Friday Morning Fill-in Links

by | Jan 16, 2026 | Daily Links | 218 comments

hey kids. Sloopy and Banjos are experiencing the joys of no internet so please excuse the hurried links.

Ah yes. Pollution is the problem with giant AI data centers.

Minneapolis has also been occupied by socialists and needs to be liberated.

Greenland has been occupied by socialists and needs to be liberated.

Sorry no music. I’m tired of fighting the WordPress editor on my phone.

About The Author

Brett L

Brett L

Brett set out to find America, the real America, the America of strip malls and serial killers, of butthole waxing and kelp smoothies, of cocaine and maggots. He sought it in the most American part of America—Florida: swamp gas and fever dreams, where love arrives on a rickety boat and leaves when it doesn't have the money for its fourth abortion. Oh, where has Brett gone? He’s drinking at the neck of America’s wang, chewing its foreskin and working its shaft. Brett is becoming legend. Brett can never die. Brett can never die. Brett is America, facedown in his own patriotic puke: the red his blood, the white his stomach lining, and the cold, cold blue his gas station slushie, spiked with coconut rum and tetracycline.

218 Comments

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m tired of fighting the WordPress editor on my phone.

      🤔

      I think I see the answer.

      • SDF-7

        Tiamat is just a sneaky enemy… she redirected his links.

    • PieInTheSky

      you need to do that on occasion to keep the commenter on their toes

      • Ted S.

        I don’t think the commenter is a they/them.

      • (((Jarflax

        Use UCS’ Pronouns bigot!

      • Ted S.

        UCS isn’t wearing his pronoun gloves.

    • Gdragon

      Don’t eat the anthrax cereal, buy the Anthrax cereal! Scott Ian is on the box!

  1. PieInTheSky

    Greenland has been occupied by socialists and needs to be liberated. – look just focus on Canadia and leave Greeny alone. Greeny does not belong to you. You were not vikings and shit.

    • Tonio

      “You were not vikings and shit.”

      Well, not all of us, but I’m repping for OBE.

    • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      …You were not vikings…

      The fuck we aren’t! Nearly everybody’s ancestry up here is Finnish, Danish, or Norwegian.

      • Fourscore

        You forgot the minority Latvians…

        /Hides the honey…

  2. Rat on a train

    Can someone liberate my state?

    • UnCivilServant

      Raise an army and overthrow the state government yourself.

      You don’t have to become a Rat King to do it.

      • SDF-7

        He can rouse the populace after visiting a tattoo parlor… everyone knows you need a good martial rat-a-tat-tat to get the blood flowing.

    • rhywun

      Thankfully we have 49 chances to hopefully land in a better one.

    • EvilSheldon

      Hey, on that note – any VA Glibs going to be attending Rally Day down in Richmond on Monday? We should figure out a way to meet up.

      • Ted S.

        You’re going to wind up on a list.

        Interesting how all those khaki-clad “protest” groups suddenly disappeared over the past year.

      • Tonio

        I live just outside Richmond. I’m probably not up for the rally, but could certainly meet up afterwards for early dinner. Maybe coordinate this on the Glibs forum?

      • EvilSheldon

        I’m already on a list. So many lists.

        I’ll stick a post on the forum when I have a moment.

      • Tonio

        Thanks.

  3. PieInTheSky

    Brett L is like that substitute teacher that just comes in and does the bare minimum.

    • UnCivilServant

      “Here are these worksheets. Do them, or not. I don’t care. Keep quiet so the Principal doesn’t check in and everyone goes home happy.”

      • Nephilium

        “Watch this movie and shut up.”

      • Tres Cool

        “Who wants to turn the film strip?”

    • Rat on a train

      But he was on time. I was hoping no teacher by 0815 so I can call it a day.

      • UnCivilServant

        I once had an “instructor” in college who insisted that because he was a “full professor” we should wait the whole class period for him to show up.

        I wish I had told him “You’re a full professor – you should have learned how to arrive on time to class by now.”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Did that make it onto your evaluation? Did he insist on being called “Doctor”?

      • Ted S.

        His instructor was Jill Biden?

    • PieInTheSky

      In Romanian there is an expression „sfertul academic” which translates as the academic quarter hour. It is one of those things that currently is used in the opposite of the original meaning. Originally it meant arrive 15 minutes early in order not to be late. Now people use it in the sense of its okay to be late as long as it is not moire than 15 minutes.

      • Rat on a train

        Then there is the military where a 0800 post formation means showing up at 0630 so each echelon can be sure not to be late to the next …

    • SDF-7

      I just assume the difference is in the age of the kids… Sloopy and Banjos’s are old enough they can find some time to do links…. Brett’s are too often running near the swamp and at risk of gators for him to be distracted for long.

      • (((Jarflax

        Brett’s have tamed the ‘gators and are riding them to battle because he got stuck in that recursive link.

      • Nephilium

        (((Jarflax:

        That’s why he needs to keep an eye on them. Some day, one of his boys will ride the gator to the house and challenge Brett for the head of the household role. You need to see that coming, no one wants to be blindsided by a gator.

      • SDF-7

        I assumed he’d be challenged on the back streets.

        An alley gator contest.

      • R C Dean

        Has Shpip just hacked everyone’s account?

  4. AlexinCT

    Wow, that pic of the TeeVee show on this post brings back them old days..

  5. PieInTheSky

    Minneapolis has also been occupied by socialists and needs to be liberated. – at this point would it not be easier to just nuke it from orbit? would anyone really miss it?

    • AlexinCT

      I have an ex girlfriend there that is desperately trying to get back with me, so I might not…

    • UnCivilServant

      Well, we could, but then we wouldn’t have a tarpit to drag the enemy forces into.

      • SDF-7

        Fight them in St. Paul so we don’t have to fight them here?

      • UnCivilServant

        Well yeah, they hop in their Subarus and drive from here to there, and either they get busted or I don’t have to deal with them here while they protest.

        Or did you mean the islamists who need to be [redacted]?

  6. AlexinCT

    Minneapolis has also been occupied by socialists and needs to be liberated.

    This will not stop as long as they need cover for the known massive fraud in that state by team blue not making it to the news..

    • juris imprudent

      Have some patience – the “sure, this is happening and it’s a good thing phase” is soon to be underway. The cover-up-and-find-a-distraction will be over by then.

      • AlexinCT

        I see it as a stall tactic until the uniparty can again rig the midterms and get rid of this man that has been thwarting their globalist agenda of selling us out to the marxist agenda of killing off 80% of humanity and starting a new feudal system with them as the selected elite as the new permanent aristocracy…

    • SDF-7

      Seems simpler to just ask her to shave before your next tryst.

  7. UnCivilServant

    Off Topic – I think I’ve worn out the cheap speakers I use in my car. I’m looking for recommendations for a replacement.

    It has to be less than 6 inches in the longest dimension. It has to not have a tendency to rock or roll physically (playing rock and roll is fine). The speaker(s) have to be able to sit in an indent in my dash and not self-eject when the car moves.

    It needs to take a 3.5mm audio line input. The audio source only has that as output.

    It needs to be powered by either USB or a cigarette lighter adapter. These are the power sources available in the car. Passive power from the audio signal will not be loud enough for the car.

    I’d prefer no fancy electronics – at most a built in amplifier. Don’t need bluetooth, radio, wifi, esp, satellite, tinfoil telemetry, etc.

    Since these live permanantly in a car the temperature will range from below freezing to over a hundred over the course of a year, and the speakers will have to not break instantly when subjected to these conditions.

    Ultimately, I’m asking for recommendations because otherwise it’s blindly buy something off the internet and hope it works.

