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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is demanding answers after the release of a shocking video that appears to show a federal immigration agent "accompanying a female detainee into a porta-potty” in Minnesota.Published on social media Saturday night by X user "Molly Ploofkins,” an influential political commentator with more than 135,000 followers, the video...
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There are many good reasons our government is based on three "separate but equal branches.” The men who wrote our Constitution 250 years ago had just fought a bloody war against an incredibly powerful monarch whose empire was based on extracting wealth in all its forms from merciless colonial exploitation of weaker nations. Few expected the...
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Ronald Reagan's budget director over the weekend for roasting a billionaire's defense of Donald Trump's economic plans.It started with a post by billionaire Bill Ackman, who said, "I think President Trump's goal of reducing credit card interest rates is a worthy and important one.""My concern about capping rates at 10% is that doing so will...
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Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-FL), a Cuban-born lawmaker and close ally of President Donald Trump, issued a barrage of open threats to Cuban government officials Sunday, warning them that the United States had the "capability to wipe [them] all out in a matter of minutes.”Following the U.S. attack and takeover of Venezuela – which included the...
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President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan erupted Sunday after NBC News' Kristen Welker pressed him on an alleged $50,000 cash bribe he reportedly took in exchange for dishing out government contracts to private prisons.Last September, it was revealed that Homan had been ensnared in an FBI probe in 2024, and was being investigated by the...
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Donald Trump appointee Tom Homan was hit with a major backlash after he said Sunday in response to NBC News' Kristen Welker that it was "hateful rhetoric" that caused ICE to shoot and kill an American woman.Welker also asked Homan whether he did, in fact, keep an alleged $50,000 bribe or whether he returned it, a question that didn't sit well with...
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A Democratic governor beat Donald Trump's White House in court after what she described as a "jaw dropping" interaction with the president. Now, she's telling others how to handle him.Maine Governor Janet Mills appeared on MS NOW on Sunday, and was asked about a moment when she literally and figuratively stood up to the president. Mills stood in a...
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By Ben Jones, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State. Minneapolis is once again the focus of debates about violence involving law enforcement, after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother, in her car.The incident quickly...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), among the most hawkish members of Congress, issued an ominous threat Sunday to Cuba in a manner strikingly similar to threats made to Venezuela just weeks before the U.S. attack and takeover of the South American nation.President Donald Trump issued his own ominous threat to Cuba Sunday morning in a social media post,...
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was put in the hot seat on CNN Sunday after being backed into a corner over her "different standard” when it came to when law enforcement should be allowed to use deadly force.Noem appeared with CNN's Jack Tapper to fiercely defend the deadly use of force in the killing of Rene Good, a Minnesota woman who...
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took heavy fire from viewers on Sunday after she failed to answer a question by a CNN host, who called it out on air.During a discussion with Noem, CNN's Jake Tapper brought up the ICE agent who killed a Minnesota mom by shooting her in the face. Noem suggested that, because the woman was potentially...
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President Donald Trump took to social media Sunday to brag about the front entrance of his luxury Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, a boast that came hot on the heels of an underwhelming jobs report that showed "weaker than expected” growth in the private sector, and one that drew pushback even on his own social media platform."The...
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Linda McMahon, the nation's secretary of education, says public schools are failing.In November, she promised a "hard reset” of the system in which more than 80% of U.S. children learn. But rather than invest in public education, she has been working to dismantle the Department of Education and enact wholesale changes to how public schools...
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was called out Sunday on CNN for repeatedly dodging Jake Tapper's questions about her claim that Renee Good – the Minnesota woman fatally shot by an immigration agent last week – had engaged in "domestic terrorism.”Good was shot last Wednesday in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
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With more such events set for Sunday, hundreds of demonstrations took place in cities large and small across the United States on Saturday to denounce the killing of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration enforcement officer last week in Minneapolis.The wave of "ICE Out for Good” protests arrives as a consolidated expression of outrage...
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Tuesday was the five-year anniversary of the J6 insurrection. On Jan. 6, 2021, the then-president organized and led an attempted paramilitary takeover of the US government.And Donald Trump got away with it.He ran for president for a second time like a man who was trying to outrun a jail sentence. That's because he was.Special counsel Jack Smith,...
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Prominent activists on Sunday raised a renewed alarm about Donald Trump's "cognitive health," with one conservative declaring, "He's still only going to get worse."Amid frantic White House moves both on and off American soil, Charlotte Clymer, an Army Veteran and a writer who has done work for the Human Rights Campaign, wrote on social media, "I'm...
