Trump: "A massive Armada is heading to Iran," Ready to Strike "with speed and violence"

—Ace

Iran requested talks with the US to avert a possible military strike. Iran denies they did this, but the government is just a collection of filthy primitive Satanic liars.

Trump transmitted his demands, in exchange for "talks," and Iran rejected them. Among the demands: A completely nuclear-free Iran.

Now Trump warns Iran: Don't make me do to you what I did to Venezuela.

A massive Armada is heading to Iran. It is moving quickly, with great power, enthusiasm, and purpose. It is a larger fleet, headed by the great Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln, than that sent to Venezuela.

Like with Venezuela, it is, ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence, if necessary. Hopefully Iran will quickly "Come to the Table" and negotiate a fair and equitable deal - NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS - one that is good for all parties. Time is running out, it is truly of the essence! As I told Iran once before, MAKE A DEAL! They didn't, and there was "Operation Midnight Hammer," a major destruction of Iran. The next attack will be far worse! Don't make that happen again.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

President DONALD J. TRUMP

Iran has responded, per the NYT:

Iran responded defiantly to President Trump's demand from earlier this morning to "Come to the Table" or face possible military action. The Iranian mission to the United Nations said in its own social media post that Iran was "ready for dialogue based on mutual respect and interests." But it added that "IF PUSHED," Iran would "DEFEND ITSELF AND RESPOND LIKE NEVER BEFORE!"

Marco Rubio was asked about Iran in his Senate appearance today.

FBI Raids Fulton County, GA, Election Headquarters As Part of Probe Related to 2020 Election

—Ace

Remember, it was revealed a few weeks ago that a huge count of supposed "early votes" were submitted without any signatures and without the "tapes" recording these votes. Just poof, 315,000 votes out of literally nowhere.

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor

1h

BREAKING: The FBI has just executed a SEARCH WARRANT at the Fulton County, GA Election HQ, pretty much GROUND ZERO for voter fraud in the 2020 election

Per Fox News, this raid is related to the 2020 election

This is gonna get interesting!

bluestein @bluestein

23m

I'm at the site of a Fulton County elections office where FBI officials confirmed they are conducting "court authorized activity" but declined further comment for now. Trump has repeatedly threatened to open an investigation into his 2020 defeat in Georgia. #gapol

Fox:

FBI agents were seen Wednesday carrying out a search at an election hub in Fulton County, Georgia, a location that became ground zero for concerns and complaints about voter fraud beginning in 2020.

Agents were seen entering the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, a new facility that state officials opened in 2023 that was designed to streamline their election processes.

It was not immediately clear what the FBI agents were investigating, but Fox News Digital is told the probe is related to the 2020 election.

The bureau said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital that FBI Atlanta was executing a "court authorized law enforcement action at 5600 [Campbellton] Fairburn Rd. Our investigation into this matter is ongoing so there are no details that we can provide at the moment."

The Department of Justice did not immediately provide comment.

As Media Convulses Over Ilhan Omar Being Sprayed Like a Misbehaving Kitten, Tim Walz Says He'd "Beat the Shit Out of JD Vance If I Could," and a Democrat Attorney General Candidate Threatens to "Kill" Trump

—Ace

But boy oh boy, Ilhan Omar had her monthly shower a few days early, what a tragedy.

The fawning interview was conducted by professional homosexual grifter Tim Miller for the professional homosexual grifter blog The Bulwark.

In an interview with the always infuriating Tim Miller of The Bulwark, Walz went on a classic Tim Walz rant, lying his way through a rambling discussion in which he portrays himself as a defender of truth, justice, and the Somali way, with Miller treating him as if he were a genuine leader instead of a bumbling mafia boss who has pillaged Minnesota, incited riots, and turned this state into a net exporter of taxpayers and net importer of fraudsters.

[I] want to point out that Walz perfectly exemplifies what he means by "peaceful protest" in that clip, and the irony that Tim Miller and the Bulwark are so proud to put it out as exemplifying the approach they admire so much in Walz.

What do they choose as their teaser?

"I would beat the s*!t out of him now if I could."

And a Democrat candidate for Ohio AG says he will "kill Donald Trump."

Through a, wink-wink, state prosecution that somehow ends up in the death penalty.

See, he's totally not threatening to assassinate the president. Wink-wink.

A Democrat candidate for Ohio attorney general is under fire after posting a video in which he explicitly said he intends to "kill Donald Trump" by pursuing a criminal conviction that would end in capital punishment.

In the now-viral clip, Elliot Forhan, who launched his attorney general campaign in February 2025, attempted to frame the statement as a legal hypothetical, declaring, "I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump," before adding that he would seek a jury conviction "beyond a reasonable doubt" followed by a sentence "duly executed" by the state.

"That is what I mean when I say I am going to kill Donald Trump," Forhan concluded.

The remarks immediately sparked backlash with Republicans arguing that invoking the execution of a sitting president--Donald Trump--crosses a line at a moment when political violence remains a live national concern.

Forhan's history has only intensified scrutiny. During a single term in the Ohio House of Representatives, he was stripped of committee assignments and office access following reported altercations with colleagues.

In September 2025--days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA--Forhan posted "F*** Charlie Kirk" on Facebook. He later defended that post despite opening with "Violence is wrong," saying, "I chose my words carefully, and I chose them to communicate my message forcefully."

