'...If you’ve ever had a SoundCloud account, now might be a good time to double-check your security settings. Reports indicate that the music streaming platform suffered a major data breach, exposing information tied to nearly 30 million users. The incident, first detected in December 2025, reportedly enabled attackers to...'
'...The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued Memorandum M-26-05, officially revoking the previous administration’s 2022 policy, ‘Enhancing the Security of the Software Supply Chain through Secure Software Development Practices’ (M-22-18), as well as the follow-up enhancements announced in 2023 (M-23-16). The new guidance shifts responsibility to individual agency heads...'
'...The decision to probe the intrusion by the group Climate Defiance at a Long Island synagogue in Roslyn, N.Y., comes days after DOJ charged three activists — including former CNN anchor Don Lemon — for invading a Christian church service in Minnesota.
Both incidents involved increasingly aggressive leftist activists...'
'...by amending the bill the House sent to the Senate to remove a long-term bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, the House must return to Washington to attempt to pass the Senate-amended version – far from a sure thing.
With the House out of town, the agencies left unfunded by Congress will shut down after midnight...“It is appalling that Democrats would force federal agencies to shut down and jeopardize winter storm recovery resources from FEMA because of their political vendetta against DHS and ICE for enforcing the rule of law,” Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who voted for the bill, said after the vote. “Democrats chose to put critical aid at risk for families in need of assistance ...'
'“Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents … in Los Angeles, where he was...Lemon, 59, was part of a group of dozens of protesters who disrupted Sunday worship at Cities Church in St. Paul on Jan. 18. ...One of the judges, Trump appointee Steven Graz, said he felt there was probable cause to justify the arrests...a magistrate judge initially only signed off on charges against three protesters and directed the feds to seek a grand jury indictment of the remainder. ...Local Black Lives Matter leader Chauntyll Louisa Allen, Nekima Levy Armstrong and William Kelly were each charged with conspiracy against rights by interfering with others’ freedom to worship.
Initially, Lemon tried to get out of facing criminal conspiracy charges by claiming he was “committing journalism” while taking part in the church disruption...'
'...Former vice-presidential nominee says he won't return to campaign trail after scandals and protests fracture his leadership. ...'
'President Donald Trump has appointed a national fraud czar, Colin McDonald. ..."My Administration has uncovered Fraud schemes in States like Minnesota and California, where these thieves have stolen Hundreds of Billions of Taxpayer Dollars," Trump wrote. The announcement follows the federal government's exposure of billions of dollars of fraud in Minnesota. ...'
'...“About the organization and the funding of the attacks on ICE, I’m not going to answer a lot about that because I’m not going to show our hand, but they’ll be held accountable. Justice is coming,” the border czar declared during a press conference in Minneapolis.
Homan also decried the harsh rhetoric coming from Minnesota and across the country directed at ICE and other immigration law enforcement officers, pleading with everyone to tone it down. ...Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey had publicly railed against the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge in the city, alleging that the feds essentially wanted the local authorities to do their job for them on immigration enforcement. Homan underscored that’s not the case. '
'...The video, which the BBC said it has verified, captured the ICU nurse yelling at agents while they were driving away during a heated Jan. 13 protest before booting the back of the car, prompting them to jump out and tackle him to the ground, according to footage from the News Movement. ...'
'...Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino told his men “I’ve got your back, now and always” in his first public statement...“I love you, I support you, and I salute you,” Bovino said while standing in front of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota in video posted late Wednesday by right-wing influencer Nick Sortor. ...'
'...BOSTON — Guido Andres Alexander Cuellar-Batres, a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala, was sentenced in federal court Jan. 12 to eight months in prison and one year of supervised release for attacking ICE officials during a targeted enforcement action. ...'
Reminder | Stop This Now! Please Don't Spray Rep. Omar With Water, Sandwiches, Spit, Urine, Etc., Like ICE Deals With Daily
'...During a town hall Tuesday, a man charged the podium where Rep. Ilhan Omar was giving remarks, appeared to squirt a liquid at her...'
'...The New England Patriots are heading back to the Super Bowl.
In another defensive rock fight, the Patriots made enough plays at a snowy Empower Field at Mile High to come away with a 10-7 win over the Broncos...'
'...Overall, it totals more than $55.2 billion more than the equivalent House versions of the same four bills.
