Dear Ms. Anarchist: When Did Safety Go
Out of Style?
Posted By: Mercedes44, 1/26/2026 3:33:22 AM
Here’s a challenge. Ask your neighbor, ask your best friend, ask the guy standing next to you at the deli counter, ask as many relatives as possible, ask any real estate agent in the world this question: What is the number-one thing all people in the world do when they decide to move into an apartment or condo or co-op or house? Even before they buy appliances or furniture or food for their refrigerator or outdoor plants or a new mailbox. Even before they hire an inspector to check out if everything in their new digs is in good order.
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Here’s a challenge. Ask your neighbor, ask your best friend, ask the guy standing next to you at the deli counter, ask as many relatives as possible, ask any real estate agent in the world this question: What is the number-one thing all people in the world do when they decide to move into an apartment or condo or co-op or house?
Even before they buy appliances or furniture or food for their refrigerator or outdoor plants or a new mailbox. Even before they hire an inspector to check out if everything in their new digs is in good order.
Anti-ICE protesters violently swarmed a Minneapolis hotel where they believed federal officers were staying, hurling items at people inside, smashing its windows, and graffitiing “F–K ICE” across the building’s facade Sunday.
The large mob descended on the Home2 Suites by Hilton Hotel late Sunday night, as tensions gripped the Twin Cities just one day after Border Patrol agents shot and killed protester Alex Pretti, 37, in Minneapolis. The large mob descended on the Home2 Suites by Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis late Sunday night. They shoved and hurled objects at a Minneapolis Police Department officer and others just inside the hotel’s lobby and attempted to push their way in —
We all know the drill by now. Any time there’s weather, the “climate change” alarmists tell us it’s the end of the world. But all you have to do is get rid of your gas stove, pay more taxes, and submit to more regulation. Then that two feet of climate change in your driveway will magically melt away, and the already frozen polar ice caps will freeze once again.That’s how it works. When the weather weathers, that’s just another excuse for the left to pick your pocket and take away your freedoms.
Well, in this little rural red pocket of a blue state,
Davos Gets an Uncomfortable Lesson
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Good Morning! Today is a very chilly Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. Today is “National Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day.” I’d wait for the weather to settle down, myself, but it occurs to me that a quilt would be kinda handy. A sub-zero day here in western New York.
1908 Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell publishes "Scouting for Boys" as a manual for self-instruction in outdoor skills and self-improvement. The book becomes the inspiration for the Scout Movement.
1916 The Military Service Bill, calling for conscription of men for war services, passes in the British House of Commons.
1922 Christian Kent Nelson of Iowa patents the eskimo pie (no, he was not an Eskimo).
President Donald Trump’s officers are operating within federal law when they arrest fugitive “Final Order” migrants in their homes without first getting a judge’s signature, a top Justice Department official told Breitbart News. In cases of fugitives, courts have recognized that administrative warrants are perfectly okay” for home arrests without a judge’s signature, Chad Mizelle, the chief of staff and Acting Associate Attorney General of the Department of Justice, said.
AZ Sen. Majority Leader Demands State
AG ‘Step Down in Disgrace’ Over Comments
About Shooting ICE 8 replies
AG ‘Step Down in Disgrace’ Over Comments
About Shooting ICE 8 replies
In a letter dated January 23, 2026, Arizona Senate Majority Leader John Kavanaugh (R) demanded the state’s Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) “step down in disgrace” after her comments about the shooting of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. During a January 20, 2026, interview posted by 12 News NBC, Mayes discussed Arizona’s “Stand Your Ground” law, noting that it is one of the most expansive such laws in the country.
She said, “You have these masked, federal officers with very little identification — sometimes no identification — wearing plain clothes and masks and we have a ‘Stand Your Ground’ law —
Close-up videos of the fatal Minneapolis shooting showed protester Alex Jeffrey Pretti was armed with a gun — with the agent who fired the more than a dozen shots clearly reacting to something that alarmed him amid the chaos.
It’s unclear if Pretti had drawn the weapon and was immediately disarmed, if an officer had pulled it from his clothing or if he was in the process of pulling it out when a separate federal officer was seen taking it from the 37-year-old as he was pinned to the ground.
Videos of the incident show officers shouting “he’s got a gun,”
House GOP preparing for court showdown
to unravel why Ilhan Omar’s net worth
skyrocketed up to $30M 11 replies
to unravel why Ilhan Omar’s net worth
skyrocketed up to $30M 11 replies
Congressional investigators are preparing for a court fight as they seek to use every tool at their disposal to unravel how “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and her hubby Tim Mynett came to be worth up to $30 million in just a few years.
