What Happened Today - 14 Jan 2026
What Happened Today – 14 January 2026
Fed Prosecutors quitting…
Trump’s Detroit Speech…the lies he told
Hero of the DAY! – TJ Sabula
Evacuations at Qatar, Al Udeid Air Base
Measles Update
ICE Detainee Deaths
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Fed Prosecutors quitting…
In Minnesota right now, the adults in the room are basically staging a walkout on Trump’s justice machine. Around six senior federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, including the top fraud prosecutor Joe Thompson, have quit because they’re done being pushed into political hack work instead of real justice. The breaking point was the Renee Good case in Minneapolis, where an ICE agent shot and killed her, and instead of seriously going after the agent, DOJ leadership leaned on these prosecutors to open a criminal investigation into her widow while tightly controlling and slowing any meaningful probe of the shooter. On top of that, they were told to keep quiet with state investigators and the public, while Minnesota’s normal independent review process was basically boxed out. All of this is happening as Trump floods the state with a huge surge of immigration officers under the banner of cracking down on “fraud,” even though it looks and feels like political payback, with communities being heavily surveilled and targeted. So these prosecutors are sending a loud message: they’re not going to be Trump’s political enforcers, they don’t want their names on cases that target grieving families while protecting federal agents, and they’re willing to walk away from big jobs to make that point. For Trump, it’s a warning sign that the more he twists the justice system into a loyalty test and a campaign weapon, the more he loses the very people who make the system function, and the more obvious it becomes to the public that “law and order” under him is about power, not fairness.
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Trump’s Detroit Speech…the lies he told
Trump’s Detroit auto speech was classic him: big chest‑thumping about a “booming” economy and “defeated” inflation, layered on top of a bunch of nonsense that completely falls apart once you look at actual numbers.
First big lie: he told that crowd inflation is “defeated,” bragging that prices are basically under control and the cost of living crisis is over. Reality check: consumer prices are still rising at around 2.7% year‑over‑year, and polling shows a strong majority of voters say the cost of living is still a very serious problem, with almost half saying the overall economy is getting worse and most disapproving of his handling of it. On top of that, independent fact‑checkers in Michigan caught him flat‑out claiming grocery and rent costs have come down when in fact both are still up over the last year and remain well above pre‑pandemic levels, so that “we fixed it” story is pure fiction.
Second lie: he called this “the strongest and fastest economic turnaround in our country’s history” and said “growth is exploding” and “productivity is soaring.” Actual data show growth has been modest and uneven, with manufacturing jobs in particular in a slump and Michigan’s auto sector dealing with EV write‑downs, plant cuts, and a pullback in electric F‑150 production, not some unprecedented golden age. If anything, people on the ground in Michigan are telling reporters they don’t feel any “boom” he’s selling, which is why local coverage described his Detroit victory lap as a boom “invisible to many.”
Third lie: he boasted that his tariffs “slashed” the U.S. trade deficit by 62% in a short period and that those tariffs brought in “trillions” in new investment. Trade data do not show anything close to a 62% collapse in the deficit from his new measures, and economists across the board note that his tariffs have also raised costs for consumers and manufacturers, especially in autos. As for “trillions” in investment, that’s just made‑up scale — the U.S. doesn’t have remotely that level of confirmed new capital spending tied to his tariffs, and even auto‑sector announcements in Michigan are being offset by big EV write‑offs and canceled or delayed projects.
Fourth lie: he bragged about imposing a 25% tariff on “all foreign automobiles” and suggested that’s why auto jobs and investment are surging. In reality, that 25% blanket figure overstates what’s actually in place, and the auto industry picture is mixed at best: Ford has announced the end of electric F‑150 Lightning production with huge losses, and factories are shifting and shedding planned investment, not just ramping up new hiring. Even where there are new investments or product shifts, they’re happening in a context of uncertainty driven in part by his own tariff threats, which is the opposite of the stable renaissance he described.
He also spun health care and housing like he’s already delivering when he’s mostly promising vibes. He told the crowd he’ll soon unveil a “health care affordability framework” that will lower premiums and drug prices and hold insurers accountable, even while his own refusal to back extended Affordable Care Act subsidies is a big reason exchange premiums just spiked for millions. He mocked “affordability” as a “fake word by Democrats” in the same speech where he claimed he’s going to fix affordability, and he floated ideas like a one‑year 10% cap on credit card interest that consumer and banking experts say are either half‑baked or unlikely to work as advertised. On housing, he talked tough about stopping big investors from buying single‑family homes but offered almost no concrete mechanism, and analysts are already flagging that his proposals lack detail and probably wouldn’t actually bring rents down the way he implied.
Bottom line, that Detroit auto speech was a highlight reel of his favorite moves: declare victory on inflation that isn’t actually over, brag about a historic “turnaround” the data don’t show, inflate what his tariffs and auto policies have done, and promise future health and housing fixes while actively making those exact bills more painful for regular people.
