"Prince's contractors operated in coordination with Israeli advisers who were involved in training two Congolese special forces battalions on day and night operations" www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Und das Irre: Parteifirmen wie die der AfD sind für den Staat quasi eine Blackbox – dank Artikel 21 GG. Ob das so gedacht war? 3/3 Die ganze Recherche von Dominik Lenze, @carlibess.bsky.social und mir auf @correctiv.org: correctiv.org/aktuelles/ne...

Investigative collective @aeowinpact.bsky.social investigates networks recruiting African fighters for the Russian war in Ukraine. It publishes a list of recruits and those who have died at the front, to enable families who have not heard from their loved ones to take action. @bellingcat.com

New, by @lorenzofb.bsky.social: Google sent personal and financial data about a student and journalist, who attended a pro-Palestine protest in 2024, to ICE agents in response to an "administrative subpoena," which had not been approved by a judge.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

A police investigation against neo-Nazis in Germany & Switzerland w/ links to Blood & Honour/Combat 18: neo-Nazi music/merch (obviously), suspicion of violating weapons laws, trafficking steroids/doping drugs and prescription drugs, having explosive devices, etc. Arrest warrant out for main suspect.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

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Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

Turns out, Thomas Röper was accredited to the annual Vladimir Putin's press conference in 2020 as a reporter for Inforos "news agency". Inforos is directly associated with the GRU unit 54777, which is responsible for psychological operations.

In related news about the Washington Post and the state of journalism today, Amazon "ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, even as its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion." That's in the wake of the 2025 tax bill www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

“Lockdown Mode is just locking down the potential ways malware can get into your phone, including, as it turns out, hardware accessory connections,” FPF's David Huerta told @monicatorrr.bsky.social.

Die #Bundesregierung will offenbar #Integrationskurse stark einschränken: Künftig sollen sie nur noch Menschen mit „Bleibeperspektive“ bekommen – das könnte auch viele Ukrainer:innen treffen. Kurse könnten außerdem monatelang nicht bewilligt werden.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

FT exclusive: “The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.” via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues

Incredible stuff from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/igno...

Das "System Siegmund" - gute Darstellung der Vetternwirtschaft in der AfD Sachsen-Anhalt von @correctiv.org

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

There is zero reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet in a kleptocracy. And so billionaires are gutting the media companies they own, reorienting them to better align with the regime, and spending money on bribes rather than journalists www.404media.co/the-washingt...

"the next era of the big platforms is shaping up to one of increasing isolation, of passive consumption stripped of any sense of shared culture, and of, to borrow a term, comprehensive 'unconnection,' not as a condition to be corrected [...] but as a goal nearly achieved." nymag.com/intelligence...

Tech question: What are your favorite AI tools/models that you can run locally? (ideally something that runs on an M1 MacBook)

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

American-made munitions have played a significant role in Israel’s operations in Gaza. Bellingcat has collated scores of incidents where the remnants of US-made munitions have been found in the aftermath of Israeli strikes. Read here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Tech question: What are your favorite AI tools/models that you can run locally? (ideally something that runs on an M1 MacBook)

Der Sexualstraftäter Jeffrey Epstein finanzierte den deutschen KI-Forscher Joscha Bach – bis 2019, dem Jahr von Epsteins Festnahme. Er ließ Bach offenbar über eine Million Dollar zukommen. Unsere @papertrailmedia.de Recherche für @spiegel.de, ZDF & @derstandard.at: www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

Herzlichen Dank an unsere Hausverwaltung, die offenbar vergessen (?) hat Heizöl zu bestellen, sodass das gesamte Haus — inklusive älteren Menschen, Kleinkindern und Menschen mit Behinderung — heute Nacht bei -8 Grad ohne Heizung dasteht. (Und informiert wurden wir über diesen Ausfall auch nicht.)

A correction for the ages

Neues aus den #Epstein -Akten: Mehr als 1.000 Mal die russische Unternehmerin Maria Drokova auf. Als führende Jugendaktivistin der russischen Putin-Jugendbewegung „Nashi” hatte sie früher Beziehungen direkt zum russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin. Die aktuelle Story jetzt auf @correctiv.org

Herzlichen Dank an unsere Hausverwaltung, die offenbar vergessen (?) hat Heizöl zu bestellen, sodass das gesamte Haus — inklusive älteren Menschen, Kleinkindern und Menschen mit Behinderung — heute Nacht bei -8 Grad ohne Heizung dasteht. (Und informiert wurden wir über diesen Ausfall auch nicht.)

Wie die Bundesregierung afghanische Ortskräfte im Stich lässt: Meine Kolleginnen @lenakoeps.bsky.social und Pamela Kaethner haben mit einer Familie gesprochen, die in Pakistan festsitzt und die Abschiebung nach Afghanistan befürchtet. Jetzt auf @correctiv.org

"Hey Jeffrey, I'm currently in the land of Berlusconi preparing for my Philosophy of Physics application at Oxford. Doing quite well on the fun side I think, although by your standards you surely wouldn't be too impressed... How are things with you? Jacob" Email von Jacob Burda an Jeffrey Epstein

Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...

New court record from the FBI details the state of the devices seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson: phone was on w/Lockdown Mode; personal laptop was off; work laptop was on w/Touch ID; several Signal chats used disappearing messages. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Bellingcat community members have already found two files detailing explicit allegations that President Trump engaged in sexual activities with children. One file is an FBI complaint form and the other is an FBI email chain. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

"The staff reported seeing a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and 'catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.'" www.reuters.com/world/early-...

UK police to use AI facial recognition tech linked to Israel’s war on Gaza www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

New satellite imagery shows the creation of two massive camps for displaced people south of Gaza City with thousands of tents (imagery by Vantor provided by European Space Imaging)

Politico reports that Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who is too often sympathetic to Trump’s (and Putin’s) attacks on Europe, privately questioned the US president’s psychological state, calling him “dangerous” after their meeting. www.politico.eu/article/dona... 1/2

A phishing campaign is currently targeting journalists and activists in Germany and Europe via Signal with fake support messages. Here's how it looks netzpolitik.org/2026/phishin...

Wenn du Ziel dieses Angriffs geworden bist, Zugriff auf deinen Signal-Account auf diese Weise verloren hast oder weitergehende Informationen und Hinweise zu diesem Angriff hast, wende Dich an @netzpolitik.org für weitere Nachforschungen und Recherchen.

Breaking per NBC News — CBP has shot and critically wounded another person, this time in Arizona. Very few details available at this time.

NEW from @davidgilbert.bsky.social: Meta Is Blocking Links To ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

NEU: Helsing und Stark wollen ins Zentrum der deutschen Rüstungsmodernisierung vorstoßen. Ihre Kamikaze-Drohnen sind nur die sichtbare Spitze: Hinter den Start-ups stehen mächtige Netzwerke. correctiv.org/aktuelles/si...

Yesterday, I was invited to a press conference with the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands to discuss the removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at the American Cemetery in Margraten.

wondering if they’ll trade the cobbled-together operator aesthetic for, well, black shirts

they disagree about a lot but they don’t disagree about Getting Paid