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- 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] 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 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.»
- 2026-02-07 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...»
- 2026-02-01 19:00 UTC [L..T] Mayor of Portland, Oregon, demands ICE leave the city after federal agents gas protesters «“To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave,” Wilson wrote in a statement Saturday night. “Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.”» .. «Federal agents in Eugene, Oregon, deployed tear gas on Friday when protesters broke windows and tried to get inside the Federal Building near downtown. City police declared a riot and ordered the crowd to disperse.»
- 2026-02-01 17:32 UTC [L..T] Selfish AI «All of this discussion, from Jeffrey's video to 99% of what shows up in forums or Mastodon discussions, is about how all of this will impact "me." Me, the developer. Me, the person writing code, who may not be writing code now. Me the person who just got laid off because some accountant thinks that Claude means they need only two engineers now instead of 10. Me the person who just had to lay off half my company. Me, me, me. [..] What I almost never see is the impact of AI code on our society.»
- 2026-02-01 16:10 UTC [L..T] Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting «The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.»
- 2026-02-01 13:37 UTC [L..T] From Elon Musk to the former Prince Andrew, a who’s who of powerful men are named in Epstein files «From tech titans to Wall Street power brokers and foreign dignitaries, a who’s who of powerful men make appearances in the huge trove of documents released Friday by the Justice Department in connection with its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein.»
- 2026-02-01 [L..T] Wheee, more Epstein revelations «A couple more letters emerge out of the files, these all involve John Brockman. Brockman was the king of scientific publishing; I believe he was the agent for all of Richard Dawkins’ books, and he was the agent for my one book, he was Lawrence Krauss’s agent, etc.»
- 2026-01-30 11:08 UTC [L..T] Tri-State says "no thanks" to federal orders to keep Craig coal power plant open «Tri-State Generation and partner Platte River Power Authority had a “respectful” but emphatic response late Thursday to the Trump administration ordering them to keep Craig’s Unit 1 coal-fired plant open past the New Year: They don’t need it, they don’t want it, and their inflation-strapped consumers can’t afford the higher bills. Plus, the federal order is unconstitutional.»
- 2026-01-30 [L..T] Democrats Cave on Demands for DHS Reforms, Agree to Short-Term Spending Bill «“Until ICE is properly reined in and overhauled legislatively, the DHS funding bill doesn’t have the votes to pass,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) said, vowing that his party would filibuster until a deal was reached.» – but then: «Critics have blasted Democrats’ list of demands as weak and ineffectual to begin with, pointing out that they don’t even include a call for federal immigration agents to leave Minneapolis. Notably, ICE is already ignoring dozens of judicial orders, and any reforms included in a new funding bill may be similarly disregarded.»... further results
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