Thursday Afternoon Links

by | Jan 22, 2026 | Daily Links | 106 comments

FAFO REPORT, MINNESOTA CHURCH INVASION EDITION: Proving that she’s not completely worthless, AG Pam Bondi announces two arrests in connection with the invasion of Cities Church in St Paul, MN. Notice how CBS refers to them as “community leaders.” They were arrested under the FACE act which is normally used to arrest those protesting (often peacefully) too close to abortion facilities. FACE is a garbage law, but it’s good to see it used against the people who pushed hardest for it. And, a third arrest. Unfortunately, Don Lemon skates…for now.

NO, ICE DID NOT DETAIN A 5-YO: Lying sack of shit lies, gets fact-checked. But the HELIs (high-emotion, low information people) will believe her, no matter what the reality is. And five minutes after I wrote this one of the AWFLs on my social media feed reposted the lie in a predictably hysterical fashion.

VIRGINIA DEMOCRAT INTRODUCES FRAUD-ENABLING BILL: A Democratic Virginia lawmaker is backing a bill that would ban the state from verifying a nonprofit’s eligibility to provide and receive federal taxpayer benefits, a move that comes as scrutiny over the misuse of taxpayer funds continues to intensify. Things are grim here in the Old Dominion as newly-empowered Democrats prepare to turn our once-proud commonwealth into another Minnesota.

US EXITS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: Wish it were the whole UN, but I’ll take this minor victory. Doubtlessly this will be impeded by some Democrat-appointed federal judge.

DO NOT READ IF YOU SUFFER FROM HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: Another revelation about the perfidy of Anthony Fauci who will never see the inside of a jail cell.

WE’LL LET THEM IN, BUT CANADA HAS TO TAKE MINNESOTA: Canuckistanis in the province of Alberta want to join the US.

NASA ASTRONAUT SUNI WILLIAMS RETIRES: We will miss her scary, ginormous zero-g hair which she is shown using to terrify the poor Astrobee robot in the foreground.

A NEW CHILDRENS’ CRUSADE: Your long read for the day. This starts off slow but spices up near the end.

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Tonio

Tonio

Tonio is a Glibs shitposter, linkster, writer, and editor. He is also a GlibZoom personality and prankster. Tonio is a big fan of pic-a-nic baskets. His hobbies include salmon fishing, territorial displays, dumpster diving, and posing for wildlife photographers.

106 Comments

  1. Not Adahn

    It would be nice if FedGov goes all J6 on the FACErs, then everyone decides that sufficient tits have been tatted and agrees to burn down the FBI et al.

    And then I get a million dollars and a girlfriend that look like prime Jennifer Connoly.

    • Tonio

      I think tats ruin tits.

      • bacon-magic

        “The milk has gone sour” – Rick James/dave chappelle

    • juris imprudent

      They will never see themselves as equivalent to J6ers. “We’re the moral ones, they’re the evil ones”. You can’t fix that.

  2. rhywun

    one of the AWFLs on my social media feed reposted the lie in a predictably hysterical fashion

    And if I watch The Five shortly, they will show the same lie hysterically repeated at CNN, The View, and a half dozen others. Whee!

    • The Other Kevin

      “They are arresting people peacefully protesting to distract you from them kidnapping children!”

      See I can journolism!

  3. The Other Kevin

    “HELIs”
    I’ll have to start using that. I haven’t opened FB today, thanks for the warning. I would bet money that the usual 10 or 12 people are screaming about this. I’m sure my parents are having a fit. I wonder what MSNBC is telling them to think about the church protest.

    I had dinner with our friend who’s in Border Patrol. He has a knee injury, and he’s upset that he had to decline an opportunity to go to Minnesota or Chicago to arrest people. He agrees that he saw so many bad characters pouring over the border, he’d love to help arrest some of them. As far as some of the alleged abuses of ICE, he said it’s a huge organization and there will be people who do things wrong, that’s to be expected.

    • Tonio

      I’ll have to start using that.

      Thanks, and please do.

      “We came in, we sat down, we participated in the services.” Seriously, that is the line they are pushing.

      • juris imprudent

        I see, and all of those videos showing otherwise? What is your explanation for that?

      • Sensei

        People worship in different ways.

      • Nephilium

        juris imprudent:

        Are you judging the way I chose to worship?!?!

      • The Other Kevin

        JI, it’s not only videos, it’s THEIR OWN videos. They’re also all over TikTok and in interviews saying they wanted those white supremacists to be uncomfortable.

      • Shpip

        “We came in, we sat down, we participated in the services.” Seriously, that is the line they are pushing.

        Ahh, the Dylann Roof defense.

    • KSuellington

      Every time I open Facebook I get absolutely inundated with Latina tits and ass, dirt bike videos, geopolitics discussion and Dave Segura. It’s really frigging frustrating. They got me down good on the algorithm and the minutes and hours fly by.

