Althouse: Sunrise — 7:04, 7:11, 7:13, 7:28.

January 22, 2026

Sunrise — 7:04, 7:11, 7:13, 7:28.

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124 comments:

Original Mike said...: Settling in early?
We're going to appreciate the water bed tonight!; 1/22/26, 4:58 PM
Leland said...: Watching Nate the Lawyer assessment of how Don Lemon violated the Klan Act. He breaks down Don Lemons self incriminating video. At one point, Don Lemon is saying “but when they recognize me”. I know who Don Lemon is, but I couldn’t pick him out in a lineup.

A few of the protest leaders have already been arrested. But a magistrate has refused to sign the warrant for Don Lemon. I guess because, in Don Lemon’s own words. It is because he is a gay black man.; 1/22/26, 5:09 PM
Beasts of England said...: The fourth photo is fabulous..l; 1/22/26, 5:48 PM
Humperdink said...: NY state politics, along with NY City’s turn to “advanced” socialism has caused more than a few households to ship off to Florida. I suspect this current winter blast will seal the deal for those on fence. Hopefully I can join those folks next year, at least for the winter months. My tolerance for cold is not what it used to be.; 1/22/26, 5:59 PM
Original Mike said...: A reprieve! My doctor's office called and asked "how about a virtual visit tomorrow?". Yes, please.; 1/22/26, 6:16 PM
Narr said...: Great sunburst in #4.

We're being warned of winter weather in apocalyptic tones here--snow, sleet, ice and coldern crap.; 1/22/26, 6:20 PM
Original Mike said...: My main concern about traveling to the doctor tomorrow was opening the garage door. We have some poorly insulated plumbing in the crawl space abutting the garage. The garage is unheated, but it's 20+ degrees warmer in there than outside. When you open the garage door, the garage temperature drops like a rock. I really don't want to open that door at 18 below.; 1/22/26, 6:33 PM
narciso said...: The third pic has the best contrast; 1/22/26, 6:47 PM
narciso said...: Sounds like the script from the day after tomorrow; 1/22/26, 6:48 PM
Jaq said...: So NATO has promised Trump sovereignty over the bases in Greenland, meaning that the US can't be kicked out, and Denmark is apparently mad about it, which means that Denmark wants to retain the option of kicking the US out of Greenland.

This isn't so much a vanity project for Trump as much as revival of British Empire thinking from the height of their power, look at Cyprus.

I am not sure I like it, but it's not irrational. It's great power thinking. Look at Diego Garcia. Will we get kicked out? Maybe, no guarantees.; 1/22/26, 6:50 PM
Humperdink said...: It was revealed during Special Persecutor Jack Smith’s hearing today that Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy’s phone records were subpoenaed, along with several other lawmakers, all Republicans. In the request for the records, the evil Smith requested what was essentially a gag order so McCarthy would not be aware his phone records were being sought.

The reason? Smith deemed McCarthy a flight risk.; 1/22/26, 6:50 PM
lonejustice said...: Tonight's low in East Central Iowa is -14 degrees F. That is the actual temperature, not the wind chill, which is much lower. The high for tomorrow is -1 degree below zero. My ancestors are Scandinavian, and I often wonder why they didn't continue on the Oregon Trail to the West Coast and milder temperatures. If you are house-bound, which I am for the next few days, you may want to watch one of the best episodes of "The Rest Is History" series that I have ever watched. It's about the fall of the Iranian monarchy and the rise of the Muslim caliphate in Iran. The hosts, who are smart and entertaining at the same time, bring you some fascinating insights into Iran's history, which is especially relevant to today's headlines. The two episode series is now on YouTube and free of charge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8OW0aK-oaA. They even discuss the issue of Jimmy Carter's "cardigan sweater" and "killer rabbit". You won't be disappointed, trust me.; 1/22/26, 6:55 PM
Humperdink said...: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/rep-brandon-gil-grills-jack-smith-catching-him/

Link for above, re: Jack Smith; 1/22/26, 6:57 PM
narciso said...: The eoka made the retreat necessary even as they defeated the mau mau in kenya; 1/22/26, 6:57 PM
Ronald J. Ward said...: To Leland at 5:09, Nate the Lawyer is conflating commentary with law.

The KKK Act (42 U.S.C. §1985) does not criminalize being recognized, filmed, or protested. It requires a conspiracy, motivated by class-based discriminatory animus, to deprive someone of a specific constitutional right, usually through coercion or force.

A magistrate refusing to sign a warrant isn’t politics, it means probable cause simply wasn’t established. If recognition alone or subjective feelings were enough, journalists would be criminally liable every day.; 1/22/26, 6:58 PM
Jaq said...: In Northern Vermont, -14F would rate a couple of comments around the coffee pot at the gas station, then people would dive into their day, strangely happy.; 1/22/26, 7:01 PM
Jaq said...: "It requires a conspiracy, motivated by class-based discriminatory animus, to deprive someone of a specific constitutional right, usually through coercion or force."

Well that's pretty convenient. Only certain people can deprive certain other people of their rights, and if you are not in a protected class as the victim, or a privileged class as the aggressor, no crime!

What point are you trying to make? "We are the law, and if we want to harass you it's not illegal, but if you want to harass us, well, that's what prisons are for"?; 1/22/26, 7:05 PM
john mosby said...: Speaking of Smith, I had this thought about the constant cries that Trump is using the legal system for retaliation:

Retribution is one of the stated purposes of the criminal justice system.

The state does the retaliation on behalf of the victim, in order to protect the offender from excessive retaliation, as many commenters here frequently say.

