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  1. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/politics/trump-withdraw-un-organizations.html President Trump withdrew the United States on Wednesday from dozens of international organizations intended to foster multinational cooperation, cutting ties with a wide range of prominent forums addressing international security, law, trade, economics and human rights. Secretary of State Marco Rubio listed several reasons for the simultaneous withdrawal from so many international organizations, many of which are part of the United Nations. Pointing to waste, mismanagement and redundancy, Mr. Rubio more broadly suggested in his statement that the international influence gained from sending U.S. representatives to these organizations was ultimately not worth the effort. “It is no longer acceptable to be sending these institutions the blood, sweat and treasure of the American people, with little to nothing to show for it,” Mr. Rubio said, asserting that many of the organizations were “dominated by progressive ideology,” including gender equality and climate change. In trumpeting the withdrawal, Mr. Rubio suggested that it was in line with the Trump administration’s decision to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development. The United Nations did not immediately comment on the United States’ severing relationships with some of its organizations. An executive order, signed by Mr. Trump on Wednesday, follows a broader vision of American foreign policy that shuns the consensus of nations and building coalitions, focusing almost solely on projecting American power and dominance. But Mr. Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from international bodies stands out even when compared with the actions of other regional and world powers that are skeptical of international agreements on democracy, climate or human rights. Biden administration officials had argued that a withdrawal from those bodies would create a vacuum for U.S. rivals to exploit. For example, China and Russia are both members of the Global Counterterrorism Forum, the International Energy Forum and the International Renewable Energy Agency, as well as the U.N.’s International Law Commission, Peacebuilding Commission, Alliance of Civilizations and the Register of Conventional Arms. The United States withdrew from all of them on Wednesday. Many of the organizations listed in Mr. Trump’s executive order also do not appear to require direct membership from nations, but the move seemed to signal more broadly that the Trump administration was likely to refuse to cooperate with them. Mr. Trump has already pulled the United States out of many significant U.N. organizations, including UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural agency; the World Health Organization; and the U.N. Human Rights Council.
  2. Here's the story: https://www.npr.org/2026/01/05/nx-s1-5660698/nprs-archive-preserves-the-facts-of-the-jan-6-capitol-riot Below is the database.
  3. Since you put it that way, GO CONVICTS!
  4. https://archive.is/Navve The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis Wednesday is Jonathan Ross, the same officer who was dragged and injured by a fleeing driver in a separate incident last year, according to a person with knowledge of the case and verified by court documents. Little public information is available about Ross, described only by federal officials as “an experienced” officer. On Wednesday morning, Ross was embedded in a group of federal agents on a targeted crackdown in south Minneapolis when Good was shot. ICE has not reported the identity of the shooter and did not respond to request for comment for this story. A photo of Ross’s face has since circulated social media, as online sleuths have attempted to identify him. On June 17, 2025, Ross was participating in an arrest of Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, a Mexican citizen, in Bloomington last year. Munoz had previously been convicted of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct and had been put on a detainer by immigration officials. Munoz ignored the agents’ commands, including to fully roll down his car window, so Ross broke open his rear window and reached inside to unlock the door. Munoz put the vehicle in drive and accelerated onto the curb, the charges said. Ross was dragged alongside the vehicle and twice fired his Taser as Munoz weaved back and forth “in an apparent attempt to shake” him from the car. About 300 feet down the road, Munoz re-entered the street and the force knocked the officer from the car. The agent required 20 stitches for a deep cut in his right arm and another 13 stitches in his left hand, according to court documents. A jury convicted Munoz of assaulting a federal officer in December. Hours after the shooting Wednesday morning, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said the agent involved had “been dragged by a vehicle” in an earlier incident. At the time, she did not provide specific location details for where that occurred. But she described the unnamed officer as “an experienced” agent who’d been in similar situations before and “followed his training.” The Department of Homeland Security confirmed Thursday that the agent who killed Good was the same officer dragged by a suspect in Bloomington, Minn. last June. Although Ross was not named in the 13-page indictment of the driver, he is identified in several court records filed in the case, including photo exhibits from the hospital. He is also listed by name as a witness. A law enforcement source, who is not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed that Ross is the shooter.
  5. Has the number of undocumented drastically increased in MN within the last 24 hours? Because ICE has no legal authority over US citizens, beyond actual arrest and detention of non-citizens. Obviously, it's a show of federal force, but against whom? US citizens. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/border-patrol-minnesota-trump.html
  6. There is no paywall from the NYTimes on this, so no excuses for the fascists to play dumb. This was cold-blooded murder. Anyone who posts further on this topic, denying culpability by this thug, is complicit and a bootlicking authoritarian piece of shit. You are a collaborator.
  7. Just like the DOJ deleting all the case files associated with the Jan 6 insurrectionists.
  8. New dollar coin issued with Trump's face on it. NPRNew redesigned coins marking nation's 250th birthday begi...New coins marking the United States' 250th anniversary begin circulating this week. The Trump administration tweaked the design of some coins and is considering a dollar coin featuring the president.
  9. While the language in this post might be a little bit over the top, ICE agents are interfering with a peaceful protest in a public right-of-way outside what appears to be a detention center or some sort of facility. They are on the street, but even if they are on the sidewalk, that remains LOCAL public property. Question for the legal eagles: Are protestors required to comply with their orders since ICE, specifically, has no legal jurisdiction over US citizens unless they are interfering with operations or something like that?
  10. Why are you still financially supporting that loathsome fucking white supremacist by giving him clicks and driving traffic to his Nazi website?
  11. Eight is not enough. Cruz is a lost cause, but Cornyn?
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  13. He can be a bit of a blowhard at times. Welcome back, btw.
  14. Oh, I get that public sentiment could've risen from the 21% favoring the Shah's son in that poll, but I've also read that most of his support actually comes from the Iranian diaspora, so I'm trying to bear in mind that there could be propaganda accounts from that community. Just trying to keep an even keel on this, since so many previous uprisings have eventually been crushed. I certainly hope this is the one that brings down the mullahs, but I keep in mind that poll in which opinions on preferred types of government were split so that none of the choices had a strong plurality. So, sure, they might rally around him as a figurehead for the revolution, but that doesn't necessarily mean that support for his actual leadership as head of state would coalesce. Understand? I know it's nitpicky, but there are so many fucking Xitter accounts posing as independent journos with hidden agendas that I'm eternally skeptical of most of them now. That applies especially to ones like this one that don't show a link to anything.
  15. That do seem sketchy, especially if it's taking the opinion that this is a pro-Shah uprising with no apparent link. I'm sure that there are some calling for the Shah's sun to return, but that's not what this is all about necessarily. Of course, with no ties over there, I don't have any sense of authentic public sentiment aside from that poll I posted a couple of days ago.
  16. This one is kinda hard to watch, not because of any gore but just how sad it is. It sounds like there's a woman saying, "That's my wife!" This is a really good eyewitness account.
  17. I'm no Canecutter, but I do enjoy me some accents. If any of you happen to know any Africans/Carribeans with similar accents, advise them that if they find themselves in this situation as that Uber driver, they should state they are from South Carolina and speak a Gullah accent. Here's an example (video embedded in news article - no paywall): https://www.greenvilleonline.com/videos/news/2019/02/04/gullah-dialect-still-spoken-south-carolina/2653241002/
  18. I've seen a name posted on r/ICE_Raids, which I won't post on here because it appears that post over there has already been taken down. I will say, though, once I googled that name, I saw it was being widely spread on social media. In one of the videos, it begins a bit earlier, where it kinda looked like she was parallel parked at first, and then started to pull out. But she did stop and yield to the first ICE car. Now, I don't know whether her intention was to block the convoy by being perpendicular to the flow of traffic or if she was trying to merge, and the sudden yielding put her in an awkward spot that she was then stuck in. But she did yield. One of the first eyewitnesses seemed to suggest she was pulling a U-ee (funny, I've never seen that word spelled before), but that would've pointed her down the wrong way of a one-way street. I don't know why she would do that.
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