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Story by Adam Lynch

Conservative Bulwark Editor Jonathan Last argued there are two groups of President Donald Trump's voters: Those who signed on to deport 20 million immigrants regardless of whether they had committed any crime, and those who signed on with Trump’s plan to remove only immigrants who were criminals.

“Because people are stupid, that first group of voters believed that there were 20 million undocumented immigrants who have committed felonies. This is not possible,” said Last. “The total number of people in jail in America today — this includes federal, state, local, and tribal land prisons — is just under 2 million. The number of undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes cannot be 10x the entire prison population of the United States. If it were, then daily life in America would look like Escape from New York.”

“So, some Trump voters were duped owing to their general ignorance and/or innumeracy. But others were not,” added Last. “Others signed up for Trump because of his second promise (the 20 million deportations) and viewed the first promise (about deporting only criminals) as the pap necessary to get the suckers onboard.”

The question Last wants to answer is how many “dupes” voted for Trump vs the avowed racists who simply want Brown people gone. To get his answer, Last reviewed an AP/NORC poll showing consistent 80 percent support for Trump’s immigration policies among Republicans. Then he compared that to a more recent YouGov poll showing 80 percent of Republicans still "approved" of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement even after they shot and killed 37 year-old U.S. citizen Renee Good in footage that reveals no threat to agents.
Story by Kristen Altus

California Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged that the state’s proposed wealth tax is "bad economics."

Newsom said he feels vindicated in opposing the proposed wealth tax after reports showed some of California’s wealthiest residents moving money and businesses out of the state, warning the measure would damage the economy and drive away investment.

"This is my fear," Newsom said in a POLITICO interview on Monday. "It’s just what I warned against. It’s happening."

"The evidence is in. The impacts are very real — not just substantive economic impacts in terms of the revenue, but start-ups, the indirect impacts of … people questioning long-term commitments, medium-term commitments," he continued. "That’s not what we need right now, at a time of so much uncertainty. Quite the contrary."

While the initiative has not yet qualified for the November 2026 ballot, the proposed measure — backed by the Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West — would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of California residents with assets exceeding $1 billion. The tax would be due in 2027, and taxpayers could spread payments over five years, with interest, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.
Story by Jonathan Small

Grok is in the hot seat, and Elon Musk is lashing back. Governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have launched investigations into sexually explicit images created by Musk's xAI chatbot, including depictions of minors in minimal clothing.

In the UK, the Office of Communications opened a formal probe Monday, citing "deeply concerning reports" of Grok creating nonconsensual images and content involving minors. Musk fired back, calling the UK government "fascist."
New video released by TMZ shows Donald Trump appearing to mouth expletives and make an obscene gesture towards someone in the crowd during a stop in Detroit. The moment comes as Trump’s Justice Department continues to withhold Epstein files weeks after a legally required deadline. Rep. Ro Khanna joins The Weeknight to respond.
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Washington DC - The Pentagon disguised a military aircraft as a civilian plane to wage its first attack on a boat in the Caribbean last year, killing 11, the New York Times reported Monday.

The alleged move would be in violation of international laws of armed conflict, which prohibit combatants from "feigning civilian status to fool adversaries...a war crime called 'perfidy,'" the Times reported.

The US strike was announced by President Donald Trump in a September 2, 2025, social media post that charged the targets were members of the Tren de Aragua criminal organization "operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking and acts of violence and terror."

The aircraft was painted to look like a civilian plane, and its munitions were hidden inside the fuselage instead of being carried visibly under its wings, the Times reported.
Story by Rasmus Senator

ICE and the Trump administration have sparked furious reactions and received hefty criticism amid the dispatch of ICE agents inthe Minneapolis-Saint Paul area. Now, a video has gone viral where footage shows ICE agents allegedly dragging a disabled woman from her car.

The Trump Administration dispatched more than 2,000 agents in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area in the last few weeks. The Department of Homeland Security has called it their largest operation ever as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented migrants.

Last week, 37-year-old mother of three Renee Nicole Good was killed when trying to leave the scene where ICE agents had stopped her car. It sparked fury nationwide, while many, including members of the Trump administration, called the agent’s actions self-defense.

The killing of Renee Nicole Good sparked large protests in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area. Speaking to Fox News, ICE official Charles Marcus said at least 60 protesters have been arrested and charged with assaulting or impeding ICE agents in the last five days.

“We will be arresting anybody that interferes or impedes in any of these enforcement actions,” he said. “We’ve already arrested 60… that have got in our way, impeded us or assaulted an officer.”

