I don't have the time to address everything. That means what we cover and e-mails whining that I didn't cover something. Some e-mails aren't whining and they raise valid points but we have our own things to cover.
An off duty ICE agent shooting a man -- who was apparently firing a gun into the sky on New Year's Eve -- is not the same as the targeted kill carried out by an on duty ICE agent who murdered Renee Nicole Good. You can whine about it all you want and insist that it's racism but it's not. It's someone dying on a holiday -- a two day holiday that for most of the media ran until Monday the 5th of January. So I've ignored it. If you're mad, I'm ignoring that topic. Again, off duty. Is it a murder? Seems like it is. And if you want to cover it, do so. But the minute I saw the Voice of Black Man America covering it, I knew I wouldn't. Don't mind defenders of Black America -- I consider myself to be one. But Mr. I Only Focus on Black Men and I open every YOUTUBE video telling you to focus on Black Men? I'm not interested in what you cover. Black women matter too, Black Trans matter too and are especially targeted. You present as left but your focus is on nothing but men. I'm not interested in you. You're no different than the defenders of Clarence Thomas (who were the attackers of Anita Hill).
It's 2025. I'm not going to work to uplift Black men at the expense of Black women and I question those who do. Taking the existing sexism of a dominant system and flooding that into a sub-grouping is not a revolution, it's preserving the same things that are wrong with the dominant system.
Here, we are focused on what ICE does on their patrols. Here we are focused on the unarmed -- not an idiot firing a gun into the sky -- bullets come down, no one in the US needs to be celebrating New Year's Eve by firing a gun into the sky. It's beyond stupid and creates a real safety hazard.
We do cover Jeffrey Epstein here. And on Wednesday night, complaints began coming into the public e-mail account that I was ignoring Bill and Hillary Clinton.
As a result, I hoped to address it on Thursday and no time or space and the same with Friday.
If you missed it, Gomer Pyle (aka James Comer) issued subpoenas for Hillary and Bill to testify to Congress about Epstein. We did cover that. And I noted the nonsense in that. Why are you calling Hillary? For a First Lady with Epstein, you'd need to call Melania. She's the one who was friends with him, she's the one rumors say worked for him. Hillary? There's no point.
Now they are refusing and there reason is that Comer isn't going to do it publicly. Why not? Because Comer Pyle (and is Comer another closeted gay Republican in the House?) wants to be able to distort what they say.
I think it's a smart move.
I don't criticize them for it.
On what doesn't get noted. I have a life. I have health problems. I have a friend who's just learned their dying -- I have another who Alien Musk is destroying -- my plate is full. I cover what I can cover in the amount of time that I've got. I've been doing this for how long -- 22 years. And my only 'vacation' was a diabetic coma. Otherwise I've been here. I can't do everything.
I meant to note what Ann did two weeks ago in "Nut job Naomi Wolf get even worse." I'm on BLUESKY very rarely but I do repost, for example, POST-LEFT when I am. I left TWITTER where I really didn't do anything. A friend was going to get on TWITTER -- he's a screenwriter. I said, "Don't, use mine." I believe Musk counts us as users even if we don't use anymore. So I told him to just use mine and not create a new account. So he uses it now. If I do something there -- that's the first time in 12 months -- I will try to note it here.
If you missed it, Chump is trying to get out of following the Congressional Act he signed into law. See the two videos below for how the pedo protector is working to protect the pedos even more.
Friday, January 16, 2026. The corrupt administration of Donald Chump has many, problems but it all boils down to: They forgot who they war working for.
"They Were Ordinary Germans. We Are Ordinary Americans." is the title of a powerful guest essay by Shalom Auslander which addresses historical importance and recognition and the signs that led up to the Holocaust and the signs we see around us now in the United States:
But that’s the Trump administration, I reassured myself, not the American people.
Americans aren’t so easily fooled.
Americans are different.
Alas,
my comfort was short-lived, as I made the mistake, then, of sinking
into social media. There I encountered ordinary Americans who believed
the Trump administration without question. Ordinary Americans who blamed
Ms. Good, who repeated the things they learned from the government,
like that she was a paid agitator, a far-left radical who got what she
deserved. Ordinary Americans who said the armed agent who killed an
apparently unarmed woman was a hero, defending his nation from
undesirables. Ordinary Americans who, soon enough, lay the blame for the
whole thing on Democrats, antifa, Gov. Tim Walz, Jews, women and gays.
Past or present, it’s not the leaders who disappoint me. It’s the led.
Which
brings me back to that flea market find, to that old diary I didn’t
buy. I was a young, broke writer at the time. I opted to spend what
money I had on the old typewriter.
