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Democrats are in an uproar over the death of anti-ICE activist Renee Nicole Good, killed Wednesday when she drove her car toward an ICE agent while engaged in obstructing their work. This includes Hawai'i Sen. Brian Schatz, Sen. Mazie Hirono, and Rep. Jill Tokuda (snip) So a lot of finger-pointing here, but none where it belongs. What was it that put Good out on the street in the first place? What led her and her wife to join something called ICE, organizing with fellow travelers to to willfully [go] out to interfere with ICE operations?
Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (Snip) Since January 2009, the blame for most violence against law enforcement in the United States can be laid at the feet of His High Holiness the Lightbringer Barack Obama. While it's true that the Democrats frequently had a fraught relationship with the law and those who enforce it before then, Obama's presidency retrofitted the party's DNA with hatred of all cops.
In any police/civilian conflict, Obama was never presidential or circumspect in his responses. His default was always to jump to conclusions before getting any facts and assume the worst about law enforcement and side with the lawbreakers.
Iran is at a crossroads. The largest and most sustained wave of nationwide protests since the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising in 2022 and 2023 is now sweeping the country. The current marches may soon eclipse them. What began in late December 2025 as demonstrations over a collapsing currency and rising living costs has spread rapidly across cities and regions. As repression has intensified and casualties have mounted, the protests have hardened into open demands for regime change.
No matter what happens next, there is no scenario in which the Islamic Republic survives 2026 with its power intact. Too much has happened; too many uncontrollable yet intersecting factors
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins is touting significant reforms in serving America's veterans, arguing the Trump administration is reversing Biden-era trends by increasing visits while reducing backlogs and wait times.
Collins spoke exclusively to Just The News, No Noise television show Friday and said, "It is simply that the veteran comes first at the VA.
"We put back the only reason for us to exist. We put back at the very focus of what we do, is a veteran walking through the door or making a phone call or making an inquiry. And so, when you take a bureaucratic organization that for the lot of its time and energy
Congressional candidate Aaron Baker, an ally of controversial Florida gubernatorial hopeful James Fishback, bills himself as "the only Republican candidate living & working in" the Florida district he's running to represent in a primary challenge to freshman congressman Randy Fine. But records show Baker established ties to the district just two years ago, when he registered to vote at a property purchased by his convicted murderer and opioid trafficker father.
Baker, a general contractor, lived in Maryland with his partner, James Buete, before registering to vote in Florida's deep-red Sixth Congressional District in June 2023.
Normally, the Supreme Court hears cases that deal with matters of law.
But on Tuesday, Jan. 13, the justices will also be dealing with basic science. Not only that, they’ll be debating fundamental truth, as I can personally testify.
The stakes couldn’t be higher in the case, West Virginia v. B.P.J. The specific question facing the court is simple: Should transgender boys be allowed to compete on girls’ sports teams? But you can’t really answer this question without asking a more important one: Can a young boy or a girl actually change genders?
I asked this question myself, starting at age 12. I gave the wrong answer. I was
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin compared the U.S. to Iran in several social media posts Sunday, claiming both countries are guilty of "killing protesters."
Martin made his first comparison on X, expressing support for both protesters in the U.S. and Iran for rising up against "systems that wield violence without accountability."
"From Tehran to my birthplace of Minneapolis, people are rising up against systems that wield violence without accountability. In Iran, brave protestors confront a far-right theocratic regime that crushes dissent and denies basic freedoms," Martin wrote.
The precision strike against Venezuela that led to the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on criminal charges was without a doubt one of the high points of U.S. military history.
And there should be no doubt that the success of the operation redounds to the credit of President Donald J. Trump. No other president in recent memory would have had the guts or imagination to authorize the operation, but Trump has a history of using the military in a surgical manner to take out our enemies (in the case of Qasem Soleimani, the leader of the Iranian Quds Force) or to neutralize global threats
The Second Amendment Foundation recently announced a pair of promotions to two of their employees. Dana Wilson and Tanner Lineberry will both be taking on new roles through their promotions.Continuing to fulfill its mission to defend, secure and restore the right to keep and bear arms for all Americans, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has created two new positions and promoted current staff members to fill those roles,” a release stated. “Dana Wilson has been promoted to the role of Director of Development, and Tanner Lineberry will serve as the organization’s new Associate Director of Marketing.”
Lineberry and Wilson both joined the Second Amendment Foundation in 2024.
Video footage captured an activist using a megaphone to shout: “Standing with the resistance, we affirm that Palestinians have the right to return to their homeland that was stolen from them during the 1948 Nakba [when the state of Israel declared its independence].
“We believe in the right to resist by any and all means necessary, for the full liberation and from the river to the sea!”
A chant then broke out of “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.
Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore condemned the protest. He wrote on X: “Shocked to see this disgraceful scene outside a Jewish restaurant in Notting Hill.
With his pressure campaign against Venezuela following the removal of tyrant Nicolás Maduro, President Trump is making up for what he considers to be the fatal flaw in George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq: He’s not leaving the oil behind this time.The administration is moving swiftly to control the output of Venezuela’s oil sector, which has been wracked by decades of socialist mismanagement and corruption. In a social media post,
Between American military operations in Venezuela and Iran, anti-ICE protesters screeching in the streets, mass demonstrations in Iran, ongoing terrorist attacks in our cities, and other conflicts, you can understand why some Americans are feeling a little jittery. It’s hardly a surprise, then, when some observers were freaked out when the “Doomsday plane” landed at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday.The Air Force plane, a Boeing E‑4B Nightwatch, is equipped to become a floating Pentagon in the sky and maintain operations even if catastrophe hits — a doomsday scenario — and is built to withstand nuclear and even EMP attacks. It also boasts massive communications abilities.
