“The Alabama State Fire Marshall, Opelika Fire Department (OFD), and the Opelika Police Department (OPD) are currently investigating two separate fires that occurred on January 13 and January 19, 2026, at childcare facilities in Opelika. On January 13, 2026, at approximately 3:23 am, OFD responded to a structure fire at By His Grace Daycare and Learning Center, located at 311 South 6th Street. On January 19, 2026, just after 11:30 pm, Opelika Fire responded to the Children Palace Learning Center, located at 116 Columbus Parkway, regarding a structure fire.”

“Firefighters were able to extinguish both fires, and no injuries were reported in either incident. The initial investigation led to the discovery of glass mason jars filled with accelerant at both locations. Investigators are working to determine if the two fires are linked” says the City of Opelika, Alabama in a press release via WRBL, who report that 140 kids are without childcare due to the arsons.

Now in normal times this being merely felony-level elimination of the competition in a market by the owner of another daycare center would be the first motive that most people would look at. Thing is that Opelika is not a three-daycare center town of 2,000 or so, but a small city of 26,000 and around a dozen daycare centers, plus at least several more in neighboring Auburn, home to the famous sportsball college of the same name. The two establishments that were torched – several blocks apart – do have another one in between them, so maybe the arson cops are calling the nearby non-profit Child Care Resource Center, Inc‘s leadership in for intense rounds of questioning.

Barring that however, we’re left with the disconcerting possibility that an individual or individual(s) who vote for a certain party, are viewers of a certain propaganda network, and believe a certain specific line of bullshit about daycare centers – specifically ones dependent on public subsidies disbursed by the federal government to the states – might have decided “to take the law into their own hands” by torching the two centers that families in a seemingly middle-class-ish neighborhood depend upon. So given that context, yeah it’s worth raising. Never mind that the “empty daycare centers” of course are going to be empty at fucking 3:23 AM and 11:30 PM. The asshole was worried about getting caught throwing his mason jar molotovs, not accidentally burning anyone to death.

Security cam footage obtained by 9News showing MAGA former Mesa County, Colorado Clerk Tina Peters attempting to choke another inmate during a very brief and – despite the sarcastic headline here – not particularly violent scrap in the La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo on Sunday night.

Either way it gives lie to the portrayal of Peters by her patron, convicted felon President Trump, as a frail and innocent old lady who does not deserve to be in prison for nine years, even though her election conspiracy bullshit cost local taxpayers millions for Dominion equipment that needed to be replaced after the fucking idiot thought she was “proving” the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.

Who leaked the footage and why is unclear but it’s not terribly hard to guess given that it was preceded by this press release posted on Peters’ official website which, sur-fucking-prise, describes an altercation that has very little in common with what little is visible in the video above:

“Last night, Tina Peters was assaulted approximately 9pm MT in La Vista Correctional Facility. Tina was inside a maintenance closet to fill up a water unit when an inmate approached her in the closet and began striking her in anger. Tina raised her hands and pushed the inmate away in defense of herself. Per Tina, the camera showed her pushing the inmate away from her out of the closet. She was subsequently handcuffed, shackled, and brought to solitary confinement. Tina was told she is being charged with Felony Assault for defending herself against an unprovoked attack.”

Sources tell CNN that Convicted felon President Trump’s enforcers are expected to subpoena Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to harass him for being a Dem in a metro under violent occupation by ICE. Gov Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are also expected to be subpoenaed soon and who the hell knows what the Reich will try to get a grand jury to approve.

“The Department of Homeland Security and ICE must start talking about the murderers and other criminals that they are capturing and taking out of the system. They are saving many innocent lives!”

“There are thousands of vicious animals in Minnesota alone, which is why the crime stats are, Nationwide, the BEST EVER RECORDED! Show the Numbers, Names, and Faces of the violent criminals, and show them NOW. The people will start supporting the Patriots of ICE, instead of the highly paid troublemakers, anarchists, and agitators!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Tuesday, evidently under the impression that DHS doesn’t already overhype every single legitimately dangerous migrant they detain on top of exaggerating the threats of the non-violent ones.

