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“Submission, in fact, was never an option. Proud nations do not agree to become vassals. ” - David French in "The Carney Doctrine", The New York Times
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Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?
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If all these rich men "regret" their time with Epstein then why didn't they announce prior to the release of the files that their names would be part of the collection? Why didn't they self-report? The answer is they are not sorry and have no regret. They are sorry and regret they got caught.
February 8, 2026 at 6:16 PM
If all these rich men "regret" their time with Epstein then why didn't they announce prior to the release of the files that their names would be part of the collection? Why didn't they self-report? The answer is they are not sorry and have no regret. They are sorry and regret they got caught.
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I’m so inspired by these young people right here in Claremont and across the country who are coming together to stand up against Trump's authoritarianism. Together, we will continue to stand up for our rights, dignity, and safety. claremont-courier.com/schools/the-...
The kids are alright: CUSD students demonstrate against ICE | Claremont COURIER
Some 700 Claremont Unified School District students walked out of classes Wednesday and marched to the intersection of Indian Hill and Foothill Boulevard for a 90-minute protest of the federal immigra...
claremont-courier.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I’m so inspired by these young people right here in Claremont and across the country who are coming together to stand up against Trump's authoritarianism. Together, we will continue to stand up for our rights, dignity, and safety. claremont-courier.com/schools/the-...
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Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
"As for actual fans of #TPUSA, one got the impression many were watching and commenting with the sound off." [on YouTube live chat] 😂
#KidRock #CharlieKirk #BadBunny #SuperBowl #USpoli #USmedia
www.salon.com/2026/02/09/k...
#KidRock #CharlieKirk #BadBunny #SuperBowl #USpoli #USmedia
www.salon.com/2026/02/09/k...
Kid Rock's alternative Super Bowl halftime show was just boring
Turning Point USA's bid for cultural relevance — and more money — just couldn't compete with Bad Bunny
www.salon.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:59 PM
"As for actual fans of #TPUSA, one got the impression many were watching and commenting with the sound off." [on YouTube live chat] 😂
#KidRock #CharlieKirk #BadBunny #SuperBowl #USpoli #USmedia
www.salon.com/2026/02/09/k...
#KidRock #CharlieKirk #BadBunny #SuperBowl #USpoli #USmedia
www.salon.com/2026/02/09/k...
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Kid Rock, the definitive review of a performer who doesn't know how to lip-sync. www.salon.com/2026/02/09/k...
Kid Rock's alternative Super Bowl halftime show was just boring
Turning Point USA's bid for cultural relevance — and more money — just couldn't compete with Bad Bunny
www.salon.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Kid Rock, the definitive review of a performer who doesn't know how to lip-sync. www.salon.com/2026/02/09/k...
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in their walkout speech, Nathalie told their classmates,
"We’re being dehumanized and there’s nothing we can really do about it because we’re high schoolers... Not only are our parents being hunted, taken and kidnapped, but it’s also our little siblings being used as bait and then being taken."
"We’re being dehumanized and there’s nothing we can really do about it because we’re high schoolers... Not only are our parents being hunted, taken and kidnapped, but it’s also our little siblings being used as bait and then being taken."
These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over’
Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:09 PM
in their walkout speech, Nathalie told their classmates,
"We’re being dehumanized and there’s nothing we can really do about it because we’re high schoolers... Not only are our parents being hunted, taken and kidnapped, but it’s also our little siblings being used as bait and then being taken."
"We’re being dehumanized and there’s nothing we can really do about it because we’re high schoolers... Not only are our parents being hunted, taken and kidnapped, but it’s also our little siblings being used as bait and then being taken."
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I wrote this article last week and, luckily, it still holds after the Benito Bowl:
“I believe Bad Bunny’s performance will invite people to understand the beauty and complexity of our people’s history, even if it makes outsiders uncomfortable.”
“I believe Bad Bunny’s performance will invite people to understand the beauty and complexity of our people’s history, even if it makes outsiders uncomfortable.”
Check out my opinion piece at De Los from the Los Angeles Times on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show as a history lesson.
Essay: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show will be a history lesson for the ages
Historian Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo hopes Bad Bunny's halftime show will combat "acute ignorance" about Puerto Rico and its ongoing entanglement with the United States.
www.latimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
I wrote this article last week and, luckily, it still holds after the Benito Bowl:
“I believe Bad Bunny’s performance will invite people to understand the beauty and complexity of our people’s history, even if it makes outsiders uncomfortable.”
