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Monday, February 2, 2026

If there is one thing that should jump out when we see footage of this protest or that, it is the fact that the rent-a-mob is just that. If it is not a BLM rally, it is a pro-Hamas rally, or it is an anti-ICE rally. All that is exchanged is one set of props for another. Since the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis on January 7, the one thing that has been sprinkled amongst all the professionally printed, anti-ICE signs has been Palestinian flags. What has one got to do with the other? When you are promoting a certain ideology, plenty.

We were given slides like this oneexplaining how the terms collectivism and "interdependence" were necessary concepts linked to student "success" and "harmony". K-12 schools are grooming children to think like communists and to abandon individualism.

While leftist ideology infiltrating public education is something about which we already knew, we also know that, like most of what the left is engaged in, it is hardly organic. Defending Education (DE) is a watchdog group that exposes indoctrination. It has uncovered two pro-Palestinian organizations, the Participatory Action Research Center for Organizing (PARCEO) and Project48. These organizations are disseminating materials into schools for both teachers and students, the aim of which is to create skepticism of antisemitism and sympathy for pro-Palestinian causes. Just a sampling of the materials includes blaming "white nationalism" for antisemitism and asking participants to consider the "bad habit" of whiteness.

PARCEO bills itself as "a community research, resource, and education center. We partner with groups to strengthen our collective work for justice." Justice includes “educational justice; racial justice; workers’ rights; gender justice; challenging Islamophobia; immigrant rights; health and food justice, and more.” Project48 “was created to center Palestinians in the telling of their own history," including “educational material, eyewitness testimonies, images, videos and artifacts," so that “the ongoing Palestinian struggle against colonial erasure and the return of refugees to their ancestral lands.” In other words, just one side. And surprise, both groups have ties to the Soros-linked Open Society Foundations.

The curriculum created by both groups is called the "Palestinian Nakba Curriculum," referring to the creation of Israel in 1948. It portrays Palestinians as victims at the hands of Israel, and:

“considers the history and material consequences of the Nakba, including what’s been hidden and erased, what’s been built over, stolen, destroyed, and what remains."

There is a section focused on "pervasive Zionist narrative," “the enactment and reality of Zionist colonization in Palestine,” and Israel's “intentionality behind the process.” It also talks about "justification" of the process. There is also an attempt to look like they are telling the whole story, complete with a whole section on antisemitism. However, nowhere in that section does it mention the Holocaust, but it manages to mention "white nationalism" several times.

The rest is a word salad of hate, primarily caused, apparently, by these phantom white nationalists whose focus is “to sow confusion and promote antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism.” Other resources created along with progessive activist group Jews for Peace include this nugget. They made sure not to leave anyone out:

“[W]hite nationalist violence has been on the rise in the U.S., fueled by anti-immigrant and racist manifestos, sentiments, and conspiracy theories, such as the great replacement theory. Jews are among the targets of white nationalist violence along with Black people, immigrants, Muslims, and trans and queer people, among others."

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White people have their own sections; the “Phenomenology of Whiteness” is where whiteness is described as a bad habit. Last but not least, there is the “White Awareness Handbook For Anti-Racism Training.”

The Oakland, California, event was organized by an Oakland Unified School District teacher. As you might guess, this program is a big hit in places like New York and California as far back as 2023, and into October of 2025. But this ideology is being pushed on America's students all over the nation.

The next three years would be the prime time to push it out. RedState promises to keep reporting on any developments for readers as we move closer to the 2028 elections. Stay tuned.

https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/01/28/the-latest-episode-of-who-is-indoctrinating-americas-students-n2198613?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

New York Times' New Trump Weather Witch Hunt Debunked

New York Times' New Trump Weather Witch Hunt Debunked

By Ward Clark

In primitive times - and no, I don't mean the '60s - most folks were only marginally literate at best, formal education for much of the population didn't exist, and a whole passel of weird ideas sprouted up, like that rubbing sheep dung on a doorpost kept bad luck away; that sort of thing.

That's typical of the medieval period, and it's typical of some of the climate scolds today, who assure us bad things will happen if we don't appease the climate spirits by reducing our carbon footprints. There's about as much science behind that as well, but that hasn't stopped the New York Times and other liberal, legacy media outlets from pointing at President Trump and his administration's yanking us out of bad climate deals, and shouting "Blasphemy!"

