The Morning Report — 1/23/26

Good morning kids. I suppose every so often the weather is something that should be mentioned. The forecasters are warning about a massive winter storm that's primed to hit much of the nation this weekend.

Several emergency declarations have already been issued as a massive winter storm barrels toward more than 35 states, putting more than 200 million people in its path and threatening “considerable disruption” across the US. 

Texas, Georgia and the Carolinas were the first to issue preemptive emergency declarations after the National Weather Service warned that “nearly everyone east of the Rockies” will be affected by snow, ice, or cold from Friday into early next week.

The potentially historic winter storm, dubbed Winter Storm Fern, is expected to span more than 2,000 miles, putting more than 200 million people at risk of crippling snow and travel chaos starting Thursday night.

Please be safe, avoid traveling unless absolutely necessary and take all appropriate precautions, especially if you live in an area that typically does not experience severe/extreme winter conditions and you and your vehicles aren't used to dealing with it.

With that out of the way, the metaphor of cold and ICE could not be more appropriate. VP JD Vance visited the front line of the war being waged to eliminate our national sovereignty and in point of fact to erase America as founded.

Vice President JD Vance doesn’t believe there’s a need to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota for the time being, he told The Daily Wire on Thursday. Vance touched down in Minneapolis, meeting with federal immigration officers to assess the chaos on the ground. For weeks following the fatal shooting of an ICE watch activist, left-wing agitators have followed federal agents arresting illegal immigrants across the Twin Cities trying to thwart their actions.

Given the incitement and the loud proclamations of Democrat leaders from Walz to Frey and Pritzker and others that they will refuse to cooperate with ICE and other Federal Law enforcement officials in enforcing our laws to protect our sovereignty and citizenry, by virtually ordering their own police forces to physically confront and thwart their efforts. If that is not a green light for the Democrat Party's organized or even lone wolf street thugs and brain damaged fools to physically attack ICE officers . . then I now give you this massive dog-whistle cum Fuhrer Befehl declaring open season on ICE agents.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes wildly suggested that residents can open fire on masked ICE agents if they feel their life is in danger under the state’s self-defense laws.

The Democrat, in a sit-down with 12 News anchor Brahm Resnik, warned that Arizona’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows citizens to use deadly force if they believe they’re in imminent danger, could become a “recipe for disaster” if protesters clash with immigration officers.

“It’s kind of a recipe for disaster because you have these masked federal officers with very little identification, sometimes no identification, wearing plain clothes and masks,” Mayes said in the Monday interview, calling ICE “very poorly trained.” “And we have a Stand Your Ground law that says that if you reasonably believe that your life is in danger and you’re in your house or your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force.” A flabbergasted Resnik repeatedly challenged Mayes, cautioning that her remarks could be interpreted as a “license” to residents to shoot a federal agent. She shot back that she was merely stating a “fact,” not encouraging violence.

“If you’re being attacked by someone who is not identified as a peace officer — how do you know?” the state’s top prosecutor pressed, adding that “real cops don’t wear masks.”

“I mean if somebody comes at me wearing a mask, by the way, I’m a gun owner, and I can’t tell whether they’re a police officer, what am I supposed to do? No, I’m not suggesting people pull out their guns, but this is a don’t tread on me state.”

The attorney general, who was elected in 2022, unleashed her jaw-dropping comments as immigration officers begin to spread into parts of the Grand Canyon State.

. . . She vowed to prosecute any ICE agent who violates state laws after operations in Minnesota sparked widespread unrest when an federal officer fatally shot protester Renee Nicole Good when she clipped him with her car during a heated confrontation on Jan. 7.

Arizona GOP Rep. David Schweikert blasted the attorney general, calling her rhetoric “reckless.”

No, it's not an insurrection Mr. Vice President. It's merely the latest eruption of violent anti-American revolution from within.

To conservatives, it might appear at first blush that these anti-ICE radicals and DNC Commiecrats are all about the F word. It seems to reflect unimaginable rage and irrational hysteria relating to an issue about which the radicals are so passionate that all reasonable expression is abandoned. Don’t be lulled into believing, though, that the beginning and end of these incoherent, obscene rants is that they’re suffering from some serious lack of creative expression or a mind-wiping anger. It’s more than that.

They have a mission beyond the superficial rage they would have us focus on. . . When the left protests, there’s more than rage or frustration. There’s seething enmity. We saw it with the Pussy March when Trump was first elected, during the impeachments and prosecutions levied against him, during the George Floyd/BLM/DEI protests, and now with the ICE insanity.

