The Morning Report — 1/19/26

Good morning kids. Whatever is happening with Venezuela, whatever the situation is in Iran and I am cheering on the long-suffering Persian people that they and the rest of humanity may at long last emerge from the shadow of Islamic terror, both of those pale in comparison to the mortal danger America, the American experiment and this nation faces now. Like many of you, I'd wager, despite my initial diffidence about Donald Trump 10 years ago, there is no doubt he has become one of the most important and consequential (in a positive sense) American presidents and indeed world leaders in our history. All that said, what the hell is with this fixation over Greenland?!

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that acquiring Greenland is “essential” to U.S. national security and that an impending “fight for the Arctic” is real. “President Trump strongly believes that we cannot outsource our security because … let me tell you what will happen. And it might not be next year, might not be in five years, but down the road, this fight for the Arctic is real,” Bessent began.

But as I stated, there are other frozen wastelands much closer to home that if we do nothing about them right here and right now will be our undoing.

Let me state it about as plainly as I can. The political leadership of the state of Minnesota, along with an alarming number of the citizenry, have de facto seceded from the Union and have all but openly declared war on the rest of the nation. You can read any of the links in the Civil War section or take in the totality of the headlines alone and that is a warning klaxon louder than a Concorde engine through a Marshall Amp as tall as the Washington Monument at full volume.

It seems that Minneapolis lefties have started patrolling the streets for drivers who happen to be behind the wheel of the same make of SUV as used by ICE and interrogating – not to say threatening – them. This video shows a gaggle of people’s tribunes who have brought an SUV to a stop (the video doesn’t show how) and forced the driver out to explain himself. They surround him, demand that he open the hatch to show them what he has inside, and then commence interrogating him. All that’s lacking are the Mao jackets and the caps with red stars. . . The driver’s attempts to ingratiate himself are almost as annoying: “I really appreciate what you guys are doing.” A century and a half ago, the socialist Commune took control of Paris and immediately started executing people. As they led one businessman to the killing ground, he cried out, “Why must I be shot … I know nothing of politics.”

The communard commander replied: “That is why you must be shot.” A century and a half, and they still haven’t woken up.

This is the mentality of the Cheka, the Red Guards, the Khmer Rouge – of every last attempt to introduce socialism by force -- out in the open and plain to see. One of the worst things about socialism is the way it empowers, encourages, and unleashes the foulest members of the human community. It can’t be crushed soon enough.

Elsewhere, the Neo Red Guards stormed into a church looking for blood:

The demonstrators with the Racial Justice Network stormed into the Cities Church and called out resident pastor David Eastwood, who they accused of moonlighting as the acting field office director for ICE in Minnesota.  A David Eastwood is listed as an employee with the field office, but it’s still unclear if that is the same man as the Cities Church pastor. The Post has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security to check.

Mistaken identity-Schmidentity! Like the Urine-soaked lice-infested whorehouse mattress AKA Jasmine Crockett, accusing Lee Zeldin of accepting donations from Jeffrey Epstein, who as it turned out was not the infamous Epstein but someone unlucky enough to have the same name.

So, they take out the wrong guy, but the message has been sent. Mr. President, there is no alternative but to invoke the Insurrection Act, declare Minnesota in rebellion, arrest Walz, Frey, suspend the state legislature, dissolve Minneapolis' city charter, and appoint a territorial governor and mayor to run affairs and call in the armed forces to patrol the streets and restore order. Anyone who even raises an eyebrow should be arrested for conspiracy to aid and abet insurrection.

What are the risks politically? So we lose the midterms and perhaps 2028. The Democrat rigging machine will no doubt be going all out to make what happened in 2020 look like child's play. To let Minnesota get away with this ultimately means we lose the nation. This cannot stand and must not be allowed to stand. President Trump rightly rails against Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants as "the worst president in history" but if Donald Trump fails to set an example of Minnesota, he may go down not merely as the worst president but as the LAST real president in US history because the USA truly will cease to exist. In the years ahead, we may outwardly resemble America, but the spirit of this nation, the Constitution and the rule of a just and stable law based on the ascendancy of 2,000 plus years of Judeo-Christian and western history, culture and morality will come crashing down around us.

