Ryan Coogler's horror film Sinners broke a record. It has 16 Oscar nominations. It has a high possibility of winning at least one.
I have not been at a movie theater since movie director Ryan Coolger's film Black Panther. The Marvel film went on to gross over $3.2 billion in sales and helped the late actor Chadwick Bowman become an icon. It also helped Michael B. Jordan become a household name.
Coogler was often passed over for Oscar nominations finally got a well deserved paid due.
His most recent film, Sinners is nominated for 16 Academy Awards.
Sinners is a 2025 American horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, the film stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil. It co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton (in his film debut), Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, and Delroy Lindo.
Coogler began developing the film through his production company Proximity Media, with Jordan cast in the lead role. The project was announced in January 2024, and after a bidding war, Warner Bros. Pictures acquired distribution rights the following month. Additional roles were cast in April. Principal photography took place from April to July 2024. Longtime Coogler collaborator Ludwig Göransson composed the film's score and served as an executive producer.
Sinners premiered on April 3, 2025, at AMC Lincoln Square in New York City, and was theatrically released in United States on April 18, 2025, by Warner Bros. Pictures.
The film received critical acclaim and grossed $368.3 million worldwide against a budget of $90–100 million. In addition to this, the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute listed it among the top ten films of 2025. Sinners garnered several awards and nominations, including a record 16 nominations at the 98th Academy Awards. It also earned four wins at the 31st Critics' Choice Awards, two wins at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards (including Cinematic and Box Office Achievement) and five nominations at the 32nd Actor Awards (including Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture).
This move on a nearly $100 million budget has taken in over $375 million.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters showered “Sinners” with more nominations than they had ever bestowed before, breaking the 14-nomination mark set by “All About Eve,” “Titanic” and “La La Land.” Along with best picture, Coogler was nominated for best director and best screenplay, and double-duty star Michael B. Jordan was rewarded with his first Oscar nomination, for best actor.
Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan are nominated for the Academy Awards. Both are actors and directors.
A coronation for Coogler
For Coogler, the 39-year-old filmmaker of “Fruitvale Station” and “Black Panther,” it was a crowning moment. One of Hollywood’s most esteemed yet humble filmmakers, Coogler has called “Sinners” — a film that he will own outright 25 years after its release — his most personal movie.
“I wrote this script for my uncle who passed away 11 years ago,” Coogler said in an interview Thursday morning. “I got to imagine that he’s listening to some blues music right now to celebrate.”
Reached by phone an hour after the nominations were read, Coogler — speaking alongside his wife and producer Zinzi Coogler and producer Sev Ohanian — was still trying to process the movie’s record-breaking haul.
“I love making movies. I’m honored to wake up every day and do it. I was writing last night. That’s why I didn’t get too much sleep,” said Coogler, chuckling. “Honestly, bro, I still feel a little bit asleep right now.”
So we going to be outraged over vandalism and not a genocide?
As predicted, the Governor of New York, the mayor of New York City, the state and federal lawmakers react to an incident at a Brooklyn park that Orthodox Jews frequently visit.
In a city of 8.3 million, how would anyone know about this place?
If you are outraged over graffiti and vandalism, why are you not outraged over the killing of thousands in Gaza?
You are aware that Letitia James has forced Betar US out of New York.
They operated out of Brooklyn, New York.
Zohran Mamdani is the first U.S. mayor who is a Muslim and second youngest.
You are aware that the Anti-Defamation League, Stop Antisemitism, the Jewish Defense League, StandWithUs, AIPAC, Boro Park Shomrim and Hadassah Brooklyn are located in New York City.
You are aware that graffiti exists in New York City on buildings, street signs, noise walls, railcars, sidewalks and abandon properties.
New York City is damn near a police state. There's a camera nearly a block from a block.
So you mean to tell me that an individual can spray Swastikas and Hitler on public property without being seen?
You are aware on Google Maps, five pro Israeli Jewish organizations near that park are censored out.
Are we going to just let them control a narrative to distract us from the real issue of Israel committing a genocide, interfering in U.S. politics, driving a wedge between Americans and pushing us closer to global war?
C'mon man, the Zionists are staging incidents to drive Mamdani's job approval down.
A depraved act of antisemitism. In a children's playground where our kids should feel safe and have fun.
There is no excuse. There is zero tolerance.
I’ve directed the New York State Hate Crimes Task Force to offer assistance to the NYPD in identifying those responsible. https://t.co/MJOsYckFqS
I am sickened by this antisemitic vandalism in Borough Park. Antisemitism has no place in our city, and I stand shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish New Yorkers who were targeted. My administration is working closely with the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force as well as our Parks… https://t.co/Mt4ymVcpjk
Parents should never have to fear that their children will encounter vile hatred at the playground. We are disgusted to see this display of antisemitism in Boro Park, home to tens of thousands of Jewish New Yorkers and thousands of Holocaust survivors. We have connected with law… https://t.co/gng2UTvmgi
For the second day in a row, the Boro Park community is contending with dozens of swastikas painted in the same playground. This effort to menace Jewish New Yorkers is deeply distressing. We are continuing to monitor this situation closely in connection with our partners in law… https://t.co/JJbv7lxDrTpic.twitter.com/THqa1zJFAv
We're yet again at Gravesend Park with @NYPD66Pct and @BPShomrim where the walkways and play equipment were littered with swastikas. These sick individuals need to find out that actions have consequences. @NYPDHateCrimes is investigating. Hopefully justice will be served swiftly. pic.twitter.com/UriRDE9lUe
This hateful defacement of a children’s playground isn’t just vile - it’s criminal. The person or people responsible must be found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
Inaction only emboldens antisemitic hate, and it’s getting worse by the day.
I’m disgusted by this antisemitic graffiti in Borough Park — painted onto a playground, of all places.
