Tabs, you’re playing a game of hide and go seek …
It’s a little more than ironic that Ms. Gaga is crying bitter ICE tears over immigration enforcement back home while culturally appropriating the Japanese in Tokyo.
Of the free or Western-style countries (non-communist or autocratic), Japan would be the strictest country on… https://t.co/pE5DL9GoEb
— Duane Patterson (@Radioblogger) January 29, 2026
Of the free or Western-style countries (non-communist or autocratic), Japan would be the strictest country on Earth when it comes to enforcement of illegal immigration policies. Australia comes close, but pales in comparison. The United States has moved up the list, but is still an order of magnitude more tolerant (too tolerant, if you ask me), to those abusing the visa/entry program.
Japan’s government boasts the success of their Zero Illegal Foreign Residents Plan. If The Gagster were consistent in her emotional angst, she wouldn’t have appeared in Tokyo to perform for them and rake in that sweet, sweet money. She would have been packing heat on the streets kicking in the tail lights of Japan’s ICE vehicles in solidarity.
Ed: Is Ms. Gaga familiar with the word “gaijin”? This is a Dixie Chicks moment, with twice the arrogance and exponentially more ignorance. Even with the Trump administration enforcing immigration laws, the US is far more open to immigration and especially asylum than almost any other country, and far more tolerant of illegal entries,
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NBC News: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Wednesday that his time as an elected official will permanently end when he finishes his term as governor.
“I will never run for an elected office again. Never again,” Walz, the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, said in an interview with MS NOW. …
In explaining his decision Wednesday, Walz talked about the scenes unfolding in Minneapolis between residents and federal officers. He said he found that there are “heroes on the streets that we don’t know their names.”
“They’re never going to run for office, and those grass-tops leaders brought this administration to their knees this week to do something about it. So there’s other ways to serve, and I’ll find them,” he said.
Ed: Who asked? As far as violent obstructionists being “heroes,” I notice that neither Walz nor Jacob Frey have opted to join their ranks. We’ve seen that model of “heroism” in leadership a lot lately in other parts of the world.
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Man dressed as Batman goes on anti-ICE tirade in front of the Santa Clara City Council.
“I am disgusted by each and every one of you.” pic.twitter.com/9O8DhPMQro
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) January 29, 2026
Ed: Looks more like Bateman than Batman. And I like Bateman. This is what results from education and formation that infantilizes rather than matures, and which indoctrinates far more than it educates, What was the point of wearing a costume at all?
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Dan McLaughlin at NRO: As I’ve now noted repeatedly, Democrats are playing with some highly combustible materials in deploying the rhetoric and posture of state insurrection against federal authority. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have been the chief arsonists. Now, Walz is saying the quiet part out loud …
If Walz knew his history, he’d see clearly that he’s not Abe Lincoln in this scenario, he’s Francis Pickens, the South Carolina governor who led the first state out of the Union and precipitated the crisis by demanding that federal authorities evacuate his state. Pickens and his supporters and allies, much like Walz and Frey and theirs, cited John Brown’s raid in order to insist that they were not the ones firing the first shot. Major Robert Anderson, like Tom Homan and Greg Bovino today, was left besieged by an infuriated and radicalized state.
Ed: This is a great history lesson that goes back even further than the similarities between Walz and Southern governors like Orval Faubus and George Wallace, who were determined to defend Jim Crow and resist federal enforcement of civil rights laws and the Constitution. We didn’t get an outright civil war in the 1950s and early 1960s, but we did see plenty of political violence that cost lives.
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This. Is. Perfect pic.twitter.com/cfbmlqUuFF
— Chrissie Mayr🇺🇸 (@ChrissieMayr) January 28, 2026
Ed: I’m a fan of Chrissie’s, who I interviewed a few months ago, but I missed this initially. A good friend of mine sent it over. And yes. this is a perfect indictment indeed of the media and the rumor mills that feed into it and are fed by it. Hope you enjoy it.
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Just the News: The anti-ICE protesters who stormed a Minnesota church earlier this month “terrorized” the parishioners there, leaving children scared, blocking parents from reaching their kids, and resulting in a female worshipper breaking her arm as she fled the service, according to court filings by the Justice Department.