Footage shows ICE agents dragging a woman from her car
The video of the moment when Renee Nicole Good was shot dead spread worldwide. Now, six days later, another distressing video of a confrontation between a member of the public and an immigration enforcement officer has gone viral.
Story by S.V. Date

In a speech the White House billed as focusing on the economy, President Donald Trump spent most of his hour on a Detroit stage Tuesday repeating his various lies and grievances on just about everything else.

Only two minutes and 34 seconds into his remarks to the Detroit Economic Club, Trump veered off and returned to one of his favorite lies: that Democrats cheat in elections and that he has been a repeat victim.

“I won the popular vote all three times, too. But we’re not going to get into that,” he said, before doing exactly that ― notwithstanding the fact that he lost the popular vote by 3 million in 2016 and 7 million in 2020.

In his 64 minutes on stage, Trump also lied about having stopped eight wars, went on a familiar tangent about transgender athletes, personally insulted Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, used a racist smear against Minnesota’s Somali community generally and congresswoman Ilhan Omar in particular, bragged about his extrajudicial killing of more than 100 suspected drug smugglers on the high seas and attacked the late President Jimmy Carter for turning over the Panama Canal to Panama, as a treaty required him to do.

“Hydrogen, I don’t know about. I’m hearing it’s not testing so well. It’s fine, except when there’s an explosion. You’re a goner now. Have you heard that with hydrogen? One guy is trying to sell hydrogen?” he said on a detour about fuel-cell powered electric cars, apparently unaware of the explosive characteristics of gasoline vapor.
Story by Tierney Sneed, CNN

The Trump administration’s sweeping legal effort to obtain Americans’ sensitive data from states’ voter rolls is now almost entirely reliant upon a Jim Crow-era civil rights law passed to protect Black voters from disenfranchisement – a notable shift in how the administration is pressing its demands.

The Justice Department says it wants to use the registration records to “help” states “clean” their rolls by comparing it to other data sets held by the government, according to public comments from Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who was appointed by President Donald Trump to head the department’s civil rights division.

Voter advocates and election experts warn of the potential for sloppy purges that risk disenfranchising eligible voters instead. They have also raised concerns that the data will be shared with other agencies to be used for other purposes.

The Justice Department has been working with the Department of Homeland Security on plans to review state voter registration files for evidence of non-citizens on the rolls, according to a source familiar with Trump administration discussions.
Story by Atlanta Black Star News

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prosecutor in Texas who reportedly operates a white supremacist social media account is still working in an immigration court despite calls for an investigation into his online activities.

According to the Texas Observer, James “Jim” Rodden has returned to work in a Dallas immigration court, almost a year after the outlet that first reported that Rodden was behind an X account that posted hateful, racist, anti-Semitic statements.

The account, named GlomarResponder, is now set to private, but was known for making a lengthy series of derogatory posts to its 17,000 followers.

Some of those posts included statements like:

“America is a White nation, founded by Whites … Our country should favor us.”

“All blacks are foreign to my people, dumb f***.”

“’Migrants’ are all criminals.”

An investigative report by the Observer examined Rodden’s social media history, courtroom activities, biographical information, and public documents, all of which linked the ICE assistant chief counsel to the page.
Story by Frank Landymore

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents reportedly stole a teenage boy’s phone — and then seemingly pawned it afterwards for cash.

That detail comes from alarming new reporting from ProPublica that documents more than forty cases of ICE agents putting civilians in chokeholds and other moves that can block breathing.

One of these civilians was tenth grader Arnoldo Bazan, who was getting McDonald’s with his father, Arnulfo Bazan Carrillo, when they were pulled over by masked agents. According to Arnoldo, after several agents violently tackled his father — who is undocumented — to the ground, with one pressing a knee into his neck, another put the 16-year-old in a suffocating chokehold. When he told the agent that he was a citizen and a minor, the agent didn’t stop.

“I started screaming with everything I had, because I couldn’t even breathe,” Arnoldo told ProPublica. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die.”
Exclusive NBC News reporting found that some ICE officers were sent out into the field without proper training. The error was because an AI tool used to help ICE identify potential new recruits with law enforcement experience wrongly categorized some potential new officers, sources say. NBC News' Julia Ainsley explains the details of the reporting.
Story by The Kenya Times

Top Iranian officials, including the son of Ayatollah Khamenei, have reportedly transferred $1.5 billion to escrow accounts in Dubai over the past two days amid fears of political instability.

In a statement dated January,15,2026, Mike Huckabee, Trump’s ambassador, revealed that he shared his bank account with these officials to safeguard the funds, claiming they could trust him as the world could trust them.

“I’ve sent my account info to these Iranian officials so they can transfer those funds to me for safekeeping. They surely can trust me at least as much as the world can trust them,” read part of the Mike Huckabee statement.