But I miss those days.
I miss the comfort of believing Germans were different.
I miss believing that we Americans could never be led by a fearmonger to commit atrocities he claimed were necessary and good.
I miss believing we are not like them.
Shalom is exactly right.
We, people in any country, have a problem with honesty when it comes to us. Not all of us, but enough of us and, yes, it tends to men more than women who delude themselves.
Women will note a wrong more often than a man. And movies capture that.
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN and PRIVATE BENJAMIN are two examples. Both are movies about individuals in the military who triumph. But in AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, the harassment from above is treated as something other than harm. It's a learning lesson. No, it's harassment. Richard Gere's is targeted because he's suspected of being weak. Goldie Hawn and the women of PRIVATE BENJAMIN have on illusions about Captain Doreen Lewis.
For everyone, regardless of gender, it is hard to step back and look at what's going around us with a level of objectivity. I'm not just referring to the uneducated but they are part of the problem. They're unable to question their government, they're unable to grasp the importance of analysis and criticism and they just follow along down the marked trail to whatever trap awaits them. Along the way, they sometimes make a really stupid statement -- say something like "I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that" that gets logged for life via a Michael Moore film.
The signs are obvious and have been obvious throughout 2025. Some people refuse to see because honestly they're stupid. Some people refuse to see because they can't admit that they're being wronged (again, more men than women seems to have that problem). (And, yes, that can be backed up with studies and various illustrations and it's from a standard talk I gave back before the Iraq War when friends would ask me to speak to their colleges -- if the topic interests you, please refer to the work of Stephanie Coontz but we're not going to get lost in parentheticals today -- the text equivalent of lost in the weeds.) And there are people who miss the signs because they don't want to see them because it's a horrible thing to see. They're not saying, "I don't want to know because I don't care." They don't want to believe that something so horrible and vile could take place in their country. This group is hoping for the better and they awaken as things fail to improve.
But it is happening here.
A hateful and vile man is destroying our country and that's all there is to it. He's at risk of harming the world. And that's why it's really stupid -- you'll know who I mean -- and I address in this morning's gina & krista round-robin -- for someone on TV this week to have stupidly said not to pay attention to Greenland, it's not worth our times, it's not a real issue.
It is a real issue and it does have impact in the world and in this country. And, as Ben notes this morning on MEIDASTOUCH NEWS, it has one Republican in Congress saying he'll vote to impeach Chump if Chump invades Greenland.
So maybe stop trying to police our discussions? Ben's not the one, by the way, who said ignore Greenland -- that happened on MS NOW.
One agent told
the couple that they needed to get out of the area. Ms. Jackson said she
and her husband responded that they were trying to do exactly that, but
their path was blocked by agents coming up the street.
Then, agents let loose on the crowd, the couple said.
The
crowd-control grenades went off around them and one tear gas canister
rolled beneath the car, Ms. Jackson said. A concussive blast — from the
tear gas canister or another device, she wasn’t sure — rocked the
vehicle, she said, setting off the airbags and trapping the family as
acrid smoke billowed around.
“It felt
like our lungs was burning,” Mr. Jackson said, noting that two of his
children had severe asthma. “Water didn’t help. Nothing helped at that
moment.”
The couple said they were
able to get their children, ages 6 months through 11 years, out of the
car only after Mr. Jackson kicked open a door. Ms. Jackson, blinded and
unable to breathe, circled the vehicle pulling out as many of her
children as she could, she said.
Bystanders
arrived to usher the family into a nearby house, she said, while others
set about removing the 6-month-old, who was briefly trapped in his car
seat.
How does this happen? How does any of this happen?
I think all of our current problems, the cause of them, can be summed up in one sentence.
They forget who they work for.
You notice that about this trash heap administration?
Secretary
of Homeland Security Kristi Noem defended ICE agents who are demanding
that Americans prove they are U.S. citizens in Minneapolis amid
escalating tensions.
The DHS secretary spoke
with reporters outside the White House on Thursday as protests
intensified in Minnesota after an officer shot a man in the leg after he
allegedly assaulted an agent.
Noem was asked why
Americans were being asked to prove citizenship and whether she was
advising Americans to carry proof of citizenship.
“In
every situation, we are doing targeted enforcement. If we are on a
target and doing an operation, there may be individuals surrounding that
criminal that we may be asking who they are and why they’re there and
validate their identity,” Noem claimed. “That’s what we’ve always done
in asking people who they are so that we know who’s in those
surroundings.”
Wasn't aware that being Secretary of Homeland Security came with the power to rewrite the CONSTITUTION.
