NOEM'S LOVER TRIES TO SAVE HER ASS

Trump's day-one 'cockroach' finally meets his match as DC's most feared hatchet man brings down the ax in Minneapolis bloodbath

 

By Shawn Cohen and Phillip Nieto 

 

Daily Mail

Jan 31, 2026

 

 

Sources told the Daily Mail that Lewandowski is coordinating the effort to blame Stephen Miller for the administration's reaction to Alex Pretti's death

 

As Trump world implodes over the deportation chaos in Minneapolis, one figure has been surviving the leaks and backstabbing like a 'cockroach' — but has now taken on one fight he can't win.

Insiders tell the Daily Mail that Corey Lewandowski, the bare-knuckle political brawler who wields unprecedented power within the Department of Homeland Security, may finally be on his way out after he allegedly coordinated a hit against Trump's most trusted lieutenant, Stephen Miller, insiders tell the Daily Mail.

It came as Kristi Noem, Lewandowski's boss and rumored lover, was facing backlash for claiming that an armed ICU nurse, Alex Pretti, fatally shot by immigration agents had intended to 'massacre' officers. White House officials later walked back these claims after it was revealed Pretti had his firearm removed when officers shot him.

 

DailyMail spotted Corey Lewandowski sneaking out of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's apartment complex clutching a duffel bag, April 2025

 

Noem sought to shift responsibility onto Miller, telling reporters: 'Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the President and Stephen.'

Within hours of her broadside, Miller issued his own statement blaming Border Patrol for the bad intel on Saturday's shooting – while privately seething over Noem's attempt to shift blame on him.

Multiple sources told the Daily Mail the effort was coordinated by Lewandowski as part of a broader attempt to shield Noem's career, and by extension his own. The comments backfired.

'That's just something you don't do,' one administration official told the Daily Mail. 'As a leader, if something comes out of your mouth, it doesn't matter if somebody told you to say it. You should have verified it. You never blame other people or throw them under the bus.'

'They are all trying to blame each other,' a Homeland Security official said.

But that source predicted Miller will come out on top because he's Trump's most trusted ally.

 

Stephen Miller, one of Trump's most loyal aids, will likely survive the duel with Lewandowski, sources tell the Daly Mail 

Moments before Alex Pretti (on the ground) was fatally shot in the Minnesota city on Saturday

 

'It's not Noem, it's Miller,' the official said. 'Miller was there for the first administration. A lot of people call him Trump's hatchet man, and what he says, Trump will go by.'

A DHS official said he had spoken with aides close to Noem who claim Lewandowski, a 'special government employee' (SGE) who has served as her de-facto chief of staff, is about to be 'out the door.' 

Lewandowski's status as an SGE allows him to avoid disclosing his private financial earnings while working in the government.  

Another White House insider told the Mail that there are no immediate plans to fire Noem, but that she would be given a soft landing in coming months.

Speculation is that she would launch a bid in South Dakota's 2026 Senate primary, or do groundwork to run for president in 2028.

However, Lewandowski, who infamously served as Trump's campaign manager in 2016 before being ousted by the president's daughter Ivanka, has weathered repeated scandals while clinging to power. Washington insiders say they won't believe he's gone until they see him gone. 

'Corey is like a cockroach; he just never goes away and always survives,' a GOP political operative close to the White House told the Daily Mail.

Trump defended Noem in a late-night post on Truth Social on Friday by suggesting she’s been targeted by critics 'because she is a woman, and has done a really GREAT JOB!'

But this time, insiders acknowledge, appears different.

 

 

Sources close to Tom Homan tell the Daily Mail that it is believed Lewandowski also orchestrated the bribery leak 

Lewandowski responded to the expose by denying any wrongdoing and accused Homan of leaking the allegations

 

Trump has responded to the immigration crisis in recent days by sidelining Noem and Lewandowski out of the Minneapolis crackdown. 

The president installed her longtime rival, border czar Tom Homan.

Homan during a press conference on Thursday morning promised to implement a 'draw down' of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis if local officials cooperate.

It is notable that Noem's chief rival, Border Patrol Commissioner Rodney Scott, stood right behind Homan as he delivered his remarks, solidifying his power over immigration operations on the ground in Minneapolis.

Weeks prior it emerged Noem and Lewandowski attempted to push out the Border Patrol chief, but met resistance from the White House and officials aligned with Homan.

'Noem's always had something against Scott, but the only way she can retaliate is to shut down his requests,' the DHS official told the Daily Mail, alluding to a recent reports she rejected Scott's office renovation plan.

'Rodney and Homan grew up together in the agency,' the source added. 'They're going to stick up for each other. That's why Rodney was up there this (Thursday) morning behind Homan and not her.'

The rift between Homan and Noem widened last September after allegations emerged in the media that Homan had been recorded in 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents posing as business executives in a sting tied to potential future government contracts.

News reports allege that the Department of Justice under Trump ultimately shut down the investigation once he took office.

Sources close to Homan tell the Daily Mail that it is believed Lewandowski orchestrated the bribery leak, elevating a feud that has torn DHS into two rival camps: Team Noem and Team Homan.

Likewise, Lewandowski has also publicly accused Homan of leaking to the media, prompting the White House to issue a rare condemnation.

This after the Daily Mail reported in December that Lewandowski had pressured ICE officials to provide him a badge and gun – going so far as to demand it while interviewing a potential ICE director candidate early last year.

Lewandowski responded to the expose by denying any wrongdoing and accused Homan of leaking the allegations.

 

Trump has responded to the immigration crisis in recent days by sidelining Noem and Lewandowski out of the Minneapolis crackdown. The president installed her longtime rival, border czar Tom Homan

 

'I don't know how many times Tom Homan can pitch you the same story,' Lewandowski told the Daily Mail in a fiery phone call, adding: 'He's your source, not mine.'

Shortly after the story was published, the White House, where Miller holds sway, issued a statement rejecting Lewandowski's claim and defended Homan, taking sides for the first time in the long simmering, behind-the-scenes feud between two powerhouse aides in DHS.