Hyperbole? You tell me.

Have a great day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• The evening train between Malaga and Madrid went off the rails and slammed into a train coming from Madrid to Huelva, another southern Spanish city, according to the Spanish rail operator Adif.
  At least 20 killed in high-speed train derailment, crash in southern Spain

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• This is civil war stuff.
  2nd Driver Let Off After ICE Car Ramming Attack Injured Multiple Officers

• "We are showing something far more powerful and consequential here, which is love,” Frey said on Sunday during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.”
  Jacob Frey Claims Minneapolis Riots About ‘Love,’ But Videos Tell A More Violent Story
  
• New York City socialists are marshaling an army of more than 4,000 activists to form “rapid response” brigades to disrupt federal immigration enforcement in an expected crackdown on illegal aliens in America’s largest city. (Dear ICE: open fire and fire for effect - jjs)
  Socialists Planning to Replicate Minneapolis Chaos to Combat ICE Sweeps in New York City
  
• Maine is actively adopting the same structural and rhetorical choices that turned Minnesota into a national cautionary tale.
  Maine Is Becoming the Next Minnesota in Its War on ICE
  
• This is the mentality of the Cheka, the Red Guards, and the Khmer Rouge.
  The Red Guard comes to Minnesota
  
• The demonstrators with the Racial Justice Network stormed into the Cities Church and called out resident pastor David Eastwood, who they accused of moonlighting as the acting field office director for ICE in Minnesota.  A David Eastwood is listed as an employee with the field office, but it’s still unclear if that is the same man as the Cities Church pastor. The Post has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security to check.
  Mob storms Minnesota church during worship to target pastor they say has ICE ties

• The St. Paul Downtown DoubleTree by Hilton canceled the rooms of multiple U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, citing concerns over growing protests in Minneapolis following the shooting of Renee Good.
  Hotel Kicks Out ICE Agents As Threats From Left-Wing Mobs Grow
  
• ICE isn’t creating chaos; politicians and activists are—by turning routine detentions into viral outrage, provoking mobs, escalating encounters, and manufacturing danger for political gain.Chaos by Design
  
• The Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into Rebecca Good, the partner of Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier this month after she attempted to run the agent over with her car. Federal investigators want to know if Rebecca Good impeded law enforcement in the moments before the ICE agent opened fire on the vehicle.
  Renee Good’s Partner Is Now Under DOJ Investigation
  
• A Minneapolis protester allegedly stole a pricey camera from conservative provocateur Nick Sortor — who chased down the suspected thief and was dragged by her car as it swerved onto the sidewalk.
  Conservative influencer robbed of pricey camera, dragged by alleged thief’s car in Minneapolis confrontation: video
  
• The violence escalated after an ICE agent shot an illegal alien invader from Venezuela after being ambushed during a targeted” enforcement operation Wednesday, one week after another ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good during a Jan. 7 immigration enforcement operation. Video taken by Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Jorge Ventura showed anti-ICE rioters attacking a counter-protester with a flagpole.
  ‘This Is What You F*cking Wanted’: Video Shows Pro-ICE And Anti-ICE Demonstrators Clash As Rioting Continues
  
• The legislation, which is called the “ICE Breaker Act of 2026” is sponsored by Maryland State Del. Adrian Boafo (D). Under the proposed legislation, ICE agents hired under President Donald Trump’s presidency would be barred from working as police officers, according to Fox45 News.
  Maryland Democrat Pushes Plan to Punish ICE Veterans with Job Ban
  
• Swalwell made the remarks Saturday at the Empowerment Congress California Governor Forum in Los Angeles, the New York Post reported. The congressman is running to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom.
  Democrat Rep and Chi-Com pawn/saboteur Eric Swalwell Makes Bizarre Threat Against ICE Agents, Then Calls Them As*holes

• They can't handle the truth.
  The Left Lives By Lies

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

• States’ rights claims that hark back to segregation days.
  Illinois and Minnesota Sue to Block ICE Deployments in Their States
  
