THIS! THIS! I VOTED FOR THIS! 100%

Posted on | January 31, 2026 | No Comments

If the Trump administration never accomplished anything else, this would be sufficient cause to call it an overwhelming success:

The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged former CNN host Don Lemon with federal civil rights crimes after he live streamed anti-ICE protesters storming a church in Minnesota.
Lemon, who was arrested on Thursday, was charged with “conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshipers during a January 18 protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul,” according to the Associated Press:

The veteran journalist is charged with conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshipers during a Jan. 18 protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul, where a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official serves as a pastor. Another journalist and two protest participants were also arrested in Minnesota.

In a post on X, CNN’s Jake Tapper posted photos of the “DOJ indictment v Don Lemon.”
“The DOJ indictment v Don Lemon et al was just unsealed,” Tapper wrote, adding that it was 12 pages.
Lemon, along with Nekima Valdez Levy-Armstrong, Chauntyll Louisa Allen, William Scott Kelly, Jamael Lydell Lundy, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Ellyse Fort, and two others were charged with two counts, according to the photos of the indictment posted by Tapper.
The defendants were charged with Conspiracy Against Right of Religious Freedom at Place of Worship, and “Injure, Intimidate, and Interfere with Exercise of Right of Religious Freedom at Place of Worship.”

Lemon’s lawyer is trying the “But Journalism” defense:

“Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done,” [defense attorney Abbe] Lowell said. “The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable.”>”Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention and resources to this case,” Lowell said, calling the arrest an “attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration.”
Lowell called Lemon’s arrest an “unprecedented attack on the First Amendment” and said the journalist “will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court.”

Everybody’s joking about the insane argument that being a journalist provides carte blanche to defy any law whatsoever.

"It's okay I'm a journalist" is my new truck-crash-into-liquor-store alibi https://t.co/Vi4hjlpeUr

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 30, 2026

In 1986, I talked my way into my first newspaper job and instantly acquired immunity from prosecution for any so-called “crime” I might be accused of committing. Being a professional journalist (just like Don Lemon) means that your laws don’t apply to me, peons!

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 30, 2026

“Sure, officer — I admit I was doing 110 mph through a school zone, but you see, I’m a journalist and that’s why we have the First Amendment, so that I can drive as fast as I want. ‘Freedom of the press,’ see?”

Category: Crime, Media Bias, Minnesota

In The Mailbox: 01.30.26

Posted on | January 31, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Britain is Becoming Irrelevant, also Self-Defense in NYC?
EBL: Why The Minneapolis ICE Pretti Shooting Was Lawful, Saint Martina of Rome, The Great Raid, and Oliver Cromwell Lay Buried and Dead
Twitchy: Are Lemon’s 1st Amendment Rights Being (Unlawfully) Squeezed? Taxpayer Funded Schools Escort Kids To ICE Protest & Gov. Abbott Wants To Know Why, and Jonathan Turley Explains Why The FBI Seizing Fulton County Ballots Is A Big Deal (Cue Democrat Panic)
Louder With Crowder: Bruce Springsteen continues his 30-year decline into irrelevancy, Rioter attempts to make the case her arrest for violating a church’s First Amendment rights is the same as slavery, Virginia’s woke gov destroys myth of the “moderate democrat” once and for all , Cosmo is back to demanding Sydney Sweeney speak out on politics, and Don Lemon gets arrested, so let’s have fun at his expense
Vox Popoli: The End of the Paperback, No Way Out, No Room for Doubt, Evo-Stream Tonight, and Bad Decisions Have Consequences
According To Hoyt: Give Them The Old Razzle Dazzle, Stone Face, By the Numbers, and Men And Chains
Cedar Sanderson: Twenty Years
Flappr: On Atrophy & Content Creation
Stoic Observations: Snake Handling In The Street, also, Two Weeks Of Tweaks