Would these guys rather have people like Navarro, Giuliani and Bannon seeking their own revenge? Rudy probably has some mobsters who are grateful for fair plea bargains. Heaven forbid Sen. Markwayne Mullen find out pencil-neck Smith tapped his phone. Or for that matter, Bond villains like Trump and Musk could easily fund their own untraceable, extralegal revenge campaigns. And by Trump, I mean Melania, Tiffany and Ivanka. Don't want them feeling like they're backed into a corner.

The state takes on the task of revenge both for the powerful victim who can do it himself, and for the ordinary victim who can't. CC, JSM; 1/22/26, 7:06 PM
Jaq said...: Not for nothing, but the Brownshirts under Nazism were protected by the legal establishment as they went into bust up opposition rallies. Not sure that "It's legal when we do it" is the best defense of this kind of behavior.; 1/22/26, 7:11 PM
Rocco said...: lonejustice said...
“My ancestors are Scandinavian, and I often wonder why they didn't continue on the Oregon Trail…”

They probably didn’t want to Die of Dysentery.; 1/22/26, 7:21 PM
Eva Marie said...: Conservative Treehouse is one of my go to sites on a daily basis. A few days ago they published this article (synopsis)
about BYD cars (Chinese automotive brand specializing in electric vehicles)
BYDs are cheap. A brand new BYD costs around $5,000 to $10,000 USD, in some places even less.
In Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Australia and the Middle East these BYD’s are everywhere, maybe even 30% of total vehicle traffic at times – most certainly well over 50% of all EVs – and there are digital billboards for “Build Your Dream” (BYD) all over the place throughout Asia.”
A Chinese guy, professionally an actuary, explained that China produces the BYD not to make money from the automobile, but rather to sell the carbon credits the automobile generates within the auto industry.
“In essence, EU/AU/CA/RU/ASEAN car companies buy Chinese car company carbon credits, to avoid the EU/AU/CA/RU/ASEAN fines. The Chinese then use the carbon credit revenue to subsidize even lower priced Chinese EVs to the EU/AU/CA/RU/ASEAN car markets, thereby undercutting the EU/AU/CA/RU/ASEAN car companies that also produce EVs.
Big Panda brilliantly exploits the ridiculous pontificating climate scam and has an interest in perpetuating -even emphasizing- the need for the EU/AU/RU/ASEAN countries to keep pushing their climate agenda. China even goes so far as to fund alarmism research about climate change because they are making money selling carbon credit certificates on the back end of the scam to the western fear mongers.”; 1/22/26, 7:21 PM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Jaq at 7:05, that’s not how the Klan Act works, and it’s not about “special people” being above the law.

§1985 doesn’t exist to criminalize harassment in general — it exists to stop organized conspiracies aimed at stripping civil rights, especially voting, access to courts, or equal protection. That’s why it has narrow elements.

I think, or hope, we can agree that everyone is protected from assault, threats, stalking, and harassment — those are already crimes. The Klan Act is an extraordinary federal tool, not a catch-all.; 1/22/26, 7:22 PM
narciso said...: The point was to terrify to silence anyone who would dare support law enforcement plomo or plata or whatever local dialect we find in east africa; 1/22/26, 7:32 PM
mongo said...: Ronald J. Ward said, “If recognition alone or subjective feelings were enough, journalists would be criminally liable every day.”

Your terms are acceptable.; 1/22/26, 7:33 PM
Vance said...: Remember, RJW was super happy and pleased and had absolutely zero problems when Joe Biden used these laws to send a fully armed battalion of swat teams to arrest a pastor in his home at 4 am for the "crime" of praying outside an abortion clinic. Now RJW is arguing that invading and terrorizing Christian congregations is a-ok and just legal and fine.; 1/22/26, 7:34 PM
john mosby said...: Haven't had a tiny house post in a while:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/veterans-stunned-by-va-plan-for-hundreds-of-tiny-sheds-in-california/ar-AA1UKRaH?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=6972c7c2b41a46568cf8df342bcd724d&ei=18

Veterans stunned by VA plan for hundreds of tiny sheds in California

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has sparked anger after unveiling plans to build hundreds of “tiny homes”, which campaigners said were little more than sheds, on its West Los Angeles campus.

There's a pic of the houses - definitely not the artful kind we often see. More like Home Depot prefab sheds. CC, JSM; 1/22/26, 7:35 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: §1985 doesn’t exist to criminalize harassment in general — it exists to stop organized conspiracies aimed at stripping civil rights

You have a civil right (First Amendment) to attend the Church of your choice, free of harassment in the United States.

Don Lemon and his merry band of hood rats decided that this pastor can't run this church and they decided to trespass onto this property to harass the people worshiping inside that church with angry shouts to GET THIS MAN OUT (the preacher).

Don Lemon is GUILTY of domestic terrorism. He has certain policies he'd like to see implemented by the government but he cannot gin up enough support at the ballot box to get his preferred policy outcomes. So he has resorted to threats of violence and harassment to achieve political goals Americans as a whole have rejected overwhelmingly.

He is a domestic terrorist. And he will be brought to justice either by the government, or elsewise.

Donald Trump needs to get this guy into a prison so he gets a fair trial.; 1/22/26, 7:37 PM
bagoh20 said...: Where do the waterfowl go when the lake is frozen over? Do they all migrate, or are there fowl hotels in Madison?; 1/22/26, 7:38 PM
Leland said...: The Klan Act is narrow. FACE is not as much. Physically obstructing and intimidating parishioners in the free exercise of religion is a clear violation of the law.; 1/22/26, 7:43 PM
narciso said...: They dont worship the Old Gods everything stems from.there; 1/22/26, 7:45 PM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Eva Marie said...
“Conservative Treehouse is one of my go to sites on a daily basis.”

Self explanatory.

