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NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
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February 6, 2026 at 6:35 PM
NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
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I will never vote for Gavin Newsom and y’all KHive cunts can gargle my entire cloaca
February 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom and y’all KHive cunts can gargle my entire cloaca
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Trump has channeled billions of dollars to ICE for the express purpose of building a private army to scapegoat communities and repress political enemies. There is no appropriate role for ICE.
The road to fascism is paved with reforms that pacify people just long enough to tighten the vice.
The road to fascism is paved with reforms that pacify people just long enough to tighten the vice.
Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike
Participants in the resistance to ICE in the Twin Cities reflect on the lessons of the strikes of January 23 and January 30, looking for ways to expand and strengthen the movement.
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February 6, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Trump has channeled billions of dollars to ICE for the express purpose of building a private army to scapegoat communities and repress political enemies. There is no appropriate role for ICE.
The road to fascism is paved with reforms that pacify people just long enough to tighten the vice.
The road to fascism is paved with reforms that pacify people just long enough to tighten the vice.
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NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
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February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
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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.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships.
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Mingled With Silicon Valley Start-Ups
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
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After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
February 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM
After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
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also got some thoughts out about how overwatch has been quietly having its no man's sky/ffxiv moment, but in an era of live service fatigue, blizzard is one of the few companies with the institutional resources to be able to fail and come back stronger where a lot of these games are dying out.
While You Weren't Watching, Overwatch Put Its Crown Back On https://kotaku.com/overwatch-2-spotlight-new-heroes-perks-stadium-returning-2000665736
Overwatch Put Its Crown Back On While You Weren’t Watching
After years of stumbles and shakeups, Blizzard’s hero shooter is the best it's been in a long time
kotaku.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM
also got some thoughts out about how overwatch has been quietly having its no man's sky/ffxiv moment, but in an era of live service fatigue, blizzard is one of the few companies with the institutional resources to be able to fail and come back stronger where a lot of these games are dying out.
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It’s amazing that we (humans) are almost universally able to point out the villains when we watch movies or read books, yet when it comes reality, a disturbing number of the population act completely blind to what’s standing directly in front of them. It’s mind boggling.
January 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
It’s amazing that we (humans) are almost universally able to point out the villains when we watch movies or read books, yet when it comes reality, a disturbing number of the population act completely blind to what’s standing directly in front of them. It’s mind boggling.
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