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Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) appeared on CNN Sunday to defend the fatal shooting of Renee Good, the Minnesota woman shot last week by a federal immigration agent, but was called out in real time for contradicting his own argument in defense of the killing.Good was shot on Wednesday in Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent...
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A Democratic congressman put U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on notice on Sunday, noting a Fox News report that showed "armed militias" in Venezuela after the U.S. mission that took out the nation's leader.In an article called "US warns Americans to leave Venezuela immediately as armed militias set up roadblocks," the conservative outlet...
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President Donald Trump issued an ominous threat Sunday to Cuba, warning that if they don't "make a deal” favorable to the United States – and soon – it will be "too late” for the Caribbean nation."Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided 'Security Services' for the last two...
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Renee Nicole Good is dead. She was murdered in cold blood in Minneapolis by a masked federal agent who had to know his safety was never in question.The agent ordered Good out of her SUV. She turned the wheels away from him to go home. He was apparently offended that she didn't immediately follow orders, so he shot her three times in the face, twice...
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In the wake of the devasting ICE shooting of an American citizen in Minneapolis, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Kristi Noem "quietly" changed the rules so that congresspeople can't visit ICE facilities as easily, according to reporting.Kyle Cheney, senior legal affairs reporter for Politico, broke the news on social media late...
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A new New York Times analysis found that federal judges appointed by President Donald Trump voted "overwhelmingly” in his favor when compared with judges appointed by other presidents, a trend that has legal experts sounding the alarm over what they say is Trump's attempt to impose a permanent shift in presidential power and constitutional...
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Donald Trump early on Sunday morning shared numerous images indicating a new military target on his mind, other than Greenland and Iran.The president took to Truth Social first thing to share half a dozen posts from other people and graphics, but they all had a theme: Trump pondering taking Cuba.The first post was a share from conservative Marc...
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Under international law, all nations own the natural resources found within their borders. Not just rich nations, not just powerful ones; all nations possess the inherent right to consume, extract, preserve or even waste their own natural resources according to their own self-determined needs. This basic premise, a foundational pillar of global...
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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said over the weekend that he wants to hold people accountable for the recent ICE actions whether it is before or after Trump leaves office.Ex-lawyer and journalist Aaron Parnas interviewed Ellison, asking him if there's a statue of limitations on potential charges against the ICE agent who fired through a...
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A new front in the MAGA civil war opened up over the weekend, as a fringe Donald Trump ally declared war on Tucker Carlson's brother.It began when writer Eitan Fischberger posted about Tucker Carlson hosting his brother on his podcast. According to Fischberger, "We're about to witness Tucker and his alcoholic brother spend three hours projecting...
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Friday that she is suspending payments on all active and future awards from the USDA to Minnesota amid the long-running fraud scandal in which the White House has alleged a misuse of federal funds.
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The MAGAverse is eagerly anticipating U.S. military action in another foreign nation as top Trump insiders are aligning their messaging.It started with a statement by Donald Trump himself, who wrote, "Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before. The USA stands ready to help!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP."Pete Hegseth reposted Trump's...
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Donald Trump's official presidential portrait has been altered by the Smithsonian so that it no longer includes information about the impeachments in his first term, despite the fact that Bill Clinton's portrait caption still describes his impeachment, according to reporting.The Washington Post broke the story on Saturday, writing that, "A Trump...
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Donald Trump on Saturday released what appeared to some to be a threat to freed political prisoners.The president took to his own social media site, Truth Social, over the weekend to thank Venezuela for freeing the prisoners."Venezuela has started the process, in a BIG WAY, of releasing their political prisoners. Thank you!" Trump wrote. "I hope...
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JD Vance promoted a leaked video as evidence that the ICE agent who shot and killed a mom in Minnesota was in the right, but that clip actually works against the administration's story, according to a conservative analyst Saturday.There was widespread division after a video showed a masked ICE agent shooting the woman, who was an American citizen,...
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A federal judge on Saturday swatted down the Trump administration, blocking its plan to strip thousands of immigrants of their legal status.Politico this weekend published an article called, "Judge blocks Trump administration from revoking immigration parole," in which the outlet reported that the court had granted a "two-week reprieve for more...
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Dan Bongino, the Trump FBI official who recently left the administration, got a chilly reception from his own fans, who accused him of posting like a "tween girl" and refusing to see the concerns of the common man.Bongino made headlines when the administration announced noted child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein had killed himself and didn't lead a...
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Political experts and observers alike hit Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security with brutal corrections on Saturday, after the agency released what some called an "embarrassing" statement about violence against police officers.It started ahead of the weekend, when the Trump administration's Homeland Security posted this to its social...