Vance at 7:34, pure strawman and you’re arguing against a position I’ve never taken.; 1/22/26, 7:47 PM
bagoh20 said...: I don't think the objective of the terrorists was to silence the parishioners. It was a contained church service. I think the objective was to, get some rage out, show off, get street cred, scare people because they enjoy that, and do the quintessential leftist thing: make a show. Lemon was doing all that too.; 1/22/26, 7:47 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: There's a pic of the houses - definitely not the artful kind we often see. More like Home Depot prefab sheds. CC, JSM

They are just slightly larger than the average prison cell in the United States at 8x8 feet (prison cells are typical 6x8 feet.) Except most prison cells have a toilet where these sheds do not.

So it's literally worse than being in a prison cell. Just marginally better than getting rained on.; 1/22/26, 7:56 PM
Leland said...: Nate the Lawyer is conflating commentary with law.

The KKK Act (42 U.S.C. §1985) does not criminalize being recognized, filmed, or protested.

You obviously have no idea what Nate said, because he didn’t claim the criminal act was being recognized or filmed. I don’t know of anyone but you making that argument and I suspect you made it up as a straw man you could burn. Alas, it just shows you to be ignorant of the topic you discuss.; 1/22/26, 7:58 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: I don't think the objective of the terrorists was to silence the parishioners.

I can assure you that it was. I watched ALL of the videos of the event that Don Lemon uploaded to his for-profit YouTube terrorism channel, brought to you by Google.

They tried to scare off - and DID scare off - most of those in attendance, including very scared little children. This is a tried-and-true tactic in church assaults where you scatter the congregation to prevent the church from passing a collection plate and they go bankrupt. It's scarier if you use black people because of the correct perception that black people are more dangerous than white people (and are responsible for the large majority of the murders in the United States).

That's what they're doing here: They're trying to use black people threatening violence and harassment in order to scare off the largely white congregation and get the preacher fired.

Domestic terrorism.

Paid for by the Ford Foundation, Google, Bill Gates, George Soros, and a coterie of well-known Democrat-party aligned NGOs. They're executing a very well planned and paid for guerilla war against the United States, including the murders of conservative influencers and especially repeated assassination attacks on Republican political officeholders.

You're seeing how a guerilla war is done, up close.; 1/22/26, 8:02 PM
Vance said...: RJW, what "straw man" did I conjure up? Every Democrat in the country fully supported the FBI using a full battalion of SWAT teams to arrest a pastor in his home for the "crime" of praying outside an abortion clinic, in fact across the street from it. This was held to be very appropriate and a great use of. government force. Can you point to a single leftist who condemned the Biden admin on this, including you?

The pastor did not go inside the leftist Temple to Moloch. He didn't even go next to it, yet overwhelming government force was used to persecute him, and you and yours supported it fully.

Now we have leftist protestors literally invading a church service with the explicit goal of harassing and terrorizing the people inside, as Don Lemon said, and you are here whining and crying about how it's unfair to arrest the people who did it. Because.... they are leftists, that's why. You fully believe and argue that laws should NEVER apply to Democrats but the full force of government should be brought down on peaceful Republican protest.

Like, say, Joe Biden executing a guy who couldn't even walk because that guy criticized him. Orem Utah. Not a single Democrat complained about the full scale assault including using tanks to attack the home of a guy who couldn't even walk. And the FBI murdered him and we still don't even have the body cam footage.

Or Obama's FBI gunning down Leroy Finicum in the back in the snow when he had his hands raised and was unarmed. Again, loud cheers and praise from you and yours on that. But you riot when ICE defends themselves from a violent leftist thug trying to run them over.; 1/22/26, 8:17 PM
Kakistocracy said...: @ FLC: In short, 18 U.S.C. § 241 (often called the Klan Act or Conspiracy Against Rights statute) must be interpreted in harmony with the First Amendment. This requires the government to prove that defendants acted with specific intent to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate others in the exercise of their federally protected rights—here, the free exercise of religion.In other words, for church protestors (or similar cases), a violation isn't established merely by showing that the protest disrupted a religious service. The prosecution must demonstrate that the defendants specifically intended to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate participants in their religious practice, rather than just to protest or cause inconvenience.

This specific intent requirement—drawn from Supreme Court precedents like United States v. Guest and related cases—helps avoid criminalizing protected expressive activity under the First Amendment.; 1/22/26, 8:18 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Western Journal: "It's Gotten Worse: New MRC Study Shows Media Bias Against Trump Has Hit New High - More Than 9/10 at Times"

"In a new study of ABC’s “World News Tonight,” “CBS Evening News,” and “NBC Nightly News,” analysts at Media Research Center found that from Jan. 7 to Jan. 17, those three networks’ coverage of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, agents’ ongoing operation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, rated as negative an unfathomable 93 percent of the time, exceeding the amount of negative coverage those same networks have given to President Donald Trump in recent years."; 1/22/26, 8:19 PM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Vance you’re escalated by piling claims faster than any one of them can be proven, which is a classic gish-gallop.

You’re still arguing against positions I haven’t taken — and now you’re adding demonstrably false claims on top of that.

I did not support armed raids for silent prayer, I did not cheer federal killings, and I do not believe laws should apply differently based on party. You keep asserting those things without evidence because you need them to be true to sustain your narrative.; 1/22/26, 8:27 PM
Leland said...: The prosecution must demonstrate that the defendants specifically intended to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate participants in their religious practice, rather than just to protest or cause inconvenience.