'Tom Homan is an American patriot who does not leak to the media and is very respectful of the White House's press processes,' said White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson.

'The American people are grateful for Tom's critical work securing the border and Making America Safe Again. He is an invaluable member of the Administration who is working tirelessly to implement the president's agenda.'

Now as the Trump administration has sidelined the power couple out of Minneapolis, DHS sources are whispering more about a possible shakeup to the president's cabinet.

Multiple current and former DHS officials have told the Daily Mail that former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is a strong contender to replace Noem.

'That's been rumbling around for a couple weeks and that's still in play,' one official shared, noting there have been quiet communications but that Youngkin and the White House have been careful not to disclose information.

Noem's power inside DHS, however, is closely tied to Lewandowski, who followed her from South Dakota where he served as an advisor when she was governor.

 

Multiple current and former DHS officials have told the Daily Mail that former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is a strong contender to replace Noem

 

'He makes bad decisions, and he always wants to be with Kristi. That is going to be her downfall,' the DHS official concluded.

Sources close to the White House predict Stephen Miller will remain untouched despite widespread condemnation from both Democrats and Republicans.

When asked about Noem's efforts to pin blame on Miller for the messaging following the Pretti shooting, his wife Katie Miller declined to comment.

'The Miller camp does not talk to reporters. Full stop,' Miller's wife said. 'Everyone else can do whatever they want.'

IT MUST HAVE ESCAPED FROM AREA 51

'The E.T. of Varginha': 30-year mystery of 'alien' spotted by three girls, a military 'cover-up' and a doctor only now coming forward to describe 'creature brought into his hospital'

 

By Eliana Silver 

 

Daily Mail

Jan 31, 2026

 

 

A statue of the E.T. of Varginha

 

Thirty years ago in a quiet municipality of southern Brazil, three girls came face to face with an alien-like creature that would haunt them for decades.

They described it as having a heart-shaped face, big red eyes, three horns on its forehead and a shiny brown body, crouched beside a wall in a vacant lot in the city of Varginha.

Terrified, the girls fled and told their mother they had seen the devil.

That encounter on January 20, 1996, launched the mystery of the ‘E.T. of Varginha,’ a case that remains unsolved until this day.

Now, the story is once again under the spotlight after new testimonies have come to light, including that of a doctor who claims he encountered a non-human creature in his hospital.

At the time, one of the witnesses, Liliane Silva, said: ‘It had arms and legs, like a human being, but also had three horns.’  

The girls’ account quickly spread across Brazil, becoming a national sensation and earning the nickname ‘the E.T. of Varginha.’

In the days following the sighting, local lawyer and ufologist Ubirajara Rodrigues interviewed the girls. 

 

The girls described a creature with a heart-shaped face, big red eyes, three horns on its forehead and a shiny brown body

The alien-like creature was reportedly crouched beside a wall in a vacant lot in Varginha

 

After hearing their account, he told them: ‘You didn’t see a demon or an ape, you saw an extraterrestrial,’ Silva recalled years later in a documentary released to mark the anniversary.

In the weeks that followed, ufologists began collecting anonymous testimonies from people claiming to be members of the military.

They alleged that the creature had been captured alive, taken to a hospital and later transferred to the Três Corações barracks before being moved to a secret laboratory in Campinas.

One soldier claimed the being ‘barely had a nose, its eyes were very red, and its mouth was small.’ 

Residents also reported seeing a UFO flying over the area before landing.

As the story escalated, the Brazilian Army launched an official investigation.

Investigators questioned soldiers, commanders, firefighters and ufologists who had published books on the case. They also examined the movement logs of military vehicles during the relevant days.

The result was a two-volume investigation totaling 600 pages declaring the story false and blaming the media for spreading lies.

‘The military personnel cited by the press did not participate in any operation transporting any type of cargo. The media are mistaken, publicizing untrue events,’ the report stated.

The official explanation suggested the girls had misinterpreted what they saw during a violent summer storm, which included heavy rain and hail.

Investigators proposed the figure may have been Luís Antônio de Paula, known locally as Mudinho, a man with mental disabilities who walked crouched through the city. 

 

Investigators proposed the alien-like figure may have been Luís Antônio de Paula, a man with mental disabilities who walked crouched through the city

The three women (then girls) who allegedly saw a nonhuman being give their testimony in the Moment of Contact documentary

 

The witnesses have rejected that explanation ever since. ‘We had known Mudinho since we were children; he was always crouching low,’ said Valquiria Silva, ‘Without a doubt, it wasn’t him.’

Silva was speaking in a new documentary released by Globo featuring fresh testimonies, including that of neurologist Italo Venturelli, who claims he encountered a nonhuman being in a Varginha hospital in 1996.

‘It was like a child, neither green nor brown, as they said. What I saw was white, with a teardrop-shaped skull and lilac eyes. I looked at it, it looked at me, it looked out the window and back at me,’ Venturelli said.

He explained that fear of ridicule kept him silent for decades, but a serious illness that nearly killed him prompted him to speak publicly. 

‘It was completely different from a human. It was very calm, it seemed like an angel,’ he said.

Further testimony was recounted this week at a press conference in Washington organized by investigative filmmaker James Fox.

Fox directed the film 'Moment of Contact' about the Varginha incident, where he interviewed several star witnesses.

 

Italo Venturelli, (pictured) claims he encountered a nonhuman being in a Varginha hospital in 1996 

Carlos de Sousa, a Brazilian man who said he witnessed the crash, told a press conference he initially thought the object was a blimp 

 

The director presented written and video testimony from people who say they encountered a nonhuman biological entity after what they describe as a UFO crash in January 1996.

Witnesses claimed a cigar-shaped object in distress crashed into a field near Varginha.

Carlos de Sousa, a Brazilian man who said he witnessed the crash, told the conference he initially thought the object was a blimp.

He described seeing debris scattered around part of the craft and noticing a strong smell of ammonia and rotten eggs.

According to de Sousa, army vehicles arrived shortly afterward and soldiers ordered him away at gunpoint. 

