When you’re even losing the prosecutors…

At least six career prosecutors in the Minneapolis U.S. Attorney’s office — including Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson — have resigned as the office continues to face pressure to treat the investigation of the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer as an assault on a federal officer case.

Thompson also previously served as the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota; he was appointed by President Trump in June and served in the position until October. He resigned from the attorney’s office along with Harry Jacobs, Melinda Williams, Thomas Calhoun-Lopez, Ruth Schneider and Tom Hollenhurst.

Two sources familiar with the matter tell CBS News the resignations stemmed from concern over a

Trump says anything short of grabbing Greenland by force is unacceptable.

The Trump administration is poised for crunch talks with Greenlandic and Danish officials on Wednesday, amid the U.S. president’s ongoing push to take control of Greenland.

Greenland Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt and her Danish counterpart, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, are expected to convene at the White House for talks with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Trump doubled down on his aggressive rhetoric shortly before the high-stakes meeting. In a social media post on Wednesday, the U.S. president said anything less than Greenland becoming a part of the United States would be “unacceptable.”

So this is the new rule now, yes? We say it’s … Read the rest

NPR does the same thing.

SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST:

This week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments from two separate cases weighing the rights of transgender athletes. Little v. Hecox challenges Idaho’s ban on trans athletes playing on women’s and girls’ sports teams. West Virginia v. B.P.J. challenges a similar ban in West Virginia. 

Male athletes you fool. The issue is that they’re male so they don’t belong on women’s and girls’ sports teams.

MCCAMMON: So, in essence, what are these two cases about?

SOSIN: So conservatives have increasingly argued that transgender women and girls have an unfair advantage in sports, that their hormone levels make them stronger and faster, and for that reason, they say, trans women should be

The ludicrous things Trump says. His total lack of awareness of other minds. Normal people know it’s not clever to say idiotic things out loud in public, let alone to the New York Times.

Whether he’s trying to make the country Whiter

TRUMP: No, I just want people that love our country. It’s very simple. I want people that love our country. I want people that respect our country, respect the laws of our country, and I want people that can embrace our country.

(The reporters pointed out that the only refugees currently allowed to enter the country are White South Africans.)

TRUMP: Well, I haven’t seen that. I mean, I certainly haven’t seen that. But over the

Prosecutors say no.

Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.

Right. When a cop kills a random bystander the thing to do is investigate the bystander’s spouse rather than the cop.

Joseph H. Thompson, who was second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office and oversaw a sprawling fraud investigation that has roiled Minnesota’s political landscape, was among those who quit on Tuesday, according to three people with knowledge of the decision.

Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal

The thumb always on the scale.

Right before Becky Pepper-Jackson sets up to shot put, she always taps her left foot on a board at the edge of the throwing circle.

The ritual helps her focus on her form amid the pressure of the track and field competition — not to mention the additional pressure of spectators wearing T-shirts that say things like “Protect Women’s Sports,” which Pepper-Jackson says are worn specifically for her.

The 15-year-old is the sole transgender student-athlete in West Virginia, according to her attorneys, and her bid to continue playing competitive sports is in the hands of the Supreme Court.

Three words in, there’s the thumb – Becky. Followed by she, her, her, her, her, … Read the rest

The DoJ is not investigating.

Trump’s Department of Justice is seeing its latest mass resignation over its handling of the case of Renee Good, who was fatally shot by a federal immigration agent last week in Minneapolis.

Days after Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, announced that the agency’s Civil Rights Division would not be investigating the shooting—despite the fact that the office’s criminal unit would ordinarily probe any abuse or improper use of force by law enforcement—four top officials in the section have resigned.

As MS NOW reported Monday night, the chief of the criminal unit—listed on the DOJ website as Jim Felte—has resigned, as well as the principal deputy chief, deputy chief, and

Sigh. An act of resistance ffs.

The trans youth athletes in the US fighting for their rights: ‘Playing is an act of resistance’

Yeah right. Boys invading girls’ sports is the maquis itself. Women and girls, obviously, are the Nazis.

As the US supreme court weighs bans on trans athletes, five students speak about the joy of sports and toll of exclusion

Ah yes, the joy for boys of destroying girls’ sports, and the dreadful toll of not being allowed to destroy girls’ sports. Girls, naturally, were not asked for their opinions on this matter.

The US supreme court on Tuesday is considering state laws banning transgender athletes from school sports.

The cases were brought by trans students who challenged

Heather Cox Richardson tells us some things about the timing. She starts with the Epstein files, then

the Supreme Court on December 23, 2025, rejected the Trump administration’s argument that it had the power to deploy federalized National Guard troops in and around Chicago, a decision that seemed to limit Trump’s power to use military forces within the United States.

Oh so that’s why he stepped up the non-military bullying to such dramatic effect.

Yet another part of the backstory is that on New Year’s Eve, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee released a 255-page transcript of former special counsel Jack Smith’s December 17 closed-door testimony before the committee. In that testimony—under oath—Smith said that his office had “developed proof

Bash Free Speech

Trans activists have hacked into the website of the Free Speech Union (FSU) and published a list of its donors online.

A direct action group calling itself Bash Back said it had breached the FSU’s online security and was revealing the names of all those who had donated more than £50 over the past two years. Hours after the list of names appeared online, the FSU obtained an emergency injunction from the High Court, forcing the group to remove the donor details.

