Don Lemon Arrested, But Not for the Sexual Assault He Was Credibly Accused of
—Ace
Don Lemon's shit-eating grin just got 10% more literal.
Disgraced ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested early Friday over the anti-ICE protest that stormed a Minneapolis church during Sunday service, according to his attorney and Attorney General Pamela Bondi."Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents ... in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards," Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement shared with multiple reporters.
He was one of four people arrested by federal agents early Friday "in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota," Bondi later confirmed in a statement.
Lemon spent the night in jail and is expected to make a first appearance in court sometime Friday, according to Brian Stelter, the chief media analyst for Lemon's former network.His attorney maintained that the frequently fired correspondent was there as a journalist, making it "constitutionally protected work."
A lot of J6 people acted as journalists during the J6 "insurrection." They reported, they recorded, they livestreamed. They were told that a claim of "journalism" does not excuse lawbreaking.
Leftists, as usual, want a different rule for themselves and their enemies. They want "journalism" to be a Guild with Special Rights and Privileges and, of course, they want the power to say who is and who is not a "journalist." Only leftists may join the Guild and have these Special Rights and Privileges.
This attempt to turn themselves into nobles and us into peasants must be resisted with all force.
"The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable," said Lowell, who also represented disgraced former first son Hunter Biden.
Of course.
...It was not immediately clear what charges he is facing. However, Lemon has been accused of violating the Enforcement Act of 1871, which bans interference with certain civil rights -- such as voting or serving on juries -- or, in this case, the right to practice one's religion.
Also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, it was originally created to prevent the racial terrorist group from paramilitary vigilantism.
Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, also said the DOJ was considering charging Lemon under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a 1994 federal law that also covers interference with religious worship, as well as conspiracy statutes.
Another "journalist" who took part in the storming of the church has also been arrested.
A journalist who was with disgraced ex-CNN host Don Lemon when he allegedly stormed a Minnesota church has shared video of the moment agents came to also arrest her Friday morning."There's agents at my door," independent journalist Georgia Fort said as she livestreamed the arrest on Facebook Live.
"As a member of the press, I filmed the church protest a few weeks ago and now I'm being arrested for that," Fort added.
"It's hard to understand how we have a Constitution, Constitutional rights, when we can just be arrested for being a member of the press."
At one point, a female arresting officer can be heard telling Fort to hurry up and come outside.
It remains unclear what charges Fort and Lemon are facing over the Jan. 18 demonstration at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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The Morning Report — 1/30/26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids.
Oh happy day, the GOP and Democrats have reached some sort of funding deal that prevents a government shutdown.
Eh, if you read the piece, it's the usual political posturing, can-kicking and other nonsense that means more arguments and bullshit in the coming weeks. The big deal with this was the Democrats' insistence on the complete defunding of ICE which although demand by their bloodthirsty insane base is something that of course would never fly with normal American and so ICE will continue to enforce federal law in the rounding up and deportation of illegal aliens.
Collins, R-Maine, said she spoke with Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who told her the news. . . Collins hasn’t joined her colleagues Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who have called for Noem to resign.
Kind of a shocker considering Collins and Murkowski are perpetually joined at the hip when it comes to opposing President Trump and supporting far too many anti-American Leftist political initiatives, primarily abortion. I assume Collins sees that Downeasters have had it with their own Somali Islamo-Grifting swarm of locusts, and so her future ability to bamboozle them into voting for her means she has to at least do her best to fake being in agreement with them about this issue.
Do the words of this half-mouli scumbag really matter?
"Breaking Bad" actor Giancarlo Esposito calls for "revolution" as a result of the events in Minneapolis. He says "millions" might lose their lives, but "the rest of us would survive."
Typical. "Aux Barricades" fools. Go charge into the machine-gun fire while I stay here in the safety of my trailer mixing the martinis. I can see this degenerate commanding one of Stalin's penal battalions ready to shoot anyone who hesitates. For the glory of the revolution, you see!
Considering these bastards want us all dead, this is almost laughable. Almost . . .
