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Since Renee Good’s death, clashes between ICE and the residents of Minneapolis have escalated. On Wednesday night, an ICE agent shot and wounded someone who, ICE claimed, was fleeing arrest. (Sure, just like Good supposedly was trying to run them over when she turned her car away from them and said, moments before an agent fired three bullets into her chest and head, “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.”)I’ve always loved Minneapolis. Its people have midwestern common sense. They also have a deep sense of fairness and justice.On Wednesday, Trump threatened that if Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota didn’t stop the protesters, whom

When Joe Rogan starts referring to the Trump regime as if they’re Nazis, you know ICE and the GOP have a problem. On Tuesday, Rogan said:“Are we really going to be the Gestapo? Where’s your papers? Is that what we’ve come to?”At the end of this month, funding for the Department of Homeland Security runs out. Congress

We are in the middle of a national emergency.Anybody who has the guts, decency, and love of country to pay attention to what is happening in America right now knows this. While burning the midnight oil (gin) Thursday evening, and unzipping one horrid story after another exposing yet more terror from inside the anti-American regime in our White House, I wanted to be absolutely sure that all the hell we are witnessing is what we think it is.It is important to be precise about what we are up against, so we can effectively counter it with the necessary heft, and tactics. So I clicked into my favorite browser and typed in these three words:What is fascism?Here is what appeared on my screen thanks to AI that is quickly overrunning our increasingly dumbed-down, and numb society:

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) recently celebrated the groundbreaking of a new semiconductor manufacturing plant in her upstate New York district. But in posting a celebratory photo, she omitted the fact that she both denounced and voted against the funding that made the new plant possible.In a Friday post to her X account, Rep. Tenney tweeted: "It was exciting to break ground with @MicronTech on its historic investment in New York State," tagging the official account of tech company Micron."This project will create 50,000 jobs and strengthen domestic semiconductor manufacturing across

In the swing state of Georgia — which President Donald Trump won in 2024 after losing it in 2020 — some of Trump's supporters are not impressed with how the president has managed the economy as the first year of his second term comes to a close.CNN correspondent Jeff Zeleny reported Friday from Southern Georgia, where 72 year-old Republican voter Franz Rowland is struggling to keep his farm afloat. Rowland was primarily motivated by the economy when casting his ballot for Trump in the last presidential election,

One former Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney who quit just months into President Donald Trump's second term is now confirming that many of his colleagues are about to leave the DOJ in disgust.In a Friday segment on CNN's "OutFront," former DOJ lawyer Patrick Kent said the Trump administration's handling of the fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Renee Good at the hands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross is prompting a mass exodus from

President Donald Trump's Justice Department is launching a criminal probe into Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) and issued subpoenas for both Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. The DOJ claimed that Frey and Walz are "impeding federal law enforcement officers’ abilities to do their jobs in the state."Walz responded to the allegations on X, saying: "Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."

As the second year of President Donald Trump's second term is about to begin, corporate CEOs are gradually coalescing around a strategy to both keep the administration at bay while also staying off of the president's revenge list.In a Friday article for the Financial Times, several corporate executives spoke on how they plan to interact with the Trump administration in 2026. One unnamed "chief executive of a Wall Street bank" told the Financial Times that their company expects a rocky year, and hinted that this fall's elections may provide some relief."This year is going to be a very turbulent one until the [Novem

MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace couldn't help but chuckle at President Donald Trump's desperate attempt to win awards and trophies. This week, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump during an official visit to the White House, after Trump repeatedly and publicly lobbied for her to hand it over to him (the Nobel committee has said the prize cannot be transferred).Speaking Friday, Wallace showed a clip of ABC host Jimmy Kimmel rolling out a table with all of the awards he's

President Donald Trump turned heads earlier this week when he quipped that the U.S. "shouldn't even have an election" in November. One expert is now cautioning that while Trump may not be able to call off the midterms entirely, he has several tools at his disposal that he may use to dissuade Americans from casting ballots.In a Friday essay for his Substack, Seth Masket — who is the director of the Center for American Politics at the University of Denver — explained that because states administer elections and not the federal government, he is powe