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Monthly Archives: January 2026
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Trump’s ICE KIDNAPS Native Americans in Minneapolis: “WE ARE AMERICA!”
Status Coup News and MeidasTouch Jan 16, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS Independent reporter Zach D Roberts was LIVE ON THE GROUND on January 15th, 2026 from ICE protests in Minneapolis outside the Whipple Federal Building. As ICE agents continued attacking unarmed protesters, Native Americans from the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council arrived looking in the ICE prison for three Minneapolis Oglala Sioux tribal members who were taken by ICE in the Little Earth community. Status Coup has reported ON THE GROUND THROUGHOUT 2025 and 2026 covering Trump’s ICE terror and protests against fascism in LA, NYC, Alligator Alcatraz, Chicago, Charlotte, and now Minneapolis. This on-scene reporting is VERY important, VERY expensive, and we are INDEPENDENTLY FUNDED. Support us for as as a paying member for as low as $5 bucks a month: https://statuscoup.com/join
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Yes, President Abraham Lincoln authorized the execution of 38 Dakota men, the largest mass execution in U.S. history, carried out on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota, following the Dakota War of 1862, with Lincoln approving sentences for those convicted of rape or massacre, not just battle participation, showing a complex, though controversial, decision balancing justice and political pressure.
Context of the Executions
- The U.S.-Dakota War (1862): A conflict erupted in southern Minnesota due to broken treaties, delayed food supplies, and encroaching settlers, leading to fighting between Dakota warriors and U.S. forces.
- Military Trials: A military commission tried 303 Dakota men, sentencing many to death.
- Lincoln’s Review: Lincoln reviewed the cases, focusing on evidence of rape or massacre, ultimately approving 38 of the 303 death sentences, a decision partly influenced by a desire to avoid being seen as cruel or encouraging more violence.
The Execution
- Date & Location: December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota.
- Mass Execution: A scaffold was built for the simultaneous hanging of 38 men, with one reprieve granted at the last minute.
- Aftermath: The event remains a deeply painful memory for Dakota people, marked by annual commemorations like the Dakota 38+2 ceremonial run, honoring the lives lost and seeking healing from historical trauma.
Lincoln’s Stance
- Lincoln’s decision to only hang those involved in massacres, rather than all convicted, showed a lawyer’s effort to apply a legal standard, even as he faced pressure for harsher punishment, famously stating he “could not afford to hang men for votes”.
Awakening Earth with Duane Elgin
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Jan 16, 2026 This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in about 1993. It will remain public for only one week. Duane Elgin is author of Choosing Earth, Awakening Earth, Voluntary Simplicity, and The Living Universe. He has worked as a senior social scientist on the staff of the Presidential Commission on the American Future. He received the Peace Prize of Japan the Goi Award, in recognition of his contribution to a global “vision, consciousness, and lifestyle” that fosters a “more sustainable and spiritual culture.” Duane is the Co-director of the Choosing Earth Project.
