January 24, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Party on, dudes and dudettes.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

EMPLOYER PROSECUTIONS BEGIN: Contractors accused of disrupting ICE raid at Hardin Valley construction site. “Federal officials have charged two contractors with conspiring to disrupt Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Knoxville earlier this month. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee unsealed a multi-count indictment on Friday against Tyler Shane Wells, 33, of Morristown, and 18-year-old Alexander Bonilla Servin of Smyrna. They are charged with conspiracy to conceal and harbor illegal aliens, conspiracy to forcibly impede federal agents while engaged in performance of official duties, and conspiracy to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, federal agents from discharging their official duties from January 5 through January 13. Bonilla-Servin is also charged with forcibly impeding federal agents engaged in the performance of their official duties.”

Expect to see more of these.

Posted at 8:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THEY’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR AN INCIDENT TO ESCALATE OVER: The Narrative™ Is Being Set on Minneapolis Shooting; Trump: INSURRECTION; Sheriff: National Guard. “Few people really know what exactly happened this morning in Minneapolis, and that certainly includes the governor and Mayor of Minneapolis. Yet both of them started making statements blaming ICE for the shooting of an armed man who was resisting arrest, and seemed to be encouraging the citizens of Minneapolis to attack ICE because they are part of an ‘invasion’ of the state.”

UPDATE: So what do I think happened? I can’t tell. I looked at some of the videos, marked with circles purporting to show where the gun was, etc., and I can see the circles but can’t actually tell what’s in them or what’s going on. He allegedly had a permit to carry, but wasn’t carrying it on him as, I’m told, Minnesota law requires, because he was carrying no ID at all, which is slightly sketchy. He had two magazines, but lots of people who carry carry more than one magazine; I do myself on occasion. Obviously the presence or absence of the permit doesn’t mean anything about the validity of the shooting, since that has to be evaluated from the officer’s point of view and they couldn’t have known.

We’ll see. Some of my non-lefty acquaintances think it may have been a bad shoot, others disagree. All agree that going armed to a protest/riot where you expect to be in a tussle with armed men is a bad idea. Mike Williamson points out that when he went to Covid protests, he didn’t even take his pocketknife.

At any rate, experience from the 5-year-old boy “arrested” by ICE all the way back to the Covington Boys in DC indicates that no one should ever accept the opening leftist narrative, as they’re pretty much always false.

Posted at 7:51 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THE BEER-SWILLING CURMUDGEONS HAVE A PRETTY GOOD TRACK RECORD:

Posted at 6:45 pm by Glenn Reynolds

BUT LEFTISTS SAY THEY SUPPORT CHINA BECAUSE OF ITS COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW:

Posted at 6:32 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Chicago’s Ruling Class Meet Up With Minnesota’s Ruling Class: Chicago Teachers Union Go To Minnesota to Show Support.

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

HOW THE LAWYERS KILLED PRACTICAL ADULT EDUCATION:

If you want to learn how machines actually work, go watch a mid-century industrial film. The ones shot in black and white, with the clipped narration and the cutaway diagrams. The ones that assume you can pay attention for twenty minutes, remember a sequence, and behave like an adult around rotating mass and stored energy.

Then compare that to most “training” made today. It is either infantilized entertainment, compliance theater, or vendor marketing in a lab coat. It tells you what to click, not what to understand. It teaches substitution, not diagnosis. It gives you a vibe, not a skill. It is worse than useless because it produces the confident incompetent.

This is not because people got dumber or because cameras got better. It is not because “the culture changed.” It is not because we forgot how to teach.

It is because the legal system made truthful instruction radioactive.

The moment you treat instruction as a liability surface, you stop teaching and start lawyering. That is the whole story. Everything else is downstream.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT’S COME TO THIS: Don Lemon Claims Illegal Aliens Don’t Commit Crime.

“So credit where it’s due. I don’t know this woman’s name, but she did a great job. She didn’t yell. She didn’t posture. She just followed the logic to its conclusion and Don Lemon couldn’t survive his own talking points.”

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

LEFTISM IN A NUTSHELL:

UPDATE:

Posted at 4:11 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

From Grok: “No, this paper has not been discredited, retracted, or formally debunked. It remains a legitimate peer-reviewed study cited in archaeological discussions on Roman-period infanticide. There are no indications of retraction, major corrections, or widespread dismissal in academic sources.”

Posted at 3:47 pm by Glenn Reynolds

BRENDAN O’NEILL: The infantile Israelophobia of Ms. Rachel.

Don’t you just hate it when you accidentally like a social-media post calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews? Poor Ms Rachel, the gurning kids’ entertainer, committed just such a digital gaffe this week. She liked a post by one of her followers on Instagram that said ‘Free America from the Jews’. She later put out a tearful vid saying it was all an innocent mistake. She’d meant to delete the neo-medieval cry for a new Jew expulsion, not ‘heart’ it. Her thumbs let her down.

Most celebs would be given the benefit of the doubt in a situation like this. And we should give it to Ms Rachel, too. But her faux pas has caused a stink because Ms Rachel is a proper Gazaholic. Alongside entertaining toddlers on YouTube in her stupid dungarees, she has a side hustle in going absolutely mental about Israel. One minute she’s singing ‘Wheels on the Bus’, the next she’s holding forth on ‘genocide’ like some UN dignitary. And some people are wondering if it might actually make sense that a woman so feverishly obsessed with the Jewish State might also like the idea of Jews getting the fuck out of America.

It started when Ms Rachel posted a note on Instagram that said: ‘Free Palestine, Free Sudan, Free Congo, Free Iran.’ For me, that’s the most shocking part of the story. A preening, virtue-hoarding celeb mentioning countries that are not Palestine or Israel? Blow me down. Then someone replied with the following: ‘Free America from the Jews.’ And Ms Rachel gave it the thumbs up. After spotting her error she sobbed on camera, because of course she’s the real victim here. ‘Horrible!’, she said. I’ll say.

But with a bit of nudge-nudge, wink-wink to say, sorry, not sorry:

And as America’s Newspaper of Record reports:

Posted at 2:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

REPORT: Steelers Hiring Mike McCarthy as Head Coach.

The Pittsburgh Steelers have found their next head coach. The team is bringing in former Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers leader Mike McCarthy as their fourth head coach in nearly 60 years, working on deal with the 62-year-old, according to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network.

McCarthy was one of the biggest names in their head coaching search, sitting at the top of the list with Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores and Los Angeles Rams DC Chris Shula. The team brought McCarthy, Flores and Miami Dolphins DC Anthony Weaver in for in-person interviews but have made their decision and are going with McCarthy.

Exit quote: “The Steelers will need to bring in a quarterback over the next few years and likely look at McCarthy as their best option to help develop him. For now, however, the former Packers head coach could be an easy bridge to get Aaron Rodgers back in the building as well.”

Posted at 2:14 pm by Ed Driscoll