Days ago, I announced the @NYCCouncil’s five-point action plan to combat antisemitism. Abhorrent behavior such as this, reported on a near-daily basis, shows why our plan and… https://t.co/R0Ea7P7tCK
Hate returns: Swastikas deface Borough Park for a second night
Defacing a public park with swastikas on Monday night was vile. Returning Tuesday night to paint an additional 57 Swastikas was not just an act of hate, but a sick attempt at intimidation.
VICTORY: Wanted IOF soldier and war criminal Guy Hochman canceled his NYC show tonight due to pressure from protestors. New Yorkers are making it clear: Genocidaires are not welcome in our city! pic.twitter.com/2PPIMC5lWc
Israel is committing a genocide in real time and the U.S. will continue to aid this rogue nation until its own demise. The United States lost credibility thanks to the policies of President Donald J. Trump and former president Joe Biden.
An investigation is underway after 57 swastikas were found at a children's playground in Gravesend Park, Brooklyn.
They were painted on playground slides and on the wall of a handball court in red, yellow and blue paint with other antisemitic vandalism.
The NYPD says this is being investigated as a hate crime.
I'm sorry it smells like an op. There are numerous NYPD cameras and clearly looks like a hit job to drive Zohran Mamdani's job approval down.
It's described as aggravated harassment and police responded just before 11 a.m. on Wednesday to find all this hateful graffiti. No arrests have been made.
It's the second day someone targeted this park.
By the afternoon, it was no longer a crime scene, just a cleanup scene as the Parks Department crew members use paint thinner to get it off and light grey paint to cover it up.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the display of antisemitism "sickening" in a post on social media.
"I am sickened by this antisemitic vandalism in Borough Park. Antisemitism has no place in our city, and I stand shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish New Yorkers who were targeted. My administration is working closely with the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force as well as our Parks Department, and those responsible will be investigated and held accountable," Mamdani said.
Other elected leaders and the ADL are also condemning this incident.
"To have it happen two days in a row and to have it happen with such ferocity on the second day, with more than triple the number of swastikas on the second day? Really, really awful," said ADL Director of New York and New Jersey, Scott Richmond.
The local community board says the culprit needs to be caught and brought to justice.
"They got away with it once and tried to get away with it again," said Rabbi Edgar Gluck of Community Board 12.
Richmond said Gravesend Park is one of the most densely packed neighborhoods of Holocaust survivors in New York City, making this act, he says, "particularly offensive."
"This country went to war against the Nazis," Richmond said. "400,000 Americans lost their lives fighting against the Nazis. This isn't just a symbol that should be offensive to the Jewish community. This is something that every New Yorker should be angry about."
Gluck is a son of survivors.
"This is something that's literally reminding us of Nazi Germany," Gluck said.
The neighborhood has plenty of cameras around the park but police haven't put out any pictures of who they're looking for yet.
Gluck says whoever is responsible needs to be fully prosecuted and given an education.
"That's if they knew what they were doing," he said. "The only thing they know is they're doing something antisemitic. Exactly what a Nazi swastika stands for, or Heil Hitler. I don't even know if they know the history."
Last Friday, City Council Speaker Julie Menin released a five-point plan to combat antisemitism.
Menin reacted to the incident on social media.
The Anti-Defamation League tracks antisemitic incidents and asks people to report them on their website and to law enforcement.
Of course, this goes to their so called Mamdani tracker.
This is a self inflicted issue. Someone who is a critic of Mamdani did it to stroke tensions and sow discourse. It is typical of Zionists and Jewish extremists. They have to create a problem to distract from the real issues.
The suspect will be caught. If the suspect is a so called sympathizer of a 20th Century relic, then I will retract my opinion of this. It's been almost 90 years ago, when Adolf Hitler rose to power. His reign lasted for over a decade.
World War II killed millions.
Not just Jewish people but every walk of life. From solider to civilian, an estimated 75 million people died from that conflict. U.S. Black and indigenous soliders came home to aj apartheid where they were still treated like second class citizens. Yet, Blacks are told to get over it and blame the Democratic Party of the past for its conservatism which led to segregation. The Republican Party of today are in favor of segregation, religious nationalism, denaturalism and superiority over non whites.
The status quo will not continue much longer when the pocketbooks are affected.
We cannot just ignore everyone else. The Holocaust was a genocide. Every genocide in the world is problem. We cannot pick and choose. Every other genocide beside the Holocaust is irrelevant according to Zionists.
If you question any actions of the 20th Century's wars, you are labeled antisemitic or bullied into concessions about facts over fiction.
The time is now.
End support of Israel.
Focus on America's declining economy, infrastructure and education. Fix the problems here in the United States. Stop aiding wars and chaos.
Oh well, we'll get upset over graffiti and protesters using their free speech.
Will the international junk food media respond to it?
Hey, they rather want us to focus on the Nazi graffiti on a New York City's Gravesend Park. After all some asshole spraying graffiti will get federal and state workers attention.
A journalist getting killed by the apartheid ethnostate of Israel is just not on the radar.
This is not a ceasefire. This is a fucking war crime.
Israel (and the United States) will not get away with the criminal acts much longer.
This latest aggression.... chile, if I was the resistance, I will be armed and ready to strike back at these Israeli terrorists. I swear the world will not tolerate this much longer.
White men are dangerous. Donald J. Trump, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu are the final straw. The world cannot allow this to continue.
Abdel Raouf Shaat – a contributor to CBS News and Agence France-Presse – was killed along with Mohamed Qishta and Anas Ghneim after their car was hit by an Israeli strike while leaving a camp for displaced people.
American junk food media says killed. Not murdered.
The Associated Press for example highlights:
Israeli fire strikes journalists and children on one of Gaza’s deadliest days since ceasefire
For fucks sake, Israel violated the ceasefire over 1,340 times, murder hundreds of civilians and is never held accountable these crimes against humanity.
