Tuesday, January 20, 2025. More insanity on the op-ed pages of NYT, if Chump's trying to invade Greenland over not getting a Noble Peace Prize what will he do Thursday when the Academy Award nominees are announced and he's not up for any prize? All that and more.
Let's start with garbage in THE NEW YORK TIMES. Zaid Jilani, has a piece attacking the Democratic Party. He does his usual assault on facts to carry his attack out -- we're not linking to trash. Around 2020, people began assuming that Ziad was a Republican. He's not. He's a Socialist. DSA. And you won't find that at the bottom of the article. If they want to publish attacks on the Democratic Party, they have to identify the part of who is writing the piece. And were it a Libertarian or a Republican, they would. But they give the Socialist a past. He's not a Democrat He's a Socialist and that's why his past includes all that praise for Josh Hawley. Also goes to why he can't keep a job. When you're in a political closet, it makes it hard to honestly interact with others. The piece is garbage and shouldn't have run to begin with. If you can't grasp that, I hope you can at least grasp that DSA is and always has been at odds with the Democratic Party. So when you publish them, you owe it the reader to explain wat the writer is. Zaid is a Socialist and no one should publish his work ever again if they're unable to acknowledge that basic fact.
The second item is also an opinion piece. I normally ignore the opinion pieces because they're pretty much always worthless. I'm not referring to the editorials. This piece of garbage identifies the two writers:
Tessa E.S. Charlesworth is an assistant professor of management and
organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern
University. Eli J. Finkel is a professor of psychology at Northwestern
University and a director of the Litowitz Center for Enlightened
Disagreement.
I do so love when the social sciences bring in someone who's an expert and professor in management. That was sarcasm.
Two idiots thought it might be a better time for gays -- I'm assuming gay men, they just say "gay" over and over. But this is how stupid they are: Six episodes. They're starting out with a premsie that it must be a great day to be gay man based on the success of HEATED RIVALRY.
Are they truly that stupid? Probably not. They're desperate for clicks so they mention a show that many are writing about currently and pretend like they've done something. They've done click bait. They never explore HEATED RIVARLY (which Ava and I have praised at least twie THIRD) the series. They're just two little whores trying to get their bad writing published and maybe including HEATED RIVALRY will help?
So by the indicators of polling that one of them has been doing -- shoddy polling, let's be clear, the second portion of it requires interpretation and judgement on the part of the pollster. But that's what you get when you move management into social sciences.
What they conclude is that strides in acceptance for gay men are vanishing and will soon be gone. The data doesn't really back that up. The date shows a trending which our two idiots are too dumb to grasp and that trending is when you've got an administration that attacks everyone, it emboldens people to not feel constrained so they express their hatred out right and don't hide it or sweeten it up.
At one point, in sort of a sotto voice, they acknowledge that their 'research' and 'findings would apply to all sub groups in American society -- including those who are overweight.
The research doesn't back up their conclusions. They have produced junk science at its worst.
The most anyone can say from their 'research' is that the influence of hate merchants does have an impact. Nothing they provide demonstrates a true shift as opposed to just a bunch of whiners (MAGA) who are already imploding on themselves.
Again, I don't read the garbage that is NYT's op-ed pages. I saw the titles this morning and thought, "Oh, they just wrote bad titles. Surely the two pieces themselves are not this bad." We got junk science and a Socialist who hates Black people (he was part of the DSA attack on Adolph Reed).
Let's go to Ben and MEIDASTOUCH NEWS.
President Trump
is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is
that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a text message he
sent to Norway’s prime minister over the weekend.
Jonas
Gahr Store, Norway’s leader, received the text message on Sunday, an
official in the prime minister’s office said on Monday.
“Considering
your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having
stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of
Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about
what is good and proper for the United States of America,” Mr. Trump
wrote in the message, which was first published by PBS.
Mr.
Trump also questioned Denmark’s claim to Greenland, saying, “There are
no written documents,” and adding, “The World is not secure unless we
have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you!”
This is where you move from talk about impeachment to talk about following the 25th Amendment and remove Chump from office due to his obvious mental decline and being a threat and to this country. See Ruth's " Chump is a Make A Wish child but doesn't realize it" and Marcias "Remove Chump from office" for more on these topics.
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No, don't see. I'm not interested in one MS NOW video. One specific one. Of the host last night talking about Greenland and alarmed by all that's happening. It's not even a full week since that host told viewers Greenland wasn't a real story, it was a distraction and they were wasting time by following it as though it were a real story.
Okay, the remarks never should have been made to begin with.
Maybe MS NOW needs to create a little cubby hole where hosts can go to get their viewer blaming out of their system before they go on air?
But if you said that on air -- and he did -- don't come back the following week insisting Greenland is important unless you have the guts to say, "Hey, folks, I got it wrong."
