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 law,” he added. “I’m not looking to hurt people.”

That’s not true, of course, but even if it were, it wouldn’t be a reason for throwing out laws or treaties.

Mr. Trump’s assessment of his own freedom to use any instrument of military, economic or political power to cement American supremacy was the most blunt acknowledgment yet of his worldview. At its core is the concept that national strength, rather than laws, treaties and conventions, should be the deciding factor as powers collide.

Also known as Might Makes Right. That is of course the negation of any form of moral constraint.

He made clear that he uses his reputation for unpredictability and a willingness to resort quickly to military action, often in service of coercing other nations. During his interview with The Times, he took a lengthy call from President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, who was clearly concerned after repeated threats that Mr. Trump was thinking of an attack on the country similar to the one on Venezuela.

How about Brazil next? Argentina? Chile? Peru?

The call between the two leaders, the contents of which were off the record, was an example of coercive diplomacy in action. And it came just hours after Mr. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had extracted the United States from dozens of international organizations intended to foster multinational cooperation.

Because international war and international colonialism is so much better than international organizations fostering multinational cooperation.

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 is despite Scottish ministers consistently affirming in public that they accept the ruling.  

They are seeking a ruling that would demolish women’s rights, still, in the teeth of the existing ruling telling them to stop demolishing women’s rights.

This is despite Scottish ministers consistently affirming in public that they accept the ruling.  

They accept it, it’s just that they want to overturn it or, failing that, ignore it. Seems fair.

If Scotland’s highest civil court were to grant the declaration, it would state that to remove a biological male prisoner who identifies as female would be an unlawful breach of their human rights.  

While it would not be an unlawful breach of the human rights of female prisoners to force a man on them.

Why is that exactly? Why are the purported rights of one man who wants to intrude on and ogle and intimidate and assault women all-important while the rights of a whole lot of women? Why? Why is the male desire to intrude important while the female desire to be safe from intrusion is unimportant? How, exactly, do men like Swinney arrive at this conclusion? The insult and injustice seems so extremely blatant…

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 if we don’t. So we’re going to be doing something with Greenland, either the nice way or the more difficult way,” he told reporters.

That’s the slightly euphemized version of doing something whether they like it or not.

The US has operated a military base on the northwestern tip of Greenland since the second world war, where more than 100 military personnel are permanently stationed. Existing agreements with Denmark would allow Trump to bring as many troops as he wanted to the island.

But Trump told reporters on Friday that a lease agreement was not enough. “Countries have to have ownership and you defend ownership, you don’t defend leases,” he said. “And we’ll have to defend Greenland,.”

But the ownership that countries have to have is ownership of themselves, not of other countries. Trump is not the owner of Greenland, and the US is not the owner of Greenland either. Some Greenlanders murmur that Denmark is also not the owner of Greenland, but at this point Denmark is not the one throwing its flabby weight around.

The BBC reports:

A video filmed by the US immigration agent who fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday has emerged, showing the moments before gunfire rang out.

The gunfire didn’t “ring out”. Quite the contrary. There’s nothing bell-like about gunshots. End all stupid journalistic clichés.

The 47-second footage, obtained by Minnesota-based outlet Alpha News, shows Renee Nicole Good sitting behind the wheel of her car and speaking to the officer.

US Vice-President JD Vance shared the clip on social media, commenting that the agent had acted in self-defence. 

US VP lied, not for the first time.

The Trump administration says Good was blocking the road and impeding the work of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

That may be true. It is not a reason to shoot her in the head. Not even slightly.

Another agent approaches Good on the driver’s side and uses an expletive as he says: “Get out of the car.”

The agent filming the clip moves in front of Good’s car as she reverses.

In a chaotic couple of seconds, she turns the wheel to the right and pulls forwards.

The camera jerks up to the sky. “Woah, woah!” a voice says, as bangs are heard.

In the final part of the video the car is seen veering down the road. The ICE agent swears.

No the ICE agent doesn’t swear, the ICE agent calls the woman he’s just killed “fucking bitch”.

A different clip is being shared today.

Guess who.

Did you guess?

Portland doesn’t want to be left out of the shooting civilians fun.