Hamas is the terrorist organization, right?
Israeli forces on Wednesday killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including two 13-year-old boys, three journalists and a woman, hospitals said, on one of the war-battered enclave ‘s deadliest days since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect in October.
The United States is trying to push the deal forward and implement its challenging second phase.
Among the dead were three Palestinian journalists who were killed while filming near a displacement camp in central Gaza, a camp official said. Israel’s military said it had spotted suspects who were operating a drone that posed a threat to its troops.
The two boys were killed in separate incidents. In one, a 13-year-old, his father and a 22-year old man were hit by Israeli drones on the eastern side of the Bureij refugee camp, according to officials from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central town of Deir al-Balah, which received the bodies.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the three had crossed into Israeli-controlled areas.
Israel kills journalists like its nothing.
A mounting death toll
The other 13-year-old was shot by troops in the eastern town of Bani Suheila, Nasser Hospital said after receiving the body. In a video circulated online, the father of Moatsem al-Sharafy is seen weeping over it.
The boy’s mother, Safaa al-Sharafy, told The Associated Press that he had left to gather firewood so she could cook.
“He went out in the morning, hungry,” she said, tears running down her cheeks. “He told me he’d go quickly and come back.”
Later Wednesday, an Israeli strike hit a vehicle carrying the three Palestinian journalists who were filming a new displacement camp managed by an Egyptian government committee in the Netzarim area, said Mohammed Mansour, the committee’s spokesperson.
Mansour said the journalists were documenting the committee’s work and that the strike occurred about 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the Israeli-controlled area. He said the vehicle was known to Israel’s military as belonging to the committee. Video footage showed the charred and smoking vehicle by the roadside.
One journalist killed, Abdul Raouf Shaat, was a regular contributor to Agence France-Presse but he was not on assignment for it at the time, the news agency said.
“Abdul was much loved by the AFP team covering Gaza. They remember him as a kind-hearted colleague,” the agency said in a statement that demanded a full investigation into his death.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, more than 200 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since the war began in 2023, including visual journalist Mariam Dagga, who worked for the AP and other news organizations.
Nearly five months after the strikes on a hospital that killed Dagga and four other journalists, the Israeli military says it is continuing to investigate.
Aside from rare guided tours, Israel has barred international journalists from entering to cover the war. News organizations rely largely on Palestinian journalists in Gaza — as well as residents — to show what is happening.
Nasser Hospital officials also said Wednesday they received the body of a Palestinian woman shot by Israeli troops in the Muwasi area of the southern city of Khan Younis, which is not controlled by the military.
In a separate attack, three brothers were killed in a tank shelling in the Bureij camp, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital.
More than 470 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the ceasefire took effect on Oct. 10, according to Gaza’s health ministry. At least 77 have been killed by Israeli gunfire near a ceasefire line that splits the territory between Israeli-held areas and most of Gaza’s Palestinian population, the ministry says.
The ministry maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts.
A mother’s plea
The first phase of the October ceasefire that paused two years of war between Israel and Hamas militants focused on the return of all remaining hostages in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian detainees and a partial withdrawal of Israeli forces in Gaza.
All but one hostage, living or dead, have been returned to Israel. Ran Gvili, a 24-year-old police officer known as Rani, was killed while fighting Hamas militants during the Oct. 7, 2023 attack that started the war.
His relatives on Wednesday called again on Israel’s government and U.S. President Donald Trump to ensure the release of his remains.
“We need to continue to amplify Rani’s voice, explain about him, talk about him, and explain to the world that we, the people of Israel, will not give up on anyone,” his mother, Talik Gvili, said. She told the AP the family doesn’t “really know where he is.”
Hamas said Wednesday it has provided “all information” it has on Gvili’s body to the ceasefire mediators, and accused Israel of obstructing search efforts in areas it controls in Gaza.
The board of peace... Pieces of shit. Three white extremists leading the world to disaster.
Israel targets more sites in Lebanon
Israel’s air force carried out multiple strikes Wednesday against sites in southern Lebanon that it said the militant Hezbollah group used to store weapons, and at sites along Lebanon’s border with Syria where it said weapons were being smuggled.
The military said it struck four border crossings in Lebanon’s northeastern region of Hermel.
Earlier, strikes in three villages in southern Lebanon targeted weapons storage facilities. Israel’s military said it had issued warnings to evacuate. Lebanon’s health ministry said 19 people, including journalists, were wounded in the southern village of Qennarit, south of the port city of Sidon.
Lebanese officials condemned the strikes in southern Lebanon, which President Joseph Aoun called “systematic aggression.”
In addition, drone strikes on cars in the villages of Bazouriyeh and Zahrani killed two people, according to state-run National News Agency.
The strikes were the latest in near-daily Israeli military action since a ceasefire more than a year ago ended the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war. The agreement included a Lebanese pledge to disarm militant groups, which Israel says has not been fulfilled.
Softball Hannity gets $45 million to keep you distracted from the real issues.
Tennessee Democratic state representative Justin Jones who was expelled from the state capitol after hanging out with gun reform activists. The lawmaker had made a forceful return to Nashville with a special election win.
He is a progressive who is not afraid to take on MAGAland.
He is vilified by the far right.
Sean "Softball" Hannity is the most annoying media personality in the junk food media.
Jones was being confronted on illegal immigrants and crime. Jones shot back stating that the real issue is folks like the softball paling around with pedophiles and sexual predators.
The softball had five women accuse him of inappropriate behavior. Somehow it never reached the point where he was forced out like Bill O'Reilly, Roger Ailes, Ed Henry and Eric Bolling.
The softball who been with Fox since its start is the "last man standing."
Jones kept the pressure on the softball.