    • PieInTheSky

      Buy a new car with a premium sound system. Preferably a Tesla.

      • (((Jarflax

        Driving gloves are being replaced with dueling gloves as I type this.

      • PieInTheSky

        because that causes more business for the automotive semiconductor industry which is essential in these hard times.

      • UnCivilServant

        There’s less loss if you just ask for cash directly.

    • Sean

      What happened to the speakers in the car?

      • UnCivilServant

        Left in a car 24/7/365 and used for 6-8 years?

        I mean for Chinesium, they lasted longer than expected.

      • UnCivilServant

        Or did you mean the ones the car came with? No Aux in. Can’t use them with my walkman, which carries my audiobooks.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Replace you walkman with a bluetooth device that hold audio books.

        That would be the easiest/cheapest solution.

      • UnCivilServant

        I am looking for a Wired solution.

        @Zwak – you are wrong about it being cheap or easy. Bluetooth has done nothing but fail whenever I’ve tried it. I’d have to replace more of my devices than just the speakers, and I’d have to develop a new workflow.

      • Sean

        That’s crazy talk, Zwak. CRAZY.

  8. AlexinCT

    The feds should start confiscating and selling every vehicle used to block legal law enforcement in Minnesoda. I bet you this will put a dent in the money that the clowns financing these pretend organic riots unless they start stealing or buying cars to give these Karens.

    • UnCivilServant

      I am opposed to civil asset forfeiture.

      Convict them of crimes and do criminal asset forfeiture.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Assumes Alex is a libertarian.

      • EvilSheldon

        An acquaintance of mine once asked me if I, “…considered myself a Christian.” I don’t, and I’m not, but I definitely respect the way he asked.

        Being a Christian for most people is just about assigning themselves a label. Few really believe, and fewer still really do.

        Hun. What was I talking about, again?

      • AlexinCT

        Assumes Alex is a libertarian.

        Exactly.

      • juris imprudent

        Hmm, was thinking the common theme here was libertarianish ideas. Guess not.

      • AlexinCT

        Hmm, was thinking the common theme here was libertarianish ideas. Guess not.

        Define libertarian ideas and provide details…

        /gets popcorn..

      • juris imprudent

        Don’t choke on your popcorn, but libertarians don’t trust overweening govt power, like stealing people’s property.

    • Fourscore

      Not much demand for salt rusted vehicles.

    • R C Dean

      I thought she was a lesbian.

      • Ted S.

        I thought she was bi.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Well, she is bye now.

      • juris imprudent

        I thought she was a lesbian.

        No gold star.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Well she wasn’t the one cheating on her spouse. Not a bad looking plumper though.

      • trshmnstr

        Sleeping with people you know are married is just as sleazy

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Sleazy no doubt but I wouldn’t say as sleazy. He betrayed a trust with his wife while she betrayed a stranger.

    • EvilSheldon

      Bisexual.
      Missionary with the lights on is ‘boring’.
      Psychedelic experiences.

      God damn, girl, where were you in high school when I needed you?

    • R C Dean

      I met her shortly after she was first elected Senator. Definitely a looker, although even then you could tell she would be aging out shortly.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        A bit old to shop in the juniors department.

      • Tres Cool

        “prolly would”

  9. Nephilium

    In things that make me hate current job even more, a product owner confirmed that they never considered how to support a product they designed. Which they’re still rolling out in it’s fucked up and broken state.

    • UnCivilServant

      You mean they didn’t explore the potential revenue of selling support contracts?

      • Nephilium

        Oh no. They sell support contracts, and I’m supposed to support this bullshit.

        I’ve found my red line.

      • Nephilium

        Nope.

      • juris imprudent

        All your user base belong to us!

  10. PieInTheSky

    Germany’s Chancellor Merz says it was a ‘serious strategic mistake to phase out nuclear energy’.

    https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/2011884192075038998

    In hindsight sure but how could they have known that abolishing nuclear energy was a bad idea while removing coal and importing gas from Russia…

    • R.J.

