"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
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
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
"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.
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.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. " A Jacksonville woman was arrested after she allegedly punched a Florida Highway Patrol trooper during an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said.
A federal officer has shot a man in the leg in the US city of Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel as he tried to make an arrest, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says. In a statement on X, the DHS said Wednesday's shooting happened after a car chase involving a Venezuelan national who was in the country illegally. It ended in a crash and the driver was joined by two more people who all attacked the officer, it said. DHS said the man who was shot was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Donald Trump has blamed his inability to end the war in Ukraine on its president Volodymyr Zelensky " not Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Asked why US-led negotiations had not yet resolved Europe's largest land conflict since the Second World War, Trump responded: "Zelensky". He added that Putin "is ready to make a deal" while "Ukraine is less ready to make a deal". The claim from Trump is in sharp contrast with European allies, who see Putin as the key figure ramping up military aggression as he rejects peace proposals from Trump's envoys. Just hours earlier, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov insisted Moscow was not interested in agreeing to a ceasefire, instead holding out for a peace agreement that would end the conflict on its terms.
Operations Benchwarmer, Tidal Wave, Abracadabra, Dust Off, Fleur De Lis " these are just a few of the secret programs recently undertaken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE has become a self appointed bouncer for America under Donald Trump, enlisting tens of thousands of federal, state, and local police and intelligence departments and agencies to not just root out "illegals," but also exploit them for intelligence, leaked documents show. A Border Patrol official outraged by ICE's conduct has leaked to me this and other documents providing an unprecedented glimpse into ICE's undeclared activities across the country. Many of these operations and their codenames have not been previously reported.
Recently leaked documents list Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, as an ICE agent.
The FDA website reports there are at least 13 recalls, market withdrawals, and safety alerts for food or drugs in the very first two weeks of the new year, averaging about one a day during the Trump administration.
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Yesterday, Donald Trump again said that the U.S. must own Greenland for national security reasons. The White House also posted this cartoon on eX-Twitter:
A global realignment in higher education is underway, according to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2026. While the University of Oxford holds the top position for the 10th consecutive year, the data reveal a shifting balance of academic power: US institutions are slipping, even as leading universities across Asia continue to climb.
Chinese Progress
MINNEAPOLIS " Federal law enforcement was on scene at North Lyndale Avenue and 25th Avenue Wednesday night after a man was shot in the leg by a federal agent. Developing story.
