The View from Afar: Saturday, January 17, 2026

Saturday, January 17, 2026

Tweets#

Always entertaining.#

Somewhat more to news than the legacy media offers. — HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK, by @donsurber https://t.co/m7XL5ToEqs [Link]#

Thuggery tolerated by the state.#

Minnesota officials tolerate racist mobs — OH, THIS WILL GO WELL… Left-Wing Mobs in Minneapolis Now Stopping Cars and Interrogating Civil https://t.co/kdhPeag1tF [Link]#

Election integrity.#

On point. Admit it, Democrats. — IF YOU’RE AGAINST VOTER ID, IT MEANS YOU’RE INVESTED IN VOTER FRAUD: https://t.co/cchn4SED6u https://t.co/LCuS1fUVXr [Link]#

Retweets#

Democrat and former CIA doesn’t support federal policy to remove illegal aliens. #

RT @greg_price11: BREAKING: Abigail Spanberger‘s first act as Governor of Virginia is to repeal Glenn Youngkin‘s executive order that manda… [Link]#
RT @guypbenson: Enforcing duly-enacted immigration laws is not illegitimate, third world stuff. But vowing to prosecute vast swaths of your… [Link]#

Who will pay?#

RT @KevinKileyCA: Newsom has announced a $348.9 billion budget. That‘s $147.5 billion larger than when he took office, a 73.2% increase. Sp… [Link]#

There is a lesson in civics here that the EU has been unwilling to learn..#

RT @robbystarbuck: 125 migrants were put in housing with 125 Dutch students, in hopes of integrating them faster. Instead Dutch kids got ra… [Link]#

DOGE.#

RT @Milajoy: This is what I voted for! ... ... D.O.G.E. has finished its clean-up of Social Security & they have remove a whopping 12.3 MILLION… [Link]#

The filibuster is to allow debate but currently does not.#

RT @SenMikeLee: False. The SAVE Act provides for multiple ways to prove citizenship and identity, as millions of married women do every sin… [Link]#
RT @BasedMikeLee: The filibuster is supposed to protect debate ... ... The Zombie Filibuster often forestalls debate before it even begins... ... End t… [Link]#
RT @mitchellvii: BOMBSHELL: 👊 Mike Lee drops the blueprint: Enforce real debate rules and the full MAGA agenda passes with just 51 votes!… [Link]#

Who loses control and should they have control?#

RT @adamcarolla: Control of what [Link]#

What’s next?#

RT @MarioNawfal: 🚨XAI HIRING ACCOUNTANTS TO TRAIN GROK ON ROOTING OUT FRAUD AND CORRUPTION... ... xAI is recruiting accountants for a wild "AI Ac… [Link]#

Reality.#

RT @ericmetaxas: If they‘re obstructing law enforcement, they‘re not law abiding. [Link]#
RT @WallStreetApes: TODAY: Illinois Democrat Governor JB Pritzker signed into law The Clean Slate Act... ... Law enforcement agencies are now req… [Link]#

Britain.#

RT @BasilTheGreat: This is the post that got Eva Vlaardingerbroek banned from the Uk.... ... If the UK had free speech no one would ever be punis… [Link]#
RT @EvaVlaar: No one is talking about this but last month the EU quietly granted itself the power to “outlaw” individual EU citizens for “i… [Link]#
RT @PeterSweden7: Britain is cancelling elections.... ... Britain is arresting 12.000 people every year for social media posts.... ... Britain is banni… [Link]#
RT @EvaVlaar: Something the American mind can’t understand or at least often forgets: ... ... We Europeans don’t have free speech. We don’t have… [Link]#
RT @MarioNawfal: 🚨🇬🇧TUCKER: STARMER IS CLEARLY TAKING ORDERS, NOT ADEQUATE AS LEADER... ... Eva Vlaardingerbroek says Starmer, von der Leyen, Mer… [Link]#

Union business?#

RT @DeAngelisCorey: Enough is enough. It‘s time to revoke the National Education Association‘s federal charter. https://t.co/KNq8yH5z8p [Link]#

Ben Franklin.#

RT @TRHLofficial: January 17th is Benjamin Franklin‘s birthday.... ... The Founding Father with the most personality in the room: printer, invent… [Link]#

Take responsibility for the disaster you create.#

RT @GuntherEagleman: 🚨 MIC DROP: Greg Gutfeld just EVISCERATED Jessica Tarlov on The Five, left her speechless! ... ... ‘How NAIVE are you?!’... ... ‘Y… [Link]#

Consequences Mamdani will face.#

RT @CGasparino: Everyone knew this is coming and now comrade Mamdani has to balance a budget, probably the first time in his life because I… [Link]#

Aspirin.#

RT @HansMahncke: Recall that Covid was so deadly because the Wuhan lab inserted a furin cleavage site into a coronavirus, creating the perf… [Link]#

Australia and free speech.#

RT @FairAusADV: BREAKING: Albanese has dropped his ‘hate crime‘ censorship laws! Massive win for Aussies! 🇦🇺 https://t.co/0COWbAutbz [Link]#

Lawfare.#

RT @shipwreckedcrew: I predict short life for TRO in Minn.... ... Fed judge can’t curtail otherwise lawful investigation practices just because p… [Link]#

Naming generations.#

RT @JackPosobiec: Which are you? https://t.co/zR8A9TKKvy [Link]#

Canada broke its own law.#

RT @yegwave: BREAKING: The Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that the Trudeau government failed to meet the legal threshold to invoke the E… [Link]#

Texas may have broken its law, too.#

RT @ProfMJCleveland: 🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: HUGE. 5th Cir. votes to go en banc on quorum clause case brought by @KenPaxtonTX https://t.co/EHueXrkMfE [Link]#

