Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a tab of wealth and taste ...
.@People magazine rebranding as @HorriblePeople. https://t.co/dFGSg6fPEa
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) January 13, 2026
Ed: DespicaPeople.
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NY Post: Cartoonist, author and political commentator Scott Adams died Tuesday after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 68.
His ex-wife and caregiver, Shelly, made the announcement on Adams’ livestream Tuesday morning.
“Unfortunately, this isn’t good news,” Shelly said. “Of course, he waited ’til just before the show started, but he’s not with us anymore.”
Ed: The NYP has the video clip with Shelly's announcement. Keep her and all of Scott's family and friends in prayer today, and pray for the repose of his soul.
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This is gross, @nytimes pic.twitter.com/KkC9u2NCiQ
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) January 13, 2026
Ed: Leave it to the NYT to make one snarky comment (about a poll!) the central event in Adams' life, while overlooking murder and terrorism in the eulogy subhead for Qassem Suleimani. Maybe we can call them the DespicaTimes?
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Scott Johnson at Power Line: Joe Thompson has reportedly resigned from his position in the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota. Over his years in the office he served as head of the Fraud and Public Corruption section by designation of former United States Attorney Andrew Luger, as Acting United States Attorney by appointment of President Trump, and as First Assistant United States Attorney by designation of current United States Attorneuy Dan Rosen. ...
For reasons I have stated repeatedly on Power Line and elsewhere, by my lights Thompson is a hometown hero. We owe him a debt of gratitude and convey our best wishes for success in his future endeavors.
Ed: Absolutely. Scott has often written at length about Thompson's determination and excellence. However, he's not the only one stepping down in that office. Read on.
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Alpha News: Alpha News contacted the U.S. Attorney’s Office to inquire about Thompson’s resignation. However, an auto-reply message said, “The U.S. Attorney’s Office is currently without a PIO. While this box is monitored, responses may be delayed.”
The New York Times said that Thompson and other prosecutors left the office over the Department of Justice’s reported push to investigate Renee Nicole Good’s wife and its alleged reluctance to investigate the ICE agent who shot and killed Good in Minneapolis.
However, sources familiar with the situation told Alpha News the federal government does plan to investigate the ICE agent.
Ed: I don't think the DoJ should shy away from an honest investigation of the shooting. If it's justified, an honest investigation will establish that, and the videos seem pretty conclusive. The same is true about Rebecca Good, who clearly participated in the obstruction and then can be heard telling Rene Good to flee the scene. If that's not enough to get a grand jury indictment, so be it, but there's no reason to avoid an honest investigation in her case, either.
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Joy Reid says Renee Good was trained, part of a network that's using "white bodies" as tools to impede ICE pic.twitter.com/l6vB8woHUa
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 13, 2026
Ed: What are the odds that Reid's eventual NY DespicaTimes' obit will mention her racist comments in the subhead? She has a far longer track record of those than Adams ever did.
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Kira Davis: It is hard to believe that anyone could watch the full video and all the angles and not at least admit she was where she shouldn’t have been doing something she, by law, should not have been doing. Even if you don’t believe her ultimate ending was deserved, that much, at least, seems obvious.
But it is not obvious to a wide swath of our population. They are not looking at Good with eyes to see the whole picture around her. Their hearts are already turned toward chaos, and they love the chaos. The chaos they see in her face feels like love, gentleness, the warmth of collectivism. The filter through which they observe the photo is like that soft ‘vaseline’ lens they use in old Star Trek shows. It is romanticizing. ...
I see a broken woman with medicated eyes, standing next to another broken woman who called herself Good’s ‘wife’ and yet joined her in abandoning the children they care for. They did that in order to throw themselves in front of officers of the law to protect the pedophiles and rapists they are deporting. I see a very crowded medicine cabinet.
I see emptiness and rage and disappointment. I see a woman who doesn’t see the world with clarity.
She died how she lived…in a haze of confusion and perverted intentions.
Ed: The Left has been romanticizing violence and insurrection for decades. It always ends up being the maladjusted who get sacrificed for The Cause. That's exactly what Reid is talking about in the previous clip. Be sure to read all of Kira's essay, which is excellent, as usual.
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https://t.co/XsoqfUNW8y pic.twitter.com/Sut3fVPdf6
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) January 13, 2026
Ed: DespicaPost.
