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You won't catch the mainstream media digging too deep into Renee Good's backstory. They want you to see her as an innocent “Minnesota Mom” who dropped her kid off at school and just accidentally wound up in the middle of an ICE operation. The truth is, she was there to obstruct ICE and antagonize them. She eventually attempted to run one over with her car, getting shot in the process.
The left has invested heavily in this narrative, which is why they don’t want you to know the truth about her anti-ICE activism and her involvement in Minnesota ICE Watch.
I keep a mental "reality rating" of friends and cohorts when it comes to political accuracy. People, mostly libstanks, like to vomitously spew out political "facts" they believe to be true, which a 30-second web search will usually prove false.
Today, when a member of a cohort with a "reality rating" of 0% (she hasn't been right even once) gleefully asked me if I had heard that Elon Musk's Grok AI was churning out nude pictures of celebrities and even kids, I honestly said I had not heard this "fact." But I knew one thing for sure: It's a lie. I was right.
Texas Strips American Bar Of Law School
Oversight After ‘Unlawful Discrimination’ Complaints replies
Oversight After ‘Unlawful Discrimination’ Complaints replies
Law schools in Texas will no longer need the American Bar Association’s (ABA) approval after the state supreme court ruled this month that the organization will no longer have the final say on accreditation.
Approval of law schools now rests with the Texas Supreme Court, according to the Jan. 6 ruling. Concerns over ABA’s objectivity have been growing in recent months, and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in February 2025 even accused the organization of subjecting law schools and students “to unlawful race and sex discrimination under the guise of ‘diversity’ mandates” by forcing schools to ensure their student and staff bodies are “diverse with respect to gender, race, and ethnicity.”
As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surged into Minneapolis, Minnesota, one local McDonald’s made a public display against the upholding of federal immigration law.
The Daily Wire posted an image of the sign, which was captioned “NO ICE ACCESS IN THIS BUSINESS,” to social media platform X on Thursday afternoon.
The sign was clear that it was intended as a “NOTICE TO ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT & IMMIGRATION AGENTS.” “This is a private business,” it said.
“You are not permitted to enter non-public areas of this business (including offices, break rooms, storage areas, and staff-only areas) without a valid JUDICIAL WARRANT signed by a judge or magistrate.”
The Trump administration has canceled the Biden administration’s rules forcing banks to ignore immigration status for loan applications.
On Monday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Justice Department eliminated the Biden guidelines that ordered lenders not to consider immigration status when evaluating loan and credit applications, a rule that had major implications for mortgages, credit cards, and auto loans, Bloomberg reported.
The Biden administration maintained that considering immigration status would violate anti-racism laws that ensure equal and fair lending practices.
The Biden era rules were intended to help anchor illegal and temporary visa workers into Americans’ communities, for example, by providing funds for homes, autos, and apartment leases.
Sen. Ernst, Rep. Gosar demand NIH halt
$3M in funding for Anthony Fauci’s ‘bat
facility’ in Colorado replies
$3M in funding for Anthony Fauci’s ‘bat
facility’ in Colorado replies
Two Republican lawmakers demanded Monday that the National Institutes of Health halt more than $3 million in taxpayer funding for “sketchy” research on live bats involving “experimental infection studies” with “SARS-related coronaviruses” like the one that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) called on NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to “immediately … stop this batty research,” which was prompted by the since-debarred nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance and spurred on by former NIH officials Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins, per a letter exclusively obtained by The Post.
An as-now uncanceled grant of $2.2 million from NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to
A New Nick Shirley Video Shows Grift That
Is 'Ten Times Worse' and Will Cause 'World
War III' replies
Is 'Ten Times Worse' and Will Cause 'World
War III' replies
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was told over the weekend that a new Nick Shirley video being released soon - maybe even as early as Monday — is "ten times worse" than the "Quality Learing Center" daycare scam. In Shirley's previous video, he and his source, David Hoch, who has been investigating this billion-dollar-plus scam for years, discovered multiple daycare centers in one building without children in them for years. And this is where Hoch says is the heart of the ongoing continuing criminal enterprise.
Hoch says the new video will show that most of these companies are Somali-owned, and his and Shirley's visit to these companies found zero companies.
