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Today in Politics, Bulletin 284. 1/12/26 Ron Filipkowski Jan 12 ∙ … Sen.  Mark Kelly  (D-AZ) sued  Pete Hegseth  today seeking an injunction to prevent him from unilaterally moving forward to reduce his Navy rank and retirement pay for the video he made urging service members not to follow unlawful orders. From the lawsuit: "The First Amendment forbids the govt and its officials from punishing disfavored expression or retaliating against protected speech. That prohibition applies with particular force to legislators speaking on matters of public policy. As the Supreme Court held 60 years ago, the Constitution ‘requires that legislators be given the widest latitude to express their views on issues of policy,’ and the govt may not recharacterize protected speech as supposed incitement in order to punish it. The Secretary’s letter makes clear on its face that he is disciplining Senator Kelly solely for the content and viewpoint of his political speech.” “The Executive’s...

  Monday, January 12, 2026 ■ Today's Top News  'Goebbels Could Not Have Improved On This': DHS Spreads 'Propaganda' on ICE Killing as Violence Mounts "I never imagined that my government would so blatantly lie like this," said one author and attorney. By Julia Conley As Americans have continued to document federal agents violently  pushing  a bystander to the ground during an arrest,  handcuffing  a screaming mother, and  demanding  to see citizenship papers of people of color, observers said the US Department of Homeland Security’s latest video about a federal officer’s killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week showed it has resorted to “blatant propaganda” to shape public opinion on the Trump administration’s violent crackdown on immigrants and dissenters. “This agency, and the way it now speaks, is the most repulsive and un-American things I have ever seen,”  said  one writer of a video featuring Lauren Bis, the deputy assistant ...