Maggie's Farm

Why don't we fall out of bed while we sleep?

The Strange Power of Laughter - An anthropologist explores laughter as a
far more complex phenomenon than simple delight—reflecting on its
surprising power to disturb and disrupt.

The uses of apophasis

Professor: Gender studies made me realize X-Men’s Wolverine is ‘toxic’ masculinity

Prof says 'all hell broke loose' at Harvard after his study found no racial bias in police shootings

Hyperpolitics

‘I’m already done with version 2.0’: Inside federal agencies where workers fear for jobs under Trump’s administration

Trump is everywhere again. The president’s first week showed a stark contrast with his predecessor.

Trump 2.0: A Shockwave of Change in Just Six Days - Trump 2.0 storms
into office, dismantling the old guard and unleashing a whirlwind of
action aimed at reshaping America’s political landscape.

Colombia Offers Presidential Plane To Repatriate Illegal Aliens After Trump Slaps Country With Sweeping Sanctions

Another Hoax Blows Up! Democrat Gov Pritzker, Fake News Media Falsely
Claim ICE Agents Raided Chicago Elementary School – Here’s What Really
Happened

Does China have a cheap AI?

Things Worth Remembering: ‘We Fell Morally Ill’

5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know, Our physics expert picks his
top-five equations, plus a scheme to supply US power needs with a
bucket of baseballs. Thanks, Einstein!

Dreaming About Going Back to the Land? I Did It.

Will I ever be able to walk again? JULIE BURCHILL on facing life in a wheelchair

Powerline's week in Cartoons

 What the Left Did to Me and My Family - For the past five years, I have been fighting to defeat critical race theory and DEI. Christopher F. Rufo

Media Elites Complain They’re Exhausted After Just Four Days of Trump Presidency

Guardian:  Trump 2.0 is already assailed by lawsuits, but it’s small comfort to America’s defeated liberals

CNN heaps shock praise on Donald Trump as he completes first week in office

Former Politico Employers: Politico Editors Buried Our Scoops About the Hunter Biden Laptop

'He shouldn't have done that': Donald Trump criticizes Ukraine president over war

Rubio Outlines 'Sweeping Change' In Cable To U.S. Diplomats Worldwide

U.S. Army and Marine Have Now Arrived at the Southern Border to Stop Illegal Immigrant Invasion

"Deportation Flights Begin": White House Announces First Jumbo Jet Of Illegals Departs America

Bulk Carrier Paralyzed On Lake Erie As Ice Coverage Exceeds 50-Year Trend

Limitations and Loopholes in the EU AI Act and AI Liability Directives:
What This Means for the European Union, the United States, and Beyond

How the NBC News Hit Piece Against Pete Hegseth Just Got Worse, But Not in the Way You Think

VDH:  Maga agonistes - On the new president’s plans.

Nate Silver Asks: ‘Are We Entering a Conservative Golden Age?'

No. Just normal and centrist

 TGIF: I Solemnly Swear - DONALD TRUMP ATTEMPTS TO KISS MELANIA TRUMP AT HIS INAUGURATION. Trump
took the oath, Biden pardoned Fauci, Ross Ulbricht walked free, China
cut the cord, TikTok got more time, Kemi ate lunch, the Constitution got
a fact-check, and much more. By Nellie Bowles

" As tempting as it is to begin a regular feature called “Winning
Chronicles,” I’ll have to resist because I don’t think I can keep up
with Trump."

Always Bet Against the Davos Man

 Trump’s ICE raids turn up pedos, gangbangers,and NY-based suspected terrorist as 538 migrants arrested

NYT Article on Trump's Inauguration Shows the Media Still Doesn't Get It

The Endangerment Finding: It Looks Like Trump 2.0 Will Be Much More Fun Than Trump 1.0

Milei Gives Blistering WEF Speech: Slams DEI, Says Woke Ideology "Cancer", And Calls For Limited Government

Canadian common sense

Revoking the Lying 51's security clearances: Trump was more than justified

New Secretary of State Marco Rubio Headed to Panama

Bill Maher Is Turning Purple

America Loves an Anti-Elite Elite

Trump executive orders smash leftist pieties that kept America paralyzed

Team Trump Packed a Month's Worth of Work Into Its First 2 1/2 Days

 In Two Days, Trump Answered More Reporter Questions Than Biden Did In Four Years
– And Without A Cheat Sheet

The End of DEI? Plus. . .Coleman Hughes on Trump’s color-blind
agenda. Plus: Is the president’s meme coin a scam? Kat Rosenfield on
‘Severance.’ Ben Kawaller on San Francisco’s moderate turn. Eli Lake’s
new podcast. And more.

