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January 15, 2026

Justified

Timothy Birdnow

Hey, Mike Waltz said it was!

Well, well, well…Look what Tim Walz signed into law in 2020: MN law §609.066: Officers can use deadly force if a driver accelerates toward them, creating immediate life-threatening danger. No need to wait for impact—they can act based on apparent intent & proximity. JUSTIFIED.

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So the Man who Shot Good had Internal Bleeding

Timothy Birdnow

This blows the victim narrative right out of the water in Minneapolis.

CBS News

@CBSNews

BREAKING: The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, Jonathan Ross, suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident, according to two U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition.

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Net Drop in Immigrants

Timothy Birdnow

According to the very liberal Brookings Institute we had between minus ten thousand and minus two hundred thousand fewer immigrants in the U.S. as we did last year when Biden was leaving office.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/macroeconomic-implications-of-immigration-flows-in-2025-and-2026-january-2026-update/

This is likely an underestimation too as Brookings has no love for Donald Trump and would be eager to not admit what he is doing is working.

Laws only work when they are enforced. For decades neither party has wanted to enforce immigration laws and then have asked for NEW laws because they claim the old ones don't work. But they do - they just need to be enforced. Trump has proven the utter bankruptcy of the open borders arguments.

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January 14, 2026

Climate Models Wrong

This from James Doogue

All Of The 39 Climate Models Used By Scientists Have Predicted Greater Warming 1979-2025 Compared To Actual Temperature Observations.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that the warmest of the climate models are used to create climate alarmism.

This includes climate scientists who want to keep their funding and grants coming, as well as the media who know that disaster scenarios get more viewers and readers compared to story lines which have no dramatic scenarios.

Dr Roy Spencer shows in his post at the URL below, that all 39 climate models run up to 3 times the warming rate of actual temperature observations 1979-2025.

https://www.drroyspencer.com/.../tropical.../...

Looking at the graphs shown below, which are taken from the linked post by Dr Spencer we can see:

1. All climate models run hotter than the actual temperature, right up to 300% of actual observations.

2. If we average all 39 climate models, we can see they collectively show a warming rate of double the actual observations.

Dr Spencer writes:

‘I find it ironic that climate models are claimed to be based upon fundamental "physical principles”. If that were true, then all models would have the same climate sensitivity to increasing GHGs [green house gases].

But they don’t.’

Dr Spencer further states:

‘Climate models range over a factor of three in climate sensitivity, a disparity that has remained for over 30 years of the climate modeling enterprise.’

He goes on to write:

‘Much of global warming alarmism arises from scientific publications biased toward (1) the models that produce the most warming, and (2) the excessive GHG increases ("SSP scenarios") they assume for the most dire climate change projections. Those scenarios are now known to be excessive compared to observed rates of global GHG emissions….’

So why do climate scientists continue to use climate models they know are not producing correct results? I believe it's because:

1. They want to keep their jobs. Convincing the government and benefactors that there's an emergency is more likely to keep their grants and funding flowing.

3. They jumped on the catastrophic global warming gravy train a long time ago. They don't want to admit they were wrong all these years.

Note: 1979 is used as the starting time on the graphs because that's the first year satellite temperature observations became available.

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1 Dr. Spencer is definitely knowledgeable about all this. But there are two things I'd like to see him address that he hasn't.

First, from many things I've read, we are very haphazard about our "climate measuring," in that we are very careless about collecting lots of our data from places where temperatures are contaminated by buildings, pavements and other things that artificially affect them. I would think that real honest-to-God scientists would be very finicky about making sure their measurements were taken from places where there as few as possible factors that could create "noise" to contaminate their data; but it is obvious that they aren't.

