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Revolver

Permission granted: Go kill yourself

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00 UTC
Renee Nicole Good
© UnknownRenee Nicole Good moments before she was shot to death
Historians of the future, grilling beaver-tail paninis over their campfires, will look back in wonder and nausea at the madness of America — and other regions of Western Civ — in the raging 2020s. It will be clear by then that it was largely a female hysteria, like other departures from social sanity in the annals of the Homo sapiens, such as the outbreak of witchery in the Massachusetts Colony, 1692, the Dancing Plague of Strasbourg, 1518, and the lunacy of Meowing and Biting Nuns that spread through the convents of Europe in the 1400s.

The Lefty-left has devised what's called a "permission structure" for women to take the lead in acting-out the concocted grievances of their show-runners in the Democratic Party who, in times gone by, once had a coherent political program, but are now chiefly concerned with staying out of jail. I speak of those two orbiting moons, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and their many subalterns, such as John Podesta, Lisa Monaco, Norm Eisen, Adam Schiff. . . you know the huge cast of characters.
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Passport

DHS agent tells court REAL ID can't be used to confirm US citizenship

Anthony Kimery
BIOMETRIC UPDATE.COM
Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:30 UTC
Airport ck point
© UnknownAirport Check Point
Admission raises questions about what REAL ID was meant to accomplish after decades of implementation failures and billions in projected costs.

A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration enforcement agent told a federal court that the REAL ID-compliant driver's licenses that it certifies as meeting federal standards are unreliable for confirming U.S. citizenship.

Americans are required to obtain REAL ID to clear federal checkpoints, yet DHS now argues that the same credential may not be sufficient to quickly dispel suspicion of unlawful presence in the field.

The position is now at the center of a civil rights lawsuit brought by Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen who says he was illegally handcuffed and detained during immigration enforcement actions at private construction sites in Baldwin County, Alabama, even after agents found his Alabama REAL ID.

The lawsuit seeks targeted injunctive and declaratory relief that is aimed at stopping DHS from continuing the practices that led to Venegas' detention and clarifying the limits of immigration enforcement against U.S. citizens.

After 20 years, billions in projected costs, and a deadline that kept receding into the future, the government's position that a DHS-certified REAL ID is not sufficient to prevent an American citizen from being handcuffed and detained during an immigration raid raises the question of what, exactly, the program was built to guarantee?
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Bad Guys

Dutch mercenary recounts service with Kiev's military: 'Nazi salutes and drug cartels'


RT
Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:30 UTC
neo nazi ukraine military group
© Valentyn Ogirenko/ReutersMilitia group in Ukraine
Criminals from Latin America have reportedly built a "state" within the Ukrainian army

The Ukrainian military is plagued with abuse and corruption, with some units dominated by neo-Nazis or foreign drug cartel members, a former Dutch mercenary who fought for Kiev has said.

The retired air force serviceman, who goes by the alias Hendrik, admitted he became disillusioned with Kiev's cause after traveling to Ukraine on three occasions to fight Russia. "It's a corrupt gang there," he told De Telegraaf newspaper in an interview published on Saturday.

Comment: Mexican cartels fly 9,000 drone flights into US to surveil law enforcement operations

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Stock Down

Cea Weaver vs. The entire field of Economics

Quoth the Raven
QTR's Fringe Finance
Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:49 UTC
cea Weaver mamdani
© WABCMayor's Office to Protect Tenants executive director, Cea Weaver and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani
Printing money is the solution? Why didn't we think of that?

In 2021, Cea Weaver, now the woman chosen by Zohran Mamdani to run New York City's Office to Protect Tenants, unveiled a housing policy vision so detached from economic reality that the only academic seminar it could have emerged from would have been a slurry rant by a drunk at a bar at Newark International Airport at 3AM.

Her proposal for New York City was simple and elegant. It was also completely inane, nonsensical and catastrophically regressive: abolish meaningful ownership, convert housing into a "collective," require everyone to pay exactly 30 percent of their income for rent regardless of supply, demand, or cost, and — in her genius words — have the government "make sure everything works and cash flows."

