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NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned

NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

You can be forgiven for asking yourself:

“The trump-supporting farmers got theirs. Where’s *my* bailout?”

New research outlines the impact of Trump’s tariffs cost on the average American household A new study from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation finds President Donald Trump’s tariffs cost the average American household about $1,000 last year.

“A new study from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation finds President Donald Trump’s tariffs cost the average American household about $1,000 last year. 
[…]
That number could climb to roughly $1,300 […]. The report calls the tariffs the largest U.S. tax increase as a share of the economy since 1993.”

Federal judge reverses Trump’s freeze on $16bn for NY-NJ tunnel project President reportedly wanted Dulles airport and Penn Station to be renamed after him in exchange for funding

Is this what so many voted for? A toddler demanding that his name be put on buildings, not lowering the price of your groceries and energy bills and housing?

Boston Tea Party - Definition, Dates & Facts | HISTORY The Boston Tea Party was a political protest staged on December 16, 1773 at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts....

This country was founded on protest.

YouTube video by Frank Zappa Cheaper Than Cheep: Live Concert Film (1974)

Another Zappa treasure, released last year. What a wonderful surprise, from his 1974 band (one of his very best)!

YouTube video by wazoo17 Frank Zappa - Florentine Pogen

Zappa Family Trust releasing many 50th anniversary box sets these days, full of such special magnificence:

When will Republicans speak out against the President’s defiance of the Constitution?

When they no longer fear him anointing a primary challenger.

Here’s a handy guide to when the Perrys and Van Ordens and Miller-Meekses and Katie Britts channel their inner Cowardly Lion and find their Courage:

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

“Why don’t they just follow the law?”

Ask Garcia Venegas:

“A masked immigration agent was standing in the bedroom doorway.
[…] But they again dismissed his REAL ID. And then they held him to check his citizenship. Garcia Venegas says agents also held two other workers who had legal status.”

ICE attorney to judge: ‘This job sucks’ A federal judge admonished DHS for repeatedly defying court orders to release detainees, as government lawyers described widespread noncompliance during Minnesota’s immigration crackdown.

“U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz, a George W. Bush appointee who served as a clerk to the late conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.”

Translation: Not a liberal.

He listed “96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases.”

Is the law & order party actually for law & order?

Brian Mock seeks state Senate seat in Minnesota after prison time for Jan. 6 Capitol attack Brian Mock, who was convicted and spent time in prison after the U.S. Capitol uprising on Jan. 6, 2021, is running for state Senate. He’s seeking the Republican nomination for an open seat in western ...

A guy who beat police officers on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, who was pardoned and released from prison by President Trump, is running as a Republican for state Senate to “start holding people accountable.”

Uh-huh.

385K views · 7K reactions | Everyone should watch this. | Laura Kehrberg Everyone should watch this.

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Everyone should watch this

The president is closing the Kennedy Center for two years of extensive renovations. This, after demolishing the East Wing of the White House to build himself a ballroom on your tax dollar.

What else is he doing instead of fixing the price of your groceries like he promised?

YouTube video by The Mothers of Invention - Topic Trouble Every Day

Well I'm about to get sick
From watchin' my TV
Been checkin' out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess
And when it's gonna change, my friends
Is anybody's guess
…
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
—FZ

It’s a long road to November.

Trying to take Omar’s advice to Kima:

Don Lemon on Instagram: "Brooke Rollins talking about the prices of food and groceries." 6,593 likes, 2,497 comments - donlemonofficial on January 15, 2026: "Brooke Rollins talking about the prices of food and groceries.".

$3 is all a meal costs?!

As Joe Soucheray, Mayor of Garage Logic, told Pat Reusse a couple months ago:

“I’m conservative, but I’m not stupid!”

For some reason this scene been on my mind lately

Judge orders acting ICE director to appear in federal court in Minneapolis Minnesota’s chief federal judge is ordering the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to appear personally in a Minneapolis courtroom on Friday, with the judge saying that ICE has failed to...

ICE has been ordered to comply with court orders—and not by a liberal judge, but one appointed by George W. Bush.

What about the rule of law? We can’t disregard the law, but ICE can?

What say you, Republicans up for reelection? Why should we vote for politicians who turn a blind eye to scofflaws?

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and FBI Director Kash Patel declared that bringing a gun to a protest is against the law. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, with no evidence, claimed Pretti “attacked” officers and “brandished” a gun.

Have all three forgotten the right’s glorification of Kyle Rittenhouse?

The Lawyer for the Agent Who Shot Renee Good Thinks ICE Has Gone Too Far GOP candidate Chris Madel is dropping out of the Minnesota’s governor’s race, saying national Republicans “have made it nearly impossible.”

“I can’t look my daughters in the eye and say I’m running as a Republican, when they’re pulling over Hispanics and Asians because of the color of the skin and what they look like,” he told The Wall Street Journal. “I did not sign up for that.”

ICE changing clothes and tactics to blend in, and infiltrating protest and immigrant aid groups:

The Democratic voter who needs to be excited, rather than disciplined and focused, is why Trump has twice come into office with full control of the WH and Congress.

Despite Trump’s Claims, Grocery Prices Are Rising

“The price of beef has risen 16.4 percent over the last year. The price of coffee is up a whopping 19.8 percent. The price of lettuce is up 7.3 percent and frozen fish 8.6 percent.

“Yet Mr. Trump continues to falsely claim otherwise.”

Kids with brain cancer were already in a life and death struggle. Then came Trump The US president vowed to ‘end childhood cancer’. But his administration is dismantling the search for a cure and sending families scrambling for treatment

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Internal ICE memo gives officers authority to enter homes without judicial warrants Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The ...

Show of hands, please:

How many of you are OK with a federal agent forcibly entering your home and taking your child without a warrant signed by a judge?

Trump Yelled 'My Friends Will Get Hurt' at Marjorie Taylor Greene for Threatening to Name Epstein Abusers, She Claims Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is offering more details about her falling out with President Donald Trump, saying the final straw revolved around her push for more government transparency surroun...

Fewer than 1% of the Epstein files have been released, according to the Atlantic. Trump promised his voters full release.

Here is what he told MTG when she pressed him:

“My friends will get hurt.”

In other words, he cares more about his rich pals than the victims or the people who voted for him.

Trump Is Risking a Global Catastrophe His irrational fixation on Greenland could lead to widespread conflict.

“U.S. forces, like it or not, would find themselves in the middle of this bedlam, and with each day of violence the chances would grow of a cataclysmic mistake or miscalculation by any of the combatants […] for what, exactly? The vainglorious demands of one man who can’t read a map?”
—Tom Nichols