ICYMI: MARC THIESSEN IN THE WASHINGTON POST: The 20 best things Trump did in 2025: The accomplishments of a stunning year can’t be captured in just 10 items.

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This analysis is a good example of what has really been bugging me lately.

It’s been one year. Trump II is in the process of paradigm-shifting victories on immigration, presidential control over the executive, and the enforcement of the CRA against the many illegalities of the… https://t.co/OjiTR63phH

— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) January 2, 2026

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Under Desk Elliptical Machine, Electric Elliptical Leg Exerciser. #CommissionEarned

SALENA ZITO:

.@ZitoSalena: Trump has a way with Pennsylvania. This interview shows why. https://t.co/qXR653li9a

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 2, 2026

Full article here.

BAD TIME TO BE ASKING, BUT THESE THINGS HAPPEN:  Help Kelly Grayson.

CUTE:  The Small God of Hay.  Or, an exercise in writing a non-human point of view.

DOMESTIC TERRORISM: “F*ck Trump” – DC Home of Active-Duty Space Force Officers Broken Into, Robbed, Vandalized and Intentionally Set on Fire.

WHAT, THEY DON’T TRUST LETTY JAMES TO DEDICATE THE SAME INTENSITY AS SHE DID TO TRUMP?  GOP lawmakers demand Gov. Hochul root out Minnesota-style fraud with independent audit.

ALL THE STRANGE DOINGS:  Another Merry Minnesota Walz.

PERSPECTIVE FROM ACROSS THE POND (AND FURTHER DOWN THE RED RATHOLE):  Understanding the battle for America’s soul.

DEFEAT IS NOT AN OPTION (ADVICE FROM THE PHILOSOPHERS):  Victory is all that matters.

WASHINGTON AG DOESN’T WANT ACTUAL JOURNALISM IN HIS STATE:  Democrat Prosecutor Receives Massive Blowback After Statement on Reports of Somali Fraud.

LUNCHEON IS BEING SERVED AT THE AUTOPHAGOUS BUFFET:  The Minnesota Congressional Delegation Is Demanding Answers and Accountability From Tim Walz.

WELCOME TO THE NEWYORKALYPSE:  Mamdani Touts Warmth of ‘Collectivism,’ Revokes Pro-Israel Policies.

WELL, GOOD:  Finnish Police Detain Russian Crew After Suspected Sabotage of Baltic Undersea Cable.

NEVER MIND THAT CALIFORNIA WAS NEVER A SLAVE STATE:  San Francisco Mayor Signs Reparations Bill, Admits There’s No Money to Pay Them.

IF I EVER GET A TIME MACHINE, ROUSSEAU WILL BE MY FIRST MURDER VICTIM:  From Rousseau to Marx, Hegel to Gramsci.

THE EU IS AN UNCONVINCING LEGAL FICTION:  American Legal Sovereignty Threatened by Greenpeace’s Retaliatory EU Lawsuit.

I HAVE A STRONG DISAGREEMENT WITH THIS ARTICLE:  “You had to be unacceptably racist in 1993 to predict where South Africa would be in thirty years”.

The population is NOT exploding in the third world. It’s crashing everywhere. It’s just that the third world lies more impunely and brazenly. I’m sorry it takes a very smart person to fall for the stupid idea that the third world countries conduct reliable censuses. Or even attempt them, for that matter. Ridiculous. they just pretend to larger population because they get more “aid” money.

FOR AN EXAMPLE OF HOW BAD THIS COULD BE, SEE SPAIN LAST YEAR:   America’s ‘Green’ Power Grid Has A Red China Problem.

NOTE COUNTER-PROPAGANDA IS STILL PROPAGANDA:  This is an excellent primer on how the Shirley video *could* be disinformation without ever affirming the core assumption that it actually *is.* The author knows her topic well. As counter-propaganda goes, this is top-notch.

And for the x cancelled.

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Deadly Oklahoma weed shootings expose network tied to New York money and China: report.

RIGHT. IT’S NOT EVEN THE PERFECT BEING THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD: It’s committing suicide if we can’t have perfect. Right now the democrats are death: for the economy, the country and potentially civilization.  There are two major flaws with the idea of having the Republican Party lose so that we get something better as an end result. The first major problem with this is you will allow a Democrat landslide victory who will proceed to import and provide amnesty to as many people as possible to increase their pool of voters, also use every aspect of the regime to destroy you, and will guaranteed have by pure numbers enough votes to rule till the end of time. The other major flaw is that this doesn’t account for the fact that the Republican Party as it exists now is perceived as an undergoing radical, insurgent change against the previous conservative order Pre-Trump. Those who existed prior to Trump still hold very large amounts of power, money, and sway over institutions. A major sweeping loss of the Republican Party now will have you contending with all of these people, who will propose the following counter narrative: Trump and the MAGA movement moved too far into identity politics, were too offensive, too racist, too radical, and we need to return to a party of respectable conservative, small government, family values and fiscal responsibility. And if that happens, if there is a major destruction, mark my words, that side would win in reforming the Republican Party, and making it a more gay, more immigrant friendly, more controlled opposition, beautiful loser Conservative Party than it ever was before in history.

AND FOR THE CANCELLED OF X:  Here.

NOT QUITE A CASE OF TRUMP WALKING ON WATER AND BEING REPORTED AS NOT KNOWING HOW TO SWIM:  DAILY ART FIX: Sweet Jesus—Trump auctions off a Christ painting made in ten minutes.

The real headline, Trump raises millions for a children’s hospital.

I MEAN, IT’S A GOOD QUESTION:  CNN Panel Goes Off the Rails When Scott Jennings Asks Why MN Democrats Cater to Somalis.

OPEN THREAD: How’s your new year going so far?