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Scott Dworkin's avatar

My interview with Rep. Robin Kelly on impeaching Noem: https://tinyurl.com/y3fx5pt2

Today we are focused on these 4 actions:

Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: https://tinyurl.com/253mfne4

Demand AG Bondi release ALL of the Epstein files now: https://tinyurl.com/yzm32ams

Pass bill on unmasking ICE and displaying clear ID: https://tinyurl.com/bp8cau82

Demand answers about Trump’s visibly deteriorating health: https://tinyurl.com/sk9xm38v

Also, sign up to volunteer for our Watchdog Coalition: https://tinyurl.com/4afyy2bs

Sam Jones's avatar

I can’t get enough of Newsom clowning Trump on the world stage. Contempt for bondi is an understatement 😂 so let’s go straight to impeachment instead.

Megan Ross's avatar

Hear hear! I'm hoping that my governor, Gavin Newsom's presence in Davos will show world leaders that TRump isn't who we are. It's comforting to know that most people in Europe and Canada understand that we are not TRump.

Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

Oh Canadians feel sorry for us. I travel there enough to know. Besides I have dual citizenship. In fact, most of them want to give me a hug and say you poor thing.

Megan Ross's avatar

I'm envious of your dual citizenship. My parents had the opportunity to go to Canada when they graduated from college and we're being recruited to be teachers in BC in the mid 50's. I really wish they'd taken that opportunity. BC is still my very favorite place in the world to visit. It's absolutely gorgeous there.

Mary Jane Rheaume's avatar

Thank you, Scott Dworkin for keeping up with your daily posts. I have a question for you : When we get the majority in the midterms this year and are able to impeach trump and his crew, would we also have to impeach JD Vance too as VP? Or is it up to the highest ranking person in the Senate??

MDL's avatar

I love California. We have family there and it feels like a 2nd home. We're in Massachusetts - much smaller and across the country but with (overall) same values and priorities.

Lily's avatar

Agree, that was my sentiment - That people know that this shit is all on the coin-operated demented conman and he doesn't represent America!

Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

The problem is that enough USians will think that "Newsom clowning Trump" makes him presidential material. I hope they'll take a closer look at Newsom's record and at least think twice about his overtures to the right. The last thing the country needs going forward is more centrist "bring us together" pablum. Let's pay more attention to what Zohran Mamdani is saying and how he got elected. It's not just about New York City.

Charles Bastille's avatar

Gavin would probably be my last choice in a primary contest, but I'd probably vote for the clone of Al Capone if I thought it would keep Republicans out of office next general election.

Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

That's about where I am too!

Diana's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Brenda Doherty's avatar

Let’s concentrate on electing a Democratic President in 2028 and Mandami isn’t going to do it.

Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Who suggested that Mamdani was interested in running for president? My idea is that it would be really, really cool if presidential candidates took some cues from Mamdani and talked about real-life issues in a real-life way. We need a Democratic president who actually stands for something and isn't totally beholden to corporate donors. And isn't all eager-beaver to make nicey-nice with the racist right.

Charles Bastille's avatar

Mandami can't run, anyway, for the same reason Arnold Schwarzenegger and Elon Musk can't run.

MDL's avatar

We need someone who can win. They don't have to be perfect.

Denise Lowe's avatar

I just have to keep asking: Why are Republicans putting up with this? What are they so afraid of? You can't keep appeasing bullies, and I'm not just talking about the orange cheeto; I'm talking about his enablers. Someone has to stand up to Miller and the other minions.

Scott Dworkin's avatar

So true Denise they have so much power and act like they have none

Megan Ross's avatar

I keep wondering if TRump has dirt on all of the Republicans who refuse to stand up to him. His mentor, attorney Roy Cohn, used compromising information, even on judges, to win in court for decades. It's TRump's M.O.

marcia schulz's avatar

Maybe they are afraid of the Epstein files being unimaginnably bad

Robot Bender's avatar

I think they're complicit.

