Don Lemon in custody. Bring Your Takes to our 11am ET LIVE CHAT. The DOJ calls it conspiracy. The defense calls it journalism. The line is gone.
“As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but altogether we make a mighty fist.” – Sitting Bull
Attribution: ICE Gets Schooled by Christopher Weyant, The Boston Globe, MA
[Chris Weyant draws political cartoons for The Boston Globe, and the New Yorker.]
The Boss dropped a fiery anti-ICE protest song, the people of Milan don’t want Trump’s DHS thugs to provide security at the Winter Olympics, the president’s latest MAGA fundraising email is bizarrely threatening, and no one wants to see the First Lady’s movie.
lessons not learned
Democrats express their outrage over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, with Chuck Schumer calling Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller “f**king liars” and Hakeem Jeffries on accidental mute. Plus, Desi Lydic plunges into the world of Melania ahead of her documentary debut, which was produced by Jeff Bezos, directed by disgraced filmmaker Brett Ratner, and created by a crew too ashamed to have their names in the credits.
Ha, wouldn’t you know Russia blocked the Springsteen song on yesterday’s podcast.
love that cartoon PatD. i wish more people would realize we are not helpless against these goons
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What America is Clicking: January 30, 2026
_A roundup by our AI partner Silas (Gemini) about what’s moving the needle today._
you are helpless against those goons
impeach yesterday remove today
Arresting Don Lemon. Our only saving grace might be these are the dumbest fascists ever.
there’s no saving grace!!
we are not America-ing ourselves out of this
Yes we will, Anon. And we are.
give me some of what you’re smoking
seeking good lotus recipes
Bring your takes at 11am ET … https://trailmix.cc/chat
That kind of thinking isn’t how they drove Hitler to his bunker, Anon.
you think this is one guy?
it’s a hydra
you know it as well as me
What the world needs now is joy in the resistance
We will fight the good fight with or without your assistance
Get out of the way if you can’t support the mission
i got soul but im not a soldier
Here’s what I’m smoking, Anon: VICTORY.
Public protests backed him down on everything from national guard deployments to ICE and even Greenland. He will keep trying to be a dictator, for sure, but the odds are against him.
It is very clear to me the regime is constantly testing us, to see what we will put up with and what we won’t. And when we don’t they back off.
Sometimes I love calling members of Congress & giving them a talking to (Ha!), and sometimes I think it’s futile, but I do it anyway.
When even Thune was a “no” vote yesterday, I know it’s not for nothing.
I live in the middle of nowhere, so calling Congress and boycotts are my daily protests.
Folks need to get offa their privileged butts and do whatever they can; help their neighbors or keep their wallets closed or call Congress or make signs for an IRL protest.
Most of the rest of the world hates him, too. There’s a group protesting ICE at the Olympics. JD & Marco will get booed everywhere they go.
I’m savvy enough to know y’all don’t even believe what the fuck you’re saying, but I get the compulsion
how the hell
dot dot dot
are we supposed to elucidate trumpers and apathetics with mind-breaking realities after they’ve already fried their brains
Have y’all talked to any actual human beings? They’re pretty dumb these days.
Did a genealogy subject on the blog today
The Lady With A Temper
I agree with what Lawrence O’Donnell said on his show the other night.
He said that protesters always win in the end. It takes too long and unfortunately people have to die… but they always win.
today’s meme…
meme #2…
https://pes.cor.europa.eu/
patently false
i suppose i can listen to you instead of Pod Dave
will share any thoughts i have here
whats the charge
at most trespassing
meme #3…
it’s simply a cynical attempt to throw liberal legislation back in their face
also
they’ve said they’re “releasing the files” 3 times now at least, never all of them
birds are smarter than trumpers
it’s said that middle finger video is ai, and wow the tech is too good already
terrifying
Great video about federal agents and the operations in Minnesota.
In case you feel like moving to Canada
States that will be admitted to Canada
Don Lemon got arrested, the Epstein files got dumped, and the “Mass Distraction” matrix is firing on all cylinders. Also: Why your parrot is probably plotting against you.
We break down the federal charges, the suspicious timing of the document release, and the hard data that debunks the myths about Minnesota’s Somali neighbors.