Another thing is that it seems to me that we are dealing with timeframes that are, in the long run, too short to matter a great deal. When you consider that something like the Medieval Warm period lasted around four hundred or more years, you need to take into account that it was significant to the people who lived during it -- very significant indeed -- but was it really significant if you are going to take measurements from some point in time during the middle of it and start saying "Wow, the world is warming, we'd better tell Al Gore?" For that, you'd want to know temperatures before the start and after the end and see how they stack up.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at January 14, 2026 07:05 PM (Kg0VH)

2 Excellent points both Dana.
On the first, Dr. Spencer is aware of the problems with temperature data; he's quite chummy with AnthonyWatts, who did the survey on the surface stations to begin with. But remember Spencer runs the UAH satellite division and his data comes primarily from satellite surveillance rather than the surface stations most warmists rely on so heavily. The satellite data is far superior because it is not dependent on it's siting and whatnot.
Watts survey can be found at www.surfacestations.org and it's a hoot to look at the photos provided; stations wedged between two huge air conditioning compressors, cited next to steaming wastewater treatment plants, on blacktops in parking lots, etc.
I would add Dr. Spencer wrote a paper a while back where he concluded it is just this sort of temperature bias in the data that accounts for ALL modern time climate warming we've observed - even the satellite data, because it is waste heat being observed from industrial facilities and from blacktops and deforestation rather than from co2. Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. always argued this was the case (he was monomaniacal on the subject) and I had some long conversation with Pielks when he had his website. He was professor emeritus at UC Boulder.
Your second point is also spot on. A single point in time tells us nothing, nor do even a couple of decades. It's the long-term trends you have to look at. For instance if we were to start our temperature graph with the Little Ice Age we'd see an enormous spike in temperatures - if we start after the Dalton Minimum we would see a far gentler increase. In no way would we understand it if we didn't know we were coming out of a cold period in an interglacial.

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Winning

Timothy Birdnow

Wages are up, inflation is down, and America is feared if not respected around the world.

Tired of winning yet?

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A Fool and His MOney

Timothy Birdnow

Inflation is caused by loose monetary policy and nothing more. How did this guy get to be a CEO of a major financial institution like this without understanding that?

Jamie Dimon slams DOJ probe of Jerome Powell, warning investigation could stoke inflation

As CEO of a big international bank (JPMorgan Chase)Dimon is beholden to the ruling class and is opposed to MAGA. Also, a guy like this is old buddies with Jerome Powell and anyone else at the Fed as a business necessity and will work to cement that relationship; administrations come and go but the Fed and the bureaucracy are eternal. And no doubt Dimon would like a cushy seat on the board of the Federal Reserve himself some day.

Remember Morgan Chase was deep in the DEI stuff. They were at the vanguard of the debanking business a few years ago, for example. So anything this man says is suspect.

Inflation is almost always a monetary issue; the Federal Reserve prints too much money, floods the economy with dollars that have no backing and thus it takes more of them to buy stuff. Yes, prices can sometimes go up without inflation, such as when there is a a temporary shortage, as in when, say, an oil refinery blows up, but it is not something across the board by and large. Across the board inflation is a direct result of too much money chasing too few goods and services and that is caused by injecting too much cash into the economy. Dimon knows this, or should.

I so often wonder how such mediocre people wind up in such positions of high authority. But that's what happens when you have government with it's enormous thumb on the scales all the time. Government invariably breeds mediocrity.

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Clintons Refuse to Testify

Timothy Birdnow

Did anyone expect anything else?

Clintons Refuse to Testify before Congress in Epstein Probe; Comer pursues Contempt Charges

The thing is the Clintons are framing this as a DEFENSE OF LIBERTY and acting as if this is a way of resisting The MAN.

The Jews invented the word Chutzpah with these two in mind.

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Racketeering in North Carolina (that's Sheriff Buck, uh, with a B)

Timothy Birdnow

Wouldn't this be a crime?

Democrat Says Sanctuary Sheriff Threatened Her To Kill Pro-ICE Bill

From the DAily Caller:

North Carolina State Rep. Carla Cunningham, a Charlotte Democrat with a well-established independent streak, was intensely pressured by her party to vote against a July 2025 override of Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s veto of House Bill 318, legislation requiring sheriffs to honor ICE detainers. She is now alleging that the sheriff of Mecklenburg County attempted extortion when he suggested that she’d "get hurt” if she helped Republicans pass the bill.

"One of the first things he said was that the citizens of Mecklenburg County would come at me,” Cunningham told the Daily Caller News Foundation, speaking about her phone call with Sheriff Garry McFadden, a Democrat who has long opposed working with ICE agents.

Methinks perhaps the Department of Justice should "come at" Mr. McFadden.

According to North Carolina law § 14-16.7:

14-16.7. Threats against executive, legislative, or court officers.

