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- 2026-02-15 [L..T] ‘We Don’t Take Food Stamp’: Black Manager Says Something Was Very Wrong Inside Philadelphia Chick-fil-A and Speaking Up Got Her Fired «In her federal civil rights lawsuit filed on Jan. 29 (and obtained by Atlanta Black Star), Tiffany Lynch, 38, claims that Joshua Grimm, owner/operator and president of the Chick-fil-A franchise in Wayne, Pennsylvania, created a hostile work environment by making discriminatory jokes and comments and treated Black employees and job applicants differently than their white counterparts. [..] When she objected to the discrimination, Lynch says, she was fired in retaliation.»
- 2026-02-15 [L..T] Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel «Peter Thiel, co-founder of surveillance and data analytics company Palantir, is a major investor in Persona – the age verification provider used by major platforms including Reddit and Discord.» .. «Following global pushes for age assurance by governments, Persona is increasingly being used by major online platforms to carry out biometric age checks. This means UK users may be required to submit facial scans in order to access core Internet services.»
- 2026-02-14 14:13 UTC [L..T] What to know about the Homeland Security shutdown «Another shutdown for parts of the federal government has begun as a fight over proposed restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda drags on. [..] Funding for the Department of Homeland Security expired on Saturday. Democrats say they will not help approve more money until the new limits are placed on federal immigration operations after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis last month.»
- 2026-02-13 14:21 UTC [L..T] Trump 'on the ropes' as he becomes increasingly overwhelmed: analysis «President Donald Trump's MAGA allies were furious when a series of polls conducted in late January or early February found that many registered voters are now giving Trump lower marks than former President Joe Biden. A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll found that 51 percent of voters believe Biden did a better job than Trump, while a poll by the conservative Rasmussen found that 48 percent of voters hold that view. [..] These polls come at a time when the 2026 midterms are drawing closer and Trump is feeling increasingly overwhelmed.»
- 2026-02-13 [L..T] Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts «The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency. [..] In recent months, Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from the Department of Homeland Security, according to four government officials and tech employees privy to the requests. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.»
- 2026-02-13 [L..T] The guy who made Pam Bondi Lose her Mind ft. Rep. Jamie Raskin «Pam Bondi refused to answer questions about the DOJ's handling of the Epstein files, so I sat down [with] Rep. Raskin to find out why.»
- 2026-02-13 [L..T] Minnesota Demolishes Stephen Miller’s Theory of Force «Homeland Security Czar Stephen Miller’s attempt to impose his power in Minnesota, the same guy murderboating fishermen who might be carrying cocaine in the Caribbean in the name of halting fentanyl trafficking — has led to the collapse of drug trafficking cases because his attempt to subdue Minnesota by force has instead destroyed the Federal tools to impose order by law.» The administration's incompetence and "might makes right" approach in pursuing its supposed war on drugs agenda has eroded the tools to actually pursue that agenda. Even if you have a really strong hammer, not everything is a nail.
- 2026-02-12 13:00 UTC [L..T] ‘Deeply illogical’: this man’s life work could end homelessness – and Trump is doing all he can to stop it The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership «asked Tsemberis to send in his slides before the event. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) – a federal agency funding the event – wanted to see them. [...] When Tsemberis got them back, there were red lines throughout. Among other things, a federal official had deleted sections referencing the idea that racially discriminatory government policy is one cause of homelessness, as well as the terms “harm reduction” and “trauma-informed”, and mentions of Tsemberis being the founder of Housing First. What’s more, the term “Housing First” was deleted throughout.» ... «Instead, the federal government is pushing a longstanding approach sometimes called “Treatment First”, because it is based on the notion that homeless people have to resolve addictions, mental illness and other issues before obtaining housing. [..] That approach historically has seen vastly inferior results»...
- 2026-02-12 12:51 UTC [L..T] (social post) «Hundreds of Dallas students walked out chanting “ICE out of Dallas!” standing tall even after Abbott’s threats.» Post includes short video of the walkout.
- 2026-02-12 11:43 UTC [L..T] (social post) «The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level: [..]#PalantirC is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin. [..] A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.»
- 2026-02-12 [L..T] Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir «If you weren't paying close attention, you might think that the most grotesque and indefensible aspect of Keir Starmer's Labour government turning over NHS patient records to the American military contractor Palantir is that Palantir are Trumpist war-criminals, "founded to kill communists".» ... «But it's actually much worse than that!»
- 2026-02-11 12:40 UTC [L..T] Mexican Cartel ‘Drones’ Near El Paso Airspace Were Actually Party Balloons: Report «Medical emergency evacuation flights heading to El Paso, Texas, were forced to divert to New Mexico on Wednesday after the Federal Aviation Administration shut down all flights in and out of El Paso for 10 days. The order was rescinded after a few hours, but the excuse – Mexican cartel drones breaching the U.S.-Mexico border – doesn’t make any sense, given the fact that drug-smuggling drones do that on a daily basis.» ... «at least one of the objects shot down was just a party balloon, according to CBS News. CNN has since reported that it was four mylar balloons.»
