February 3, 2026

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Black ICE Agent Hit With Racial Slurs After Asking Trans Agitator, ‘Are You a Man?’

Some people say ICE agents should be outfitted with body cameras, and we agree. As has been proven ever since the Summer of Love in 2020, body cameras usually wind up showing the professionalism of the law enforcement officer and the craziness of the people they arrest. Whenever we see a video of ICE agents being surrounded by idiots blowing their whistles, we find the restraint shown by ICE agents remarkable.

This ICE agent let the restraint slip for a second and managed to make the video of the day. Protesters were already in his face when he asked one, “Are you a man?” That didn’t sit well with the legal observers. (Language warning)

Last week, Tim Walz asked, “Is this a Fort Sumter?” His constituents certainly are acting (and sounding) like the Confederates of 1861.

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

CHECKMATE: Native American tribe that owns land under Billie Eilish’s LA mansion has message for virtue-signaling singer.

The Native American tribe that owns the land under Billie Eilish’s multimillion-dollar Los Angeles mansion said celebrities should “explicitly” reference the tribes if they want to use them to virtue-signal.

The Tongva tribe confirmed the “Bad Guy” singer’s $3 million home does sit on its “ancestral land,” after the 24-year-old used her Grammys acceptance speech to rail against ICE and insist that “no one is illegal on stolen land.”

The indigenous inhabitants of the Los Angeles Basin, known as the “First Angelenos,” said they appreciate Eilish’s sentiment, however, they noted that the performer hasn’t contacted them directly — and insisted that next time she explicitly reference them.

“Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property, we do value the instance when public figures provide visibility to the true history of this country,” a Tongva spokesperson told the Daily Mail.

“It is our hope that in future discussions, the tribe can explicitly be referenced to ensure the public understands that the greater Los Angeles Basin remains Gabrieleno Tongva territory,” the spokesperson added.

Eilish was widely mocked for her comments on Sunday, as she yelled, “F–k ICE” from the stage while denouncing the US as stolen land.

“Oh, gee, this ‘stolen land’ nonsense again? Maybe she should step up and forfeit her Southern California mansion since it is supposedly on ‘stolen land,’” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wrote on X.’

I’d say that members of the Tongva should at least drop by and have a soak in her hot tub, but as Robert Conquest liked to say, “Everyone is conservative about what he [or she] knows best:” Billie Eilish Gets 3-Year Restraining Order For Trespasser.

Which seems odd, considering, “nobody is illegal on stolen land:”

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UPDATE: Fortunately for Eilish, nobody was watching: 2026 Grammys Dip 6.4% From Last Year With 14.4 Million Viewers. Sunday’s ceremony ranks as the most-watched awards show since the 2025 Oscars.

The 2026 Grammys scored a solid audience as they aired live on Sunday, but still saw a slight 6.4% drop in viewership when compared to last year’s awards.

The awards ceremony, which aired from Los Angeles’ Crypto.com arena beginning at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET, brought in 14.41 million viewers across CBS and Paramount+, according to Nielsen big data plus panel live-plus-same-day figures. The 2026 event also marks the last one airing on CBS before moving to Disney in a new 10-year streaming and broadcasting deal.

Viewership for Sunday’s show was down 6.43% from last year, which scored 15.4 million viewers. It’s also down from the 16.9 million viewers brought in by 2024, which marked the biggest audience the awards show has seen since 2020.

I’m sensing a trend here: Grammy Awards viewers stats 2000-2020.

(The huge ratings outlier in 2012 was as a result of Whitney Houston’s death the day before the ceremony, causing the show’s producers to schedule several tributes to her.)

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

DON’T TELL THEM:

Posted at 6:53 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HIS SIDE WITH MEN’S RIGHTS ACTIVIST PAUL ELAM: We talk about my book, men’s views on marriage and everything else:

Posted at 5:11 pm by Helen Smith

MACBETH WAS THE PLAY THAT GOT ME INTO SHAKESPEARE, COURTESY OF A TEACHER WHO INSISTED WE READ IT: Teens should read great (but hard) books: ‘Macbeth’ is better than ‘Hunger Games.’ “English teachers don’t assign many books these days, only 2.7 per year, according to a New York Times survey, she writes. When students are asked to read more than a brief excerpt, ‘the most common high school books tend to be short, relatively modern works like The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, and Night, as well as a smattering of Shakespeare.'”

Posted at 4:51 pm by Stephen Green

IN THE FUTURE, EVERYONE WILL BE IN THE EPSTEIN FILES FOR 15 CHARACTERS: Michael Malone: I Am in the Epstein File.

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

GOOD: JP Morgan Finally Backs Down, Agrees to Reverse Discriminatory Anti-Gun Business Practices.

That’s a welcome reversal of policy after NSSF met with JPMorgan Chase officials to work to end the discriminatory policy. It’s also the most recent of the big banks, including Bank of America and Citigroup that have shifted banking service policies that previously froze out members of the firearm industry.

Chase Business Banking CEO Ben Walter has issued a letter acknowledging the old banking playbook is no longer sustainable. NSSF is encouraged by the development and like the others, is taking a “Trust, but verify” approach.

For years, lawful firearm and ammunition businesses have faced a quiet but very real threat: being choked off from routine financial services, not because of objective risk, but because of cultural and political animus.

The tactics have been familiar — account closures without meaningful explanation, shifting “policy” justifications, even the catch-all “reputational risk” euphemism used to deny service to constitutionally protected commerce.

Break up the giants and empower local and regional banks. “Too big to fail” too often becomes “Big enough to be a bully.”

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green

A QUESTION THAT ALL BLUE STATE PROPERTY OWNERS SHOULD BE ASKING:

Posted at 2:42 pm by Glenn Reynolds

GREAT MOMENTS IN VIRTUE SIGNALING:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT’S COME TO THIS: The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films.

Everyone knows it’s hard to get college students to do the reading—remember books? But the attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word. Professors are now finding that they can’t even get film students—film students—to sit through movies. “I used to think, If homework is watching a movie, that is the best homework ever,” Craig Erpelding, a film professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told me. “But students will not do it.”

I heard similar observations from 20 film-studies professors around the country. They told me that over the past decade, and particularly since the pandemic, students have struggled to pay attention to feature-length films. Malcolm Turvey, the founding director of Tufts University’s Film and Media Studies Program, officially bans electronics during film screenings. Enforcing the ban is another matter: About half the class ends up looking furtively at their phones.

A handful of professors told me they hadn’t noticed any change. Some students have always found old movies to be slow, Lynn Spigel, a professor of screen cultures at Northwestern University, told me. “But the ones who are really dedicated to learning film always were into it, and they still are.”

Most of the instructors I spoke with, however, feel that something is different now. And the problem is not limited to large introductory courses. Akira Mizuta Lippit, a cinema and media-studies professor at the University of Southern California—home to perhaps the top film program in the country—said that his students remind him of nicotine addicts going through withdrawal during screenings: The longer they go without checking their phone, the more they fidget. Eventually, they give in. He recently screened the 1974 Francis Ford Coppola classic The Conversation. At the outset, he told students that even if they ignored parts of the film, they needed to watch the famously essential and prophetic final scene. Even that request proved too much for some of the class. When the scene played, Lippit noticed that several students were staring at their phones, he told me. “You do have to just pay attention at the very end, and I just can’t get everybody to do that,” he said.

The idea of a two-hour adaptation of a famous novel was an invention of early Hollywood in the first couple of decades of the 20th century. Will the form die once movie theaters vanish?

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll