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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Minnesota Guardsmen told to wear reflective vests to distinguish them from ‘other agencies'
[Task & Purpose] Minnesota National Guardsmen will wear bright reflective vests so they won’t be confused with law enforcement agencies that wear military-style camouflage.

"Members of the Minnesota National Guard are serving in support of local law enforcement agencies and are not licensed peace officers," said Army Maj. Andrea Tsuchiya, a spokeswoman for the state’s National Guard. "These vests are being used to distinguish our members from those of other agencies, due to similarFederal law enforcement agencies have been increasingly dressing in military-style garb over the years, and that can make it hard for civilians to tell the difference between the police and the military. Photos from Minneapolis show that U.S. Border Patrol and FBI agents have been wearing gear that closely resembles troops’ uniforms.

That appears to be why Minnesota National Guardsmen will wear reflective vests if activated "to help distinguish them from other agencies in similar uniforms," a Jan. 17 post on the Minnesota National Guard’s Facebook page says.

The move is not targeted at any specific agency. Rather, it is meant to make sure that people do not mistake Minnesota National Guardsmen for state or federal agents wearing camouflage uniforms, a state official told Task & Purpose. uniforms being worn."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2026 06:05 || Comments || Link || [1789 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The move is not targeted at any specific agency.

But that is exactly what it does.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2026 6:28 Comments || Top||

#2  For urban operations and winter the gray camo is appropriate. The fact that it evokes the first Donk initiated civil are is also appropriate.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/22/2026 6:39 Comments || Top||

#3  that can make it hard for civilians to tell the difference between the police and the military

Why would there be a need for distinguishment?
It would appear the NG leadership is supportive of the 'anti-everything' movement.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2026 9:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Yeah that ought to work.... /sarc
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/22/2026 9:17 Comments || Top||

#5  It identifies them as "neutral" and since they still have to live and work there when all this crap comes to an end I don't have a problem with it. As former NG, I suspect the rank & file are disgusted with what is going and hold their civilian and senior military leadership in contempt.
Posted by: Chantry || 01/22/2026 10:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Chantry you know they will be attacked by the lefty loons anyway.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/22/2026 10:25 Comments || Top||

#7  ....Hey, if ICE has any sense, they'll whip out yellow Hi-vis vests themselves. As Marxist (Grouchite faction) theory teaches us:

"First thing we do, we change all the numbers on all the rooms!"

"But sir, think of the confusion!"

"Yes, but think of the fun!"

- A Night In Casablanca (1946)



Mike

Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 01/22/2026 11:03 Comments || Top||

#8  @6 Maybe, as long as the MNG doesn't appear to be helping ICE they'll be left alone. If they decide to get violent with the MNG, I doubt they will shows as much restraint as ICE or the police have.
Posted by: Chantry || 01/22/2026 11:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Yea, ok, Greenland is it ?

Pentagon Places 1,500 Arctic-Trained Airborne Troops on Standby as Greenland Dispute Escalates
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2026 12:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Gotta say, shocked ol' young boys Walz didn't have them dress as furries.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/22/2026 12:56 Comments || Top||

#11  Actually, the vests will cover up the US ARMY Name Tape on their uniform, making it clear they are not acting as Army troops, just state employees. Hopefully, some Army JAG has a prepared activation order to federalize thenmen masse, and just have them shed the vests in a simple unit formation and march over them as they join the federal forces in any confrontation. A perfect George Wallace photo-op moment might be forthecoming!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/22/2026 13:40 Comments || Top||

#12  /\ Actually, the vests will cover up the US ARMY Name Tape on their uniform, making it clear they are not acting as Army troops, just state employees.

I have to wonder if that was the intent.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2026 13:45 Comments || Top||

#13  Can't wait for the first state checks arrive for their pay given how much of Minnesota's treasury is now in Mogadishu.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/22/2026 14:16 Comments || Top||

#14  @8 all depends on the ROE. I remember guarding areas where we had ZERO ammunition and only the NCOs did... but 5 rounds in a magazine in their ammo pouch for "emergencies". That WILL get MNG members killed.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/22/2026 14:28 Comments || Top||

#15  March them thru Atlanta the Ghettos while they're there.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2026 14:44 Comments || Top||

#16  Did GovieTimmy mandate Mork from Ork suspenders be worn with the vests?

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 01/22/2026 20:33 Comments || Top||


Barron Trump Praised for Calling Cops, Saving Woman from Alleged Attack
[Breitbart] Barron Trump was praised for calling the police in the United Kingdom after a woman reportedly FaceTimed him while she was allegedly being attacked by an ex-boyfriend.

President Donald Trump’s youngest son allegedly called "999 operators" and informed them that he had received a phone call from an unnamed girl who was "getting beaten up," Metro UK reported. The unnamed woman was reportedly being beaten up by Matvei Rumianstev, 22.

The younger Trump made the call to police in the U.K. around 2:23 a.m. on January 18, 2025, according to the outlet.

"I just got a call from a girl I know," Barron told operators. "I just got a call from a girl I know. She’s getting beaten up."

The unnamed woman told jurors that Barron "helped" save her life, adding that the "call was like a sign from God at that moment."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2026 01:09 || Comments || Link || [1761 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Usually the UK cops have the woman arrested for prostitution in these kinds of cases, like they did with those child victims of Muslim rape gangs.
Oh, wait. Rumianstev is a Russian name. Arrest the perp then!
Rumyantsev is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in Russia which signifies that it is originated from Russia. Around 37241 people have been found who wears Rumyantsev as their family name.
This is a great site for checking the names of perps and one of the other sites I use integrates it automatically and puts a little flag next to the names so you can tell. A very useful feature.

https://surnameslist.org/Rumyantsev
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 01/22/2026 4:09 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess this is saying that her calling the police locally would have not been effective immediately.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2026 5:29 Comments || Top||

#3  'Eh? I thought Barron has Secret Service protection and one or maybe two of the agents would have stepped in to help the lady in question?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 01/22/2026 6:53 Comments || Top||

#4  From the article:

When police officers arrived at the address, the unnamed woman was allegedly asked if “Rumianstev had been streaming during the alleged assault.” Officers also informed her that “someone in the US had been in touch,” according to the outlet.

How skeptical would, say Indianapolis city police be if a strange voice on the phone claimed to be Prince William’s security guard?

Posted by: trailing wife || 01/22/2026 7:15 Comments || Top||

#5  No. Petty crimes nearby are a proven technique of distracting VIP security, moreover the Secret Service has no law enforcement authority overseas. Imagine UN diplomatic security arresting Americans.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 01/22/2026 8:08 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 No. Petty crimes nearby are a proven technique of distracting VIP security

Uh huh
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2026 8:12 Comments || Top||


#8  That's what I was thinking Skid. Barron and young girl were sexting as 3am and a jealous boyfriend suiter found out.
Posted by: mossomo || 01/22/2026 14:06 Comments || Top||

#9  You mean he acted like a human being and didn't want a female hurt and acted to protect her the best he could like a normal man?

The horror.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/22/2026 14:41 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Adderall Endgame for Chess Grandmaster Naroditsky
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Daniel Naroditsky, an influential American chess grandmaster who was found dead at his North Carolina home in October at age 29, had multiple drugs in his system at the time and was killed by an abnormal heartbeat caused by an accidental overdose, according to a toxicology report.

Released Tuesday by the North Carolina Medical Examiner’s Office, the report said Naroditsky tested positive for methamphetamine and kratom, an opioid-related ingredient that is increasingly added to energy drinks, gummies and supplements.
available next to the sushi and boner pills at your local gas station
Naroditsky was last known to be alive on Oct. 18 when he accepted a food delivery. He was found dead the next day after missing a flight, according to the report.

