Month: January 2026

Pretti, Epstein, Roundup

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I’ve been busy, so I haven’t had a chance to comment on the murder of Alex Pretti.

In a nutshell? It’s the same incompetence, cowboy attitude, and bullshit cover up we saw with Renee Good, but writ larger. The Trump admin is shameless, having spun lie and after lie before even waiting for the fucking blood to dry. Just straight up bullshit about how he was killed, his intentions, and everything else.

Additionally, idiots on both sides of the divide have been using AI videos to ‘help’ their case. Maybe they’re foreign actors, maybe they’re just idiots, but it’s not helping. Pro tip, gunshots don’t look like roman candles with a mushroom cloud when the bullet hits the ground. Also, the slide should move if a gun fires.

Fucking disheartening and awful all around. But at least Pam Bondi showed her true colors, demanding voter rolls in exchange for pulling ICE and CBP out. So it was never about immigrants, it was about punishing Tim Walz and fucking with the 2026 elections.

A bunch more Epstein files dropped. They say that’s all of them.

Maybe. Maybe not.

The DOJ also started deleting files in the released package as soon as people noticed incriminating stuff about Trump and other politicians in them, so fat chance anybody will believe this is the end of their cover up.

Pretty damning shit all around. Trump judging 13-14 year olds for how useful they’d be at parties, selling them off while promising them modelling careers. True scum shit.

Despite their attempts to hide things, however… The internet lives forever.

Trump: “We Shouldn’t Even Have Elections”

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Buckle up, kiddo. Anyone with eyes should have seen this coming from miles and years away. Trump is now suggesting that we shouldn’t have elections in 2026 because he’s “accomplished so much.”

Trump: “We shouldn’t even have elections.”

He’s said similar things before, but not in a direct interview with a news outlet like Reuters. Now he’s saying it directly: elections shouldn’t be required. And, of course, people are going to trot out the same tired shit they always do when Trump puts up a trial balloon like this:

  • “He’s just messing with the left/He’s just trolling.”
    • Yeah? Like when he was trolling about invading Venezuela? Pardoning the J6ers? His first few times talking about how he needs Greenland? Spare me the excuses – Trump’s “trolling” is always a prelude to “doing”.
  • “He can’t do that/it’s not legal.”
    • No, but that isn’t gonna stop him from trying. From throwing a monkey wrench into accepting results. Ultimately, if Congress decides to go along with this farce, if elections are held and they decide not to honor them, that’s when we get down to “military shelling the Capitol building” and/or “riots in the streets across the United States.” He has no power save that which the apparatus of government allows him to have, but so far they’ve been really fond of letting him do whatever he wants.
  • “With all this unrest, it’s totally find to suspend elections!”
    • Bitch, we had elections during the goddamn civil war. Get the fuck out of here.

Bullshit in the Age of Captured Journalism

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Let’s talk about how bullshit and lies get laundered in an environment where billionaires who are allied with fascism control all major media outlets. It’s a major concern to me that people have neither the ability nor inclination to look past even the most surface level of what they’re trying to comment on. In this case, Jonathan Ross, the guy who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis.

I like to peek at conservative news outlets to see what kind of spin they’re putting on events, and to get an idea of what talking points they’re recycling. Today, I checked out the National Review because I was curious how they were gonna sanewash Trump’s statement that we’re gonna get Greenland whether they like it or not.

They have an article that’s just oh-so-smug about how the foolish progressives got it wrong about Ross being in no danger, and CBS is now reporting that he is recovering from internal bleeding due to injuries suffered when he killed Good. But I’ve seen the video and I smelled a rat. I mean, above and beyond the fact that CBS news is now an arm of the Trump regime under Bari Weiss, and has done nothing but fawn over Trump since the merger that installed her as editor in chief.

No way did Ross suffer those injuries, based on any of the videos I’ve seen. But yet in X/Twitter, on conservative blogospheres, all over, it’s The Unvarnished Truth: Jonathan Ross was severely injured by Renee Good’s attack on him with the car. CBS is reporting it!

So naturally, I went to the source: CBS.

Lo and behold, there was the article. Except, if you actually read the article, it doesn’t say this is the truth. It says this is what Department of Homeland Security officials have told CBS, which has in turn could not as yet be independently confirmed.

So in essence:

  • ICE agent shoots and kills a woman.
  • DHS says she was a domestic terrorist and wounded him.
  • We see multiple videos of him being fine, not being struck by the car, and walking around just dandy.
  • CBS is told by DHS that ICE agent is actually definitely recovering from wounds.
  • The fascism adjacent social media sphere takes CBS’s report as third party confirmation and uses it to manufacture an alternative reality where he was wounded, when we cannot confirm that independently.

