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Iran issued a direct assassination threat against President Donald Trump on Wednesday, airing a chilling image on state television showing Trump during the 2024 rally shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, with the warning: "This time it will not miss the target." The image, broadcast on Iran's Islamic Republic state television, marks Tehran's most explicit threat yet against Trump and comes amid escalating tensions between Washington and the Iranian regime. The threat follows repeated warnings from Trump that the United States would take action if Tehran continues its violent crackdown on anti-government protesters. The graphic reportedly originated at a pro-regime rally in...

Renee Good ’s family is accusing federal immigration officers of killing the Minneapolis mother as she attempted to follow agents' instructions, and said Wednesday they have hired the same law firm that represented George Floyd ’s family to press for answers and accountability. Her loved ones said in a statement they want Good, 37, remembered as “an agent of peace” and urged the public not to use her death as a political flashpoint, according to the Chicago-based firm Romanucci & Blandin. The firm said it will release information from its investigation in the coming weeks. The family's decision to hire...

A teachers' union has been forced to delete a post urging the 'ultra-wealthy' to fully fund schools after it was mocked online for misspelling 'governor.' On Tuesday, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) circulated a flyer on social media, urging the public to pressure state leaders to tax billionaires to fund struggling public institutions. It comes months after a report found the district is $1.6 billion short of necessary funding, according to Chicago Public Media. The union's flyer went after Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, a multibillionaire heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, demanding that the 'ultra-wealthy pay their fair share...

SANTA ANA, Calif -- A demonstrator was hit in the face with a projectile fired by a federal officer at close range during a Southern California protest, leaving him bloodied and with serious injuries, according to video and accounts from fellow protesters and family on Tuesday. The Friday gathering outside the federal immigration building in the city of Santa Ana was in response to the shooting death of Renee Good in Minneapolis by a federal agent, which has kicked off a wave of protests around the country. Hundreds of people had marched in the streets in Santa Ana until a...

AI’s abilities have suddenly skyrocketed — is anyone else noticing this?Earlier today I was reading Twotone's post about a BCC piece AI can now 'see' optical illusions. What does it tell us about our own brains?. The article talks about how some AI systems now fall for the same visual tricks we do — the Moon looking bigger on the horizon, that sort of thing. Interesting enough on its own.But that’s not what really got my attention.What it triggered was a much bigger question I’ve been sitting with for a while now: why does it feel like AI’s abilities have...

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is set to resign within the next week, according to multiple reports from within the Walz campaign. It seems that Walz is being thrown under the bus by his own party, something which carries not just great entertainment value but also the pros This would all put us back to where we were a week ago, before a deranged woman decided to block a street to prevent ICE from transporting an arrested illegal alien to a detention center, and, when ICE officers moved in to arrest her, drove at one of them. His reaction was to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson arrived for work at the Supreme Court building this morning in the official, yellow SCOTUS short bus. Onlookers cheered as Jackson emerged from the bus, after several minutes of trying to figure out how to open the bus door. "Aw, look at her, all dressed up like a big girl," said local woman Jeannie Gordon. "It's so neat that the Supreme Court makes accommodations for people like Ketanji. I love that she gets to participate, just like anyone else. Oh look, they're even letting her put on a robe! So sweet." Though the...

This is absolutely insane. The vehicle rammings are CONTINUING. These men need all the protection they can get.

Federal investigators have uncovered what appears to be a sophisticated cash-courier network that moved hundreds of millions of dollars out of Minnesota and the United States using suitcases rather than traditional banking systems. As much as $700 million in cash was transported out of Minnesota via commercial flights, often routed through Europe and the Middle East. The operation relied on couriers rather than financial institutions, keeping the transactions largely off official banking records. Speaking to Steve Bannon, Editor in Chief for Just the News John Solomon talked about his exclusiv scoop, saying the Transportation Security Administration confirmed that $136 million...

US President Donald Trump has renewed his threat to use military force to bring the Arctic island under American control Denmark has begun sending military personnel to Greenland, and allied reinforcements are expected to follow, Danish media reported on Wednesday.Greenlandic and Danish authorities announced that Danish military forces will expand their presence on the island and continue conducting exercises with allies throughout 2026.Greenlanders should expect to see more military planes, troops and ships in Greenland “including from NATO allies,” the statement reads.Danish Minister Defence Troels Lund Poulsen said on Wednesday afternoon that more countries were inbound for Greenland. Sweden...