      • Threedoor

        All I got in the last couple years I was on was weird adds.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      “I wonder what MSNBC is telling them to think about the church protest.”

      The Trumpers are denying free speech! /Msnow

  4. Rat on a train

    US EXITS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
    People will die.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Foochy lied?

    Say it ain’t so.

    • Evan from Evansville

      I’m surprised his ‘AIDS travels through hugs and toilet seats’ wasn’t used against him during COVID. His thought apples never even *fell* from the tree. Always the same, and he fuckin’ got away with it. For 40+ years.

      Such a fucking fuck. He’s a prime candidate for a Middle Ages perp walk, throwables provided to the audience. Broadcast live, intense pain isn’t the punishment. (That can come later.) Embarrassed, pathetic sobbing is my goal. That’d rally national spirits.

  6. rhywun

    FRAUD-ENABLING BILL

    And they’re not even pretending it’s anything other than that. That is some fucking chutzpah.

    • Nephilium

      You don’t want the wrong people to win, do you?

      Surprising how much it sounds the same if the wrong people are minorities or wrong thinkers.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        You don’t want people with dark skin hearts to win, do you?

    • juris imprudent

      Contrary to Tonio’s assertion that this represents something new for Virginia Democrats, it is more a return to form of the old Byrd machine.

      • robc

        Byrd was West Virginia.

      • Tonio

        I stand corrected, sir. In my defense that was a last-minute addition to the post.

      • Tonio

        There were two Byrds. Senator Robert Byrd of WV, aka The Grand Cyclops, and Governor then Senator Harry Byrd of VA.

      • robc

        Thanks, I only knew the one. And considering his goal was to move all of DC to WV, I assumed it was his machine being discussed.

      • juris imprudent

        Fun twist, Robert Byrd wasn’t born a Byrd and therefore was no relation to Harry Byrd who descended from the First Families of Virginia.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Coming not-so-soon

    After months of trademark-related rumors and a proper fake-out at the 2026 Tokyo Auto Salon, Toyota’s Gazoo Racing president Tomoya Takahashi has officially confirmed that a new mid-engine sports car is coming to the Toyota lineup. Don’t get your financing ready just yet though, as Takahashi suggested the production version is a still a long way off, according to a new report by Automotive News.

    Takahashi explained to AN that the mid-engine sports car is in the first of four engineering stages prior to mass production, a process that usually takes around four to five years. Even so, the Japanese automaker confirmed that the new sports car will pick up where the MR2 left off and head to production in the coming years. Better yet, Toyota said it is even race-testing its prototype models.

    “At the highest level, the chairman is determined to continue manufacturing internal combustion engines. And when we had this new 2.0-liter engine, we decided to mount it to a midship car,” Takahashi said to Automotive News in November on the sidelines of a race at Fuji Speedway.

    Let’s hope they can bring it in for less than $100k.

    And less than 3500 pounds.

    • Sensei

      A new crash test conforming Miata is around 2,300.

      So, sadly, at least 2k.

    • Tonio

      Nothing about tranny options in that article.

      • Sensei

        That’s trans!

        A whole generation basically can’t drive them. Every year it gets less likely for a new model to offer a manual.

        But we can dream.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Bolt on stick shift?

      • Gustave Lytton

        BMW threw in the towel on a manual mini after only a couple of model years.

  8. DEG

    The claim sets up a possible loophole allowing the federal government to deny separation, but the notion that a Native treaty supersedes provincial law is rather thin.

    So we know how this will play out.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Diseased blankets?

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      HOW… this will play out?

      RACIST!!!!!

    • Threedoor

      The tribe can be their own nation.

      They surely won’t starve to death, right?

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Building vehicles with character has been a central focus of Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda’s reign, and this public commitment to bring back a proper mid-ship sports car is further proof of his mission. Other examples of this enthusiast-focused goal include the return of the Lexus LFA, Toyota’s newly revealed GR GT, and even a mid-engine GR Yaris M Concept rally car. This fun-to-drive character is personal for Toyoda, too, as he explained how much the mid-engine format means to him at the Tokyo Auto Salon.

    “You need to have a midship to master the next stage,” Toyoda said. “And so we’ve modified the GR Yaris that I’m mostly used to driving into a midship.”

    Mid-engine WRC car? Sweet.

    Rally Monte Carlo this weekend.

  10. robc

    Canada would have to build a highway that goes up and over Alberta to keep BC connected.

    • Threedoor

      BC may as well be a Chinese territory at this point.

  11. bacon-magic

    Don Lemon is a retard and the judge that rejected the charges more than likely is retarded also. I’m beginning to think we are not dealing with communists. I think we are dealing with retards.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m beginning to think we are not dealing with communists. I think we are dealing with retards.

