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Sunday, February 01, 2026

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Saturday in Milan to protest the deployment of U.S. ICE agents during the upcoming Winter Olympics, unbothered by the fact that agents would be stationed in a control room and not operating on the streets. read more


Amid tensions over President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Minnesota and beyond, federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times. read more


The door cracks open and Calvo nudges me through. I'm disoriented. It's pitch black inside, curtains drawn, lights off. Diego stands in the entryway, but I see only the outline of his body, not his face. "Buenas noches," he whispers, and guides us to the living room. A little boy comes up beside me. "I wanna play!" he says in English, gesturing toward the TV and Xbox. Nobody turns it on. This family has nothing to do with the situation outside, but still they are hiding. read more


"No matter what Europeans think of American violence, they always had a kind of reliance on the international regime arena and NATO, things like that," says Mabel Berezin, director of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University, who has done research at institutions across Europe. "Suddenly all of this seems to be smashing apart."


Ezra Klein: The Trump administration is overwhelmed -- by its own violence, its own cruelty, its own lies, its own chaos. There is nothing unusual about a presidency being overwhelmed by crises. What is unusual about the Trump administration is that it has created those crises itself. read more


Strength In Numbers: This week, a new Fox News poll showed Democrats hitting the highest percent support on the generic ballot in the history of the survey, winning 52% of the vote vs 46% for the Republicans. This puts them firmly in "wave" territory for November: Per Fox, "The current 52% Democratic support is the highest recorded for either party; the previous high was 50% for the Democrats in October 2017."


Epstein lawyers discussed possibility of cooperation with prosecutors days before his death, files reveal read more


The police chief of St. Peter MN intervened to prevent ICE agents from arresting a local resident who had been observing and recording them when she was forcibly removed from her car and taken into custody. read more


Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024. read more


Saturday, January 31, 2026

ICE and CBP agents have developed a close relationship with their counterparts in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), allowing them to trade notes on tactics and technology which are now appearing on the streets of America. read more


Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick once planned a visit to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's private island and maintained contact with the sex offender far longer than he has previously claimed, according to documents released Friday by the Justice Department.


Jack Crosbie: Soon, you might think, things may go back to normal. But in Donald Trump's America, the contract has been rewritten. The conditions that caused Pretti's death still exist--in Minneapolis, in Maine, in California, in every city and every town where agents of the state carry guns. The goon squads are here to stay, and it's only a matter of time until they kill again.


Here is an email that Elon Musk, current world's richest man and owner of a gigantic social media network that generated child sexual abuse material on demand, sent to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on November 11, 2012: "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"


Demond Wilson, the actor who starred as Lamont, a young man in constant comic battle with his junk-dealer father on Sanford and Son, the popular 1970s series, died on Friday at his home in the Coachella Valley area of California. He was 79.


Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche this week of having a conflict of interest when he shut down investigations into crypto companies, dealers and exchanges and eliminated an enforcement team dedicated to looking for crypto-related fraud and money-laundering schemes. read more


The New York Times interviews multiple people who were on a phone call with Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino. read more


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