The United States is now facing the greatest threat to our free way of life in our history. Even the US Civil War was not the danger that is Donald Trump. In the Civil War, the South wanted to separate from the rest of the Union. Today, Trump does not want to separate from the US, he seeks to destroy the fundamental functions and purpose of the US. He seeks to destroy the Constitution, replacing the Judiciary and Legislative Branches with puppets of the Executive. Plainly stated, Trump seeks to establish himself as a dictator . . . and as of May 2025, he may succeed.
Check out this video. ICE thugs are blocking traffic, checking people in their cars FOR NO GODDAM REASON.
Watch the video — check out the little short, fat piece of shit strutting around like he’s in charge.
ICE agents in Portland, Maine.
byu/JennFoogle inPublicFreakout
A viral image of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos shows the boy in a blue knit hat with white bunny ears and pompoms, standing with a blank look on his face, staring at the back of a truck. Liam and his father were captured by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minnesota on Tuesday, and both are now detained in San Antonio, more than 1,200 miles from Liam’s home, his school, his friends and most of his family.
School officials in Minnesota say that the prekindergarten student was used “as bait” by ICE, in an apparent attempt to gain access to the adults inside the private house where he once lived. That act, the use of a boy too young to understand the political game in which he became a pawn, mirrors in a perverse and deeply disturbing way the power of the photograph. The photograph stirs empathy and compassion, the same emotions that ICE agents apparently used to entice adults into making themselves vulnerable to capture.
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A universal moral image works because at some level we share a universal moral conscience. There are certain things that, when seen, compel us to action in a way that transcends all other concerns.
It is universal because the suffering of a child cuts across race, nationality and ideological divisions. It is universal because it takes precedence over all other concerns. A child in distress demands action now. The world stops for a moment, and decent people do what is absolutely, immediately necessary.
Among the most deeply distressing things this image represents is the instrumentalization of compassion. ICE didn’t place a box of candy or a $100 bill on the front stoop of the house, hoping to tempt people out. They used a child to appeal to the most innate and essentially human impulse to show care, concern and protect — to capture those who care for him. They weaponized decency, the last incorruptible defense we have against absolute misery and evil.
PURE, ABSOLUTE EVIL AND IT’S ALL ON DONALD TRUMP’S HEAD
A federal court ruled Thursday that Virginia’s lifetime voting ban for people with certain felony convictions violates federal law — a landmark decision that could restore voting rights to hundreds of thousands of Virginians, especially Black residents long targeted by the ban.
U.S. District Court Judge John Gibney, appointed by former President Barack Obama, ruled that Virginia’s constitution unlawfully strips voting rights far beyond what Congress allowed when it readmitted the state to the Union after the Civil War.
The postwar law — the Virginia Readmission Act of 1870 — was designed specifically to protect the political power of newly freed Black Americans.
“For well over a century, the Commonwealth of Virginia has disobeyed a federal law designed to protect the right of former enslaved people to vote,” Gibney wrote. “When the United States started to readmit the rebellious slave states after the Civil War, Congress feared that the former Confederate powers would invent new crimes with which they could disenfranchise Black Americans.”
Virginia’s current constitution permanently bars anyone convicted of a felony from voting unless their rights are restored by the governor — a discretionary process that has historically and disproportionately disenfranchised Black residents.
“The Virginia Readmission Act means what it says: Virginia cannot amend its Constitution to disenfranchise citizens except as ‘punishment for such crimes as’ were then ‘felonies at common law’ in 1870,” the judge added. “If its amended Constitution disenfranchises someone for any other reason, the Commonwealth violates the Act.”
In plain terms, the decision means Virginia cannot continue to bar people from voting for most modern felony convictions — including many drug offenses — because those crimes did not exist as felonies under common law in 1870.
The court identified a very narrow list of crimes that qualified at the time, sharply limiting who can legally be disenfranchised today.
“I am overjoyed at today’s ruling and what it means for thousands of Virginians,” Tati King, the lead plaintiff in the case, said following the ruling. “After so many years of fighting for my rights, I will finally be able to participate in our democracy and exercise my vote as an American citizen.”
The court’s decision does not end felony disenfranchisement entirely in the state but the ruling lands as Virginia voters prepare to weigh an even broader reform.
Last week, the General Assembly passed a proposed constitutional amendment that would automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions once they are released, ending the governor-controlled restoration system altogether.
If voters approve it later this year, Virginia would finally abandon one of the harshest disenfranchisement regimes in the country.
At the Davos meeting, Trump’s right hand shows heavy bruising.
The White House lied, saying: “At the Board of Peace event today in Davos, President Trump hit his hand on the corner of the signing table, causing it to bruise,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Daily Beast in a statement.
