Donald Trump’s Arctic strategy has been 500 years in the making. When Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic in 1492, he intended to find a direct path from Europe to Asia. He didn’t, of course — but the first transatlantic explorer to sail under an English flag, John Cabot, tried again a few years later and became the first modern explorer to reach what is now Canada. The commercial potential of the Northwest Passage was obvious from the start, but even once explorers at last figured out how to thread their way through the Arctic’s ice and islands, there was no possibility of developing the route: the sea ice was just too dense. Until now, that is: warmer temperatures and 21st-century technology put a trade route the world has sought for centuries within reach — but whose? Canada claims the passage as its own territorial waters. America, like most of the world, has never accepted that assertion. The future of what one day may be the planet’s most important shipping lane is being decided today. China is already literally testing the waters. In 2017, the Chinese used a research vessel to confirm that cargo ships can now make it through the passage. Talk of a “Polar Silk Road” has been rife since the Xue Long made its trek. “It opened up a new sea lane for China,” the state news agency Xinhua boasted. “From Shanghai to New York, the traditional route that passes through the Panama Canal is 10,500 nautical miles, while the route that passes through the Northwest Passage is 8,600 nautical miles, which saves 7 days of time.” Canada granted the ship permission to make the crossing but didn’t know its “research” had a commercial angle until China announced its triumph. Since then, Beijing has focused most of its Arctic attention on its relationship with Russia, whose northeastern sea routes are already well developed — the Arctic’s overall economic activity is still small, but Moscow is the dominant player. Yet there’s no doubt about China’s long-range intentions. One former Canadian security official, professor Stephanie Carvin, told the Canadian Broadcasting Company last September that China “has an ambitious plan to basically control a lot of the rare-earth elements and mining and wants to invest in the Canadian Arctic.” President Trump recognizes the dangers here. Canada is heavily reliant on America’s intelligence capabilities and military strength, but Canadian security also depends on Canadian politics, and that’s the weak link — for us as well as them. Successive governments in Ottawa have failed to meet Canada’s NATO commitments to spend at least 2% of GDP on defense. They’ve also been complacent about Chinese and Russian activities in the waters Canada claims as its own. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s courtship of Chinese trade in recent weeks highlights how economically vulnerable America’s northern neighbor is. Carney quickly backed off after Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs if Canada sought a major trade deal with Beijing. Carney now says he’s never intended to strike a free-trade bargain with China, despite recent bilateral agreements. The Northwest Passage and the Arctic’s mineral resources are vital to the economic security and military defense of America, Europe and Canada alike. Yet national pride — the claim of exclusive dominion over the Northwest Passage — will lead to national disaster, and a global crisis, if Ottawa doesn’t get serious soon. Trump’s hardball diplomacy with Ottawa, his tariffs, and his jokes about Canada becoming America’s 51st state put a strain on America-Canada relations, but they also force Canadian leaders to think about the country’s ultimate choices: Can Canada develop and defend the Arctic without America? If Trump seems like a bully, what can Ottawa expect from China and Russia as the Northwest Passage’s potential is realized in the decades to come? Americans, too, have to face reality: we can’t afford to be complacent about how this neighbor and ally governs the waters it claims but can’t secure. Canada should take a lesson from Greenland’s experience: Trump seemed to demand nothing less than Denmark’s surrender of the territory to America, but once he’d succeeded in shocking everyone into thinking about the most basic questions of sovereignty and security, he used the opportunity to strengthen America’s commitments to Greenland’s defense. His approach to Canada is similar — Trump is not trying to repeat James Madison’s folly in the War of 1812, when America actually tried to annex Canada. Instead, he’s asking Canada’s leaders to acknowledge they can’t take our trade and defense assistance for granted while resenting our interests in the Northwest Passage and the region as a whole. Today the Arctic is the free world’s frontier, and Canada can keep it safe only by treating America as a partner, not a piggy bank. Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. To read more by Daniel McCarthy, visit www.creators.com.

