🇺🇸 Donald Trump this week ordered work on the most ambitious missile shield in US history, including space-based lasers.

To detect, intercept and destroy ballistic nuclear missiles during their so- called boost phase, the three- to five-minute period before they enter orbit, would require laser beams effective over hundreds of kilometres. No such technology currently exists.

Is the project potentially lucrative for Elon Musk’s SpaceX?

The space-based part of the programme would require hundreds of carrier satellites to be launched — a market currently dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

All this assumes the space-based programme, which Grego described as a “fantasy”, will be approved by Congress and goes ahead.

https://www.ft.com/content/62c01967-0100-46ee-9f4f-e9af467d7604

https://archive.ph/i4Mzj

🇺🇸 Guantanamo Bay will rapidly be geared up & ready to house more criminal aliens. We’re already holding the worst of the worst there. We’re getting to work.

📎 Secretary Kristi Noem

✈️ Video shows huge debris field after Philly plane crash; there are conflicting reports about a number of casualties

The plane, a Learjet 55, quickly disappeared from radar after taking off from the airport at 6:06 p.m. and climbing to an altitude of 1,600 feet (487 meters).

It was en route to Springfield, Missouri, and registered to a company operating as Med Jets, according to the flight tracking website Flight Aware.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety-and-emergencies/health-and-safety-alerts/philadelphia-plane-crash-causes-fiery-scene-with-multiple-homes-ablaze/ar-AA1yd4Ut?ocid=BingNewsSerp

📎 Breaking911

🇺🇸💸 Over $1 Billion in DEI related U.S. government contracts cancelled.

📎 America

🇩🇪 Philip Pilkington on X:

"Germany will soon be ungovernable. Growing up I learned that the rise of Nazism was caused by the loss of dignity Germany suffered in the 1920s and so we should never let that happen again. Sadly, we’re letting it happen again - the country has no dignity. Dangerous."

📎 philippilk

🇨🇴🇺🇸 Colombia President Gustavo Petro urges illegal Colombians in America to return home.

📎 AF Post

🇺🇸 Karoline Leavitt announces that the White House has been flooded with over 10,000 applications for the "New Media" press seat.

📎 Benny Johnson

🇺🇸 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: “Our message is simple: if you are a criminal illegal alien, you will be arrested and deported”

📎 America

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸 Tucker Carlson slams Ben Shapiro for cheering on the “evil” and “intentional” slaughter of Palestinian civilians by Israel.

📎 AF Post

🇺🇸 Trump: We are not looking for concessions from Canada or Mexico, we will just see what happens.

📎 Clash Report

🇺🇸🌎 American leadership is back in our hemisphere and we’re ready to work with our regional partners. Secretary Rubio is embarking on his first trip as Secretary of State. He’ll be visiting Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic where he will focus on mutual priorities that make Americans stronger, safer, and more prosperous.

📎 StateDept

🇺🇸🇵🇦 Trump issues statement on the Panama Canal: "We're gonna take it back ... they've totally violated the agreement."

📎 Eric Daugherty

🇺🇸 This photograph was taken two days ago at the FBI Academy in Quantico and submitted to the NYT under the condition of anonymity.

📎 Zach W. Lambert

🇺🇸 Trump administration forces out multiple senior FBI officials

Trump administration officials have forced out all six of the FBI’s most senior executives and multiple heads of FBI field offices across the country, current and former FBI officials told NBC News. They included the high-profile leader of the Washington, D.C., field office, which was involved in the prosecutions of President Donald Trump.

The Justice Department also fired multiple federal prosecutors who conducted the criminal investigation of Jan. 6 rioters, sources said. A congressional aide said the number of prosecutors impacted is roughly two dozen.

It was not immediately clear why the FBI and DOJ officials had been ousted. The FBI and DOJ declined to comment.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/trump-administration-forces-out-multiple-senior-fbi-officials/6131094/

🇺🇸 Trump DOJ demands list of thousands of FBI agents, others who worked on Jan. 6 and Trump investigations for possible firing

The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, demanding the names of those who worked on January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations for potential removal – a move that could affect thousands.

Leaders of the FBI were instructed Friday to provide the Justice Department by Tuesday information about all current and former bureau employees who “at any time” worked on January 6 investigations, according to an email from acting FBI director Brian Driscoll and obtained by CNN.

The Justice Department, according to the email, will review those employees to “determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary.”

“This request,” Driscoll wrote to all bureau personnel, “encompasses thousands of employees across the country who have supported these investigative efforts.” The acting director noted in the email that such a list would also include him, as well as the acting deputy director.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-doj-demands-list-of-thousands-of-fbi-agents-others-who-worked-on-jan-6-and-trump-investigations-for-possible-firing/ar-AA1ycDEL

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Trump comments on meeting with Putin: “Millions of young people are being killed. It's just a senseless situation, and it's gotta stop.”

📎 MarioNawfal

🇺🇸 Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them.

SACRAMENTO, California — President Donald Trump declared victory on Friday in his long-running water war with California, boasting he sent billions of gallons south — but local officials say they narrowly prevented him from possibly flooding farms.

“Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory! I only wish they listened to me six years ago — There would have been no fire!” he said in a post on his social media site.

Local officials had to talk the Army Corps of Engineers down after it abruptly alerted them Thursday afternoon it was about to increase flows from two reservoirs to maximum capacity — a move the agency said was in response to Trump directing the federal government to “maximize” water supplies.

Before the Corps ratcheted down its plan, local authorities scrambled to move equipment and warn farms about possible flooding, said Victor Hernandez, who oversees water management on one of the rivers, the Kaweah in Tulare County. He said the Corps gave him one hour notice on Thursday.

“I’ve been here 25 years, and I’ve never been given notice that quick,” Hernandez said. “That was alarming and scary.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/trump-california-water-00201909

🇺🇸📣 The H-1B Visa program allows U.S. companies to force Americans to train their cheaper foreign replacements.

Our new video exposes how the entire purpose of the program is to help American companies avoid hiring American workers

📎 NumbersUSA

🇺🇸 REPORTER: With your efforts to reduce the federal workforce, are there any concerns about protecting the public?

TRUMP: Everybody is replaceable. We want them to go to into the private sector. It's our dream to have everybody almost working in the private sector.

📎 Aaron Rupar