Trump is considering reducing the expenses of housing repeat offenders in the US by sending repeat offenders to prisons in other countries where the cost of housing them would be a fraction of what it is in the US
It's a pretty great idea.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/27/donald-trump-floats-sending-u-repeat-offenders-ano/
Trump tells Republicans he wants American criminals sent to overseas facilities

President Trump said Monday that he wants to send repeat criminal offenders to a “foreign land” so that they would be out of the U.S. and looked after for a small fee.

“I don’t want these violent repeat offenders in our country any more than I want illegal aliens from other countries that misbehave,” Mr. Trump said at the annual conference for House Republicans in Miami.

“I want them out of our country,” the president said

“I also will be seeking permission to do so, we’re going to get approval, hopefully, to get them the hell out of our country along with others, let them be brought to a foreign land and maintained by others for a very small fee,” Mr. Trump said.

The small fee would be instead of keeping them in U.S. jails “for massive amounts of money.”

“Let them be brought out of the country and let them for a while, let’s see how they like it,” he said. “You’ll see crime all over the country dry up.”

He also said he wants to bring back the death penalty “for these horrible people that kill people.”

“If you don’t do it, we’re just looking for trouble,” he said.

Colombia is now using Colombian military jets to fly to America and pick up deported migrants.
LMAO!
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-threatens-colombia-tariffs-after-2-us-military/story?id=118122985
A Colombian Air Force plane departed for San Diego Monday afternoon to bring back 110 Colombian citizens who were deported from the United States as part of President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration orders.

Colombian immigration officials are on board the plane to "guarantee respect for the rights of citizens," the Colombian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The country's decision comes after an agreement was reached on Sunday night regarding the return of repatriating citizens to Colombia from the United States.

Conflict ensued earlier in the day after Colombian President Gustavo Petro blocked two U.S. military flights carrying undocumented immigrants from entering the country.

In a retaliatory response, U.S. President Donald Trump posted threats against Colombia on his social media platform, alleging that Petro's decision "has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States."

Trump said in the post that he ordered his administration to place an emergency 25% tariff on goods coming into the United States from Colombia, and he threatened to raise it in a week to 50%. Additionally, he said that his administration would issue a travel ban and immediately revoke the visas of Colombian government officials -- and those of all of the country's allies and supporters. Trump further threatened to issue visa sanctions on all party members, family members and supporters of the Colombian government. Finally, he said that he would also enhance Customs and Border Protection Inspections of all Colombian nationals and Colombian cargo.

Trump said he would use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act

Trump Medicaid freeze seems to lock 72 million Americans out of their health insurance
Lawmakers across the country have confirmed that that their state’s Medicaid payment systems have been shut off. President Donald Trump’s move to freeze federal funding for a massive number of government programs seems to have impacted Medicaid payment systems across the country, potentially locking 72 million Americans out of their health insurance.

https://qz.com/trump-medicaid-freeze-1851749684

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/28/economy/trump-inflation-price-promises/index.html

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5110327-john-bolton-kash-patel-fbi-director-limits/

Former national security adviser John Bolton said he believes Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee for FBI director, resembles a “climbing weed” in his ascension to the role.
“You have to know what your job is and what your limits are. And Kash Patel sort of like a climbing weed doesn’t show respect for the limits,” Bolton said Monday in an appearance on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.”
He added that despite concerning issues over Patel’s ability to maintain security protocols, the nominee is likely to be confirmed by the GOP-led Senate with a hearing scheduled for Thursday.
“The Democrats don’t know how to play the game anymore and Patel may get through it,” he told host Jen Psaki, a former White House press secretary.
Earlier in the interview, Bolton discussed new claims that Patel publicly spoke on a sensitive hostage mission while serving on the National Security Council.
Sen. Dick Durbin, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he opposes the nomination.
In a Monday letter, Durbin wrote that Patel, “broke protocol regarding hostage rescues by publicly commenting without authorization on the then-in-progress retrieval of two Americans held captive by Iranian-backed militants in Yemen in October 2020” in a letter to top defense officials according to CBS.