On Minneapolis, Meyers was optimistic that the administration is losing, “It seems as though, certainly today, there’s a bit of Trump maybe doing his classic thing of backing off a little bit. There's talk that maybe Bovino is going to leave Minneapolis. Tom Homan’s going to come in. That they might actually sense the way the wind is blowing on this, which is it is deeply unpopular. And they are not, at least at this point, capable of bending this reality in the way that maybe they have with other issues in the past. Do you feel like they're stepping back from the precipice of this a little?” Hayes agreed, “They are. Here's what I feel. They are unambiguously losing. They are losing.”   MS NOW host Chris Hayes tells Seth Meyers that the Minneapolis protestors are like those who marched in Selma, "refusing to give an inch to the regime, you expose its malevolence. And that's what happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge when the cops started beating up the… pic.twitter.com/rekFk43Q81 — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) January 27, 2026   According to Hayes, that is because the protestors are just the latest in a non-violent resistance, “And part of the tradition of non-violent civil resistance and disobedience from Gandhi, through King, through what we've seen on the streets of Minneapolis is that in fearlessly—in a fearless and disciplined fashion, refusing to give an inch to the regime, you expose its malevolence. And that's what happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge when the cops started beating up the protesters. It's what we've seen in Minneapolis.” He added, “And the hope for that kind of disciplined resistance is that it wakes people up to the moral truth that's at the core of the relationship between the forces of oppression and the people being oppressed. And we are seeing one of those moments right now. It has cost two people their lives. And other people not going to school, and other people being tear gassed, and other people being thrown into detention. But this has been a tremendous political and moral victory. Even if nothing happens up until this point, at the horrible tragic cost of these two lives—and they are absolutely getting their butts kicked—they're not going to just throw in the towel and admit it. But I think they are now looking for the exits in a real way.” One of the two people Hayes referenced, Renee Good, drove her car at an ICE agent after being told to get out of the car. Regardless of what the investigation surrounding the Alex Pretti shooting reveals, that will not change. What did change was the subject in the second segment. Meyers lamented that in the future, uncharismatic politicians are going to try a little too hard to be cool, “Do you fear that we are now going to see a lot of less charismatic politicians try to pull off the Mamdani/Trump playbook?” Hayes agreed that it will happen but “I actually don't think it's the worst thing. I mean, look, this is the way politics works. It's the way sports work, right? Some new team figures out some new offense, and everyone kind of copycats it. You've seen a lot of, like, really cringe worthy knockoff Donald Trump impressions by Republicans. Ron DeSantis coming to mind most foremost.” Moving on to all the snow that dumped on New York over the weekend, Hayes continued, “But one of the things I think that's been really interesting about watching Mamdani make that transition from campaigning to governing is his continued understanding of how important that attention is. I mean, he put out this video about snow plowing, right? And it wasn't a campaign video. It was totally non-ideological. It wasn't even political. It was just like, ‘Here's how we're going to plow the snow in the streets, and here's what you should expect.’ But it was really good. And it was compelling.”   And now for something completely different. Later, Hayes gushes over Zohran Mamdani's shoveling snow, "he put out this video about snowplowing, right? And it wasn't a campaign video. It was totally non-ideological. It wasn't even political. It was just like, 'Here's how we're… pic.twitter.com/witJFxioH2 — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) January 27, 2026   Both Meyers and Hayes then agreed the video was so “fun” that you could show it to your kids. Speaking of Mamdani and the weather, earlier, on The Tonight Show, Fallon was doing his “it’s so cold” bit, “It's so cold, JD Vance shrunk to the size of Marco Rubio. It is so cold, I watched the Melania movie just to warm my heart, you know? It’s so cold, President Trump got a space heater installed in his MRI machine.”   Speaking of Mamdani and the weather, Jimmy Fallon welcomes Mamdani to quip, "It’s so cold in New York City, the rent froze itself. Good night, everybody." pic.twitter.com/7KovPKa7hs — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) January 27, 2026   Mamdani then interrupted, and after a long standing ovation from the audience, promoted one of his worst ideas, “It’s so cold in New York City, the rent froze itself. Good night, everybody.” Even the weather does not make the late night shows immune from pushing far-left values. Here are transcripts for the January 26-taped shows: NBC Late Night with Seth Meyers 1/27/2026 1:03 AM ET SETH MEYERS: It seems as though, certainly today, there’s a bit of Trump maybe doing his classic thing of backing off a little bit. There's talk that maybe Bovino is going to leave Minneapolis. Tom Homan’s going to come in. That they might actually sense the way the wind is blowing