> 1/29/2026
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Repeat: Republicans come for Stephen Miller.
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15505693
Battles raging inside ‘Homeland’…
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15505693
The Walz are caving in…: Tim Walz fears a Fort Sumter, South Carolina moment.
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ar-AA1VdfBr
Firearm instructors see surge in interest amid the turmoil…
> https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna256101
Make sure you don’t show them any uncrossed ‘t’s or anything like that!: Citizens are carrying their passports with them…
> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-carrying-passports-minneapolis-minnesota/
The Trumps sue America for 10 Billion dollars!
> https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/trump-sues-irs-and-treasury-for-10-billion-over-leak-of-tax-records.html
Trump’s magic tariffs fail to improve economic situation from a year ago. (Red Text)
> https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/trade-balance-soared-94percent-in-november-and-was-higher-than-a-year-ago-despite-tariff-efforts.html
Repeat: Emergency situations needed for workers because of AI…
> https://www.the-independent.com/b2886415.html
Lady Gaga does Mister Roger’s…
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMFQmOBO6D4
Poor West…: Spain legalizes 500,000 illegals… (Red Text)
> https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260128-why-spain-is-offering-amnesty-to-500-000-undocumented-migrants
Trump meddles in Iranian affairs…
> https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-weighs-iran-strikes-inspire-011041251.html
Melania documentary arrives amid national turmoil…
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-AA1Vf5Zi
Press blocked from screening the movie.
> https://variety.com/2026/film/news/melania-documentary-premiere-amazon-blocks-press-1236645317/
Amazon promotion of ‘Melania’ has people questioning it’s motives…
> https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/business/media/amazon-melania-trump-film-critics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IFA.heH7.Qhw5wppEehCQ&smid=url-share

Motives…

TrumpRx, the website launched by the Trump administration Thursday to sell discounted prescription drugs directly to consumers, is offering a whole lot less than advertised.

The drugs offered on the site are all from brand-name manufacturers, making them more expensive than generic brands. Almost all of the drugs are also covered through insurance already. The product pages on the website even say, “If you have insurance, check your co-pay first—it may be even lower.”

One X user fact-checked Trump’s claim Thursday that TrumpRx will lower the cost of inhalers from $458 to $51. In reality, clicking on the link on TrumpRx redirects the user to the manufacturer’s website to see if the buyer qualifies for hardship discounts. As the user pointed out, these discounts are available regardless of whether TrumpRx is involved.

Another X user pointed out that the lack of generic drugs on TrumpRx makes prices higher than on prescription comparison sites such as GoodRx.

“There may be patients who think this is a good deal and then end up financially worse off,” Rachel Sachs, a law professor studying drug pricing at Washington University in St. Louis who advised the Biden administration on drug policy, told The New York Times.

“TrumpRx is a sideshow,” said Sean D. Sullivan, a health economist at the University of Washington. “I consider it not a real, serious effort in service to lowering prescription drug prices for Americans.”

>https://newrepublic.com/post/206265/trump-prescription-drug-website-trumprx-scam

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/06/trump-posts-video-meme-showing-barack-michelle-obama-as-apes/88547285007/

Washington — President Donald Trump shared a clip of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama appearing as apes in a late-night Truth Social post on Feb. 5 before taking it down the following day amid bipartisan pushback.

The roughly minute-long video centered on footage discussing unsubstantiated voter fraud allegations in the 2020 presidential election before briefly flipping to the clip of the Obamas.

The image of the Obamas, which appeared to have been generated by artificial intelligence, showed the bodies of two apes whose faces have been replaced by that of the former president and first lady. They appeared to be in a jungle with apes flying in the background.

The White House initially dismissed criticism that the video was racist, and said it is from a meme depicting Trump and the Obamas as characters from the Lion King. Trump does not appear in the video, which he posted just before midnight on Feb. 5 with no accompanying text.

