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Kennedy said Trump had the most "unhinged" diet of the administration officials.

"The interesting thing about the president is that he eats really bad food, which is McDonald's, and, you know, candy and Diet Coke. He drinks Diet Coke at all times," Kennedy said. "He has the constitution of a deity. I don't know how he's alive, but he is."

Go on, do it.

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Iranian security officials say they have arrested around 3,000 people linked to terrorist groups involved in recent riots, as senior clerics and provincial authorities called for firm judicial action while also urging the government to address economic grievances.

Security officials said the arrests included ringleaders, people linked to Israel, armed individuals, and those damaging public property during the disturbances.

They said some detainees were involved in deadly attacks and acts of arson targeting public buildings, mosques and security forces.

Authorities say calm has returned to many urban areas despite continued attempts by foreign enemies to fuel unrest.

Imagine telling someone from the year 1950 that the top university in the world in 2026 has a giant statue of Mao Zedong.

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Well well well.

U.S. officials speaking from South Florida warned the regime not to interfere or divert the supplies.

"We will be watching," he said. "If they do that, then they'll be accountable to their own people who are suffering, and they'll be accountable to us."

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) on Wednesday said he does not support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), while criticizing how the agency is operated under the Trump administration.

Frey was asked about his position during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” with co-host Griff Jenkins on Fox News. Tensions have risen in Minneapolis after an ICE officer shot Renee Good, a 37-year-old woman, during an operation. Her death inside her SUV has led to massive protests across the Twin Cities and across the country.

“I do not support abolishing ICE,” Frey said. “However, I absolutely oppose the way this administration is conducting themselves with ICE. Look, there are a number of entities presently, agencies —”

Jenkins cut him off and asked if Minnesota’s lawsuit against the Trump administration was about “stopping ICE right now.”

“No, you should read the lawsuit,” Frey said.

“The lawsuit says that, ‘Hey, you know — ICE doing ICE stuff is not what we’re talking about right now.’ Again, we’ve had ICE in our city before, we’ve had ICE in our state before. It is the fact that, look, right now, there are, there’s about 3,000 federal ICE agents in our city between ICE and Border Patrol. You know how many police officers that we have? Six-hundred. The kind of duress that our city is experiencing because of this is magnified.”

Frey and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) on Tuesday announced that the state was suing the Trump administration for its ICE deployment in the Gopher State. Ellison argued on Tuesday that ICE “agents have no good reason to be here,” listing Good’s name as a reason why ICE did not need to be in his state.

The lawsuit asks a judge to declare the surge of ICE officers into Minnesota unlawful and block its implementation. It also argues that the administration is infringing on Minnesotans’ rights under the First and 10th Amendments.

Frey sent out a message to ICE hours after Good’s death last week, telling the federal agency to “get the f— out of Minneapolis.”

A new Economist/YouGov poll released less than a week after Good’s death found that 46 percent of those polled said they support abolishing ICE, with 43 percent saying they are against abolishing the agency. The poll found that 35 percent strongly support eliminating ICE, with 10 percent saying they somewhat support getting rid of ICE.

ICE became the federal government’s most-funded law enforcement agency with the passage of President Trump’s Republican-backed tax and budget bill signed last July.

Called the “one big, beautiful bill” by the president, the law allocated $45 billion for new detention centers and nearly $30 billion for hiring personnel and transportation costs, with enough funding to detain families through September 2029, according to the American Immigration Council.

Aside from all the other issues with this, $3 a meal per person is $270-$280 per person per month on food. Many people can't afford that anyway.

After last year’s deadly Hill Country flood took at least 135 lives over the July 4 weekend, volunteers flocked to the area to support disaster relief efforts. Among those volunteers were members of Patriot Front, a neo-Nazi organization that is one of the nation’s largest and most influential white nationalist groups.

On July 23, Patriot Front posted multiple photos on their official Telegram account showing about two dozen of what the group described as their “activists” doing disaster relief work in Kerr County. The faces of the participants were blurred other than that of the group’s North Texas-based leader, Thomas Rousseau, and a well-known podcaster and Holocaust denier. In a video also posted to Telegram two weeks prior, Rousseau described the intent of the mission, which appeared to be part of a broader strategy that extremism experts say is meant to launder the group’s image and recruit new members.