- 2026-02-11 [L..T] Congressional Budget Office hikes US deficit hole to $1.9T «The U.S. debt balloon is projected to hit $1.9 trillion this year, worsened by the Trump administration's recent tax policies and immigration enforcement actions, per the Congressional Budget Office. "Our budget projections continue to indicate that the fiscal trajectory is not sustainable," said CBO director Phillip Swagel.»
- 2026-02-11 [L..T] FAA suddenly drops unprecedented air restrictions over El Paso «The Federal Aviation Administration issued unexplained notices late Tuesday closing airspace over El Paso and a large patch of southern New Mexico west of Santa Teresa for 10 days. El Paso International Airport is closed to all flights, the city said.» .. 2026/02/11 07:25 update: The FAA says it has lifted the air restrictions over El Paso. «The restrictions in New Mexico remain.»
- 2026-02-08 [L..T] Democrat wins Louisiana state House special seat in district Trump won «Louisiana Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez defeated her Republican opponent by double digits in the special election Saturday night for a state House seat in a district President Trump won by 13 points in 2024. [..] Martinez won 62% of the vote compared to 38% for her Republican opponent, Brad Daigle, according to unofficial results from the Louisiana Secretary of State. [..] The special election was held after its former state representative, a Democrat, was appointed by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry to be a commissioner for the state's Department of Alcohol & Tobacco. [..] Martinez's win is not a flip since Democrats already held the seat, but Republicans had seen it as a prime pickup opportunity since Mr. Trump won the district three times. Her win was a 37-point swing from the 2024 results, although the district has voted for Democrats at the state and local levels previously.»
- 2026-02-07 20:09 UTC [L..T] (social post) «The police shut down First Friday here in Phoenix at 9pm yesterday. They ended up using chemical weapons on people (ie: assaulting hundreds or a few thousand ppl with gas). Vendors were upset because they paid for stalls and their very LEGAL and COMMERCIAL gathering was shut down, harming them as well as the innocent people brutally attacked by police. They justified their actions because there was a shooting NEAR First Friday last month.» (short thread)
- 2026-02-07 17:00 UTC [L..T] Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters «The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found.» .. «NatSocToday is understood to be run by a far-right activist based in the US and features a swastika, a symbol appropriated by the Nazi party in the 1920s to symbolise white supremacy, as its profile picture.» .. «One of its recent posts suggests the Jewish race was responsible for the second world war and describes Adolf Hitler as “one of the greatest men of all time”. Within two hours of subscribing to NatSocToday for the purposes of this investigation, the Substack algorithm directed the Guardian’s account to 21 other profiles featuring similar content.»
- 2026-02-07 07:57 UTC [L..T] Russia causes 'significant damage' to thermal plants, nuclear facilities in mass attack on Ukraine power grid «Russia carried out a mass attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure on Feb. 7, triggering emergency power outages across most regions and damaging nuclear facilities, government officials said. [..] The strike hit key elements of Ukraine's power grid as freezing temperatures returned, with Kyiv forecast to see temperatures drop to –19 degrees Celsius (–2 degrees Fahrenheit) in the coming days, compounding pressure on the energy system.» .. «In Kyiv, where the situation is hardest, residents can expect a maximum of one-and-a-half to two hours of light per day, [DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company,] said.»
- 2026-02-06 [L..T] Federal Agent in Coon Rapids: ‘The more people that you lose in Minnesota, you then lose a voting right to stay blue.’ «A masked federal agent in a convenience store parking lot in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids told legal observers that Minnesota’s status as a blue state is linked with the removal of residents, on a video provided to Unicorn Riot. He also conceded that the Trump-era anti-immigrant program is more violent than the Obama-era equivalent.» Observer: «Hearing from a federal agent actively out here detaining people, I thought it was very surprising to hear that essentially their plan is to take away as much of our voters as possible so our state can’t remain blue.» This is violence for political purposes, which is the definition of terrorism.
- 2026-02-06 [L..T] February 5, 1942 – Offensive In Singapore – Russians On Kalinen Front – Second Attack On Surabaya «And that’s just a small slice of news for February 5, 1942 as reported by NBC News Of The World.»
- 2026-02-04 10:06 UTC [L..T] 'Objectively chilling': Judge stands against 'authoritarian regime,' restrains Noem's officers from firing 'munitions' at Portland ICE protesters «A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking Trump administration officers from indiscriminately — and without warning — firing "chemical or projectile munitions" at protesters outside an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. [..] U.S. District Judge Michael Simon on Tuesday began his 22-page order by describing America as "at a crossroads," and himself as guardian against an "authoritarian regime." [..] The judge offered a full-throated defense of the right to protest President Donald Trump's deportation agenda and to gather news of the government's activities free from "objectively chilling" conduct, like "physically harming protestors and journalists without prior dispersal warnings."»
