Bagley nails it again.

Perhaps a more accurate headline would be: "With pressure to release the Epstein Files mounting, Trump gears up for yet another war to use as a distraction.

Deranged "uber-MAGA" creep and die-hard Trump fan attacks a sitting member of Congress, so Trump blames the member of Congress. Typical for the liar-in-chief.

Let's be honest about what Trump really means when he says "worst of the worst," such as this 5-year old American citizen recently deported by ICE.

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100% Read the 6th paragraph, in particular: "fore is not a punishment. It's nota tool to assert dominance. It's not something you use because someone doesn't comply fast enough or says the wrong thing." Alex Pretti wasn't resisting arrest. From the start, he was the victim of an assault.

In response to outcries from Milan, DHS has announced that the ICE agents being sent to the Winter Olympics will only work from an office in the US Consulate there. If they can to their job from an office in Milan, they can do it from an office in the USA. There is zero reason for them being there.

Native Americans are evidently not "White enough" to pass the Trump Administration's racist color chart.

The Boss loves America and thus hates Trump's fascism.

Trump on Jan 27: "You can't have guns. You can't walk around with guns." Patel on Jan 25: "You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have the right to break the law and incite violence." Here are the MAGA faithful.

... and now for something completely different.

While Gregory Bovino and the two CBP officers who shot and killed Alex Pretti have been pulled out of Minnesota, that is not justice. All three were immediately sent back out on the street in another American city to terrorize, and possibly even murder, more Americans. Congress needs to act!

Stella Carlson, who was previously known only as "the lady in pink" who recorded the most revealing of all of the videos of Alex Pretti's murder, has come forward to speak out and ask others to be brave as they confront ICE. A true hero who is risking abuse to encourage others to take action.

His hypocrisy knows no bounds.

A few years old, but even more true today.

The Onion is great at reporting satirical news that is somehow more real than the truth.

A protest sign in Minneapolis. Having lived and served in Ukraine, this one really hits home for me.

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Unless Americans stand up to stop the carnage, then the answer is clearly that the Canadians are right: American isn't the way it is today because of Trump. Trump is in power because of the way America is.

In some ways, the NYT is just stating the obvious, but it is still well worth reading this well-researched article about the extent to which the Trump Administration has fully adopted the ideology of White Supremacists. Trumpism is fascism. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Just a reminder that if Trump's policies had been in effect in the past, there would be no Apple (Steve Jobs is the son of Syrian immigrants), no Google (Sergei Brin immigrated from the USSR), and no WhatsApp (Jan Koum immigrated from Ukraine). 65% of all top tech companies has immigrant founders.

Gov. Walz pulled a genius move calling up the National Guard, pre-empting another Trump escalation. Now that the Guard report to Gov Walz (which is what the National Guard are supposed to do), they are protecting peaceful demonstrators as they had out donuts and hot drinks. They also blocked ICE.

Local officials in Milan are pushing back against plans to send ICE to the Winter Olympics in Milan. Can't blame them at all.

Yep.

Now that TikTok has been taken over by Trump's hand-picked group of investors headed by far-right mega-donor Larry Ellison, users are being blocked from typing the world "Epstein" and video uploads of ICE brutality are being blocked. Ellison is doing to TikTok what he did to CBS.

I don’t get that accusation. The image you captured and posted has NONE of the hallmarks of AI. Even AI agrees.

What an amazing example of putting principle above profit.

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WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE Gen. Tony Thomas, whom I met only once while visiting Special Operations Command HQ, has been posting this image to the page of Trump officials. Recognize it?

Worth keeping in mind that while much of ICE Barbie's $200 million propaganda budget is being given to friends to run recruitment ads, at least $8 million has been set aside to pay "influencers" across all social media sites to boost DHS lies and attack those who tell the truth. On BlueSky too.

The snow in hell but be pretty deep right now, because the NRA and other gun groups are actually pushing the Trump Administration for a full and honest investigation into the killing of Alex Pretti. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Even Republicans in Congress are calling for a full investigation into the killing of Alex Pretti by ICE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Archbishop Timothy Broglio oversees all Roman Catholic chaplains serving in the US military. In addition to the photo meme, I'm posting a link to the article in the Catholic Register and a link to the original BBC interview. www.catholicregister.org/item/3352-mo... www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Two images taken 85 years apart on different continents, but the similarities are unmistakable. BTW: The murderer in the picture on the right was eventually identified in 2025. Let's hope it does not take 84 years to identify the fascist on the left.

Another pet peeve: Under Trump, the term "diplomat' has come to mean unqualified, ignorant hack. It is like the way "patriot" has come to mean anti-American, pro-fascist bigot. Orwellian double-speak is the official language of the Trump Administration.

Like many people, I was worried that the "lady in the pink coat" who appeared in some of the earliest videos of the murder of Alex Pretti was detained or 'disappeared.' She evidently got away. I saw her up-close video on the New York Times site. One bit of good news amid an avalanche of horrors.

The amazing pros at Bellingcat, a collective of investigative journalists and superbly skilled tech geeks, have now posted their detailed analysis of the shooting of Alex Pretti based upon all available images and video. They leave zero doubt that every word uttered by the Trump Admin is a lie.

Reminder: ICE was funded in the Big Bad Terrible Ugly Bill which passed July 2025 without one Democratic vote. Fast forward a little over 6 months and ICE is murdering American citizens on America's streets. Call your senators. Defund ICE. It's a start.

Even the hard right crowd in the Bush '43 Administration are now disgusted by the actions of the Frankenstein's monster of an agency that they created.

When serving in Moscow, and travelling extensively to all 10 secret nuclear cities, I heard countless first-hand accounts of the deliberate cruelty and callous indifference to life that characterized the former Soviet Union. At that time, I never guessed that the USA would adopt the Soviet model.

A bit of my own personal history about a government policy of murdering innocent civilians to keep the rest of the population to scared to resist and thus under control.

Despite multiple independent sources doing comprehensive analyses of the videos of the murder or Renee Good, the MAGA crowd continues to post up copies of the same poor quality AI-edited video that falsely shows Renee Good hitting an ICE officers. They prefer lies to truth.

The more evidence rolls in, the more obvious it is that ICE simply executed a public-spirited nurse who tried to help a woman assaulted by ICE. But, Trumpies don't care. They will always believe what Trump tells them to believe and the ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears... and videos.

This analysis by the New York Times paints a damning picture of ICE's decision to kill Alex Pretti after Pretti had attempted to help a woman who had been shoved (assaulted) by ICE. ICE had Pretti pinned on the ground when one agent appears to come across a gun. After taking the gun, they kill him.

I don't think the bad training leading to deaths is due solely to incompetence. Instead, DHS appears to be instructing its agents to use excessive and even deadly force to suppress 1st Amendment rights, just as we now know DJS taught them to violate the 4th Amendment with warrantless home invasions.