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A social media post from the Department of Labor is attracting criticism for appearing to echo a Nazi-era slogan from the early 20th century.

As Attorney General Pam Bondi’s tenure approaches the one-year mark, the Justice Department she ostensibly leads is clearly a mess. Over the course of 2025, the DOJ struggled with everything from personnel purges to incompetence to weaponization.

Joe Thompson, the career U.S. Justice Department attorney best known for prosecuting social services fraud in Minnesota, has resigned along with other experienced attorneys at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, quit after the Justice Department sought to examine the woman’s supposed ties to activist groups.

Two target areas for the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations announced lawsuits Monday, with one state attorney general admonishing what he called the “unlawful and dangerous tactics” of federal agents.

ICE agents are living in fear as the public turns against them in record numbers after one of their colleagues shot a mom dead in the street.

The Trump administration will revoke temporary protected status for thousands of Somali nationals in the United States in the face of White House claims that the diaspora community in Minnesota participated in widespread fraud, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday.

*ICE’s approval rating among Americans currently sits at negative 13 points, a recent poll revealed.*

The murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE officer Jonathan Ross has certainly created quite the divide between the reality-based majority of the population who doesn’t want masked unaccountable federal law enforcement goons invading cities they have no business being in and shooting people for saying “dude, I’m not mad at you” and trying to drive away… and the fantasy-land MAGA folks who are bending over backwards to justify the murder.

An impeachment effort against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem will “move forward,” members of Congress are promising, after the effort was announced last week in the wake of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shooting a United States citizen in Minneapolis.

Several faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain information about Jewish professors, staff and students at the University of Pennsylvania – including personal emails, phone numbers and home addresses – as government abuse with “ominous historical overtones”.

Just before the holidays, the Senate, in a party-line 53-43 en bloc vote, approved five of President Donald Trump’s picks for agency inspectors general, bringing the total number of confirmed watchdogs during his second term to at least eight.

Congressional Republicans are threatening to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress after the Democratic former president and presidential candidate refused to testify in a GOP-led House probe into Jeffrey Epstein.

A new bill has been proposed in the US Senate that would permit artificial intelligence (AI) data center firms to bypass federal electricity regulations by building their own energy infrastructure.

On Thursday, January 8, 2026, five Republican senators broke with their president on a matter of war and peace. The Senate voted 52-47 to advance a resolution that would block President Trump from conducting further military operations in Venezuela without approval from Congress first. Every Democrat voted yes. So did Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Todd Young of Indiana.

The proposed 2026 voting plans would affect only the March primaries. But they could indicate strategies to come for the November general election.

The bill awaits its future, as it’s set to be voted on in the Assembly Judiciary Committee

Some wars can’t be won. It can be hard to come to terms with this fact when you’re still on the battlefield, but if somehow you manage to step out for a moment, then the truth will become obvious. You have lost, the people on your side have lost, the villains have won and, if anything, you should have run away a long time ago.

*Mayor decries ‘assault on our democracy’ after employee detained during ‘routine immigration appointment’*

*ICE Out for Good vigils and rallies are being tracked online by Indivisible, the group behind the No Kings protests*

The purge began late Friday night, four days after Donald Trump returned to the White House. Seventeen inspectors general—internal watchdogs embedded throughout the federal government—received emails notifying them of their termination. Three weeks later came the Valentine’s Day Massacre: the ousting of tens of thousands of federal employees with little discernible pattern, across agencies and across the country. By April, entire departments—the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—had been gutted.

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In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

For context, this is why breaking the independence of the central bank was a critical act during Hitler’s rise

Most Americans believe that it’s a “problem” that Republicans are transphobic.

New modular, self-cleaning public bathrooms could soon pop up across the city.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (PIX11) – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined over 15,000 nurses who are on strike Monday morning.

Donald Trump has declared himself the “acting president of Venezuela” in an unhinged Truth Social post.

*Trump’s memo stating US ‘shall withdraw’ from UNFCCC marks first time any country has tried to exit the agreement*

From WABE Politics News:

The president’s embrace of fossil fuels and withdrawal from the global fight against climate change will make it hard to keep warming at safe levels, scientists said.

*Business leaders affiliated with AI companies and TikTok and family members of people accused of federal crimes were among those who made big donations to MAGA Inc.*

Adam Johnson was previously sentenced to 75 days in prison after he was photographed carrying Pelosi's lectern during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

*After the vote, Trump threatened the senators with primary challenges, according to people with knowledge of the calls.*

The investigation, which is said to center on renovations of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters in Washington, signals an escalation in the long-running clash between President Trump and the chair.

Terry Zink has spent 57 years building a life in Montana’s backcountry. The 57-year-old third-generation houndsman from Marion—a remote town nestled deep within the Flathead National Forest—runs a small archery target business serving outdoor recreation workers and guides who, until recently, had steady employment managing America’s public lands. Contents

*A group of reporters meant to hold the Pentagon to account is full of pro-Trump sycophants … what could go wrong?*

*Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.*

President Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.” They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges.

Elon Musk has accused Sir Keir Starmer’s Government of being “fascist” after ministers stepped up threats to ban social media site X over AI-generated sexualised images.