MASSIVE RESISTANCE IN ALABAMA? WHO WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THAT? University of Alabama social work program set to resume DEI-focused doctoral training despite state ban.
January 21, 2026
YOU DON’T SAY: Gov. Polis’ State of the State energy claims fail the smell test.
Governor Jared Polis addressed the Colorado legislature in his final State of the State address last week. Polis repeatedly invoked his efforts to build “low-cost clean energy,” but it’s the very same wind, solar, battery storage, and electric vehicles that will make higher energy prices for Coloradans his legacy.
Between January 2019, when Polis entered office, and October 2025, the latest data from the Energy Information Administration, the average residential electricity price in Colorado has risen from 11.91 to 16.26 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). That’s up 36.52 percent, compared with an increase of 30.78 percent in the wider Mountain region. Since 2004, when Colorado enacted its first renewable portfolio standard, all-sector electricity rates in Colorado have risen from an average of 6.95 to 12.80 cents per kWh in October 2025
That isn’t a coincidence. The legislature passed an aggressive bill in 2019 requiring the power sector to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 percent by 2030 and, with a 2023 law, reach 100 percent renewables by 2050. Meeting those mandates will require retiring ten more major coal-fired units before 2031, or 4,200 megawatts (MW) of nameplate capacity, which planned wind and solar cannot reliably replace. It’s worth noting, too, that Colorado fell short of its first statutory requirement to reduce emissions overall by 26 percent by the end of 2025, though not for lack of trying.
The Independence Institute, in conjunction with Always On Energy Research, found that the Polis administration has underestimated the costs of getting Colorado to 100 percent zero-emissions by 2040. The true costs would add $114.3 billion compared to operating the current grid, and another $214.6 billion through 2050, while creating massive blackouts.
First, “low-cost clean energy” is two lies for the price of one. Second, I plan to be long gone from Colorado before the worst of Polis’s madness kicks in.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Michelle Obama Exists to Make Hillary Clinton Seem Delightful. “For me, what makes Michelle Obama so insufferable is that she acts as if she is a civil rights crusader from 1957. Despite having been the First Lady of the land for eight years and having her behind kissed in the nine years since she and hubby left the White House, Mrs. Obama would have everyone believe that she’s a permanent victim of oppression. She constantly throws around both the race and the gender cards, and the idiotic masses who voted for her husband lap it up.”
BRAD THOMPSON: Something Happened.
TVS BECAME SPYWARE AS SOON AS THEY BECAME SMART, AND NOW SONY IS HOPPING INTO BED WITH THE CCP:
This is about more than the TV you mount to the wall to watch sports – it’s a natsec issue. It’s about market share, data platforms, and dependency. PRC firms are consolidating global consumer tech as allied alternatives fall behind. Tokyo and Washington have the tools—this… https://t.co/mKjZk52GOA
— Eric Sayers (@DEricSayers) January 20, 2026
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
Why the big push for women embracing single life as empowerment? Simple: singles fuel consumer culture. Corporations aren't your cheerleaders, ladies—they're eyeing your wallet, not your well-being. It is anti-human at its core, prioritizing profits over the profound connections…
— Lisa Britton (@LisaBritton) January 20, 2026
COLLECT THE WHOLE SET: US forces seize seventh Venezuelan oil tanker, intensify crackdown on illegal shipments. “The apprehension of another tanker operating in defiance of President [Donald] Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean demonstrates our resolve to ensure that the only oil leaving Venezuela will be oil that is coordinated properly and lawfully.”
MINNESOTA NICE:
One of the protesters who took over a church service and screamed "shut it down" works for Minneapolis's local prosecutor, is married to a St. Paul councilwoman, is running for state Senate, and runs HOMES FOR HOMIES taking Section 8 money and steering it to black criminals. pic.twitter.com/5jsPwobOIn
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) January 20, 2026
Rosiak also posted that Harmeet Dhillon “is already investigating Moriarty for taking ‘racial identity’ into account when making charging decisions, and HUD is investigating Minneapolis for giving minorities preference when it comes to housing subsidies. Lundy is involved in both.”