The goal, House Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) told The Post, is “to win in court” while finding out what caused the “big spike” in Omar’s net worth. He warned that “everybody’s lawyered up in these investigations” – during a week where his committee took a break from its probe of Minnesota health care fraud —
Playing Taps for the New World Order
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President Trump has the world playing taps for the New World Order, and that’s a good thing. In the process he dealt the UK’s Keir Starmer what appears to be a fatal blow. And in Minneapolis, a combination of communists and NGO paid rioters are trying to replay the George Floyd Summer of Love and is instead showing why ICE’s work is essential to good order. The media is trying to help the rioters by concocting a “bait boy” fable.
Davos
Niall Ferguson sums up, ”The reality is that Trump won Davos, hands down. And not only did he win it; he owned it.
In 2014, when I wrote the book Liberty Risen: The Ultimate Triumph of Libertarian-Republicans, many reviewers couldn’t understand why I wrote it. I was not (and still am not) a libertarian. So, did I write to support specific Libertarian candidates and/or causes? Or to help further the relevance of libertarian ideology within the GOP?
The truth is that the book was an objective assessment of where the GOP was heading, given the confluence of wealthy donors and frustrated youth who mutually identified as Libertarian—at the time, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was even the hip choice for President. Often missed, however,
The Supreme Court on Thursday gave California Democrats a week to respond to the California Republican Party’s request to block the new Democrat-drawn congressional district maps from being used in November.
The request for a response, issued by Justice Elena Kagan, who is handling the emergency-injunction request for the court, surprised many court watchers.
Given that the justices allowed Texas Republicans’ gerrymandered map to stand, most thought the Supreme Court would allow the Los Angeles district court’s ruling earlier this month, validating California’s new map to stand as well.
California man is accused of stealing at least $10 million in taxpayer funds meant to house and feed the homeless to fund his lavish lifestyle.
Alexander Soofer, 42, the executive director of the South Los Angeles-based charity Abundant Blessings, was arrested Friday on a federal criminal complaint and charged with wire fraud, a felony carrying up to 20 years in prison. “I want to tell you a little bit about his organization, Abundant Blessings. It was a South Los Angeles-based charity whose purpose is to help house and properly feed the estimated 72,000 homeless people living in the greater Los Angeles area.
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The New York Times Wonders Why Americans
Are ‘Turning Against Gay People.’
Isn’t It Obvious? 29 replies
Are ‘Turning Against Gay People.’
Isn’t It Obvious? 29 replies
This week, the New York Times published an article called "Americans Are Turning Against Gay People," and if you're wondering whether the paper has completely lost touch with reality, the answer is yes. The piece opens with some gushing about a show I’ve never even heard of — and I suspect you haven’t, either — called Heated Rivalry, featuring gay hockey players, suggesting that its success proves "acceptance of queer love continues to grow." The authors, Tessa Charlesworth and Eli Finkel, lament that this is not the case. "We wish we could share that optimism,"
When Renee Good drove her car into an ICE agent earlier this month, the left tried to gaslight us into believing she was just some innocent bystander who was just at the wrong place, that she’d just dropped her son off at school and wasn’t supposed to be there. That narrative fell apart fast. Good, we soon learned, was a trained anti-ICE agitator who was absolutely there to obstruct law enforcement. Now we're watching the same playbook unfold with 37-year-old Alex Pretti, the armed agitator shot dead by Border Patrol agents on Saturday in Minneapolis while confronting agents.
The talking points are already circulating.
Accountability is coming” to Minnesota, Attorney General Pam Bondi declared as Democrats try to shift public attention away from large-scale government fraud and towards the chaos they have created in Minneapolis. The promise comes after an ICE officer shot a person dead during a Saturday street scuffle while Democrat-allied activists were trying to disrupt a federal law enforcement action.
The shooting prompted Democrats to escalate their claims of murder by ICE and their demands that ICE leave the city amid the expanding federal investigation into what many Republicans say is statewide, migrant-enabled, Democratic-backed taxpayer fraud.