      That giant anemic egg head of his must contain no common sense at all.

    • rhywun

      lol Dumbasses.

      Someone get him to leave a message on Kathy Hochul’s answering machine, please.

      It’s still full-steam ahead with the move to unicorn farts in New York.

      • Not Adahn

        Actually she’s proposing to build 5GW of nuke power. I imagine as a way of discarding blame when tings get bad. Also, that all AI companies wanting to move into the state must provide their own power.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Well no shit Fritz.

    • R C Dean

      What exactly was the Net Zero objection to carbon-free baseline power, anyway?

      • rhywun

        Germany has been full-on anti-nukes for decades, far longer than our blue states even.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Something, something, China Syndrome, something, something.

      • UnCivilServant

        It doesn’t result in increased human suffering RADIATION!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Blah blah Fukushima. Just don’t build your reactors on the coast in an earthquake zone with emergency generators below ground level and you’re good.

      • EvilSheldon

        Radiation to the progressive is much like COVID and libertarians. They can’t see it, and don’t understand it, so they’re irrationally terrified of it.

      • The Last American Hero

        Mrs. Hero got really pissed when I called her out on this a decade ago. Note to self – just let enviro’s rant. There is no convincing them with logic. It is a religion and you will only offend their sensibilities.

      • Ted S.

        I wasn’t afraid of covid. I was afraid of what the government was going to do about the overblown threat.

  11. Tonio

    Special editor shout-out to Brett for doing the links. I’m not brave enough to attempt wrangling WP editing from a phone.

    • rhywun

      I can barely post a comment on the phone without wanting to toss the thing out a window in frustration.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        This is me, and I will look across the room and the wife is writing white papers on hers.

      • UnCivilServant

        Plug a keyboard and mouse into the USB port on the bottom of the phone – you now have vastly improved the functionality.

        Admittedly it takes me an adapter to plug two devices into the singular USB-C port, but it’s worth it.

    • R.J.

      My first year posting I did that a few times. You press a function key in WordPress, wait and sip coffee, then press the next one… Then type, then not be able to find the submit button…
      It sucks. Kudos to Brett!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Heh, he’s having almost as much fun as the dogs are.

  12. Fourscore

    I would encourage Russia/China to dump money into Greenland. It would be like a Somali Day Care Center.

    • PieInTheSky

      China probably aint that stupid

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Well, there goes five minutes and fifty brain cells.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They’re conflating unconstitutional anti 2A actions with actions against people who have committed offenses inherent in the fact that they’re here illegally. I’m not thrilled about federal power but it’s a disingenuous argument.

      • EvilSheldon

        I don’t find that argument disingenuous at all. It might not be correct according to your values.

        If we were talking about unconstitutional anti-2A actions versus actual aggression against other people or property, you would have a point. But calling illegal immigration a malum in se crime is a pretty big stretch.

      • UnCivilServant

        How is tresspassing in a land you do not have permission to be in not criminal?

      • EvilSheldon

        It’s an offense against the government. It’s not an offense against me. Like tax evasion.

      • juris imprudent

        You’re taking the anti-Bastiat position – that you don’t see the offense against you doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

      • R.J.

        It was a bit of a mess, I must agree with the others. The point was not well made.

        Also nobody is aiming for 100% compliance with immigration laws. We were at close to zero and are trying to get to even 50%.

    • R C Dean

      I get where he’s coming from. A few thoughts, though:

      The legitimacy of the law being enforced matters. Immigration laws are, IMO, a core function of government. Gun control laws are a Constitutional, if not human, rights violation.

      The notion that, if Trump wasn’t pulling out the stops to enforce immigration law, the left wouldn’t pull out the stops to enforce gun control, strikes me as naive.

      The scale of the problem also matters. We have tens of millions of illegals. I seriously doubt we have tens of millions of people violating (federal) gun control laws, although the number of convicted felons doing so is probably pretty substantial.

