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It’s now clear: Trump has lost his mind

The volatile political landscape in Washington has reached a fever pitch as President Donald Trump has once again targeted his predecessor with explosive allegations of criminal misconduct. In a move that has stunned constitutional experts and delighted his mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging core supporters, Trump took to Truth Social to demand the immediate arrest of Barack Obama for an alleged ‘coup attempt’.

This latest escalation stems from long-standing claims that the Obama administration orchestrated a ‘coup attempt’ to prevent Trump from taking office nearly a decade ago. While the rhetoric of ‘treason’ and ‘spying’ has been a hallmark of Trump’s political identity since the 2016 campaign, the current environment feels markedly different. With a second term in full swing and newfound institutional support, the President’s call for the prosecution of a former commander-in-chief represents an unprecedented challenge to American democratic norms.

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Trump went further and added, ‘ARREST OBAMA NOW!’ Trump first accused Obama of the same allegation during his first term of presidency, claiming that the former President tried to rig the election, along with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Joe Biden. Obama was reportedly the ‘ring leader’ in what he considered a ‘criminal’ operation at the highest level.

Barack Obama’s office has historically avoided engaging with Trump’s social media attacks, but the severity of the ‘treason’ charge prompted a rare and pointed response. A spokesperson for the former President released a statement in July 2025 refuting Trump’s allegation, calling it ‘outrageous’. ‘Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response’, the statement from Obama’s office read, according to The Guardian. ‘But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction’.

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Federal Judge slaps down Trump’s order to establish Presidential control over elections

A federal judge Friday (1/30/2026)  permanently blocked key portions of the sweeping anti-voting executive order that President Donald Trump signed last year.

Beyond simply stopping the order, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, minced no words in rebuking Trump’s attempt to expand the executive branch’s power over elections, describing it as both unconstitutional and a threat to democracy.

“The Framers of our Constitution recognized that power over election rules could be abused, either to destroy the national government or to disempower the people from acting as a check on their elected representatives,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote.

“Accordingly, they entrusted this power to the parts of our government that they believed would be most responsive to the will of the people: first to the States, and then, in some instances, to Congress. 

“They assigned no role at all to the President,” she added. “Put simply, our Constitution does not allow the President to impose unilateral changes to federal election procedures.”

Through his order, Trump attempted to make registering to vote and remaining registered more difficult by imposing documentary proof of citizenship requirements for a federal registration form.

He also tried to condition election funding for states on compliance with parts of the order while urging his attorney general to take aim at states that have extended mail ballot receipt deadlines.

Several parts of the order have been preliminarily blocked by court orders in several different lawsuits. But Friday Kollar-Kotelly permanently halted two core parts.

First, she said the order’s attempt to require that federal agencies “assess citizenship” before providing an important federal mail voter registration form to enrollees in public assistance programs could not stand.

The judge said Trump exceeded his lawful authority in promulgating this provision because “our Constitution vests the authority to regulate federal elections in Congress and the States alone.”

Second, Kollar-Kotelly also said the order’s attempt to require documentary proof of citizenship on the federal post card application for military and overseas voters was unconstitutional for the same reason.

“Put simply, our Constitution does not allow the President to impose unilateral changes to federal election procedures,” the judge wrote.

Kollar-Kotelly made the ruling in a case involving three consolidated lawsuits against Trump’s order, one brought by the Democratic Party*, another by the League of United Latin American Citizens and the last by the League of Women Voters Education Fund.

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MELANIA, THE MOVIE: The reviews are in — could be the worst movie ever made, stinks up the place.

MELANIA, THE MOVIE:  THE REVIEWS ARE IN!!!!!!!!!!!

 

“MELANIA IS THE WORST MOVIE i’VE EVER SEEN”

https://www.buzzfeed.com/natashajokic1/melania-movie-review

Last night, I left an empty chickpea can on my counter. When I came back 30 minutes later, small, black bugs had swarmed the tin and were crawling over my sink. I would rather relive that moment a hundred times over than have to watch another minute of the movie Melania.