(a) Any person who knowingly and willfully makes any threat to inflict serious bodily injury upon or to kill any legislative officer, executive officer, or court officer, or who knowingly and willfully makes any threat to inflict serious bodily injury upon or kill any other person as retaliation against any legislative officer, executive officer, or court officer because of the exercise of that officer's duties, shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished as a Class I felon.

(b) Any person who knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail any letter, writing, or other document containing a threat to commit an offense described in subsection (a) of this section shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished as a Class I felon. (1981, c. 822, s. 1; 1993, c. 539, s. 1126; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c); 1999-398, s. 1; 2014-119, s. 6(b).)

That's why Sheriff Lucas Buck here couched it the way he did - so he couldn't be accused of making an overt threat, but anyone who knows anything about, say, racketeering, knows what this guy meant.

Remember this is a DEMOCRAT making the allegations.

Util serious punishment is doled out for these crimes they will not just keep happening but will increase in size and number.

I caught Jesse Kelly last night and he was saying that about the Bill/Hillary Clinton refusal to testify before Congress. As Kelly pointed out the Left does this stuff with impunity because they always get away with it. It's time for that to change. Kelly was right; if they get away with it when we are in power they are going to go hog wild, punishing our side ruthlessly, when back in. The only way to stop stuff like this is to stop them at the beginning like they should have stopped Hitler at Nuremberg (a little Godfather quote).

So this sheriff needs to be put through the ringer over this. You can't be using your position to make veiled threats to force state legislators to vote the way you want. That is racketeering.

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January 13, 2026

Powell Criminally Referred

Timothy Birdnow

Jerome Powell has been referred for criminal prosecution by Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna for lying to Congress about renovations to their palatial office building under construction at present.

The article gives Mr. Powell's reaction:

"This new threat is not about my testimony last June or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings. It is not about Congress’s oversight role; the Fed through testimony and other public disclosures made every effort to keep Congress informed about the renovation project. Those are pretexts,” Powell said.

"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President. This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions — or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation,” he added.

"I have served at the Federal Reserve under four administrations, Republicans and Democrats alike. In every case, I have carried out my duties without political fear or favor, focused solely on our mandate of price stability and maximum employment. Public service sometimes requires standing firm in the face of threats. I will continue to do the job the Senate confirmed me to do, with integrity and a commitment to serving the American people,” he said.

Interesting; Powell's term of office is almost up, so why would the Trump Administration want to pick this fight now, when it hands the Democrats a political weapon? It doesn't make any sense if you assume Powell's argument is correct.

A good sized number of Republicans joined the chorus of complainers, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

The assumption by the media and so many of these Republicans (including John Kennedy of Louisiana) is that this was a political move, and not an anti-corruption action. But the fact is the Federal Reserve has been a tool for the Democrats for a long time and has not been non-partisan as claimed but has actively taken steps to protect the Ruling Class all alone. Just look at how Powell waited to cut rates until after the election of 2020 for instance; he clearly was manipulating the public to the best of his ability to remove Donald Trump.

Powell is dirty and that's why there is so much screaming, even from the GOP, about this. Washington itself is a filthy, filthy place.

Increasingly this reminds me of the feud between Andrew Jackson and Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States. Jackson wanted to close the BOUS and Biddle was horrified he might lose his power, so he purposely tried to crash the U.S. economy to hurt Jackson's re-election chances. He didn't; Jackson won and took out the corrupt and useless Bank of the United States. We were free of that particular economic tyranny for several generations, until they created the Federal Reserve (note they didn't call the Fed a bank when they did it, knowing the distaste the public still had for central banks). Now we are supposed to believe the Fed is some purely neutral organization, laboring selflessly to give us all a better life. But have they? Since their inception they caused the Great Depression and a series of lesser depression aka recessions and have bankrupted the country by printing too much money. Inflation is almost entirely on them, for instance, and since they print all the money Congress can want it frees our representatives to be completely dissolute in their spending habits.

So now we are being told lying to Congress and wasting a couple of billion bucks is fine if it is the Fed doing it.

Time to rein that corrupt body in, if you ask me.

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January 12, 2026

Frameup

Timothy Birdnow

Here is an analysis of the memo that got the ball rolling on framing Trump and how it was always a partisan attack.

From John Solomon at Just the News.

I won't excerpt it - go there and read it yourself.