As
THE DAILY BEAST reminds, "The Fourth Amendment protects against
unreasonable search and seizures and requires probable cause."
The Fourth Amendment trumps any bimbo with bad plastic surgery, somebody let Noem know.
We are their bosses. We are the ones who pay them. We are the ones they work for. This idea that they're going to be corrupt and steal our money and close our schools and terrorize our cities? That's not their job.
They don't know their job, they don't even know the law that they're supposed to be upholding.
The fat and impotent Donald Chump is clearly unbalanced but long
before all that, he was just stupid. He remains ignorant to this day.
And that explains the losers and liars he's used to assemble a Cabinet.
Never has a team of less qualified people been put together and allowed
to do so much destruction.
The worst of the worst -- that's the best description for Chump's Cabinet and, goodness, has it been on display.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's 'experience' was pretty much limited to killing her dog and publicly humiliating her husband.
Needless to say, that did not prepare her for the office she currently holds.
Senator
Maggie Hassan: Secretary Noem, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff
recently said that the Trump administration is actively looking at
suspending habeas corpus. Last week, you were asked about this and I
want to clarify your position because it's obviously really important to
get this right. So, Secretary Noem, what is habeas corpus?
Secretary Kristi Noem: Well,
habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be
able to remove people from this country and --
Senator Maggie Hassan: No. No. Let me -- let me stop you, ma'am. Habeas corpus, excuse me, that's
incorrect.
Secretary Kristi Noem: President Lincoln used it.
Senator
Maggie Hassan: Excuse me. Habeas corpus is the legal principle that
requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and
imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could
simply arrest people -- including American citizens -- and hold them
indefinitely for no reason. Habeas corpus is the foundational
right that separates free societies like America from police states like
North Korea. As a Senator from the Live Free or Die state, this matters
a lot to me and my constituents and to all Americans.
We're
all aware that Kristi didn't
graduate college, not really. In real time, she dropped out. Years and
years later, after she was in Congress, she went back and they gave her
course credit for serving in Congress at the time. Without those extra
breaks and extra credits, Kristi could not have graduated So
the point here is, Kristi's not a lawyer. She's taken no classes in
the law. She doesn't know the law. If you want a dog shot, Kristi's
your killer but if you want someone who understands the law and the
Constitution, you'd be better off looking for a fifth grader who even
half-assed applies themselves to their studies.
Kristi
Noem was grilled on the concept of habeas corpus during a Senate
hearing, weeks after White House deputy chief of staff for policy
Stephen Miller floated suspending the due process for migrants.
Noem
falsely claimed that "habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the
president has to be able to remove people from this country."
Instead
habeas corpus guarantees a person's constitutional right to challenge,
in a court of law, their detention by the government.
Grasp
that this idiot doesn't know what habeas corpus is and, worse, she's so
stupid, she's convinced herself that the US Constitution says it is a
right granted to the president.
Do we all get how
stupid she is? She wasn't qualified for the office and she's been in it
for months acting under the mistaken belief that habeaus corpus is a
right of the US president and that this is via the Constitution. If she
were an attorney, that kind of 'error' and the way she has applied it
could get her disbarred.
They forgot who they work for. AG Pam da Bimbo Bondi is pissing in her
Frosted Flakes but still getting it down her throat. As people like to joke of Pam, stealing from CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC, "Anyone who could swallow two Snowballs and a Ding Dong shouldn't have any trouble with pride." And Pam never does have any trouble with pride. Pocharapon Neammanee (HUFFINGTON POST) notes:
Attorney
General Pam Bondi lashed out at six federal prosecutors who reportedly
resigned after refusing to prosecute the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the
Minnesota woman killed last week by an ICE officer.
“We
had six prosecutors who suddenly decided they didn’t want to support
the men and women in ICE,” said Bondi, as she visibly fumed Thursday on
Fox News’ “Hannity.” “One of them was busy doing a photo shoot with The
New York Times while ICE was out there risking their lives.”
I think SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE's Angie Tempura (played by Michela Watkins) said it best.
Exactly. Let's all stare blankly at Pam and say, "Bitch please."
I'm
really offended by this crap. She's not a private citizen. She is
paid to be professional and yet the whore can't be. We pay her to be professional. Instead, she's forever
attacking judges, mayors, governors, members of the federal government, private citizens.
Pam, you're a cheap whore and a ugly one. You don't deserve respect
because you've never shown anyone respect. Did you give Epstein a pass
in Florida because he supplied you with women? I don't know, you
Republican women in Florida tend to be in one three-way after another -- especially if you're one of those Moms For Bigotry.
