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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Cannot believe that lynching are still happening in the US. There are a lot of people coming out and speaking of the horrible experience they had to suffer at the hands of other Americans Read more


UPS announced it made $8.7 billion in profit last year on the same day that the company will reduce its workforce, primarily part-time positions. Why is this happening and how can Teamsters fight back?


Sweden is moving forward with plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 13 in serious cases as it grapples with a growing number of children recruited into gangs to carry out violent crimes without facing serious legal repercussions.


In pursuit of illegal immigrants, federal agents are carrying the instruments of war, fine-tuned and perfected for killing at short range.


Furious that Donald Trump's Minneapolis fiasco was upstaging her film, Melania Trump forced her husband to overhaul his deportation campaign, author Michael Wolff claims. "This was supposed to be the Melania week," Wolff told his co-host Joanna Coles on the Inside Trump's Head podcast. But on Saturday, as the 55-year-old first lady prepared to host a screening of her documentary, Melania, federal immigration agents killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti. According to Wolff, a "truly p---ed-off" Melania bristled as outrage over Trump's deportation operation swallowed the spotlight meant for her $75 million film ahead of its premiere at the Kennedy Center on Thursday.


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


Tuesday, January 27, 2026

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."

POTUS


Monday, January 26, 2026

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.


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