“Patriot Front is here in Central Texas responding to the flooding,” Rousseau said in the video. “We are prioritizing the interests of our people in this mission. While every other race and religion across the country and the world, for that matter, can establish charities, communities, and institutions that explicitly exist by and for their own, it is regrettably a revolutionary act to do so for Americans, that unique nation, descendant of the European peoples who discovered, settled, and founded America.”

Patriot Front’s participation in the relief effort was previously reported by The Guardian, but the River Inn photo helps reveal the identities of additional participants—and contains evidence that has led the Observer to identify a network of North Texas businesses with ties to Patriot Front.

Through an analysis of business records, social media, and publicly available information, in addition to interviews and in-person observation, the Observer has identified Veteran Brothers Roofing & Restoration as one of four businesses in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that are operated either by members of Patriot Front or individuals with multiple connections to Patriot Front. These businesses do roofing, home construction, and junk removal work across several counties.

None appear to feature Nazi imagery or messaging in their public-facing websites or social media. But a 2020 internal Patriot Front document and interviews with experts suggest that the neo-Nazi group is engaged in a strategy to establish an independent ecosystem of businesses that can employ Patriot Front members and insulate them from consequences if their involvement in the group is exposed. In the previously unpublished “Tactics and Strategy” document, which the Observer obtained through researcher Tristan Lee’s past undercover infiltration of the group, Patriot Front internally advocated the creation of “an almost exclusive economy which can greaten the prosperity of the collective and make it increasingly impervious to outside attacks.” This strategy is also apparent in a trove of internal Patriot Front communications published by Unicorn Riot: One chat room, called “#positive-investing,” included a meeting about “The Core Factors of Starting & Running a Business” hosted by a Patriot Front regional leader.

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The Exxon CEO’s comments were echoed by Conoco’s boss, Ryan Lance, who said: “We need to be also thinking about even restructuring the entire Venezuelan energy system, including PDVSA.”

What that means is that Venezuela is far from under US control.

Maduro may have been abducted, but the Venezuelan government continues under interim President Delcy Rodriguez and the same administration as when Maduro was in office. Rodriguez and her top aides, including Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino, have condemned the US aggression and are demanding the safe return of Maduro and his wife.

Venezuela has not collapsed, nor has its socialist government been overthrown. The scores of warships and 15,000 troops, as well as 200 special operations commandos, deployed at an estimated cost of over $600 million to kidnap Maduro, seem to have brought a Pyrrhic victory.

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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the United States shamefully exploited peaceful protests in Iran, slamming terrorist elements linked to the US and the Israeli regime for turning lawful demonstrations into violent unrest.

Dozens of Iranian civilians and security personnel have been martyred at the hands of the rioters, who have been confirmed by the Islamic Republic’s intelligence to have been in receipt of intelligence, operational, logistical, and financial support by Washington and the Israeli regime’s Mossad spy agency.

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Araghchi referred to an explicit admission by a former US secretary of state that Israeli intelligence operatives were present among rioters, describing it as clear evidence of the Israeli regime’s involvement in the terrorist violence.

“The shameful exploitation of peaceful protests to achieve political objectives and to endanger the lives of Iranian citizens by US officials is fully consistent with the approach the United States has adopted in imposing economic sanctions against the right to life and the right to economic development, which has led to the emergence of the current situation,” he said.

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A slew of protests against what organizers call the United States' "illegal and unacceptable" intentions to seize Greenland will be held in the capital, Nuuk, on January 17, the Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq reported Thursday.

According to the news outlet, the scheduled rally aims to demand respect for Greenlandic democracy and the right to self-determination. One organizer stated that the population has contended with external pressures for a long time, fostering a widespread sense of insecurity and fear.

On Monday, Greenlandic radio station KNR reported that the protests would be held in several Danish cities, including Copenhagen, on Saturday.