And obviously panicking over the absolutely appropriate level of bad press that his regime is getting for doing shit like forcing an elderly US citizen in his underwear out on the front lawn in the freezing cold to be interrogated by ICE, who had the wrong house. Stevie Miller must getting real friggin nervous that his fat orange boss’s iron will is plainly bending under sustained, self-inflicted pressure.

The post came in the middle of a binge of extremely deranged shit like reposting @17QStorm’s yarn about Joe Biden colluding with China during the 2020 election and a screenshot of some other asshole’s tweet saying “So at what point are we going to realize the enemy is within China and Russia are the boogeymen when the real threat is the UN, NATO and this ‘religion.’ I put ‘religion’ in quotes because it’s not a religion, it’s a ☠️ cult🫨! Yeh, I went there👊,” the “religion” being Islam.

Never forget the 1/18 attack when Don Lemon’s terrorists hijacked a Minnesota church and crashed it into the MAGA media news cycle. The enemies of freedom can run but they can’t hide. Let’s roll.

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, the only Republican still serving in the chamber not named Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski to have voted to convict the demented grandpa in the White House in the second impeachment, was in the room during the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report‘s “Power Breakfast” shindig on Tuesday morning when Pelican State Congresswoman Julia Letlow stood up and announced she’ll be challenging him in the upcoming primary, according to the host outlet.

“It’s an honor to share with you, after the endorsement and encouragement from the president of the United States, Donald Trump, that I will officially be announcing my candidacy for the US Senate,” Letlow said, referencing the Orange God Emperor’s pre-endorsement of her bid and the thanks that Cassidy, a physician, gets for being a team player and being the deciding vote to put Robert F Kennedy Jr in charge of destroying US public health policy, among other capitulations of whatever principles that Cassidy maintains he still possesses. Even crueler to Cassidy is that, similarly to Bobby Brainworms, the all-but-certainly-doomed senator can thank the COVID pandemic for putting Julia Letlow in a position to make his life miserable as she won an early 2021 special election for a seat never occupied by her late husband Luke, a freshman Congressman-elect who died of the virus in December 2020 just days before he would’ve been sworn into office.

Enjoy spending your remaining years on this planet calling Julia to get her to support AstraZeneca’s newest legislation, Bill. You know the phone number for her future office, you chud.

“On 1-18-2026, at approximately 2:17 pm, Lafayette Police responded to a report of a shooting in the 1700 block of Mill Pond Lane. Officers arrived and determined that two adults had sustained injuries from the shooting. The victims were identified as Steven Meyer and Kimberly Meyer. Mr Meyer sustained an injury to his arm, and Mrs Meyer sustained an injury to her hip. Shell casings were recovered at the scene. Both individuals received medical attention and are in stable condition.”

“This remains an active and ongoing joint investigation involving the Lafayette Police Department, Indiana State Police, Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office, West Lafayette Police Department, Tippecanoe County Prosecutor’s Office, and the FBI,” said the Lafayette, Indiana Police Department in a statement on Monday following the Sunday afternoon shooting attack by an unknown assailant.

According to the New York Post, the shooter knocked and claimed he’d found the Meyers’ dog and then fired through the front door before it had even been opened. He then fled without being seen.

Not the New York Post but the Washington Post describe Judge Meyer as an elected Democrat who previously served on the Lafayette City Council before running for the bench. The 66 year-old jurist had recently announced his retirement after overseeing a number of high profile cases, including the abandonment of disabled Ukrainian orphan Natalia Grace Barnett, which made headlines nationally.

The Chinese commie regime’s self-inflicted demographic death spiral continued and even kind of accelerated in 2025, Reuters reports citing official data that is still bad even if it was faked: The total population of 1.405 billion suffered a net decline of 3.39 million on 7.92 million births – down from 9.54 million ⁠in 2024 – versus 11.31 million deaths – up from 10.93 million in 2024. Even that’s probably understating the decline since math there also seems to have excluded outmigration.

