Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

Ahead of President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address of his second term, a new poll shows a majority of Americans disapprove of his job performance, especially on inflation, tariffs and foreign policy. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The armed man shot and killed by Secret Service agents outside President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property Sunday had grown increasingly obsessed with the Epstein files and was also a vocal supporter of Trump www.tmz.com/2026/02/22/m...

“I’ve never seen federal agents so out of control and acting in such a malicious manner,” said Rubén Castillo, a former federal prosecutor and federal judge in Illinois. “They said they were going after ‘the worst of the worst,’ then they became the problem.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“There’s no gas for cooking, so we’re burning wood and charcoal in our apartments. It’s like going back 100 years. The blockade is suffocating us — especially single mothers, and no one is stopping these demons: Trump and Marco Rubio.” www.salon.com/2026/02/15/h...

DOJ investigating whether ICE officers lied about migrant’s shooting www.ms.now/news/doj-inv...

Hundreds of people gathered outside the Stonewall National Monument on Thursday to witness local elected officials and activists raise a Pride flag in the same place where federal officials removed one just days before. gothamist.com/news/nyc-are...

ICE observers are still disappearing. With some 2,000 officers and agents still on the ground, the current federal contingent is still 13 times larger than the agencies’ normal footprint, outnumbering the Minneapolis Police Department three to one. theintercept.com/2026/02/09/i...

"When institutional self-preservation replaces moral leadership, universities abandon their core mission. This is a striking abdication of responsibility — particularly from leaders entrusted with educating the next generation of citizens." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The guy who bankrolled President Trump’s 2024 campaign and became a face of the MAGA movement has a global company that’s being investigated for disseminating sexually explicit deepfakes and Holocaust denial content. NBD www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The irony of calling it the Weaponization Working Group... www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/p...

Another little process of good government, mandated by law, broken by this administration’s whim. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..." www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

Melania “contains nothing: no ideas, no point of view, no tension beyond whether the tailors will be able to properly alter her inauguration turtleneck, not even any other characters apart from the glimpses you get of Donald Trump, unfortunately compelling as ever.” slate.com/culture/2026...

Portland: Anti-ICE protesters were met with large clouds of tear gas, pepper balls and rubber bullets shortly after their arrival. At one point, federal agents set off flash bangs. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

The Trump administration is planning to use Google Gemini’s artificial intelligence to write federal transportation regulations, according to U.S. Department of Transportation records and interviews with six agency staffers. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

“Detained families report poor conditions like worms in food, fighting for clean water and poor medical care at the detention center since its reopening last year. A…report by ICE acknowledged they held about 400 children longer than the recommended limit of 20 days” www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Trump said he had ideas to make homes more affordable & then: "People that own their homes — we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes, so that somebody that didn't work very hard can buy a home" www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabram...

Trump said earlier this week he wanted to "de-escalate a bit" but on Friday the president reiterated his accusation that protesters in Minnesota were insurrectionists. He has previously threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to allow deployment of the military.

In theater. So they think they’re at war.

“From Minnesota to Georgia, on display to the whole world, is a President spiraling out of control, wielding federal law enforcement as an unaccountable instrument of personal power and revenge,” Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Georgia Democrat, said in a statement. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to US cities cost taxpayers at least $496 million in 2025 — with the price tag rising to a rate of $93 million a month, according to a new accounting from the Congressional Budget Office. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

Trump’s popularity is sinking, issue by issue. Nia-Malika Henderson explains with three charts 🎥

Noem & Bovino "were operating under the policies, tense atmosphere of confrontation and expectations of hyped public performance established by the president, who had repeatedly and publicly endorsed the leadership of Noem in particular in Cabinet meetings and elsewhere" www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/p...

Surprising no one, the official NTSB account of what caused the deadly Jan 2025 American Airlines / Army helicopter collision wasn’t DEI or the fact that the Army pilot was female, as Trump claimed at the time without any evidence www.reuters.com/world/us/fat...

“Maybe Trump’s base are now more rightwing than the NRA? Or more leftwing, I can’t tell. Are Maga now too woke on gun control for the NRA? Such are the sentences one can end up typing when we’re this far through the looking-glass.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The party behind Kyle Rittenhouse and J6 think Alex Pretti's legal gun was the problem? Seriously?!?

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

"It's unclear who at DHS thought it would be a good idea to make such claims before any facts were established, but it was a terrible miscalculation.” www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-pr...

You cannot trust any statement from DHS and ICE.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?"

Diaz had no criminal record, and was working at a Twin Cities restaurant, saving up money to build a house back in Nicaragua for his mother and two sons, who are 15 and 10 years old www.startribune.com/death-of-man...

Renee Nicole Good calmly said everything was “fine” and “I’m not mad at you” seconds before an on-duty Immigration Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot her in Minneapolis as she drove away, according to a cellphone video shared on Friday by the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US economy added 50,000 jobs in December, capping off one of the weakest years of job gains in decades www.cnn.com/2026/01/09/e...

ICE, said [Minnesota AG Keith] Ellison, is all but telling people, “‘You want to defend your neighbors, you’re going to do it at the risk of your own life.’ I think that’s the unmistakable message. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

Renee Nicole Good "was not a terrorist and government press statements do not replace an actual investigation," said Cole Leiter of Americans Against Government Censorship. "Accusations without evidence are being weaponized to excuse violence, suppress accountability, and expand unchecked power."

“She’s a stone-cold liar,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Kristi Noem. “We’ve got to make sure that the rogue ICE agent who pulled the trigger resulting in the death of an American citizen is criminally investigated to the full extent of the law,” he added. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

"Miller is now acting as an accelerant for the president’s most incendiary impulses and shaping the lives of individual Americans in nearly every realm. He has demonstrated neither the interest nor the ability to moderate his views" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Trump offered almost no details on how the US would “run” a sovereign nation when its vice president, legislature and military were still in place and publicly opposing the US move. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Seizing Maduro after a series of airstrikes stands in contrast to Trump’s repeated promise to end wars and not to start any. The first 11 months of his term have seen the US attack Iran, the Houthis in Yemen, and suspected Islamic State targets in Nigeria and Syria www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

2019: Andrew McCabe claims Trump wanted war in Venezuela because “they have all that oil” www.vox.com/world/2019/2...

Corporate bankruptcies surged in 2025, rivaling levels not seen since the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, as import-dependent businesses absorbed the highest tariffs in decades. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Washington State eyes millionaires tax amid affordability crisis: “We have a federal government that has gone into super-villain mode, seeming to deliberately take from the poor and middle class to give to the rich,” said UC Davis tax law professor Darien Shanske www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Turning Point USA Fans Pose For Selfies in ‘Recreation’ of Tent Where Charlie Kirk Was Killed www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

The page of the book featuring the image of the check also included a message from "a Mar-a-Lago member joking about selling a 'fully depreciated' woman to Donald Trump for $22,500", according to a post by the Oversight Committee Democrats. news.sky.com/story/new-ph... e3.365dm.com/25/12/2048x1...