Here are some videos -- some from MS NOW -- worthy of your attention if Greenland is of interest to you.
A former prosecutor has broken down why the Department of Justice will not be investigating the shooting of Renee Good.
Joyce
Vance pulled apart the statement from Deputy Attorney General Todd
Blanche, who confirmed the department would not be investigating the
shooting of Good. The 37-year-old mother was shot and killed by an ICE
agent in Minneapolis earlier this month. Vance believes the
investigation must go ahead as there are possibilities that cannot be
ruled out without a probe. Blanche said, “No, we are not investigating."
Writing in her Substack, Vance explained,
"Officer-involved shootings are virtually always investigated, most of
them by state agencies, which is where the majority of these incidents
occur. But this case isn’t just a 'shooting'; it’s a death, and possibly
a homicide—a possibility that can’t be ruled out without
investigation."
"There is also video evidence
that a doctor who tried to treat Good, who was still alive when
paramedics arrived 15 or more minutes later, was refused, which could
lead to additional charges. This is the kind of case that demands a
thorough, objective investigation."
Vance added,
"Beyond that, Blanche’s claim that there are too many shootings every
year to investigate—he says over 1,000—is as ludicrous as it is wrong.
His argument is essentially that cops are shooting too many people to be
bothered to investigate."
ICE
is all about destroying civil liberties and about fudging the numbers. I
believe we all already know ICE agents get credit for arresting people
-- even the wrong people who have to be released days afterwards. But
turns out they also get to claim numbers for 'arresting' people in
prisons.
Erkki Forster (THE DAILY BEAST) reports:
ICE is taking credit for arresting people who were already behind bars to sell its Minnesota crackdown as a success.
The
Department of Homeland Security has paraded lists of people it says ICE
has arrested to market its Minnesota surge as a win and push the claim
that they are rounding up “worst of the worst” criminals.
But
a new report suggests the department has been spinning old transfers of
people from Minnesota jails into ICE custody as fresh arrests.
MPR
News reported that most people on a Jan. 10 “worst of the worst” list,
in which the DHS boasted about ICE arrests in Minnesota, had been
transferred to ICE custody before the start of “Operation Metro Surge”
in December 2025.
Some transfers even took place
under the Biden, Obama, and Bush administrations, according to MPR News,
which looked at the criminal histories, public records, and available
prison records of the 13 individuals on the list.
The
DHS release states, “Below are the worst of the worst criminal illegal
aliens that our brave ICE officers arrested, despite the efforts of
rioters and sanctuary politicians to protect them.”
Yet,
five people on the list were simply picked up by ICE agents from
Minnesota state prisons between August and November 2025, MPR News
reported, citing Department of Corrections records.
Three
more were reportedly transferred into ICE custody during previous
administrations: one in 2021 during Joe Biden’s term, another in 2012
during Barack Obama’s term, and a third in 2003 during George W. Bush’s
term.
When reached for comment, the DHS did not
directly address the Daily Beast’s questions about the Jan. 10 list,
and whether it counts jailhouse transfers as new arrests.
Kristi Noem was left red faced as she was corrected live on air after contradicting statistics from her own agency.
The
Secretary of Homeland Security appeared on CBS' Face the Nation on
Sunday, January 18, as she discussed the amount of people being detained
by ICE. New data released by the government has shown immigrants with
no criminal record are now the largest group in U.S. immigration
detention.
The number of
people with no criminal history arrested by ICE has now surpassed those
charged with crimes. Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan discussed the
new data as she was joined by Noem. It comes after ICE Barbie Kristi
Noem loses her temper over ICE agent Jonathan Ross on live TV in nervous
rant.
WHEN
ICE MET PANTYWAIST. So Chump lied to get out of serving in Vietnam.
Not because he was opposed to the war -- he didn't protest it or
anything. But the little prince didn't want to risk his life. That's
behind his hatred of veterans to this day. Remember that as you
read Carl Gibson's latest:
President
Donald Trump's administration is now allegedly preventing a U.S.
citizen and veteran from meeting with their attorney, according to a new
report.
ABC News reported Monday that the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is not allowing attorneys
representing clients who are being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) in the Whipple Building outside of Minneapolis. This
apparently includes at least one U.S. citizen who also served in the
Iraq War.
According to ABC, an
unnamed "prominent local criminal defense attorney" verified that his
client was a bystander witnessing an immigration enforcement operation
near his home.
"They told me that because my
client had not requested me by name, that I could not see him," the
lawyer said. "I’ve been practicing law in Minnesota for almost 20 years,
and I have never been denied access to a client."
