Trump to Putin: Give me Greenland and Take Ukraine

The convicted criminal running the US thinks he is smarter than 9 billion people. 

In the East, he has been a proud asskisser to the Russian dictator, constantly blaming the Ukrainian victim for its rape by Russia. Trump never blames Putin for the stalled negotiations on stopping Russian savagery in Ukraine. He always blames Zelenskiy for not surrendering to Putin. Trump's many "peace deals" always include giving up Ukrainian land to the Russian despot and rejecting security guarantees if Ukraine does barter land for future security. From the start of his political career, the Jackass-in-Chief at the White House has colluded with Russian propaganda to ensure the dumb American MAGA public is brainwashed into voting for Trump. Somewhow, Trump never considers Russia a threat to the western alliance. Indeed, everything points to a collusion between Putin and Trump to weaken the Western alliance and - as we watch right now with our own eyes - to actually destroy NATO.

Then, when it comes to Greenland, Trump claims he wants to annex the Danish-Greenland territory in order "to prevent Russian threats" across the Arctic.

Why is Russia a threat in the West but not in the East? Simply because the two dictatorships - the American under Trump and the Russian under Putin - have agreed to divvy up the world according to the good old Cold War division between the US and the USSR. Give me Greenland (and who knows one day maybe nearby Iceland?), says the Moron-in-Chief to the Poison-Master Chef Putin, and take Ukraine (and maybe one day, Poland and the Baltic states). c

In essence, the post-cold war state of the world has disenfranchised many countries and economies out of the juggernaut of the two blocs. The rise of the BRICs is indeed the result of the end of the Cold War. And dictatorships don't like freedoms. The economic ascendancy of China, Brazil, India, etc. is all the result of that economic freedom that the end of the Cold War has enabled. Putin and Trump are trying to herd back the world into their two camps.

"US Treasury Secretary Claims Trump Wants To Annex Greenland To Prevent Getting ‘Dragged’ Into ‘Attack’ From Russia" (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scott-bessent-trump-annex-greenland-war-attack-russia_n_696d118ee4b0e4bac192dff5).

According to the criminals of the Trump administration, it's OK for Russia to attack Europe in the East (and the US won't be dragged into it because its agreement with Putin includes not stepping in to defend Europe anymore), but it's not OK for Russia to control the Arctic, something it actually does not fear because it has an agreement with the Russians, it simply uses this as a pretext to annex Greenland.

The Europeans are in a very tight spot. They have only one option: Drag the US into a military confrontation, any confrontation, because the Americans are basically ignorant cowards who think wars are what they watch in movies. Those among them who will start  hollering "patriotic shit" from the rooftops will be the first to bail out once the bullets start flying.

Impose sanctions on the US. Ban US companies from operating in Europe. Shut down the American social media. Take the fight to its dirtiest levels because this is where the American dictator wants it to to go, but only for show, only for a Hollywoodian mascarade. With the Americans, things won't settle unless they flare up first.

Remember: The US has lost every war it fought since WWII, except the walk in the park that the liberation of Kuwait in 1991 was. All others have failed: Vietnam, Korea, Somalia, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan...all ended in disasters and humiliating defeats. 

Greenland,Gaza,Nobel Theft,Venezuela,Iran..But What Happened to the Epstein Files?

The jackass is flooding the zone with anything that flies through his empty skull.... and the dumb American people have stopped talking about the Epstein Files. What can you do when they elect one of their kind?

The EU is finally taking the imbecile seriously. But since Roy Cohn taught him to be a swine, he won't back down and will drive NATO into permanent disrepair. Ok, so EU-NATO troops are deploying in Greenland, but that won't keep the Moron from deploying US troops there too and risk an embrasement between allies. Better that way. Let the chips fall where they might. At least we'll have a conclusion to this sordid charade.

Perhaps the "brains" behind Trump actually want a clash with the EU. They, and he, have from the start belittled NATO and the EU. They prefer dictators like him, Putin for instance. There seems to be a plan after all, and I'll go conspiracy mode: Trump and Putin have secretly agreed to divide up Europe like during the good old days: Eastern Europe to the Russian drunkards, and Western Europe to the American numskulls. You see, Americans cannot comprehend, let alone understand complexity. They typically operate in a binary mode: White vs Black. Us vs them. Arabs vs Jews. etc. Anything that disturbs the simpleton binarity of their world is distressing. Dealing with more complex, multi-factorial propositions requires hard work and delving deeper than superficial knowledge.

Traveling takes one's mind off the folly that an idiot is imposing on the world. But an idiot like Trump have appeared before in human history. One of the recent ones is Hitler himself whom everyone thought of as an idiot too. Those on his side (the German conservatives) figured they can keep him on a leash. Those against him didn't think he amounts to much. Both turned out to be wrong, and it took death and destruction on an unimaginable scale to bring an end to that charade of "one man who can do it all". An older version was Julius Ceasar who destroyed a 500-year old Roman republic, turned it into an empire of decadence that would soon collapse.

Maybe Trump is not as smart as Hitler or Ceasar. But weren't we told often that it is better to have a smart enemy than a dumb friend because the former is at least rational and predictable. 

Trump is very dangerous because he is dumb. 

But can someone PLEASE bring back the question to the table: WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES? 

Lebanon - including its Christian Minority - Among 75 Countries Barred by Trump

Only White Europeans and Jews are allowed to immigrate to the US. All shithole countries, including Lebanon whose Christian minority imbeciles love Trump, are barred from immigrating to the US.

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Immigration visas paused by White House for people from 75 countries
Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY
Wed, January 14, 2026



The Trump administration will stop issuing immigration visas to residents of 75 countries, including Somalia and Iran, that the White House says consume American taxpayer services once they move to the United States.

The State Department announced the move via social media, but provided only a partial list that also mentioned Haiti and Cuba. FOX News reported that the Bahamas, Moldova, Russia and many African countries were also covered.

State Department officials declined to provide the full list of countries and instead referred to the FOX News coverage.

"We are working to ensure the generosity of the American people will no longer be abused," the State Department said in a statement. "The freeze will remain active until the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people."

The move comes as President Donald Trump and his allies have been targeting Somali immigrants living in Minnesota over a fraud scandal in the state. But it reflects a longstanding effort by Trump to limit who can legally enter the United States and become a permanent resident.

Federal officials have previously said tougher enforcement of what's known as "public charge" criteria could save taxpayers $9 billion annually.

Since 1882, legal immigrants have had to meet public charge rules designed to ensure that they can support themselves via work, savings or a sponsor, without relying on programs like food stamps or welfare.

The pause announced Jan. 14 gives federal officials time to determine how to consider more factors in making their decisions, including applicants' age, whether family members living in the United States already receive government benefits, or if the applicant had received federal assistance to care for their American citizen child.

"Put another way, the administration and clear congressional national policy on welfare and immigration point to the view that an alien who lacks self-sufficiency should not be admitted to the United States or be granted adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident," the Department of Homeland Security said in November.

In 2019, the Trump administration significantly expanded the list of programs covered by the public charge rule, which also affected immigrants already living in the United States seeking to become permanent residents or citizens. The changes might have blocked legal immigrants who had used Medicaid or federally funded childcare for their American citizen child from ever getting permanent residency.

The Biden administration rolled back those changes in 2022, and the second Trump administration in November 2025 proposed removing almost all restrictions on what factors could be considered by frontline visa-processing officers. Over the years, factors considered by visa officers have included whether someone was a professional beggar in their home country, or whether they are elderly and likely to seek Medicaid help to pay for a nursing home.

The fraud allegations against a group of Somali Americans in Minnesota were first prosecuted under the Biden administration but were resurfaced and publicized in recent weeks. On Jan. 12, Elon Musk, a Trump ally and the world's richest man, reposted a graphic from Trump showing that Somali immigrants with children received public assistance at higher levels than native-born families.

