it’s a giant engine of billionaires and multimillionaires grabbing as much as they can, and, they are indeed anti-woke WOKE because they support Israel, are part of the Axis of Evil, and are Wackos

Paulo Kirk

Jan 16, 2026

Amazingly dead in the water media, Press:

The Pentagon announced Thursday it would take editorial control of independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes to refocus coverage on “warfighting” and remove “woke distractions.”

“The Department of War is returning Stars & Stripes to its original mission: reporting for our warfighters,” top Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement posted to the social platform X. “We will modernize its operations, refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon morale, and adapt it to serve a new generation of service members.”

War war, war war, and aren’t we so enlightened.

Lithuania sees a rising threat from Russia in the next three to five years, according to Vice-minister of National Defence Karolis Aleksa. He cites Russia’s military buildup, readiness to use force, and ambition to reshape Europe’s security as key drivers.

Lithuania’s preparations are a direct response to these developments.

If you don’t believe these two idiots deserve machetes to their fucking smiling faces, then you are the Anti-Woke Woke: California’s proposed wealth tax aims to go after billionaires’ balance sheets, but it largely sidesteps the way many ultrawealthy people actually generate spendable cash: they borrow against their assets, tax‑free, and never “realize” income in the first place. As long as that borrowing model stays intact, a one‑time levy on wealth may raise money once, but it does little to change the system that lets cash‑poor billionaires live richly while reporting very little taxable income.​

We are led by deadened minds: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 85, is heading for the exits after nearly four decades in Congress. So is her longtime deputy, Rep. Steny Hoyer, 86, and former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, 83.

But of the two dozen members of the Silent Generation now serving in the 119th Congress, more than half (13) have decided to run again in 2026, according to an NBC News review.

If you do not hope for mass suicides over there in that Genocidal State, then you are anti-woke WOKE: Herzog mourns US-Israeli reservist Joshua Boone, urges support for lone soldiers’ mental health

Not quite sure what Elbit lost? Prison rights, Elbit’s loss: How the Palestine Action hunger strike ‘won’?

As critically ill activists begin re-feeding in prison, campaigners and an MP say they believe the government made concessions

So, murder, rape, Gestapo State, job loss, Genocide, kidnapping a president and wife, threatening the world, those are fucking “priorities”? CNN poll finds majority of Americans say Trump is focused on the wrong priorities

Ahh, the neurperversity of THAT religious cuntry: Cyclist to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day with 1,000-km bike ride spelling ‘Never Again’

Oh, shit, back to suing for the murder of a child. This is AmeriKKKa. Renee Good’s Family Should Be Able to Sue the Officer Who Killed Her

Come on, Gestapo and Runaway Slave Patrols, it is ICE: Agent Who Shot Renee Good Was Trained to Track and Apprehend Fugitives

From Iraq to ICE, Jonathan Ross’s career reflects a 20-year government effort to reshape immigration enforcement with a military mind-set.

Oh, the Press. ‘Tip of the iceberg’: The FBI search of a reporter’s home has newsrooms bracing for more. This week, the Justice Department took the extraordinary step of obtaining a search warrant for Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home. FBI agents arrived early on Wednesday and seized Natanson’s phone, two computers and her Garmin watch.

Inside the Washington Post newsroom, the impact was immediate.

On Wednesday night, Bondi alleged on Fox News that Natanson’s devices “contain classified material regarding our foreign adversaries, and that’s what we’re looking into now.”

The search warrant said the raid was connected to the case of a Maryland contractor who was charged last week with illegally retaining classified records. The Justice Department alleged that the contractor accessed a top-secret intelligence report related to an unnamed foreign country.

Courts have repeatedly upheld the rights of journalists to obtain and report on leaked documents, even highly classified ones.

But “in modern times, everything about the Espionage Act when it comes to treatment of the press has been based on norms and policy, not law,” national security attorney Mark Zaid told CNN.

Okay, so Karim and Vanessa and Fiorella, okay, they might have their thumbs on what some of us knew decades ago:

Fireworks? He’s been watching too many Chinese and Korean movies: Ex-Navy SEAL convicted for plot to kill officers at California protest

Vandenberg was traveling from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego on June 12 when he stopped at a New Mexico travel center to purchase fireworks.

He informed an attendant there that he was planning on setting them off at police officers at the No Kings Day protests taking place several days later, according to Justice.

Now that’s a face of a pedophile I’d like to shoot off a few dozen Big Bertha rockets into. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed a bill that allows schools participating in the National School Lunch Program to serve whole and 2% milk alongside fat-free and low-fat versions.

The move comes a week after the US Department of Health and Human Services released new US dietary guidelines that highlight whole-fat dairy products, a recommendation that has received mixed reviews from nutritionists and medical experts.

The new legislation, which passed Congress last year by unanimous consent, rolls back US Department of Agriculture rules approved by the Obama administration that required milk served in schools to be fat-free or low-fat, part of efforts to fight the childhood obesity epidemic. The new law also allows nondairy beverages that are “nutritionally equivalent” to fluid milk to be offered, such as fortified plant-based milks.

Ahh, that Hasbara Network, CBS: Internal bleed, as in fucking feces all over Ross’ underwear?

“There was big internal dissension about the ‘internal bleeding’ report here last night,” the CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said. “It was viewed as a thinly veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who’d carry it online.”

“Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin’s justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources,” said a second network staffer, who was also not authorized to comment.

Finally, I get attacked for pointing out that Karp is Jewish, or Ellison is Jewish, or that CBS Weiss is Jewish. Well well, here we go, then a full Substack that says it like it is:

It’s time to break these glass ceilings of Jewish feelings

Iman

Dec 29, 2025

Since October 7th and perhaps from the inception of Jewish supremacy in the levant, almost every intervention made by Jewish anti Zionists on the Western left has corroded the movement not strengthened it. These figures like the JVP, Jewish Currents, Jews Against Social Economic Injustice, and 99.9% of anti Zionist Jews at large position themselves as moral custodians of acceptable discourse. Token schoolmarms chiding everyone that a particular word, phrase, or framing carries historical baggage, resembles something once said by a white supremacist, or simply makes them uncomfortable.