I mean, he does say, literally, "I am going to kill Donald Trump," but he means legally so it's all cool.

In my book on our age of rage I explore how rage is addictive and contagious. What people do not want to admit in places like Minneapolis is that they like it, they need it. Politicians know that. Even after Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones was shown to have threatened to kill his political opponents and their children, other Democratic leaders continued to support him and he was elected to the highest law enforcement position in the state. Now, Ohio Democratic Attorney General candidate Elliot Forhan appears to be attempting to ride the same rage wave in a video in which he says, "...I am going to kill Donald Trump."

A video is making rounds on X in which Forhan says, "I am going to obtain conviction, rendered by a jury of his peers, at a standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt, based on evidence, presented at trial, conducted in accordance with due process, resulting in a sentence, duly executed, of capital punishment."

Forhan continued, "That is what I mean when I say I am going to kill Donald Trump."

The video shows the thrill of saying (or hearing others declare) that you are going to kill your political enemies. After the thrill-kill statement, Forhan then adds the legal rationale, like a fast-talking commercial warning of product risks. He knows, as with those warnings, people will tune out the perfunctory verbiage. Indeed, like a commercial, he immediately returns to the marketing pitch in saying, "I am going to kill Donald Trump."

This is protected speech under the First Amendment, but it is also reprehensible rhetoric at a time of increasing social unrest. Forhan is trafficking in rage in the hope that it will secure him a political office.

This pledge to hunt a single individual has worked for other Democratic Attorney General candidates like Letitia James.

I don't know if it's protected political speech. A threat against the president's life isn't legal because you wink-wink it.

Ilhan Omar "Attacked"...
with...
Water...

—Ace

Some claim it was staged.

Including Trump.

Or, at least, he jokes that she "probably" sprayed herself, while also not caring if she did nor not.

Rachel Scott @rachelvscott

Just spoke to Pres. Trump. I asked him if he had seen the video of Rep. Omar being attacked and sprayed by a substance.

"No. I don't think about her. I think she's a fraud. I really don't think about that. She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her," the president said.

I asked again if he had seen the video.

"I haven't seen it. No, no. I hope I don't have to bother."

I doubt it was staged. I think it's more of, what do you call it, a nothingburger.

Let me react as the left reacted to Trump being shot: It looks staged to me. I don't see any proof she was actually hit.

Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

There is no more sure-fire way to never face meaningful punishment than to be a major, well-connected American corporation. Even politicians sometimes go down for Party defense purposes, but the powerful corporation never does. Even "landmark" punishments are mere slaps on the wrist, and they laugh all the way to the bank. There is a prime example of this in the news now, courtesy of everyone's favorite big tech hypercorp: Alphabet.

Alphabet - which Google renamed itself when that company decided its original name wasn't quite sinister enough - has settled a class-action lawsuit for recording people's conversations and using them for advertising. The thing everyone assumed Alphabet was doing, and that Alphabet insisted up and down it was not doing, turned out to be something Alphabet was doing. Shocker of the century there. Alphabet is settling its privacy case and paying a penalty.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Birdmen Of Burnley
Leonora Carrington

The Morning Report — 1/28/26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. And the word of the day is "deescalation." And it makes my head explode for reasons that should be all too obvious to anyone with eyes to see. Those who are using this word are the same ones who objected to Israel going after Hamas after its mass-wave pogrom that slaughtered scores of innocent people and kidnapped/tortured hundreds more, the remains of the last one at long last recovered and returned home only a day or so ago.

What ICE and law enforcement are doing in Minneapolis and elsewhere in the nation is merely their duty in rounding up illegal aliens be they merely border-jumpers or violent thugs on top of it. Anyone who objects to this, let alone attempts to impede them carrying out their mission either via direct violent confrontation or political sabotage is engaging in the most severe of felonious acts which come right up to and perhaps cross the line into actual Insurrection.

And so, what is needed is a massive ESCALATION in response to this attack on our government, the rule of law and the safety and security of the citizenry so that those engaging in this insurrection are mercilessly crushed, so as to send an unmistakable message that lawlessness in all its forms will not be tolerated.

If you think I'm engaging in hyperbole. There is a definite nexus between Democrat lawmakers and their stormtroopers on the streets.

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson (D) stated Monday that the state government aims to “partner” with the anti-ICE groups illegally tracking and hounding federal law enforcement agents.

The governor expressed support for the anti-ICE insurgency in his state just one day before the FBI launched an investigation into the Signal chat groups organizing the the anti-ICE insurgency in Minnesota.

Ferguson held a press conference alongside Washington’s Attorney General Nick Brown (D.) to condemn ICE after two agitators in Minnesota were fatally shot by federal agents. Brown was widely criticized last month after he warned independent journalists to stop investigating alleged fraudulent Somali daycare centers in the state or they could be charged with a hate crime.

The governor told reporters that what is happening in Minnesota and Washington is “community, individuals, and grass roots organizations doing their part to stand up for their fellow residents.”

. . . In a long and sobering post on X, reacting to the new information, former Special Forces Warrant Officer, Eric Schwalm compared the anti-ICE effort in Minneapolis to the insurgencies he fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“With multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close,” Schwalm stated. “From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t ‘protest.’ It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.”