Every time a congressional Commiecrat, the governor of a blue state, or the mayor of a blue city speaks, bile drips out all over. Journalists and talk show hosts spew their anti-anything American venom daily and with impunity. Don Lemon did it at the church invasion in Minnesota and then brazenly lied and hid behind his immunity as a “journalist” and the fact that he is a gay, black man. Do I hear Jussie Smollett, anyone?

It’s more than rage about the issues or mental illness, prescription meds, weed, or street drugs driving the behavior. It’s even more than demonic possession. Again, these are the things they want us to perseverate on, while they pursue their mission: a collective determination to destroy.

It’s easy to think of our Commiecrats as zombie-like, reacting in lockstep, converging on something en masse, walking in hordes over cliffs and into raging rivers. The impression they give is that they’re not responsible for their actions. That lets them off too easily. . . They don’t do this merely out of rage about an issue but because it is the only path to revolution and cannot be brought about by polite debate and collegial cooperation. . . They don’t need the facts or stats, logic, or reasoning to accomplish their goals. Just a place to compulsively and convulsively shout “F you” while destroying everything in their way—not just buildings and property, but love of country, American culture, and resilience—courageously remaking this nation as they believe it should be, as Obama once said.

So, when you hear a Karen ranting, “F you,” it’s not anger about the American Dream slipping away, but about the fury needed for their Marxist Utopian Dream. And make no mistake: they relish in that fury. If you doubt me, listen to Minnesota Church Stormer-in-Chief William Kelly rant about death threats against him, inviting people to “Go ahead, kill me...because...you can kill the revolutionary, but you can’t kill the Revolution.”

Beyond merely the droogs and deadhead scum that are the tip of the spear, this nation needs to be absolutely purged from sea to shining sea of everything and everyone of the Left, including the complete dismantling of the Democrat Party and most especially the malign influence of our schools. If we fail, it will be our undoing. This madness ends with us or it ends us.

As tensions rise in Minneapolis and other sanctuary cities and ICE officers confront violent protestors in the line of duty, some teachers are indoctrinating their students to believe the left’s woke narratives—even when they are demonstrably false.

At Manson Northwest Webster High School in Iowa, a language arts teacher, identified by other outlets as Kim Keller, was caught in an audio recording delivering a virulent partisan diatribe to her class in which she accused ICE agents of murdering Renee Nicole Good—and told her students they would likely be next.

The teacher begins by scolding her class for allegedly laughing at TikTok videos about the incident: “Then why are you laughing? Because that is what is happened [sic]. And if you do not process that, you need to process that right now.”

The angry tirade that follows is full of misrepresentations and outright lies.

The school is not on the Upper West Side of Mamdani's Manhattan but in Iowa. Trouble in River City folks.

Have a great weekend. Again, stay warm and stay safe!

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• “I mean if somebody comes at me wearing a mask, by the way, I’m a gun owner, and I can’t tell whether they’re a police officer, what am I supposed to do?”
  Arizona AG wildly suggests residents can shoot masked ICE agents under state’s self-defense laws
  
• The backlash to the supposed Republican renaissance and sweeping cultural conservative agendas is here. . . Across the country, the jargon of wokeness invented on campuses is spilling back out into the broader culture again, much like it did in 2020. . . The truth is, the right declared victory too early. Wokeness never died. . . It’s the weed that grows back stronger. We ignore it at our own peril.
  Woke never really died, it’s coming back with a vengeance — and we should be terrified

• A powerful follow-up surge of Arctic air tied to the polar vortex will follow closely behind, creating dangerous refreezing conditions that could lead to prolonged power outages and bring travel to a near standstill for several days, according to the FOX Forecast Center. (Bundle up everyone - jjs)
  Over 235 Million Americans In More Than 40 States Now In Path Of Historic Winter Storm Packing Snow, Ice, Arctic Cold

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• “A Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused to sign a complaint bringing charges against Don Lemon in connection with the church protest on Sunday,” reports the far-left and still unreformed CBS News. Federal Judge Refuses to Sign Complaint Against Don Lemon for Church Riot
• Trump has a momentous choice ahead of him: stand firm against chaos or allow the situation to spiral out of control. Trump Needs To Emulate One Of His Favorite Presidents To Crush The Blatant Insurrection In Minnesota