Meta Platforms on Monday appointed former Trump adviser Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chair of the technology conglomerate, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Powell McCormick, who is married to Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Dave McCormick, served as President Donald Trump’s deputy national security adviser during his first term, and previously held several roles in the George W. Bush administration. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that Powell McCormick is “uniquely suited” to oversee multi-billion dollar investments due to her extensive background on Wall Street and in the White House. “Dina’s experience at the highest levels of global finance, combined with her deep relationships around the world, makes her
If you had a bad case of political whiplash following the events of Tuesday and Wednesday, you're not alone. Usually it takes weeks if not months or Democrats and the media to put the full measure of their hypocrisy on display; this week, it took less than 24 hours. (snip) Representative Mike Levin, a Democrat from California, in an ironic harbinger of things to come the very next day, gave a heartfelt plea asking his colleagues to honor the officers who stood between "democracy and chaos" hat afternoon. (snip) But just hours later, those same Democrats once again took the side of "chaos" (snip.)
Sen. Mark Kelly Sues Pete Hegseth Over
Military Rank Demotion Due To Viral ‘Illegal
Orders’ Video replies
Military Rank Demotion Due To Viral ‘Illegal
Orders’ Video replies
Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly filed a lawsuit against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Monday — challenging Hegseth’s move to demote Kelly’s military rank after the senator told service members to defy the Trump administration’s “illegal orders.”
Kelly’s lawsuit, which was docketed in Washington D.C., claims Hegseth’s efforts to demote his rank following his November 2025 appearance in a viral video violates the Constitution’s speech or debate clause. Kelly argued in a statement announcing the suit that the executive branch has never before sought to impose military sanctions on a U.S. lawmaker over saying “something that the President or Secretary of Defense doesn’t like.”
Brooks Koepka returns to PGA Tour under
stiff financial penalty just 5 weeks after
leaving LIV replies
stiff financial penalty just 5 weeks after
leaving LIV replies
HONOLULU — Brooks Koepka is returning to the PGA Tour just five weeks after bolting from LIV Golf, agreeing to a one-time program for elite players that comes with a financial penalty that could rank among the largest in sports.
Koepka plans to resume his PGA Tour career in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines at the end of the month.
But he will not be eligible for PGA Tour equity grants for five years, he will not receive FedEx Cup bonus money in 2026 and he cannot play signature events unless he earns his way in.
The out-of-pocket cost is a $5 million charity donation
Oregon election officials are set to begin removing hundreds of thousands of inactive voters from the state's registration rolls (snip) after years of inaction, mounting public pressure, and lawsuits against the state in recent months. Oregon's Democratic Secretary of State Tobias Read (snip) outlined two new directives (snip) to address the roughly 800,000 voter records that are being maintained by state officials. (snip) [O]regon paused removals in 2017. (snip) "[I]'s astounding that they haven't been removing anybody from the voter force in almost a decade because this is very basic 101 level election administration," said Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project.
Minnesota sued the Trump administration on Monday, asking a court to halt a massive federal immigration operation they claim is unconstitutional, politically motivated and endangering public safety.
The lawsuit claims “Operation Metro Surge” has led to racial profiling and disruptions to public life.
“The unlawful deployment of thousands of armed, masked, and poorly trained federal agents is hurting Minnesota,” said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. “People are being racially profiled, harassed, terrorized, and assaulted."
As the Iranian uprising continues to escalate, it’s been reported that hundreds of protesters have been killed by the regime’s security forces.
The internet, phone signals and lighting have been cut, and it’s feared the killings are intensifying behind the blackout.
Yet the Iranian people have increasingly poured onto the streets to confront the regime’s murder and torture squads. There’s never been such a mass display of raw courage in the teeth of such vicious repression.
If the regime does fall, this will be a seismic event, reshaping the region and world politics. The insurrection might be the most consequential global event so far this century.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed on Monday the uprising against his brutal regime is “now under total control” after hundreds, or even thousands, of civilians were killed by security forces.
Estimates of the death toll vary widely. The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said 496 protesters have been killed, plus 48 members of Iran’s security forces, and about 10,600 people have been arrested over the past two weeks. Iran Human Rights (IHR), a group based in Norway, cited “unverified reports” that “suggest the possibility that over 2,000 people may have died” since the regime began shutting down Internet and mobile phone access on Thursday to cover its activities.