But I do know your behavior is outrageous.
How dare you attack any attorney in the federal government who didn't want to do your WHORE BIDDING.
If
I'm not mistaken even you drew a line at going after Comey. Not
because you cared about the law but because you knew it could get your
license pulled. That's the whole reason Chump sent you the message --
sent it to everyone by accident -- about how you needed to bring in Lindsey Halligan.
So when you refused his orders to save your own lazy ass, who were you not supporting?
You're
a damn liar and you're a cheap who whores out any ethics you might
still clutch -- even loosely. So how about you trying earning the tax
dollars we pay you and start acting profession. Or do you just want to
be known as a whore?
She's pathetic. Wanting to prosecute the widow because the government murdered Renee Nicole Good.
David
Corn, Washington, D.C. bureau chief at Mother Jones, reported on
Wednesday: “The Bureau of Prisons won’t explain why Ghislaine Maxwell
was transferred to a cushy facility after she met with Deputy AG Todd
Blanche. So we filed a FOIA request for documents on this-and now we’re
suing.”
Corn thanked the Reporters Committee
(RCFP), which also reported: “The lawsuit, filed by @rcfp attorneys on
behalf of the Center for Investigative Reporting, alleges that the
Federal Bureau of Prisons violated FOIA by unlawfully withholding
records related to Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison transfer.”
They won't explain it. Because when they take Chump's fiend Ghislaine Maxwell out of the prison she was sentenced to and ignore her convictions to place her in Club Fed, they're not working for the American people. They're working to protect Chump's friends.
What did former US House Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene tell us? Chump yelled at her over the phone to stop supporting the release of The Epstein Files because releasing those files would embarrass his friends.
Probably him to. But it would embarrass his friends, he said.
President
Donald Trump and Republicans are down in the polls with less than 10
months until the midterm elections. Now, Trump is giving the economic
populism of the left a try.
Last
week, Trump called for a one-year cap on credit card interest at 10%,
unveiled plans to bar large private-equity funds from buying up housing
and said he would bar defense companies from issuing dividends or stock
buybacks. These moves check off many policy wishes of the populist
progressive left and borrow from political opponents like former Vice
President Kamala Harris.
It
comes as Trump, who strode into a second term on a pledge to lower
costs, finds himself underwater on the economy. A recent CBS News poll
found that only 39% of voters approved of his performance on the issue,
while 61% disapproved, one of his worst polls since retaking the
presidency.
He's not working for the American people and the polls demonstrate that the American people are grasping for it.
Last week, the US government murdered Renee Nicole Good on January 7th in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. ICE agent Jonathan Ross, a man with years of
training in using a firearm and who provided training to others ("a firearms instructor, an active shooter instructor"),
shot and killed the mother of three who was unarmed. Ross, apparently
needing to make social content while on the clock, filmed her and when
the video was released, the world saw that her last words to him were, "I'm not mad at you." By contrast, he or one of his fellow agents immediately called Renee a "f**king bitch"
after plugged her with three bullets. The federal government
immediately began attacking Good -- even though they should be stating
"I can't comment on an ongoing federal investigation."
Instead, as NPR's Martin Kaste observed on January 9th, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED,
"And I think what's not
normal here is the way the federal officials have been publicly passing
judgment on a case that's still being investigated. For instance, just
today, the vice president posted a video that appears to have come from a
device being held by the agent who shot Renee Good on Wednesday. It
shows Good smiling and saying she's not mad at the officer. But Vance
called the video evidence that the officer was in danger. So there seems
to be a real disconnect right now on the basic level of what the
evidence means." Fat and little Vice president JD Vance is a
professional troll but his efforts this time are especially outrageous.
John Grosso (NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER) observed:
Yesterday (Jan. 7), 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed in a
residential Minneapolis neighborhood by an Immigration and Customs
Enforcement officer. Good was a mother of three and an U.S. citizen.
Today, JD Vance has taken to social media to justify the shooting and blame Good for her own death.
Though the full circumstances of the situation are still coming to
light, widely available video evidence shows the horrific moments
before, during and after shots were fired into Good's car. Videos of the
shooting and the ensuing aftermath are graphic and disturbing. After
Good was shot, her car accelerates, slamming into another car and a
pole. In one video, a person can be heard identifying themselves as a physician and offering to help only to be angrily denied by an unidentified ICE agent saying: "I don't care."
The Trump administration was quick to demonize Good. Within hours of
the event and before a formal investigation could even be launched,
Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem labeled Good's actions as an "act
of domestic terrorism." President Donald Trump on Jan. 7 labeled
her as "disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently,
willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer." Trump went on to say
that the ICE officer was lucky to be alive and "is now recovering in
the hospital."
