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  • Lawsuit seeks to keep Trump's face off of national parks annual pass

    01/20/2026 3:30:13 PM PST · by simpson96 · 7 replies
    Reuters ^ | 12/11/2025 | Steve Gorman
    An environmental group filed suit on Wednesday seeking to prevent the U.S. Interior Department from placing an image of President Donald Trump's face on annual entrance passes for national parks and federal recreational areas that go on sale next year. Federal law requires the $80-a-year "America the Beautiful Pass" to bear the winning image from an annual photo contest depicting scenery or wildlife in a national park or forest, according to the Center for Biological Diversity's 16-page complaint. The winning photo from the latest contest in June, sponsored by the National Parks Foundation, was a picture of Glacier National Park...
  • Justice Dept. to Interrogate Tim Walz, Four Other Top Minnesota Democrats

    01/20/2026 3:10:17 PM PST · by Morgana · 18 replies
    Breitbart ^ | January 20, 2026 | Neil Munro
    The Department of Justice has subpoenaed five top Democrats in Minnesota to question them on the legality of their opposition to the federal enforcement of immigration law. The New York Times reported: Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas on Tuesday to at least five Democratic officials in Minnesota, ramping up the Justice Department’s investigation into their response to the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown in the state, according to two people familiar with the matter. The subpoenas sought documents from Gov. Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis and Mayor Kaohly Her of St. Paul related to their policies on immigration enforcement...
  • Meet Chanda Petrey-Czaruk, the Vice President of @HomeFirstChoice in Ohio. She posted a video wishing for Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to experience traum

    01/20/2026 2:48:29 PM PST · by SmokingJoe · 29 replies
    X ^ | 01/20/2026 | Libsoftiktok
    Meet Chanda Petrey-Czaruk, the Vice President of @HomeFirstChoice in Ohio. She posted a video wishing for Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to experience traumatic injuries during childbirth. This woman is in charge of a home health care company and is a registered nurse in Ohio. Terrifying that activists like this are in the medical field. She needs to have her license revoked.
  • Actor Melissa Gilbert among witnesses at New Mexico detention hearing for husband Timothy Busfield

    01/20/2026 2:35:29 PM PST · by Diana in Wisconsin · 22 replies
    AP ^ | January 20, 2026 | AP Bitter LOSERS
    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Melissa Gilbert could speak Tuesday at a New Mexico detention hearing for her husband, Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield, who faces child sex abuse charges stemming from allegations that he inappropriately touched a minor on a TV series set. Busfield, who is known for appearances in “The West Wing,” “Field of Dreams” and “Thirtysomething,” was ordered held without bond last week at his first court appearance. Busfield called the allegations lies in a video shared before he turned himself in. Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls in the 1970s to ’80s TV series “Little House on...
  • FARAGE: I hope Trump has SUNK this Chagos/Diego Garcia deal

    01/20/2026 2:34:55 PM PST · by RandFan · 7 replies
    GBNEWS ^ | Nigel Farage
    @GBNEWS 'This is the worst deal I’ve ever seen!' Nigel Farage blasts Labour's Chagos Islands handover, calling it a betrayal of national security, a £50 billion taxpayer disaster, and a slap in the face to the Chagossians. 'I hope Trump’s has sunk this Chagos deal below the waterline.'
  • Minneapolis LIVE: Anti-ICE Protests Hit Breaking Point as Crowds Demand Justice Now | US News Latest

    01/20/2026 12:54:11 PM PST · by Morgana · 54 replies
    Hook Global youtube ^ | January 20, 2026 | Hook Global
    Live protests are underway in Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during a federal immigration enforcement operation. Tens of thousands of demonstrators have rallied, with large crowds gathering and marching to the site where Good was killed, demanding accountability and shouting anti-ICE slogans. Tense confrontations are also occurring near the Federal Building, where law enforcement has deployed pepper balls and chemical irritants against some protesters. The demonstrations reflect widespread anger over the shooting and the broader federal immigration crackdown, with activists and local leaders calling for ICE...
  • Grijalva: Churches Are ‘Open Door’, Protesters Have ‘Right’ to Go In

    01/20/2026 12:16:26 PM PST · by Morgana · 98 replies
    Breitbart ^ | January 19, 2026 | Ian Hanchett
    On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) said that when people find out “someone that’s supposed to be speaking for the community in church” is “a federal agent that is running ICE in their communities, they have the right to go in there.” “Churches have always been an open door,” and the people who barged into a church in St. Paul over the weekend weren’t violent. Host Jim Sciutto asked, “Do you believe it was a step too far for protesters to go into a church?” Grijalva answered, “I don’t. I don’t. I think that when...
  • SEN. RAND PAUL: "I'm going to fight like hell" to stop $5bn refugee rip-off

    01/20/2026 12:10:12 PM PST · by RandFan · 34 replies
    X ^ | Jan 20 | Sen. Paul
    @SenRandPaul Just read the minibus Congress plans to pass this year. An unbelievable over $5 billion is going toward refugee welfare programs. I am going to fight like hell to get this removed. In the meantime, call your Senators and tell them to vote NO, and to put an end to the refugee rip-off.
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Io in True Color

    01/20/2026 12:00:37 PM PST · by MtnClimber · 21 replies
    NASA ^ | 20 Jan, 2026 | Image Credit: NASA, JPL, Galileo Project
    Explanation: The strangest moon in the Solar System is bright yellow. The featured picture, an attempt to show how Io would appear in the "true colors" perceptible to the average human eye, was taken in 1999 July by the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. Io's colors derive from sulfur and molten silicate rock. The unusual surface of Io is kept very young by its system of active volcanoes. The intense tidal gravity of Jupiter stretches Io and damps wobbles caused by Jupiter's other Galilean moons. The resulting friction greatly heats Io's interior, causing molten rock to...
  • Rep. Julia Letlow says she's running for Senate following Trump endorsement(Cassidy/Louisiana)