Case in point:

The New York Times article, “Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet,” claims that President Donald Trump’s policies and actions will result in higher carbon dioxide emissions, causing more droughts, floods, hurricanes, and other extreme weather. While Trump’s policies may result in increases of CO2 emissions, hundreds of Climate Realism posts and dozens of Climate at a Glance articles have clearly demonstrated that emissions have not and are not changing the weather for the worse. Weather has not become more extreme as emissions have increased. The NYT is making a connection that science in no way supports — specifically that President Donald Trump and his administration wield power over the atmosphere and climate. This is false.

Yes, some of the administration's policies will result in more CO2 emissions. They can't help but do so when we are increasing our use of gas, oil, and coal. Yes, CO2 is a greenhouse gas, although it's far from the most potent of greenhouse gases.

But CO2 is also necessary for plant growth, and the earth has been greening under the slight uptick in CO2 emissions, which is something the climate scolds never seem to want to discuss. And it's not at all clear that the number and severity of weather events are increasing, either.

President Trump has, in fact, boosted American prosperity by yanking us out of some of these costly and ultimately futile climate deals. More to the point, he's saved the taxpayers some money by cutting off subsidies for boondoggles like solar and wind power, which attempt to replace high-density, reliable energy sources like natural gas, coal, and oil, with low-density, intermittent sources.

$20 Trillion Down the Drain: Renewables Barely Dent Fossil Fuels

All of these are known; we've covered them time and again, and no doubt will continue to do so. This New York Times piece, though, borders on the kind of medieval thought I describe above. Just take a look at their rather hysterical language:

In recent days his administration has slammed the door on every possible avenue of global cooperation on the environment. At the same time, it is sending the message that it wants the world to be awash in fossil fuels sold by America, no matter the consequences.
Under President Trump, the United States has become the only nation to renege on a pledge to try to keep warming to 1.5 degrees. Its actions will make the global fight harder, scientists said.
“Emissions will be higher,” warned Justin S. Mankin, an associate professor at Dartmouth College who researches climate variability. “Trump’s greenhouse gas emissions will cause Trump’s heat waves, Trump’s droughts, Trump’s floods, and Trump’s wildfires.”

Nothing the Trump administration has done will have the world "awash in fossil fuels." That's the purest form of the stuff one finds at the south end of a northbound horse. What the Trump administration has done is to ensure reliable, affordable energy for the American economy. Energy, be it electrical generation, gasoline and diesel fuel, or nuclear power, is at the heart of everything in our economy. "Renewables" have and, barring some wild, unforeseen breakthrough, will always be intermittent, unreliable, and expensive. And that cost, the cost of energy, is factored into everything else we do. Our entire economy, our entire way of life, rests on this.

Yes, emissions will be higher. But there's no solid agreement that there have been more heat waves, more droughts, more floods, and so on. In fact, some of the most high-profile wildfires we have seen in recent years have been caused not by climate change but by poor forest and scrubland management by government - I'm looking at you, Gavin Newsom.

We shouldn't worry about appeasing the climate scolds. We should worry about facts, and we should worry about prosperity, for us and for future generations. The Earth isn't a closed room. There's no thermostat we can set. If there were, we wouldn't know where to set it. Through most of the planet's 4.6 billion-year history, it's been warmer than now. Through much of that history, humans couldn't even have lived on the planet. The global climate moves on vast cycles, cycles in ocean currents, cycles in its rotation, and cycles in its orbit. Some of these cycles are measured in hundreds of years. Some, in hundreds of thousands of years. At present, we are in a warming stage of one of those cycles, in an interglacial period that has been slowly warming the climate since the Wisconsin glaciation receded.

We have been monitoring the climate for about a century. These cycles and the vast, chaotic nature of the planet's climate are still largely beyond our comprehension.

But the New York Times would have us surrender our comfortable, high-tech lifestyle to appease the climate spirits. That's ridiculous. It's anti-science. Fortunately, President Trump isn't having any of it, nor should we.

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/01/28/new-york-times-new-trump-weather-witch-hunt-debunked-n2198601?utm_source=breakingemail&utm_medium=email&tpcc=breaking012826

Sunday, February 1, 2026

The Only Way Through Is Through (DP: Lengthy but essential to frame the struggle and conflict we face--and we must not relent)

The Only Way Through Is Through

Kurt Schlichter

Clichés, like this column’s title, become clichés because time and experience have demonstrated that they are largely true. Look at the present situation. Donald Trump, in 2016, saved America from what the regime media, the Democrats, and far too many Republicans assured us was certain defeat at the hands of that ED-inducing monster Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit. There was the four-year interregnum of President Eggplant, where his puppeteers attempted to Maduro-ize America, but in 2024, we beat them and their morally and otherwise flexible candidate. We were facing the loss of our country – permanent oppression of us patriotic normal, perpetual economic malaise, gender deviance enshrined in law, mass crime, rampant fraud by NGOs and imported Third World hustlers, anti-white racism as government policy, and international disrespect by every commie/jihadist/just plain scuzzy potentate around the globe. They had decades to set up their defenses, and now Trump is one year into tearing them down with three to go.