A Traditionalist Perspective on Gnosticism with Charles Upton
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Jan 15, 2026 Charles Upton’s first books of poetry were published in 1968 and 1969 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Light Books in San Francisco. He was then considered the youngest member of the “beat generation” as he was still in high school. He has subsequently written many books associated with the traditionalist school of spirituality including What Poets Used to Know, The Science of the Greater Jihad, Folk Metaphysics, Alien Disclosure Deception: The Metaphysics of Social Engineering, Day and Night on the Sufi Path, Dugin Against Dugin: A Traditionalist Critique of the Fourth Political Theory, The System of the Antichrist, and Vectors of the Counter-Initiation. His most recent book of poetry is The Wars of Love and Other Poems. Charles Upton offers a traditionalist critique of Gnosticism, examining its metaphysical assumptions about evil, transcendence, and the nature of the cosmos. Charles explores why Gnostic ideas resonate so strongly in modern culture, particularly feelings of alienation, simulation, and entrapment in an unjust world. From a traditionalist standpoint, Upton reframes Gnosticism as a symbolic diagnosis of ego and spiritual imbalance rather than a literal account of reality. 00:00:01 Introduction: a traditionalist view of Gnosticism 00:04:38 What traditionalism means and where it came from 00:07:58 The primordial tradition and unity of religions 00:15:30 Why Gnosticism is considered heresy 00:17:44 The Gnostic idea of a false universe 00:20:39 The Demiurge reinterpreted as the ego 00:22:31 Four Archons as spiritual distortions 00:30:18 Law, selfhood, chaos, and fate explained 00:39:28 How the Archons reinforce each other 00:59:06 Conclusion New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on January 29, 2025)
The Alchemical Awakening with Paul J. Levy
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Jan 14, 2026 Paul J. Levy is author of The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis, Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, Awakened By Darkness: When Evil Becomes Your Father, and The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality. He has been a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for the past three decades. His website is https://www.awakeninthedream.com/ Here he describes the ordeal he experienced as a young man, suffering from the psychopathic rages of his father, being diagnosed and treated as mentally ill, falling into the hands of the criminal justice system, and being raped in jail. So much suffering could have been avoided had it been understood by the professionals who were supposedly helping him that he was experiencing an acute spiritual awakening. Nevertheless, over many decades and with the help of many guides and teachers, he eventually learned to derive creative and therapeutic insights from this traumatic period. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on May 7, 2020)
New Moon In Capricorn – A Woman Reading Tea Leaves
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On January 18th, 2026, we have a New Moon at 28° Capricorn.
This is not your usual New Moon; this New Moon is literally conjunct all the personal planets + Pluto.
This is a 6-planet stellium New Moon – an “all hands on deck” lunation that interconnects every single layer of our life.
The geometry of this New Moon is spectacular. The chart of the New Moon is one large Minor Sextile, with 6 planets conjunct sextiling Saturn and Neptune, and trining Uranus.
If you were looking for a good time to plant long-term seeds, this is it. It really doesn’t get more supportive than that.
With that being said, keep in mind that New Moons are times of seeding — not manifestation. So the invitation here is to plan, design, and dream in alignment with your FUTURE.
Not with the present. This is NOT a time for “I want this now” – it’s a time for “I’m building this for where I’m going.”
New Moon In Capricorn – Cycles, Not Calendars
Another important feature of this New Moon is that the Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Mars cluster in the final degrees of Capricorn, while Venus and Pluto occupy the first degrees of Aquarius:
- Mars is at 26° Capricorn
- Mercury is at 26° Capricorn
- Moon is at 28° Capricorn
- Sun is at 28° Capricorn
- Venus is at 1° Aquarius
- Pluto is at 3° Aquarius
All these planets create a bridge between the old world (last degrees of Capricorn) and the new (first degrees of Aquarius). Capricorn is what we’ve been building over the past decades; Aquarius is what comes next – the new world we’re stepping into.
This is a threshold New Moon – and if you haven’t done it already, THIS is the right time to write your New Year’s resolutions, or plan for the future.
I’m personally not a fan of New Year’s resolutions, because the astrology rarely matches the calendar. It might be January 1st on paper, but the Moon could be waning, or we could be dealing with heavy or disruptive transits that have nothing to do with fresh starts.
Our ancestors knew to align with the real cycles of nature when making important decisions or starting new initiatives. Temples all around the world based on solstices, equinoxes and other cycles are a prime reminder of that.
But somewhere along the way, we became disconnected from those rhythms and forgot their power.
…well, not everyone.
Gardeners, fishermen, farmers – and many traditional cultures – still use the lunar cycle to decide when to plant, harvest, sail, or act.
And us – people who know astrology – we have that extra advantage. We can see the timing. We can read the sky. We can choose our moments.
We get to work with nature – not with the calendar. Hence, we align our intentions with New Moons, not with Mondays or the 1st of the month.
New Moon In Capricorn – Al Hands On Deck
Coming back to the New Moon in Capricorn.
We know that New Moons in general are good for planning and seeding. But if there’s one New Moon of the year that’s particularly good at planning and goal-setting, it’s the New Moon in Capricorn.
Capricorn helps us set goals that are ambitious, yet achievable – because unlike some other signs, Capricorn always has a plan. Not only intentions and wishful thinking – but concrete steps, structure, and a realistic path to actually get there.
But what’s truly unique about this New Moon is its stellium alignment.