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Socialism; the Nosferatu of Socio-Economics

Timothy Birdnow

Socialism is slavery

He's right; it says everything, including your body and mind, belong to the state and you just get yourself as a favor. Your labor is for the benefit of others. How is that NOT slavery?

And it is a doctrine of demons, leading to corruption (since those in the political class are the only ones who really benefit), hatred, poverty, and suffering of every imaginable sort.

The only good thing about socialism is that it shows how important the individual is; it's an object lesson.

Of course it's always attractive because those who have not, and even those who have less, take satisfaction in dragging down those who have a lot. And at first, while there is still plenty of residual wealth before the socialist program destroys it, the poor and lower middle class see some benefits with things like guaranteed employment and medical care and the like. But it hollows those things out too in time.

I once read a true story, a ship's log, about a bunch of seamen stranded in the Arctic. Stuck in the ice the men built igloos and had to live in them for the winter, awaiting the spring thaw. Of course, being at sea there was no firewood, so the men, who by this point were essentially mutineers, dismissed the captain's efforts to stop them and they broke up their ship for firewood. The captain tried to reason with them "when the thaw comes we'll be at sea with no boat" but all they could think about was how nice it would be to be warm.

I never finished the story - it was in a book at the main library downtown and my time ran out. But they had some Eskimo workers with them and they had their families aboard. These Eskimos (I refuse to call them Innuit in the modern fashion since Innuit are just one tribe of Eskimo) came to the captain begging for help; he was the only guy with a gun. Seems the crewmen were getting mighty hungry, and were eyeing the children with very bad intent.

This is rather like socialism; you break up your boat when the seas freeze then start thinking about eating the children. It wasn't so at first; all seemed well. But in time the situation grows more and more dire and people begin doing things they would never dream of doing.

Socialism is Noso Feratus, the Bringer of Plagues. (Nosferatu is now associated with vampires because of the famous movie by that name, and that name was chosen because it was fitting. The guy who made Nosferatu couldn't get permission from Bram Stroker's widow to use "Dracula" so he renamed his vampire Nosferatu, a corruption of Noso Feratus, Romanian for bringer of plagues.)

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White Girls Gone Wild

Timothy Birdnow

Why do white bitches be crazy?

Leftist Women Get if Possible Crazier and I Love Naomi Wolf's Theory about Why

Wolf's theory is that women have gotten exactly what they set out to create - a bunch of soy-influenced, testosterone free beta males who kowtow to them, but their desires are for real men even while they hate them because real men won't bow to them. So they like to go to protests to be arrested and confronted by just such real men.

She may have something there.

I used to despise Naomi Wolf but she seems to have grown up some from her radical feminism and apparently sees the modern variant of feminism, at least, for what it is. Nobody benefits from it. One would think the feminist women would, but it is something wholly at odds with Nature and Nature's God and the feminists are the most unhappy of all people.

That's also why we are seeing so many transsexual murderers these days; they too are swimming against the stream, going against what God made them. Feminists are no different.

So it may well be these crazy white women are secretly trying to be close to the thing they have long sought to destroy.

As the author of the piece says at the end, women without men go nuts; they have nothing to constrain them (One could argue men without women will often do likewise, but in a very different way). Male and female He made them, as the Bible says, and God set different roles for the sexes. Go against those at your peril.

BTW I was watching Naked and Afraid last night and the woman was a white lesbian while the guy was a young asian fellow. The man was very nice and he showed a lot of class while this lesbian chick was NASTY to him and actually blamed him for her insulting him because he "made her feel like she did when her father threw her out of the house" when the guy did nothing. The fact is this chick was just nuts, and the guy stayed in while she wound up tapping out rather than have him anywhere around her. He showed a lot of class at the end and even said "I still think she's a good person" despite her having insulted and mocked him in every way imaginable. These are the white bitches who be crazy, and she was probably thrown out of her house as a teenager for being so nasty to her father as well, not because she was gay as she consoled herself. It was no doubt her behavior, not her sexuality.

I have no doubt this chick hates Donald Trump and any other alpha male, even while deep down wishing for an alpha boyfriend. She eschewed men in general precisely because she feared them and longed for her daddy's approval but didn't get it because she was so nasty.

I think Wolf - a lesbian herself - knows of what she speaks.