To your viewers: this man wants you to be afraid, he wants you to be fearful of your immigrant neighbors because he wants to protect the billionaires who keep you from having healthcare, letting farms close. He does not care about crime, he hangs out with pedophiles and criminals in Mar-a-Lago. He does not care about going after rapists. He cares about keeping you fearful to control you because he wants to distract you from the real enemy, which are the corporate CEOs who are screwing you over.
The softball pivoted to attacking rival network MS NOW by labeling it MSDNC and calling Jones the usual word vomit about being in the pocket of criminals and supporter of crimes.
After the Fox News host asked Jones whether he could “name a single victim of crime in your state by illegal immigrants,” Jones replied, “You wanna go through a list? Go through the list of the pedophiles and perverts you hang out with at Mar-a-Lago. Go through that list.”
He continued, “You get paid $45 million a year to lie to the American people. You should be ashamed of yourself, and I’m gonna pray for you that you lay down this burden and these lies, Sean. Shame on you, my brother. God have mercy on you.”
“You are a disgrace. My brother, you’re a disgrace,” shot back the softball as the two men shouted over each other. “I’ll take the prayers, thank you very much, but the one that needs the prayer is you. The victims in your state need your prayers, not me. Pray for them.”
“You have that thousand-dollar suit on and you get paid millions of dollars to lie to people,” yelled Jones. “The threat to the American people is in the White House, it’s not these immigrants […] Your children will be ashamed of where you stand in this time, Sean. Ashamed that you are on the wrong side of history.”
The state representative then asked God to help the softball “stop hanging out with perverts in Mar-a-Lago.”
The late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was previously a member of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre – who took her own life last year – worked as a teenager at Trump’s resort, where she met Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell then hired Giuffre as a traveling masseuse – a job which resulted in her victimization at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell.
Did you know that Softball Hannity is engaged to Ainsley Earhardt?
They dated for five years and will likely marry at Mar-a-Lago. The softball lives in Florida close to the 45th/47th President of the United States in Palm Beach. He is a close personal friend of the president. Earhardt, a former contributor on his show now is a co host on Fox & Friends. She lives in New York.
The softball is 64 years old. Earhardt turned 49 year old.
I hope the best for her and the worst for him.
Can we make a prediction on how long this relationship will last?
Five years.
Softball, softball, softball Hannity....
The country's most annoying media personality in the world.
Opinions on the softball being "annoying" often stem from his polarizing style and political commentary. Critics point to his highly opinionated delivery, perceived bias, and confrontational approach on Fox, where he’s been a prominent conservative voice for decades. His tendency to interrupt guests, push strong narratives, and frame issues in a way that aligns with his audience’s leanings can feel repetitive or aggressive to those who disagree. Supporters, however, see his passion and unapologetic stance as a draw, appreciating his consistency on issues like conservative values, criticism of liberal policies, or defense of figures like Trump.
Some call him a "propagandist" or "whiny" for his tone and alleged fearmongering, while others praise him as a patriot exposing "leftist agendas." The annoyance factor often depends on the viewer’s political alignment—his style grates more if you’re not in his camp. Data-wise, his show averaged 2.5-3 million viewers nightly in recent years, showing a loyal base despite the criticism. Ultimately, it’s his unyielding approach that both fuels his popularity and makes him a lightning rod for irritation.
Fox allowed this old fart get away with so many things. I am wondering when the day will come when the gravy train will derail and he will join the other agitators on the podcast circuit.
President Donald J. Trump penned a threatened letter to the European Union over the weekend. He wrote a letter to the European Union nations that he is deadly serious about obtaining Greenland.
Greenland and Denmark have told the president, there is no interest in acquirement and the autonomous, territory will defend itself from American aggression.
Trump also pushing tariffs for Norway after he was never considered to be a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. He wrote the letter to Norway despite the nation having no control over Greenland.
He is threatening to send the U.S. military into Minnesota after another night of protests against ICE. He and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have considered using military action to Minneapolis.
He also has the U.S. Department of Justice investigating Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, Fed chairman Jerome Powell and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
The Russian Federation said that Trump is considering its president, Vladimir Putin as a member of the "ambassadors of peace." I am guessing he will give María Machado and Benjamin Netanyahu and place in this.
Republican lawmakers are scrambling to contain Trump’s threats of taking possession of Greenland, with some showing the most strident opposition to almost anything the Trump administration has done since taking office.
Deadly serious that Trump, Vance and Rubio want to seize Greenland.
They gave floor speeches on the importance of NATO last week. They introduced bills meant to prevent the U.S. from attacking Denmark. And several traveled to Copenhagen to meet with Danish counterparts.
But it’s not clear that will be enough, as the president continues to insist that he will take control of the Arctic island. It’s raised fears of an end to NATO — a decades-old alliance that has been a pillar of American strength in Europe and around the globe — and raised questions on Capitol Hill and around the world about what Trump’s aggressive, go-it-alone foreign policy will mean for world order.
“When the most powerful military nation on earth threatens your territory through its president over and over and over again, you start to take it seriously,” Sen. Chris Coons told The Associated Press.
The Delaware Democrat organized the bipartisan trip to Denmark to “bring the temperature down a bit,” he said, as well as further talks about mutual military agreements in the Arctic. Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska accompanied a handful of Democrats on the trip. Also, Republican lawmakers joined in meetings in Washington last week with the Danish foreign minister and his Greenlandic counterpart where they discussed security agreements.
I find it ironic that Coons, a staunch supporter of Israel has the audacity to speak on the rationality of Trump. Coons literally threatens the law on protesters who demand he stop voting to fund fucking Israel. He better worry about a primary challenger and no he can't say he is a Biden Democrat.
Yet it’s clear Trump has other ideas. He said Saturday he will charge a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to his Greenland plans.
Trump said on social media that because of modern weapons systems “the need to ACQUIRE is especially important.”