      • kinnath

        I think the fact that the previous administration was actively aiding and abetting the lawbreakers is relevant too.

      • EvilSheldon

        The notion that, if Trump wasn’t pulling out the stops to enforce immigration law, the left wouldn’t pull out the stops to enforce gun control, strikes me as naive.

        It’s not a matter of the desire to enforce gun or immigration laws. It’s a matter of building structures that are going to be used against you.

    • PieInTheSky

      “So the optimal compliance rate is less than 100%. What’s the right level then? It varies based on the specifics of each law and enforcement methods. The key to the decentralized American system of government is that no one entity decides unilaterally. Ultimately, the people impose their opinion — unless, of course, they can be persuaded not to.”

      This is a bit vague and can easily become I only respect whatever laws I want and that does not seem functional.

      “Apply that dynamic to the current situation. Imagine if the ATF was doing an enforcement push that was a fraction as heavy-handed as ICE’s. ” – thee two things do not seem similar to me.
      “We all know 20 people who would be zeroing their .338 Lapua by now. ” – doubtful

      “That spirit is naturally hostile to any sort of large-scale police roundup operation by any agency at any level for any reason.”

      I guess this is an argument for open borders and it depends on your position on open borders.

      • R C Dean

        “The key to the decentralized American system of government is that no one entity decides unilaterally.”

        The states are subject to the federal Constitution, and their enforcement can be limited by the federal government. I don’t think the feds are subject to state restrictions on enforcement of federal laws. Passive non-cooperation, sure, but that’s not a restriction.

      • EvilSheldon

        This is a bit vague and can easily become I only respect whatever laws I want and that does not seem functional.

        You’re describing reality here.

        I guess this is an argument for open borders and it depends on your position on open borders.

        In a practical sense, there are ways to enforce federal immigration law, without handing the adversary the tools they can use to destroy you.

      • PieInTheSky

        In a practical sense, there are ways to enforce federal immigration law, without handing the adversary the tools they can use to destroy you.

        really? Like how? Some detail would be nice.

      • juris imprudent

        Sheldon I’ll take a strong ICE if we abolish the DEA, ATF and FBI (and of course all of the laws that they enforce).

      • The Last American Hero

        If the states would comply with hold requests, ICE would have their hands full and wouldn’t be out going to homes and businesses. But they turn violent people loose, and here we go.

  13. Common Tater

    “An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent made a vile slur about Renee Nicole Good as he took a Minneapolis protester into custody, the demonstrator has claimed.

    Patty O’Keefe, 36, and a friend were taken into ICE custody Sunday for ‘impeding operations’ after they followed officers who were driving around and making arrests.

    The agents stopped in front of O’Keefe’s car, fired pepper spray through her windshield vent, smashed her windows and dragged her out of her car.

    She was hurled into a federal vehicle with three ICE agents who she alleged ‘taunted, mocked’ and called her ‘ugly’ as they drove her to the B.H. Whipple federal detention center in nearby St Paul.

    ‘On that same ride, one of the agents said: “You guys gotta stop obstructing us. That’s why that lesbian b***h is dead,” she told Heartland Signal. The identity of the ICE agent who issued the remark has not been revealed….

    She and her friend Brandon Sigüenza, who was also detained by agents, were let go by Sunday evening without charges.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15470179/ice-agent-lesbian-slur-renee-nicole-good.html

    doubt

    • Ted S.

      What if Renee Good *was*, in fact, a lesbian bitch?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Not sure about her, her spouse however looked to be a real nasty piece of work.

      • Nephilium

        I thought I had read she lost custody of some of her kids already.

    • Pope Jimbo

      She should totes submit that to Brother Keith’s new snitch line!

      On Thursday, Ellison’s office launched a page on its website where Minnesotans can report impacts to themselves or someone close to them, as well as incidents that they have personally witnessed, with the option of adding photos and videos.
       