Anti-ICE agitators mistakenly targeted two Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents having dinner at a restaurant in Lynwood, California, on Wednesday evening—prompting the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office to be called and engage in crowd control. The two TSA agents were mistakenly identified by unknown individuals as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, prompting a crowd of demonstrators to show up outside the restaurant, with several carrying Mexican flags and others carrying anti-ICE signs.In footage from the scene, several Los Angeles County Sheriff officers can be seen forming a loose perimeter around the dining establishment, while several dozen anti-ICE agitators blow horns, whistles, and wave flags and signs. Local reports indicate the TSA agents were forced to call the sheriff for backup as the crowd gathered outside.
Meh. If they wound up dead. ICE, TSA, what's the diff? to the Left it would be "Message Sent."
Back in Minnesota, this happened:
Mark Anderson, a 36-year-old man from Mankato, Minnesota, was arrested at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Wednesday evening after allegedly impersonating a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent. Anderson claimed he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione, who is accused of assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. According to the criminal complaint, Anderson presented a Minnesota driver’s license when asked for credentials and carried a bag containing a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter.
On the international scene, With a carrier battle group steaming towards Iran to presumably smother the regime with a My Pillow to help it achieve 72 virginhood.
Closer to home, will the Caribbean island gulag of Cuba at long last be rid of the Communists?
The Financial Times reported on Wednesday that Cuba only has "about 15 to 20 days" of oil left, based on knowledge of its last shipment, which came from Mexico in early January. There are also rumors floating around the many international businesses and at least a dozen European and Latin American embassies are planning to evacuate Cuba soon amid the crisis, due to the "rapid collapse of internal conditions" and the potential for it to get much worse in the weeks to come. Some say they fear U.S. military intervention given what happened with Maduro.
That would be something to see but I'd rather we here in America no longer had to fear the long dark shadow of Communism that is the Democrat Party. I have a dream today!
Have a great weekend.
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- Our Virtual Civil War Part Four. . .Wisdom from a former communist who campaigned for Xiden . . and Where are the 'republicans' on anything but voting for more funding of this color revolution shit(National Endowment for Democracy)!?!?!?!?!
Why the Democrats Fail in the Art of War
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Daily Tech News 30 January 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Trust no-one: Chat & Ask AI, one of the most popular AI apps on the Google Play and Apple App stores - never heard of it - that claims more than 50 million users, left hundreds of millions of those users' private messages with the app's chatbot exposed. (404 Media) (archive site)
The exposed chats showed users asked the app "How do I painlessly kill myself," to write suicide notes, "how to make meth," and how to hack various apps.
How could this happen? Did some brilliant hacker find a devious path through a rat's nest of firewalls and security devices to reach the servers?
Not exactly.The issue is a misconfiguration in the app's usage of the mobile app development platform Google Firebase, which by default makes it easy for anyone to make themselves an "authenticated" user who can access the app's backend storage where in many instances user data is stored.
Every message from every user was public. Oops.
And half of all iOS apps have the same problem.
- 404 Media seems to have fallen on stupid times, judging from the sidebar: App for Quitting Porn Leaked Users' Masturbation Habits, well, okay, that's legit tech news with a prurient slant. Two Heads, Three Boobs: The AI Babe Meta Is Getting Surreal is less legit. And I Replaced My Friends With AI Because They Won't Play Tarkov With Me is just pathetic whether it's real or not.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - January 29, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
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Thursday Night Cafe
—Ace
Road in Utah's west desert
Preston Photography
Dolphin and dog hang out.
Now seals are out of control.
Fat cat has only one kind of exercise he likes.
Frozen puppy saved from the side of the road is now the handsomest boy.
Sliding into Friday like Kramer bursting in through Jerry's door.
Dog and baby share a joint appreciation of getting dirty.
ICYMI: Dog invades a cat's intimate spaces.
Cat lady, meet dog lady.
Learning by imitating, 1. Learning by imitating, 2.
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Quick Hits
—Ace
This may shock some of the most easily shocked readers, but it turns out that the pampered foreign communist Zohran Mamdani has been in office for two weeks and he's already out of money and will need to liberate more money from taxpayers.
Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd🚨 BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani Says New York City is Facing a "Fiscal Crisis at the Scale of the Great Recession"
"That means looking inward into savings and efficiencies. That also means raising taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and the most profitable corporations."
Former mayor Eric Adams calls bullsh*t.
Eric Adams @ericadamsfornyc
In case anyone was wondering, this was the real motive behind today's press conference.Mayor Mamdani promised a laundry list of "free" giveaways to buy votes, with no plan to pay for them. Now that the math doesn't work, instead of owning the fact that he misled New Yorkers, he's blaming me.
Let's be clear: I left him over $8 BILLION in reserves.
This is the same Mamdani who spent years attacking me for not spending enough during the migrant crisis.
The only reason those reserves exist is because I ignored him and his socialist comrades who demanded we blow billions more with no guardrails.
"Free" isn't free. It's just a bill someone else has to pay.
Eric Adams @ericadamsfornyc4h
When you promise "free" everything on Sunday, boldly declare that millionaires and billionaires shouldn't exist on Monday, and by Tuesday you're scrambling to fund your giveaways with the very people you wanted gone just yesterday.
InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022US CENSUS: Net international migration fell 53.8% from 2.7 million (2024) to 1.3 million (2025) -- just 321K projected for 2026
Will Chamberlain @willchamberlainThe most basic category error the left makes - repeatedly - on every police shooting is to characterize the shooting as an unjust "punishment" for the conduct of the person shot. They then argue that said person didn't "deserve" to be "executed," and so clearly the police officer is in the wrong.
That's not what it's about. It's NEVER what's it's about. Punishment is administered through the judicial system. The right of a law enforcement officer to use deadly force in self-defense or defense of others is about the rights of the officer, his colleagues, and nearby civilians as human beings whose lives have value, too. They have a right to respond to the imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm with deadly force. And in exercising that right, they are not judged from the perspective of an omniscient superhuman, with perfect knowledge of everything happening in that moment; they are held to the standard of the reasonable person perceiving what they can from that viewpoint.
In the words of William Munny, deserve's got nothing to do with it.
Tiffany Cross is a very low-IQ black racist fired by MSNBC for being a basket-case and a liability. Of course CNN's Abby Phillip decided she needed to feature this Empowered Black Woman Racist on her failing show.
Cross just claimed a few days ago that a "right wing extremist" had killed Charlie Kirk -- apparently she's a fan of Jimmy Kimmel, or, maybe, Candace Owens.
Note that CNN routinely cancels people for dealing in "misinformation."
But not here, of course.
And she was back at it last night, this time asserting, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that ICE is a "white supremacy" "militia" which is now staffed almost entirely by... Proud Boys.
O'LEARY: "Did you just say ICE officers are militia?!"CROSS: "Yes. Have you not been paying attention?"
O'LEARY: "Yeah...I think you're stretching a little bit."
CROSS: "They certainly mirror the Gestapo."
O'LEARY: "This is a federal, state mandate, you're pushing that a little bit there. That's WAY offside."
*Abby Phillip looked concerned.*
PHILLIP: "But Tiffany, you're just making a supposition here. There's no concrete evidence of actual Proud Boy members."
O'LEARY: "Yeah, you gotta be careful here. That's WAY offside. These are men and women serving the government, risking their lives, serving the government. You're calling them Proud Boy militia, did you say that?!"
"You're way offside, way offside."
CROSS: "I'm actually not. But I think that there are White supremacist tattoos on their necks."
O'LEARY: "White supremacist federal officers?!"
CROSS: "Yeah! White supremacist federal officers!"
O'LEARY: "Okay that's...where are you going with this? Why would you say that?! Men and women working for the federal government, risking their lives, carrying out a mandate and their White supremacists?!"
CROSS: "Yes, and you're a member of a cult..."
O'LEARY: "WHOA! WHOA! WHOA! WHOA! WHOA!"
They want war. They will have it.
Soros DA Larry Krasner to ICE: "If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades... we will find your identities!"