    01/20/2026 11:50:54 AM PST · by DIRTYSECRET · 11 replies
    Louisiana deserves a conservative Senator who will not waver. I am honored to have President Trump’s endorsement and trust. Let’s Geaux!" Letlow said on social media. Cassidy responded saying he's running, and "if Congresswoman Letlow decides to run, I am confident I will win."
  • Mamdani calls to abolish ICE in gushing interview on ‘The View’

    01/20/2026 11:35:02 AM PST · by Libloather · 31 replies
    NY Post ^ | 1/20/26 | Hannah Fierick
    Mayor Zohran Mamdani called for abolishing ICE during a gushing interview on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday. The socialist mayor told the hosts he doesn’t see federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents doing anything to help public safety. “I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist,” Mamdani said. Mamdani claimed deportation raids would “rip” the Big Apple apart. “We are talking about people whose crimes simply seems to be being in New York City and if they make good on this threat and would...
  • NY Attorney General Criminalizes Opposing Islamic Terrorism

    01/20/2026 10:55:40 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 12 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | 20 Jan, 2026 | Daniel Greenfield
    Attorney General Letita James shuts down Jewish group for fighting back. After two years of Hamas supporters assaulting NYPD officers and Jewish community members, besieging synagogues, blocking streets, vandalizing buildings and making death threats, New York Attorney General Letitia James finally took action. Against Jews. In a press release, AG James, who had previously worked to shut down the NRA because she disagreed with its politics, announced that she had closed down Betar, a pro-Israel group , for appearing at synagogues to defend them from Muslim mobs, for claiming that “that all devout Muslims ‘hate America’, and for making derogatory...
  • Is it actually the White Man's fault?

    01/20/2026 10:19:27 AM PST · by FLT-bird · 8 replies
    Youtube ^ | Asmongold
    He's got a point but the price to fix this is one I wouldn't pay even with your....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................blessing.
  • PILLAR OF JIHAD: Jihadist Leaders View Immigration as Key Component to Subvert the U.S.

    01/20/2026 10:10:40 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 19 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 19 Jan, 2026 | Joshua Klein
    In his new book The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, bestselling investigative author and Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer documents that jihadist leaders — led by the Muslim Brotherhood and aligned Islamist movements operating both overseas and inside the United States — have long treated mass migration, now weaponized through the exploitation of modern immigration systems, not as a humanitarian phenomenon but as a deliberate strategy of conquest meant to penetrate, subvert, and ultimately remake the United States from within. Schweizer grounds that conclusion in the movements’ own doctrine, tracing the...
  • Michelle Obama Urges People to Be ‘Mindful’ of Buying’ White Owned Clothes Brands

    01/20/2026 9:46:18 AM PST · by backpacker_c · 110 replies
    thegatewaypundit ^ | Jan 20, 2026 | Ben Kew
    Former First Lady Michelle Obama has urged people to be “mindful” when buying from white-owned clothing brands. During a recent interview clip circulating on social media, Obama says she actively tries to buy clothes from people of “color” in order to “make it a point.” Last year, she claimed that Americans did not show her and her family “grace” because of their skin color, despite the fact her husband was elected in a landslide.
  • As Trump's deadline for a credit card rate cap looms, banks have only questions

    01/20/2026 9:31:23 AM PST · by Miami Rebel · 35 replies
    ABC ^ | 1/17/2025 | Ken Sweet
    President Donald Trump a week ago told the credit card industry it had until Jan. 20 to comply with his demand for a 10% cap on interest rates. With just days to go, consumer groups, politicians, and bankers alike remain unclear on what the White House has planned and whether Trump even remains serious about the idea. So far, the White House has not provided any detail about what will happen to credit card companies that don’t lower card rates. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president has “an expectation” that credit card companies will accede to his...
  • She Finally Learned Republicans Were Right About Illegal Alien Voters

    01/20/2026 9:29:33 AM PST · by Whatever Works · 14 replies
    The Liberty Daily ^ | January 20, 2026 | Rumble
    Good information on voter identification.
  • South Park Learing Center

    01/20/2026 8:59:26 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 19 replies
    Eric Cartman instigates killing of Renee Good and laughs evilly.
  • They Are Getting Ready To Burn New York - Let's Extinguish The Fire Before It Starts

    01/20/2026 8:36:01 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 51 replies
    AND Magazine ^ | 19 Jan, 2026 | Sam Faddis
    You know what’s better than firefighting? Fire prevention. Minneapolis is in chaos. Large, well-organized battalions of anti-ICE activists are tracking federal officers and doing their level best to prevent them from enforcing the law and deporting illegal aliens. Citizens supporting ICE are being beaten in the streets. The Governor and many other elected officials are standing one step away from open insurrection and sedition. And, right now, as you read this, the groundwork is being laid to make all that look like merely a preamble. The anti-ICE activists and their allies, including individuals tied directly to Communist China, are getting...
  • The Times New Roman Font War: I’m on Charlemagne’s Side

    01/20/2026 8:34:30 AM PST · by caver · 52 replies
    The Imaginative Conservative ^ | January 19 2026 | John Horvat
    As the Culture War rages, no field is exempt from its reach. Much has been printed about this intense battle for the American soul. Now, even the fonts used for printing have become a battlefield. It is no longer what you read, but how it appears, that is contested. A font war has erupted between Times New Roman and Calibri, representing right and left, respectively. Some people think such issues are unimportant or at least culturally neutral. Nothing could be further from the truth. Culture encompasses everything that constitutes the daily life of people. Embedded inside things are principles, impressions,...