“I believe Bad Bunny’s performance will invite people to understand the beauty and complexity of our people’s history, even if it makes outsiders uncomfortable.”
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Jorell is quite rightly being lauded for collaborating with Bad Bunny, and his PUERTO RICO, from @princetonupress.bsky.social, is fantastic, I keep thinking, as I've watched MPLS, of his earlier book THE LETTERED BARRIADA, about PR organizing and educating under occupation in the first half of C20.
The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico
www.dukeupress.edu
February 9, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Jorell is quite rightly being lauded for collaborating with Bad Bunny, and his PUERTO RICO, from @princetonupress.bsky.social, is fantastic, I keep thinking, as I've watched MPLS, of his earlier book THE LETTERED BARRIADA, about PR organizing and educating under occupation in the first half of C20.
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Samiya, 17, led her Los Angeles high school's walkout.
"The White House has a TikTok account, and they’ll post things like 'deportation ASMR'. You go on YouTube the night before school, and you watch an ad of Kristi Noem threatening everybody who has ever come to this country. It’s frightening."
"The White House has a TikTok account, and they’ll post things like 'deportation ASMR'. You go on YouTube the night before school, and you watch an ad of Kristi Noem threatening everybody who has ever come to this country. It’s frightening."
These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over’
Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Samiya, 17, led her Los Angeles high school's walkout.
"The White House has a TikTok account, and they’ll post things like 'deportation ASMR'. You go on YouTube the night before school, and you watch an ad of Kristi Noem threatening everybody who has ever come to this country. It’s frightening."
"The White House has a TikTok account, and they’ll post things like 'deportation ASMR'. You go on YouTube the night before school, and you watch an ad of Kristi Noem threatening everybody who has ever come to this country. It’s frightening."
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon fumes after party is labeled 'far-left' by government
Jean-Luc Mélenchon fumes after party is labeled 'far-left' by government
Ahead of the municipal elections, the Interior Ministry classified Mélenchon's La France Insoumise party as 'far-left,' rather than the 'left' category it had previously been in.
www.lemonde.fr
February 9, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Jean-Luc Mélenchon fumes after party is labeled 'far-left' by government
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EXCLUSIVE: Leaked documents show Israel allocated $1.25 million to Clifford Chance and Van Bael & Bellis to wage lawfare on BDS between 2021 and 2025 ⬇️
Israel may breach foreign interference laws in anti-BDS scheme
Leaked documents show Israel allocated $1.25 million to Clifford Chance and Van Bael & Bellis to wage lawfare on BDS between 2021 and 2025
www.newarab.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked documents show Israel allocated $1.25 million to Clifford Chance and Van Bael & Bellis to wage lawfare on BDS between 2021 and 2025 ⬇️
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SCOOP: NY-17 candidate Cait Conley worked defense contractors looking to help the feds use AI for border surveillance and military projects -- PrimerAI & Hidden Level. Her campaign did not answer questions about if she's still working for either firm theintercept.com/2026/02/09/n...
NY Democratic House Candidate Worked for Palantir Partners Pushing AI Border Surveillance
A former Biden national security adviser hoping to unseat Mike Lawler consulted for two defense tech firms that partner with Palantir.
theintercept.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
SCOOP: NY-17 candidate Cait Conley worked defense contractors looking to help the feds use AI for border surveillance and military projects -- PrimerAI & Hidden Level. Her campaign did not answer questions about if she's still working for either firm theintercept.com/2026/02/09/n...
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After a definitive makeover of its Republican Party to match the old Bourbon Democrats, Alabama is on a trajectory back to the mid-1950s.
Editor Brian Lyman writes that by inhibiting the teaching of Black history and driving Black Alabamians out of public spaces, state leaders are giving all of us an endless education in the state's foundational desire to control Black lives. https://ow.ly/mvxa50YauLa
February 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
After a definitive makeover of its Republican Party to match the old Bourbon Democrats, Alabama is on a trajectory back to the mid-1950s.
"SB 129 is the latest iteration of that. It says #BlackHistory is inherently dangerous. That Black voices must be contained. And that #white status matters more than the truth of our past."
#BlackHistoryMonth #Alabama #USpoli #USmedia
h/t @robertscotthorton.bsky.social
#BlackHistoryMonth #Alabama #USpoli #USmedia
h/t @robertscotthorton.bsky.social
After a definitive makeover of its Republican Party to match the old Bourbon Democrats, Alabama is on a trajectory back to the mid-1950s.