Migration-rights groups say the visa pause will likely hurt American citizens living in mixed-status families, and note that use of taxpayer-funded services by immigrant families dropped even before Trump's 2019 rule took effect.

The new restrictions are unlikely to affect international players expecting to compete in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which takes place in the United States, Mexico and Canada starting in June. Those players would typically travel on a different kind of visa that does not appear to be affected by the State Department pause.

It was not immediately clear whether international tourists would be affected, although the State Department said the pause was directed at people seeking to live permanently in the United States.

Administration officials said the changes will officially take effect Jan. 21.

According to FOX, the full list of countries consists of: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Yemen.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Immigration visas paused by White House for those from 75 countries

Zionists Experts at Falsifying History: No History Books Should Talk about Gaza

They falsified history in the biblical garbage about the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Canaanites: "Yahweh 'gave' them the land of another people that hadn't done any harm to the Hebrews. YAhweh didn't own the land to give it away to filthy stinking desert nomads.

They falsified history in the Balfour Declaration about the English colonial crooks "gifting" Palestine to European colonial bankers who were funding the English war effort. The English colonial criminals did not own Palestine to gift it away. They were given a mandate by the international community to help the Palestinians build their state and its institutions after 400 years of Turkish Ottoman occupation and World War I. 

They then falsified history by declaring that their 1930s-1940s colonial invasion and terrorist violence against the indigenous Palestinian people was a "return" after 2800 years of absence and a "war of independence"! They massacred, raped, burned, displaced millions of Palestinians into refugee camps, stole and rebranded millennial villages as "settlements", and claimed that Palestine was a land without people. By denying the existence of a Palestinian people - whom they conveniently called a generic "Arabs" - they essentially addded insult to injury and easily commited a theoretical genocide against a people that continues to refuse to disappear.

And now, after the genocide in Gaza, they are preparing, with the help of Evangelical Zionists like asskisser Mike Pompeo and fundamentalist biblical hillbilly Mike Huckabee, to alter and falsify history once again. These two idiots are claiming they will "make sure the history books don't mention the genocide in Gaza".

In the past, when information was the purview of a few media that were sold out to the Zionist rapists, it was easy to lie and disseminate falsehoods. Many believed the lies because the truth was occulted. But now, with the liberation and democratization of information, the truth is finally coming out. They keep trying though, as if the world belongs only to them.

Money can't buy you love. It also can't buy you the truth. The truth is not for sale. So go ahead, enslaved and paid historians, begin the work of your predecessors to alter the facts and the truth, so that centuries from now, the lies persist as they have persisted in the garbage of the Torah-Bible and in the Zionist rewriting of the 1900s history of the rape of Palestine. 
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Mike Pompeo Applauded for Saying ‘We Need to Make Sure’ That History Books ‘Don’t Write About the Victims of Gaza’
Charlie Nash
Wed, January 14, 2026

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo received applause at a pro-Israel conference on Tuesday after declaring that “we need to make sure” that history books “don’t write about the victims of Gaza.”

“The next generation of young people won’t remember October 7th in the same way. That’s true in Israel and in America and broadly in the world, and we need to make sure two things,” said Pompeo during an appearance at the MirYam Institute Israel Security Briefing.

He said, “One, it’s not that we don’t forget – we need to make sure that the story is told properly so that when the history books write this, they don’t write about the victims of Gaza, right?”

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo:

We need to make sure that the story is told properly so that when the history books write this, they don’t write about the victims of Gaza… pic.twitter.com/fZjd8cFZar

— Clash Report (@clashreport) January 13, 2026

Pompeo received applause before he then added, “I should be a little more precise. There were victims in Gaza, right? It’s true. There are civilian casualties in every war that’s ever been fought, but the victims were the people of the nation-state of Israel. The aggressor was the Iranian regime and the proxy of Hamas, and we need to make sure that the history books reflect that.”

The former Secretary of State concluded, “That requires each of us every day to talk about it in real time with our children, with our grandchildren about it in a way that is serious and thoughtful and complete and moral.”

In November 2023, a month after the Oct. 7 attacks against Israel, Pompeo called for “the complete annihilation of Hamas” in Gaza, claiming, “They’re just about killing. They’re just about destruction. They’re just about wanton rape… They don’t value human life in the way we do.”

More than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s war against Gaza since October 2023, with a further 170,000 injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

At least 382 United Nations Relief and Works Agency personnel and hundreds of journalists have also been killed.

 

Trump to Chinese and Russian Dissidents: Keep Protesting, Help is on the Way

The coward draft dodger bullies weak vulnerable countries whose resources he can easily steal. But he wouldn't dare do anything in the face of dictators like him in China and Russia.

He's after Iran because his Zionist handlers egg him on. He's after Venezuela because he can. Both countries have lots of oil, and that is all he cares about. Not human rights. The man is a greedy parasite that will suck the life of its own host. But he is also a coward. 

Watch as Putin finishes off Ukraine and invades Poland and the Baltic states. Watch as CHina exterminates and ethnically cleanse the Uighurs, and invades Taiwan, and the demented coward in his tacky golden Outhouse will do nothing to stop them. And watch as his buddies, the criminal colonial Zionists, finish off Palestine, exterminate its people and expel them from their ancestral lands, and steal its immense gas reserves.

It seems like humanity hasn't learned anything from its history. Every time we think we have become civilized, we have lunatics and deranged madmen who take us backward into the jungle.

Proof that ICE is Racist? To a White Protester: "You're White and Not Fun!"

It's more fun for racist ICE thugs and murderers to persecute non-white people. Hear it from one of the ICE KKK thugs. It's more fun to persecute brown-skinned people.
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Minneapolis Pastor Says He Was Detained by ICE After Joining Protest, Told 'You're White' and 'Wouldn’t Be Any Fun Anyway' on Release

Pastor Kenny Callaghan said he was detained by ICE for under an hour after joining a crowd protesting in Minneapolis
Ashley Vega
Tue, January 13, 2026


FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul/YouTube Pastor Kenny Callaghan

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Pastor Kenny Callaghan says he was detained by ICE in Minneapolis after heading toward a protest near his church

He tells Fox 9 Minneapolis that agents repeatedly asked him, “Are you afraid now?” while he was in handcuffs inside an SUV

Callahan said he was eventually released after an agent allegedly told him, “You’re white and you wouldn’t be any fun anyway”

A Minneapolis pastor said he was detained by ICE after heading toward protests near his church. Pastor Kenny Callaghan of All God’s Children MCC shared his account with Fox 9 Minneapolis, saying the encounter unfolded on the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 7.

Callaghan told the outlet he realized something was happening nearby when he heard whistles and car horns outside. He said he grabbed his own whistles and moved toward the commotion, only for the situation to escalate quickly.

He told Fox 9 he managed to take a few photos as the vehicle drove down Portland Avenue before pocketing his phone when he noticed agents surrounding a “brown-skinned woman.”

Callaghan said he joined in as a crowd chanted, “We are not afraid,” and tried to redirect attention toward himself, telling the agents to arrest him instead of the woman they were surrounding.

“Before I knew it, they were putting handcuffs on my arms and they asked me, ‘Are you afraid now?’ ” he recalled.

He said he answered, “No, I am not,” as agents continued detaining him. Callaghan told Fox 9 he was held in the SUV with two other detainees as agents returned multiple times to question him.

Callaghan said the message stayed the same during those check-ins, with agents repeatedly asking if he was afraid. He also said they asked for his ID and his phone while he remained in the back of the vehicle.

At one point, Callaghan said he asked whether he was under arrest and was left alone for a period of time afterward. He also told Fox 9 that an agent allegedly waved a gun in his face, and while fear flickered for a moment, it was quickly overtaken by outrage.

“And then they came back the last time and they said, ‘Are you afraid yet?’ ” he said. “And I said, ‘No.’ "

Callaghan said he was ultimately released after an agent made a remark that he described as both dismissive and disturbing. “Well, you’re white, and you wouldn’t be any fun anyway. Get out of the car,” he recalled being told.