Worse yet, marriages – obviously a leading indicator of births – declined by 20 percent in 2024, the most recent year in the data, from 2023. Reuters mentions that a May 2025 easing of national law on marriage registrations, which had previously been limited to the couple’s place of residence now expanded to anywhere in the country, could increase the number of births but that sounds even lamer than the condom tax as far as ideas for picking this lock go. Another they may want to spitball is inventing time travel and warning their 1980s leadership not to impose the one-child policy.

China’s headed in the same direction as Japan, except without the considerably higher standard of living the average Japanese citizen enjoys coupled with an economy that gives Tokyo room to maneuver. The mess should also serve as a warning of where the US is headed without a serious long-term overhaul of immigration policy. And that’s of normal immigration policy, not Stephen Miller’s near-genocidal immigration policy, which he’s too chickenshit to try to legislate and codify.

Steady if moderated inflow is the only way to reliably sustain demographic and economic growth, no matter how much some fucking hick in Arkansas wants to believe that El Salvadoran farm laborers crossing the border are the reason that the price of Lunchables at Walmart went up again.

“Just watched footage of the Church Raid in Minnesota by the agitators and insurrectionists. These people are professionals! No person acts the way they act. They are highly trained to scream, rant, and rave, like lunatics, in a certain manner, just like they are doing. They are troublemakers who should be thrown in jail, or thrown out of the Country. The first to go should be Walz, and Fake Sleazebag, Ilhan Omar, who is supposedly worth over $30 Million Dollars, even though she’s never had anything but a Government job. Investigate these Corrupt Politicians, and do it now!” posted convicted felon President Trump at 1:37 AM on Tuesday amidst a rampage on his feed.

“Nobody should aspire to get the Nobel Peace Prize, it represents global leftist progressive interests, not a recognition of peace, and this is evidenced by Obama receiving it for doing absolutely nothing other than being a leftist progressive” – Top comment on TownHall.com’s Monday article “Trump’s Letter to Norway’s Prime Minister About the Nobel Prize Greenland Is… Something.”

That letter, as was widely picked up elsewhere, read “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there,” and blah blah blah bitch and whine, emphasis added on the part the commenter and his buddies took issue with.

Other than that this was a letter addressed to Norway Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store – who later said “Regarding the Nobel Peace Prize, I have repeatedly clearly explained to Trump what is well known, namely that it is an independent Nobel Committee, and not the Norwegian government, that awards the prize” – rather than a Truth Social post, the rant wasn’t anything particularly new and it’s worth raising just how closely the commenter follows the fat bastard’s statements. Far more often than you might think, Trump fans deliberately tune out the shit he says, even going out of their way to avoid it – until it’s so deranged that their propaganda sites simply can’t ignore it.

.@DAGToddBlanche: “It’s a crime — and so they will face a jury. If they’re convicted, they will go to prison… every single American should be enraged and heartbroken at what happened yesterday in that church. pic.twitter.com/o7ucPqRMTK

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 19, 2026

“In Minnesota, there is too much media attention on ICE, who have removed some of the worst murderers and criminals in the World, people let into our Country by Crooked Joe Biden’s horrendous Open Border Policy, and not enough attention paid to the staggering sums of money stolen from the State by corrupt Minnesota politicians!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Monday and lol what a fat fucking idiot. Isn’t he supposed to love “ratings” and having his loyal stormtroopers beating the shit out of people who didn’t vote for or donate to him?

It’s also like the demented old bag of shit forgot he ordered ICE to occupy Minneapolis BECAUSE OF THE FUCKING “Somalian fraud” situation. Jesus Christ what a freaking mental invalid.

“One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: ICE raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, families torn apart, attacks on our trans siblings, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent. It is time for our communities to escalate as well.”

“On January 20 at 2 PM local time, we will walk out of work, school, and commerce. We will withhold our labor, our participation, and our consent. A free America begins the moment we refuse to cooperate. This is not a request. This is a rupture. This is a protest and a promise. In the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable,” says the call to action at the Free America Walkout website.

The “local time” part is kinda… Just feels like it might reduce the sense of scale if it’s not happening nationwide all at the same time, right? Maybe there’s an argument on the other side, that doing it six times (gotta include Alaska and Hawaii) is better than one that may run during Denver’s lunch break.