Friends went to Naroditsky’s house two days before his death after he appeared to be acting strangely online, and they took away 40 pills of the stimulant Adderall. Investigators later also found bags of kratom in the home, according the report.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2026 05:30 || Comments || Link || [1814 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sympathy for his pain.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2026 9:17 Comments || Top||

#2  It's the "Fried Liver" attack, Danny boy, not the "Fried Brain" attack.
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/22/2026 9:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Elon Musk, Big Balls of DOGE and the rest of the Bay Area techbros are big fans of these drugs.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 01/22/2026 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  What was your choice?
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2026 10:35 Comments || Top||

#5  People who live high pressure, high pay lives can afford to experiment with all sorts of stupidly fashionable things to beat out the competition, whether at work or play. I seem to recall the tech bros getting into microdosing LSD for creativity some years ago, V1agra when it first came out, and there’s always cocaine Even oxygen shots, for some reason. As with too many things, some people end up at the stupidly fatal end of the bell curve.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/22/2026 10:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Joe Rogan swears by DMT, another Bay Area drug that is similar to LSD but is supposed to give you unworldly-like experiences. They've found chemically similar substances in ten thousand year old graves of shamans that predate the invention of agriculture. The people who take it all report contacting the consciousness of the same unknown being, including Rogan.
Me, I took acid in college but that just made you see pretty colors and made music like Pink Floyd sound incredible. Bach was an amazing experience too, like being inside a computer doing calculations, which is why Bach's music is such a favorite of mathematicians like Godel and Euler. Surrealist MC Escher who made all those impossible geometric paintings loved Bach too. His tessellations are really mathematics expressed as art.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 01/22/2026 11:57 Comments || Top||

#7  DMT is the G-d Molecule, a natural occurring molecule in every person via the pituitary gland.
Seems Egyptians may have known this as their hieroglyphic for Eye of Horus (third eye) looks an awfully lot like the pituitary gland.

It would not be true to say the same consciousness, but consciousness plural. Many consciousnesses populate that frequency (for lack of a better word). That's not to say that psychonauts may not encounter the same consciousness in their explorations and journeys.

Fractal Beings are the most common beings encountered; fractal entities with rapid, complex, and evolving geometric patterns that are in perpetual motion. The form they take: human, animal, human-animal hybrid, humanoid abstractions. Crazy weird stuff. And there's more than just Fractal Beings out there.

For me, my most remarkable journey was an outer body experience and the memory of it. As clear as any other memory I have. Except it is a memory of myself looking down on myself from above. I floated out of my self into the sky. Actually, into tree branches. I could see my bald spot, the note I wrote to myself sitting in my lap, "relax, you're just tripping", a couple branches of the tree invading my peripheral. Clear as day. So insane.

A Door to Perception
Posted by: mossomo || 01/22/2026 14:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Me, I took acid in college

So that's what happened.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2026 14:47 Comments || Top||

#9  So did pretty much everyone in the 60s. Elon Musk has tripped more often and harder than I ever did, my highest dose ever was 1 1/2 hits, which is not much. Is Elon nuts? How about Big Balls and the rest of DOGE? They were on adderall, DMT and microdoses of LSD the whole time they were wrecking USAID, auditing the Social Security department and finding 115 year old people getting paid benefits.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 01/22/2026 16:29 Comments || Top||

#10  So did pretty much everyone in the 60s.

So it’s claimed. But that’s only true in certain circles, carefully defined, not among the general American or Western population. Elon Musk is an idiot savant about life, and rich enough to indulge his idiocies, as witness his household full of his serial baby mamas. I will credit him supporting them all financially instead of dumping them on the public dole, but it is not good for either the mothers or the children for the baby daddy to withhold love and attention once he became bored and moved on. One sees the same problems in polygynous households in the Moslem world.

Joe Rogan swears by DMT

Mr. Rogan testifies that he gave up drinking at age 57. He admits to being a slow learner on the subject. He also admits to giving up Jew hate — he said that afterward he went to talk to a synagogue in Skokie, IL, and was shocked by the welcome he got there, so there’s much to admire there.

