Tren de Aragua illegal alien gangbangers shot while trying to mow down feds
US takes out another Caribbean drug tanker filled with Venezuelan oil
Trump threatens death blows against Mexican drug cartels, \\\'The cartels are running Mexico\\\'
U.S. payrolls add 50,000 jobs in December, less than expected; unemployment rate falls to 4.4%Tren de Aragua illegal alien gangbangers shot while trying to mow down feds
US takes out another Caribbean drug tanker filled with Venezuelan oil
Trump threatens death blows against Mexican drug cartels, \\\'The cartels are running Mexico\\\'
U.S. payrolls add 50,000 jobs in December, less than expected; unemployment rate falls to 4.4%
A-1 Top Headlines
- KEEP CALM AND DON'T MIND THE MICROPLASTICS: New study suggests fears over microplastics overstated [telegraph]
- DRAMA: Iran threatens Trump directly, posting picture of Trump at Butler from day of assassination attempt with message 'This time, the bullet won't miss’ [nypost]
- THE INTERNET IS DOWWNN: Widespread Verizon outage in Washington, New York City prompts emergency alerts [today]
- HANG EM HIGH: Trump threatens ‘strong action’ as Iran prepares to execute a protester [nytimes]
- OPTICS: Left still looking for optics that will sway public opinion as ICE agents haul driver out of car [nypost]
- AMERICA'S MESSAGE TO TURD WORLD, 'STAY IN YOUR SHIT HOLE': US suspends visa processing for 75 countries, Trump admin says it has revoked 100,000 visas so far [the epoch times]
- IT'S EITHER US OR DENMARK, CHOOSE: Trump says anything less than Greenland ‘in the hands of’ US ‘unacceptable’ [the hill]
Crime/Justice/Lawfare
- DEJA VU: ICE officer involved in Minn. shooting was dragged by car during June immigration arrest [nbcnews]
- NATION'S LARGEST COVID-19 FRAUD SCHEME: Aimee Bock, the 44-year-old mastermind behind the Feeding Our Future scandal, was found guilty of wire fraud, bribery and conspiracy [nypost]
- MOVE ON, NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Feds looking into Somali couriers sending $700 MILLION cash in luggage leaving Minneapolis airport for Somalia [just the news]
- USE STARLINK TO SHUT DOWN HER INTERWEBS: 'Then it is war' Elon declares after Somali tiktoker threatens his life [newsweek]
- FRAUD TOWN, USA: with additional investigators eyeing fraud-plagued Minnesota, feds have arrested 500 illegal immigrants and probed 1,000 immigration-fraud cases during past 2 months [the epoch times]
- ON PAUSE: Trump freezes child care payments to Minnesota after questions of fraud in social service programs improperly collecting millions of federal dollars [washington post]
- REMINDER: A Maine non-profit for Somalis was bilking taxpayers out of millions in Medicaid funds. UPDATE: payments have been suspended, Maine cuts off funding after fraud claims [wmtm]
Culture
- LEFT GETS ONE OF THEIR OWN KILLED: Activist, Renee Nicole Good, came to Minn., couldn't follow directions, and she has no one to blame but her dumb belief system [nypost]
- WHY DO MENTALLY ILL MEN LOVE PLANET FITNESS WOMEN'S BATHROOMS: Tr00n gymgoer caught jerking off in the lady's room [nypost]
- MATING GAME RUN AWRY: Hoeflation and hypergamy eroding the foundations of civilization [black pigeon speaks]
- THE ERA OF WOKE-TOPIA: Harvard history professor leaves Ivy League school, cites woke anti-white, anti-male culture as reason [nypost]
- HUSTLING AMERICANS FOR EVERY PENNY THEY CAN PINCH: Armond White reviews Chalamet's 'Marty Supreme', Safdie and Bronstein 'see everyone as shysters and think it’s funny when Marty’s betrayals confirm this Luigi Mangione–esque dystopia' [armond white]
- EROSION: As influence of pro-Israel Evangelicals diminishes, young RW Americans are no longer beholden to Israel (and people are starting to notice) [nytimes]
- RIP TO ONE OF THE OG BASED HOTTIES, BRIGITTE BARDOT (1934-2025): Convicted five times for racist remarks, the actress remained one of the only French celebrities to openly embrace far-right views [le monde]
Finance - Stock Market - Crypto - Tech
- GO HOME, JEROME: Central bank hit with DOJ subpoenas in criminal probe over Chair Jerome Powell testimony re: renovation of Federal Reserve office buildings [nbcnews]
- TRUMP STANDS AGAINST USURY: POTUS pushes a 1-year, 10% cap on credit card interest rates, 'The credit card companies have totally abused the public. I'm not going to let it happen' [reuters]
- MIXED BAG: U.S. payrolls add 50,000 jobs in December, less than expected; unemployment rate falls to 4.4% [cnbc]
- LABOR MARKET: December saw the lowest number of planned layoffs in 17 months [nypost]
- INDICATORS: US third-quarter productivity rises at fastest pace in two years, nonfarm productivity accelerated at a 4.9% [reuters]
- TRADE DEFICIT: US trade deficit shrinks to $29.4 billion, lowest since 2009, reduced to $29.4 billion after last being reported at $48.1 billion [just the news]
- PAJ33T NATIONALISM: Tech startups adapting no-shoes policy [nytimes]
Immigration/Deportation/ The Border
- NATURAL BORN KILLERS: Tren de Aragua illegal alien gangbangers shot while trying to mow down feds [nypost]
- TOUGH TALK: Trump says he's open to denaturalize citizens if they deserve it, 'I think that many of the people that came in from Somalia, they hate our country.' [time]
