A lesbian judge was condemned after telling a female defendant who’d suffered a pregnancy scare to buy a vibrator because it would cause her ‘less trouble’, former staffers said.
Bexar County Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez oversees Reflejo Court, which is a trauma-informed treatment program which hopes to help first-time domestic violence offenders deal with the root causes of their issues rather than jail time.
OTTAWA — The Arctic is no longer a margin. It is a hinge. It anchors nuclear deterrence, opens future maritime routes, and holds resources vital to global economies.
Over time, NATO Arctic countries have deployed forces, conducted exercises, and invested in infrastructure, but these measures have not kept pace with Russian and Chinese activity, evolving operational risks, and shifting environmental dynamics. Russian under-ice submarine operations, Chinese dual-use activity, and growing pressure on Arctic infrastructure are expanding as ice coverage shifts and navigable waters increase.
🚨SOMETHING IS WRONG IN CANADA, OKAY?
We went from this 2023 report which concluded that China "undermines our democratic institutions and our fundamental rights and freedoms.”
To Mark Carney discussing "security" with the Communist Party of China
in under 2 years! pic.twitter.com/Sb3gN5PBeK
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) January 15, 2026
IT’S SIX years, almost to the day, since many of us first heard the word covid – but we certainly haven’t heard the last of it. I expect that any day now I will get an invitation to come for ‘my’ covid spring vaccination. Naturally I will ignore it as I have ignored all the others, but I seem unable to stop them from coming.
We now know that covid – or at least the fear of it and the restrictions that followed – caused a trail of economic destruction which may never be repaired. But for me, covid actually did a good turn as it enabled me finally to wake up as to what was going on all around me.
In Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the “ravages of mob law” throughout the land. Lincoln warned, in eerily prescient fashion, that the spread of a then-ascendant “mobocratic spirit” threatened to sever the “attachment of the People” to their fellow countrymen and their nation. Lincoln’s opposition to anarchy of any kind was absolute and clarion: “There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.”
“Following the money”
Journalists shows the ICE protest signs are not made by random grassroots Americans
No. After the protest is done, the organizers recollect all the signs and load them into vans ready for the next protest
The ICE protests are PAID and ORGANIZED pic.twitter.com/Mgv9i0X8c4
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 13, 2026
A Fort Saskatchewan high school teacher was caught berating students with an anti-conservative rant about society.
“Your entire society is built on ‘F*** Trudeau’ sticker, ‘Oil pipelines, now.’ ‘You bad, I good.’ ‘Angry,'” said the teacher to his students. “Okay, but you can’t control your entire society with anger.”
(Incognito)
The mother of Hunter Biden’s child has asked an Arkansas judge to have him arrested for failing to fulfil a child support agreement, in new court filings.
Lunden Roberts, 34, filed an emotional plea to the judge on Tuesday, reopening her child support case against the felonious former First Son, who is now an artist.
Roberts settled her claims against Hunter for alleged millions in unpaid child support in 2023, letting him off the hook with a reported $5,000 per month in support payments and an agreement that he would meet with their daughter, then age 4, and let her pick out some of his paintings.
When Ani Rathore got a call from staff at his Javawocky Coffee House saying Aiden Tye was in his establishment, he knew trouble was brewing.
“It was just like a ticking time bomb,” he said Wednesday.
Catch and release … HUNTER: Is accused sex trafficker Skye Atoa poster boy for broken bail?
Lethbridge Police re-arrested and charged an accused sex offender for breaching the conditions of a release order approximately half an hour after his release from custody. READ MORE: https://t.co/lXFX1YORXk #yql https://t.co/cbhS63NaE4
— Lethbridge Police (@lethpolice) January 14, 2026
h/t Mauser
President Donald Trump has again threatened to invoke a rarely used 19th Century law, this time to deploy the military to Minneapolis, Minnesota where thousands continue to protest against the large presence of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
The demonstrations have intensified after an ICE officer fatally shot a protester, Renee Good, in her car last week. This week, federal law enforcement shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis in a move federal officials say was self defence.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that “if the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT”.
Federal agents used pepper spray to push through an ANGRY crowd that tried to block their vehicles in a Somali neighborhood in Minnesota.
