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This Trump claim is so absurd it deserves only absurdity in reply

In his recent Davos speech to world leaders in Switzerland, President Donald Trump chastised European countries for falling for the climate-change hoax and wasting billions of dollars on green-energy scams.

Trump sees himself on a crusade to disabuse the world of the greatest environmental con in history, having singlehandedly uncovered the Chinese climate-change hoax intended to undermine democratic countries’ economies. Countries around the globe began developing green-energy sources, reduced their reliance on fossil fuels, and undermined their countries’ energy stability. Now, Trump claims to be wisely moving the US in the opposite direction and taking the world with him.

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This Trump onslaught is a betrayal of all I fought for. I won't stay silent

Given the fear and chaos that currently has a chokehold on my home state, Minnesota, around the murder by federal agents of two innocent people, I had to think outside of the box — of a way for me to beg folks to see just how wrong this is.

I readily admit I've never written an op ed, and am certain this will be my last. So when I sat down to write about my response to the ICE murders of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, I had to ask myself, why would anyone listen?

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Here's how Trump is tipping the world into economic chaos

America’s economic system has never been fair or perfect but for more than a century it rested on basic guardrails that kept instability in check and allowed us to fight for progress and win. Those guardrails are now being stripped away by policies that favor wealth and power over accountability and long-term stability.

For over a hundred years, the United States has been the cornerstone of international economic stability. The independence of our central bank (the “Fed”) has been a part of it, as has the strength of the dollar, which comes about in large part because the rest of the world relies on our currency as the default for international trade.

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This law is a death sentence for ICE agents — and Republicans love it

The Fourth Amendment protects you from tyranny. It protects you from government agents busting down your door without probable cause. It says you are secure in your home “against unreasonable searches and seizures,” which means no warrants shall issue without “probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation.”

The Fourth Amendment didn’t materialize in a vacuum, but was the pained outcome of a despotic King’s overreach that brutalized early American colonists. It sprang from British officials using “general warrants,” or “Writs of Assistance” they ginned up themselves to search and seize colonists and their property whenever they got the urge.

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Trump's ICE attack on Minneapolis points to a less visible but dangerous threat

The nation has been convulsed by the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Millions now see with sickening clarity a lawless assault by federal officers on an American city and its people. As the Wall Street Journal editorialized, it is a “moral and political debacle for the Trump presidency.”

The videos were followed by a fusillade of lies from senior government officials. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Pretti had engaged in “domestic terrorism.” White House aide Stephen Miller called Pretti an “assassin” who tried to “murder federal agents.” Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino declared, “This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.” The instant impulse by these high officials was to bully and smear.

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Trump is like this fascist dictator — it isn't Hitler

By Rachelle Wilson Tollemar, Adjunct Professor of Spanish, University of St. Thomas.

Minneapolis residents say they feel besieged under what some are calling a fascist occupation. Thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been swarming a city whose vast majority in 2024 did not vote for Donald Trump — or for a paramilitary roundup of its diverse population.

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This superb film deserves its awards but in Trump's America it must be a cautionary tale

After sweeping the Golden Globes and other awards, Paul Thomas Anderson's film One Battle After Another has 13 Oscar nominations. Given the film’s clear relevance, if it does end up a winner, those who created it will probably do more than thank their agents, publicists, partners, and pets. They’ll likely talk about the times we’re living in, as every creative artist or public figure should, given the stakes. We hope they’ll present the film as a cautionary tale, not an endorsement of violent resistance.

It’s easy to see why One Battle has been so successful. It’s gripping, funny, and wonderfully acted. It’s a satire of political madness, left and right. But parts of it also feel real in ways that most movie satires or political thrillers don’t. Although it was completed before Donald Trump’s reelection, its images of vicious immigration raids and out-of-control police now echo America’s daily reality.

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The same dark figure lurks behind everything Donald Trump does

When I think of America’s so-called president and the way he goes about his job, the same phrase pops into my head: “Nice little country you got there. It’d be a shame if something were to happen to it.”

Trump speaks the language of mobsters. He threatens, bullies and makes deals pretty much the same way as do the Corleones and Sopranos. Justice flows one way. If we don’t like it, tough.

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The latest turning point in America's civil war

Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.

Everything Trump has done since returning to power was to distract from this bombshell

Future historians just might pinpoint the week of Jan. 26, 2026, as when the Trump regime’s collapse finally began.

The timeline is painfully obvious: They couldn’t spin Alex Pretti’s murder in Minneapolis, so they raided Fulton County’s elections hub and arrested four Black Americans over a Minnesota protest as distractions, because they knew a major #EpsteinFiles dump was coming by Friday, Jan. 30 — a full six weeks after the deadline set by the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

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Trump's perilous racket will do more than just stuff his pockets

Trump Tower. Trump Steaks. Trump University. Trump Watches. Trump cologne, candles, coins, robes, ornaments, towels, pens, gerbils, and gold-tipped suppositories. It’s hard to think of anything Trump hasn’t tried to monetize.

And now, from his premier fantasy collection, there’s Trump UN.

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Kristi Noem's own handpicked replacement called her out without even knowing it

For yet another reminder of what a poor job Kristi Noem is doing, just ask her handpicked replacement as governor of South Dakota.

Not directly, mind you. Larry Rhoden will defend her to the hilt if asked about her by name.

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Trump is trampling civil rights law but this movement is building to stop him

One of my most inspiring professors at Yale Law School when I went there in the early 1970s was Burke Marshall.

Before joining the faculty, Marshall had served as the Justice Department’s Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (the real Robert F. Kennedy). Marshall made the Civil Rights Division the crown jewel of the Justice Department, staffed with some of the most talented and dedicated lawyers in America.

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