Callaghan said he was detained for less than an hour, but he walked away feeling shaken by what he believed the interaction revealed. “Now I was confronted with the fact that these ICE agents that are supposed to be keeping my neighborhood safe were actually there for sport,” he said.

Despite what he described as an intimidating encounter, Callaghan told Fox 9 he would not hesitate to step in again. “I will always stand up for people who are being mistreated for simply being human,” he said, adding, “It is not right. It is wrong.”

PEOPLE did not immediately hear back from DHS and ICE when contacted for comment.

The incident involving Callaghan came amid unrest in Minneapolis after driver Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mom, was shot and killed by an ICE agent during an immigration enforcement operation.

Read the original article on People

Trump to Iranians: Help is on the Way...and Oil Theft Too

In the 1950s, Iranians had elected in free and fair elections a democratic government that wanted to take back Iran's oil from the English (and American) crooks and thieves of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The English and the Americans toppled the government and installed the decadent Shah who sold his country to his English and American "saviors".

Now that the Iranian people are rebelling against the criminal Islamic Republic of Iran, they should be careful NOT to trust Donald Dumb who might "help" only if he can steal Iran's oil and gas reserves. That is what he did in Venezuela. He "liberated" Venezuela from its dictator Maduro ONLY to steal the country's oil and rule the country, instead of assisting the Venezuelan people to take charge of their country in a democratic system.

Accepting American help has a price. Keep your revolution going and pay the price WITHOUT American assistance. Go into a civil war, pay the price of blood and liberate yourselves with whatever means you can muster, but reject American help, because you will be exchanging one master for another. 

US Republicans-GOP-MAGA Are Insurance Companies' Best Friend

 

They persecuted Barack Obama as soon as he stepped in the White House. They demonized him, called him a Muslim, a Communist, a non-American citizen, a monkey (because he is Black). The idiot senator from Kentucky O'Connell swore he would do everthing he could to make sure Obama fails. Obama tried to create a US-government-run health care system ALONGSIDE the private insurance sector, which would all US citizens to choose. 

Aren't capitalists supposed to be for competition? Why wouldn't they compete with the government? The answers are that they prefer an oligopoly - where a cartel of a few insurance companies control the market and impose their conditions, prices and coverages. 

Fighting hard for the US citizens, Obama tried but was forced to limit his "Obamacare" to a few significant but still modest reforms (eliminate the "pre-existing condition" clause that insurance companies used to deny coverage; allow parents to keep their children on their insurance until the age of 26, provide govt-subsidies to help the low income people with paying their insurance premiums to the private insurers, etc.  Obama failed to create a wholly-owned government insurance program. 

For the Radical Right GOP and MAGA, Obama became a socialist who wanted to destroy the "American way of life" which really boils down to keeping the USA  as the United Scams of America.

As the piece below shows, the Republican-GOP-MAGA scammers and on the pay of lobyyists have been doing this for 80 years. They even fought Roosevelt to prevent him from creating Social Security and Medicare in the 1930s. 

In essence, the American Dream is no more than becoming a slave to, and living on debt to, private corrupt and incompetent companies (banks, insurers, oil companies, etc.) whose primary interest is profit and shareholders at the expense of quality and service to people. When you wonder why Trump is doing what he's doing, you can always find the answer in greed, profit, and giving advantage to corporations at the expense of the average American. 

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Opinion

For 80 years, Republicans have blocked us from fixing our health care system
Austin Sarat, opinion contributor
Mon, January 12, 2026


With the turn of the New Year, millions of Americans who get their health care through the Affordable Care Act have seen their premiums skyrocket. Last August, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s cuts to Medicaid and failure to extend insurance premium subsidies would mean that as many as 10 million would lose coverage by 2034. This year alone, that number could be about 5 million.

With Congress now back in session, the first order of business should be to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies. On Thursday, the House took the first step, passing an extension. At this moment, the prospects of passage in the Senate are not great.

But beyond the subsidies, we need urgent, comprehensive action to address the American health care mess. And it is quite a mess. As The Guardian noted on Dec. 31, “Costs, insurance delays, and difficult-to-obtain mental health treatment plague the US health system.”

The U.S. has an acute and growing shortage of primary care providers. A report from Harvard Medical School sees The growing to as many as 55,000 by 2033.

Doctors on the front lines of American medicine are overworked, underpaid and experiencing burnout. Congress can begin to address that problem by passing the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025. The act would expand the number of Medicare-supported medical residency positions by 14,000 over a seven-year period.

Congress should also provide increased funding for the Primary Care Training and Enhancement program, which supports training for doctors to practice internal medicine. But even these modest steps face fierce Republican opposition.

Meanwhile, we know that the U.S. has a lower life expectancy than peer nations despite spending far more on health care. Drilling down, obesity rates among adults in this country are in the 40 percent range. Our infant mortality rates infant mortality and cancer rates are higher than most industrialized countries.

More than 80 years ago, in 1945, President Harry Truman introduced a plan for a national health system funded through payroll taxes. His plan would have covered medical, hospital and nursing care for everyone, creating a federal health insurance agency to pay the costs of care. But it also would have put health insurance companies out of business.

Truman also wanted the federal government to support medical education and help give low-income people a chance to become doctors. He asked Congress to provide funding to build new health care facilities “in communities where they are needed.” His plan also included support for “public health preventive and disease control services, which are now inadequate in most areas and totally lacking in many.”

“The best hospitals, the finest research laboratories and the most skillful physicians are of no value to those who cannot obtain their services,” Truman observed. Yet he also knew the opposition would be fierce. “I put it to you,” he asked, “is it un-American to visit the sick, aid the afflicted, or comfort the dying? I thought that was simple Christianity.”

Christian or not, Republicans in Congress, rebelling against anything that smacked of the New Deal, wanted no part of Truman’s plan. They were backed by the American Medical Association, which branded it “socialized medicine” and countered with its own plan, which relied on expanded private insurance and federal aid to fund care for the poor.

Since then, Republicans have repeatedly trotted out the label “socialized medicine” to stop any effort to provide a comprehensive response to Americans’ health needs. With the exception of President Lyndon Johnson’s success in enacting Medicare in 1965, expanding private insurance has become the sine qua non of efforts to address those needs for three-quarters of a century.

Health care proposals from Presidents Richard Nixon (who wanted all employers to be required to provide health insurance) and Bill Clinton (who tried to revive a version of Truman’s plan) went nowhere. President Barack Obama secured passage of the Affordable Care Act only by expanding access to private health insurance — and even then, it passed by only one vote.

Almost from the moment it was enacted, Republicans have tried over and over again to kill the Affordable Care Act. And with their almost unanimous refusal to extend subsidies, they are hoping to inflict a grievous wound on it.

Truman would not be surprised. As he observed, in a speech in the last year of his presidency, “Meeting the health needs of our people is one of the most important ways we can make our American promises come true.” And as if foreseeing the future, Truman noted that Republicans never “come forward with plans of their own. … They just want to stand still, with things as they are, or they even want to move backward.”

Meanwhile, our health care mess continues.

Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College.




Trump says he may veto extension of Obamacare subsidies
By Julie Steenhuysen
Mon, January 12, 2026

Jan 11 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on ​Sunday he might veto legislation ‌to extend federal health insurance subsidies, injecting fresh ‌uncertainty into a debate that has pitted congressional Republicans against Democrats and threatened to raise premiums for millions ⁠of Americans.

Expiration ‌of the health insurance tax breaks at the end of ‍2025 left millions of Americans facing significant price hikes for coverage.

The Republican-controlled U.S. House ​of Representatives on Thursday passed ‌the Democratic-backed legislation that would restore the subsidies to the Affordable Care Act, with 17 Republicans joining Democrats.

The Senate, which is also controlled by ⁠Republicans, has already rejected ​a similar bill, but ​House passage could spur a compromise.

Americans have until January 15 ‍to enroll ⁠in ACA coverage for this year, although the Trump administration could ⁠extend that deadline.

