I MEANT TO POST THIS HERE BEFORE. MY PERMISSION FOR YOU TO BE A REAL AUTHOR:  The Velveteen Author.

OLD MAN BELIEVES TV BLATHER:  Bruce Springsteen’s New Song Sounds Suspiciously Like Cable News Chatter.

I’VE FOUND LINKED IN IS A SPAM TRAP ANYMORE:  LinkedIn Blames ‘Error’ After Removing Pro-ICE Post Over ‘Hateful Speech’.

MARCUS ANTONIUS RUBIO, FIRST OF HIS NAME:  Rubio runs rings…

I VERY MUCH HOPE THIS IS WRONG:  Artemis-2 proves NASA learned nothing from the Challenger and Columbia failures.

WELL AMAZON’S PROGRAM HAS BEEN SUPER-GLITCHY RECENTLY….  Insider report from Amazon layoffs sees only Americans laid off on his team in the past 2 RIFs. H-1Bs keep their jobs while Americans are laid off. How can that be possible? Fyi, these were the same level/experience engineers.

And for the x-cancelled.

I wonder how many of the programmers in the company still speak English.

THEY THINK THEMSELVES KINGS:  Widespread failure across nearly every level of leadership in Minnesota: Public programs fraud on the scale we see today— of which Ilhan Omar is Somali Fraud Exhibit A—indicates a leadership class that has either forgotten or no longer takes seriously the idea that public office is a public trust.

SOMEONE ON TWITTER SAID IF GABBARD IS INVOLVED THERE’S FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT: I couldn’t find that link as a follow on to this one.  Trump: You found many bags of information. I think they call them burn bags. They did not get burned. Having to do with how corrupt the 2020 election was.  Gabbard: I will be the first to brief you once we have that information collected but you are right, we are finding documents literally tucked away…

And for the Exiles of X

THE ONLY THING SCARIER* THAN A “HELLO” FROM DATA REPUBLICAN IS A “TIC TOC” FROM DATA REPUBLICAN:  If you visit the StopICE license plate tracker, you will note all their plates have been overwritten with the following image:

And for the x-cancelled.

*Or more fun. For those of us who find discomfiting the left fun.

THE DCA CRASH AND OTHER INSIGHTS:  Quick Cold Update.

TEMU RESISTANCE AND THE REAL THING:  Minnesota Madness vs Iranian Resistance. Which is more important and thoughts on both.

RAPIDLY MEANING “RACISM” MEANS “YOU’RE UNCOVERING MY FRAUD.”:  Newsom Smears Dr. Oz as ‘Racist’ After He Targeted Alleged California Medical Fraud.

THEY JUST LIE AND LIE AND LIE AND HOPE ENOUGH MUD STICKS:  CNN Leftist Repeats Myth a Right-Winger Killed Charlie Kirk.

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

SHOT: “We fixed the part where men die in wars, and we didn’t fix the part where women have to go through childbirth.”

CHASER: Russia and Ukraine’s combined war casualties could reach 2 million soon, report estimates.

Meanwhile, that statement comes from a woman who never gave birth; the first words the Insta-Wife spoke after delivering our daughter were “That was great! Let’s do it again!” Of course, she had had an epidural, which means maybe we did “fix” that childbirth stuff.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX targeting mid-March for 1st flight of bigger, more powerful Starship ‘Version 3,’ Elon Musk says.

WELL, THE CITY WAS COMPLICIT:

After weeks of trial, a jury has found the City of Seattle liable for a black boy who was shot dead by the CHAZ BLM-Antifa security in 2020. The city evacuated the police station & built barricades to help the far-left rioters. Report by @KatieDaviscourt https://t.co/JkS1pSDQ8L

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 29, 2026

MORE OF THIS PLEASE: US Cancer Survival Has Reached a Milestone High of 70%.

FASTER, PLEASE: Game-Changing Blood Pressure Drug Works for Patients Not Controlled by Standard Treatments. “The drug reduces the production of a liver protein called angiotensinogen (angiotensinogen), which plays a central role in tightening blood vessels. Lower levels of this protein allow blood vessels to relax, leading to reduced blood pressure. The medication is administered as an injection under the skin.”

STAY TUNED: Iran’s Doomsday Clock Is So Close To Midnight, the Ball Is Dropping.

On the movement of assets front, the Lincoln is pretty much ready to go, and has gone dark.

BREAKING: 🚨🇺🇸 USS Abraham Lincoln has gone dark, with no transponder or communication, signaling possible preparation for action against Iran. pic.twitter.com/SX0O7GIBUJ

— Globe Observer (@_GlobeObserver) January 29, 2026

And another carrier group is now on the way. Say hello to the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush.

BREAKING

A third US carrier strike group, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), is moving into the Middle East theater.

Encircling Iran ? pic.twitter.com/sXq4UE6S8A

— Frontalforce 🇮🇳 (@FrontalForce) January 28, 2026

That’s an awful lot of firepower. Included in those carrier groups are destroyers, submarines, as well as the jets on board the Lincoln and Bush. One destroyer, the Delbert D. Black, should be on station about now to help Israel with missile defense/intercepts.

US Navy guided missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) has been confirmed by officials as entering the region as of yesterday. It's last position was departing NSA Souda Bay, Crete on the 26th.

It joins the USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Both… https://t.co/ulUetefvj4

— TheIntelFrog (@TheIntelFrog) January 28, 2026

As for land assets, Secretary of State/National Security Advisor Marco Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday that there were around 40,000 American troops stationed across eight or nine bases across the greater Middle East. That’s a lot of well-trained bodies to throw at a problem if necessary.

With regard to air capabilities, besides the planes on the carriers, we had all sorts of other not normal flights taking place over the last couple days.

Including, but far from limited to: US ‘nuke sniffer’ arrives in UK after Trump threatens Iran. “A US air force plane dubbed the ‘nuke sniffer’ has landed in Britain amid growing tensions with the Iranian regime. The USAF WC-135R Constant Phoenix jet, which is used to detect radioactive particles in the atmosphere, has touched down at RAF Mildenhall, an American airbase in Suffolk. It comes amid growing speculation that the US is considering striking Iran, following last June’s attacks on the country’s nuclear facilities.”

I MEAN, IT’S BEEN PRETTY OBVIOUS ALL ALONG, REALLY: Watch: As Chants Ring Out About Lynching Kristi Noem, Clueless Lib Protesters Realize to Their Horror Who They’re in Bed With.

STAY HEALTHY: Toniiq Ultra High Purity Resveratrol Capsules. #CommissionEarned

SO NOTHING’S CHANGED: Haiti faces a sexual violence and abuse crisis as gang violence spreads, health charity warns.

I THINK IT’S GETTING RANGE UP OVER 600 MILES. Toyota Thinks Steering Feel Could Be the Key to Selling EVs.

I mean, we’ll be on self-drive in a few years, so “steering feel” will be like a smooth-dialing rotary phone.

Well, possibly.

STAY IN SHAPE: Putnen Under Desk Elliptical Machine. #CommissionEarned