The Trump we wanted - He's finally saying, "You're fired."

Trump Ended Birthright Citizenship, but Legal Challenges Are Doomed to Fail

The 14th Amendment Protected the Civil Rights of Freed Slaves, Not Illegal Aliens

All Federal DEI Offices To Be Closed By Wednesday EOD, Workers Placed On Paid Leave: White House

How the Media Broke the Immigration Debate - What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems?

On Elon Musk & the grooming gangs of England.

Jules Feiffer dead at 95

Garth Hudson dead at 87

Historic decline in IQ could stem from poor education, study shows

No Media Honeymoon for Trump: The Hoax Machine Is Up and Running

Wednesday Potpourri

Can Trump Transform America with a Stroke of His Sharpie?

Mark Penn: Trump Is Going To Move All Of Politics To The Center

Disco never died, it was waiting for Trump: How new prez won the political and cultural center

Homan Declares That Deportation Operation Has Already Begun.

Bill Maher: goin' off the leftist reservation

Marco Takes Charge

Consumers Unaware Allstate Is Tracking Their Driving Behaviors

Brief exercise sessions linked to small but consistent boosts in brain performance

Trump II: initial observations of a new reality

Trump promises a 'revolution of common sense.'

Trump’s Day One Executive Order on ‘Male and Female’

The Great Man Returns

Peter Savodnik via Free Press:

Trump’s critics, “the so-called progressive elites, are howling at the
idea that this chump, who is so very unserious, is The One who will
restore our seriousness. They miss the point. Only the brawling,
bumbling ringleader of the great circus that is today’s Republican Party
could break open our sclerotic overclass and lay it bare for the whole
republic to see not simply its emptiness but its rot.”

Schlichter: 

Biden is not just leaving the White House in disgrace but he left his
party in tatters. Who’s on the Democrat bench now? Kamala Harris? Yeah,
no. How about Gavin Newsom? That nitwit has completely screwed up the
disaster in Los Angeles. Who’s left for the Democrats? Is Pete “What, me
worry?” Buttigieg going to save the day? But it’s not fair to blame
Biden for the total disaster that is his own party. His own party has
done a pretty good job of screwing up on its own. They are disorganized.
They are confused. They are totally trapped within the paradigm of
their bizarre commie constituents, forced to sell a product no one wants
to buy.

How DOJ prosecutors turned January 6 rioters into martyrs

European Legacy Media Whips Itself Up Over Trump’s Inauguration Day

Boris Johnson:  Feet away from Trump, I witnessed the moment the world's wokerati had
worked so hard to prevent - and a speech that left his opponents chewing
the carpet

On MLK Day, let’s celebrate this hero for what he believed in

Feminist Math to Counter ‘Masculinity’

The Great Dumbing Down of American Education

You don’t have ADHD – you’re just annoying

The Energy Storage Fiasco -- How Soon Will It Be Abandoned?

Federal Reserve Withdraws From Global Climate Change Group

Leftist Ideologues Dominating the Federal Civil Service Have Created a New Version of the Spoils System

New Poll Shows Majority of Americans Optimistic About the Next Four Years with Donald Trump in Charge

Donald Trump 2.0

Elissa Slotkin Just Wants to Be ‘Normal.’ Will Her Fellow Democrats Listen?

New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Screed Defending ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

PROF. GARRETT: Leftists’ victimhood mentality persists as DEI retreat accelerates

Is David Brooks a Moral Philosopher?

Head of Infamous "Information Disorder" Commission Promoted at NPR. A
Twitter Files all-star and former head of an Aspen Institute panel on
content suppression is moved up the ranks at National Public Radio

Saturday Miscellany

The five tech titans that will sit with Trump during inauguration and what their position means

Black Lives Matter Demands Grocery Store Remain Open Despite Losing $7,000 a Day to Theft

Once Again, Life Catches Up to The Bee

Bill Gates had ‘intriguing’ three-hour dinner with Trump: ‘I was frankly impressed’

Trump is Reforming the Intelligence Community Already

My Decade with Donald Trump -He
chased her with hair spray. She saw him get shot. Salena Zito is the
journalist who knows Trump—and his voters—better than anyone.