The pushback to Trump’s Greenland plans
Key Republicans have made clear they think that forcefully taking Greenland is out of the question. But so far, they’ve avoided directly rebuking Trump for his talk of possessing the island.
Tillis on social media called Trumps tariff plans “bad for America, bad for American businesses, and bad for America’s allies.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters Thursday that “there’s certainly not an appetite here for some of the options that have been talked about or considered.”
In a floor speech, Thune’s predecessor as Republican leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell, warned that an attempt to seize Greenland would “shatter the trust of allies” and tarnish Trump’s legacy with a disastrous foreign policy decision.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike see an obvious path to bolstering American interests in Greenland while keeping the relationship with NATO-ally Denmark intact.
In a meeting with lawmakers Thursday, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and his Greenlandic counterpart Vivian Motzfeldt discussed how the countries could work together to develop critical mineral industries and military cooperation, Coons said. The diplomats also told the senators there is no evidence of Chinese or Russian activity in Greenland.
Trump has made the argument that the U.S. should take Greenland before China or Russia do, prompting worry across Europe. Troops from several nations have been sent to Greenland in support of Denmark.
Murkowski said on social media that “our NATO allies are being forced to divert attention and resources to Greenland, a dynamic that plays directly into Putin’s hands by threatening the stability of the strongest coalition of democracies the world has ever seen.”
What can Congress do?
Lawmakers are looking at a few options for taking a military attack on Greenland off the table. Still, the Trump administration has shown little if any willingness to get congressional approval before taking military action.
Lawmakers, including Republicans like Murkowski, are pushing legislation that would prohibit Department of Defense funds from being used to attack or occupy territory that belongs to other NATO members without their consent.
The Alaska senator also suggested Congress could act to nullify Trump’s tariffs. Murkowski and several other Republicans have already helped pass resolutions last year meant to undo tariffs around the globe, but those pieces of legislation did not gain traction in the House. They would have also required Trump’s signature or support from two-thirds of both chambers to override his veto.
Democrats have also found some traction with war powers resolutions meant to force the president to get congressional approval before engaging in hostilities. Republicans last week narrowly defeated one such resolution that would prohibit Trump from attacking Venezuela again, and Democrats think there could potentially be more Republicans who would support one applying to Greenland.
“What I’ve noticed is these war powers resolutions, they do put some pressure on Republicans,” said Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat who has forced votes on several similar resolutions. He said the tactic has also compelled the Trump administration to provide lawmakers with briefings and commitments to get congressional approval before deploying troops.
Still, while dismissing the Venezuela war powers resolution on Wednesday, Republican leaders made the argument that the legislation should be ruled out of order because the Trump administration has said there are currently no U.S. troops on the ground in Venezuela.
That argument may set a precedent for future war powers resolutions, giving Republicans a way to avoid voting against Trump’s wishes.
“If you don’t have boots on the ground, it’s a moot point,” said Sen. Mike Rounds, a South Dakota Republican, about war powers resolutions in general. He also argued that the prospect of taking Greenland over the objections of Denmark is nothing “more than a hypothetical.”
Other Republicans have expressed support for Trump’s insistence that the U.S. possess Greenland, though they have downplayed the idea that the U.S. would take it by force.
That’s left the strongest objections on the Republican side of the aisle coming from a handful of lawmakers who are leaving Congress next year.
Rep. Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, told The Omaha World Herald that an invasion of Greenland would lead to Trump’s impeachment — something he would “lean” towards supporting.
Tillis, another retiring Republican, has directed his criticism at Trump advisors like White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
“The fact that a small handful of ‘advisors’ are actively pushing for coercive action to seize territory of an ally is beyond stupid,” he said.
This is the official year of President Donald J. Trump's second term. He currently has a job approval of 35%. Vice President JD Vance has a job approval of 37%. Both of them are favored by Republicans at 89% and 87%, respectively. Democrats have their favorability at 8% and 10%.
Vance is the second youngest and first elected youngest Vice President of the United States.
Vance was a former U.S. senator from Ohio. He lives in Cincinnati. He has other homes in Alexandria, Virginia and the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC.
Vance is married to Usha, the first Indian American woman to be the Second Lady of the United States. She is 40 years old. JD is 41 years old.
The news is that Usha is pregnant with their fourth child.
It dispells rumors of divorce or adultery. Many conspiracy theories surrounded Usha when she was spotted without the wedding ring. Also JD giving that weird hug to Erika Kirk got the world talking.
Trump threatening world war 3 while Usha Vance is getting pregnant to cover up her husbands affair with Erika Kirk. We are literally living in Shondaland. This is Scandal but we are missing our Olivia Pope. https://t.co/eG2UPqt49b
“During this exciting and hectic time, we are particularly grateful for the military doctors who take excellent care of our family and for the staff members who do so much to ensure that we can serve the country while enjoying a wonderful life with our children,” the post read.
The news of the Republican vice president’s growing family comes as he has spent years passionately advocating for Americans to have more children.
Vance repeatedly expressed alarm about declining birth rates as he launched his political career in 2021 with a bid for the U.S. Senate in Ohio. As vice president, he has continued on that mission, saying in a 2025 March for Life speech, “I want more babies in the United States of America.”
So JD Vance don't have to apologize for being white. He should never apologize for bringing in more biracial children. I mean he is doing what many others are doing which pisses off them extremists. Vance is keeping the white population growth down.
Will Erika Kirk, Nicki Minaj, Amber Rose, Laura Loomer and also pregnant White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt attend the baby shower?
The vice president has been accompanied on overseas travels by Usha Vance and their children, the kids usually in pajamas as they board Air Force Two for overnight trips.
When his children grow up to be adults, I hope they come to the reality that the Republican Party their father supports doesn't give two fucks about them.