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1 Anything I've read recently by Wolf makes quite a bit of sense to me. I haven't read any of her early stuff.

I have three -- previously four -- lesbians in my life: my older daughter and her partner, and my wife's daughter and her (now late) partner. I refuse to use the terms wife or husband for their partners. My daughter has been battling cancer for a number of years now and as a result we don't see her and her partner as often as we used to. I love my daughter unreserveadly but frankly could do without her partner.

But it's my wife's daughter who is the real kook. She was visiting us a couple years ago when the thing about babies being able to sense what their real "gender" was, was a big thing, and she sat on our couch and ran through the whole nine yards of it with a perfectly straight face. Neither my wife nor I said a word, but I think you can guess what I was thinking and so could my wife. I was ready to say "Excuse me while I go grill the unicorn steaks now." After she finally left for the motel (unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, our house doesn't have a guest room), my wife thanked me loudly for staying quiet, and I told her she owed me one!

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at January 13, 2026 01:00 AM (6H7jI)

2 Babies don't know what sex they are; that is the kookiest thing I've ever heard! That differentiation comes later as they learn they have penises or vaginas. Sex isn't a "feeling" it's a biological reality.
And if they "know" what sex they are from birth, how is it they know and nature is wrong in the direction it takes their bodies? Isn't it perhaps the kids who are wrong and not nature?
Liberals are SOOOO messed up!

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at January 13, 2026 08:21 AM (umJ+Y)

3 I think that whole business about kids wanting to change their "gender" is just another example of leftists wanting to destroy families. I'm very happy to see that a number of states are not allowing this sort of medical crap to be undertaken, and I also hope that the whole thing will eventually die down and we can get back to the way it used to be, where "gay" people were allowed to live "under the radar," as it were, as long as they didn't push things.

I'm also hoping that this "transsexual" nonsense will die down. There has been way too much violence committed in its name, and I think you know what I mean. Audrey Hale for one; the kid who shot up Ascension Church in Minneapolis; the kid who shot Charlie Kirk...

And all this "men wanting to play women's sports." While watching TV News tonight it popped up again, and I had a brilliant idea: I told my wife we should tell these guys "Well, by all means you can play women's sports, but you have to leave your dicks in the locker rooms." She thought it was a fantastic idea. I also said if necessary we'll station Bruno in the locker room with large pruning shears if necessary.

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Jake the Fake

Timothy Birdnow

Hmmm...I don't recall hearing Jake Tapper demand the prosecution of the man who shot Ashli Babbitt.

Jake Tapper Deflects from Accusation of Disservice to Law Enforcement by Bringing up January 6

Funny how Tapper just happened to have those clips ready to run, isn't it?

FTA:

Tapper then responded by playing a clip from the Capitol riot, during which over 100 law enforcement officers were injured, questioning if they would have been justified in using deadly force. Tapper also noted President Donald Trump issued a blanket 2025. A Capitol Police officer shot and killed one of those who stormed the building.

The fact is had any of those officers been in any real danger on J6 they would have been justified using lethal force and Tapper knows it too. The fact is none were in real danger. Yes, there was scuffling with the police but no weapons. A car is a quarter ton weapon of death in the wrong hands.

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Upside Down Flag in Ferguson

Timothy Birdnow

Postal workers in Ferguson, Missouri turned the U.S. flag upside down, likely in some sort of protest against the Trump Administration or against ICE.

Neighbors in the community were very disturbed upon seeing the upside-down flag, which is a symbol of national distress. Increasingly the Left uses it as a form of protest.

There are strict rules regarding the handling of the flag and turning it upside down is an abuse of that flag in cases of pure partisanship.

Locals said they saw a group of postal workers arrive early and quickly turn the flag over.

The U.S. post office is a corporation that is wholly owned by the U.S. government and as such is subject to all rules and regulations of any government bureaucracy. Heads need to roll over this.

Where were these people when Biden let in millions of illegal aliens to run amok? They didn't turn the flag over then. They didn't turn the flag over when the Biden Administration was spying on Americans, or when it was strongarming social media outlets to censor Americans, nor when they tried to frame the President.. Where were they when the election of 2020 was stolen?

None of that warranted turning the flag over yet now we need it done because the Trump Administration is actually following the laws duly passed BY CONGRESS and supported by the American People.