We don’t only have the Sun and the Moon conjunct. We have the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars – and Pluto – all lined up, all hands on deck, all pointing in the same direction.
The Sun is our purpose. It’s literally the center of the universe – at least of our universe, i.e. solar system – and everything that sustains life, movement, and direction stems from this giant ball of light and energy.
So when all our personal planets align with the Sun, there’s no more Venus wandering by herself, saying “I don’t feel like it,” Mercury arguing “but my mind tells me something else” or Mars protesting “I’d rather do it differently.”
No.
When there’s this level of alignment, all planets agree on the purpose. This is when we mobilize all our wants, needs, resources, and drive toward the same goal – without internal sabotage, mixed signals, or second-guessing.
Pluto – Let There Be Truth
And then comes Pluto.
Pluto takes what might still feel like an abstract idea or intention and drags it into the depths of the soul. When Pluto gets involved, we can’t help but come face to face with what’s most primal, raw, and true inside us.
Depending on our personal relationship with Pluto, this process can feel uncomfortable at first. It can surface buried emotions, or some sort of uneasiness – especially if where we are now in life is not quite aligned with who we know, deep down, we’re meant to be.
But this process is also extremely liberating.
When we face this deepest truth, all the stories, all the excuses, all the lies we’ve been telling ourselves – all the inauthentic facades we’ve been hiding behind – suddenly lose their power.
They simply can’t survive the encounter with Truth.
Once Pluto’s truth lands, nothing else matters.
This won’t come as a neat, neocortex-style insight – but as a deeper knowing, a visceral recognition of who you are and what you are here to do.
This encounter with the deeper part of you – the part that knows what’s best for you without negotiation – can activate something primordial. It can light a fire, ignite a spark, and make it impossible to keep living inside old stories that no longer fit.
As our old identities collapse, the psyche stops cooperating with who you thought you were – and from that zero-point energy, something entirely new can begin to take shape.
New Moon In Capricorn – A Woman Reading Tea Leaves
And the Sabian symbol of this New Moon says it even more clearly: “A woman reading tea leaves”.
Reading tea leaves, Tarot, astrology – all forms of divination speak to the same thing: our attempt to understand the deeper mystery of life. Here, answers don’t come from linear logic, but from patterns, symbols, and connections that aren’t obvious to the rational, Mercury-brain way of thinking.
Whether that medium is tea leaves, runes, Tarot, or the planets themselves, what matters is not the tool, but the ability to tap into a symbolic language – into the language of nature.
In the Capricorn context, reading tea leaves becomes a symbol for understanding the larger role we’re meant to play in the world. Capricorn – together with Aquarius and Pisces – is the final stretch of the zodiac, where consciousness naturally zooms out toward the bigger picture.
Here, the questions are no longer just about work, relationships, or getting by. They become questions of calling, purpose, and contribution.
And with the Saturn-Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries just around the corner, change is no longer optional. A door is closing – and a new cycle is beginning, with new rules, new priorities, and new opportunities.
By the end of 2026, the world will look VERY different from the one we’ve known.
This New Moon in Capricorn gives us a moment to tune ourselves to that shift. To take what worked in our “past life” and find a new container – a new way of expressing it – in the world we’re stepping into.
Natal Chart Mastery – The Framework To Connect The Dots
Natal Chart Mastery is Astro Butterfly’s framework for learning how to read charts as a whole – how to see patterns, connect the dots beyond isolated placements, and get to the core of the chart.
When you can interpret astrology with that level of clarity and synthesis, the chart stops being a collection of symbols and becomes a map.
If astrology is part of your path – or part of your future – this is the time to make that commitment:
>> Natal Chart Mastery Framework <<
Goya: Witches’ Sabbath
‘Minneapolis Is the Test Case’: Trump Threatens Insurrection Act to Put Down Protests
Demonstrators protest outside of the Whipple federal building on January 14, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
“The Insurrection Act was always the plan,” warned one critic of the president.
Jan 15, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to put the US military on American streets, unless demonstrations against federal immigration operations in Minneapolis come to an end.
In a Truth Social post, Trump demanded that Minnesota elected officials “stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], who are only trying to do their job.”