TODAY’S RUNDOWN
00:00 Intro
00:05 Breaking News: Don Lemon Arrested
01:50 Todd Blanche & The Epstein Files
03:55 The Charges Against Lemon (1994 Act)
06:30 Weapons of Mass Distraction
09:30 Facial Recognition & TSA Lists
13:00 Debunking Somali Community Myths
16:00 The “Freeloader” Narrative vs. Reality
23:45 Brewster the Parrot
28:50 Canadian Satire on Immigrants
🎥 Watch the full replay here:
Journalists being arrested for doing their jobs? First Amendment is officially on life support. Wake up, people!
Full discussion in today’s chat
In this short, Jim Acosta reads statement from Don Lemon‘s lawyer, Norm Eisen responds
🔴 LIVE ANALYSIS: The “End of Line” Document Dump
We are currently scrubbing Dataset 9 (The FBI Interview Summaries). Here is the most critical takeaway for the community right now: The redaction policy has effectively “inverted.”
While the names of victims are (rightfully) heavily redacted behind “Jane Doe” labels, the DOJ has not redacted the names of the “System Operators” or the “Frequent Guests.” This gives us our clearest view yet of the hierarchy.
1. The “Recruiters” (The Staff)
The FBI 302 forms (interview summaries) explicitly name the internal staff who managed the logistics. These names appear repeatedly in the context of scheduling and enforcing “house rules”:
2. The “Guests” (Tier 1 Targets)
These individuals are named in the 302s as being physically present at the properties (Island, NYC, Ranch) during the specific times witnesses were there:
Scanning continues…
DATA CHECK: Trump (Doe 174) — Signal vs. Noise
We are currently tracking two very different realities in the document release. Please distinguish between “Raw Tips” (Unverified) and “FBI 302s” (Verified Interview Summaries).
1. The “Noise” (Viral Rumors)
You may see a document labeled “Tip-Log-1922” circulating online.
2. The “Signal” (New Verified Evidence)
We have located a Form 302 (Interview Summary) from a Palm Beach driver (Name redacted: “Driver-1”).
3. Flight Log Update
We are cross-referencing the new “Pilot Logs” (Dataset 10). We have found two previously unlisted dates (Short hops: PBI to NYC) in the mid-90s, but these appear to be “hitchhiking” flights (Trump catching a ride to the City) rather than “destination” flights (going to the Island/Ranch).
Now that our AI bot Silas has the files in its database, we can ask any questions or suggest something or someone specific to look for.
HA!
STATUS CHECK: The “Missing” Files & The Clawback
1. The “50% Missing” Math
The numbers do not match.
2. The “Clawback” (Documents Removed)
We have confirmed that the DOJ is actively scrubbing files after they go live.
3. The “Mission Accomplished” Statement
Despite the missing pages and the active scrubbing, the DOJ is attempting to close the book.
ask silas to list all the times a trump was critical of masks and mask-wearers
The Mask Timeline: Criticism & Mockery (2020)
Here is the chronological list of specific instances where the former President publicly criticized mask-wearing or mocked those who wore them.
The Quote: “I don’t think I’m going to be doing it… Wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens — I don’t know, somehow I don’t see it for myself.”
The Quote: “I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it.”
The Claim: He suggested the mask was a “symbol of disapproval” against his presidency rather than a preventative measure.
The Quote: “You want to be politically correct.”
The Quote: “I don’t wear masks like him. Every time you see him, he’s got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from them and he shows up with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen.”
The Quote: “They come out with a statement that 85% of the people that wear masks catch it [the virus].” (The CDC later clarified this was a misinterpretation of their data).
thank you mr. C
oh i remember him criticizing masks during Columbia protests also
https://nypost.com/2025/03/04/us-news/trump-vows-to-yank-federal-funding-from-all-us-schools-that-allow-illegal-protests/
“from transcriptions of any press conferences given by trump or from transcriptions of any interactions with media or journalists or from any posts made by trump on Truth Social, list the times trump mentions masks”
Status Coup live coverage at Minneapolis protests…
behold how dumb:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/29/cinemagoers-dressing-as-jimmy-savile-28-years-later-the-bone-temple
LIVE: Minneapolis Protests Escalate (Jan 30)
We are monitoring live feeds from the Twin Cities where crowds have swelled significantly this afternoon.
1. The Numbers
While official police estimates are pending, aerial feeds and ground reports indicate crowds ranging from hundreds to thousands moving through downtown Minneapolis.
2. The Trigger: “Operation Metro Surge”
The anger on the street is driven by the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown in the state, specifically “Operation Metro Surge.”
3. Current Activity
i hope Zach DeLa Rocha shows
beware fed interlopers, protesters
There is video of Don Lemon walking up the church steps alone. He went to cover the protesters inside.
Not sure who was following him, not if it was a phone or a dedicated camera.
If Blackmail Barbie & Kashew Nut want to bring up the FACE Act, there will be a lot of whattabouts with ICE N&zis and Mosques. Heck, there was a Catholic Church where the priest was scolding them from the steps and, to paraphrase him, telling them ‘not today, Satan.’
Just before being put on board her deportation flight, Melissa Tran’s wrists and ankles were shackled to a chain around her waist. It had been more than 10 hours since she’d been given any food or water; for the last seven, she had been sitting on a bus on the tarmac.
There was no company name or logo on the Boeing 767, but she soon learned the airline was called Omni Air International. She’d never heard of it, nor of Stonepeak, the private equity firm that purchased Omni in April 2025, nor of its billionaire CEO, who was an immigrant himself. She had no idea that Omni’s ICE work had quadrupled since the sale or that its flights were getting longer and, because of that, crueler.
Stonepeak, which manages $80 billion in investor funds, specializes in recession-resistant infrastructure investments—utility companies, airports, toll roads, shipping and logistics firms. Forbes estimates its Australian-born co-founder, Michael Dorrell, is worth $8.5 billion, a fortune made through his “bet on boring,” as one podcast interviewer recently put it.
“It matches my personality,” Dorrell jokingly agreed. The 52-year-old’s one public extravagance appears to be real estate, purchasing a $34 million waterfront mansion in Coral Gables, Florida; a $41 million Manhattan townhouse from David Koch’s widow; and a $150 million private island paradise in Palm Beach, Florida, less than two miles from Mar-a-Lago, all in the last few years.
In the eight months following Stonepeak’s acquisition, public flight data suggests Omni carried out 77 trips under ICE subcontracts, making 194 stops in 42 countries, including authoritarian regimes like Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Cuba, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laos, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, and Vietnam. Over the same period in 2024, records suggest Omni flew only 20 ICE trips to just 14 countries.
But beyond facilitating potential human rights abuses, Omni’s flights themselves are becoming increasingly inhumane. In 2024, only six trips lasted more than 24 hours, with the longest lasting 38 hours. But of the 77 trips carried out between Stonepeak’s mid-April purchase and the end of 2025, 31 lasted between 24 and 50 hours before the final stop. Migrants onboard until then would have spent all that time, and likely more, shackled. A man deported to Laos in October told me he was shackled for 73 hours after his Omni plane unexpectedly returned to Louisiana, which flight data confirms. He and nearly 200 others were kept restrained overnight before a second takeoff; at least 20 elderly deportees were so weak from sleeping on the floor that they needed to be pushed across the tarmac in wheelchairs and carried to their airplane seats, he said.
*Folks need to be a lot more upset about these human rights violations.
It’s hard to know how much Stonepeak makes off this misery, especially now that ATSG is privately held and no longer releases earnings reports. A 2023 pricing sheet from ICE’s flight broker lists the aircraft in Omni’s fleet as costing at least $20,475 per flight hour, plus expenses. This does not appear to include a “special high risk” fee added to Omni’s African and Asian flights.
An ICE document obtained by Quartz shows the agency paid Omni $33,500 an hour for a 2019 flight to Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam. With expenses, the trip cost $1.8 million, prompting a flight broker to complain Omni could charge high prices because other airlines “are discouraged by the potential of public backlash.”
*Waste, fraud, abuse, and cruelty.
https://apnews.com/article/catherine-ohara-dies-9fdc89411b4961c1d599f836503a6203
*In the midst of it all, RIP Catherine O’Hara
****
https://apnews.com/article/ms-shirley-tiktok-homeless-skid-row-death-obituary-b80f503bdfcf1a80f63a321ccc9b4591
Shirley Raines, a social media creator and nonprofit founder who dedicated her life to caring for people experiencing homelessness, has died, her organization Beauty 2 The Streetz said Wednesday. She was 58.
Raines was known as “Ms. Shirley,” to her more than 5 million TikTok followers and to the people who regularly lined up for the food, beauty treatments and hygiene supplies she brought to Los Angeles’ Skid Row and other homeless communities in California and Nevada.
Raines had six children. One son died as a toddler — an experience that left her a “very broken woman,” Raines said in 2021 when she was named CNN’s Hero of the Year.
