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In a letter obtained by CBS News, House Judiciary Ranking Dem Jamie Raskin on Tuesday demanded dog-murdering Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a cough up all “records, documents, memos, and internal communications regarding the solicitation and hiring of anyone charged or investigated for actions in connection to the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.”

The letter upfront acknowledges that it’s unclear how many “have been invited to join the ranks of this Administration, including among the masked Department of Homeland Security agents and officers,” but since nobody with a functioning brain thinks it’s zero, Raskin operates on the assumption that yes, there are probably at least several. “Unique among all law enforcement agencies and all branches of the armed services, ICE agents conceal their identities, wearing masks and removing names from their uniforms,” the Maryland liberal wrote in the letter.

Does this mean Noem is going to respond? No, lol. But the point is to mobilize Dem voters for the midterms by previewing how the next Congress is going to go should the Ds win the majority.

At least four top Justice Department officials in the Civil Rights Division’s unit that investigates fatal law enforcement shootings have resigned over their scumbag Trump minion boss Harmeet Dhillon’s refusal to open a probe into the murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, MS Now reports.

Possibly hoping to tide over players disappointed with having to wait at least another 11 months for the twice-delayed Grand Theft Auto VI, publisher Rockstar Games last month released an update to the now-nearly 13 year-old Grand Theft Auto V with a cool new custom mission creator mode that allows them to dream up their own violent mayhem scenarios and share them with other fans.

Yet, according to Kotaku, for a game franchise that for decades has been famous not only allowing but pretty much outright encouraging players to massacre innocent, unarmed civilians and responding cops, the publisher’s moderation team were curiously discomfited by one creator’s reenactment of one recent incident of violent mayhem and promptly removed it from the listings.

Probably because they were afraid of offending the kind of people who last week posted joke Craigslist ads about a used Honda Pilot with some bullet holes in the windshield for sale.

You will not be surprised to learn that, according to the New York Times’s sources, federal investigators are scrutinizing murder victim Renee Good to try to find if she had any ties to left wing groups while it’s also “increasingly unlikely” that ICE agent Jonathan Ross “will face criminal charges, although that could change as investigators collect new evidence,” the Times writes.

So really they just want to make it sound like Good, a mother of three, was a “terrorist” to further justify her murder by Ross while Ross himself is apparently in protective custody.

Insufferably pro-Israel Hedge fund douchebag Bill Ackman apparently donated $10,000 to a GoFundMe campaign for ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s legal defense – a campaign launched and managed by a Michigan man named Clyde Emmons, whose Facebook profile pic was of a Hitler salute – or was until the Intercept’s Jacqueline Sweet asked him about it and changed it afterward.

The GoFundMe has raised nearly $500,000 “for” Ross as of this writing. Who the hell knows how much some random racist MAGA asshole in Michigan is going to take for his cut. Now petty and silly as it seems to be ragging on Mediaite for a simple mistake in their coverage, especially when they picked up the Ackman and antisemitism angle earlier on Monday, there’s actually something revealingly on-brand of white nationalist Trump fanboys in the mess. In the latter article Mediaite identified Ackman as a donor to a campaign that, before its creator made some edits, said:

“But this didn’t happen in a vacuum – it’s the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish) fanning the flames of resistance. Frey blasted ICE after the incident, telling them to ‘get the f- out’ of his city, signing executive orders banning federal agents from using city property for deportations and even warning that ICE agents could get ‘killed’ if they keep removing invaders from his sanctuary cesspool,” wrote Tom Hennessey, emphasis added on the part that was later edited out of the crowdfund campaign’s description on GiveSendGo.

But Ackman donated via GoFundMe, meaning that Mediaite misidentified which fanboy had organized the campaign had donated to and which site it’s hosted on. They did not however misidentify which one was launched by a far right antisemite, because both evidently hate Jews.

“This morning, I gave a speech noting how Donald Trump is driving up costs for families, sowing terror and chaos in our communities, and abusing his power to prosecute anyone who criticizes him. I also laid out an argument for how Democrats should fight back and win. In my remarks, I made it clear that despite promising to lower costs On Day One, Trump has done nothing but raise costs for families. I said that if he really wants to get something done, including capping credit card interest rates or lowering housing costs, he would use his leverage and pick up the phone.”

“After my speech, the President called me, and I delivered this same message on affordability to him directly. I told him that Congress can pass legislation to cap credit card rates if he will actually fight for it. I also urged him to get House Republicans to pass the bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act, which passed the Senate with unanimous support and would build more housing and lower costs. No more delays. It’s time to deliver relief for American families,” says Massachusetts Senator Liz Warren in a statement on Monday, showing how easily the fat bastard can be goaded into reacting.

