Bari is such a fraud. It's funny that she finally had a real job at age 40 running CBS and she immediately tanked it. Her whole life she's been propped by Palantir ghouls. At least other edgelord supposed intellectuals like Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan actually had real audience.
Oh... It is just DEI for chuds
Let me know when Greg Bovino loses his life via public execution
First they came for the Palestinians in Gaza and I did not speak up because I don't live there
Then they came for minorities here and I did not speak up because I'm not a minority
Then they came for white activist lesbian and I did not speak up because I'm not an activist nor a lesbian
Now they came for a guy with concealed carry permit and there's no one left to speak out for me
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/22/ice-funding-government-shutdown-house-democrats
Seven Democrats voted for the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill that included funding for ICE: Reps. Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Henry Cuellar (Texas), Don Davis (N.C.), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.) and Laura Gillen (N.Y.).
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/14/democrats-ice-funding-appropriations-00726552
By Jennifer Scholtes, Nicholas Wu and Katherine Tully-McManus01/14/2026 04:45 AM EST
New calls to “defund ICE” are reverberating through the Democratic Party following last week’s deadly shooting by a federal agent in Minneapolis. Behind the scenes, top Democrats are feverishly working to fund the agency — with strings attached.
The mismatch between the anti-ICE rhetoric and the actions of Democratic appropriators reflects a Catch-22 of congressional power: The only way lawmakers can put guardrails on the controversial agency and curb President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda at this moment is to hand it billions of taxpayer dollars.
As they negotiate fiscal 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security with Republicans ahead of a Jan. 30 shutdown deadline, Democrats are demanding new rules for DHS agents, such as forcing them to use body cameras, refrain from wearing masks and go through more extensive training.
Even as new polling fielded after the fatal Jan. 7 shooting of Renee Good shows that a plurality of voters back ICE’s elimination, top Democrats on Capitol Hill are seeking to restrain the agency under Trump’s leadership — not disband it.
“House Democrats want accountability and oversight of ICE,” Rep. Pete Aguilar of California, the No. 3 Democratic leader, told reporters Tuesday. “They should have to continue to testify to Congress as to what they are doing. But more importantly, we need to look out for the American people right now. They are terrorizing people in the streets of this country.”
Among the rank-and-file, there is also a deep desire to rein in the agency. Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.), deputy chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said in an interview his group supports “reforms” for the agency.
“It’s not the CHC’s position that we’re terminating ICE,” Soto said. “But there is a culture of violence that’s happening that does need to be addressed.”
The Congressional Progressive Caucus, meanwhile, announced Tuesday it had “adopted an official position” opposing new DHS funding “unless there are meaningful and significant reforms to immigration enforcement practices.”
It’s not clear what GOP leaders are willing to accept in return for the Democratic votes that will be necessary to pass any DHS funding bill. They have not publicly ruled out new rules for ICE, despite equating Democrats’ demands with support for lax immigration policies.
“Understand, what happened last week gave them more things to yell about,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise told reporters this week, referring to Democrats’ response to the shooting. “But they’ve been against ICE — and frankly, they’ve been for open borders, more importantly — for years as well.”
Part of a calculation for both sides is that the alternatives to a negotiated compromise are unsavory for each party. Democratic lawmakers are in no mood to default to a lengthy stopgap funding patch that would maintain the status quo on immigration enforcement and give the Trump administration more leeway to decide how the money is spent. And if Republicans refuse to enact restraints, they warn, funding for DHS could lapse altogether in a few weeks.
“The question is for Republicans: Are they willing to shut down the government simply to endorse the most lawless Department of Homeland Security in the history of the country?” Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security funding panel, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” over the weekend.
Despite the tough rhetoric, Murphy showed a willingness to compromise in comments to reporters this week. Appropriators, he said, are “not going to write a comprehensive immigration enforcement reform bill” within the DHS funding measure.
