Lots Of News, Often Inverifiable
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 2/1/2026 1:05:15 PM
I've been working hard this week trying to keep abreast of national and international events, and I've come to the conclusion that much of what is important to know remains, as yet, murky and unverifiable. (snip) The decades long oppression of the Cuban people is coming to an end within days. (snip) In Iran this week there were significant explosions in 11 cities, with reports (denied by the government) that key officials were killed in these bombings. (snip) "Starmer's hold on power is increasingly very tenuous. He was humiliated on a trip to China, where he received a tepid reception and gave away a great deal for nothing.
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Lots Of News, Often Inverifiable
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I've been working hard this week trying to keep abreast of national and international events, and I've come to the conclusion that much of what is important to know remains, as yet, murky and unverifiable. (snip) The decades long oppression of the Cuban people is coming to an end within days. (snip) In Iran this week there were significant explosions in 11 cities, with reports (denied by the government) that key officials were killed in these bombings. (snip) "Starmer's hold on power is increasingly very tenuous. He was humiliated on a trip to China, where he received a tepid reception and gave away a great deal for nothing.
A conservative advocacy group is slamming the social media platform LinkedIn, and conservatives online are threatening to ditch the site after the group's post supporting President Donald Trump's illegal immigration crackdown was temporarily removed in what the company called an error. "[DHS] is carrying out the essential task of keeping our country safe. (snip) Biden let 10M illegal aliens enter our states, many being violent criminals and pedophiles. Every state must assure collaboration with ICE and CBP to remove them. (snip)" On Thursday (snip) it was flagged as hateful speech by LinkedIn and removed.
President Donald Trump stated Saturday his administration will not intervene in the intensifying protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement taking place in Democrat-run cities -- unless the city's leaders ask it to. (snip) Trump went on to clarify that DHS agents will "guard, and very powerfully so, any and all Federal buildings that are being attacked" (snip) [and] that, if necessary, the military could be dispatched to protect federal buildings and property. (snip) "There will be no spitting in the faces of our officers, (snip) no punching or kicking the headlights of our cars, (snip) no rock or brick throwing at our vehicles, or at our Patriot Wariors."
FBI Director Kash Patel said more arrests are coming in Minnesota in the midst of a federal operation and local protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, and said the bureau has made progress in its investigation of groups who are allegedly funding the demonstrations. (snip) "We've actually found groups and individuals responsible for funding it 'cause it's not happening organically." (snip) Patel said (snip) after a federal vehicle was broken into in Minneapolis (snip) "[W]e discovered not just FBI firearms (snip) but also personal information about law enforcement (snip) being used (snip) to [threaten] (snip) FBI agents (snip) There are going to be more arrests (snip.)"
Georgia State Senator Greg Dolezal has brought forward information that exposes massive seemingly-fraudulent voter registrations in the state's deep-blue Fulton County. (snip) Georgia's state law requires that voters register using their primary residence rather than a P.O. box or any other kind of address. (snip) [But, e.g., Dolezal] discovered that 70 people were registered at a single UPS store, 19 people registered at an abandoned home, 138 people registered at a location run by virtual mailbox business Physical Address, 1900 people registered at a homeless shelter (snip.) [T]housands of people were registered with a birth year of 1800 or 1900.
DOJ Epstein Files Reveal Michael Wolff's
Collaboration With Jeffrey Epstein To
Undermine Trump 2 replies
Collaboration With Jeffrey Epstein To
Undermine Trump 2 replies
Previously unreleased emails reveal sustained, strategic and often personal communications between journalist Michael Wolff and Jeffrey Epstein, with exchanges focused on political messaging, media influence, and repeated discussions about Donald Trump. (snip) In a March 2016 email titled "Patterson," Wolff advised that he needed an "immediate counter-narrative" to the upcoming James Patterson book, proposing that Donald Trump afforded "an ideal opportunity." He wrote that "becoming an anti-Trump voice gives you a certain political cover which you decidedly don't have now" (snip.)
Border Czar Tom Homan Revealed on Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in cooperation with the FBI and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, has been able to locate 145,000 illegal immigrant children, out of the more than 300,000 that were let into the United States by the Biden administration. (snip) At a press conference on Thursday, he blasted Democrats and prior administrations for creating the problem and chaos that the Trump administration is dealing with currently. (snip) "Where were they, the last 4 years, when women and children being s*x trafficked reached an all time high?"
A Voter Fraud Reckoning In Georgia?