[Catholic Caucus] German Diocese Regrets "Slime Jesus" – But No One Is PunishedThe diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany, allegedly regrets its televised Christmas Eve Eucharist, which featured an adult woman covered in sticky rice paper who resembled a slimy alien in a manger.The Eucharist was broadcast Germanwide from the parish of St Mary’s in Stuttgart.The officiating priest, Thomas Steiger, said during the service: "The nativity scene shows a real human being, lying there miserable, naked and exposed."Next to him, the female actor breathed heavily and slowly writhed in the paper, which was apparently meant to represent the vernix covering a newborn...

Starlink has shown what a game-changer it is. At the beginning of the massive popular demonstrations in Iran, Elon Musk took the bold initiative of providing free Starlink services for the protestors. A few days in, Iran shut down the Internet in the entire country. For the first time since 2019, a nationwide blackout was imposed, disrupting phone networks and landline telephones. Starlink became the sole web outlet for protesters to get informed, communicate, and share the images of the momentous developments with the world. It didn’t take long for the brutal Iranian regime to crack down on Starlink terminals,...

President Trump announced early Wednesday that his administration will strip federal funding from sanctuary cities and states, in line with policies he promoted on the campaign trail. “EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY FIRST, NO MORE PAYMENTS WILL BE MADE BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO STATES FOR THEIR CORRUPT CRIMINAL PROTECTION CENTERS KNOWN AS SANCTUARY CITIES,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social.“ALL THEY DO IS BREED CRIME AND VIOLENCE! If States want them, they will have to pay for them! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” he added.The post follows his Tuesday speech at the Detroit Economic Club when he said sanctuary cities...

Ukrainian air defenses were in action around Kyiv on Wednesday morning as Russian forces launched another mass drone attack targeting the city's already ravaged power and heating infrastructure with multiple explosions heard downtown. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that following the raid -- the third major attack in five days -- 6,000 buildings, about half of all buildings, were without power amid freezing temperatures. Deputy Energy Minister Mykola Kolisnyk said Tuesday that Russia was "going all in" to take out Ukraine's energy infrastructure after mass attacks targeting power and gas facilities overnight Monday and Jan. 9. The state-run electricity network operator...

Looks like Kamala Harris’s catastrophically awful choice for VP might be removed from office: Let’s not be too hard on Walz. He devoted his career to pure moonbattery, but he did do one thing right. Via WLT Report: [B]ack in 2020 he signed a new law that gave officers the right to use deadly force in situations involving imminent threats — like a vehicle accelerating towards them — with no requirement that they wait for actual physical impact first before shooting. This leaves no dispute that officers are justified in shooting criminal maniacs like Renee Good who try to run...

House Oversight Republicans will begin contempt of Congress proceedings against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after she failed to appear for a deposition Wednesday as part of the committee's investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Why it matters: Both Clintons will face contempt of Congress proceedings — a rarely used congressional enforcement tool. The Clintons are refusing to comply with subpoenas, laying out in a Monday letter, obtained by Axios, to Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) why they considered the subpoenas "invalid and legally unenforceable." "Since this started, we've been asking what the hell Hillary Clinton has to...

If you think our nation is in trouble now, just wait… As our streets boil over with hate, anger, crime, drugs, and just sheer hopelessness, is there something we can do? You bet there is. I would like to call for a time of prayer and repentance this Wednesday, January 14, at 12:00 noon.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who killed Renee Nicole Good suffered internal bleeding following the encounter, the Department of Homeland Security said. Jonathan Ross, the agent who shot Good three times in the face on January 7 during an anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, endured internal bleeding to his torso, the Trump administration confirmed to the Daily Mail. The extent of his condition remains unclear, as internal bleeding can also be classified as a bruise or contusion that causes mild or serious injury. The mother-of-three was seen in a now-viral video ignoring demands by federal agents to get...

A woman could be seen in chaotic footage as she was dragged from her car by ICE agents during protests in Minnesota following the fatal shooting of Renee Good. The unidentified woman was allegedly blocking ICE agents working to capture illegal immigrants on Tuesday when officers pulled from her the vehicle as she desperately clung onto the driver's side door. It is understood she had been attempting to wedge agents between her car and a second car, which was also blocking the road during an ICE operation in Minnesota. 'I'm disabled, I'm trying to go to the doctor up there,'...

The U.S. experienced negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in at least half a century as a result of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, according to a report released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution. Although the administration has undertaken aggressive removal efforts, the negative number is mostly due to a significant drop in entries into the U.S., the report said. "We estimate net flows of -295,000 to -10,000 for the year," the Brookings study stated. "Though a high degree of policy uncertainty remains, continued negative net migration for 2026 is also likely." SNIP