• Federal action highlights a zero-tolerance stance on attacks against religious institutions by far-left activists.
  DOJ Arrests Radical Black Activist Behind Anti-ICE Church Invasion. (Find and cut off where this bloody beast gets her money - jjs)

• Mayor Jacob Frey previously stopped short of condemning anti-ICE activists for storming St. Paul’s Cities Church
  Minneapolis Mayor Calls for Release of Activists Who Stormed Church Service (they should be released -- directly into a tank of starving piranha - jjs)

• “We’re not saying we had teams comprised of HUNDREDS of off-duty cops and veterans volunteer to run decoy operations so far-left activists THOUGHT they were conducting ICE raids.”
  Blue Lives Matter Reveals Pro-ICE Decoy Operation With ‘Combat Veterans, Off-Duty Officers’

• It’s not that lefts are angry, incoherent dimwits (although many are). However, for most, rage is their power source, and their goal is America’s destruction.
  The True Meaning Behind All The Rage

• Democrats find the worst reason for a civil war ever.
  The Illegal Alien Pedophile Insurrection
  * * * * *

• The lawsuit says that on February 19, 2021, Trump received notice, “without warning or provocation,” that several of his and his company’s bank accounts would be closed “just two months later, on April 19, 2021.”
  Trump Files $5 Billion Debanking Lawsuit Against JPMorgan & CEO Jamie Dimon

• “If enacted, this bill would require Virginia state agencies be racist in who they do business with.”

  Virginia Introduces Bill That Discriminates Against White Men in Government Contracting

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

• Radical leftist former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly known as AMLO, and his protege and current Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum have both publicly embraced the concept of reconquista and actively discouraged Mexican Americans, much less Mexicans illegally present in the United States, from assimilating or in any way embracing American identity, the book reveals. Officials under both presidencies have declared illegal immigrants who send remittances home “heroes” and champion propaganda songs that celebrate rejecting American identity.
  SHOCK CONFESSION: Mexican President Admits That Mass Migration Is a Tool to Reclaim and Conquer America’s Southwest

• "As agents approached, the driver Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias fled on foot—abandoning his child."
  DHS Slaps Bro-Fo Omar With Fact Check Over Claim ICE ‘Detained’ 5-Year-Old Child
  
• “Our efforts were not aimed at interfering with authorities...The Chicago Chief of Patrol told police officers en route to help the ICE agents to stand down...This is not an action movie...Crime in Memphis fell by 41 percent.”
  How Pro-Immigrant Activism Turned Dangerous

  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• The Dominion State Democrat’s bill was introduced as the nation has increasingly scrutinized the misuse of taxpayer funds. The Trump administration has moved to clamp down on fraud across many federal benefit programs.
  Virginia Democrat Moves to Squash Oversight of Nonprofits After Somali Fraud Scandal
  
• . . . the horrifying truth the Deep State wants buried.
  ‘SOMALIMERICA’: The Rise of Somali Fraud, Crime and Terror in America
  
• The real taboo cause of the fraud epidemic.
  In Sweden as in Minnesota, Somali Welfare Fraud

  
  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Republican governors launch ambitious efforts to fight fraud, reduce regulations, and lower costs.
  The States Play DOGE Ball

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: The ISIS flag flies again in Raqqa, thanks to the man who drove them out a decade ago.
  The Two Mr. Trumps
  
• CAIR's not thwarting terrorism, but evading scrutiny.
  xNo, Hamas-Linked CAIR Did Not Help Thwart an Assassination Plot Against President Trump

  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Comey cleared Clinton, Obama boarded Air Force One with her, and the Russia hoax took flight—new evidence suggests the fix was in long before voters ever weighed in.
  Obama’s Fingerprints All Over Investigations of Trump And Clinton
  
•  The hearing is being billed by House Republicans as an essential step in transparency—and possible criminal charges—surrounding Smith and the former Biden government’s Arctic Frost investigation
  Jack Smith Said He Expects to Be Indicted at Nightmare Hearing. Here’s What Happened:

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• If the goal is to restore the American Dream, then we have to Make America Affordable Again. That starts with breaking the grip of players who treat families as data points and neighborhoods as cash cows. Zillow is towards the very top of that list.
  Trump Thumps Davos’ ‘You’ll Own Nothing’ Plan. And Here’s Another Target for His Sights.