Unfortunately, the minibus includes millions of dollars in wasteful, concerning earmarks at a time when the national debt is nearly $38.5 trillion. Below are just some of the examples of harmful earmarks that steer taxpayer funds to left wing activists, gender transitions and abortion providers, and other wasteful projects misaligned with Americans’ priorities. ...'
'...Governor Walz,
The State of Minnesota has refused to enforce the law, and the consequences are heartbreaking.
Americans are watching politicians ignore federal immigration law, criminals attack federal law
enforcement, and rioters storm church services. I write to urge a change.
In December 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched Operation Metro
Surge to protect Americans from the dangers presented by unchecked illegal immigration,
including violent crime and drug trafficking. Since the beginning of this operation, law
enforcement has put themselves in harm’s way to arrest dangerous criminals, ...'
'...NYPD cops have been ordered to cut back on overtime — in what the rank-and-file fear is just the beginning under far-lefty Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who campaigned on eliminating the department’s entire OT budget, The Post has learned.
Officers have been told they need to...'
'...Yeah, the father ran away and abandoned his child, so what’s ICE supposed to do, let the kid freeze to death —a point the Vice President Vance made when he was questioned about this incident. ...ICE did NOT target a child. The child was ABANDONED.
On January 20, ICE conducted a targeted operation to arrest Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias an illegal alien from Ecuador who was RELEASED into the U.S. by the Biden administration.
As agents approached the driver Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, fled on foot—abandoning his child. For the child’s safety, one of our ICE officers remained with the child while the other officers apprehended Conejo Arias. '
'...You've got to admire their commitment to the cause. It's -15 degrees outside in Minnesota, with frigid windchills. That didn't stop them, though.
There was just one problem: Vance wasn't there. ...'
'on CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was a “clown show.”...“The president has said that Jack Smith committed perjury today and should be prosecuted for it. Your reaction?”
Swalwell said, “Try it and go ahead and prosecute him. It’ll probably work out the same way it did with James Comey and Letitia James and all the indictments that have been thrown out by this clown show Department of Justice that he has running right now. ...'
'...The US military has begun the transfer up to 7,000 Islamic State (IS) group detainees from prisons in north-eastern Syria to Iraq...The government and SDF had earlier blamed each other over the escape of suspected IS fighters from an SDF-run prison in Shaddadi, in southern Hassakeh. ...'
'...The Kurdish website Rudaw reports that a spokesperson for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, Farhad Shami, said around 1,500 Islamic State members escaped from Syria’s Shaddadi prison. ...prison that had been under SDF control in the eastern city of Shaddadi, accusing the SDF of releasing them. '
'...The No Violent Criminals in the Federal Workforce Act would bar people convicted of violent crimes from holding federal civil service jobs or working on federal contracts. Mace's No Convicts Running the Capital Act would apply the same restrictions to employment and contracts with the District of Columbia government.
"This is common sense," Mace said. "If you've been convicted of a violent crime, you have no business working for the government or cashing taxpayer checks. ...'
'...Israeli comedian and IDF reservist Guy Hochman was forced to cancel a scheduled performance Tuesday night in New York after a large, organized pro-Palestinian protest blocked the entrance to the Broadway Comedy Club.
Hochman described the scene in a blunt Instagram post, writing: “Those sons of b****es are blocking the entrance to the club, and the police decided not to approve holding the show.”
The NYPD arrived at the venue and assessed there was a public safety risk and an inability to maintain order. Police then ordered the event canceled...'
'...on ABC’s “The View,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani call for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be abolished...'
'...Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced that more than 10,000 criminal illegal aliens have been arrested in Minnesota since the Trump administration has taken office. ...Since the launch of Operation Metro Surge in December, DHS has apprehended over 3,000 aliens with prior convictions ranging from murder, rape, and pedophilia.'
'...In a speech on Monday to Israel's parliament, Netanyahu asserted that Turkey and Qatar would have no authority, influence or soldiers involved in the post-war management of the Gaza Strip.
"Turkish soldiers and Qatari soldiers will not be in the strip," Netanyahu declared from the podium. ...'
'...Maryland Democrat has introduced legislation that would prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from being hired in state or local law enforcement roles.
The legislation, which is called the “ICE Breaker Act of 2026” is sponsored by Maryland State Del. Adrian Boafo (D). Under the proposed legislation, ICE agents hired under President Donald Trump’s presidency would be barred from working as police officers...Boafo also clarified that “anyone who joined ICE” before Trump was inaugurated in January 2025 is “not affected” by the legislation, according to the outlet'
'...Ex-legal fixer Michael Cohen on Friday accused New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of forcing him to testify against his former client, Donald Trump, as part of their civil fraud and “hush money” cases against the now-sitting president.
