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Monday, January 26, 2026

The Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) is proposing a plan to slash the number of regional networks from 18 to five, just as the US Senate released a scathing report on the catastrophic damage the Donald Trump administration inflicted on the organization that cares for American military Veterans.

Trump War on US Veterans


Sunday, January 25, 2026

Former U.S. president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama released a searing statement on Sunday, in response to the second shooting death by immigration law enforcement officers in Minneapolis, saying federal officers appear to be using tactics "designed to intimidate, harass, provoke and endanger" Minnesota residents.

The couple said U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration officials "seem eager to escalate the situation," adding, "This has to stop."


This bill requires that the statement sent by the President to Congress after the decennial census indicating the number of persons in each state exclude noncitizens. (This statement is the basis for reapportionment of U.S. Representatives.) The bill also requires any questionnaire used in the decennial census to include a checkbox or other similar option for respondents to indicate whether the respondent and each household member is (1) a U.S. citizen, (2) a U.S. national but not a citizen, (3) a non-U.S. national (alien under federal law) lawfully residing in the United States, or (4) a non-U.S. national unlawfully residing in the United States. The Department of Commerce must make public the number of persons in each state, disaggregated by each of these four categories


And Boaz.


Alex Pretti was murdered in cold blood and a judge just had to block Trump's govt from destroying and altering evidence in the case. Bovino and Miller and Noem are bald-faced liars and they know it. They want these lawless violent criminal "agents" to be free to shoot you in the street and get away with it. This is the America they want for us. We will not allow this to become the future of this country. Read more


More than 36,500 Iranians were killed by security forces during the January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history. Read more


The Florida-based conservative fundraising platform PSQ Impact landed a giant client this week, Donald Trump's presidential library foundation, and Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr, stands to enormously benefit from the deal.

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"Amnesty International calls on Congress to reject any additional funding for ICE and to immediately take steps to hold ICE accountable for the deaths and other human rights violations it has caused, and to end these deadly enforcement practices. Not one more life should be lost. Not one more dime should be spent enabling this horror."

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"On 23 Jan, at the direction of Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth, JTF Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two narco-terrorists were killed and one survived the strike. USSOUTHCOM immediately notified the USCG to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivor."

Murder-Death-Kill Map


Contact your Senator now and tell them not to fund DHS until they are held accountable for their actions. No Secret Police in America!


In this episode, I get my Chinese drivers license and temporary license plate and get to explore Kashgar - an ancient city on the old Silk Road.


President Donald Trump said the US used a weapon he referred to as a "discombobulator" to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro this month, but a senior US official said he's likely conflating tools used by the US military. "The discombobulator, I'm not allowed to talk about it," Trump told the New York Post in an interview that published Saturday but added that it "made [enemy] equipment not work" during the capture. The president may be conflating several capabilities into a single weapon that doesn't exist, a senior US official told CNN. US forces did use cyber tools to disable early warning and other Venezuelan defense systems during the operation, it also utilized existing acoustic systems to disorient personnel on the ground.


HE HAD A GUN, ONLY CRIMINALS CARRY GUNS ON OUR STREETS...


A new White House meme depicting President Donald Trump crossing snow-covered ice in what's supposed to be Greenland"alongside a penguin holding an American flag -- has sparked a wave of reaction on social media Friday night.


Trump, 79, began his posting spree by claiming he had helped to save TikTok by announcing the Chinese social media company would now operate in the U.S. under a majority American-owned joint venture.


Settler violence has forced over 100 people out of a Palestinian Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, rights groups say. The pattern of harassment is also being repeated elsewhere.


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