Bank of England warned to have plan for
inevitable financial chaos if alien existence
is confirmed 22 replies
inevitable financial chaos if alien existence
is confirmed 22 replies
The Bank of England was advised to create a plan for the inevitable financial chaos that will result if and when world governments disclose the existence of aliens, according to a report. Former senior financial security analyst Helen McCaw sent a letter to the UK’s central bank urging the institution to prepare for the economic impact of little green men, the Times of London reported. If such a disclosure comes from the White House, Cambridge-educated McCaw projected in her letter, the revelation send shockwaves through financial markets and the banking system — and inspire general unrest amongst Earthlings.
In just one sentence, the Minneapolis police chief tacitly endorsed violence against federal immigration officers, and made it clear why the violence continues to escalate without police interference.
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance partly blamed Minnesota authorities and police after an armed and violent protester ended up getting killed in a struggle with Border Patrol yesterday. After all, Minnesota Democrats are totally on the side of the criminal illegal aliens and rioters, and local police refuse to back up the feds. It seems Trump and Vance were even more right than we realized, based on shocking comments from Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara.
Close-up videos of the fatal Minneapolis shooting showed protester Alex Jeffrey Pretti was armed with a gun — with the agent who fired the more than a dozen shots clearly reacting to something that alarmed him amid the chaos.
It’s unclear if Pretti had drawn the weapon and was immediately disarmed, if an officer had pulled it from his clothing or if he was in the process of pulling it out when a separate federal officer was seen taking it from the 37-year-old as he was pinned to the ground.
Videos of the incident show officers shouting “he’s got a gun,”
The Countdown to Iran’s Liberation Has Begun
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In my column last week about the situation in Iran (“The Fog of Prewar in Iran”), I wrote:
Many commentators, noting Trump’s oft-proclaimed desire for “peace on earth,” believe he has paused to see if negotiations with Iran might end the slaughter. I doubt it. Trump’s desire for peace is perfectly genuine. But I note that the last time he said he wanted “peace on earth” was when he was asked whether he had any New Year’s resolutions just a couple of weeks ago. That was mere hours before he unleashed hell against the Venezuelan tyrant Nicolás Maduro, extracting him and his wife —
A federal agent’s finger was allegedly bitten off during the riots that filled the streets after a federal agent shot an armed man in Minneapolis.Breitbart News reported that DHS stated that the agent fired “defensive shots” after a man approached “U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun.”
In an X post showing a photo of a handgun recovered from the scene, DHS said the man who was shot “wanted to…massacre law enforcement.”In events that followed, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin noted that an agent’s finger was bitten off by one of the “rioters.”Breitbart News reported that Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) —
Schumer, Dems Ramp Things Up With Ugly
Move on DHS Funding Bill After Border
Patrol Shooting 13 replies
Move on DHS Funding Bill After Border
Patrol Shooting 13 replies
Democrats just seem to want to keep ramping up the anti-ICE chaos.
Now, in the wake of the Border Patrol shooting on the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday, Democrats are saying they're not going to vote for the bill that includes Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding.
We already reported that there were likely to be issues. [Tweet]
Some of the eight Democrats who voted with Republicans to end the last shutdown also came out against the bill after the shooting, including Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV).
Then Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ramped things up in a statement he released,
Demand for sex workers in Davos skyrocketed during this year’s World Economic Forum — including one client who allegedly shelled out a whopping $114,000 for four days with five women. The apparent work hard, party harder attitude of the global elite was apparent in the voracious appetite for escorts in the Swiss town, where global leaders, big tech CEOs and moneyed magnates sent requests for sex workers surging, according to the Swiss dating and erotic services platform Titt4Tat.
At this point, it needs to be said out loud: the biggest obstacle standing in the way of real change and Trump’s America First movement right now isn’t the left. It’s our own cruddy partyDems do exactly what they promise… They unapologetically vote together, fight, and fund their ideology. But Republicans campaign like fighters, rage out on X, line up for Fox News soundbites, and then govern like terrified hostages. They tell voters one thing, then very quickly do the complete opposite once cameras stop rolling.
And that’s why moments like this matter…
Rep. Tim Burchett is furious. He just admitted something every conservative voter has known
Law professor Jonathan Turley had no patience for the political theater playing out in Minnesota after the Border Patrol-involved shooting in Minneapolis. In a fiery thread on X, he blasted Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey for their reckless comments and premature condemnations.
“Gov. Walz is again inflaming the mob,” Turley said of Walz’s press conference. “He is effectively declaring this to be the murder of a citizen who had a permit to carry this weapon. He is saying that the state not the federal government will control the investigation. He does not have that authority.”
The constitutional scholar wasn’t done there.
He said, “The state can clearly have a parallel investigation