This is disgraceful.

Ferguson was the birthplace of Black Lives Matter and the center of the rioting and looting that occurred after the justified shooting of "Big" Mike Brown, the man who beat up a store clerk and stole cigars then tried to beat up a police officer who attempted to get him to walk on the sidewalk rather than the middle of the street (blocking traffic). "Hands up! Don't Shoot!" was always a lie but it was the rallying cry to start na;tionwide rioting and this is more of the same sorts of lies, by government workers no less. Maybe it's time to close the USPS altogether.

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January 11, 2026

E-Mails of the American Color Revolution

Timothy Birdnow

Here they are all the names of the Deep Staters and the damning e-mails confirming there was indeed a conspiracy to overthrow the rule of law and the legitimate government of the United States. The '20 election was indeed a CIA-run Color Revolution.

The signators of the Hunter Biden laptop letter claiming it was "Russian disinformation" all knew it was a lie but agreed to help to keep Trump out of office.

The CIA overthrew the U.S. government. the one elected by the People, and then the illegal DOJ went after anyone who dared protest or complain much like Maduro did in Venezuela. Is it any wonder the Democrats are hopping mad at Maduro's arrest? They figure it could be Barack Obama next - or any one of them.

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Walz, Ellison Referred for Charges

Timothy Birdnow

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is sending a criminal referrral to the Justice Department for both Minnesota Governor Tim "the boy tampon" Walz and Keith "Keel all the infidels" Ellison, saying there is enough evidence to indict both men for the daycare fraud scandal in the North Star state. (Apparently it's a red star state now.)

Granted a referral is just that and has no legal weight, but it is a strong suggestion for the DOJ to follow through with a major investigation and potential grand jury empanelment.

This scandal isn't going away. And now California is being investigated for a similar scandal.

For years, nay, decades the GOP feared exposing such thigs lest their own people get caught and also to avoid a knock-down-drag-out fight with the Democrats and the Media. But Trump is a different breed of cat and now what was hidden is being exposed, as the Bible suggests all things hidden eventually will be.

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No Dark Energy?

Timothy Birdnow

If true this would eliminate the need for Dark Energy, and that would mean that it would eliminate the need for Dark Matter as well. Neither have ever been discovered but both have been used to explain why the current models of cosmic acceleration do not work. Dark Energy was devised to explain the expansion while Dark Matter was a balancer to explain why the Universe isn't expanding even faster.

A new theory of gravity could explain cosmic acceleration without dark energy

When the Michaelson-Morley experiment failed to show any changes in speed for a beam of light going in opposite directions (in fact it was stranger than that - two beams going in vastly different directions were merge at exactly the same time) Albert Einstein proposed just trashing the theory of an aether, which was a massless, invisible substance through which light propagated, according to 19th century physics. Einstein argued that there never was any proof of an aether, and we should work on the assumption it does not exist until there IS proof of it. In the process Einstein explained the results of the MM experiment, in the process making the universe a much more complicated and wonderous place.

MM were trying to see which direction the Earth was moving relative to the aether, and they split a single beam of light, then reflected it off mirrors in opposite directions to see which arrived first at a detector. They always arrived at the same time, no matter what. Einstein's explanation of what was happening revolutionized physics.

I've always argued that Dark Matter and Dark Energy are much like the concept of the aether; they seem to make established science work but there has never been any real proof of either. They are both there to simply balance the books so the standard models don't break down.

At any rate, here is the summary of the new theory. Whether it's correct or not is anybody's guess, but at least we have people challenging the ossified "consensus":

Universität Bremen

Summary:

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study suggests this mysterious ingredient may not be necessary after all. Using an extended version of Einstein’s gravity, researchers found that cosmic acceleration can arise naturally from a more general geometry of spacetime. The result hints at a radical new way to understand why the universe keeps speeding up.

Einstein's theory of gravity argued that gravity is not a force in the traditional sense but rather a change in the geometric shape of the universe. It is often referred to as the rubber sheet. Drop a bowling ball on a rubber sheet and it stretched and indents. Now try rolling a marble past the bowling ball; it will curve it's path, and perhaps even start revolving around the ball. Einstein was proven right on this too because it explains the divergence of the planet Mercury when it passed near the Sun and the same holds true for other bodies and stars as they get close to the Sun; the Sun's gravity bends the light as it passes close in what is known as gravity lensing.