I’m glad none of you took harm from your experiences.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/22/2026 20:00 Comments || Top||

#11  The other day, someone mentioned a tv series, "The Night Manager". I've just watched the 1st episode, but I'm hooked.

Since we are on the subject of psychedelica... the title sequence is a brilliant bit of motion graphics, worthy of the label "mindblowing". Title Sequence
Posted by: SteveS || 01/22/2026 21:48 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
No White Men Need Apply
[ZERO] BLUF: For decades, the federal government has awarded certain special contracts exclusively to so-called disadvantaged businesses and women-owned small businesses. Until 2023, SBA presumed that racial minorities were "disadvantaged." The resulting discrimination was absolute: according to an analysis conducted between 2020 and 2023, these programs made not a single award to white men.

Everyone within the system knows such fraud is rampant. A 2018 government audit reviewed 25 8(a) recipient firms which together received more than $100 million. Of these, 20 "should have been removed from the . . . program" due to ineligibility.

The Trump administration has taken important steps to address these problems. Late Friday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced he was ordering a "line by line" investigation of 8(a) contracts. President Biden’s SBA sought to award 15 percent of all federal contracts to disadvantaged firms. Trump SBA administrator Kelly Loeffler has reduced the goal to the law’s actual standard of 5 percent. Her administration has also demanded financial records from 8(a) businesses to weed out fraud.

But the core problem with these programs is not fraud. It is that they systematically discriminate against one group: white men.

Instead of trying to reform 8(a), the Trump administration should abolish it. Under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, the administration would be within its rights to stop all contracting based on race and sex, even if such contracting were justified under the fig leaf of a "disadvantage" essay. The White House could also support Senator Joni Ernst’s "Stop 8(a) Contracting Fraud Act," which would pause 8(a) contracting until a thorough audit is completed, or call on Congress to end the program altogether.

When the administration says, "no DEI," it should mean it. In federal contracting, that’s also what the Constitution requires.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2026 00:58 || Comments || Link || [1817 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Having worked for a number of Disadvantaged SBA's & 8-A's in the 80's & 90's. It was clear the owners even then played the system. Not 1 of them that I worked for was, actually minority or Female owned and operated. All were run by Older White Males, using a woman as the centerpiece for the cert.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/22/2026 5:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Giving the disadvantaged firm the advantage of controlling the contract for the purposes of subcontracting while adding no value and incurring no cost.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2026 5:32 Comments || Top||

#3  /\.....adding no value and incurring no cost.

"Adding value" was never the goal. P&A (Placement and Access) was the goal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2026 5:51 Comments || Top||

#4  So many grievances with our govt. I tried for a SBA Loan to open a Five Guys. I was lifeguard right next to the original Five Guys and when I heard they were franchising, I wanted in. Had a business plan. Went to the banks to get the loan and was denied.

Probably a coincidence. I had two locations in a major city. A smaller unit and a larger unit with double the square footage. Probably a coincidence, but a Five Guys opened in my larger unit about two years later after my loan application.

I cannot tell you have frustrating it is to see how they gave out all these loans to foreigners. Like Pez candy. They are literally living my dream.
Posted by: mossomo || 01/22/2026 14:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Legit, mossomo. The thumb has been heavily on the scales against white men for a long time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/22/2026 23:14 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Possible historic storm for east USA this weekend
So much for global warming, darn it.
[WashingtonPost] Here’s a daily overview of expected conditions:

FRIDAY
Snow and ice are forecast to develop in a stretch from South Dakota to northern Texas during the day on Friday, spreading eastward from Arkansas to Alabama overnight. Accumulating snow will also hit drought-affected states such as Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, some of the snow heavy, with lesser amounts for Utah and Arizona.

SATURDAY
The storm will continue its eastward trek while worsening Saturday, reaching the Mid-Atlantic at night.

More than 100 million people will experience the storm simultaneously as it hits some of the country’s major thoroughfares.