To say that Melania is a hagiography would be an insult to hagiographies. This is a film that fawns so lavishly over its subject that you feel downright unpatriotic not gushing over it. Fittingly, it was directed by Brett Ratner, whose feature film career was derailed in 2017 after numerous sexual assault allegations that he has denied. But like many unsavory people associated with Donald Trump, he’s apparently received a pardon.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/melania-review-brett-ratner-melania-trump-documentary-1236489604/

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/01/melania-trump-documentary-review/685829/

Melania the book wasn’t an autobiography so much as a highly priced brochure. Melania the movie isn’t a documentary; it’s a protection racket. It’s a reminder that the richest people in the world are investing in entertainment brands not because they care about art but because the public does, and because all of these vanity projects and capitulations are a way to consolidate their own power and fortune. It is galling to think about Jeff Bezos (whose wife is a former TV news anchor) deciding to invest so much money apparently to buy the president’s good graces while reportedly preparing to cut hundreds of jobs at The Washington Post. (Amazon reps have insisted that the company invested so heavily in the movie purely “because we think customers are going to love it.”) It is also galling—to me at least—that Apple CEO Tim Cook attended the premiere of Melania this week while the Trump administration’s militarized forces are killing Americans and detaining preschoolers. Melania Trump really doesn’t seem to care about the optics of launching her $75 million show reel while the country is in such profound crisis—that much she has always made clear. But most Americans do. And the particular details of the past week—the demonstrations and the tear gas in Minneapolis, the Melania ads covering the Sphere, the themed macarons at the White House, the scurrying-away of many who were professionally involved with this documentary—should be remembered long after the film itself is forgotten.

 

 

 

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Face it: Trump is demented, insane, and very sick

Needless to say, Trump is insane…deranged…unhinged…bigoted…ignorant…you name it, just a horrendous, disgusting person. And yes, the 37% who still support him should, but probably never will, do some serious soul searching, because WTF are they even thinking??? Here Trump is, riffing on how Abigail Spanberger got elected last November (see video, below, courtesy of the invaluable Aaron Rupar).

“I don’t I don’t know how they get elected. They get elected because they cheat. You want to know the truth? If they didn’t cheat, if they didn’t cheat, they’d have no chance. They have horrible policy, transgender for everyone. They have the little thing about open borders so that the world’s prison population and mental hospitals could be emptied into our country. It’s just a crazy men playing in women’s sports. Roger, are you a fan of men playing in women’s sports? Only as a better. You’d like to bet you not. You’re not a big You’re not a big fan. I don’t think so. I don’t I don’t want to get him in trouble, but I think he joins at 99% of They say it’s an 80/20 issue. I think it’s a maybe …99/1.”

As for the Virginia gubernatorial election, Sam Shirazi correctly points out that “Glenn Youngkin, Winsome Earle-Sears, and Jason Miyares were responsible for overseeing the Virginia elections.” So if there’s cheating, that’s 100% on them (plus the Republican majorities on the Virginia and local electoral boards).

But of course there wasn’t any cheating in the 2025 Virginia elections (which Abigail Spanberger won by 15 points, which VA House Democrats won in a massive landslide, etc.); or in the 2020 election, the one that Trump lost to Joe Biden. So as usual, Trump is a nutjob, makes no sense at all, is basically the crazy guy on the corner ranting and raving, the one you make a wide berth around because you never know if he could be dangerous, but you absolutely know that he’s unpleasant and wacked out.

As for policy, in fact, polling shows that voters strongly support Democratic policies on almost every issue. That apparently includes transgender issues; check out the new Fox “News” poll, which found that by a 60%-38% margin, voters think that *Democrats* “would do a better job on” transgender issues.  And no, essentially zero Democrats support “open borders,” nor is there any truth at all to Trump’s insane, repeated claim that the “world’s prison population and mental hospitals could be emptied into our country.”

Bottom line: Trump is wildly wrong about the crap he spews out in this riff (see video, above), just as he’s wrong about pretty much everything. And yes, America had one job to do in 2024 – to elect the smart, competent, ethical, sane woman and reject the felonious traitor – and as a country, we massively/disastrously failed. So now, we’ll see if we can survive three more years of this, or if we can ever recover (doubtful) even if we survive until 2029.