And investigator and Freedom Fighter extraordinaire Andy Ngo is yet again doing yeoman's work in exposing the sophisticated yet all-too-familiar techniques of leftist political terrorism

Andy Ngo, a citizen journalist known for his unmasking of Antifa activists and their violent tactics, infiltrated some radical left Signal groups in Minnesota and discovered the rampant paranoia among the activists who didn't trust anyone, especially other activists. The tactics being used, Ngo observed, "are an evolution of methods tested during the deadly 2020 BLM–Antifa riots, which were centered largely in the Twin Cities." "In recent weeks, numerous Antifa-linked revolutionary anarchist collectives have promoted organizing guides that explicitly instruct extremists on how to carry out obstructionist campaigns," says Ngo. The guides recommend using the Signal messaging app to maintain operational security. It's the operations that are problematic. "Signal has become the preferred platform for mass coordination — used to share real-time locations, vehicle descriptions, and individual targets, as well as tips for minimizing legal accountability," writes Ngo. This is how the activists are able to show up at ICE enforcement actions almost as soon as agents start arriving on the scene. . . I'm familiar with messaging among some radical groups in Europe during the 1970s. Baader-Meinhof Group, a far-left West German Communist terrorist group active in the 1970s, communicated almost exclusively using intelligence agency methods such as drop boxes and "cut-outs." Baader-Meinhof and other radical leftists of the time were paranoid about security, but they still managed to have a small circle where trust was an absolute necessity.  Obviously, the radicals today are sacrificing security for instant communications, but this has bred hysterical fear and, almost certainly, hindered their efforts to organize and obstruct ICE operations.

While it's encouraging that as Ngo notes their paranoia may be hampering their efforts, at the same time they have a truly frightenng level of political and legal cover afforded them by elected officials and perhaps allies in local law enforcement itself. Not to put too fine a point on it but this Bob Ferguson as well as Walz, Frey and everyone else engaging in this needs to swing from a gallows.

Because as is painfully obvious or should be by now, that is exactly what they have in mind for all of us.

Democrat Ohio Attorney General candidate Elliot Forhan announced a plan to execute President Donald Trump, following a hypothetical trial and guilty verdict, in a video posted to X on Tuesday. In the viral video Forhan stated that he would pursue the president’s conviction, resulting in capital punishment. . . “I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump,” Forhan stated. “I mean I’m going to obtain a conviction rendered by a jury of his peers at a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt based on evidence, presented at a trial conducted in accordance with the requirements of due process, resulting in a sentence, duly executed, of capital punishment.”

“That is what I mean when I say I am going to kill Donald Trump,” he ended.

He may be a low rent Roland Freisler but I'll take him at his word.

So, evidently Bro-Fo Omar was doused with some sort of liquid at a town-hall meeting. I don't think it was Jewish Holy water (matzo ball soup) nor was she given the Victor Riesel treatment, not that she doesn't deserve it, but hey, If she soiled her Playtex 18-hour burqa, sowing and reaping baby.

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• A former KGB agent-turned-defector, Yuri Bezmenov, has some useful insights.
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Daily Tech News 28 January 2026

—Pixy Misa

• Memory prices may be leveling off - at four times what they were just a few months ago. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Supplies are still very constrained, but people are buying less RAM - either avoiding upgrades entirely or building smaller systems - so prices are stalling in the ionosphere rather than continuing on an intergalactic cruise.
  
  
  
• SK Hynix - one of the big three memory manufacturers - has reported its most recent quarterly results. (CNBC)
  
  No surprise, the numbers are good. Revenue is up 66% over the past year, and profit is up 137%.
  
  Good for them. Not good for you.

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - January 27, 2026 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday ONT is here for all of your end of day needs. OK maybe not all of them. But certainly SOME of them! Come on in, see what's in store, and let us know what's on your mind tonight.

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Probably didn't have that "new car smell"

Elderly Man Driving Busted Up Truck Was a Joke Meme Until Stranger’s Heart-warming Idea to Crowdfund a New One

His truck was the vehicle equivalent of Frankenstein, a green mish-mash of dents and dings and disjointed panels.

The 2000 Chevy Silverado became something of a famous eyesore in South Bend, Indiana, earning sideways glances and second looks wherever Mo Riles went.

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Sure, Mo heard the jokes and saw the sideways glances—but the truck ran just fine. The state of Indiana doesn’t require inspections. And Mo, who worked at a Dollar Tree store, wasn’t in a financial position to upgrade, especially since facing recent health struggles.

So the truck rolled on… at least until Colin Crowel saw the photo. Colin, who owns Carguys Auto Detailing, wanted to do more than joke about the unsightly relic. He figured that whoever was driving it likely needed a pick-me-up, instead of another internet pun.

“I just thought there’s gotta be something more to why this truck looks like this,” Colin said. “I just put two and two together.”

He started a crowdfunding campaign, hoping to raise money for Riles and betting that community support would produce more than social media memes.

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The results arrived quickly. Donations poured in from people all over northwest Indiana and beyond. More than 500 people pitched in to raise over $26,000 for Mo.

Video at the link. Hopefully the truck found a loving new owner. Maybe Rancher Bob could add it to his collection on his ranch!

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Opposite end of the spectrum as far as the condition of a vehicle. Need one of you smart car nerds to weigh in here. I've seen several of these types of stories lately, but some are obviously fake. I can't find anything overtly fishy about this one. What say you?