I'm all for using pepper spray to disperse an angry, violent mob.
How about you??
pic.twitter.com/ojdRgTyoEk— Mila Joy (@Milajoy) December 31, 2025
I’m about to sign up to be an ICE agent just so I can pepper spray these fools lmao I’d be just like this 😂⚡️❤️🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/rH1D06dggT
— Based_Blondie (@Based_BLONDIE) January 10, 2026
It was an iconic image: A photogenic young Iranian woman filmed herself lighting a cigarette with a picture of Iran’s leader, an evocative protest against the misogynistic clerics who run Iran.
It grabbed the attention of a world captivated by the Iranian uprisings, quickly inspiring copycats — including other young women and American politicians — and stylized artwork as well as AI knockoffs.
President Trump announced early Wednesday that his administration will strip federal funding from sanctuary cities and states, in line with policies he promoted on the campaign trail.
“EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY FIRST, NO MORE PAYMENTS WILL BE MADE BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO STATES FOR THEIR CORRUPT CRIMINAL PROTECTION CENTERS KNOWN AS SANCTUARY CITIES,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social.
What a President.
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada should pursue free trade with other countries, including China, in the face of rising U.S. protectionism.
Joly made the comment in Beijing on Jan. 15 after a day of meetings in the Chinese capital, which included the signing of bilateral agreements and a meeting between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese Premier Li Qiang.
🇨🇳🇷🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 : Industry Minister Mélanie Joly announces Canada & China are now in a new era of partnership.
🇺🇦 This despite China being the #1 ally to Russia, in their war in Ukraine. Canadian taxpayers have given $25 billion in aid to Ukraine. Citing the need to protect Ukraine as… pic.twitter.com/YDO7lrjXDv
— Bruce McGonigal (@bruce_mcgonigal) January 15, 2026
Carney in running to be the next Maduro …
Mark Carney talking in China
“I believe the progress we have made and the partnership sets us up well for the new world order”
What a disaster. pic.twitter.com/qiiLQN1G5Z
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) January 15, 2026
Free Trade with China? Say goodbye to the auto industry.
🚨 BREAKING: In a shocking moment for the Experts, the CEO of Ford just told a reporter he's EXPANDING auto production and plant operations because of President Trump's tariffs and EPA deregulation
IMAGINE THAT. 🇺🇸
CEO: "We're adding a combustion vehicle, a combustion truck,… pic.twitter.com/I0BqjEFCjf
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 13, 2026
h/t Hermes, Clink9, Auntie Polly and XC
Heartbreaking to hear about this story, I can’t imagine what precious angel Harvey’s family must be going through.
Imagine if the race roles were reversed in the story. Media are a disgrace for ignoring this report. ❤️🙏❤️ pic.twitter.com/hi5vJwAgVD
— Tosca Austen (@ToscaAusten) January 15, 2026
Hours before U.S. Army Delta Force commandos captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife during a nighttime raid in Caracas, an anonymous trader, using a newly created account on the prediction market Polymarket, wagered more than $30,000 that Maduro would be out of office by Jan. 31, 2026. The trader walked away with more than $400,000 in profit.
This was no ordinary bet on sports, weather, entertainment or trivia. It was a wager on matters of war and peace — among the gravest decisions a government can make. The “prediction” was timed with such pitch-perfect precision that it drew heavy media scrutiny and put prediction markets squarely in the spotlight. The transaction bore the hallmarks of insider trading. While the identity of the trader remains unknown, the mere possibility that a government insider could have pocketed more than $400,000 should be reason enough for Congress to act.
Panic at the WAPO!
Lesson learned? pic.twitter.com/J0y0sWjBbM
— Farm Girl Carrie 👩🌾 (@FarmGirlCarrie) January 15, 2026
h/t Mauser
U.S. President Donald Trump says he wants Congress to codify his plan to ban institutional investors like Blackrock from purchasing single-family homes as part of a push to restore affordability to the housing market.
Canada’s housing market is generally more expensive than the U.S. and ranks as one of the least affordable in the G7 when comparing income-to-price ratios.
Would a similar ban in Canada make sense?
You will own nothing and you will be happy … said some guy with a Nazi dad.