So sick of constant Kremlin fuckery is Moldovan President Maia Sandu that she told a UK politics podcast that she would vote in favor of ending Moldova and ceding to neighboring European Union and NATO member Romania rather than continue as an independent nation, Reuters reports.

“If ‌we have a referendum, I would vote for the unification with Romania. Look at what is happening in the world. It is getting more and more difficult ​for a small country like Moldova to survive as a ‌democracy, as a sovereign country, and of course to resist Russia,” said Sandu, who would be abolishing her office and would have to run for president all over again if she wants to lead Romania.

The only question now is whether Greenland’s prime minister read this Reuters article and then started playing Rush while thinking about what it’d be like to have a Tim Hortons franchise in Nuuk.

Dem Arizona Senator Mark Kelly on Monday filed a lawsuit against drunken date rapist Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth following Pete pussying out of recalling and prosecuting Kelly for “sedition.”

“Senator Kelly respectfully asks this Court to declare the censure letter, reopening determination, retirement grade determination proceedings, and related actions unlawful and unconstitutional; to vacate those actions; to enjoin their enforcement; and to preserve the status of a coequal Congress and an apolitical military” Kelly’s lawyers wrote in the relief section on the intro to the complaint.

“The actual numbers that we would have to pay back if, for any reason, the Supreme Court were to rule against the United States of America on Tariffs, would be many Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and that doesn’t include the amount of ‘payback’ that Countries and Companies would require for the Investments they are making on building Plants, Factories, and Equipment, for the purpose of being able to avoid the payment of Tariffs. When these Investments are added, we are talking about Trillions of Dollars! It would be a complete mess, and almost impossible for our Country to pay.”

“Anybody who says that it can be quickly and easily done would be making a false, inaccurate, or totally misunderstood answer to this very large and complex question. It may not be possible but, if it were, it would be Dollars that would be so large that it would take many years to figure out what number we are talking about and even, who, when, and where, to pay. Remember, when America shines brightly, the World shines brightly. In other words, if the Supreme Court rules against the United States of America on this National Security bonanza, WE’RE SCREWED!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Monday, begging the Supreme Court not to save him from himself.

“The Earth will not lose gravity on Aug 12, 2026. Earth’s gravity, or total gravitational force, is determined by its mass. The only way for Earth to lose gravity would be for the Earth system, the combined mass of its core, mantle, crust, ocean, terrestrial water, and atmosphere, to lose mass.”

“A total solar eclipse has no unusual impact on Earth’s gravity. The gravitational attraction of the Sun and Moon on the Earth, which doesn’t impact Earth’s total gravity, but does impact tidal forces, is well understood and is predictable decades in advance,” says a NASA spokesman called for comment a Snopes fact-check of some stupid bullshit “viral” video claiming that gravity would be interrupted for approximately 7 seconds on the date in question, thus everything not tethered to a fixed object would float briefly before crashing back down as gravity’s force reasserted itself.

Kind of a throwback right? It’s easy to forget after the last ten years or so, but we used to live in a world in which the stupid shit people saw on the internet and decided to believe was mostly pretty harmless, like that you can grow your own kiwi-banana hybrid by grafting them together or that you can stand an egg upside-down on its own because something something during the vernal equinox.

Silly stuff that never got anyone killed or imprisoned… which made fertile ground for belief systems that to this day are still getting people killed or imprisoned. Without getting into it, the only question now is whether ivermectin or anti-5G crystals will be retconned to help with gravity problems.

A White House source tells CNN’s Alayna Treene that Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s big sit-down with convicted felon President Trump will happen Thursday. Nothing about the Nobel Peace Prize was mentioned but it’d be kind of surprising if she did not just give it to him.

Drink up, America.#DrinkWholeMilk 🥛 pic.twitter.com/eemI31G1wx

— Dept. of Agriculture (@USDA) January 12, 2026

“Mattel, Inc unveiled today its first-ever autistic Barbie doll created with guidance from the autistic community to represent common ways autistic people may experience, process, and communicate about the world around them. This doll invites more children to see themselves represented in Barbie. Developed for more than 18 months in partnership with ASAN, a non-profit organization run by and for autistic people that advocates for the rights of the autistic community, this doll joins the Barbie Fashionistas collection, which features the most diverse range of skin tones, hair textures, body types, and various medical conditions and disabilities,” says Mattel in a press release.

“The autistic Barbie doll features elbow and wrist articulation, enabling stimming, hand flapping, and other hand gestures that some members of the autistic community use to process sensory information or express excitement,” the release continued and yeah they’re really going all in on this with “The doll is designed with an eye gaze shifted slightly to the side, which reflects how some members of the autistic community may avoid direct eye contact.” And then there’s the accessories.