The day’s worst weather will span from New Mexico to the Carolinas, with heavy snow and/or ice along the Interstate 40 corridor — and significant ice accretion to the south along Interstate 30 and portions of Interstate 20. Snow will probably stretch as far north as the Interstate 70 corridor, reaching northward to Interstate 80 late in the day and at night.

Travel on most roads will be dangerous along and near those routes, including numerous cities such as Amarillo, Abilene, Fort Worth and Dallas in Texas; Oklahoma City and Tulsa; Fort Smith and Little Rock in Arkansas; Springfield and St. Louis in Missouri; Carbondale and Springfield in Illinois; Evansville and Indianapolis in Indiana; Cincinnati; Paducah, Bowling Green and Louisville in Kentucky; Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga and Knoxville in Tennessee; Shreveport in Louisiana; Tupelo in Mississippi; Huntsville in Alabama; Dalton in Georgia; Greenville and Columbia in South Carolina; Asheville, Charlotte and Raleigh in North Carolina; Roanoke in Virginia; and Charleston in West Virginia.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 01/22/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1856 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Extreme snowfall buries towns in Far East Russia after worst blizzards in decades

Now, about that global warming scam.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/21/2026 12:15 Comments || Top||

#3  AlGore must be travelling
Posted by: Frank G || 01/21/2026 13:40 Comments || Top||

#4  It's snowing now. It snowed all night. Yesterday, it snowed. This is how the Ice Age begins. One day it starts snowing and it doesn't stop for 100,000 years.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/21/2026 14:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Ted Cruz ruthlessly mocked for another ill-timed voyage as terrifying winter storm heads for Texas

Loaded my diesels with Cetane, fired the generator, moved the hay under cover, put propane heaters in the barns, turned off the water and unplugged the hot tub.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2026 0:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Forecast:
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2026 1:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Maine: It's snowing now, it snowed all day yesterday, and golly gee, looks like more snow's a coming. I concur with TW's comment; where's the danged warming? It IS Maine though, so not unexpected. Non sequitur: I hope Mills et al choke.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 01/22/2026 2:42 Comments || Top||

#8 


We have been hearing Freezing Temps, Ice/Rain for several days now.
A repeat of last weekend, with this time as far south as Savannah GA. predicted with serious issues.

Well it did boost the economy here, with a lot of panic buying.

But! Weather forecast maps now show mainly rain with a slight chance of some late night near freezing temps below Atlanta for us further south.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/22/2026 6:23 Comments || Top||

#9  In South Middle Tennessee, we're supposed to get snow, then ice then snow again. Reminds me of a storm when I was in college - known thereafter as "The Day it Rained Trees"
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/22/2026 9:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Massive winter storm expected to bury much of US in snow and ice

That weather system is expected to take shape in Texas and New Mexico before moving eastward

My forecast has turned from snow to snow showers.
Freezing rain is much worse than snow and cold.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2026 9:46 Comments || Top||

#11  Connecticut. About a 1/2" last night, possibly 12"-18" Sunday into Monday. A significant storm, but not going to break any records. The extreme cold is the bigger threat.

Maryland and parts south are not used to these storms and don't have the snow removal equipment that states that get a lot of snow have.



Posted by: Chantry || 01/22/2026 10:16 Comments || Top||

#12  ^
In the past decade or so, a lot of the state and local O&M departments have purchased equipment that can convert heavy vehicles into snow removal or deicing vehicles.

Varies by State and county and local govt
Posted by: Lord Garth || 01/22/2026 12:24 Comments || Top||

#13  Generac 22kw just sits out behind the garage, purring every Saturday morning for 15 minutes as it does its automatic maintenance run. longest run so far in past 6 years is about 72 hours, but as long as the natural gas flows, I can run everything in the house seamlessly.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/22/2026 13:49 Comments || Top||

#14  /\ Thanks for that info NoMo. Three are several of those in my neighborhood.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2026 13:57 Comments || Top||

#15  ^ have had mine 6 years now.
Change plugs, air and oil filters, oil every September.
Top off the 1000 gal propane tank at summer prices.
UPS on TV and networks to cover the ATS lag.

