Posts on Thursday, January 22, 2026

Two Twin Cities activists were arrested Thursday morning for their role in leading a mob that disrupted a worship service at a St. Paul church. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the arrests of Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney, activist, and former Minneapolis NAACP president, as well as Chauntyll Allen, a St. Paul Public Schools board member and Black Lives Matter Twin Cities founder. Bondi said in a post on X that the women paid key roles in organizing the "coordinated attack" on Cities Church. "Listen loud and clear: We do not tolerate attacks on freedom of worship," Bondi wrote.

Lawmakers on Wednesday heard testimony from an investigator, a watchdog, and a frontline provider who said government inaction, political pressure and weak oversight allowed large-scale fraud to flourish in Minnesota, while legitimate programs were on the brink of collapse. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance held the hearing (snip.) Among the witnesses were You Tuber Nick Shirley, retired Minnesota fraud investigator Scott Shirley, and Minnesota autism provider Jennifer Larson (snip.)

Federal authorities have arrested two anti-ICE agitators after a mob stormed a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday. Bondi named Nekima Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Louisa Allen as the suspects. FBI Director Kash Patel says the pair are charged with violating the FACE Act, which prohibits interfering with the exercise of religion at a place of worship. "Minutes ago at my direction, HSI and FBI agents executed an arrest in Minnesota. So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota," Bondi wrote on X.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced this morning the arrest of two individuals associated with the anti-ICE mob that invaded a Minneapolis church over the weekend. Nekima Levy Armstrong was taken into custody by the FBI and Homeland Security this morning. [Tweet] "We will share more updates as they become available. Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP," Bondi wrote on X. Armstrong was allegedly one of the organizers of the mob that took over the worship service at Cities Church. The group chanted "Justice for Renee Good" and "Hands up, don't shoot"

In every case, there is the event the media and the left want you to see, and the one that actually happened. President Donald Trump’s trip to Davos this week provides a perfect illustration of this. Trump delivered his fourth speech at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Switzerland to the world’s leaders, and he knocked it out of the park. His remarks were prepared, but that didn’t stop him from improvising a little. One of the best descriptions of it, and I saw a few people on the X platform describe it this way,

A New York state judge ruled that New York City's only Republican-held congressional district was drawn unconstitutionally, ordering a new map. Judge Jeffrey Pearlman concluded that the Staten Island-based 11th District, which is represented by GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, diluted black and Latino voting power. Pearlman said New York's independent redistricting commission must redraw the state's congressional map by Feb. 6. His decision is likely to be appealed.

As lawyered-up apologies go, this one's a real stinker. When I got a look at what the new CNN talking head, 25-year-old Cameron Kasky, said out loud in front of God, Scott Jennings, the CNN audience, and President Donald Trump's lawyers, I said on my Adult in the Room Podcast livestream these words, "He's gonna get sued." But his "apology" is arguably worse. On CNN, Kasky claimed twice that Donald Trump was part of a "sex trafficking network," alluding to the Jeffrey Epstein case. When asked to clarify, Kasky claimed that it was a "provable" fact

Mexico is flooding the United States with Marxist anti-American textbooks to ideologically weaken its northern neighbor and indoctrinate immigrants away from properly assimilating, President of the Government Accountability Institute Peter Schweizer details in his latest book The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon. Schweizer, who has written several New York Times bestsellers exposing political corruption and dirty dealings, lays out how Mexico sends anti-capitalist textbooks through more than 50 consulates in the United States, which far exceeds the number of other countries. The effort, he writes, can be traced to the political ruling class’s belief in “Reconquista,” or “the reconquering

For a year, I worked with the homeless in New York City. Over the course of that year, I encountered more than 200 unhoused people. Only three ended up in permanent housing. Our team consisted of a social worker (me), two case managers, and a nurse. Our nurse carried Narcan. We coordinated with shelters, hospitals and city agencies.

