Australian politician Pauline Hanson has been kept largely at arms-length by the electorate ever since she declared, 30 years ago, that her country was ‘being swamped by Asians’. But her exodus to the political fringe appears to have ended. A recent poll put her party, One Nation, in second place, which has rocked the political establishment.
Yes, that’s what billion-dollar fraud schemes in Minneapolis, and ten-million-dollar fraud schemes in Lewiston, Maine, will do to how Americans view Somalis: not well at all. The latest opinion poll by J.L. Partners rank Somalis as viewed far more unfavorably compared to other immigrant groups. And that poll was taken as even more Somali fraud scandals are being unearthed almost every week. In Minneapolis, there is still much investigation to be done, and some officials think that what they initially thought was a one-billion dollar fraud may balloon into a ten-billion dollar fraud.
Nigel Farage has been in Davos, putting the “global elites on notice”.
Unfortunately for him, it’s not the Illuminati bug salesmen Europe is worried about right now, but Donald Trump. It’s therefore doubly unfortunate that Farage took to the stage in the “USA House” — a privately-sponsored, but officially sanctioned, venue for the American delegation at this year’s World Economic Forum. Unfortunately, the timing has only reinforced the Reform leader’s image as being too closely aligned with King Donald.
Woke Karen, 63, lets VERY embarrassing detail slip to the Daily Mail after she mistook cops rushing to school for ICE ‘and tried to obstruct them’
A ‘Karen’ from Maine let it slip to the Daily Mail that she was the one who tried to allegedly stop police from investigating a serious threat to a school because she thought they were Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Mary Conmee, 63, gladly answered the phone on Thursday morning, but instead of greeting the reporter, she appeared to be having a conversation with someone else about what she did.
NEW: 63-year-old Maine woman accused of obstructing police from investigating a serious threat at a school because she thought they were ICE.
Retired NY State Police Sgt. Mary Conmee blew her air horn and screamed that she “didn’t want ICE” in her neighborhood.
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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 22, 2026
America the predator: Trump wants to show the world he can take what he wants
For the past year, the world has been in a state of chaos. The United States, in the grips of its mad pirate king, has installed tariffs, removed tariffs, made deals, overturned deals, made threats, backed off threats, and all with the randomness of an infant that has not quite achieved object permanence. Nonetheless, a logic is starting to emerge, a logic that explains America’s actions: the logic of the rapist.
A sigh of relief at this point may prove premature, but perhaps we can permit ourselves a modest expulsion of breath. So long as we do it slowly and inaudibly, and without making any sudden movements.
At the time of writing, Donald Trump has just finished his address at the World Economic Forum at Davos, where he managed to speak for just over 40 minutes without fundamentally pulling the rug from under the constitutional order of Europe. Despite being highly critical of the entire political and economic trajectory of the continent, many European heads of government will be quietly relieved that this big set piece statement did not include any catastrophic bombshells.
The Song is considered to be one of the most difficult arias ever written for a soprano. And yet she makes it look so easy, and with such power. And she was only 17 years old when she performed it.pic.twitter.com/SwYlXx68TY
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 22, 2026
The Globe and Mail has reported that the Canadian Armed Forces quietly put together a hypothetical scenario of the United States military invading Canada.
The results — if you’ve been paying any attention to Canada’s military over the last decade — were what you probably expected.
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Imagine life in a California suburb in 2035. It’s a Monday morning, and trash cans have been wheeled to the curb for pickup. But not so fast!
Ahead of the garbage truck, now a mostly autonomous vehicle but still carrying a human overseer, there are garbage-sniffing drones. As they hover over still unemptied garbage cans, mechanical tentacles descend, opening the lid. A separate tentacle, packed with sensors, pokes into the garbage. If “organic” material is detected in the trash bin, an enforcement division is alerted, and a citation is issued.
Iran has been roiling with protest. Across cities and provinces, Iranians have been risking their lives to challenge a clerical regime that has ruled through religious coercion, surveillance and fear for nearly half a century. The merchant classes — once regime loyalists — sparked the uprising that rapidly drew young women, workers, students, professionals and grandmothers into its ranks.
I've never called the FBI, but maybe it's a good time to pick up the phone. pic.twitter.com/Rhdq8NNLJQ
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 22, 2026
The insult wielded against protesters taps into a long tradition of casting wine drinkers as out-of-touch elitists.
While discussing the protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in American cities, David Marcus wrote in a Fox News Opinion piece last week that “organized gangs of wine moms” were using “antifa tactics to harass and impede” ICE agents. He also referred to those mothers as “self-important white women,” a comment echoed by another Fox News personality, Will Cain, who spoke of “a weird kind of smugness” among them.
“Wine moms” conjures up ludicrous images — women holding babies in one arm and brandishing bottles in the other, legions of them marching forth in zombie lock step.
Pity the misunderstood wine Mom.
I think, maybe, that some people on the left have lost their minds in a way that is beyond repair. pic.twitter.com/k9FqpeulR8
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 22, 2026
After eight months without any trade or tariff agreements, some people said that it was a relief to see that Prime Minister Carney had reached a partial free trade agreement with China. It appears to be substantially a liberalization of our sale of canola in exchange for their exportation to us of 49,000 electric vehicles.
To the extent that this begins a process of making Canada less dependent upon the United States economically, it is useful. And to the extent that it inaugurates a series of enterprising trade agreements with a wide variety of countries, it is the beginning of a welcome and long-overdue procession of events to end Canada’s status as a branch-plant country. This process began with the Canada -U.S. Free Trade Agreement of nearly 40 years ago, prior to which almost every company in Canada, except Canadian Pacific and the large banks, had the words “Canada Ltd.” after their names.
In Europe, America is attacked relentlessly, while China is handled delicately.
I love Europe.
I took a job unexpectedly in Milan, Italy, when I was just 22 years old. I had graduated from college less than a year earlier, and my first real experience of adulthood was not in America, but in Europe. I did not arrive as a tourist drifting from museum to café. I arrived to work, to struggle, to adapt, and to build a life inside a foreign culture.