Saturday, January 17, 2026

Tweets#

Always entertaining.#

Somewhat more to news than the legacy media offers. — HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK, by @donsurber https://t.co/m7XL5ToEqs [Link]#

Thuggery tolerated by the state.#

Minnesota officials tolerate racist mobs — OH, THIS WILL GO WELL… Left-Wing Mobs in Minneapolis Now Stopping Cars and Interrogating Civil https://t.co/kdhPeag1tF [Link]#

Election integrity.#

On point. Admit it, Democrats. — IF YOU’RE AGAINST VOTER ID, IT MEANS YOU’RE INVESTED IN VOTER FRAUD: https://t.co/cchn4SED6u https://t.co/LCuS1fUVXr [Link]#

Retweets#

Democrat and former CIA doesn’t support federal policy to remove illegal aliens. #

RT @greg_price11: BREAKING: Abigail Spanberger‘s first act as Governor of Virginia is to repeal Glenn Youngkin‘s executive order that manda… [Link]#
RT @guypbenson: Enforcing duly-enacted immigration laws is not illegitimate, third world stuff. But vowing to prosecute vast swaths of your… [Link]#

Who will pay?#

RT @KevinKileyCA: Newsom has announced a $348.9 billion budget. That‘s $147.5 billion larger than when he took office, a 73.2% increase. Sp… [Link]#

There is a lesson in civics here that the EU has been unwilling to learn..#

RT @robbystarbuck: 125 migrants were put in housing with 125 Dutch students, in hopes of integrating them faster. Instead Dutch kids got ra… [Link]#

DOGE.#

RT @Milajoy: This is what I voted for! ... ... D.O.G.E. has finished its clean-up of Social Security & they have remove a whopping 12.3 MILLION… [Link]#

The filibuster is to allow debate but currently does not.#

RT @SenMikeLee: False. The SAVE Act provides for multiple ways to prove citizenship and identity, as millions of married women do every sin… [Link]#
RT @BasedMikeLee: The filibuster is supposed to protect debate ... ... The Zombie Filibuster often forestalls debate before it even begins... ... End t… [Link]#
RT @mitchellvii: BOMBSHELL: 👊 Mike Lee drops the blueprint: Enforce real debate rules and the full MAGA agenda passes with just 51 votes!… [Link]#

Who loses control and should they have control?#

RT @adamcarolla: Control of what [Link]#

What’s next?#

RT @MarioNawfal: 🚨XAI HIRING ACCOUNTANTS TO TRAIN GROK ON ROOTING OUT FRAUD AND CORRUPTION... ... xAI is recruiting accountants for a wild "AI Ac… [Link]#

Reality.#

RT @ericmetaxas: If they‘re obstructing law enforcement, they‘re not law abiding. [Link]#
RT @WallStreetApes: TODAY: Illinois Democrat Governor JB Pritzker signed into law The Clean Slate Act... ... Law enforcement agencies are now req… [Link]#

Britain.#

RT @BasilTheGreat: This is the post that got Eva Vlaardingerbroek banned from the Uk.... ... If the UK had free speech no one would ever be punis… [Link]#
RT @EvaVlaar: No one is talking about this but last month the EU quietly granted itself the power to “outlaw” individual EU citizens for “i… [Link]#
RT @PeterSweden7: Britain is cancelling elections.... ... Britain is arresting 12.000 people every year for social media posts.... ... Britain is banni… [Link]#
RT @EvaVlaar: Something the American mind can’t understand or at least often forgets: ... ... We Europeans don’t have free speech. We don’t have… [Link]#
RT @MarioNawfal: 🚨🇬🇧TUCKER: STARMER IS CLEARLY TAKING ORDERS, NOT ADEQUATE AS LEADER... ... Eva Vlaardingerbroek says Starmer, von der Leyen, Mer… [Link]#

Union business?#

RT @DeAngelisCorey: Enough is enough. It‘s time to revoke the National Education Association‘s federal charter. https://t.co/KNq8yH5z8p [Link]#

Ben Franklin.#

RT @TRHLofficial: January 17th is Benjamin Franklin‘s birthday.... ... The Founding Father with the most personality in the room: printer, invent… [Link]#

Take responsibility for the disaster you create.#

RT @GuntherEagleman: 🚨 MIC DROP: Greg Gutfeld just EVISCERATED Jessica Tarlov on The Five, left her speechless! ... ... ‘How NAIVE are you?!’... ... ‘Y… [Link]#

Consequences Mamdani will face.#

RT @CGasparino: Everyone knew this is coming and now comrade Mamdani has to balance a budget, probably the first time in his life because I… [Link]#

Aspirin.#

RT @HansMahncke: Recall that Covid was so deadly because the Wuhan lab inserted a furin cleavage site into a coronavirus, creating the perf… [Link]#

Australia and free speech.#

RT @FairAusADV: BREAKING: Albanese has dropped his ‘hate crime‘ censorship laws! Massive win for Aussies! 🇦🇺 https://t.co/0COWbAutbz [Link]#

Lawfare.#

RT @shipwreckedcrew: I predict short life for TRO in Minn.... ... Fed judge can’t curtail otherwise lawful investigation practices just because p… [Link]#

Naming generations.#

RT @JackPosobiec: Which are you? https://t.co/zR8A9TKKvy [Link]#

Canada broke its own law.#

RT @yegwave: BREAKING: The Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that the Trudeau government failed to meet the legal threshold to invoke the E… [Link]#

Texas may have broken its law, too.#

RT @ProfMJCleveland: 🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: HUGE. 5th Cir. votes to go en banc on quorum clause case brought by @KenPaxtonTX https://t.co/EHueXrkMfE [Link]#

Last update: Tuesday January 20, 2026; 8:10 PM EST.