Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan

Less than a year after the deadly battle of COP Keating, Latvian NATO troops CPL. Martins Dabolins, SFC Janis Lakis & CAP Agris Liepins flew to Minnesota to reunite with the US troops alongside they served.

US SGT Eric Harder is in the maroon. 🇺🇸 🇱🇻

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Tell the families of Danish soldiers Brian Juul Nørlev Andersen, Thomas Kruse Butzkowski, and Kim Carlsen — KIA March 6, 2002, in Afghanistan — that the US “never needed them” and that they “stayed a little off the front lines.” 🇩🇰

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Why is President Trump denigrating the sacrifice of NATO allies? | CNN Politics CNN’s Jake Tapper responds to President Trump’s shocking remarks on Thursday downplaying the sacrifices that NATO allies, including Denmark, made in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Why is President Trump denigrating the sacrifice of NATO allies?

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Army veteran had cops at her door after she left a negative Facebook comment about the mayor | CNN Raquel Pacheco joins The Lead.

Cops showed up at the door of a US Army veteran after she posted a negative comment about the mayor on Facebook

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GOP Sen. criticizes Trump’s Davos speech: ‘Opportunity missed’ | CNN Republican Senator Thom Tillis joins The Lead.

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Following Trump’s 24 hours of posts and 90-min speech | CNN Politics CNN’s Jake Tapper breaks down the past 24 hours of President Trump’s first anniversary of his second term. The president started off with a series of Truth Social posts in the middle of the night and ...

How Trump marked his first full year back in office

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POTUS re-posting various insanities in the last few hours: that NATO and the UN are “the real threat,” not China or Russia; anti-Muslim bigotry (“they outbreed us”); wild election lies about Dominion voting machines.

Insane Impulse Control Issues We replaced a President with dementia with a President who has developed some level of insanity over Greenland.

Erick Erickson: “the behavior of the President of the United States towards our European allies and Greenland is beneath the dignity of the Presidency and is shameful.”

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In the middle of the night the President was posting private messages from European leaders, criticizing the UK, and sharing a fake image of a map in which the US controls Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, and Cuba.

Analysis: The irony behind Trump’s fixation on the Nobel Peace Prize | CNN CNN’s Jake Tapper takes a deeper look at President Trump’s fixation on the Nobel Peace Prize and why his desire to be awarded the medal may be ironic given his comments in recent days about Greenland.

A closer look at President Trump’s fixation on the Nobel Peace Prize —

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On October 26, 1967, six months before his assassination, MLK Jr spoke at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia and gave his “blueprint” speech. Here’s a short excerpt:

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Dr Jonathan Reiner has called for the APA to repeal the “Goldwater rule” which tells psychiatrists it’s “unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion” about a public figure “unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.”

Family of 8 flees tear gas-filled SUV during protest | CNN A family driving home from a child’s basketball game says they were caught between protesters and federal agents in Minneapolis, forcing them to flee their car after it filled with tear gas. The mothe...

Family of 8 flees tear gas-filled SUV during protest

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Trump ties failure to win Nobel Peace Prize to efforts to acquire Greenland | CNN US President Donald Trump told Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre that he no longer feels bound “to think purely of Peace” because the Norwegian Nobel Committee did not award him the Nobel Peace...

Trump ties failure to win Nobel Peace Prize to efforts to acquire Greenland

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Opinion | What’s New in Trump Two His policies are the same, but he is less restrained, is more hardened, and acts as if he sees no boundaries.

Written before today’s wild Trump tweets, ⁦‪@Peggynoonannyc‬⁩ notes the iconic three iconic Corleone brothers - “fiery Sonny, cool and methodical Michael, incapable Fredo” and asserts Trump’s inner Fredo is more than a third of his behavior.

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2/ “…This also reinforces why the Supreme Court needs to rule his tariff actions Unconstitutional. I have legislation that restores Congress’ primacy over tariffs.”

Rep Don Bacon, R-NE, texts: “I and most Americans disagree with the President’s heavy handedness. He is threatening NATO members, which is shameful. The fact that Greenland is part of NATO’s umbrella gives the President all he needs to put more bases there…

Trump says on Feb 1 he will impose a 10% tariff “on any and all goods sent” to US from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, & Finland, increasing to 25% June 1 “until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.”

2 children, including infant, hospitalized after federal agents deployed tear gas in Minneapolis Follow for live updates on President Donald Trump’s administration, including unrest in Minnesota over ICE operations.

DHS blames Minnesota family driving home from kids’ athletic event for their family (including 6-month old baby) being tear-gassed, then deletes tweet.

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Part 2

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Our look at the Trump administration memes, words, and imagery experts find disturbingly evocative

Part one:

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CNN poll finds majority of Americans say Trump is focused on the wrong priorities | CNN Politics Public opinion on nearly every aspect of President Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House is negative, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with a majority of Americans saying Trump is f...

“A majority, 58%, calls the first year of Trump’s term a failure.”

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Man teams up with doctor who saved his life as a child to help others | CNN Mesfin Dollar and Dr. Jim Kauten join The Lead.

Man teams up with doctor who saved his life as a child to help others

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As we covered on The Lead, Epstein survivors requested DOJ IG review the flawed release/non-release of documents including where “names of individuals alleged to have participated in or facilitated abuse appear to have been redacted.”

F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents

F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi

Federal prosecutors open criminal investigation into the Fed and Jerome Powell.

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His response below:

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