Another
attorney who withheld their name told ABC that the Whipple Building is
unable to accommodate meetings between attorneys and their clients. They
accused the Trump administration of denying their client a core
Constitutional right that is afforded both citizens and non-citizens
alike.
"One ICE agent said if we let you see
your clients, we would have to let all the attorneys see their clients,
and imagine the chaos," the attorney told ABC. "And I said to that
person, yeah, you do have to let all the attorneys see their clients.
You do have to accommodate that. That’s the Constitution. You chose to
put them here. I didn't bring this guy here, you did."
He hates those who've served in the military. But then, he hates anyone who follows the law and applauds and pardons those who break it.
Sean James (MEDIAITE) reports:
Minneapolis
Police Chief Brian O’Hara questioned the actions of the ICE agent who
shot and killed protester Renee Good earlier this month during an
interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday. O’Hara said the agent violated
“basic steps” that officers know about approaching vehicles.
Donald Trump called for a Democratic Party representative to be jailed in one of several late night posts to Truth Social.
The
president took aim at Minnesota rep Ilhan Omar and, in separate posts,
denounced a plan for a New York Stock Exchange in Texas and called out
Denmark for failing to stand up against Russia in Greenland. The series
of posts were made in the early hours of January 19, with Trump calling
out Omar.
He wrote, "There is 19 Billion Dollars in
Minnesota Somalia Fraud. Fake 'Congresswoman' Illhan Omar, a constant
complainer who hates the USA, knows everything there is to know. She
should be in jail, or even a worse punishment, sent back to Somalia,
considered one of the absolutely worst countries in the World. She could
help to MAKE SOMALIA GREAT AGAIN!"
Trump had
earlier used Truth Social to make conspiracy-filled claims about the Dem
rep. "They should be thrown out of the USA. Get it done, NOW!" wrote
Trump at the time. "That includes their loser Rep. Omar, who married her
brother (gross!). President DJT."
Omar has to wake up laughing each day regarding how obsessed Chump is with her.
One
month after the congressionally mandated deadline to release all its
files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Justice Department
has made only a fraction of the files public — and it remains silent on
its plans to fully comply with the law.
Also
keeping quiet about the DOJ delays are congressional Republicans, almost
all of whom voted in November to release the records after spending
months heeding President Donald Trump's opposition to the move.
Some of them are openly admitting it's no longer a priority.
“I
don’t give a rip about Epstein,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said
last week when she was asked to take stock of the month since the Dec.
19 deadline.
“Like, there’s so many other
things we need to be working on,” she added. “I’ve done what I had to do
for Epstein. Talk to somebody else about that. It’s no longer in my
hands.”
Boebert was one of four House
Republicans, alongside Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Marjorie Taylor Greene
of Georgia and Nancy Mace of South Carolina, who joined with Democrats
to force a House floor vote on the Epstein legislation when leadership
resisted moving it.
Next up a press release from Senator Ron Wyden's office that I missed unti I checked the spam folder this morning:
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ron Wyden
said today he is joining legislation that would ban sitting presidents
from putting their names on federal buildings while in office.
The bill follows December’s announcement that the State Department is
renaming the U.S. Institute of Peace after Donald Trump. Two weeks
later, Trump’s appointees to the board of the John F. Kennedy Memorial
Center for the Performing Arts voted to add his name to the website and
the front of the building. Both decisions violated existing federal
laws.
“Donald Trump is more focused on putting his name on
buildings than he is on helping families in Oregon and across the
country afford food, housing, or health care,” Wyden said. “This
legislation will help ensure that presidents can’t abuse the Oval
Office or taxpayer dollars with shameless vanity projects while
depriving families of the help they need.”
The Stop Executive Renaming for Vanity and Ego (SERVE) Act would:
- Prohibit the naming or renaming of any federal building, land, or other asset in the name of a sitting president;
- Prohibit the use of federal funds to do so; and
- Ensure this applies retroactively to the Kennedy Center and
Institute of Peace by returning any federal assets named for the current
sitting president to the name given under United States Code.
The SERVE Act was introduced by Senators Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Chris
Van Hollen, D-Md., and Angela Alsobrooks D-Md. In addition to Wyden,
this bill was cosponsored by Senators Cory Booker D-N.J., Adam Schiff
D-Calif., and Chuck Schumer D-N.Y.
The text of the bill is here.
And let's wind down with this from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse' office
Department of Justice filed a bogus disciplinary
complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg in July as part of pressure
campaign targeting judges who have ruled against Trump administration
Washington, D.C. – Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, sent a letter yesterday
to Attorney General Pam Bondi asking her to disclose, as soon as
possible, the result of the Department of Justice’s disciplinary
complaint against Judge James Boasberg, Chief Judge of the U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia.