      Impacts or incidents may include:
       
      * Violations of constitutional rights, such as racial profiling and excessive force
      * Business closures
      * Reduced health care or education access
      * Federal funding cuts, federal grant terminations, and other administrative actions by federal agencies
       
      Residents are asked not to report rumors, secondhand information that’s unverifiable, or social media posts of events they did not witness or experience.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Looks like Minnesoda has hit the Big Time. We are now a 2 snitch line state

        This online reporting form is different than the one launched by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office last week following the killing of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent.
         
        That portal serves as a place for people to submit video, photos, or any additional evidence that may support an independent investigation into Good’s killing. It was created after the FBI rescinded its cooperation agreement with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension on a federal investigation.

      • rhywun

        the FBI rescinded its cooperation agreement with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension on a federal investigation

        lol, after Minnesota refuses to cooperate with the Feds.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Color me shocked, but here is Patty O’Keefe being quoted in a different story about how terrible ICE is. I wonder how just a common woman with no axe to grind could end up providing so many quotes that the journalos need?

      Patty O’Keefe and Brandon Sigüenza of Minneapolis were detained for eight hours and later released. Sigüenza told MPR News that agents from the Department of Homeland Security asked him to provide the names of people he knows that are undocumented or the names of protest organizers in exchange for money or legal protection.
       
      O’Keefe described holding cells with 40-50 people in them and smaller cells with dozens of people. She said there was constant waling and people crying and yelling, “Let me out.”

      • Plinker762

        Were they dragging their tin cups across the cell bars too?

    • rhywun

      I don’t recall “vile slurs” being illegal but WTF do I know.

      Anything to further the nArRaTiVe I guess.

  14. Pope Jimbo

    I don’t recall any sob stories about the poor small businesses being forced to close during the Rona Lockdowns. All I read was how King Walz was saving us all by closing everything (except big box stores) down.

    Manny Gonzalez, the owner of Manny’s Tortas, has been a vendor at the market since it opened in 2006, seven years after he launched his first restaurant. Through the ups and downs of more than a quarter-century in business, Gonzalez said he’s seen his local community hold strong.
     
    The past month, though, has been very different. With the influx of federal agents flooding the Twin Cities’ streets, immigrant-owned and operated businesses across the metro are facing dire circumstances.
     
    In many places across the Twin Cities, including in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, businesses aren’t covering operating costs, even if they take the risk and stay open. The once-bustling sidewalks of the Somali and East African cultural hub now sit unnervingly calm.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Four of his employees don’t feel comfortable showing up to work anymore, Gonzalez said, leaving him with few staffing options. His sister, who typically handles the behind-the-scenes finances of the restaurant, now has to work the register.

      If govt bureaucrats were actually competent, they’d see this as an admission that Gonzalez was hiring illegal help. Then they’d audit his books for the last year. I’m going to bet that Gonzalez would have a hard time proving that he only hired people authorized to work here.

      Then I’d fine him very publicly.

    • PieInTheSky

      if it was for the Common Goo it is in poor taste to have sob stories. It had to be done.

      • UnCivilServant

        I do not support the Common Goo.

      • Pope Jimbo

        UCS:

        You gelly of the Common Goo? Is that why you won’t support it?

      • Gdragon

        Once it is out you will never be able to put it back in the Common Tube

  15. Common Tater

    “Terrified Dutch students made to live side-by-side with 125 refugees to aid their ‘integration’ were subjected to years of sexual assault and violence, an investigation has reported.

    Stek Oost, located in the Watergraafsmeer district of Amsterdam, was sold to the Netherlands as the dream solution to the housing and refugee crisis.

    A total of 125 students and 125 refugees would live alongside each other, and were even encouraged to ‘buddy up’ so the migrants would adapt to life in the Netherlands more quickly.

