January 24, 2026
WELL, IT’S IMPROVEMENT: A Lot More American Fruits And Vegetables Imported By Vietnam In 2025.
WE TOO HAVE THE URI STUFF. AND YEAH, BE CAREFUL OUT THERE: Be Careful Out There, Winter 26 Edition.
SHE’S WRONG. NOT BEING AMERICA HAS BEEN CANADA’S ONLY IDENTITY SINCE 1776: I empathize dude but like as someone who has worked in both countries, Canada could have spent the last 30 years getting its shit together and easily become a resource superpower. Instead we spent the entire time countersignaling the United States and making our entire identity “Not them” despite a good portion of our economy depending on them.
And for you the x-cancelled.
January 23, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Like Schaeffer beer it’s there, it’s there for you, it’s what you want.
LOL, THE BULWARK ON J.D. VANCE. LIKE POLLING DER STURMER ON CHURCHILL:
This focus group was conducted by the publisher of The Bulwark and it’s being treated as legitimate news. https://t.co/hb1ddwuwKU
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) January 23, 2026
THAT’S NICE, BUT THEY STILL WON’T TELL US WHAT WAS WRONG OR WHO IT HAPPENED TO: Astronauts Reveal Critical Medical Tool Used in ISS Health Crisis.
Which is weird.
PRETTY SURE THIS IS A FEDERAL CRIME:
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Anti-ICE leftists have STORMED the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, infuriating travelers and taking the location hostage
This is utter MADNESS!
Tim Walz has handed control to lawless rebels. Minnesota must save itself!pic.twitter.com/5JbzBeStjO
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 23, 2026
STEPHEN KING CAN’T END A NOVEL, OR MAKE A MEME:
This is disgusting. This cheapens the Holocaust.
It's 1940. Gestapo knocks at your door. Where are you going to wind up? No, not in a camp designed to kill you, but you're gonna get sent HOME.
And, you can just go there with $1,000 in your pocket if you say "ok, I'll… https://t.co/Bh5PBxa9mX
— Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 (@marcorandazza) January 23, 2026
RIP: John Brodie, ex-49ers quarterback, dead at 90.
Former 49ers quarterback John Brodie, who played nearly two decades for San Francisco, passed away at 90 years old on Friday, the team announced.
“The 49ers family is saddened to learn of the passing of one of the franchise’s all-time great players, John Brodie,” Niners co-chairman Dr. John York said in a statement. “As a kid, my 49ers fandom began by watching John play quarterback on television.
“He displayed an incredible commitment towards his teammates and his support of the organization never wavered after his playing days. John became a dear friend of mine, and he will always be remembered as an important part of 49ers history.”
Brodie joined the 49ers in 1957 after the team took him with the No. 3 overall pick in the draft.
“Brodie played for the San Francisco 49ers from 1957 to 1973.” That was a very, very different version of the NFL’s than today’s:
The @NFL & @nflcommish have decided that the Super Bowl is a political event to attack President Trump, the political right and conservative values. They’re choosing division over unity and to attack the same voters that fund their stadiums and put money in their pockets. Enough! https://t.co/ZygenqyPjF
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 23, 2026
The NFL is incredibly good at not understanding their target audience https://t.co/gpgKKqrSHD
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) January 23, 2026
I HAD VIRUS REFLUX A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, AND IT SENT ME TO THE E.R. I GIVE IT A LOW RATING TOO. ‘Vitus Reflux’ may be the lowest stakes episode of ‘Star Trek’ ever. Luckily, it’s also a lot of fun.
Oh, wait, what? Vitus reflux? Oh. Well, never mind.
THEY’RE WHAT REALLY MAKES A MONKEY BACHELOR PAD, FOR ONE THING: Snow Monkeys’ Hot Spring Baths Do More Than Keep Them Warm, Study Finds.
STAY WARM: CQR Men’s Winter Tactical Cargo Pants. #CommissionEarned
W, X… WHY? EU PLATFORM IS MISGUIDED AT BEST, SINISTER AT WORST: The announcement of an exciting new homegrown social media platform on the continent that leads in censorship innovation should be greeted with skepticism from a free speech perspective.
NEWS YOU CAN USE? Want to curse a former lover? There’s a spell for that on Etsy.
The scent of dried sage and beeswax does not normally travel over the internet but for a growing group of spiritual consumers, the magic begins with a Google search.
Self-styled witches are selling spells on Etsy and TikTok for good luck or an increased social media following to finding love, curing male baldness and enacting revenge, with prices going as high as several hundred pounds.
The term “Etsy witches” — people providing witchcraft services over the internet — went viral last year after several influencers claimed to have successfully changed the weather on their wedding day after purchasing a spell.
Since then online witchcraft has been booming as people turn to “metaphysical services” to help with everything from selling a house to dealing with stress. On Etsy, customers only need to type in “spell”, “hex”, “jinx” or “curse” to find hundreds of offers from shops boasting thousands of five-star reviews.
Those in the Beltway area can simply drop by the offices of the Washington Post: Rod Dreher on Sally Quinn, Georgetown’s Madame Blavatsky.
Ouija boards, astrological charts, palm reading, talismans—Quinn embraces it all. And yes, she has been in contact with her husband since his passing. Through a medium. Repeatedly.
Some friends have voiced reservations that Quinn is now showing all her cards, so to speak. “Don’t play up the voodoo too much,” one implored. But Sally does nothing by halves. She reveals that, in her less mellow days, she put hexes on three people who promptly wound up having their lives ruined, or ended.
The first, cast in 1969, was spurred by old-fashioned jealousy. Some exotic beauty at a Halloween party inspired lust in Quinn’s beau at the time—and then killed herself just days after Sally cast her spell.
