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- 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.»
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