“But in every bill there’s language on how our money is spent. And I want to make sure that our money is spent lawfully,” he continued. “So yes, we’re having conversations about how we can pass a bill — but a bill that makes sure that ICE is operating legally.”
One of the challenges for lawmakers is that Republicans already gave ICE billions of dollars within the party-line tax and spending package they enacted over the summer. The “big, beautiful bill” included $75 billion for the agency over the following decade, above and beyond the nearly $11 billion it was granted in the fiscal year that ended in September.
“It’s important to understand that a lot of the funding that’s being unleashed on the American people in such extreme ways right now was provided not through the traditional appropriations process,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters this week.
In spite of the major roadblocks to clinching a bipartisan funding deal, there are lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who are interested in putting at least some fetters on immigration enforcement agencies.
The day after the fatal shooting in Minnesota, GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said footage of the killing was “deeply disturbing” and called for “policy changes to help prevent future tragedies” that would ensure ICE agents work “safely — and with empathy and respect for human life.”
Both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate objected to moving forward this week with the DHS funding bill, House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said, forcing it to be stripped from a planned multibill package at the 11th hour.
“This one’s tricky, just simply because of the political situation,” Cole told reporters. “We’re trying to work with our colleagues. I know they’re trying to get a bill. But I’m very sensitive to the political challenges they have on this particular bill.”
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) also acknowledged this week that “obviously the agency and some of its actions have raised questions lately,” adding that while a deal on DHS funding hasn’t yet been notched, “it doesn’t mean it won’t be eventually.”
Even before the shooting in Minnesota, lawmakers in both parties had agreed to new limits on the Trump administration’s ability to redirect DHS money to purposes other than what Congress prescribes.
Rep. Mark Amodei, the Nevada Republican who chairs the Homeland Security funding panel, told reporters last week that House and Senate appropriators are crafting the spending measure to make it “harder to make the money mobile.”
He called the Trump administration’s penchant for shifting around cash “bullshit” and acknowledged that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem would not be fond of the new restrictions.
On Tuesday, Amodei struck an upbeat note on the negotiations, saying the DHS bill is “progressing nicely.”
It's only been 2 weeks into 2026 lol
a famous unhinged neurosurgeon once said "Danmark, utskitet av kalk. Sverige, hugget i granit"
By Ida Auken
Ms. Auken is a member of the Danish Parliament and wrote from Copenhagen.
On Monday, the White House adviser Stephen Miller told CNN that the “formal position” of the U.S. government under President Trump is that Greenland — a part of the Kingdom of Denmark — should be part of the United States. In an interview on Wednesday with The New York Times, Mr. Trump stood by this claim. At a Thursday news conference, Vice President JD Vance said that when it comes to this issue, Europeans should take the president seriously. Believe me: In Denmark, we do. When the president of the United States says something, we listen. Not just because our countries are allies in NATO, but because America is the most militarily powerful member of the alliance.
Another thing we take seriously is security in the Arctic. Denmark has long stressed to the rest of NATO exactly what Mr. Vance said in an interview on Fox News Wednesday: “Greenland is critical, not just to our national security, but to the world’s national security.” Indeed, Mr. Vance correctly identified the real threat in the Arctic: “If, God forbid, the Russians or the Chinese” launched a nuclear missile toward the United States or Europe, “Greenland is a critical part of that missile defense.” I could not agree more. So, if Greenland is important to the entire Western world, then the entire Western world should contribute to increased security investments there. And Denmark is happy to lead this collaboration in consultation with Greenland. On this score, we have had close security cooperation with the United States for more than 70 years — an agreement between our two countries, signed in 1951, is still in place.