on this, which is it is deeply unpopular. And they are not, at least at this point, capable of bending this reality in the way that maybe they have with other issues in the past. Do you feel like they're stepping back from the precipice of this a little? CHRIS HAYES: They are. Here's what I feel. They are unambiguously losing. MEYERS: Right. HAYES: They are losing. And part of the tradition of non-violent civil resistance and disobedience from Gandhi, through King, through what we've seen on the streets of Minneapolis is that in fearlessly—in a fearless and disciplined fashion, refusing to give an inch to the regime, you expose its malevolence. And that's what happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge when the cops started beating up the protesters. It's what we've seen in Minneapolis. And the hope for that kind of disciplined resistance is that it wakes people up to the moral truth that's at the core of the relationship between the forces of oppression and the people being oppressed. And we are seeing one of those moments right now. It has cost two people their lives. And other people not going to school, and other people being tear gassed, and other people being thrown into detention. But this has been a tremendous political and moral victory. Even if nothing happens up until this point, at the horrible tragic cost of these two lives—and they are absolutely getting their butts kicked—they're not going to just throw in the towel and admit it. But I think they are now looking for the exits in a real way. … MEYERS: Our mayor, Mamdani, did seem to understand that, maybe the first, sort of, post-Trump politician— HAYES: Totally. MEYERS: —to become national in a position that is not a national position. Do you fear that we are now going to see a lot of less charismatic politicians try to pull off the Mamdani/Trump playbook? HAYES: Oh, we're going to get so much vertical video— MEYERS: Yeah. HAYES: —you're going to be— I mean, you're already seeing, like, every Democratic candidate— MEYERS: Yeah. HAYES: —trying to take the form of elements. But I actually don't think it's the worst thing. I mean, look, this is the way politics works. MEYERS: Yeah. HAYES: It's the way sports work, right? Some new team figures out some new offense, and everyone kind of copycats it. MEYERS: Yeah. HAYES: You've seen a lot of, like, really cringe worthy knockoff Donald Trump impressions by Republicans. MEYERS: Yep. Yep. HAYES: Ron DeSantis coming to mind most foremost. MEYERS: Yeah. HAYES: And I think you'll get a lot of that with Mamdani. But one of the things I think that's been really interesting about watching Mamdani make that transition from campaigning to governing is his continued understanding of how important that attention is. MEYERS: Yeah. HAYES: I mean, he put out this video about snow plowing, right? And it wasn't a campaign video. It was totally non-ideological. It wasn't even political. It was just like, "Here's how we're going to plow the snow in the streets— MEYERS: Yeah. HAYES: — and here's what you should expect." But it was really good. And it was compelling.  MEYERS: It was fun to show my kids. HAYES: It was fun to show your kids. *** NBC The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 1/26/2026 11:35 PM ET JIMMY FALLON: It's so cold, JD Vance shrunk to the size of Marco Rubio. It is so cold, I watched the Melania movie just to warm my heart, you know? It’s so cold, President Trump got a space heater installed in his MRI machine. ZOHRAN MAMDANI: Hey, Jimmy, let me try one. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. It’s so cold in New York City, the rent froze itself. Good night, everybody. FALLON: Mayor Zohran Mamdani, everyone. Thank you, mayor, very much.

Virginia Commonwealth University police are investigating a nurse at the VCU Health system after videos surfaced of the employee apparently encouraging viewers on social media to poison and drug the food of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, VCU Health reported Tuesday in a statement. “We are aware of a series of videos that appear to have been posted by an individual confirmed to be an employee of our health system,” the VCU Health statement says. “The content of the videos is highly inappropriate and does not reflect the integrity or values of our health system.” “VCU Police are assisting with this investigation,” VCU Health says, noting that the employee “is on administrative leave and will not be in our facilities or interacting with patients.” The VCU statement appears to refer to video of a nurse exposed Monday evening by Libs of TikTok, which identifies her as “Melinda”: “Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.” “Get them sick,” the woman in the video says. “Let’s get them where they eat,” she says, describing a way to drug their food. Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food. Any… pic.twitter.com/CMJN12GhOc — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 27, 2026   The goal, she says, is to incapacitate, not kill, the ICE agents – adding that her tactics are “highly, easily deniable.” In one video, she announces her plan to put poison ivy and poison oak in water and then spray the mixture on ICE agents. “Stay toxic,” the woman encourages. A nurse named Malinda (not Melinda) Cook is listed as an employee on the VCU Health website and on Doximity.com, which bills itself as “the largest community of healthcare professionals in the country.” A profile picture Cook, a CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiology) is posted on Doximity.com.