    But students living there told Dutch investigative documentary programme Zembla they faced multiple sexual assaults, harassment, violence, stalking and even claimed a gang rape had taken place.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15469725/Students-raped-forced-live-complex-alongside-125-refugees-aid-integration-Terrified-Dutch-youngsters-subjected-years-sex-assaults-violence.html

    This is my surprised face.

      • R.J.

        “I think he went back home”

    • Sean

      Do they not have shovels over there?

    • The Other Kevin

      That’s their culture. To complain about this is racist.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      You have to break some eggs to create a “good” society. Sorry folks, you were the eggs.

      • juris imprudent

        Cloudfare seems to be pooping on X today.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Yeah, I’m getting Cloud Flare errors for all the X links now.

        Just wait and revisit it when X is back. Worth your time.

      • The Other Kevin

        X is not available on my laptop or phone. The apocalypse has begun.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    You can’t do that

    “It’s completely unheard of,” Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor of international politics at the University of Oslo and former state secretary in the foreign affairs ministry, told public broadcaster NRK on Friday.

    She called Machado’s gesture “disrespectful” and “pathetic,” saying it undermined the value of the prize, which the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards annually.

    Raymond Johansen, a Norwegian lawmaker for the center-left Labour Party and former governing mayor of Oslo, said in a Facebook post it was “incredibly embarrassing and damaging to one of the world’s most respected and important prizes,” according to a Google translation.

    Their clown makeup is running.

    • Rat on a train

      Norway should invade to get it back.

  17. Common Tater

    “A billionaire was once forced to rename his superyacht after coming to the horrifying realization of what it spells out when placed in front of a mirror.

    Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison had just christened his new German-built yacht Izanami, blissfully unaware that reversing the name produces the phrase “I’m a Nazi.”

    The 81-year-old reportedly selected the name from Japanese mythology, after the Shinto goddess associated with both creation and death.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/01/16/us-news/larry-ellison-scrambles-to-rename-yacht-after-coming-to-horrifying-realization-about-its-name/

    LOL

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Why not just change it to the Japanese script or better yet not give a damn?

    • Pine_Tree

      A 12-year-old would notice it in 2 seconds. So the dozens (at least) of people who were closely involved in the work of funding and building the thing all knew it the whole time, and nobody got the message up the ladder. Or they did, and somebody cut it off before it got to Ellison. Which means that aide is either deliberately sabotaging their boss or is a complete idiot. Or he was told and left it on there on purpose.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Residents are asked not to report rumors, secondhand information that’s unverifiable, or social media posts of events they did not witness or experience.

    This is how you defend the rule of law.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Don’t believe your own eyes and ears. Approved sources only.

      • juris imprudent

        Also don’t believe your own memory, only what you hear today.

      • Rat on a train

        We’ve investigated the situation and are confident if we don’t look into the allegations we can dismiss them.

    • The Last American Hero

      Fake but true? These idiots want to cosplay revolutionary and screech about Hitler, but if they really believed it, they would be in hiding not getting in the face of law enforcement. Then when that turns out to have consequences, they act surprised.

    • The Other Kevin

      That audio was there when the video was initially released. I think it’s real.

      • Common Tater

        Did she really think their guns were loaded with blanks?

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Mostly peaceful

    What is unfolding in Minneapolis reflects a broader shift in how the federal government is asserting its authority during protests, relying on immigration agents and investigators to perform crowd-management roles traditionally handled by local police who often have more training in public order tactics and de-escalating large crowds.

    *guffaws, slaps knee*

    • The Other Kevin

      If only there were local police around.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, they are deliberately ordered to stay away from the riots.

        Just like last time.

        It’s almost like Frey and Walz want more violence and chaos.

