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Monday, January 26, 2026

10 years after disrupting the Ukrainian power grid, the APT targeted Poland with data-wiping malware.


M Most of the recent vitriolic opposition to ICE is a feint by unrepentant open-borders progressives. They won the first round when Joe Biden was elected president, lost the second when Donald Trump returned to office, and are back for a rematch. Democratic leaders portray ICE agents as violent Gestapo thugs and murderers. They claim ICE kidnaps good people off the street, rips apart their families and communities, and deprives them of due process. They give lip service to deporting the "worst of the worst," but they lead sanctuary cities that release hardened criminal illegal aliens and incite protesters to harass and prevent ICE from arresting rapists, child predators, and killers.


Did the decedent's firearm go off as the officer removed it turned with it in hand. Read more


Black women started 2025 with an unemployment rate of 5.4 percent. They ended it at 7.3 percent " the highest rate in four years. Black women's unemployment is now equivalent to White women's rate during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession. "The labor market that Black women live in is what White women would think of as the worst labor market they've ever been in," said Kathryn Anne Edwards, a labor economist. Without counting the pandemic, White women as a group have only experienced unemployment rates this high three times since 1954, when that monthly data started being collected.


Cameras worn by officers long have been central to police reform efforts for this reason. The Trump administration, however, moved last year to slow-walk a pilot program to give ICE officers body cameras, urging Congress in June to cut the funding by 75% and bucking a nationwide trend of cameras for law enforcement. Officials last year also placed on paid leave nearly all staffers working for three internal watchdogs conducting oversight of immigration agencies, undermining their capacity to investigate abuses. Darius Reeves, who was the director of ICE's Baltimore field office until August, said a body camera pilot program rollout had been slow in 2024 under President Biden, a Democrat, and "died on the vine" under Trump, a Republican. In response to a request for comment, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said ICE officers "act heroically to enforce the law and protect American communities."


A private jet carrying eight people has crashed while taking off from Bangor International Airport in the US state of Maine, aviation authorities have said. The Bombardier Challenger 600 went down at around 19:45 local time (00:45 GMT on Monday), the Federal Aviation Administration said, but the fate and identities of those on board were not immediately clear. The incident came as a dangerous winter storm barrelled across a large swathe of the US, killing several people and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. Pilots had reportedly been struggling with visibility at the airport before the crash.


After federal agents shot and killed a Minneapolis man allegedly carrying a concealed weapon, gun rights groups countered a federal narrative that his firearm likely justified deadly force.


Sprouted on this day in 1963 was our dear friend DethSpud !!


The son of a veteran who died in 2024 says Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was his dad's ICU nurse and read out a final salute after his father's death.


On January 23, 2016, Donald Trump notoriously declared, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters." That statement was understood at the time as a metaphorical expression of the depth of Republican voters' commitment to him. Ten years and one day later, his administration's agents shot a disarmed man on the street in full view of the public. Perhaps we should have taken him not only seriously but also literally. Read more


"Across the country, farmers are struggling. Prices for nearly every major crop are below what it costs to grow them. Much attention has been paid to Midwestern soybean growers, whose crop was at the heart of the trade war between the US and China. But farmers in Mississippi are perhaps worse off than farmers in the rest of the country. Rice is one of their biggest crops, and almost no one is buying."

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US President Donald Trump says his administration is "reviewing everything" after the fatal shooting by immigration agents of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday. The administration has defended the officer who shot Pretti. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Pretti was shot because he was "brandishing" a gun. Read more


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

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


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


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