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Republican former Nebraska state Senator Brett Lindstrom on Friday announced he’s throwing the towel in on the race to succeed retiring Congressman Don Bacon, one of just three House Republicans repping a district won by former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

“After careful reflection, prayer, and thoughtful consideration over the past few weeks, Brett Lindstrom announced today that he is stepping away from the race for Congress. ‘This was not an easy decision,’ Lindstrom said. ‘Over the past several weeks, I’ve taken time to reflect, pray, and have honest conversations with my family about where I can best focus my time and energy. Right now, my priority needs to be my family and continuing to make a difference here in Omaha and across Nebraska – not in Washington, DC,'” said the very ChatGPT-ish first half of the press release.

Then it gets interesting, even kind of tantalizing for those who crave anecdotal evidence of a pending Blue Wave: “Lindstrom emphasized that the decision is not due to a lack of confidence in his campaign or its support. ‘I was confident that we were on a strong path to winning the nomination,’ he said. ‘However, when looking ahead to what would be an exceptionally brutal general election, I felt it was the responsible decision to pause this campaign and step back at this time.'”

According to the Nebraska Examiner, Lindstrom had a 1 percent lead over Omaha City Councilman Brinker Harding in the most recent polling among NE-2’s Republican primary voters, polling they say indicated some vulnerability for Brinker on certain issues. On the other hand Brinker was expected to show a significant money advantage over Lindstrom in upcoming FEC fundraising reports.

It would actually be malpractice to report that without an indictment being docketed or announced or confirmed by a participant in the proceedings — unless this is the formal announcement by the White House? https://t.co/PgZ2iHIuTN

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 30, 2026

Convicted felon President Trump’s top political aide James Blair sure brought the not-receipts on Friday when he called the mainstream media out for reporting that Don Lemon had been arrested rather than indicted, to which Politico’s top legal reporter Kyle Cheney asked him politely where said receipt was. Blair apparently has yet to respond to Cheney with a link to the indictment PDF.

A Manhattan federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump Regime from seeking the death penalty for United Health CEO Brian Thompson’s assassin Luigi Mangione, the AP reports on a L for Pam Blondi.

“On Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026, at approximately 6:30 pm, officers were dispatched to an apartment complex near the 9500 block of Jeremiah Dr in reference to a shooting. Officers arrived on scene and located an adult male victim with an apparent gunshot wound to his head. Officers started rendering CPR until they were relieved by Fort Worth Fire EMS. The victim was transported to a local hospital for continued medical treatment. The victim did not survive his injuries and was pronounced deceased several hours later. Detectives with the Gun Violence Unit learned that an argument between friends had taken place,” says the Ft Worth, Texas Police Department in a Facebook post.

“The argument started over an order of french fries that the victim did not want to share with the suspect, and a verbal argument between the two escalated to a shooting. The suspect fled the apartment after the shooting. Detectives interviewed multiple witnesses and have identified the suspected shooter. The suspect is known to live in the same apartment complex. Officers searched the area and the suspect’s apartment, but did not locate the suspect. Detectives are actively looking for the suspect to speak with him about the incident. This incident is an isolated event, and there is no known danger to the general public,” the post continued, emphasis added here by National Zero.

Sure, maybe it’s reasonable for them to say this particular suspect is no threat to the general public, but when you live in a state where a significant portion of the populace are always carrying and a situation that in, say, Scotland would have been a fistfight – maybe a stabbing at worst – then, well…

When you have to write “an order of french fries that the victim did not want to share” and “escalated to a shooting” then no, it is not factually correct to write that there is no danger to the public at large. The public in Texas is in mortal danger at all times, every minute of every day.

The Confederates were the bad guys in the Civil War, according to House Majority Whip Tom Emmer’s take on this very specific limited instance of Gov Tim Walz evoking “Fort Sumter” in the Trump Administration’s campaign of brutality against the people of Minneapolis. The Confederates are also the bad guys when some MAGA Twitter user posts “I haven’t seen the Democrats this upset since Lincoln freed all the slaves” because LMAO Trump owned the libs on this or that.

Such instances however are isolated perturbations in the overall narrative of “muh heritage” in which military installations named after Confederate officers and monuments are threatened by the “woke left” who want to rewrite history. And also “restoring truth and sanity to American history” by removing any mentions of slavery from various sites managed by federal National Park Service.

Former CNN host-turned-independent podcaster Don Lemon has been arrested by the FBI in over his accompanying anti-ICE libs into a church run by a pro-MAGA pastor in St Paul, Minnesota earlier this month, the New York Times reports. It’s not clear if he’s actually been indicted.

“Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards. Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done. This unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand. Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court,” said Lemon’s very fucking smart and tenacious lawyer Abbe Lowell in a statement.

Fate giveth Aileen Cannon, faith taketh away Aileen Cannon. Convicted felon President Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service has landed in front of Obama appointee Judge Kathleen Williams, Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports on a nightmarishly bad hand for the fat fuck.

President Donald J. Trump nominates Kevin Warsh as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve pic.twitter.com/M5FHQJzY2a

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 30, 2026

“Agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist, Alex Pretti’s stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the taillight broke off in pieces. It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” posted convicted felon President Trump at 1:26 AM on Friday, implying that breaking a tail light is now punishable by summary execution.

A teenage girl probably actually has internal bleeding after some MAGA bro in what appears to be a Chevy Equinox with a large Trump flag hit her during a student-led anti-ICE protest in front of of Fremont High School in Omaha, Nebraska on Thursday afternoon, News Channel Nebraska reports.

Videos of the incident from two angles shows the male driver, who might be a student himself, stop the car and get out briefly to yell at the lib kids. Realizing he was outnumbered, the MAGA kid jumped back in and put it in drive, only to strike the girl and send her onto the hood. The girl was conscious and responsive as she was wheeled onto an ambulance following the hit. Cops have yet to issue a statement on the incident but it does not appear that the son of a bitch was able to flee.

Convicted felon President Trump on Thursday sued the Internal Revenue Service for $10 billion, accusing them of “leaking” his tax returns, NBC News reports and there’s not a goddamned thing you or anyone can do to stop him from ordering the agency to settle with him for the full amount.

If woman-beating scumbag Florida MAGA Congressman Cory Mills heard any shit about his personal conduct from voters in his district during a Thursday town hall the Orlando Sentinel didn’t put anything about it in their article. That doesn’t mean it went well though.

The dickhead first got booed for answering “What about arresting members of ICE wrongfully shooting and killing Americans? How are you going to protect your district from ICE?” with “I think we need to tone down the dangerous rhetoric.” He was later booed again after a man shouted “Alex Pretti was executed!” and Mills responded with “Authorities are still reviewing evidence, and so far, evidence seen doesn’t confirm an execution… The purpose of ICE is to get rid of violent criminals.”

The Sentinel describes Mills as having gotten “frustrated” and saying to one voter “Sir, do you want me to continue to finish, or do you wanna continue to go on like a bumbling moron?”

Mills will probably be reelected by at least a 10 or 15 percent margin in November. Probably higher.

January’s national Pew Research survey finds convicted felon President Trump’s approval rating at 37 percent, down 10 percent from 47 in February 2025 and falling by even slightly more among Republican respondents from 84 to 73 percent. Just 25 percent of respondents overall said Trump “acts ethically in office,” among GOP voters only 52 percent lied to themselves about that.

If it’s war Walz wants, it’s war he will get

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2026

The rank and file career federal prosecutors working in Trump-appointed US Attorney for Minnesota Daniel Rosen’s office have told the boss man they’re ready to walk and thus brick every single case the office is currently handling if the situation does not change soon, the Washington Post reports.

Citing a freshly-filed criminal complaint against “defendant ANTHONY JAMES KAZMIERCZAK forcibly assaulted, opposed, impeded, intimidated, and interfered with United States Representative Ilhan Omar, an officer and employee of the United States and of any agency in any branch of the United States Government, ie, a person designated in section 1114, while Representative Omar engaged in and on account of Representative Omar’s performance of official duties, all in violation of 18 USC § 111(a)(1),” CBS’s Scott MacFarlane reports the stupid asshole has been charged federally.

Guess this means the fanboys will move the goalposts to “they only charged him because they’re trying to get him to cut a deal and flip on her for staging the whole thing.” The problem is that, at least as far as the Trump Regime’s DOJ goes, it’s not that far-fetched that MAGA-loyal federal prosecutors would at least believe that enough to charge him when they wouldn’t have otherwise. If not then at least they maintained a tiny bit of an imprimatur of apolitical law enforcement. Win-win.

You know how everyone rightly condemned Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s support for pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass and other regions before Putin stopped pretending and then just attacked Ukraine? Wasn’t the first time he’d done it as Vlad had previously pulled the same imperialist move in the Republic of Georgia in 2008 and has also toyed with doing it to Moldova, a significant portion of which is controlled by the unrecognized “Transnistria” state.

Yeah so the Financial Times reports that the Trump Regime here is similarly legitimizing Alberta’s separatist movement, welcoming one particularly far-right group called the Alberta Prosperity Project to the State Department headquarters at least three times since last April.

“The US is extremely enthusiastic about a free and independent Alberta,” said the APP’s legal counsel Jeff Rath, adding his group has a “much stronger relationship” with the Trump administration than with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Jesus freaking Christ.

Police and animal control officials in Cleveland, Texas are asking the public’s help with identifying the owner of a kangaroo they corralled on the side of a road Wednesday, writing “Earlier, Cleveland PD Officers were dispatched to the area of FM 1010 regarding an at-large Kangaroo. Officers and Animal Control have rescued the Kangaroo with the help of some good Samaritans. We are now working with Liberty County Livestock Deputies to locate the owner. Anyone with owner information is asked to contact the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office (936-336-4500),” in a Facebook post.

Notice how the post said “kangaroo” and not “Labradoodle with collar but missing tag,” but was still written as though this was just a dog and not a goddamned Australian marsupial. How the fuck are they so casual about this? Shouldn’t they be considering that maybe nobody’s called to report a missing kangaroo because they got kicked to death as the animal made its escape?