More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

Done.

"New Israeli measures pave the way for accelerated expansion of settlements in the West Bank, further undermining the future of Palestinians. It is a recipe for increased control, hopelessness & violence." — UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini UN Secretary-General: x.com/antonioguter...

“Unlike a court order, tech companies are under no obligation to provide someone’s data after receiving an administrative subpoena.” Yet they did.

Jerusalem woman Leqaa Kordia (33) incarcerated since March 2025 www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actio...

"An Al Jazeera Arabic Investigation reveals how Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons supplied by the US has left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians it killed during its genocidal war on Gaza." www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

History's echo.

What European Union leaders like Antonio Costa (@eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu) & Roberta Metsola (@president.europarl.europa.eu) support: "Al Jazeera report reveals how Israel used thermobaric weapons to vaporize people in #Gaza." www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrJF... #Europe #Israel #Palestine

"In July last year, the same aircraft was used to deport five men from El Paso in Texas, through Shannon and on to Djibouti. The men were then loaded on to a US military C-130 aircraft and flown to Estwani. None of the men had ever been in Estwani before, media reports at the time said."

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.

Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees. "This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Coding www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

RIP

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

Leqaa Kordia was recently hospitalized after a seizure as she approaches a year in government detention. Her family and attorneys say she is being subjected to worsening conditions as punishment for her Palestine activism and her faith. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-... #Palestine #Israel

If your local shopping centre allowed one of its retailers to defraud you and then profited from the transaction, that would be a matter for the Garda. Yet the same is not true of the powerful technology companies … - Irish Times on another glaring scandal www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

Fishguard North East (Pembrokeshire) Council By-Election Result: 🌼 PLC: 33.8% (New) 🔶 LDM: 18.0% (New) ➡️ RFM: 12.7% (New) 🌹 LAB: 11.1% (-47.9) 🙋 Ind: 10.5% (New) 🌳 CON: 9.2% (-31.9) 🙋 Ind: 4.7% (New) Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2022.

EU: Combination of centre-right and far-right MEPs moves EU closer to creating ‘offshore’ centres for migrants and asylum seekers. www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-4...

Maybe it’s illegal after all. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

“Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed” www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Foreign tourism to the U.S. fell 5.4% in 2025 while the rest of the world saw a 4% increase. Canadian visits dropped nearly 30%. buff.ly/MSynHSJ

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen: "We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Supreme Court yet to decide on key defence issue relevant to Shannon charges - cases adjourned.

@garymarcus.bsky.social: LLMs still hallucinate and continue to make boneheaded errors, and this Caltech / Stanford paper is yet another suggesting that this is inherent. Even LLMs marketed as offering "reasoning" systems have major problems with reasoning. garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-l...

EU's West Bank Warning Highlights What Israel Stands to Lose if It Proceeds With Annexation Haaretz Today www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... 🧵 By Vera Weidenbach

This is that "red line" we heard so much about at the outset of Trump's second term. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Google handed ICE a student journalist’s bank and credit card numbers theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g... by @jesswash.bsky.social

Seamus Culleton yesterday on RTÉ radio said disease was rife in this camp where he is incarcerated. @klillington.bsky.social Now this.

That's my story 👍 -- we're staying on this and watching for further developments.

Canadian pension giant halts deals with DP World over chief’s Epstein ties ft.trib.al/KYJc6mr

Tuberculosis and COVID-19 Detected at Camp East Montana ICE Jail in El Paso truthout.org/articles/tub...

The rich know the value of having their access to justice. Their favoured governments respect their preferences. Ireland is well along the road to limiting access to justice for people who are not rich. It is about to press the accelerator. Justice Jackson of the US Supreme Court:

Our government is great at saying nice sounding words. They get plaudits for them, mostly from people online who don't live here and don't know any better. But it's only words, there is never any action, or even any intention for action, to follow them.

Your data: needs to be monitored and recorded Our data? Don't worry about it:

Red Cross President: What we have seen in Gaza exceeds all legal, ethical, moral and humanitarian norms.

Shameful for Ireland @micheal-martin.bsky.social

The BBC has managed to get into Tehran. All journalists are banned in Iran.

🏴‍☠️ Netanyahu Reportedly Received Detailed Plan of Hamas' October 7 Attack From IDF in 2018 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... 🧵 Haaretz

🚨 Tomorrow, von der Leyen meets corporate lobbyists just hours before EU leader retreat. Trade union and NGO coalition warns against an (E)U-turn on protections. We call for rules that protect democracy, people & planet - not polluters. 📄 Joint Declaration: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/t...

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

My story yesterday; the Irish Times and I broke this now-international story and I am hoping he'll have some resolution and that this case will draw ever more scrutiny to the horrific conditions and circumstances in which so many detainees are held.

Fair play India