Donald Trump is spiraling out of control in the first two weeks of 2026, leading to the thought that the nation cannot take much more of this lunatic behavior.
The invasion and removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro; the shooting and murder of Rene Nicole Good in Minneapolis, and the increased ICE presence in Minnesota; the open threat to invade Greenland and break up the NATO alliance; and the decision to seek criminal prosecution of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell—all are indications of an unstable, highly dangerous President, who is being supported by a very corrupt, abusive group of Cabinet officers and others, such as Stephen Miller, Kevin Roberts, and Russell Vought, all promoting the very dangerous and divisive Project 2025!
Additionally, Trump has created a fantasy regarding the history of the January 6, 2021 US Capitol Insurrection on the White House website, and has been able to wipe out historically accurate information about his impeachments and the Capitol Insurrection on the Presidential Exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery. Also, he has twisted and distorted information about his predecessors, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama, on the corridor in the White House, where there is a Presidential Exhibit with portraits and text about earlier Presidents.
Neil deGrasse Tyson how to tell what’s real online.
Neil deGrasse Tyson advises using critical thinking, scientific principles like evidence and peer review, and spotting “red flags” like sensationalism or appeals to tribalism to discern truth online, emphasizing that emergent truths (scientific facts) are objective, unlike personal opinions, and that deepfakes make skepticism crucial, even questioning AI-generated content. He suggests looking for verifiable evidence, understanding sources, and questioning claims that lack rigorous testing or appeal to emotion/identity.
https://youtu.be/o4I_hOz_MLw?si=D_FUK4i6VdCBL88N
Anyone who uses these critical thinking exercises, more often than not, would ever become a MAGA / Trump supporter.
The key word here is, “cognitive bias” which is the downfall.
Trump Supports the Protesters, Except Those Protesting Him
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/politics/trump-protesters-iran-minnesota.html
Joe Rogan criticizes ICE tactics: ‘Are we really going to be the Gestapo?’
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/joe-rogan-criticizes-ice-tactics-podcast-rcna253931
Maybe this f’ing dumbass should have thought of that BEFORE he endorsed the fascist in 2024??? Also, who listens to this imbecile and WHY???
Stephen Miller Torched Over ‘Utterly Chilling’ Message To ICE Officers
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-miller-message-ice_n_69675941e4b0d5c7db78b4d1?origin=home-latest-news-unit
Miller is like a comic book super villain.
Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach
https://www.thedailybeast.com/personal-details-of-thousands-of-border-patrol-and-ice-goons-allegedly-leaked-in-huge-data-breach/
Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/prosecutors-doj-resignation-ice-shooting.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EFA.Fg9c.R588u2NtX94E&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Over 50 House Dems sign onto Kristi Noem impeachment articles.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/kristi-noem-impeachment-democrats-ice-congress
FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/01/warning-about-bogus-autism-treatments-vanishes-from-fdas-website/
US posts record $145 billion December deficit as outlays outpace receipts.
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-posts-record-145-billion-december-deficit-outlays-outpace-receipts-2026-01-13/
Where are all the “Tea Partiers” who claimed to care soooo much about the deficit and debt? LOL!
Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/13/trump-ford-factory-heckler-detroit/
If Obama, Biden, Clinton, Harris, etc. had done something like that, it would have been headlines for weeks…
Department of Labor under fire for language similar to Nazi slogan.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/13/department-labor-post-nazi-slogan/88156878007/
In Secret Testimony, Republicans Derided Trump’s Stolen Election Claims
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/georgia-election-republicans-trump-transcripts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVA.zA8h.MvUpiOB_qmiu&smid=url-share
WILDLY unacceptable!
Senator Says Prosecutors Are Investigating Her After Video About Illegal Orders
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/politics/slotkin-pirro-trump-justice-dept-video.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVA.E_tI.822xZkmp9ayL&smid=nytcore-ios-share
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-list
MAGA-Coded CBS Anchor Pleads With Viewers After Ratings Collapse
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-coded-cbs-anchor-pleads-with-viewers-after-ratings-collapse/
Why would anyone watch CBS “News” anymore? Just watch Fox if you want your MAGA fix.