(Reporting By Jarrett Renshaw and Julie ‌Steenhuysen; Editing by Tom Hogue ‌and Sergio Non)

 

Who Would Be Most interested in Killing Jeffrey Epstein?

Everything seems to point to the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in his cell, then made to look as if he committed suicide. 

The question is who would find it very convenient to see Epstein silenced permanently? Pedophiles for sure. And there are many of them around. But I'll let you decide WHICH pedophile is most liable to suffer from Epstein revealing his pedophile friends. People in high, very high positions, with enough money and access to kill Epstein in his cell. People who have for a while now decided that the Epstein Files are nothing, that they are behind us. People who instigate assassinations in high seas or plot to overturn governments... all intended to distract the American public.

Have you noticed how, since the invasion of Venezuela and the express intention to take Greenland, no one talks anymore about the Epstein Files? To whose advantage is the silence on the Epstein Files?

I think this assassination is like the Kennedy assassination. Do you want me to believe that all the capabilities of the US government have been unable to pinpoint the party responsible? Sometimes, state security in the US parallels state security in totalitarian regimes: The nature and the motive of the crime are so destabilizing to the power in place  that it is best to not disclose the truth. Kennedy was assassinated by a White Protestant cabal that did not want a Catholic to ascend to power in the US.

Right now, the Trump administration is essentially hiding the truth behind the "suicide" of Jeffrey Epstein because it would destabilize the Trump regime, which has all the accoutrements of a totalitarian Radical Right, White upremacist dictatorship. 

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Jeffrey Epstein’s brother says new autopsy details prove pedophile was murdered
Josh Marcus
Mon, January 12, 2026 

New autopsy details to be released in February will confirm that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein did not die by suicide in jail in 2019 as authorities say, but was murdered, according to his brother.

“Jeffrey was murdered, and more autopsy facts will be coming out in February that prove it,” Mark Epstein told NewsNation on Friday.

Mark, who identified his brother’s body after the alleged trafficker was found dead in a New York prison cell while awaiting trial, told the outlet the injuries he saw “didn’t correspond to the way his body was found hanging.”

Epstein later hired Dr. Michael Baden, a former New York City medical examiner, to observe the autopsy by city officials, and the examiner concluded in 2019 that the evidence “points to homicide rather than suicide.”

Official reviews, however, have concluded Epstein died of his own accord.

A 2023 Department of Justice inspector general report concluded that a number of prison oversight failures contributed to the death, though it ultimately ruled that no one else was involved.

Last year, facing pressure to deliver on Trump campaign promises to disclose the Epstein files, the DOJ and FBI reviewed the material again, and they again concluded that Epstein died by suicide.

Nonetheless, there are persistent theories that Epstein was killed to protect his powerful friends and associates, who have included high-profile executives and world leaders.

“There are only three ways to die in prison,” Mark Epstein added in his NewsNation interview. “Suicide, natural causes or murder. And Jeff was murdered. I want to know who killed him and on whose behalf?”


The Trump administration’s incomplete release of the Epstein files has fueled already widespread speculation that Epstein did not die by suicide (AFP via Getty Images)

Imprisoned Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell has also said she believes he didn’t die by suicide.

The White House has faced allegations that it is engaging in a cover-up of the full Epstein story, owing to Donald Trump’s past friendship with the late pedophile.

A bipartisan revolt in Congress pressured the president to sign a bill releasing more of the files, though lawmakers accuse the administration of failing to comply with the bill's terms and have said they are drafting contempt charges against Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The administration has strongly denied that Trump was aware of or involved in any of Jeffrey Epstein’s wrongdoing.

Traveling. Reduced Postings for a while.

US-Born White American Man Fornicates with Au Pair and Kills His Wife

He's no migrant. He's no immigrant. He is a pure entitled white American male whose rotten pseudo-Christian conservative morals have brought the US down into decline and decadence. Like other entitled white Americans - the Trump types - they believe the law applies only to foreigner, migrants, and dark-skinned immigrants. 

Brendan Banfield f - - - his much younger Brazilian au pair [I wonder if she's legal, coming from a garbage shithole majority-Black country], then together they set up to shoot Banfield's wife to death and blame another man. 

Too bad he's undeportable. 

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Husband charged in double homicide after having affair with au pair is going on trial in Virginia

OLIVIA DIAZ

Sun, January 11, 2026 

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man who had a relationship with a Brazilian au pair is going to trial Monday in what prosecutors say was an elaborate double-murder scheme to frame another man in the stabbing of his wife.

Brendan Banfield is charged with aggravated murder in the February 2023 killings of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at the Banfields' home in northern Virginia. He has pleaded not guilty in the case.

Banfield and Juliana Peres Magalhães, the family’s au pair, were with the wife and Ryan on the morning the victims were killed in the primary bedroom of the Banfield home, court records say. Authorities have said on that day, Banfield and Magalhães told officials they saw Ryan, a stranger, stabbing the wife after he entered the house. Then they each shot the intruder, Banfield and Magalhães said at the time.

Prosecutors have painted a different picture, arguing that Brendan Banfield and Magalhães lured Ryan to the house and staged it to look like he and the au pair shot a predator in defense. Officials have said Banfield and Magalhães had a romantic affair beginning the year before the killings.

Both the au pair and husband were arrested between 2023 and 2024 and initially handed murder charges in the case. In 2024, Magalhães pleaded guilty to a downgraded manslaughter charge after giving a statement to officials confirming parts of their theory.

In that statement, Magalhães said she and Brendan Banfield created an account in his wife’s name on a social media platform for people interested in sexual fetishes. There, Ryan connected with the account in Christine Banfield’s name, and the users made plans to meet on the morning of Feb. 24, 2023, for a sexual encounter that would involve a knife, authorities said based on the statement from Magalhães.

Prosecutor Eric Clingan said last year that the au pair's statement helped the state solidify its theory ahead of trial.

“With 12 different homicide detectives, there were 24 different theories,” Clingan said. “Now, one theory.”

Not all officials investigating the case have believed Banfield and Magalhães catfished Ryan.

Brendan Miller, a former digital forensic examiner with the Fairfax County Police Department, testified last year that he analyzed dozens of devices and concluded Christine Banfield had connected with Ryan herself through the social networking platform.

An evidence analysis team at the University of Alabama peer-reviewed and affirmed Miller’s digital forensic findings, according to evidence submitted to the court.

Miller was transferred out of the department’s digital forensics unit in late 2024, though a former Fairfax County commander testified the reassignment was not punitive or disciplinary.

John Carroll, Banfield's attorney, argued that Millers' transfer was directly tethered to the case. He also said in court that Fairfax County police reassigned the case’s lead detective after that man had pushed back on the top brass’ catfishing theory.

“It is a theory in search of facts rather than a series of facts supporting a theory,” Carroll said.

Banfield, whose daughter was at the house on the morning of the killings, is also charged with child abuse and felony child cruelty in connection with the case. He will also face those charges during the aggravated murder trial.

 

Neil Young: "Every Move he Makes is to Build Instability so he Can Stay in Power"

 

One of rock music's most respected voices says that Donald Trump is "destroying America"
Paul Brannigan
Sat, January 10, 2026 at 1:32 AM GMT+2·2 min read


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Neil Young has called out US President Donald Trump for making America a "disaster", and called on US citizens to "rise up" in peaceful protests against his regime.

Young delivered his acerbic condemnation of Trump in an strongly-worded editorial piece on the Times Contrarian section of his website.

"Wake up, people!" he writes. "Today the USA is a disaster. Donald Trump is destroying America bit by bit with his staff of wannabes, people with no experience or talent, closet alcoholic wife beaters, inexperienced leaders who only know how to lie to keep favor with Trump’s falseness so they can hold their unearned positions in his inept government, a Congress full of Republicans acting like idiots with no conscience…He has divided us. How did we elect these creeps who have no spin[e], no values, no conscience, no way to save the USA".

