Minnesota: DOJ Arrests 16 Anti-ICE Activists for Rioting, Including Viral ‘Bananas and Rice’ Somali Migrant

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the arrests of 16 individuals in Minnesota for allegedly rioting and assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, including a Somali immigrant who recently went viral for saying that “being Somali isn’t just eating bananas with rice.”

“I am on the ground in Minneapolis today. Federal agents have arrested 16 Minnesota rioters for allegedly assaulting federal law enforcement — people who have been resisting and impeding our federal law enforcement agents,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X:

We expect more arrests to come. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Nothing will stop President Trump and this Department of Justice from enforcing the law.

Among those arrested is 23-year-old Nasra Ahmed, a Somali American, who recently went viral online when, during a press conference, she said, “Being Somali isn’t just eating bananas with rice.”

“It’s like, it’s a, it’s a… it’s kind of like the bananas and rice,” Ahmed said. “It’s like that combination of banana and rice, but you, you, you’re gonna get what I mean.” (Read more from “Minnesota: DOJ Arrests 16 Anti-ICE Activists for Rioting, Including Viral ‘Bananas and Rice’ Somali Migrant” HERE)

Prime Pink Slips: Amazon to Cut 16,000 Corporate Jobs

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Amazon announced Wednesday it will eliminate 16,000 corporate positions as part of an organizational restructuring aimed at reducing management layers and streamlining operations.

Bloomberg reports that Amazon announced Wednesday it will eliminate 16,000 corporate positions as part of an organizational restructuring. The job cuts represent part of a broader effort by the technology giant to remove bureaucratic obstacles and increase employee ownership across the company.

Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, disclosed the workforce reduction in a blog post on Wednesday. The company will provide affected US-based employees with a 90-day period to search for alternative positions within the organization. Those unable to secure new roles will receive severance packages and transition assistance.

Galetti emphasized the company’s commitment to organizational improvement, stating that Amazon has been working to strengthen its structure by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy. She also sought to reassure employees and stakeholders that the company does not plan to announce broad staff cuts every few months, though Amazon will continue to make adjustments as deemed necessary.

The latest round of layoffs brings Amazon’s total announced job cuts to 30,000 over a three-month period, following an initial wave of reductions in October. The scale of these cuts reflects Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy’s determination to address organizational concerns that emerged following a pandemic-era hiring surge that significantly expanded the company’s corporate workforce. (Read more from “Prime Pink Slips: Amazon to Cut 16,000 Corporate Jobs” HERE)

‘Little Rascals’ star living off-the-grid in poverty as ‘Catholic extremist’ after arrest over huffing air duster cans

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Years after his huffing arrest, “Little Rascals” star Bug Hall has traded in Hollywood for a quiet homesteading lifestyle.

The former child star, who identifies as “a radical Catholic extremist,” has moved his wife and five daughters to a small area near Mountain Home, Ark., reports the Daily Mail.

Hall, 40, told the outlet that he already gave up the money he made as a child actor and has taken “a vow of poverty.”

In accordance with his religious commitment, he donated all of his savings along with the majority of his material items, and plans to “maintain a life as free of any need for an income as possible.”

“If there’s a financial need that comes up, I’ll go take some work or do an odd job, for cash to fulfill that need,” he explained.

As of Page Six’s reporting, the actor and his family currently reside in a campervan with a water well and a generator. (Read more from “‘Little Rascals’ star living off-the-grid in poverty as ‘Catholic extremist’ after arrest over huffing air duster cans” HERE)

Holocaust Museum Condemns Gov. Tim Walz’s Comments Comparing Minnesota Children to Anne Frank: ‘Deeply Offensive’

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The U.S. Holocaust Museum shared a statement in reaction to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz comparing the experience of children in Minnesota to that of Holocaust victim Anne Frank.

Walz, 61, made the comparison in a press conference held on Sunday, Jan. 25, following the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal officers.

“We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank,” Walz said towards the end of the press conference. “Somebody’s going to write that children’s story about Minnesota.”

Anne Frank died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15 after spending two years in hiding, one of six million Jews murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.

“Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish,” the museum wrote in a statement shared on X on Monday, Jan. 26. “Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges.”

(Read more from “Holocaust Museum Condemns Gov. Tim Walz’s Comments Comparing Minnesota Children to Anne Frank: ‘Deeply Offensive’” HERE)

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Major Christian Church Delivers Win For Liberals

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The Church of England (CoE) confirmed Sarah Mullally as its first female archbishop Wednesday.

Mullally’s appointment to the position of archbishop was first announced in October. The Anglican Communion has “tens of millions of members,” according to the CoE’s official website.

The archbishop of Canterbury “[leads] the vision and direction of the Church of England,” according to the CoE’s website.

Mullally has expressed liberal stances on certain biblical issues.

“Our eyes have been opened to the harm we have done, especially to LGBTI+ people,” Mullally said during a debate on blessings for same-sex relationships, according to The Pink News. (Read more from “Major Christian Church Delivers Win For Liberals” HERE)

How Activists Use Curriculum And Training To Embed Leftist Ideology In K–12 Schools

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Activist organizations are developing curricula instructing teachers and students to be skeptical toward claims of antisemitism and sympathetic to pro-Palestinian causes, documents show.

Two pro-Palestinian organizations, Participatory Action Research Center for Organizing (PARCEO) and Project48, orchestrate programs and disseminate materials that blame “white nationalism” for antisemitism and ask participants to consider the “bad habit” of whiteness, documents obtained by Defending Education (DE) and shared exclusively with the Daily Caller News Foundation show. The activist programs are already finding their way into schools.