Won't spin the heat pump.
Propane furnace and fireplace for that.

Longest run was 6 days.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2026 15:07 Comments || Top||

#16  Skid-I got the semi-annual maintenance plan from the dealer, along with the 7 year warranty. Like you, the 15 second lag before auto-start made battery power source for satellite TV and wifi-computer mandatory. Great sense of security it provides when you live on a small hilltop and get a 3 ft snowfall on un-plowed private access road.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/22/2026 17:02 Comments || Top||

#17 
Arrived here in Metro Atlanta this afternoon.
Panic buying at super mkts & Wally Worlds.
Not a parking space w/o a 200 yd walk in the rain.
Lines to tge 1/2 back in the store.
Gas prices up 40cents a gallon.
Bread shelves empty of white bread... etc etc etc..
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/22/2026 17:51 Comments || Top||

#18  Panic buying... I worked at a milk bottling plant and was amazed how people would always, always go buy extra milk. If a winter storm knocks your electricity out something perishable like milk should be the last thing you should fill your refrigerator with.
Posted by: magpie || 01/22/2026 19:04 Comments || Top||

#19  ^ That's why I go with Whiskey, Beer, and Tequila. They don't go bad.

/*Smart*
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2026 19:11 Comments || Top||

#20  Buy the necessities: alcohol, toilet paper, coffee and chocolate.
Posted by: Chantry || 01/22/2026 19:59 Comments || Top||

#21  In lieu of TP, you can always wipe your ass with your wind/solar powered neighbors' dead bodies. Look for rainbow/trans flags.

/Just saying
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2026 20:21 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Turning Point USA
I received a text from them the other day, which linked to this website announcement:
A quick chapter update...

When Charlie was assassinated, we hoped there would be a pause.

A moment of reflection.

Even just a moment of basic decency.

Of course, that didn’t happen.

Instead, the attacks from the Left kept coming.

Our students have been mocked… screamed at… had their tables flipped by raging Leftists on campus...

And some have even been called Nazis by their own professors.

All for daring to start a Turning Point USA chapter.

For example...

At Fort Lewis College in Colorado, a professor launched into a public tirade — calling conservative students “fascistic” and flipping them off after their chapter was approved.

At Barrington High School in Rhode Island, a teacher celebrated Charlie’s assassination, calling him a “piece of garbage” in a TikTok viewed by his own students.

And what happened next?

The students started chapters anyway.

They didn’t shrink back. They stood up — and they stood tall.

Just as Charlie would’ve done.

As you may already know, tens of thousands of students inquired about starting a Turning Point USA chapter after Charlie’s assassination.

And it’s been a while since we’ve sent an update — Since September alone, here’s where we stand with NEW Turning Point USA chapters on college and high school campuses:

  • 1371 college chapters

  • 2850 Club America chapters

That’s 4,221 NEW chapters.

But these students aren’t just brave — they need to be equipped.

Every new chapter receives a full activism kit from Turning Point USA, filled with everything they need to lead boldly:

✅ Pocket Constitutions
✅ American Flags
✅ Chapter Leadership Tools
✅ Organizing Guides
✅ Patriotic TPUSA Gear
Followed by a pitch for donations. It’s good to know many in Gen Z yearn for civilized discussion with reasonable people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/22/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1799 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You cannot silence a good man by killing him. It doesn’t work. Maximilian Kolbe is better known than any Nazi in Auschwitz.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2026 20:22 Comments || Top||


Economy
Upgrade: GDP Grew 4.4% in the Third Quarter, Showing No Signs of Slowdown
[Breitbart] The economy expanded at a faster pace than previously estimated in the third quarter of last year, the Department of Commerce said Thursday.

Gross domestic product, the government’s broad measure of economic performance, rose at a 4.4 percent annual pace, beating analyst estimates. The earlier estimate had the economy growing at a 4.3 percent pace in the August through September period.