That’s pretty easy thanks to Don Lemon explaining ahead of time that they intended to intimidate participants. The guy ranting and filming himself yelling at parishioners is very damning too. Hint to the ignorant, it is what the guy said in his rant that is damning, not the narcissist act of filming himself and participants. He’s demanding they don’t practice religion unless they support Somalis.; 1/22/26, 8:28 PM
Kakistocracy said...: US pushes Russia and Ukraine towards direct talks in Abu Dhabi ~ FT
"The current 20-point plan “mostly came about because the Ukrainians and Europeans threw out all the points Putin cared about from the initial 28-point plan,” a person in Moscow briefed on the negotiations said. “What’s there to talk about? Obviously Putin can’t agree to that.”

Once again, a deal won't be reached because the West has not put sufficient pressure on Putin in the form of battlefield losses, more damage inside Russia, and adequate defense of Ukraine. Sanctions have been tightened, and the economic noose is beginning to tighten, but this effort needs to continue to be stepped up along with more military resources being sent to Ukraine.

Eventually Russia and Putin will have to yield to economic realities and the very real prospect that regardless of the outcome of the war, Russia is likely headed for a 1990s style depression.; 1/22/26, 8:29 PM
Vance said...: Kak says: "The prosecution must demonstrate that the defendants specifically intended to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate participants in their religious practice, rather than just to protest or cause inconvenience."

So it's a good thing Don Lemon posted a video showing kids running away from the left in terror as Don said that was the entire goal of the terror attack. Should be easy to meet this test.; 1/22/26, 8:29 PM
rastajenk said...: Forever Young just won the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year.; 1/22/26, 8:31 PM
Vance said...: Ronald, you claim NOW that you opposed all of those things... only because it's convenient. No leftist opposed those actions by the Biden and Obama administration then. I know, I called on many of them to do so and they all categorically refused, saying the violence from the feds was justified since Republicans were evil. Just like our leftists of today still claim their riots and violence is justified. And that includes you. You have yet to unilaterally and without reservation condemn Don lemon's terror attack on these churches. There's always a "but" in there.; 1/22/26, 8:32 PM
Beasts of England said...: ’The prosecution must demonstrate that the defendants specifically intended to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate participants in their religious practice, rather than just to protest or cause inconvenience.’

I’ve seen several videos from inside the church and they were there to oppress, threaten, or intimidate. It wasn’t intended to merely protest or inconvenience. But, keep pushing all you want. I’m sure it’ll all be fine…; 1/22/26, 8:32 PM
Mason G said...: "It wasn’t intended to merely protest or inconvenience."

What right of protest does one have, with regards to a church?; 1/22/26, 8:37 PM
Beasts of England said...: From the Daily Mail:

’As a potentially historic winter storm prepares to slam the US, meteorologists have warned that conditions could become so brutal that trees could start exploding.’

Exploding trees are all the online rage… lol; 1/22/26, 8:41 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump creates the conditions in places like Minnesota that set the stage for citizens to react. These are not insurrections, these are reasonable protests against a government that is out of control.

Trump can't win fairly. The more he realizes this, the more he'll manipulate the voting process—including how votes are counted, who is allowed to vote, ways to suppress turnout, deploying ICE and the National Guard along with any other tools to enforce suppression, and purging voter rolls.

He was always going to invoke the Insurrection Act on some pretext or other. Nothing anybody else did “enabled” anything.; 1/22/26, 8:41 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: "A dog kennel is allegedly abusing ICE agents k-9s"; 1/22/26, 8:43 PM
Mason G said...: "Exploding trees are all the online rage… lol"

Apparently, there are no atmospheric rivers to lose your shit over at the current time.; 1/22/26, 8:47 PM
rastajenk said...: My bad: Forever Young won his award as Older Male, in addition to Moment of the Year;...Derby winner Sovereignty is HOY; 1/22/26, 8:56 PM
Beasts of England said...: ’Trump creates the conditions in places like Minnesota that set the stage for citizens to react. These are not insurrections, these are reasonable protests against a government that is out of control.’

Absolutely it’s Trump’s fault. Those virtuous people in Minnesota are freedom fighters of the purest form. Godspeed.; 1/22/26, 8:58 PM
Vance said...: Kak is very very worried that Trump might not allow leftists to riot, murder, rape, steal, intimidate, terrorize, or harass people leftists disagree with.

The rest of sane America hopes that the full spectrum of "putting down the vile leftists" is used. Hickory shampoo, water cannons, rubber bullets, and if necessary carpet bombings.

After all, as Joe Biden said, the US military is there to kill Americans who disagree with Joe....; 1/22/26, 9:00 PM
Old and slow said...: Mungo Jerry is very underrated....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG0oBPtyNb0&list=RDMMyG0oBPtyNb0&index=1; 1/22/26, 9:06 PM
Beasts of England said...: As history shows, it’s always a battle of values. One side is willing to stand tall and sacrifice their sacred honor for illegal aliens and widespread fraud. No, there’s not a punchline, but absurdity can yield humor. lol; 1/22/26, 9:09 PM
Dave Begley said...: If anyone here is interested in what is really going on in Iran, watch ToulsiTV on YouTube.

The latest regime atrocity is that living (but wounded) people are thrown into body bags and their moans can be heard in the mortuary.

Theory is that Trump is giving the leadership one last chance and if they refuse, he launches. All this happens in next 24 hours.; 1/22/26, 9:10 PM
Mason G said...: "these are reasonable protests against a government that is out of control."

This was a protest in a church. Unless you can demonstrate that it is a government-run church, what business does a "protest against a government that is out of control" have being held there?; 1/22/26, 9:11 PM
Mason G said...: And as far as that "government that is out of control" nonsense goes, it's "a government that is out of Democrat control". Which explains the over-the-top butthurt being shat all over the intertubes.; 1/22/26, 9:18 PM
Beasts of England said...: ’All this happens in next 24 hours.’