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump Calls for Arrest of Barack Obama
American Greatness: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Announces Plan Mandating Police to Dox ICE Agents, Share Intel With Agitators
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 30
Behind The Black: Russian defunct military satellite breaks up in graveyard orbit, FAA moves forward on its environmental assessment of SpaceX’s proposal to launch Starship/Superheavy from Kennedy Space Center, Orbex failure occurred partly because UK government withheld promised funding, NASA delays Artemis-2 wet dress rehearsal countdown due to weather, and Musk allegedly considering merging SpaceX with xAI and Tesla
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Don Surber: The black history not told
First Street Journal: People whose jobs are to enforce the law band together to not enforce the law
The Geller Report: Minnesota Imam Says Americans ‘See Muslims As Their Replacement, and We Are Their Replacement’, also, $30 MILLION WITH NO CLIENTS – Records Show No Clients Behind Ilhan Omar Husband’s Investment Firm
Hollywood In Toto: Shelter Finds Statham Playing His Greatest Hits, also, Controversial Comic Cancelled for Outrageous Renee Good Joke
Legal Insurrection: Trump Admin Uses Equity Stakes, New Mines to Secure Critical Minerals Supply Chain, Boston BLM Activist Fraudster Who Scammed More Than $100K Sentenced to Zero Jail Time, Trump Admin Joins Race-Based Admissions Lawsuit Against UCLA Med School, Harvard Students Receiving Fewer As After Grade Inflation is Exposed, and Don Lemon Arrested Over Minnesota Church Raid
Nebraska Energy Observer: Alberta Under Fire
Outkick: Steve Kerr Apologizes For Spreading ‘Misinformation’ Related To ICE, Fran Tarkenton Reveals How The First Week Of Super Bowl Preparation Led To Vikings Losses, Latest World Series Projections Undermine Fan Outrage Over Dodgers’ Spending, Former UCLA Star Amari Bailey Attempts Return To College Basketball After NBA And G-League Stints, and Alina Habba Shows The Ugly Hollywood Libs How To Look Hot On A Red Carpet, Don Lemon Memes & RIP To An Icon
Power Line: Dr. Oz reports, Don Lemon indicted, Land of 10,000 Frauds, The Boss visits Minneapolis, and It’s Warsh
Shark Tank: FL Revokes Nurse’s License For Refusing Anesthesia To MAGA Patients
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The President and the Press
This Ain’t Hell: Let’s talk Carrier Friday, also, Valor Friday
Victory Girls: Schumer Shutdown II Averted, ICE Funding Punted For Two Weeks
Watts Up With That: Too Fast, Too Soon? Canada’s Medically Assisted Suicide Cases Reveal Potential Coercion, Rushed Decisions, How Labour Betrayed Britain’s Working Class in the Name of Net Zero, Starmer Government Greenlights 15 Minute City Legal Enforcement, Real Environmental Crisis Is Not Climate Change, and Greenies And Democrats at Each Other’s Throats as Climate Change Talking Point Evaporates
The Federalist: Iowa GOP Should Fix K-12 Social Studies Rewrite That Pushes Open Borders, Climate Alarmism, Saint Hillary Is Here To Tell You You’re A Terrible Christian, To Cave On Mass Deportations Is To Cave On Every Other Issue, Washington Post ‘Dear Jeff’ Letter Reminds Us How Arrogant, Entitled, And Graceless The Media Are, and Investigators Can’t Find Tapes Showing Fulton County’s 2020 Ballot Count Started At Zero, Board Says
Mark Steyn: Minnesotacide

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Why Do Democrats Hate Christians?