[. . .]
As a Catholic, Vance knows better than to peddle this brand of
gaslighting and agitation. Vance knows that, by virtue of her humanity,
Good was endowed with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness
of God. Vance knows that only God can take life. Vance knows that
protesting, fleeing or even interfering in an ICE investigation (which
there is no evidence that Good did) does not carry a death sentence.
Vance knows that lying and killing are sins.
Vance knows. He doesn't care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power.
The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a
moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His
repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally
incompatible with the Gospel. Our only recourse is to pray for his
conversion of heart.
Mike's response to Vance's outrageous lies, "As a Catholic, I'm sick of this
little bitch distorting my religion. He needs to be excommunicated.
I'm not joking. He is presenting as a Catholic -- he's been a Catholic
for about five minutes -- and he is distorting our beliefs and our
teaching. Two popes have repudiated him -- Pope Francis and now Pope
Leo. Excommunicate Vance, don't let him speak for the Church or pose as
a Catholic. Whatever crap he was raised before distorted his damn
mind. We cannot allow him to pervert the Catholic faith."
After Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed in her minivan by an
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Jan. 7,
Vice President JD Vance called her murder “a tragedy of her own making”
and claimed that Ms. Good, a community activist and a mother of three,
was “part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault
and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.”
Mr. Vance claimed further that Ms. Good “viciously ran over the ICE
officer” who shot and killed her, an assertion contradicted by video evidence taken from multiple angles.
Why the obvious lie? Because, similar to Ms. Kirkpatrick and Mr.
Haig, Mr. Vance recognizes the potential for this atrocity to turn
American public opinion against President Trump’s brutal campaign
against undocumented immigrants, particularly because Ms. Good is an
American citizen, was apparently denied medical assistance by ICE agents
after the shooting and, according to the video evidence, posed no real
threat to the shooter. Not even the most fervent supporter of the arrest
and deportation of undocumented migrants, one assumes, would defend
such Gestapo-like tactics.
The answer? Blame Ms. Good for her own murder.
Mr. Vance’s boss, President Trump, has engaged in further deceit and hyperbole in support of that same goal, claiming
that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE
officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.” She made for an
easy culprit for a man desperate to justify ICE’s actions. After all,
she was already dead.
The murder of the churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980 was not an
isolated incident; they shared the fate of tens of thousands of other
Salvadorans, including Rutilio Grande, S.J., St. Oscar Romero, and the
six Jesuits and two laywomen who were murdered by the Salvadoran
military in 1989 in San Salvador. Eventually, the overwhelming evidence
of these murders became too much for American politicians to justify,
and U.S. funding for the Salvadoran military government dried up. It
just became impossible to believe the lie anymore.
On the 40th anniversary of the martyrdom of the churchwomen of El Salvador, Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., preached at a memorial Mass
in Rome on the impact of their witness. “Theirs, mysteriously but
without doubt, is the triumph because vigorous, courageous acts of
solidarity and compassion persist in dreadful, risky conditions,” he
said. “Brutal claims failed and fail to stop the evangelizing.”
Let us hope the same will happen in Minneapolis. Nothing can bring
Renee Good back; her 6-year-old son is without his mother now, her
partner a widow. The masked man who killed her simply drove away. Nor is
her death an isolated incident: All over the country, we hear and see
more and more examples of violent attacks by masked ICE agents who seem
to face no accountability for their crimes. And we hear the brutal
claims used after the fact to justify them.
How long before it simply becomes impossible to believe the lie anymore?
And
they keep lying. And they keep smearing Renee Nicole Good. Over and
over, multiple times a day. The government just lies. And how's that
going?
Bystanders at Tuesday’s confrontation shouted at agents to stop, with some questioning their actions.
“Masked
agents dragged me from my car and bound me like an animal, even after I
told them that I was disabled,” Rahman said. “This happened just two
blocks from where Renee Good was murdered, so I am very aware that this
confrontation could have ended differently for me.”
Rahman
told Newsweek that she repeatedly asked for a doctor while she was in
ICE custody, only being taken to the hospital once she lost
consciousness.
“I want to thank the medical
staff at the Hennepin County Medical Center Emergency Department for
taking care of me. They gave me hope when I thought I was going to die,”
she said. “I may have more to say in the coming days but for now, I am
relieved to be safe and ask for privacy as I heal from my injuries and
navigate how to move forward from this traumatic experience.”
They forgot who they work for.
And that's apparent in Chump's administration's latest food recommendations.