"We need to take Trump at his word," he continues. "Make America Great Again. It won't be easy while he is trying to turn our cities into battlegrounds so he can cancel our elections with marshal law and escape all accountability…Something has to change this. We know what to do. Rise up. Peacefully in millions. Too many innocence [sic] people are dying.

"It’s ICE cold here in America. There was no ICE before Trump. No soldiers in the streets before Trump. Every move he makes is to build instability so he can stay in power.

"He knows nothing about love," Young concludes. "He does not know you are. Use your love of life, your love of one another, your love of children and theirs and ours. Peacefully. Now."

Wake up, people! Today the USA is a disaster. Donald Trump is destroying America

Neil Young

Young's editiorial follows on from another piece where he expressed his outrage at the killing of Renee Nicole Good by a US immigration agent in Minneapolis on January 7.

"This morning an ICE officer shot a woman in the face three times for no reason in Minneapolis," he wrote. "These ICE people do not operate like police. They are thugs. poor ID. Covered faces. Is ICE the new American Thug police?"

Young also hit out at the administration's controversial comments on taking over Greenland, and at the removal of women and people of colour from military leadership.

This is not the first time Young has condemned Donald Trump's presidency. Last August, the singer-songwriter released a track called Big Crime in which he offered a searing indictment of Trump's second term in the White House.

The lyrics for one section of the song run:

"Got to get the fascists out
Got to clean the White House out
Don’t want soldiers on our streets
There’s big crime in DC at the White House"

Trump Center for the Performing Farts: Hillbilly Band to Replace Washington Opera

Richard Grenell, Trump's butler and political appointee to the Donald J Trump Center for the Performing Farts and its Zionist spokesperson Roma Daravi have decided to cancel the agreement with the Washington Opera and replace it with a long series of Hillbilly performers, including Hillbilly Rockstarz who will perform with their hit "Beer Never Broke My Heart" and some oldies but goldies like Uncle Dave Macon's “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy”.

The move is intended to bring an end to the leftist communist elitist takeover of the Center - formerly known as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and now re-branded for America's glory as the Donald J Trump Center for the Performing Farts - and bring to the capital the wholesome "Christian family values" music that is cherished by our Dear Leader and Big Daddy Donald J Trump, and which represents the real America that has long been hijacked by dark-skinned, unchristian, unamerican leftwing lunatics, socialists, communists, immigrants and other haters of America. 

Indeed, the Washington National Opera will be leaving the Center, and according to the Zionist spokesperson of the DJT Center for the Performing Farts, Roma Daravi, the Washington National Opera group has “presented ongoing financial challenges for well over a decade” that “long predate the current leadership.”

Daravi has been tasked with putting a positive spin on the massive flight of many of the country's outstanding artists and slandering said artists. Apparently, those leftwing lunatic artists with their Communist America-hating music are not in line with the Dear Leader's vision and instructions for an American art rooted in the Appalachian Hillbilly traditions of white settler America that built this nation with massive ethnic cleansing, slavery, inbreeding and moonshining.




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Opera officials told the paper that new venues in Washington D.C. have been lined up but that no leases have been signed. They declined to name specific venues.

With the passing of the resolution, the WNO will now seek to move its performances out of the center’s opera house and reduce the number of performances staged there.

The decision marks the end of a partnership between the Kennedy Center and the WNO that dates back to 1971.

The WNO seems to dislike Donald Dumb's leeching off the prestigious Kennedy Center and rebranding it under a MAGA Radical Right ideology that denigrates women, dark-skinned people, immigrants and any human being who is not white protestant anglo-saxon, and often refers to "these people" as shithole, garbage and filthy.

Our Dear Leader Donald J Dumb has added his name to the prestigious Kennedy Center last month without the required congressional approval. The Dear Leader believes that leeching off an existing entity is a reasonable way to acquiring aura when none exists. In the American Dream, you can be an illiterate ignorant bum and still become refined as an artist by simply squatting inside an arts center. [For context: "leeching" describes a person or entity that exploits others for their gain, often without reciprocation. It implies a parasitic relationship where one party drains resources, time, or emotional energy from another].  Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images

Several well-known performers have canceled planned events since Donald Dumb took over the center, hybridized his name with the Kennedy name (to gain prestige by parasitic means) and replaced Arts with Farts. Among the lunatic leftwing communist and socialist haters of America who have decided to end their contracts with the Center, are comedian Issa Rae, Rhiannon Giddens, Kristy Lee, Wayne Tucker, and the foreign Mexican Sonia De Los Santos.

Chairman and Dear Leader Donald Dumb and his butler Grenell are now securing contracts with real homemade American musicians and performers, with a focus in 2026 on Hillbilly country music, so as to bring back its soul to America.

At the next scheduled performance, Hillbilly Rockstarz will usher the new artistry era at the Dumb Center for Performing Farts with their hit "Beer Never Broke My Heart" and some oldies but goldies like Uncle Dave Macon's “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy”.

Trump's Desperation at Growing Old: 2026 will be Much Much Worse

Trump's growing old and becoming limited in his body and mind are making him more desperate. The ultra-narcissist cretin cannot bear to accept mortality. In the face of such an inexorable decline, narcissists become more emboldened, enraged and therefore dangerous, especially if they hold the reins of power.

Trump is actually admitting that he is "infallible" when he says that the only thing that keeps him under check is “my own morality.” But Trump has no morality, we all know that. He abides by no code, norm, law or principle, except money. If a jerk like him becomes the sole arbiter of his own actions, the country is in deep trouble. Plus the jerk is getting jerkier by the day.

 

“Do you see any checks on your power on the world stage?” a New York Times reporter asked Trump. “Is there anything that could stop you if you wanted to?” “Yeah, there’s one thing,” the jackass replied. “My own morality, my own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop it. And that’s very good. I don’t need international law.” He doesn't care for any law in fact. 

His raid in Venezuela and abduction of Nicolas Maduro are controversial not because Maduro is a bad ruthless dictator. They are bad because they violate the law. If the low quality of a country's ruler is the sole criterion for raping that country, then Trump should raid Bejing and kidnap Xi Jinping, the leader of the largest, vilest Communist human rights abusing country. Same thing with Russia. But cretin cowardly criminals like Trump go only after easy, "disposable" targets. He wouldn't dare do to China or Russia what he did to Venezuela.

Then again, the desperation of an aging increasingly senile old man is making him accelerate his execution of violent policies. He's gone completely off the tracks because he no longer sees a destination at the end of his journey, other than rot somewhere in a wheelchair surrounded by nurses and diaper changers. The man-child has no time, and only a rapidly deteriorating brain, left to "accomplish" the greatness he sees in himself. 

He wants to steal Greenland from the European Union, our ally and fellow NATO member Denmark, “whether they like it or not.” No wonder he and Netanyahu and the criminal Zionists get along so well. The Zionists want Palestine, whether the Palestinians like it or not. Any jerk can come up with a million pretexts for acting illegally and immorally, but these are only pretexts, not substantive reasons, that do not stand the scrutiny of what is right. The law of the jungle - might makes right - has accompanied humanity for thousands of years. It still operates today in our enlightened present. But it is still understood to be an immoral approach to human relationships.

That is why and how this jackass administration claims that "the courts trying to stop him are illegitimate authorities or usurping his power", according to CNN's Maggie Haberman who adds, “We are clearly seeing him flex, and he is emboldened in a way I don’t think we’ve ever seen before. But where that leads remains to be seen.”

This year, 2026, will see Trump's dementia accelerate exponentially, and with it his insane policies. In a feedback loop, the more he is demented, the more vile and illegal will be his policies, which in turn reinforces the demented "grandeur" he believes he embodies, and on and on. The November congressional elections might - just might - slam some brakes on his uncontrolled political diarrhea, assuming a tiny chunk of the morons who voted for him have regained their senses. 

Why Is it Hard for MAGA Morons to Comprehend that Trump is an Idiot?

Answer: Because they themselves are idiots. Or if they're not, they're white racist xenophobes who love his racism and vulgarity.