He said that after leaving the scene, men in suits approached him in an unmarked car and demonstrated knowledge of his personal details before telling him he never saw anything.

Journalist Nyei Nadeia claimed he experienced a similar situation when attempting to investigate the incident.

He said he was blocked by soldiers and described hearing people running through the woods shouting ‘surround it’ and ‘it’s smooth,’ and was warned he could be arrested if he continued asking questions.

 

The girls mother claimed four men allegedly offered money if the family would say the girls had seen an animal or a sick person

The witnesses drew the creature they had seen crouching beside a wall in Varginha 

 

The mother of Liliane and Valquiria Silva also spoke via video message at the conference, saying she found a footprint in the grass with three long toes and noticed a lingering smell.

Luiza Helena de Silva described a visit from four men dressed in black who allegedly offered money if the family would say the girls had seen an animal or a sick person.

The conference also featured testimony from individuals claiming military involvement. 

One man, whose identity was concealed, said he helped transport an extraterrestrial from a hospital before handing it over to other soldiers.

A medical examiner who worked in Varginha at the time described performing an autopsy on a young soldier who died unexpectedly from what appeared to be a severe infection.

A pathologist involved said the bacterium was highly aggressive and unusual. In a written statement for the event, he claimed the bacterium does not commonly infect humans, although it is found on Earth.

Venturelli also spoke at the conference, where he expanded on his testimony. He claimed he sensed that the creature in the hospital was thankful for the care and wanted to leave.

The neurosurgeon described having the impression that the being was very intelligent, with a strong sense of understanding and compassion in its gaze.

 

The neurosurgeon described having the impression that the being was very intelligent

Venturelli, who claims he saw the alien-like creature, comforts another witness, Carlos de Sousa, at the conference after sharing their testimonies

 

Retired Colonel Fred Clausen told the conference that in his work as a fighter pilot in 1980, he encountered a UFO, but the military confiscated footage from his gun camera.

He said he believes a US cargo plane secretly flew into Brazil in January 1996 and departed with ‘unusual cargo,’ calling on anyone with knowledge of such a mission to come forward.

The Pentagon has denied any evidence linking unidentified aerial phenomena to extraterrestrial life. 

Brazilian authorities have never officially endorsed the extraterrestrial claims.

Varginha’s City Council said it has never commented on the military investigation, according to El Pais.

However, the city’s current mayor, Leonardo Ciacci, revealed in the Globo documentary that when he managed a local bakery in 1996, the hospital allegedly involved refused its daily bread delivery on the day of the incident. 

As the mystery continues, citizens of Varginha have embraced their alien story.

Once known solely for being a major coffee-producing area, the city is now a tourist attraction, with people flocking to see statues of the 'E.T. of Varginha' as well as a water tower designed as a UFO.

WHO'S VIOLATING THE TRUCE? ... ISRAEL SAYS HAMAS, QATAR SAYS ISRAEL

32 Gazans said killed in wave of strikes as IDF responds to truce violation

Military says it targeted Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives, weapons sites after gunmen emerged from Rafah tunnel; strikes are among the deadliest since October ceasefire

 

By Emanuel Fabian and Noam Lehmann  

 

The Times of Israel

Jan 31, 2026

 

 

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An Israeli airstrike in the west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, January 31, 2026.

 

At least 32 Palestinians, including women, children and Hamas police officers, were reported killed in a wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Saturday morning — one of the highest death tolls since the October ceasefire — as the Israeli military confirmed it targeted terror commanders and infrastructure in response to what it called a “violation of the ceasefire agreement.”

The Israel Defense Forces said its strikes targeted four commanders in the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups, as well as a weapons depot, an arms manufacturing site and two rocket launching positions.

“The terror organizations in the Strip systematically violate international law, while brutally exploiting civilian institutions and operating in the presence of the local population,” the military said in a statement.

Hamas’s civil defense agency said it had retrieved the bodies of 32 people killed in seven different locations since Saturday morning. Hamas authorities claimed that around a quarter of those killed were children, about a third were women, one was an elderly man and five were officers in the Hamas-run police force.

The Hamas-run health ministry reported another 30 people wounded, some in critical condition.

The tolls could not be independently verified, and Israel did not release its own casualty figures.

 

Palestinians carry a body from the rubble of a police station after it was targeted by an Israeli army strike in Gaza City, January 31, 2026. 

 

Among the reported strikes was an attack on the Sheikh Radwan police station in Gaza City, which Hamas’s interior ministry said was hit Saturday morning. Palestinian media put the death toll from the police station at 16, including officers and detainees.

Hamas’s interior ministry said the dead at the police station included several civilians and at least five officers, including one with a rank equivalent to colonel, two of a rank equivalent to major, and two of a rank equivalent to lieutenant. At least 15 police officers were also wounded, the ministry said.

Elsewhere, Palestinian media reported three people killed in an Israeli strike near an UNRWA school in the Nasser district of western Gaza City.

Hamas accused Israel of carrying out a “blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement,” claiming that 12 people killed in overnight strikes included six children, and that seven of the dead belonged to a single family sheltering in a displaced peoples’ camp in Khan Younis.

According to the military, the strikes were launched after eight gunmen emerged from a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Friday. The IDF said at the time that three of the gunmen were killed in strikes and a fourth, described as a key Hamas commander, was captured.

The army said the incident in Rafah constituted a breach of the ceasefire.

Egypt, Qatar condemn strikes as ‘violation’ of truce

Following the strikes, Egypt’s foreign ministry issued a statement condemning Israel’s “repeated violations” of the truce, and urged all parties to “exercise the utmost restraint,” ahead of the expected opening of the Rafah Crossing.

The flare-up in violence came a day before Israel was set to reopen the only crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt for pedestrian traffic in both directions at the start of next week, in accordance with the ceasefire deal

Qatar also issued a condemnation of the strikes: “The State of Qatar expresses its strong condemnation of the repeated Israeli violations of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip… in a dangerous escalation that will inflame the situation and undermine regional and international efforts aimed at consolidating the truce.”