I eagerly await all the Iranian flags on Facebook this weekend.; 1/22/26, 9:32 PM
Spiros Pappas said...: I watched Sinners (nominated for 16 Oscars). It was garbage.; 1/22/26, 9:43 PM
Jim at said...: People like Ronchuck don't understand if laws aren't applied equally, some people will take matters into their own hands.

And those people will have a lot less restraint. In fact, they'll have no restraint at all.

Careful what you wish for, boy. You just might get it.; 1/22/26, 10:02 PM
Peachy said...: I hate Islamic males. I really do. Fuck all of them.; 1/22/26, 10:05 PM
Peachy said...: Chi Coms are more than likely the big money behind the democratic party's anti-democratic behaviors.; 1/22/26, 10:11 PM
bagoh20 said...: "NYT: Murder Rate Hits 125-Year Low in Trump’s First Year Back in Office — Biggest Single-Year Drop Ever"

NYT wouldn't say it if they didn't have to.; 1/22/26, 10:18 PM
bagoh20 said...: KakBot date error: Currdate = 11-01-2024; 1/22/26, 10:24 PM
Eva Marie said...: Thanks Dave Begley for ToulsiTV; 1/22/26, 10:28 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: Kak wrote: "these are reasonable protests against a government that is out of control."

It's domestic terrorism. In its simplest, easiest to define form.

Don Lemon didn't lead an invasion of Congress. He invaded a church, full of praying people that have nothing whatsoever to do with your government.

Which is to say OUR government. YOUR government LOST the election. YOU no longer get to dictate policy. WE do.

WE didn't like YOUR policy, but WE didn't invade innocent churches and threaten the parishioners with violence and harassment.

When WE were angry with our government, WE invaded the US House of Representatives (J6) protected by the US Capitol Police (they held the doors open and invited us in.)

YOUR SIDE invaded a church full of unarmed people and tried to assault a pastor.

So if you have a problem with the government, I suggest that you and your protestors go to Washington DC and get your heads bashed in there because if you invade another church, the people inside are going to shoot to kill.; 1/22/26, 10:32 PM
Mason G said...: John Hinderaker asks a good question in a post about fake news on Powerline:

"If ICE is doing all kinds of bad things in Minnesota, why do liberals have to keep making stuff up?"; 1/22/26, 11:03 PM
Jupiter said...: Peachy said...
"I hate Islamic males. I really do. Fuck all of them."

Careful. They might take that the wrong way.; 1/22/26, 11:14 PM
Jupiter said...: "People like Ronchuck don't understand if laws aren't applied equally, some people will take matters into their own hands."

People like RonChuck may not be the sharpest tools in the shed, but don't kid yourself that they are merely idiots babbling the absurd lies their owners have fed them in good faith. RJW and Igna are paid. They are sent here by their owners. They publish the lies with which their owners provide them. When they go off script, they fall apart.; 1/22/26, 11:24 PM
Jupiter said...: Think about it; "Ronald J. Ward" first appeared here, what -- 4 months ago? Like, what's with the "J."? Some assholes were sitting around a table, paying themselves with NGO grift, and they decided, in the fullness of their propaganda wisdom, that "Ronald J. Ward" was a better name for the character they were creating than "Ron Ward", or "Artemius Q. Throtmorkle", or any of the other concoctions they confected. So. Ronald J. (with a period!) Ward it would be. A star was born!; 1/22/26, 11:31 PM
Jupiter said...: And now, like a mackeral by moonlight, he stinks and shines.; 1/22/26, 11:33 PM
gadfly said...: Kushner plans 180 skyscrapers for Gaza. There is no "Plan B." And we thought that bringing down the Twin Towers was a big deal!; 1/22/26, 11:35 PM
Jupiter said...: Hah! A fine old phrase!; 1/22/26, 11:50 PM
buwaya said...: R Ward is ancient Chuck.
I dont know who Kak is.; 1/23/26, 12:41 AM
wendybar said...: When you wonder why nothing ever gets done....It's because they are in one big giant orgy together....

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
NEW: Multiple sources tell me & colleague
@davidspunt
that the federal magistrate in Minnesota who refused to sign off on an arrest warrant for Don Lemon is Douglas L. Micko and that his wife works as an Assistant Attorney General in Minnesota AG Keith Ellison's office.
3:25 PM · Jan 22, 2026
https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2014434382455378123?s=20; 1/23/26, 3:00 AM
wendybar said...: "Before becoming the attorney general of Minnesota, Keith Ellison served in the House of Representatives, for the state’s 5th District, which includes the city of Minneapolis.

During his time in congress, Ellison only sponsored one bill, the Money Remittances Improvement Act of 2014. This bill made it easier to transfer funds to places overseas, like Somalia. Isn’t that fascinating?

You could not make this up."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/what-coincidence-while-serving-congress-keith-ellison-sponsored/; 1/23/26, 3:10 AM
wendybar said...: John M. Cameron
@johnrockshomes
·
4h
I am a J6er.

Here is Fanone being saved by J6ers.

Fanone is a thug and liar. You saw who he is today.

He beat ANTIFA rioters who then retaliated and pulled him into the crowd to be tased. Trump supporters helped him back onto his post. Any J6er who helped him was charged with assault.

He Lied about his heart attack and brain injury.

God Bless the J6ers.

https://x.com/johnrockshomes/status/2014584089207329146?s=20; 1/23/26, 4:55 AM
wendybar said...: End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
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500k migrant chiIdren go missing under the Biden administration

Media: 😴😴😴😴

ICE rescues an abandoned 5-year-old

Media: 🚨🚨KlDNAPPING🚨🚨

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2014455504756408583?s=20; 1/23/26, 5:00 AM
wendybar said...: ZUBY:
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The West is suffering because people are pretending that obviously true things are not obvious and true.

