there’s discrimination on the basis of sex without knowing what sex means?’ asked Justice Alito.
  Justice Alito’s ‘What Is A Woman?’ Question Leaves Left-Wing Attorney Flailing
  
• "How can a court determine whether there's discrimination on the basis of sex without knowing what sex means for equal protection purposes?" Alito asked Hartnett.
  Justice Alito Obliterates Trans Ideology Effortlessly in Oral Arguments
  
• "It must mean something"
  ACLU Can’t Define ‘Sex’ in Transgender Supreme Court Case
  
• I don’t think anyone would confuse Justice Ketanji Brown(-25) Jackson with a sharp legal mind. She often comes across as the poster child for what’s wrong with DEI hires. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Little v. Hecox, a case that will likely decide whether laws barring biological males from competing on girls’ sports teams are constitutional. Given that Jackson famously admitted during her confirmation hearings that she didn’t know what a woman was — because, as she put it, she’s “not a biologist” — you knew she was bound to be a real spectacle. And true to form, she did not disappoint.
  As Expected, Justice Jackson Humiliated Herself During Today’s Oral Arguments

  
  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Affordability, family formation, and national identity rise or fall together—and rejecting globalism in favor of economic nationalism is essential to preserving the American future.
  James Fishback and Redefining American Populism
  
• Today’s condemnation of Israel—and America—comes from an intellectual lineage that sees the West as a permanent oppressor and any movement opposed to it as righteous.
  The Third-Worldist Logic
  
• Christian Toto: Former 'Man Show' star avoids siren song of 'clapter' at all costs
  Adam Carolla Walks Fine Line with ICE Cracks
  
• “Cheers” star and Pixar voice actor John Ratzenberger announced his support for Republican California gubernatorial candidate Chad Bianco, calling out Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s leadership.
  EXCLUSIVE: ‘Cheers’ Star And Iconic Pixar Voice Backs GOP California Gov Candidate, Takes Shot At Newsom

  HITHER & YON

• “Born in Windham, New York in 1957, Adams started drawing comics at age 6, citing the ‘Peanuts’ comics as an early inspiration.”
  R.I.P. – Dilbert Creator and Early Trump Supporter Scott Adams Passes Away at 68

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