Who was MLK?

A myth has been created and it has grown totally out of control

While he was alive most people disliked him, yet today he is the most honored, worshipped, even deified person of the 20th century

Today we are going to tell the truth and explain how this myth was…

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 15, 2024

On Friday a Minnesota federal judge enjoined ICE from “(a) retaliating against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity, including observing the activities of Operation Metro Surge. (b) Arresting or detaining persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity, including observing the activities of Operation Metro Surge, in retaliation for their protected conduct and absent a showing of probable cause or reasonable suspicion that the person has committed a crime or is obstructing or interfering with the activities of Covered Federal Officers. (c) Using pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity, including observing the activities of Operation Metro Surge, in retaliation for their protected conduct.”

“(d) Stopping or detaining drivers and passengers in vehicles where there is no reasonable articulable suspicion that they are forcibly obstructing or interfering with Covered Federal Agents, or otherwise violating 18 USC § 111. The act of safely following Covered Federal Agents at an appropriate distance,” after being sued for having done shit like that to locals.

And on Monday the DOJ filed a notice of appeal of that order. The appeal itself ought to be good.

Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Jerome Powell will attend Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing over convicted felon President Trump’s bid to fire Board of Governors member Lisa Cook because of that made up horseshit about her mortgage or whatever the pretext was, the AP reports.

BREAKING: DOJ Announces Intention to Charge Don Lemon under the Ku Klux Klan Act.

The KKK Act makes it illegal to threaten, hurt, or intimidate people to prevent them from exercising their God-given rights.

HARMEET DHILLON: "The Klan Act is one of the most important federal… pic.twitter.com/GWnXAMtWc9

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 19, 2026

A TIPP survey of North Carolina voters finds Dem former Governor Roy Cooper leading former RNC chair Mike Whatley 48 to 24 percent and that is not a typo. MAGA site Daily Signal literally writes that Cooper “has a commanding 48 percent to 24 percent lead, with 27 percent still undecided.”

The simplest and likeliest explanation is that the pollster left the candidates’ respective parties out of the question, leading to the result that’s probably far more skewed by Whatley’s lack of name ID than anything else. That current Dem Gov Josh Stein’s approval is at 48 percent to 22 percent disapprove and 30 percent undecided track with it in that it seems that roughly the same share of North Carolinians don’t know who leads their state nor the name of his immediate predecessor.

Yes, that’s a sad fucking statement on the electorate, lol, and one that you can be pretty confident in its general accuracy since convicted felon President Trump’s approval is at 39 percent to 53 percent disapprove in the state, similar to most national surveys these days. Yet it says even more about the kind of voter the GOP relies on to put them over the top in an extremely crucial race: Assuming the question indeed was “Who do you plan to vote for in November’s Senate election, Roy Cooper or Mike Whatley?” and not “Who do you plan to vote for in in November’s Senate election, Roy Cooper (Democrat) or Mike Whatley (Republican)?” by literally a 2:1 margin more would-be Dem voters recognized Cooper and affirmed their support for him than MAGA voters did the same for Whatley.

Had the pollster not relied on them to at least think “Wait, Cooper’s a Democrat. I definitely remember that. Okay, so I’m voting for Mike Whatley since he’s a Republican. He’s the fat Black guy who likes trans porn, right? Whatever, still better than a woke Marxist” then you’d probably see something closer to like Cooper 49 to Whatley 43 in the head-to-head. Instead (probably) thanks to slightly bad polling design we ended up getting a uniquely valuable blind taste test result.

And if this is too much speculation for you then by all means let’s hear why Cooper leads by 24.

European automakers took a beating in trading Monday over the threat of a US-EU trade war over Greenland, CNBC reports. Germany’s Volkswagen, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz Group stood between 2.5 percent to 3 percent lower, while Milan-listed shares of Ferraridipped around 2.2 percent, notching a 52-week low. Germany’s Porsche fell 3.2 percent on the simmering turmoil.