• Within hours of being sworn into office Saturday, Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed Executive Order 10, a proclamation rescinding an executive order signed by her Republican predecessor requiring Virginia law enforcement officials to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Critics have framed the move as a “disaster” which will lead to an increase in crime. (RELATED: Moderate Democrat Ends Up In Knife Fight With Own Party After Supporting ICE)
  Newly-Minted Dem Governor Abigail Spanberger Immediately Repeals Pro-ICE Order In Virginia

• The comparison that no one wants to make is also the one that matters most.
  ICE Stories They Don’t Tell You
  
• . . . And Barack Obama gave him a prestigious award for his work. It sure would be a shame if everyone knew that Barack Obama once gave Trump’s border czar such a prestigious award.
  Barack Obama Doesn’t Want You To Know This About Trump’s Border Czar
  
• "These are the type of sickos we are getting OUT of our neighborhoods,"
  Exclusive: Child Abusers Top ICE’s Latest List Of ‘Worst Of The Worst’ Illegal Aliens

  
  IRAN ON the BRINK?!

• Robert Spencer: The stakes rise.
  The Shock Waves From Trump’s Actions on Iran Could Be Felt Right Here at Home
  
• Roger Kimball: In the fog of prewar Iran, disinformation, inflated body counts, and diplomatic silence obscure a simple truth: the regime is murdering its people, and the world is running out of time.
  The Fog of Prewar in Iran
  
• Thad McCotter: Appeasement has failed Iran before; liberty will come not from Western neutrality or foreign bombs, but from standing with Iranians as they force the regime’s implosion.
  A Human Wave of Hope: The Iranian People Demand Freedom
  
• Even the Mullah regime admits the number of dead is over 5000.
  Over 16,000 Iranian Protesters Killed by Regime, Over 300K Injured, Times of London Analysis Reveals
  
• As millions of Iranians revolt, Trump appears close to attacking the Islamic regime.
  Can Trump Reverse Dems’ Five Decades Of Iran-Policy Disaster?

  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• You can't make this up.
  In Lewiston, Maine, Somali City Councilor Now Under Investigation for Theft and Fraud

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• While taking part in a discussion at the Center for American Progress, Schumer received a question about what he “can do about bringing” the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) back, after DOGE came in and made cuts.
  Chuck Schemer Says Democrats Will Reverse Most of DOGE Cuts

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

• Pam Bondi: “We are prosecuting the monster, and we will seek the death penalty.”
  Feds To Seek Death Penalty In DC Murders of Two Israeli Embassy Staffers By “Pro-Palestinian”
  
• “Said a lot about some of the people around the VP”
  Kamala’s People Demanded to Know if Gov. Josh Shapiro was “Agent for Israel” (no concerns about Doug Emhoff's Jew Juju? - jjs)

  CHARLIE KIRK'S ASSASSINATION

• “I think the defense is just trying to delay the trial.”
  Legal Scholar John Yoo Says Charlie Kirk Assassin Has ‘No Chance of Winning’

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• This is what happens when you don't address the real issues.
  “Stop Asian Hate” Movement Ends With Acquittal for Killer of Asian Grandpa
  
• Heather Mac Donald: President Trump’s public reaction to violent lawlessness is without precedent in recent Oval Office history.
  Rude but Right on Crime

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

• Britain’s rush to police “harmful” speech, from deepfakes to social media, risks turning a liberal democracy into a state that manages dissent by control rather than consent.
  If Britain Bans X, How Far Will It Go To Block Free Speech?
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• The chatbots conceded some points when pressed with specific details
  ‘A False Claim That Has Been Repeatedly Debunked’: Top AI Platforms Flatly Deny That Bro-Fo Omar Married Her Brother, Ignore Strong Evidence She Did
  
• The highest civic skill in the digital age is not coding or content creation, but the ability to look away.
  Parents Must Actively Opt Out Of Turning Their Kids Into Digital Age Zombies

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• “The filing also details hundreds of thousands of dollars flowing to organizations backing ballot initiatives aimed at reshaping education policy and election laws in states, including Ohio, Massachusetts, Arizona and Wisconsin.”
  Nation’s Top Teacher Union Funneling Millions to Far Left Groups (Your No-Shit-Sherlock item of the day - jjs)