Suddenly, Gavin Newsom's Electric Car Mandate Looks Pretty Dumb to LA Fire Victims

Why Europe Fears Free Speech

Woke Prof. Gives Lecture on ‘Trans Ghosts and Nonbinary Magical Realism’

NY spends whopping $89B on schools — more than any other state — with only mediocre results

American Free Speech Vs European Censorship

Biden Exits Office Promoting The Big Tech Censorship That Got Him Elected

TGIF:  Biden bids adieu. Zuckerberg takes the red pill. Poor Meghan Markle
can’t catch a break. DEI and the L.A. fires. A new town just for January
6ers. And much, much more.

She is amusing

Trump splits the press

Trump Is Troll in Chief, and It Is Hilarious

Chicago Just Keeps Waving That Red Flag at Trump's Immigration Bull

The president promised to connect rural Americans to the internet. But
‘woke leftist policies’ have helped prevent the $42 billion scheme from
servicing a single customer.

CA Incinerated Its Insurance Market

Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him. Justin Trudeau convinced me he was
a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical
culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country
as a genocide stat

What Do Russians Think of the War?

How Do Igloos Keep People Warm?

Amazon Uses Huge Diesel Generator To Charge Electric Delivery Van Fleet

Never seen VDH giggling

L.A. County Inferno Expected To Top $250 Billion In Losses

California: Failure to govern

Jack Smith accidentally tells the truth about that J6 ‘insurrection’…

Biden Snaps at Reporter Asking If Trump Deserves Credit For Ceasefire,
Hostage Release… and Then His State Department Spox Says This…

 The Evolution of Marco Rubio. Plus... Biden’s broadband
boondoggle. Eric Adams gets his brows done. Inside the Rose Bowl’s
firefighter village. A conversation with a ‘climate realist.’ Eli Lake’s
new podcast. And more.

What The Flying F**k Is Going On In Britain?

I like what he had to say.

No John Lennon Imagine in it.

How to Become a Morning Workout Person, in 9 Easy Steps

Fire, Snow And A Storm Of Climate Nonsense

More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn't Enough

This announcement of the founding of The Contrarian would be fantastic if it were a comedy sketch. But these people are for real...

Wednesday Potpourri

The LA fires are the horrifying consequence of Democratic misrule. Blue states’ embrace of progressive fads over good governance was bound to end in disaster.

41 Percent of Chicago Teachers Were Chronically Absent Last Year, Report Finds

After 50 years, several women’s studies programs on chopping block

“Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged.”

Brussels fears Musk, he fights the ancient fight for free speech

How Bob Dylan fought the proto-woke He refused to be a Leftist prophet

Weighted Vests Are Making a Comeback – But Do They Really Work?

The Best Obesity Drugs Aren’t Even Here Yet. A new review highlights
the future of anti-obesity medications that could outperform today's
already blockbuster drugs like Ozempic.

Who Will Need An ETA To Visit The UK?

I needed it just to pass through Heathrow

What Age Should Kids LEGALLY Be Allowed to Play Outside?

The Tiger Mother Roars Back

Who Will Buy TikTok From China? Plus. . .

Mamet:  Wildfires don’t care about DEI Public safety went up in smoke

Environmentalism, the Great Destroyer

Jen Rubin "Exits" the Washington Post; Chuck Todd "Exits" NBC

How the LAFD Came to be Run by Three Lesbians Named 'Kirsten'

The Great American Political Divide Is Just Going to Get Bigger Now

Trump’s Greenland push is about growing China threat — and the media is missing the message

The EU Doesn’t Censor, and If You Say It Does, It Will Censor You

Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes

Inferno-Plagued Palisades Braces For Santa Ana Windstorm As Death Toll Rises

The Los Angeles Blame Game

Cabinet of the Canceled - Trump has chosen people who understand the threat of government coercion—because they have experienced it firsthand.

Merchan’s Verdict: A Conviction Without Consequence. The New York
legal system's crusade against Trump ended in farce, with a biased judge
delivering a hollow conviction and wishing Godspeed to the
president-elect.

Trump Energizes Greenland Independence Movement

I will be traveling

Larger families good

Bible Back in Texas Schools After Being Pulled for Sexual Content

Paramount Series 'Landman' Surprises With Conservative Anti-Climate Agenda Message

Greenfield: Cultural Magic

Latest "Bird Flu" Psyop

RFK Jr. Says Drug Addicts Need Tough Love. Is He Right?