1965 Impala 409 Wagon Sat 42 Years, Moscow Family Hid the Time Capsule 42 Years in a Barn

Out of the 2.38 million Chevys sold in 1965, the Impala claimed some 40%. The US domestic automobile production rose to a staggering 8.96 million vehicles that year – and the African gazelle was representing one out every nine of those cars. But the numbers dive drastically when we factor in the 409 powerhouse. With just 2,828 motors made for passenger cars, we’re talking “unicorn eggs” level of rarity.

And that’s just for starters: for the sake of piston-centric fun, let’s add one more bottleneck. Like, say, body style – and I insist that we chose my favorite full-size dress code, the station wagon. Chevrolet didn’t bother fitting people haulers with big-block muscle like it was an all-you-can-eat buffet, so just 82 Impala wagons came with a 409.

I won’t even bother to do the math, it’s more than self-explanatory by now, but I’m not done bringing more rarity into this talk just yet. Of those 82, how many stayed with one family for nearly six decades?

Please check out the link and let us know what you think.

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Which one of you did this?

People are now making videos trolling anti-ICE protesters

I can’t 😭 pic.twitter.com/sdEfcqOtIP

— TONY™ (@TONYxTWO) January 26, 2026

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Careful out there, "ladies"!

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Any of you have a spare atom smasher laying around?

Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold.

Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no amount of chemistry can turn one into the other.

But our modern knowledge tells us the basic difference between an atom of lead and an atom of gold: the lead atom contains exactly three more protons. So can we create a gold atom by simply pulling three protons out of a lead atom?

As it turns out, we can. But it’s not easy.

Who's up for this challenge?

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Cute little video I saw in an X comment (click on the top right bubble for the source). I'd imagine it's quite accurate. Probably the way blue states stay blue. The music is easily recognizable. One month emerald membership to the first one of you to identify the song name and what TV show it is most often linked to.

California might be worse than Minnesota.. pic.twitter.com/W1GZGqnI78

— Sandfort (@Sandfort_) January 27, 2026

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Cuddles Cafe

—Ace

Eltz Castle

This better not be AI.

Wombats are awesome.

Golden retrievers being goofy.

Baby elephant is a... dick.

Bear cubs orphaned by a fire, and separated since the fire, are finally reunited.

Cats ignore you until it's time to play and no you don't get a vote.

Swan mother is very proud of her first egg.

Dog enjoys a light beating.

I cast Charm Person.

Sassy!

Trump Signs Executive Order to Speed Up Rebuilding LA

—Ace

I don't know if he can do this but someone needs to do something.

President Trump is sidestepping thumb-twiddling California Democrats with an executive order aimed at fast-tracking the rebuilding of Los Angeles a year after devastating wildfires torched entire city blocks and left thousands homeless.

"I want to see if we can take over the city and state and just give the people their permits they want to build," Trump told the California Post Friday in an exclusive Oval Office interview when he signed the seven-page order.

Trump pointed the finger at California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for the painfully slow rebuilding of homes ravaged by the January 2025 Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires, two of the most destructive blazes in LA history.

Wildfires destroyed an estimated 16,000 structures, but Los Angeles city and county officials have only issued 2,600 permits to rebuild so far.

In all, less than 15% of all homes destroyed by the fires have received necessary approvals to move forward, according to the Trump administration.

Trump's order is designed to "preempt" the building permit process -- and empower the federal government to maneuver around the needless obstacles imposed by Democratic leaders.

The order calls out the "nightmare" of delays and "bureaucratic malaise" at the California state and local levels -- and it will almost certainly be challenged by Democrats in power in the Golden State, despite displaced residents literally crying out to be made whole again.

Jessica Rogers, a Pacific Palisades resident who lost everything in the wildfires, burst into tears of joy when she learned the federal government was stepping in to pick up the slack.

...

Trump, a former real estate developer, said he was compelled to step in after touring the fire damage a year ago with first lady Melania Trump and seeing the devastation firsthand. He said he was shocked to see that even a year later, "there's nobody building."

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Under the order, the heads of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) will issue regulations to preempt state and local permitting requirements and allow builders to self-certify to a federal agency that they have complied with health, safety and building standards.

Like I said, I can't imagine Trump has any power like this. The feds can't just set aside state laws. Even if the state in question is a basket-case run by lunatics.

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Newsom spokeswoman Tara Gallegos hit back at Trump, calling the president "an old clueless idiot who believes that the state and federal governments can issue local rebuilding permits and LA gets its water from the Pacific Northwest."

Gallegos said Trump has "demonstrated a complete lack of leadership or compassion for this community." She charged Trump is concerned with "picking out gaudy gold décor and new flooring for his unnecessary remodel" as the community is "still waiting for him to grant disaster recovery funding.

"He should keep LA out of his mouth unless he is planning to grant them the federal disaster funding they need."

Such tough-guys!

An Investigation Into Ilhan Omar's Sudden Fortune and Foreign Dealings Was Opened -- Under the Biden Administration

—Ace

And when the Corruption Hawks of the Biden Administration think that you're grifting money from foreign interests, you're shadier than a $400,000 Hunter Biden "watercolor."