Hell some Republicans believe Indians are poop eaters and scam artists. It a damn shame that Republicans never accept cultural change.
Throughout history, it’s been exceptionally rare for the occupants of the highest leadership roles in the U.S. to have children while in office. One well-documented exception was President Grover Cleveland, whose wife, Frances Cleveland, gave birth to their second child in 1893 during his second term in office.
Cleveland was the Trump of the past. He served two separate terms as well. He was extremely polarizing and screwed up the economy. Cleveland ranks at 34 of 45 presidents.
The UN facility in East Jerusalem is demolished. It is a war crime.
Why is the United Nations not punishing Israel?
The United States continues to hold veto power over holding Israel accountable for the actions they've committed since its terrible creation in 1948.
They've committed another illegal act of war.
Israel must be fucking destroyed. It can not exist as a country any further.
Israeli crews have begun bulldozing a United Nations headquarters in East Jerusalem [Palestinian jurisdiction] as Israel’s government tightens restrictions on humanitarian groups that provide aid to Palestinians.
UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, said on X that Israeli forces had confiscated staff devices and forced them out of their headquarters in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
This morning, Israeli occupation forces demolished #UnitedNations property in occupied #EastJerusalem, yet another live-streamed gruesome crime in violation of international law, directly defying the @CIJ_ICJ's recent ruling that Israel "may not obstruct @UNRWA functions in OPT." pic.twitter.com/W100heRsj8
Israel Land Authority seizes UNRWA compound in Jerusalem after law banning agency’s activity
Israel’s Land Authority (ILA), backed by police, said it completed a takeover of the UNRWA complex in Jerusalem’s Ma’alot Dafna neighborhood, citing a law that halts the UN agency’s… pic.twitter.com/VprEsTFNyc
You need to better coordinate your lies .. @itamarbengvir already spilled the beans about this being a “historic” new step ( he just like you omitted out the part about it being war crime ) https://t.co/09Pm2oIzvp
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned Israeli PM Netanyahu he could take Israel to the ICJ if it does not repeal laws targeting UNRWA and return seized assets after banning the agency in October 2024 https://t.co/pHYWRTlVKUpic.twitter.com/5qwByROFr2
“This is an unprecedented attack not only against UNRWA and its premises. It constitutes a serious violation of international law and the privileges and immunities of the United Nations,” it said.
Israel has long decried UNRWA for what it said is pro-Palestinian leanings and accused the group of ties to Hamas — which the U.N. agency has ardently denied.
The U.S. and Israel have conducted war crimes without impunity. It is going to come to an end one way or another.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the demolition was following through on a new law that banned the organization, accusing it of ties to militant groups and Hamas.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said in a statement that he had accompanied crews to the headquarters and called it a “historic day.”
UNRWA maintains infrastructure in Palestinian refugee camps and also runs schools and provides health care to Palestinian refugees in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, as well as in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Palestinians say it is critical to ensuring people receive basic services but the group has for decades been a target of Israel.
The Trump administration cut funding for the group in 2018. Israel’s Knesset last year passed legislation banning it from functioning in what it defines as Israel — including east Jerusalem, where the organization is headquartered.
The ban dovetailed with broader efforts to deregister aid groups operating in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Israel has passed laws requiring nongovernmental organizations not hire staff involved in activities that “delegitimize Israel” or support boycotts, demanding they register lists of names as a condition of being allowed to work. Isreal told dozens of groups that their licenses would expire at the end of 2025.
Don Lemon films protesters confronting a church pastor for assisting ICE.
The rapper and the media agitator are feuding. Add this to the list of many issues facing Onika Petty aka Nicki Minaj.
The 43-year old rapper, model and far right agitator is angry over Don Lemon exposing a Minneapolis pastor as a ICE agent. Lemon, 59 is a former CNN host now independent journalist and progressive agitator. He is a critic of President Donald J. Trump, Republicans and far right agitators.
He is openly gay and has been very vocal about the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from Republicans.
So now the ICE agent who is a pastor.
The far right is angry over Lemon covering protesters confronting a pastor inside a church after they revealed him as a masked agent. The U.S. Department of Justice and its Civil Rights Division are investigating.
DOJ Civil Rights assistant attorney general Harmeet Dhillon threatens Lemon for filming protests.
U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said her agency is investigating federal civil rights violations “by these people desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers.”
“A house of worship is not a public forum for your protest! It is a space protected from exactly such acts by federal criminal and civil laws! Nor does the First Amendment protect your pseudo journalism of disrupting a prayer service,” she wrote on X. “You are on notice!”
A house of worship is not a public forum for your protest! It is a space protected from exactly such acts by federal criminal and civil laws! Nor does the First Amendment protect your pseudo journalism of disrupting a prayer service.
LOL!!! And I purposely wrote it that way b/c I knew that would be the only way to get the cock suckas to post about it. They would’ve all collectively ignored the despicable behavior displayed by Lemon head.
She called him a "cock sucker" who deserves to be in lockup.
For what?
Following protesters into a church covering it for news ans opinion. It is free speech and it may be unpleasant but it is technically legal.
Remember, those words. It's OK.
Cause when the fans stop buying, blacklist and "cancel" you, that's freedom too.
Lemon recently covered (via livestream) a disruptive protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday, January 18, 2026.The protest involved activists interrupting a church service to oppose ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) operations in the state. They accused one of the church's pastors (David Easterwood) of having ties to ICE — specifically, serving as the acting field office director for ICE's St. Paul office — amid heightened tensions following the fatal shooting of a woman named Renee Good by an ICE agent earlier in the month.Lemon documented the event, including interactions with protesters and church members, while emphasizing he was there purely as a journalist (not leading or participating in the protest).
