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Bannon to Trump: "HAVE ICE SURROUND THE POLLS!"
14:35
Breaking Points • Feb 5, 2026

Bannon to Trump: "HAVE ICE SURROUND THE POLLS!"

Bill Gates DENIES STD Epstein Email
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Breaking Points • Feb 5, 2026

Bill Gates DENIES STD Epstein Email

Trump Just Gave Us the Worst January Since the Great Recession
New Republic • Feb 5, 2026

Trump Just Gave Us the Worst January Since the Great Recession

Donald Trump’s economy has led to the worst January in job cuts since the Great Recession in 2009.U.S.-based employers laid off 108,435 employees last month, three times as many as in December and twice as many as January 2025, according to a monthly report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a firm that helps executives transition to new jobs. The country hasn’t had a January this bad in seven years, the report said.Two companies are responsible for 40 percent of these job losses: Amazon, which cut 16,000 jobs, and UPS, which cut 30,000 jobs. The cuts are even related: UPS’s cuts are connected to how it is winding down a delivery agreement with Amazon.The most layoffs were seen in five industries: transportation, technology, health care, chemical manufacturing, and financial.“Generally, we see a high number of job cuts in the first quarter, but this is a high total for January,” said Andy Challenger, the firm’s chief revenue officer, in a statement. “It means most of these plans were set at the end of 2025, signaling employers are less than optimistic about the outlook for 2026.”The report attributes 30,784 of the job losses to ending contracts, such as that of UPS. Market and economic conditions led to 28,392 layoffs, 20,044 were caused by restructuring, and 12,738 were due to closures. AI was responsible for 7,624 job cuts, and tariffs were only attributable to 294 last month.Meanwhile, job creation did not come close to mitigating these layoffs. The payroll processing firm ADP announced only 22,000 jobs were created last month, the weakest numbers in three months and the worst January since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. Most of those job gains came from hiring in the health care industry, and came after 2025 had the weakest annual job growth in 22 years. Unemployment is also up, with 231,000 claims filed in the last week of January, an eight-week high, according to the Department of Labor.All of this belies Trump’s claims that everything is going well and that his policies are good for American businesses and workers. His administration has resorted to pushing fake statistics to prop up its claims, but Trump can’t cover up the fact that more and more Americans are struggling to afford basic needs. All of this bad news is self-inflicted, as Trump has sabotaged an economy that was actually much better under Biden.

ICE Agents FLAME Trump As WITHDRAWAL In MN Continues
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Breaking Points • Feb 5, 2026

ICE Agents FLAME Trump As WITHDRAWAL In MN Continues

“Not an Angel”: Trump Defends Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good Deaths
New Republic • Feb 5, 2026

“Not an Angel”: Trump Defends Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good Deaths

Weeks after their murders, Donald Trump is still bad-mouthing the two U.S. citizens slain by his administration in Minnesota.The president continued to bash Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good during a sit-down interview with NBC News Wednesday, telling the network that while he was “not happy” with the outcome of their interactions with ICE and CBP agents, he didn’t believe that they were entirely innocent, either.“He was not an angel, and she was not an angel,” Trump said. “You know, you look at some tapes going back.” Pretti was an ICU nurse who worked in Veterans Affairs, while Good was a 37-year-old mother and award-winning poet.“But still, I’m not happy with what happened there. Nobody could be happy,” Trump continued. “But I’m always going to be with our great people of law enforcement. ICE, police, we have to back them. If we don’t back them, we don’t have a country.”Trump on Alex Pretti and Renee Good: "He was not an angel and she was not an angel. You know, you look at some tapes." pic.twitter.com/5Tel5NPyRr— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 5, 2026Both Pretti and Good’s deaths were captured on camera, though the widely documented reality of the situation has not prevented the Trump administration from attempting to twist the narrative into one that benefits its immigration aims. In an effort to spin the story of their deaths, Trump and his allies have slandered Pretti and Good as “domestic terrorists” and even gone so far as to attack Pretti for owning a weapon, blatantly challenging his Second Amendment rights.Almost immediately after Pretti was killed, DHS officials insisted that his death was justified on the basis that he had supposedly “approached officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun.”Weeks later, more video evidence emerged that depicted a previous clash between Pretti and ICE, 11 days before federal agents shot him dead in the street. In the clip, Pretti can be seen shouting, spitting, and kicking a government SUV before several agents tackle him to the ground.After the second video became widely publicized, Trump shared his renewed perspective on the ICU nurse, writing on Truth Social that Pretti was an “agitator” whose “stock has gone way down.”

Brutal New Poll Wrecks Trump’s Main Claim on ICE
New Republic • Feb 5, 2026

Brutal New Poll Wrecks Trump’s Main Claim on ICE

Roughly two-thirds of Americans believe that Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown has gone too far, according to a new NPR/PBS/Marist poll released Thursday.Sixty-five percent of respondents said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had “gone too far” in enforcing immigration laws, according to the poll taken at the end of January. That number has risen by 11 points since June 2025, and is driven by Democrats and independents, whose disapproval grew by double digits. Meanwhile, 22 percent of respondents said that the actions of federal immigration agents “are about right,” down from 26 percent in June. Only 12 percent said the agents hadn’t gone far enough. Overall, a majority of Americans do not approve of ICE. Six in 10 respondents said that they disapprove of the job ICE is doing, while just 33 percent approved. A majority of people also believed anti-ICE demonstrators, smeared by Trump officials as agitators and insurrectionists, were acting lawfully. Nearly six in 10 respondents said that anti-ICE demonstrations around the country were mostly people acting lawfully, while 40 percent disagreed. Speaking to NBC News’s Tom Llamas Wednesday, Trump acknowledged that immigration enforcement had a serious image problem. “What happens is that, I think we do a phenomenal job, but I don’t think we’re good at public relations,” he said. But that’s classic Trump, more concerned with what something looks like than what it actually is. And what his administration has committed is nothing less than an ethnic cleansing carried out by an untrained, extrajudicial gestapo imbued with “federal immunity”—something that doesn’t actually exist.The surging disapproval for ICE comes amid a sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota that has seen hundreds of immigrants violently torn from their communities, and left two U.S. citizens dead. Trump and his administration officials smeared the citizens killed by federal agents and have since refused to apologize.It seems that Republicans either don’t care about federal agents terrorizing an American city or perhaps they’re observing some alternative universe.According to the NPR/PBS/Marist poll, 73 percent of Republicans said they approved of the job ICE was doing, and 77 percent said they believed ICE was making Americans safer. Seventy-five percent of Republicans said they believed that most anti-ICE demonstrations were people acting unlawfully.

The Rational, Irrational, and Elon-Brained Reasons Why SpaceX Acquired xAI
Jezebel • Feb 5, 2026

The Rational, Irrational, and Elon-Brained Reasons Why SpaceX Acquired xAI

You can list a thousand wholly rational reasons as to why this man should not be this wealthy and argue that Tesla stock’s true value is actually $14, but the fact of the matter is that we don’t live in a rational world. We live in the one where Elon Musk is the richest man alive.

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