Congratulations to all the dupes who got suckered by a ludicrous moral panic and helped convert yet another social media platform into a MAGA propaganda outlet. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Opposite Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Mind-Wandering With Eyes Open and Closed https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.20.700111v1

I see.

I mean he looks the part

I do think that it is worth local and state governments taking this approach, if for no other reason than to retain legitimacy in the eyes of their citizens.

In November of 2011 I sat on a tiny LZ on FOB Rob holding two bags and chest seals with a SARC (not the army kind) and a British Captain as a LCpl from the 2 Mercians was bleeding to death from several GSW. Do not tell me who did and did not bleed in that war.

The best way of describing someone who’s all talk and no action that I’ve ever heard in the UK, by far, is “they’re all wardrobe and no Narnia.” * read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)

Iran is about to suck the media's attention oxygen out, I suspect. But the crisis in Venezuela has not been resolved. The Chavista regime continues in power, while the leaders of the democratically elected opposition are being fobbed off. This may become a low budget remake of the early 2000s.

Great-Power Condominium or Great-Power Mirage? 👇 geopolist.com/great-power-...

1- This is the emerging U.S.-aligned Middle East order in one frame: MBS, al-Sharaa, and Bilal Erdoğan—three young men converging around a Salafi-adjacent ideological core, fused with Turkish and Arab nationalism, with Israel positioned as the primary beneficiary under the Abraham Accords, and...👇

Remember the people On Here saying not to sign up for a no kings protest with your real name lol

The level of necessary sophistication of the Minnesota resistance is fascinating and impressive.

Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there. When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

"By threatening to set off a bomb in his local McDonald's, Trump was able to persuade them to sell him a Big Mac. This is The Art Of The Deal at its most sophisticated!"

Perhaps appropriately, the look of the disconnect on my heating system is mirrored by that of my soul upon realizing it was the reason the house smelled of smoke, cold air was blowing in the vents, all at 2300.

OK. Does anyone, and I mean ANYONE have a photo of any spent smoke grenade from Minnesota that is alleged to be a "hexachloroethane" smoke grenade?

I think that I’m going to have to red neck my way into getting this snowblower to start, y’all Carburetor is extremely crusty and the needles look like barnacles. Can’t find a decent rebuild kit locally so gotta… fabricate stuff.

They clearly believed that Minneapolis would riot after they killed one of us. We didn’t, we organized. We followed them, we monitored them. We alerted our neighbors. We fought them in the courts. And now they’re desperate, so they’re brutalizing us, without a hint of legitimate government purpose.

@haydonmp.bsky.social made a good point some time back. Societies *change* when you start threatening their children openly.

hahaha oh wow

It’s well established by now that Powell is well characterized by a strong sense of civic virtue and, helpfully, oppositional defiance.

Let’s talk about the 4 P’s Wrap your elderly Bring in your pipes Cover your pets Check on your plants.

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Here's a excellent Forecast Discussion from NWS Peachtree City (Atlanta): Forecaster Hernandez. Good nuance of comparing the ECMWF to the others and urging caution to wait until 00z runs tonight when they will also have added recon data. Top notch stuff here.

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Has anyone looked at the relationship between orders like these and when the president is overseas?

The fact that *both* of the churches that have made news in Minneapolis for pro-ICE links/positions have ties to the Doug Wilson-verse (which, for those keeping track, is who oversees the church Sec. Pete Hegseth now attends) feels like evidence that the universe's writers are just getting lazy.

Dysarthria is a common, albeit nonspecific finding in cerebrovascular disease. It is often trigged or worsened by stress, such as long sleep/wake periods, travel or other processes.

Remember to pay homage to your nearest squirrel today, folks. From the forests of Malabar all the way to the Arctic, they are the unsung heroes, the chattering bulwark against which the terrors of the night break.

Welcome back, Paul

The French moving a carrier strike group to the waters around Greenland and Labrador now looks like a nailed on certainty. The question is more about what naval assets the UK and Italy as Europe's other primary sea powers will contribute.

Remember? Doubtful. Perseverate? Plausible.

It is always the despised, discarded, and marginalized of the world that Christ calls closest to Him

Of course he is, and of course an ICE director is a pastor at such a ‘church’.

They got an action shot of Will Stancil

man it was WORSE. people have forgotten the era of the roving main character panopticon so fast

Q for #dementia clinicians: have you come across cases where someone has frequent bouts of hyperactivity + agitation for ~24 hours (common), BUT then basically collapses into unconsciousness that is very difficult to be woken from? History of stroke. Brainstem, sleep/wake arousal state haywire?

Rutte has quite possibly the most humiliating public facing job on the planet right now but still.

Denmark has been a stalwart ally to America. Forty-four Danish troops were killed in Afghanistan, the highest per capita death toll among coalition forces.

Al Gore the most vindicated man on the planet

Watching Davos news and I gotta say

This is an increasingly urgent dynamic in foreign affairs. American elites being totally disconnected from the *reality* of what they’re doing, and pushing on / for mechanisms that frequently don’t even exist.

guys i promised some news and here it is... I'm writing another book. Look for VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY in bookstores in late 2027/ early 2028

Fascinating how tone deaf US political elites have been towards European anger. From Newsom among Dems who failed to beat Trump berating Euro diplomacy, Schumer rattling out domestic guff to Graham and Bessent telling Euros to stop being hysterical. Just speeds up European rejection of America

Everyone in his inner circle would be insider trading trading on his death on Kalshi before turning the plane around

These people will not see heaven, and must be held accountable for their degeneracy. Traumatizing an entire generation of people is a social poison that must be cured.

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