Riveting. Why didn't we think of making everything work and having cash flow?

Comment: Here's how disconnected from reality this overgrown toddler is:

From the New York Post:
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's newly instated radical-left tenant advocate, Cea Weaver, broke down Wednesday as she dodged questions from reporters about her gentrification hypocrisy.

The 37-year-old, who has faced backlash for blasting homeownership as a "weapon of white supremacy" in the past, teared up when she emerged briefly from her apartment building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, at about 9 a.m.

Weaver, who was tapped by Mamdani to be his new director of the city Office to Protect Tenants, quickly ran back inside after she was asked about the $1.6 million home her mother owns in Nashville, Tennessee.
Bon chance, NYC. You're going to need it.

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Footprints

"The giant sucking sound": The exodus of taxpayers and businesses from California continues

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:39 UTC
gold rush poster california advertisement
© CaliSphere/Bancroft Library, UC BerkeleySailing card for the clipper ship California, depicting scenes from the California gold rush.
During the 1992 Presidential Debate, independent candidate Ross Perot famously warned that "there will be a giant sucking sound going south" due to the cheaper Mexican labor and lower regulatory demands on businesses. That sound is being heard again, but this time it is coming from California, which is virtually chasing taxpayers and companies out of the state with a massive state deficit, rising taxes, crippling regulations, and wasteful programs.

Recently, Gavin Newsom boasted, "California isn't just keeping pace with the world — we're setting the pace." Recent data shows he is right. There is a record number of U-Hauls fleeing the state — more than any other state. Indeed, the only thing harder to find than a wealthy taxpayer in California appears to be a U-Haul.

According to U-Haul's data, the state is again leading blue states in the exodus. The Washington Post noted this week that
"California came in last. Massachusetts, New York, Illinois and New Jersey rounded out the bottom five. Of the bottom 10, seven voted blue in the last election."
Conversely, "nine of the top 10 growth states voted red in the last presidential election," with Texas again leading the growth states.

Comment: California's trend to depopulation has been evident for a while now. Why the leadership doubles down on policies that will only accelerate the trend is beyond comprehension. Unless the plan is to so completely swap the native population for illegal migrants, that the state is locked in for the Democrats in perpetuity. How California can afford such a plan is a matter they don't seem to have given much thought.

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Robot

A techno-optimist becomes a grave skeptic

Roger Bate
Brownstone Intitute
Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:25 UTC
robots androids artificial intelligence
© Ole.CNX/Shutterstock
Before Covid, I would have described myself as a technological optimist. New technologies almost always arrive amid exaggerated fears. Railways were supposed to cause mental breakdowns, bicycles were thought to make women infertile or insane, and early electricity was blamed for everything from moral decay to physical collapse. Over time, these anxieties faded, societies adapted, and living standards rose. The pattern was familiar enough that artificial intelligence seemed likely to follow it: disruptive, sometimes misused, but ultimately manageable.

The Covid years unsettled that confidence — not because technology failed, but because institutions did.

Across much of the world, governments and expert bodies responded to uncertainty with unprecedented social and biomedical interventions, justified by worst-case models and enforced with remarkable certainty. Competing hypotheses were marginalized rather than debated. Emergency measures hardened into long-term policy. When evidence shifted, admissions of error were rare, and accountability rarer still. The experience exposed a deeper problem than any single policy mistake: modern institutions appear poorly equipped to manage uncertainty without overreach.

That lesson now weighs heavily on debates over artificial intelligence.
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Cowboy Hat

Catherine Herridge tells how CBS stonewalled her on the Hunter Biden laptop story, seized her files when she left

Ian Schwartz
RealClearPolitics
Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:03 UTC
catherine herridge hearing CBS censorship
© NDT.comMs. Herridge speaking at a House Judiciary Subcommittee April 11, 2024, centering on press freedom and protection, where she called the CBS move “an attack on investigative journalism.”
Former CBS News investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge discusses her tenure at the network, the internal response to her Hunter Biden laptop investigation, and her exit from CBS amid company layoffs.
CATHERINE HERRIDGE: This week on Straight to the Point, a personal message. In 2025, our team bet big on independent journalism. We believe that you were tired of talking points TV, you were tired of the stale predictable formats on Sunday, and that you were open to something new.