The first battery-grade lithium hydroxide refining facility in North America is now operational in Texas. (snip) The facility is part of [Texas Governor Greg] Abbott's goal for Texas to lead in reducing reliance on China for critical minerals and technology. (snip) China overwhelmingly produces the majority of lithium, controlling global supply (snip.) China also sources materials used for lithium-ion batteries mined through forced child labor (snip.) Traditional lithium mining has created an environmental catastrophe in other countries. (snip) Tesla's refinery is "deploying a new technology platform that is inherently more environmentally friendly and cleaner."

Anti-Israel activist and former Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil is set to be deported to Algeria — bringing an end to a drawn-out court battle over his immigration status, federal officials said. The Syrian-born activist, who was arrested by ICE early last year, is slated to be booted from the US after the Trump administration accused him of committing fraud on his green card application. “It looks like he’ll go to Algeria. That’s what the thought is right now,” Homeland Security assistant secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, told NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight” Wednesday.

Two officers who were pushed out of the military during President Donald Trump's first year back in the White House have launched new missions this week: running for Congress as Democrats. A retired U.S. Space Force colonel, who was forced out of the military under the Trump administration's ban on transgender service members, announced a run for Congress in Northern Virginia. And a senior Navy official removed from her post last year by War Secretary Pete Hegseth launched a congressional bid in South Carolina. Their candidacies highlight a growing political backlash to Trump-era military policies, as former officers removed from service look to re-enter public life through Congress.

Several emergency declarations have already been issued as a massive winter storm barrels toward more than 35 states, putting more than 200 million people in its path and threatening “considerable disruption” to New York with up to a foot of snow. Texas, North Carolina, and South Carolina were the first to issue preemptive emergency declarations after the National Weather Service warned that “nearly everyone east of the Rockies” will be affected by snow, ice, or cold from Friday into early next week. The potentially historic winter storm, dubbed Winter Storm Fern, is expected to span more than 2,000 miles

In the vast expanse of the Western Hemisphere, the Greenland saga is as old as American ambition itself. But in our latest chapter, the push to bring this Danish-held island into the American bay kicked off in earnest back in August 2019, when President Trump’s first administration floated the idea of purchasing that frozen strategic gem. It wasn’t some whim; it was a calculated step at securing our future. Let’s be clear: Trump’s vision for Greenland isn’t pie-in-the-sky fantasy. Like it or lump it, his insistence that it’s vital to U.S. national security rings true, backed by cold, hard history. Flash back to April 9, 1940, when Hitler’s forces...

Illinois congressional candidate and former Media Matters for America staffer Kat Abughazaleh skipped a campaign event because she slept through it, citing her struggles with "sleep attacks." "I have a chronic illness called narcolepsy. It makes me extremely tired and occasionally causes ‘sleep attacks,’ times when my brain literally cannot stay awake," Abughazaleh, who’s running to represent Illinois’s Ninth Congressional District, admitted in a statement Tuesday. "I ended up sleeping through alarms, calls, and even my campaign manager knocking on my door repeatedly." Abughazaleh was supposed to attend a candidate forum hosted by Indivisible Edgewater, part of the multimillion-dollar Indivisible network backed by progressive billionaire George Soros.

In June 2019 I obtained the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board’s investigative file on Ilhan Omar’s infractions in her 2016 race for a seat in the state House of Representatives. Inside the file was a trove of documents bearing on Omar’s marriage to her brother and my own role in exposing it in August 2016. I wrote about the documents in a series I called “From the mixed-up files of Rep. Ilhan Omar.” I hoped the series might embarrass the Star Tribune into covering the documents. I won’t claim credit for the story by reporters Patrick Coolican and Stephen Montemayor, but they got around to it in “New documents revisit questions about

The West gave the world the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, two of the most important moments in human history. The political left apparently sees them as anathemas, though, and is determined to surrender our hard-earned culture to barbarians. Immigration has always been a part of our American story. But successful immigration depends on assimilation, on the migrants’ ability and willingness to become Americans, which, we have no trouble in asserting, has been heart, mind, and backbone of Western Civilization for at least a century. The U.S. didn’t create Western Civilization, but it has nurtured it and not just kept it alive but enriched it.