The Justice Department under the Biden administration opened an investigation into Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, in 2024 to scrutinize her finances, campaign spending and interactions with a foreign citizen, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The inquiry, initiated by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington and the department's public integrity unit in June of that year, appears to have stalled for lack of evidence, according to one of the people who requested anonymity to discuss internal department matters.

Uh-huh.

The investigation appeared to be thrust into the public spotlight on Monday, when President Trump blindsided department officials by posting about it on Truth Social, singling out Ms. Omar. It was part of a rambling statement announcing a shake-up of the team overseeing immigration raids in Ms. Omar's Minneapolis district that misspelled her name.

"The DOJ and Congress are looking at 'Congresswoman' Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars," he wrote. "Time will tell all."

It was not clear whether Mr. Trump was referring to another investigation altogether or how he arrived at the $44 million figure.

Ms. Omar, a Somali-born refugee who emigrated to the United States when she was 12, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

"Sorry, Trump, your support is collapsing and you're panicking," she wrote on social media on Monday. "Right on cue, you're deflecting from your failures with lies and conspiracy theories about me. Years of 'investigations' have found nothing."

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Ugly personal attacks against Ms. Omar have been a staple of Mr. Trump's speeches since her election to Congress in 2018, when she and Representative Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, made history as the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.

Ms. Omar's sharp criticism of Israel, her repetition of antisemitic tropes and her comparison of U.S. actions to those of Hamas have elicited bipartisan criticism.

But few people have demonized her more than Mr. Trump, who has veered into racist and xenophobic vitriol, in the view of Ms. Omar and other critics of the president.

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In recent weeks, House Republicans have threatened to open their own investigation into Ms. Omar, an apparent effort to tie her to the Minnesota fraud scandal that has revealed evidence that some members of the Somali community set up companies that billed state agencies for social services that were never provided.

Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has vowed to subpoena Ms. Omar's husband. His venture capital firm made millions over the past few years, according to Ms. Omar's financial disclosures.

No evidence has yet been produced showing that Ms. Omar was connected to the fraud scheme. A spokeswoman for Ms. Omar said her office had received no official inquiries from the Oversight Committee or the Justice Department.

Mr. Comer is still seeking to raise ethical questions about how Ms. Omar's husband has been able to accumulate his wealth and he has promised an update on a potential investigation soon.

MSNBC Airs Fake Photo of Dead "Protester" Alex Pretti, Modified by AI to Make Him Look More Masculine, Handsome, and Heroic

—Ace

NottheBee has a hilarious recap of this latest propaganda from "MSNOW."

Before getting to that: Although the media keeps referring to this terrorist as an "ICU nurse," the truth is he was an unemployed bum who quit his job to be a full-time paid agitator.

And he's a violent agitator:

Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2

NEW: CNN reporting that Alex Pretti broke a rib during a separate altercation with federal officers a week before he was fatally shot attempting to obstruct an immigration operation.

According to sources, Pretti was already known to federal authorities for his involvement in obstructing raids and targeting officers.

CNN: "The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution.

Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back -- an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene. Pretti was later given medication consistent with treating a broken rib, according to records reviewed by CNN."

OH.

Here's Pretti.

"State law requires me to inform you I have moved into your neighborhood"

Below, the real photo of the dead "protester" and his "Alpha Chad" AI Deepfake.

The AI photo makes him look like he hoists tankards of magical mead after fighting side-by-side with Thor.

The real photo shows a cashew-headed dweeb who has his penis nice and tucked for a night out cruising at the local playground.

Tim Walz: ICE Arresting Illegal Alien Killers and Rapists Is Just Like the Nazis Hunting Anne Frank; CNN Guest: ICE Is Going to Start Putting People "In Ovens"

—Ace

The Party of Smart People, everybody.

Tim Walz stunned reporters Sunday by comparing illegal aliens facing ICE enforcement in Minnesota to Anne Frank hiding from the Nazis, reaching for a Holocaust analogy as he attacked President Trump's immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities.

Standing before reporters, Walz claimed that children across Minnesota are now afraid to leave their homes because of the administration's expanded ICE presence. "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside," he said, invoking Anne Frank's diary as a parallel. "Many of us grew up reading that story. Somebody's going to write that children's story about Minnesota."

FIRE ALL AWFLs: Virginia Nurse Says She'll Use Drugs to Paralyze and Poison ICE Agents

—Ace

She works for VCU Health -- which says that her calls to paralyze and poison people are "inappropriate" and under investigation, but they have not fired her.

She's currently suspended and not in a position to poison patients -- but no firing.

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.

Any comment @VCUHealth
? How can you have such a vile person working with patients? How can anyone feel safe at your facilities if you employ such people?

Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.

Any… pic.twitter.com/CMJN12GhOc

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 27, 2026

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

BREAKING UPDATE: Malinda just SCRUBBED her tiktok account

Still no word from @VCUHealth

They're taking a Wait and See Attitude about the Angel of Death nurse:

She also seems to work for Duke University Hospital. When the hospital was asked about this Angel of Death nurse, instead of responding, they... just deleted people's texts asking questions about this likely future murderess.

.@DukeHealth now deleting posts… interesting 🤔 https://t.co/5pMxM2KBB6

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 27, 2026

And she's not the only nurse urging others to do harm to patients. The below creature, who is more filter than human being, not only wished severe birth-related complications on Karoline Leavitt, but also tells nurses to discriminate against ICE agents.