But by noon ET on Feb. 6 ‒ after the post had been up about 12 hours ‒ it no longer appeared on Truth Social. A White House official told USA TODAY on Feb. 6 a White House staffer had erroneously made the post and that it was taken down.

The video was among more than 90 posts from Trump's Truth Social account made during a rapid flurry of activity that started at 10:36 p.m. ET on Feb. 5 and ended 12:25 a.m. ET. Yet a close Trump ally, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the president had no knowledge of the post and that a staffer let Trump down.

A small group of trusted White House officials have access to the president's social media accounts. A 2024 documentary, "Art of the Surge: The Donald Trump Comeback," showed Trump dictating to Natalie Harp, executive assistant to the president, what to write in one of his posts.

Trump touts 'softer touch' on immigration as federal force is reduced in Minnesota

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g5nx130neo

US President Donald Trump has said immigration agents could use a "softer touch" as his administration began pulling about a quarter of its force out of Minnesota, where two American citizens died last month in confrontations with federal officers.

"I learned that maybe we could use a little bit of a softer touch," Trump told NBC News, adopting a rare conciliatory tone on his political touchstone. "But you still have to be tough."

US border tsar Tom Homan said earlier 700 federal immigration agents would be withdrawn from the Minneapolis area.

He said 2,000 agents would remain, and that he aimed to cut their presence in the city to its level before Operation Metro Surge began in December.

In his interview with NBC News, Trump insisted that his operations were highly targeted at criminals.

"We are totally focused on criminals, really bad criminals," the president said.

The president also said he was "not happy" with the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

"He was not an angel, and she was not an angel," Trump said. "You look at some tapes from back, but still, I'm not happy with what happened there."

When pressed whether that justified what happened to two American citizens, Trump said, "No, it should have not happened. It was very sad to me. It was a very sad incident. Two incidents."

During a news conference on Wednesday, border tsar Homan said that the US government had made providing body-worn cameras to all officers in Minneapolis a priority, and was planning to deploy the equipment to agents across the country.

Homan said federal immigration agents in Minnesota had been arresting "bad people" in the Minneapolis area, including 14 charged with homicide and 139 with assault, as well as 87 sex offenders and 28 gang members.

More and more Americans reject a corrupt federal gestapo who revel in killing white Americans

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/immigration-news/dallas-county-commissioner-elba-garcia-statement-opposition-proposed-ice-facility-hutchins/287-5cc933f7-231e-4be5-b94b-f10509f79e59
“Dallas County is a place of opportunity, not a place of incarceration nor a dumping ground for policies that tear families apart,” District 4 Commissioner Garcia said in a statement. “Our community is built by immigrants, by working families, and by people who came here seeking safety, dignity and a better life. We refuse to allow our neighbors to be treated as disposable or to have their lives reduced to a number in a detention system.”

Garcia's statement accused ICE's nationwide operations of being marked by warrantless arrests, separation of children from parents, lack of due process and prolonged detention, undermining constitutional protections.

“No one should be detained without judicial oversight or meaningful access to legal counsel,” Garcia said. “That is not justice. That is abuse of power.”

According to the statement, the facility would also cause a local infrastructure crisis in the town of about 20,000 people. Were the facility to reach full capacity, the town's population would nearly double overnight, potentially causing issues such as overwhelming water systems, sewer capacity and emergency services.

“This plan puts detained individuals, workers and the surrounding community at risk,” Garcia said. “It is not only inhumane, it's reckless.”

Applications for jobless aid for the week ending Jan. 31 rose by 22,000 to 231,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s significantly more than the 211,000 new applications that analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet had forecast.

Applications for unemployment benefits are seen as representative of U.S. layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market.

A number of high-profile companies have announced job cuts in the past year, including UPS, Amazon and Dow just last week.

Mounting layoff announcements in the past year, combined with the government’s own sluggish labor market reports, has left Americans increasingly pessimistic about the economy.

Last month, the government reported that hiring remained subdued in December, capping a year of weak employment gains that have frustrated job seekers. Employers added just 50,000 jobs last month, nearly unchanged from a downwardly revised figure of 56,000 in November, according to the Labor Department.