In the meantime, we need a total and complete shutdown of Minnesota until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
THERE ARE NO MODERATE DEMOCRATS, ASIDE FROM JOHN FETTERMAN: ‘Moderate’ Abigail Spanberger Appoints Two Qatari Lobbyists To Serve on George Mason University Board.
OUR FOUNDERS COULD TRASH-TALK LIKE BOSSES:
True story:
In the election of 1800 Thomas Jefferson called John Adams “a blind, bald, crippled, toothless man who is a hideous hermaphroditic character with neither the force and fitness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman” https://t.co/W5J84FEpBc pic.twitter.com/42ul4PbyH1
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) January 20, 2026
SALENA ZITO: Why are so many K-12 educators prone to violent rhetoric?
In July 2024, days after Trump was shot, Cassandra Olson, a Sioux Falls School District middle school behavior specialist, wrote, “Shoot—if only he would’ve had his scope sighted correctly” on Facebook. The South Dakota school district acted swiftly, saying in a statement that the staff member “was no longer employed” at the school.
Olson was one of several educators who either lost their jobs or had their teaching licenses pulled for wishing or celebrating harm on Trump.
The volume of educators posting on social media to celebrate the shooting or express regret that Trump survived was unprecedented. It was not surpassed until the death of Kirk, the founder and executive director of Turning Point USA, a conservative organization known for hosting open debates with young people. Kirk’s assassination also prompted celebratory posts from educators online.
Education Week reported that teachers in California, Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas were either fired or placed on leave ahead of investigations into social media comments celebrating or slyly implying their approval of Kirk’s death.
What makes the incident at Propel this past week especially troubling is that it is likely not the last of its kind. It has left many parents asking what sort of influence, or even rhetoric, teachers may be bringing into the classroom, not only in public schools but also in charter and private schools.
Read the whole thing — it’s Salena, after all. But I’d just add that public education is dominated by lefties, and historically lefties aren’t shy about resorting to violence.
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THE ENEMY WITHIN:
Members of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America have been cultivating ties with officials of the Chinese Communist Party and agreeing to take pro-China positions, according to extensive minutes of internal meetings seen by Newsweek… pic.twitter.com/MxwnkwB2Qh
— Bill Bishop (@niubi) January 20, 2026
I KNEW THESE WERE THE CRAZY YEARS, BUT THEY’RE ALSO THE STUPID YEARS:
Of all the bonkers things of the past few years, the very bonkersiest may well be KBJ relying on the Black Codes as grounds for supporting Hawaii's incredibly restrictive gun laws.
For background, the "Black Laws" were racist laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War… https://t.co/BsTbakyOQs
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) January 20, 2026
BECAUSE WITHOUT THE INBRED, IMPORTED CONTINGENT, THEY’D HAVE NO VOTERS: Marriages between cousins sustain inbred criminal clans, so why won’t Starmer ban them?
WHAT?! THOSE POLICIES CAN’T POSSIBLY BE WORKING! SAYS EVERY LIB: There Is a Bombshell New Report Out About Trump’s Immigration Policies.
OH. THAT’S WHY TWO TIER KEIR KISSED THE RING. HE WANTS THEM TO COME AND PUT DOWN THE POPULAR DISCONTENT IN GREAT BRITAIN TOO: China Begins Conducting Massive Military Movements Inside Iran.
THIS IS THEIR PLAN FOR THE COUNTRY: Virginia on Fire: Insane Legislative Blitz on Tax Hikes, Sentencing Rollbacks.
ANOTHER VILE IDEA OF THE VILE LEFT: The rise of Eugenics.
AND IT’S NOT JUST THE WEST: Mark Steyn on demographics, Trump, and Greenland.