A recent Gallup poll reinforced our reporting. It found less than 30 percent of Americans are confident the media covers the news fully, accurately, and fairly. I experienced this myself as a CBS News Senior Investigative Correspondent assigned to the Hunter Biden probe.

After I left, I wanted to be transparent about the blocks I faced at CBS News. At that time, CBS News was under different management and did not comment. I think one of the obvious questions is why am I sitting here talking about my time at CBS News?

Comment: Catherine Herridge is a journalistic treasure. How much more we could have known about Joe, Hunter, Hillary and the rest of the 'villainous scum' if she hadn't been hamstrung by the Deep State sycophants at CBS.

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X

The Democrats last rodeo

James Howard Kunstler
www.kunstler.com
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00 UTC
Crowd fight Minnesota
© UnknownMinnesota ICE war heats up
". . .the Minnesota protests look less like a local eruption and more like the latest deployment of an international revolutionary machine."
— Insurrection Barbie on "X"
Chrump, Chrump Chrump. . . . He's come to occupy the Left's minds like an infestation of weevils chawing away the ligaments of civilized society. But, of course, the whole wicked, Cluster-B, anomie-driven, insurrectionist extravaganza is a made-for-video production bought and paid for by a tiny coterie of super-wealthy megalomaniacs untouched by consequence — George and Alex Soros (The Open Society Foundations), Shanghai-based American Neville Roy Singham (Codepink and more), Reid Hoffman (funder of Trump prosecutions and more), Lauren Powell Jobs (The Atlantic and the Emerson Collective), Hansjorg Wyss (Berger Action Fund), Bill Gates (of course). . . .

Their main client in all this mischief is the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party's chief motivation, its raison d'être going on at least ten years now, has been to hide its multifarious crimes, its vast racketeering operations now garishly on display in the state of Minnesota, where the grift just went too far and was done right in America's face.
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Handcuffs

Palestinian officials confirm Israel imprisoned over 600 children in 2025


The Cradle.co
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00 UTC
Gun ed for kids
© Abed al-Hashlamoun/EPAGun education for kids
Israel is also holding 52 Palestinian women in prisons, where torture and sexual assault are common.

The Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office reported on 9 January that it has documented more than 600 cases of Palestinian children being detained by the Israel during 2025, including a child who died in prison.

A statement issued by the media office said:
"Israel targets children with arrests, harsh interrogations, and long sentences to destroy their future, distort their consciousness, and spread fear across society. 350 children remain in Israeli prisons, including 155 who have been convicted and 90 who are being held without charge as administrative detainees."
Administrative detention lasts six months but can be renewed multiple times based on secret evidence. Some administrative detainees are held for many years.

Detained Palestinian children are held in the Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank and Megiddo prison in Israel at the northern edge of the occupied West Bank.

The media office said that Israel had detained 1,700 Palestinian children since the start of the genocide in Gaza on 7 October 2023, "with an unprecedented escalation in torture."
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Police Car

Best of the Web: ICE agent shoots female 'legal observer' dead in Minneapolis - 1 mile from where George Floyd died

Sakshi Venkatraman
BBC
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:10 UTC
police minneapolis renee good
The woman has been identified as Renee Nicole Good, 37
A US immigration agent has shot dead a 37-year-old woman in the city of Minneapolis, sparking protests overnight.

Federal officials said the woman, Renee Nicole Good, had tried to run over immigration agents with her car but the city mayor said the agent who shot her had acted recklessly.

Videos of the incident show ICE agents approaching a car which is in the middle of the street. As it attempts to drive off, one of them points his gun at the driver and at least two shots are heard. The FBI is investigating.

Hundreds of ICE agents have been deployed to Minneapolis, in the state of Minnesota, as part of the White House's crackdown on illegal immigration.


Comment: 2,000 of them in fact, the largest ICE deployment yet.

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