Trump's "Board of Peace" will reportedly include countries such as Turkey and Qatar. Both countries, like Hamas, are followers of the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. Its motto is: "Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."
"Qatar is at the top of funding terrorism worldwide, even more than Iran." — Udi Levy, former head of a Mossad unit dealing with economic warfare against terrorist organizations and countries that sponsor terrorism, Ynet, April 18, 2024.
At one of the anti-Trump/No Kings/50501/Indivisible rallies I covered last year, I overheard one white woman complain about the lack of young people and people of color coming out to protest the evil President (King) Donald Trump and his ICE enforcement to rein in illegal immigration. While I cannot speak for young people, as a person of color, I know for a fact that Blacks and Hispanics are pretty much over Affluent White Liberal Females (AWFL) and their self-centered campaigns against not only the duly elected president that many of us voted for, but against the rule of law.
While the Islamic Guard (IRGC) and foreign fighters massacre peaceful protesters in Iran, the Khamenei regime has threatened to attack Israel and the U.S. military and commercial shipping in the region if President Donald Trump orders a strike on Iranian targets. On Sunday, Iran’s parliamentary speaker declared that the U.S. and Israel would be “legitimate targets” in case of an American strike.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump cautioned that if the regime forces “start killing people,” the U.S. will “hit them really hard.”
Iran has so far decided to ignore President Trump’s warnings and has toughened its stance.
President Trump holds an impromptu press briefing flying back to Washington DC.
TOPICS: Iran protests, Response to Iran actions, You go to Venezuela? Meet with Delcy Rodriguez? When meet with Machado? Oil company commitments, Guarantees for oil companies, Deal with Cuba, Oil tankers and Cuba, Send Starlink to Iran? (DT: Going to call Elon Musk) Iran retaliate? Machado meeting Q2, Gaza Board of Peace. Greenland, Greenland and NATO, Pull USA out of NATO? Offer to Greenland? UK, Germany & Greenland, Put more bases in Greenland?
A U-Haul truck mowed through a crowd of protesters in Los Angeles on Sunday during a demonstration in support of the Iranian people.
The number of injured individuals is currently unclear.
Video from the scene shows protesters surrounding the truck and smashing a window before the truck drives through the crowd. Protesters can be heard screaming as the truck makes its way through the crowd.Aerial footage shows police later surrounding the abandoned U-Haul truck. Authorities have reportedly not identified the driver.
Federal investigators have opened a criminal investigation into Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.
Powell is under fire for the cost of renovating the Fed’s DC headquarters. The cost ballooned from $1.9 billion to $2.5 billion.
“Powell has asked the central bank’s inspector general to conduct an additional review of the ongoing renovation, CNN previously reported. Last month, some Senate lawmakers grilled Powell over what they depicted as lavish upgrades to its DC headquarters at Powell’s semiannual monetary policy hearing,’ CNN previously reported.
President Trump said Sunday the U.S. military is considering “strong options” on Iran as the country’s regime cracks down on growing nationwide protests.
When asked on Air Force One whether Iran is crossing a red line, the president told reporters “they’re starting to, it looks like.” There seemed to be some people killed that aren’t supposed to be killed,” Trump said. “But we’re looking at it very seriously. The military is looking at it and we’re looking at some strong options and we’re going to making a determination.”
Trump said that he is receiving “an hourly briefing” on the situation regarding protesters in the country.
In an apparent attempt to dampen anger over federal immigration surges in Minnesota and elsewhere, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials released a sobering list of killers and child rapists from all over the world arrested during operations in the sanctuary state.
This list, complete with headshots and criminal biographies, was released to Fox News over the weekend, authorities telling the outlet they “are the type of people Democratic politicians and activists are referring to as their ‘neighbors’ as they attempt to interfere with ICE.”
President Donald Trump has had a lot to say about Cuba this weekend, and it sounds like he's getting pretty serious about confronting the regime there and attempting to liberate the people from the decades of communism that have turned it from one of those most developed nations to a third world country.
What kind of deal are you looking for from Cuba," a reporter aboard Air Force One asked the president on Sunday evening as he flew back to Washington, D.C., after a weekend in Florida.
"You'll find out pretty soon," he said. "We're talking to Cuba, and you'll find out pretty soon."
President Trump said Iran’s leaders called him Saturday to negotiate a deal following his threats to defend protesters who face death for participating in anti-regime demonstrations — adding that the US may have to “act” before a meeting.
“Iran wants to negotiate, yes. We may meet with them, I mean a meeting is being set up,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One late Sunday.
“But we may have to act, because of what’s happening, before the meeting. But a meeting is being set up, Iran called — they want to negotiate,” he continued.
Billionaire Bill Ackman donates $10K to
GoFundMe for ICE agent who fatally shot
Renee Nicole Good replies
GoFundMe for ICE agent who fatally shot
Renee Nicole Good replies
Billionaire Bill Ackman left a hefty $10,000 donation on a GoFundMe for the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good — and said he had intended to similarly support the slain mother’s respective fund, but apparently missed his chance.
A donation on the page set up for Jonathan Ross — who federal officials said was the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fired fatal “defensive shots” at the anti-ICE protester and mom of three — boasts a top donation from a man named William Ackman.
The Billionaire Tax Act isn’t even officially on the California ballot yet, but that hasn’t stopped businessmen, entrepreneurs, and investors from fleeing the state, taking $1 trillion in wealth – along with jobs and opportunity – with them.
Tech entrepreneur Chamath Palihapitiya has been keeping track of who’s decided to leave the state in advance of this “temporary” tax.
“We had $2T of billionaire wealth just a few weeks ago. Now, 50% of that wealth has left – taking their income tax revenue, sales tax revenue, real estate tax revenue, and all their staffs (and their salaries and income taxes) with them,” he posted on X this weekend.