SALENA ZITO: Deluzio wants ICE reforms not defunding.

Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA) said in an interview with the Washington Examiner that he is not calling for the defunding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Instead, he wants to see reforms after the chaos surrounding their operations in Minneapolis became deadly.

Deluzio, a Navy veteran and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who completed three deployments, including a tour in Iraq, said the reforms he wants included in a spending bill would focus on ending the detention and deportation of Americans and upholding the sanctity of judicial warrants.

“They’re common sense ones. And if you talk to local cops, they know that deescalation is a part of that,” he said, adding, “Deescalation is good policing, and that’s what we should expect out of our federal agents.”

His pragmatic approach is starkly different from the strident rhetoric made on the other end of the state by Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner, who vowed to prosecute ICE agents at an “ICE OUT” press conference on Wednesday in front of City Hall.

Nationally though, Democrats seem to have become more the party of Krasner than Deluzio.

WELL, YEAH: Democrat Talarico: Billionaires Are Evil, Except When They’re Giving Me Money. “What are mere scruples when there’s all that sweet, sweet gambling money available to stuff into your campaign’s maw?”

REALCLEARSCIENCE: Fixing DEI’s Damage to Academic Science Could Take a Generation.

IT’S COMPLICATED:

To summarize: Carnegie Mellon took over $1 billion from Qatar and gave the Qatar Foundation a say in the hiring of their VP of DEI, and now the school is being sued by a Jewish student who says the VP of DEI discouraged her from filing a formal antisemitism complaint…yikes. https://t.co/71v1xgAVvv

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) January 29, 2026

Well, the headline is complicated. The reality is pretty simple: Qatar uses oil money and cunning to colonize the West.

EXCLUSIVE: On War-Pounded Border, Israeli Emergency Services and Samaritan’s Purse Build New Station.

FROM CAROLINE FURLONG:  The Guardian Cycle, Vol.1: In Dreams and Other Stories.

#CommissionEarned

A man whose debts must be paid by vengeance. A woman desperate to save her husband. A grieving father finding a young enemy soldier on his veritable doorstep…

These fantasy and soft sci-fi stories wonder whether or not heroes need families. Are we not told that families slow the hero down? Is it not typically implied that they get in the way of the adventure? Are they a burden, or truly the greatest strength from which the hero and those he loves can draw?

Six tales in this collection center on family, faith, and self-sacrificing love as men and women fight for the ones whom they hold most dear. Whether the enemy is inner turmoil, a nightmare, or a demon really does not matter. If the threat seeks to harm a member of the family, it is going to pay dearly.

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.”