The nurse who was fired for wishing a severe injury on Karoline Leavitt during childbirth, also apparently urged nurses to discriminate against ICE

Thank goodness she’s no longer in the medical field.

Now she needs to have her nursing license revoked. https://t.co/UvFoePqAIi pic.twitter.com/lJRTFxBqzM

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 25, 2026

We have "red flag" laws for guns. We need red flag laws for health care workers -- if someone informs the authorities that you are an ideologically-twisted sociopath or borderline personality disorder bitch, you need to have your licenses pulled until you can demonstrate to a panel that you have completed 6-12 months of psychological counseling and testing.

If it saves just one life, right?

Close it up

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Overrules Lawless Lowly District Judicial Insurrectionist, Removing Bullshit Restrictions on How ICE Can Handle Violent "Protesters"

—Ace

Who knows, it's possible that this judge's lawless diktat that "protesters" should be allowed to be violent and ICE is barred from responding with non-lethal munitions like tear gas and pepper spray actually led to the death of the violent protesters.

MXM News:

A federal appeals court on Monday stepped in to stop what the Trump administration argued was an extraordinary act of judicial overreach, blocking a Minnesota order that effectively handcuffed federal immigration agents during enforcement operations.

The three-judge panel on the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Trump administration and issued a full stay of a January injunction that had restricted how officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement could respond while facing aggressive anti-ICE protests.

That lower-court order barred agents from making arrests, detaining individuals, or using pepper spray during confrontations unless heightened legal thresholds were met--rules critics warned would put officers at risk as agitators pressed into enforcement scenes.

The lowly district court judge and insurrectionist had claimed, in the face of all evidence, that the "protesters" were all uniformly peaceful and therefore ICE was barred from using any non-lethal force against them.

Reviewing the same video evidence cited by the district court, the appeals panel flatly rejected the idea that the encounters were uniformly peaceful, writing that the footage showed "a wide range of conduct, some of it peaceful but much of it not," with agents responding to rapidly changing situations.

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U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez had accepted [violent "protesters'"] claims on January 16, finding the plaintiffs likely to succeed on First and Fourth Amendment grounds and issuing a sweeping injunction against the Department of Homeland Security and ICE.

Her ruling cited alleged instances in which agents used pepper spray, pointed weapons, made arrests, and conducted traffic stops against individuals she characterized as peacefully observing or protesting enforcement activity.

The appeals court was unmoved, emphasizing that the encounters varied widely--different officers, different protesters, different behavior, different locations--making a blanket prohibition not only unworkable but dangerous.

Attorney General Pam Bondi hailed the decision as a decisive stand for law enforcement.

"Liberal judges tried to handcuff our federal law enforcement officers, restrict their actions, and put their safety at risk when responding to violent agitators," Bondi wrote on X, noting that the Justice Department first secured a temporary pause and has now won a full stay.

In the meanwhile, Kash Patel says he's following the money and the FBI is investigating who is funding these violent revolutionary groups.

He also says the FBI is continuing to investigate the fraud network.

FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday the bureau has identified people and groups who are funding leftist protests aimed at Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minnesota.

During an appearance on conservative commentator Benny Johnson's podcast, Patel confirmed that the FBI's investigation into the unrest is active and expanding.

"We've got ... investigations ongoing into the funding of this," Patel told Johnson, stressing that the protests are "not happening organically" and that investigators have made "substantial progress" in uncovering groups and individuals financially backing them.

Patel also asserted that federal authorities are examining encrypted left-wing chats connected to protest organizers in Minnesota -- warning those involved that they "should be worried" if they have violated federal statutes.

Some people are asking: Is this insurrection being staged not to protect illegal aliens but to protect the Democrat Party's fraud-farmers in blue cities?

In other words, are they attempting to block further investigation of the Somali and other organized crime looting of the federal treasury?

If this is just about protecting criminal illegals, why did the violent "protests" not begin until after the Nick Shirley revelations?!

Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters

Let me get this straight:

1. prior administrations deported millions of people, and riots were basically nonexistent

2. the moment trump took office, a coordinated campaign by politicians/legacy media *directly called for resistance to ICE*

3. once riots happen and people are die, the spotlight shifts to stopping deportations and defunding ICE

If this was such a crime against humanity, why did no one riot in 2024?

The intention behind the unrest is NOT empathy.

Empathy is being manufactured on false grounds to achieve political aims. And people are getting hurt.

Internet Claims: Chinese PM Xi Plotted Purge of Chinese Military, So the Military Plotted a Coup and Kidnapping. But Then Xi Launched a Counter-Coup.

—Ace

Allegedly.

The claims of an actual coup attempt, with senior military leaders plotting to kidnap Xi, is an internet-based claim without any legacy media confirmation.

So far.

Here's the BBC:

The senior ranks of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) are in tatters.

The weekend purging of China's top general, Zhang Youxia, and another senior military officer, Gen Liu Zhenli, has left serious questions about what triggered the elite power struggles unfolding in the country - and what this means for China's warfighting capacity, whether it be any ambition to take Taiwan by force or engage in another major regional conflict.

Zhang, 75, was vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) - the Communist Party group headed by the country's leader Xi Jinping, which controls the armed forces.

The CMC, usually made up of around seven people, has now been whittled down to just two members - Xi and Gen Zhang Shengmin.