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If this doesn’t happen, the president said, he would invoke the Insurrection Act and “quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place” in the state.
“The Insurrection Act was always the plan, and Minneapolis is the test case,” said Melanie D’Arrigo, executive director of the Campaign for New York Health. “They sent ICE in to terrorize and attack Black and brown communities to provoke a response that would justify deploying the military domestically in Blue cities. This has never been about immigration.”
“Invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy military forces against the American people is the exact opposite of what Minneapolis — and the country — needs right now.” —Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) made a similar warning last week, amid protests that erupted after the killing of Renee Nicole Good by a federal agent.
“What we are seeing right now,” said Omar, “not only from the surge of 2,000 federal agents—now we have another 1,000 apparently coming in—it is essentially trying to create this kind of environment where people feel intimidated, threatened, and terrorized. And I think the ultimate goal of [Homeland Security Security Secretary] Kristi Noem and President Trump is to agitate people enough where they are able to invoke the Insurrection Act to declare martial law.”
“There is,” she continued, “no other justifiable way to describe what is taking place in Minneapolis at this moment. There is no justifiable reason why this number of agents is here in our state.”
The Insurrection Act has not been used since 1992, when President George HW Bush invoked it at the request of then-California Gov. Pete Wilson to quell riots that had broken out in Los Angeles after a jury acquitted police officers who were caught on camera beating Rodney King.
“Invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy military forces against the American people is the exact opposite of what Minneapolis — and the country — needs right now,” said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen in a statement Thursday morning.
“The violence in Minneapolis is being perpetrated by ICE. The solution is to end the ICE surge, not to further militarize the city, ” added Gilbert. “Deploying military forces against the city and its citizens would be a doubling down on the threat Americans are facing from their own government. Trump should abandon this idea immediately and stop threatening to use the military against the American people.”
Mass protests have erupted throughout Minneapolis since ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot local resident Good, whom the Trump administration posthumously smeared as a “domestic terrorist.”
Protests against ICE presence in the city intensified on Wednesday night after a federal agent shot a man in the leg during what the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called a “targeted traffic stop.”
The Trump administration last week began surging thousands of ICE agents into Minneapolis, resulting in mass school closures and the disruption of daily life for the city’s residents.
The editorial board of the Minnesota Star Tribune on Thursday described the city as being “under siege” by the federal government.
“Battalions of armed federal agents are moving through neighborhoods, transit hubs, malls and parking lots and staging near churches, mosques and schools,” the editorial explains. “Strangers with guns have metastasized in spaces where daily life should be routine and safe. It feels like a military occupation.”
The editors then declared that “what we are witnessing is the storming of the state by the federal government,” insisting that “the occupation of Minnesota by ICE cannot stand.”
A local Minneapolis resident who was out protesting against the ICE presence on Wednesday night told Status Coup News that he felt like the entire city was under assault.
“This is nuts!” he said. “What the fuck is going on, dude, this is insane… You know what really pisses me off is the fact that they detain people, cuff them, and then still beat the shit out of them! They tell you it’s immigrants, it’s only immigrants? It’s fucking anybody! I have friends who got detained and all they were doing was driving home from work!”
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Brad Reed is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
On developing a personality . . .
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It’s a tempting but really bad idea to cut people out of your life for disagreeing with you, or because you hate their world view, and here is why…
If you turn your belief, value, or ideology into your identity, it is no longer just an idea, it becomes YOU.
And then, when someone challenges your ideology or world view, you won’t hear a disagreement, you will hear an attack.
So, what do most people do? They build a nice, soft, padded little bubble for themselves, where everyone agrees with them, uses the same words as them, hates the same people as them, and celebrates the same moments.
If you have done this (or you are tempted to do this), you will find that before long, you will start defending that bubble of yours at all costs. You will cut people out of your life for disagreeing with you.
Facts will no longer matter, logic will be long gone, and you will lack empathy and compassion for anyone who sees the world differently.
You will double down on your own ideology; louder, angrier, and more closed-minded than ever before, yet think you are superior.
You will defend your own point of view as if it is sacred scripture. Not because it’s true, but because without it, George Carlin says, you would have to actually develop a personality, and that’s way harder.
(Contributed by Steve Hines)