Consent is very easy to manufacture when no one is willing to do even a bare minimum of research and verification. It is important that we do not allow bullshit to pass on our watch without checking for it.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

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In Portland, two people have been non-fatally wounded by ICE/Border Patrol in a shooting. A husband and wife, by the sounds of it.

Looking forward to hearing about how they’re the worst of the worst, and domestic terrorists.

People have identified the ICE goon who murdered Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis yesterday.

His name is Jonathan Ross.

Not a good day to be a TV presenter from the UK, I have to say.

404 Media on ICE Lying

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I don’t generally want to quote or use articles by other publications except as PDFs to confirm events did, in fact, actually happen. However, there are certain exceptions to that.

404 Media’s excellent encapsulation of the lies being told by the Trump administration, Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, ICE, etc… You should have a read. I will place some choice quotes below the link.

DHS Is Lying to You About ICE Shooting A Woman

“In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote, “the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital.” Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said at a press conference, “it was an act of domestic terrorism” and “a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively shot to protect himself and the people around him.” 

DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. The Honda was already turning to the right away from the officers when the one who allegedly feared for his life fired the shots. There were no other officers up the road where the car did fully level out, meaning no other fellow officers were at risk. 

This is a pattern. Some event happens as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, DHS rushes out a misleading, wrong, or incendiary statement that does not reflect reality, and it becomes another piece of ammo for the X.com grifters, right wing media ecosystem, or people who just love the idea of others being hurt. DHS’s serial lying has become such a problem that even a judge called it out. In November, U.S. District Judge Sara L. Ellis wrote a more than 200 page opinion that in large part catalogued DHS officials’ bullshit. Parts of the opinion were scathing: “The Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible.”

DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. Its words carry no weight or meaning for those who care about what really happened. Only those who want to believe what it says.

I have preserved their article as a PDF here, in case it disappears from there server for any reason.

ICE Shoots, Kills Bystander in Minneapolis

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Today in Minneapolis, an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in her car. Apparently he opened up through her driver’s side window and shot her four or five times in the face and chest. She drove 100 feet and collided with a utility pole, already dead when people reached her car.

Kristi Noem has already spewed her bullshit, as normal. Per the article above, Noem insisted that the shooting was justified and that the victim was a “domestic terrorist” who endangered officers’ lives. This is contradicted by video of the incident, and by eyewitness accounts. And lest you forget: there is zero reason to believe anything Noem or ICE/DHS says, ever. They have consistently lied about every single event that may make them look bad. Every. One.

The shooter was vaguely in front of the car, but not in danger of being struck; it is very obvious the driver was trying to turn around and avoid interacting with the ICE agents. I will not be posting the video here, but suffice to say this will also be difficult to memory hole due to multiple videos from multiple angles and reportage from major news stations.

If this were a police officer who had done this under any other circumstance (except possible a protracted police chase) the chances of this being an unwarranted shooting are close to 100%. Even the LAPD and LASD wouldn’t be able to get away with executing someone in cold blood under the claim she may have hit them with a car, given this video.

The Trump militia proceeds apace.

Invasion of Venezuela

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It took longer than I expected. But we’ve attacked Venezuela, kidnapped President Maduro and his wife, and apparently intend to take them to New York to stand trial under United States law. I’m not linking any direct news articles because they’re almost all video and quite frankly, this is gonna be impossible to memory hole or lie over because it’s been some Made For TV shit, just like every other foreign intervention we’ve had since Gulf War 1.

Here are sometimeline highlights, however.

We had some remarks from President Trump at around 8 AM pacific time today. In true Trumpian fashion, he proceeded to self-aggrandize (biggest operation since World War 2!) and bloviate about how great he is. But also in keeping with that, he kept up his knack of saying out loud the shit that others in his admin probably wish he wouldn’t have. To whit:

  • This is all about narco terrorism, of course, with some truly inflated numbers about how many americans die per drug boat that makes it to the United States. Just don’t ask about his pardon of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was literally convicted of drug trafficking.
  • Despite being about narcoterrorism, naturally, Trump had to chime in about Venezuela’s oil. That Venezuela’s oil industry would be rebuilt by companies based in the United States. He couldn’t even keep from saying that part of the problem with Venezuela was that it just wasn’t pumping enough oil. This is, of course, the crux of the problem: Venezuela has a shitton of resources that private companies want and feel entitled to, and that cannot be allowed to continue.
  • In terms of who’s running Venezuela, Trump said: “we are going to run the country until we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition” although there is no indication of when that might be, what the criteria might be, or even any indication of consultation with Venezuelans.
  • He continued: “We’re basically taking over the country.” This is my shocked face.

Now, perhaps most chillingly, at the end of his press conference, he did offer a hint as to what’s next, with one single offhand statement:

 “Something’s going to have to be done with Mexico.”

So let that sink in, on this day of January 3rd, 2026.