      Not mutually exclusive.

      • bacon-magic

        Just in the number of letters.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Lemon can claim that he was there as a journalist and therefore had a 1st Amendment right to be there.

      • Nephilium

        He can claim that all he wants. He’s wrong.

      • Ted S.

        That’s not what “freedom of the press” means.

    • R C Dean

      I saw an analysis that Lemon’s own pre and post videos provide all the evidence needed for multiple felony charges.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Lemon didn’t enter the church, did he? That’s probably what is protecting him. That, and being a gay black man in Amerikkka.

    • bacon-magic

      He did and was asked to leave but refused.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I’ve seen pictures showing him inside the church.

  13. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    I met a lot of Canuckistanis on my recent vacation. They seem to think that Alberta is just trying to negotiate more favorable terms with the national government the way Quebec has.

    • UnCivilServant

      I hope not. I want one of two outcomes

      – The free and independant Republic of Alberta
      – The State of Alberta

      • Bobarian LMD

        Northest Dakota.

  14. R.J.

    Gird your orphans, pour a drink, and put on your zipper face mask. GlibFlicks ends a week of MLK festivities with a showing of “Black Dynamite.” Tonight!

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Nephilium alert

    Cleveland is one of several cities across the region dealing with a growing winter problem. The city is running dangerously low on rock salt.

    “I’m not going to sugarcoat it. This is a problem, and it’s something that is very serious,” said Tyler Sinclair, a spokesman for the city of Cleveland.

    At least the Brownies aren’t playing.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        #Fewer

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Can’t they just go pick some up at Target?

      • rhywun

        Ten thousand 16oz cylinders of Morton ought to cover it.

    • rhywun

      And salt is another local product that the econazis who run rampant around here rant against. The one remaining train line through my town runs to the salt mines north of here that they want to shut down.

      • Threedoor

        That’s pretty cool. Large production numbers too. I crunched the numbers of tons a typical plant I work on does in a day, hard rock surface mining with a total crew of about ten, two 10 hours shifts, five days a week. About 5000 tons a day on the low end.

        I’m a little surprised the salt mine drills and shoots.

      • rhywun

        Same company that mines under Cayuga Lake here.

  16. Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

    WE’LL LET THEM IN, BUT CANADA HAS TO TAKE MINNESOTA

    WHAT!?!?!? No!

    I thought we were friends, Tonio!

    • Threedoor

      Maine. Canadstan gets Maine.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    It only fails when it’s in use

    According to documents associated with the recall, solder joints in the block heater can develop cracks that allow engine coolant to spill into the heater’s cord. As the coolant evaporates, it can leave electrically conductive salt deposits behind, which build up over time and may result in a short circuit and potentially cause a fire. According to the recall documents, the fire risk is only present while the vehicle is actively plugged in—specifically while plugged into a 110-volt outlet without a functional circuit breaker or GFCI.

    The same documents show that coolant spots on the pavement, as well as a loss of cabin heat, a low coolant level, or an overheating engine, could all serve as a prior warning to the engine block heater issue. The NHTSA also points out that damage to the block heater’s wiring could result in smoke or an odor, which would similarly serve as warnings.

    The automaker is planning to notify affected owners by mail in February with instructions to bring their vehicle to a local Ford dealership. The automaker will replace the faulty engine block heater for free with an updated version, once that becomes available, which the company expects to happen in April.

    Block heaters are a dealer option?

    • R C Dean

      The new heaters are available after winter is over?

      Perfect.

    • Threedoor

      Thanks to going to lead free solder which is not as flexible.

    • Gustave Lytton

      a 110-volt outlet without a functional circuit breaker

      If you still have a Federal Pacific or Zinsco panel, a faulty engine block heater shouldn’t be your first concern.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Actually yes, at least on the super duty engines (and maybe on these). All of the blocks are cast/machined for a heater. Non-heater blocks get an inert plug which can be removed later and the heater added.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    He did and was asked to leave but refused.

    I can’t be expected to read about these buffoons. I assumed he was instigating from a safe remove.

    • The Other Kevin

      No, he was in the middle of it. There is also video of him meeting the organizer in the parking lot and kissing her on the cheek right before the incident.

  19. Mojeaux

    I honestly don’t know if my gummint computer problem is my impatience, my wifi, their network, their computer (which, by the way, runs VERY hot, like, sanitizing dishes hot), the KVM switch, or what, but I’m running another computer that’s not mine (property of the company I’m contracting for) and it has no such problems.

    Anyway, I’ve spent more time on the phone with the help desk than I have typing and I’m just so done. I estimate I’ve made $1 an hour since I started this gig.

    And you know what? I’m sad. This is the easiest transcription I’ve ever done.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Eeek. Sorry to hear that on both fronts.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Dispassionate quest for truth

    Former special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday defended his decision to secure two criminal indictments against President Trump and asserted his team had gathered enough evidence to convict.