And we have to fight every step of the way. We have to fight for every inch. They will not retreat. They will not give in. Their offers to negotiate are in bad faith – which Trump knows – he is not going to get rolled by Governor Flouncy Le Femme. The left must be crushed. That’s the only way – crushed by the power of our votes and through our use of what is left of the norms and the laws. It’s not easy – the only way through is through.

We have to keep fighting, and that’s why I absolutely cannot take the black-pilling, the dooming, the constant refrain that winning is impossible, that we are helpless and hopeless, and anyone saying different is part of the massive conspiracy.

But that’s dumb, and it’s weak, and those who do it are either too soft for the fight or think they can carve out a little niche of influence by pushing the dankest predictions for the future. The fainting femboys who counseled submission last weekend when some new commie malcontent got his ticked punched are part of the problem.

Here’s what’s true. This is real talk. We can absolutely lose this fight. Trump can choose humiliating and defeat. We can falter and watch the United States of America become a dreadful country bereft of manhood and honor, offering up its culture and country as a sacrifice as some sort of wine woman penance for the sins of civilization. But enough about Canada and most of Western Europe.

It does not have to be that way. We can win. We can take back our country – that was the whole point of the Trump movement. We would make America Great Again. Understand that our enemies hate that notion with a visceral fury – the idea that America can be anything but used Charmin in the hands of a chest-less, failed ruling class offends them to the core of what passes for their being. They are fighting precisely because they do not want America to be great. Oh, they want to rule a stunted and misshapen USA; what they want to avoid is people like you and me being prosperous, secure, and proud. They want a feudal America like we have a feudal California – all those sunshine and palm tree shots you see are real; I live in that world by the beach. There’s no real crime, just sunshine and great restaurants among the other lawyers, executives, HR officers, and others in the landed gentry. But you drive three miles west of my house, outside of the walls of the castle that some call I-405, and none of the kids can read. They want two Americas – theirs where they live in a materially-rich bubble; yours where you live in squalor, serving them, obeying them, recognizing their moral, intellectual, and metaphysical superiority.

They won’t give an inch as we push back, and we are pushing back. This is a multi-front campaign, from remaking the military to resetting the broken international trade system to uprooting the DEI cancer that has metastasized through society to tossing out the millions of Third World invaders whom they were counting on to fix America’s demographic problem. America’s problem was, of course, Americans not wanting to become serfs in their own country.

I get the frustration. I share it. And making known our demands for action is a good thing, a necessary thing, especially when you are making it known to the kind of cellblock submissive Republicans who begged Trump to surrender in Minneapolis and proudly declared defeat in Indiana, they willingly hopped in Ned Beatty’s canoe as Virginia set them to squealing like pigs down the river. We need to keep up the pressure, but pressure is very different from whining like a teenage girl that everything is terrible and we’re doomed.

We’re doomed if we stop fighting, and we’re doomed if we stop winning elections, and the kind of histrionic caterwauling we see far too often about how Donald Trump – the guy who had reset the table in countless ways – is totally completely letting us down and why ever vote again and look at me and see how mad I am. Please like n’ subscribe.

Morale matters, which is why these whiners matter. They give the false impression that we are losing because we have not achieved unequivocal victory in every engagement and have not permanently consigned leftists to the dustbin of history. That’s a fool’s metric, because we will never “win.” We will always be fighting, always. Freedom, faith, and The Flag naturally draw enemies. Leftism will always be there as long as some humans are weak, stupid, jealous, and sexually inadequate. And some always will be.

We are not aiming at total victory. We are aiming at turning the tide, knowing, as adults do, that the tide will eventually turn and our temporary breather will end, and our kids – or, hopefully, their kids will have to join the battle again.

Again, I get the frustration. Leftists judges throw up obstacles. Commies seem to act with impunity. Congress does not pass the laws that common sense and patriotism demand. But let me ask you something – did you teach your kids that life was fair? It’s not. It’s hard, and there are injustices and obstacles.

Let’s look at some of the key bones of contention.