P.S. Also worth noting is that Trump never endorsed Winsome Earle-Sears, even held a telephone rally right before the election in which he didn’t mention her by name! Note how Trump left out that small detail? LOL

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Kristi Noem: “I was just following orders.”

Noem needs to check out how well the plea “I was just following orders.” worked at Nuremberg.

Noem Says ‘Everything I’ve Done’ Has Been Directed by Trump and Stephen Miller: Report

Source: MEDIAite

Jan 27th, 2026, 5:50 pm

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is chalking up her actions in office to the direction of President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller.

Noem, Miller, and others in the administration have faced backlash over their description of the circumstances surrounding federal agents shooting and killing 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday. Noem and others claimed Pretti wanted to “massacre” agents before the confrontation. Administration officials have pointed to the fact that Pretti was armed as proof of his malicious intentions, but Second Amendment activists have consistently pushed back against this.

Pretti’s death followed an ICE agent shooting and killing 37-year-old mother Renee Good in the same city earlier this month. The city is currently suing the administration over ICE’s deployment.

Miller previously referred to Pretti as an “assassin.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called Miller one of the president’s closest allies amid rumors of a rift between Noem and Miller.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/noem-says-everything-ive-done-has-been-directed-by-trump-and-stephen-miller-report/

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Minnesota v. Trump, MAGA, et al: Minnesota wins

Terrific piece from Adam Serwer about how a community under attack from the federal government has proven the assumptions of its would-be overlords wrong:

I don’t know what the feds expected when they surged into Minnesota. In late November, The New York Times reported on a public-benefit fraud scheme in the state that was executed mainly by people of Somali descent. Federal prosecutors under the Biden administration had already indicted dozens of people, but after the Times story broke, President Trump began ranting about Somalis, whom he referred to as “garbage”; declared that he didn’t want Somali immigrants in the country; and announced that he was sending thousands of armed federal immigration agents to Minneapolis. This weekend, he posted on social media that the agents were there because of “massive monetary fraud.” The real reason may be that a majority of Minnesotans did not vote for him. Trump has said that “I won Minnesota three times, and I didn’t get credit for it. That’s a crooked state.” He has never won Minnesota.

Perhaps the Trump-administration officials had hoped that a few rabble-rousers would get violent, justifying the kind of crackdown he seems to fantasize about. Maybe they had assumed that they would find only a caricature of “the resistance”—people who seethed about Trump online but would be unwilling to do anything to defend themselves against him.

Instead, what they discovered in the frozen North was something different: a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state. Tens of thousands of volunteers—at the very least—are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom. They aren’t looking for attention or likes on social media. Unless they are killed by federal agents, as Pretti and Renee Good were, other activists do not even necessarily know their names. Many use a handle or code name out of fear of government retaliation. Their concerns are justified: A number of people working as volunteers or observers told me that they had been trailed home by ICE agents, and some of their communications have already been infiltrated, screenshotted, and posted online, forcing them to use new text chains and code names. One urgent question among observers, as the videos of Pretti’s killing spread, was what his handle might have been.

Then there are the people who load up their car with food, toiletries, and school supplies from churches or schools to take to families in hiding. They also help families who cannot work meet their rent or mortgage payments. In addition to driving around with Olsen, I rode along with a Twin Cities mom of young kids named Amanda as she did deliveries (she asked me to use only her first name). Riding in her small car—her back row was taken up by three child seats and a smattering of stray toys—she told me that she’d gotten involved after more than 100 students at her kids’ elementary school simply stopped coming in. Parents got organized to provide the families with food, to shepherd their kids to school, and to arrange playdates for those stuck inside.

Amanda’s father and husband are immigrants, she said, and she speaks Spanish. “I can be a conduit between those who want to help and those who need help,” she told me. She calls each family before knocking on the door, so they don’t have to worry that they are being tricked by ICE. At one home, a woman asked us to go around back because a suspicious vehicle was idling out front. At another home, a little girl in pigtails beamed as Amanda handed her a Target bag full of school supplies.

The decency and solidarity on display in Minnesota is such a striking contrast to the Stephen Miller impressionists who find such concepts incomprehensible.