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Saturday, January 17, 2026

A nearly 100-year-old federal ban on mailing handguns through the US Postal Service is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, according to an opinion by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Gun Lobby Suing to Mail Concealable Firearms


The first US-brokered sale of Venezuelan crude oil under Donald Trump's new energy plan went to Vitol, a global oil trading firm whose senior US-based trader was a major donor to Trump's 2024 re-election campaign.

Vitol Full of Crooks


The US State Department is pausing immigrant visa processing for


The US State Department is pausing immigrant visa processing for


Friday, January 16, 2026

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
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*** FAA Issues Another Advisory to US Aircraft Flying in Pacific Ocean Near Latin America ***

KICZ A0012/26 NOTAM...SECURITY...UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ADVISORY FOR POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS SITUATION IN THE OVERWATER AREAS ABOVE THE PACIFIC OCEAN IN THE CENTRAL AMERICA FLIGHT INFORMATION REGION (MHTG): ops.group

US OPERATORS ARE ADVISED TO EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN OPERATING IN THE OVERWATER AREAS ABOVE THE PACIFIC OCEAN IN THE CENTRAL AMERICA FLIGHT INFORMATION REGION (MHTG) DUE TO MILITARY ACTIVITIES AND GNSS INTERFERENCE. POTENTIAL RISKS EXIST FOR
AIRCRAFT AT ALL ALTITUDES, INCLUDING DURING OVERFLIGHT AND THE ARRIVAL AND
DEPARTURE PHASES OF FLIGHT.

SFC-UNL: 16 JAN 1549 UTC 2026 UNTIL 17 MAR 2359 UTC 2026. CREATED: 16 JAN 1650 UTC 2026

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www.faa.gov

"The DOJ argued that a 1927 law, which made it illegal to use the Postal Service to mail concealable firearms, such as pistols and revolvers, infringes on the Second Amendment.

Section 1715 makes it difficult to travel with arms for lawful purposes, including self-defense, target shooting, and hunting."
The statute also imposes significant barriers to shipping constitutionally protected firearms as articles of commerce, which interferes with citizens' incidental rights to acquire and maintain arms," the opinion continued.

Postal Service policy mandates that nonmailable firearms found in the mail stream "must be immediately reported to the United States Postal Inspection Service," and investigations are then referred to the relevant US attorney's office for prosecution.
The agency categorizes "pistols, revolvers, and other firearms capable of being concealed on a person," including short-barreled shotguns and rifles, as handguns. It also notes there are no restrictions on mailing rifles and shotguns between licensed dealers, manufacturers, and importers.

Major private carriers, including UPS and FedEx, also restrict the shipping of firearms to only licensed dealers, which the opinion argued effectively creates a "complete ban" for unlicensed people."


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In 1963, the US Postal Service certainly obliged Lee Harvey Oswald: Mail Order Rifle

In 2025 Dummkopf Trumpf idiotically signed an Executive Order loosening federal firearm regulations after he himself was almost felled by assassin's bullet on 13 July 2024 in Butler, PA. The DOJ is suing Washington DC to allow residents to own assault rifles and ammunition vending machines are available in six states across the US, with plans for further expansion.

One in five Americans experience a mental health issue every year and the nefarious Trumpf junta abruptly slashed nearly two billion dollars in funding for programs that serve people with mental illness and substance abuse. Every eleven minutes someone in the US is killed with a firearm, either by assailant, by accident, or suicide.

The more Americans are shot, the more hospitalizations occur in our insidious for-profit healthcare system. Moreover, many Americans are opting out of health insurance in 2026 because of rising premiums and the lack of ACA (Obamacare) subsidies.


And on TV, Hillbilly Hypocrite JD Vance referred to this sycophant "...and our great Secretary of State, Marco Rubio..." as if he's a reincarnation of Thomas Jefferson, George C. Marshall, or Dr Henry Kissinger.

Hah!

This merdivore's litany of blasphemies is lengthy:

~Undermined Obamacare in 2015
~Expedited $4bn of hardworking American taxpayer funds to the IDF in March 2025 to help their ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
~Dismantled JFK's USAID
~Dimed out informants to the tinpot dictator of El Salvador so he could imprison our migrants at CECOT
~Took down the US State Dept web portal to report war crimes
~Fired seasoned diplomats and recalled Ambassadors not loyal enough to MAGA
~Pushed for Christianity globally and in the State Dept, but didn't give a darn about Palestinian or Ukrainian Christians getting killed
~Worked with CIA to undermine and destabilize Venezuela, leading to the unlawful abduction Nicolas Maduro
~Delegated highly-trained and well-paid DSS Special Agents from the domestic offices to augment brutal ICE operations
~Constantly prevaricates to the media and the US Congress about Trumpf's intentions
~Lickspittle to mega-oligarch Larry Ellison and ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu
~Does nothing but serve as an office decoration while Trumpf insiders Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are the "Special Enjoys"

Simply put, Marco Rubio is just a shallow, faux Christian who is a willing accomplice of the warmongering Trumpf junta.

Hideous. Stomach-churning hideous.




The US State Department is pausing immigrant visa processing for 75 countries, marking one of the most sweeping moves yet in Donald Trump's renewed immigration crackdown. USSECSTATE Marco Rubio already revoked more than 100,000 visas, including 8,000 student visas, of people who have had "encounters with law enforcement" since Donald Trump returned to office.

The diabolical Trumpf junta will freeze visa processing indefinitely for applicants from countries including Somalia, Russia, Afghanistan, Brazil, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria, Thailand, and Yemen. The US State Department did not immediately clarify if non-immigrant visas, such as for tourism and business, would be affected.

Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs good-for-nothing Mora Namdar, daughter of wealthy Iranian emigres and owner of a mini-chain of beauty salons in Texas, directed consular officers to refuse visa applications until screening and vetting procedures are reassessed.

The pause goes into effect on 21 January. Older or overweight applicants could be denied, along with those who had any past use of government cash assistance or institutionalization.

"The State Department will use its long-standing authority to deem ineligible potential immigrants who would become a public charge on the US and exploit the generosity of the American people," State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott bleated.


The picture-perfect definition of an Empty Suit,' the inter-galactically vapid and strictly unimaginative Marco Rubio was vetted for his position as USSECSTATE based on his loyalty to Israel by none other than mega-oligarch Larry Ellison:
Marco Rubio Loyalty to Israel More Important Than to the American Taxpayer

Besides dismantling USAID in 2025, in 2015 as a Republican Senator from Florida, Marco Rubella undermined the ACA ("Obamacare") by subtly adding corrosive riders to the bill. Years from now this hologram will enjoy a magnificent federal pension combining all of his years as a good-for-no-one US Senator and USSECSTATE. The thought of that is enough to make one retch.

"Good Morning. My name is General Dan Caine. I am the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) and the highest-ranking military officer in the United States of America. As you can see from my military bio below, I have spent decades attending military colleges, universities, and training programs, was a combat pilot and a senior advisor at CIA."


"As America's top military officer, I earn $16,000 per month, which is approximately $192,000 and I live in free military housing near the Pentagon. I work long hours and like all of America's warriors, do not receive overtime pay."

"In today's America, a xenophobic ICE neanderthal with only a high school diploma can roam the streets of our country with federal credentials and a firearm, terrorize our population, and earn more salary in a year than the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff. "

Link: CJCS Bio

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