Israeli fire has killed more than 500 people — most of them civilians, according to Gaza health officials — since the US-brokered truce between Hamas and Israel took effect in October after two years of war. The Gazan figures cannot be confirmed.

Palestinian terror operatives have killed four Israeli soldiers since the truce, according to Israeli authorities.

The two sides have traded blame over ceasefire violations, even as Washington presses them to proceed to the next phases of the ceasefire deal meant to end the conflict for good.

The war started following the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking a further 251 hostages. The body of the final hostage, Ran Gvili, was returned this week, ending the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s plan.

The next phase of Trump’s plan includes complex issues such as Hamas disarmament, which the group has long rejected, further Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the deployment of an international peacekeeping force.

MINNESOTA, THE SOUTH CAROLINA OF OUR AGE?

Slouching Towards Fort Sumter?

 

By Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness 

Jan 29, 2026

 

 

In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to the first seven Confederate states that had already left the Union.

Not all Unionists believed that war was inevitable. Some, in fact, were happy to be done with the departing South and thus see their stain of slavery gone from the Union. Similarly, others agreed that the emerging Confederacy was not worth the trouble and costs of war, and the secessionists could just form their own nation and stew in their own backward, servile juice.

But after Fort Sumter, Lincoln—who was hated as much by the Confederates as Trump is by the woke and socialist left—gained a consensus that the Constitution had no clauses about any lawful departure from the union. But it did operate under a clear supremacy clause that made state obstruction of federal law and occupation of federal property veritable sedition.

Lincoln and the preservationists felt that they easily had the moral high ground of abolition versus the continuance of slavery. Nor did they want a North America of fragmenting, warring nations in the manner of Europe.

Something similar is emerging over Minnesota, the South Carolina of our age.

Once sanctuary states, cities, and counties had established the precedent that, with impunity, they could nullify federal immigration law, then what followed was a logical and mounting descent into the current open defiance of the federal government. How odd that self-described progressives are now acting out the visions of prior kindred nullificationists and neo-Confederates from John C. Calhoun to George Wallace.

The reaction of the rest of the nation, especially its conservative half, to Minnesota resembles the 1861 disconnect in the North over the insurrectionary states.

Some believe that if Minnesota wants to protect its approximately 1,300 jailed illegal alien murderers, rapists, and assorted felons, so be it, and ICE should leave such a dysfunctional and dystopian state to its own self-destructive path.

In this way of “See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya” thinking, Trump should stick to the red and purple states, clear them of criminal aliens with the help of local enforcement, but without the organized performance-art leftist resistance. Then he could contrast the nation with the difference between low crime, noncontroversial deportations, versus the blue-state model of protecting illegal alien criminals and their indifference to the mayhem they inflict on the innocent.

If Minnesota further wants to be a state like 1861 South Carolina that openly defies the federal government, then also so be it. But it should accordingly not expect federal funding for its pick-and-choose approach to federal law and property.

Has Minnesota forgotten that, like blue-state America, it cheered on Barack Obama’s DOJ when it successfully sued Arizona in 2010, insisting that it was Obama’s right as a federal custodian not to enforce federal immigration law at the border—and thus not legal for Governor Jan Brewer to use her state resources to enforce a federal law that derelict federal officers would not?

But on the other hand, contemporary Unionists objected that such live and let suffer is defeatist. Moreover, there are millions of Americans inside insurrectionary Minnesota who do not support their neo-Confederate leaders. Millions in Minnesota properly see themselves as Americans first and Minnesotans second.

In this line of argument, just as Lincoln refused to give up federal armories, property, and offices inside the South—most notably Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor—to insurrectionists, so too the Trump administration has an obligation to protect federal property and offices in Minnesota and to enforce federal law throughout the nation, at least if it is to continue as a nation.

Very soon, Trump will have to decide which strategy is preferable and politically viable before the midterms.

Meanwhile, Minnesota’s highest elected officials have ordered local and state police not to protect federal immigration officers from the very street violence that they fuel. Indeed. Governor Walz, Mayor Frey, and Attorney General Ellison are actively encouraging Minnesotans to obstruct federal officers from enforcing federal laws—despite the mounting violence that follows their collective prompts.

The three know that organized and well-funded groups organize the protests and incite the violence. And perhaps the trio even welcomes would-be martyrs to use their vehicles to ram ICE officers or to arrive at protests armed with military-grade, semi-automatic pistols with plenty of magazines and ammunition to spare.

Walz and company further quietly accept that they could easily mitigate the violence by simply turning over roughly 1,300 criminal illegal aliens in various Minnesota jails to federal authorities. To do so would lessen the chances of violence, make Minnesota a safer place, and expedite the rotation of ICE out of Minnesota.

But, of course, Walz, Frey, and Ellison have no such intentions, given their schemes are elsewhere.

Given the failure of an increasingly socialist Democratic Party in 2024 to offer a more popular and convincing agenda than Trump’s, they believe their future lies in an increasingly redistributionist America, fueled by unlimited, unaudited immigration from the former Third World. They view as a political asset millions of arriving poor in dire need of massive federal health, food, housing, and education subsidies and entitlements, imbued with DEI victimhood, and nursed on America as toxic at its birth and ever more pathological ever since.

So for the Minnesota state officials, screaming for ICE “to get the f**k out of Minnesota” is more than mere braggadocio. It is a reminder that the Democratic Party wants a safe place for illegal immigration, the fuel of a future dependent constituency—as the architecture of the recent massive Somali frauds attests.

They also believe that the more turmoil, the more violence, the more resistance, and the more a general sense of chaos and unrest swirl around the Trump administration, the more they can drive down its popularity before the midterms.

They still cherish the months of riot, violence, and arson in the George Floyd “summer of love” in 2020 as critical in defeating Donald Trump.

Now as then, the left believes they can create a lose/lose dilemma for Trump: send in the National Guard to restore order, and he confirms that he is a “Nazi” and using the “Gestapo” to quell “peaceful” protests. Stand down, and the left owns the street, exasperating the MAGA base that mysteriously Trump has allowed the criminal left to nullify the enforcement of federal law in near-secessionist fashion.

