Oof. Watch this.

Of course Donald Trump is now closing down the Kennedy Center. With ticket sales plummeting and top artists staying far away ever since he branded his name on the building, he's getting his revenge. He's been like this his whole life. Check out this interview below from 1992. pic.twitter.com/QZvjK5W0j0

— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) February 2, 2026

He’s so different it’s startling. Not better, of course, but very different. Fast, sharp, New Yawk energy type different. He doesn’t come across as stupid. Evil, yes, but stupid, no.… Read the rest

So anyway. This business of grabbing the Kennedy Center only to shut it down.

What about that, eh? What next? Is he going to grab the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that he can shut it down? The Art Institute of Chicago? The National Gallery of Art right there in DC?

It was revolting and vomit-inducing enough when he slapped his name on the Kennedy Center, but now that he’s admitted (aka bragged) that he did it in order to demolish it, we have to wonder how many items of this kind will be turned to rubble over the next three years.

Litigators also wonder.

COCOUNSEL STATEMENT ON TRUMP ATTEMPT TO CLOSE KENNEDY CENTER FOLLOWING LOSS OF ARTISTS AND AUDIENCES

Sounds like a fun evening.

In a frenetic presidency that has been marked by jarring contrasts, he added another Saturday night: suiting up in black-tie regalia and telling jokes about invading Greenland and bombing Iran even as demonstrators assembled across the nation to rebuke his aggressive roundups of noncitizens in Minneapolis.

In one sense, Trump’s appearance put him inside one of official Washington’s longtime traditions: the annual dinner of the Alfalfa Club, an exclusive organization of CEOs, politicians, and other Washington luminaries. But it was done in characteristic Trumpian fashion, at once unapologetic and awkward, with barbs aimed at political adversaries, grievances over perceived slights and punch lines that at times fell flat before a bipartisan audience.

Ah yes, … Read the rest

Oh gawd.

Trump: "I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass… pic.twitter.com/ypPJyT1php

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 1, 2026

The writing. It gets worse every day.

“many Highly Respected Experts”

Just go back to kindergarten. Go. They will give you milk and cookies.… Read the rest

A question asked in a gender critical Facebook group:

How do we know we are on the right side?

I’m beginning to wonder if I’ve become extreme and captured…Are we on the right side? How do we know?

I think about that often. I’m sure all gender-skeptical types do.

One of the first things I think when I ask myself that question is the fact that I couldn’t believe in it if I tried. Even if I decided kindness or compassion or basic decency required me to, I couldn’t. The best I could do is fake it. Am I wrong not to fake it? Am I on the wrong side because I can’t fake it?

There are at least two … Read the rest

Miller says the quiet part out loud.

Plenty of countries in history have experimented with importing a foreign labor class. The West is the first and only civilization to import a foreign labor class that is granted full political rights, including welfare & the right to vote. All visas are a bridge to citizenship.

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) January 31, 2026

Put another way: the easier your immigration policy makes it for newcomers to vote the more discerning your immigration policy must be.

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) January 31, 2026

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I haven’t so far found any more details on this but I expect they will be forthcoming. Meanwhile: siiiiiiiiiiiiigh.

Backlash continues against the ICLC in Sydney, NSW for hosting a ‘for trans, by trans’ event for International Women’s Day, for which they received funding (for women) from the NSW government of $24,860. Now the men are complaining that the wording is wrong and will cause harm. pic.twitter.com/bCJOVjoNpC

— Cherry McSciencey (@mcsciencey) January 31, 2026

It’s International Women’s Day; you have to include some men.… Read the rest

Why though?

RFK Jr. is now a wellness guru for Republicans

Why? Why him? Why not someone with actual medical training who is nevertheless a “wellness” crank? That would at least improve your odds. Bad Kennedy is just so random.

The GOP’s embrace of nutrition and wellness stands in sharp contrast to its position less than 15 years ago, when Republicans sharply criticized then-first lady Michelle Obama’s push for healthier meals and more exercise as nanny state nonsense.

That’s a sharp contrast all right. White man crank attacking vaccination versus Black woman pushing for healthy food and exercise.… Read the rest

Oh gawd they’re talking about “Islamophobia” again.

For the billionth time: Islam is a religion, and we are allowed to dispute religions. Theocracy is bad, and making one particular religion immune from dissent is a bad form of theocracy.

Islam treats women like shit, and we do get to say that.

A proposed new definition of Islamophobia is being considered by the Government, with the intention of helping combat hostility and discrimination to Muslims.

However, representatives of Christians, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs have written to Steve Reed, the Communities Secretary, urging him not to place one group above others.

They have also warned that the proposed definition was so vague that it could have a “chilling” effect on

Maureen Dowd reviews that Melanie movie:

Some theaters showing “Melania” were so empty that wags suggested that undocumented immigrants should hide out there. Reviews are brutal: The Independent said the first lady came across as “a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda.” The Guardian dismissed the movie as “gilded trash,” and Variety asked, “Why would Amazon spend $75 million on a movie this boring?” (I think we all know the answer to that.)

Can you say “baksheesh”?

We knew everything we needed to know about her in the wake of Jan. 6. In the memoir of Stephanie Grisham, Melania’s former aide and confidante, Grisham told a chilling story about the chilly first

Well, they’re still doing it.

