Social Media Erupts Over Report Capitol Police Officer Michael Byrd and Wife Ran ‘Unaccredited’ Daycare

Byrd, of course, is the officer who fatally shot unarmed January 6 protester Ashli Babbitt without warning. - Rusty Weiss
"Records show US Capitol Police Capt. Michael Byrd, who fatally shot unarmed J6 protester Ashli Babbitt (without) warning, has been running an unaccredited day-care center (with) wife Kaleska from their ... home since 2008," Sperry wrote...

• Naturally, news that the Capitol Police Officer who killed an unarmed woman and was previously punished for leaving his service weapon lying around in a bathroom, running a daycare with his wife, raised eyebrows on social media...

#1 This day 1966------The Beatles - The Beatles - We Can Work It Out

Trump Reportedly Poised to End the Left’s Most Chilling Gender Tactic: Taking Kids From Their Parents

Proponents of pushing life-altering hormones and irreversible surgeries on adolescents, who enjoyed little-to-no pushback on its ideology...seem to have met a formidable opponent in President Donald Trump. - Teri Christoph

• On his first day in office nearly a year ago, the president signed an executive order (EO) called “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth.” That EO made it federal policy to recognize the two biological sexes and rejected the idea that gender identity is separate from biological sex...
• Trump quickly followed that up with the “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation” EO, which declared as federal policy that gender-transition procedures on minors – including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions – constitute “chemical and surgical mutilation” and are harmful. The president directed the federal government to not fund, sponsor, assist, or support such treatments for anyone under the age of 19.
• And, now, according to a Tuesday report, President Trump is considering extending federal protections to parents who don't buy into gender ideology and are penalized for their beliefs. A new EO being considered would stop Child Protective Services from removing children from parents who don't accept their child’s so-called "gender identity."...

This would be GREAT!

 

Scathing indictment claims Maduro orchestrated drug-fueled 'culture of corruption' * WorldNetDaily * by Anthony Iafrate, Daily Caller News Foundation

Scathing indictment claims Maduro orchestrated drug-fueled 'culture of corruption' * WorldNetDaily * by Anthony Iafrate, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

"Through this drug trafficking, [Maduro] and corrupt members of his regime enabled corruption fueled by drug trafficking throughout the region," the indictment continues. "The transshipment points in Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico similarly relied on a culture of corruption, in which cocaine traffickers operating in those countries paid a portion of their own profits to politicians who protected and aided them. In turn, these politicians used the cocaine-fueled payments to maintain and augment their political power."

White House Shreds Democrats' Jan. 6 Narrative With New 5th Anniversary Website

Their “January 6 Committee” was a one-sided farce where grandstanders like former GOP Reps. Cryin' Adam Kinzinger (IL-16) and Liz Cheney (WY-AL) preened for the cameras in what they hoped would be their 15 minutes of fame. - Bob Hoge
Thousands were jailed and woefully overcharged for their part in the protests, and Democrats still push false storylines to this day (like the one alleging that law enforcement officers were killed at the Capitol, when none were).

• The Trump administration isn’t taking today’s fifth anniversary lying down, and on Tuesday, they issued a new website disputing many of the Democrats' claims and slamming then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-11) for not securing the Capitol.

• In the first paragraph of the new site, the White House defended Trump’s pardons in no uncertain terms (emphasis theirs):

AM Fruitcake

 

History for January 7

History for January 7 - On-This-Day.com

Millard S. Fillmore 1800 - 13th President of the United States

• 1904 - The distress signal "CQD" was established. Two years later "SOS" became the radio distress signal because it was quicker to send by wireless radio.
• 1927 - Transatlantic telephone service began between New York and London. 31 calls were made on this first day.
• 1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that authorized $1.5 billion in loans for the bail out of Chrysler Corp.
• 1996 - One of the biggest blizzards in U.S. history hit the eastern states. More than 100 deaths were later blamed on the severe weather.
• 2009 - Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly endorsed the move and urged greater international involvement in the energy dispute.

Resurfaced Footage Shows Leftist Minneapolis Mayor Speaking Somali, Dancing and Waving Somali Flag

Resurfaced Footage Shows Leftist Minneapolis Mayor Speaking Somali, Dancing and Waving Somali Flag: 

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it was surging assets into the Minneapolis area on Dec. 2 to target illegal immigrants from Somalia after the initial reports of welfare fraud of at least $1 billion emerged. Allegations that some of the stolen funds went to the radical Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab prompted a probe by the Treasury Department.

Assistant United States Attorney Joe Thompson of the District of Minnesota announced on Dec. 18 that the amount of suspected fraud in Minnesota’s Medicaid program had reached over $9 billion.

The way we were-----The Battle of the Bulge 1944: The Bloodiest Fight for U.S. Forces in WW2.

She Got Quite A Shock

Hilton Hotels' Hampton Inn Refusing to Accept Homeland Security Reservations; UPDATE: Hilton Responds

Well, this is awkward. - David Strom

• Hilton Hotels is refusing service to the Department of Homeland Security agents who are engaged in immigration enforcement activities in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul region...
• Hilton has a massive public relations headache to deal with.

