BlackRock and American Airlines: Is Larry Fink the New Sam Bankman-Fried?
Scott McKay, The American Spectator
Fink could find himself as the institutional capital version of FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, who used other people’s money to buy political influence and protection while he ran a shell game in the cryptocurrency markets. BlackRock obviously has a bit more substance to it than Bankman-Fried’s operation did, but on the other hand, the violation of fiduciary responsibility that ESG investing has always clearly represented can’t be ignored. And the avalanche could be coming with it. Get ready. This will be fun to watch.

LA County Arson Suspect is Illegal Immigrant Repeat Offender Protected By California’s Sanctuary State Policies
Debra Heine, American Greatness
The man seen starting fires with a blow torch in a Los Angeles neighborhood Thursday afternoon is reportedly an illegal immigrant with a lengthy rap sheet in LA County. The suspect, Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva, is a Mexican national who has already been convicted of multiple crimes, but because California is a sanctuary state, he is unlikely to be deported, the New York Post reported. The suspect, believed to be a homeless man, had reportedly been seen riding around on a bicycle in Woodland Hills earlier that afternoon.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears Release Statements Backing Federal Cuts Under DOGE
Tom Pappert, Star News Network
While Democrats in Virginia have suggested the incoming Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the federal government will be a political liability among voters in the Old Dominion, both Governor Glenn Youngkin and Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears made statements last week declaring their support for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) commission to be led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Youngkin was first to confirm his support for DOGE when the governor signed a letter by the Republican Governors Association.

Ned Ryun: Because Of This Election We Now Have A Shot At Restoring The Republic
Tim Hains, Real Clear Politics
"American Majority" founder Ned Ryun tells why he thinks a second Trump administration represents a real shot at restoring the American republic "of, by, and for the people that actually promotes the American people and their interests."... "It's going to require someone like Donald Trump with this political courage, to instill into others political courage to actually do the right things." "We could be in for a singular moment in American history -- this was the turning point where we actually began to restore the republic."

Garbage Truck to Ride in Trump’s Inaugural Parade
Craig Bannister, MRCTV.org
Thirty-nine vehicles will ride in next week’s presidential inaugural parade for Donald Trump in Washington, DC – and one of them will reportedly be a garbage truck. After President Joe Biden called then-candidate Trump’s supporters “garbage” last October, Trump climbed aboard a Loadmaster garbage truck to address the media during a campaign stop in Michigan. Now, a Loadmaster garbage truck is slated hit the streets of the Nation’s Capital as part of the inaugural parade, according to an exclusive report by The Midwesterner.

America eager for Biden to go, final approval at low 37%
Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner
Most people won’t think twice when President Joe Biden takes his final Air Force One trip to Delaware on Monday. After a series of polls, especially from Gallup and Rasmussen Reports, that the nation considers the 46th president among the worst ever, one of the last to grade Biden just put his approval rating at a near low. Emerson College Polling said on Tuesday morning that just 37% approve of Biden, a slight 1-point rise from 36% in December. Some 52% do not approve of Biden. Biden can hope that his approval turns around in retirement.
 

Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
The California green utopians, by their very ideological zealotry, ensured their fires likely will have released into the atmosphere several weeks’ worth of the entire state’s collective auto emissions. The fires will have wiped out thousands of protected flora and fauna, will have released toxic fumes into the air, and will have destroyed the lives of thousands of Los Angeles residents for years to come. To paraphrase a 1960s California left-wing slogan—green-woke is not healthy for children and other living things.