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Trumpers claim their thugs shot two more vehicle "weaponizers"......
"We know what the federal government says happened here. There was a time when we could take them at their word. That time is long past," said Portland's mayor.
2 shot by federal agent after 'targeted' stop, Portland mayor asks ICE to halt operations
Two people were injured in a shooting involving a federal agent in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, authorities said.
abcnews.go.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Trumpers claim their thugs shot two more vehicle "weaponizers"......
"We know what the federal government says happened here. There was a time when we could take them at their word. That time is long past," said Portland's mayor.
2 shot by federal agent after 'targeted' stop, Portland mayor asks ICE to halt operations
Two people were injured in a shooting involving a federal agent in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, authorities said.
abcnews.go.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:01 AM
"We know what the federal government says happened here. There was a time when we could take them at their word. That time is long past," said Portland's mayor.
This is nuts.
White House considers second floor to West Wing for 'symmetry' with ballroom
White House considers second floor to West Wing for 'symmetry' with ballroom
share.google
January 9, 2026 at 1:26 AM
This is nuts.
White House considers second floor to West Wing for 'symmetry' with ballroom
White House considers second floor to West Wing for 'symmetry' with ballroom
Kristi Noem said Thursday that Minnesota authorities “don’t have any jurisdiction in this investigation.”
In fact, Minnesota authorities, of course, have jurisdiction to investigate potential violations of Minnesota's criminal laws. The federal government can't nullify that jurisdiction.
In fact, Minnesota authorities, of course, have jurisdiction to investigate potential violations of Minnesota's criminal laws. The federal government can't nullify that jurisdiction.
Live updates: State investigators say they can't access ICE shooting evidence after FBI takes case
The Minneapolis shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer will be investigated solely by the FBI, which has barred Minnesota investigators from accessing evidence.
apnews.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Kristi Noem said Thursday that Minnesota authorities “don’t have any jurisdiction in this investigation.”
In fact, Minnesota authorities, of course, have jurisdiction to investigate potential violations of Minnesota's criminal laws. The federal government can't nullify that jurisdiction.
In fact, Minnesota authorities, of course, have jurisdiction to investigate potential violations of Minnesota's criminal laws. The federal government can't nullify that jurisdiction.
Vance is planning to run for president on a "make our nation's streets free fire zones" platform.
JD Vance accuses the slain Renee Good of perpetrating "an attack on federal law enforcement, an attack on law and order, and attack on the American people"
"That woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation," he adds, repeatedly referring to her as "that woman"
"That woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation," he adds, repeatedly referring to her as "that woman"
January 8, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Vance is planning to run for president on a "make our nation's streets free fire zones" platform.
Is that the video recording button that is still live on the killer's phone, just after he murdered the young mother?
45 seconds after the shooting, in the same video, the camera app appears to be visible on the agent’s phone as he walks away from Good’s vehicle.
January 8, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Is that the video recording button that is still live on the killer's phone, just after he murdered the young mother?
The murderer may well have recorded himself killing his victim in cold blood.
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
January 8, 2026 at 9:06 PM
The murderer may well have recorded himself killing his victim in cold blood.
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It's time to state clearly that if MAGA and Republicans can't condemn any part of this shooting, continue to blame the victim for it, and even hint that it's a just outcome that others "deserve," that's a crossing of the line that the rest of us won't ever be able to forget.
Rep. Randy Fine: "If you impede the actions of our law enforcement as they seek to repel foreign invaders from our country, you get what's coming to you. I do not feel bad for the woman that was involved."
January 8, 2026 at 8:19 PM
It's time to state clearly that if MAGA and Republicans can't condemn any part of this shooting, continue to blame the victim for it, and even hint that it's a just outcome that others "deserve," that's a crossing of the line that the rest of us won't ever be able to forget.
Narrator: He's amoral.
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Narrator: He's amoral.
I said last summer the phalanxes of heavily armed, pot bellied thugs Trump is assembling to terrorize, kidnap and imprison Americans--documented and undocumented--using near limitless funds appropriated by the GOP in the "Beautiful Bill," is a clear and present danger to democracy. 1/
The emerging coup
Lawless authoritarian regimes don't give up power willingly.
www.publicnotice.co
January 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I said last summer the phalanxes of heavily armed, pot bellied thugs Trump is assembling to terrorize, kidnap and imprison Americans--documented and undocumented--using near limitless funds appropriated by the GOP in the "Beautiful Bill," is a clear and present danger to democracy. 1/
CNN's "fact check" was correct: Trump is a useful idiot of Putin, not his agent.
protester in Mpls to CNN: "Trump is a Russian asset and he's ripping our country apart. These people in Minnesota -- people with brown skin and brown eyes -- they're hard-working people trying to make a living for their families."
CNN: "There is no evidence that Trump is a Russian asset"
CNN: "There is no evidence that Trump is a Russian asset"
January 8, 2026 at 5:34 PM
CNN's "fact check" was correct: Trump is a useful idiot of Putin, not his agent.
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CNN pays Scott Jennings to lie to their audience every weeknight, but this gets a prompt fact-check?
If Donald Trump actually was a Russian asset, what thing would he have done differently in the past 12 years?
If Donald Trump actually was a Russian asset, what thing would he have done differently in the past 12 years?
protester in Mpls to CNN: "Trump is a Russian asset and he's ripping our country apart. These people in Minnesota -- people with brown skin and brown eyes -- they're hard-working people trying to make a living for their families."
