January 27, 2026

GREAT MOMENTS IN LATE NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: All Jimmy Kimmel Does Is Lie (And Cry).

Now that a second U.S. citizen has inserted himself into a legal law enforcement matter with deadly results, we get the Kimmel waterworks.

Twice.

“I spent the weekend like probably a lot of you did, looking at my phone and just feeling shocked and sick at what’s happening in Minneapolis … One video after another: screaming people being torn from their families, Americans, people who were born in the United States being pulled out of their cars for the crime of having an accent or whatever. Children, small children, babies being tear-gassed, taken into custody, separated from their parents.”

For those keeping score, that’s a jumble of lies, misinformation and narrative dodging. And, sadly, it’s par for the course.

And he wasn’t done.

“Just one atrocity after another being committed by this gang of poorly trained, shamefully led, mask-wearing goons. And that is what they are: They’re goons committing vile, heartless, and even criminal acts. It’s sickening to watch, and it’s frustrating to watch.”

Kimmel, at least on paper, is a late-night comedian. He’s taken on a new role, one egged on by the Left and Legacy Media outlets (but we repeat ourselves).

He’s the King of the anti-Trump Resistance. Comedy? Laughs? Merriment? That’s no longer his prime directive, and it hasn’t been for some time.

Not everyone is deserving of the Kimmel waterworks, of course:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

FASTER, PLEASE:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

BEEGE WELBORN: Seems Kind of Funny How All the ‘Organic’ Cockroaches Scatter When the Signal Light Comes On.

Now, to paraphrase another famous intuitive seat-of-their-pants fictional type, I am not a smart girl, but I know what a weird coincidence is.

If one really pays attention, I would have to say we have several all running in sequence in Minneapolis, which makes it an even bigger weird coincidence in itself.

Which I’d bet good money means that, from the beginning, none of this has been a coincidence at all.

You tell me.

The very first thing to take note of is how all these people appeared on Minnesota streets – specifically – with the same printed signs and shrieking the same anti-ICE, pro-illegal immigrant language. It’s awfully peculiar considering that illegal alien deportations had been humming along unabated and virtually unnoticed for years, right up to the point when there was a spike and a 180° reversal of tone and rhetoric.

Fortunately, there are people who chart these things, which helps pinpoint the exact moment the tenor shifts.

Much more at the link.

Posted at 12:58 pm by Stephen Green

“CRITICS SAY”: Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’ turns 20, and critics say biggest disaster is its failed predictions.

Gore’s film was a primary catalyst for the climate activist movement, and it generated a lot of concern about global warming following its release. The movie left audiences with the impression that the human race was hurtling toward a dystopian future on a planet baking in unbearable temperatures where extreme weather caused frequent disasters.

Almost 13 years to the day after its release, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was telling people the world would end in 12 years – presumably five years from now – because of the burning of fossil fuels.

Matt Wielicki, who writes about climate and energy on his “Irrational Fear” Substack, was once an assistant professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama. In the early part of his academic career, he taught at a local college.

He told Just the News that he showed “An Inconvenient Truth” to his students. Over time, he began to question the “gloom and doom” narratives Gore presents in his film, he said.

“People took that as a starting point, and they just kept running further and further with it,” Wielicki said.

Gore’s film, however, was full of numerous predictions that turned out to be wrong, and it’s likely that the world will not end in 2031, as Ocasio-Cortez predicted.

Well, that’s a relief, I guess.

Posted at 12:43 pm by Stephen Green

LEFTIST MEDIA STRATEGY IN A NUTSHELL:

Posted at 12:14 pm by Glenn Reynolds

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Posted at 12:09 pm by Helen Smith

CHANGE: The Minnesota 180 on ICE.

Something dramatic has changed up in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Keep in mind, on Sunday night, another clash outside another hotel in the Minneapolis area turned out differently, as federal officers responded before the Minneapolis Police Department could get its officers in place:

According to an MPD spokesperson, officers received reports of a group protesting outside the Hilton Home2 Suites and making noise. An MPD officer inside the building was assigned to keep guests and staff safe while providing real-time updates to the department.