What’s causing this death of knowledge about what makes America American?

The Democrats Embrace Tribalism

How to Solve the Illegal Immigration Conundrum

Five Propaganda Hoaxes That Blew Up In The Media’s Face In 2024

 The 2024 Campaign Was an Embarrassment for Elite Media. Journalists increasingly see their job as protecting their preferred candidates, not asking tough questions.

Jennifer Rubin is good for humor

Biden Laughably Boasts About ‘Getting to Show Up for the American People’

Trump’s Top 10 Best Moves of 2024.

Firefighters, Police Attacked In Diverse Areas Of Brussels During NYE Chaos

Annals of Self-Destruction Update: Labour Urged to Drop ‘Western-Centric’ Science in School Curriculum

Rape Culture in India and Great Britain

Friends of The Free Press Niall Ferguson, Sarah Isgur, John McWhorter, and more share their 2025 predictions.

The Bob and Joanie story

"We had just walked into the fentanyl lab when the cook poured a white powder into a stockpot full of liquid."

"... it is now clear that Net Zero is doomed, that the western world will
return to rational energy policies, and that we will be completely
vindicated"

Teachers Will No Longer Need To Pass Basic Reading, Writing And Math Test For Certification In This Blue State

When all else fails...

How Jonathan Haidt Won the Fight Against Smartphones in Schools

FDA Rewrites its ‘Healthy’ Foods Guidelines for First Time in 30 Years

Nobody knows "healthy". We do know that starvation is bad

Taibbi:  Thankfully, Some Things Never Change. A few reflections on an extraordinary year, as we give thanks and burn the Yule log

Celebrating The Death Of Woke And The Resurrection Of Common Sense

The Only Real Winners Are The Trial Lawyers

"Civilizations Die From Suicide": Here Are 16 Signs That Our Society Is Doing Exactly That

Was Jimmy Carter really a good guy?

Steve Davis, Elon Musk’s Go-To Cost-Cutter Is Working for DOGE

Impressive

VDH: Devin Nunes Reemerges. 2024 marked the comeback of figures once
dismissed, with Elon Musk and Donald Trump reclaiming dominance and
Devin Nunes solidifying his role as a stalwart in intelligence
oversight.

ZERO Airtime to Pics Showing Biden Lied About Hunter Biz

Biden’s Only Regret Was Not Prosecuting Trump Hard Enough

Who the Hell is Running the Country?

Staff

Musk Pens Pro-AfD Op-Ed In Major Paper; Editor Resigns

WSJ Declares Progressive Moment Is Over -- Globally

The human brain processes thoughts 5,000,000 times slower than the average internet connection

Delaying Cognitive Decline: The Impact of Returning to Work

25% of remote workers say their social skills have declined while working from home

How Not to Socialize

Wind and solar energy are both unreliable and ridiculously expensive, a fatal combination.

The Science: CO2 Is Good

Similarity-attraction proves to be a surprisingly unshakable psychological effect

Intelligence Community’s COVID-19 Origins Division Ran Deeper Than Previously Thought

University of Iowa drops Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies department

There were 21 campus hate crime hoaxes uncovered in 2024

Trump settles MAGA movement feud on tech visas. Broken US education system doesn’t train enough engineers to make America great again without H-1B immigrant workers

The Shifting Ground of “Gender-Affirming Care” - A massive body of research proves the danger and deception of transition interventions for gender dysphoria.

How Bird Flu Spread Unchecked, Posing a Pandemic Risk

 Civil War in MAGA World. Plus… A HACKER PARTICIPATES IN AN
OFFLINE HACKING COMPETITION IN KOLKATA, INDIA ON JULY 29 2022. Jimmy Carter dies at 100, the latest Biden lie about Hunter, a good movie about evil, and much more.

Doug Casey On 2024's Defining Events And What Comes Next

Main Street concerns should trump the progressive Left’s unpopular views.

Here’s What Getting Rid Of The Education Department Could Look Like. Republicans have long promised to eliminate the DOE. Will Donald Trump be the one to pull it off?

Embarrassment for Woke Late Night Hosts...If They Could Be Embarrassed, I Mean

Biden has spent 570 days — nearly 40% of his entire presidency — on vacation.