What makes this fixation intolerable is the context in which it unfolds. An ongoing “Final Solution”, one in which entire Palestinian lineages are annihilated in real time, half of them children. Tone and wording being treated as urgent moral crises is not merely absurd, it is obscene in the face of Palestinian blood. After more than a century of dispossession and three years of intensified destruction, demanding that Palestinians and their allies prioritize Jewish comfort over Palestinian survival represents a profound moral inversion. It reverses the reality of victim and offender.

Israel has flattened entire neighborhoods and erased generations, yet our Jewish allies continue to center language, optics, and propriety. In doing so, they make genocide secondary to the management of discourse. The result is a political culture in which fear of being labeled “anti-Semitic” or “extreme” outweighs concern for human beings being exterminated before our eyes.

Jewishness nominally a religion, in Israel an ethnicity is the central identity at the heart of the Israeli project in Palestine, both in its raison d’etre and modus operandi via Jewish settlement. Being Jewish regrettably has to be treated as a potential source of threat and cooption in the Palestine solidarity movement, and understood and screened accordingly. Anything less than this vigilance represents a clear risk to the ultimate aims of the movement. The Jewish people most effective in their work for Palestine have retired their Jewish identity from their public identity. Anti Zionist Jews are often treated as token arbiters who determine whether critiques are acceptable or labeled antisemitic. This is utterly absurd, consider the historical parallel with Jews and Nazis. No one would suggest that “good Germans” could police Jewish opinion on the Holocaust. The comparison makes clear just how illogical and inappropriate the current arrangement is. In practice, Palestinian voices and analyses are subordinated to the comfort and validation of those whose political project is directly responsible for the violence being resisted.

Jewish and western anti Zionists who claim to support Palestinian liberation should be using their voices exclusively to confront the institutions, communities, and power structures that sustain Israeli state violence; namely their synagogues, institutions against ”anti-Semitism” and the like. But Palestinian solidarity spaces are repeatedly redirected away from confronting Zionism and its Jewish supremacy as a political project and toward accommodating Jewish sensibilities. This dynamic is not accidental. It is produced and maintained through a set of recurring mechanisms that structure the limits of permissible solidarity.

Within Western Palestinian solidarity movements, three interrelated phenomena illustrate how this containment operates.

Authority laundering

The first phenomenon is best understood as authority laundering. This occurs when individuals who have been embedded within Israeli state or military institutions are repositioned as uniquely credible critics of Israeli violence. Their proximity to power is reframed as insight, and their participation in systems of occupation and killing is treated not as disqualifying, but as a source of moral authority. Some great examples of such are Rebecca Vilkomerson, Arielle Angel, Peter Beinart, Yoav Litvin and Shaiel Ben Ephram.

This laundering centers voices within so called “anti Zionist” Jewish institutions; critique is redirected away from structural analysis and toward narratives of personal regret, tragic miscalculation, or reformist correction. Violence is framed as an error not the logical outcome of an ideological and material project. Jewish Zionism or Judeo Nazism itself is shielded from being named as the direct driving force behind Palestinian annihilation.

Supporters of this practice often claim that such figures help “humanise” the issue or persuade mainstream audiences. This rationale exposes the underlying hierarchy: credibility is granted not on the basis of truth or accountability, but on proximity to power. Palestinian analysis is displaced by voices more palatable to Western institutions. Radical critique is neutralized under the guise of balance.

Linguistic containment

Linguistic containment, the second phenomenon, is closely linked to authority laundering. Linguistic containment subjects discourse to relentless policing in the name of civility, precision, or ethical responsibility. Example of this is the care with which everyone must define Jews as eternal victims of white supremacy or the insistence to infantalise them as unintendingly innocent IOF operatives (to loosely quote Peter Beinart who said IOF soldiers are not monsters but the children of his friends). Language that explicitly identifies Jewish supremacy, settler colonial logic, or ideological intent as drivers of Palestinian destruction is treated as excessive, dangerous, or morally suspect.

This obsession with wording does not clarify reality; it muddles it. By narrowing the range of acceptable language, linguistic containment restricts not only expression but political imagination itself. Structural violence is abstracted, agency is diffused, and responsibility is obscured behind euphemism. Conversations that should focus on siege, bombardment, displacement, and mass death are instead diverted into debates over tone.

Defenders of this approach argue that careful language preserves coalition building and prevents harm. In practice, however, linguistic containment ensures that outrage never matures into structural indictment. The critique remains symbolic, disciplined, and ultimately non-threatening to the Jewish institutions like Chabad, Hillel, ADL perpetuating the violence.

The enforcement arm aka Jew worshippers aka unpaid philosemitic shields

The third phenomenon is the enforcement arm created by an almost mandatory esteem for Jewish culture and people in the West, whereby Jewish identity becomes synonymous with victimhood or virtue (Nobel prizes! High IQs!), while attaching negative characteristics or behaviour to the identity or community, despite its formulation around Zionism, is regarded problematic. Some accept “philosemitism” as a legitimate term for this concept, while the more accurate term Jew worship, is regarded as problematic. Effective language is confronted forcefully, while inaccessible academic language is encouraged to sustain authority laundering and linguistic containment. “Goyim”, pseudo radicals function as volunteers, intervening to police speech, shield Jews from harsh characterisation, and enforce the boundaries of acceptable critique. This intervention is often framed as neutrality or opposition to bigotry, but its effect is the preservation of asymmetric power.

This enforcement reveals a stark double standard. Palestinians are subjected to collective punishment, surveillance, and mass killing, while those implicated in the machinery of that violence are afforded infinite interpretive charity. Demands for nuance and restraint flow in only one direction. This pattern mirrors earlier political moments, most notably the post 9/11 era, when Muslims were collectively blamed and dehumanized for crimes they did not commit, while state violence was endlessly contextualized and excused.

By prioritizing the management of speech over the confrontation of power, the enforcement arm transforms solidarity into a form of moral supervision. Clarity is penalized, caution is rewarded, and movements are rendered incapable of escalating beyond symbolic dissent.