This is the strongest pace of growth in two years.

The rapid pace of growth in the second and third quarters of the year defied expectations that policy uncertainty, tariffs, and the government shutdown in October would be a drag on the economy. Instead, consumer spending and business investment have buoyed the economy despite a slowdown in government spending and the government collecting hundreds of billions of dollars in tariff revenue.

Consumer spending rose at a 3.5 percent annual pace.

The numbers are adjusted for inflation. Before adjustment, the economy grew at an 8.3 percent annual pace.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2026 10:42 || Comments || Link || [1769 views] Top|| File under:


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Trump Says He Signed Executive Order to Bring Back Mental Institutions: ‘Got to Get The People Off the Streets'
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump revealed that he had signed an Executive Order to bring back mental institutions and mental asylums, stressing the importance of getting “people off the streets.”

During a press briefing on Tuesday, Trump highlighted the accomplishments of his administration.

“[I] Signed an executive order to bring back mental institutions and insane asylums,” Trump said. “We’re going to have to bring them back. Hate to build those suckers, but you’ve got to get the people off the streets.”

Trump went on to say that while growing up in Queens, New York, there was a place called “Creedmoor.”

Trump shared how he had asked his mom why there were “bars on the windows.” He shared that his mom told him, “people that are very sick are in that building.”

“I’ll never forget — I don’t know if it’s still there, because they got rid of most of them,” Trump added. “The Democrats in New York, they took them down, and the people live on the streets now. That’s why you have a lot of the people in California and other places, they live in the streets.”

In an interview with Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese in August 2025, Trump was asked if he would “be open to the government reopening insane asylums for people with serious mental illness.”

Trump responded by pointing out “states like New York and California” that had mental institutions ended up releasing people “into society because they couldn’t afford it.”

“They used to have them, and you never saw people like we had, you know, they used to have them,” Trump said. “And what happened is states like New York and California that had them, New York had a lot of them. They released them all into society because they couldn’t afford it. You know, it’s massively expensive. But we had, they were all over New York.”

Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1803 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Remember the reason these places were shutdown!
Was the many illegal uses of, and WWII prison camp type conditions in too many states, that poorly controlled and funded them.

NOTE: While Deinstitutionalization mis said to have started with JFK 62-63, and got a bump in 70's with Reagan.

It was senate bill S. 1177 was introduced by Ted Kennedy (D–MA) on May 17, 1979 and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 7, 1980. That started the real dumping on the streets.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/22/2026 5:48 Comments || Top||


#3  Well, there goes the Dem voter base.
4d chess, Trump.
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/22/2026 9:45 Comments || Top||

#4  We have institutions. Prisons after we let them kill a good productive citizen. Even then its sort of iffy.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/22/2026 13:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Trump responded by pointing out “states like New York and California” that had mental institutions ended up releasing people “into society because they couldn’t afford it.”

Newsom somehow "lost" $24 billion that was allocated for homeless programs. He cannot, or will not, say where all that money was spent but the hobos are still on the streets. California could have easily afforded mental institutions if we weren't governed by crooked morons.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/22/2026 13:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Deinstitutionalization began when Medicaid was created, and did not cover mental illness
Posted by: Regular joe || 01/22/2026 14:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Next thing you know the Somss as Lia will be opening up mental institutions.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2026 20:24 Comments || Top||


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Archaeologists uncover 3,000-year-old beer-like drinks brewed with unusual ingredients
[FoxNews] Fermented beverage evidence discovered at Bronze Age cemetery site in Gansu Province

Archaeologists recently uncovered proof of ancient fermented beverages in western China — revealing how people brewed beer-like drinks more than 3,000 years ago.

The research was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports in December.

The study centered around the Mogou site in Gansu Province, located in northwestern China near the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.

The site had long been used as a cemetery during the Bronze Age, in the late second millennium B.C. Researchers analyzed 42 vessels from four tombs and found microscopic residue showing they once held fermented liquids.

