Arizona’s Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes’ public advice that people in Arizona could use the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law to justify shooting federal officers - especially masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents - has been roundly condemned by the Arizona Police Association (APA). “Law enforcement is inherently dangerous work. Recent public comments by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes have the potential to make it even more dangerous,” APA explained Thursday in a statement denouncing Mayes’ comments in a local television news interview: “The interview quickly shifted to a discussion of Arizona’s self-defense and ‘stand your ground’ laws. “In that context, Attorney General Mayes went on to describe scenarios under which a person could claim legal justification for shooting a law enforcement officer, specifically citing the possibility that ICE agents might not be easily identifiable due to masks or nontraditional uniforms.” “Even the interviewer expressed concern and attempted to redirect the conversation,” APA Executive Director Joe Clure notes: “Despite this, the Attorney General continued to outline how deadly force could be justified against law enforcement officers under those circumstances.” “Officers across Arizona, including members of the Attorney General’s own investigative teams, routinely operate in plain clothes or wear protective face coverings when circumstances require it,” the police officers remind Mayes. “This does not diminish their legal authority or status as law enforcement.” “Publicly speculating about how someone might legally justify shooting an ICE agent sends a dangerous and irresponsible message, particularly in an already tense and polarized environment,” APA warns. “Words from elected officials matter. It only takes one unstable individual to interpret such commentary as permission or encouragement to use deadly force against police officers,” the statement says, noting that the Attorney General has a responsibility to de-escalate, not inflame: “We find these remarks reckless, irresponsible, and dangerous to the safety of all law enforcement professionals in this state.” The Arizona Police Association’s statement concludes by calling on all elected officials in the country to stop demonizing enforcement of the nation’s laws for political gain, since they’re putting officers’ lives at risk.

The New York Times ran an odd front-page story on Wednesday about a f80’s-era NYC figure that came to symbolize crime and race issues: A profile of Bernie Goetz, “The Subway Vigilante We’re Still Talking About,” by business reporter David Segal, based on two upcoming books about the infamous shooting case: Five Bullets by Elliot Williams and Fear and Fury by Heather Ann Thompson. Segal interviewed both authors. Williams is particularly left-wing, as is Segal’s sympathetic take on the would-be-muggers, er, innocent “victims.” Both authors strive to draw nuanced portraits of the shooting victims, who struggled with both physical and psychic wounds. (Two of them, Barry Allen and James Ramseur, have died, the latter possibly by suicide.) Both authors delve into Goetz’s life, too, and he emerges as a flinty eccentric, a man incensed by nearly everything about New York City…. …. Goetz’s path to notoriety began with a spasm of violence that lasted less than 20 seconds, and both books unspool it in harrowing slow motion. Cabey, Allen, Ramseur and their friend Troy Canty were traveling from the Bronx to a video arcade in Lower Manhattan. Canty either asked for or demanded $5 from Goetz. Feeling threatened and cornered, Goetz, who was 37 at the time, shot and wounded all four of the teens. Goetz spent eight months in jail for carrying an unlicensed firearm. Note the woke capitalization of "black" throughout, and the unseemly source the Times approached for an opinion. More than a few Black leaders denounced the verdict at the time, and still describe it as a disgrace. “I felt it was a blatant miscarriage of justice,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton. “I did not ever say that the young men were choir boys. But do you have the right to execute people based on who they are? That was the fundamental question, as far as I was concerned, and it put all of us in danger.” Not “choir boys” indeed. As the Times reported, back in 1985, but not in 2026: Each of the four teen-agers shot on a subway train last month by Bernhard Hugo Goetz had been arrested or convicted at least once and each was facing a trial or a hearing on criminal charges at the time of the incident. And race-baiting provocateur Sharpton is the last person on earth to be lecturing about putting people in danger, given his literally inflammatory history. Appearing under the pathetic subhead “Erasing the victims,” this section was a perfect encapsulation of the elitist media mindset: Thompson chose not to try to contact Goetz. Instead, she took an archival researcher’s approach to convey the obstacles facing young Black men in the South Bronx of the mid-80s. This includes relations with the police, who told the press that several of the young men were carrying sharpened screwdrivers, a notion repeated by the tabloids as well as by The New York Times. It made the teens sound like predators. Actually, the screwdrivers were unaltered and were being carried to steal quarters at a video game arcade, the teens later said. The tools were also concealed, as the trial made clear, which means Goetz could not have regarded them as a threat. So the screwdrivers weren’t for stabbing, merely for stealing? Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations. Segal concluded with thoughts from left-wing author Thompson smearing recent subway hero Daniel Penny. ….To her, the 2024 acquittal of Daniel Penny, a white former Marine who fatally choked Jordan Neely, a mentally ill Black man, on the New York City subway, suggests not much has changed. Neely was a loud, threatening disruptor with a long criminal record who posed a potentially deadly threat to other passengers, but you didn't get that information from the Times.