There are other Democratic agendas, both short- and long-term.

The Minnesota Democrat apparatus either knowingly turned a blind eye to, protected, or silently partnered with the architects of likely the largest theft of federal welfare and entitlement monies in U.S. history—largely by the Somali community, both immigrants and their second-generation apparatchiks. The Democratic elite counted on the prophylactic cry of “racist!” to exempt the Somali community from any legal accountability. And so far, they seem right in that assumption.

And the public?

Polls reveal its trademark ambiguity. A majority voted for Trump to enforce immigration law, close the border, end illegal immigration, and deport those who broke federal law. But that hope and the reality of implementing it are two different things—especially when a state like Minnesota has not just institutionalized illegal immigration but nearly canonized foreign nationals illegally residing in the U.S.

To sum up public opinion, the proverbial people want all criminal illegal aliens deported as soon as possible, and they may even support the deportations of all 10-12 million illegal aliens who came en masse, unaudited, and with the de facto blessing of the Biden administration.

But that said, they want the act of deportation of the non-criminal to be out of sight, out of mind—as if magically they can simply disappear and thus either self-deport or assemble at ICE stations eager to be sent at no cost home.

For now, Walz, Frey, and Ellison are upping the rhetoric, fanning the violence, and talking openly about how best to nullify federal law and impede federal enforcement. They are convinced that they have galvanized national opposition to the hated Trump, smothered the Somali fraud scandal, and stopped ICE deportations of their constituents.

In all of those assumptions, they have little idea they are following the Confederate script to the letter. And like their spiritual forefathers of 1861, they grow ever more cocky, boastful, and defiant as they create martyrs, spread narratives of victimhood, and daily slouch toward another Fort Sumter.

A KUNSTLER CONSPIRACY THEORY FOR THOSE WHO STILL BELIEVE IN THE TOOTH FAIRY

 Now You Will Know

“The ICE derangement syndrome is off the charts because we are amidst a pandemic of progressive leftist mental illness, which is an extremely disproportionately female problem.” —JD Haltigan on "X"

 

By James Howard Kunstler 

 

Clusterfuck Nation 

Jan 30, 2026

 

People partake in a "National Shutdown" protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 30, 2026. 

 

It has come into focus now and you no longer need to be perplexed, mystified, bewildered, or bamboozled by events unspooling in Minneapolis and other hotspots of Woke-Marxist-Jacobin delirium. You are seeing the infernal machine of a sponsored revolution. Its parts are visible. They can be named and clearly understood. I will tell you how this works.

You realize, of course, that there has been an ongoing effort by players outside the USA to destroy Western Civ. This is too obvious to be denied. It is coming from several different places. First, China, because China has sprung from a sink of immiseration to become an industrial behemoth in a mere forty years and sees itself as the next global hegemon. Neville Roy Singham, the wealthy American ex-pat living in Shanghai, exposed all over the Internet this past week, is fronting for the CCP with his web of NGOs that just now underwrite the Lefty-left rage-riots around our country, surely subsidized with extra money from his China handlers.

China sent countless thousands of its soldiers surreptitiously across the border during the “Joe Biden” years along with the UN’s millions-footed riffraff. They have yet to be activated, shall we say, in whatever mischief China has planned. That’s on top of all the college students China has seeded all over the US, and the babies hatched here, given US passports, and withdrawn back to China. It’s simple: they want North America and they have a long game-plan to get it. Resources. Food.

Then there’s the Globalist cabal made up of the WEF megalomaniacs, the buffoonish but sinister EU bureaucracy, and — surprise — the sticky residue of the British Empire’s managerial class, believe it or not. This cabal is George & Alex Soros’s platform for their Open Society and Atlantic Council shenanigans and all the NGOs they spawn. Altogether, the WEF-Globalist’s mojo is fading fast since Mr. Trump went to Davos this month and tossed a few grenades into the audience. Plus, of course, Germany, France, and the UK are going dark, both energy-wise and demographically. Doesn’t help.

Then there is less-well-known São Paulo Forum, founded in 1990 by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president today, back then a mere activist, and the late Fidel Castro. This outfit lurked in the deep background until recently when Mr. Trump plucked one of its components off the game-board: Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. The São Paulo Forum created the permission structure for the Western Hemisphere’s drug and trafficking cartels to thrive in. Both enterprises do immense harm to the USA, first with fentanyl deaths and then with all the second-order effects of illegal immigration — especially of criminals and the insane. It’s all too obvious to belabor.

Who is not in the Destroy Western Civ mix? Another surprise: Russia — apart from the usual boilerplate security apparatus that any major nation must maintain. In case you missed it, Russia is no longer communist. Didn’t work out for them. No, this will probably shock you, but Russia is actually doing what it can to preserve Western Civ, including Christianity, literature, music, philosophy, and domestic civility. They’re in Ukraine because of “Joe Biden.” Here is not the place to adumbrate that topic, so I will leave it for now.

Okay, those are the players outside the USA fomenting revolution among us. The picture, though, is woefully incomplete without America’s Democratic Party, which activates and amplifies the dynamic inside the USA. The Democrats are hostages of the outside forces, but they are not innocent hostages. They are hostage also to their own demonic greed — for power and riches. The Democratic Party has engineered itself into a colossal racketeering operation, a criminal organization, a mafia.

This is now seen garishly in Minnesota, where immigrants — both illegal and strategically placed earlier by Obama & Company — are lately revealed to run a fabulous matrix of fraud around various social services, extracting billions from US taxpayers in the process. This is accomplished with fake companies and NGOs which distribute the loot between the immigrant grifters, the politicians such as Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, and finally the Democratic Party apparatus itself, to keep operations going. The mechanism is being studied in the US Department of Justice.

Mass illegal immigration serves two clear purposes for the party. They use it to boost census numbers so they can create more congressional districts and takeover existing ones. Also, the illegals are marshaled to provide votes for the party, one way or another. The millions let in under “Joe Biden” received lavish gifts on entry (courtesy of you) to cement their allegiance to the party. And that’s why the Democratic Party will do just about anything to prevent the deportation of their pet illegal immigrants. Also why the Dems have no interest in election reform.