Anyway Dark Matter and Dark Energy seem to me to be rather Medieval; they are complications added to our understanding of the Universe based not on any sort of real data or observation but merely to make what we believe to be true work. Instead of challenging our assumptions science has created a cheat. Cheats usually don't really tell us anything.

At any rate most scientists still think gravity is a force and is thus driven by an exchange particle which they nave named a graviton. There is no proof of gravitons, I might add, no matter how much they use them in Star Trek. But scientists believe there has to be a reason WHY mass bends spacetime and thus a graviton or something similar seems necessary to them. Einstein just dismissed such things as unprovable and preferred to just work with what he had.

From the article:

Because of this limitation, the team at ZARM and their Romanian collaborators explored an alternative idea. Their results, published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, rely on an extension of general relativity (GR) known as Finsler gravity. This approach has been developeded over recent years and uses a broader description of spacetime geometry.

Unlike the standard formulation of GRT, Finsler gravity can describe the gravitational behavior of gases more precisely. This difference turns out to be crucial when modeling the large-scale behavior of the universe.

Accelerated Expansion Without Dark Energy

When the researchers applied Finsler gravity to the Friedmann equations, they uncovered a striking result. The modified equations, known as the Finsler-Friedmann equations, naturally predict an accelerating universe even in empty space. No extra assumptions are required, and no additional "dark energy" term needs to be added by hand.

"This is an exciting indication that we may be able to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe, at least in parts, without dark energy, on the basis of a generalized spacetime geometry," says Christian Pfeifer, ZARM physicist and member of the research team. "This new geometric point of view on the dark energy problem opens up new possibilities for better understanding the laws of nature in the cosmos."

Without Dark Energy the need to balance it with Dark Matter (which is assumed to be keeping the Universe from expanding much faster than it is) certainly subsides, if not downright disappears.

At any rate this will take us no closer to artificial gravity than the original Einsteinian equations, but it may help restore our understanding of the universe, and that is a big thing. I fear physics has gotten lost in it's own navel for some time now.

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January 10, 2026

Casey Anthony Supports ICE Attacker

Timothy Birdnow

The kooks are out in force over this Good shooting. Now no less a personage than Casey Anthony, the woman who probably murdered her child and thought to make herself a big celebrity based on it, has come out condemning J.D. Vance for stating the ICE agent who shot Good was within his legal right.

So now we have a complete joke of a woman, one who at best cared little about the death of her child, jumping into the fray on the side of the leftists. These are the people who promote this stupidity.

America is becoming a joke. Sadly the joke is on us.

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Capitol Cop Calls for Murder of ICE Agents

Timothy Birdnow

Michael Fanooch, er, Fanone, the obnoxious Capitol Cop who found fame by acting as a star witness in the J6 Star Chamber Committee, has shown his true colors. He's calling for anti-Ice protesters to shoot federal agents when they show up to do their jobs, the jobs Americans asked them to do.

From X:

Andrew Kolvet

@AndrewKolvet

Michael Fanone, the Democrats' insufferable foul-mouthed J6 mascot, says citizens need to start shooting ICE agents.

"It’s time for the American people to organize and to utilize their Second Amendment right to protect themselves from what is clearly becoming unaccountable and lawless agency that’s killing Americans.”

Fanone is trying to incite the murder of federal law enforcement for doing their jobs.

Arrest this man.

Arrest him indeed. Or perhaps we should take his advice only redirect it. Somehow I think he'd change his mind if the threat was being made against HIM and his peeps and not ICE. This man was supposedly a law enforcement officer; he knows better than to incite violence in this fashion.

But this jackass cares more for illegal aliens, CRIMINAL illegal aliens, then for his own countrymen. He's a disgrace.

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Capitol Cop Calls for Murder of ICE Agents

Timothy Birdnow

From X:

Andrew Kolvet

@AndrewKolvet

Michael Fanone, the Democrats' insufferable foul-mouthed J6 mascot, says citizens need to start shooting ICE agents.

"It’s time for the American people to organize and to utilize their Second Amendment right to protect themselves from what is clearly becoming unaccountable and lawless agency that’s killing Americans.”

Fanone is trying to incite the murder of federal law enforcement for doing their jobs.

Arrest this man.