Posted on | January 30, 2026 | No Comments

Jennifer Welch (left) and her co-host Angie Sullivan

This post is not going to be one of those “look-what-the-crazy-liberal-said” exercises, as enough such work has already been done on podcaster Jennifer Welch’s most recent outburst. Sure, I’ll quote what Welch said, but my point here is to explain why she said it. First, however, the quote supplied by The Post Millennial:

Far-left podcaster Jennifer Welch has said that “white Evangelical Christianity” is a cancer. While making the comments, she named people such as Erika Kirk and cited the Christian’s tendency to vote for Trump as a reason to oppose them and claimed Christians are not getting persecuted.
“So when you think about the Erika Kirk, the Life Church, the Joel Olsteen of it all, and their desire to accumulate wealth while hood-winking their flock into thinking they’re super moral, this is a cancer. White evangelical Christianity is a cancer. These are the worst of our country,” Welch said.
“These are the worst people in our country because they use their religion in two ways, as a weapon and as a shield. They weaponize it whenever they want to, and say, ‘We’re on the moral high ground. You’re a lesbian. You deserve to die. You’re a lesbian. The cops shouldn’t have revived you. Oh, your parents are Mexicans, and they brought you over here. Yeah, you should go to jail and eat worm food.’ And then when you call them out on it, ‘Oh, my God, they’re after the Christians. How dare they, how dare they. We’re so oppressed,'” Welch added, mocking those who are Christian.
“White Christians are so oppressed in this country, and they want it both ways, because in the religion that duplicity is taught, you can be morally duplicitous. You thrive in cognitive dissonance. And so this is just a massive, massive problem. And it should come as no surprise to anyone that of this cult that I’m talking about, white evangelicals over 80 percent went and voted triple Trumped.”

Liberal podcaster Jennifer Welch: “White Evangelical Christianity is a cancer. These are the worst people in our country.” pic.twitter.com/owZv4U7Pnx

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) January 26, 2026

It is not enough to say that this is false and insulting, but I’m not here to document the elements of slander or to stoke outrage. No, as I said, my point is to explain why Welch said this — or, more generally, why Democrats view white evangelical Christians as an enemy who deserved to be smeared this way. Notice that at the end of the quoted excerpt, Welch claims that “over 80 percent” of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump three times — 2016, 2020 and 2024. Is this true? Or to proceed directly to my conclusion: How does Jennifer Welch know this?

IT’S THE EXIT POLLS, STUPID!

An important development of the past 30 or 40 years is exit polling, which allows political strategists and others to speak with some degree of certainty about which demographic segment voted for which candidate.

Prior to exit polling — which didn’t become a ubiquitous phenomenon until the 1990s — political candidates and parties lacked specific information about the nature of their own support or that of their opponents. For example, the term “gender gap” arose after the 1980 election from the discovery that, by a net margin of eight points, more men than women had voted for Ronald Reagan. In the years afterwards, as more questions were added to exit-poll surveys, more detailed information about patterns of voter preferences became available, and it was from this that Democratic Party strategists learned that the most committed Republican voters were white evangelical Christians.

After asking the basic religion question — Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, etc. — the question was added: Do you consider yourself a born-again Christian or evangelical Christian? This result then gets cross-tabbed with the race question, to identify the “white evangelical Christian” voters as a distinct category. It is because of this that we know such voters went for Trump by 80% in 2016, 76% in 2020, and 82% in 2024. How important are white evangelicals Christians as a voting bloc? They were 23% of the electorate, according to the 2024 exit polls.

Permit me, as someone born and raised a Southern Baptist, to explain the theological basis of “born again” and “evangelical.” The phrase “born again” is taken directly from the third chapter of the Gospel of John, with Jesus answering the Pharisee leader Nicodemus. The phrase also appears in I Peter 1:23, and the concept is also referenced in the sixth chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Repentance, baptism — death to the old sinful man, “born again” to a new and eternal life. This is just basic belief in every church I’ve ever attended, including the so-called “charismatic” services I visited with my childhood friend Phil Underwood, who is, like his father before him, a Church of God preacher. As for the phrase “evangelical,” this refers to preaching the Gospel to the uncoverted, in accordance with “the Great Commission” (Matthew 28:18-20): “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” And it is this zeal to make converts, by preaching the need for repentance, which makes the members of certain denominations and congregations identifiable as “evangelical” or “born-again” Christians, in distinction from those who for whatever reason think the Great Commission has expired.

