Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to ICE: “Get the f out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here… you’re doing the exact opposite of safety.”
Reports of protests erupting, too.
#press

She sure doesn’t appear to be trying to run over the agent to me… What do you see? #press

The footage clearly shows Renee Nicole Good trying to wave the ICE agent's car ahead, which completely undermines DHS's narrative that she intended to "kill the ICE agent"—R/t @KPritsker #press

AOC: “What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman and shoot her in the head while she was trying to escape and flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: which is their govt turning into a tyranny.”

37-year-old U.S. citizen is dead. A mother. A community pillar.

Renee Nicole Good was shot by an ICE agent blocks from her home. Officials claimed “self-defense” — Mayor Frey, after seeing the video, called it “bullshit.” Agents blocked a doctor from evaluating her.

This isn’t law enforcement. It appears to be an unlawful killing.
Transparency and accountability. Now. ICE must go. #press

Youth sports is now a $40 BILLION industry. $50 tryouts. $3,000 teams. $8,000++ a year. Parents are told: pay more = elite athlete.

But studies say early specialization hurts performance and fuels injuries. Turns out the kids aren’t the product — parents are.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/07/youth-sports-cost-parents-investors-profit/ #press

NEW: Lockheed Martin is more than TRIPLING Patriot missile production. From ~600 to 2,000 PAC-3 interceptors per year under a new 7-year deal with the US Dept of War.
https://shorturl.at/nU4Zb

U.S. demands to Venezuela:

Expel China, Russia, Iran & Cuba.
Cut economic ties.
Submit to exclusive U.S. control over oil production.
Sell heavy crude on American terms.

Comply—or be shut out of global oil markets. ️#press

A US general says Trump has created a “1940s Stalin problem” in the military. Top Navy and Air Force officers fired in quick succession.

“Toe the line, or we will fire you. You’re in a different world now. This is Trump’s world.”
— Ret. Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton

Purge the professionals.
Demand obedience.
Punish dissent. This is how strongmen take control.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/05/trump-us-military-hegseth-stalin

JUST IN: Only 1% of the Epstein files are public. The DOJ admits millions more are still being reviewed.

400 lawyers. 100 FBI analysts. Weeks of work.

Transparency shouldn’t need an army. https://time.com/7343702/epstein-files-release-doj/ #press

FLU UPDATE
45 STATES are seeing high to very high flu activity —
doctor visits at the HIGHEST level in 30 YEARS.

11+ MILLION illnesses
120,000 hospitalizations
️ ~5,000 deaths so far

Holiday travel impacts? Not even in the data yet.

A 3yo vaccinated, hospitalized for nearly a week.
“We’re nowhere close to being done.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/flu-surges-45-states-doctor-230720463.html #press

VENEZUELA UPDATE
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado says she’s ready to come home and win a real election. VP Delcy Rodríguez has been sworn in as interim president.

Trump says the U.S. is “running Venezuela,” that the country must be “fixed” before votes can be held, and warns Rodríguez she could “pay a very big price” if she does not cooperate.

The world watches. The precedent terrifies.
History is being rewritten in real time.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/maduro-opponent-machado-vows-return-venezuela-wants-election-2026-01-06/

How to stop your phone from listening to your conversations...
--R/t LearnSkills2.0

Teenage drug dealers killed a man.
Took selfies.
Bragged on Snapchat: “We messed up a man today.”

Those same selfies became evidence.
Life sentences instead of likes. ️️
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/teenage-drug-dealers-selfies-kings-cross-jailed-crrjtmf7g?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1767653244

BREAKING: RFK Jr. has unilaterally slashed the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule from 17 diseases to 11—without scientific evidence, without expert review, and without the independent advisory process that has protected children for decades.

Public health experts say the move is arbitrary, reckless, and dangerous, driven by ideology rather than medicine, and will undermine trust and put kids at risk.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/health/children-vaccines-cdc-kennedy.html?smid=url-share

BREAKING: In a Manhattan courtroom, Nicolás Maduro tells a U.S. judge he was “KIDNAPPED,” pleads not guilty to drug trafficking, insists:
“I am still president of my country.”

His son calls it a “dangerous regression” to imperialism and urges global solidarity. #press

Trump responded to Mark Kelly’s video by declaring “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” Now the Pentagon is moving to censure & demote Kelly for telling troops to refuse illegal orders. A decorated Navy veteran & U.S. Senator is being targeted through state power.

Authoritarian retaliation is happening in real time.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2026/01/05/pentagon-moves-to-censure-demote-sen-mark-kelly-of-arizona/87798203007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z118647p118050c118050u003747d00----v118647&gca-ft=88&gca-ds=sophi #press

The U.S. wants Venezuelan oil not because it needs more oil — but because it needs HEAVY oil.

Gulf Coast refineries are built for heavy crude. U.S. shale is mostly light.

Venezuela’s oil is dense, sulphur-heavy — closer to tar — hard to extract, hard to refine… yet perfect for those refineries.

The catch: $30–35bn in 2–3 years, $185bn over time, political & contract stability — and oil majors have to fund it.

And… it’s not ours.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/05/venezuelan-crude-oil-appeals-to-us-refineries #press