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This is hilarious to me. Especially the “often leads to higher quality infrastructure, education, public health and more”

Yep, it’s still a nazi bar.

The Hard Times is coming in particularly hard this morning, which I appreciate.

As Kurt Vonnegut wrote in his poem “Joe Heller”:<br/> True story, Word of Honor:<br/> Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer<br/> now dead,<br/> and I were at a party given by a billionaire<br/> on Shelter Island.<br/> I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel<br/> to know that our host only yesterday<br/> may have made more money<br/> than your novel ‘Catch-22’<br/> has earned in its entire history?”<br/> And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”<br/> And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”<br/> And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”<br/> Not bad! Rest in peace!

Thousands of active-duty military personnel may have been “pressured” into seeing the Melania documentary at cinemas around the country, a watchdog has warned.

Critics say law will disproportionately affect immigrant communities and those who speak limited English

Democracy experts say there is little doubt about president’s desire to interfere in elections this November

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https://ktla.com/news/california/march-for-billionaires-in-san-francisco-is-not-a-joke-organizers-says/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/60004558

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Ms. Good’s vehicle, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have departed, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office in turmoil.

Pluck an email at random from the millions in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. It is a Saturday evening in February 2013, and Jeffrey Epstein is messaging Bill Gates’s assistant about guests for a dinner he wants to organise.

A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States.

Most workers who aren’t saving for retirement through their employers aren’t saving at all, the study found

Paywall removed: https://archive.is/6Dy9A

Last spring, the National Security Agency (NSA) detected evidence of an unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to Donald Trump, according to a whistleblower’s attorney briefed on the existence of the call.

Turkey has busted an operative cell controlled by Israeli intelligence that was attempting to infiltrate supply chains and spy on Palestinian targets, Turkish security sources told Middle East Eye on Friday.

“If you want a rubber stamp, you can vote for my opponent”

Israeli forces kill at least three Palestinians in Gaza. U.S. uses chartered private jets to deport Palestinian men to the occupied West Bank. Palestinian journalist arrested in the West Bank. Another U.S. boat strike in the Pacific. Progressive challenger narrowly leads in the primary election for Mikie Sherrill’s New Jersey congressional seat. DOJ files reveal years of contact between Apollo chief Marc Rowan and Jeffrey Epstein. Local police often decline to probe shootings by federal immigration, ProPublica investigation says. Justice Department moves to gut immigration appeals process. Trump administration unveils Sudan peace plan. RSF drone strikes hit South Kordofan hospital for second consecutive day, killing at least 22. Polio cases in Malawi. Cuba prepares national defense plan and UN chief warns of humanitarian collapse as the U.S. moves to block any oil supplies from reaching the country. U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations begin in Oman. Israeli fire strikes multiple areas across southern and eastern Lebanon. Senior Russian intelligence general shot in Moscow. Saudi Arabia plans to pour billions into southern Yemen to maintain control. At least 31 killed in Islamabad mosque bombing.

This file is a scan of a web printout of (once) publicly available data from the NY State Sex Offenders Database. Yet all the licence plates of all his vehicles and his Paris address are redacted, over 5 years after his death.

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Off the coast of Cape Cod, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is a unique stretch of ocean that had been protected for a decade.

Donald Trump’s second term has presented an array of opportunities for political opponents, from immigration crackdowns and lingering inflation to attacks on independent institutions and friction with overseas allies.

A surprising twist in a New Jersey primary race showed how questions about Israel continue to roil American politics in unpredictable ways.

A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare

The expansion could add millions of tons of carbon pollution annually while polluting the air near vulnerable communities and ecosystems.

Another group of children aged 3 months to 17 years was returned from the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, including two children who witnessed their mother being tortured and two others who were trapped in their home after the Russians blew up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station.

WORO, Nigeria (AP) — Weeks after residents of two Nigerian villages ignored a letter from militants announcing they would come to spread their extreme form of Islam, gunmen arrived on motorbikes and embarked on a 10-hour frenzy of killing.(..)

Mexican authorities said Friday that federal forces had found what appeared to be the body of one of 10 employees of a Canadian mining company who were kidnapped three weeks ago from a city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.

The State Department is removing all posts on its public accounts on the social media platform X made before Trump returned to office on Jan. 20, 2025.

This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal court to revoke their legal status and deport them. But despite these threats, the largely immigrant union workers at a JBS beef plant in Greeley, Colorado, many of them recent arrivals from Haiti, still voted on Wednesday by an overwhelming margin to strike over poor working conditions in what could become the first sanctioned walkout at a major meatpacking plant in decades.

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Is it too obvious to say that the brutal separations of wives from husbands, sons from mothers, sisters from brothers that is evidenced in the Trump immigration crackdown gives the lie to the right’s claims to champion love, parenthood and family?

Many of the girls at risk of FGM are under the age of 5, the UN says. Around 230 million women and girls around the world are survivors of the practice.

A divided federal appeals court on Friday ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s policy of detaining millions of undocumented immigrants, even those who have been living in the US for decades, without the opportunity to challenge their detention, handing Donald Trump a major win as he seeks to carry out an aggressive deportation campaign.

Slightly over 3.6 million births have been reported through birth certificates, or about 24,000 fewer than in 2024. The decline seems to confirm predictions by some experts, who doubted a slight increase in births in 2024 marked the start of an upward trend.

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth wrote that she fears “repeated tacit threats” could be weakening the Department of Homeland Security inspector general’s independence.

Video deleted by White House breaks through numbness barrier and raises further questions about fitness for office

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine reported in early January that 2025 was the deadliest year for Ukrainian civilians since 2022. Civilian casualties were 31% higher than in 2024 and 70% higher than in 2023. Russian attacks killed 2,514 verified civilians and injured 12,142—and the real numbers are almost certainly higher.

Donald Trump said on Friday evening, after a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes had been posted to his social media account and then deleted, that he had directed aides to post the offensive video but that he hadn’t seen that portion of the clip and he refused to apologize for it.

TikTok’s “addictive design” is in breach of European Union law, according to preliminary findings published by the European Commission on Friday.

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Sandu urges recognition for those who sacrifice for peace, emphasizing that Ukrainian prisoners of war deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

Capture of rogue ship could open a new front against Moscow at a time when Russia’s oil revenues are tumbling

*This article by Obed Rosas originally appeared in the February 5, 2026 edition of* Sin Embargo*.*

So hear me out… They’ll be at one place at the same time…