In the two days following the anti-ICE church riot in Minneapolis, the Big Four News Apps (Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News) have all but ignored left-wing agitators disrupting Americans exercising their constitutional right to freely worship their God. Google News, MSN and Yahoo News suppressed coverage of the anti-ICE radicals who were joined by former CNN anchor Don Lemon. Apple News was the only one of the Big Four News Apps to run any morning headlines about the riot. Out of the top 40 stories on Apple News from Jan. 19- Jan. 20, 2026, there were a scant two stories about the church agitators, both published on Jan. 20.  ​​​​​​​ As Americans increasingly get their news from the Big Four News Apps, their biased coverage distorts people’s understanding of the turmoil unfolding in places like Minneapolis. In the two days following the riot, three of the four news apps refused to run a single headline about the church riot in their top 20 morning headlines. The three apps had a combined 120 opportunities to acknowledge the radical storming of a church during its weekly worship service. Instead, the three digital gatekeepers actively worked to shield extremist agitators from any coverage. In the two days following the riot, Google News ran four headlines about a train crash in Spain that killed at least 39 people, and no less than 12 headlines related to  Trump’s statements about Greenland. MSN and Yahoo News focused heavily on sports, entertainment and weather stories, running a total of five headlines about Greenland and none about Spain. Apple News alone displayed two stories on the Minnesota church agitators, but even when it did cover the story, it pushed leftist outlet The Washington Post with a headline that  squarely blamed President Donald Trump for the aggressive disruption of a Sunday morning church service with the headline, “Anti-ICE protest at Minnesota church is latest flash point over Trump’s crackdown.” Apple News also ran a headline from British outlet the BBC which acknowledged that the riot may have violated the law but simultaneously downplayed the severity of the incident. “US officials probing Minnesota ICE protest that disrupted church service,” the headline read.  The Big Four News Apps all continuously fail to provide ideologically diverse news options that readers can depend on to stay informed of the most important issues of the day. Despite this failure, news aggregators, or platforms that gather articles from multiple media sources into a single place, are a growing source for people to get their news. According to a report from the Reuters Institute, “engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows,” particularly in the United States.  Methodology: During the time period Jan. 19-20 2026, MRC researchers examined the top 20 AllSides-rated news stories featured on Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News each day at 8:30 AM ET. Using AllSides media bias ratings, which classify outlets as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right,” researchers assessed the ideological slant presented by the Big Four News Apps and analyzed the results.  Free speech is under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

No, the midterms will not turn on the issue of “affordability.” If affordability truly were decisive, Republicans would easily retain the House and the Senate. Consider the economic backdrop. Gas prices are at a five-year low, with gas stations in several states selling a gallon of regular for under $2. Several times since Trump’s reelection, the stock market indexes have recorded all-time highs. GDP growth hit 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025. Wage growth is exceeding inflation, but as always, some benefit more than others. Inflation itself is under 3% and trending lower. Egg prices have fallen dramatically. Mortgage rates have declined to the lowest level in three years. Trillions of dollars in foreign investment commitments have been announced. The effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill -- no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, tax relief for seniors on Social Security and immediate expensing of business equipment purchases -- have barely begun to register. All of this suggests, despite the headlines of despair, that the economy is poised to take off. If voters were focused primarily on affordability, these conditions would be politically devastating for Democrats. But that’s not what this election is about. The midterms will turn on one question only: Is Trump hatred -- among Democrats, Hollywood, much of the media and academia -- so deeply rooted that President Donald Trump gets credit for nothing? Look at the record. He closed the southern border in a matter of weeks without new congressional legislation. That’s an incredible accomplishment. More on this later. Trump negotiated the release of Israeli hostages and the return of their remains from Gaza. That’s a big deal. He pressured European allies to shoulder more of the financial burden for Ukraine’s war against Russia. Another big deal. He significantly degraded Iran’s nuclear capacity. He took decisive action against Venezuela’s Maduro regime -- something Democrats once loudly demanded. He expanded school-choice options that disproportionately benefit Black and brown students trapped in failing K-12 urban schools. He forced NATO allies to increase defense spending after years of freeloading. He applied sustained pressure on Iran’s regime at a moment when internal instability has never been higher since the beginning of the “Islamic Republic” in 1979. He pressured universities to better protect Jewish students and to end illegal race-based DEI policies. And all of this in less than a full year. On immigration enforcement, Trump has deported roughly 1.5 million illegal aliens -- many with violent criminal records. Deportations under Trump in both terms remain below the 3.5 million deportations carried out under former President Barack Obama.      There have been cases in which U.S. citizens were mistakenly detained or arrested by ICE, sometimes for minutes, hours or a few days. According to ProPublica, the number is “more than 170.” Out of roughly 1.5 million deportations under Trump, that comes to 0.0113%, or just over one hundredth of 1%. Considering that former President Joe Biden let in an estimated 10 million to 15 million aliens, the mass deportation initiated under Trump is required to undo just some of Biden’s intentional policy. Mistakes during deportation by ICE are inevitable -- but in the context of reversing years of mass illegal entry, they are statistically rare. If sanctuary cities and states truly wanted to reduce such errors, they would allow ICE to operate inside jails and prisons rather than forcing arrests to occur in public spaces. As to Iran, I’m old enough to remember when the political left claimed to care about the oppression and subjugation of women -- and rooted openly for their possible liberation. All of this brings us back to the real issue. Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. It is deep. And it has metastasized, not just nationally but globally. Roughly half the country views Trump with the Jimmy Kimmel mindset. Can anyone seriously imagine Kimmel ever saying, “You know, on this issue, Trump deserves some credit,” or “On that issue, maybe I was wrong”? Of course not. And that’s the point. The midterms won’t hinge on prices at the pump or at the grocery store. They will hinge on whether millions of voters can acknowledge reality -- or whether their animus toward Trump is so absolute that no achievement, no success and no improvement in people’s lives really matter. That, not “affordability,” is the question before the country. Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an “Elderado,” visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on X @larryelder.