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As Questions Mount About Ilhan Omar's Rags-to-Riches "Virtual Winery," She Deletes All Online Traces of the "Business" That Supposedly Made Her Rich
—Ace
David Strom:
By now you have likely heard about her rapid--as in rocket-speed--rise in wealth, although due to federal reporting requirements, the range within which her net worth is measured is millions of dollars, so no precise percentage increase is out there. But let's just say that in terms of rapid rises, Nancy Pelosi would be quite impressed.The commonly floated numbers are a rise from about $15,000 net worth to about $30 million.
A major part of that growth in wealth has been the rapid rise in the valuation of a sketchy "winery" from a few thousand dollars to a whopping $5 million to$15 million, despite having (perhaps) released few wines and, in recent years, none at all. Its locations appear to be empty buildings, its wines are unavailable, and once attention was turned to its sketchy nature, all the information about it disappeared from the internet.
It's a remarkable "success story," but one that may be as real as a Somali healthcare company. The money appears, but the product...not so much. It sure LOOKS like money laundering.
The "virtual winery" has been scrubbed from the internet just days after Benny Johnson reported that it looked fake:
Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨How did Ilhan Omar make millions from a 100% fake winery?This is insane. We investigated. Check this out...
Illhan Omar lists a California winery on her financial disclosures. You can see them below. The winery name is 'eStCru LLC.'
In 2023 it was valued at $15k.
In 2024 it was valued at $5 Million (!!!)This must be a very successful winery to grow that much in value over one year. Except... the winery does not even exist:
- No phone line
- No physical winery
- Social media gone dark
- A barely functional 'website'
- No wine lolWhat is this?!
It gets worse: Omar's third husband, Tim Mynett, has been accused of defrauding investors through this FAKE winery. He was sued by the investors for millions because it's all fraudulent. This is on brand. Minnesota AG Keith Ellison previously worked with Mynett, the same AG who has REFUSED to investigate widespread Somali fraud.
How does a nonexistent winery jump from $15k to $5 million in one year when the company is a ghost? How can Omar claim this fake company provides her millions in assets? Seems like a cover.
Ironically, one of the wine labels they made was literally called 'The Devil's Lie'
The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress MUST investigate this fraud further.
Elizabeth MacDonald @LizMacDonaldFOX2h
NEWS Ilhan Omar's husband runs a supposed "masters of the universe" investment firm but its D.C. address matches that of a WeWork. Its website boasts "deep global networks built from on-the-ground work in more than 80 countries" when its apparent D.C. WeWork office evidently shares space with a Walmart operation and the American Trucking Assn. This is the firm Omar valued his stake in at upwards of $25M.
#breaking #BreakingNews #BREAKING #NEWS #breakingnews #ilhan #IlhanOmar @x @FoxNews @FoxBusiness @ap @Reuters @google @GOPoversight @JudiciaryGOP @dnc @WeWork
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Actor: I'm Willing to See 50 Million (or 500 Million) People Die for the Sake of the Worldwide Communist Revolution
—Ace
This is an actor that I've seen people gush about, but he always seemed like a hammy, flouncy cheeseball and DEI hire to me.
Actor Giancarlo Esposito crystallized today's Democrat Party by admitting he is willing to see people die to fulfill his revolution.This is a direct quote, per the far-left Variety, and these are the words of a narcissistic sociopath. Block quotes are Variety's...
This is time for a revolution -- and they don't even know that's what they're starting. We have to stand up to it. They can't take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin's doorstep or the Iranians' doorstep or in Washington, they'd kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world].Don't you get it, you over-privileged, leftist dummies?
Do you not see it?
You bored, spoiled brats attempting fill the God-shaped hole in your soul by attacking law enforcement, destroying private property, and provoking violence are nothing more or less than cannon fodder to Democrat Party elites like Giancarlo Esposito.
Read what he said.
Read his own words.
This is time for a revolution If the whole world showed up ... in Washington they'd kill 500 or 50 million the rest of us would survive with a new [world].The rest of us.
No you.
Us
Us would survive.