And it is exactly why they have ignited an hysteria among the Democratic Party rank-and-file and sent them out into the streets to create chaos and become martyrs. Now, curiously, the women of the Democratic Party were pre-disposed for this madness by a half century of feminism which has managed to evolve — as JD Haltigan describes so well — into a florid Cluster-B group personality derangement. (Psychologist Gad Saad calls it “suicidal empathy.”) To put it bluntly, their desperate yearning to agree with each other and their maternal instincts to care for anything deemed needy (a baby, the homeless, any victim of something), these hard-wired states-of-mind have been hijacked to now send them into a rage delirium on the frozen streets of Minneapolis (and elsewhere). All that emotional distress is wrapped in a thin tissue of Marxist bullshit to make it appear political, but it’s all ragged emotion. Sometimes in history populations go crazy.

And so, American women — and not a few mentally feminized men — have become the foot-soldiers of the Democratic Party in its increasingly desperate campaign to keep its criminal rackets going — or, at least, not end up in prison over them — while the party has become the collective “useful idiot” of the Globalist / Marxist forces seeking to destroy Western Civ and hand North America over to China.

It’s reasonable to suppose that President Trump and his people understand how this works and aim to do what they can to disassemble the infernal machine behind it. They are going after the money supply lines, the many NGOs involved, and very probably a whole lot of politicians in on the grift. The winter uproar in Minneapolis that cost the lives of two feckless insurgents exposed the machinery of sedition. The Insurrection Act might have been in the president’s back pocket, but he knew it would be foolish to use it. The Dems might be a little concerned about what comes next. Hint: DNI Tulsi Gabbard showing up yesterday with the FBI at the Fulton County, GA, election storage warehouse to collect 70 boxes of documents and ballots.

One final angle on all this. There’s another player in the mix, and it’s really hard to tell exactly where they stand: that’s the so-called Deep State generally and its main handyman, the CIA, in particular. They have been behind all the “color revolution” action abroad for decades, and perhaps the election fraud in the USA. They appear to have been operating to some degree in Venezuela through all the years of Hugo Chavez and Maduro, with some nefarious involvement in the cartels. And no question they were behind the long-running coup in all its parts to defame, oust, jail, impoverish, defeat, and kill Mr. Trump since 2016. Their pals in the adjacent DC Lawfare industry are trying really hard to subvert and pervert the judicial system. CIA Director John Ratcliffe has some ‘splainin’ to do about what he managed to accomplish this year, cleaning up the agency. Or not.

NO SURPRISE HERE ... AFTER ALL, IT'S DETROIT

Detroit judge, 3 others charged in alleged scheme to steal thousands from vulnerable and incapacitated people

Andrea Bradley-Baskin is a district judge on Michigan’s 36th District Court

 

By Greg Norman-Diamond  

 

Fox News

Jan 31, 2026 

 

Andrea Bradley-Baskin is a judge at Michigan’s 36th District Court in Detroit.

 

A Detroit judge and three other residents were charged by federal prosecutors for their alleged roles in a "years-long scheme" to embezzle money from incapacitated and vulnerable individuals. 

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan said Andrea Bradley-Baskin, 46, who is a district judge on Michigan’s 36th District Court, is alleged "to have used $70,000 in a ward’s funds to purchase an ownership stake in a local bar" and "money embezzled from the estate of a ward to pay a two-year lease on a new Ford Expedition for herself." 

"We respect the authority that covers a black robe. This state judge and her cronies allegedly abused that high honor for personal gain by preying on the needy protected by the court," U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon said in a statement. "This would be a grievous abuse of our public trust." 

"Regardless of a person’s position in society, no one is above the law. These four defendants allegedly conspired to steal from some of our most vulnerable citizens — looting bank accounts, exploiting legal authority, and profiting off those who relied on them for care and protection," added Jennifer Runyan, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Detroit Field Office.

The Attorney’s Office said Nancy Williams, 59, Avery Bradley, 72, Dwight Rashad, 69, and Bradley-Baskin, all Detroit residents, were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.   

"The indictment also charges Bradley with one count of wire fraud, Bradley, Bradley-Baskin, and Rashad with several counts of money laundering, and Bradley-Baskin with a single count of making a false statement to federal law enforcement agent," it added. 

Lawyers representing Bradley-Baskin did not immediately respond Saturday to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

The Attorney’s Office, citing the indictment, said "probate courts regularly appoint guardians and conservators to manage the personal and financial affairs of adults, known as wards, who have been found by the court to lack the capacity to do so themselves."

"The indictment alleges that Nancy Williams owned Guardian and Associates, an agency that was appointed as a fiduciary by the Wayne County Probate Court for incapacitated wards in over 1,000 cases. Avery Bradley is an attorney, who, along with his daughter (and fellow attorney) Andrea Bradley-Baskin, operated a law firm that often represented Guardian and Associates in Wayne County Probate Court and otherwise practiced regularly in that court," it continued. "Dwight Rashad operated a series of group homes and residential facilities for elderly individuals, including wards, who needed support and care." 

"The indictment alleges that the four defendants conspired to systematically embezzle funds from wards, and to obtain and retain money for themselves that rightly belonged to the wards and the wards’ estates," it also said.  

Prosecutors described how in one case, Bradley, Williams, and Rashad allegedly took around $203,000 in funds from a ward’s legal settlement, with "none of the money being used to benefit the ward."

"Williams is alleged to have paid Rashad rent for wards who did not live in one of Rashad’s homes," they said.  

The case is being investigated by the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations.  

THEY SHOULD HAVE NEVER STARTED THIS ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS DEGREE PROGRAM

Texas A&M eliminates women’s and gender studies degree program

University leaders also said six courses were canceled and 48 exceptions were granted under new rules on race and gender. 