Republicans Block Effort to Check Trump’s Power in Venezuela
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/trump-venezuela-war-powers-vote.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVA.VsPJ.4_Z4II5f0UFi&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Mitch McConnell Eviscerates Trump’s Greenland Ambitions in Scathing Floor Speech: Would Be an ‘Unprecedented Act of Strategic Self-Harm’
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/mitch-mcconnell-eviscerates-trumps-greenland-ambitions-in-scathing-floor-speech-would-be-an-unprecedented-act-of-strategic-self-harm/
McConnell had a chance to convict Trump, but of course he blew it. So…yeah, this is largely on HIM.
NATO nations deploy to Greenland after tense White House talks.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/greenland-nato-troops-denmark-germany-arctic-trump.html
Trump administration indefinitely pauses immigrant visa processing for 75 nations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/14/trump-immigration-visa-processing-pause/
Federal Agent Shoots Man in Minneapolis, Prompting Tense Protests
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/minneapolis-federal-agent-shooting-immigration.html
Democrats Unveil 3 Articles Of Impeachment Against Kristi Noem
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-impeachment-kristi-noem_n_6967d016e4b0b0607cf1a7c1
Half of Americans think ICE is making US cities less safe, CNN poll finds.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/14/politics/ice-minnesota-cnn-poll
HHS terminates, then reinstates, thousands of grants for substance use, mental health.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/14/hhs-terminates-grants-substance-use-mental-health-00729433
3 More Lawmakers in Video Say Federal Prosecutors Are Investigating Them
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/crow-goodlander-houlahan-trump-investigation.html
WILDLY unacceptable, especially given that the lawmakers simply stated THE LAW!
FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/14/washington-post-reporter-search/
X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool.
“Despite restrictions announced this week, Guardian reporters find standalone app continues to allow posting of nonconsensual content”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/16/x-still-allowing-sexualised-images-grok-ai-nudification
Venezuela’s Machado gave Trump her Nobel prize. In return she received a swag bag but no promise of support.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/americas/venezuela-machado-trump-meeting-nobel-intl-hnk
Kari Lake stops Radio Free Europe from broadcasting into Iran over politics.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/kari-lake-radio-free-europe-iran-usagm-trump
Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan faces great uncertainty as it moves into a new phase.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-trump-ceasefire-plan-22d24eb0c279e192e4726b6acb32f005
How Kristi Noem turned ICE into the Proud Boys
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/16/how-kristi-noem-turned-ice-into-the-proud-boys/
The Right Wants ICE to Crush the Wine Mom Insurgency
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/opinion/republicans-ice-white-women.html
Trump press secretary launches tirade against reporter who asked about ICE.
“Karoline Leavitt brands journalist who asked about deaths in ICE custody and killing of Renee Good ‘a leftwing activist’”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/karoline-leavitt-journalist-tirade
Push for greater ICE training grows on some Republicans.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/15/ice-training-republicans-shootings-00732583
Under Trump, a Shift Toward ‘Absolute Immunity’ for ICE
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/politics/trump-ice-immunity.html
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/15/ice-detention-death-homicide/
Mike Johnson Goes Off Rails in Vile Gaslighting Display on Trump, ICE
“As the House speaker offers disgusting comments about ICE and Renee Good, a scholar of the religious right explains how it is that evangelicals like him see no evil whatsoever in ICE’s violent attacks on Americans.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/205313/mike-johnson-goes-off-rails-vile-gaslighting-display-trump-ice
Mike Johnson is a f’ing disgrace.
Why ICE Can Kill With Impunity
“Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges.”
https://www.wired.com/story/why-ice-can-kill-with-impunity/
By Instituting the Insurrection Act, Trump Has Launched an Attack on Our Civil Liberties
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70013394/minneapolis-trump-insurrection-act/
Democrats escalate opposition to DHS funding in bid to rein in ICE.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5692032-democrats-dhs-funding-ice/
North Minneapolis ICE shooting: Children hospitalized after flash bang, tear gas hits van
https://www.fox9.com/news/children-hospitalized-flash-bang-hits-van-jan-15
CBS News report on ICE officer’s injuries drew ‘huge internal concern’
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/15/cbs-news-ice-officer-injuries
Federal immigration agents filmed dragging a woman from her car in Minneapolis.