“Each doll comes with a finger clip fidget spinner, noise-cancelling headphones and a tablet. The doll holds a pink finger clip fidget spinner that actually spins, offering a sensory outlet that can help reduce stress and improve focus.Pink noise-cancelling headphones rest on top of the doll’s head as a helpful and fashionable accessory that reduces sensory overload by blocking out background noise. A pink tablet showing symbol-based Augmentative and Alternative Communication apps on its screen serves as a tool to help with everyday communication.” Damn that is friggin extra-specific.

Well surely Fox News and the rest of the MAGA propaganda-infotainment complex will be plenty fine with this new addition to the Barbie lineup – if they have the bandwidth for it. They may not.

Jilted MAGA oligarch-controlled Paramount-Skydance on Monday filed a lawsuit against WarnerDiscovery accusing the media conglomerate of opacity with shareholders on the terms of Larry and David Ellison’s repeatedly-rejected hostile takeover bids, asking a judge “to simply direct WBD to provide this information so that WBD shareholders have what they need to be able to make an informed decision as to whether to tender their shares into our offer,” CNBC reports.

“WBD has failed to include any disclosure about how it valued the Global Networks stub equity, how it valued the overall Netflix transaction, how the purchase price reduction for debt works in the Netflix transaction, or even what the basis is for its ‘risk adjustment’ of our $30 per share all-cash offer,” Ellison complained in a letter to his own shareholders announcing the lawsuit.

For the nth time, it need be noted that Netflix will not end up owning CNN if and when this is all said and done. America’s number one “fake news” network will at some point over the next year or two be spun off along with the Discovery Channel, TBS, TNT, TLC, and other legacy cable TV assets into a separate entity that would be significantly cheaper for the Ellisons to buy up than the current megacorporation. So it should be obvious from here that (A) Netflix’s offer is both less risky for investors given the structure of the deal and more profitable in the longer run because of the spinoff and (B) that the Ellisons want it all – HBO, Batman, Bugs Bunny, Game of Thrones, and so on – and if for whatever reason they could have it all except CNN they’d probably still take it without blinking.

Not even one of the ballsuckiest MAGA Senators, Kansan Roger Marshall, is taking DC US Attorney Jeanine “Jude Box-o-Wine” Pirro’s “investigation” into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell seriously, telling Fox Newsmoron Maria Bartiromo that Trump is just “trolling” the economist.

Dem former Congresswoman Mary Peltola on Monday officially launched her bid to take on incumbent Republican Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan in November, another really freaking strong recruit for the Ds on a must-win Senate map. Peltola lost to current at-large Alaska Congressman Nick Begich III by 2.04 percent in 2024 while outperforming Kamala Harris by over 11 percent.

Which means you may want to consider this race less of a “forces Republicans to spend where they thought they had it safe” and more like one on the same tier as North Carolina, Maine, and Ohio as a can-and-must-flip seat for Dems. Peltola’s got a brand, cross-partisan appeal as Lisa Murkowski endorsed her in both of her 2022 races, and Alaska’s low population with only a handful of media markets makes it cheap to spend in relative even to Iowa or other Senate Dem reach states.

Convicted felon President Trump’s team will convene on Tuesday to present the fat bastard with an array of options – ranging from cyber warfare, increased sanctions, and a renewed wave of military strikes – to accelerate what may be a death spiral for Iran’s fascist theocratic regime amid the most sustained period of violent civil unrest in its 47-year history, the Wall Street Journal reports.

At least 544 people have been killed over the last three weeks of crackdowns by the plainly threatened Tehran government who have cut off all internet access in a classic desperation move.

A smartly-written analysis printed in the Atlantic over the weekend laid out just how badly the Ayatollah’s reich is teetering due to massive inflation, food and water shortages, outrage over elites’ kids gilded Instagram posts and other blatant venalities, and so on. But it’s not there yet, as the uprising – despite meeting other major conditions – has yet to make any major dent in the Revolutionary Guard Corps and other power ministries’ loyalty to their 86 year-old Supreme Dictator.

Still, the dumb money may be on the Islamic Republic remaining in power another six months, especially with the Orange Ayatollah smelling blood in the water and with it the opportunity to take credit for its collapse while disowning any of the downstream consequences for the region.

Feeling like she needs to look like she’s doing something, DC US Attorney Jeanine “Jude Box-o-Wine” Pirro has leaked to the New York Times that her office is wasting taxpayer time pretending to conduct an investigation into Federal Reserve Bank chairman Jerome Powell for some stupid bullshit.