Lemon fired back (via statements to TMZ and other outlets), calling Minaj a "homophobic bigot," criticizing her understanding of journalism/politics, suggesting she should "sit the fuck down" and "grow some brains," and making personal counter-attacks (including references to her family members' criminal histories and questioning her immigration status under current policies).
Don Lemon, Joy Reid, Godfrey, Clay Cane, Reecie Colbert, Joe Budden, Resse Waters, Crank Lewis, Roland Martin, Armon Wiggins, Anton Daniels, J.S. Daniels and so many others have "canceled" Minaj.
They have every right to boycott, protest and distance themselves from the entertainer.
Nicki Minaj has every right to speak her opinions as every other entertainer. I don't agree with what she does or this new phase. I am tried of this punch down stuff. It may have lead to her becoming supportive of President Donald J. Trump.
I was a fool back in 2020 and 2024. I was all in on the bandwagon stuff.
The bandwagon stuff doesn't pay your bills, feed yourself or your family.
Democrats and progressives: Stop worrying about the noise and start worrying about the paychecks.
If y'all trying to cancel a rapper for expressing their opinions, you are no better than the Zionists who are trying to cancel people for speaking out against Israel's crimes against humanity.
So in 2026, Democrats stop worrying about the noise. Ignore the noise.
Americans could give two fucks about Nicki Minaj and her antics. We got more important issues to worry about. Let's talk about affordability. I don't see anything incriminating about pictures of Trump, former president Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Steve Bannon, David Copperfield, Chris Tucker and others posing with Jeffrey Epstein. It is a distraction from holding the president accountable for not being transparent in doing his job.
This is why you're not guaranteed a Blue Wave come Midterms.
She is literally defending a pedophile while being married to a sexual predator.
Most fans are tired of watching rappers exploit luxury, crime, degenerative behavior, disrespect towards women, disrespect towards LGBTQ and endorsements of politicial establishment figures.
I'm on some other bullshit.
Zionist Nicki Minaj.... Did "not see" that on my Bingo card. Trump supporting Onika Petty, yeah I expected it.
Well she is married to Kenneth Petty, a convicted sexual offender and why not?
Our president is a sexual predator.
Now we'll see if Barbz is going to fade like all the other elitists.
Stream whoever you want to listen to. I am not going to cancel her or any MAGAland figures. I am just going to sit back and watch themselves crumble on their own.
I thought we left her back in 2025.
Had Joe Biden listened to progressives, young voters, Arab Americans, Muslims, consumers and Pope Francis, well.... we wouldn't have the second chaotic coming of Donald J. Trump.
One other thing, don't we have issues at home to address?
Like gun violence.
The United States, Mexico, Jamaica, Honduras, Belize, Serbia, Ecuador, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina lead in gun violence.
We have sexual violence, domestic violence, suicide and mental illness in the United States.
Anyway, Minaj has no foreign policy experience. She has great rhyming skills at best. She also has a good amount of net income of $150 million.
You will never see Nicki donating to neighborhoods affected by tornadoes, hurricanes and snow events in the United States. I get it.
I give her credit to donate to hurricane victims in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Grenada. I am not downing her for that.
But she makes millions off the streams, album sales, video views and trolling on social media. Why isn't she put that money into the folks who look up to her as a heroine?
Matter of fact, what about the rest of the religions being affected by governments or extremists?
I mean the U.S. politicians and agitators here are so hateful towards Muslims as seen with Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Keith Ellison, Lateefah Simon, Andre Carson, Louis Farrakhan, Linda Sarsour, Medhi Hassan, Ayman Mohyeldin, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Loon (Amir Junaid Muhadith nee Chauncey Lamont Hawkins).
What makes Nicki Minaj an expert?
What's up with this I am now a fucking Christian?
Many believe she and female rappers have sold degeneracy instead of Black women empowerment. Minaj's feuds with Cardi B, Beyonce, Ice Spice, Lil Kim, Megan Thee Stallion, Jay-Z, Travis Scott, Remy Ma, GloRilla, Latto, SZA, Mariah Carey and Bryan "Baby" Williams (Birdman Stunna) also shows instability how she handles tension.
Her career will not dry up yet. The fans will continue to stan for her. But given how Pink Friday 2 and Tha Carter VI didn't live up to their expectations, I can tell you directly: Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne better start podcasting cause the people are no longer seeing their music as popular.
Had Martin Luther King, Jr. been alive, he would still fight against the system.
If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was alive today, the country will still be as polarizing as he were alive. As you see, our democracy is on the decline and Americans are frustrated to a point where now anything could trigger unrest.
King Day is a federal holiday in the United States observed on the third Monday of January each year. King was the chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement, which protested legalized racial discrimination in federal and state law and civil society. The movement led to several groundbreaking legislative reforms in the United States.
King is the only U.S. citizen who was never elected to office to have a holiday.
Christopher Columbus, a violent white supremacist colonizer also has a holiday.
This year the holiday will be even more important. With talks of genocide, war and pandemic, the need for activism has increased.
President Donald J. Trump has officially canceled free access to our national parks on King Day and Juneteenth. His birthday on June 14 is Flag Day and the president ordered it to be a national holiday for free access.
father as a symbol to their horrendous acts against humanity.
Republicans continue to use selective quotes from King to justify white supremacy.
Immigration rights activists are filing lawsuits against Trump and the Department of Homeland Security as the kickoff to mass deportation begins.
Pro Palestinian groups continue to press on despite the ceasefire. Israel has already violated the ceasefire despite the agreements to release captured IDF soliders and settlers. Palestinians who were placed in Israeli custody were not given the rock star treatment as the settlers (soliders) being released from Gazan custody.
Alveda King, the cousin of Bernice and Martin Luther King, III will attend the Trump inauguration. She is feuding with the surviving son and daughter of the late civil rights leader. Alveda continues a misrepresentation of King's legacy.
Charlie Kirk is pressing for Republicans to repeal King day. Many of these Republicans are listening to Kirk.
