arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ICEOUT #fascism #terrorists

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

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Being against ICE brutality doesn’t make us antiAmerican. It makes us constitutionalists. What they’re doing to peaceful protestors violates the First Amendment and erodes democracy.

"Among the hires at CBS News announced by Weiss is a doctor who claims he reduced his biological age by 20 years with cold plunges; that cod liver oil treats autism; and that Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with supplements he sells on his online store." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"The Fulton County raid is a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections in 2026..." slate.com/news-and-pol...

BREAKING: 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.

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In between all the fascism, it's also a MASSIVE crime wave.

As FBI agents executed a court-authorized search warrant at an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, Wednesday, lurking in the shadows of the operation was Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

What gives you hope in these awful times? I’ll tell you my answer: the people of Minneapolis.

Can we just impeach the president, vice-president, and the necessary civil officers in one go? It'd be nice to clean house.

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Listen. There is NO DOUBT that trump did unthinkable things to little children. Boys and girls. There's even an accusation that these children were tortured and even killed. WHEN THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO DO YOUR JOB, CONGRESS? ARE ALL OF YOU SAYING THAT YOU THINK THIS IS OK? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 🤬

"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..." www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

Trump gave a foreign power access to America's highly advanced and protected AI chips in exchange his personal enrichment of half a billion dollars. This makes Watergate look as if Nixon had driven three miles over the speed limit once.

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This new drug might really change outcomes for people with diabetes. New drug could prevent diabetes complications not fixed with blood sugar control, study hints | Live Science share.google/MMCa7pYhsx0w...

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I guess they are pretty upset. For some reason.

Rep. Morrison on conditions at Whipple: "She said, 'they are treating us like animals in here. The women that are in this cell with me, we slept on a cold concrete floor last night. We were begging for a blanket, & guards were cruel'... we have to resolve that every single person deserves dignity"

STEPHANOPOULOS: A foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming president's company -- how do you respond to those who say this is a serious conflict of interest? BLANCHE (lying): The Biden family did the same thing

House Judiciary Committee is asking the DOJ for all of the unredacted Epstein files and questioning why all of the files have not been released. victims are claiming co conspirators’ names have been redacted & all files weren’t released. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 apple.news/AD_dqjwLCQze...

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UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)

MUST READ this powerful, intimate dispatch from Minneapolis by @propublica.org visual journalists @peterdicampo.bsky.social (who lives there) & @cengizyar.com This is America.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2z7... 💙💙WE LOVE OUR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS!!!!!!!💙💙

NEW: At least 6 people shot after altercation led to multiple people firing at each other in northeast Houston, Texas, police say.

Galle: Happy Face Crater on Mars apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26020... These markings were originally discovered in the 1970s in pictures taken by the Viking Orbiter. The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft that orbited Mars from 1996 to 2006 captured the featured picture.

To all the Minnesotans who are making their voices heard and protesting peacefully: The world is watching, and when change comes, it will be because of you.

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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

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Such blatant corruption — which the media will, of course, totally ignore.

When Trump testified in deposition on his NY fraud case, he estimated his net worth at $3.2B, which was wildly inflated. That was after a lifetime in business. Trump has now made $4.05B just in the past year - most of it from foreign entities. archive.ph/2026.01.31-1...

After a second killing by ICE agents in Minneapolis, Pam Bondi sent a letter to Minnesota’s governor that tied the violence to demands for access to the state’s voter rolls. Our latest podcast explains why this is an abuse of power: bit.ly/4qcmjBM

Ellison: "The real problem with the case is not that the judge didn't understand the gravity or facts. The problem is there is no legal precedent for this. We've never seen a moment in American history where through force of arms, an administration was trying to bully a state into submission."

Michael McElroy, pioneering atmospheric scientist, dies at 86 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... Helped build foundation of climate and environmental studies at Harvard

Keith Ellison: "The president is openly promoting authoritarianism and tyranny. That is what's happening in America. Most of us thought we would never see it, but here it is right in front of our eyes."

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I'm a star (well, not me the sea star). Astarina miniata, a bat star as it moves over pink rock (coralline algae) filled with tube mollusks. These sea stars can be found with amazing colors; yellow, orange, purple, green, red, and brown plus combinations of these colors. And they'll eat urchins.