DHS agents in MN swerved in front of an unarmed woman who was recording them, once again WALK IN FRONT OF A CAR with guns drawn. The only thing they've learned from Renee Good is how to get away with killing people. A local cop intervened to stop the illegal arrest! pic.twitter.com/hzND9dyzUS

— David J. Bier (@David_J_Bier) January 31, 2026

They walk in front of her car WITH GUNS DRAWN.

The local police chief, in Saint Peter, zoomed up to intervene and prevent her arrest.… Read the rest

The National Review tells us:

The first gender “detransitioner” medical-malpractice case to go to trial resulted in a $2 million dollar verdict against the medical professionals who approved a double mastectomy for the plaintiff, Fox Varian, in 2019 when she was only 16.

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Fox Varian, now 22 and no longer identifying as transgender, was awarded $2 million in damages, with $1.6 million for past and future pain and suffering, and another $400,000 for future medical expenses.

The jury found that in many respects the surgeon and psychologist had skipped important steps when evaluating whether she should go forward with the surgery and had not adequately communicated with each other. These missteps were a “departure from the standard of

On the one hand, great news. On the other hand, the word “women” doesn’t appear even once.

Rape Crisis Scotland chief executive steps down after 24 years 

Rape Crisis Scotland chief executive Sandy Brindley is stepping down after 24 years at the organisation.

Sandy has been part of the Rape Crisis movement for more than three decades, starting as a volunteer support worker in Glasgow in 1994 before leaving to set up Rape Crisis Scotland in 2002.

Under Sandy’s leadership, and through her passionate advocacy, Rape Crisis Scotland has become a national voice for and with survivors of rape and sexual violence.

She has worked tirelessly to raise awareness, challenge public attitudes around rape and sexual violence, and ensure that the needs and concerns of survivors are respected and represented when laws and policies

Melania movie not wowing the critics.

“The golden age of America begins right now!” Trump bleats in his inaugural address, while Melania sits behind him, her face twitching unnervingly between pout and smile. Woven through the documentary’s depiction of the events in the run-up to the Trumps’ return to the White House are signs of the film’s strange genesis. Melania’s chief of staff denies a request from Matt Belloni, the entertainment journalist, to hear more about her mysterious Amazon deal. At the banquet dinner on inauguration eve (where guests are served a gold egg and caviar, because, as a sycophantic designer tells the first lady, “white and gold is you!”) viewers will repeatedly spy Amazon proprietor Jeff

This guy saw the Melania movie and he tells us about it. He’s not a fan.

Melania is an absolute, all-time stinker.

It's a bad film made by bad people about bad people. pic.twitter.com/u6LENPUTxN

— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) January 30, 2026

She sounds like a store dummy who can walk and not quite talk. … Read the rest

Piglet pointed out in comments this excruciating exercise in Not Saying the W Word, and it’s so excruciating I have to point out every excrutiation.

Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care

All euphemisms for woman/women bolded from here on.

Health care providers said pregnant patients are having more complications linked to stress. But fear of immigration agents is keeping them from prenatal care.

Pregnant patients increasingly aren’t showing up for prenatal visits. Those who are are asking if they can have fewer. 

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Across the country, health care providers have said that people are increasingly skipping prenatal visits, citing concerns about raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Some patients,

Shut up and move over, bitches.

International Women’s Day celebration for and by men. pic.twitter.com/1duxjsBfeh

— Sall Grover (@salltweets) January 30, 2026

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Regime Movie Night.

On Thursday afternoon, in the lobby of the Trump Kennedy Center, reporters whispered in hushed voices to each other to see which journalists, if any, would be allowed entry to a screening of Melania Trump’s documentary “Melania.”

In the hours before the film screened (press check-in began at 2 p.m. for the 6 p.m. carpet), there was slight optimism from veteran reporters, accustomed to slipping their way into Trump World, that they’d be able to network their way into a seat. But by 6:30 p.m., when members of the administration began walking the carpet, it became clear that most of the mainstream press would be blocked from attending the Amazon MGM Studios film.

Well duh. If you’re mainstream press you’re probably not going … Read the rest

The flames are getting higher.

The former CNN anchor Don Lemon and three other people have been arrested on charges that they violated federal law during a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minn., this month, lawyers and Justice Department officials said on Friday, reviving a case that was rejected last week by a magistrate judge.

The arrests of Mr. Lemon, a second journalist and two protesters came a little more than a week after three other demonstrators who took part in the action at the Cities Church on Jan. 18 were taken into custody. The prosecution is likely to face pushback from defense lawyers on First Amendment grounds, given that political protest sits at the center of

Now Trump is hooking up with separatists in Alberta.

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta’s premier say the US should respect Canadian sovereignty after reports emerged that Alberta separatists had talked to the Trump administration about the province possibly leaving Canada. Carney said they “expect the US administration to respect Canadian sovereignty – I’m always clear with President Trump to that effect”.

Similarly, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she expected US officials to leave discussions about the province’s “democratic process” to Albertans and Canadians.

No, see, other people have to stay out of US affairs but Trump gets to do whatever he wants. That’s the rule.

Currently, Alberta separatists are collecting signatures for a petition process that could lead