You can bet he'd survive.
Would he, though?
In further news: Horrible failed actress Kristen Stewart, who can no longer land a role due to failure after failure and lack of actual talent and lack of attractiveness, says she's going to leave the US because, you see, she can't get work Because Trump.
This is a lethal dose of Cope. She can't get a job because she has always been talentless and wasn't even attractive when young -- she was "nonthreatening" to female audiences -- and now she's aged out of acting.
But whatever, it's because the Bad Orange Man is calling up casting agents and telling them "don't hire the slack-jawed whore Kirsten Stewart.
Actress Kristen Stewart says she is planning to flee the U.S.A. over her disdain for President Donald Trump's America First policies. "I'd like to make movies in Europe and then shove them down the throat of the American people," she said.The Twilight star told the UK Times that she intends to continue pursuing her directorial career in Europe because she thinks she "can't work freely" in the United States thanks to Trump.
She added that she shot The Chronology of Water, her directorial debut, in Latvia because "it would have been impossible to do in the States."
What she means is that this is a zero-budget vanity project which she had to film overseas to keep labor costs to an actual minimum.
Stewart also thinks Trump's thus far unrealized threats to put tariffs on foreign film productions is "terrifying.""Reality is breaking completely under Trump," she told the paper. "But we should take a page out of his book and create the reality we want to live in."
Looks like you're already doing that, and blaming your complete rejection by audiences and industry insiders on Trump's conspiracy to deny you movie roles.
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Surprise! Left Wing Uses Pressure from Below, Pressure from Above Color Revolution Tactics to Push... Comprehensive Immigration Reform
—Ace
As mentioned in yesterday's quick hits, the "color revolution" tactics employed by communists consists of organized violent "protests" meant to convince the majority of the public that they're actually the minority, and that they had better let the false "majority" get what they want or else the country will burn.
Meanwhile, the "elites" of the communist movement scheme to pass laws that will appease the false "majority," pretending they are responding to a popular movement conducted by others.
In fact, they're all part of the same psychological operation. The "elites" themselves organize, fund, and promote the so-called "spontaneous popular uprisings" and then trot out the legislation and policies they pretend they've draw up to respond to the "spontaneous popular uprisings," but in fact were drafted long, long ago. The "spontaneous popular uprisings" and the boiling-frog violent insurgency are executed just to give the communist "elites" cover to pass the unpopular legislation they always wanted to pass.
It's an "inside-outside" game -- some actors pretending to be on the "outside," with government insiders appeasing these violent "outsiders," but they're all insiders. They're all communist plotters. Some are just assigned the roles of domestic terrorism, and others assigned the role of passing laws to appease the domestic terrorists.
This is exactly the same "inside-outside" game played by terrorist groups, who each have their own supposedly "clean" "political wing." The IRA had Sinn Fein, Black September had the PLO, etc. The "clean" "political wings" supposedly have nothing to do with the terrorist wing-- but everyone knows they're working hand-in-glove together.
Except for the American media, which pretends it doesn't know that antifa is the violent terrorist wing of the Democrat Party. Because they're part of the inside-outside game, too.
So it makes perfect communist color revolution sense that the "insiders" are now pushing amnesty and open borders again, this time, supposedly as a way to avoid the further violence and chaos they're allied "outsiders" are perpetrating.
Byron York:
USING THE MINNEAPOLIS VIOLENCE TO PUSH IMMIGRATION REFORM. "Comprehensive immigration reform" has failed several times in Congress. The issue is too fraught, too complex, and the parties are too far apart for a fundamentally divided House and Senate to pass far-reaching legislation.Nevertheless, calling for "comprehensive immigration reform" remains a safe strategy whenever immigration becomes a hot topic. For example, when the public finally caught on to the fact that President Joe Biden had set off a huge rush of millions of illegal immigrants, Democrats ran for political cover. Rather than demand that Biden close the border, which they didn't want to do and would also anger their activist groups, Democrats instead called for "comprehensive immigration reform," which made them sound like they wanted to address the problem." It was a safe harbor in a political storm.