What was the point? Just random intimidation, I suppose, because what else could it be?

Bash Back, which describes itself as a direct action group “focused on total transgender liberation”, recently made headlines after allegedly

The coup continues.

Five years ago, President Donald Trump pressured Republican county election officials, state lawmakers and members of Congress to find him votes after he lost his reelection bid. Now, he’s seeking to change the rules before ballots are cast.

Trump, openly fearful that a Congress controlled by Democrats could investigate him, impeach him and stymie his agenda, is using every tool he can find to try to influence the 2026 midterm elections and, if his party loses, sow doubt in their validity. Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms.

Of course they do. Everything he does goes far beyond typical anything.

They include unprecedented demands that Republican state lawmakers redraw

Ofcom v Musk

Ofcom has launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over concerns its AI tool Grok is being used to create sexualised images.

In a statement, the UK watchdog said there had been “deeply concerning reports” of the chatbot being used to create and share undressed images of people, as well as “sexualised images of children”.

Note the careful avoidance of the word “women”. Note how unlikely it is that all this “undressing” is equally distributed between women and men. Note the BBC’s staunch determination to erase women even from stories that affect them far more than they affect men.

The BBC has seen several examples of digitally altered images on X, in which women were undressed and

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? at Miscellany Room.

Today I wrote to Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and Leader of the Opposition.

Mr. Poilievre;

I’m writing you today to express my anger and dismay at your congratulating Donald Trump on his kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. In your misplaced and hasty enthusiasm at the misfortune of a bad guy you don’t like, you have forgotten or ignored Trump’s trampling of much more important principals, those of national sovereignty, and the standards and norms of international law. If you were reading the room, you would see that that is the case, and would not have pressed “enter” on this poorly thought-through message. … Read the rest

Trump says he doesn’t know what Norway has to do with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Does he know what Sweden has to do with it?

Does he know what Nobel had to do with it?

Does he know anything?

Editing to add: Not to mention the complete absurdity of thinking that possession of the physical object=winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Of thinking it means anything.… Read the rest

So this is what technology is for.

Evie, a 22-year-old photographer from Lincolnshire, woke up on New Year’s Day, looked at her phone and was alarmed to see that fully clothed photographs of her had been digitally manipulated by Elon Musk’s AI tool, Grok, to show her in just a bikini.

The “put her in a bikini” trend began quietly at the end of last year before exploding at the start of 2026. Within days, hundreds of thousands of requests were being made to the Grok chatbot, asking it to strip the clothes from photographs of women. The fake, sexualised images were posted publicly on X, freely available for millions of people to inspect.

Relatively tame requests by X

The LA Times way back in 2014:

Border Patrol agents have deliberately stepped in the path of cars apparently to justify shooting at the drivers and have fired in frustration at people throwing rocks from the Mexican side of the border, according to an independent review of 67 cases that resulted in 19 deaths.

Oh really. Stepped in front of cars have they. To justify shooting the drivers. How very interesting.

The report by law enforcement experts criticized the Border Patrol for “lack of diligence” in investigating U.S. agents who had fired their weapons. It also said it was unclear whether the agency “consistently and thoroughly reviews” use-of-deadly-force incidents.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which had commissioned the review,

Al Jazeera on the “domestic terrorism” label:

Kristi Noem has described the actions of Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on Wednesday, as “domestic terrorism”.

Noem said Good refused to obey orders to get out of her car, “weaponise[d] her vehicle” and “attempted to run” over an officer. Minnesota officials disputed Noem’s account, citing videos showing Good trying to drive away.

There were no “orders to get out of her car” – there was one guy who shouted at her to get out of her car but there was a whole lot of shouting going on, and it must have been very difficult to know which shouts were official … Read the rest

Trump informs us that he doesn’t have to pay any attention to laws or treaties or precedent or anything else that might prevent him from doing whatever he wants all the time.

President Trump declared on Wednesday evening that his power as commander in chief is constrained only by his “own morality,” brushing aside international law and other checks on his ability to use military might to strike, invade or coerce nations around the world.

Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”

“I don’t need international

Yet more news on Scotland’s war on women:

First Minister John Swinney has been asked for clarification amid reports his government is attempting to challenge the Supreme Court ruling on sex and gender. 

At First Minister’s Questions, SNP MSP Michelle Thomson asked about a report in The Times that in November the Scottish Government wrote to the Advocate General for Scotland, Baroness Smith of Cluny KC, who advises the UK Government. 

[For more see Unlawfully trample]

The government informed her that it would seek a legal ruling declaring that implementing the Supreme Court’s judgment would unlawfully infringe on the human rights of transgender criminals, if its other legal arguments against the Supreme Court‘s ruling fail.  

This

It’s a very rapey thing to say.

Greenlanders “don’t want to be Americans” and must decide the future of the Arctic island themselves, politicians in the self-governing Danish territory have said, after Donald Trump warned the US would “do something whether they like it or not”.

All it needs is replacing “they” with “the bitches”.

Trump of course actively loves doing things to people that they don’t “like”. It’s his happy place, his meaning of life, his Valhalla.

At a meeting with oil and gas executives at the White House earlier on Friday, Trump had said Greenland was crucial for US national security. “We’re not going to have Russia or China occupy Greenland. That’s what they’re going to do