Trump claims Russia stole US hypersonic missile designs during Obama’s presidency, alleging a leak of classified information The Kremlin denied the accusations, asserting it developed its own technology euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/…

Rep. mike Turner says "it's absolutely true" that Russian propaganda has "infected" the GOP: "To the extent that this propaganda takes hold, it makes it more difficult for us to really see this as an authoritarian vs democracy battle,which is what it is”

Breaking: Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/01/14/us/po…

Jane is a Christian mom in a purple state. She goes to church every Sunday and votes Democratic, even though she has lots of conservative friends. One day Jane’s friend sends her a text: “Jane, you HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS” It’s a video, ten minutes long, called “Pedogate.” Jane clicks on it. The video is well-produced and hypnotic. Lush scenes of American life are layered with droning music and dark predictions for the future. Then they start talking about children — 800,000 per year according to the video — taken off the streets and tortured. Scenes of child abuse are shown in graphic detail with pictures of Hillary, Soros and Obama with dire warnings that they are coming for your kids next. Jane is traumatized by what she’s seen. The scenes of abuse cause her to dissociate — which is how the mind protects itself from information that is too painful to process. Jane’s mind “depersonalizes” to try to understand what she’s seen. She feels like she is “outside her own body” watching from a distance. When the video is over Jane is in shock. While the claims in the video seem outlandish, she cannot stop thinking about it. What if it’s real? Even some of it. Jane feels like she can’t just ignore it. She texts her friend back and tells her how horrified she is by what she’s seen. “Come over. We’ll have wine. I’ll show you my research.” That evening, Jane goes to her friend’s house and they spend hours together watching videos and surfing websites. The depravity and horror of what she sees is shattering — so many children. So many. But at least Jane is with her friend who encourages her to keep watching. “I know it’s hard but we have to save the children.” Save the children. Who could argue with that? For the next few months, Jane spends hours with her friend every Sunday “researching.” She feels like it’s her responsibility to understand what’s going on and do more. “Come to our Telegram channel. Do you have the app?” Now Jane can talk to people just like her all the time — people who are worried about the children. Worried about the corruption. Worried about America. They may have different politics than she does but it doesn’t matter. This is for the children. Jane starts to prioritize her research over other things in life. Her friends on Telegram have given her a new purpose, a new goal. Save the children. Her family notices the change. She seems distant. She seems different. Jane is angry. Her family and friends just don’t understand. They think all her work and her research is a waste of time. Jane just wants to stop the children suffering. Anyone who isn’t on board with that — well, maybe they’re never going to understand. Maybe they’re the pedos. Jane has thousands of new friends who have woken up to what’s going on. Maybe that’s her real family after all. Jane starts sending videos to everyone she knows. She wants them to see what she’s seen. She wants them to feel what she felt. Save the children. Jane’s mom and her brother join her on Telegram. Her sister thinks they’re all crazy and argues with her research. She says Jane’s changed. She says he doesn’t know who Jane is anymore and to stop sending her videos and memes. Infuriated, Jane sends her sister a text before she blocks her: “I always knew you were a pedo.” Jane sinks deeper into her new group. They encourage her to disconnect from the non-believers. They love bomb her when she shares the right memes and says the right things. Over time, they convince her that Trump is not the bad guy the libs have been portraying him as after all. Her new family loves him. She loves him too. He wants to save the children. One day she sees on Telegram that there’s a “wild protest” coming up and everyone’s going. Jane still has some savings left — what could be more important than this? Jane decides to go, no matter what her sister says. Time to take action. Save the children. Trust the plan.

It's getting crazier by the day. Donald Trump reacting to Pierre Poilievre saying Canada will never be a 51st State: "Maybe he won't win (the election) but maybe he will. I don't care....listen I don't care what he says." Reporter: are you also considering military force to annex Canada? Trump: No. Economic force.

“Trump is not even safe now, but I hope he is a smart and cautious person,” — Putin

This is maddening. Speaking of the 2004 election in Ohio, John Kerry told Brian Lehrer in 2018 that “The problem for us was we were doubting whether the [voting] machines themselves had been appropriately measured & whether the algorithms were correct, etc. We challenged that ahead of time by the way. People don’t know that. And we were told by the court that we were not able to get that algorithm, to check it, bc it was  proprietary information. And I believe that it was absolutely incorrect that in the United States of America, the election for the presidency of the United States should somehow be the purview of privately owned machines where the public doesn’t have the right to know whether the algorithms can be checked or whether they are hackable or not. And we now know they are hackable.  But we knew as we sat there to decide where to go in terms of the challenge, that we were a nation at war, we had just been through a Supreme Court test of an election four years earlier. I thought once I measured it that whatever constitutional challenge we brought or whatever appropriate challenge we  brought to the ballots that were counted, it was going to wind up ultimately in the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court would do the same thing that it did before. We would take the country through a three month exercise with a 5/4 decision that would award the presidency back to George Bush. Now some people may think that’s the right thing to have done. I thought it would have been horrendous for our country one year into a war, at that moment when there were serious doubts about terrorism and other things, to be going through a long period of questioning of the presidency, and I didn’t think it was the right thing to do for the nation.” 1/ @VP @marceelias

Elon Musk Admits X is Throttling Links — Effectively Limiting People From Reading News mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-…

Ukraine’s Intelligence Chief confirms Russia's pre-invasion plan aimed at genocide in Ukraine, including kill lists, mobile crematoria, and mass graves. Targets included teachers, veterans, journalists, clergy, and public figures. "Genocide is a state policy of the Russian Federation," said Budanov, calling it a systematic conviction enforced from the top.