Emmy Griffin: The Terrorists Are Inside the Gates | The Patriot Post

Tens of thousands of suspected or confirmed international terrorists have been identified within the borders of the United States. - National Security - Emmy Griffin

In fact, according to National Counterterrorism Center (NCC) Director Joe Kent, testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee on December 11, “The Number One threat that we have right now in my view is the fact that we don’t know who came into our country in the last four years of Biden’s open borders.”

• The NCC has identified 18,000 confirmed or suspected terrorists who entered under Biden — a number that will inevitably grow. 
• Of those identified terrorists, 2,000 were flown in directly as part of Biden’s airlift operations in Afghanistan, a country from which he recklessly surrendered and retreated...

'You're confused?': Marco Rubio destroys network news anchor over 'absurd' question on U.S. capture of Maduro in Venezuela * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'You're confused?': Marco Rubio destroys network news anchor over 'absurd' question on U.S. capture of Maduro in Venezuela * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

PALM BEACH, Florida – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio humiliated CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan on Sunday concerning President Donald Trump's daring weekend capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.

Everyone Loves Diversity

The Capture of Maduro and the Return of American Statecraft

History does not usually announce its turning points with trumpets.  - Jim Reynolds

Not because it was spectacular—though it was. 

Not because it was unprecedented—because it was not. 

• But because it marked the quiet return of an older American habit: enforcing order in its own neighborhood when disorder metastasizes into danger.

For a generation, the United States pretended otherwise...

Under Hugo Chávez and then Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela was not merely a failed socialist experiment. 

• It became something more dangerous: a criminalized state. 
• A narco-regime. 
• A logistics hub for cocaine, a haven for Hezbollah operatives, an Iranian drone workshop, and a pressure valve for mass migration...

Lunch video-----The three-way civil war is now in the making across Britain

Noon-toon

 

Universities treated free speech as expendable in 2025 | Blaze Media

Universities treated free speech as expendable in 2025 | Blaze Media: 

From faculty firings to canceled speakers, record censorship efforts show campus leaders enforcing silence instead of defending open inquiry.

The fight over free expression in American higher education reached a troubling milestone in 2025. According to data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, efforts to censor speech on college campuses hit record highs across multiple fronts — and most succeeded.

Obama's bombs!

 

Welcome to Minneapolis. A town where your likelihood of parking in front of a random daycare is significantly higher than most towns.

A town where the restaurants that don’t cook food make more money than those that do. - Angela Rose@angelaroosee

They're worse than we thought!

 

Sooo much here, read all!-----Instapundit - BON APPÉTIT ANOINTS THE DEMOCRATS’ LATEST ‘NEXT BIG THING:’

There are few positions in life greater than being the Next Big Thing™ in the Democratic Party; you start getting ludicrously generous coverage, even from publications that are only marginally connected to politics.

• Back in 2007, Men’s Vogue suddenly put former North Carolina senator John Edwards on the cover. (An actual sentence from the profile: “The hair, up close, is peppered with tiny strands of blond. Chestnut brown and so finely trimmed, mellifluous, smooth, and feathery, it could almost be a weave, the Platonic ideal as imagined by the Hair Club for Men.”)
• Back in 2008, Men’s Health declared longtime smoker Barack Obama was one of the 25 fittest men in America. 
• And who could forget Beto O’Rourke on the cover of Vanity Fair in 2019, declaring he was “was born” to be in the presidential race, with his glum-looking dog seeming to know how his presidential bid was going to go? 
• Or the French fashion magazine Marie Claire putting failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on the cover in 2021?

This isn’t just garden-variety liberal media bias; these are once-apolitical publications suddenly giving laudatory soft-focus coverage of a figure, portraying him as the coolest guy ever...

How Snatching Maduro Screws Up Everyone Else's Plans - Lemme Count the Ways

I had already started wondering what the ripples - or maybe it would be even a tsunami - of aftereffects flowing from yanking this one guy out of his chair would do around the world. - Beege Welborn

• My immediate thought had turned to Cuba, as I'd already mentioned how the US oil embargo was crimping an already crappy socialist lifestyle on that God-forsaken little island.
• The importance of the Venezuelan pipeline to the Cuban communist regime cannot be underestimated. Cuba didn't buy oil from Venezuela - it was given to them.

1. The End of the "Free Oil" Lifeline

For over two decades, the single most important pillar of the Cuban economy has been the "Barrio Adentro" agreement, which saw Venezuela ship roughly 50,000 barrels of oil per day to Havana essentially for free. With the US military now securing Venezuelan ports and oil fields following yesterday's operation, these shipments have hit zero overnight. Cuba, which is already cash-strapped, simply does not have the foreign currency reserves to buy this amount of oil on the open market at global prices, meaning the island's energy supply has effectively been cut in half instantly.

2. The Loss of the "Resale" Revenue Stream...