The other day some celebrity gossip site published a photo of Shatner eating cereal in his car while stopped at a traffic light. (Scandalous, I know.) In classic Shatner form, he’s running with it.

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

Previewing the new Spring '26 fashions from the Jordan Peterson Rodeo Clown Collection.

Greg Bovino was asked how he felt about his demotion today. "Well, obviously, I'm not happy", he replied. Someone in the crowd shouted back, "So which one are you?"

America is outraged after ICE killed two white people in Minneapolis. I understand why folks are feeling afraid and angry right now. But I need you to understand something just as clearly: this is what Black America has been living with for generations. open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Calling all history teachers. Consider registering for Fords Theater's "Set in Stone" professional development program this summer. I've been a part of this program as lead historian for the past decade. We focus on Civil War memory and Reconstruction. And it's free. fords.org/teaching-and...

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You and what army? No, really, Matt: if you want to deport and jail all my neighbors, you’re going to need an army. We’re in the real world now bucko. This isn’t internet land where you declare something and it becomes true. You need actual dudes. So where’s your army?

if Tom "Cava Bag" Homan is your emergency crisis comms guy, you're fucked

Other folks have already noted much of this, but I think the MAGA 'theory of victory' here is: 1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which 2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that 3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...

Cheryl Rofer accurately describes the administration's fundamental failure in Minnesota -- they don't understand their opposition. They can give orders and try brute force, but after that they're completely lost. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/esca...

Then there’s also the director of the FBI, who said explicitly that carrying a weapon to a protest is “illegal.”

Got in an argument over the weekend with someone who said the polio vaccine didn’t actually prevent polio. They said it was the elimination of DDT in the environment that did it. I set them straight, though. It was the Big Mac that cured polio. Numbers don’t lie.

More fun with unsolicited text messages.

My next big purchase.

Actual Louisville PD account. _____ Louisville received about four inches of snow, yet somehow every Honda Civic in the county has decided to reenact the Oregon Trail. Sir, your vehicle has died of… being a Honda Civic and now it’s in a ditch. A wrecker will be with you in 5 hours.

I’ve become a big fan and regular viewer of Zilla Blitz’s game channel on YouTube over the last year. Thoroughly good and decent guy, and I can only imagine how moved he is to step out of that role to post this video. Bravo!

So far, so good on the power grid in Texas. Significant outages in East Texas, that extend across northern Louisiana and other southern states. Bad enough locally, but not systemwide. Second image shows when the grid went down five years ago.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

How the mighty are fallen. I wonder if the opening act will be the comic stylings of Rob Schneider.

Saturday lunchtime concert, "Stay a Little Longer" by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, 1946. Written by Bob Wills, Tommy Duncan. youtu.be/riOJw7-MJ0w

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Tonight's historic Galveston image is the Beach Hotel covered in snow and ice in 1895. Probably get a good rate on a room that week. Rosenberg Library photo G_906-2_FF2_6.

Farley makes several important specific points here, that all reduce to one, really: what is it that Space Force actually DOES, that hadn't been done for years by the Air Force Space Command? www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/whit...

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

The administration is continually chasing the news cycle. They can claim they “ended DEI in higher education” and leave it at that, and their followers aren’t interested in the messy details.

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Whether it was Jimmy Carter going to Florida to help rebuild houses after a storm or Ted Cruz going to Florida to flee storms in his home state of Texas, leaders from both parties have dealt with storms in unusual ways.

Robert Shrimsley on the tactical mastery and substantive dumbfuckery of Nigel Farage, the Kremlin stooge in UK politics

Some breaking art historical news for you - a lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn was unveiled today at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s been missing for more than 200 years. 1/3

Annoyance time This artwork by Piotr Forkasiewicz was created for the cover of my Fairey Swordfish book from Mortons. We decided on the composition after studying all the accounts from the aircrews involved and photos of the op But whenever it is posted online, people decry it as inaccurate…

I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

Galveston-Bolivar Ferry RAY STOKER, JR. Ferries are named after former chairmen of the Texas Transportation Commission, and were painted in the school colors of their namesakes. Stoker was a Baylor grad, so painted in green and gold. Taken April 22, 2007.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

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wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

Great thread for an under-appreciated life.

My (now) weekly update on 2026 NIH funding. New and competitive renewal awards. 3 new awards (compared to ~100 expected based on recent years). No new ICs... still just NIA, NINDS, NIDCD, and NIDCR. 1/2

Non-competitive renewal awards. On a more or less normal curve but not catching up from the government shutdown-related delay. All ICs except for NIAAA and NCCIH have made some awards with NIAID having made the most at 579. 2/2

Dolphins frolicking in the Galveston Ship Channel, February 12, 2006.

#LewisCarroll died #OnThisDay in 1898. Illustrated picture books in Victorian England reached new aesthetic heights. But was it always for the benefit of the children? 🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals. What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In March 2015 I caught the container ship MAERSK KENSINGTON passing through Bolivar Roads. As I post this, MAERSK KENSINGTON is eastbound in the Atlantic, five days out from New York, for the port of Tanger Med in Morocco. Full story in ALT. #MaritimeHistory

Rep. Kimble has a point. “I worry that people will hide from ICE in the Kennedy Center. It's got plumbing and electricity and nobody goes there anymore. They could hide out for months.”

Tonight’s Big Boat Bonus is USS TEXAS earlier this evening in the fog.

“WHOSE engrams did you use to program the M-5, Daystrom?” Why, mine, of course.”