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Observant1, January 7 :
"The new site baselessly claims the violence on January 6, 2021,
was instigated by law enforcement and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
It recasts the rioters as the victims that day, and depicts President Donald Trump
as a h…
White House rewrites January 6 history and blames police for deadly attack on 5-year anniversary
CNN is reporting that The White House rolled out a new website Tuesday with a full-blown recast of the historical record of January 6, 2021, hailing th…
January 7, 2026
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON (Continued)
But something else was also going on today. At the same time the administration was pouring gasoline on the domestic fire ICE had sparked and the international fire it had set with its attacks on…
January 7, 2026
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
This morning, a federal agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good as she was driving away from ICE agents on a residential street in Minneapolis, Minneso…
Kristi Noem doubles down on claim ICE agent killed woman in self-defense
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
DHS secretary’s claims have been widely disputed with video of shooting showing vehicle turning away from agent
…
Kristi Noem doubles down on claim ICE agent killed woman in self-defense
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
DHS secretary’s claims have been widely disputed with video of shooting showing vehicle turning away from agent
…
Minnesota Officials Say They’re Being Blocked From Investigating Fatal ICE Shooting
Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times:
A top state law enforcement official said Thursday that federal agencies were denying Minnesota …
And this add:
Vice-president Vance said that local state authorities had no jurisdiction over the ongoing investigation into Wednesday’s deadly shooting in Minneapolis. This comes as the Minneosta Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said the case …
Minnesota Officials Say They’re Being Blocked From Investigating Fatal ICE Shooting
Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times:
A top state law enforcement official said Thursday that federal agencies were denying Minnesota …
Even the Maggot "base" may be gagging on this one. Going to be interesting to watch. Stephen Miller doesn't seem to be held in high regard... that's something at least.
Senate Republicans push back on Trump’s aspirations to seize Greenland.
Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times:
A clutch of Senate Republicans on Wednesday denounced considerations by the White House to acquire Greenland…
Following is additional information from current coverage in The Guardian:
Senator Ruben Gallego moves to block Pentagon funds for Greenland invasions
Senator Gallego, an Arizona Democrat and former marine who fought in Iraq, called the White Hous…
My God. Totally pathetic. The man can't complete a sentence. And this man truly believes that he can order our military to do anything that crosses whatever he's using for a mind.
We're in big trouble, folks.
Following is additional information from current coverage in The Guardian:
Trump's claims about Greenland are misinformation, Denmark's foreign minister says
Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the foreign minister of Denmark, told reporters on Tuesday that he h…
Following is additional information from current coverage in The Guardian:
Joint statement by Nordic foreign ministers on Greenland rejects US advances on territory
The foreign ministers of five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway a…
Well, I sure don't think that converting large chunks of Greenland into radioactive ice is such a great idea. Maybe something well short of "nuclear" would suffice.
Only two Republicans oppose Pete Hegseth’s censure of fellow Senator Mark Kelly
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
Pushback from Susan Collins and Thom Tillis is striking amid tepid response from most other Republican se…
'The future of Greenland' is solely up to the people of Greenland and Denmark Canada's prime minister says
The Guardian is reporting:
As the White House says that a military option for seizing the Danish territory of Greenland is under active consi…
Israel Tells Doctors Without Borders to End Its Work in Gaza
Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times:
The move against the medical aid group enforces policies limiting criticism of Israel’s conduct in the war and requiri…
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
European leaders are pushing back against US president’s desire to seek takeover of the arctic territory
Donald Trump and his team are looking into “a range of options” in an effort to a…
Pesticide industry ‘immunity shield’ stripped from US appropriations bill
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
Democrats and ‘make America healthy again’ movement pushed back on the rider in a funding bill led by Bayer
In …
Our political system actually seems to have nothing effective in the way of checks and balances to mitigate this. If just a few years ago someone had tried to convince me that this was even possible I would have written them off as a ridiculous alar…
@Crash has posted:
But it's OK for grown-up schoolyard chickenshit masked ICE bullies to THROW women across the street????? Pepper spray? Teargas? Rubber bullets? How many fatal casualties have there been? SHIT.
Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times:
The ruling on Monday upheld a lower court’s judgment in April that the Trump administration could not drastically slash funding from the National Institutes of Health.
A federal a…
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
JAN 6 (Continued)
In November 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed special counsel Jack Smith to investigate Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. On August 1, 2023, a federal grand jury indicted Trump for…
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
JAN 6 (Continued)
As early as 2019, Trump had “joked” about staying in power regardless of the 2020 election results, and on October 31, Trump’s ally Steve Bannon told a private audience that Trump was going to declare that …
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
JAN 6
Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to stop the process of counting the electoral votes that would make Democrat Joe Biden president of the United States. They tr…
@sma3- Thank you for your response. Our income is derived from three sources: SS, pensions, and investment income, which at this time is from fixed income and MMKT funds. The SS income will "only" drop less than $5k (due to IRMAA), the pensions have…
