Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public. “Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

A British dinosaur convention is banning some paleontologists named in the Epstein files from attending DinoCon as the scientific community becomes the latest to grapple with the convicted sex offender’s connections to prominent people in business, politics and academia: https://cnn.it/4txJx8l

Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in prison two years ago, was most likely poisoned by a toxin found in a South American frog, the Foreign Ministries of Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said on Saturday in a joint statement.

US launches airstrikes on dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria

Breaking: The Pentagon used Anthropic’s AI tool Claude in its military operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on.wsj.com/3OhxgEK

Sudan civil war: RSF war crimes saw 6,000 killed in three days in el-Fasher, UN says

Exclusive: The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a far more serious conflict than previously seen between the countries reut.rs/4kErI3k

With what?

The Tumbler Ridge shooter created a mall shooting simulator in Roblox. “We have removed the user account connected to this horrifying incident as well as any content associated with the suspect,” Roblox told 404 Media www.404media.co/tumbler-ridg...

Church of England abandons proposals for same-sex blessing ceremonies

The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a foreign conversation about Jared Kushner that was intercepted last spring.

WASHINGTON (AP) — EPA revokes scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health, removing key basis for climate change fight.

Via @allansmith.bsky.social at NBC ‘Separatist leaders say they met w/ Trump admin officials in April, Sept + Dec + have a future meeting planned They say they’ve discussed transition plans for the economy, military Trump admin pushed back, says no future meeting’ www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk's X appears to be profiting from the very same government officials he railed against, potentially violating US sanctions in the process, according to a new report from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) shared exclusively with WIRED.

Canadian police identified the person who carried out a school massacre as an 18-year-old woman with mental health issues but did not give a motive for one of the worst mass shootings in Canada's history reut.rs/4rFswqU

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Seems the Pentagon is testing anti-drone high-energy lasers near Fort Bliss in El Paso, and didn't feel this was dangerous enough to close airspace over. The FAA administrator disagreed. Last week, these lasers successfully protected the American people from a sinister children's party balloon.

It is wildly irresponsible for two “news outlets” to name the alleged BC shooter and claim they were trans without official corroboration. The images and “story” are already spreading online. You are putting people in danger.

As the only (I think?) local reporter in Tumbler Ridge, Trent Ernst has been heroically covering the tragedy unfolding in his town. Most of his reporting is happening on Facebook, which you can find here, along with links to his Patreon. www.facebook.com/tumblerridge...

The CAJ also has an Emergency Support Fund that can those in our community who need assistance. Applications are simple and confidential. caj.ca/advocacy/eme...

The FAA has reopened the airspace over El Paso. Bad comms & incompetence likely played a role but something isn’t quite right…this isn’t the first time a cartel drone has breached US airspace. There will be more to this story.

Breaking news: The IRS improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of people with immigration enforcement officials, appearing to breach a legal fire wall intended to protect taxpayer data.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is scheduled to testify on Wednesday before a House Judiciary Committee hearing, where she is expected to face bipartisan skepticism over her handling of the release of the investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein. Follow live updates.

Trump privately weighs quitting USMCA trade pact he negotiated, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4rcb51v

The closure of airspace of El Paso was allegedly due to drones linked to an unnamed Mexican cartel

A small mining community in northeastern British Columbia is left reeling after seven people were killed in a shooting in a high school on Tuesday and another 25 were injured. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

To fellow journalists covering the school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. - please make sure you are taking care of yourself too. This is a story that can follow you home. A gentle reminder that the @cajournalists.bsky.social peer to peer counselling program is live. caj.ca/peersupport/

Many Ontario public service workers have gone back to the office five times a week, but trans workers fear that this opens the door for increased harassment and gender dysphoria in their peers, reports @jacobaronleung.bsky.social.

👀 www.defensenews.com/unmanned/202...

A Quebec teenager was just charged after allegedly using socials “to promote the violent ideology of Atomwaffen Division, a terrorist entity.” Atomwaffen is a militant accelerationist neo-Nazi terror group. But the government won’t renew funding for many anti-hate programs, warns @antihate.ca:

We need to talk about AI and Canada's National Security: Mainly, the plans laid out in 2024 didn't account for an extremely hostile administration in the White House and we have an AI Minister accused of avoiding tough questions. Read my analysis here: substack.com/@thestateoft...

“A conference call shows a political operative with past Conservative connections advising several white nationalist groups.” thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

New Mexico goes to trial to accuse Meta of facilitating child predators

“The data provided by the RCMP suggests that the remaining 170 officers with proven allegations including sexual assault and domestic violence faced other disciplinary measures, such as transfers and demotions, but were allowed to return to work.” www.cbc.ca/news/investi...

West Valley City police have arrested a 25-year-old man after three disabled men died in his vehicle of what appeared to be carbon monoxide poisoning.

If you have ever looked at the photographs of what Agent Orange did to Vietnam, you’ll understand how horrifying this headline is

Ontario to examine 45 police departments in response to Toronto corruption probe

The ending to Bad Bunny's halftime show: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love" "Together, we are America"

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison ft.trib.al/807VUyo

The rise of the “nihilistic violent extremist.” “The assailants in several cases — shootings, a bombing, a planned drone attack — resisted familiar labels and categories…They were something new.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is based on U.S.-intercepted phone conversation in which individuals linked to a foreign government discussed a person close to President Trump.

President Trump’s allies are offering access to him and other perks to donors who give at least $1 million to a new group supporting flashy initiatives he is planning around the U.S.’s 250th birthday, according to documents and interviews.

The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s who shows up from Big Tech the most often—and what the files reveal.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, has resigned from government following the revelations about Peter Mandelson in the Epstein files. Full story: politi.co/4ttOa3i

It ought to be hard for democratic governments to use criminal law as a cudgel against journalists. But they are finding workarounds

In the first month of 2026, the long-awaited national security trial of Tiananmen vigil activists and their historic group began. Meanwhile, in another landmark trial, pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai and eight co-defendants completed their mitigation pleas. In full: buff.ly/pDMgWiV

Gabbard rejects claims she withheld whistleblower complaint from Congress reut.rs/4r8jR0r