All others have been taken down in the "anti-corruption" crackdown following previous waves of detention.

The CMC is responsible for controlling millions of military personnel. It is so powerful that when Deng Xiaoping was the paramount leader of the country during the 1980s, this was the only position he held for most of that time.

That only Xi and one CMC general remain is unprecedented, according to Lyle Morris from the Asia Society Policy Institute.

"The PLA is in disarray," he told the BBC, adding that China's military now had "a major leadership void".

Asked what was really driving the culling of so many top generals, he said: "There are a lot of rumours floating around. We don't know, at this point, what is true and what is false... but it is certainly bad for Xi Jinping, for his leadership and control over the PLA."

Associate Professor Chong Ja Ian from the National University of Singapore also said he was not sure what the real reason was for Zhang's downfall but that there was a lot of speculation about it.

"Everything from leaking nuclear secrets to the United States to plotting a coup and factional infighting. There are even rumours of a gunfight in Beijing," he said.

"But Zhang and Liu's downfall along with the wild speculation highlight two things: that Xi remains unassailable and there are significant limits to information in Beijing which fuels uncertainty and feeds this speculation."

The official announcement that said Zhang and Liu were "under investigation" also said that they were accused of "serious violations of discipline and law", which is a euphemism for corruption.

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The targeting of the generals may be about corruption, but it may also be about power politics, given how these purges have panned out in the past.

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Xi may have stamped his authority, yet again, but the upheaval means ongoing frictions, he said.

"It's certainly a bad look for Xi and I think there's going to be significant turmoil in the PLA, with Xi and his leaders -- especially in the PLA -- for years to come."

The purging of the most senior generals also brings scrutiny on the next layer of officers who may be wondering who is next?

Twitter accounts claim -- again, without confirmation by the fake media -- that the military leaders Xi was about to arrest for corruption decided to strike first and kidnap Xi, but Xi got wind of this and arrested them first.

Cryptoanarhist @manaxer2

A coup d'etat is being prepared in China.

What happened? I explain:

-- The largest purge of China's military leadership in half a century has recently begun. Generals are being prosecuted on charges of corruption and state crimes.

-- Even General Zhang Youxia, who was considered Xi's right-hand man, was accused of treason for spying on the United States.

-- Unconfirmed information is also circulating online about the suppression of an attempted military coup and an assassination attempt on Xi Jinping himself.

-- There is an active movement of military convoys in the direction of Beijing, now they are located 40 kilometers from the center of Beijing.

-- Local media reports that some of the equipment has already reached Beijing, and armed men have taken control of the historic Forbidden City

-- Along with this, there are reports that the existing PLA system has been stopped and replaced by the direct command of the Central Military Council using encrypted telegrams.

-- All units throughout the army have moved to the first level of combat readiness.

In addition, against the background of the events, Taiwan said it was closely monitoring "abnormal" changes in China's military leadership and urged Japanese fishermen to refrain from visiting islands disputed with China.

What do you think, will there be changes in our political system?

The Morning Rant: Hickory Shampoos For The Win!

—CBD

The recent shootings in Minnesota are a natural result of the breakdown in respect for the legitimate activity of government, and the blurring of the line between legitimate protest against government policy, and violent action to force political change. That it is financed and managed by outside actors is made possible by the failures in our educational systems and our body politic...both have failed to support and defend the political philosophy that created American Exceptionalism

Americans have had numerous avenues to express disagreement with public policy and government behavior. Obviously, the first and most important way is simply to vote. We also have robust legal protections of our right to speak freely and criticize anything in society with which we disagree. And protest is a tried and true American tradition!

For instance, the non-violent protests against legal segregation (separate but equal) focused the country on its fundamental inequality. Yet the violent protests probably prolonged the fight for civil rights! The Supreme Court ruling which struck it down was rejected by some, most famously by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, who instructed the National Guard to block integration. President Eisenhower promptly nationalized the Arkansas Guard to end the challenge to legitimate federal government authority and action.

Regardless of what one might think of America's integration efforts (it has been a mixed bag at best), it is a legitimate expression of the will of the people and the equally legitimate action on the part of government.

The massive demonstrations and other legitimate political activity against unfettered abortion bore fruit after many years. The process worked...albeit very, very slowly!

According to the compliant media, many Americans disagree with the current administration's policy on immigration, and are against their efforts and methods to detain and deport illegal aliens who are also violent felons.

Whether that estimation is true is a matter of debate...I doubt very much that more than a small minority of Americans would defend the presence of violent criminals in our midst, regardless of their country of origin!

But there is a way to disagree, and our founders made it a matter of (hopefully) inviolable law!

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Physical interference with the legal activity of government or, for that matter, regular people, crosses the line, and is not protected by the United States Constitution. Our founders would have recoiled in horror had it been suggested to them that violence is a legitimate expression of discontent with an elected government. Any comparison to our revolution is specious and ahistoric. The British ruled us from afar, without any provision for representation or redress. That's the difference, and it is profound.

Violent protest should be met with immediate and overwhelming force. Tear gas, bean-bag rounds, batons, water cannon, bayonet lines...whatever it takes to disperse and render ineffective the attempted violent overthrow of our government and the legal structure of our republic!

Because that's what it is...insurrection, revolt revolution, civil war...call it whatever you wish, but it is the theft of our collective freedoms in service to a minority's belief in their own political philosophy.

