January 12, 2026 at 5:18 AM EST
An overlooked detail in the Renee Good video

A small detail has stayed with me from the video of Renee Nicole Good being shot to death in Minneapolis by ICE officer Jonathan Ross. In the video, she's behind the wheel, signaling with her left hand to the driver of an ICE vehicle that she's letting him go before she goes. Then out of that vehicle come two officers. One goes straight to her door.

January 11, 2026 at 1:41 PM EST
Trump 'undermining democratic forces' in Venezuela: ex-special envoy

Elliot Abrams, President Donald Trump's former special representative for Venezuela, "voiced incredulity" over the president's Venezuela policy, NBC News reports. Trump earlier this month announced the capture of Venezuelan President Nicola's Maduro and his wife at their home in Caracas by a team of "elite troops" from the United States. Following the U.S. operation, Vice President Delcy Rodr?guez became interim President of Venezuela. According to NBC News, Abrams described a lack of incentive for Rodr?guez "to steer the country toward democracy, given that an election could result in her ouster and possible imprisonment." Abrams, who served as the U.S. special representative for Venezuela and Iran during Trump's first term, described his surprise at the U.S. decision to retain Rodr?guez in a leadership role. "We're undermining the democratic forces" in Venezuela, Abrams said. "I don't like the way this is being done at all -- leaving the regime in place and relying on Delcy Rodr?guez in charge of the country and believing that she will bring change," he added. Veteran diplomats are likewise "[questioning] the wisdom of leaving Rodr?guez in place, as opposed to elevating a member of the opposition, possibly Mar?a Corina Machado, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year." Trump, according to the report, told NBC News he's effectively running Venezuela now. "When Trump says he's running Venezuela, he means that his team is directing Rodr?guez, making sure her government is delivering needed services on time, said a former U.S. government official familiar with the situation," NBC News reports.

January 11, 2026 at 1:08 PM EST
Ex-Reagan official trashes Trump devotee for defending administration's 'crony capitalism'

American hedge fund manager and billionaire Bill Ackman took to X on Saturday to comment on President Donald Trump's claim that he would cap all credit card interest rates at 10 percent as of Jan. 20, 2026. However, a former Ronald Reagan Cabinet secretary encouraged Ackman to stop sucking up to Trump. "I think President @realDonaldTrump's goal of reducing credit card interest rates is a worthy and important one. My concern about capping rates at 10 percent is that doing so will inevitably cause millions of Americans to have their cards cancelled as credit card companies lose the ability to adequately price subprime credit risk," Ackman wrote.

January 11, 2026 at 12:37 PM EST
Cuba 'ready to defend the homeland' after early-morning Trump threat

President Donald Trump threatened Cuba on Sunday morning via his Truth Social account and now Cuba is responding. In a post, he wrote, "Cuba lived, for my years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided 'Security Services' for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE!"

January 11, 2026 at 11:51 AM EST
'The judge lost' it: NYC lawyer says courts are 'over' Trump's Justice Department

A New York lawyer facing off against President Donald Trump's administration revealed that a judge he appeared before was not happy with the Justice Department's lawyers. In a video he posted to Instagram, Michael Foote said, "Even the judges are over ICE right now."

January 11, 2026 at 11:18 AM EST
Trump official cornered on live TV over where his $50,000 bribe is

NBC News' Kristen Welker pressed Tom Homan on a $50,000 bribe he accepted in 2024 and what happened to the money he was given. Homan, President Donald Trump's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations, was involved in a contracts-for-cash scheme that was part of a sting operation

January 11, 2026 at 11:15 AM EST
'I don't know what you're talking about': CNN host brings receipts in DHS chief interview

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made news on Sunday after an interview with CNN host Jake Tapper, who pulled frank answers from her that viewers found shocking or, at the very least, hypocritical. At one point, Tapper called out Noem for obfuscating after he asked about the investigation into last week's fatal shooting by an ICE agent.

January 11, 2026 at 10:56 AM EST
Florida MAGA 'queasy' over 'brazen corruption' from Trump: Miami insider

President Donald Trump is quickly losing support from those in his home state of Florida. Bloomberg opinion columnist Mary Ellen Klas penned a Sunday piece where she revealed that many of the people she knows who are supporters of Trump are privately uncomfortable with his actions in the first year.

January 11, 2026 at 9:31 AM EST
Trump-appointed judges are handing him massive wins: analysis

President Donald Trump has managed to appoint judges to top courts that are now voting overwhelmingly to support his actions in office, whether or not they're legal. The New York Times reported Sunday that a review of the 2025 court records shows that appellate judges are voting 92 percent of the time in favor of Trump and his policies.

January 11, 2026 at 5:27 AM EST
Trump unveils old tactic dictators have used since the days of Ancient Rome

The Trump regime rolled out a new, lie-filled website this week, purporting to tell the history of the January 6 insurrection attempt. It opens with this (which, interestingly, appears to be 100 percent AI-generated): "The Democrats masterfully reversed reality after January 6, branding peaceful patriotic protesters as 'insurrectionists' and framing the event as a violent coup attempt orchestrated by Trump -- despite no evidence of armed rebellion or intent to overthrow the government."In truth, it was the Democrats who staged the real insurrection by certifying a fraud-ridden election, ignoring widespread irregularities, and weaponizing federal agencies to hunt down dissenters, all while Pelosi's own security lapses invited the chaos they later exploited to seize and consolidate power. This gaslighting narrative allowed them to persecute innocent Americans, silence opposition, and distract from their own role in undermining democracy." The most dangerous lies a government can tell aren't about how tax cuts will create prosperity or that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, although those were bad. When a malicious, corrupt government wants to truly break down trust in a society to more easily seize and manipulate it politically and loot it economically, it inevitably tells lies about the past .

January 11, 2026 at 4:58 AM EST
Warning over Trump's true goal in Minneapolis

Amidst national outrage this week over the killing by Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good by a federal agent, members of Minnesota's congressional delegation on Saturday were blocked from full access to a federal immigration detention center in the city""but at least one lawmaker among them warns something much more sinister is now taking place in the state. "I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building," Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who represents the state's 5th District. "Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities."

January 11, 2026 at 4:50 AM EST
The only way to stop Trump

The man who notoriously said in his first campaign for president that he could murder someone on Fifth Avenue without losing a vote is now effectively murdering Americans on the streets of our cities and murdering Venezuelans and Cubans in Caracas and the Caribbean Sea, and doesn't have to face voters in another presidential election. He is unconstrained in every other way as well: not subject to congressional oversight because supine Republicans are in control. Not subject to judicial oversight because the Supreme Court has given him a pass. Not subject to international law because the U.N. charter has no teeth.