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The FBI raided Fulton County's Election Hub and Information Center. The raid was authorized by a judge's warrant, which is under seal. However, some news organizations have gotten a copy (snip.) ABC News reports: The search warrant authorized the FBI to search for "all physical ballots from the 2020 General Election," in addition to tabulator tapes from voting machines and 2020 voter rolls, among other documents. It is likely that the warrant also includes items that were requested by the Department of Justice in December. Those items were "all used and void ballots, stubs of all ballots, signature envelopes, and corresponding envelope digital files."
Jeffrey Epstein helped fund a lavish lifestyle for Obama White House Counsel (snip) Kathryn Ruemmler, who he sometimes turned to for legal advice, newly released records show. Epstein purchased a number of gifts for Ruemmler between 2014 and 2019, including designer bags worth thousands and electronics, while regularly putting down his credit card to cover expenses like facials, haircuts and spa days. (snip) A recently unsealed court filing in a civil lawsuit brought by Epstein victims suggested Ruemmler advised Epstein on legal matters, including (snip) maintaining his 2008 non-prosecution agreement (snip.) Ruemmler consulted Epstein on whether to accept an offer to become Obama's attorney general
Prominent Arizona Republican officials, including former gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, have signaled that Maricopa County's administration of the 2020 presidential election should be the focus of federal scrutiny amid Fulton County's FBI raid. (snip) In 2020 Joe Biden won Maricopa County by about 6,000 votes, of the more than 2 million cast. Statewide, Biden won by less than 12,000 votes out of more than 3.3 million cast. (snip) Lake wrote "(snip) they sabotaged Election Day voting in Arizona -- preventing people from voting and having their votes counted." (snip) As of this report, no federal investigation has been confirmed into Maricopa County's handling of the 2020 presidential election.
Former Obama White House General Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler has attempted to downplay a steady drip of revelations about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein by claiming he never "compensated" her. Newly released emails, however, show the convicted sex criminal showered Ruemmler with luxury gifts, including a $9,400 Hermes handbag, an Hermes-branded Apple watch, and a spa treatment package at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington D.C., emails reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.
The Department of Homeland Security lodged a detainer Thursday in California in the case of an illegal immigrant accused of a crime that a top official there is calling the "most heinous we've ever seen." (snip) A 20-year old Mexican national, Enrique Bautista-Vasquez, was charged with rape. a sentence enhancement for sexual assault of a person unable to consent and sexual assault of a victim deemed to be "particularly vulnerable" (snip.) "This depraved illegal alien raped and sodomized a child with autism," (snip) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. "Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee Governor Newsom (snip) will cooperate
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Wednesday said the country needs a national conversation about immigrants lacking permanent legal status who “obey the law,” as public opinion sours on the Trump administration’s deportation sweeps. (snip) “On the other hand, people do not want to give them citizenship. So there should be some middle ground here on long-term goals,” he added.
Gingrich’s comments coincide with Fox News host Sean Hannity speaking out against workplace raids during immigration enforcement crackdowns nationwide.
I'm a business owner in Minneapolis working
16-hour shifts so my staff can stay home
to avoid ICE 35 replies
16-hour shifts so my staff can stay home
to avoid ICE 35 replies
I run a fast casual chicken restaurant in Richfield, Minnesota, a suburb just south of Minneapolis. With ICE agents in the area, I don't know when — or if — staff will be able to come to work. We all have pretty set schedules, and we're tight-knit. There are only six of us operating this place, seven days a week. And I have concerns: Are my employees going to get stopped on their way to work? Are they going to be hassled or detained? Are they going to come back? It's a day-by-day thing. Over the past couple of weeks, we've adjusted
Super Bowl LX is almost here, and the NFL is making fandom a whole lot kinder. In an exclusive shared with The Hollywood Reporter, NFL executives announced that YouTube sensation Dhar Mann, 41, has been named the league’s first-ever Chief Kindness Officer. Mann also serves as the league’s “Creator of the Week” leading up to the big game. (snip) As part of the lead-up to Super Bowl LX, Dhar Mann has been tapped to partner with the NFL to help deliver the league’s “Be Nice to Your Rival” campaign.
Tennessee family threatened by HOA for
using generator after ice storm cut off
power, heat 26 replies
using generator after ice storm cut off
power, heat 26 replies
A Tennessee family was allegedly threatened with fines by their homeowners’ association to remove the generator that was heating their house, as the neighborhood was plunged into darkness during below-freezing temperatures.
