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  • ICE agent involved in deadly shooting of Renee Nicole Good identified as Jonathan Ross

    01/08/2026 11:50:10 AM PST · by Morgana · 75 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | January 8, 2026 | Ben Ashford
    The ICE agent involved in the deadly Minneapolis shooting of Renee Nicole Good has been identified as Jonathan Ross. Ross was an 'experienced' officer, sources told the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Thursday. Good, 37, was shot and killed on Wednesday afternoon while she was driving her SUV down a street where ICE agents were on duty. Multiple videos show the agent, identified as Ross, opening fire on Good and hitting her in the face while she was behind the wheel. The Trump administration says Good was a 'professional agitator' who had been stalking federal agents. But Democratic officials in Minneapolis...
  • 5 GOPers cross party lines as Senate advances war powers resolution restraining Trump in Venezuela

    01/08/2026 11:40:51 AM PST · by V_TWIN · 39 replies
    nypost.com ^ | Jan. 8, 2026 | By Ryan King
    WASHINGTON — The Senate advanced a resolution Thursday to block President Trump from taking additional military action in Venezuela, just five days after the capture of Caracas strongman Nicolas Maduro. In a 52-47 vote, the upper chamber agreed to consider a so-called “War Powers resolution” to force Trump to end hostilities toward the South American nation, in a blow to the administration. The measure must still clear the Senate and House to take effect
  • 8 Perfect New Jobs For Tim Walz

    01/08/2026 10:58:46 AM PST · by dayglored · 30 replies
    The Bee ^ | Jan 7, 2026 | The Bee
    With the announcement that he is withdrawing from the Minnesota governor's race, Tim Walz is on the hunt for a new career. Fortunately, The Babylon Bee has come up with the following list of jobs he'd be absolutely fabulous for: Learning Center Director: These have flourished into multi-billion-dollar businesses under his watch. Chief counselor at the "Pray Away The Straight" camp: What a perfect fit. One of those wacky inflatable tube men at a car dealership: He's already doing the motions. Might as well get paid. Supervisor of the tampon dispenser at a men's correctional facility: He's the world's...
  • Aren't You Glad the Head of the Joint Chiefs Didn't Call Maduro to Tell Him We Were Coming?

    01/08/2026 7:09:42 AM PST · by simpson96 · 38 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 1/7/2026 | Victoria Taft
    Imagine a chairman of the Joint Chiefs who hated the president so deeply, who was so sure he was right and the president was wrong, and was so addled by a deep derangement syndrome that he would tremulously call our adversaries to assure them that whatever that crazy president said, he'd have their back … to maintain "strategic stability," you understand. He'd be the check on the president. He could engage in "freelance diplomacy" and always maintain a virtual veto over the president's geopolitical moves and even call the opposition party's top official to give them talking points. Would his...
  • Baba Vanga predicted alien spaceship would enter Earth’s atmosphere and outbreak of WWIII for 2026

    01/08/2026 6:25:50 AM PST · by V_TWIN · 64 replies
    nypost.com ^ | Jan. 8, 2026 | Richard Pollina
    Clairvoyant Baba Vanga, long believed by devotees to have foreseen events such as 9/11 and the COVID-19 pandemic, predicted alien visitors and the outbreak of World War III for this year. The blind Bulgarian mystic, who died in 1996 at age 85, was said to have predicted humanity’s first-ever encounter with extraterrestrial life would take place in November 2026, according to The Mirror. She warned that a colossal alien spacecraft would enter Earth’s atmosphere, though she did not elaborate on the visitors’ intentions. The blind Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga predicted alien visitors and the outbreak of World War III for...
  • Trump seeks more than $6M from Fani Willis' office in wake of election interference case

    01/08/2026 5:33:22 AM PST · by V_TWIN · 18 replies
    foxnews.com ^ | January 8, 2026 | Greg Norman-Diamond
    President Donald Trump is asking the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to reimburse him more than $6.2 million in attorney fees and costs in the wake of the recently dismissed 2020 election interference case she brought against him. The development comes after Willis was permanently sidelined from prosecuting the case against Trump last September. She had lost an appeal after the Georgia Court of Appeals said Willis and her office could not continue to prosecute the case, citing an "appearance of impropriety" stemming from her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. The case was then dismissed...
  • Today's Cryptogram Challenge

    01/08/2026 4:47:14 AM PST · by Lonesome in Massachussets · 9 replies
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  • 5 Influencers that DIED For Views

    01/07/2026 9:53:47 PM PST · by xxqqzz · 10 replies
    Fatal Files ^ | January 7, 2026 | Fatal Files
    Welcome to Fatal Files — the channel that uncovers the world’s most shocking, chilling, and unforgettable real-life tragedies.
  • Miami Florida Media *Finally* Finds a Story in Minnesota To Report!

