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.

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— 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?

Melania Trump, the wife of Donald, friend of Jeffrey Epstein and Brett Ratner, told Fox Business News on Thursday in her form of broken English that she supports her husband’s vision of “a country where all of the people can walk down the street and not be harassed or murdered or women raped.” Irony could not be reach for comment as it was raped and murdered in 2016.

The entire northern Quebec town of Mistissini, part of a Cree Nation reserve, is under lockdown after a person or persons unknown shot and killed “multiple” people, CTV News reports.

Chief Michael Petawabano posted an alert saying “The Eeyou Eenou Police Force (EEPF) and Sûreté du Québec (SQ) are conducting an active investigation,” said Petawabano in his notice, adding “All residents are asked to remain in their homes until further notice. All community buildings, schools, offices, and facilities” in the community home to about 4,000 people would remain closed.

Mass shootings are relatively rare in Canada, owing to stricter gun laws and a culture with fewer white nationalist incels who feel like they have something to prove by massacring innocent people.

“Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell again refused to cut interest rates, even though he has absolutely no reason to keep them so high. He is hurting our Country, and its National Security. We should have a substantially lower rate now that even this moron admits inflation is no longer a problem or threat.”

“He is costing America Hundreds of Billions of Dollar a year in totally unnecessary and uncalled for INTEREST EXPENSE. Because of the vast amounts of money flowing into our Country because of Tariffs, we should be paying the LOWEST INTEREST RATE OF ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.”

“Most of these countries are low interest rate paying cash machines, thought of as elegant, solid, and prime, only because the USA allows them to be. The Tariffs being charged to them, while bringing in $BILLIONS to us, still allows most of them to have a significant trade surplus, though much smaller, with our beautiful, formerly abused Country. In other words, I have been very nice, kind, and gentle to countries all over the World. With a mere flip of the pen, $BILLIONS more would come into the USA, and these countries would have to go back to making money the old fashioned way, not on the back of America. I hope they all appreciate, although many don’t, what our great Country has done for them. The Fed should substantially lower interest rates, NOW! Tariffs have made America strong and powerful again, far stronger and more powerful than any other Nation. Commensurate with this strength, both financial and otherwise, WE SHOULD BE PAYING LOWER INTEREST RATES THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” posted the President of the United States on Thursday, eloquently and persuasively insulating from judicial scrutiny all of his attempts to prosecute Powell for not lowering interest rates.