Demonstrate, write your newspaper, vote, call your representatives, go door to door explaining your political philosophy. That's all marvelous, even if most people will disagree. But the second violence is used, it loses the protections of our Constitution and becomes law breaking thuggery, and I and many Americans firmly support instant and aggressive action to end it!

Hickory shampoos for the win!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Bar
Cecil John Brack

The Morning Report — 1/27/26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Remember back in the halcyon days of Barack Hussein Obama when he proposed the creation of some kind of a domestic national security force that was to have more funding, perhaps even double that of the Defense (now War) department. Try as I might, I'll be damned if I can find an actual link to that scheme. I know I'm not imagining it, and if anyone can find it, just send me an e-mail or put it in the comments.

Update, Here is a link Obama's Civililan National Security Force, and thanks to commenter Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy!

Be that as it may, the jug-eared bastard was actually on to something, especially given the sucking chest wound to whatever is left of our Republic as founded that is Minneapolis Minnesota. Speaking of the Republic as founded, perhaps one of the jewels in its crown that made it a milestone of human societal advancement that defines the phrase American exceptionalism (that we as a people and society are the exception to the tyranny and despotism that came before us) is that of free speech and that we must tolerate even the most repugnant and abhorrent of views of our fellow citizens — also makes it one of if not its greatest Achilles heels. When the abuse of free speech leads to the kind of violence we are witnessing, it tears at the very fabric that is supposed to bind us together.

The Left is so fond of trotting out the Chestnut that "The Constitution is not supposed to be a Suicide Pact." Well, they're right about that and the longer we are forced to tolerate a political party and movement that seeks the destruction of our Republic by any means necessary, then we face the prospect of national assisted suicide if not fratricide at the hands of our supposed fellow citizens.

Along with Islam, I assert that Leftism is not compatible with an advancing, Western Judeo/Christian society. Its twisted vision of a society based on the bloody failure of Marxist/Leninist Communism/Socialism must be torn out root and branch from the American political and cultural landscape or it will be our undoing. Period full stop. A bitter irony is that those who have benefited mightily from America and free market capitalism have an enmity for both that is beyond comprehension.

Sunrise Movement is bankrolled by some of the country's most prominent nonprofit organizations, including Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. The Minneapolis hotel smashed up overnight by anti-ICE rioters was on a target list created by the Twin Cities chapter of Sunrise Movement, a radical group funded by some of the country's most prominent nonprofit organizations, including George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.Video footage shows dozens of anti-ICE rioters descending on Home2 Suites by Hilton near the University of Minnesota late Sunday night. The group used noisemakers and pounded on trash bins before turning violent—the rioters hurled items at people, smashed windows, destroyed the hotel’s façade, lit fireworks, and graffitied the building. As they attempted to force their way in, those inside were forced to use two vending machines to block the hotel’s entrance.

Why are at least two people dead and multiple federal law enforcement officers injured?

What broader principle are Democrats, liberals and leftists rioting over in Minneapolis?
. . . The broader consistent principle at stake isn’t federalism: it’s leftism. The entire political and cultural machine that has been mobilized over Minneapolis opportunistically supports wielding federal authority over states and state rejection of federal authority on immigration law only when the end result, whether state or federal, is open borders and mass illegal alien invasions.

This is true in all areas. The Left has no legal, let alone constitutional, principles, only goals. . . What this means in the broader sense is that we are not a nation of laws, but of leftists.

The Left does not believe in or follow any laws or principles other than its own politics. There is no rule of law (and certainly not of the Constitution) that applies consistently at all times. Laws are just a means to a leftist end. If a law is momentarily suited to that end, it will be upheld and suddenly trumpeted as the great pillar of democracy and all that separates us from the beasts. . . Don’t get the idea that the Left doesn’t believe in anything. It believes in a great many things. But those things don’t include the Constitution, the rule of the people, any laws that they don’t make and any limitations on their power to fundamentally transform America and the world. Everything else is transactional and disposable. . . America will either have the rule of law or the rule of leftists. That’s what this is about.

Daniel Greenfield gets totally gets it.

May God bless every bullet from every barrel of every ICE agent's weapon. May they find their mark right between the beady eyes of every brain dead zombie programmed by the Democrat Left to destroy us.

Here's to the founding of the Tailgunner Joseph McCarthy Defense of the Republic Department. Amen.

Have a great day.

On a personal note, today is Holocaust Remembrance Day and my thoughts turn to my mother of blessed memory who somehow survived Mauthausen, the labor brigades and a death march before finally making it to America to become an American and indeed a truly great one! God bless the Angels who the Lord sent in the form of the GIs from the 11th Armored Division who liberated her and her family.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• What the civil war in Minneapolis is really about.
  A Nation of Laws or Leftists
  
• “I will not perform anesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for MAGA. It is my right, it is my ethical oath, and I stand behind my education,” Florida nurse Erik Martindale recently wrote on Facebook. “I own all of my own businesses and I can refuse anyone!
  After the post went viral, Martindale conveniently claimed he was hacked on Facebook and Instagram. Sure you were.
  The left is truly sick for threatening to deny medical care — and wishing physical harm — to people they disagree with (Do like Muslim doctors do to Jews and shoot air or rat poison in their veins - jjs)