"Jan 16, 2026
Stranger Things
Let's talk for a minute about Kristi Noem, and the reason we need to do so is because of something she said yesterday, Thursday, January 15th.
Noem was speaking to reporters outside the White House, and she was asked if she expects Americans to be carrying around proof of citizenship in case they are stopped for questioning.
Listen carefully to what she said." Read more
Artist Marina Abramovi said that a public performance art piece where she had nine orgasms did have a "terrible" effect on her. She's the woman who once let people do "whatever they wanted" to her for several hours which ended up putting her life in danger as her audience almost killed her, until the moment the performance was over and she walked away with everyone fleeing at her movement. Among her other works is "The Artist is Present," in which she spent two-and-a-half months sitting in a chair in New York City's Museum of Modern Art where anyone could join her for a silent conversation. Read more
As public opinion in the country increasingly turns against the U.S. president over his threats to seize Greenland, the AfD is seeing the downside of its strong alignment with him.
We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the "bellicose frivolity of senile empires."
All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will teach an unruly world to obey.
But those who bow down before the idol of war, blinded by hypermasculinity and hubris, are unaware that while idols begin by calling for the sacrifice of others, they end by demanding self-sacrifice. Read more
Senator Elizabeth Warren is leading calls for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Trump Mobile for failing to ship gold phones, months after collecting deposits.
Diversity-training programs purport to teach participants how to be better colleagues to people from different backgrounds and to eliminate unconscious bias and make workplaces more welcoming. But in too many places, these trainings"and the broader DEI structures of which they are part"have instead mandated ideological conformity, enforced with the leverage every employer holds over its workers
There's at least one Jan. 6 participant currently working in the Trump administration, and the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee wants to know how many more may have been hired.
President Donald Trump made an early start to the Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday weekend by flying to Florida to name a road after himself after taking part in "The Great, Historic Investment in Rural Health Roundtable." Immediately after the East Room discussion, if he was able to stay awake for it, the self-declared President of Venezuela rushed to Palm Beach FL for a street-naming ceremony organized solely to flatter his ego.
Link: POTUS in a Nutshell
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense showed up to provide support in Philly amid rising tensions with ICE.
As tensions between the public and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement mount following an ICE agent's shooting and killing of an unarmed U.S. citizen in Minneapolis, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense has shown up in a supportive capacity in Philadelphia " and they didn't come to play. Read more
Over the past 24 hours, the IDF killed 14 and wounded another 18 human beings in the Gaza Strip, amongst them was a 16-year-old girl and Muhammad al-Hawli, a senior resistance leader who had called on the US to hold Israel to account for the 1,193 times it broke the 10 October 2025 "ceasefire."
Link: Makes No Difference to Palestinians Whoever is POTUS
A Waymo self-driving car has accidentally ended up on the tracks of a light-rail line in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. The driver vacated the vehicle safely, but as revealed in an onlooker's recording of the event, the Waymo kept driving along the train tracks, raising alarms about safety and coordination accuracy. And because the driver had already sensed the perilous moment and exited the vehicle, there was nobody to subsequently intervene and cancel the trip.
Just 16% of Republicans say Trump has helped "a lot" in addressing the cost of living, down from 49% in April 2024, when an AP-NORC poll asked Americans the same question about his first term.
With U.S. ties at their lowest point in modern history, Canada is turning to one of the only countries with which it had even worse relations: China. Canada is forging a "new strategic partnership" with China, its second-biggest trading partner, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday during what he called a "historic" trip to Beijing. That includes a break with the United States on tariffs, which have hit both the Canadian and Chinese economies. "The United States used to be a friend and ally," Guy Saint-Jacques, a former Canadian ambassador to China, told NBC News in an interview. Now, "we are treated as an enemy."
"The United States needs Greenland for the purpose of National Security. It is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building," President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Wednesday. Trump is right. Grab a globe and look down from the North Pole, or check out this official Pentagon map. You will see that Greenland is pivotal to the Arctic front. Greenland's eastern coast guards the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom or GIUK. This is the entry gate to the Atlantic for Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear-armed submarines. Greenland hosts important early warning radar sites because its field of view covers so much of the bomber and missile flight routes from Russia and China. No Greenland, no Golden Dome missile shield.
A now viral video appears to show an Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agent bragging about his salary on X.
Daniel Stern is no longer part of ABC's comedy pilot Do You Want Kids?, starring Rachel Bloom and Rory Scovel, Deadline has learned. The network and producing studio from 20th Television will be recasting the series-regular role to which the Home Alone alum was signed for in December, I hear. The dismissal comes days after Stern on Monday was charged with a single misdemeanor charge of engaging or agreeing to engage in prostitution. He initially had been cited by Ventura County (CA) sheriff's deputies on December 10 for allegedly soliciting a prostitute at a Camarillo hotel.