The Iranian bank crisis hit at the same time as a 12-day war with Israel and the US in June 2025. In November, Israel and the US threatened to strike again if Iran tried to start up its nuclear or missile programs, further weakening the nation’s image.

Iranian Bank Collapse and $1.5 Billion Transfers
The collapse of Ayandeh Bank late last year triggered an economic crisis that has driven thousands to protest across cities, threatening the Islamic Republic’s control.

Ayandeh Bank, run by individuals connected to the Iranian regime, failed after incurring nearly $5 billion in losses from bad loans.
Story by Nicole Charky-Chami

An extremism expert accused the Trump administration of brazenly using white supremacist and Nazi propaganda as ICE ramps up its aggressive attacks across American cities.

Wendy Via, co-founder of the Global Project Against Extremism and Hate, described how as tensions have escalated following the ICE killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Good and that the administration has increased its "contentious messaging" as questions rise over the agency's aggressive immigration tactics, The Daily Beast reported.

“DHS, and now other departments, are hardly bothering with dog whistles anymore,” Via told The Beast.

“They’re using blatant white supremacist and Nazi references in their imagery and slogans in an attempt to recruit staff, and they don’t even try to defend their actions. Their shameful reincarnation of white America propaganda from decades ago perfectly illustrates this administration’s view on what America should look like.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been criticized for standing at a podium last week, just a day after the fatal ICE killing, with the message "one of ours, all of yours." The phrase was reminiscent of a Nazi slogan.

"Observers and historians say the words on the podium echo the notion of collective punishment, which underpinned atrocities such as the World War 2 massacre in which Nazis killed civilians in retaliation after an SS officer’s assassination," according to The Beast.
Story by Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN

On the one hand, the state of Minnesota and the Twin Cities are suing to stop “a federal invasion” of immigration agents.

On the other hand, federal immigration authorities are adopting Uncle Sam to muster the internal national police for a kind of reverse invasion, in which a domestic army is needed to reclaim the country.

“America has been invaded by criminals and predators,” according to the recruiting poster pinned to the top of the Department of Homeland Security account on X. “We need YOU to get them out.”

Another social media recruiting poster is in the same nostalgic vein as Uncle Sam, but it relied instead on a phrase with ties to right wing extremism.

A cowboy on horseback, like the Marlboro Man seen from afar, streaks across a mountain valley with a Stealth bomber flying above.

“We’ll have our home again,” is the only text, along with “join.ice.gov,” a website where people can learn a little bit about working at ICE. It repeats the language from the recruiting poster and adds that no college degree is required.

An added message appeals to White nationalists
The wistful phrase “We’ll have our home again” seems likely to appeal to the far right, as it seems to suggest the replacement theory promoted by people such as former DOGE chief Elon Musk and also by White supremacist groups.
Story by Joe Sommerlad

President Donald Trump’s administration will keep the money generated from the sale of Venezuelan oil across multiple bank accounts, the largest of which is located in Qatar, according to a report.

Senior officials told Semafor that the U.S. has now completed its first sale of the South American country’s oil in a deal worth $500 million.

They justified the decision to hold some of the proceeds in the Gulf state, rather than in U.S. banks, by pointing out that it is a neutral location from which the funds could be freely and safely moved without risk of seizure.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, hit out at the strategy and said: “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military.

“That is precisely a move that a corrupt politician would be attracted to.”

Trump’s friendly relationship with Qatar was previously placed under the spotlight last May when he was heavily criticized for accepting a $400 million Boeing jet as a gift from the country.

The Independent has reached out to the White House and to the Treasury for comment.

The U.S. finds itself in control of Venezuela’s natural resources after its forces swept into Caracas in the early hours of Saturday, January 3, and abducted its then-president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, subsequently removing them to New York to answer federal drug trafficking charges.
Story by Jashandeep Singh

Another day, and yet another report of ICE’s brutal use of force surfaces. The victim this time is a 16-year-old boy. Arnoldo Bazan, a tenth grader, has accused ICE agents of choking him and confiscating his phone, which they later allegedly sold.

The incident took place in Houston, Texas, in October 2025. It was a usual day for Arnoldo, who was headed to school with his father, Arnulfo Bazan Carrillo, in their family car.

The two stopped to eat at a McDonald’s, where ICE agents, wearing masks, got out from unmarked vehicles and started knocking on their car doors. Instead of coming out, Arnulfo chose to drive away as he does not have legal documents to reside in the country.
Donald Trump and his Cabinet acolytes continue to insist on the righteousness and professionalism of Trump's ICE enforcers terrorizing Minneapolis, even as Americans see endless accounts and videos of the reckless brutality the residents of Minneapolis are enduring. Elliott Payne, Minneapolis city council president, talks with Jen Psaki about the reality on the streets of his city.
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