Ya got tabs on your face, big disgrace, somebody better put you back into your place …
You really can’t make this up. From the new Vogue profile of Gavin Newsom: ‘Let’s get this out of the way: He is embarrassingly handsome, his hair seasoned with silver, at ease with his own eminence…lithe, ardent, energetic, a glimmer of optimism in his eye; Kennedy-esque. Add…
— Byron York (@ByronYork) February 2, 2026
Add to that his stunning wife and four adorable kids, and the executive strut of a self-made millionaire.’
Ed: Actually, you CAN make it up. That’s what Vogue does. Newsom’s the fashion for 2028, and Vogue’s on hand to push it, just like Vanity Fair did for Beto O’Rourke. In fact, they used the same “Kennedy-esque” claim for Beto, too. What makes both amusing is that these propaganda organs tried to make both men look dynastic and populist at the same time, which leads us to …
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Fox News: Conservative critics unleashed on Newsom attempting to portray himself as having a struggling childhood when his father worked as a “consigliere” — or trusted advisor — for the Getty family, with Gordon Getty, son of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, taking Gavin Newsom and his sister, Hilary, on vacations to Kenya or Canada.
Newsom’s family ties to the Gettys have long been in the background of his career, including Gordon Getty helping bankroll Newsom’s PlumpJack Group, a hospitality company that includes Northern California wineries.
Gordon “Getty, a billionaire heir to the J. Paul Getty oil fortune, used to include Gavin and his sister, Hilary, on Getty family vacations to watch whales in Canada and elephants in Kenya,” The New Yorker magazine reported in 2004.
The profile chronicled that Newsom’s father, Bill, was a close friend with Gordon Getty. Bill Newsom worked as an attorney for the Getty family and was the lawyer charged with dispatching to Italy in 1973, armed with ransom money, to recover John Paul Getty III after he was kidnapped.
Ed: Everything about Newsom is phony. Everything. Vogue should be ashamed of itself, but won’t be.
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“executive strut of a self-made millionaire” — COME ON. His father worked for the Gettys and they funded Newsom’s businesses. That’s not “self-made.” https://t.co/xJfH1sALRJ
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) February 2, 2026
Ed: They are running the Beto Playbook for Newsom, right down to the dreamy Annie Liebovitz portraits. The hoary, cliché ‘finger to the temple’ pose almost qualifies as satire.
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Newsweek: Eilish won Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards for her song WILDFLOWER from her third album Hit Me Hard and Soft. She accepted the award with her brother Finneas O’Connell, and both wore pins reading, “ICE OUT.”
“No one is illegal on stolen land,” Eilish said during her speech. …
The San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians Gabrieleno Tongva told Newsweek, “We appreciate the opportunity to provide clarity regarding the recent comments made by Billie Eilish. As the First People of the greater Los Angeles basin, we do understand that her home is situated in our ancestral land.”
Ed: I am not a ‘shut up and sing’ kind of person, but I am a “better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt” kind of person. It takes a deep kind of stupid to talk about “stolen land” while building a $14 million mansion on former tribal property. I await the return of Eilish’s property to the Tongva tribes (no within the San Gabriel Band) immediately as stolen property.
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2026
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Janiyah Thomas at The Daily Wire: From their gilded seats inside Crypto.com Arena, they urged unity and resistance all while remaining safely insulated from the real world consequences of the policies they champion.
That is the part no one on that stage ever acknowledges.
The celebrities grandstanding about immigration do not live in border communities. They do not compete for jobs with illegal labor. They do not deal with overwhelmed schools, strained hospitals, or rising crime. They do not have to explain to grieving families why their loved ones died because basic immigration enforcement was treated as immoral.
Where was the outrage from Hollywood when Laken Riley was murdered by an illegal immigrant? Where were the pins, speeches, and standing ovations then? Silence. Because acknowledging victims like her would complicate the narrative, Hollywood prefers slogans over substance.
Ed: This applies to so many celebrities, awards shows, and pet causes. Guess what didn’t get hardly a mention last night at the Grammys? Our friend John Ondrasik has the answer …
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? For my #GRAMMYs fam pic.twitter.com/4n7l9C4Cnq
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) February 2, 2026
Ed: Maybe it’s time for John to cover “The Sounds of Silence.” For those familiar with the lyrics, it tends to indict the latest trend of celebrities who think the words of the wise are written on the subway walls and tenement halls, while the silence over true oppression and hatred deafens them all. Silence like a cancer grows …
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Julio Rosas at Junto: I’ve spent years covering left-wing protests and riots across America, from 2020 through the present. What I’ve witnessed on the ground looks nothing like the noble resistance portrayed in legacy media.