Now we are in another storm, this time over events in Minneapolis. And some politicians, including some Republicans, are again calling for immigration reform.
In an op-ed in the New York Times, Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) proposes a "common-sense bipartisan solution" to the violence and disorder that have accompanied President Donald Trump's aggressive effort to enforce federal immigration law in Minneapolis.
"Congress and the president need to embrace a new comprehensive national immigration policy that acknowledges Americans' many legitimate concerns about how the government has conducted immigration policy," Lawler writes. He praises Trump's record of stopping illegal border crossings and deporting 675,000 illegal immigrants. "Any balanced immigration policy would preserve and expand on this progress -- but humanely," Lawler writes, calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol to "reassess their current tactics."
And then it will be time for immigration reform. "A realistic plan would provide a path to legal status -- not citizenship -- for long-term illegal immigrants without criminal records," Lawler writes. "This path would be rigorous and fair ... those who benefit would face mandatory work requirements, forgo public assistance, and pay fines and any back taxes they might owe."
Would that work? One thing we know is that this kind of talk has been going on for decades. Multiple failed attempts to pass comprehensive immigration reform have taught a few lessons. The first is that Congress will not secure the border. Just not gonna happen. On the other hand, a president can do it, or not do it. Trump is doing it, but the next president could undo that progress at the border, just as Joe Biden did from 2021 to 2025.
The second lesson is that Congress will not legislate Trump-level deportation numbers. And even if it did, it would take measures to ensure that its own law is never enforced. Back in 2006, amid another immigration debate, Congress passed the Secure Fence Act, mandating the construction of fencing on significant parts of the U.S.-Mexico border. The next year, it passed a bill saying that nothing in the Secure Fence Act required any actual fencing to be built.
A third lesson is that when considering a "path to legal status" for "long-term illegal immigrants without criminal records," Congress will create a set of definitions --"long-term," and "without criminal records" and "work requirements" can be very, very flexible phrases -- that ends up including virtually everybody.
Read the whole thing.
Andrew McCarthy talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded, but even he gets it:
Andy McCarthy @AndrewCMcCarthyIt has never made any sense that we owe illegal aliens a path to legal status. If people choose to come to or stay in our country illegally, why should Americans care that, by their lawbreaking, these aliens are consigned to live "in the shadows"? That's the choice they made, we didn't ask them to come. I'm fine with prioritizing criminal aliens for removal and not doing dragnets that drain resources to capture and deport every illegal alien. But that pragmatic indulgence doesn't mean we owe lawbreakers a legalization process. If you come/stay here illegally, then you willfully run the risk that you could be deported at any time. Your choice. Maybe you'll slip through the cracks forever, or maybe you'll run a red light and get caught tomorrow. Your choice, your risk, not our problem. I just don't understand why we should waste 5 minutes handwringing over a path to legal status. These are people who chose to live here illegally.
Feds Seize 700 Boxes of "Votes" From Fulton County, GA, Election Hub; Democrats Shriek In Fear
—Ace
Via Twitchy, Democrats are scrambling for a "plan" to #resist a signed judicial search warrant.
Among the most scrutinized episodes cited by Trump was an election-night pause in absentee ballot counting, when Fulton County officials said a burst pipe temporarily halted operations. Trump later rejected that explanation, arguing the stoppage was used to clear Republican poll watchers from the room before ballots were retrieved from beneath a table and scanned without supervision."In Fulton County, Republican poll watchers were ejected, in some cases, physically from the room under the false pretense of a pipe burst -- 'water main burst, everybody leave,' which we now know was a total lie," Trump told supporters on Jan. 6, 2021. He claimed the episode coincided with a sudden surge of votes for Biden and alleged that tens of thousands of ballots were processed while observers were absent.
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AP: "Car Rams Into Chabad Headquaters In New York City"
—Ace
If you don't know what a Chabad house is, join the club. My guess is that it's some kind of community center or charity. Jewish.
Which is why AP resorts to their favorite fact-obscuring tactic: Claiming a "car" rammed something, rather than a person at the wheel of that car.
