February 4, 2026

February 3, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Comment on a groovy Tuesday.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OLD AND BUSTED: “What is a Woman?”

The New Hotness?

To be fair, this changes everything!

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Black ICE Agent Hit With Racial Slurs After Asking Trans Agitator, ‘Are You a Man?’

Some people say ICE agents should be outfitted with body cameras, and we agree. As has been proven ever since the Summer of Love in 2020, body cameras usually wind up showing the professionalism of the law enforcement officer and the craziness of the people they arrest. Whenever we see a video of ICE agents being surrounded by idiots blowing their whistles, we find the restraint shown by ICE agents remarkable.

This ICE agent let the restraint slip for a second and managed to make the video of the day. Protesters were already in his face when he asked one, “Are you a man?” That didn’t sit well with the legal observers. (Language warning)

Last week, Tim Walz asked, “Is this a Fort Sumter?” His constituents certainly are acting (and sounding) like the Confederates of 1861.

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

CHECKMATE: Native American tribe that owns land under Billie Eilish’s LA mansion has message for virtue-signaling singer.

The Native American tribe that owns the land under Billie Eilish’s multimillion-dollar Los Angeles mansion said celebrities should “explicitly” reference the tribes if they want to use them to virtue-signal.

The Tongva tribe confirmed the “Bad Guy” singer’s $3 million home does sit on its “ancestral land,” after the 24-year-old used her Grammys acceptance speech to rail against ICE and insist that “no one is illegal on stolen land.”

The indigenous inhabitants of the Los Angeles Basin, known as the “First Angelenos,” said they appreciate Eilish’s sentiment, however, they noted that the performer hasn’t contacted them directly — and insisted that next time she explicitly reference them.

“Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property, we do value the instance when public figures provide visibility to the true history of this country,” a Tongva spokesperson told the Daily Mail.

“It is our hope that in future discussions, the tribe can explicitly be referenced to ensure the public understands that the greater Los Angeles Basin remains Gabrieleno Tongva territory,” the spokesperson added.

Eilish was widely mocked for her comments on Sunday, as she yelled, “F–k ICE” from the stage while denouncing the US as stolen land.

“Oh, gee, this ‘stolen land’ nonsense again? Maybe she should step up and forfeit her Southern California mansion since it is supposedly on ‘stolen land,’” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wrote on X.’

I’d say that members of the Tongva should at least drop by and have a soak in her hot tub, but as Robert Conquest liked to say, “Everyone is conservative about what he [or she] knows best:” Billie Eilish Gets 3-Year Restraining Order For Trespasser.

Which seems odd, considering, “nobody is illegal on stolen land:”

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UPDATE: Fortunately for Eilish, nobody was watching: 2026 Grammys Dip 6.4% From Last Year With 14.4 Million Viewers. Sunday’s ceremony ranks as the most-watched awards show since the 2025 Oscars.

The 2026 Grammys scored a solid audience as they aired live on Sunday, but still saw a slight 6.4% drop in viewership when compared to last year’s awards.

The awards ceremony, which aired from Los Angeles’ Crypto.com arena beginning at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET, brought in 14.41 million viewers across CBS and Paramount+, according to Nielsen big data plus panel live-plus-same-day figures. The 2026 event also marks the last one airing on CBS before moving to Disney in a new 10-year streaming and broadcasting deal.

Viewership for Sunday’s show was down 6.43% from last year, which scored 15.4 million viewers. It’s also down from the 16.9 million viewers brought in by 2024, which marked the biggest audience the awards show has seen since 2020.

I’m sensing a trend here: Grammy Awards viewers stats 2000-2020.

(The huge ratings outlier in 2012 was as a result of Whitney Houston’s death the day before the ceremony, causing the show’s producers to schedule several tributes to her.)

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll