23-1-2026 US GDP

The boss is back! HOORAY!

I’m in Portugal and can access swentr, it hasn’t been blocked in all of EU, it seems.

Use TOR or some VPN.

Greenland is in Arctic

There are no penguins in Arctic

Except in Trump’s Mind©

Cute & Retarded

@MPSK: We are down south of interstate 10 this weekend, so there was freezing rain, ice and sleet, highwinds, biut the temperature did not drop below 26F, and got up to freezing at 4PM.
We did this on purpose. We attended a funeral in San Antonio Friday, then came down to Yoakum to tidy up the garden for an hour before it got completely dark, and the cold winds arrived.

Yesterday and today I caught up on news, but Zerosum and I were stuck back in November, wonderine where y’all wuz, until I looked just now.

Here is Yesterday’s post, Another Dead Citizen https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/another-dead-citizen

Winter In America https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/winter-in-america

This analysis of new video of Renee Good’s homocide by ICE Agent Jonathan Ross shows that Good tried to miss him when he stood in front of her vehicle, preparing to shoot her, by passing his cellphone camera to his left hand and then tossing it on her vehicle to touch the vehicle with his left hand, as he aimed his gun to shoot her through the windshield. He might or might not have contacted the side of her vehicle with his leg as it passed, but he shot her twice more through her window when he was unthreatened, to assure a kill. What are the “classified” ICE rules of engagement with American Citizens?
You can start about 3:30 and scan forward for the actual video clips which just take a few minutes and are remarkably clear.
ICE SHOOTING: NEW Explosive Evidence – DOJ Blocks Investigation (New Video Breakdown) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eklhMEQ8VjE

CNN has 3 minutes of 3D animation and those short video clips of Jonathan Ross shooting Renee Good 3 times, derived from and including this new video, with moment to moment analysis, (This looks like an intentional killing, not necessaryself-defense.) https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/us/video/3d-imaging-examines-renee-good-shooting-john-miller-digvid-vrtc

FBI agent resigns after trying to investigate ICE officer who shot Renee Good
An FBI agent who wanted to investigate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who shot Renee Good has resigned, according to the New York Times.
The New York Times reports that Tracee Mergen left her supervision role after being urged to drop a civil rights inquiry into Jonathan Ross.
Federal investigators have refused to work with Minnesota state agencies on an investigation into Good’s death.
The announcement comes after six federal prosecutors, including Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, resigned last week amid pressure to investigate Renee Good’s widow. https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/fbi-agent-resigns-after-trying-to-investigate-ice-officer-who-shot-renee-good/

Emerging Evidence Provides Basis for Opening Investigation of ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good, Julia Gegenheimer
On January 7, ICE Agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, on the streets of Minneapolis. The Justice Department has refused to open a criminal investigation into the shooting, hastily declaring it an act of self-defense that does not warrant a criminal inquiry. But despite statements by administration officials to the contrary, there is more than enough for DOJ to investigate here. I know from experience.
For over a decade, I was a prosecutor in the Criminal Section of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, the office dedicated to—and staffed with experts on—investigating and prosecuting officer-involved shootings and other uses of excessive force. From reviewing, investigating, and prosecuting law-enforcement misconduct cases, I know both whether and how DOJ, across administrations, would look into something like the Jan. 7 shooting.
I also know just how challenging such investigations can be and how difficult these cases are to prove. Prosecutors must first find that the force used was excessive as a matter of constitutional law. That means, in Fourth Amendment parlance, the force was an objectively unreasonable seizure. Prosecutors must prove this under a legal standard that explicitly allows “for the fact that…officers are often forced to make split-second judgments—in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving—about the amount of force that is necessary in a particular situation.” Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386, 396-97 (1989). https://www.justsecurity.org/129439/investigation-ice-jonathan-ross-renee-good/

Contains some good points
Like a summary

Minneapolis Shooting Sets Stage For Government Shutdown Unless Republicans Cave On DHS https://www.zerohedge.com/political/minneapolis-shooting-sets-stage-government-shutdown-unless-republicans-cave-dhs

William Murphy, The Erasure Economy: How Survival Becomes a Crime in America
When housing is a commodity and survival a liability, America forces its most vulnerable into displacement and exile.
When survival becomes illegal in your own city, displacement isn’t a side effect—it’s the policy.
This is the quiet logic of the Erasure Economy: a political system that systematically removes people once they stop being profitable. Housing in the United States is no longer organized around shelter; it’s organized around extraction. Rent, mortgages, zoning, and “quality of life” ordinances function together as a sorting mechanism—not to house people, but to decide who gets to stay.
Start with affordability. Wages stagnate while rents and home prices soar, driven by financialization, speculative investment, and landlord consolidation. Housing is treated less like infrastructure and more like a financial asset class. Once that happens, scarcity becomes a feature, not a bug. High prices are not a failure of the system—they are the system working exactly as designed.
Now look at the escape hatches people turn to when traditional housing becomes impossible. Tiny homes? Banned or strangled by zoning codes written for single-family suburban fantasies. Manufactured housing? Bought up by private equity, rents jacked up, residents displaced. Living in a vehicle? Criminalized through parking ordinances, anti-camping laws, and constant police harassment. RV living, once a retirement fallback, is now treated as a public nuisance. Car camping becomes a misdemeanor. Existing while poor becomes a crime…
..Forced migration is the endgame. Seniors on fixed incomes are pushed out of the cities they built. Low-wage workers are driven farther and farther from jobs that still depend on their labor. Entire populations are shuffled across state lines, into deserts, into forests, into invisibility. This isn’t mobility—it’s exile… The real crisis isn’t homelessness. It’s a political economy that refuses to make space for people it no longer profits from. https://futuredude.substack.com/p/the-erasure-economy-how-survival

Filthy homeless encampments pop up across Manhattan after woke new NYC mayor vowed to stop clearing them away https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15491609/homeless-encampments-nyc-zohran-mamdani.html

Snitch on your foreign coworkers to the government. USDA Researchers Instructed to Investigate Foreign Colleagues
President Donald Trump’s administration is directing employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.”
The new directive, part of a broader effort to increase scrutiny of research done with foreign partners, asks workers in the agency’s research arm to use Google to check the backgrounds of all foreign nationals collaborating with its scientists. The names of flagged scientists are being sent to national security experts at the agency, according to records reviewed by ProPublica. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/usda-researchers-instructed-to-investigate-foreign-colleagues.html

Across the pond: UK Home Secretary’s Shocking Admission About the Emerging AI Surveillance State
UK Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, the person nominally in charge of the UK Police, justice system and MI5, sat down for an in conversation event with the former Prime Minister (and current Labour government’s eminence grise) Tony Blair, organised by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. In that conversation, made a chilling admission about the government’s ultimate goal of AI surveillance.
From the Daily Telegraph, the only mainstream newspaper besides Scotland’s The National to deign to cover the story:
“AI and technology can be transformative to the whole of the law and order space.”
“When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. Similarly, in the world of policing, in particular, we’ve already been rolling out live facial recognition technology, but I think there’s big space here for being able to harness the power of AI and tech to get ahead of the criminals, frankly, which is what we’re trying to do.”
[Bentham, an 18th-century philosopher and social theorist, promoted the Panopticon as a circular prison with a central inspection tower from which a single guard could observe all inmates all the time while unseen.] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/uk-home-secretarys-surprisingly-candid-admission-about-real-reason-for-ai-surveillance-state.html