The eco-crazies at TIME magazine were up in arms over President Donald Trump daring to poke fun at the climate change bogeyman as the American Northeast braced for one the worst snowstorms in half a decade. TIME “reproductive rights” (or abortion) reporter Chantelle Lee side-stepped her beat on January 23 to grumble against Trump’s climate humor, “Trump Mocks Climate Change Concerns Ahead of Historic Winter Storm. Here’s Why That’s Wrong.” Lee whipped out the grossly misleading notion of a “scientific consensus on climate change” to argue Trump was “falsely implying that the massive winter storm set to hit much of the U.S. this weekend contradicts the evidence that the planet is getting warmer.” This is the issue with the climate media fanatics: No matter which way the winds of the weather turn, it somehow will always be attributed to man-made “warming,” even as the nation is literally in the middle of the winter season. Talk about trying to have your cake and eat it too. Trump posted Friday on Truth Social: “Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States. Rarely seen anything like it before.” He continued: “Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain — WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???” Lee — apparently not privy to the joke — protested, “But the idea that brutal winter conditions of this kind mean that climate change isn’t happening, as Trump suggested, is a misconception.” She went on to cite Indiana University Bloomington Professor Christopher Callahan, who boasted, “‘As a proud ‘environmental insurrectionist,’ it’s frustrating to have to explain this every winter.’” “Every winter?” As if the debate had been consistent for that long! At least when the idea of Global Cooling was all the buzz in the 1970s, a blisteringly cold winter season would at least be consistent with the narrative. In fact, it was TIME that tried to scare readers about a global cooling catastrophe over 47 years ago. “The trend [of global cooling] shows no indication of reversing,” TIME reported in 1974. “Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.” The headline was chef’s kiss, “Another Ice Age?” Lee, apparently oblivious to her own publication’s history, took the holistic approach and attributed climate change to practically any and every weather event. That makes sense, given her publication’s stated position that “Climate Is Everything.” However, Lee made a critical mistake: Research also indicates that climate change can make some extreme weather events—including heat waves, heavy rainfall, severe floods, droughts, extreme wildfires, and hurricanes—more intense and more frequent. Some experts have hypothesized that climate change may be making winter storms more intense as well, though there’s still a ‘genuine scientific debate’ on that, according to Callahan. Wait, what happened to the “scientific consensus?” And couldn't Lee admit that no hurricanes made landfall in the United States last year, damaging the "more extreme weather events" thesis?  In 2010, Meteorologist Dr. Roy Spencer noted that in “the case of global warming, [the so-called ‘scientific consensus’] is nearly worthless.” He continued: “The climate system is so complex that the vast majority of climate scientists — usually experts in [a] variety of specialized fields — assume there are more knowledgeable scientists, and they are just supporting the opinions of their colleagues.” Spencer concluded that “among that small group of most knowledgeable experts, there is a considerable element of groupthink, herd mentality, peer pressure, political pressure, support of certain energy policies, and desire to Save the Earth — whether it needs to be saved or not.” No kidding. 

