“Budget-friendly grocery chain Aldi is expanding its footprint in the U.S. The company announced on Monday that it plans to open more than 180 stores by the end of 2026, pushing its total footprint to nearly 2,800 this year. Its goal is to operate about 3,200 stores by the end of 2028. As part of the company’s growth plans over the next five years, it will enter the Colorado market for the first time while opening additional stores in the Southeast and West markets. It also has plans to open three new distribution centers in Florida, Colorado and Arizona. … Demand for the low-cost grocer has risen as consumers grapple with higher everyday expenses.” (01/12/26)
“On 3 January, US special forces removed Venezuela’s president and brutal despot Nicolás Maduro from power. A few hours later, at a hastily arranged press conference, US president Donald Trump seemed even more pleased with himself than usual. Perhaps his excitement explains the Freudian slip. ‘I watched last night one of the most precise attacks on sovereignty,’ he said, before quickly correcting himself – ‘I mean, it was an attack for justice.’ But the truth was out. … But Trump’s legion loathers among our political and cultural elites are not seeing the Venezuela intervention as an attack on national sovereignty. No, they’re casting it above all as an attack on the so-called rules-based order itself.” (01/11/26)
“Zohran Mamdani wants to institute ‘collectivist’ governance, but NYC already has a collectivist problem—a coordinated veto system that blocks development and progress.” (01/12/26)
“The top court of the United Nations has opened a landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its mostly Muslim Rohingya minority. Myanmar’s military deliberately targeted the Rohingya minority in a bid to destroy the community, The Gambia’s Justice Minister Dawda Jallow told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Monday. … The trial is the first genocide case the ICJ has taken up in full in more than a decade, and its outcome will have repercussions beyond Myanmar, likely affecting South Africa’s petition against Israel over its genocidal war on Gaza. The hearings will span three weeks.” (01/12/26)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Simon Sarevski
“To understand the story of the bicycle, we need to travel back to the late 19th century — a time when people’s mobility was restricted not by laws but by technology and wealth, or rather, by the lack of both. Travel required a horse, and a horse was neither cheap nor easy to maintain. For women, the barriers were even higher: social norms and safety in some cultures required a chaperone, making any trip more complicated and costly. The bicycle changed that, and in the words of the pioneering women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony, this simple machine ‘has done more to emancipate women than any other thing in the world.'” (01/11/26)
“Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly sued the Pentagon on Monday over attempts to punish him for his warnings about illegal orders, claiming the Trump administration trampled on his constitutional rights to free speech. Kelly, a former U.S. Navy pilot who represents Arizona, is seeking to block his censure from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week. Hegseth announced on Jan. 5 that he censured Kelly over his participation in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders. Hegseth said the censure — by itself simply a formal letter with little practical consequence — was ‘a necessary process step’ to proceedings that could result in a demotion from Kelly’s retired rank of captain and subsequent reduction in retirement pay. Kelly asked the federal court in Washington, D.C., to rule that the censure letter, the proceedings about his rank and any other punishments against him are “unlawful and unconstitutional.” (01/12/26)
America, just like the Catholic Church, decimated and abused the innocent quite simply because they could. Every reason they supplied to the public was nothing more than another empty excuse for the perversion of naked power. The government, my government, didn’t give a flying fuck about fighting communism. In fact, they supported it when it suited them in Cambodia just to destabilize Vietnam. And they didn’t give a flying fuck about democracy either. … It was a harsh lesson to teach a pissed-off teenager, but it was also the only lesson that passed the smell test with her because I was already intimately familiar with the savagery that pious adults were capable of when they could convince themselves that they were armed with moral superiority.” (01/11/26)
“Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem vowed on Sunday to send ‘hundreds more’ federal agents to Minneapolis as thousands continue to protest the [murder] of a woman by an immigration officer last week. … Noem’s announcement came a day after tens of thousands took to the streets of Minneapolis to protest over the [murder] of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an immigration officer and the continued presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the city. Good, a mother of three and a poet, was [murdered] in front of her partner while inside her car on Wednesday. Those protests have since spread across the country.” (01/11/26)
“Blowback :: When did Israel start trying to start a fight with Iran? :: 9-11 Report total propaganda :: Tom sent an email to the UN to try to get them to condemn Trump’s actions in Venezuela, Tom’s plan :: The way the deep state props up the US even outside of the US itself :: The Dishonorable, Contemptible, Corrupt Ricky from the Commonwealth talks on air with the Creepy, Disturbing, Inappropriate Turd Ferguson from the Commonwealth :: The depth of Rich E Rich’s pettiness :: List of the weirdest things Trump has done in the last 24 hours alone :: Our experiences with Real ID :: Would we give up some profit/ productivity for more liberty and privacy? Yes. :: 2026-01-11 Hosts: Bonnie, Rich E Rich, Riley O’Bill.” (01/11/26)