White House spokesmen have issued several lies: An official at the White House claimed to the Beast that Trump’s daily aspirin intake makes him especially susceptible to bruising. The administration previously said that Trump’s bruising was due to excessive handshaking.
IN FACT, Trump is receiving regular IVs of medications designed to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s . . . which don’t seem to be working.
If there were ever any doubt about Trump’s guilt in (1) the attempted Jan 6 coup, and (2) the theft of classified material, that doubt was removed by Smith’s testimony.
If there were ever any doubt that Gym Jordan is an ignorant horse’s ass, that doubt, too, was removed.
🚨MAGA IMMEDIATELY regrets calling Jack Smith to testify as he reaffirms Trump’s 100% GUILT:
SMITH: The evidence established…Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the 2024 results…and illegally kept classified documents…in a bathroom." BOOM.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) January 22, 2026
This isn’t merely scandalous or unethical: it’s impeachable on its face and dangerous to the survival of democracy worldwide.
Donald Trump is trying to use a United Nations resolution to justify making himself King of the World via a new “Board of Peace” that Trump says “might” replace the UN, with the ability to pass the title along to his son, Don Jr., if he continues to please his father.
No, this isn’t an exaggeration.
It all started when the United Nations Security Council voted to accept Resolution 2803 on 17 November 2025 to make effective the Gaza peace plan agreed to by Israel and Hamas in October 2025.
Resolution 2803 called for a two-year international stabilization force and a “Board of Peace” to oversee the process in the region. It was explicit, however, that this would be a board with a very limited portfolio:
“The Security Council, Welcoming the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict … Welcomes the establishment of the Board of Peace (BoP) as a transitional administration with international legal personality that will set the framework, and coordinate funding for, the redevelopment of Gaza pursuant to the Comprehensive Plan, and in a manner consistent with relevant international legal principles, until such time as the Palestinian Authority (PA) has satisfactorily completed its reform program, as outlined in various proposals, including President Trump’s peace plan in 2020 and the Saudi-French Proposal, and can securely and effectively take back control of Gaza.”
In response to that, Trump had his administration lawyers create an entirely new private, non-governmental “treaty‑based international organization” with its own legal personality, that is not a U.S. government agency, corporation, or standard NGO/non‑profit. This new entity called the “Board of Peace” would:
— Make Trump its chairman, with essentially absolute power and a veto over every action.
— Make the chairman the only person able to invite or approve new member-states into the group.
— Give Trump the sole ability to appoint his own successor as heir/successor/chairman, such as Don Jr.
— Keep the Board of Peace in existence for perpetuity should the current or a subsequent Chairman decide.
— Make the entrance fee for permanent members $1 billion each, money the Chairman controls.
The draft charter Trump has proposed for his Board of Peace doesn’t even mention Gaza, anywhere; as a result, it appears designed to replace the United Nations as a new governing body for the entire world.
When asked if Trump intended the Board to replace the UN, he replied that it “might” do so, adding:
“The UN should have settled every one of the wars that I settled. I never went to them. I never even thought to go to them.”
The White House has already named the first four Executive Board members: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, billionaire and Trump friend Steve Witkoff, former British prime minister Tony Blair, and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Putin also indicated he’d like to join and suggested Russia’s billion-dollar entrance fee could come from funds already seized by the US government.
This “give us an inch and we’ll take a mile” attempt to co-opt the power and role of the UN and give it entirely to the Trump family, creating a new international royal family that could rule the world for generations to come, was described by Jacob T. Levy, a political theory professor at McGill University, as “impeachable.”
“Regardless of whether this organization ever even looks in the direction of Gaza, it’s an assault on the international order subordinating the decisions of states to the personal jurisdiction of the Trump family,” he wrote, adding, “It’s hard to be shocked anymore, I know, but we should be shocked.”
This international power grab also comports with Trump’s statement yesterday at Davos that his becoming a dictator for the world would be a good thing:
“…I’m a dictator,” he told a reception for CEOs, adding, “But sometimes you need a dictator.”
It’s an echo of his statement last August as he was ordering troops into the streets of Washington, DC:
“A lot of people are saying, maybe we like a dictator,” then added, speaking of people’s comments about himself, “Already they’re saying he’s a dictator. The place is going to hell and we’ve got to stop it.”
With no elections, accountability, or checks-and-balances, this “Board of Peace” is a direct assault on democracy worldwide. The chairman (Trump) is not answerable to voters, Congress, courts, or international law: this is the opposite of democratic governance.
The chairman overrides all collective decisions, and even if member states vote, their decisions mean nothing without Trump’s approval. That isn’t democracy, it’s veto-by-monarchy.
This is designed to normalize authoritarian governance worldwide, fulfilling Putin’s dream. If the U.S. president can create a parallel global authority that ignores democratic norms, why shouldn’t other strongmen like him and Xi do the same? Or simply start ignoring UN mandates and rules, saying they now submit to the BoP’s authority instead?