On Tuesday, The View continued with ABC’s full court press to mislead the public about what was actually happening in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Intentionally ignoring the riot at a hotel where Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were staying, an ICE agent getting his finger bitten off, an agent getting beating with shovels, and the other clashes with agents, moderator Whoopi Goldberg falsely claimed the residents of the far-left city never got violent and commended them for it. To round out their opening “Hot Topics” conversation for the show, Goldberg wanted to give the residents of Minneapolis unearned praise. “And I want to commend the people of Minneapolis,” she proclaimed. “I want to thank them. I want to thank them for not escalating this. And, you know, any number of things could have happened, buts people of Minneapolis made sure that it didn't.” Adding: “They did the best they could to keep it, you know, to be able to go out and do what they wanted to do as citizens to protest. And I have to say they have kept the lid on and I am just -- I'm so proud of that state. I'm just proud of that state.”   Whoopi claims the resident of Minneapolis have not engaged in any violence or escalation against ICE: "I want to commend the people of Minneapolis. I want to thank them. I want to thank them for not escalating this and, you know, any number of things could have happened but the… pic.twitter.com/ahdUL0Se1a — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 27, 2026   Later in the program, The View teed up far-left Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro (PA) to lie about the violence only coming from ICE agents. He even suggested that the “mission” they were sent on by the Trump administration was “to violate people’s constitutional rights”: NAVARRO: Before we get to your book we were just talking about what's happening in Minneapolis, what's happening in Minnesota. There's been yet another senseless killing. So, can we just get your reaction to what's happening? How you're feeling about it? How you see it as a governor yourself? SHAPIRO: Well, it's obviously extremely disturbing. To me it is very clear that the mission the President and Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller and J.D. Vance and all of them sent these federal officials on is a mission to violate people's constitutional rights. And it is clear that the mission needs to be terminated immediately, period, hard stop.   On The View, Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro (PA) claims they only "mission" ICE and CBP were sent to Minneapolis for was "to violate people's constitutional rights" and nothing else. pic.twitter.com/XIhECwxEvr — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 27, 2026   Back here in reality, their claims were all bold-faced lies; attempts by the left and liberal elitist media to gaslight and trick the American public ahead of the midterms. There was a copious amount of video evidence showing the leftist riot at the Home2Suits hotel where some ICE agents were staying, which left at least one agent bloody. Free Beacon journalist Jessica Costescu had even documented that a leftist extremist group had what amounted to a hit list of such hotel locations targeted by the group. One ICE agent would reportedly lose his finger after a leftist lunatic bit it off. Another agent was attacked and beaten with shovels by several illegal immigrants from Venezuela. The attack only stopped after one of them was shot by the agent. Perhaps Goldberg was just relieved that, so far, residents didn’t follow co-host Sara Haines’s advice from the previous day, when she justified people bringing firearms to use them against ICE. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View January 27, 2026 11:09:51 a.m. Eastern (…) WHOOPI GOLDBERG: And I want to commend the people of Minneapolis. SUNNY HOSTIN: Yes. [Applause] GOLDBERG: I want to thank them. I want to thank them for not escalating this. And, you know, any number of things could have happened, buts people of Minneapolis made sure that it didn't. They did the best they could to keep it, you know, to be able to go out and do what they wanted to do as citizens to protest. And I have to say they have kept the lid on and I am just -- I'm so proud of that state. I'm just proud of that state. (…) 11:16:44 a.m. Eastern ANA NAVARRO: We have a lot to get through. GOV. JOSH SHAPIRO (D-PA): We do. NAVARRO: So let’s get started. Before we get to your book we were just talking about what's happening in Minneapolis, what's happening in Minnesota. There's been yet another senseless killing. So, can we just get your reaction to what's happening? How you're feeling about it? How you see it as a governor yourself? SHAPIRO: Well, it's obviously extremely disturbing. To me it is very clear that the mission the President and Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller and J.D. Vance and all of them sent these federal officials on is a mission to violate people's constitutional rights. And it is clear that the mission needs to be terminated immediately, period, hard stop. (…)

“When you see videos of anti-ICE agitators swarming our officers and agents in Minneapolis, MN, just know… this is who they’re trying to protect,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) explained Tuesday, listing the offenses – such as sexual assault and domestic violence – of some criminal illegal aliens removed from the city. “Below are some of the WORST of the worst we’ve arrested and taken out of MN neighborhoods to protect American families,” ICE wrote in a social media post, listing some of the criminal illegal aliens convicted or charged with crimes, such a sexual assault, domestic assault, and procuring a minor prostitute: “When you see videos of anti-ICE agitators swarming our officers and agents in Minneapolis, MN, just know… this is who they’re trying to protect. Below are some of the WORST of the worst we’ve arrested and taken out of MN neighborhoods to protect American families.” SEXUAL ASSAULT: Phetsamone Senevilay, a criminal illegal alien from Laos, has a 2012 final removal order. FELONY SEXUAL ASSAULT X2, FELONY SEX OFFENSE X2, ASSAULT, DUI: Cermor Rio Boakai, a criminal illegal alien from Liberia, was released by Hennepin County into the community instead of being turned over to ICE. