David Gibson

Jackson, on the Democratic Party at the Democratic National Convention in 1984.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

After reviewing critiques of the Quiet Revival narrative, @georginasturge.bsky.social, author of 'Bad Data,' concludes "Yes, the @biblesociety.bsky.social data is clearly wrong and has been thoroughly debunked."
cc: @robb-s.bsky.social

Rob @robb-s.bsky.social, did the @relmedcentre.bsky.social quote you accurately below? If so, could you say more about why you are now more confident in the overall story of an upsurge of churchgoing in England and Wales?
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‘Together, We Are America’ Bad Bunny’s critics said his Super Bowl halftime show would be divisive. They were totally wrong.

This is a great piece by my colleague spencer on the bad bunny helftimeshow but of course there’s never been a more divisive idea in American history than all of us being American, we fought a civil war over it and Trump is nothing if not manifest opposition to it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Wonderful description of "the life of kings" and why so many continue to pursue this adventure despite the knaves and imbeciles who so often run the business:

Beer Hall Putz

Screenshot of a New York Times puff piece about Katie Britt, "The G.O.P. Senator Who Can't Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained"

paragraph 48: "In Mr. Trump’s second term, Ms. Britt has voted in line with the president 100 percent of the time."

Fully expect a DOJ indictment for disrupting church services to come down imminently

Exclusive: White House Advisor Pushed Bulk Sales for Melania Movie Supporters are encouraged to buy group tickets and private screenings, raising questions about ethics and actual attendance

Bulk sales of tickets to Melania are being promoted through emails from WH Faith Office advisor Paula White-Cain using her National Faith Advisory Board list. People are encouraged to purchase 30 tickets at a time to “support our First Lady.” meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

Mood

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Nunca creí que los leopardos comerían MI cara

“Boo hoo”

They’re not just killing people, they’re taunting the public they’re terrorizing after they do it.

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AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."

Noem: "He intentionally drove his vehicle into that agent ... oh wait those are my notes from last time."

I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.

This was such a fun and insightful conversation! @blairbraverman.bsky.social is as great a writer as she is a musher -- and that's saying something!

BTW I walked past the Balto statue in Central Park the other night, frigid like the Yukon, it was. Reminded me that I asked Blair: Balto or Togo?

For JD Vance, wearing an extra heavy eyeliner treatment to show us how normal he is, dispatching known sexual predators to apprehend sex offenders who have already been apprehended by the police is a hysterically funny thing. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Paging @jackshafer.bsky.social

That Erickson still thinks Trump is great is on him but the real nightmare he points to is the one no one is talking about:

"This summer, when Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas retire from the U.S. Supreme Court, I’ll be very happy Donald Trump is picking their replacements, not Kamala Harris..."

NYT's house style is genuinely deranged

He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.

“Whatever government is not a government of laws is a despotism, let it be called what it may.”

~Daniel Webster.

Webster was born on this day 244 years ago: Jan. 18, 1782.

Image: Public domain.

I cannot emphasize this enough: the level of restraint from the anti-Trump resistance for the past year has been astoundingly commendable and surprising.

I do not know exactly what I’d do if the feds executed someone I loved and then the most powerful people in the world were immediately on live…

Same for Catholic conservative leaders:

TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old United Auto Workers Local 600 line worker at the factory, told The Post that he was the one shouting at Trump. He said he has been suspended from work pending an investigation. “As far as calling him out, definitely no regrets whatsoever,” Sabula said, though he added that he is concerned about the future of his job and believes he has been “targeted for political retribution” for “embarrassing Trump in front of his friends.”

The worker, identified as TJ Sabula in the Washington Post, said “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS

I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...