I feel like there’s a quiet civil war or revolution happening in China right now.

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinas-top-general-accused-of-giving-nuclear-secrets-to-u-s-b8f59dae?st=HgEbuC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

We all know by now, right? 🙄

(Yes, some of us knew decades ago. Sorry some of us are just catching up.)

Where are the Second Amendment people?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/01/25/minneapolis-shooting-video-gun/

Looks like some of them are waking up:

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/25/gun-groups-challenge-minneapolis-shooting-pretti

After all that crap about “All the sensible people are moving from California to Texas because the liberals have raised taxes too high”:

https://fortune.com/2026/01/22/texas-leads-states-in-most-people-moving-out-census-bureau/

(Actually a pretty decent article. Hopefully not paywalled.)

I just can’t get this out of my mind.

«Before the election, France’s Europe minister said that “We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every four years.” Or as Jonathan V. Last wrote in the Bulwark yesterday, before Carney’s speech happened, “Europe must consider any pause in America’s attempt to annex Greenland as temporary and subject to renewal whenever 40,000 Wisconsinites are aggrieved about the price of eggs.”»

https://www.wonkette.com/p/canadian-pm-mark-carney-declares

The sad state of the world. No shade on you Wisconsin, but… you were the swingiest, it seems like. I used to think of you as solidly blue, but I guess you just couldn’t muster the energy this time. Will it be the same next time? Michigan? Pennsylvania?

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-18-2026

«People are wrong to say that we have no heroes left.

Just as they have always been, they are all around us, choosing to do the right thing, no matter what.»

🥹

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/17/trump-greenland-tariffs-nato.html

How are there people in this country who think this is a good move?

Also: honestly, how are there people in this country who can’t decide or don’t care?

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/01/16/civil-war-university-of-austin-bari-weiss-00729688

Interesting article on the decline of the University of Austin (UATX) from a supposedly open-minded institution of inquiry unbounded by concerns of “cancellation” into a right-wing project.

Money always talks, I guess.

1. For the rest of his life, Trump will be showing people “his” Nobel prize, and they’ll all be going, “Yeah, Donald… that’s great….”
2. There are 100+ deserving people for one awardee. How valuable is it then?

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5689193-hawley-republican-venezuela-bill/

Josh Hauley is a clown. The real issue is Tom Cotton.