- JUSTIFIED: Two people shot by Border Patrol agent in Portland, target was a Venezuelan “illegal alien affiliated with the transnational Tren de Aragua prostitution ring”, driver attempted to run over agents [nbcnews]
- NEW MIGRANTS WILL BE FORCED TO LIE BETTER: Revised citizenship test will ensure new migrants understand privilege of U.S. citizenship [the epoch times]
- 'LARGEST IMMIGRATION OPERATION EVER': DHS sends 2,000 officers to crack down on Minnesota immigration, fraud probe [newsweek]
- INVASION OF THE GOAT-FU*KERS: Muslims opening a 400-acre development 'epicenter of Islam in America' [epoch times]
- 'THIS IS BRAZEN DAYLIGHT ROBBERY': Attention turns to Medicaid scams in Ohio [newsweek]
International
- DRAMA: Iran threatens Trump directly, posting picture of Trump at Butler from day of assassination attempt with message 'This time, the bullet won't miss’ [nypost]
- HANG EM HIGH: Trump threatens ‘strong action’ as Iran prepares to execute a protester [nytimes]
- IT'S EITHER US OR DENMARK, CHOOSE: Trump says anything less than Greenland ‘in the hands of’ US ‘unacceptable’ [the hill]
- IS ISRAEL TRYING TO CONTROL IRAN? Israeli influence operation aiming to install Reza Pahlavi as Shah of Iran, online network pushed out deepfake videos during Israel's airstrikes on Tehran's Evin Prison, the Persian-language online campaigns indirectly funded by Israel [haaretz]
- WHICH COUNTRY DO YOU WORK FOR, TROMPY?: Trump tells Iranians to 'keep protesting, take over institutions, MIGA', 'help is on its way' [reuters]
- ESCAPE FROM CARACAS: With Venezuelan militias hunting US citizens, State Department warns Americans 'leave Venezuela now', alert for an active kidnapping threat targeting US nationals [mirror]
- TERRORIST WAR: Qalibaf says Iran fighting 4 simultaneous wars with US, Israel - 'provoke unrest in the country, hijack the legitimate demands of people, and start a terrorist war by committing crimes' [tasnim news]
National
- THE INTERNET IS DOWWNN: Widespread Verizon outage in Washington, New York City prompts emergency alerts [today]
- OPTICS: Left still looking for optics that will sway public opinion as ICE agents haul driver out of car [nypost]
- AMERICA'S MESSAGE TO TURD WORLD, 'STAY IN YOUR SHIT HOLE': US suspends visa processing for 75 countries, Trump admin says it has revoked 100,000 visas so far [the epoch times]
- THE GHOST OF EPSTEIN: Trump gives middle-finger to Detroit heckler, TJ Sabula, after calling Don a 'pedo protector' [washington post]
- NO MORE HOES: Florida gubernatorial candidate, Fishback, suggests 50% sin tax for Onlyfans creators - 'I don't want young women who could otherwise be mothers raising families, rearing children, I don't want them to be selling their bodies to sick men online' [newsweek]
- AINT NOBODY WANT NO OBAMACARE: Higher premiums push people off plans, sign-ups are down more than 800,000 from last year [nbcnews]
- MAY WANT TO WORK ON THAT TRAINING MANUAL: Renee Nicole Good was Minneapolis ‘ICE Watch’ ‘warrior', 'trained against these ICE agents — what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training' [nypost]
Politics
- 'SHE BEHAVED HORRIBLE, AND THEN SHE RAN OVER HIM': NY Times sends DEI hire, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, to interview Trump [nytimes]
- VIVEK RAMASWAMY GETS BULLIED OFF SOCIAL MEDIAS: Pens op-ed in WSJ to let everyone know he's no longer posting on Twitter, Instagram [columbus dispatch]
- FOOD FIGHT OF THE DAY: A brief summary of the Matt Gaetz vs Dan Bongino online scuffle [the independent]
- IN WAKE OF SOMALI FRAUDSTER SCAMS, TIM WALZ DROPS OUT OF 2026 REELECTION BID: We're turning the page on Minnesota's blue-collar heterosexual governor [kare11]
- OH, NOW YOU CARE ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH: Media still trying to equate Trump's health with Biden's (wake us when Trump is a mumbling, stuttering mess) [mediaite]
- THE ROSARY CAUSES MARK LEVIN TO CRY OUT IN PAIN: Megyn Kelly defends Jack Posobiec from Mark Levin as 'some old, angry anti-Christian nut on weekend Fox ' [this is money]
- APPARENTLY, FUENTES WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT FIGURE AT TURNING POINT (WITHOUT EVEN SHOWING UP): Members say Fuentes' influence has turned into a problem, Groypers have 'taken over all of the TPUSA chapters' [the atlantic]
Random
- KEEP CALM AND DON'T MIND THE MICROPLASTICS: New study suggests fears over microplastics overstated [telegraph]
- THE GIGA-CHAD MINDSET: Clavicular gets his close-up, takes on 'fat, subhuman' JD Vance [telegraph]
- SCRUBS: 15,000 nurses go on strike at three hospital systems in New York City over union disputes [just the news]
- FUN N SUN: Human heads hung on Ecuador beach amid escalating gang clashes, linked to conflict between criminal groups competing for trafficking routes [barrons]
- NO SHORTCUTS: Study finds fatties have to stay on fat jabs -- Mounjaro and Wegovy -- for life or else turn back into pumpkins in under 2 years [daily mail]
- MAMDANI'S 'TENANT ADVOCATE' LOOKS LIKE A MESS: Cea Weaver breaks down crying when confronted about comments about homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy” while her mom owns a $1.6 million home [nypost]
- WHAT'S THIS 'WE' SH*T, GEORGES: New Frenchman, Monsieur Georges des Clooney, responds to Trump, says 'We Have to Make America Great Again. We’ll Start in November' [hollywood reporter]