Leftist judges are out of control, but did you realize the DOJ is winning about 90% of the cases eventually? That’s an insane ratio – no one wins 90% of the time outside of Perry Mason or Matlock, and those are TV shows. The Trump strategy is to go through the judicial process, not only to win but to win on precedent, and to keep the “Nah, judge, not going to obey” card in his back pocket. It’s a smart strategy, winning one case at a time. It just takes patience – our patience. We have to be adults and delay gratification. But that gratification is coming nine times out of ten.

Mad because people are not being arrested as fast as you like? Criminal justice takes time. Sometimes you lose because the left ignores the norms and nullifies the verdict. Okay, fine – the enemy gets a vote, as we soldiers say. Angry that no one had been arrested over all the disgusting, treacherous scandals of the past? Here’s another of those cliches, the “Hard to Swallow Pill.” A lot of the bad deeds in the past are not prosecutable. They are either past the statute of limitations, have evidence issues, or are not crimes. Every bad thing – like a judge making legally bankrupt rulings – is not a crime. Most of our fights have to be won politically, meaning through voting.

“But we vote for Republicans, and they do nothing!” First, that’s nonsense – the Big Beautiful Bill prevented the largest tax increase ever and funded ICE for years. That’s a real win, as are the confirmations of a bunch of appointees. Second, there’s this thing called the filibuster. The Democrats can prevent most anything with it, except reconciliation (which is how we got the BBB passed). Voting on stuff just to lose is a waste of time. The filibuster exists, and it’s going to continue to exist as long as the GOP controls the Senate (and maybe thereafter). That’s not an excuse; that’s a realistic assessment of the situation.

What we need are realistic assessments of the situation, not emotional outbursts born of frustration. That’s self-indulgent; it may be temporarily satisfying to cry, but hurts morale and damages our prospects by turning off our voters.

Choose optimism. Don’t let up on the pressure to perform, but recognize our achievements – a real military, Iran emasculated, kids not being emasculated, illegal aliens being punted through the goal posts of America. We are going to be fighting forever, but we can win. We just have to be tough enough to keep fighting and to never quit. Remember, the only way through is through.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/01/28/the-only-way-through-is-through-n2670107?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

From Greg Price's X: "To my leftist friends" on behalf of all of us on the MAGA right

https://x.com/greg_price11/status/2015226963065995588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2015226963065995588%7Ctwgr%5E5abcd1ab39b952739a9e377bba7aec3fefa93039%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsamj%2F2026%2F01%2F26%2Fgreg-prices-letter-to-his-leftist-friends-n2424332

Greg Price

@greg_price11

To my leftist friends: I do not care that a leftist agitator got himself killed because he decided to arm himself with a gun and venture out to resist ICE, nor the other one who sped her car at an ICE agent while fleeing arrest, nor do I care about the little kid who was detained with his illegal alien father. And neither do you, because all you care about are turning people-- whose deaths never would have happened if you people didn't have a psychopathic opposition to lawful immigration enforcement-- into martyrs who can be used to justify ending deportations, which you want because it's the biggest threat to Democratic political power. What I do care about is the fact that there are millions of illegal aliens that have invaded my country. Your party are the ones who spent the previous 4 years importing as many of them into America as possible-- allowing millions of foreign military-aged men to cross the southern border and resettling them all around the country with our tax dollars. You didn't give a crap about the thousands of unaccompanied children that smugglers dropped off at the border-- nor the thousands that went missing-- in one of the biggest child trafficking operations in the world that happened because of your party. You didn't care about real victims like Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, and Rachel Morin-- not agitators trying to obstruct law enforcement-- but innocent people who were minding their own business when they were brutally murdered by criminal illegal aliens that Biden released into the country. But you people have decided that it's imperative that these illegals be able to stay. That somebody fresh over the border from Honduras is just as American as the rest of us. That somebody with such disrespect for our country that their first contribution to it was breaking our immigration laws should be given the same rights as every American. That they should be allowed to continue stealing jobs, driving up housing costs, and mooching off American taxpayers. And you want this for one reason and one reason only: Because it's the only way you can continue winning elections. You don't actually care about any of these people. You just want to give them citizenship so they can vote for Democrats and count them in the census so that blue states have more electoral votes than they deserve. All you want is to import as many foreigners as possible and give them a stake in the political future of our country so that Democrats can rule forever without the consent from actual Americans who you couldn't give two craps about. And you of course don't actually want to deal with the consequences of mass immigration. The places you live are not the ones where massive demographic changes have happened almost overnight. You'll continue living in your majority-white affluent communities while working class Americans deal with the influx of your new class of voters. And now, you are have decided that burning down the entire country is worth it if it means your precious illegal aliens get to stay. Your politicians are the ones have actively encouraged the riots in places like Minneapolis and radicalized people into thinking they have a right to obstruct lawful immigration enforcement. Renee good and Alex Pretti are dead because of you. I, along with 77 million other Americans, voted for a government that promised mass deportations. And that doesn't mean just gang members and criminals. It means every single person who crossed the border illegally or has overstayed their visa. It doesn't matter if they're a murderer or uber eats driver. We voted to get rid of them all because America is a sovereign nation that has the right to deport people with no right to be here in the first place. So no, I simply do not care about any of the sob stories that you manufacture on a daily basis to emotionally manipulate people against lawful enforcement of our immigration laws. I don't care if federal agents wearing masks triggers you, I don't care about your tug-at-the-heartstrings propaganda, and I especially don't care that your illegal alien "neighbors" feel scared. We're sick of being told we're bad people for objecting to the hordes of third-world illegals that you brought here without our consent. The moment you decide that Americans matter more to you than protecting illegals is the moment the chaos and death comes to an end. But you won't because all you are useful idiots for a machine that seeks to make Americans poor and miserable in the country their ancestors built.

