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🚨 JUST IN: Despite the leftist rioting, DHS, FBI, and IRS agents are going DOOR TO DOOR raiding fraudulent Somali (and other) “businesses” in Minneapolis YES! KEEP IT UP! Do NOT let the radical left goons slow you guys down! 🔥

A Minneapolis McDonald's is REFUSING to let ICE agents enter. @breccastoll : "We couldn't help but notice there's a sign that says, 'No ICE,' on the door." Security Guard: "This is private property, so you can't just break the law because you're a federal agent..."

Simply having a computer-science degree isn't enough as AI replaces low-level coders "The computer science graduates that are going to be successful now are going to be people that understand how software comes together holistically" - Andrew Anagnost, CEO of Autodesk A degree in computer science once carried the promise of stable work, high pay, and a certain level of social status. Now, many entry-level workers are struggling to find jobs. One problem is that the allure of well-paying programming jobs at flashy technology companies made computer science such a popular field that the hiring market is now oversaturated. Another...

[Catholic Caucus] Liturgy Sidestepped at Pope Leo XIV’s First Consistory? Cardinals choose evangelization and synodality as key topics, disappointing those who expected the liturgy to be a central theme after recent restrictions on the traditional form of the Roman rite, but the Holy Father later insists the liturgy remains a "very concrete" issue that still needs to be addressed.Some cardinals and faithful who have a devotion to the traditional Roman rite have expressed concern that the liturgy appears to be sidelined in the extraordinary consistory currently underway at the Vatican after the cardinals voted to give priority to other issues...

LinkedIn listed the top 25 jobs on the rise for 2026, and AI is a hot trend. But can you guess which role is the hottest?ZDNET's key takeaways: AI's a hot trend among the 25 fastest-growing jobs in the US. Top jobs include AI engineer, AI consultant, and AI/ML researcher. LinkedIn also revealed the best industries and cities for these jobs. With generative AI being all the buzz these days, it's no surprise that employers are looking for professionals with the right AI skills. That can mean people in sales, marketing, and other business areas who need to work with...

Communications networks go dark right after start of Tehran protests urged on by exiled crown prince; protesters chant ‘death to the dictator’ and ‘death to the Islamic Republic’. Thousands of people in Iran’s capital shouted from their homes and rallied in the street Thursday night after a call by the country’s exiled crown prince for a mass demonstration, witnesses said, a new escalation in the protests that have spread nationwide across the Islamic Republic. Internet access and telephone lines in Iran cut out immediately after the protests began. The protest represented the first test of whether the Iranian public could...

An 18-year-old Wisconsin man accused of killing his parents and stealing their money to fund a plan to assassinate President Trump pleaded guilty to two homicide counts in a deal with prosecutors Thursday, locking himself into two life prison sentences. Nikita Casap pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in Waukesha County Circuit Court in connection with the deaths of his stepfather, Donald Mayer, and his mother, Tatiana Casap, last year. In exchange, prosecutors dropped seven other charges, including two counts of hiding a corpse and theft. Each homicide count carries a mandatory life prison sentence. Judge Ralph...

I grew up in Weston, Florida, often called “Westonzuela” because it has one of the largest concentrations of Venezuelans outside of Venezuela. Two of my closest friends are Venezuelan, and through them I saw, up close, what the collapse of a country looks like not in headlines, but in families. That experience shapes how I view junctures, such as the recent capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, when the world must choose between imperfect action and the quiet comfort of doing nothing. Venezuela’s story is not abstract. Within a generation, one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America was...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) during a Senate hearing on Wednesday called for the impeachment of two federal judges, including Judge James Boasberg, who authorized the surveillance of Republican lawmakers during then-special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the January 6 protests.

People who stop taking weight-loss injections such as Wegovy and Mounjaro regain pounds much faster than those who halt exercising and dieting, a new medical study shows. Research published in The British Medical Journal this month suggests that people lose around a fifth of their body weight when taking the jabs. But once they quit them, they regain 0.8 kg per month on average, meaning they return to their pre-treatment weight in around a year-and-a-half, according to the findings. The study was based on the analysis of more than 9,000 adults worldwide taking weight management medications (WMMs). Novo Nordisk, the...