    01/08/2026 1:59:26 AM PST · by Recovering_Democrat · 12 replies
    Local Florida media
    Working out, we can see the all the local media "news" reports at the gym. Some network affiliated stations, some 'independent' ones. Amazing that Minnesota has been the epicenter of fraud and took center stage on that and Florida media is silent. Then the governor of the state, the handpicked running mate of the 'black' woman sidekick to Sleepy Joe, is forced to quit his attempt for re-election. Florida media again is silent. But a moron driver tries to run over an ICE agent and the Miami media...goes all in on "eeeevil Trump!"
  • Texas A&M philosophy professor ordered to remove Plato reading or be reassigned

    01/07/2026 4:33:43 PM PST · by Round Earther · 58 replies
    KBTX ^ | 1/7/26 | Delaney Wolovlek, Rusty Surette, Josh Gorbutt
    COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Another Texas A&M professor is facing scrutiny from university administration over course curriculum, being instructed to remove readings from his syllabus. Professor Martin Peterson confirmed to KBTX’s Rusty Surette that he was instructed by the philosophy department to remove readings in his “Contemporary Moral Issues” course related to race and gender - including readings by the Greek philosopher Plato - or be reassigned. “I speak for myself, not the university, when I say in my opinion, Texas A&M is not on the right track. Censorship is not a viable path to academic excellence,” said Peterson.
  • The hot sauces Americans love the most, broken down by state

    01/07/2026 3:35:58 PM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 90 replies
    HuffPost ^ | Jan 7, 2026 | Caroline Bologna
    For many Americans, hot sauce is so much more than just a condiment. It’s a topic people feel passionately about, and geography might help explain some of those opinions.In honor of National Hot Sauce Day on Jan. 22, the folks at Instacart analyzed purchase data from the online grocery platform to reveal Americans’ hot sauce preferences. When it comes to the U.S. as a whole, the five most-purchased hot sauce brands were Frank’s RedHot, Huy Fong Foods (makers of the beloved Sriracha), Taco Bell, Cholula and Texas Pete.Instacart’s report also provides a state-by-state breakdown of hot sauce preferences in different...
  • A DEEP DIVE -- Thoughts From a Competent Lawyer on the Minneapolis ICE Shooting

    01/07/2026 1:00:37 PM PST · by servo1969 · 35 replies
    𝕏.com ^ | 1-7-2026 | Kurt Schlichter
    1. The left is positively turgid about this INCIDENT. They wanted a shooting and did everything they could to set the conditions that made it inevitable, from the rhetoric of the Democrat politicians to the provocations on the street. One leftist white lady dead is a small price to pay for the martyr they wanted. 2. Note that yesterday (1/6/26), the Democrats changed from “The feds are the Gestapo” to “A zillion federal officers died defending Our Democracy, and we support these heroes- here’s a plaque!” back to “The feds are the Gestapo” the very next day. 3. The law...
  • Sidney Kibrick, Child Actor in the Our Gang Comedy Shorts, Dies at 97

    01/07/2026 12:54:58 PM PST · by lowbridge · 29 replies
    Hollywoodreporter.com ^ | January 6, 2026 | Mike Barnes
    Sidney Kibrick, who portrayed the bad boy known as “Woim” in Our Gang comedy film shorts in the 1930s, has died. He was 97. Kibrick died Saturday at a hospital in Northridge, his daughter, Jane Lipsic, told The Hollywood Reporter. Kibrick appeared in about two dozen Our Gang/Little Rascals films, made at Hal Roach Studios and/or MGM, from 1935-39. As Woim — that’s Brooklynese for “worm” — he was the henchkid for the neighborhood bully Butch (Tommy Bond). It was a grind making those shorts, he told Nick Thomas in a 2023 interview. “We’d have two hours of schooling in...
  • Wife of Minneapolis woman, 37, shot dead by ICE for driving at agents screams 'That's my wife, I have a six-year-old at school' seconds after her death

