Here are some excerpts – see if any of this sounds familiar.

Fascism is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political cultural and social life of the state.

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They maintain themselves in power by use of force, combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of “blood” and “race”, by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security.

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The fascists solved unemployment by converting their nations into war machines. The unemployed were either conscripted into the army, or organized into labor battalions and put to work in war plants.

Deprived of their unions, the working people could be driven to work longer and harder, for less and less money, so those who subsidized and ran fascism could grow richer.

Nearly every word of this describes today’s reality.

During a Fox News interview that aired on Wednesday, Vance said he expects to see “deportation numbers ramp up as we get more and more people online, working for ICE, going door to door and making sure that if you’re an illegal alien, you’ve got to get out of this country.”

Listen up, JD:  DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT COMING TO MY DOOR.  Just don’t do it.

Why are masked men carrying boxes and belongings out of the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Nicole Renee Good?

Gun-toting Feds swarmed the home of the ICE agent who fatally shot protester Renee Good on Friday morning, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.

A Special Response Team arrived at the suburban Minneapolis home, where Jon Ross, 43, lives with his wife and children, early this morning.

Daily Mail images captured half a dozen Federal officers wearing masks and balaclavas, one carrying pepper spray and another wielding an assault rifle.

A neighbor told the Daily Mail she spotted Ross’s wife Patrixia pacing around the couple’s driveway on Wednesday afternoon, hours after her husband opened fire on Good.

Since then, the house has been empty amid suggestions that the couple and their children have gone into hiding.

The fresh activity comes after the Daily Mail revealed that Ross is an Enforcement and Removal Operations agent and Iraq veteran, married to a Filipina immigrant.

He has become the focus of rage over ICE actions around the country after he shot and killed Good on Wednesday afternoon while she was driving her SUV down a street where agents were on duty.

QUESTION:  Are the removing items from the house for their investigation, or, is this his Gestapo friends helping him move into hiding?

Exxon CEO calls Venezuela ‘uninvestable’ without ‘significant changes’

Source: Washington Post

January 9, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. EST

As President Donald Trump pushed U.S. oil companies to commit to invest $100 billion in Venezuela at a White House meeting on Friday, the CEO of ExxonMobil warned the company is far from enlisting.

CEO Darren Woods said that Venezuela is “uninvestable” after Trump asked him how long it would take the firm to restart operations there. He added that “significant changes have to be made to those commercial frameworks, the legal system, there has to be durable investment protections,” and there needs to be a rewrite of the laws governing oil production in Venezuela.

He would only commit to sending a technical team to the country shortly to begin assessing the situation. The exchange underscored how the industry is struggling to chart a course that will please the president without spending recklessly on risky drilling ventures.

The afternoon meeting was attended by several major oil companies in addition to Exxon, including Chevron, ConocoPhilips and Shell. Chevron is the only U.S. firm operational in Venezuela. Trump vowed the companies that commit to pumping in Venezuela will make substantial profits, but the firms, aware of the extremely challenging economics and security concerns around drilling in the unstable Latin American nation, are reticent to commit.

The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.

Jan. 9, 2026, 5:40 p.m. ET

The Washington National Opera decided on Friday to move its performances out of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, abandoning the hall where it has played since 1971 in perhaps the largest artistic rebuke yet to President Trump’s campaign to remake the Kennedy Center in his image.

The opera company is seeking to sever its ties with the Kennedy Center after a tumultuous year in which both groups have faced cancellations by artists, empty seats and the retrenchment of donors protesting Mr. Trump’s intervention. Within weeks of beginning his second term, the president named himself chairman of the center and installed a political ally, Richard Grenell, as its executive director, while filling its board with supporters.

A resolution to leave was approved by the Washington National Opera’s board of trustees on Friday, according to a statement the opera provided to The New York Times.

Adam Nagourney is the classical music and dance correspondent for The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/adam-nagourney

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/arts/music/washington-national-opera-kennedy-center.html

Notice how quiet the media has become . . .

. . . over the daily failure of DOJ to release any new Epstein files? A little reporting about the Dems asking for a special master but that’s pretty much it.

All of the fourth estate just seems satisfied to accept the proclamation from DOJ that they “are reviewing” 2 million, 5 million, umpteen million or gazillion millions of documents. No push from the media about how could they be so f’d up about the number of documents. No realization, or care, by the media that by DOJ floating out conflicting document totals they are making cover for the ability to not release documents because nobody knows the true total in the end so nobody can know whether the total released is all that there is. 

Intel people know this tactic as creating “chaff”. You just create so much false and misleading information that nobody can reasonably see through to the truth of an aspect or the whole of a situation. People have felt for a long time that this is what the CIA did in the period before JFK was killed. Because of all of the “chaff” purposely created it allows constant rebuttal and doubt about any one “theory” because much of the information, the phony “chaff”, would be in conflict with any one theory. In other words no theory could encompass all of the “what about this” that comes up.

Disinformation campaigns are examples of “chaff” and the effects of creating endless wild goose chases/dog chasing its’ tail scenarios. It allows the powers that be to always discredit any conclusion put forth against them by being able to criticize that conclusion by saying it doesn’t account for this, this and this.

This coverup of Epstein is massive and orchestrated at the highest levels. Now even if a judge were to order DOJ to immediately turn over all of the files to a special master what is the true number of documents?

Does anybody believe DOJ when they swear to a judge they have turned over everything? The same DOJ that has repeatedly been found to lie to the courts and lie to grand juries?