Let’s talk about Europe’s alliance, Greenland, and Americans….

What is shocking is how ill informed some people in the US are. This is part of the dumbing down of the US education system. So many right wing / or maga people are so uneducated and wrong because they believe the misinformation fed them along with the hyper US is always correct and never wrong they are fed by the right wing media that is designed to mislead the maga public ready to accept / follow an authoritarian government meant to make their lives harder while making the lives of the very wealthy even more wealthy. Just listen to the arrogance the person asking the question has even though they are totally incorrect on everything they claim / write to Belle. Hugs

MAGA attacks tiny school where Renee Good’s son attends classes: report

Just like fundamentalist evangelical Christians maga thugs can not be reasoned with, they are on a mission from their god tRump to protect the goal of the cult. They act similar in that they attack anyone who displays a difference to their preconceived view of how things should be according to their religious leaders. They feel an intense desire, no need to destroy any dissent and make everyone conform, by force if necessary. So Renee good presents a threat to their view of how things should be. She doesn’t conform. She is not straight but is a lesbian. She did not immediately bow to the authority and whims of the cult leader, and she seems to support the rights of minorities which the cult feels is harmful to the white straight cis majority. So maga thugs attack without thinking in a pack as that is how they are trained as school yard bullies and they never grew out of it. Hugs

https://www.rawstory.com/renee-good-son-school/

Travis Gettys

January 16, 2026 1:45PM ET

People gather during a vigil for Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent, in Seattle, Washington, U.S., January 8, 2026. REUTERS/David Ryder

The tiny charter school where slain mother Renee Good sent her 6-year-old son has been forced to conduct classes online after receiving a slew of threats following her fatal shooting by an immigration officer.

The threats started pouring in to Southside Family Charter School after the New York Post reported on the school’s focus on social justice and right-wing social media accounts identified the school where Good had dropped off her son shortly before encountering the federal agent who shot and killed her, reported Sahan Journal.

“The attacks and threats to our school have been very hurtful, especially at this painful moment,” school officials told the Journal. “At the same time, we have received much support from our community. This moment has been painful but it has also brought us closer as a community.”

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Southside Family Charter School, where Good served on the school board, was founded in the 1970s and became a charter school in 2006, but its enrollment dropped from 119 students last year to just 26 this year after it transitioned from a K-8 to a K-5 program.

“Staff and students prepare and eat meals together,” a school spokeswoman said. “Older students mentor younger students regularly and learn with them as well. Visiting artists and field trips are part of our curriculum.”

Conservative outlets and social media users seized on the school’s social justice curriculum after Good was killed, complaining that students learned about George Floyd’s police murder and staffers were urged to report ICE activity, and a sign notified immigration officers they were not permitted to enter the building without a judicial warrant.

“Our school is responding consistently with how most schools in the area are responding,” school leaders officials said.

Right-wing social media users claimed the school’s focus on social justice was evidence that Good was a domestic terrorist, as Trump administration officials have claimed to justify her killed by a federal agent.

“I’m calling for all federal funds to Minnesota’s Southside Family Charter School to be REVOKED,” Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) posted on Facebook. “This institution radicalizes students and pushes a left-wing agenda that demonizes ICE agents. The federal government should not subsidize anti-American education.”

A TikTok video viewed more than 100,000 times suggested Good was “trained to fight federal agents” by her son’s school, while others mocked her as “the epitome of the modern-day liberal white woman” and questioned her decision to enroll her son there.

The school eventually shut down its Facebook page and took down most of its online presence in response to the threats.

“At this time we would like to ask the community and members of the media to understand this is a very difficult and painful time for our school community and for Renee’s family,” school leaders said. “We would kindly ask everyone to respect our privacy and allow us the necessary time to grieve. We appreciate the community’s compassion, support, and understanding as we mourn together.”

So I’m Trying To Clear Some Tabs

because I’m somewhat compulsive about clutter, but everytime I finish one, I think, “I need to post that,” so I can’t close them. I’m going to do another multi-post here; links and a snip, but all are good/important/pertinent to our interests, so enjoy/read, anyway, these stories.

