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Trump, Midterms, ICE Federal Agents Killings of Citizens…

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If this year’s Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks is even half as good as the last time these two franchises met on this stage, it will be a wild ride. Eleven years after a Super Bowl XLIX thriller, the teams meet again with the Lombardi Trophy on the line.

The Seahawks, similar to their previous Super Bowl trips, have been powered by one of the NFL’s best defenses. Seattle allowed the fewest points in the league this season and finished first in yards per pass attempt allowed and yards per rush attempt allowed. The defense flexed its muscle in Seattle’s 41-6 divisional-round win over the San Francisco 49ers, allowing a paltry 3.9 yards per play — San Francisco’s worst mark all season. Read more…

See article: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/where-to-watch-super-bowl-2026-seahawks-patriots/

A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota…

Handmade red “Melt the ICE” hats are on display at Minneapolis yarn store Needle & Skein.
Gilah Mashaal
Read the article here: https://www.npr.org/2026/01/31/nx-s1-5693767/red-hat-protest-minnesota


Today’s Spotlight…

Source: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-ice-and-cbp-have-become-a-threat-to-americans-congress-must-ensure-that-dhs-follows-the-law-and-adopts-commonsense-reforms/

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The Trump Administrationโ€™s ICE and CBP Have Become a Threat to Americans: Congress Must Ensure That DHS Follows the Law and Adopts Commonsense Reforms

The recent killings of Renรฉe Good and Alex Pretti during the Trump administrationโ€™s immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis are the latest in a pattern of dangerous, reckless law enforcement tactics that are terrorizing communities, costing lives, trampling on Americansโ€™ constitutional rights, violating the law, and undermining actual immigration enforcement.

Since the start of the second term, the Trump administration has launched a series of immigration enforcement operations involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and other federal law enforcement agencies. These operationsโ€”involving masked, unidentified agents using aggressive tactics against both U.S. citizens and immigrantsโ€”have caused chaos across the United States. Many of these operations have been targeted against President Donald Trumpโ€™s political opponents, deploying large roving task forces to cities and states run by Democratic officials.

As an immediate next step, the Trump administration must pull ICE and U.S. Border Patrol agents out of Minneapolis and fire Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in order to prevent further tragedies in Minnesota. But the problems with this administrationโ€™s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are far more widespread and demand meaningful reforms and accountability from Congress.

To immediately reform the Department of Homeland Security, the Center for American Progress recommends the following commonsense measures:

  • DHS must be held to the same standard as local police and wear uniforms that clearly identify their agency, be unmasked, and be equipped with body-worn cameras during public enforcement actions.
  • DHS must reform hiring, screening, and training to remove unqualified personnel.
  • DHS personnel must be held accountable for improper uses of force and allegations of misconduct.
  • DHS must preserve Americansโ€™ constitutional rights and operate within the rule of law.
  • DHS must enhance accountability to Congress and the public.

Today’s Trump News…

Medical Examiner

Is Trump Losing It?

Itโ€™s time to seriously ask the question.

By Anna Gibbs, Jan 26, 20265:45 AM

Source: https://slate.com/technology/2026/01/trump-dementia-cognitive-decline-aging-president.html


More from the Article…

Donald Trump has been acting a little weird lately, even for him. During a speech he gave in Davos, Switzerland, last week, he kept mixing up Iceland and Greenland. Mistaking one country for another is far from abnormal for him, but it is a touch odd, considering his current obsession with Greenland. An obsession which, as he very publicly wrote to the Norwegian prime minister, is related to the fact that he wasnโ€™t awarded the Nobel Peace Prizeโ€”a bizarre conflation, given that Greenland is a Danish territory, not a Norwegian one. During a recent meeting with oil executives, he spontaneously stood up, walked over to the window to gaze at his ballroom construction project, then returned to his seat. When someone fainted in the Oval Office in November, he barely reacted. Heโ€™s been dozing off in meetings, which led Dick Cheneyโ€™s doctor to call for a medical evaluation.

Today’s Hot Topics…

Let’s Impeach President Miller…

Impeach President Miller

The mastermind of the Trump regimeโ€™s descent into gangsterism is arguably more dangerous than the Orange One himself.

Stephen Millerโ€™s ascent to the shadow presidency began like so much other poison in the very immediate aftermath of 10/7, with a post nine days after the terror attacks from the official X account of the Trump campaign introducing a long list of bullet points under the title โ€œTrump Plan to Keep Jihadists and Their Sympathizers Out of America.โ€ The campaign promised it would immediately revoke student visas from campus protesters born outside the country, โ€œproactively send ICE to pro-jihadist demonstrationsโ€ to arrest them, โ€œaggressively deport resident aliens with jihadist sympathies,โ€ use a then-obscure law called the Alien Enemies Act to jump-start said deportations, and โ€œimplement strong ideological screening for all immigrants to the United Statesโ€ that would automatically disqualify anyone suspected of harboring โ€œsympathy for jihadists, Hamas or Hamas ideology.โ€

โ€œLadies and gentlemen,โ€ Miller wrote in the first of several X reposts of the plan, as though he hadnโ€™t authored it himself, โ€œit doesnโ€™t get any better this. Read below in all its glory.โ€ The Trump campaign referred all inquiries on the details behind the plan to Miller, who soon added โ€œcommunistsโ€ to the species of undesirables that must be expelled not only from the United States but from โ€œany country,โ€ and who held forth on how he planned to circumvent the various constitutional obstacles to such a plan for a terrifying New York Times story the following month. Among other things, Miller said, he planned to reinstate public-health emergency declarations used during the pandemic to halt immigration from countries beset by infectious disease; invoke the aforementioned Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and a 1996 โ€œstowawayโ€ loophole to circumvent due process requirements; divert Pentagon appropriations to build a cross-country network of โ€œvast holding facilities that would function as staging centersโ€ for human disposal; and replace government lawyers with โ€œthe right kinds of attorneysโ€ for executing such outside-the-box strategies as abolishing birthright citizenship and invoking the Insurrection Act. –Continued, Read more, at link above.

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