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• With four murders and several other shootings, the year is not starting out well for Macon, Georgia.
  Yet Another Macon Murder-Funeral

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

• The European Union on Monday unveiled an "anti-racism" plan that presses member states to censor online "hate speech" and adopt an "intersectional approach" to "structural racism." The plan, which also calls for training on "unconscious bias" and "microaggression," is likely to intensify the Trump administration’s diplomatic fusillade against European hate speech laws. It also illustrates the degree to which American racial politics have been exported to the European Union.
  European Union Doubles Down on ‘Hate Speech’ Censorship in New ‘Anti-Racism’ Strategy

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

• Robert Zimmerman: "What must be understood about Mann is that he is a very typical leftist radical, who thinks that because his cause is just and good, he is somehow immune from any consequences for bad behavior. Such leftists increasingly believe they are allowed to lie, cheat, defame, and even sometimes commit violence, because anyone who disagrees with them is evil. Mann did not do the last item (though many other leftists now are), but he did all the others, and truly believed he could get away with it. He is now finding out otherwise.
  Fake scientist Michael Mann slapped down hard by DC superior court

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Indoctrinating our children to hate federal officers.
  Public School Teachers Rail Against ICE

• There’s a stark reality gripping America’s urban public school districts, caused by massive enrollment hemorrhages as parents flee to alternatives.
  Kids Dumb As Rocks Now So Parents Across Country Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands

• New world rankings undermine Ivy League's claim that diversity is 'essential to academic excellence'
  Chinese Universities Surpass Harvard Despite Glaring Lack of Racial Diversity

  ABORTION

• For pro-lifers the NIH’s decision is a payoff on their decades-long lobbying effort to end taxpayer-funded experiments involving aborted babies.
  Feds Will No Longer Use Your Tax Dollars To Do Experiments On Aborted Babies’ Bodies
  
• The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) were suing Trump’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS) over a freeze on $27.5 million worth of Title IX family planning grants to Planned Parenthood. The Trump administration, however, quietly restored the grants, prompting the ACLU and NFPRHA to drop their lawsuit.
  EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood Asks Trump Admin Not To Refund Them
  
• Pro-lifers should realize how little political power they have, and to take the modest wins for life that this administration can offer.
  Here’s Where J.D. Vance And Pro-Lifers Should Compromise, And Where They Shouldn’t

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• Blanche began by noting that even as we walked, the DOJ was arguing against Hawaiian gun control before the Supreme Court of the United States.
  EXCLUSIVE: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Describes DOJ Fight to Protect Second Amendment Rights

  L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN

• So, what we have here is a perfect example of Democrats getting what they wished—getting it good and getting it hard.
  Democrats Vote to Hold Clintons in Contempt over Epstein Subpoena
  
• As with all conspiracy theories, anything that fails to prove the “truth” — especially anything that debunks it — just becomes more proof of the plotters’ reach: The believers will never be convinced otherwise.
  You’ll never guess what the new Epstein scandal is

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Hunt, who is vying in a brutal three-way Texas Senate primary, was absent while House Republicans advanced a rule teeing up votes on four appropriations bills, including a measure funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Though House Republicans did not end up needing Hunt’s vote to advance the funding bills, GOP leadership has voiced irritation about the Senate hopeful’s frequent absences while he campaigns ahead of the March 3 primary.
  ‘Expected Him To Be Here’: Mike Johnson Stunned Rep. Wesley Hunt Was Missing For Key House Vote
  
• It’s about whether New York’s constitutional safeguards against gerrymandering mean anything at all — or whether they can be exploited by partisans whenever election results don’t go their way.
  How New York’s gerrymander fight endangers GOP House seats everywhere

  POLITICS

• Trump’s unapologetic, America-first action—even when politically incorrect—should serve as the blueprint moving forward and the new standard to which all future presidents are held.
  President Trump Redefining What It Means to Be Presidential, Putting Predecessors to Shame

  IRAN ON the BRINK?!

