Well, This Is Embarrassing
From Minneapolis, where vigorously progressive protesting is very in right now:
🚨🇺🇸 ANOTHER FIGHT IN MINNEAPOLIS – MISTAKEN IDENTITY TRIGGERS CHAOS
Another street fight just broke out after someone was falsely accused of being a “Nazi.”
Sheriff’s deputies pulled up fast, but then someone in the crowd shouted, “he’s one of us.”
Source: @BGOnTheScene https://t.co/PDZ9wlnufV pic.twitter.com/ppLDBfj0a5
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 17, 2026
“He’s one of us!”
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Evergreen.
And wonderfully instructive. One for the all-time top ten, I think.
“He’s one of us!”
Meanwhile, in other “protest” news, a feel good moment.
“He’s one of us!”
Gooble, gobble, gooble, gobble.
Apologies to the UK for this “American asylum seeker”.
Seriously we need to do better over here for our black Jewish Mormons.
In other asylum news, a member of the (checks notes) persecuted French-Peruvian community needs to escape the US&A for France. I am sure she will fit right in with the other “migrants”.
[ Skewers baking potatoes. ]
[ Smears hands with butter and a blob of Marmite. ]
[ Fondles potatoes vigorously. ]
[ Fondles potatoes longer than is strictly necessary. ]
Also evergreen.
There are two separate list prices to end the “homeless” problem.
Confucius weighs in. But the last thing the left wants is truthful speech.
Doubtless relevance can be found in other areas of policy.
No lie detected.
Parenting maths.
“How’d it go at the gathering of people who want to end restrictions on immigration?”
“Terrific! I got to beat someone bloody because we thought he was an outsider.”
[ Rummages in lost property box. ]
[ Passes used inhaler of unknown origin. ]
On the house.
Yet they don’t. Like it’s so hard, like we’re holding people here. Meanwhile people are still clamoring to get into this (supposedly) vile, racist, oppressive country. Ellen DeGeneres got out and now wants to come back. Rosie left. Nothing is keeping these people here. Canada is right across the border. Mexico too. The Bahamas, Cuba, etc. are just a short boat ride away. Renounce your citizenship, set up a GoFundMe, and I’m sure you can GTFO. Make a new plan, Stan. Hop on the bus, Gus. Drop off the key, Lee and set yourself free.
Why? It’s not like the U.S. sent him.
Didn’t the Romans have a similar practice?
Band name.
Saw a news item recently where Roger Waters was threatening to leave the US. How is that a threat? Why is he even here? Is he hiding from David Gilmour’s wife?
Well that makes it all better, I guess.
Debating skills.
Those are decoys, not ducks.
There are two separate list prices to end the “homeless” problem.
The Northcote-Trevelyan report of 1854 on rationalizing recruitment and promotion into the civil service,described its motivation as follows:
The document is 22 pages long. These days it could easily be 2200 pages, most of the extra pages being spent on excuses and euphemisms for “indolent and incapable”.
I laughed when I read it, because it sounds like Trollope, or that school of English comedy where man-from-the-ministry types speak without their normal filter. But maybe Trollope isn’t writing his novels much differently than the way he’d have written a report in his day job as an executive in the Post Office. Maybe this is what public officials sound like when they can call things by their name. And maybe one of the reasons I laughed was the possibility that we could actually live like this if we chose to.
So much for the paranoid android.
I was, needless to say, reminded of this.
Well that’s very mostly peaceful.
Feel the tolerance!
There are no words.
Chuckling too much to articulate any.
It’s how the Martians will attack.
And in the arts.
Says Grok:
Well, obviously.
Arli, my father once spent six months participating on a “Presidential” commission in DC, relating to airline crews and safety. After, he said his greatest accomplishment was keeping the report to only 33 pages “so that somebody might actually read it.”
Looks like a meeting of the Arts Council to discuss this year’s grants.
Oh, and someone needs to show them how to form a circle.
That is why, for so long, Civil Service pay was lower: No need to offer top wages to attract mediocre people seeking guaranteed lifetime employment.
Just one moment in Minnesota’s descent into madness.
That suddenly reminded me of a passage in Triton, a Delany novel that I read back in the 70’s, which was a harbinger of his descent into lit’rary madness. Here is a description high art in a society on one of the moons of Neptune:
This sounds not so much like high art as a psychological disorder.
That’s geometry. Women can’t do math.
When prune juice goes bad…
Brightline. They run over everything. I have been anticipating the day they hit a boat. Kinda sorta happened once. One conductor is suing for the PTSD he is suffering due to being involved in so many fatalities.
Was it as good for me as it was for you?
It was only a matter of time. The meme had to be done.
I want to watch Don Lemon try to argue this inside a mosque.
Preferably in Iraq or Iran or Yemen or….
A long history of vile behavior, never mind his vile opinions.
Desperate for attention after getting fired from CNN?
Wait you’re telling me that in this version of the story, King Henry VIII keeps killing transexuals because they aren’t siring him children?
And in the arts.
What a bunch of wankers.
More bad faith rhetoric from Glenn Greenwald. Lies, evasions, etc.
Anne of the Thousand Gays.
Not sure if anyone ever linked to this tweet:
Nothing good ever happens on Martin Luther King Drive.
Well, almost nothing. They were caught, after all. On the other hand, they weren’t permanently removed from society.
@Smallish Bees in the comments:
How about Mayor Pinochet?
The evergreenest.
Kinda like how all current situations should be dealt with.
I saw that story and thought what everyone else did: “Oh, there go the Scandis and their eugenics.”
But some commenters on Twitter (caveats apply) say that there was a horrific incest problem in Greenland, girls impregnated by fathers, brothers, uncles, so the IUDs were to prevent the terribly deformed babies.
I don’t know if that’s true. Maybe it is, and maybe it was a pretext that they provided to cover for blatant eugenics.
Make a new plan, Stan. Hop on the bus, Gus. Drop off the key, Lee and set yourself free.
When that song was released as a single in Britain in the 70s, the then host of the Radio One* breakfast show Noel Edmonds invited listeners to add to Paul Simon’s roster of personnel in order to make up the fifty ways.
I can only remember one of these suggestions, namely “Hit her with an iron, Brian”. I doubt that would meet with Mr. Simon’s approval, but given his dealings with Los Lobos over the publishing rights to “The Myth Of Fingerprints” I couldn’t care less.
*The BBC’s own pop radio channel where, as noted by the novelist David Lodge, in the absence of any actual commercials the DJs advertised themselves.