The 2025 numbers represent the smallest annual job gains since the COVID-19 pandemic decimated the job market in 2020. Outside of recessions, it’s the slimmest annual increase since 2003.

The Labor Department also recently reported that businesses posted far fewer jobs in November than the previous month, a sign that employers aren’t yet ramping up hiring.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/us-applications-jobless-benefits-jump-22000-231000-week-129880470

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/05/minnesota-prosecutor-ice-sidelining-priorities-00766733

The top federal prosecutor in Minnesota says his short-staffed office has been abandoning “pressing and important priorities” to manage the flood of immigration cases stemming from Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration’s mass deportation push in the Twin Cities.

U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen, in a little-noticed filing last week with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, said his office is buckling under the crushing weight of hundreds of emergency lawsuits filed by immigrants arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in recent weeks. He said 427 had been filed in January alone, and that the pace is expected to continue into February.

“To respond to this wave of habeas petitions, this Office has been forced to shift its already limited resources from other pressing and important priorities,” Rosen said in a declaration to the court. “The MN-USAO has cancelled all [civil enforcement] work and any other affirmative priorities and is operating in a reactive mode.”

In a filing accompanying Rosen’s statement, Justice Department attorneys emphasized that the “crushing burden” caused by immigration cases had led U.S. attorneys offices to “shift resources away from other critical priorities, including criminal matters.”

Rosen, a Trump appointee confirmed by the Senate in October 2025, said his team of attorneys handling civil litigation is “down 50%” — a reference to a wave of resignations and departures at the start of Operation Metro Surge — and that those who remain “are appearing daily for hearings on contempt motions.”

The nations largest professional association of plastic surgeons issues a public policy recommendation that people under the age of 19 should not be having gender reassignment surgeries because of the irreversible harm they are known to cause
https://apnews.com/article/surgery-transgender-minors-mastectomy-hormones-6f746529356f3aee0141569247dc7a77
The nation’s largest professional organization for plastic surgeons recommended that gender-affirming surgeries be delayed until patients turn 19, changing the group’s stance on the politically charged issue and diverging from several other major medical organizations’ guidance.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons said Tuesday that it found “insufficient evidence” that the benefits of chest, genital and facial surgeries on minors experiencing gender dysphoria outweigh the risks. It leaned on two recent and heavily debated publications on the topic, the Cass Review by a senior doctor in England and a 2025 report issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

“This position statement doesn’t seek to deny or minimize the reality of any patient’s distress, and it does not question the authenticity of any patient’s experience,” the position statement reads. “Instead, ASPS affirms that truly humane, ethical, and just care, particularly for children and adolescents, must balance compassion with scientific rigor, developmental considerations and concern for long-term welfare.”

DoJ will release unredacted Epstein files to Congress only.

nothing significant will come of it
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5727087-justice-department-epstein-files-lawmakers/
DOJ to allow lawmakers access to unredacted Epstein files starting Monday

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said it will begin allowing lawmakers to review the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files starting Monday in the wake of criticism that the administration has improperly shielded the identities of various people.

“I am writing to confirm that the department is making unredacted versions of the more than 3 million pages of publicly released documents available for review by both houses of Congress starting Monday,” Assistant Attorney General Patrick Davis wrote in a letter to all 535 members that was obtained by The Hill.

Lawmakers will be able to review the files in a reading room at the Department of Justice. While they are not permitted to bring electronic devices, they may take notes.

The alert came after several members of Congress said they had questions about whether the DOJ had fully complied with a law requiring public release of the files.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche held a press conference to announce the release of a final tranche of documents, with the DOJ ultimately posting 3 million pages.

“Our review is particularly urgent because DOJ itself claims to have identified over 6 million potentially responsive pages, but after releasing only about half of them—including over 200,000 pages that DOJ redacted or withheld—says strangely that it has fully complied with the Act,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) wrote in a letter to the DOJ last month.