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Angel Raul Poaquiza-Ruiz, a criminal illegal alien from Ecuador, has a 2023 final removal order. SEXUAL ASSAULT: Kao Vang, a criminal illegal alien from Laos, has a 2022 final removal order. ASSAULT, ILLEGAL REENTRY X3, DUI: Roberto Aguilar-Lopez, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico has a 2013 final removal order and pending charges for DUI, traffic offense and public order crimes. PROCURING A MINOR PROSTITUTE: Lin Lin Li is a criminal illegal alien from China. FELONY ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SEXUAL ASSAULT, SEX OFFENSE: Rudy Alexander Pineda-Aguilar, is a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala. KIDNAPPING A MINOR TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT, SEXUAL ASSAULT, DUI X2: Vong Xiong, a criminal illegal alien from Laos, has a 2005 final removal order and pending charges for DUI. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT W/A WEAPON, WEAPON POSSESSION, ASSAULT, DUI: Koua Ye Vang, a criminal illegal alien from Thailand, has a 1999 final removal order. ASSAULT, BATTERY, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Salvador Salazar Rivera, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, has a 2024 final removal order and pending assault and contempt of court charges. CRUELTY TOWARD A CHILD, LARCENY, DUI: Sisavath Daohueang, a criminal illegal alien from Laos, has a 2011 final removal order. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT W/A WEAPON, ASSAULT, DUI: Jacobus Lodevickus Janse Van Rensburg is a criminal illegal alien from South Africa. LARCENY, DUI: Ayro Ariel Mimbrera-Fernandez, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, has a 2025 final removal order and pending DUI charges. DUI: Santos Hernandez Ruiz, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador, was ordered deported in 2004. COCAINE SALES: Som Phathaem, a criminal illegal alien from Laos, has a 1998 final removal order. DUI X2: Victor Manuel Avila-Portillo, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador, has pending charges for multiple DUIs, fleeing a police officer in a vehicle and traffic offense. DANGEROUS DRUGS, PROPERTY DAMAGE: Fowsi Nasir Salah, a criminal illegal alien from Somalia, has a 2017 final removal order and a pending charge for dangerous drugs. FELONY ASSAULT: Luis Jaime Pena-Sanchez, a criminal illegal alien from Ecuador, also has a pending assault charge.

On Tuesday, NPR media reporter David Folkenflik was back on his “keeping liberal media outlets liberal” beat with a preview of Tuesday’s Bari Weiss meeting with CBS staff. First, let’s express amusement at how liberal journalists grant other liberal journalists anonymity so they can avoid “professional repercussions.” Overall, this story draws on interviews with eight current and former CBS News journalists. All of those still at the network spoke on condition they not be named, citing professional repercussions. Several noted that Weiss has told staffers she welcomes internal debate but cannot abide public dissent. Now let’s ponder the end of Uri Berliner’s career at NPR. He publicly dissented from NPR’s bias by name -- at Bari Weiss's site The Free Press -- and the NPR staff quickly refused to work with him anymore and “repercussed” him into quitting. We don’t recall Folkenflik being a fan of his colleague's bold media criticism. Folkenflik unloaded a lot of rehashed whining about Weiss proclaiming the need to move toward the center, and the fuss over 60 Minutes, which the NPR guy called the "crown jewel" of CBS. But let’s focus on how the in-house hotheads were furious about CBS Evening News going light on the January 6 anniversary. Dokoupil offered this scant reference: "President Trump today accused Democrats of failing to prevent the attack on the Capitol, while House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries accused the president of 'whitewashing' it." The he-said, he-said formulation lasted about 15 seconds. That prompted denunciations from outside critics. Sarah Longwell, the founder and publisher of the center-right, anti-Trump publication the Bulwark, wrote on X: "Trump is getting exactly what his rich buddy paid for." Calling The Bulwark “center-right” is hilarious. Longwell appeared at campaign events with Kamala Harris, who was not a “center-right” candidate. Then came the anger of January 6-obsessed CBS reporter Scott MacFarlane:  CBS Justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane took great exception to Dokoupil's Jan. 6 broadcast, according to two people inside the network who spoke on condition they not be named. The reporter has spent the past five years covering the attack on the U.S. Congress, drawing upon evidence presented in court to document the effort to deny the formal certification of President Joe Biden's win in the 2020 race. He did not appear on the air on CBS News this Jan. 6. Instead, as he posted on the social media platform X, MacFarlane appeared on the BBC. It lasted nearly four-and-a-half-minutes. "Here's my deep dive on the 5-year mark of Jan 6," MacFarlane wrote. "The ongoing impact on victims, the lies... and the continued malignant corrosion of democracy[.] As aired on....The BBC." At old-guard CBS, the "continued malignant corrosion of democracy" clearly includes the re-election of President Trump. Obsessing for years over a dreadful four-hour "insurrection" coincided neatly with what Democrats thought was one of their best campaign issues to elect Kamala Harris in 2024 -- "saving democracy." They lost.  On the same night, Folkenflik noted, Dokoupil ended the newscast with a segment on social-media memes about Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and cracked “Marco Rubio, we salute you.” He lamented: "The light-hearted approach to the minute-long segment so close to the Venezuelan military action delighted the Trump White House and stirred backlash from journalists." Journalists who love Democrats. Democrats who hide behind anonymity to trash any moving away from "news" that is all Democrat narratives and talking points. 

