Passed away unexpectedly on December 29, 2025. She was born on April 29, 1961.
Linda was preceded in death by her beloved parents Charles and Bernice Barnes. She is survived by her daughter, Christina (Jeremy); her granddaughter, Ciara (Madison and Logan); her sister Cathy (Tom) Lancaster, nephew Jason and extended relatives.
Explain to me again why nobody in the media has written about this?
Also, in light of the ongoing canonization of Trooper Snook, explain to me why we still don’t have a full account of what happened at that DMV. Specifically, was this a random shooting, or did the killer know the victim?
Delaware AG Jennings Sues Big Pharma Over High Insulin Prices:
The Delaware Department of Justice announced on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, that a lawsuit has been filed in the Court of Chancery against the nation’s three primary insulin manufacturers, and the three largest pharmacy benefit managers.
Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings claims Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi-Aventis, along with CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx, conspired to increase insulin prices by as much as 1,000 percent over the past fifteen years.
She said their actions violate the state’s Consumer Fraud Act and the Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
“The level of greed that would drive someone to price-gouge consumers over life-saving diabetes medicine is almost unfathomable,” said Jennings in a prepared statement. “It is an avarice that not only hurts diabetics across the country financially, but in many cases leads to medication hoarding and preventable deaths. The thousands of Delawareans living with diabetes need to know that we will hold these companies accountable.”
Good for her. Pretty sure she’s my favorite current Delaware elected official.
Rethugs Fold: War Powers Act Meaningless:
Senate Republicans voted to dismiss a war powers resolution Wednesday that would have limited President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks on Venezuela after two GOP senators reversed course on supporting the legislation.
Trump put intense pressure on five Republican senators who joined with Democrats to advance the resolution last week and ultimately prevailed in heading off passage of the legislation. Two of the Republicans — Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Todd Young of Indiana — flipped under the pressure.
Vice President JD Vance had to break the 50-50 deadlock in the Senate on a Republican motion to dismiss the bill.
As senators went to the floor for the vote Wednesday evening, Young also told reporters he was no longer in support. He said that he had extensive conversations with Rubio and received assurances that the secretary of state will appear at a public hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Oh, well that changes everything.
ICE’s War Against Minneapolis Continues. Yep, another ICE shooting:
The DHS statement said that after the pursuit the man got out of his car and an altercation took place between him and the federal agent.
It added: “While the subject and law enforcement were in a struggle on the ground, two subjects came out of a nearby apartment and also attacked the law enforcement officer with a snow shovel and broom handle.
“As the officer was being ambushed and attacked by the two individuals, the original subject got loose and began striking the officer with a shovel or broom stick.”
The DHS statement went on to say, “fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired defensive shots”, and added that “both attackers are in custody” while the subject and agent were in hospital.
The United States Is Waging War Against An American City. That should be the standing headline used by every credible media source. 3000 Ice agents already there with more on the way. It is impossible to overstate the importance of this.
Finally, One Columnist Calls It What It Is:
Now that America has plucked the dictator Nicolás Maduro from power in Venezuela and announced that it would help itself to the country’s oil, other nations are adjusting to a reality in which we’re more predator than ally. European countries are contemplating stepping up their military presence in Greenland to protect it from the United States. An Economist headline proclaims, “Canada’s Armed Forces Are Planning for Threats From America.”
In the Midwest, Trump’s paramilitary forces killed a citizen in Minneapolis and now appear to be using her death to threaten other activists, barking at one observer, “You did not learn from what just happened?” Videos from the city show gun-toting men in masks and camouflage descending on people to demand proof of citizenship, pelting crowded streets with tear gas and sometimes attacking those who film them. Meanwhile, a new ICE recruiting ad declares, “We’ll Have Our Home Again,” which just happens to be part of the refrain of a white nationalist anthem.
Of course they were. From the moment he descended his golden escalator, Trump’s message, the emotional core of his movement, has been textbook fascism. In his 2004 book “The Anatomy of Fascism,” the eminent historian Robert O. Paxton described the “mobilizing passions” that form fascism’s foundation. Among them are a “sense of overwhelming crisis” that renders traditional solutions obsolete; a belief that one’s own group has been victimized, justifying almost any action in redress; “dread of the group’s decline under the corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict and alien influences”; and the need for a strong male leader with instincts more powerful than mere “abstract and universal reason.”
So, yes, it is fascism. Call it by its proper name.
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