• These events are not about service. They are not about Dr. King’s vision of nonviolence, pluralism or moral clarity. They are about ideological indoctrination — using a sacred day in American civil-rights history to push a one-sided, inflammatory political agenda onto children.
  Activist educators are hijacking MLK Day — and Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy — with ‘Palestine teach-in’

• In a major step toward greater ideological freedom in the legal profession, the state of Florida ended the left-wing American Bar Association’s (ABA) dominance over its law schools on Thursday.
  Florida Joins Texas In Ending American Bar Association’s ‘Gatekeeper’ Grip On Law Schools

  ABORTION

• The figures have prompted calls for a national conversation about abortion laws, and renewed pressure for the British government to release the figures for more recent years, which they have been delaying.
  Culture of Death: Britain Hits 300,000 Annual Abortions. (You can bet your house none were Muslim women - jjs)

  
  THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH

• More than one million Chinese with U.S. citizenship who grew up in communist China will soon start voting in American elections, #1 New York Times bestselling investigative journalist and Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer reveals in his new book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.
  ‘Manchurian Generation’ Ballot Flood: More than 1 Million Chinese With U.S. Citizenship Could Vote in 2030 Elections (You can bet your ass their ballots will be monitored by the CCP before being harvested - jjs)

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Indiana state Sen. Jean Leising (R): “I don’t know why, if the proponents wanted this bill to pass, why they didn’t use some kindness.”
  Virginia Democrats Vote to Redraw Congressional Map, Target Four-Seat Gain
  
• Aaron Baker has downplayed his relationship with the man, describing Matthew Lucas as a coworker and claiming no knowledge of his conviction
  Florida Congressional Hopeful’s Ties to Convicted Pedophile Extend From Family Gatherings to Campaign Trail
  
• “Public records searches reveal no current ownership or leasehold interest held by Eric Swalwell in California, nor any history of any ownership of leasehold interest based on available public records,” said the petition filed by Gilbert on Jan. 8. “Swalwell’s congressional financial disclosers from 2011 to 2024 list no California real estate ownership.”
  Lefty Rep. Swalwell can’t run for gov in Calif. — because he doesn’t live there: court filing

  POLITICS

• Plouffe writes, “Right now, Democrats have no credible path to sustained control of the Senate and the White House. After the adjustments to the Electoral College map that look likely to come with the next census, the Democratic presidential nominee could win all states won by Kamala Harris, plus the blue wall of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and still fall short of the 270 electoral votes needed to win. An already unforgiving map gets more so, equally so in the Senate.”
  Democrats Are So Screwed and a Former Obama Advisor Just Proved It

• This is an election year. Here are some things you should be doing to help your campaign, or a campaign you’re supporting.
  Tools for Winning Your Primary – and Winning Your Election
  
• Bruce Blakeman might be the last chance for the Empire State to live up to its name. New York.
  New York voters 'Back the Bruce' for governor
  
• Pennsylvania’s steady exodus is a policy verdict: people and billions are fleeing blue-state governance, and a Democrat trifecta would accelerate the bleed.
  U-Haul’s Election Lesson (People leaving or ballots being shipped in?! - jjs)
  
• House Republicans failed two key votes this week on conservative spending cuts and judicial oversight.
  GOP Stumbles On Core Republican Principles In Key Votes

  
  MADURO TAKEN DOWN

• Why pretending that cartel smuggling boats are 'fishermen' has a body count.
  Why pretending that cartel smuggling boats are 'fishermen' has a body count.
  
• “Even if the medal or diploma later comes into someone else’s possession, this does not alter who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
  Nobel Foundation Panics After Machado Gifts Trump Her Award, Says Prize Cannot Be ‘Passed On’

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Russia has hammered Ukraine’s power grid, especially in winter, throughout the almost four-year war. It aims to weaken Ukrainians’ will to resist in a strategy that Kyiv officials call “weaponizing winter.”
  Drone Strikes Cut Power to 200,000 Homes in Russian-Occupied Ukraine
  
• Did Brussels cancel WWIII?
  Europe Blinks!