On Thursday, January 8, 2026, at 2:18 p.m., Portland Police Officers responded to the 10200 block of Southeast Main Street on a report of a shooting. Officers confirmed that federal agents had been involved in a shooting. Portland Police were not involved in the incident.

At 2:24 p.m., officers received information that a man who had been shot was calling and requesting help in the area of Northeast 146^th Avenue and East Burnside. Officers responded and found a male and female with apparent gunshot wounds. Officers applied a tourniquet and summoned emergency medical personnel. The patients were transported to the hospital. Their conditions are unknown. Officers have determined the two people were injured in the shooting involving federal agents.

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“We are still in the early stages of this incident,” said Chief Bob Day. “We understand the heightened emotion and tension many are feeling in the wake of the shooting in Minneapolis, but I am asking the community to remain calm as we work to learn more.”

A reminder to the community that PPB does not engage in immigration enforcement as outlined in PPB Directive 810.10, but is still responsible for maintaining public safety and enforcing state laws.

Unless Trump says step aside.

The Feds are barring the Minnesota investigators, because the Feds don’t trust the state people to do whatever Trump tells them to do. Now there’s a surprise.

Mutual distrust between federal and state authorities derailed plans for a joint FBI and state criminal investigation into Wednesday’s shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer, leading to the highly unusual move by the Justice Department to block state investigators from participating in the probe.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Thursday that after an initial agreement for the FBI to work with the state agency, as well as prosecutors from the US Attorney’s office in Minneapolis and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, to investigate the shooting, federal authorities reversed course and the FBI blocked the BCA from participating in the investigation.

Behind the move to sever ties were concerns in the Trump administration that state officials couldn’t be trusted with information that emerges from the probe, and that ICE agents’ safety would be put at risk, including with potential doxxing of agents involved, two people familiar with the matter told CNN.

Blah blah blah. The Trump administration concerns are that the state is not in thrall to Trump.

The mistrust goes both ways, as state officials attacked the conduct of ICE agents and raised concerns that federal authorities can’t be trusted to fairly investigate given public statements from President Donald Trump and other administration officials accusing the woman killed of being a domestic terrorist.

Yes, because Trump is visibly, historically, documentedly, unmistakably not trustworthy. He lies every time he opens his foul mouth, he’s a sadist and a bully, he likes to see people he considers his enemies killed.

Minnesota officials have lambasted ICE as “reckless,” calling comments defending the officers who fired the shot as “bullshit,” and calling the deployment of ICE in Minnesota a threat to the “endurance of our republic.” Comments like these, the sources said, have fueled the distrust.

Nice little racket you’ve got there. Do bad things; get told you do bad things; refuse to work with people who tell you you do the bad things you do.

Minnesota Department of Public Safety commissioner Bob Jacobson said during a press conference Thursday that state investigators work with the FBI “all the time” as the bureau has “the evidence in the original investigative notes and reports.”

“We have none of that,” he said. “They have shared none of that with us.”

Jacobson added that bringing a case against the officer would be “extremely difficult, if not impossible, without cooperation from the federal government.”

So in other words the Ice agent will be protected and there will be no consequences for that murder.

On and on it goes, the obstinate refusal to obey the law because it’s only women who are harmed.

Bridget Phillipson is delaying the release of guidance which would bar transgender women from single-sex spaces by demanding the equalities regulator calculates how much it will cost businesses.

Is that a rule for all such guidance? No.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) submitted the guidance, which sets out how organisations should interpret a Supreme Court ruling from April on the definition of a woman, to Phillipson four months ago but she has yet to approve it.

The equalities minister has told the EHRC it must assess the financial impact of its guidance before it can be approved, despite the regulator arguing that such costs arise from the law itself rather than its interpretation of it.

That “must” is a fiction. She made it up.

Councils, NHS trusts and businesses are still allowing trans women, who are biologically male, to use single-sex spaces. They say that they are waiting for the new guidance before taking action, despite warnings they may be breaking the law after the Supreme Court ruling that sex is defined by biology in terms of the Equality Act.

Never mind that. When it comes to bulldozing women’s rights, it’s worth breaking the law.

More on the shooting:

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 is Jonathan Ross, the same officer who was dragged and injured by a fleeing driver in a separate incident last year, according to a person with knowledge of the case and verified by court documents.

