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.

I stopped at a red light behind a bus of middle schoolers from a local public school. I noticed that several kids were trying to show me a sheet of paper through the back window. I inched a little closer and saw that the sheet had handwritten words “Have a wonderful day!” and a drawing of a Christian cross.

Great country, amazing children. It is a sign of extreme psychological health that a bunch of 12-year-olds would want to do this at 7:45 in the morning on their way to school.

Russian state-owned media is reporting that U.S. Special Forces are currently trying to board and seize the Russian-flagged Iranian-linked sanctioned crude oil tanker, Marinera, in the Northern Atlantic. pic.twitter.com/ehuTFxqXFy

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) January 7, 2026

I hope our boys are very successful.

By the way, Britain refused to help us apprehend these Russian bastards. Now that my X feed has veered to the left, I’m seeing endless imprecations about how Western European countries will never trust America again. These are the same countries that have been funding the Russian war effort with their oil and gas purchases this whole time. The same countries that have been refusing to invest in their own defense because we should pay for it. The same countries that find it completely important to apprehend a Russian tanker that is violating the international law they appeal to constantly.

P.S. And then it got even more fun:

Russian warships were near the tanker when the seizure happened but took no action.

— WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@WarMonitor3) January 7, 2026

X is running some sort of an experiment on me. It removed the Ukrainian accounts from my feed and populated it with Dems. Every time I read a post, I think, “ha ha, this is a great sarcastic post.” And then I realize that the author is serious and feel sad.

I had a long dental procedure today, and when the anesthetic wore off, the pain was unpleasant. I had a full day, though, and had to be able to speak. So I did something I hate to do and took a painkiller. It had zero effect. None. Zilch.

I suffered and suffered.

In utter dismay, I bought an energy drink. And guess what? It removed the pain completely and immediately. I’m now scared of that beverage because what is it that they put into it for such an effect?

Our political life is so schizo because the proponents of free markets think everything should be a free market except for the dating market and the body-alteration market. And the believers in strict governmental control over the market exclude the dating and the body-alteration markets from this project of control. Neither side is aware of the incongruity at the heart of its belief system.

Tucker Carlson believes it’s a “distinct possibility” that the U.S. captured Maduro to *checks notes* “bring gay marriage to Venezuela.”

Yes, he’s serious. pic.twitter.com/TmrrwWYgTH

— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) January 5, 2026

It wasn’t the goal but it will be the result. There’s no way to proclaim freedom as the greatest value in existence and oppose the enshrinement of every sexual preference and permutation. Or open borders. Or transgenderism. These are all the most natural consequence of pursuing freedom above everything else.

Everything has trade-offs.

A January 2, 2026, Financial Times article reports that O-1B visas for extraordinary artistic ability are increasingly granted to influencers and OnlyFans models, using metrics like follower counts and subscribers as evidence. Approvals rose over 50% from 2014-2024

I sincerely don’t understand why online prostitutes need visas. Isn’t their whole business model that they are online? Plus, don’t we have enough of our own? What’s the point of bringing them over physically?

Is there any way this immigration system can ever be fixed?

One thing that makes my job feel a lot harder than it needs to be is my propensity to forget that there’s a procedure for everything. I keep trying to come up with solutions but that’s not necessary. All I need is to find the relevant procedure. Or a person who knows the procedure.

For example, today one faculty member demanded that I take a course away from another faculty member and give it to him. They have a conflict of some sort, and the last thing I need in my life is arbitrate between the two of them. But I don’t have to because there’s procedure.

I love the blessed procedure.

In the meantime, Zohran Mamdani’s housing advisor says that white people should lose the housing they own.

We’ll transition from treating property as an individual good to a collective good… Whites especially… will be impacted.

Far be it from me to make jokes about anybody’s appearance, so I will simply post the picture she considers to be a good portrayal of herself:

There’s a whole phenomenon of unconventionally looking, let’s put it that way, women flocking to flamboyant gay guys and becoming very subservient to them. This is one of those situations.