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Salient points in this one, and she’s not the only one to whom this has occurred:

Benghazi, Beirut or 9/11

Snippet:

<snip> So, the Bush folks felt ecstatic when they got the White House–finally! In 2001. After two long terms of the Bubbas! The grown-ups were in charge! And they pretended the little thing with the missing “W”‘s was a big old riot of Democrat malfeasing–

And they didn’t have their eye on the ball about the PDB that said Bin Laden was planning an attack on our soil.

This is where I think the Trump people are. Trump is off-gassing about “owning” Gaza, He wants to ship about 2 million human beings who have already been through some major shit to Jordan or Egypt. These countries obviously don’t want to be responsible for about 1 million each refugees. Trump should know that, because he doesn’t want any kind of refugees, ever, here in the US.

He’s taking out experienced foreign office and military professionals, He’s offending the hell out of our allies, and making the likelihood of sharing intelligence less favorable. He’s putting in naifs and flakes in important roles.

And then says really offensive shit absolutely guaran-damn-teed to stir up some pot somewhere.

It’s like he figured out antifa isn’t going do a Reichstag with any credibility, so he needs an international crisis to go create bizarre national powers for himself. <snip>

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The Eyes Have It by Samantha Bee

What’s next? Read on Substack

<snip> Not to be all Cassandra about it, but a very big part of the problem is that we are incapable of anticipating what Donald Trump can whip up in his imagination.

Like you know how sometimes you wake up from a dream and you say “oh my god I just had the funniest dream that the dog wouldn’t stop laughing, and her laugh sounded like James Earl Jones!!” and everyone is just thinking “stop telling me about your dreams.”

I think he wakes up from his dreams and says “I am the boss of Canada now.” Or, he takes an elderly man’s nappie-poo in the afternoon, wakes up groggy, slurps a Diet Coke and muses “wouldn’t it be fun to do a WWE RAW in the Concert Hall at the Kennedy Center? The acoustics are huge.” “Or what about one of those cool political rallies where we all do this random gesture together because no one is capable of stopping us?”

Well, we better damn well figure out how to stop this mayhem, because we are learning that things change quickly and without warning. <snip>

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(This one’s just, well, holy-shit-what’s-happened-to-her-brain weird.)

Rep. Nancy Mace accuses ex-fiancé and associates of assaulting her and raping others in House speech

CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina on Monday used a nearly hour-long speech on the U.S. House floor to accuse her ex-fiancé of physically abusing her, recording sex acts with her and others without their consent, and conspiring with business associates in acts of rape and sexual misconduct.

Mace said she was speaking out because her home state’s top prosecutor didn’t take action even after she alerted investigators. That same prosecutor is likely to be Mace’s opponent if she runs for governor of South Carolina in 2026, which she is considering. <snip>

The AP wasn’t able to independently verify Mace’s claims. Bryant told AP: “I categorically deny these allegations. I take this matter seriously and will cooperate fully with any necessary legal processes to clear my name.”

Mace accused South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson of slow-walking any investigation of Bryant and the other men after she brought the photos and video to state authorities.<snip>

Mace, 47, won a third U.S. House term in November and has said that she is “seriously considering” a 2026 run for South Carolina governor. If she enters that race, she will likely face Wilson — in his fourth term and also the son of Rep. Joe Wilson — in the Republican primary. <snip-the whole thing makes better sense as a whole, but not a lot more sense.>

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And finally, a little statement for hope:

What Can Be Done?

Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill, on setting realistic expectations and saving enough of the foundational bricks of democracy to be able to rebuild in the future:

The truth is that we will NOT be able to stop every terrible thing that this administration seeks to do. Elections really do have consequences – as many of us tried with tremendous urgency to make clear last year. But we can slow things down, win some battles, throw sand in the gears of others. If we save some lives, some jobs, some critical government agencies, some measure of press freedom, some medical and subsistence benefits, academic freedom for some schools and universities, and protect the dignity, safety and constitutional rights of some of our most vulnerable fellow Americans, it will be worth it.

And it will be from whatever remainder of democratic structure, values, and policies we are able to protect that we will have the space and platform on which to do the work of building an urgently needed new democracy in our country. So our fight today is worth it.