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• “We are not going to outsource our national security. We are not going to outsource our hemispheric security to other countries.”
  Bessent Says ‘Fight For The Arctic Is Real,’ Greenland ‘Essential’ To National Security
  
• Tariffs aimed at compelling a deal for the U.S. purchase of Greenland, citing national security concerns.
  Trump Stuns With Sweeping Greenland Acquisition Tariffs.
  
• I’d believe them more if they’d support Jewish claims to the land of Israel using the same arguments.
  The hypocrisy of those leftists at home and abroad defending Danish sovereignty over Greenland
  
• Despite having chronically underinvested in its own defence, the socialist government in Madrid appears intent on pushing forward the globalist project of forming an EU Army. Following comments earlier this month from his Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, backing a common defence force, Prime Minsiter Sanchéz publicly expressed support for integrating Europe’s militaries.
  Socialist Spanish PM Sanchéz Calls for Creation of ‘European Armed Forces’ over Trump’s Greenland Threats
  
• Rosindell’s move makes him the 7th MP to join Reform, with Farage setting a May deadline for further defections.
  ANOTHER British MP Defects to Reform Party, Joining Farage’s Growing Movement.
  
• While Brussels lectures and dithers, Prague acts: Babiš’s transactional diplomacy shows how a mid-sized nation can thrive by aligning interests in a Trump-era world.
  The Czech Republic Shows Europe How It’s Done

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• A nation that cannot secure its networks cannot secure its future.
  The Cyber War America Is Still Ignoring

  
  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• One reason, as explained by Sec. of War Pete Hegseth, is that “NO ONE wants to get into a narco boat” after U.S. military’s successful hits.
  Change! U.S. Sees First Sustained Drop in Fentanyl-Linked Overdose Deaths in Years

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The scientists toss out the possibility that the bar is the remains of a rocky planet vaporized at some point in the system’s past, but that is simply a wild guess.
  Astronomers detect a bar of iron in the center of the Ring Nebula (the Bar of Iron was an S&M club on Tattoine- jjs)
  
• According to McEwen, while the team seems confident the increased temperatures, combined with re-calibration, will fix or reduce issue #2, it is less confident about its impact on the camera’s lifespan.
  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s high resolution camera is showing its age

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

• Affluent, white, female, urban liberals, the “AWFULs,” seem to be everywhere in recent years. What is their problem?
  Karens and 'AWFULs' making things worse

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• John Stossel: The mixed messages of who your life really belongs to.
  Hollywood vs. Individualism
  
• Star Trek used to be a story that told us what we could aspire to, heights of intelligence, governance, culture, but now it tells us only the depths to which we have fallen.
  Wokeness is dead but Starfleet: Academy didn't get the memo
  
• “To put it another way, black dads don’t matter...A heterosexual, male-headed black family is complicit with structural racism...Married couples only constitute 28 percent of all black households.”
  The War on Black Fathers
  
• Christian Toto: Fitness guru, Dr. Drew Pinsky explain why talker's weight advice is wrong, dangerous
  Jillian Michaels Slams Oprah Winfrey as ‘Evil’ for Obesity Defense
  
• Springsteen made an unannounced appearance on stage with Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers where he told the crowd that they need to “send a message to this president. And as the mayor of that city has said, ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis. So this one is for you, and the memory of the mother of three and American citizen Renee Good.”
  Bruce Springsteen Puce ShitStain Dedicates ‘Promised Land’ to Anti-ICE Extremist Renee Good, Tells ‘Gestapo’ ICE ‘Get the F**k Out of Minneapolis’
  
• What frustrates my peers isn’t tradition or responsibility; it’s a system that feels rigged against them.
  Gen Z Isn’t Lost. We’re Looking For A Conservatism That Works. (Try actually being conservative - jjs)

  HITHER & YON

• From ramming U-boats to strafing survivors, drone wars, and bin Laden’s killing, America’s critics selectively forget that yesterday’s “war crimes” were applauded when ordered by Democrats.
  Double Tap Double Standard

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