 

 

by Jessica Priest

 

The Texas Tribune

Jan 30, 2026

 

 

Texas A&M University announced Friday that it is eliminating its women’s and gender studies degree program.

University leaders made the announcement alongside the results of a campuswide course review launched after a video of a student confronting a professor over gender identity content went viral last fall and sparked political backlash.

Interim President Tommy Williams made the decision because of low enrollment and cost, College of Arts and Sciences Interim Dean Simon North and Senior Executive Associate Cynthia Werner said in an email to faculty obtained by The Texas Tribune.

“We know this is devastating news,” the administrators said. “One of the primary duties of university administrators is to be good stewards of public money. Even the smallest programs require ongoing investment in faculty time, staff support, and administrative oversight.”

Texas A&M offered a bachelor of arts degree, a bachelor of science degree, an undergraduate minor and a graduate certificate in women’s and gender studies. The program has 25 students seeking a major and 31 seeking a minor. Students already enrolled will be allowed to complete their programs over the next six semesters, but no new students will be accepted.

Women’s and gender studies at Texas A&M is an interdisciplinary program rather than an academic department and does not have tenure-line faculty, relying instead on professors from other departments to teach its courses.

Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, an associate professor of sociology who has long taught in the women’s and gender studies program, said it served as one of the few spaces on campus bringing students and faculty together from across disciplines. She said she met an English professor through the program, a connection that eventually led to a book they wrote on the #MeToo movement.

She said she taught a feminist theory graduate seminar last spring that enrolled 15 students from multiple departments, an unusually high number for a graduate course.

Lakkimsetti said she was saddened the program would no longer exist as a space for that kind of collaboration.

“We have to keep fighting and standing up for our students’ right to have an education that is critical for the times they live in,” she said.

After last fall’s controversy, the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents passed a policy restricting how race and gender could be discussed in class and ordered a sweeping review of course offerings. Specifically, faculty may not advocate “race or gender ideology” or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity unless a campus president grants a written exception for certain non-core or graduate-level courses that serve a necessary or educational purpose. System officials have not defined what qualifies as a necessary educational purpose.

University officials said Friday they examined 5,400 course syllabi for the spring semester and canceled six courses, or about 0.11 percent of courses offered. Officials said academic advisers ensured the cancellations did not disrupt students’ progress toward graduation. 

Faculty leaders disputed that framing. Leonard Bright, president of the Texas A&M chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said the six-course figure reflects only the most visible outcomes of the review and understates its impact. 

Bright, whose own ethics course was canceled earlier this month under the same policy, said many faculty changed syllabi or removed material to avoid scrutiny.

“The cancellations and the exemptions are just the tip of the iceberg,” Bright said.

The university confirmed that the six-course total announced Friday does not include courses that faculty revised or altered earlier in the review process.

The Tribune previously reported that North told faculty that roughly 200 courses in the College of Arts and Sciences had been identified as potentially affected by the policy, with some classes canceled, renumbered or altered before the spring semester began.

The canceled courses the university announced Friday were spread across the Bush School of Government and Public Service and the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Education and Human Development. 

The university later identified canceled courses as Introduction to Race and Ethnicity; Religions of the World; Ethics in Public Policy; Diversity in Sport Organizations; Cultural Leadership and Exploration for Society; and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Youth Development Organizations. All six were undergraduate courses.

Officials said the bulk of the course content review was performed by faculty and their department heads, who altered hundreds of syllabi. Deans forwarded 54 courses to the president and provost for final review. The president granted 48 exceptions.

Texas A&M has made similar cuts in recent years. In 2024, regents voted to eliminate dozens of low-enrollment minors and certificates, including an LGBTQ+ studies minor, a decision faculty said was made in response to conservative criticism and with limited faculty input.

Regents are expected to hear a presentation Thursday on low-performing academic programs across the system’s 12 campuses, according to an agenda for its quarterly meeting.

PEN America, a national advocate for freedom of expression, criticized the decision Friday, saying Texas A&M is “running roughshod over academic freedom.”

“Forcing faculty to restrict what they teach censors the knowledge accessible to students,” said Amy Reid, program director for Freedom to Learn at PEN America. “Limiting what can be taught in a university classroom is not education, it’s ideological control.”

ORANGE MAN SUES IRS FOR $10 BILLION

By Bob Walsh

 

Donald Trump has just filed a massive civil suit against the IRS stemming from his first term in office.  A contractor's employee leaked personal tax records from Donald Trump and several members of his family and at least one Trump business.  There is no doubt that it happened.  The jerk was identified, tried and sent to federal prison.  He has a legit cause of action.  I am not sure it is a $10 billion case but it seems likely he will get something for his trouble.  If nothing else indirectly from the contractor's insurance company.    

SAN DIEGO COUNTY TRYING REALLY HARD TO FUCK THEIR CITIZENS

By Bob Walsh

 

San Diego County has hired a lobbyist to approach the Democrat-Socialist government in Sacramento to change a law to allow them to raise their real estate transfer tax from 0.11% to 6.11%.  

Can you imagine what that will do to the real estate market in San Diego?  Should be fun. 

HERE'S HOPING THE TEGU SURVIVES

Rhode Island homeowner left stunned after finding exotic reptile hiding under 20inch snow on his driveway

 

By Alexa Cimino 

 

Daily Mail

Jan 30, 2026

 

 

A Rhode Island man got the shock of the season after uncovering a large tegu lizard buried beneath nearly 20 inches of snow outside his home following the region's latest winter storm

 

A Rhode Island uncovered a large tegu lizard buried beneath nearly 20 inches of snow outside his home following the region's latest winter storm.

The unexpected discovery happened on Providence's busier streets, where the reptile, a species native to South America - was found barely moving as it tried to push itself out of the deep snow, according to a post from the New England Wildlife Center.

Despite the surprise, the resident acted quickly. He brought the lizard indoors, wrapped it in a T‑shirt to conserve what little body heat it had, and contacted Taylor and Emily, co‑owners of ET Reptiles, for help. 

The pair responded immediately, retrieved the animal, and began warming it gradually while arranging emergency care.