Denise Lowe's avatar

Oh, I think they're terrified of the files. The rest is all distraction.

Wis's avatar

Yup. Only trump would bring on WWIII to distract from the Epstein files. He is not fit, has never been fit, to run a country. And I’m using polite words.

Charles Bastille's avatar

They can't **all** be in the files, though. Lindsey Graham? You betcha. You can just tell by the way he pivoted on Trump in one day, after they went golfing together. A lot of them are afraid of his cult. They need to knock it off and understand that even if their political career ends if they turn on him, they'll always be able to lobby for $$$$$$$$$. There is no excuse for those not in the files to be protecting this madman.

pilar's avatar

Maybe? They are scared shitless.

RandomHuman's avatar

The ol' too big to fail problem. Sad. They need to face reality.

Joanne Steacie's avatar

Agree Denise! 100%. What is the deal with GOP!

L Johnson's avatar

Repubs are putting up with it because their oligarch dark overlords tell them to. THAT is who they answer to - not voters.

Ellie still in the mix in 26's avatar

They are dedicated not only to Party, but to Power, and Pelf, and do not want to do anything to interrupt the flow.

Sandra Tuttle's avatar

They dont care what is happening to citizens. Onky about their own well being.

Janis Reinken's avatar

You asked: Are you surprised to hear even off-duty police officers are being harassed by ICE? SADLY, NO. What did you think of Trump’s rambling in Davos yesterday? BETTER TO BE SILENT AND THOUGHT A FOOL, THAN SPEAK OUT AND REMOVE ALL DOUBT.

Do you think Pam Bondi should be held in contempt? YES, AND ALSO DISBARRED FROM PRACTICE IN ALL FEDERAL COURTS, AND LAW LICENSE REVOKED. 1/22/26

Scott Dworkin's avatar

Thanks Janis!

Joanne Steacie's avatar

Yes, Janis!

Deborah solleveld's avatar

I agree completely Janis

Junior622's avatar

Don't be surprised if judicial complaints have not already been filed!

(There are other INCOMPETENT TRUMP APPOINTMENTS across the nation who have been forced out by a VIGILANTE JUDICIARY!)

The same with the other incompetent BOOBS Trump appointed-

BEAUTY QUEEN & REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY LINDSEY HALLIGAN:

Lindsey Halligan leaves DOJ as judge calls her use of title 'charade'

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/21/lindsey-halligan-leaves-doj/88277271007/

And who was the LEGAL BOOB who charged the WILTED SUBWAY SANDWICH 'ATTACKER' with a FELONY? LOST! Then charge him with a MISDEMEANER! LOST AGAIN!

FOX BOOB JEANINE PIRRO filed a CRIMINAL COMPLAINT against a HOMELESS MAN for pointing a CAT TOY at AIR FORCE 1 - JURY took something like 35 minutes for an NOT GUILTY VERDICT - those few minutes were likely spent trying to figure out the paperwork.

Man accused of aiming laser at Trump helicopter acquitted in 35 minutes

Swift verdict of not guilty in case of Jacob Winkler another high-profile defeat for Jeanine Pirro, US attorney for DC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/laser-beam-trump-jeanine-pirro

EER's avatar

COMPLETELY AGREE! 💥

And kudos to Mark Bruley, the Police Chief for speaking out! 👏👏👏 We need him to go on Fox and all media and say it LOUDER!!! THANK YOU MARK BRULEY FOR SPEAKING TRUTH TO THIS EVIL!

Kathy's avatar

Agree,Janis, and it’s up to We The People to keep up the pressure!

Also the Florida Bar is useless and will never revoke Bondi’s license…

Florida Bar lets Matt Gaetz off the hook by agreeing statutory rape has nothing to do with practicing law.

https://www.floridabulldog.org/2026/01/florida-bar-lets-matt-gaetz-off-hook-says-statutory-rape-has-nothing-to-do-with-practicing-law/

Joe English's avatar

Yesterday I joined the walking monks on their march with their stop in Liberty, NC for lunch at the local fire station. The location choice to walk with the monks and then participate was simply perfect. The deep diversity and age range of the crowd was one of the most notable aspects. Turns out people I knew from all over the area joined to form the 2000 people there.

Monk Bhikkhu Pannakara, their leader, spoke for an hour. He has been a monk for 17 years and the past 3 he has been torn on how to leave his bubble of mostly local community support in Texas. The Walk is the solution. Two things keep them going, the breath and determination. And the Freedom inherent within.

During this hour dive into mindfulness, meditation, and philosophy, Pannakara was able to employ the techniques with the crowd. A woman probably fainted, so the medics were called (yes the fire station is adjacent). He immediately told us to close our eyes, to put both of our hands to our heart, to breathe deeply, and to feel our heartbeat. Together our energy joined. Many tears could be heard in the silence. He explained how tapping the breath to remain calm in this situation and in life are central pillars in walking through the fear.

We continue onward on each of our own and collective journeys in our resistance to those that are stoking those potential fears. For when we breath deeply and feel our hearts beating as we pause within the breath, we are all connected.

Scott Dworkin's avatar

This is amazing Joe I will hop on social media to amplify it and just pinned this comment!

Wis's avatar

What a beautiful reminder that everything on earth is connected - we are on a web and trump’s violent, crazy, delusional vibrations are being felt by everyone, human, nonhuman, nature… Humans (not all), Americans in particular (not all), have lost this sensitive connection. Using might to overwhelm is not “right”. It is a merciless doctrine America has adopted under this “leader”. It makes me cringe, and it makes me furiously sad.

Joe English's avatar

Eloquent Wis! What you said too!

Robot Bender's avatar

They didn't come through our area or we would have walked with them, too.

Joe English's avatar

Well as I am telling folks, even if they don't want to deal with crowds after this stop through Raleigh, pick them up just north of Raleigh next week in Louisburg. And onward along I85 as they head towards Petersburg/Richmond. There were 10,000 people in High Point. I had aimed for a more intimate experience and the monks delivered.

Liberty is 45 minutes from me.

Joe English's avatar

Here is my BlueSky with videos from yesterday:

https://bsky.app/profile/ncpots.bsky.social/post/3mcxrkvinw222

Jessica Rath's avatar

I watched your BlueSky videos, they're absolutely wonderful! Thank you! All our political protests won't change anything unless MANY people become more mindful of the Other, human and non-human alike. We're too ego-centered.

Joe English's avatar

Appreciate it Jessica!

Joe English's avatar

Here is my Substack with this. I don't publish often:

https://open.substack.com/pub/ncpots/p/freedom-from-liberty-nc-among-the

Yonah's avatar

Thank u…

Joe English's avatar

My pleasure.

Ms Jonington's avatar

Way to go Gavin!

Charles Bastille's avatar

1) Not mildly surprised.

2) It would be news if he did not ramble like the demented road kill he is.

3) Bondi should never have been confirmed, but now that she has, she needs to be the first target of the 2027 Trump Crime Family Truth Commission.

Paula Dean's avatar

We don't have until the midterms to end this nightmare. We need to get as many republican House members to switch parties as we can, and we need to do it immediately. There are several who are from purple state and worried about losing seats in November. We should relentlessly target them with emails and phone calls.

It may already be too late, now that ICE has grown so large and been given so much power. Today the Circuit Appeals Court put a hold on stopping the use of pepper spray and tear gas. They are killing people with impunity.

Be careful out there, and keep it peaceful no matter what.

Scott Dworkin's avatar

There's sadly no one even on the fence. Not one. But if we had the chance we def would push hard Paula!

