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Gleeful Trump Border Patrol chief would 'love the honor' of handcuffing Ilhan Omar www.rawstory.com/gregory-bovi... Big, brave armed and armored thug, backed by thousand just like, fantacizing about manhanding a small, defenseless and patriotic woman of color.

Gleeful Trump Border Patrol chief would 'love the honor' of handcuffing Ilhan Omar

Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino declared that he would "love the honor" of handcuffing Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).In a video posted on Thursday, Bovino appeared to play along as conservative influencer...

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January 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM

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Support for abolishing ICE hits a a new high
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Support for abolishing ICE hits a a new high

Americans have turned sharply against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and say it too often resorts to violence

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January 11, 2026 at 1:42 PM

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The Desert Veteran

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Jesse Ventura may be radical in some of his views but he is a true patriot. I'll stand behind Ventura any day.
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Jesse Ventura on Minneapolis ICE shooting: 'We're a 3rd world country now'

YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul

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January 10, 2026 at 1:10 PM

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Sunday thought: Our power, our courage, and our resolve
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Sunday thought: Our power, our courage, and our resolve

Friends,

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January 11, 2026 at 11:30 AM

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Easier Said Than Drilled
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Easier Said Than Drilled

Trump’s bravado meets reality as oil executives politely refuse to bankroll chaos, exposing the yawning chasm between his grand promises and the hard math of global energy markets.

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January 10, 2026 at 9:20 PM

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Journey to American Democracy: The Battle of the Bulge
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Journey to American Democracy: The Battle of the Bulge

This new series in Journey to American Democracy comes to you thanks to that odd way history has of braiding the past and the present.

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January 10, 2026 at 12:42 PM

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Oldfatuglynbroke

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Fuckin' A right, Ann.

ICE shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis

The White House wastes no time gaslighting the American people

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January 9, 2026 at 2:09 AM

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January 8, 2026
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January 8, 2026

On MS NOW today, columnist Philip Bump broke down when talking about the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis.

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January 9, 2026 at 1:37 PM

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The Mad Plunderer-In-Chief
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The Mad Plunderer-In-Chief

Trump makes clear he just wants to take and own stuff, never mind international law or state sovereignty

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January 9, 2026 at 1:26 PM

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Screams From Minneapolis
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Screams From Minneapolis

The screams didn’t echo; they lingered, exposing a government that shoots first, lies second, and leaves a grieving country to absorb the silence afterward.

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January 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM

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“You gonna murder someone else? You can’t kill us all, Nazis.”
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“You gonna murder someone else? You can’t kill us all, Nazis.”

Renee Good is dead, and she shouldn’t be.

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January 8, 2026 at 11:20 AM

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Seriously, what is a human being?
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Seriously, what is a human being?

Corporations aren’t. AI is not. But immigrants and Venezuelans definitely are.

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January 8, 2026 at 11:01 AM

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‘This was surgical’: The tactics behind the Maduro mission www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi... Clumsey surgery resulted in at least 80 deaths.

‘This was surgical’: The tactics behind the Maduro mission

The entire mission hinged on a narrow break in Venezuela’s weather. When that window opened, the U.S. military moved fast.

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January 7, 2026 at 12:08 AM

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Where the hell are America's leaders?
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Where the hell are America's leaders?

Too many people with formal authority are intimidated by Trump or sucking up to him. That leaves you and me and everyone else without official power to resist his tyranny

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January 6, 2026 at 11:38 PM

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Trump Never Stops At One
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Trump Never Stops At One

Trump’s Caracas grab wasn’t strategy; it was appetite, precedent, and permission—signaling a world where power takes what it wants and calls escalation leadership.

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January 6, 2026 at 12:19 PM

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 280. 1/5/26
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 280. 1/5/26

… Trump had a press gaggle on Air Force One last night with Sen.

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January 6, 2026 at 12:17 AM

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The Week Ahead
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The Week Ahead

January 4, 2026

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January 5, 2026 at 3:42 PM

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January 4, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Cain and the Military Leadership has allowed the use of American armed forces in the illegal and unauthorized invasion of a foreign country and now will have to further comply with all the commands from the wanna be dictator without hesitation.

January 4, 2026

Secretary of State Marco Rubio took the administration’s message about its strikes on Venezuela to the Sunday talk shows this morning.

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January 5, 2026 at 1:35 PM

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BIG D GRANDROYAL

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Trump called Putin prior to invading Venezuela, but he did not let the United States Congress know! Putin and Trump are behind this invasion obviously.

January 4, 2026 at 9:34 PM