What this produces

These three phenomena do not merely shape discourse; they structure the limits of solidarity itself. Authority laundering determines who is recognized as legitimate. Linguistic containment determines what may be said. Enforcement ensures compliance. The cumulative effect is a political environment where Palestinian suffering is acknowledged rhetorically but insulated from any analysis capable of threatening the institutions responsible for it.

This dynamic helps explain why Palestinian liberation is so often affirmed in principle yet endlessly deferred in practice. Any movement unwilling to interrogate these internal mechanisms risks reproducing the very hierarchies it claims to oppose, protecting Jewish power while managing, rather than confronting, Palestinian annihilation.

This is not allyship; it’s cowardice

What ultimately stands revealed is not merely a failure of discourse, but a failure of political courage. A solidarity movement that allows its language, leadership, and limits to be shaped by proximity to power cannot hope to dismantle that power. When authority is laundered, speech is contained, and enforcement is outsourced to Jews and their multiplying Jew worshiping gatekeepers, Palestinian liberation is transformed from an urgent material demand into a managed ethical posture: solidarity as administration. If Palestinian lives are to matter beyond symbolic acknowledgment, then the movement must be willing to forgo respectability, abandon the comfort of sanctioned critique, and name the structures responsible for destruction without deference or fear. Anything less ensures that genocide is endlessly debated, carefully worded, and politely condemned, while continuing, uninterrupted, in plain sight.

As always I do not accept any kind of monetary tips or tokens and I am chronically opposed to profiteering of the genocide of my Palestinian siblings. I do however want your every extra dime for life saving operations like the Sameer Project and Gaza Funds.

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In Israel, public tributes to Charlie Kirk include a street naming, a mural, and a missile in Gaza

Israel will honor the late Charlie Kirk for his work combating antisemitism at a conference in late January, four months after the conservative activist was assassinated while speaking at an American university.

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More White Man’s Fucking Follies: GOP Congressman Calls McBride “Gentleman” During Her Tribute to Women—Including a Cancer Victim’s Memory

Finally, Iran, and the great Satan, AmeriKKKa, left and right of their manure piles: The reactions to the protests in Iran have been insufferable.

Predictably from the right, but also from the left. And often they’ve been indistinguishable.

I watched a viral Instagram video by a western comedian leftist influencer who ‘explained’ what was happening in Iran by repeating CIA/Mossad/MI6 talking points about the ‘regime.’

Owen Jones wrote a Guardian article reproducing the same western security service talking points about the ‘barbarous regime.’ (One pro-regime change Guardian journalist incidentally, has written 19 articles in 16 days for the paper.)

Multimillionaire leftist streamer Hasan Piker said the US should lift sanctions on the condition of elections in Iran.

The right were more inclined to also demand the bombing of Iran. But on the evilness of the ‘regime,’ (a manipulation of language never applied to one-party states aligned with western imperialism), well, everyone was on board.

The only distinguishing feature was the leftist invocation to stand with the protestors and against Trump. This was presented by people like Owen Jones as the goldilocks position, the product of the virtuous, compassionate, rapier-sharp mind.

The drivel from the right wasn’t surprising and can be dismissed, but the drivel from the left, and the overlap therein, needs to be examined.

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Finally, ICE agents set to do Pap smears and rectal examines:

Health care workers in the Twin Cities report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are entering hospitals with detained individuals, sometimes with warrants and sometimes without, and they are frequently present during patient care.

Their presence is terrifying medical staff and raising concerns about patient safety, according to five nurses at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs.

“A part of me wants to go on the news with my face and scream this at the top of my lungs,” an HCMC nurse said. “But I am very much right in the middle of this.”

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We always do the game of wanting a news personality to do the interviewing to help us poor dumb as a bag ‘o’ rocks folks understand what we can plainly see with our eyes & read in primary sources

Paulo Kirk

Jan 15, 2026

She signed up to fight the war on terror? It always amazes me how these folk actually believed that Bush Lie, and two tours, no, and now she’s a celebrity.

Oh, darn, pointing the barrel at the Gestapo. Whoops:

Well, guns for hire: Kristi Noem is so incompetent that she pointed a firearm at the head of one of her own ICE agents during a photoshoot. She wanted to come across as ‘sexy and strong’ and simply ended up looking like the complete fool that she really is

And forget about MAGA this and MAGA that. These Republicans, before and after MAGA, are deeply disturbed and cheer on more deaths and maiming by Gestapo:

Oh, so I am getting this in my emails: “Deportation Industrial Complex”

But it really goes deeper than that:

How serious? U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Illinois) on Wednesday formally introduced articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, accusing her of obstructing congressional oversight of immigration enforcement efforts and abusing her position for personal gain.

“Secretary Noem has called my impeachment effort ‘silly.’ I want to tell her right now: Secretary Noem, you have violated your oath of office and there will be consequences,” Kelly said Wednesday at a press conference on Capitol Hill. “I am watching you. Members of Congress are watching you. The American people are watching you. And most of all, we are not liking what we are seeing. If you believe impeachment is ‘silly,’ then you are not taking your job or our Constitution seriously.”

Kelly said she filed three articles of impeachment against Noem.

Enemies list a la, well, you name the dictator__________________________________ (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran, Suharto in Indonesia, Augusto Pinochet in Chile, and Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua) !

Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado has been contacted by the Justice Department about a video he and a group of lawmakers recorded that urged U.S. service members to refuse illegal orders, marking the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts against the Democrats.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, led by Jeanine Pirro, has requested to interview Crow about the video, which was released in November. Crow appeared in the video alongside five other lawmakers, who all have experience serving in the military or intelligence community.

“Donald Trump called for my arrest, prosecution, and execution — all because I said something he didn’t like. Now he’s pressuring his political appointees to harass me for daring to speak up and hold him accountable,” Crow said in a statement. “I won’t be intimidated and will keep fighting to uphold my oath to the Constitution and defend our country.”

Crow, a former Army Ranger, told reporters on Capitol Hill that the Trump administration is weaponizing the Justice Department “to try to silence their political opponents and suppress dissent.”

“But we are members of Congress. We will do our duty. We took an oath to this country to enforce the law, and that is exactly what we are going to do, and we will not allow any president to intimidate us and threaten us and dissuade us from performing our duty and fulfilling our oath,” he said.

1. Bahrain: King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
2. Brunei: Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
3. Egypt: President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
4. Equatorial Guinea: President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
5. Eritrea: President Isaias Afwerki
6. Eswatini (Swaziland): King Mswati III
7. Ethiopia: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed
8. Jordan: King Abdullah II
9. Kazakhstan: President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
10. Oman: Sultan Haitham bin Tariq
11. Qatar: Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
12. Rwanda: President Paul Kagame
13. Saudi Arabia: King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman)
14. South Sudan: President Salva Kiir Mayardit
15. Tajikistan: President Emomali Rahmon
16. Thailand: King Maha Vajiralongkorn
17. Turkmenistan: President Serdar Berdimuhamedov
18. United Arab Emirates: President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
19. Uzbekistan: President Shavkat Mirziyoyev
20. Vietnam: General Secretary of the Communist Party

Well, there is Adolph Bibi.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates it will cost taxpayers anywhere from $10 million to $125 million for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to rebrand the Defense Department as the “Department of War” — a number that would grow to “hundreds of millions” if it became official.

The range is the first government cost estimate since President Donald Trump announced last fall that he wanted to “restore” the name of the Defense Department to the War Department.

Only Congress can change the name of a federal agency, so Trump last September signed an executive order calling for the new name to be used as a “secondary title,” or essentially a nickname for the sprawling department.

“Costs would be at least a few million dollars if DoD phased in a minimal implementation, but they could be as large as $125 million if the name change was implemented broadly and rapidly throughout the department,” the CBO wrote. “A statutory renaming could cost hundreds of millions of dollars depending on how Congress and DoD chose to implement the change.”

Something about Israel is losing on all those Substacks? US subsidiary of Israel’s IAI, ELTA North America, awarded $11 million contract by US Navy. One of thousands of contracts granted.

ELTA North America specializes in advanced electronic warfare, radar, and intelligence solutions and serves as the US-based subsidiary of IAI’s ELTA Systems division.

Once an addict, always a drug dealer.

MAGA — Make America Gag Again:

Some employees were brought back last year amid legal challenges and political pressure, including those who staffed a health monitoring program for miners in West Virginia. But now all the terminations have been rescinded, according to the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents workers at NIOSH and parts of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“The administration’s attempt to lay off nearly every NIOSH worker was shameful and illegal, considering that much of NIOSH’s work is required by law,” AFGE national president Everett Kelley said in a statement.

A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesman on Wednesday confirmed that laid-off NIOSH employees were being reinstated.

“The Trump Administration is committed to protecting essential services — whether it’s supporting coal miners and firefighters through NIOSH, safeguarding public health through lead prevention, or researching and tracking the most prevalent communicable diseases,” spokesman Andrew Nixon said in a statement.

Nixon did not respond to questions about how many workers were being reinstated, why the workers were laid off or why HHS decided to rescind the layoffs. It’s unclear how many of the laid-off NIOSH workers have taken other jobs or decided to retire and won’t be returning, officials said.

It’s likely that many have moved on and won’t be returning, said Michael Barasch, an attorney who represents 9/11 survivors and their families. He has helped clients enroll in the NIOSH World Trade Center Health Program that provides medical monitoring and treatment.

He described the NIOSH layoffs and their impact as “horrifying.” More agency workers may be coming back now, but the layoffs last year delayed diagnosis and treatment and it’s likely that “people died because of these cuts,” he said.

Enemies List: Make America Gulag Again:

Journalists confront new reality in reporting after FBI raid

Many saw the FBI search of a Washington Post reporter’s home as a jarring new step aimed at limiting their ability to gather information.

Enemies lists:

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., said she’s being investigated by federal prosecutors after she participated in a video with other Democratic lawmakers urging members of the military and the intelligence community not to follow illegal orders.

Slotkin said in a video statement Wednesday that she found out about the probe last week from the office of “former Fox host” Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, who asked to interview her “because of” the 90-second video.

“To be clear, this is the president’s playbook. Truth doesn’t matter, facts don’t matter, and anyone who disagrees with him becomes an enemy. And he then weaponizes the federal government against them,” Slotkin said. “It’s legal intimidation and physical intimidation meant to get you to shut up.”

“No, I’m not going to do that because this president does not represent the views of a majority of Americans. Even if you voted for him, I do not believe that his vision of America is shared by a majority of Americans,” she added. “This country is worth fighting for.”

Enemies with a list?

The House oversight committee will move to hold Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress, its Republican chair James Comer said on Wednesday, after the former first lady joined her husband Bill Clinton in refusing to comply with a subpoena for testimony regarding the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The announcement came a day after the Clintons said they would not honor subpoenas from the investigative panel to discuss Epstein, a former friend of the ex-president, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

“Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton joined her husband in defying a bipartisan, lawful congressional subpoena to show up today,” Comer told reporters on Wednesday morning, after the deadline for Hillary Clinton to appear passed.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, flanked by his Greenlandic counterpart Vivian Motzfeldt, said Wednesday that a “fundamental disagreement” over Greenland remains with Trump after they held highly anticipated talks at the White House with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Ahh, which enemies are on that list? Block academics from coming to USA, but not these “workers.” … US bishops praise DHS policy change on wait times for religious worker visas

Now, while these workers will still need to depart the US after completing five years, they can apply to return immediately without waiting for a year abroad.

“We are taking the necessary steps to ensure religious organizations can continue delivering the services that Americans depend on,” the DHS statement said. “Pastors, priests, nuns, and rabbis are essential to the social and moral fabric of America.”

1. Targeted Proclamations (China-Specific)

• Proclamation 10043: This policy, established in 2020 and maintained by subsequent administrations, bars Chinese graduate students and researchers with ties to institutions supporting China’s “military-civil fusion” strategy.
• Impact: Approximately 3,000 to 5,000 individuals are estimated to be blocked annually.
• Revocations: At least 1,000 visas were revoked shortly after the proclamation’s inception.

2. Broad National Travel Bans (19-39 Countries)

Recent executive actions have significantly expanded the number of countries subject to travel restrictions, impacting thousands of prospective students and researchers:

• June 2025 Proclamation: Restricted entry from 19 countries, putting approximately 19,000 international students at risk.
• December 2025 Expansion: The ban was expanded to include 39 countries (including Nigeria and Syria), further restricting F and J visas commonly used by short-term college instructors and researchers.
• Total Blockage: One proclamation alone was set to block more than 10,000 foreign students and institutional researchers for the fall 2025 semester.

3. Rising General Visa Denials

Beyond specific bans, general visa refusal rates for academic pursuits have hit record highs:

• Record Denials: In 2024, consular officers denied a record 278,553 student visas—a 41% rejection rate.
• Recent Revocations: As of January 2026, the State Department reported revoking over 8,000 student visas and 2,500 specialized visas due to criminal activity or law enforcement encounters.
• Enrollment Decline: New international student enrollment fell by 17% for the fall 2025 semester, largely attributed to these tightening visa restrictions

Hundreds of students and recent graduates have seen their United States visas revoked by immigration officials since President Donald Trump took office for a second time on January 20, and several have also been arrested.

Many of the targets of the visa revocations and arrests are students who participated in pro-Palestine protests that erupted on campuses across the country in 2024 during Israel’s war on Gaza. Others are individuals with more indirect links to Palestine or those who have shown support for Gaza on social media.

The Trump administration alleges that these students spread anti-Semitism and pro-Hamas sentiment on campus – a claim students, lawyers and activists have all rebutted. Jewish activists and groups have been at the forefront of many of the most prominent protests in the US against the Gaza war.

Others have had their visas cancelled after minor legal infractions – a speeding ticket or other traffic violations, for instance.

You will never get into the USA with a photo and cutline like these posted on your X or Meta . . . [Photo: Maher Bassiouni carries the body of his one-year-old son, Mohammed, after he died of exposure to the cold in Deir al-Balah. January 13, 2026]

Or, just putting on your X or Meta this?

“Winter Cold and Collapsing Buildings Kill Palestinians in Gaza as Israel Blocks Shelter Supplies”

This will get you banned in the USA: Why Renee Good’s Killing Reminds Me of Martin Niemoeller’s ‘First They Came’ Poem

In 1976, German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoeller, whose (albeit late) opposition to the Nazi regime landed him in Hitler’s concentration camps, gave a sermon in the city of Kaiserslautern after which there was a discussion with the congregation.

Among other things, he was asked why ordinary people did not wake up to what was happening around them after the anti-Jewish Kristallnacht pogroms of 1938.

Niemoeller’s confession would later gain prominence in the Anglosphere as the “First They Came” poem:

When the Nazis came for the communists, I kept quiet; I wasn’t a communist.

When they came for the trade unionists, I kept quiet; I wasn’t a trade unionist.

When they locked up the social democrats, I kept quiet; I wasn’t a social democrat.

When they came for me, there was no one left to protest.

The execution-style homicide of Renee Good, a 37-year-old white woman and US citizen in Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross, has reminded me of Niemoeller’s cautionary tale.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) office located within the U.S. Embassy Branch Office Tel Aviv at 71 HaYarkon Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo, 6343229, Israel.

Across the U.S., ICE raids are ramping up again, tearing families apart, terrorising communities, and spreading fear among immigrants and refugees. At the same time, in Gaza, Israel’s ongoing g3n0cid3 continues despite “ceasefire” headlines, sustained by billions in U.S. aid and unwavering political cover.

These two realities are not separate. They are part of the same system of militarised control: one that sees certain lives as disposable, borders as weapons, and surveillance as safety. The collaboration between the U.S. and Israel extends far beyond foreign policy.

It’s an exchange of tactics, technologies, and ideologies that return home to criminalise, deport, and surveil Black and Brown communities in Turtle Island. What’s being tested on Palestinians under occupation and genocide is being imported into U.S. neighbourhoods—from the drones over Gaza to the ones patrolling the Rio Grande; from the checkpoints in Hebron to ICE raids in Chicago.

From Gaza to North America to London, the same logic of control drives state violence: profiling, surveillance, and punishment for being poor, Muslim, Black, Brown, undocumented, or unafraid to resist. ICE’s raids and Israel’s bombs are two expressions of one system: one that criminalises survival and calls it “security”. But solidarity disrupts that system. Every act of care, protection, and defiance sows a counter-architecture: one rooted in freedom, not fear. As we unmask these connections, we reclaim our power to imagine a world without cages or occupation, where liberation in Palestine and justice in Chicago rise together.

everything was going fine with Kevin Barrett’s Substack until his White Malice surfaced, once again: Calling Chauvin righteous, following policies, doing his duty.

Paulo Kirk

Jan 11, 2026

Press TV, i.e. Iran, and this fucking buggering shit is America’s spin on things for Iranians?

Kosher Nostra Is Behind Trump’s Destruction of the Rule of Law

I just had to let it go. After major surgery, well, I want to make sure NOTHING inside has been lobotomized. I know I would have argueing with this piece of shit if I had been a fellow faculty member. Something about Wisconsin, Toothless, no?

You are a fucking whore, dude. Calm, collected, you state this from your fucking Moroccan cabana?

For instance, the earlier controversy in Minneapolis-St. Paul over George Floyd was actually distorted by the left-wing people. And an injustice was done to the police officer who was actually following department procedure, tragically and perhaps unwisely. But that particular George Floyd incident was not a case of egregious, extreme abuse by law enforcement.

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So, the fired faculty — you– speaks the fucking truth with his swollen racist lips.

You are just another side of the same dirty American coin that makes Trump Trump. If Trump had been brought up by a Muslim lawyer, Roy Abdul, and had hung out with Muslim businessmen, well, I believe you would be proud of him. Support him. Rationalize EVERYTHING about him.

Hands down, the injustice done to George Floyd was murder and then murder again by white ghouls like you. Adios.

YOU DON”T KILL PEOPLE who are telling you they can’t breathe, okay, fucker Kevin.

You are just so outside of humanity’s core, well, time to just get you off my fucking feed.

The killing of George Floyd, 46, of St. Louis Park — who repeatedly told a Minneapolis police officer he couldn’t breathe as the officer knelt on his neck on May 25, 2020 — sparked days of unrest in Minneapolis and St. Paul and mass protests across the globe over the treatment of Black people by police.

Since then, lawmakers both nationally and locally have debated police reform and whether law enforcement officers must change how they do their jobs. In schools, educators and students have tackled discussions on race and equity, sometimes with controversy. And across Minnesota, community members have marched and come together in a call for change.

In April 2021, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin — who pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes — was convicted of murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death. He was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison.

The three other ex-cops who were involved with the arrest have been charged with two counts each of aiding and abetting in the death. Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao go on trial in June 2022.

A federal grand jury has also indicted all four on criminal civil rights charges.

DEFENDING white trash Chauvin. Whewww, that takes the cake!

Moving on:

More from a friend, this time, celebrating “the end of Iran?” Fucking Nigerians, man, and Moroccans, and and and …. He’s big on Trump bombing his home country, Nigeria, except he’s an older man in Houston with a family. Easy to call for executing Muslims from fucking Houston in the Diaspora.

Jamaica:

Israel and Morocco signed a joint military work plan for 2026 this week during the third meeting of their Joint Military Committee, held in Tel Aviv, marking five years since relations were normalized under the Abraham Accords, the IDF announces.

The talks were led by the IDF’s Planning Directorate and its Tevel Division, and included professional working meetings, alongside visits to IDF units, defense industries, military units and relevant directorates.

At the center of the visit was a panel focusing on force build-up from a strategic perspective and shared objectives for cooperation between the two militaries, according to the IDF.

Fucking Jew York City: from Nate Bear’s Substack…..

Yesterday the mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, condemned people for protesting against the sale of land in the West Bank, sales which were happening in a New York synagogue. As part of his condemnation, he labelled Hamas a terrorist organisation.

I did a tweet in response that said this.

Lots of people didn’t like it. It was reposted by the editor of Current Affairs magazine, Nathan Robinson, who said this.

I stand by everything I said.

If the people you elect to fight fascists are regurgitating fascist propaganda, propaganda that manufactured consent for a genocide, A GENOCIDE, then that is, on a very material level, more harmful to justice than the fascists themselves.

To me this is not complicated.

It’s not the fascists who rob you of hope and the possibility of justice, because they offer none in the first place. The people who rob you of hope and the possibility of justice are those who claim to stand for hope and justice then side with the oppressor.

An ally who stabs you in the back is worse than an enemy who stabs you in the chest.

Again, I struggle to see how this is complicated.

What Mamdani said was shameful, utterly shameful.

Labelling Palestinian resistance ‘terrorism’ is literally how consent was manufactured for a genocide. Doesn’t everyone know this? Did we not just watch two years of Israeli politicians and western Zionists cry ‘Hamas’ to defend, cover and justify genocide? Surely everyone saw this, including Mamdani.

So given this, how can anyone defend what he said? And how can anyone defend what he didn’t say?

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Hell, Mamdani will be opening up Jew York hotels to ICE with all-you-can-eat bagels and lox thrown in.

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Binoy, who I had on my radio show. Talking to a Counterpart in Australia

Candid Imperialism: Trump, Racketeering and Venezuelan Oil by Binoy Kampmark / January 10th, 2026

It usually takes archival digging, the golden gaffe, an ill-considered remark, and occasional spells of candour by those in power, to admit that the United States has, in common with other imperial powers, brutal ambitions. An example of the latter was General Smedley Butler, who, at his death in 1940, had become the most decorated Marine in US history. After retiring from active service, he was frank about his role. Professing to be a “racketeer” and “gangster for capitalism”, he went on to explain how: “I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Boys to collect revenues in. I helped the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street.” That was just a selection.

With President Donald Trump in power, we do not need a Butler to give the game away or expose any frightful cabal. The empire is out of the closet, bolshie, bright, and more thieving than ever. While the Donroe Doctrine is intended to reprise the Monroe Doctrine, it offers nothing more than imperial rapacity, seizure under pretext. The January 9 meeting with two dozen oil executives at the White House to discuss the fate of the Venezuelan oil market showed Trump to be in full flight as cocky pip and proud procurer of corporate thieving under the cover of government protection.

Representatives from such veteran behemoths as ExxonMobil and Chevron were present to listen to calls from the president that they invest handsomely in modernising and tidying up Venezuela’s tattered oil infrastructure. Problems with the oil itself – heavy, hard to refine, and packed with sulphur, not to mention the questionable number of proven reserves – did not blight the conversation. “American companies will have the opportunity to rebuild Venezuela’s rotting energy infrastructure and eventually increase oil production to levels never seen before,” he crowed at the start of the meeting. Our giant oil companies will be spending at least $100 billion of their money.” In the course of this merry investment, Venezuela would “be very successful, and the people of the United States are going to be big beneficiaries.”

The choice of companies involved in the venture would, however, not be determined by free market wiles or any invisible hand. “We are going to be making the decision as to which oil companies can go in, which we will allow to go in.” They would mostly be American, naturally. Forget the Venezuelans, he insisted. “You’re dealing with us directly. You’re not dealing with Venezuela at all. We don’t want you to deal with Venezuela.”

Jeffery Hilderbrand of the oil and gas producer Hilcorp Energy, and noted Trump donor, was all salivation and gratitude. He was also pleased with the implausible alibi Trump had offered for controlling and pilfering Venezuelan oil for American interests: finding imagined enemies who might do the same thing. “Thank you for your great, tremendous leadership in protecting the interests in the Western Hemisphere,” he sighed with oleaginous gratitude. “The message that you have sent to China and our enemies to stay out of our backyard is absolutely fantastic… Hilcorp is fully committed and ready to rebuild the infrastructure in Venezuela.”