• They seem to know that jihad is not just a “spiritual struggle”.
  Islamic Republic of Iran Threatens Worldwide Jihad if the Supreme Leader is Killed
  
• Standing on the brink of its own reckoning.
  Blood is the Last Currency of Iran’s Failing Theocracy
  
• The announcement comes as President Donald Trump reportedly considers ‘decisive’ action against the Islamic Republic
  Iranian Regime Claims It Tested a Long-Range Missile That Can Hit US Eastern Seaboard

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS

• Kushner and Witkoff outline plans for "new Gaza." (masturbation unless the elimination of Islam is part of the plan - jjs)
  ‘New Gaza’: Trump’s Board Of Peace Unveils Ambitious Postwar Vision At Davos

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The contrast between the international assemblage of sophisticates and the president from Queens brings onto a global stage one of the longest-running dramas in American political history. Mastering the forces unleashed by Jacksonian America is the key not only to Trump's presidential success, but also to the preservation and renewal of the American-led international order. If the announced agreement with NATO secretary general Mark Rutte holds, this act in the drama will end on a high note.
  Andrew Jackson Comes to Davos
  
• Fred Fleitz: European leaders panicked over imaginary Trump crises, only to be outflanked at Davos as he exposed their failures, calmed Greenland fears, and seized the global stage.
  Trump Owned Davos
  
• But Milei's speech wasn't just a warning. It was filled with pure optimism and "good news." The thing is, the good news was coming from the Americas, not Europe. 
  Europe Fades As Latin America Rises. Milei Is Leading the Way.
  
• Potential end of communist rule in Cuba after nearly 67 years.
  U.S. Targets Regime Change in Cuba by Year’s End. (can we abolish the Democrat party and secure real peace and prosperity? - jjs)
  
• The Times of London: “Videos show tents burning at the al-Hol camp, which holds more than 40,000 people, after the Syrian military began to take control of the Kurdish northeast.” 
  ISIS Terrorists Escape Syrian Prisons as Regime Forces Advance on Kurdish-Held Territory 
  
• “We’re going to have total access to Greenland. We’re going to have all military access that we want.”
  Trump on Greenland Deal: ‘It’s Essentially Total Access’
  
• Trump has earned reasonable deference in his diplomacy.
  Let Him Cook: Trump is Right on Greenland and the National Interest
  
• These are the ones who enforced conformity to their ideology countless times, whether those who accepted the boot on their neck agreed with them or not.
  Canadians don’t need a lecture on enforced conformity from Mark Carney
  
• The Nordic model may inflate the sort of numbers politicians like to recite at press conferences, but it does little to make northern Europe safer in any meaningful sense.
  The Nordic Conscription Myth: How a False Success Story Is Driving Europe’s Draft Revival
  
• The Beijing-controlled puppet government in Hong Kong began a trial under China’s tyrannical “national security law” on Thursday for the leaders of a group that organized candlelight vigils in memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
  China Prosecutes Hongkongers Who Mourned Tiananmen Square Massacre (Truman failed when he prevented Macarthur from crossing the Yalu and driving all the way to Peking to skin Mao alive - jjs)
  
• How much influence does the deep-pocketed Gulf country hold in America?
  Qatar as Daddy Warbucks

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• “President Trump’s historic Rural Health Transformation Program could not come at a more urgent time,”. . . “After years of targeting and neglect under the Biden administration, across the United States, hospitals are entering a systemic distress cycle that is visible in financial markets before doors close to patients. In 2025 alone, at least 90 hospitals have experienced credit rating downgrades, service eliminations, or full closures. These distress events reveal a patterned, multi-signal collapse with credit downgrades often preceding a loss of essential services.”
  Exclusive — Report: Rural Hospital Closures, Downgrades Represent ‘National Health Access Emergency’ Trump Can Fix
  
• Current law lets hospitals charge patients significantly more than they were quoted. Trump could change that by making hospitals pay it back.
  How Hospitals Gouge Americans By Gaming Trump’s Order To Post Prices

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The German startup Spark Microgravity announced yesterday it is negotiating with two commercial space stations, one re-entry capsule company, and one French rocket startup to launch the first commercial cancer lab in space.
  German startup Spark Microgravity to build first space-based commercial cancer lab
  
• What causes these gullies remains an open question. ... More recent research suggests they are formed by the seasonal dry ice frost cycle that in the high latitudes has carbon dioxide condense to fall as snow in autumn and then sublimate away in the spring.
  New gullies on Mars?

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

• It is expected that every American transgender claiming refugee status will be denied asylum and deported back to the United States.
  American Transgender ‘Refugees’ Put in Camp With Migrants.

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• They care nothing about preserving our culture (No shit Sherlock1 - jjs)
  Democrats Apparently Hate Western Civilization

  HITHER & YON

• Claire Foy excels, yet again, in unexpected tale of love, death and healing
  ‘H Is for Hawk’ Will Catch Everyone Off Guard

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