- 2026-02-03 21:26 UTC [L..T] Federal Agents Left Behind “Death Cards” After Capturing Immigrants «When family members arrived on the scene in Eagle County, Colorado, their loved ones had already been disappeared by federal agents. But what they found inside the vehicles was disturbing: a customized ace of spades playing card — popularly known as a “death card” — that read “ICE Denver Field Office.”» .. «Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., recently took to the Senate floor to denounce the use of the malicious ICE calling cards. “They found ‘death cards’ [left in] the cars of their family members who were taken away by ICE agents,” he said. “These cards … have a history of being used by white supremacist groups to intimidate people of color. ‘Death cards’ is what they call them.”»
- 2026-02-03 17:44 UTC [L..T] Nvidia’s $100 billion OpenAI deal has seemingly vanished «In September 2025, Nvidia and OpenAI announced a letter of intent for Nvidia to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI’s AI infrastructure. At the time, the companies said they expected to finalize details “in the coming weeks.” Five months later, no deal has closed, Nvidia’s CEO now says the $100 billion figure was “never a commitment,” and Reuters reports that OpenAI has been quietly seeking alternatives to Nvidia chips since last year.»
- 2026-02-03 13:59 UTC [L..T] An Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill With a Cruel New Twist «Just last week, the Kansas legislature passed some of the most far-reaching measures to push trans and gender-nonconforming people out of public life to date. Bathroom bans that bar trans people from restrooms aligned with their gender identity have become grimly common; over 20 states have such a law on the books. But Kansas’s new anti-trans bathroom bill adds a dangerous twist: a bounty hunter provision. [..] The law would permit private citizens to sue and seek monetary reward based on claiming to encounter a trans person in the bathroom. That’s on top of some of the harshest punishments of any existing bathroom bans, such as criminal charges, steep fines and even jail time.»
- 2026-02-03 13:21 UTC [L..T] Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections «During an extended monologue about immigration on a podcast released on Monday by Dan Bongino, his former deputy F.B.I. director, Mr. Trump called for Republican officials to “take over” voting procedures in 15 states, though he did not name them. [..] “The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over,’” he said. “We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many — 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”» Trump did not specify which "15 places" he had in mind.
- 2026-02-03 [L..T] There Are Four Lights: Star Trek’s Unwitting Allegory for Domestic Abuse «The abuser who frames every escalation as the target’s fault. The partner who says, “You know how I get when you do that.” The harm becomes the target’s responsibility; the torturer becomes the reluctant administrator of consequences the target has chosen.» .. «The shame that survivors carry about their own breaking – why didn’t I resist longer, why did I start to believe them – is shame misplaced onto the target rather than the perpetrator. [..] The symptoms of assault become proof that the target was unstable all along.»
- 2026-02-02 14:56 UTC [L..T] Greene: MAGA ‘was all a lie’ «Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said President Trump’s Make American* Great Again slogan was a “lie,” saying his first year back in office was focused on obliging wealthy supporters. [..] “I think people are realizing it was all a lie. It was a big lie for the people. What MAGA is really serving in this administration, who they’re serving, is their big donors,” Greene said in a Wednesday interview with radio personality Kim Iversen.» (*sic)
- 2026-02-02 12:54 UTC [L..T] JK Rowling Called Out After Inviting Jeffrey Epstein To A Children's Play — Years After His Child Sex Conviction «Freshly unsealed federal records have reignited outrage around JK Rowling after revealing that Jeffrey Epstein was quietly invited as a VIP to an exclusive Broadway dinner linked to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a decade after his child sex conviction. [..] While Rowling is not directly named in the email chain, the event formed part of her franchise's flagship Broadway expansion, placing renewed scrutiny on the social gatekeepers who protected Epstein long after his crimes were public knowledge.»
- 2026-02-02 12:01 UTC [L..T] ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They're Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises «In raw, unfiltered Reddit posts now spreading beyond law-enforcement circles, ICE officers describe going a month or more without a paycheque, struggling to secure medical cover for sick children, and watching promised bonuses quietly stall.» Even the Great Grifter's own private army is not immune from The Great Grift.
- 2026-02-02 [L..T] Epstein’s “Nazi like” eugenicist horrors revealed in document release «A journal — written by a girl who was 16 years old at the time of some entries — reveals the sheer depravity of Jeffrey Epstein and the ruling class he lurked within. [..] The girl was subjected to horrifying sexual abuse, and despairs at being Epstein’s “property” and “incubator” for the now-deceased financier’s children. One deeply disturbing account reveals the loss of a child, likely due to incessant abuse by Epstein and his associates...»... further results
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