On Friday’s episode of ABC’s The View, fill-in moderator Joy Behar admitted that she needed therapy to deal with her Trump Derangement Syndrome. And during the Tuesday episode of The View’s Behind the Table podcast, Behar proved just how severe her TDS actually was. According to her, ICE was just like the Nazi Gestapo rounding people up for extermination. She also claimed that America was “at war” with NATO and President Trump wanted to launch a war against Minnesota. The first step in trying to fix one’s self was to admit you had a problem. Behar admitted that she was getting her therapy idea from former first Lady Michelle Obama. “She talks about how she and Barack have been in therapy all these years because they're dealing with the empty nest. I'm dealing with the next few years of Trump. I need therapy,” she quipped.   Joy Behar admits she needs therapy for her TDS: "I'm dealing with the next few years of trump. I need therapy." pic.twitter.com/WAaVnwU1on — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 23, 2026   And boy, did she need it. Behar kicked off their podcast with delusions of grandeur, proclaiming that she wanted her legacy to be taking part in getting Trump out of office; seemingly suggesting she played a critical role in the 2020 election results: BEHAR: I want my legacy to be that I helped get Trump out of office. That's what I really care about. TETA: Well, you did once. [Laughter] BEHAR: I did. I wanna do it a second time. This time he's much more dangerous than he was before.   On The View's Behind the Table podcast earlier this week, Joy Behar proclaimed: "I want my legacy to be that I helped get Trump out of office. That's what I really care about." pic.twitter.com/GY7Dyl3abf — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 23, 2026   Behar would go on to claim that Trump was “10 times worse than Nixon was. At this point.” Throughout her podcast appearance, host Brian Teta (the executive producer for The View) egged her on to get more and more unhinged. “We've seen people dragged from their cars, places of work, and over the weekend, a citizen was taken from his home wearing just his underwear, a citizen. Where, where does your mind go when you see this? I think I know the answer,” he teed her up. Behar openly equated ICE with the Gestapo; backing up her claim by suggesting they matched the depictions of them in the movies, she’d seen. “I've watched too many World War II movies and watched jackboots pulling Jews out of their homes and beating them up on the streets to not make the similarity very clear to me,” she sneered.   Inciting violence against ICE, Behar blatantly equates ICE arrests and deportations to Nazis "Gestapo" rounding up Jews for extermination. She claims the "similarity" is "very clear." Adding: "I've watched too many World War II movies and watched jackboots pulling Jews out of… pic.twitter.com/cZuyxyUCN0 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 23, 2026   She would go on to praise how the far-left residents of Minnesota were “trying their best to rebel against [ICE],” but lamenting, “they can't seem to do much.” The evidence that Behar was dealing with a serious mental problem continued to mount when she claimed “we're at war” with NATO, before pivoting to claiming Trump “wants to go to war with a NATO member, an ally.” The aged comedian flaunted her infamous ignorance of history as she claimed NATO was the military alliance the United States fought alongside during “World War II [and] the Vietnam War.” NewsBusters previously reported in February 2024, that Behar was under the false impression that NATO was the military alliance that fought Hitler and the Nazis. Apparently, no one in her orbit cared to give her the correct information in nearly two years. Behar’s delusion that Trump wanted to go to war with NATO carried over to assertions that he wanted to launch a war against Minnesota. “He wants to go to war with them and war with a United States state, Minnesota. What is wrong with him?!” she decried. It was unclear if Behar meant Trump wanted to drop bombs on Minnesota; as would likely happen in the fictional war with NATO she noted in the same breathe.   Behar claims "we're at war" with NATO. Claims NATO was the military alliance the U.S. fought with in "World War II, the Vietnam War." She also claims Trump wants to drop bombs on Minnesota: "He wants to go to war with them [NATO] and war with a United States state, Minnesota." pic.twitter.com/uDIz4Awcdb — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 23, 2026   The misconceptions from Behar didn’t stop at history lessons, but also civics class. She called on viewers to call their representatives and senators, and demand they invoke the 25th Amendment: “And I want people to start putting the pressure on the Congress … the only power that the American people have before Election Day, is to get on the phones and leave messages and say, ‘listen, either invoke the 25th Amendment because he's not making sense.’” You were the one not making sense, Joy. Congress had nothing to do with the 25th Amendment. Only a president or their cabinet could invoke it. Behar’s TDS seems to need in-patient treatment. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s Behind the Table January 20, 2026 00:00 BRIAN TETA: It's always the question people ask. What do you want to be remembered as? What do you, what do you want your legacy to be? JOY BEHAR: I want my legacy to be that I helped get Trump out of office. That's what I really care about. TETA: Well, you did once. [Laughter] BEHAR: I did. I wanna do it a second time. This time he's much more dangerous than he was before. TETAL All right, well, let, let's talk about President Trump because, uh, first of all, welcome to Behind the Table, Joy. BEHAR: Thank you. [Title sequence] TETA: All right. On the show today, we talked about President Trump's desire to take complete and total control of Greenland. It's like we're talking about a fictional supervillain at this point. BEHAR: Yeah. TETA: You said that he can't get any worse and it's no longer enough to protest and vote. You have to call your senators and congressmen. This is something you feel very strongly about. Tell me, tell me what your thoughts are on. BEHAR: Well, it seems as though the bulwark at the moment needs to be removed, which is that the Republican Congress is still protecting him and their jobs. And they seem to not understand that he's destroying the United States of America. They don't seem to see that. Every day he does something else to, to destroy what has been built up over a few centuries now. And I want people to start putting the pressure on the Congress, not on him, because he's a foregone conclusion that he is not well, in my opinion. I don't think he's well at all. He not making sense. He's acting - I know what I said today he had a narcissistic injury. Did you hear me say that today? TETA: I don’t know if I did. BEHAR: It's a psychological term that you are – your ego is so wounded, that you will lash out because of that. ‘I'm so angry that I'm not getting the award that I'm gonna invade a country.’ What is that? Come on. TETA: Well, this is what people always say that he, this whole, his whole first run for office was based on being embarrassed by Obama at the Correspondences Dinner. BEHAR: That is also another narcissistic injury. It's like most people who don't have this problem would laugh it off, would laugh it off. He can't laugh any kind of an attack, any kind of a joke about him. He can't stand it. TETA: So the question – BEHAR: That's why the comedians make him so nuts. TETA: So, you're thinking is that, as an act of personal survival to keep their jobs, Congress might change their mind – BEHAR: Yes. Yes. TETA: - and that's what they have to feel. BEHAR: Exactly. And the only power that the American people have before Election Day, is to get on the phones and leave messages and say, ‘listen, either invoke the 25th Amendment because he's not making sense.’ TETA: That’s never going to happen. BEHAR: All right, all right. Then find a way to impeach and convict because he obviously has been committing crimes. He's making a lot of money in the presidency. TETA: I don’t think that’s gonna happen either. I don't think they're gonna impeach him a third time. I, I mean - BEHAR: This is just like Nixon was. They went to Nixon and they said, ‘listen, you're being impeached. They're all voting against you,’ and Nixon resigned. That's exactly what needs to happen. And this guy's 10 times worse than Nixon was. At this point. TETA: Well, the other big thing we're talking about - and man, the news is dark - we're continuing to see ICE raids in Minnesota with protests happening all over the state. We've seen people dragged from their cars, places of work, and over the weekend, a citizen was taken from his home wearing just his underwear, a citizen. Where, where does your mind go when you see this? I think I know the answer. BEHAR: Well, you know, Joe Rogan has now used the G-word, Gestapo - TETA: Gestapo. BEHAR: - and that's exactly, I mean, I've watched too many World War II movies and watched jackboots pulling Jews out of their homes and beating them up on the streets to not make the similarity very clear to me. (…) 09:26 BEHAR: Although, Minnesota, they're trying their best to rebel against it, but they can't seem to do much. I mean, we're at war! He said he wants to go to war with a NATO member, an ally for - these are allies where World War II, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War. He wants to go to war with them and war with a United States state, Minnesota. What is wrong with him?! (…) ABC’s The View January 22, 2026 11:16:09 a.m. Eastern JOY BEHAR: She [former First Lady Michelle Obama] talks about how she and Barack have been in therapy all these years because they're dealing with the empty nest. I'm dealing with the next few years of Trump. I need therapy. (…)