“I felt compelled and coerced to deliver what they were seeking,” Cohen wrote in a Substack post. “Letitia James and Alvin Bragg may not share the same office or political calendar, but they share the same playbook.”...'
'...U.S Coast Guard on Thursday morning seized a 6th sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea, reports Carla Babb, Newsmax national security correspondent. This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates. ...'
'...Studies have documented that many microbes and other tiny living things can thrive aboard the ISS, including the microorganisms left behind by touring astronauts. But according to Raman, there’s been relatively little research examining how these space microbes interact with each other, especially phages and the bacteria they infect to make more of themselves. ...'
'...California’s stock market billionaires are angrily denouncing a proposed tax to fund healthcare for the millions of illegal migrants they welcomed into their state.
The tech sector “is getting what they had coming ….[after] pushing for open borders and unbridled employment visas,” said Kevom Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers, which opposes the H-1B program. He continued:
A strong, middling class that can form families, pay for college educations without going into debt, and pay for health care, doesn’t need this kind of a [tax] grift … but now it’s on the tech bros to pay for the health care for all these illegal immigrants — and all the healthcare workers who have to service them. ...'
'...Good, 37, had joined ICE Watch, a loose network of activists tracking and aiming to disrupt ICE activities, after discovering the network through her son’s charter school, the New York Post reported. “MN ICE Watch,” an Instagram page, shared screenshots from a “de-arrest” primer, which gives agitators advice on how to prevent law enforcement officers from taking someone into custody. ...'
'...UnitedHealthcare and its parent company, UnitedHealth, used "aggressive strategies" to milk American taxpayers by diagnosing Medicare patients with as many conditions as possible, a new Senate report has alleged.
In a 105-page assessment released Monday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, staff members for the Republican majority accused the company of turning federal Medicare subsidies "into a major profit centered strategy". ...'
'...media reports to say ICE is terrorists or racist, or they’re the Nazis. They’re listening to people saying that, you know, using the term disappearing people. ICE is doing the same thing they’ve done for 40 years.”
He added, “For any member of Congress to say that ICE is a Nazi or racist or secret police, really, because they’re enforcing laws you enacted, if they are a racist for enforcement, what does that make you? Your role, the law.”...'
'...Community social networking platform Neighbourly has confirmed a data breach affecting its members.
Names, email addresses, GPS coordinates, public forum posts and direct member communications were accessed without authorisation in the breach, a spokesperson said on Saturday. Passwords were not compromised.
"We have again contacted our members to update them on this confirmation of the breach...'
'Investigators are looking into a total of $36,000 that James’ campaign paid Iyesata Marsh, owner of a Brooklyn hair salon and an event manager, between May 2018 and February 2019 during the AG’s successful re-election bid, according to sources and reports. Roughly $22,000 of the payments were for using Marsh’s studio as a campaign office...People familiar with the probe told the New York Times — which first reported the new investigation, along with CBS News — that prosecutors want to talk with Marsh about past financial transactions involving James and her campaign. ...'
'...This year promises new challenges and exploits.
Below are several predictions for the top threats in 2026, along with actionable recommendations to help strengthen defenses:
1. Exploits facilitated by agentic AI, shadow AI, and AI-driven social engineering methods.
Almost everyone has experienced an AI-related attack this year...'
'...Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent who she allegedly tried to ram with her car during a chaotic protest in a Minneapolis neighborhood...Noem alleged that Good opted to “weaponize her vehicle” in an “attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents.”
She slammed Good’s alleged attack as “an act of domestic terrorism” – just one of three she said took place in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
'
'...Trump said that the oil will be sold at market price, and the”money will be controlled by me ... to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!”...U.S. crude futures fell 1.3% to $56.39 per barrel after the announcement. ...'
'...fraud and abuse of taxpayer programs continues to come to light among the region’s massive Somali refugee population....DHS is deploying about 2,000 federal agents to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area to “oversee a 30-day surge in operations in the Twin Cities area, making the region the first major target of the Trump administration’s expanded immigration crackdown in the new year, officials said.”...Somali refugees have allegedly stolen some $19 billion in public funds from Minnesota taxpayers, thanks to the massive fraud scheme that allegedly funded lavish vacations and luxury cars.'