Mr. Vance pointed out in the same interview that he isn’t interested in rehashing the history of the alliance — like the fact that Denmark fought with America in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Fair enough. Maybe we should all just look at what is being done now instead of arguing about the past, when NATO for too long looked at the Arctic as a low-tension area, Denmark underinvested and the United States closed more than a dozen military bases in Greenland. (The U.S. military’s Pituffik Space Base remains.) There is, however, one point that must be addressed plainly. For one ally to say it should own the territory of another ally is not a negotiating position; it undermines the very principles on which our alliance rests. NATO is built on mutual respect for sovereignty, borders and democratic self-determination — including the right of the people of Greenland to decide their future. Security cooperation can and should be discussed openly and seriously. Territorial claims between allies should not. Danes will always be open to discussions on how to strengthen Arctic security. What we’re not open to is the idea that if an ally wants to annex Greenland, Danes and Greenlanders have no choice but to hand it over.
Last year, Denmark announced that it would spend nearly $14 billion to purchase F-35 jets, ships and air defense equipment. The first and second parts of the Danish Arctic defense framework call for long-range and medium-range, ground-based air and missile defense systems, surveillance radar systems, drone acquisitions and Arctic vessels. We are also establishing an Arctic unit with a dedicated first-responder capability under the Special Operations Command, a new military unit under our Joint Arctic Command, and a new Joint Arctic Command Headquarters in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. Most important — because Mr. Vance is right that the greatest threat to Western security in the Arctic is Russian or Chinese aggression — we have invested in enhanced satellite surveillance, including space-based maritime domain awareness and Arctic communications resilience.
It’s true that not all of that military hardware has been delivered, but in many cases we are waiting on production from American companies. It would be a great contribution to American, European and Arctic security if the U.S. government helped ensure that such orders are prioritized. Yes, the real threat to America and Europe comes from Russia and China. To make all of us more secure, we need one another as allies in NATO. Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are surely very happy anytime they see us arguing. It is making no one safer. On the contrary. For years, American presidents have pushed European nations to ramp up military spending. That should have happened long ago, but as the vice president said, let’s not argue about the past. Let us instead stay focused on the real threats the NATO alliance faces in the Arctic.
We are stronger together, unless we let our enemies divide us.
Jaber al-Attar, a 51-year-old doctor living in northern Gaza, was elated when the news arrived of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, bringing an end to two years of relentless bombardment. But just four weeks after it was announced, he received a phone call on his way to work at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat to say that his daughter, Maysaa, had been killed by Israeli drone fire as she sheltered in a tent. “There is absolutely no safety; there is no hope for us to have any security,” he tells The Independent from the same tent in the Al-Atatra area of Beit Lahia, where he is living after being displaced. “I spent my life in hardship and misery.” Jaber’s daughter is one of at least 410 Palestinians to be killed since the ceasefire came into effect on 10 October, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
During a victory lap speech in the Knesset, US president Donald Trump had promised “peace for all eternity”. But for Gazans, the nightmare has not ended: it is a ceasefire in name only. In addition to the more than 400 Palestinians who have been killed, the health ministry says that 1,134 have been injured by Israeli shelling and gunfire. At least three Israeli troops have also been killed by Palestinian militants, while two people were killed on Friday in what police called a "rolling terror attack" in northern Israel. Images show a landscape unchanged by two months of peace, with apartments razed to the ground and families wandering among the rubble. Humanitarian agencies continue to warn that nowhere near enough aid is entering the strip, which has been in the grip of a hunger crisis for most of the year. “From the very first moment, and every day, morning and evening, there is gunfire and artillery shelling in the yellow and non-yellow zones. There is no peace of mind. There is nowhere else for us to go. There is nothing but your own destroyed place,” says Jaber. “We are still suffering to this day. There is heavy gunfire and intense shelling, but this is the state of our country: a tragedy we did not choose.”
The deadliest night of the “ceasefire” so far came on 29 October, when at least 109 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during an overnight attack. The Israeli military said the attack was a response to the killing of an IDF soldier by Hamas. The militant group said it had “no connection” to the incident. Dozens more Palestinians, including children, have been killed after crossing the “yellow line”. This refers to the boundary which Israeli forces agreed to withdraw from under Mr Trump’s ceasefire, but Gazans say its position is constantly changing – with deadly consequences. The Israeli military says its operations, in particular within the yellow line, are “carried out to address direct threats from terrorist organisations in Gaza”.