PARCEO “is a research, resource and education center” that partners with groups and institutions focusing on “educational justice; racial justice; workers’ rights; gender justice; challenging Islamophobia; immigrant rights; health and food justice, and more.” Project48 “was created to center Palestinians in the telling of their own history” and works to provide “educational material, eyewitness testimonies, images, videos and artifacts” to teach about “the ongoing Palestinian struggle against colonial erasure and the return of refugees to their ancestral lands.”

Both organizations have benefited from large, direct grants from Soros-linked Open Society foundations.

The two groups joined forces to create the Palestinian Nakba Curriculum, using the Arabic word for “Catastrophe” to refer to “the creation of Israel in 1948” and the following territorial struggle. The curriculum is meant to be used for “individual classes, for semester-long learning, as theme-specific modules, for presentations, and for workshops and webinars” and touches on topics such as “Settler Colonialism, Zionism, Refugees and Right of Return,” according to the Project48 website. (Read more from “How Activists Use Curriculum And Training To Embed Leftist Ideology In K–12 Schools” HERE)

Ed Department: California Violated Family Rights Law By Secretly ‘Transitioning’ Students

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The U.S. Department of Education found the California Department of Education (CDE) in violation of federal family rights law on Wednesday for facilitating the gender “transition” of children and hiding it from their parents.

California pressured school districts across the state to violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a student privacy and parental rights law, by forcing them to conceal student records from parents about their child’s so-called “gender transition,” according to a senior department official detailing the results of an investigation Wednesday.

“FERPA requires that schools provide access to all education records upon a parent’s request. Schools do not get to choose which records they feel like providing to parents and which ones they don’t,” the official said. “As Secretary McMahon stated last year, this is not only patently unlawful, but morally reprehensible. Children do not belong to the state. They belong to their parents. Parents must know about the most sensitive information pertaining to their child’s health and well-being.”

A Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) investigation found that at least 300 students in California were put on “‘gender support plans,’ many without parental consent or knowledge.” At CDE’s direction, school officials placed the “support plans” in “separate filing systems” to keep parents in the dark about the plans.

As The Federalist reported, school personnel are often some of the first and most influential people a student interacts with regarding confusion about sex and “gender,” and many push children toward “social transition” like name and pronoun changes, which often leads to destructive medical interventions. (Read more from “Ed Department: California Violated Family Rights Law By Secretly ‘Transitioning’ Students” HERE)

Hazmat Crew Reveals What Liquid Attacker Sprayed on Rep. Ilhan Omar: Report

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The “foul” mystery brownish liquid US Rep. Ilhan Omar was sprayed with during a chaotic Minnesota town hall meeting late Tuesday is believed to have been apple cider vinegar.

Omar (D-Minn.) was hit with the kitchen staple when 55-year-old Anthony Kazmierczak allegedly stormed the podium as the lefty congresswoman was firing off an anti-ICE spiel, Alpha News reported, citing sources.

A hazmat team confirmed, too, that the syringe Kazmierczak allegedly used in the attack was filled with the vinegary substance, the outlet added.

Minneapolis Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw, who ended up being hit by some of the liquid, told The Post the stench was so bad she vomited.

“It smelled like vinegar or ammonia,” Vetaw said, adding that the odor was “overwhelming.” (Read more from “Hazmat Crew Reveals What Liquid Attacker Sprayed on Rep. Ilhan Omar: Report” HERE)

Costco Accused of Deceiving Shoppers Over Popular $5 Rotisserie Chickens

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Some Costco customers are crying fowl over the big-box chain’s popular $4.99 rotisserie chickens, saying they contain preservatives in spite of the company’s claims to the contrary, according to a new lawsuit.

Two California-based people say Costco “has systematically cheated” consumers “out of tens — if not hundreds — of millions of dollars” by advertising the poultry as being free of preservatives.

The class-action lawsuit, filed last week in San Diego federal court, alleges that Costco makes the claim despite the fact that the rotisserie chickens contain sodium phosphate and carrageenan.

Costco is also being accused of capitalizing on growing consumer demand for “clean label” and preservative-free products.

By marketing the chicken as a healthy option, the company allegedly induced millions of shoppers to purchase a product they would have otherwise avoided — all while concealing the true nature of the ingredients, it was alleged.

A spokesperson for Costco told The Post: “To maintain consistency among the labeling on our rotisserie chickens and the signs in our warehouses/on-line presentations, we have removed statements concerning preservatives from the signs and on-line presentations.” (Read more from “Costco Accused of Deceiving Shoppers Over Popular $5 Rotisserie Chickens” HERE)

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Eating This Healthy Breakfast for Just Two Days Can Lower Your Cholesterol: Study

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A powerful tool for your heart might already be hiding in the back of your pantry.

New research suggests that a short-term diet centered almost exclusively on a cheap, healthy breakfast staple can significantly lower cholesterol levels in just two days. . .

For the study, researchers at the University of Bonn in Germany recruited 32 men and women.

All the participants suffered from metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors including excess body weight, high blood pressure and elevated blood glucose and blood lipid levels. Together, these problems raise the risk of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes.

The researchers split the participants into two groups, with one instructed to eat oatmeal three times a day for two days. The oats were boiled in water, with the addition of small amounts of fruit or vegetables allowed.

In all, these participants ate about 300 grams of oatmeal per day and consumed roughly half their usual calories. (Read more from “Eating This Healthy Breakfast for Just Two Days Can Lower Your Cholesterol: Study” HERE)

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