The anti-ICE crew is completely out of control at this point, trying to stop the enforcement of the law. We've seen them do a lot of vile and disgusting things, from disrupting a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, to launching racist invective at a black ICE agent because they thought they were better than him. It's crazy that ICE agents and other federal agents helping to enforce immigration laws have to put up with this mania and obstruction. But it looks like folks who are anti-anti-ICE may be getting creative, as revealed in a post from Blue Lives Matter. This may be one of the greatest posts ever

A woman who said she was violently attacked by her ex-boyfriend last year told a London court that her friend Barron Trump unexpectedly saved her life after she managed to call him during the assault, United Kingdom media outlet Metro reported Wednesday. After answering the FaceTime call and witnessing the alleged assault, the 19-year-old son of President Donald Trump reportedly contacted emergency operators, prompting UK police to respond to the scene on Jan. 18, 2025, shortly after 2 a.m. local time. The woman, who cannot be named, reportedly claimed that her former Russian partner, 22-year-old Matvei Rumianstev, of east London, was jealous of her friendship with Trump.

A financial group chief executive is accused of running the largest Ponzi scheme in Georgia’s history to fund a lavish lifestyle, which included purchasing a yacht, a multi-million-dollar condo in Mexico, luxury vehicles, jewelry, and chartering private jets. Todd Burkhalter, the CEO of Drive Planning LLC., pleaded guilty to defrauding over 2,000 victims for more than $380 million between September 2020 and June 2024, according to US Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg on Wednesday. “Unbelievably, Burkhalter shamelessly continued to scam his victims even while under federal investigation,” Hertzberg said. “Today’s guilty plea is just the first step in holding Burkhalter accountable for the considerable harm he caused.”

President Trump unveiled his Board of Peace charter that created “peace in the Middle East” and vowed to end more wars during a ceremony in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday. Trump was the first to sign the charter alongside the Minister of the Prime Minister’s Court of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, and Morocco’s Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita after he described the ceremony as a “very exciting day.” “We have Peace in the Middle East, no one thought that was possible,” Trump said. “We settled eight wars and another is coming as well, you know what that is,” Trump said, teasing the ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

— Once upon a time, there was a good-looking, articulate, young boy named David Duke who attended a conservative elementary school in New Orleans. In Junior High, as an eighth-grade project, he was irresistibly attracted to the subject of segregation. He then attended a military school in Georgia and “by the time he graduated was already a member in good standing of the Ku Klux Klan”––ultimately becoming a grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In his self-published 1988 autobiography, My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding, Duke stated: “We [Whites] desire to live in our own neighborhoods, go to our own schools,

Things have never really settled down in Minneapolis where activists have been following ICE agents for weeks. However, things seemed to be getting a little more chaotic today, leading to several scuffles. It started with confrontations at a Speedway gas station where a group of agents had stopped for some snacks. [Some NSFW language in the clips below.] Activists who had been following them swarmed the gas station: Bovino apparently had to leave the store. Someone who works at the Speedway came out and said the store would not serve ICE agents and told them to leave.

Donald Trump, I admit, often makes me shake my head. I am 61, so I still instinctively prefer the Reagan style of respectful optimism and criticizing through gentle humor, even though I fully understand that Reagan led a very different America, and that Trump's hyperaggressiveness is likely better suited to the social media age. It's not a reasoned response; it is a nostalgic impulse. But even I make exceptions for Trump's Don Rickles act in certain cases, such as insulting the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, and * like Adam Schiff. They fully deserve every barb they get, and many, many more.

The Trump administration is actively seeking regime change in Cuba and hopes to cut a deal to end communist rule on the island by the end of the year, according to a report. To facilitate the political transition, the Trump administration is searching for Cuban government insiders who could help the US push the existing communist leaders out of power, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. A “concrete plan” for doing away with the communist government that has ruled Cuba for nearly 70 years has not yet been developed, according to the outlet, but the government’s grip on the island has never been more fragile.