Why are leftists so obsessed with this issue? Why do they care so much about getting men to play in women's sports?

New York roller derby league loses bid to temporarily block ban on trans athletes

https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-roller-derby-league-loses-004450491.html

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York roller derby league has lost its bid to temporarily block a local ban on transgender female athletes.

Nassau County Supreme Court Judge Bruce Cozzens on Tuesday denied a request by the Long Island Roller Rebels to prevent Nassau County from enforcing its ban while its lawsuit is considered by the court.

In July, local lawmakers in the suburban county east of New York City banned transgender women and girls from playing on female sports teams at the county's roughly 100 parks and recreational facilities.

The judge determined the new law does not exclude transgender women and girls from public facilities based on their gender identities as they can still play in coed sports leagues. He said allowing transgender women to play in female sports creates additional risk of injury and potential liability for the local government.

“There can be no question (even without discovery) that a biological male regardless of transitioning would be possessed of greater athleticism and speed, strength, muscle mass, stronger hearts and greater bone density," Cozzens wrote. "The goal of the local law is to provide a safe environment for individuals who are born female to play.”

The roller derby league and the New York Civil Liberties Union, which filed the lawsuit on the league's behalf, said they were disappointed by the ruling and intend to appeal it while their litigation proceeds.

Gabriella Larios, a staff attorney for the NYCLU, called the judge's ruling an “outlier” that is inconsistent with other court decisions, and state laws protecting human rights and civil rights.

https://www.404media.co/opm-memos-to-federal-employees-metadata/

>Some of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) memos sent to federal workers about firing, hiring freezes, and mandatory return to office demands were seemingly written by people who were previously employed by the Heritage Foundation and other conservative think tanks with longstanding loyalties to President Donald Trump, according to metadata on the memos posted by the government online. We know this because the senders of the memos failed to scrub the metadata from those documents, making it easy for anyone to reveal the listed authors of the memos.

>A memo with the subject line “Guidance on Presidential Memorandum Return to In-Person Work” sent from Charles Ezell, acting director at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and dated January 24, was authored by a “Peters, Noah,” according to the file’s metadata. Peters is an attorney who represented white nationalist Jared Taylor who sued Twitter in 2018 for banning him (and lost). In 2021, Peters wrote about Kyle Rittenhouse (who brought an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to a Black Lives Matter protest and killed two people), saying Rittenhouse should be able to “reap some measure of restitution now that he’s been acquitted” from the journalists who covered his case.

>A memo titled “Federal Civilian Hiring Freeze Guidance” and sent on Monday from Ezell and Matthew J. Vaeth, acting director at the Office of Management and Budget, was authored by a “James Sherk,” according to the metadata.
>Sherk’s specialty is firing federal workers. He was “a special assistant on domestic policy during Trump’s first term,” according to Politico, and he worked at both the Heritage Foundation and the conservative think tank and Trump transition project America First Policy Institute before Trump brought him back to serve in the White House Domestic Policy Council.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-golf-today-doral-president-b2687218.html

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5109912-google-maps-to-rename-gulf-of-mexico-to-gulf-of-america/
Google said on Monday that it will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” in Google Maps once it is updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System.

Google Maps will also change the name of Denali in Alaska to “Mount McKinley.”

“We’ve received a few questions about naming within Google Maps. We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources,” the company said in an X post.

But users in other countries will see both names displayed on the map in line with a long standing practice, the company said.

President Donald Trump ordered the name changes the day of his inauguration last week, making good on his campaign promise. The federal government has since formally implemented the directive to rename both.

The Gulf of Mexico change is new, but naming the nation’s highest peak has been a matter of debate for years.

The Obama administration decided to formally name it Denali in 2015, the name that local Natives once used.

Former President McKinley, for whom the mountain is once again named, never visited Alaska. His name was first used for the summit in an article written by a gold prospector in 1897 and was popularized after his 1901 assassination.