It’s also corruption, plain and simple. The billion-dollar “fee” to stay in good standing is legalized bribery, making the entire scheme simply a form of extortion dressed up as governance: pay or be expelled.
Because membership can be terminated at the chairman’s whim — even after payment — this isn’t a real “treaty organization”: it’s a protection racket that violates the most basic anti-corruption norms the U.S. claims to defend. “Nice little country you have there; we’ll help you bring peace if you pay up to the Trump family…”
It’s also establishing a new form of dynastic rule with the Trump family at its center. Trump appointing his own successor isn’t even subtle: it’s a proposal for hereditary power without even the pretense of merit or consent.
And, because the Trump family, not the American people, controls the future of the organization, it’s not even a nod in the direction of the democracy our Founders and generations of Americans have fought and died to bring into being and keep alive. Even if voters were to decisively reject Trumpism at the ballot box, the Trump dynasty would still keep power at a level above the United States itself.
This mirrors the logic of autocracies the U.S. claims to oppose, including Russia, North Korea, and the Gulf monarchies that are all so dear to Trump. America fought a revolution to escape dynastic rule, but now Trump wants to establish one here and then export it worldwide.
Trump’s “Board of Peace” is a direct threat to American constitutional government because the US itself, under the terms of this charter, becomes subject to Trump’s personal authority. Under the proposed document, the U.S. can be expelled unless it pays a ransom or pleases the chairman.
This also undermines the American presidency as an institution — and future American presidents — because a future democratically elected president could be extorted or sidelined by this private Trump-led entity. It also bypasses Congress entirely with no treaties, no ratification, and no oversight. This isn’t “America First”: it’s Trump and his family first, raw personal power, with America Optional.
And it takes a direct whack at the international order established by the United Nations eighty-plus years ago. The BoP charter doesn’t even bother to mention Gaza, its supposedly humanitarian justification. International law is thus replaced by the Trump family’s personal jurisdiction, and nation-states are no longer equal actors; they become simple clients dependent on Trump’s favor.
The structure also rewards authoritarian regimes and punishes democracies. Dictators can pay, flatter, and comply, while democracies are constrained by law and public accountability and thus disadvantaged.
Already, Hungary’s Viktor Orbàn has said, “We have, of course, accepted this honorable invitation.” After the United States pulled back from 66 UN organizations and is now $1 billion in arrears on our dues, the 21 nations already committed to signing up also include: Bahrain, Morocco, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Hungary, Israel, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, Uzbekistan and Mongolia.
This dangerous precedent doesn’t bring peace to Gaza or anyplace else. Instead, it replaces law with loyalty to the Trump dynasty.
If Trump can get away this, so can the next demagogue because once democratic norms are abandoned, they don’t magically return. It sets a precedent for private, unaccountable global power.
Which is why Jacob Levy is right: this is impeachable on its face. This phony “Board of Peace” is a personal power project that treats democracy as an inconvenience, the rule of law as optional, and the world as a Trump family inheritance.
We should be as shocked and furious as are the leaders of Europe’s top democracies — who have said they will not participate — and moving quickly toward impeaching our wannabe king and his courtiers.
Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.
The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant to arrest someone with a final order of removal, a move that advocates say collides with Fourth Amendment protections and upends years of advice given to immigrant communities.
The shift comes as the Trump administration dramatically expands immigration arrests nationwide, deploying thousands of officers under a mass deportation campaign that is already reshaping enforcement tactics in cities such as Minneapolis.
For years, immigrant advocates, legal aid groups and local governments have urged people not to open their doors to immigration agents unless they are shown a warrant signed by a judge. That guidance is rooted in Supreme Court rulings that generally prohibit law enforcement from entering a home without judicial approval. The ICE directive directly undercuts that advice at a time when arrests are accelerating under the administration’s immigration crackdown.
A Minneapolis gas station just kicked the slimeball POS Greg Bovino and his Gestapo gang off their property.
“We do NOT support ICE, get off of our property”
BREAKING: A Minneapolis Speedway gas station just kicked slimeball Border Commander Greg Bovino out of their business.
"We do NOT support ICE, get off of our property"
This is what democracy looks like!pic.twitter.com/cRihFnwx1D
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) January 21, 2026
BREAKING | Davos
🔴 Moment Trump arrived in Davos, Switzerland no one was there to receive him.
No official welcome.
No delegation.
Just a silent arrival at the world’s most elite forum. pic.twitter.com/y4EMX0eTik
— SilencedSirs◼️ (@SilentlySirs) January 21, 2026
https://x.com/i/status/2013976385312690581
Watch the video. The doddering old fool cannot even walk in a straight line. And he is ALL ALONE –NO ONE MET HIM, NO ONE IS ESCORTING HIM — which is what he deserves.
