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Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Trump administration rolls back $2 billion mental health, addiction grant cuts www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
Trump administration rolls back $2 billion mental health, addiction grant cuts
Sweeping cuts to mental health and addiction programs worth more than $2 billion are being reversed. After a political backlash from Republicans and Democrats, the grant money will be restored.
www.npr.org
January 15, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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More than half of surveyed American voters are against the way Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is enforcing immigration laws, according to a new poll...
57 percent disapprove of way ICE enforcing immigration laws: Poll
More than half of surveyed American voters are against the way Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is enforcing immigration laws, according to a new poll released Tuesday. In the Quinnipiac Univ...
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January 14, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence.

In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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January 13, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

― Leo Tolstoy
January 7, 2026 at 8:37 PM
The CDC Just Sidelined These Childhood Vaccines. Here’s What They Prevent : Shots - Health News www.npr.org/sections/sho...
The CDC just sidelined these childhood vaccines. Here's what they prevent
The childhood vaccines that the CDC is dropping from the recommended scheduled have successfully beat back illness and death in children from rotavirus, hepatitis and other pathogens.
www.npr.org
January 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Five years after Jan. 6, officers describe the toll of defending the Capitol

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Five years after Jan. 6, officers describe the toll of defending the Capitol
In his first day in office, Trump pardoned nearly 1,600 people in the Jan. 6th Capitol riot. The country has moved on, but for some the day still looms large.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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Today we remember the other 'day that will live in infamy'. I don't think we can do any better than the NY Times Editorial Board in an article from Dec 31, 2025 titled '5 Years After Jan. 6, Lawlessness Has Triumphed' - buff.ly/XYiabPK .
January 6, 2026 at 11:33 PM
www.opb.org/article/2026... What was the cost of this pointless deployment-- in taxpayer dollars? in damage to military morale? and in confidence that our military will be used to defend and not intimidate American citizens?
Hundreds of federalized National Guard members demobilized in Oregon, Illinois and California
The troops were part of the Trump administration’s plan to support immigration enforcement operations.
www.opb.org
January 6, 2026 at 11:45 PM