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One of Trump's MAGA minions thought it would be cool to beat up a teenage girl; he quickly saw the error of his ways

Former adviser calls on president to deploy federal officers to suppress votes with balance of power in Congress at stake in midterms

The CIA is ending the publication of its popular World Factbook reference manual

Feds stockpile 35,000 weapons in Minneapolis - but suddenly withdraw

I spent 10 hours in a freezing federal building. My friends and family feared for the worst.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260204173414/https://www.theverge.com/policy/873656/alex-pretti-protester-detained-dhs-ice-whipple

The Palestinian journalist has spent years documenting life in Gaza under Israeli occupation and, recently, amid Israel’s genocide. Her series with Al Jazeera’s AJ+ has won numerous awards, including a Peabody Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and even an Emmy. At the same time, pro-Israel voices have sought to silence Owda, including in a campaign in 2024 to pressure her Emmy nomination to be withdrawn.

In her Instagram video, Owda said that the ban was “expected” due to pressure from high-powered figures to censor Palestinian voices from TikTok.

She overlaid a video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks at the UN General Assembly in September, in which he named TikTok as a “number one” priority of Israel.

She also shared a video with the company’s U.S. CEO, Adam Presser, saying that the company made a change to designate critically labelling someone as a “Zionist” as hate speech. “Over the course of 2024, we tripled the amount of accounts that we were banning for hateful activity,” Presser bragged at a conference last year.

The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.

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Additional information about the scale and location of the planned conversion of warehouses into concentration camps

“The system sucks. This job sucks,” Le told Blackwell. “I wish you would hold me in contempt so I would have a full 24 hours sleep,” the attorney added.

Edit: The attorney has now been fired

Homan says 2,000 immigration agents would be left in Minnesota after 700 leave.

The departing ones will of course take their war against Americans to another state

President Trump’s extraordinary comments were the latest iteration of his unsubstantiated claims that U.S. elections are rigged as Republicans face potentially big losses this fall.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42656659

Michelle Goldberg
Feb. 3, 2026

Judge Ana Reyes did not have to go far to discover Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s animus toward Haitians. She just had to read her social media feed. “I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches and entitlement junkies,” Noem wrote on X in December. She added, “WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.”

Reyes, a Federal District Court judge in Washington, cited Noem’s post at the very beginning of a blistering opinion issued Monday night preventing the administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, at least for now. That status was due to expire on Tuesday, rendering more than 350,000 Haitians who are now legally living and working in America undocumented overnight.