Common sense and objective facts were sacrificed for politically correct fluff and emotionality, and now the populations are bearing the consequences.
https://x.com/ZubyMusic/status/2014624628031869255?s=20; 1/23/26, 5:01 AM
donald said...: I got in five innings behind the plate yesterday. The first pitcher is gonna be drafted this June. In three pitches, I had it down, the mechanics, the timing…everything. Heh, I wish I could do anything else at that level.; 1/23/26, 5:08 AM
Jim at said...: Kushner plans 180 skyscrapers for Gaza. There is no "Plan B." And we thought that bringing down the Twin Towers was a big deal!

You let me know when Kushner's plans involve murdering nearly 3,000 people simply going to work on a nice, clear, brisk Autumn day.

What in the fuck is your problem?; 1/23/26, 5:21 AM
Jim at said...: I got in five innings behind the plate yesterday.

My knees hurt just reading that. And one hip.; 1/23/26, 5:23 AM
john mosby said...: There are lots of ways to protest in a church that don't interfere with the parishioners' right to worship, or frighten children and old people:

- Just sit as a group through the service, maybe with T-shirts or signs. I kind of do this when I wear my Springboks gear at my non-Boer-supporting Episco church.

- Stand as a group, but silently and out of the way of the service.

- Participate in the service. If there is any opportunity for individual testimony, say your political piece. Cities Church is some sort of DIY evangelical place, so I bet they have a point in the service where they ask for prayer requests or thanksgivings.

- Put flyers in the collection plate.

- Stay outside and chant, at a volume the parishioners can just about hear through the doors.

But the Lemonheads chose not to do any of these. They chose to disrupt the service in loud, frightening, confrontational ways. Screw them. CC, JSM; 1/23/26, 5:23 AM
Michael McNeil said...: Where do the waterfowl go when the lake is frozen over? Do they all migrate, or are there fowl hotels in Madison?

We visited Tule Lake (north of Lava Beds National Monument) in far northern California one time quite a few years back during winter. The lake was frozen, and out on the ice were sitting diverse clumps of waterfowl (Canada geese and the like), while at strategic points in between sat individual bald eagles keeping a beady eye on their potential prey.; 1/23/26, 5:32 AM
Jaq said...: "You let me know when Kushner's plans involve murdering nearly 3,000 people simply going to work on a nice, clear, brisk Autumn day."

Oh, you must be referring to the jihadis that Jimmy Carter funded, armed, and trained in Afghanistan to give the Soviets heartburn.; 1/23/26, 5:43 AM
Humperdink said...: Knowing the direction our country is heading and has been heading, our church locks all doors shortly after the service begins.; 1/23/26, 5:52 AM
donald said...: Jim, I have a wrecked right knee, I just got a hip injection last week and I feel fabulous this morning. I found out I had a severe vitamin D deficiency about a month ago. I’ve corrected that and all of a sudden I feel indestructible. I can’t believe it. I’m sure some kinda injury is coming right up.; 1/23/26, 7:11 AM
narciso said...: Those were Pakistani and Saudi trained; 1/23/26, 7:41 AM
Jaq said...: "Those were Pakistani and Saudi trained"

So this makes it impossible that the US was involved? We know that the Pakistani defense minister recently made the same kind of confession that the Canadian prime minister just made, tipping his hand on the whole deal, and confessing that Pakistan "did the US's dirty work" on the terrorism front.

I don't get how you can simply stop your analysis at that point and continue to refuse to consider that the causal chain could run deeper, even given the confessions of Brzezinski and the Pakistani defense minister, I think that following the causal chain deeper is justified, no matter what some author who wrote some book that appealed to my prejudices may have written.; 1/23/26, 7:51 AM
Jaq said...: After 9-11, we ditched Al Qaeda, and now the much more compliant ISIS is the pretext provider of choice for the deep state. They restrict their terrorist activities to enemies of the West, because even the CIA realized that their first iteration got out of hand, but still was highly useful. My first clue was when a former Israeli politician noted that ISIS had apologized to Israel for killing and IDF soldier, and once you start thinking about it, it makes perfect sense.; 1/23/26, 7:54 AM
narciso said...: It shows how foolish the chessboard notions of brezinski wetr ere 'the enemy of ones enemy' is not our friend; 1/23/26, 7:55 AM
Jaq said...: Remember that Biden counseled against killing bin Laden, and bin Laden gave an order to his men, which we found in his compound, not to kill Biden even if given a clear shot.; 1/23/26, 7:57 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Vance @ 8:32, I’ll make this unambiguous, since you keep pretending it isn’t. Invading a church service to harass or intimidate worshippers is wrong. Full stop.

It was wrong regardless of the cause, the people involved, or their politics. I do not support it, excuse it, or minimize it.

What I also won’t accept is your insistence that I secretly supported federal violence in unrelated cases because you believe no one on the left objected. You don’t get to assign me positions I’ve explicitly rejected and then declare victory over them.

Where we differ is not on whether harassment or intimidation is wrong — it is.

The disagreement is whether every wrongful, nonviolent act should be escalated into a federal civil-rights prosecution, or whether some conduct belongs in local criminal law, precisely to prevent selective, politicized use of federal power.

Condemning conduct and questioning prosecutorial overreach are not mutually exclusive. Refusing to recognize that distinction is how civil-rights laws get turned into political weapons.
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Beast @ 8:32; “ I’ve seen several videos from inside the church and they were there to oppress, threaten, or intimidate. It wasn’t intended to merely protest or inconvenience. But, keep pushing all you want. I’m sure it’ll all be fine…”

For starters, beware of AI generated vids and pics which has generated traction from the Trump regime and channeled through the echo chambers. Or, obediently accept them as gospel.

