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Forty-four people were evaluated and two were hospitalized with respiratory issues after one million gallons of sulfuric acid leaked at a facility near the Houston Ship Channel which is now being monitored for environmental damage, threats to aquatic life, and water quality. read more


"The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world."


Thursday, January 01, 2026

The Kremlin has made a formal diplomatic request that the US stop its pursuit of an oil tanker that had been sailing for Venezuela and is now fleeing the USCG in the Atlantic Ocean.


Zohran Mamdani (34) was sworn in as the 112th Mayor of NYC by US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), flanked by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), City Comptroller Mark Levine, and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.


In the hours following the tragic death of Caroline Kennedy's daughter Tatiana Schlossberg (35) from acute myeloid leukemia, Dummkopf Trumpf callously mocked the famous political dynasty on Truth Social, sharing screenshots of MAGA miscreants insulting the Kennedys for their disapproval of the Dotard-in-Chief befouling the Kennedy Center by him illegally adding his name to the American institution named after JFK.


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The number 100 million is a pipe-dream, like a "Jew-free Europe" aspiration for the "Thousand Year Third Reich."

This DHS message indicates the sense of permanency that members of the Trumpf junta are feeling about white supremacy and privilege.

"We're never going back."

This year Democrats have to field the most progressive candidates possible for the mid-term elections and then again in 2028.

Progressive Zohran Mamdani had the highest turnout in NYC elections since 1969, a record-breaking +2 million New Yorkers cast their ballots for him.

Any hint of the candidate being associated with the status quo will depress the already low turn out in mid-term elections:

2018 Midterms Turnout: 50%, the highest in over a century.
2022 Midterms Turnout: 46.8% of the voting-eligible population.
2014 Midterms Turnout: 36.7%, one of the lowest in recent history.

For us progressives, we must kick the dinosaurs out. Look where these corporate Democrats got us today. ACA (Obamacare) subsidies are over. These dinosaurs capitulated to the Republicans during the budget impasses this year but continue sending our taxpayer dollars to ethnic cleansing Pariah state Israel.

Funny, AIPAC Democrats find themselves on the same side as Laura Loomer, Dummkopf Trumpf, Randy 'the Hebrew Ham Sandwich' Fine, John "Bomb Iran" Bolton, Lindsey "Bomb Iran" Graham (R-SC), Islamophobe Sebastian Gorka, and White House hobgoblin Stephen Miller.

Here are some progressive Democrats starting the counter offensive against the dinosaurs tomorrow:


"Vladimir Putin's diplomatic request for the US to stop pursuing the oil tanker was delivered late on New Year's Eve to the US State Department and to the White House's Homeland Security Council.

The dispute over the oil tanker comes as Dummkopf Trumpf is negotiating a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine while repeatedly kvetching about his senile inability and manifest incompetence to end Russia's invasion of its neighbor, all while his nefarious junta is starting an illegal war against Venezuela.

US forces have been tracking the tanker, known as the Bella 1, for nearly two weeks. The ship, which started its journey in Iran, had been on its way to pick up oil in Venezuela when US forces attempted high seas piracy by trying to stop and board it in the Caribbean Sea.

US authorities bleated the ship was not flying a valid national flag, making it a stateless vessel susceptible to boarding under international law, and said they possessed a seizure warrant. But the crew of the Bella 1 refused to comply and sailed back toward the Atlantic.

The ship has tried to claim the protection of Russia, with its crew painting a Russian flag on the side and radioing the USCG to say they were sailing under Russian authority. The Bella 1 recently appeared in Russia's official register of ships, under a new name, the Marinera, with a home port of Sochi, on the Black Sea.

Last week Russia "reaffirmed its all-out support and solidarity with the leaders and people of Venezuela."


Zohran Mamdani placed his hand on a Quran as US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) administered the oath of office, making him the first Muslim Mayor of NYC and the youngest one in 100 years.

"New York, thank you for inspiring our nation," Sanders declared.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) praised Zohran for energizing new voters.

"We have chosen courage over fear. We have chosen prosperity for many over spoils for the few," Ocasio-Cortez said.
The Bronx High School of Science graduate was joined at the ceremony by his wife, Rama Duwaji, and his parents, filmmaker Mira Nair and Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani.

NYS Governor Kathy Hochul (D) who attended the inauguration, bleated that she will not raise income taxes. The inauguration crowd then erupted in chants of "tax the rich." Hochul will need the full backing of New Yorkers in her re-election campaign against MAGA Islamophobe ICE fanatic Bruce Blakeman.

Fellow NY Democrats Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was reported to have attended the inauguration, but House Minority Hakeem Jeffries was not seen. Disgraced ex-NYS Governor Andrew "Judas Iscariot" Cuomo, the political hack who betrayed the Democratic Party of his father, Mario, did not attend the event.

There is no indication that NYPD officers are leaving their careers for Florida, despite all the invitations from Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and county sheriffs in the Sunshine State, nor is there any evidence of millionaires fleeing NYC because of Zohran Mamdani, a young visionary who has the support of Dummkopf Trumpf and ex-POTUS Barack Obama.

The health insurance status of the HAZMAT accident victims are unknown.

Map of Area: Houston Ship Canal

Republican-led Texas leads the US in both industrial and HAZMAT accidents:

  • In 2024, Texas accounted for 37% of all pipeline incidents reported to the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), with 197 out of 531 incidents occurring in the Lone Star State. Since 2010, 30% of all such incidents nationwide have happened in Texas, largely due to its extensive oil, gas, and petrochemical infrastructure (Source: www.fractracker.org).

  • Red State Texas also consistently leads the nation in HAZMAT plant accidents, with over 25 chemical explosions and fires reported in just the first half of 2023, representing 30% of all plant-related accidents in the US (Source: www.renicklawfirm.com).

    Oil- and cattle-rich Texas receives $71.1 billion more from Washington than it contributes in federal taxes, making the Lone Star State a net recipient of federal tax dollars from the rest of the country (Source: www.politifact.com).


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