And the man who rammed the car into the Jewish center has an Arabic last name, "Sohail."
So you'll understand Associated with Terrorist's lunatic choice to make the car the bad actor in this story.
Car rams into Chabad headquarters in New York City, damaging doorsThe Associated Press
A man was arrested after repeatedly crashing his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in New York City on Wednesday night while people were gathered for prayer at the deeply revered Hasidic Jewish site.
No one was injured when the driver struck a door of a building in the complex before reversing and striking it several more times. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that while it was too early in the investigation to speculate on the driver's motives, the incident was being investigated as a possible hate crime."This is deeply alarming, especially given the deep meaning and the history of the institution to so many in New York and around the world," said New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who called the crash "intentional."
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"Peaceful Protester" and Super-Hot Male Model Alex Pretti Seen in New Video Spitting at ICE Agents, Kicking Their Cars
—Ace
Assault and battery with a side of Blue Steel.
Newly surfaced video shows Alex Pretti spitting at federal immigration agents, kicking a government vehicle, and screaming profanities during a violent confrontation in south Minneapolis on January 13 -- just 11 days before he was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents.The footage, obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune, captures Pretti, 37, amid a chaotic street scene as an unmarked federal convoy moved through the area. Surrounded by a crowd blowing whistles and heckling officers, Pretti is seen shouting abuse at agents, spitting in their direction, and kicking a vehicle before officers move in and take him to the ground. As he stands back up, what appears to be a handgun is clearly visible in his waistband. Moments later, he is released and remains in the area as the confrontation dissipates. A spokesperson for Pretti's family and the family's attorney confirmed to the Star Tribune that the man in the video is Pretti, whose death nearly two weeks later would ignite protests.
The video was recorded by The News Movement on January 13 and later reviewed and aired by the BBC. During a 10 p.m. GMT broadcast, BBC journalist Ros Atkins said the individual in the footage matches Pretti's appearance, clothing, and gait, adding that facial recognition technology suggested a 97 percent match. Atkins told viewers the video shows Pretti "shouting abuse at the agents" and "kicking a car" before being wrestled to the ground, noting that a firearm is visible in his waistband as he gets back to his feet. A BBC spokesperson later confirmed to Mediaite that the network reviewed and authenticated the footage using facial recognition tools.
That video below the fold.
There's just so much peace at these peaceful protests.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are facing a surge in violent threats unlike anything seen before, according to new disclosures from federal officials who say hostility toward frontline immigration enforcement has exploded amid sustained political attacks on the agency.ICE officials this week revealed that death threats against agents and their families have skyrocketed by roughly 8,000 percent, while physical assaults on officers have jumped more than 1,300 percent, a spike they attribute to increasingly aggressive "abolish ICE" rhetoric coming from activist groups and reinforced by elected officials in sanctuary jurisdictions.
One recent case laid bare the ugliness of those threats: an ICE agent received a voicemail in which a man repeatedly urged him to kill himself, called him a "fascist pig," and extended his rage to the agent's family, saying, "I hope your wife dies. I hope your mom and dad die. I hope everything wrong that could go in your life happens. I hope you have the most miserable life."
The message continued with graphic threats and insults, ending with the caller telling the agent, "You are a traitor to the American people, to the values that made our country. You should kill yourself. You're disgusting."
Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said the escalation is not happening in a vacuum, arguing that Democrat leaders who govern sanctuary cities and states have spent years vilifying ICE in ways that predictably lead to violence.
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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
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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.
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 BonhoefferBonhoeffer’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.
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?
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Daily Tech News 29 January 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- 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:
Sounds about right, yes.- 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
People often say Linux is "too much work.".
There is also Windows 10 IoT Enterprise Edition LTSC.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.
Or Windows 7, which doesn't get updates so it doesn't break.
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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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Toonces: The Next Generation Cafe
—Ace
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.
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Quick Hits
—Ace
Mickey Kaus: Now that illegals are being deported, wages are going up, and rents are coming down.
Mickey Kaus @kausmickey17h
"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 @samosaurJan 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
@samosaurI 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.
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