The DOJ said in a recently unsealed criminal complaint against three defendants that on Sunday, Jan. 18, a “group of approximately 30-40 agitators” who were “working together in a coordinated manner” descended upon Cities Church in St. Paul and “disrupted the religious service and intimidated, harassed, oppressed, and terrorized the parishioners, including young children, and caused the service to be cut short and forced parishioners to flee the church out of a side door, which resulted in one female victim falling and suffering an injury.”
Ed: I hadn’t heard the injury detail before; that would be significant evidence of the intimidation that took place, although the videos have plenty of evidence of that as well. The attorney for one of the defendants indicated that they would go with a First Amendment defense, which is not going to suffice. Both the FACE Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act make it clear that churches have First Amendment rights as well and that invading churches is not a free-speech act.
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Newly unsealed federal court orders point to massive Qatari funding shaping Carnegie Mellon’s behavior and enabling antisemitism on campus:
🔸️ A federal judge said a reasonable juror could conclude that CMU’s reliance on over $1 billion from Qatar motivated the university to… pic.twitter.com/KGzg8285hQ
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) January 29, 2026
🔸 Qatari entities helped fund the salary of CMU’s DEI and Title IX coordinator, and the university was required to consult with the Qatar Foundation before hiring her
🔸 Multiple DEI officials involved in handling antisemitism complaints had work ties to Qatar, including trips, funding, or employment connected to the Doha campus
Ed: Click through to see the other bullet points, but these are going to be difficult to defend at trial. In what universe would Qatar be considered an arbiter of anti-Semitism, unless the purpose is to promote it rather than fight it?
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Legal Insurrection: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) used a fake AI photo of the Alex Pretti shooting on the Senate floor to condemn the Trump administration’s actions in Minnesota.
I’m not kidding. …
How did anyone on his staff not notice anything? The first thing I noticed was the agent with no head! How do you miss it when you blow up the photo!?
Then again, the staff probably knows that nothing matters and anything that comes after won’t gain traction.
Ed: I’m not even sure what purpose this serves. A clean screen grab from the video would tell essentially the same story. It’s not just sloppy, it’s outright stupidity.
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The Trump administration is hosting senior defense and intelligence officials from Israel and Saudi Arabia for separate talks on Iran this week in Washington as U.S. President Donald Trump considers military strikes, sources tell Reuters.
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 29, 2026
Ed: They’re likely coordinating the post-strike defenses against Iran’s ballistic missile response. It appears that the decision has already been made to strike the regime, and with significant force.
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Free Beacon: A Harvard lecturer who writes a column for Zeteo, the anti-Israel blog of former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, is slated to speak at a conference in Qatar next month with a top Hamas official and Iran’s foreign minister, who has denied the regime’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
Diana Buttu, who teaches courses on negotiation skills and female leadership at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, is slated to appear at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha on Feb. 9 on a panel about “leveraging influence to achieve tangible change across issues intersecting with Palestine,” according to an itinerary.
The forum convenes executives from Al Jazeera, the Qatar-funded news outlet, foreign journalists, think tank scholars, and government leaders from Turkey, Somalia, and Qatar. Its marquee speakers are Khaled Meshaal, the Doha-based leader of Hamas’s operations outside of Gaza, and Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi.
Ed: Looks like Carnegie Mellon isn’t the only school that owes us some explanations about playing footsie with terror-adjacent regimes. Perhaps this will push the White House into returning to its efforts against Harvard’s anti-Semitic practices.
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Dem messaging today:
Walz publicly fantasizing about a Civil War
Krasner says hunt down federal law enforcement like Nazis.
Jeffries says a cabinet secretary needs to be “put on ice permanently.” https://t.co/dnvYo7nvvw
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) January 29, 2026
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“Come on just say the thing.” https://t.co/Q0EK9INaqW
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) January 30, 2026
Ed: They will never stop hounding her. I hope that’s giving Ms. Sweeney some key insights into both the media and the Left.
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