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“He acted according to his training,” Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told the Minnesota Star Tribune in an email, noting that this specific agent was selected for ICE’s Special Response Team, is an expert marksman and “has been serving his country his entire life.”

His training told him that trying to leave is the same thing as trying to run over an Ice agent?

We don’t know for sure what she was doing, but I think it’s fair to say that what she was doing could have been simply trying to leave, as opposed to trying to hit a agent with her car. I think it’s also fair to say that’s what it looked like.

She had positioned her car so that it blocked the street, so the ICE agent had good reason to see her as obstructing ICE’s work, but that’s not the same as good reason to think she would try to kill him with her car.

Five use-of-force experts interviewed by the Star Tribune questioned the agent’s decision to shoot at a moving vehicle, with some outright calling it a “bad shooting.” Others said the agent who fired may have legitimately feared for his life, but they noted that most police departments discourage shooting at a moving vehicle because deadly force is unlikely to stop the car and could jeopardize bystanders.

Maybe protesters need to draw up some rules themselves. I suggest a rule to park your vehicle (if any) at least a 15 minute walk away from the protest area. Do not, repeat DO NOT use it as an instrument of protest. A car is a deadly weapon.

The NY Times has an excellent analysis of who was where when the federal agent shot and killed the protester, complete with diagrams and slowed video.

The Washington Post headline:

ICE agent was not in the vehicle’s path when he fired at driver, video shows

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said the woman had committed an act of “domestic terrorism,” first disobeying officers’ commands and then weaponizing her SUV by attempting to “run a law enforcement officer over.” President Donald Trump said the woman “violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer.”

A frame-by-frame analysis of video footage, however, raises questions about those accounts. The SUV did move toward the ICE agent as he stood in front of it. But the agent was able to move out of the way and fire at least two of three shots from the side of the vehicle as it veered past him, according to the analysis.

The agent was able to move out of the way, but he did have to be nippy about it. There is that tiny shred of truth in the torrent of lies. She did start to pull away while he was in front of her left bumper.

The agent who was first seen behind Good’s SUV reemerges in front of the vehicle, still appearing to hold up a phone. The SUV quickly pulls forward, and then veers to the right, in the correct direction of traffic on the one-way street.

As the vehicle moves forward, video shows, the agent moves out of the way and at nearly the same time fires his first shot. The footage shows that his other two shots were fired from the side of the vehicle.

Videos examined by The Post, including one shared on Truth Social by Trump, do not clearly show whether the agent is struck or how close the front of the vehicle comes to striking him. Referring to the officer, Trump wrote in his post that it was “hard to believe he is alive.” Video shows the agent walking around the scene for more than a minute after the shooting.

No, it isn’t a bit hard to believe he’s still alive.

Trump and his goons want us to think that she deliberately forced him to step out of her way. I doubt that. There were feds screaming at her to do incompatible things – back up, get out, stop, go – that kind of thing.

It’s Trump’s war on all of us that’s the problem.

This morning in reading bits of reporting on the Minneapolis events I thought at first there was a second video, taken from in front of the car instead of behind it, but the one being cited turned out to be the same one we all ran a billion times yesterday.

The trouble is, of course, that it’s from behind, so we can’t tell if there’s another cop in front of the car and that’s the cop she was (according to team Trump) trying to hit – or as Trump cautiously put it, actually ran over.

I still don’t know. I see talk of a second video, but if it exists it’s hiding itself with great cunning.

Some NY Times reporters were talking to Trump yesterday and tried to pin him down on why the cop shot Renee Nicole Good.

Just hours after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Mr. Trump told a group of New York Times reporters that the woman was at fault because she had tried to “run over” the officer.

We were in the Oval Office for an interview with the president, and the unfolding situation in Minneapolis was high on our list of questions. As soon as we started asking him about the incident, he said: “I want to see nobody get shot. I want to see nobody screaming and trying to run over policemen either.”

Screaming? What screaming? What’s he talking about? Then I figured it out – he means the woman who took that video. She was indeed screaming – screaming “What the fuck?!” over and over, which is indeed irritating and distracting, but also highly understandable, and not a good reason for Trump to lie that the victim ran over a cop.

When we pressed Mr. Trump on his conclusion that the victim, Renee Nicole Good, tried to run over the agent, he asked an aide to pull up the video on a laptop in an effort to prove his point.

