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/

The Trump Administration’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 Renée Good and Alex Pretti during the Trump administration’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 Americans’ 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 operations—involving masked, unidentified agents using aggressive tactics against both U.S. citizens and immigrants—have caused chaos across the United States. Many of these operations have been targeted against President Donald Trump’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 administration’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 Americans’ 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?

It’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 wasn’t awarded the Nobel Peace Prize—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. He’s been dozing off in meetings, which led Dick Cheney’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 regime’s descent into gangsterism is arguably more dangerous than the Orange One himself.

Stephen Miller’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 “Trump Plan to Keep Jihadists and Their Sympathizers Out of America.” The campaign promised it would immediately revoke student visas from campus protesters born outside the country, “proactively send ICE to pro-jihadist demonstrations” to arrest them, “aggressively deport resident aliens with jihadist sympathies,” use a then-obscure law called the Alien Enemies Act to jump-start said deportations, and “implement strong ideological screening for all immigrants to the United States” that would automatically disqualify anyone suspected of harboring “sympathy for jihadists, Hamas or Hamas ideology.”

“Ladies and gentlemen,” Miller wrote in the first of several X reposts of the plan, as though he hadn’t authored it himself, “it doesn’t get any better this. Read below in all its glory.” The Trump campaign referred all inquiries on the details behind the plan to Miller, who soon added “communists” to the species of undesirables that must be expelled not only from the United States but from “any country,” 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 “stowaway” loophole to circumvent due process requirements; divert Pentagon appropriations to build a cross-country network of “vast holding facilities that would function as staging centers” for human disposal; and replace government lawyers with “the right kinds of attorneys” for executing such outside-the-box strategies as abolishing birthright citizenship and invoking the Insurrection Act. –Continued, Read more, at link above.

Top Headlines…

• Brain bran: The protective effect that fibre has on cognition– https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260122-the-protective-effect-that-fibre-has-on-cognition
• Pay More Attention to A.I. – https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/opinion/artificial-intelligence-new-world.html
• Texas A&M faculty, students rally against policy they deem censorship – https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-am-university-curriculum-guidelines-student-protest-race-gender-sexuality/
• The House races to end shutdown. And, Trump wants to close Kennedy Center for 2 years – https://www.npr.org/2026/02/02/g-s1-108304/up-first-newsletter-partial-government-shutdown-minneapolis-kennedy-center-grammys-education-department
• Key Gaza border crossing reopens, a step forward in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire – https://www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/rafah-border-crossing-reopens-gaza-egypt-israel-hamas-ceasefire-rcna257013
• Immigrant rights groups sue Trump administration over visa ban on 75 countries – live – https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/feb/02/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-trevor-noah-ice-minnesota-minneapolis-cuba-latest-news-updates
• America’s largest labor movement calls for ICE to leave Minnesota before ‘anyone else is hurt or killed’ – https://www.businessinsider.com/afl-cio-ice-shooting-alex-pretti-minneapolis-border-patrol-immigration-2026-1 – America’s largest network of labor unions has condemned ICE after a federal agent on Saturday shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident. The AFL-CIO, which represents nearly 15 million workers, called Pretti’s death “senseless.”
• Epstein victims’ lawyers ask court to order DOJ to take down Epstein files website – https://abcnews.go.com/US/epstein-victims-lawyers-court-order-doj-epstein-files/story?id=129766059 – Attorneys for alleged victims of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — citing an “unfolding emergency” — are urging two federal judges in New York to order the immediate takedown of the Justice Department’s Epstein files website. The lawyers are contending widespread failures by the DOJ to redact names and identifying information of Epstein’s victims, according to a copy of a letter obtained Sunday by ABC News.