US politics

US politics

Asked whether he developed evidence that Donald Trump was responsible for the violence at the Capitol on January 6, Smith did not say yes or no. He said Trump caused the circumstances, exploited the violence once it began, and understood what it was doing for him. That answer is now at the center of a political firestorm because the Justice Department released the full 255-page transcript of Smith's closed-door testimony late on New Year's Eve, a timing that guaranteed selective reading and rapid political framing.

We cannot compete globally while navigating a vulnerable, 1970s-era overhead grid. Reliability is a shared responsibility; as neighbors, we are committed to trimming private trees and providing maintenance access. However, we need a matching commitment to modernization. We plead for PG&E and the city to invoke Rule 20A credits to underground our lines. Moving the grid beneath the surface is a public safety necessity for our families and students.

During an on-camera virtual press conference on Monday, however, Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth confirmed her caucus helped point the creator in the direction of where to look. Opening the meeting, Demuth welcomed the attention, placing blame on the Walz administration for failing to act. Fraud needs to end in the state, she said. And if this is what it takes, since there's been inaction by our current governor, then this is where we're at.

Nothing in ICE's courthouse-arrest policies or the case law identified by the government explains the lack of a logical connection between ICE's rationales and its expansion of civil arrests at immigration courthouses. This, too, likely makes ICE's courthouse-arrest policies arbitrary and capricious. The ruling applies to the jurisdiction of the ICE San Francisco field office, which includes courts in Concord, Sacramento, Central California, Hawaii, Guam and Saipan.

In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote that much of Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia. He also repeated attacks on Somali American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, calling her one of the many scammers. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth, Trump wrote.

The increase in the US is all the more pronounced given the gradual decline in capital punishment that had been the prevailing wind in the US for most of the past two decades. It stands starkly discordant with the trend in public opinion. Gallup, which has been taking the pulse of the American public's views on the death penalty since 1937, found that this year 52% supported it for people convicted of murder a 50-year low. Most Americans under 55 now oppose the practice.

God Bless Tina Peters, who is now, for two years out of nine, sitting in a Colorado Maximum Security Prison, at the age of 73, and sick, for the crime' of trying to stop the massive voter fraud that goes on in her State ( where people are leaving in record numbers!), began Trump in a post on Truth Social. Hard to wish her a Happy New Year,

Shortly after the director's death, president Donald Trump himself took to social media to blast him as a "tortured and struggling artist," adding that Reiner was a "deranged person as far as Trump is concerned."

Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who had ruled agains the administration's attempts to close the bureau in March, wrote in her Tuesday decision that the administration's latest funding argument is an unsupported and transparent attempt to achieve the very end the court's injunction was put in place to prevent. The decision is just the latest in a battle over the bureau's existence.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth joined forces with one of social media's most vitriolic anti-trans campaigners last week to drum a Navy Commander out of the service over her support for transgender healthcare. It was a one-two punch from Hegseth in service of the president's crusade against "woke" ideology and transgender people in the federal government and American society at large.

In a year marked by escalating attacks on transgender people, the Trump administration has seemed to outdo its own cruelty at every turn. While the administration has led a series of attempts to curtail trans people's rights, recognition, and safety, neither Congress nor the Supreme Court seem willing to provide a meaningful check on the administration's brazen targeting of trans people and other demonized communities.