The reality: Chaos. Violence. Dishonesty. Truly, the street activists are among the most dishonest people I’ve encountered. …
The real question isn’t whether federal agents were justified in Minneapolis. The real question is what kind of organized resistance has taken root in American cities and what it will take to uproot it.
These aren’t protesters. They’re not even rioters, not in the traditional sense. What I’ve witnessed over the past five years is the emergence of something else entirely: networked, coordinated, ideologically committed groups that operate more like cells than citizens. They have communication infrastructure, reconnaissance capabilities, and target lists. They can mobilize in hours and coordinate across state lines.
The New York cover wants you to see a friendly neighbor in a gas mask. What I see is something the country isn’t ready to confront.
Ed: “The most dishonest” outside of a Hollywood awards show, anyway. Be sure to read it all. Julio has spent the last six years on the front lines of La Revolución, and has more insight into this than practically anyone else. This is a well-organized radical insurrection, thankfully small in number but able to attract local allies in progressive cores.
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🚨 BREAKING: A majority of Minnesotans say state and local authorities should help with immigration enforcement.
50% YES
36% NOSo why do Tim Walz, Jacob Frey, and Keith Ellison continue to refuse to comply? pic.twitter.com/Aw7x0dtpi8
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) January 31, 2026
Ed: Why? Because they take their orders from the same progressive cores in the Twin Cities, not from the state as a whole. The DFL gets radicals elected into statewide office on the strength of those cores. To cut against them is to disqualify oneself from nominations to those offices. Ellison is a true radical in any case, and so is Frey to a lesser degree, and Walz has unleashed his inner progressive in the last eight years to get into the governor’s mansion.
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Newsmax: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that two more suspects have been arrested in the takeover of a St. Paul, Minnesota, church — a case that last week also ensnared former CNN anchor Don Lemon.
The arrests of Ian Davis Austin and Jerome Deangelo Richardson bring the total detained to at least 11 stemming from the Jan. 18 protest at Cities Church.
“If you riot in a place of worship, we WILL find you,” Bondi wrote in a post on X.
Ed: Good. Let’s make sure that we set the disincentives properly, and then enforce them to the strongest possible point. The previous administration had no compunction in enforcing the FACE Act against pro-life demonstrators, and federal law against J6 rioters. Sauce for the goose, indeed.
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I was told that if Trump was back in the Oval Office, Latinos would be mindlessly attacked by bigots…I guess they were right. https://t.co/M7kTEv2fr4
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) February 2, 2026
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Axios: White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi are expected to meet on Friday in Istanbul to discuss a possible nuclear deal, according to two sources with knowledge.
- A third source familiar with the planning said a meeting on Friday was “the best case scenario” but cautioned that nothing is final until it happens.
Why it matters: This would be the first meeting between U.S. and Iranian officials since the collapse of the negotiations and the 12-day war last June. It comes during a massive U.S. military buildup in the Gulf, and with President Trump insisting the only way to avoid military conflict is a swift deal.
Ed: Why meet with them at all? The mullahs are not interested in complying with deals between the US and Iran; they didn’t even comply with the massive-giveaway JCPOA. I suspect, though, that our allies in the region, especially the Saudis, want us to exhaust the diplomatic options before going along with the military options. We need the cooperation of the Saudis, and Qatar as well, for the kind of military strikes we may choose, and especially to deal with the Iranian ballistic-missile response.
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Solzhenitsyn had these scenes where members of the party faithful would get deposited off the prison train at the gulag to begin their years of hard labor incredulous and insistent that some ‘mistake had been made’ and that the system wasn’t doing what it was designed for. It’s… pic.twitter.com/7mNljZQdf5
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) February 2, 2026
It’s sad if our educational system has failed in imparting the lessons of the 20th century to the degree that people like Stancil aren’t able to enjoy the irony that these dumbed down little episodes have deep historical echoes.
Ed: Our educational systems have been dumbed down specifically to achieve this objective.
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Tim Walz Emerges From Den To Declare 6 More Weeks Of Rioting And Fraud https://t.co/E1mGUbA7vh pic.twitter.com/Y2gg9bNqJ4
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 2, 2026
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