Dolls, pencils, backyard chickens and ‘a piece of broccoli’: The Trump team’s awkward austerity talk

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/15/politics/trump-rollins-austerity-affordability-inflation

Amid the European debt crisis in the early 2010s, a Fox News pundit named Donald Trump warned about a backlash against leaders asking people to tighten their belts.

“You can’t impose this kind of austerity on people when the people aren’t used to it,” Trump said in the 2012 interview, unless you’re in a depression

Fast-forward 14 years, and now-President Trump and his administration are regularly talking about how people can pinch pennies.

The remarks not only undermine Trump’s frequent all-is-well happy talk about the economy. (Why would you need to be so frugal if we’re in a “golden age?”) But they also give Trump’s opponents’ ammunition to paint him and his team as out of touch with the struggles of people who aren’t, like Trump and so many people around him, uber-wealthy.

Thousands rally in Jerusalem to demand ultra-Orthodox IDF enlistment

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-rally-in-jerusalem-to-demand-ultra-orthodox-idf-enlistment/

Several thousand people rallied in Jerusalem on Thursday evening to demand ultra-Orthodox enlistment to the IDF, and against government-backed legislation seeking to reinstate blanket military service exemptions for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students.

Thomas Massie’s Joke About Epstein Files in Greenland Takes Off Online

 https://www.newsweek.com/thomas-massies-joke-about-epstein-files-in-greenland-takes-off-online-11369151

Republican U.S. Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky quipped online about the Epstein files and Greenland on Thursday amid ongoing political tensions surrounding both topics as President Donald Trump continues to express interest in acquiring the territory.

Massie posted on X: "Psst, Denmark… Tell this administration the Epstein files are in Greenland… they’ll lose all interest and will never be able to find it."

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey denounced the Trump administration’s use of federal law enforcement

Target’s Stores Become an ICE Battleground in Hometown Minneapolis

 https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/target-ice-minneapolis-minnesota-1f39bb7b

The federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota has descended on the stores and parking lots of Target, putting the hometown retailer in a tough political spot as it faces pressure from some locals to keep border protection agents out.

That pressure came to a head after immigration officials detained two Target employees inside the vestibule of a suburban store late last week after what appeared to be some verbal sparring in the parking lot. “I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van. 

Both are American citizens and were later released, local officials say. In a social-media post on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security said an individual in the video had been “arrested for assaulting a federal law enforcement offers [sic].”

Horrifying moment ICE agents forcibly remove woman from car as she 'blocked' the road in Minnesota

ICE Agents Drag People Out of Cars in Front of Protesters - Making America great Again MAGA

Federal immigration agents filmed dragging a woman from her car in Minneapolis

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2026/01/15/aliya-rahman-minneapolis-ice-arrest-videos/2f90dbf0-f275-11f0-a4dc-effc74cb25af_story.html

A U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment in Minneapolis was dragged out of her car and detained by immigration officers, according to a statement released by the woman on Thursday, after a video of her arrest drew millions of views on social media.

That video is the latest in a deluge of online content that documents an intensifying immigration crackdown across the midwestern city, as thousands of federal agents execute arrests amid protests in what local officials have likened to a “federal invasion.”

In the video, one masked agent smashes Rahman’s passenger side window while others cut her seatbelt and drag her out of the car through the driver’s side door. Numerous guards then carried her by her arms and legs towards an ICE vehicle.

And so it has come to a Democratic governor asking Trump not to attack his state

‘One chicken, one broccoli, one corn tortilla’: Brooke Rollins mocked over her out of touch meal

Maria Machado Says She ‘Presented’ Trump With Her Nobel Peace Prize

 https://www.newsweek.com/maria-machado-presented-trump-nobel-peace-prize-11369261

Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado says that she "presented" U.S. President Donald Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize during a meeting the two had on Thursday in Washington, D.C.

Mayor Jacob Frey gives press conference after latest Minneapolis ICE shooting

All HELL BREAKS LOOSE as ICE SHOOTS 2 MORE PEOPLE

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