“A U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment in Minneapolis was dragged out of her car and detained by immigration officers, according to a statement released by the woman on Thursday”
https://apnews.com/article/aliya-rahman-minneapolis-ice-arrest-videos-b277e328a2053fde361c6a74295efb06
Trump Cabinet secretaries conspired to violate Constitution, judge says.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/
Judge deals blow to the Trump Justice Department’s use of the Civil Rights Act to ‘clean’ voter rolls.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/14/politics/voter-rolls-lawsuits-civil-rights-act
Trump underwater on issues that got him elected, polling shows.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/15/trump-ice-foreign-policy-economy-immigration-polls
Majority of Americans call Trump’s first year back in office a failure.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/politics/trump-economy-first-year-cnn-poll
Pentagon to overhaul independent military newspaper, calling it ‘woke’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/15/stars-and-stripes-pentagon-editorial-independence/
Anything these right wingnuts don’t like, they just call “DEI” or “woke” or whatever. Complete bullcrap.
California GOP appeals their redistricting loss to Supreme Court in last-ditch bid to block voter-approved map.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/gop-appeals-their-california-redistricting-loss-to-supreme-court/
Kyrsten Sinema Accused of Having Relationship With Former Bodyguard
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kyrsten-sinema-accused-of-having-affair-with-ex-bodyguard.html
Virginia prepares for historic moment as Spanberger takes office in Richmond.
https://wtop.com/virginia/2026/01/virginia-prepares-for-historic-moment-as-spanberger-takes-office-in-richmond/
Insane!
Trump threatens new tariffs on countries opposed to Greenland takeover.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qpy952xvno
Trump Has Machado’s Nobel Prize, but Neither Got What They Really Wanted
“President Trump has María Corina Machado’s medal, but he is not recognized as the Nobel laureate. She did not win his endorsement to become Venezuela’s president.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/politics/trump-machado-nobel-prize.html
Blair and Rubio appointed to Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07xv92vrz2o
Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn
https://newrepublic.com/article/205395/ice-raids-toxic-rattling-trump
We’re Nearing the Day When ICE Thugs Just Open Fire on Crowds
“The United States is now closer to Assad’s Syria than to anything we recognize as fitting within the understood norms of American history.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/205379/ice-thugs-violence-minneapolis-maine
Judge limits ICE’s crowd control tactics following Minneapolis shooting.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/16/ice-minneapolis-arrests-judge-protests-00735416
Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/16/trump-minnesota-walz-frey-criminal-investigation/
Tyrannical, unAmerican crap.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, is a MASSIVE criminal enterprise, corrupt from top to bottom, and nobody is investigating them!
ICE agents detain Navajo man in Arizona, ignoring US, tribal IDs.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2026/01/16/ice-detained-navajo-man-peoria-arizona/88171195007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z11xx45p118950c118950u116445d00—-v11xx45&gca-ft=70&gca-ds=sophi
Right-wing media are describing pro-immigrant Minnesota activists using the language of war.
https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/right-wing-media-are-describing-pro-immigrant-minnesota-activists-using-language-war
Republicans vouch for Fed chair, creating a rare schism with Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/jerome-powell-federal-reserve-trump-af06d80b28be9c8a5de9c3b2fe33fa3d
Trump’s Newest Voters Are Abandoning Ship
“Independents, Latinos, and young people have turned against the president in staggering numbers.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/205405/trump-polls-approval-newest-voters-abandoning-ship
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/politics/trump-fraudster-pardon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E1A._7e-.PiE4dQvrSBAq&smid=url-share
The Pentagon is possibly going to be sending 1,500 soldiers to Minnesota.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/us/minnesota-protests-national-guard-immigration-hnk