Can you specify an exact threat that would warrant Trump’s DOJ to get involved?; 1/23/26, 7:58 AM
Jaq said...: "It shows how foolish the chessboard notions of brezinski wetr"

No disagreement there, but he just wrote down what the neocons all believe and act on, and logic that empires have followed since the Trojan War, which was probably based on a historic battle for control of the square that was a choke point on entry of the riches of the East, via the Black Sea, to the Levant and the greater Mediterranean.; 1/23/26, 8:00 AM
narciso said...: Brezinki was always an old fool he was never a neo con neither was technocrat like kissinger; 1/23/26, 8:02 AM
narciso said...: Yes that great game hijinks as with the British and Turks vs the Russians; 1/23/26, 8:08 AM
Leland said...: For starters, beware of AI generated vids
Fuck off. The videos were distributed by Don Lemon himself. You claim it is wrong, but then you obfuscate the facts to provide defense by suggesting it never happened. Its "AI generated". You lie like this; then there is no reason to take your comments to Vance seriously either. All you do is lie.

Can you specify an exact threat that would warrant Trump’s DOJ to get involved?

The parishioners were not allowed to practice their religion. Invading a church service to harass or intimidate worshippers is wrong. Full stop. It doesn't seem you meant that when you demand Beast explain what you just claimed. Liar.; 1/23/26, 8:14 AM
narciso said...: Btw it was the Chiang kaishek regime we went to war for, not Mos gang who stayed away from thr thr. Fighting; 1/23/26, 8:23 AM
narciso said...: Mao who held back the weapons, for the Civil War; 1/23/26, 8:29 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Mason G @ 11:03 said...
John Hinderaker asks a good question in a post about fake news on Powerline:

"If ICE is doing all kinds of bad things in Minnesota, why do liberals have to keep making stuff up?"

This is why I keep calling the cult the Basket of Gulibles because this is where the kool-aid gets thick enough to eat with a fork.

Let’s stroll back to when Trump was skeerring the Basket of mass criminals released from foreign prisons to come over and drug us, rape us, kill us, take our jobs, and then eat our dogs.

All of that was a lie or, none of it was ever verified on any credible level. That was a fact then and it remains a fact today. Another fact then that remains today is that immigrants, particularly here illegally, are highly reluctant to break laws for fear of deportation.

It’s well documented that the bulk of arrests, detainments, assaults and killings from ICE were not of this fabricated criminal nature at all. In fact, most had no criminal record at all.

That the Basket of Gulibles cannot accept those very facts is consistent with why they accept a provoking masked police force terrorizing political opponents that Trump and PowerLine et al has convinced them to be supporters of the fabricated rapists, murderers and pet eater.

From all appearances, more and more are starting to escape from the rabbit hole as Trump and MAGA falters.; 1/23/26, 8:37 AM
Leland said...: I'll just leave this here, for those who missed it.; 1/23/26, 8:41 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Many clergy members hold regular day jobs outside the church. Recent studies show that about 35% of all U.S. clergy work a second job, and that figure rises to around 47–50% among Evangelical pastors. Churches with bi-vocational clergy are completely normal and increasingly common.

I've come across plenty of individual stories about pastors who work in law enforcement, but I haven't found any hard statistics on how many do so. Still, I'd wager the percentage is at least as high in Evangelical circles—and possibly higher—than the per-capita rate of police officers in the general U.S. population.

So if someone's argument is that serving as an ICE official is inconsistent with being a Christian pastor, that's a debatable theological or ethical position. But claiming that a church isn't legitimate—or isn't really a church at all—if its pastor has a law enforcement job is simply uninformed or willfully ignorant of how ministry actually works in much of American Christianity.

Disrupting a church service to protest a pastor's role as an ICE director might sound righteous in theory, in some imagined world where people react exactly as the protesters expect. In reality, actions like that often backfire and reveal more about the protesters' underlying attitudes—especially among certain ExTwitter crowds who seem to hold deep-seated contempt for pastors and churchgoers in general. It's pretty transparent.; 1/23/26, 8:43 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Actually Leland, you’re the one being dishonest here.

Beast never specified the video he watched and my jab at Trump using AI generated imagery is because Trump uses a lot of AI generated imagery. That is just a fact.

You quoted my question to Beast and then declared it to be a “demand”.

Calm down. You obviously don’t do well when you’re mad.; 1/23/26, 8:49 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Leland, about that link @ 8:41, yes, that’s exactly what even a leftist like me wants to see- criminals taken off the streets. The Biden and Obama administrations had impressive numbers as well.

I’m glad those arrests are still happening despite Trump’s unconstitutional revenge assault on Democratic cities.; 1/23/26, 8:57 AM
Jamie said...: Can you specify an exact threat that would warrant Trump’s DOJ to get involved?

I'm not actually following this story very carefully - I haven't watched any of the videos nor listened to or read Lemon's defensive protestations. But I can think of two related reasons for the DOJ to get involved, off the bat:

1. The boiling frog thing - staying alert to the escalation of "protests" so that increasingly extreme actions don't become normalized, and

2. Pour encourager les autres - if you let them get away with invading a church once, what's the message you send about future church invasions?

Both of these reasons, and the protests themselves, could be viewed through the lens of parenthood, of course. But the left (with some justification) could see that as patronizing.; 1/23/26, 8:59 AM
Jamie said...: It’s well documented that the bulk of arrests, detainments, assaults and killings from ICE were not of this fabricated criminal nature at all. In fact, most had no criminal record at all.