Besides those who eventually can no longer bear the dissonance between what they know is right and what Trump shows himself to be, there are those who will never change their minds because they are stubborn cowards who know they were wrong but cannot admit it to themselves. These, my friends, are the Trump Base: Coward and racist pseudo-Christian hypocrites.

They're all from the backward deplorable states of the union: Florida, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Nebraska, Missouri, etc.

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"It Was That Moment That I Realized We Had An Idiot In The Presidency:" Former Trump Supporters Are Confessing The Aha Moments When Things Finally Clicked
Lily Grossinger
Fri, January 9, 2026

As the political landscape grows more turbulent and unpredictable by the day, we asked people who voted for Trump to reflect on that decision, given what we know now about how events are unfolding. Here's what 22 brutally honest Trump voters had to say:

1. "My opinion has changed. The handling of the Epstein files has shown me that he is truly evil. It’s almost like every harmful thing he claims others have done or are doing, he has done or is doing. [That is the Roy Cohn dogma] Just a total fraud. I’m embarrassed for ever voting for him. And he is not a Christian. More like the anti-Christ."—Anonymous, 30, Male, South Georgia

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2. "I 100,000% regret voting for Trump." —Anonymous, 30, Female, Miami, FL

3. "When I cast my vote for Trump in the most recent election, I did so out of my own ignorance. [Exactly. MAGA morons are illiterate morons, the deplorables, as Hilary Clinto called them]. I simply thought — with little to no policy-based research — that Trump would be the better choice. My bias, social influence, and the echo chambers surrounding me made it seem like the obvious choice. After educating myself more, I now see just how dangerous he can be and deeply regret my vote."

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"Some of his actions that influenced my change of heart include: the way he is treating immigrants in our country (illegal or not, his treatment is inhumane), the conflict he has started in and around Venezuela, his appointment of less-qualified individuals to staff his cabinet and other influential positions in the government and his aversion to any truth that is not his own. All of these, among others, are reasons that my opinion of our 47th president has changed, and I regret that I was too late to realize the damage he could cause."—Anonymous, 26, Male, Nebraska 

4. "I don’t love his rhetoric, but it was expected after his last term. I wish he were more of a uniter than a divider, but I still support his underlying mission and goals. The nonsense I can do without." —Anonymous, 42, Male, Arkansas [Readers: Please note that Arkansas is the poorest, least educated state of the union, and historic home of the criminal white supremacist terrorists of the KKK. By "underlying mission", this imbecile moonshiner means the racist xeonophobic attempt by Trump at "bleaching" the nation of brown people].

5. "I've always walked the line between liberal and conservative views. I voted for Trump in 2024, and I truly regret and feel immense shame for doing so. I truly think it would have been better not to vote at all now. He's an ugly, vile human. The more I realize, the more I feel sick about it. My husband is the same way. Despite all of this, I can't help but feel our vote never mattered in a fully red state." —Anonymous, 26, Female, Alabama

6. "I knew we were screwed early in his first term, when he used a Sharpie to show us where the hurricane was headed. It was that moment that I realized we had an idiot in the presidency." —Anonymous, 76, Male, Missouri

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7. "My opinion has changed drastically. When I voted for him, I truly thought he would make things more affordable for my family. I really leaned into the argument that the economy was horrible under Biden. I have four kids and my wife, and I’m the breadwinner of our house. My wife is unable to work due to health issues. I bought into his nonsense about fixing the economy — and I looked past the rest of his nonsense, thinking it would help my children. Fast forward to now, and I can tell you it has still been hell affording everything."

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"On top of affordability, every day I shake my head in disgust from the headlines and his choice of people for his cabinet. Like RFK…R-F-Freaking-K."—Anonymous, 35, Male, Upstate New York

8. "I started changing my opinion of him when he started openly lying about the COVID-19 pandemic. I could hardly believe it when he started the Jan. 6 assault on our country. Since then, he’s only gotten worse, saying he hates Democrats and attacking anyone who disagrees with him or asks a serious question. The cabinet choices he’s made this time are unbelievable — the only qualification he looks for is ass-kissing. The folks who continue to support him are worse in my eyes than he is." —oldskeleton654

9. "My opinion has changed. I voted for him in the 2024 election, and he hasn’t done one good thing since then. He is just not a good person at all. Plain and simple." —Anonymous, 24, Female, Western Kentucky

10. "I voted for him because I thought he would be better on border security than Harris. But he lost me from the get-go when he pardoned all of the Jan. 6 felons, including those who violently attacked police. I never liked him as a person, and his performance since the inauguration has convinced me that he is a despicable piece of shit and the worst president in U.S. history."—maskedtraveler2765

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11. "Voting for him is the decision I regret the most. This man is pure evil, and I am so ashamed I fell for his charade."—Anonymous, 22, Female, Upstate New York

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12. "I thought Trump would bring some much-needed change to the existing two-party system. He did, but not the way I wanted him to. Instead of making real changes to help the people, he's failed to deliver on any of his promises, then turns around and lies about progress where there is none. It's all a big con game with Trump, and it's become increasingly obvious that he's nothing more than a man-child surrounded by yes-men who are scared to stand up to him as a voice of common sense. He's successfully exploited the religious right, xenophobes, racists, and misogynists. We've become a laughingstock of the world, and turned our backs on our allies to suck up to Russia and China."

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13. "Trump has brought us to the brink of a second civil war. I'm embarrassed to tell people I'm from the U.S. I'm even more embarrassed that no Republican has the balls to stand up to him. We elected a clown, and made the country a circus."—Anonymous, 48, Male, New Jersey

14. "His vindictiveness is so childish and selfish. I felt true fear for our country during the Jan. 6 riots, and even more fear when Trump was reelected in 2024. My mind was made up about him during his second election campaign, when he refused to denounce the Proud Boys during the debate." —Anonymous, 37, Female, Virginia

15. "A lot of things led to me losing faith in Donald Trump. And I want to point out — I was never a full-blown Trump supporter. I did vote for him, though. It seems like he’s completely lost touch with the average American, and he is clearly covering up his involvement in the Epstein files, along with adding his name to things like the Kennedy Center. Prices have continued to rise, insurance has increased, and I honestly feel like I’m in a worse financial position than I was a year ago, but they’re trying to gaslight us into believing that they’re making a huge impact and are a great administration."—Anonymous, 27, Female, Virginia

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16. "Although I do still support Trump, I guess I had too much faith in him. I thought by now my family would be able to afford groceries. I thought we would have a house, instead of paying $1,800 in rent each month for a small apartment. I assumed we would have a chance at 'the American Dream.' Wishful thinking, I guess." —Anonymous, 28, Female, Indiana

17. "My opinion has changed this term. I voted for Trump in 2016 and was generally satisfied with my decision at that time. So, when he was running again, I thought it would be similar, but I was wrong. I am especially unhappy with the way he's handling immigration. It seems very cruel and unnecessary — of course, I want people to come into this country legally, but the way the president regards immigrants is unacceptable and inhumane."—Anonymous, 28, Female, Wyoming

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18. "I voted for Trump in 2020 only. Then, concerns about abortion rights made me change my vote to Democrat in the 2024 election. If that hadn’t done it, the inhumane treatment of immigrants and lack of respect for due process would have turned me off entirely. What’s happening to immigrants in our country is appalling and disgusting." —Anonymous, 30, Female, Texas

19. "I think my 'final straw' was Trump's statement about Rob Reiner. I realize this may seem trivial at face value, given the other things Trump has said and done, but it revealed a profound lack of basic empathy and human decency. It was an eye-opening moment for me that made me think... maybe he is as vile as people say he is? There are still policies of his that I support. And I was never a full-fledged MAGA member, but rather a fiscal conservative who leans socially liberal. I align more with conservative policy, but the MAGA movement needs to go away. The best thing for our next candidate as a party would be to immediately distance themselves from MAGA."—Anonymous, 33M, Missouri

