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ICE’s Tacoma Detention Center targeted in new lawsuit alleging abuses ( www.theurbanist.org )
After ProPublica published letters from ICE-imprisoned children, camp was raided, un-mailed letters confiscated ( bsky.app )
Yet another Trump ambassador doesn't know how to behave. ( www.vrt.be )
A Life-Saving Vitamin for Babies Is Getting Swept Up in Vaccine Backlash | There’s a growing resistance to anything that’s injected into babies, vaccine or not. ( www.bloomberg.com )
PSA about Reddit Political Censorship: I got a warning/removal about Nuremberg 2.0 overturned with a straightforward appeal.
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Bondi criticised after saying all Epstein files have been released ( www.bbc.com )
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has said it has released all of the files required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but lawmakers have argued the release is insufficient
Democratic National Committee pays $6.5M to buy Kamala Harris’s email list ( www.nytimes.com )
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UK Supreme Court Affirms Ruling That Oatly Can’t Use ‘Milk’ In Its Oat Milk Branding ( www.techdirt.com )
Marjorie Taylor Greene Drops Bombshell: Trump ‘Fought the Hardest’ to Bury Epstein Files, Warns MAGA It Was No Hoax ( newsrepublic.co.uk )
AI hype is such bullshit. Who cares if Anthropic was 'used' in a military operation? I'm sure Outlook search was 'used' in this military operation
Oh look a soldier drank Coke!! Coke was used in a military operation.
4 out of 6 "Powerful" Epstein Accomplices Named by Congressmen Appear To Be Ordinary New Yorkers ( www.occrp.org )
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Agents Suspended After Their Story of Shooting an Immigrant Falls Apart ( www.nytimes.com )
A judge dropped charges against the immigrant and another man after the top federal prosecutor in Minnesota said new evidence was not consistent with the agents’ testimony. ...
The Lord works in mysterious ways — 2/13 ( www.itsdougholland.com )
Waymo pays DoorDashers to close doors on self-driving cars ( www.404media.co )
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DHS expected to shut down as immigration talks falter ( text.npr.org )
The Department of Homeland Security, which houses agencies focused on immigration, disaster response and cybersecurity, is on track to shut down Saturday as lawmakers leave town without a funding agreement or a deal that Democrats hope will rein in the conduct of federal immigration officers.
Zahilay bans ICE from all nonpublic King County-owned spaces ( www.seattletimes.com )
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Epstein Files Fuel Online Outrage at Figures With No Criminal Allegations ( reason.com )
Nebraska Legislature passes minimum wage decrease for teen workers ( nebraskapublicmedia.org )
Federal authorities announce end to Minnesota immigration crackdown ( apnews.com )
Investigators wrangled video from Nancy Guthrie’s Google Nest camera out of ‘backend systems’ ( www.nbcnews.com )
It’s not yet clear how the FBI collected the video. Experts said in some cases it’s possible to collect data from the complex infrastructure that has enabled cloud-based cameras. ...
Cardinal Cupich says feds stopped priests, demanded citizenship proof ( religionnews.com )
Cardinal Blase Cupich, head of the Archdiocese of Chicago, has twice told interviewers in recent weeks that priests in the archdiocese have been stopped by federal agents and asked to prove their immigration status — demands he said were “because of their color.” ...
ICE increasingly targeting Minnesota immigrants with active work permits ( sahanjournal.com )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260212122937/https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/ice-targets-immigrants-with-work-permits/
DHS shot her and called her a “terrorist.” New videos show something different. ( www.motherjones.com )
Newly released body camera footage further undermines the Trump administration’s efforts to falsely portray Marimar Martinez—who was shot multiple times by Border Patrol agent Charles Exum in October—as a “domestic terrorist.” Federal prosecutors shared three videos on Tuesday evening after a federal judge ruled last ...
Trump raised tariff on Switzerland because woman he mistakenly thought was Prime Minister was "repetitive" and "aggressive" ( www.indiatoday.in )
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Judge orders US to provide California ICE detainees with medical care, attorneys and blankets ( www.theguardian.com )
Order comes after seven people in California City facility allege they were denied medications, food and sanitation ...
Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun ( europeanbusinessmagazine.com )
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As Trump’s DHS Ravages US, Chuck Schumer Says His Job Is “to Fight for Aid to Israel” ( truthout.org )
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) said on Sunday that one of his most important jobs as Senate minority leader is to “fight for aid to Israel,” as the Trump administration’s masked federal agents continue their deadly raids of the U.S. with little to no pushback from Democrats. ...
Working for ICE is less dangerous than being an American elementary school student ( www.doomsdayscenario.co )
Sex worker advocates demand action from the city after prosecutors’ dehumanizing presentation ( publicola.com )
Super Bowl Fallout: ICE Says Attacks on Agents Have Jumped More Than 1,300% Nationwide ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )
Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary with a voice like gravel, pins the blame squarely on 'smears from Hollywood.' Assaults on her ICE officers? Up 1,300 per cent nationwide. Vehicle attacks? A grotesque 3,200 per cent this year. Shattered glass.
In response to Trump's tasteless meme
State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office ( text.npr.org )
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Trump, named 38,000 times in Trump-Epstein files (not counting redactions), says America should move on from Trump-Epstein files ( www.usatoday.com )
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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters | Substack ( www.theguardian.com )
Yep, it's still a nazi bar. ...
American is hospitalized after being racially profiled & ambushed by Secret Police, then abandoned roadside when attackers find passport in her purse ( www.oregonlive.com )
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"ShamWow" pitchman Shlomi runs for Congress as anti-woke warrior, promises to "slap chop the nuts out of the 'woke,' making less blue-haired commies and more red-blooded Americans" ( www.chron.com )
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The Trump-Epstein Files
'Beyond Crazy': FBI Summons State Election Officials to Secretive Meeting After Trump Threat to ‘Nationalize’ Midterms | Common Dreams ( www.commondreams.org )
DHS shutdown looms as Senate immigration talks sputter ( www.staradvertiser.com )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260206200450/https://www.staradvertiser.com/2026/02/06/breaking-news/dhs-shutdown-looms-as-senate-immigration-talks-sputter/
Zohran Mamdani faces progressive backlash after Katie Hochul endorsement ( www.newsweek.com )
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s endorsement of Governor Kathy Hochul for reelection has sparked a backlash from progressives, including some of the mayor’s closest allies. ...
A city that can't win: LA has limited options to get out of hosting in 2028 — but LA does have options ( www.torched.la )
"Hosting the Games is already accelerating policing, displacement, inequality, and exploitation in some of our city’s lowest-income communities — and, now, it’s being coordinated hand-in-glove with Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security," says Chris Tyler, SAJE's communications director. "At this point, these ...
A message from Minnesota 50501: Don't be fooled. 700 down, 2,300 to go. Abolish ICE. End the federal paramilitary invasion. ( cdn.social.linux.pizza )
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