SALENA ZITO: Pennsylvania dairy farmers celebrate the Whole Milk Act.

THE TRANS TIDE IS ROLLING OUT:  Landmark win for Darlington Nurses defending women-only changing rooms.

REMEMBER WHEN OBAMA ASSURED US ‘NOBODY MESSES WITH JOE’? GOOD TIMES, GOOD TIMES:  COVID Cash Heist: Michigan Woman Gets 27 Months Behind Bars for $3M Scheme.

THEY DID ADMIT IT BEFORE FREEZING IN THE DARK:  Germany Finally Admits Trump Was Right About Energy.

HOW DARE HE CONFUSE VIEWERS WITH FACTS!!!  CNN Host Was Not Happy When Scott Jennings Brought *This* Up About the Anti-ICE Ambush in Minneapolis.

OH, THIS WILL GO WELL…   Left-Wing Mobs in Minneapolis Now Stopping Cars and Interrogating Civilians.

UM… YEAH… THAT TRACKS:  Uh Oh: Mamdani Under Fire for Excluding Black Leaders From Top City Roles.

WELL, HIS EXPERIENCE IS IN BUSINESS. HE USES MONEY AS A WEAPON:  Game of Tariffs: Trump Incentivizes European Support for His Greenland Acquisition.

MAYBE BUT IT’S STILL A TERRIBLE WAY TO BUILD AN ARMY:  Another unintended consequence of conscription.

UH UH:  Eureka elementary students cautioned that Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk are not role models.

ALAS!  Rapidly declining democracy in the home of the “Mother of Parliaments”.

SO SAY WE ALL:  Hakeem Jeffries is a vile, oathbreaking bastard.

BETTER THAN THE OPPOSITE!  Japan And Italy Agree On Strategic Cooperation.

NOT AN UNREASONABLE VIEW:  Eywa Is A Secular God – Sanctified Evil In Avatar. (Video)

OPEN THREAD: Be here now.

SPACE: Analysis-Musk’s Starlink faces high-profile security test in Iran crackdown.

I think Elon should install rods-from-god with home-on-jam capability….

LOL, AMY KLOBUCHAR:

If law-abiding Minnesotans were actually being thrown to the ground, detained, pepper-sprayed, and threatened, I would agree with you.

But these are not law-abiding Minnesotans. Not a single one.

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) January 16, 2026

ASSORTED NEGOTIATIONS APPEAR TO BE AFOOT:

There are two possible reasons why an unidentified operation against Iran slated for approximately Jan 14, 2026 was canceled or postponed:

1. The resources available were not sufficient to achieve the tactical objectives; and or
2. New strategic opportunities emerged that…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 17, 2026

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: We Were Wrong About Restrictive Diets, Decades of Research Says.

IF YOU’RE AGAINST VOTER ID, IT MEANS YOU’RE INVESTED IN VOTER FRAUD:

This is needed to save democracy in America https://t.co/jSoISFIQgq

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 16, 2026

WELL, GOOD: Scientists Discover Natural Protein That Traps and Kills Harmful Bacteria.

TO MY CREDIT, IF THAT’S THE RIGHT WORD, I DID MAKE IT MORE THAN HALFWAY THROUGH THE FIRST EPISODE: I (Almost) Watched Starfleet Academy So You Don’t Have To. “Somewhere, Worf sheds a silent and very warrior-like tear.”

UPDATE (From Ed): Now it all makes sense:

Wait a minute… pic.twitter.com/57NtaFPIUu

— Jon Del Arroz | Pop Culture & Gaming 🎮 (@jondelarroz) January 16, 2026

AT AMAZON, Shop Same Day Delivery. #CommissionEarned

SCIENCE: What a study of 67,000 people reveals about sexual desire and age.

DOJ’S OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL FINDS THAT BAN ON MAILING LEGAL FIREARMS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL, DOJ will no longer enforce it. USPS told to modify its regulations.

This is progress for civil rights, but who would trust their gun to the US Mail?