Talia Caravello said she was told that her generator didn’t comply with the aesthetic code of her townhouse in the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood of Nashville when she lost electricity during a brutal ice storm on Sunday, according to WSMV.
Caravello purchased a $1,500 generator, extension cords and space heaters to keep her family warm as indoor temperatures dropped to 30 degrees following the storm that left four people dead.
California drivers and Republican legislators are furious over a Democrat-led proposal that could see motorists taxed for each mile they drive.
With the state staring down a budget deficit in the billions and more Californians switching to electric vehicles, Democratic lawmakers are searching for new ways to shore up declining gas tax revenue.
Californians pay the second-highest gas price in the nation behind only Hawaii. In January, the average price was $4.23 per gallon, according to the American Automobile Association. On Thursday, state legislators advanced Democrat Lori Wilson’s bill, AB 1421, which would direct the California Transportation Commission and the state Transportation Agency to continue studying options for a mileage-based tax,
Disgraced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz claimed this week that he would “never again” run for office but did not share if he had ruled out stepping into Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-MN) seat should she win the governor’s race and appoint him to replace her.In the weeks before Klobuchar announced her gubernatorial bid on Thursday, Townhall’s Dustin Grage reported that sources who helped predict Walz’s rise to becoming former Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 running mate indicated that “the plan is to clear the way for Amy Klobuchar, so she can appoint him to the U.S. Senate.”
California’s 66th Assembly District (AD-66).
AD-66 is home to Chevron’s El Segundo refinery and PBF Energy’s Torrance refinery. And until the end of last year, it was also home to Phillips 66’s Los Angeles refinery, which has now stopped producing transportation fuel entirely. Three major refineries in one Assembly district. One is already offline. Two remain, operating under growing regulatory and economic pressure.
That did not happen by chance.
Over the last four decades, California has steadily reduced its in-state refining footprint through a mix of regulatory pressure, capital flight, and policy uncertainty.
A federal judge on Friday struck down key portions of President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at tightening citizenship verification for voter registration and absentee ballot applications, ruling the White House overstepped its constitutional authority.U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the Constitution gives states and Congress, not the president, the power to set rules for federal elections. Kollar-Kotelly blocked provisions in the executive order that would have required documentary proof of American citizenship on federal voter registration and absentee ballot forms.
‘I Will Not Be Silenced’
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Don Lemon has been released without bail after appearing in a Los Angeles court Friday on federal charges relating to his coverage of anti-ICE protests at a church in Minneapolis earlier this month.The 59 year-old newsman - sporting a white suit and cream sweater - is accused of conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshipers.During his 20 minute appearance Lemon didn't enter a formal plea but his lawyer Marilyn Bednarski told the court that he was pleading not guilty.[snip] Judge Donahue rejected federal prosecutors' request for $100,000 bail and released Lemon on his own recognizance.
A Detroit judge is facing federal charges, along with three Detroiters, in connection with embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from vulnerable people.
Judge Andrea Bradley-Baskin, 46, of the 36th District Court, Nancy Williams, 59, Avery Bradley, 72, and Dwight Rashad, 69, were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced on Jan. 30, 2026. Bradley faces additional charges of wire fraud, several counts of money laundering and making a false statement to a federal law enforcement agent.
Apparently, the Senate and House intelligence committees are very concerned about what Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is doing. Almost every tweet from Senator Mark Warner in the past 48 hours has been about DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
What seems to worry them the most is that they don’t know exactly what she is doing. Triggered by Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Vice-Chairman Mark Warner, the Democrats are now demanding Director Gabbard tell them her intentions and her itinerary so they can monitor her activity. Tulsi Gabbard continues to review internal government activity without consulting them. .”
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s fate for ignoring congressional subpoenas is now in the hands of the House of Representatives.
House Republican leaders plan to vote this coming Wednesday on contempt of Congress resolutions against the former first couple, who refused to answer subpoenas by the House Oversight Committee regarding their dealings with disgraced financier and serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“The Rules Committee will meet at 4 p.m. Monday to consider the resolutions for the floor,” Politico reported Thursday.
Several Democrats on the Oversight Committee joined with the Republicans to support advancing the resolutions to the House floor —
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I was surprised that no one had posted Ms. Feldman's column yet so here it is. Space limitations permitted only highlights of the "International Developments," but there is much on "The U.S." as well, including a list of Epstein-file highlights.