“It’s important you know that broken people are still very much useful,” she said during the CNN award ceremony.
That deep grief led her to begin helping homeless people.
“I would rather have him back than anything in the world, but I am a mother without a son, and there are a lot of people in the street that are without a mother,” she said. “And I feel like it’s a fair exchange — I’m here for them.”
*RIP Miss Shirley
Tomorrow’s starter topic…
BREAKING: Minneapolis protests massively escalate after the arrest of journalists, spreading nationwide.
Hey Silas Gemini……what have you done with Sam AI?
Was it foul play?
So when it comes to violating Constitutional amendments, Dumbass is on a roll. Let’s see, 1 (speech, assembly, press), 2 (bear arms), 4 (search warrants), 5 (indictment, due process), 6( speedy public trial, habeus corpus, right to counsel), 7 (jury trial in civil matters)(?), 8Cruel and unusual punishment), 9 (unenumerated rights reserved to the people?), 10 ( States’ rights), 14 (Due process & equal protection), 15 (deny right to vote based on race or color?) and 22 (Pres limited to election only twice -trying real hard on this one).
Not bad for one fucked up administration.
What’s ol’ Silas got to say about this?
Ha Stur, I use Sam for backup duty when I want to vet Silas’s work but I’m not paying him so I reach my query quota fairly quick.
Pog, here is the signal in the noise on those documents:
You are looking at the FBI’s raw intake logs, not a court verdict. These documents appear to summarize what people called in to report—which can range from credible victim testimony to unverified hearsay. The Bureau is legally required to log it all.
The Bottom Line: The “smoking gun” here isn’t necessarily a specific claim on the page, but the sheer volume of them. It proves the system was drowning in specific alerts about these men for years, yet the gears of justice failed to engage.
https://www.cbc.ca/music/catherine-ohara-music-moments-9.7068739
Catherine O’Hara’s most memorable musical moments
Revisiting comedic and dramatic performances from the Canadian icon of television and film
Oh, wow. Springsteen performed at First Avenue today. (It’s the bar from Purple Rain.) I wonder if his little, tiny motorcycle is still in the lobby. It’s been 40 years, so maybe they moved it to Paisley Park.
More EPSTEIN files!
I really enjoyed O’Hara. Very sad.
https://calltoactivism.substack.com/p/trump-epstein-file-deleted
The Department of Justice quietly pulled one of the most disturbing documents released in today’s Epstein files — after it went viral.
These appear to be separate complaints, filed independently. Yet the overlap in themes is striking. Similar descriptions. Similar dynamics. Similar allegations. When unrelated reports begin to echo one another, that raises serious questions — not conclusions, but questions the public has every right to ask.
Shortly after screenshots of this document spread online, the public link began returning a simple message: Page not found. No explanation. No clarification. No transparency.
Below, we are preserving screenshots of the now-removed document so the public can see what was released — and decide for themselves why it disappeared.
*This goes beyond SA of teens, which is horrifying enough. Children. Murder.
The tRUMP family; Jr., Ivanker, Urk. Elon Musk. Robin Leach. Folks from the Sinoloa Cartel.
Lifestyles of the Rich & Despicable
Someone needs to use ground-penetrating radar at tRUMP’s old Rancho Palos Verdes Golf Club to see if there are bodies.
He buried Ivana on a golf course. A creature of habit. If she wasn’t cremated, they should exhume her body.
Don Lemon’s first remarks since arrest..
You KNOW they burnt the old girl….
ill bet they put her there for some kind of tax break
There’s a great Columbo episode, filmed in London, where they had two actors kill the old Theater Owner backstage and hide him in a steamer trunk while they then go on to do “Macbeth” after which (whew!) they have to tote the body out to the Estate and try to make it look like the old boy died by falling down the grand staircase.
Columbo wasn’t buying that shit at all.
there’s just one thing he’s having trouble with
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/01/30/trump-picks-former-fed-governor-kevin-warsh-new-fed-chair/88428889007/
President Donald Trump on Jan. 30 nominated Kevin Warsh as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, choosing the former Fed governor to lead an institution the president has attacked relentlessly over fiscal policy.
