Anybody watching the movie today? 
Woodstock Willie didn't see his shadow. Early spring here!
Phil had bad news for Punxsatawney. They get six more weeks of winter.
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Kennedy CenterGuess this is one way to avoid the embarrassment of cancellations.
President Trump said Sunday he will move to close Washington's Kennedy Center performing arts center for two years starting in July for construction, his latest move to upturn the storied venue since returning to the White House.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/01/nx-s1-5695832/kennedy-center-renovations-trump
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Some jokes landed with a thud, and the room fell silent repeatedly.The orange man spoke at a black tie dinner last night.
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ICE in Portland ORPortland Mayor Keith Wilson urged Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to resign and told their bosses to leave Portland in a scathing statement issued Saturday after federal agents launched tear gas at a large crowd protesting near the Portland ICE facility.
âTo those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave,â Wilson wrote. âThrough your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.â
Thousands of protesters, including children, marched through Portland and enveloped the blocks around the South Waterfront facility Saturday afternoon. Federal agents launched tear gas, pepper balls and rubber bullets at the crowd shortly after it arrived after some crossed the buildingâs property line and approached its security gate.
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Weather where you are threadI used to love to go for a walk in Door County after a fresh snow. The animal tracks crisscrossing the road were like a map of where anything had been, and in most cases, what they were. There was one time when we saw a long snake-like line through the snow. We finally figured out that it was Morgan, our neighbor's golden retriever. Bill had left Morgan's leash on him in case he needed to restrain him if a car drove by. The leash dragged behind the dog, creating the snow snake.
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Liam and his dad ordered released -
Melania, the movie isn't doing too well -
Straight up Gestapo ShitChris Christie on This Week, regarding MN: The administration is addressing the PR problem, not the actual problem. Trump is worried about the polls and doesn't care about what's really happening in MN. Homan is just an outwardly calmer but probably no different than Bovino, face to the public.
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Good news from TexasDemocrat and machinist union leader Taylor Rehmet won the special election Saturday to represent a solidly red Texas Senate district that President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024, a stunning upset that injected a fresh and urgent sense of a panic into the GOP from the Texas Capitol to the White House heading into Novemberâs midterm elections.
The loss was a major setback for Wambsganss, a conservative activist whose advocacy in recent years helped make Tarrant County â nearly half of which is covered by Senate District 9 â a testing ground for socially conservative policies. Long active in GOP circles, Wambsganss rose to prominence in 2022 when she helped the GOP fill North Texas school boards with candidates who held Christian conservative views. The movementâs success resulted in an explosion across the country of book bans, rewriting of curricula and a thinner line separating church and state.
In a statement, Wambsganss said the outcome was a âwakeup callâ for Republicans, but she insisted things would shake out differently in November, when she and Rehmet will face off again for a full four-year term representing the district.
âThe dynamics of a special election are fundamentally different from a November general election,â Wambsganss said. âI believe the voters of Senate District 9 and Tarrant County Republicans will answer the call in November.âtps://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/texas-senate-district-9-runoff-rehmet-wambsganss-special-election/
Rehmet was far outspent in the leadup to the November election, spending $68,000 compared to millions spent by the two GOP candidates. He remained financially outgunned heading into Saturday, with Wambsganss reporting a whopping $736,000 in expenditures compared to Rehmetâs roughly $70,000, according to campaign finance filings with the state.
Outsiders have also been spending on the race. VoteVets, a progressive national veterans PAC, poured in roughly $500,000 to boost Rehmet. Patrick, the upper chamberâs presiding officer, contributed $300,000 to Wambsganssâ campaign through his PAC, Texas Senate Leadership Fund.
Rehmet entered Saturday with no cash on hand while Wambsganss had $310,000.
âWe have an opportunity to really show that if you have a good message and you stick to voters and what they want, listen, that you can win an election as an underdog, that you can overcome millions and millions spent against you,â Rehmet said in an interview Friday. âAs long as youâre doing the right thing, you can get elected.â
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Liam and his dad ordered releasedThe 5 year old who was taken by ICE with his dad. DHS says the mother wouldn't take him and the father said he wanted the boy to go with him.
The mom fills in a few key details, including that they were in the US legally under a Biden program that was rescinded by the orange man:
The ruling from the judge:
A 5-year-old boy and his father must be released by Tuesday from the Texas center where theyâve been held after being detained by immigration officers in Minnesota, a federal judge ordered Saturday in a ruling that harshly criticized the Trump administrationâs approach to enforcement.
Images of Liam Conejo Ramos, wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack, being surrounded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers sparked even more outcry about the administrationâs immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, who sits in San Antonio and was appointed by former Democratic President Bill Clinton, said in his ruling that âthe case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.â
Biery had previously ruled that the boy and his father could not be removed from the U.S., at least for now.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-minnesota-boy-detained-a1ef2144c03a0136ef123f5a3685ee44