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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced on Jan. 7, 2026, that it will cease all operations effective May 3. The daily newspaper, founded in 1786, has been the city's paper of record for nearly a century and is one of the oldest newspapers in the country.Block Communications, the company that owns the Post-Gazette, says the paper has lost "hundreds of...
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Senator Lindsey Graham is among the numerous MAGA allies who appear to be seizing upon a surprise comment by Donald Trump on Saturday as a "signal" of a potential new target for global regime change.After Trump's overnight mission to kidnap and arrest the leader of Venezuela and his wife, the wife of a Trump aide hinted that Greenland could be the...
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President Donald Trump took to social media Saturday to declare his love for Venezuelans, exactly one week after he authorized an unprecedented attack on the South American nation that state officials say killed at least 100 people, including civilians."I love the Venezuelan people, and am already making Venezuela rich and safe again,” Trump...
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President Donald Trump issued an ominous hint Saturday at what may be his administration's next foreign intervention following the U.S. attack on Venezuela last week."Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. "The USA stands ready to help!!!”Trump's remark comes as his...
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With the 2026 FIFA World Cup set to be hosted in the United States this summer, calls have grown for a global boycott and ticket cancellations in protest of the Trump administration and its increasingly aggressive deployment of federal immigration agents."I had to cancel my World Cup plans,” wrote Ramy Abdu, a Palestinian academic and assistant...
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What does Donald Trump have against Minnesota? Not only is ICE causing mayhem in Minneapolis, but Trump is halting hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for social services programs there, according to a Tuesday announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services.It's not just Minnesota. Trump is also stopping billions in...
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An ICE officer fatally shot a woman Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis, according to the Department of Homeland Security. A U.S. official identified her as Renee Good. City leaders said the victim was a legal observer of federal actions in the city.
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It's still early, as facts are coming in about the brutal killing on Wednesday of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who was shot in the head by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, through the windshield of her car.What we do know, as we all can see with our own eyes on the viral videos of the killing, is that Renee was shot in cold blood, unprovoked, not...
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Speaking with reporters on Friday about the killing of Renee Nicole Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis earlier this week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the violence exposes a key contrast about the nation she wants to live in and the vision espoused by Vice President JD Vance, who has been...
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President Donald Trump renewed calls Saturday to imprison former Justice Department attorney Jack Smith, who helped lead investigations into Trump over his alleged mishandling of classified documents in 2023."Deranged Jack Smith should be sitting in prison for all that he has done to disgrace our Country!” Trump raged Saturday, writing on his...
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The first thing that should be said about the fatal shooting in Minneapolis is that the victim's name was Renee Nicole Good.Good, 37, was a mother, a wife, a poet and fervent Christian. Her mother, Donna Ganger, told the local newspaper her daughter and her partner were not involved in protests."She was probably terrified. Renee was one of the...
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White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt left onlookers stunned Saturday after sharing an alleged and unverified claim that suggests the United States used a secret "sonic weapon” during its attack on Venezuela last week.On social media, Leavitt urged her nearly 2 million followers on X to "stop what you are doing and read this,” sharing a...
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Progressive advocacy groups are set to lead nationwide rallies this weekend to protest Wednesday's killing of Renee Good by an immigration officer in Minneapolis and the Trump administration's wider deadly mass deportation campaign.Groups including 50501 Movement, Indivisible, the Disappeared in America campaign, MoveOn, the ACLU, Voto Latino, and...
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Donald Trump's Christmas night boast about military strikes against ISIS in Nigeria was undermined by a Washington Post report revealing significant operational failures.On Christmas night, Trump posted on Truth Social: "Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist...
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With over 1,000 rallies scheduled to commence this weekend nationwide in protest of the latest fatal shooting by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, a number of MAGA supporters are lashing out online over the planned demonstrations."No kings, free Palestine, my body my choice, BLM, same thing with all the insufferable people,” wrote X...
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Republicans are increasingly concerned about maintaining Senate control in the upcoming midterm election, expressing frustration that Donald Trump is undermining their efforts.The party faces challenging circumstances. While poor approval ratings—partly attributable to the president's inability to address cost-of-living concerns—make House...
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Residents of Wisconsin and Washington, DC this week continued the legal fight against efforts by President Donald Trump's administration to gain access to confidential information about registered voters as the Democratic National Committee issued a related warning to 10 state governments.The group Common Cause on Thursday highlighted its recent...
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Far-right influencer Steve Bannon, who previously served as President Donald Trump's chief White House strategist, is planning to launch a 2028 presidential bid, according to two insiders who spoke with Axios.Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt was told by "two people familiar with [Bannon's] thinking” under the condition of anonymity that Bannon –...
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