    Smith gave his first public testimony about his work Thursday, appearing before the House Judiciary Committee. Republican members of the panel attacked Smith’s move to collect phone records of lawmakers who had been in contact with Trump allies around the time of the Capitol riot in 2021. And they cast the historic investigations of Trump as politically motivated.

    “It was always about politics and to get President Trump, they were willing to do almost anything,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the panel’s chairman.

    “I am not a politician and I have no partisan loyalties,” Smith responded. “My office didn’t spy on anyone.”

    Neither of Smith’s cases reached a jury before Trump won the election and returned to the White House last year.

    Rooting out heretics is what we do. It’s not personal.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      “I have no partisan loyalties”

      Isn’t lying to Congress a crime?

      • R.J.

        His pants are screwed on so sideways he actually believes it is true.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    In a videotaped deposition, Smith said the president had only himself to blame, for charges he tried to overturn the will of voters in 2020.

    “The evidence here made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy,” Smith said in the deposition, which congressional Republicans released on New Year’s Eve. “These crimes were committed for his benefit.”

    Smith said the violent attack at the U.S. Capitol, which injured 140 law enforcement officers, would not have happened, except for Trump. He said he could not understand the president’s mass pardon of members of the Capitol mob on Trump’s first day in office and predicted many of them would commit new crimes in the years ahead.

    A clear case of demonic possession.

    • R.J.

      He lives in a different world. F him.

      • Gustave Lytton

        He’s a lifetime parasite of the deep state. Double fuck him.

    • Ted S.

      They’re claiming 140 cops were injured on J6 now?

      • R.J.

        Lots of papercuts filling out paperwork

      • R C Dean

        And at least a dozen executed in cold blood.

      • R.J.

        And every one of them belonged to a protected class. Murdered by white supremacists.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        They hired some guys from the Gaza Health Ministry to help with the counting.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        At least they didn’t say any were killed.

  22. Shpip

    William Kelly, one of the far-left agitators in the storming of a Christian church in St. Paul that took place on Sunday, has been arrested. This comes after left-wing activist Nekima Armstrong as well as school board member Chauntyll Allen were taken into custody on Thursday,

    Like their counterparts in DC, federal prosecutors in Minneapolis are about to see jury nullification firsthand.

    • R C Dean

      At least they finally figured out how to indict a leftist.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        This.

        It’s a step, albeit a baby one. That anyone at all was arrested is a small miracle.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Tedious and then some

    Democratic strategist David Axelrod criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for the “self-puffery” in his remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday.

    “Newsom is a whip-smart, charismatic pol. His critiques of Trump are right. But this ‘Why can’t people just be as courageous as ME?’ routine is tedious,” Axelrod said in a post on the social platform X.

    “Haven’t we seen enough self-puffery in our leaders?” he continued.

    ——-

    Axelrod’s post on Thursday came in response to another Democratic commentator, who shared the clip and added, “This is a masterclass from Newsom on Trump at Davos. He completely destroys Donald and his many failures while simultaneously uplifting California and Democratic accomplishments.”

    “Boy, I’ll tell you what. I have a completely different cut on this,” Axelrod said in his post, before elaborating on his position.

    Axelrod knows all about tiresome self-promoting blowhards. He worked for Obama.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    “No one in Davos knows who third-rate governor Newscum is or why he is frolicking around Switzerland instead of fixing the many problems he created in California,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a statement.

    That half baked pissant panhandler? Whatever you do, don’t put any money in his tin cup.

    • R.J.

      I voted for him to be that asshole. Trump does not disappoint.

      • Evan from Evansville

        “I voted for him to be that asshole. Trump does not disappoint.”

        Word. Exactly this. I didn’t vote for him cuz I live in R-safe Indiana. (Three reasons why not, but if IN were in contention I’dda been out there voting, trying to get interviewed to give the reporter a juicy, un-NOT-printable quote.)

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Newsom is there to hoover up as much coke as he can before partying with the hookers who flew in for the event.

      • R.J.

        Oh he’s there to get more money from Soros to support his glorious commie empire. I have no pleasant words to say about him.

      • rhywun

        He really is one of the worst. An utterly loathsome twat.

    • creech

      Did they serve dessert?

    • Gustave Lytton

      It’s all kabuki theatre, just as much as the munchkins of the Trump admin showing up at Davos also. Uniparty.

  25. R.J.

    I am watching “Age of Ice” on the Asylum channel. That should have been tonight’s ridiculous film.

    • Nephilium

      The girlfriend and I watched the new version of the Running Man. It was surprisingly good. As in, we both enjoyed it.

      I want to know if it was the studio or Wright who pussed out on the ending though.

      • R.J.

        My money is on “studio.”

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