President Donald Trump surprised some people around him when he said he expected to lie in state within a decade.
The DODIG reports: "Major military installations in the United States are unprotected from drone attacks because of bureaucratic confusion over which bases should be covered."
Drone Espionage
Trump has transformed the national political discourse from skirmishes over his assorted harebrained ideas and extreme actions (Venezuela, Greenland, vengeful criminal prosecutions, mass deportations, the destruction of the public health establishment, his war on universities, tax cuts for the rich, and so on) into a debate over the fundamental nature of the United States. Will it become a full-fledged authoritarian-led police state? That's the fight at hand. Trump and his miscreants are eager for it. They may attain their fascistic fantasy"unless enough Americans say no.
"The best they can do is shoot the guy in the back?" That's not the voice of some liberal commentator. That's what a homeland security officer told me this weekend. He closed on a plaintive note: "I think it's time to pull out of Minnesota, that battle is lost." "Fuck this," a senior ICE officer said about the shooting of Pretti.
The peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer will soon be funding another offensive war against Iran on behalf of Israel as the USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier Group (ACG) finally reached its attack location in USCENTCOM AOR.
Warmongers
Ted Cruz trashed President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in conversations with GOP donors last year, explosive leaked recordings allege. The Texas senator, expected to run for president in 2028, slammed Trump's tariff crusade and said he even threatened his staff with immediate firing if they used the phrase "Liberation Day" to refer to the day the sweeping taxes were announced, reports Axios. "Mr. President, if we get to November of [2026] and people's 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10"20% at the supermarket, we're going to go into Election Day, face a bloodbath," Cruz told Trump, according to the recording. "You're going to lose the House, you're going to lose the Senate, you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week." Trump allegedly responded bluntly: "F--- you, Ted.'"
The Trump administration pledged to deport violent criminals"but instead, some of them have been on the payrolls of the federal government's most aggressive agencies. ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection employed at least 30 people with sexual and violent criminal histories in recent years, according to a report published Monday by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance with research from the Pacific Antifascist Collective. At least 20 of those individuals committed offenses with underage victims, according to the report.
President Donald Trump said he's closed his eyes during Cabinet meetings because they are "boring as hell." "I'm going around a room, and I've got 28 guys " the last one was three and a half hours. I have to sit back and listen, and I move my hand so that people will know I'm listening. I'm hearing every word, and I can't wait to get out."
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A security officer assigned to protect Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer was placed on leave as officials investigate an alleged romantic relationship between the married Roman Catholic mother of two children and her bodyguard.
The Republican Party is All About Family Values
US President Donald Trump has announced he is raising tariffs on South Korean imports to 25% after accusing Seoul of "not living up" to a trade deal reached last year. In a post on social media, Trump said he would increase levies on South Korea from 15% across a range of products including automobiles, lumber, pharmaceuticals and "all other Reciprocal TARIFFS". Read more
There's a 60Hz hum in the audio when I'm listening to tunes.
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
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.