CEO Bill Armstrong, of the Armstrong Oil and Gas company, also smacked his lips at the plunderous prospects. “We are ready to go to Venezuela,” he declared. “In real estate terms, it is prime real estate. And it’s like West Palm about 50 years ago. Very ripe.” Fracking executive and Trump supporter Harold Hamm was tickled by the prospect of adventure, seeing Venezuela as little more than a playground to roam in and profit from. “It excites me as an explorationist.” The country was “exciting” with its abundant reserves, posing “challenges and the industry knows how to handle that.”

Chevron, which already has a presence in the country in partnership with the state-run oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA, accounting for 240,000 barrels per day, expects to bolster its production by 50% over the next 18 to 24 months. Those at Repsol are dreaming of tripling the current daily production of 45,000 barrels over the next few years, provided the conditions are appropriate.

Not all the oil companies expressed the same level of glowing confidence. Naked plunder comes with its challenges and logistical tangles, not least the touchy issue of Venezuelan sovereignty. Exxon CEO Darren Woods was, for instance, concerned that much would have to be done to make Venezuela an appropriate recipient of capital. One way was to ensure that whoever was in control in Caracas would be eternally reliable and amenable to US oil interests. “We have had our assets seized there twice and so you can imagine to re-enter a third time would require some pretty significant changes from what we’ve historically seen and what is currently the state.” As things stood, given “legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place”, Venezuela was “ininvestable”.

That same day, Trump further confirmed the choking of Venezuela by signing an Executive Order to prevent “the seizure of Venezuelan oil revenue that could undermine critical US efforts to ensure economic stability in Venezuela.” The Order prohibits US courts from seizing revenue collected from Venezuelan oil and any relevant holds in US Treasury accounts. The customary, absurd justifications follow: to lose control of such funds would “empower malign actors like Iran and Hezbollah while weakening efforts to bring peace, prosperity, and stability to the Venezuelan people and to the Western Hemisphere as a whole.” Were these funds to be tampered with, US objectives to stem “the influx of illegal aliens and disrupting the flood of illicit narcotics” would be compromised.

Trump has signaled that he could order strikes against drug cartels on Mexican territory.

He renewed the threats against America’s southern neighbor after US commandos abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during a lightning raid on his compound in Caracas last week. The US government accuses Maduro of narcotics trafficking, which he has denied.

[Of course it is perfectly 1st Amendment legal to pray for the death of each and every uniformed mercenary slug going into another country under orders of Trump and Company, for whom a thousand wicken and a thousand witches are conjuring up spells for the death of not just Trump . . . hint hint!]

Trump has also accused Mexico of “flooding” the US with drugs and illegal immigrants, many of whom he has described as violent criminals. Since September 2025, the US has struck at least 35 alleged cartel boats in the Caribbean.

Maduro will get a show trial

Justice can exist, but not judicial independence

In a civilized world, the U.S. would not get away with war crimes that killed 100 people (combatants and civilians combined) to kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. The U.S dictatorship would face being overthrown by foreign armies (with UN authorization) if it did not return Maduro and his wife to Venezuela, and pay massive reparations to all the victims’ families in Caracas. In this fantasy scenario the U.S. would never have dared to perpetrate this crime in the first place, or imposed murderous illegal sanctions (more recently an armed blockade) on Venezuela.

And so Hedges is still reeling from a year now, and the genocide of more than two years, now, and, maybe from the AmeriKKKa that always was:

Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships. It eliminates dissidents. It silences critics. It dismantles the law. It creates a society of timid and frightened collaborators, those who look away when people are snatched off streets or gunned down, those who inform to save themselves, those who retreat into their tiny rabbit holes, pulling down the blinds, desperately praying to be left in peace.

Terror works.

The iron doors have not yet shut. There are still protests. The media is still able to document state atrocities, including the Jan. 7 murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross. But the doors are closing fast. ICE has deported over 300,000 people and detained nearly 69,000 others — as well as been involved in 16 shootings, including four killings — since Trump began his campaign against immigrants.

ICE, our Americanized Gestapo, is being birthed.

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But wait, Chris, Nazi Trump has plenty of murderous history from the annals of this dirty country that for all intents and purposed should be wiped off the face of the earth.

Two days after the Dakota sur­ren­dered at Camp Release on September 26, 1862, a mil­i­tary com­mis­sion began try­ing Dakota men accused of par­tic­i­pat­ing in the war. The rapid tri­als — some no more than five min­utes — of 392 pris­on­ers were com­plet­ed in November. According to the Minnesota Historical Society, 303 men were sen­tenced to death and 16 received prison terms.

After review­ing the tri­al tran­scripts, President Abraham Lincoln pro­vid­ed a list of 39 names of pris­on­ers to be exe­cut­ed. One received a last minute reprieve. On the morn­ing of December 26, 1862, in front of an esti­mat­ed crowd of 4,000 spec­ta­tors and on a spe­cial­ly con­struct­ed mass-hang­ing scaf­fold, the men were exe­cut­ed. They were left dan­gling from the scaf­fold for a half hour.

• The Three-Fifths Compromise (1787): Counted three-fifths of the enslaved population for legislative representation, embedding racial inequality into the U.S. Constitution.
• Fugitive Slave Acts (1793, 1850): Federal laws that mandated the return of escaped enslaved people to their owners, even from free states.
• The Dred Scott Decision (1857): A Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans, whether free or enslaved, could not be U.S. citizens.

10 Examples of Systemic Racism in the USA

In 1787, A Negro Slave In The United States Was Counted As Three-Fifths (60%) Of A White Person. In 2024, A Resident Of Gaza Is Worth Less Than One-Thirty-Sixth (2.79%) Of A Jew.

The GI Bill should’ve been race neutral, politicos made sure it wasn’t

The blinding of a WWII vet opened America’s eyes to the evil of Jim Crow

On the evening of Feb. 12, 1946, Isaac Woodard, a 26-year-old black Army veteran, boarded a bus in Augusta, Georgia. Earlier that day, he’d been honorably discharged, and he was heading to Winnsboro, South Carolina to reunite with his wife.

The bus driver made a stop en route. When Woodard asked if he had time to use the bathroom, the driver cursed loudly at him. Woodard would later admit in a deposition that he cursed back.

Neither man said anything until the bus stopped in Batesburg, South Carolina. There, the driver told the local police about Woodard’s impudence. Woodard was ordered off the bus. When Woodard tried to give his version of events, a police officer struck him with a night stick. Woodard was escorted to the jail, where, he later testified, he was repeatedly beaten by the police chief, Linwood Shull. Woodard said that Shull pounded him in his eyes with the end of the night stick until he blacked out (charges Shull would deny).

NOTE: Real time breaking news on local Facebook Page, Waldport Free Speech Forum. Ahh, interruption. So my spouse said I have both been blocked by some freaky Waldport Free Speech Forum administator, AND, get this, the White Trash announced on his fucking FB page, “the authorties have been contacted.”

You know, for condemning Trump, ICE, Gestapo, and he lists the same old shit: against our president, against our country, against police and military, against Israel, blah blah blah.

Yeah, my wife is concerned, but I am not. All those fucking good little Germans. His name is T. Swift? More of the dirty shame that is now and HAD ALWAYS been AmeriKKKa, stiff armed racists by many other mothers.

I will keep you tuned in, but . . . . And, yes, you can thought experiment anything, including the death of ICE agents in their hotel rooms or the bombing of Air Force One. Fucking THOUGHT and ASPIRATION thinking.

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AGAIN, anyone can say he or she WANTS Trump DEAD. He or she can say ALL ICE should be Molotoved, fragged, dead.

Shit dawg, from the comfort of my keyboard desk, yep, I am not in a movie theater yelling fire.

Here, Google Gulag Brin AI:

Legal Standards for Speech

• True Threats vs. Opinions: Under federal law (18 U.S. Code § 871), it is a felony to knowingly and willfully make a “true threat” to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon the President or a former President.
• General Statements: Simply wishing for harm to come to someone, or saying “I wish somebody would kill him,” is generally considered protected speech as long as it does not include a specific plan or intent to act.
• Incitement: Speech is only unprotected if it is directed to inciting “imminent lawless action” and is likely to produce such action, a standard set by the Supreme Court in Brandenburg v. Ohio.

Current Political Context (Late 2025 – Early 2026)

• Assassination Rhetoric: A federal jury recently acquitted a former Coast Guard lieutenant who called for Trump’s assassination on social media, with attorneys successfully arguing the posts were protected First Amendment speech.
• Recent Tensions: Following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in September 2025, the Trump administration has signaled a crackdown on “hate speech” and rhetoric that it claims facilitates violence.
• Controversial Statements: In November 2025, Trump himself sparked backlash for social media posts labeling Democratic members of Congress “traitors” and calling their actions “seditious behavior, punishable by death“.

Potential Consequences

• Secret Service Investigation: Even if speech is legally protected, the Secret Service frequently investigates individuals who make public comments about the death of the President to determine if they pose a genuine risk.
• Employment Actions: While the government may be limited by the First Amendment, private employers are often free to terminate employees for making callous or violent remarks, as seen in numerous firings following Charlie Kirk’s death in 2025.

Wishing or praying for President Trump’s death is not illegal under U.S. law, as it is considered protected free speech under the First Amendment. The law distinguishes between a genuine threat and merely expressing an opinion, however offensive.

Legal, and not all that unusual. Merely wishing for someone’s death is not illegal, nor is offering up a hope for supernatural intercession on that wish. Hell, you could make actual offerings, make vows, and otherwise take material actions to try to persuade the divine to carry out your wishes.

We have live examples to draw on. Boebert isn’t exactly doing poorly in spite of her tasteless and very public prayer for Biden’s death. There’s also Psalm 109, if you want examples straight from Biblical sources, which is an impressively extensive curse against the foes of (probably) David.

I know that it’s illegal, possibly treasonous (?) to say or imply that someone wants to or is going to kill or conspire to harm (?) the sitting US president.

Saying that someone is going to kill the president is neither illegal nor treason.

It is against the law to threaten the president (18 U.S. Code § 871). That’s narrow – there’s a ton of jurisprudence on what constitutes a threat, and while little of it is specifically about this section, the consistent thing is that it takes more than a mere statement of a violent outcome to count as a threat. Watts is a good place to start.

People have been prosecuted for saying that they themselves are going to “hang the former President” (Stephen Taubert, charged in 2017), but someone saying that “fuck the niggar, he will have a 50 cal in the head soon” was found to be protected speech under the First Amendment (Walter Bagdasarian, acquitted on appeal in 2011). Against that background, a mere prayer hardly registers.

Bad shot or flase flag crap?

Of course the world would have been better if a missile had hit this Semen Drip Circle Jerk Off. Yes, a Houthi drone and missible congrats package on his coronation!

“HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD !!”

Donald Trump says he’d like to see lawmakers tried and executed, and The New York Times and The Washington Post just don’t seem to think it’s that big a deal. Why?

Slotkin, a former CIA officer, is joined in the video by fellow Democrats including Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado, Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire, and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, all military veterans and former intelligence officers, where they urge military members to “refuse illegal orders.”

“This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens,” Slotkin, Kelly and Crow say.

A sitting president of the United States has called for the execution of six legislators. I don’t know this for certain, but it seems nearly impossible that this has happened before. I don’t think Abraham Lincoln did it, and he was dealing with actual traitors. Maybe, you know, Franklin Pierce or James Buchanan did it on a bad day. Or Andrew Johnson. He was temperamentally capable of something like this. But that hardly makes it defensible. As they were three of the worst presidents in U.S. history, that only makes it worse.

He is a Nazi, drawing plans for internal and external illegal operations. So, with Hitler in your midst, you call that a disagreement with Hitler’s Policies or Political Supporters or the Mob Supporting Hitler?

“Threatening death against people you disagree with is totally unacceptable and un-American—especially when it comes to lawmakers who have dedicated their lives to serving this great nation and the Constitution,” Hertel said. “Trump’s threats today go against everything this country stands for, and every single leader, Republican and Democrat, should be wholeheartedly condemning this behavior.”