Europe: The Fall Of The Holy Renewable Empire

Printing the Legend - The naysayers are dead wrong about James
Mangold’s remarkable new film about Bob Dylan and the Greenwich Village
folk scene of the early 1960s.

 Astoria, Always - The Queens neighborhood’s evolution links the inheritance of the past with the promise of the future.

The Cold Is Killing More Americans Every Year, Study Finds. New research shows that the cold-related mortality rate has more than doubled in the U.S. since the late 1990s.

How Intellectuals Found God - Almost 150 years after Nietzsche
said ‘God is dead,’ some of our most important thinkers are getting
religion. Peter Savodnik meets the new theists.

2024 was a year of gaslighting — here are the worst media lies

Has the tide really turned on ‘wokeness’?

Texas Teens Discover FAFO Is Real

Trump Will “un-California” US Energy Policy on Day One

VDH: What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election? Trump's 2024
resurgence marks a dramatic shift from his 2016 vilification, fueled by
Biden's unpopularity, a longing for normalcy, and Trump's endurance
through relentless opposition.

HOST: Do you think Biden knew what he was signing? DONALDS: “No. I don’t. This is the radical left staff that has been running this administration for the last 4 years.”

Support for Backing Ukraine at All Costs Falls in Europe Amid Realisation Trump Will Make Them Pay the Bill

New Damascus Governor: 'Our Problem Is Not With Israel'

20 Big Cats at a Washington State Sanctuary Die of Bird Flu. Two cougars infected with bird flu die on the Olympic Peninsula.

No, Diet and Exercise Are Not Better Than Drugs for Obesity

The Birmingham Church of England no longer believes in Christ

80% Believe Global Temps Will Rise In 2025, See More Extreme Weather Events

"Doesn't Fit MSM Narrative": Latest Arctic Ice Data Shows 26% Larger Than 2012

Kwanzaa and Kamala

TGIF: Welcome to America, Greenland

The Left Is Pushing Congress for an Insurrection on Jan. 6, 2025

Cuba Runs Out of Sugar

Tom Holland on How Christianity Remade the World

Why These Christmas Songs Could Only Be Written in America

I Took Religion Out of Christmas. I Regret It

The Cross and the Machine - After years of atheism, I went searching for the truth. I found Buddhism, then witchcraft, and eventually, Christianity.

Almost half of young adults in Canada use marijuana, survey finds

Yes, 2024 had some good moments for higher ed. Here are our favorites.

Poll Shows Americans Are Hopeful For 2025, and the Reason Why Might Make You Smile

The Musk-Led Manufacturing Revolution Nobody Is Talking About

The Joy Is Gone: A Liberal Hate-Fest For The Holidays

Best of The Free Press: It’s Okay to Change Your Mind. In the
latest installment of our holiday series, Joe Nocera celebrates the
stories that caused him to rethink some deeply held beliefs.

Happy Kwanzaa! The Holiday Brought to You by the FBI

Trump Effect: Seattle Mayor Concedes a Criminal Alien or Two Less Might Be, Like, Okay

UK's Energy Secretary Net Zero Mania a 'Threat to National Security'

Steyn: The depravity of diversity

In a Christmas season of renewal, Trump’s boldness is bringing hopeful change

Canada, the Panama Canal, and Now Greenland. What’s Behind Trump’s Expansionist Rhetoric?

'Hope Trump makes this hell less hot': Trump's threats to take out Mexico's cartels has Mexicans cheering

I Am Proud of My 17-Year-Old Self Who Bravely Chose Life

Why Are Federal Buildings So Ugly?

Europe Is Canceling Christmas

The Persistence of the Media Meta-Narrative

How Big Cities Are Dealing with Sanctuary City Status as Trump's 2nd Term Approaches

Our National Near-Death Experience

Tuesday Potpourri

“Stop spinning, stop lying, and stop the condescension.”

Brandon Commutes 37 Federal Death Row Sentences Because Trump

Hochul Erupts in Callous Flames of Subway-Terranean Hubris UPDATE

Kamala Harris Campaign Advisor Lindy Li Quits Democrat Party: ‘It’s Like Leaving a Cult’

NYT Never Trumper Repents

Supercharged Monroe Doctrine: First Panama Canal, Now Trump Revives Greenland Purchase Talk For US Security

India: It's Worse Than You Think

The Absurdity of NATO Worrying About Russia