Chief Judge Boasberg, a distinguished federal judge who has found the
Trump administration in violation of federal law in several
high-profile cases, has been the target of a coordinated campaign of
threats by the MAGA movement and the Trump administration. These
threats appear intended to intimidate Chief Judge Boasberg from
examining potential contempt of court by the MAGA Department of
Justice. Last week, Federal Courts Subcommittee Chairman Ted Cruz
(R-TX) held a hearingcalling for the impeachment of Chief Judge Boasberg, during which allegations from the complaint were amplified.
“Your Department of Justice filed a disciplinary complaint
against Chief Judge James Boasberg on July 28, 2025. As you know, I
believe that complaint was unfounded and without merit. It appears to
be part of a campaign to harass and threaten Chief Judge Boasberg as he
investigates whether your Department committed contempt of court and
requires your team to answer questions under oath versus on X,”Whitehouse wrote to the Attorney General in the new letter.
“It is my understanding that the resolution of a disciplinary
complaint such as yours is not released publicly until any
reconsideration request is final, but it is released to the complainant
after an initial decision is made. I would therefore request that you
disclose the results of your disciplinary complaint as soon as those
results are disclosed to you,” continued Whitehouse.
“Should the result of your complaint be its dismissal, or a
finding of no misconduct, then continued use of your complaint as a
rhetorical weapon to bring pressure against a federal judge would be
both improper and unfounded,” added the Senator.
In July 2025, the Justice Department filed a complaint against Chief
Judge Boasberg alleging that, at the Judicial Conference’s March 2025
meeting, Chief Judge Boasberg privately conveyed to the Judicial
Conference his colleagues’ concerns that the Trump Administration might
defy court orders. In April 2025, Chief Judge Boasberg initiated
contempt proceedings into the Justice Department’s potential defiance of
court orders in J.G.G. v. Trump. Chief Judge Boasberg found
probable cause that the Trump Administration had committed criminal
contempt of court by willfully disobeying his court order to immediately
halt unlawful deportations. Several credible whistleblower complaints
have since alleged that Emil Bove, the then-Principal Associate Deputy
Attorney General, instructed Justice Department attorneys to be prepared
to tell courts—including in the J.G.G. case—“f*** you” if they ruled against the government.
Shortly after Chief Judge Boasberg initiated contempt proceedings,
Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, both of whom were appointed by
President Donald Trump, suspended the contempt proceedings over a
dissent by a third judge on the panel. The two Trump-appointed judges
stalled the contempt proceeding for over three months, just enough time
for Senate Republicans to confirm Emil Bove to serve as a United States
Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit on a 50-49 vote, without any
judicial record of his possible contempt of court. After the full D.C.
Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision, Judge Rao and Judge
Justin Walker, another Trump appointee, further stalled the contempt
proceeding in a ruling last month.
Whitehouse has repeatedly spotlighted this bizarre series of events
involving the MAGA Department of Justice, Trump-appointed judges, and
Republicans in Congress targeting Chief Judge Boasberg. In July,
Whitehouse and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) wrote a letter to
Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit, urging him to look into the
extraordinarily long administrative stay issued by the two
Trump-appointed judges blocking the investigation of Emil Bove and other
Department of Justice lawyers’ potential contempt of court. Whitehouse
sent a similar letter to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts alerting him to the troubling series of events.
Whitehouse, Blumenthal, and Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) also filed a FOIA request to
the Department of Justice demanding records and communications between
the Department of Justice, the Trump-appointed judges, and their staff
related to the delay of Chief Judge Boasberg’s contempt of court
proceedings.
The text of the letter is below and a PDF is available here.
January 12, 2026
The Honorable Pam Bondi
Attorney General of the United States
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530
Dear Attorney General Bondi:
Your Department of Justice filed a disciplinary complaint against Chief Judge James Boasberg on
July 28, 2025. As you know, I believe that complaint was unfounded and
without merit. It appears to be part of a campaign to harass and
threaten Chief Judge Boasberg as he investigates whether your Department
committed contempt of court and requires your team to answer questions
under oath versus on X.
Last week, at a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing that I contend
was another part of that pressure campaign, a member of the Subcommittee
read long portions of your complaint into the record, as if it were
true or meritorious.
It is my understanding that the resolution of a disciplinary
complaint such as yours is not released publicly until any
reconsideration request is final, but it is released to the complainant
after an initial decision is made. I would therefore request that you
disclose the results of your disciplinary complaint as soon as those
results are disclosed to you.
Should the result of your complaint be its dismissal, or a finding of
no misconduct, then continued use of your complaint as a rhetorical
weapon to bring pressure against a federal judge would be both improper
and unfounded. I’m sure you wouldn’t want that. Therefore, since
clarification of the results of your complaint once you know them would
be in the public interest, I request that you disclose them as soon as
you know.
Sincerely,
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