What’s the actual plan with this phenomenon where there are tens of thousands of people who literally overwhelm ICE’s capability of continuing their operations? The left has a million person national army of “protestors.”

Somebody game this out for me https://t.co/9UmfC39y3I

— C.Jay Engel 🌲 (@contramordor) January 9, 2026

What sense does it make that people would turn out by the million organically to support policies that impoverish them? Not much. I’ve spent 98% of my time in North America in very leftist circles. I have heard people express sincere and passionate support for all kinds of very extremist policies and ideas. But I’ve never heard anybody passionately go on about the need for more illegal immigrants.

Open borders are crucial for people who drive down labor costs by using immigrant labor. These are rich people. Are they paying for these protests?

I hate it when people attribute every protest to paid agitators. Most protests are sincere. The BLM riots were completely sincere for most participants. But these anti-ICE protests are completely different.

This is why I keep saying that somebody needs to investigate Renee Good’s history of employment. Somebody needs to find out why she moved to Minneapolis. We are wasting our time poring over video clips when there’s a set of huge, pulsating, unanswered questions.

The more such situations there are, the likelier it is that somebody gets hurt. Unless the root of the situation is extirpated, there will be more hurt civilians or police.

One person’s heaven is another’s hell:

Morning nanny has been a game changer for us.

We hired someone who comes over for two hours each morning. They empty the dishwasher, feed the pets, let the dog out, make the kid’s lunch, set up breakfast, and turn on the coffee maker.

$350 a week.

— Joe Pohlen (@joepohlen) January 7, 2026

For my sins, I will be tortured in hell by being forced to experience a morning nanny.

Truly, human variety is extraordinary. To think that there are people who willingly subject themselves to morning nanny and actually seek one out. For money. Unbelievable.

The Dean took away our office manager. I’m supposed to be upset but I’m secretly elated because it’s easier for me to do the paperwork myself than endlessly to witness and manage her complex emotional states. I feel like I’m being let out of jail early.

It’s both annoying and funny to see every leftist in the country mechanically recite the same lines about Renee Good. I’ve never seen people so into repeating identical wording infinity times.

It’s also very bizarre that they invariably refer to her as a citizen. One after another, like windup toys, they chirp “US citizen legal observer.” All of a sudden they are really into the concept of citizenship and legality. Funny people.

🇺🇸 Bro was just trying to pick up his daughter but instead encountered a whole bunch of extreme radical the deranged liberals blocking the road. pic.twitter.com/A3Mm3cgdFl

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) January 8, 2026

I know it’s an old video but I never identified with anybody more than with this guy.

The biggest societal tension is between people who think their boutique grievances make them entitled to spoil everybody’s day and people who just want to get to their kids.

I found this really excellent route home from my favorite global foods store in St Louis. You drive straight on Lindbergh Boulevard, and then – pa pam! – you are in Alton. That’s all there is to it. Drive straight for a very long time.

For a week, I’ve been telling everyone in sight, which is only two people but still, about the great new route. But then yesterday when I started driving, even though I knew to go straight, I made a turn and got into a very inconvenient route through ugly places. Because the GPS told me to turn, and I trusted it more than my own memory from a week earlier. Aesthetic considerations are alien to a GPS, and it will send you wherever the road is a couple of minutes shorter. I know this, and I should have trusted myself more.

There’s a lesson here.

The Dean unleashed another austerity surprise on me today but I was wearing very pretty shoes from Spain and didn’t care.

He looked very disoriented by how clearly I didn’t care.

That’s what happens to fellows who don’t understand shoes.

I don’t know how to say it so that it doesn’t sound callous but let’s hope that the woman shot in Minneapolis for trying to run over law enforcement is very very white. Because if not, there’ll be another George Floyd situation.

Why people, women especially, would want to go make themselves a nuisance with police is incomprehensible. Women normally are very attuned to their physical safety. Women of child-bearing age and mothers, in particular, are very avoidant of physically dangerous situations. It’s an instinct.

Very sad for the woman and also for all of us having to coexist with such madness.

I read this whole long thread about medical misogyny only to discover…

Want to talk about medical misogyny? I was due to have a hysteroscopy (v painful gynae procedure) next week with sedation. I rang with a mundane question and the staff were confused, saying no sedation is booked. After being put through to various people, I finally got an answer:

— Shambo of Luxembourg (@BradfemlyWalsh) January 7, 2026

… that this woman is in the UK and the whole debacle was caused by the austerity measures the NHS has to adopt. Of course, the problem will never be solved because the people who suffer from austerity can’t bring themselves to name the issue.

We seized the Marinera!

US confirms 'seizure' of Marinera oil tanker https://t.co/4R0QmPgO0S

— Wale Smith (@WaleSmithRsk) January 7, 2026

This is really cool.

America is finally back.