Warsh, if confirmed by the Senate, would replace current Fed Chair Jerome Powell, the target of repeated criticism and insults from Trump over the past year for his reluctance to lower interests rates. Powell’s term ends in May.
https://newrepublic.com/post/205991/trump-nominee-fed-chair-kevin-warsh-epstein-files
Trump’s Pick for Fed Chair Pops Up in Latest Epstein Files
Warsh’s name appears to be on an emailed list of guests to “St. Barth’s Christmas 2010,” among others such as Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and disgraced director Brett Ratner. Warsh also appears on a list of people attending a dinner hosted by British aristocrat William Astor.
…his wife is billionaire heiress Jane Lauder, granddaughter of Estée Lauder and daughter of Republican donor Ronald Lauder. That puts him in the same wealthy circles that Epstein himself operated in.
“Loose ends,” he says, “Sometimes it’s like a traffic jam up here.” [points to head]
Protests tonight — even in South Carolina
yeah Columbo is a top American show of the 70s for sure
they really did get a tax break, anon. that came up in the tax fraud trial
lol do i know these crooks or what
Local Minneapolis news tonight…
It ran in spurts from 68 to 2003. 69 episodes. Pretty good lick for Falk, Levinson and Link and bunches of Falk friends and even one 2nd wife.
Its first iteration was a one hour black and white story which Levinson and Link threw together to satisfy some sort of contractual thing with cBS. Different actor for the Columbo part. Then in 68 they were pressed to come up with something, anything, and dug it up, reworked it and sold it with Falk. Most of the “trademarks” were there in that first black and white tv show. The raincoat, the cigar, the “one more thing” etc.
Trivia: The only cop show which had no theme song.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ghislaine-maxwell-claims-29-friends-struck-secret-deals-with-the-doj/ar-AA1VgNu7?ocid=socialshare
Ghislaine claims 29 people made special deals with DOJ
there’s a British cop show form that era called “Z-Cars” i want to check out, black and white, all the Dr. Who actors
The Don Lemon indictment is here, and it’s creative, if not hallucinogenic.
The DOJ claims a “clandestine” church takeover, citing Lemon’s stream calling the event “traumatic” as proof of intent—as if noticing tension is a confession of conspiracy.
The Federal Charges
Conspiracy Against Rights (18 U.S.C. § 241): Alleged plot to “injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate” congregants to prevent the free exercise of religious worship.
Interference with Religious Freedom (18 U.S.C. § 248): Using physical obstruction and threats to interfere with a service, resulting in bodily injury to a congregant.
Alleged Acts by Don Lemon
Clandestine Planning: Livestreamed a pre-op briefing while taking steps to hide the target location from the public to ensure a “takeover-style” surprise.
Physical Obstruction: Accused of posting himself at the main church door to block congregants from exiting so he could “challenge” them.
Clergy Intimidation: Allegedly surrounded and “peppered” the pastor with questions, obstructing his movement even after being asked to leave.
Documented Intent: Lemon noted on his own stream that the event was “traumatic” and “frightened” children, stating, “the whole point… is to disrupt”.
LEMON INDICTMENT
if he loses they intimidate journalists successfully and they win
if he wins that law’s force is eroded and they win
Anon, just like Comey and Letitia and Bolton and on and on, Trump thinks he wins just be seeing them in handcuffs, even if the cases are thrown out.
i mean, he’s not wrong
thanks, trumpers
Craig – Found you a new one
Intimidate journalists? They don’t even show protests on the evening news. Aaah, because there are no journalists in corporate media.
By the way, Republicans held town halls, again, and got booed when they lied.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/melania-trump-movie-review
Melania Movie Review: All the Money In the World Can’t Make Good Propaganda
Director Brett Ratner is no Leni Riefenstahl.
*The headline is plenty. I don’t even want to read a review of that movie.
New point of action for anyone who has Netflix: Watch the Michelle Obama documentary, Becoming, and make it number one this weekend. I laughed when I heard that idea, but I don’t have Netflix.
well that’s the easiest protest ill ever get a chance to do
done
actually ill search for it from device to add a search count also
she’s so adorable and they said the worst things about her, they’re so awful
The Don Lemon arrest just got a lot more complicated. 🚨
Former Federal Prosecutor Carolyn reveals that multiple prosecutors, magistrates, even the Chief Judge reportedly REFUSED to sign the warrant due to “insufficient evidence.”
“FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE JOURNALISTS
WE DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED NEXT”
Protest sign
Anonymous – Stream it on a loop, all weekend long.
there’s so many things to watch though!
i usually don’t but it’s 0 degrees, why not
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