Biden ignored the Housing Market, and instead was immersed with High Crime, Open Borders, runaway INFLATION, the Afghanistan Disaster, and a Military that he left in Chaos and Confusion. Everything was broken, but I, as President of the United States, have already fixed it! Now, I am giving special attention to the Housing Market. Because I chose not to sell Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in my First Term, a truly great decision, and against the advice of the “experts,” it is now worth many times that amount — AN ABSOLUTE FORTUNE — and has $200 BILLION DOLLARS IN CASH....

The House on Thursday failed to override two of President Trump's vetoes of bipartisan bills, with Republicans largely sticking by the president to uphold his decision to block the legislation. Both bills initially passed the House and Senate unanimously. Thursday's votes required a two-thirds majority to override the vetoes, but both fell significantly short. One of the pieces of legislation would have given the Miccosukee Tribe more control over a portion of the Florida Everglades, and the second would have funded a water pipeline in southeast Colorado. The president vetoed both in December. The vote to override Mr. Trump's veto...

U.S. productivity just surged +4.9%. The strongest reading in nearly six years. At the same time, labor costs fell –1.9%. Higher output with lower costs is the holy grail: growth without inflation. Put simply: • Productivity jumped from ~3.3% to 4.9% • Labor costs flipped from +1% to –1.9% No surprise the Atlanta Fed’s Q4 GDP forecast just climbed to +5.4%.

Alex Berenson, author of Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence, pointed out that the New York Times had curiously removed from an article about the Uvalde school shooter a former coworker’s recollection that he complained about his grandmother not letting him smoke weed. The Times didn’t append a correction to the story as it might be expected to do when fixing a factual inaccuracy... Assuming the elided detail was accurate, it would fit a pattern. Mass shooters at Rep. Gabby Giffords’s constituent meeting in Tucson, Ariz. (2011), a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. (2012), the...

Editor’s Note: This article is purely satirical and fictitious. All attributions in this article are not genuine and this story should be read in the context of pure entertainment only.Superman was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Metropolis at 2:32 p.m yesterday at the Metropolis Courthouse. Taken away by ICE agents equipped with specially-designed Kryptonite armor, Superman soon after arrived at a Luthorcorp pocket-dimension prison the Trump administration is now calling “Antimatter Alcatraz.” The arrest was officially announced last night after GOP and Legion of Doom member Kristi Noem posted on X, “Adios Supermanos.” This move comes...

Ideologically? Socially? Romantically? No one wants to be rejected, but inevitably we all do our fair share of rejecting. Admittedly, I have never asked myself how I would want to be rebuffed, such that I would still feel mutual respect and a desire to move forwards together. That requires a confidence found only when we feel unthreatened by others and by our own hurt. But we can’t avoid conflict forever. If we’re going to reject and be rejected for the rest of our lives, we should talk about how it should happen. Let’s start with ideological rejection. Gone are the...

At $13.73 an hour, Michigan’s minimum wage jumped on Jan. 1 to the highest it’s ever been. That shouldn’t be a surprise, given the state’s minimum wage has only stagnated or increased every year. The question is: Does that mean today’s lowest earners also have more purchasing power than minimum wage workers from the past 61 years? With some caveats, the new minimum wage is the highest it’s ever been, even after being adjusted for inflation, since Michigan implemented a state minimum wage in 1965. The previous high was 1979. While minimum wage was only $2.90 an hour, that equates...

https://x.com/HiRezTheRapper/status/2008604404178354463 There’s a fish that looks like president Donald trump at this aquarium 😁🙄😉................

The Lebanese daily Al-Nahar on Jan. 3, 2026, quoted Lebanese Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Wehbe Katicha as saying that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro provided Lebanese Hizbullah with 10,000 Venezuelan passports, some of which were used by officers of Syria's Assad regime to flee the country.

Interview with Mahyar Tousi. Some important and worrying news: The regime has been able to shut down the Internet in Iran. Only Starlink open for posting videos and other news. The police has been retracted from the streets. Instead the regime has sent out the military. Very large demonstrations expected tonight. According to M Tousi on the few videos that now have reached the West lots of shooting.