Kirk calls King a Marxist and racial arsonist who didn’t deserve a holiday.
Several states in the South will celebrate the disgraceful legacymof Robert E. Lee.
Pete Hegseth has promise to return the original Confederate names to military installations in the South.
if King was alive, he would be 96 years old. He would be vilified by the far right like the retired civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, Sr. and National Action Network leader Rev. Al Sharpton. Shaprton is a host on MSNBC.
At the age of 39, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
It came 10 years after a woman tried to stab him to death. Izola Curry, a former housekeeper tried to kill King when he appeared at a book signing in Harlem.
Curry blamed the NAACP and King for her failures as a she tried to find work.
He was there on behalf of striking garbage workers. After a staying at the Lorraine Motel, King and a few of his friends were going to have a dinner.
A gunman fired from a windows in a neighboring motel room striking him in the head and chest.
King was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested on June 8, 1968, at London's Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States and charged with the crime. On March 10, 1969, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary. He later made many attempts to withdraw his guilty plea and to be tried by a jury, but was unsuccessful. Ray died in prison in 1998.
King traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, in support of striking African-American city sanitation workers. The workers had staged a walkout on February 11, 1968, to protest unequal wages and working conditions imposed by mayor Henry Loeb. At the time, Memphis paid black workers significantly lower wages than it did white workers. There were no city-issued uniforms, no restrooms, no recognized union, and no grievance procedure for the numerous occasions on which they were underpaid. During Loeb's tenure as mayor, conditions did not significantly improve, and the gruesome February 1968 deaths of two workers in a garbage-compacting truck turned mounting tensions into a strike.
Many communities have roads, bridges, buildings and monuments named after him.
The King family have repeatedly denounced Trump, particularly as the GOP nominee has continually invoked the civil rights legend’s name.
So once again why do we honor King when the U.S. is never committed to his legacy?
On the third Monday of January, the U.S. government acknowledged it as a national holiday. It is the only national holiday that celebrates the life of a non government official.
Now honestly, I believe it is a travesty to King by giving him a holiday. I believe the key to honoring his legacy is to eliminate the hate the U.S. continues to fester in.
King should never be forgotten. His legacy as a civil rights leader was controversial.
Republicans opposed the holiday in the 1980s. It was John Conyers who made the holiday a national law. He pushed for it and then president Ronald Reagan vehemently opposed it on the grounds that he viewed King as a Communist. White nationalists like Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and Trent Lott.
He was vilified by conservatives. Black figures like Malcolm X called him a sell-out or a traitor to his race. Others claimed he was a snake oil salesman, an adulterer and a fraud.
From 1953 until his untimely death in 1968, King led the fight for Blacks in the South. He called for an end to Jim Crow segregation laws, establish voting rights for Blacks, and call for an end to poverty.
So many things happened during his time on earth but most didn't know he was a marked man because he stood up against the system.
Did you know he nearly committed suicide after his grandmother passed away?
Did you know that King did not trust white people at one time hated them for the way they treated his father, brother and mother?
Did you know he survive two assassination attempts before the Memphis encounter?
Did you know Martin Luther King was an independent not a Republican?
Democrats were not all on board with civil rights. Republicans at one time were the champions of civil rights. With the fears of communism and the conservative rise of charlatans like Joseph McCarthy, Strom Thrumond and Barry Goldwater, King was the other enemy to the far right.
King did lead the Montgomery bus boycott, the Albany, Georgia movement and protest in Birmingham. Richard Nixon blew an opportunity to win Black voters. Then vice president brushed off the calls to take on Southern governors attempts to stop desegregation. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts called upon the release of King and asked for his brother Robert and civil rights leaders to aid him. That earned King's endorsement. Kennedy would become the 35th President of the United States.
Kennedy was cautious about King. He knew the allegations of associating with alleged communists would be damaging to him. Kennedy kept the fight for civil rights but died because of it.
He was assassinated in 1963 and Lyndon B. Johnson took control. During that time, King worked with Johnson to get the Kennedy agenda to fruition. It took a speech at the Lincoln Memorial to drive the world to King.
King helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
It was an ugly fight in the 1960s in the South. There was the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, the killing of civil rights workers in Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, the arrest of King and his allies.
The Klan was at its strongest during the 1960s. The federal government was pressured to do something.
The SCLC put into practice the tactics of nonviolent protest with some success by strategically choosing the methods and places in which protests were carried out. There were several dramatic stand-offs with segregationist authorities, who sometimes turned violent.
J. Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of the FBI's COINTELPRO from 1963, forward. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, recorded his extramarital affairs and reported on them to government officials, and, in 1964, mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.
King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work. He was there for the signings of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act under President Lyndon B Johnson.
The two would lose favor after Johnson vowed to support Israel during the infamous Six Day War and his commitment to take on the Viet Cong in Vietnam.
King distanced himself from the 1968 Democratic presidential primaries. He didn't endorse candidates. Johnson sought to no longer be president and it led to a lot of tension.
During the striking garbage workers in Memphis, an assassin shot King in April. The Lorraine Motel in Memphis is now a memorial to his passing.
Since 1983, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday is celebrated in the United States. It was the first holiday to an African American and a non politician. On the third Monday of the month of January, we honor King's legacy and offer a day of service.
I seriously believe that if King was alive, he would be disappointed in the way things are going.
Oh by the way, for those who believe King was a supporter of gun rights, he did own a firearm but refused to use it citing his children accidently shooting themselves if they got a hold of it.
He was a victim of gun violence too.
Gun violence is the biggest threat to the United States.
Republicans and some Democrats twist his legacy into a partisan agenda.
Republicans are on board with white nationalism and dog whistle politics.
Democrats are on the side of white gentificiation and side piece meal politics.
Both sides are not working in the interest of King.