Her second victim was Clay Felker, the longtime editor of New York magazine who oversaw a brutal profile of Quinn in 1973, just before her catastrophic debut on the CBS Morning News. Quinn hexed Felker not long after flaming out at CBS and returning to Washington. “Some time afterward, Rupert Murdoch bought New York magazine in a hostile takeover, and Felker was out,” she writes. “Clay never recovered professionally. Worse, he got cancer, which ultimately caused his death.”
Target number three: a shady psychic who, the autumn after Quinn Bradlee was born, ran afoul of Sally’s maternal instincts. The woman dropped dead before year’s end.
Though it’s worth noting that there limits to the kinds of spells even she can cast: The end of Sally Quinn’s Washington.
“THE TANK COMMUNITY FINDS IT UGLY:” The U.S. Army’s Future Tank: Lighter, Smarter, and a Hybrid. The Tank Community thought the Sheridan and the MBT-70 were sexy.
STOP HELPING: Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI. “On December 26th, Google told me that ‘Steam Machine price & HDMI details emerge.’ They hadn’t. On January 11th, Google proclaimed that ‘ASUS ROG Ally X arrives.’ (It arrived in 2024; the new Xbox Ally arrived months ago.) On January 20th, it wrote that ‘Glasses-free 3D tech wows,’ introducing readers to ‘New 3D tech called Immensity from Leia’ — but linking to this TechRadar story about an entirely different company called Visual Semiconductor. I found another that claimed to be about a GPU maker commenting on the RAM shortage; it linked instead to a Digitimes story about a RAM maker.”
AND THE BEARDS HAVE GROWN LONGER OVERNIGHT:
2014. Bill Kristol advocates for the deportation of migrant children.
George Stephanopoulos says that Obama needs to send a message to migrants that they need to go back home.
Even Ana Navarro was sort of reasonable back then. Strange times.pic.twitter.com/QWDnyMoWYE
— MAZE (@mazemoore) January 23, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM ABC NEWS: Joy Behar: ICE Is the New ‘Gestapo,’ Trump Wants ‘War’ With NATO and MN.
On Friday’s episode of ABC’s The View, fill-in moderator Joy Behar admitted that she needed therapy to deal with her Trump Derangement Syndrome. And during the Tuesday episode of The View’s Behind the Table podcast, Behar proved just how severe her TDS actually was. According to her, ICE was just like the Nazi Gestapo rounding people up for extermination. She also claimed that America was “at war” with NATO and President Trump wanted to launch a war against Minnesota.
The first step in trying to fix one’s self was to admit you had a problem. Behar admitted that she was getting her therapy idea from former first Lady Michelle Obama. “She talks about how she and Barack have been in therapy all these years because they’re dealing with the empty nest. I’m dealing with the next few years of Trump. I need therapy,” she quipped.
And boy, did she need it.
Behar kicked off their podcast with delusions of grandeur, proclaiming that she wanted her legacy to be taking part in getting Trump out of office; seemingly suggesting she played a critical role in the 2020 election results:
BEHAR: I want my legacy to be that I helped get Trump out of office. That’s what I really care about.
TETA: Well, you did once. [Laughter]
BEHAR: I did. I wanna do it a second time. This time he’s much more dangerous than he was before.
Behar would go on to claim that Trump was “10 times worse than Nixon was. At this point.”
I’m so old, I can remember when Nixon was compared to Hitler by no less than George McGovern, before having his reputation rehabilitated by numerous elite leftists to bash the New Hitler. Speaking of which, yet another New Hitler has finally come along:
Jim Acosta: “[JD Vance is] the future of MAGA. It is a — a — it is a fascist, authoritarian, white nationalist MAGA.”
Jennifer Welch: “It’s worse than Trump.”
Acosta: “It is worse than Trump.”
Welch: “He’s worse.”
Acosta: “It’s Trump with staying power. You know, Trump, the… pic.twitter.com/98MP2bwrUN
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 16, 2026
ATHENA THORNE: I’ve Waited 40 Years to Dunk on Phil Collins About This. “The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. In this case, it’s been forty years since British establishment-pop workhorse Phil Collins incurred a young Athena’s wrath with his band Genesis’s mockery of the greatest president (up until then, anyway) of modern times.”
TREAT THE PAIN: MOTAYU Shoulder-Heating-Pad-Heated-Wrap – 3 Heat Settings Heating Pad for Shoulder. #CommissionEarned
THE UNITED FEDERATION OF PLANETS’ NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
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Yes, the most unrealistic thing about Star Trek is the idea that a society with the values of 1968 Berkeley could produce an officer class with the values of 1890 England. https://t.co/ktr2XO0Flx
— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) January 23, 2026
AREN’T YOU SUPPOSED TO CHANGE THEM OUT BEFORE THEY GET THAT HOT? The Year of the Can: The White Hot Silencer Business 20 Days In. “Here at SHOT Show, the busiest booths are those of suppressor manufacturers, with retailers and buyers looking for what’s new, when it will ship, and what the pricing will be.”
REPORTING IN FROM TEXAS: Yes, We Have No Bananas (Or Winter Storm T-2).
I usually visit HEB Mondays and Fridays, but given the probability of an incoming ice storm (which now has the name Winter Storm Fern) I went this afternoon, when it was already very busy and the shelves were just starting to look picked for some items.
Except bananas. They were gone.
Stay warm, Texas. And don’t go… well, you know.
Related:
As concerns Europe, I think there are four:
1) Trump told Europe: You're killing yourself with mass migration. Stop.
2) Trump told NATO: You've got to spend more on your own defense.
3) Trump told the EU: You're hurting yourselves with draconian regulations.
4) Trump told… https://t.co/I0dFHmujMl
— Byron York (@ByronYork) January 23, 2026
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!