As the crowd became “disorderly,” MPD said it began its plan to move in, de-escalate the situation and make arrests. Personnel on standby were recalled to duty, patrol officers across the city were called in, and the department requested mutual aid from the Minnesota State Patrol, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and several metro area law enforcement agencies.

After forming a plan, MPD and assisting agencies prepared to surround the crowd, issue dispersal orders and make mass arrests. Before they moved in, MPD said federal law enforcement arrived on scene “without notice or communication” and deployed chemical munitions. MPD stated it did not deploy any chemical munitions.

Was Sunday night’s sequence of events a garden-variety matter of local police wanting a plan in place before they engaged a disorderly crowd, less than 48 hours after a controversial shooting? Or was it foot-dragging, aligned with local officials’ opposition to the presence of ICE in their city and state?

My money is on the latter:

UPDATE:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

SHE SEEMS NICE: Actress Kristen Stewart says she wants to ditch US, make films in Europe, then ‘shove them down the throat of the American people.’

Stewart, 35, best known for her role in the “Twilight” movies, is eyeing the possibility of moving to Europe, citing her frustrations with President Donald Trump’s policies. Stewart, with a net worth of around $70 million as of January 2026, claimed that she “can’t work freely” in the United States.

“Reality is breaking completely under Trump,” she told the Times. “But we should take a page out of his book and create the reality we want to live in.” Although she goes back and forth between LA and New York City, she said she doesn’t want to stick around. “I can’t work freely there. But I don’t want to give up completely. I’d like to make movies in Europe and then shove them down the throat of the American people.”

She said that because of being in the entertainment industry since her childhood, it is how she “relate[s] to the world.”

Weird, because that no longer seems to be the world relates to her:

The Drinker was justifiably brutal in this one.

Posted at 11:41 am by Stephen Green

CRIMETHINC: Introducing the Actual Grassroots Lefty Group Helping Organize the Insurrection. “Maybe the most important lesson we learned in 2025 from Data (small-r) Republican’s efforts was that the Left’s ‘grassroots’ efforts are funded by a tangled web of NGOs siphoning your tax dollars, but what if I told you that there is an actual grassroots anarchist organization helping organize the insurrection in Minnesota?”

Posted at 11:10 am by Stephen Green

YOU CAN CHECK OUT ANY TIME YOU LIKE…: California seeks taxes from family who moved to Florida.

According to documents posted online by a family who formerly lived in California, the Golden State is trying to collect income taxes years after the family moved to Florida.

The documents, sent on Jan. 6, 2026, asked for receipts, invoices, canceled checks and other documentation showing that the family moved from California to Florida nearly four years ago. The California Franchise Tax Board, which sent the letter, also asked the family for a “narrative of the circumstances” surrounding the family’s move out of state.

Hari Raghavan, who with his wife, Mitali Gala, was the subject of the investigation by the California Franchise Tax Board, said he and Gala moved from California to Florida in 2021. They tried to sell the home they owned in California when they moved, but weren’t able to do so immediately, Raghavan told The Center Square.

“That spilled into 2022, but it was by no definition a primary residence anymore,” Raghavan said about the California home. “We moved to Florida to establish residency in 2021.”

The Jan. 6 letter didn’t tell Raghavan and Gala how much they owe to the state of California in personal income taxes, Raghavan told The Center Square.

Sacramento seems to have adopted the Goodfellas collection mentality.

Posted at 10:39 am by Stephen Green

HEH: Mr. President, Please Just Let This Man Have a Nap. “Keep in mind that the president is 79, and Rubio is only 54 — young enough to be his son — but it seems like the hardest working man in the Trump administration just can’t keep up with his boss. It’s so bad that when they’re both flying on Air Force One, Rubio says he hides from Trump, hoping he won’t catch him taking naps during trips overseas.”

Previously:

Posted at 10:08 am by Stephen Green