    01/07/2026 12:31:54 PM PST · by Morgana · 191 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | January 7, 2026 | Nic White
    A woman claiming to be the wife of a protester shot dead in her car by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent screamed in anguish moments after watching her die. The 37-year-old woman was shot three times in the face at a protest in Minneapolis on Wednesday after she ignored ICE agents' demands to get out of her car, reversed it and tried to drive off. ICE claimed she deliberately drove her burgundy SUV at agents but witnesses dispute that and Mayor Jacob Frey called it 'bulls**t'. Video shared online captured a witness speaking to a woman who claimed she...
  • Marion woman ‘trying to be a mermaid’ arrested after allegedly attacking deputy [tased]

    01/07/2026 12:31:49 PM PST · by simpson96 · 14 replies
    WAFB ^ | 1/7/2026 | Alayna Atiyeh
    MONROE, La. (KNOE) - The Union Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested a Marion woman accused of attacking a deputy. UPSO responded to a home in the Linville community after a caller stated their neighbor was trespassing on their property. Officials say the caller stated the neighbor was standing in their driveway screaming after being told to not trespass on their property on previous occasions. UPSO says when they arrived, the woman was found swimming nude in a pond on the caller’s property. According to officials, 41-year-old Erin Elizabeth Sutton initially refused to get out of the pond and speak to deputies,...
  • Trump wants to 'immediately' restrict corporate landlords from snapping up more homes

    01/07/2026 12:01:45 PM PST · by millenial4freedom · 25 replies
    yahoo! Finance ^ | 01/07/2026 | Joseph Zeballos-Roig
    President Donald Trump wants to bar major investors from purchasing homes, as a housing shortage pushes home prices further out of reach for many Americans."I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes, and I will be calling on Congress to codify it," Trump said in a social media post. "People live in homes, not corporations."He said he would further elaborate on the proposal at a speech in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of chief executives, foreign leaders, and ultra-wealthy figures. No details were provided on how the ban...
  • Rep. Nancy Mace and colleagues have issued a subpoena for Rep. Ilhan Omar and her brother/husband’s immigration records

    01/07/2026 11:28:31 AM PST · by RandFan · 22 replies
    X ^ | Jan 7 | Rep .Nancy Mace
    @RepNancyMace BREAKING: We just moved to subpoena Rep. Ilhan Omar and her brother/husband’s immigration records in the Oversight Committee. Federal marriage fraud and knowingly entering a marriage to evade immigration laws is a serious felony punishable by prison time, steep fines, denaturalization and deportation. Marrying a sibling is illegal in every state. We intend to get to the bottom of it. END THE FRAUD. DENATURALIZE AND DEPORT ILHAN OMAR.
  • Zohran Mamdani’s woke, privileged tenant advocate Cea Weaver breaks down crying when asked about hypocritical gentrification comments

    01/07/2026 9:48:29 AM PST · by V_TWIN · 56 replies
    nypost.com ^ | Jan. 7, 2026 | Kevin Sheehan and Emily Crane
    Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly instated radical-left tenant advocate, Cea Weaver, broke down Wednesday as she dodged questions from reporters about her gentrification hypocrisy. The 37-year-old, who has faced backlash for blasting homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy” in the past, teared up when she emerged briefly from her apartment building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, at about 9 a.m. Weaver, who was tapped by Mamdani to be his new director of the city Office to Protect Tenants, quickly ran back inside after she was asked about the $1.6 million home her mother owns in Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Parenting Tip: Limit Your Child To Just 4 Hours Of Brain Rot Slop Each Day

    01/07/2026 9:26:12 AM PST · by dayglored · 21 replies
    The Bee ^ | Jan 6, 2026 | The Bee
    U.S. — Experts are now recommending parents limit their children to just four hours of brain-rotting slop each day to better prepare them for the future. Pediatricians are encouraging parents to limit the time their kids spend staring blankly at putrid, worthless garbage on a tablet or phone screen. "Children are our future, and our future is looking very dim," said Dr. Heinlen Reynolds of the AAP. "That's why it's imperative you cut out the brain rot they consume by at least half. Limit it to 3 or 4 hours, tops. But don't worry, no one expects you to...
  • Today's Cryptogram Challenge

    01/07/2026 4:13:47 AM PST · by Lonesome in Massachussets · 14 replies
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