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Hero of the DAY! – TJ Sabula
During Trump’s visit to the Ford F‑150 plant in Dearborn, TJ Sabula, a 40‑year‑old UAW line worker, shouted “pedophile protector” at him from the factory floor, calling him out over his long, shady proximity to Epstein and the way his administration keeps dragging its feet on releasing the Epstein files that Congress already required to be made public. Trump’s response was pure thin‑skinned bully energy: he pointed at TJ, clearly mouthed “fuck you” twice, and then flipped him off in front of everyone, an obscene gesture that was caught on multiple videos and later confirmed by the White House, which actually called his behavior “appropriate.”
Ford’s reaction was to suspend TJ without pay, which tells you exactly how quickly corporations will side with presidential power over a rank‑and‑file worker exercising his speech. But America is not having it: TJ has gone viral as the guy who said out loud what millions are thinking, he’s given interviews saying he has “no regrets,” and a GoFundMe started by supporters and union allies is now flooding with donations and messages thanking him for his courage, calling him a patriot and praising him for forcing the Epstein issue back into the spotlight. People are pointing out that one Ford worker with a backbone did more to confront Trump on protecting powerful predators than most elected Republicans have managed in years, and that his call‑out brought renewed focus to how little of the Epstein material has actually been released despite a bipartisan law demanding transparency.
So yes, bravo to TJ for seizing that split second and using it to drag Trump in his own carefully staged photo‑op; he turned a scripted factory tour into a viral reminder that the president loses his mind when regular people confront him about who he really protects. America’s response is basically split between MAGA world screaming that TJ is a “lunatic” and a huge wave of workers, survivors’ advocates, and everyday people lifting him up as a hero for saying the quiet part out loud and refusing to back down.
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Evacuations at Qatar, Al Udeid Air Base
Some personnel at the big U.S. base in Qatar, Al Udeid, are being told to leave as a precaution because tensions with Iran are spiking, not because there is confirmed intel that an attack is definitely coming this week. Iranian officials have publicly warned neighboring countries that if the U.S. launches strikes on Iran, they would consider U.S. bases in those countries fair game for retaliation, and Al Udeid is one of the most important of those bases. In response, the U.S. is quietly reducing non‑essential staff and adjusting its posture so that if things blow up, fewer people are at risk, which is standard risk management in a potential conflict zone, not a guarantee that Iran is about to hit that base on a specific day.
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Measles Update
Measles is still a serious problem in the U.S., but right now case numbers for 2026 are low while health officials worry about a big rebound after last year’s surge. As of January 6, 2026, the CDC reports just 3 confirmed measles cases this year nationwide, all in the Carolinas, but those numbers are preliminary and can change as new reports come in. The concern comes from 2025: the U.S. had 2,144 confirmed cases last year spread across 45 states and jurisdictions, which is the highest yearly measles total in decades and far above the 285 cases reported in 2024. Almost 90% of 2025 cases were tied to outbreaks, and at least three people died, including two unvaccinated school‑aged children in Texas and one unvaccinated adult in New Mexico, marking the first U.S. measles deaths in about ten years. South Carolina and Utah have been among the hardest‑hit states recently, with South Carolina alone reporting more than 300 cases in an Upstate outbreak and Utah confirming 176 infections tied to ongoing transmission, which helps explain why national totals spiked so sharply last year. Public health agencies are pushing MMR vaccination hard because most of these infections are in people who are unvaccinated or under‑vaccinated, and they warn that measles can spread quickly again in 2026 if coverage stays below the roughly 95% level needed to block outbreaks.
All of this…because of a brainwashing campaign by a guy who did drugs….bravo.
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ICE Detainee Deaths
In 2025, somewhere around 30–32 people died in ICE custody, which is the highest number in roughly 20 years and nearly three times the number of deaths in 2024. Advocacy groups and media analyses put the 2025 total at about 30–32 deaths, noting that ICE’s own public count (15 deaths reported from January 23 through the end of fiscal 2025) was later supplemented by a congressional memo that found 25 deaths in that fiscal year alone, with additional cases bringing the full calendar‑year total into the low 30s. By comparison, earlier years in the 2010s usually saw deaths in the single digits to low teens, so 2025 really stands out as the deadliest year in two decades.
For 2026 so far, at least 4 migrants have already died in ICE custody in just the first 10 days of January, all men between 42 and 68 years old from Honduras, Cuba, and Cambodia, with deaths reported at facilities in Texas, California, and Pennsylvania. Rights groups are calling this “truly staggering,” warning that if this pace continues, 2026 could rival or exceed 2025’s record, especially since ICE is now detaining around 69,000 people, up steeply from about 36,000 just two years earlier under Trump’s expanded detention push.
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Today will be filled I’m sure with more chaos, I have a busy day so wanted to get this out sooner rather than later. ;)
Speak Truth! Keep speaking TRUTH!
Don’t Give up the Ship!
Go Cause Good Trouble, with Your Elbows Up!
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