There is a deep irony in the Democratic Party’s demonization of “white evangelical Christians” because, of course, the whole reason this phenomenon gained national attention in the first place was that, in 1976, a Georgia Baptist named Jimmy Carter ran for president and made his “born again” faith front-and-center in his campaign.

When it helped Democrats win an election — and Carter just barely beat Gerald Ford in 1976 — being “born again” was good. But when they identified it as a cause of Republicans winning elections, Democrats decided that, in the words of Jennifer Welch, “White evangelical Christianity is a cancer. . . . These are the worst people in our country.”

Every Democrat nodded in agreement with that remarkable denunciation, because they’ve all seen the same exit-poll data. And I am not here to preach, dear brothers and sisters, but I feel the need to point out that it doesn’t matter whether you’re white, or whether you’re a Christian, or whether you consider yourself “born again.” You could be an atheist or a Muslim, black or Asian, gay or straight — it doesn’t matter who you are, if you vote Republican, you’re a “cancer,” according to Democrats. The only category of sin they recognize is voting Republican.

Liberalism is the only faith they have, and they will cling to it all the way to the grave and beyond. God will judge them, as He will judge us all.

Category: Democrats, Religion

In The Mailbox: 01.29.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 30, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Shocking Revelations Of @DataRepublican
EBL: Don’t take selfies with snow leopards, Shellfish, The Pretti Case Exposes a Dangerous Lie, Greg Gutfeld On Democrat Concern Trolls, and Uncle Floyd Vivino, RIP
Twitchy: Ilhan Omar Loses It When Asked Why she Didn’t Follow Foreign Substance Protocols, Patronizing Beta Male Senate Hopeful Assumes Women Are Stupid, and Woman Who Doxxed ICE Director & His Family Gets To Find Out – And She’s Big Mad
Louder With Crowder: New shocking (though not really) footage exposes Alex Pretti as NOT the innocent victim the media claims he is, Hollywood actor says some of you may need to die to fight the “revolution” against Trump enforcing immigration laws, and Tom Homan makes clear the anti-ICE Signal chat agitators will brought to justice
Vox Popoli: The End of the Church of England, THE FROZEN GENE, Karma is a Bitch, and Failed Coup in China
Cedar Sanderson: Riddles In The British Landscape
Mazelit Airaksinen: Former Hostage’s Father To Teach Jewish Studies At Columbia
Jim McCoy: EngineMasters – Retribution

