Posts by Kim Browne
“F*cking B*tch”: What ICE Agents Did Right After Minnesota Shooting
Screenshot The expansion, which would take place after the ballroom is completed, would “restore a sense of symmetry around the original central pavilion,” according to Baranes. Responding to questions from members of the National Capital Planning Commission, Baranes said that the potential West Wing project would affect the West Wing colonnade but not the building…
Read MoreNew Video Wrecks Trump Team’s Claims About Minnesota ICE Shooting
A new video shows the minutes leading up to the killing of Renee Good by a federal immigration officer from a new angle—and further casts doubt on the Trump administration’s smears. The video obtained by CNN Thursday night showed Good’s Honda Pilot arriving at the site of the incident approximately four minutes before the shooting…
Read MorePhilippines central bank sees inflation rising toward target
[MANILA] The Philippines’ central bank will keep weighing a feeble growth outlook against gradually rising inflation to set monetary policy in a balancing act that could bring an end to its easing cycle soon, Deputy Governor Zeno Abenoja said on Friday (Jan 9). “Inflation has the greatest weight in the policy discussions at the Monetary…
Read MoreThe End Goal of Trump’s Cringey, Nonsensical Videos
We’ve come to expect such aesthetic absurdity from him. Heck, that wasn’t even his first time using “Fortunate Son” as a soundtrack to military spectacle; it played during his June 2025 military parade in Washington, D.C. Another video from the same genre, which he posted back in June, pairs a montage of stealth bombers raining…
Read MoreWe’re All “Domestic Terrorists” Now
“It was an act of domestic terrorism,” Kristi Noem declared following Wednesday’s killing of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood of Minneapolis. With a straight face and no evident sense of shame, the head of Homeland Security added, “This goes to show the assaults that…
Read MorePastor: ICE Let Me Free Because I’m White and It Wouldn’t Be “Fun”
“Before I knew it, I saw ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic, and so I approached her, and we were at that point chanting, ‘We are not afraid, we are not afraid.’” Callaghan then said he told ICE officers to take him instead of harassing her. An agent then “came,…
Read MoreTrump Fumes as Five Republicans Vote to Block Him on Venezuela
This comes as the Republicans named—along with Senate Democrats—voted 52–47 to advance the War Powers Resolution, which would force Trump to seek Congress’s approval before conducting any further uniliteral military offensives in Venezuela. A final Senate vote on the legislation is expected next week, and it would then need to pass the House and be…
Read MoreEssential Questions to Ask Before Signing an Internet Contract
When choosing an internet provider, it is rarely as simple as comparing prices. Many people forget to read the fine print or ask important questions. You should understand the terms and conditions before signing any internet contract. It is always better to ask the right questions to avoid unexpected expenses or disruptions later on. A…
Read MoreKash Patel’s FBI Cuts Minnesota Out of ICE Shooting Investigation
More than a dozen schemes have popped up in Minnesota’s safety net programs in recent years, many of them involving members of the state’s Somali population. But they haven’t gone unchecked: More than 90 Minnesotans were charged in federal fraud investigations that began under the Biden administration, at least 60 of which have resulted in…
Read MoreTop Trump Official Threatens Even More Aid Cuts in Minnesota
“The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and 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,” Trump wrote. “Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive,…
Read MoreTrump’s Childcare Funding Freezes Are Going to Hit All Kids Hard
“Once they close their doors, there’s no coming back from that,” Lehnoff said. Christina Killion Valdez, the director of a childcare center in Rochester, Minnesota, said in a press briefing that the Minnesota state government had promised support, and that her organization had a cushion of three months for its overall program. But if the…
Read MoreRFK Jr. Conveniently Forgets to Tell Key Group About Vaccine Overhaul
The health secretary neglected to inform a critical group of individuals when he decided to overhaul the child vaccination schedule: his own staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Vaccine experts at the agency were “blindsided” by Robert F. Kennedy Jr’.s brisk efforts Monday to radically narrow the parameters for which vaccines the…
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