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20. "I feel like his first four years were great. This time, the prices keep going up, and this obsession with immigration is over the top. They promised they would go after criminals, but they are going to job sites and racially profiling people just trying to work. They are revoking work permits from people who obtained them legally. I'm so disappointed with this administration this time around." "Also, blaming housing prices on immigrants is absurd. Like people were crossing the border with half a million dollars...it is sad to think our president believes something as ridiculous as that."—Anonymous, 40, Female, Tennessee

21. "My opinion of Trump has changed drastically. My children are terrified of the police in general now because of his ICE raids. Normal consumption costs are still rising, which is concerning to single parents like myself." "He cut WIC, food stamps, and health insurance to low-income households. And he has increased taxes for low-income people (making less than $40K a year). I have dozens more reasons to despise the president of the United States."—Anonymous, 25, Female, Indianapolis

22. And finally, "I am incredibly anti-Trump now. I originally voted for him in the hopes of lower grocery prices, lower interest rates, and finally being able to afford a house. However, with the mistreatment of federal employees and military members, exponential increases in prices across the board, and his constant attempts to shift blame for everything, I truly regret the decision to vote for him. Additionally, the promise of deporting criminals was a lie. We're constantly seeing the administration go after U.S. citizens just because of how they look. I didn't vote to deport people who came here to try and make a living and build a better life." —Anonymous, 32, Female, Florida

Church Killings Bring the Faithful Closer to God

 

People hug each other after a fatal shooting in a parking lot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (Laura Seitz/The Deseret News via AP)
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In the United States, there is an inverse synergy betweeen the Second Amendment and the Sixth Commandment, for American Christians claim the right to bear arms that do not murder other people. Unfortunately, this is all fictional synergy for the more the religious the person is, the more likely he or she is to exercize their second amendment, and hence to murder people. 

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The deadly shooting outside a Utah church grew out of a dispute between funeral goers, police say
JACQUES BILLEAUD and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
Updated Fri, January 9, 2026






SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A complicated crime scene and uncooperative witnesses hindered Salt Lake City police efforts to investigate a fatal shooting outside a house of worship belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The shooting in a church parking lot Wednesday night left two people dead and six injured, including five who remained hospitalized with police protection Thursday. Investigators said the shooting erupted from a dispute between people who knew each other and were attending a funeral.

No arrests had been made as of early Thursday evening. Authorities say they do not know whether the shooting was gang-related and that they are having trouble getting witnesses to cooperate.

Police do not believe the shooting was random or motivated by animus against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known widely as the Mormon church.

“Our houses of worship are sacred, whatever the affiliation,” Salt Lake City Police Chief Brian Redd said Thursday. “We should all protect those spaces. We should all respect those spaces.”

All the shooting victims were adults. Vaea Tulikihihifo, 46, and Sione Vatuvei, 38, were identified as the two people killed.

The red brick church in northwest Salt Lake City mostly serves Tongan congregants and holds regular worship services in their native tongue, according to its website.

Latter-day Saint missionaries first arrived in Tonga in the early 1890s, according to the church’s website. At first, they had little success and the mission closed in 1897. But a decade later, missionaries opened a school in Neiafu, Tonga’s second-largest town, and began preaching across the islands. Dozens of other schools were started by missionaries and seven remain open. The church's membership in Tonga has grown to 68,000 and 175 congregations.

“Since the 19th century, the church has had a really, really prominent place in Tongan society. Depending on who you ask, somewhere between one-third and two-thirds of everybody who lives in Tonga are members of the LDS church,” said Matthew Bowman, a Claremont Graduate University professor specializing in U.S. religious history.

Today, more than a quarter of the Tongan population in the U.S. resides in Utah, where the church is headquartered. The state's Tongan population is about 23,000 and is mostly concentrated in Salt Lake County, according to census data.

On Wednesday night, residents from a housing complex next to the church flooded outside to help victims and console dozens of people who had been attending a funeral for a man identified by family on social media as Asi Sekona. Several family members could not immediately be reached for comment.

Brennan McIntire said he and his wife, Kenna, heard several loud gunshots from their apartment next to the church parking lot while watching TV. He jumped off the couch and ran outside in flip-flops to see what happened.

“As soon as I came over, I see someone on the ground,” he said. “People are attending to him and crying and arguing.”

Kenna McIntire came outside soon after and was rattled at the sight of first responders lifting an unconscious woman into an ambulance while people huddled around and sobbed.

The couple said they hear gunshots in their neighborhood almost daily, but never right outside their door.

“It was really heartbreaking to hear and see,” Kenna McIntire said.

About 100 law enforcement vehicles were at the scene in the aftermath, and helicopters flew overhead. Police said they were reviewing license plate readers and surveillance videos from nearby businesses in their search for suspects.

The church was cooperating with law enforcement and said it was grateful for first responders' quick efforts.

“We extend prayers for all who have been impacted by this tragedy and express deep concern that any sacred space intended for worship should be subjected to violence of any kind,” church spokesperson Sam Penrod said.

Latter-day Saints have been on heightened alert since four people were killed when a former Marine opened fire in one of their churches in Michigan in September and set it ablaze. The FBI found that he was motivated by “anti-religious beliefs” against the church.
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This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Vaea Tulikihihifo’s last name, which had previously been misspelled by Salt Lake City Police Chief Brian Redd.
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Billeaud reported from Phoenix. Associated Press writer Luis Andres Henao contributed from Princeton, New Jersey.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE EPSTEIN FILES?

Another Evangelical Jesus Freak Moron Caught Fornicating with His Pants Down

It never ends. It's been a long saga of sexual misadventures by Christian Evangelical charlatans. It begins with a crook or charlatan telling you to accept Jesus as your "personal" savior. I put [personal] between quotation marks to emphasize the marketing aspect of the American Christian charade. With "personal" you own Jesus. Out of billions and billions of humans that have inhabited, and continue to inhabit, planet earth, you have your own deeded property to Jesus. Very American.

The charlatan gets on a theater stage, otherwise known as a church, and act out a play, with much drama and emotional expression, acccompanied by physical skills like producing teary eyes (without the help of an onion) and verbal delivery skills. The charlatan sometimes yells and hollers. Sometimes he physically slaps people into a frenzy, a delirium tremens of intense acute faith. It can be powerful when you've known nothing else in life outside your cocoon of equally inbred morons. And people love theater; it's like a live movie. I think Donald Dumb should invite one of these charlatans (he knows many of them who are his "spiritual advisors" or "faith advisors") to his brand new Donald J Trump and John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Farts and have them deliver a show.

At various points during the charlatan's performance on stage, he asks his herd of brainless faithful to buy this shitty book or that silly DVD or donate to some unvetted missionary works in a shithole, filthy Third World country of garbage people, so that their money serves a "higher purpose". This goes on for some years, and the Christian charlatan has become a millionaire (without anyone noticing the rags-to-riches metamorphosis) running a huge scamming empire swindling poor old ignorant saps of their savings. Some build themselves palaces with air-conditioned kennels for the dozens of dogs they own.

Then one day, the Christian evangelical charlatan is found fornicating with a prostitute in a shady motel. Or he is discovered adultering with his associates' wife. Or with an underage child. The permutations of who could be the recipient of the charlatan's Christian love (usually done with any clothes on) are numerous. Sometimes they are found hanging out in men's toilets at airports with their feet extending slighty into the next stall....

The fall from grace is itself a huge performance in which guilt is blended with requests for forgiveness, more tears, more mascara running down the cheeks.... A masterful act of trickery for which not even Jesus himself has ever produced a healing miracle. In fact, I think these charlatans WANT to be caught because it frees them from the guilt of a life of lies. So, when they are caught, they make public amends, talk about grace and redemption.... Then fade out of sight with their millions. Their career has paid off nicely for a comfortable retirement.