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Forgotten Casualties in Trump’s Wars, also, Will Ted Cruz Go Anti-Trump in 2028?
American Greatness: SCAM Act Introduced to Revoke Citizenship of Migrants Who Commit Fraud, Serious Felonies, The Green Robotic ‘Utopia’ is Here, President Trump Promises: ‘We’re Not Making Any Payments to Sanctuary Cities’ Starting Feb 1, and Slouching Towards Fort Sumter?
BattleSwarm: Texas Immigration Security Update For January 28, also, Democrat Talarico Says Billionaires Are Evil, Except When They’re Giving Me Money
Behind The Black: Varda capsule successfully returns to Earth after nine weeks in orbit, Pluto’s mountains of ice surrounded by a sea of frozen nitrogen, SpaceX launches 25 more Starlink satellites, New ground-based space antenna startup raises $100 million and wins $50 million Space Force contract, and Artemis-2 proves NASA learned nothing from the Challenger and Columbia failures
Cafe Hayek: A Mysterious Arithmetic
CDR Salamander: Tenders…MOAR Tenders
Da Tech Guy: A Short Open Letter to Healthcare Companies & Medical Schools who Don’t Want to be Sued out of Existence
Dana Loesch: More Developments In The Pretti Story,
Don Surber: Marco Rides Into The Senate
First Street Journal: Philly Dems say “Illegal immigrants are above the law!”
Gates Of Vienna: Hamas-Lovers Cause Trouble in Milan and Bologna, also, The Dialectics of the Imposed Narrative
The Geller Report: TRUMP STEEL: US Steel Production Surpasses Japan for First Time Since 1999 As a Result of Tariffs, Apple Cider Vinegar Sprayed At Ilhan Omar Appears to Be Staged Hoax, Convicted Terrorist Running in Birmingham Election With “Support of Allah”, In Iraq, Lots of Little Aishas, and FBI Agents Search Election Hub in Fulton County, Georgia in Court-Authorized 2020 Vote Investigation
Hollywood In Toto: Untitled Home Invasion Romance Is Fargo Lite, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Overdoses on Originality, Veteran Journalist Admits Film Critics Gunning for Melania, and Should Studios Keep Hiring John Leguizamo?
Legal Insurrection: Dems Opposing Gender Ideology Sue Illinois Over Law Banning Use of ‘Democrat’ Without Approval, CNN Leftist Repeats Myth a Right-Winger Killed Charlie Kirk, Education Dept. Finds California Violated Federal Law by Hiding Students’ ‘Gender Transitions’ from Parents, Newsom Smears Dr. Oz as ‘Racist’ After He Targeted Alleged California Medical Fraud, and Lawyers for Alleged Charlie Kirk Assassin Don’t Want Video Introduced as Evidence
Nebraska Energy Observer: The EU Is Becoming Irrelevant + Britain Too, also, This is superb especially in its understanding. But why did Amelia take off?
Outkick: NFL Puts Kibosh On Prediction Markets Advertising During Super Bowl LX, Associated Press Is Furious About The Lack Of ‘Diversity’ In Upcoming Winter Olympics, Olympic Bobsledder Funded Her Winter Games Dream With OnlyFans, Trish Stratus Needs To Update Her Low-Cut Top To ‘Generational Crush’ Because She’s Fathers & Sons First Crush, and Will Canton Voters’ Privileges Be Removed After Bill Belichick Snub?
Power Line: The Real Alex Pretti, Hillary Clinton lawyer backs MN lawsuit, Decoding the Signals, Unclear on the concept, and Where is the fraud?
Shark Tank: FL Nonprofit Hospitals Under Scrutiny For Rising Prices & Lack Of Transparency
Shot In The Dark: Enterprise
STUMP: New York City Watch – Fiscal Emergency?
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – The Spread Of Death: Slippery Slope In Australia; 16,000 Dead In Canada; On The March In France
This Ain’t Hell: More on Pretti, NATO SecGen, “Europe Needs the US”, and Thursday thrills
Transterrestrial Musings: 40 Years On
Victory Girls: Secretary Rubio Schools Senator Duckworth At Hearing, also,Bruce Springsteen’s New Song Sounds Suspiciously Like Cable News Chatter
Watts Up With That: Efforts to Kill Gas Industry Disguised as Environmental Protection, Poll Finds New England Women Feel Misled About Climate Policies, British Intelligence Goes Full Guardian Promoting Untestable Computer-Generated Scares of Eco-System Collapse, Industry is Being Sacrificed to Net Zero Ideology, Says Siemens Energy Boss, and Will Gov. Spanberger ever demonstrate moderation or rational thinking on energy?
The Federalist: Fighting ICE In The Streets Is Not Demonstrating Jesus’ Love To Anyone, LinkedIn Blames ‘Error’ After Removing Pro-ICE Post Over ‘Hateful Speech’, If You Can’t Eat On $15 Per Day, You Might Have Bad Food Habits, Trump Is Reading Leftist Desperation As Strength, and Forget About Online Groypers. Instagram Influencers Will Be The Real Death Of America
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – Icecapades Of 2026, Going Out of Business, and First In, Last Out