The average national price for a gallon of gas dropped to $2.796, the lowest we’ve seen since 2021, per AAA.For obvious reasons, the White House is eager to spread this good news.
“In 43 states, the average gas price is below $3/gal. In 30 states, it’s below $2.75/gal,” wrote the White House’s official Rapid Response X account. “In 17 states, it’s at or below $2.50/gal.”The cost of gas is the tip of the wedge to achieve that new word everyone’s using these days: affordability.Those gas station signs we all pass displaying that day’s cost per gallon acts as a national barometer about how we feel about the economy.
President Trump declared Monday that the US would be “screwed” if the Supreme Court rules against his reciprocal tariff policies — arguing the feds would have to “pay back” billions in revenue collected over the past year.
“[I]f the Supreme Court rules against the United States of America on this National Security bonanza, WE’RE SCREWED!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“The actual numbers that we would have to pay back if, for any reason, the Supreme Court were to rule against the United States of America on Tariffs, would be many Hundreds of Billions of Dollars,”
British Defence Secretary John Healey has ruffled the feathers of the Kremlin after saying that he would like to capture Russian leader Vladimir Putin and put him on trial for war crimes.In the wake of the stunning display of military prowess by the Trump administration’s pre-dawn operation that saw the toppling and capture of Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, UK Defence Secretary John Healey openly pined for the ability to exact the same fate on the President of nuclear power Russia, Vladimir Putin.During a visit to Ukraine on Friday, the Labour politician said in comments reported —
The West should ban radical Islamist groups and back President Donald Trump’s suggestion of military action to suppose “the good guys” on the ground in Iran, said Brexit leader Nigel Farage on Monday.Reform UK leader and Brexit pioneer Nigel Farage has stepped up his longstanding support of the Persian people and the return of the country’s former monarchy on Monday, addressing a rally outside the Iranian embassy. Handed the microphone at the protest, Mr Farage declared “freedom for Iran”, hailed the “beautiful Persian people”, and hailed victory, “whatever the terrible price being paid by many innocent people in every Iranian city right now”.
Whoopsie. Look what Tampon Tim signed into law back in 2020. As the circus over the George Floyd protests raged on, Minnesota’s Legislature updated its “use-of-force” statute, and Gov. Walz signed it into law that July.
(snip)
MN law §609.066: Officers can use deadly force if a driver accelerates toward them, creating immediate life-threatening danger. No need to wait for impact—they can act based on apparent intent & proximity.
(snio)
And it’s all based on the totality of circumstances known at the moment, not some hindsight debate after the fact.
The Illinois Republican Party has blasted as "divisive" the hiring language the Obama Foundation is using (snip) arguing it shows the privately run project is using public land to advance a political agenda. (snip) While commonly referred to as a "library," the Obama Presidential Center (snip) does not function as a traditional presidential library. (snip) [The state GOP] said the hiring language reinforces concerns that the Obama Presidential Center is operating as an ideological institution (snip.) "[J]ob postings state that the foundation is deeply committed to (snip) leveraging our global reach to combat systemic racism and inequity wherever it exists."
The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5–4 on Jan. 9 to toss a procedural limit that had prevented a federal inmate from contesting a sentence.
The ruling increases the post-conviction legal options of federal prisoners seeking to challenge their sentences.
The nation’s highest court sided with petitioner Michael S. Bowe, rejecting a limit backed by the Trump administration on how many times a federal prisoner may challenge the lawfulness of his sentence.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is forgoing a promised court-martialing and taking a behind-closed-doors track to attempt to punish Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.).
The administrative move — which seeks to reduce Kelly’s retirement rank and military pension — is the latest in the bitter back-and-forth between the Trump administration and the retired Navy captain after he joined five other Democratic lawmakers in a November video reminding service members that they were obligated to refuse illegal orders.While Hegseth is taking Kelly into uncharted legal waters, using an action typically meant to scrutinize service members’ active-duty conduct,
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer dropped a bombshell this week, suggesting that far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar sits “at the top of the suspect list” in the sprawling Minnesota fraud scandals involving taxpayer-funded daycare and healthcare programs.
The comments came during a pointed exchange with journalist Alison Steinberg, who raised serious concerns about whether members of Congress themselves may have benefited from money funneled through political action committees tied to fraudulent daycare and healthcare schemes.