It's deeply depressing to know that people still fall for religious scams. A majority of Americans say they are deeply religious. But why do they lose a sense of right and wrong when they are religious? Isn't religion supposed to give you principles to distinguish good from evil? Yet they spend their lives watching evil making fools of them and loving it, e.g. Donald Dumb and Philip Yancey, among many many others.
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After confessing to an extramarital affair, a popular evangelical author faces angry Christians known for ‘eating their own’
John Blake, CNN
Thu, January 8, 2026


Philip Yancey speaks during a service at Waterstone Community Church on April 18, 2019, in Littleton, Colorado. - Joe Amon/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post/Getty Images

Philip Yancey has sold millions of books and become a sought-after speaker because he tackles tough questions of faith that many Christians prefer to avoid.

But after confessing this week to an eight-year extramarital affair, the evangelical author faces a difficult question that even he may not be able to answer:

Will evangelicals extend the same grace to him that he so often wrote about in his books?

The initial answer to that question is a no, according to some evangelical pastors and commentators who reacted with shock and sadness to Yancey’s confession. They doubt whether many Christians will rally around the man who encouraged so many others struggling with their own failures of faith.

“Christians have become the best at eating their own,” Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer, lead pastor of the Sheridan Church in Oklahoma, told CNN.

“Those who have been forgiven so much should be willing to forgive others,” said Lahmeyer, who disclosed his personal struggles with pride and anger in a recent book, “Divided.” But, he added, “There is a self-righteousness that comes upon many Christians. They’ll look at the speck in their brother’s eye while totally ignoring the plank in their (own) eyes.”

Yancey’s ‘great shame’

Years before social media, Yancey went viral for his columns in Christianity Today, the evangelical magazine, and with his books, such as 2002’s best-selling “What’s So Amazing About Grace?”

A slender, bespectacled man with a sandy-brown afro, Yancey embodied the thoughtful, erudite evangelical. He could quote Dostoevsky as well as Deuteronomy. He sprinkled his books with candid admissions about his personal struggles, such as growing up as a “born and bred racist” in the segregated South before evolving into a man who championed racial justice.

In his writings, Yancey often returned to the theme of grace.

“Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more… And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less,” he once wrote.

A jail inmate in Denver, Colorado, reads a book by Philip Yancey in 2007. Yancey's books have sold an estimated 15 million-plus copies. - Karl Gehring/Denver Post/Getty Images

Yancey is 76 and has been married to his wife, Janet, for 55 years. He had hinted at marital struggles in past interviews.

But his public persona took a hit Tuesday when he issued a statement published in Christianity Today. In the statement, he confessed to an affair and said he would retire from writing, public speaking and social media.

“To my great shame, I confess that for eight years I willfully engaged in a sinful affair with a married woman,” Yancey said. “My conduct defied everything that I believe about marriage. It was also totally inconsistent with my faith and my writings and caused deep pain for her husband and both of our families.”

Yancey said he has committed himself to professional counseling and an “accountability program.” He said he realizes that his moral and spiritual failure will disillusion readers who “trusted in my writing,” and that “I grieve over the devastation I have caused.”

He also said he would not share more details out of respect for the other family affected by the affair. Yancey had been scheduled to speak Wednesday evening at a church service in Pasadena, California, but canceled his appearance. He did not return a request from CNN for comment.

Yancey was open about his marital challenges

Yancey had faced a series of massive personal challenges in recent years. In 2007, he almost died after he lost control of his Ford Explorer while driving on an icy Colorado road and broke his neck.

Yancey said in an interview eight years after the accident that it became a “hallmark event” that strengthened his marriage. He said he and wife, Janet, had been “coasting along, avoiding emotional land mines and resigned to living with certain recurring problems.” He said that he and his wife had very different personalities, were both “control freaks,” and it took them years to learn how to operate as a team “rather than rivals.”

“We both entered marriage with wounds: mine from church and family, and Janet’s from trying to find her identity as a third-culture missionary kid,” Yancey told a journalist. “I fell madly in love. I thought she did too – only later did I realize that she had adopted me as a kind of social work project. Yet when we said the ‘till death do us part’ vow, we meant it.”

In 2023, Yancey revealed that he’d been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and was already displaying mild symptoms. In a Christianity Today column that year, he said his wife was displaying “selfless, fierce loyalty” as she faced the prospect of being his caregiver.

Janet Yancey provided her own statement to go along with her husband’s confession this week. She said she was speaking from a place of “trauma and devastation” that only people who have been betrayed can understand.

“Yet I made a sacred and binding marriage vow 55 ½ years ago, and I will not break that promise,” she wrote. “I accept and understand that God through Jesus has paid for and forgiven the sins of the world, including Philip’s. God grant me the grace to forgive also, despite my unfathomable trauma. Please pray for us.”

Famous TV preacher Jimmy Swaggart's $12-million-a-year empire collapsed in the early 1990s after he was caught with prostitutes. - Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

Yancey’s revelation is just the latest scandal to rock the evangelical world. Many involve famous evangelical men accused of sexual infidelity, sexual harassment or other behaviors that some Christians would classify as sins. That list includes men like Carl Lentz, the former pastor of Hillsong Church, the Rev. Bill Hybels, a megachurch pioneer, the late evangelist Ravi Zacharias, and further back, televangelists Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker.

Other Christians may grant Yancey less mercy than his wife does

Some of Yancey’s peers in the evangelical subculture may not be as forgiving as his wife, according to pastors and fellow Christian authors who spoke to CNN. And they say these peers’ scorn won’t just be limited to Yancey.

Jonathan P. Walton, an evangelical author and speaker, said women are often doubly shamed when the Christian commentariat focuses on them.

“Now she (Janet Yancey) is forced to comment on these things, and she’s not a public figure, said Walton, author of “Beauty and Resistance: Spiritual Rhythms for Formation and Repair.” “She didn’t ask to be violated and betrayed and have that processed as public information.”

The mystery woman with whom Yancey had the affair will also suffer, Walton said.

“Women in the church are framed as temptresses and homewreckers,” said Walton, a senior resource specialist with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, an evangelical campus ministry. “I guarantee you that someone will try to figure out who she is and there will be blame cast on her.”

Others say that some Christians will try to turn Yancey’s compassionate model of Christianity against him.

Diana Butler Bass, a historian and author of the popular Substack newsletter The Cottage, said Yancey embodied an evangelical Christianity that valued grace and respect for different opinions. That type of evangelism, though, has narrowed its definition of grace in recent years, she told CNN.

“I think evangelicals will have a very mixed response (to Yancey’s affair),” said Bass, author of “A Beautiful Year,” a book of mediations based on the Christian calendar. “There will be some who will feel sorrow and they might extend grace in some way, shape or form, but in recent years evangelicalism has been increasingly closed to expressions of empathy and narrowed its definitions of grace.”

Bass said she suspects many evangelicals will turn on Yancey.

“They will say that his open theology was a result of moral sinfulness, and the two things are always connected in their mind…” she said. “The failing in his personal life will probably be used as a way to undercut his more generous theological message.”

Lahmeyer, the Oklahoma pastor, said pastors and Christian leaders often labor under the burden of expectations. Lahmeyer said he doesn’t know Yancey’s private life but added that in his experience, Christian leaders must learn how to “replenish themselves” to avoid emotional droughts that lead to sin.

“When they (Christian leaders) are tired and weary, we’ll make the dumbest decisions of our lives,” Lahmeyer told CNN. Those poor decisions get compounded when they become shameful secrets, he said.

“When you live a double life, that secret sin can grow. It gets worse, and the only way to break free from the double life is … to shine a light on that secret sin.”

Now that Philip Yancey has shined a light on a personal failure, he and his wife may now need something that words alone cannot supply.

In a 2015 interview with Plough publications, Yancey seemed to foreshadow what that might be. He said something about suffering that takes on a new meaning with this week’s confession.

“Suffering is not a mathematical puzzle,” he said. “It’s desperate human need. We should respond not with words but with practical acts of love and compassion.”

John Blake is a CNN senior writer and author of the award-winning memoir, “More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew.”