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In The Mailbox: 01.29.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | January 29, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Woke up today thinking it was Friday for some reason.
John Wright’s Starquest – Pirate King of Star Patrol is out!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day With The Lost Colony of Roanoke (1589)
357 Magnum: Sparky Cars Gonna Spark, also Do You Think Microsoft’s BitLocker Is Secure? Guess Again
EBL: The Working Man’s Oyster, Sinners, Blessed Charlemagne, Bill Belichick Denied 1st Ballot Pro Football Hall of Fame By Jealous Lessers, and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has a California winery?
Twitchy: Anti-ICE Activists Surround Restaurant After Mistaking TSA For Homeland Security Agents, Man Impersonates FBI Agent, Claims To Have Court Order & Pizza Cutter To Free Luigi Mangione, and From 2021-2026, Hospitals Haven’t Changed And Crazy Nurses Confirm It
Louder With Crowder: Woke DA issues vile threat to “hunt down” ICE agents, a new map explains the left’s desperation in blocking deportations, Debunking every BS claim your one leftist friend makes about ICE and immigration enforcement, Stephen Colbert goes blatantly anti-American with comments saying ICE is WORSE than the Nazis, Former MSNBC reject slanders ICE agents as “white supremacists,” gets SCORCHED by Mr. Wonderful, and Nicki Minaj goes full MAGA, promises that her haters on the left won’t get away with bullying him anymore
Vox Popoli: Coding Fiction, The Translation Process, More Clown World Madness, Get On the Cart, and Fourth and Final
Cedar Sanderson: It Is Not In Vain
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Problem of Karen
The Bugscuffle Gazette: In other news, 9th century tribesmen
Weird Catholic: Thomas Aquinas & The Evil Eye
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Minnesota Madness & Iranian Resistance

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: So We Have A National Defense Strategy
Don Surber: Press gets Minnesota wrong
Matt Taibbi: The Politics of Neither

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In The Mailbox: 01.27.26

Posted on | January 28, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day Finding The Ghost Ship Marie Celeste (1872)
EBL: Crawfish Boil, The Liberation Of Auschwitz, Amelia’s Dream, and Greatest unfinished song of all time?
Twitchy: When “Reporting” Sounds Like A Pep Rally, Another Damning Nugget Just Dropped About Alex Pretti, and A Monster Of His Own Making
Louder With Crowder: NY Governor thinks people don’t know how to shovel snow, so here she is explaining it to you like you’re dumb, What are the odds? Trump sends Tom Homan to Minneapolis, and police automatically start arresting rioters, “Swim mom” bought a bulletproof vest because the government was gonna kill her, claims it’s fascism for some reason, Jasmine Crockett doubles down on racist comments about ICE, and Chicago mayor marches to “abolish ICE,” and of course he’s with a socialist org
Vox Popoli: A Substantive Critique of PZ, Why the Economy is Collapsing, Gun Rights and Realities, An Inspiring Critique, and Blood vs Paper
The Bugscuffle Gazette: So, Iran – Part 3
Cedar Sanderson: Out Now! New Novella!
Mazelit Airaksinen: NYC Therapist Who Wished Hitler “Ended” Jews Still Practicing