  20. Evan from Evansville

    Morning! Slept in on my Friday ‘off,’ with Walmart a fading memory. I *did* however, miss out on a chance to say goodbye to Leonard from Lawn & Garden, my favorite person I’ve met in a long time, and I also intend to swing by in a few days for a last chance to swap info with Crush. I gave her my Peru Tribune business card w a note in Nov when I thought I’d found a new gig (that scam one I was wise to avoid and ask about here), but with me *really* going, it’d be a purposefully missed opportunity to not try again in some fashion, now that we’re no longer colleagues.
    (Her not being there on Thursdays means I didn’t get to do it in a more natural way, but he isn’t there Thurs, either. Thinking I’ll swing by Monday (for supplies!) and see if I can run into her. Would help if I knew where she’d be scheduled, but meh?)

    Hrm. Neurologist at 4pm (and an insurance bill to pay), and I suppose overall I’m awaiting my Jan 26 interview with IMPD and my voca rehab dude’s lead with Allied Solutions nearby. <– I hope that one has legs and I can soon meet with them.

    Oddly, during my 2+ hours of outdoor duty yesterday, -3 out, as I was picking up loads of garbage, I apparently tweaked a muscle 'round my left hip. Not day-ending, but noticeably seized up. A weekend to settle some affairs, chill my jets, and then back on the horse. Hopefully a chance to talk to MN Munch today. The friendly loan I gave her will be mentioned. Hrm.

  21. PieInTheSky

    Could be another -14C night. You Americans couldnt handle such cold. You have to be tough to live in these parts.

    • R.J.

      Heh. You are hilarious.

    • The Last American Hero

      We have 15 states that regularly endure those temperatures – 16 if you count Canada.

      • PieInTheSky

        -16 C ? Wow must be cold

    • juris imprudent

      It’s so cold in NoDak that the Glibs there can’t even get the bits to move through the internet.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    “There’s so much about what’s happening now that is not a traditional approach to immigration apprehensions,” said former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldaña.

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but “traditional” apprehensions were mostly carried out at the border, before we started allowing unauthorized immigrants to roam freely throughout the land.

    • R.J.

      There were green card raids in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Even Cheech and Chong spoofed it in a movie.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Shoot the moon!

    • The Other Kevin

      “Traditional” also included picking up an offender at the local jail. Why aren’t we doing that anymore? /eye rolls

    • The Last American Hero

      X has been filled lately with interviews of Clinton in the 90’s and Obama in his first term clearly stating that illegals had to go. If they had kids and families, that’s tragic but too bad.

      Team Red needs to be running these as campaign ads in the fall, followed by “I stand with President Obama on this issue.”

      • juris imprudent

        Wasn’t Schumer tough on the border back then too?

        Doesn’t really matter, the current thing is what matters. If the dopes can’t acknowledge reality in general, why bother with history.

      • UnCivilServant

        I knew Schumer was scum when he wouldn’t answer my question in Middle School (I was in middle school, he already held some elective office). I don’t remember the question, but I remember the snub.

    • Common Tater

      Traditionally, there was no sanctuary bullshit, and the local authorities cooperated with the feds.

  23. Common Tater

    “But from all of his rhetoric and stunts, a clear narrative emerged: People of color constitute a threat that white liberals (mostly women) are too dumb to see. Therefore they need to be bullied and physically abused until they surrender to the right-wing truth.

    As we’re seeing in Minneapolis, that view isn’t just wrong, it’s also self-contradictory. It wasn’t Latino or Black immigrants who killed Renee Nicole Good. It was a white male ICE officer named Jonathan Ross who was working for an agency claiming it’s here to “protect” white people from these imaginary threats.”

    https://www.salon.com/2026/01/16/how-kristi-noem-turned-ice-into-the-proud-boys/

    At least no one has compared ICE to Gamergate.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    There were green card raids in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Even Cheech and Chong spoofed it in a movie.

    But now they’re going house to house dragging people from their beds in the middle of the night!

    • juris imprudent

      Your house isn’t exactly a refuge when you run into it after assaulting a federal agent.

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