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A woman called police to tell them that she had drowned her 7-month-old baby in a bathtub, and police confirmed the horrific claim when they went to her home.Tierra Scott-Franklin, 23, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon by Gainesville police at her residence in the Sweetwater Square Apartments.'She did what she did, but we stand behind her. She is loved. She is valued.'Police found the baby unresponsive and transported the child to UF Health Shands Pediatrics Hospital, where the child was declared deceased.Scott-Franklin was charged with first-degree premeditated murder.When the woman appeared in court, activists argued for compassion on her behalf."She did what she did, but we stand behind her. She is loved. She is valued. She is cared for," Saudia Bradley said. "We're asking that you please do what you do to help her to get the help she needs."Scott-Franklin was previously arrested for allegedly assaulting a 67-year-old woman and is also facing a charge for battery of a person 65 years or older. Another activist said that Scott-Franklin sought help before the incident."She's not well. She let people know she was not well and asked them to take the baby," Chanae Jackson said.RELATED: Las Vegas mother finds her son's decapitated body, police arrest his girlfriend, who is also married to victim's son A neighbor of the woman said the shocking incident should bring awareness for struggling people."I was inside my apartment, and I just kept hearing, like, people around the neighborhood kept yelling, like, 'No, not a child, not a child, not a child,'" Aarion Hamilton said.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Radicals swarmed a hotel in Maple Grove, Minnesota, on Monday night, working under the presumption that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino was inside. While some in the mob appeared keen at the outset to simply scream, bang their pans, and impotently blow whistles in protest of CBP and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, others decided to get violent.The Maple Grove Police Department, which responded around 8 p.m. to reports of a protest at the SpringHill Suites by Marriott, demonstrated that it has a lower tolerance for attacks on law enforcement than their local counterparts in Minneapolis — and the proof manifested in tear gas and arrests.'These violent anarchists will not deter ICE from carrying out the American people's mandate.'"The situation escalated when individuals in the crowd engaged in unlawful behavior," the MGPD said in a statement. "Property damage occurred, and objects were thrown at officers. At that point, the activity was no longer considered peaceful."After declaring the mob action an unlawful assembly, police issued a dispersal order. Footage shows police securing the area around the hotel, standing off with radicals, then systematically driving away the mob.In addition to using pepper balls, Maple Grove police — who were assisted by the Minnesota State Patrol, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office hours after President Donald Trump had positive calls with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) — apparently utilized tear gas to drive away rioters.RELATED: Democrats threaten to shut down government over ICE funding: 'We are not powerless' Law enforcement stands ready outside the Spring Hill Suites on Jan. 26. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images.Police told CNN that approximately 26 people were arrested outside the hotel.Radicals advertised the anti-Border Patrol rally as a "Goodbye Bovino Noise Demo."Blaze News has reached out to the hotel and Marriott for comment.The evening before the riot in Maple Grove, leftists stormed a hotel in Minneapolis where they believed federal immigration agents were staying. Radicals vandalized the Home2 Suites by Hilton Hotel late Sunday, smashing windows and throwing debris into the lobby. — (@) Footage shows a solitary, bloody federal agent holding his ground at one stage in the evening while radicals assembled in front of the hotel. According to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, federal agents successfully cleared that group with the help of chemical irritants.The Department of Homeland Security indicated that the Sunday hotel attack was "part of a coordinated campaign of violence against law enforcement.""These violent anarchists will not deter ICE from carrying out the American people's mandate to arrest and deport the worst of the worst," added the DHS. — (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!