Megan Ross's avatar

Since I am, unfortunately, unable to attend any protests right now due to a health problem, I am writing postcards to every member of Congress who is unwilling to stand up to TRump, including Democrats, every week. I have to do something! I have probably spent close to $700 already in postage. Luckily, I got a huge box of random postcards at a thrift shop for $5! We all have to work hard to get rid of these fascists!👍

Joanne Steacie's avatar

Wow, good job Megan!

Yonah's avatar

Thank u Megan! I appreciate your efforts!

Junior622's avatar

GREAT JOB! (thrift shops are wonderful!)

We all have limitations, but you are to be congratulated for your actions!

Thank you for your contributions!

Lily's avatar

Good on you Megan!

Junior622's avatar

I hope the judge made the ruling broad enough to include: BEAR SPRAY, FLASH BANGS, RUBBER BULLETS and anything else the ICE GESTAPO can find.

It's unclear what struck the young man who lost the vision in 1 eye after being struck - 6 hour surgery to remove shrapnel, plastic, glass - STANDING ACROSS THE STREET PEACEFULLY PROTESTING!

Mike Hammer's avatar

Trump thought Greenland was the size of Africa when it’s really the size of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was showing the wrong map all along. The Mercator Map is a distorted image used for navigation in the old days. I think they set him up ! 😂

Junior622's avatar

NO set up! When you surround yourself with STUPID PEOPLE, you cannot expect factual information to creep in.

TRUMP TARIFFS were imposed on an ISLAND inhabited by PENQUINS!

Another area with NO U.S. TRADE had tariffs imposed.

Wasn't there an area whose sole U.S. export is CARDAMON?

Who sees OLIGARCHS rushing to takeover this market?

Kathy's avatar

What did you think of Trump’s rambling in Davos yesterday?

I like Stephen Colbert’s comments about 😡’s rants…”These are the mad ramblings of a syphilitic brain,”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/colbert-mocks-trumps-syphilitic-brain-meltdown/

Yonah's avatar

Stephen and jimmy are both doing their best comedy ever right now👏

Lily's avatar
13hEdited

agree! sadly how can they not with this idiot conman and his clowns?

Margaret Paul's avatar

I am not surprised at the actions of ICE. They are racist untrained bullies.

Pam Bondi should not only be held in contempt but removed form office.

The ramblings of tRump at DAVOS just prove once again he is unfit for any office. Yet his groupies in Congress just keep supporting him. Karma will come for them.

Scott Dworkin's avatar

Truth Margaret

Wis's avatar

Removing Bondi from office is only step one. They ALL need to be ousted, and then held accountable.

Karma indeed! I wish, like John Lennon sang about, “Instant Karma” would get them all.

Junior622's avatar

There is a great deal of NAZI rhetoric coming from REPUBLICANS...

It's a frightening reminder that too many supported HITLER...

Years ago, I purchased a FIRST EDITION of BETRAYED....

dedicated people translated documents to record the HORRORS of the NAZIS...

it's so horrific that it was set aside mostly unread....

but to read those accounts and view the ISRAELI GENOCIDE with U.S. SUPPORT is without words.

AIPAC, an ANTI-DEMOCRACY organization funded by the wealthy fills U.S. ELECTIONS and defeats candidates who speak out against the ISRAELI GENOCIDE.

ILLEGAL WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS, killing occupants, destroying crops & vineyards....

BLOCKAIDING HUMANITARIAN AID, DESTROYING UNWRA BUILDING, STARVING & KILLING GAZANS....how different are they from NAZIS?

(AMAZON used for RECAP only! WE don't support AMAZON!)

Betrayal: The Untold Story of the Kurt Waldheim Investigation and Cover-Up Hardcover – January 1, 1993

by Eli Rosenbaum (Author), William Hoffer (Author)

Now, for the first time, the full, inside story of the Kurt Waldheim scandal is told by the man who led the investigation that exposed the hidden Nazi past of the former United Nations Secretary-General and President of Austria. Startling information, much of it newly unearthed from secret Nazi war archives, reveals the awful truth about Waldheim's involvement in gruesome war crimes.