The tegu was transported to the New England Wildlife Center, where veterinarians Dr Greg Mertz and Dr Alyssa Gannaway found the reptile in critical condition. 

He was extremely weak, underweight and barely able to move. 

His tongue had suffered frostbite, and he showed signs of cold‑induced myopathy - a form of muscle injury caused by prolonged exposure to low temperatures.

Reptiles like tegus are cold‑blooded, meaning they cannot regulate their body temperature internally.

 

The tegu was transported to the New England Wildlife Center, where veterinarians Dr Greg Mertz and Dr Alyssa Gannaway found the reptile in critical condition

 

When exposed to freezing weather, their metabolism slows dramatically, circulation becomes compromised, and tissue can begin to die. 

Experts say tegus stand virtually no chance of surviving winter conditions in New England on their own.

The Odd Pet Vet team amputated a small piece of nonviable tissue from the lizard's tongue and provided supportive care, including steroids to address inflammation and generalized weakness. 

Staff confirmed in the Facebook post that he is now resting comfortably - and, most importantly, warm.

'Stories like this are a reminder of how dependent these animals are on the right care and informed humans,' the center said, thanking ET Reptiles for their rapid response and ongoing work to support responsible reptile ownership.

Where the tegu came from remains a mystery. It is unclear whether it escaped from a nearby home or was intentionally released. 

The New England Wildlife Center is asking anyone with information, or anyone missing a tegu, to contact them or ET Reptiles.

The center shared photos showing the lizard as he arrived, followed by images after his treatment with Dr Mertz and Dr Gannaway.

 

The tegu was wrapped it in a T‑shirt to conserve what little body heat it had, and contacted Taylor and Emily, co‑owners of ET Reptiles, for help

The tegu's tongue had suffered frostbite, and he showed signs of cold‑induced myopathy - a form of muscle injury caused by prolonged exposure to low temperatures

The tegu as rescuers first found him, nearly frozen after being pulled from a snowbank in Providence

 

Staff say they will be 'rooting for a good outcome' and will provide updates as recovery continues.

Tegus could not survive New England winters, but they had become a major invasive species in Florida, according to the Jacksonville Zoo. 

The zoo said the lizards established themselves in the wild after unprepared owners either allowed them to escape or released them once the animals grew too large to manage. 

Their presence posed a serious ecological threat because they bred rapidly, females laid anywhere from 10 to 70 eggs at a time, and preyed on native birds, reptiles and small mammals, putting threatened and endangered species at further risk. 

Their intelligence, size and ability to adapt meant they spread quickly through the landscape, prompting Florida to ban their sale in 2021 and require existing owners to microchip and keep them indoors at all times. 

LAURA LOOMER'S NICKNAME FOR TUCKER CARLSON IS A JEWEL: TUCKER QATARLSON ..... AND IT'S SPOT ON

Trump's tenacious enforcer reveals her relationship with JD Vance is still on ICE as she cheers on a 2028 rival

 

By Elina Shirazi 

 

Daily Mail

Jan 30, 2026 

 

 

 

The self–described 'chief loyalty enforcer' of the Trump administration has a chilling message for the Vice President: the frost is not thawing   

 

The self–described 'chief loyalty enforcer' of the Trump administration has a chilling message for the vice President: the frost is not thawing.

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Laura Loomer, the right-wing media figure who has become a fixture in the president's inner circle, confirmed that her relationship with Vice President JD Vance remains deeply fractured following their high–profile spat.

The feud, which reached a fever pitch after Vance previously labeled some of Loomer's more inflammatory rhetoric and pushback against him as 'despicable,' appears to have left a permanent mark on the MAGA hierarchy.

When asked if the two had managed to patch things up behind the scenes, Loomer was characteristically blunt.

'I have not spoken to the vice president, but I encourage him to focus on condemning his friend Tucker Qatarlson, who spends every episode of his show attacking the Trump administration and simping for Islamic terrorists,' Loomer told the Mail.

Loomer's biting nickname for the former Fox News host, 'Tucker Qatarlson,' stems from her recent crusade against Tucker Carlson.

A spokesperson for the vice president did not return a Daily Mail request for comment. 

She has accused the media mogul of being a 'controlled' voice influenced by foreign interests, specifically targeting his recent interviews and critiques of the administration's more hawkish stances.

August 26, 2024 photo of Laura Loomer and President Donald Trump is captioned: My favorite President!

When asked about Senator Ted Cruz, who has recently signaled a potential 2028 challenge to the Vice President, Loomer suggested one name that she is putting money behind – Vance's best friend

When asked about Senator Ted Cruz, who has recently signaled a potential 2028 challenge to the Vice President, Loomer suggested one name that she is putting money behind – Vance's best friend in the administration

 

While the current administration is still in the thick of its term, the shadow of 2028 is already looming large.

With Vance widely considered the heir apparent to the MAGA throne, any sign of dissent from the base is a significant blow to his future ambitions.

Loomer, however, isn't waiting around to see if Vance can win her back.

When asked about Senator Ted Cruz, who has recently signaled a potential 2028 Republican primary challenge to the vice president, Loomer suggested one name that she is putting money behind – Vance's best friend in the administration.

'Rubio rising!' Loomer told the Daily Mail, referring to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

A JL Partners/Daily Mail poll taken last week showed Vance holding 38-point lead over his main primary rivals. 

Among 501 likely GOP primary voters nationally, Vance takes 49 percent of the vote to Ron DeSantis' 11 percent. Cruz earns 7 percent and Rubio is at 6 percent. 

Rubio has transformed from 'Little Marco' rival to cornerstone of Trump's foreign policy, earning respect from loyalists who once viewed him with suspicion.

His Capitol Hill appearance discussing Venezuela operations even drew a public nod from Vice President JD Vance on social media.

Though both are leading contenders for the GOP's 2028 presidential nomination, they're charting sharply different paths in how they leverage their roles within the Trump administration.

All eyes will be on whether Rubio and Vance begin to distance themselves as 2028 talk heats up—unless they end up joining forces on the same ticket.