CNN: "There is no evidence that Trump is a Russian asset"
CNN: "There is no evidence that Trump is a Russian asset"
January 8, 2026 at 5:30 PM
CNN pays Scott Jennings to lie to their audience every weeknight, but this gets a prompt fact-check?
If Donald Trump actually was a Russian asset, what thing would he have done differently in the past 12 years?
If Donald Trump actually was a Russian asset, what thing would he have done differently in the past 12 years?
ICE has apparently enlisted a Nazi to be its ad hoc spokesman.
Who is this guy currently screaming at people in Minnesota?
January 8, 2026 at 5:27 PM
ICE has apparently enlisted a Nazi to be its ad hoc spokesman.
The officer "felt" as though he could kill an unarmed civilian in cold blood, and then fire two more bullets into her head.
Q: How do you respond to people who say what you're saying is in direct contradiction to the video?
NOEM: This vehicle was used to hit this officer. It was used as a weapon. And the officer feels as though his life was in jeopardy
NOEM: This vehicle was used to hit this officer. It was used as a weapon. And the officer feels as though his life was in jeopardy
January 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM
The officer "felt" as though he could kill an unarmed civilian in cold blood, and then fire two more bullets into her head.
This exemplifies how deeply, and casually, antisemitism has been integrated into "leftist", as well as far right, cohorts in Europe, particularly in Spain, which expelled all if its Jews centuries ago.
Leading Spanish newspaper disparages Jewish background of Maduro trial judge
An article in El País called Judge Alvin Hellerstein a highly regarded jurist ‘despite’ being Jewish; the line was later removed
jewishinsider.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM
This exemplifies how deeply, and casually, antisemitism has been integrated into "leftist", as well as far right, cohorts in Europe, particularly in Spain, which expelled all if its Jews centuries ago.
That is deeply stupid, since it will taint the federal investigation from the outset - and the state has the authority to bring criminal charges, if it so chooses.
"The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has just revealed that federal officials have 'reversed course,' and the investigation into the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent will be conducted by the FBI without assistance from the BCA."
Live: FBI pushes Minnesota investigators aside in ICE shooting probe
Demonstrators gathered near the Whipple Federal Building after thousands attended vigils to remember Renee Nicole Good, who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Minneapolis public school classes...
www.startribune.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:31 PM
That is deeply stupid, since it will taint the federal investigation from the outset - and the state has the authority to bring criminal charges, if it so chooses.
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Trump's goons are already pepper spraying and roughing up people in the Twin Cities this morning
January 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Trump's goons are already pepper spraying and roughing up people in the Twin Cities this morning
Consistently failed business owner - and aspiring international gangster - Trump doesn't remotely understand how actually successful capitalists make investment decisions, as Friedman explains.
Opinion | Venezuela, Trump Came to Liberate Your Oil, Not Your People
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Consistently failed business owner - and aspiring international gangster - Trump doesn't remotely understand how actually successful capitalists make investment decisions, as Friedman explains.
In the wake of a cold blooded murder by an ICE thug, Vance appeared on Fox News to join in a "joke" about the hammer assault on Nancy Pelosi's husband.
Then Vance derided "left wing political violence."
Then Vance derided "left wing political violence."
Watters said to Vance: "You were almost Pauli P"d" by a "trans guy with a hammer". Vance responded by laughing and saying he liked the "joke" 2/
January 8, 2026 at 3:23 PM
In the wake of a cold blooded murder by an ICE thug, Vance appeared on Fox News to join in a "joke" about the hammer assault on Nancy Pelosi's husband.
Then Vance derided "left wing political violence."
Then Vance derided "left wing political violence."
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"An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from—not toward—a federal officer when he opened fire."
Great video analysis of Minneapolis shooting from NYT. These frames show drawing of gun and exact moment of first shot.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Great video analysis of Minneapolis shooting from NYT. These frames show drawing of gun and exact moment of first shot.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
January 8, 2026 at 12:48 PM
"An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from—not toward—a federal officer when he opened fire."
Great video analysis of Minneapolis shooting from NYT. These frames show drawing of gun and exact moment of first shot.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Great video analysis of Minneapolis shooting from NYT. These frames show drawing of gun and exact moment of first shot.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Even Republicans are saying Trump can only illegally colonize one country at a time.
Senate Republicans Push Back on Trump’s Aspirations to Seize Greenland
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Even Republicans are saying Trump can only illegally colonize one country at a time.
Joe Scarborough says Marco Rubio is not the kind of guy who would "wing it" in Venezuela.
Narrator: Rubio is winging it in Venezuela.
Narrator: Rubio is winging it in Venezuela.
January 8, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Joe Scarborough says Marco Rubio is not the kind of guy who would "wing it" in Venezuela.
Narrator: Rubio is winging it in Venezuela.
Narrator: Rubio is winging it in Venezuela.
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Corrected Headline: Minnesota Officials Dispute Lies.
Live Updates: Minnesota Officials Dispute Federal Account of Fatal ICE Shooting
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Corrected Headline: Minnesota Officials Dispute Lies.
We love having those allies. But that won't stop us from invading them, particularly if they have incredible natural resources.
JD Vance: "They'll say 'we fought together in World War 2' or 'we fought together in the War on Terrorism.' We're grateful for that. We love having these allies. But just because you did something smart 25 years ago doesn't mean you can't do something dumb now."
January 8, 2026 at 5:13 AM
We love having those allies. But that won't stop us from invading them, particularly if they have incredible natural resources.