Posts by Kim Browne
Trump’s ICE Goons Detained a 5-Year-Old. Then JD Vance Made It Worse.
This has gotten scandalously little attention, but ICE has been seeking to deport thousands of people awaiting asylum hearings in the United States to third countries that will take them. This entails asking immigration judges to void asylum applications without ever passing substantive judgment on their merits. When Vance calls this father an “illegal alien,”…
Read MoreICE Agents Violently Arrest Black Corrections Officer
The sheriff excoriated the agents for their conduct, saying the arrest had changed his mind about the federal government’s immigration actions. “We’re being told one story, which is totally different than what’s occurring or what occurred [Wednesday] night,” Joyce said, noting that the recruit had passed the county’s application process to qualify as a corrections…
Read MoreICE Can’t Even Clear First Step of Arresting Minnesota Protesters
Federal judges in Minnesota are rejecting arrest warrants for some anti-ICE protesters because federal officials haven’t actually backed up claims that demonstrators have broken any law. Federal immigration agents have repeatedly failed to provide sufficient evidence that demonstrators have committed crimes, such as assault, when trying to obtain warrants for arrest, two people briefed on…
Read MoreKristi Noem’s Alleged Boyfriend Is Back to Run DHS Behind the Scenes
MAGA operative Corey Lewandowski—who has long been rumored to be having an affair with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—will be extending his stay as her de facto chief of staff. Despite being classified as a temporary employee, Lewandowski has been playing a shadow role of sorts at DHS since Trump was reelected, pulling many of…
Read MoreCBP Chief Makes Delusional Claim About Minnesota Ahead of Mass Strike
But the board’s charter, as circulated to dozens of nations last week, makes little mention of Gaza. Instead, its goals appear to be as lofty as they are broad, seeking to “promote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict.” The concept came under new scrutiny…
Read MoreTestify To Ambition And Touch The Sky
I’ve built companies through messy markets and wild swings. That grind taught me something simple: attitude sets the ceiling. If you want a business that lasts, you need fuel that doesn’t run out. My take is straightforward. Confidence isn’t a perk. It’s the engine. I’m arguing that audacious optimism is a practical strategy, not just…
Read MoreIf Anyone Can Pull Off a General Strike, It’s Minnesotans
The Minnesota movement thinks, as political philosopher Rodrigo Nunes puts it in Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal, ecologically: It brings together different forms of action (strike, boycott, mutual aid, self-defense) and disparate organizational forms (unions, community groups, tenant organizations, text threads) with unaffiliated individuals who turn up to protests or just stop, like Renee Good did,…
Read MoreS-E Asia semiconductor stocks: Tariff risks vs AI boom
Investors mull over a mix of factors, but analysts indicate target prices that are mostly higher [SINGAPORE] It has been a disparate picture for semiconductor stocks in the region in the past few months and beyond, including Singapore, as investors mull over a variety of factors, including new chip tariffs, the memory chip shortage and…
Read MoreBank of America, Citigroup weigh new cards with 10% rate
Some bank executives have publicly said that they agree with Trump’s focus on affordability Published Fri, Jan 23, 2026 · 06:51 AM [NEW YORK] Bank of America and Citigroup are exploring options they could offer up as an olive branch to satisfy US President Donald Trump’s demand to cap credit card interest rates at 10…
Read MoreJD Vance Says Minneapolis Is to Blame for ICE Violence
Vice President JD Vance is claiming that the ICE violence in Minneapolis is the fault of leaders there. Speaking to reporters while visiting Minnesota, Vance was asked what he would say to Minnesotans who say that ICE’s increased presence and harsh tactics are making them unsafe. Vance blamed local authorities for refusing to cooperate. “I’d…
Read MoreJD Vance: Nonwhite Citizens Targeted by ICE Must Have Done Something
“There’s a firm argument to be made that this art form, the Delta blues, is our country’s most important contribution to global popular culture. You know, I think it’s probably [Black people’s] most important artistic contribution to the world,” Coogler told Democracy Now! last spring. “And it was such a profound discovery, that this music…
Read MoreParis Hilton Teams Up With AOC on Major AI Porn Bill
A bipartisan effort to curb AI-generated deepfake porn has linked hands from Washington to Hollywood. In an unlikely political alliance, Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared beside Republican Representatives Anna Paulina Luna and Nancy Mace Thursday in support of the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits, or DEFIANCE, Act. If passed, the bill would create…
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