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump’s Adaptability Is a Virtue, Not a Vice
American Greatness: American Flags Torched, Riot Police Clash with Protesters Ahead of Trump Davos Arrival, also, Trump Rules Out Using Military Force to Acquire Greenland, But Seeks ‘Immediate Negotiations’
BattleSwarm: Ukraine And The Gamification Of Combat
Behind The Black: NASA makes it official – Oman signs the Artemis Accords, Avio gets two new launch contracts for its Vega-C rocket, Astronomers use AI to discover hundreds of weird galaxies in Hubble archive, Musk says Next Starship/Superheavy test launch in mid-March, and Windswept Martian volcanic ash?
Chicago Boyz: Black Fatigue, also, A Proper Insurrection
Don Surber: The Walz is caving in to Trump
First Street Journal: Sometimes deportation is not enough
Gates Of Vienna: Pennies: To Pinch or Not to Pinch
The Geller Report: Trump Takes Control: Walz Reaches Out and Agrees to Cooperate After Homan Deployed to Minneapolis, also, Schumer Threatening Another Government Shutdown
Hollywood In Toto: All Jimmy Kimmel Does Is Lie (And Cry), also, Are Critics Grading Starfleet Academy on a Woke Curve?
Legal Insurrection: Massive Potomac River Sewage Spill Exposes D.C. Water’s Cracked Priorities, Virginia Judge Blocks Democrats’ Redistricting Amendment, Dozens of Rioters Arrested Outside Minnesota Hotel Where ICE Agents Supposedly Stay, DOJ Reportedly Withdraws Request for Don Lemon Arrest Warrant Over Church Raid, and VCU Medical Nurse Placed on Leave for Allegedly Encouraging People to Poison ICE Agents
Nebraska Energy Observer: Amelia, Avatar of English Freedom
Outkick: Bill Belichick Shockingly Snubbed As First-Ballot Hall Of Famer, Learner Tien Becomes Latest American Player To Shut Down Anti-Trump Question At Australian Open, All-Time Lowball? Report Claims Jets Tried To Cheap Out On Jon Gruden NFL Return, Vanderbilt QB’s Height Lies Exposed Before NFL Draft, But What’s The Problem With It? and Kansas Woman’s Gut-Wrenching Story Of Her Husband & Girlfriend Kicking Her Out Of The Throuple
Power Line: Inside the resistance, Compare and Contrast, Lawfare and habeas corpus, About the “Affordability Crisis”, and Menendez miasma clearing
Shark Tank: Paul Renner Targets & Spoofs Byron Donalds With Unique Social Media Strategy
Shot In The Dark: Sub-Zero
The Political Hat: Big Brother Is Bartending
This Ain’t Hell: Virginia Senate committee passes bill that would ban magazines holding over 10 rounds, also, Minnesota Guard Aids Anti-ICE Demonstrations
Victory Girls: Librarian Busted For TikTok Trump Derangement Syndrome
Watts Up With That: Data centers are the physical internet, Al Gore Wants to Pay Farmers to Grow Less Food to Fight Climate Change, Trump’s Withdrawal from Collapsing Climate Narrative, The Grid Will Hold – Maybe – But the Bill Will Rise, and Do Renewables Make for Cheaper Electricity?
The Federalist: Stay-At-Home Mom Stands Up To Alleged Homewrecker And Ex-Senator Kyrsten Sinema, SCOTUS Holds The Key To Stopping Virginia Democrats’ Gun Control Gambit, Tim Walz Cannot Be Trusted To ‘Cooperate’ On Immigration Enforcement, Illegal Aliens Kill Scores Of Americans For Every Leftist Who Dies Protecting Them, and Dems’ ‘Unconstitutional’ Bill Would Jail Law-Abiding Virginians For Guns They Already Own
Mark Steyn: Norms and Parameters

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The Worst People in the World

Posted on | January 27, 2026 | No Comments

Heather Schwedel

You think you hate the liberal media enough, but you don’t — and that’s probably a good thing. It would be psychologically unhealthy to hate anyone as much as the liberal media deserve to be hated.

Heather Schwedel is a writer for Slate, which was one of the pioneering political commentary sites back in the dial-up modem days of the 1990s. If you’re old enough to remember when AOL discs came in a box of cereal — seriously, that actually happened for a few months in 1996 — you may remember when Microsoft hired Michael Kinsley (former New Republic editor and then co-host of CNN’s Crossfire) to be editor of Slate.

That was 30 years ago. In 2004, the Washington Post purchased Slate, but when Jeff Bezos bought the Post in 2013, he had no use for Slate, which is now property of a separate firm, Graham Holdings. This trek down memory lane doesn’t do much to explain why Heather Schwedel is on Slate’s payroll, but it does give you some sense of the downward trajectory of Slate’s prestige. The latest milestone on this descent into infamy is Schwedel’s article with this headline, “Well, That Is One Way for J.D. and Usha Vance to Respond to the Erika Kirk Divorce Rumors.”