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Kat Rosenfeld at The Free Press: Rebecca’s last words to her wife have become a Rorschach test of sorts. An ICE agent had already told Good to get out of her car, making “drive, baby, drive” an act of explicit noncompliance. On the right, commentators seized on this as a particularly potent, if tragic, example of just what happens when resistance liberal fooling around turns into finding out—including Kristi Noem, who in a press conference said that Good had been “stalking and impeding” ICE throughout the day and “weaponized her vehicle” when she attempted to flee the scene. On the left, meanwhile, the fact that Good was trying to drive away only added fuel to the fire of existing outrage: Since when is summary execution considered an appropriate penalty for failing to comply, especially for a 37-year-old mom in an SUV who had committed no crime? And isn’t this America, where protesting authoritarian tyranny is not just a protected right, but a proud tradition—the origin story of every freedom we currently enjoy?
The notion that Good would be able to drive away from this scene just as easily as she drove into it—and that the armed agents commanding her to exit her vehicle could be safely ignored—is as understandable as it is misguided, the product of a world in which activism and political conflict have become Disneyfied.
What was once an organized, strategic movement with high stakes and concrete political aims has evolved today into a sort of intramural sport for all comers, from influencers to wine moms to aging boomers who prefer protest marches to pickleball. And if the ease of participation has swelled the ranks of activists to include anyone with an Instagram account, it has also given the entire enterprise a distinct veneer of unreality, like a theme park populated by actors who spend their days LARPing as cops or cowboys and then retire at night to a dorm where they eat pizza and hook up with the guy who plays their nemesis. In 2026, political protest—and even political violence—might feel like a party, or a movie, but the one thing it rarely feels is serious, until it’s too late.
Ed: It's astounding how many people think they can ignore law enforcement and lawful commands at a traffic stop. Almost all of them are on the Left, except for "sovereign citizens," who defy easy placement on the political spectrum. I do wonder, though, whether the Left has merged with the sovereign-citizen movement when it comes to their street actions.
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Ed: (NSFW) Chris Rock made this hilarious "public service announcement" skit twenty years ago or so. Maybe the Left should seriously consider taking this advice more seriously. I had a friend send this to me today, and ... the timing is perfect.
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Politico: President Donald Trump threatened Minnesota with a “DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION” on Tuesday, accusing the state’s Democrats of weaponizing the ICE shooting of Minneapolis protester Renee Good last week to distract from widespread fraud he argues they’ve long abetted in the state.
“Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums, and other deadly criminals too dangerous to even mention,” he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Ed: Not the people of Minnesota. The people of the Twin Cities do, however, and they determine who runs the state.
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🚨 HOLY SMOKES. SCOTUS Justice Sam Alito asks ACLU lawyer "what is a man and a woman?" and they DON'T HAVE A DEFINITION.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 13, 2026
Alito's response is perfect.
ALITO: What does it mean to be a man or woman?
ACLU: We do not have a definition for the Court.
ALITO: How can a court… pic.twitter.com/E5C9zX35NN
ACLU: We do not have a definition for the Court.
ALITO: How can a court determine whether there's discrimination on the basis of s*x, without KNOWING what s*x means?!
Omg, you can't make this crap up. Seriously.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. SCOTUS Justice Sam Alito just EVISCERATED the attorney's argument for a transgender male trying to compete in girl's sports
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 13, 2026
Every word. Masterful.
ALITO: Let's say a school has a boy and girl track team. A male student with no puberty blockers or female… pic.twitter.com/Doejb48Jg4
ALITO: Let's say a school has a boy and girl track team. A male student with no puberty blockers or female hormones, or surgeries, says, 'I AM A WOMAN. That's who I am.' Can the school say, 'No, you can't participate?'
ATTORNEY: Yes...
ALITO: Is that person not a WOMAN in your understanding?! They SAY they're a woman. Are they not a woman, then?
ATTORNEY: Well, I'd respect their pronouns...
ALITO: You seem to be saying the school can discriminate on the basis of transgender status! If this person is a "transgender woman" and is barred from the girls' team, that person is being subjected to differential treatment based on transgender status, right?
Sam Alito is awesome🔥🔥🔥
Ed: From reports today, it sounds like the attorneys attempting to defend male access to female sports and spaces showed up entirely unprepared for the argument. John has more at the link. And so was one Supreme Court justice, it seems ...
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🚨 BREAKING: DEI Justice Ketanji Jackson is DEFENDING men in women's sports with an utter word salad at the Supreme Court
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 13, 2026
"Is treating someone transgender, but does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the… pic.twitter.com/QTkpru6EqO
Ed: Yikes.
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A Final Message From Scott Adams pic.twitter.com/QKX6b0MFZA
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) January 13, 2026
Ed: Rest in peace, Scott, and in the loving arms of the Lord.
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