But it was that same video, which does not show the victim running over a cop.

It does show the victim pulling away and turning far enough to go straight on the street, but it does not show a person or persons she could have hit. We can’t tell. The car blocks our view of what’s directly in front of it as it turns.

As far as I’ve seen (yet) there is no video that shows what was in front of her car after the turn. It’s a black box. We don’t know. The video Trump’s goon showed is the same one we’ve all seen, the Zapuruder film de nos jours.

The struggle to stamp out women’s rights in Scotland continues.

SNP ministers are seeking a legal ruling declaring that implementing the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on sex would unlawfully trample on the human rights of transgender criminals.

While not implementing the court’s ruling on sex would merely trample on the human rights of women, and that obviously doesn’t matter at all. Women are garbage, while transgender criminals are infinitely sacred and precious and valuable.

Despite repeatedly insisting in public that they accept the judgment of Britain’s top court in April, ministers have privately requested that Scotland’s top civil court issues a “declaration of incompatibility” which would severely undermine it, if its other legal arguments fail.

Privately, as in secretly and mendaciously.

A declaration, if granted, would state that removing biologically male prisoners who say they identify as female from women’s jails would amount to an unlawful breach of their human rights and throw UK-wide equalities laws into chaos.

While not removing biologically male prisoners would amount to unlawful harming of women, which doesn’t matter at all.

The stance has led FWS to launch a fresh legal case, seeking to have the Scottish prison service’s controversial policy, previously rewritten after the Isla Bryson scandal, ruled unlawful.

Honestly what’s all this fuss about being locked up with violent misogynist male criminals? Women are such weaklings.

Filthy liars.

Today, in an act of domestic terrorism, an anti-ICE rioter weaponized her vehicle against law enforcement. Our officer relied on his training and saved his own life, as well as the lives of his fellow officers. Sanctuary politicians have created an environment that encourages rampant assaults on law enforcement.

@POTUS Trump and @Sec_Noem will always have the backs of law enforcement.

Liars. She was leaving.

More destruction.

Trump said on Wednesday that the United States would withdraw from dozens of international and U.N. entities, including a key climate treaty and a U.N. body that promotes gender equality and women’s empowerment, because they “operate contrary to U.S. national interests.”

Among the 35 non-U.N. groups and 31 U.N. entities Trump listed in a memo to senior administration officials is the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change – described by many as the “bedrock” climate treaty which is parent agreement to the 2015 Paris climate deal.

The United States skipped the annual U.N. international climate summit last year for the first time in three decades.

“The United States would be the first country to walk away from the UNFCCC,” said Manish Bapna, president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

“Every other nation is a member, in part because they recognize that even beyond the moral imperative of addressing climate change, having a seat at the table in those negotiations represents an ability to shape massive economic policy and opportunity,” said Bapna.

The U.S. will also quit UN Women, which works for gender equality and the empowerment of women, and the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), the international body’s agency focused on family planning as well as maternal and child health in more than 150 countries. The U.S. cut its funding for the UNFPA last year.

“For United Nations entities, withdrawal means ceasing participation in or funding to those entities to the extent permitted by law,” reads the memo. Trump has already largely slashed voluntary funding to most U.N. agencies.

He’s very penny wise pound foolish, isn’t he.

Since beginning his second term a year ago, Trump has sought to slash U.S. funding for the United Nations, stopped U.S. engagement with the U.N. Human Rights Council, extended a halt to funding for the Palestinian relief agency UNRWA and quit the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO. He has also announced plans to quit the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement.

The hell with human rights, the hell with culture, the hell with world health, the hell with climate.

Whatever it takes to punish women.

SNP ministers are seeking a legal ruling declaring that implementing the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on sex would unlawfully trample on the human rights of transgender criminals.

Um, excuse me, what about the rights of women? There are a lot more women than there are transgender criminals. Maybe it’s worth paying attention to our rights too.

Despite repeatedly insisting in public that they accept the judgment of Britain’s top court in April, ministers have privately requested that Scotland’s top civil court issues a “declaration of incompatibility” which would severely undermine it, if its other legal arguments fail.

A declaration, if granted, would state that removing biologically male prisoners who say they identify as female from women’s jails would amount to an unlawful breach of their human rights and throw UK-wide equalities laws into chaos.