Could anyone imagine a more perverse and sickening possible reaction to the announcement that the Vice President’s wife is pregnant? Perhaps someone might call attention to the various deranged mutterings of Candace Owens or the despicable smears of Nick Fuentes, but ladies and gentlemen, Heather Schwedel is employed by Slate, which was formerly considered one of the most reputable online journals. It’s not like this was published by some obscure fringe site. No, this vile article was written by a full-time staff writer and, presumably, given the green light by an editor who is paid an actual salary. Among the tasks of an editor is saying “no” to story ideas that will bring disrepute to the publication, and here the editors of Slate have self-evidently failed. Let’s dive in:

The rumors about J.D. Vance leaving his wife for Erika Kirk, which have persisted since the two shared a much-discussed hug in October, were always more darkly entertaining than plausible. But observers have surmised that they took off because they reflected a certain air of uneasiness that has surrounded Vance’s marriage for the whole time it’s been on the national stage. As the highly educated daughter of Indian immigrants, Usha Vance not only doesn’t burnish Vance’s MAGA credentials; she undermines them. When reports of a possible divorce on the horizon began to swirl in November, it wasn’t altogether surprising. Reckoning with all those contradictions was inevitable, right? . . .

Dear God, ma’am! Wes Pruden would have kicked you down the stairs if you had pitched him a story like that. “Rumors” have “persisted” since “a much-discussed hug”? By whom was this discussed? Some podcasters?

Also notice Schwedel’s not-too-subtle recycling of the Nick Fuentes “married a jeet” smear: Usha is the “daughter of Indian immigrants” and therefore “doesn’t burnish Vance’s MAGA credentials” — but if he dumped the mother of his three children to marry the grieving widow of Charlie Kirk, that would burnish his credentials? Exactly what does Heather Schwedel know about “MAGA credentials” and how they are burnished? Where did she gain this expertise? But among the many laughable elements of Schwedel’s first paragraph, perhaps none is as absurd the part where she says “observers have surmised” blah blah blah.

Guess who she links for this? C’mon, take a guess.

If you guessed Amanda Marcotte, collect your prize. Of all the idiot feminists in the world, Schwedel links the most idiotic for her “observers have surmised” reference. To spare you from reading the entirety of Marcotte’s brain-damaged screed, I’ll quote this one sentence: “Vance’s marriage is an increasingly poor fit for his political brand, which has become increasingly based on praising the virtues of white supremacy and retrograde gender roles.” To use the adverb “increasingly” twice in the same sentence is the sort of stylistic error that bespeaks haste in composition, and one pictures Marcotte furiously typing away with a maniacal expression on her face as she wrote that. What joy she must have felt in that one-two punch of “white supremacy and retrograde gender roles” to characterize Vance’s “political brand.”

Anyway, back to Schwedel’s secondhand rumor-mongering:

If you’re wondering what’s so MAGA about having a kid, it’s not just that they’re having a kid, but that they’re having a fourth kid. The average number of children per American household has been declining for decades, so having four kids in the year 2026 is a bit of a statement. While it doesn’t have to be conservative-coded, it tends to skew that way. It’s also a statement in the sense that it follows more literal statements Vance has made about pro-natalism and how women need to have more babies, and/or the evils of women who choose not to. In fact, the Vance baby is part of a mini baby boom at the White House, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, also expecting. . . .

(Note that I am the father of six children myself, but all of mine were sired long before Trump rode down that escalator.)

[I]t’s important to remember that [Mrs. Vance] is a willing participant in all of this. While it’s tempting to wonder if anyone else in her law-school class has put their career on hold to have four kids, she chose to have all those kids, and to leave her career to support her husband, and to stay with that husband, no matter how increasingly awful he seems both as a force in society and as an individual partner to her. Usha is free to slap “I had this before J.D. went crazy” stickers on her other kids. But if she could ever claim any kind of ignorance, that time is over. She has now seen exactly who her husband has become as vice president. And knowing everything she knows, she concluded that yes, she wanted to have another one of J.D. Vance’s babies.

In conclusion, yuck. Nothing more need be said to condemn this, as it is self-evidently indefensible. It is astonishing how contemporary liberal journalism manages to attract all the worst people in the world, a sort of magnetic North Pole of wrongness. We might be tempted to say that Heather Schwedel should be ashamed of herself, but if she had any capacity for shame, she wouldn’t be writing for Slate, would she?