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Insane Trump Sends Threatening Letter to Prime Minister of Norway over Nobel Prize

(Daily Beast) “Dear Jonas,” the 79-year-old president wrote to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre. “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America."

Putin invited to join Trump's 'Board of Peace,' Kremlin says

(CNBC) Russian President Vladimir Putin has received an invitation to join the U.S.′ “Board of Peace” for Gaza, the Kremlin said Monday. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow would study the details of the proposal to join the peace council created by U.S. President Donald Trump late last year. The “Board of Peace” is seen as a vehicle for maintaining a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza after their protracted conflict.

Germany and France 'will not be blackmailed' with US tariff threat, finance ministers say

(Reuters) The German and French finance ministers said on Monday that ‌European powers would not be blackmailed and that there would be a clear and united response to U.S. President Donald Trump's threats of higher tariffs over Greenland. "Germany and France agree: We will not allow ‌ourselves to be blackmailed," German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said at his ministry, where he met ​with his French counterpart. "Blackmail between allies of 250 years, blackmail between friends, is obviously unacceptable," French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said at the same event.

Nearly half of Canadians want their government to approach the US as an "enemy or potential threat"

(BBC) In the year since US President Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term, he has brought with him significant global shifts. Like many countries, Canada - America's closest neighbour to the north - has felt the impact and seen a change in the long standing relationship with its close security ally and trading partner.

Trump's immigration crackdown faces growing disapproval from voters

(The Hill) President Trump is facing signs that his immigration crackdown is losing popularity with American voters as fallout grows from the fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer this month. A new Reuters/Ipsos survey found American approval of Trump’s immigration approach at its lowest point since he returned to the White House. In an AP-NORC poll, just 38 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s immigration enforcement, down from a 49 percent high this spring. And a majority of voters in a recent CNN poll conducted by SSRS said ICE’s actions are making American cities less safe.

Letter From A Birmingham Jail -- Martin Luther King

In honor of King's Day, (and because it's better reading than The Felon's verbal-vomit) I am re-posting some excerpts from this marvelous document. If you have never read it, today is a good day to do so; if you have read it previously, perhaps this is a good time to re-read it. It is truly one of the most important political statements in our history.

Monday's Condensed News Cartoons

U.S workers just took home their smallest share of capital since 1947

(Fortune) As corporate earnings soar and the U.S. GDP balloons, the American workforce isn’t feeling the same boom. American workers are taking home less of the country’s overall wealth, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show, and employment in the U.S. is set to continue to slow. Labor share, or the portion of the U.S.’s economic output that workers receive through salary and wages, decreased to 53.8% in the third quarter of 2025, its lowest level since the BLS started recording this data in 1947, according to its labor productivity and costs report published last week.

Justice department 'not investigating' Renee Good killing

(The Guardian) Six years after the US justice department launched an immediate criminal investigation of the video-recorded killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, deputy attorney general Todd Blanche confirmed on Sunday that the department is “not investigating” the fatal 7 January shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in the same city. “The department of justice doesn’t just stand up and investigate because some congressman thinks we should, because some governor thinks that we should,” Blanche said.

Minneapolis Police Chief Questions ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good - Tells 60 Minutes He Violated 'Basic Steps'

(Mediaite) Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara questioned the actions of the ICE agent who shot and killed protester Renee Good earlier this month during an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday. O’Hara said the agent violated “basic steps” that officers know about approaching vehicles. O’Hara said he has watched clips of the incident — and come away asking why the officer was in front of Good’s SUV right before the shooting. “It’s not clear to me why he appears to be in the path of the vehicle more than once,” O’Hara said. “When you approach someone in a vehicle in a law enforcement encounter, there are very basic steps you take to ensure the officer’s safety and de-escalate the situation.”