But in one particularly horrific incident, two young boys – Fadi, 8, and Jumaa, 11 – had gone out to gather firewood for their wheelchair-bound father in Beni Suhaila, near Khan Younis. They were killed by a drone strike near a school sheltering displaced people. The IDF described the children as “two suspects who crossed the yellow line, conducted suspicious activities on the ground, and approached IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip, posing an immediate threat to them”. Israel says it has abided by the terms of the ceasefire, and has repeatedly described victims of its attacks as suspected terrorists.
A dispute over aid is also ongoing, with humanitarian groups warning that far less aid than required is entering the strip. Hamas claims fewer trucks are entering Gaza than had been agreed, but Israel maintains that it is fulfilling all of its obligations under Mr Trump’s plan. As Israel and Hamas continue to trade blows, the suffering of ordinary Palestinians continues. Since his daughter’s death, Jaber says he has suffered psychologically, his weight plummeting from 100kg to 75kg. “I used to own three houses, and now I’m homeless in a tent,” he says.
Imad Abu Shawish, a 38-year-old freelance journalist, has seen the horror of post-ceasefire Gaza up close. On 22 November, he sifted through the rubble of an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Nuseirat, which killed 11 members of the Abu Shawish family, including two married couples and seven children. Only one daughter from the two families survived: 19-year-old Batoul. Imad pulled her from under the flattened building with his own hands. “There is absolutely no safety, no safety at all,” he tells The Independent. “My life has changed drastically. My eating and drinking habits have changed. My emotional and psychological behaviour has changed. My feelings towards others have changed. I am still in shock, deeply traumatised.” He continues: “I don’t know where I am or what I am going through. What happened to me? I still don’t have an answer. I’ve become terrified, anxious, fearful, and panicky. Perhaps it’s because I’m afraid the war will return at any moment and we’ll be killed. “I don’t think these bad feelings will easily disappear from our minds. We need internal healing and psychological treatment.”
Palestinians have also been suffering in severe winter weather, with strong winds and torrential rains tearing apart tents housing hundreds of thousands of homeless families. “Everyone’s tents are flooded,” says Abed al-Moneim al-Zein, a 60-year-old from northern Gaza who is currently displaced in Khan Younis. “There aren’t enough tents, mattresses, or blankets.” His brother Ameen, a 56-year-old from Beit Lahia with a wife and three daughters, was killed 19 days after the ceasefire came into effect. “Ameen loved his city dearly; he adored it,” recalls Abed. “He was always smiling and participated in all the city’s events, from celebrations to football matches. “The area he went to wasn’t a yellow zone. He went looking for shelter after losing his home. It was a school in the city centre.”
Abed continued: “Life is nonexistent. There are no basic necessities. We live in fear, tension, anxiety, and terror. The war has affected us immensely, beyond human endurance.” The Israeli military said in a statement: “IDF troops under the Southern Command are deployed in the area in accordance with the ceasefire framework and will continue to act to remove any immediate threat. “In contrast, Hamas is not fulfilling its part of the agreement and has violated the ceasefire hundreds of times.”
Why is this dumb photo op so funny lmao, absolute state of this unserious country
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Electoralism - one party is going to lose this November, and regardless of who loses it will be hilarious AF to laugh at the losers
I feel gaslighted watching Kamala's interview. She's just as incoherent as Joe Biden. At least Joe will try to articulate some kind of policy, e.g. "Jack, China, the semiconductor, we passed CHIPS ACT, they're called FABs". Kamala's is 100% policy-free, 100% incomprehensible, as if she's an unprepared college student having to give class presentation while simultaneously on Xanax and adderall. Is it just me or Democrats have truly stopped communicating in standard English and just communicates by transmitting vibes via brainwaves.
wake up
read news
warcrimes are happening and people are being genocided
brush teeth
go to work
ML in shambles lmao, that was the biggest roast in the whole article