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Thursday, January 15, 2026

During an interview with Reuters, when President Trump was told that a poll found tepid support among Americans for taking control of Greenland, Trump called the poll "fake." The president also expressed frustration that his Republican Party could lose control of the US House of Representatives or the Senate in this year's midterm elections. "It's some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don't win the midterms," Trump whined. He boasted that he had accomplished so much that "when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." read more


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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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.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2026

The Trump administration sent shockwaves through the US mental health and drug addiction system late Tuesday, sending hundreds of termination letters, effective immediately, for federal grants supporting health services.

US Mental Illness Statistics
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Remote US Army base Fort Greely Alaska, which has a key role in intercepting incoming ICBMs in the event of a nuclear war, is struggling to keep its dining facilities operating following an exodus of staff under Elon Musk's DOGE budget-slashing campaign. read more


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And ICE is using hi-tech Israeli spyware and sophisticated Palantir technologies: www.404media.co

Too bad previous Republican and Democratic administrations did nothing to dismantle DHS and abolish ICE since their post-9/11 creation as part of the "GWOT." Now we have a runaway train killing innocent people, tracking residents without warrants, terrorizing communities, and enriching the oligarchs with our hardworking taxpayer dollars.

Look at the bottom left of www.centcom.mil's webpage.

There are press releases in Russian: www.centcom.mil

In my 27 years of service in the US Army and beyond, I have never seen anything like that until Dummkopf Trumpf seized power on 20 Jan 2025.

NBC News has re-iterated a November 2025 food recall for 20 states involving the New Jersey-based Ambriola Company whose cheese products are most probably tainted with listeria.

Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes deadly infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.

Source: Grated Cheese Recall

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Dummkopf Trumpf's gilded luxury golf club in Bedminster NJ was fined for 18 unsanitary conditions: Trumpf Bedminster Golf Club a Dump

Many Americans are forgoing health insurance this year because ACA subsidies have expired and the premiums are prohibitively high. Every resident of America that falls sick to food poisoning, visits an emergency room, is wounded by a firearm, is hospitalized because of a disease transmitted by an unvaccinated person, driven by ambulance to a hospital for a broken arm or leg, or develops cancer from being exposed to chemicals, pesticides, or radiation, is pure profit to be made in the insidious US privatized health care system which bankrupts roughly 530,000 people in the country every year.


Pitched battles between Nazis and Communists occurred on the streets of Germany until about 1933 or 1934: media.gettyimages.com

Because the Weimar Republic had more Nazi, monarchist, and right-wing sympathizers in their ranks and the polizei, the Nazis eventually won and consolidated power under Der Fuehrer.

Similarly in Amerikkka, today's cops lean Republican, like our military.

WWII was probably the last time the US military had a majority of Democratic voters serving. One AI snapshot:

"During World War II, the US military was not evenly split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans in terms of political affiliation. Among those who came of age before World War II, about 55.4% identified as Democrats, while 38.3% identified as Republicans." (Sources: journalistsresource.org, sanantonioreport.org)

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