Jesus christ. What about the human rights of women in women’s jails? Why don’t they matter? Why are the fictional “rights” of men who claim to be trans worth so much more than the real and desperately needed rights of women?

Although the Scottish government has rewritten school guidelines around bathroom access and girls’ sports in an effort to comply with the judgment, it has refused to change its prison policy, which still allows trans women to serve sentences in the women’s estate.

Why??? Why so desperate to force women to have men in prison with them?

Trina Budge, an FWS director, said: “Male murderers are still being held in the female prison estate and we simply wouldn’t have to take the Scottish ministers back to court about this if they genuinely accepted the decision of the Supreme Court.”

But hatred of women conquers all, it seems.

Ugh god this guy

NY Times live updates:

Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, said in a news conference that she will ask the Justice Department to prosecute the use of vehicles to block immigration enforcement operations as domestic terrorism.

Which is typical trumpian idiocy, because blocking people is the opposite of terrorism. Non-violent resistance is not terrorism.

Kristi Noem defended the use of deadly force by the federal agent and said that agency policy permitted an agent to fire on someone threatening officers with a deadly weapon, including a vehicle.

But she wasn’t threatening officers with her car, she was driving away. Maybe she had threatened them with her car earlier, I don’t know, but in those seconds before the Ice agent killed her she was driving away from the Feds.

Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, said at a news conference that the agent who fired his weapon has been treated at a hospital and released. He can be seen in videos of the shooting walking around the scene after firing his weapon, with no apparent injuries.

Which is not surprising since nobody and nothing touched him.

After a federal immigration agent fatally shot a woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis, homeland security officials described the driver as a violent rioter who had “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.”

That explanation — which state and local officials have disputed — is not an unusual one from authorities after such incidents. It’s a claim that often has been used as justification for fatal police shootings of otherwise unarmed motorists, a 2021 New York Times investigation found. Often, the motorist was simply trying to get away, trying to edge around officers rather than mow them down.

And in fact the guy who shot her is the one who approached her; she didn’t approach or aim her car at him.

It’s the old “she hurt my hand with her face” ploy. But lethal.

The police say that’s not the way to do things.

NPR has reviewed multiple videos of the shooting taken from different vantage points and posted to social media. The footage shows multiple officers near an SUV stopped in the middle of the road. One officer demands the driver exit the vehicle and grabs the car [door] handle. The SUV reverses, then begins to drive forward, which is when a different officer near the front of the car pulls his weapon and fires into the vehicle. Three gunshots are heard, as the firing officer backs away from the SUV. Moments [seconds] later, the vehicle crashes.

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In a statement, DHS spokesperson McLaughlin asserted that the motorist “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.” She added that the ICE officer who pulled the trigger was “fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public.”

That’s a lie, right?

Upon reviewing a video of the incident, President Trump said he also believes the shooting was an act of self-defense.

“The woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

She ran over an ICE officer? Really?

At a press conference, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said local police arrived at the scene to find a woman with a gunshot wound to the head. They performed life-saving measures at the scene, including CPR. The woman was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, he added.

Preliminary information, according to O’Hara, indicated that the woman was in her vehicle and blocking the road on Portland Avenue between 33rd and 34th St.

“At some point, a federal law enforcement approached her on foot, and the vehicle began to drive off. At least two shots were fired,” he said, adding that the car then crashed on the side of the roadway.

No mention of her running over the ICE officer? Is that because it didn’t happen? Trump just made it up?

O’Hara said he was “very concerned” with the tactics used by federal immigration agents. He noted that the use of deadly force is justified at times, but that most law enforcement agencies in the U.S. are trained to minimize the risks and the need for deadly force.

And it’s not as if it’s something cops want to do – they know full well it’s a world of questions and investigations and interviews if they do use deadly force.

Slowed down.

Cop 1 told her to get out of the fucking car, she drove slowly away a few feet, cop 2 pulled his gun and shot her in the face.

I don’t think they’re supposed to do that, even when provoked. Yes you’re supposed to do what the police ICE tell you, but no they’re not supposed to shoot you for little or no reason. Some of the police ICE agents were saying get out of here, and she appears to have been doing that.

Grim.