Experts conducted microfossil analyses and uncovered starch granules, phytoliths and fungi that show the "diverse range" of the diet of ancient Mogou people, per the study's abstract.

The Mogou people brewed the beverages using the "qu method," which involved preparing the fermentation starter with rice and Monascus mold, or red mold. The drinks were crafted from grains such as millet, rice, wheat and barley.

Li Liu, an East Asian Languages and Cultures professor at Stanford University and co-author of the study, said these fermented beverages were "likely similar to unfiltered beer, with a porridge-like consistency."

The drinks also had a low alcohol content and a "mildly sweet-sour flavor profile," Liu told Fox News Digital.
"A hint of apples, bananas and chickory"
"They were probably consumed fresh and did not include hops, which are used in brewing modern beer."

"Fermentation would have enhanced preservation, nutritional value and digestibility, allowing them to be consumed beyond strictly ritual contexts."

Liu added that fermented alcoholic beverages had a long history in China. They were used as mortuary offerings and in festive settings for around 10,000 years.

"At the same time, these beverages may also have functioned as everyday food resources, as fermentation would have enhanced preservation, nutritional value and digestibility, allowing them to be consumed beyond strictly ritual contexts," she added.

The most surprising aspect of the study, Liu said, was the evidence that red mold was used in the fermentation process — an unusual type of mold in the Tibetan Plateau region.

"Rice may not have been locally produced in this highland environment, and the growing of Monascus typically requires warm and humid conditions," Liu said.

"Its presence in the western highlands suggests a remarkably long-lasting and far-reaching cultural transmission of brewing knowledge."

She also said the brewing methods stayed largely the same for centuries, suggesting a well-established tradition.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1805 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You can make alcohol out of anything with sugar.
I love the "stop having fun everyone" people who always jump out and say, "DID YOU KNOW alcohol is a POISON‽" as if it's some kind of crack cocaine. Yes we know, that's why they use it to sterilize operating rooms.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 01/22/2026 4:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Like so much else, the poison is in the dose. Below that dose, alcohol has long-known health benefits.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/22/2026 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Dihydrogen monoxide also kills. As TW says its all about the dose.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/22/2026 7:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Hell, even just breathing kills.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/22/2026 9:19 Comments || Top||

#5  As of January 21, 2026, air quality in India remains poor, with major cities experiencing "unhealthy" to "very unhealthy" levels and high PM2.5 concentrations, posing serious health risks to residents, especially children and the elderly.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2026 9:33 Comments || Top||

#6  There was the time Mr. Wife did not die from breathing the air in India… amoebic dysentery manifested in the usual, enthusiastically bloody way. He’d not eaten or drunk anything yet, having gone straight from the airport to his hotel room for a nap to get over the worst of the jet lag, and only touched the escalator hand rail at the airport. The assumption was that he’d breathed in tainted dust, of which there is a great deal in that country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/22/2026 10:57 Comments || Top||

#7  TW: I contracted that in RVN. Utterly miserable.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 01/22/2026 12:09 Comments || Top||

#8  The "transgenerational effects, impacting the health of descendants" is of particular concern. Coincidence? Yes, if you believe in that sort of thing.


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  • Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2026 14:03 Comments || Top||

    #9  They keep talking about this variety of ancient beer and nobody is offering as a new craft beer. It couldn’t be worse than Zima.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2026 20:30 Comments || Top||

    #10  Utterly miserable.

    I’m glad you survived, my dear — I hope it didn’t encapsulate for you. Mr. Wife called home as they arrived to take him to the hospital, “to say goodbye, just in case,” which upset my darling mother-in-law dreadfully when she took the call. They kept him hospitalized under the care of the best tropical disease expert in India — through the hallucinations and the real giant Indian cockroaches climbing all over the walls — while his colleagues called me twice a day to lie about his condition. They admitted to the lies later, because the most important thing at the time was to keep me from getting on an airplane to go take care of him.
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