4:55 PM · Jan 24, 2026

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A Friendly Reminder That Murderous Chaos Is ALWAYS the Dems' Endgame

A Friendly Reminder That Murderous Chaos Is ALWAYS the Dems' Endgame

Stephen Kruiser

Top O' the Briefing

Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (In preparation for a whirlwind book tour, the Sine Qua Non Sequitur is leading a Buck Owens-themed drum circle at an understaffed Welsh cheese collective.)

There are some basic rules to follow for anyone who finds himself or herself the subject of law enforcement attention. I didn't have to Google these or ask anyone; I was a bit of a ne'er-do-well when I was a young man. Trust me, I know whence I speak (write).

The first big one is this: do whatever the heck the cops tell you to do. The second is: don't do anything that could even remotely be construed as confrontational. It's a great time to employ any manners you might have learned when you were a kid.

Law enforcement officers (LEOs) deserve to be on edge about their safety under the best of circumstances. They are most definitely not living and working in the best of circumstances right now. The agents of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Border Patrol) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are particularly at risk now, all thanks to the Democrats.

Prominent Democratic elected officials are encouraging people to get in the faces of ICE and Border Patrol agents. Again, I meant what I wrote about not being remotely confrontational. Tim Walz and his ilk are out there exhorting their frothing hordes to be deliberately confrontational, with predictably tragic results.

Don't be fooled by any crocodile tear displays by Dem leaders — this is all by design. A friend texted me on Sunday morning about the shooting, and I had this headline ready to go before I even booted up my computer. When I did, I got a chuckle when I saw that Tim had the same idea. This is from his post:

The masterminds behind the anti-ICE movement don’t care about them. They just need martyrs for the good of the cause. To get those martyrs, they have to convince idealistic and willing people to put their careers, their family lives, their freedom, and ultimately their very lives at risk – all for a political objective.

This was the headline from a Briefing last August: "Dems Gin Up Hate and Let Their Victim Groups Do Their Dirty Work." They've been working with variations on this theme for a very long time. It really ramped up when Barack Obama was shooting off his mouth about the police during his vapid vanity presidency.

It's been coming in waves since then. The George Floyd Summer of Unhinged Riotous Love in 2020 was a major anti-LEO escalation. Now it's at a fever pitch that has to break, or people will continue to die. That's not going to happen any time soon, though.

As we have discussed many times, the Democrats have absolutely nothing in the way of substantive policy ideas to offer the American people. They're hoping that the chaos they've whipped up will confuse people enough to vote for them. They are, of course, getting a lot of help from the vile propagandists in the mainstream media. It could work too. They weren't going to beat President Trump and his economy in 2020, but caught lightning in a bottle with the Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu plague.

That chaos just landed in their laps. They know that they have to make their own this time. They don't care how many people need to die for their desperation smokescreen. The Dem elites here have a lot in common with commie leaders — they know that they are practically untouchable and that they have an almost inexhaustible supply of rabid ideologues who will do stupid things in the service of hating Trump.

Absent a coherent policy agenda, the Democrats are going to need more noise, violence, and death to get them across the finish line for the midterms. Look at how much they've kicked up in less than a month this year. It's gonna be a bumpy ride.

https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/01/26/the-morning-briefing-a-friendly-reminder-that-murderous-chaos-is-always-the-dems-endgame-n4948733/?utm_campaign=nl_pm&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pjmediambvip