Can you link to something? Because Tom Homan is claiming 70% have criminal records, and also over 600,000 removals (a number that doesn't including almost 2 million self-deportations), whereas your side likes to claim around 300,000 removals and something like 70% WITHOUT criminal records. So where is it "well documented"? As seems to happen increasingly, we are operating from different sets of facts, which makes it damn difficult to discern the truth.

Also - "arrests, detainments, assaults and killings from ICE": not a phrase that bolsters your implicit claim to be an honest broker. At least Robert Cook owns his position without cavil.; 1/23/26, 9:12 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Jamie @ 9:12 said; “ Because Tom Homan is claiming…”

Jesus Christ on a pogo-stick!; 1/23/26, 9:17 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump repeatedly confusing Greenland for Iceland raises alarms about Biden's mental acuity.

Only the liberal media would think that Trump was referring to Greenland when he repeatedly talked about Iceland at Davos. It's spelled ICE-land, and he was obviously referring to Minneapolis.; 1/23/26, 9:20 AM
Gospace said...: It's amazing how people can say with an apparently straight face that people who have broken the law to be here illegally are not lawbreakers and don't deserve to be arrested and deported.; 1/23/26, 9:39 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Gospace @ 9:39 “It's amazing how people can say with an apparently straight face that people who have broken the law to be here illegally are not lawbreakers and don't deserve to be arrested and deported.”

My question would be precisely who are these people who are saying these things?

A better way to resolve the heart of the matter is to clearly define being here “legally” and being here “illegally”. But that’s a discussion MAGA and the right wing outrage machine doesn’t want us to have because it would ruin the gameplan.; 1/23/26, 9:48 AM
Mason G said...: "It's amazing how people can say with an apparently straight face..."

Liars lie. It's all they've got.; 1/23/26, 9:50 AM
john mosby said...: Gutfeld's latest buzzphrase is 'performative ignorance.' RJW is the best example of this lefty technique. CC, JSM; 1/23/26, 10:04 AM
john mosby said...: ...countdown til RJW asks 'when have I been performatively ignorant? Is there an accepted definition of performative ignorance? MAGA doesn't want to sit down and discuss performative ignorance....'...3....2...CC, JSM; 1/23/26, 10:06 AM
john mosby said...: Performative ignorance is a variation of the old playground/spousal 'Name One' technique.....CC, JSM; 1/23/26, 10:21 AM
Mason G said...: "Is there an accepted definition..."

Not for liars. For them, words mean what they need them to mean until they don't need it anymore then they mean something else. It's lies all the way down.; 1/23/26, 10:31 AM
Leland said...: Beast never specified the video he watched

Beast doesn't have to. Your question: Can you specify an exact threat that would warrant Trump’s DOJ to get involved? is answered by you, Invading a church service to harass or intimidate worshippers is wrong. Full stop.

You described the specific threat that is a violation of the law. Either you believe what you wrote full stop, or you are lying that you believe it. No video is necessary. Everything else is your normal trolling.

And if everyone but you are a "basket of gulibles" (sic), you sure do believe that link provided by the Administration. I think you believe yourself clever using a turn of the phrase that destroyed Hillary's presidency. The reality is it reflects poorly on you as it did her.; 1/23/26, 11:50 AM
Leland said...: Great news Wisconsin. You'll have your first Buc-ees in 2027!

Nebraska may get one too in Gretna, but no date on potential opening.

Iowa gets nothing, which I see as poeticjustice.; 1/23/26, 2:07 PM
Jersey Fled said...: FAFO

https://x.com/its_the_dr/status/2014525904119058591?s=61; 1/23/26, 2:19 PM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Leland at 11:50, many things can be and are “wrong, full stop” yet isn’t in violation of the FACE Act nor warrant DOJ involvement.

RJW @ 8:37 said; “Let’s stroll back to when Trump was skeerring the Basket of mass criminals released from foreign prisons to come over and drug us, rape us, kill us, take our jobs, and then eat our dogs.

All of that was a lie or, none of it was ever verified on any credible level. That was a fact then and it remains a fact today. Another fact then that remains today is that immigrants, particularly here illegally, are highly reluctant to break laws for fear of deportation.

It’s well documented that the bulk of arrests, detainments, assaults and killings from ICE were not of this fabricated criminal nature at all. In fact, most had no criminal record at all.

That the Basket of Gulibles cannot accept those very facts is consistent with why they accept a provoking masked police force terrorizing political opponents that Trump and PowerLine et al has convinced them to be supporters of the fabricated rapists, murderers and pet eater.”

I get it that those facts are hard to chew.; 1/23/26, 3:10 PM
Jersey Fled said...: RJW gets the Harris Word Salad award for today.; 1/23/26, 3:50 PM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Jersey, insults are easy but disputing the facts is a tall order.
Kinda like blurting out “ performatively ignorant” while ignoring the farting elephant in the room.; 1/23/26, 4:06 PM
Leland said...: Except what you described is a violation of the FACE act and thus warrants an investigation. You may also think there is reasonable doubt, but that's not for DoJ to decide, especially without an investigation. A jury can make that decision.; 1/23/26, 4:18 PM
Rustygrommet said...: bagoh20 said...
"Where do the waterfowl go when the lake is frozen over? Do they all migrate, or are there fowl hotels in Madison?"

Not from Madison, but this is what they do.
Canada Geese will congregate around any open water. Their feet have no nerves and very few blood vessels. Their underfeathers on their bellies is half an inch thick in the winter. I've seen hundreds gather around a hole in the ice the size of a swimming pool. When that freezes over they'll fly to the spot of open water. Ducks like Mallards will head south before it gets this bad.; 1/23/26, 4:31 PM