Betrayal also reveals, at last, the headline-making solution to the crucial mystery of the Waldheim affair: How was it possible for a deception of this magnitude and audacity to be perpetrated by a man who spent decades in the glare of the international media spotlight? In a disclosure that will rock the political world, Betrayal identifies the internationally renowned figure who enabled this unprecedented global cover-up to succeed.

Years of painstaking investigation through thousands of European, American, and Israeli documents reveal the horrifying truth about what Kurt Waldheim really did during his service in Hitler's armed forces - and about how the truth was concealed by some of the world's major intelligence agencies.

REPUBLICANS object to being called FASCISTS?

Wis's avatar

I’m not so sure they object anymore, at least not the ones still supporting trump. It has turned into a thing to be proud of in powerful circles, to support and/or be a raving lunatic participating in cruel, omni-bigoted, fascist domination. I understand it’s all the rage with white republican men these days.

Junior622's avatar

Pathetic commentary of a MINORITY of the population....

What's always interesting is success of a vocal, uneducated minority to create and embrace HATE FILLED NON-PRODUCTIVE IDIOCY!

How does this create a POSITIVE IMPACT? How does it create JOBS?

How does it create ANYTHING other than HATE?

Consider the BATHROOM BULLSH*T

What international corporation is going to invest massive amounts into a community focused on BATHROOM BULLSH*T?

We lived in EUROPE and the problem was non-existent.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS in the BOSTON area that we have recently used - solved the problem!

ONE BATHROOM: URINAL, CHANGING STATION, ONE SIZE FITS ALL!

It actually makes financial success since the numbers of BATHROOMS is reduced.

What is proposed is the NAZI RHETORIC that FAILED to provide any ECONOMIC BENEFITS....

KILL, EXTERMINATE, GAS....as horrific as NAZISM was, there was NO LONG TERM FINANCIAL IMPROVEMENT. It was HATE & KILLING for.....

IT'S THE HATE FILLED, PURPOSELESS MORAL VACUUM that makes no sense beyond HATE!

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Watching Trump ramble about windmills and drop his “accomplishments” on the floor while calling it leadership is like watching a man lose an argument with gravity. Newsom nailed it. Boring, boorish, and significant only as a warning label. This isn’t strength unraveling. It’s confusion pretending to be authority, and the world is very clearly done pretending along with him.

Wis's avatar

I always love your comments, VMB! Today is no different. Spot on!

Megan Ross's avatar

1) I am not surprised at all that police officers are being attacked by TRump's ICE Thugz. I just wish on-duty officers would arrest these pigs for violating the laws of our constitution.

2) As far as Trump's rambling speech in Davos, it was not only embarrassing, it was infuriating. He needs to be removed from office, NOW, by any means necessary.

3) Bondi definitely needs to be held in contempt and jailed, if necessary, to get the Epstein files released. She is violating an order from the court to do so.

#ONWARD! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Scott Dworkin's avatar

Thank you Megan onward!

Climbingivy's avatar

Not at all surprised, these ICE need to be stopped. Trump is not well and needs to be removed from office.

Nieta Greene's avatar

No I am not. I am surprised that local enforcement officers haven't done said if ICE breaks local laws that they will be arrested.

Scott Dworkin's avatar

Agreed Nieta!

Carol Richardson's avatar

This isn't the first time I've heard of harassment of off duty police officers of color by ICE. It doesn't surprise me. They will harass anyone, even 5-year-olds. Why stop at police officers, especially off duty!

T was an embarrassment at Davos. He needs the big hook to drag him off the stage, away from a podium, just away!

Yes, I would love to see Bondi held in contempt. She certainly is contemptable!

Lily's avatar

This is just disgusting- I see that it takes 8 fat overweight ICE agents to detain one 5 year old boy walking home from school. REALLY?