Editor Brian Lyman writes that by inhibiting the teaching of Black history and driving Black Alabamians out of public spaces, state leaders are giving all of us an endless education in the state's foundational desire to control Black lives. https://ow.ly/mvxa50YauLa
February 9, 2026 at 3:27 PM
"SB 129 is the latest iteration of that. It says #BlackHistory is inherently dangerous. That Black voices must be contained. And that #white status matters more than the truth of our past."
#BlackHistoryMonth #Alabama #USpoli #USmedia
h/t @robertscotthorton.bsky.social
#BlackHistoryMonth #Alabama #USpoli #USmedia
h/t @robertscotthorton.bsky.social
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This could be the most important article every Canadian should read today. We are at a crossroads in Canada and what we do going forward matters.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
ANALYSIS | An era of 'wrecking ball' politics: What the Munich Security Report says about Canada's moment of reckoning | CBC News
The world has entered an era of "wrecking ball" politics, says the new Munich Security Conference report. The analysis builds on the case Prime Minister Mark Carney made during his recent speech in Da...
www.cbc.ca
February 9, 2026 at 9:57 AM
This could be the most important article every Canadian should read today. We are at a crossroads in Canada and what we do going forward matters.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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In part two of his interview with Barn Raiser, Austin Frerick talks about the rural innovators and the big ideas that could transform the American food system. barnraisingmedia.com/what-if-big-...
What if Big Ag Didn’t Control Our Food?
Austin Frerick shares big ideas for how to transform food in the United States. For Frerick, radical change starts with radical imagination
barnraisingmedia.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
In part two of his interview with Barn Raiser, Austin Frerick talks about the rural innovators and the big ideas that could transform the American food system. barnraisingmedia.com/what-if-big-...
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Andrew Schulz spent years mocking liberals for warning about Trump. Now he’s shocked—✨ shocked✨ —that ICE is trampling rights and the Constitution isn’t “holding up.”
Welcome to the part we told you about.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Welcome to the part we told you about.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
'It's horrific': Major podcast bro dumps Trump over ICE abuses
Right-wing podcaster Andrew Schulz has turned on President Donald Trump. If you aren’t a young man in his core demographic, you’ve probably never heard of him. Along with Charlamagne tha God, ...
www.dailykos.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Andrew Schulz spent years mocking liberals for warning about Trump. Now he’s shocked—✨ shocked✨ —that ICE is trampling rights and the Constitution isn’t “holding up.”
Welcome to the part we told you about.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Welcome to the part we told you about.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI.
one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."
one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."
These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over’
Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:04 PM
for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI.
one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."
one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."
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Republicans in the U.S. Senate are coming for your public lands once again.
February 9, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Republicans in the U.S. Senate are coming for your public lands once again.
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I don’t know lads, this seems a bit more involved than - say - Milne being the interviewer at a panel event with Bad Vlad www.theguardian.com/news/2022/ju...
The Moscow moves: how Mandelson’s firm helped Uber reach Russian elite
Leak shows how the former Labour minister used his access to pro-Kremlin oligarchs, including some now under sanctions
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I don’t know lads, this seems a bit more involved than - say - Milne being the interviewer at a panel event with Bad Vlad www.theguardian.com/news/2022/ju...
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a reminder that Tim Allan, who quit Starmer's Downing St today, previously spun for....not only Kazakhstan and Qatar but also Vladimir Putin’s government
www.ft.com/content/a0a8...
www.ft.com/content/a0a8...
From Blair to Putin to Starmer: PR chief Tim Allan’s CV
Former New Labour spin-doctor has faced criticism over his choice of clients, including Russia’s government
www.ft.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM
a reminder that Tim Allan, who quit Starmer's Downing St today, previously spun for....not only Kazakhstan and Qatar but also Vladimir Putin’s government
www.ft.com/content/a0a8...
www.ft.com/content/a0a8...
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“Ring is rolling back many of the reforms it’s made in the last few years by easing police access to footage from millions of homes in the United States … police have used Ring footage to spy on protestors, and obtained footage without a warrant or consent of the user”
Icing on the cake is that hyper-pro police surveillance founder Jamie Siminoff, who recently returned to the CEO roll and dismantled years of privacy reforms appeared in the commercial.
Read more:
Read more:
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
www.eff.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:37 PM
“Ring is rolling back many of the reforms it’s made in the last few years by easing police access to footage from millions of homes in the United States … police have used Ring footage to spy on protestors, and obtained footage without a warrant or consent of the user”