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Four American states have enacted laws requiring social media companies to place warning labels on their apps for minors, writes Gopal Ratnam, opening a new front in the battle between governments seeking to protect kids from online harms and tech companies’ seeking to expand their user base.
State Mandated Social Media Warning Labels Open New Front in Battle Against Tech Companies
Four American states have enacted laws requiring social media companies to place warning labels on their apps for kids, writes Gopal Ratnam.
www.techpolicy.press
January 27, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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This is accurate as fuck. This is accurate as fuck. This is accurate as fuck.
January 27, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Can someone who understands legacy media explain what the purpose of “echo” is in this headline.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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7 Times Conservatives Praised Gun-Toting Protesters

They're attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here are some famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.

zeteo.com/p/conservati...
7 Times Conservatives Praised Gun-Toting Protesters
They're attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here are some famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.
zeteo.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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christ, what?

comparing this to active war?
NEWSMAX: Are you among the Republicans who are concerned about how things are being handled in MN?

REP. RICH McCORMICK: When things went wrong in the military, when I was in the Marines, people died sometimes, and sometimes it was through no fault of anymore. Just bad circumstance. Mistakes happen
January 27, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Reminder that “defunding ICE”—breaking up and/or overhauling DHS—will require Democrats holding both chambers of Congress and the presidency. Good goal, but a possibility that is years away.

How can it be curbed now?
Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:

DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools

"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”
As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.
newrepublic.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.
January 27, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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"Community members arrived to legally observe and agents pepper sprayed the crowd at at least one location. Workers were taken." #Phoenix #Arizona
I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea.

It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road.

Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.
January 27, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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How about reproach, rebuke and remove lawmakers who act out of political calculation rather than a sense of moral duty to protect the dignity, the humanity and the lives of the American people?
January 27, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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🚨BREAKING: State election leaders and voting rights advocates across the country are blasting U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for exploiting the killing of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis by a federal immigration officer to “blackmail” Minnesota into handing over access to its unredacted voter rolls.
‘All-out assault on our democracy:’ Bondi’s Minnesota blackmail letter draws righteous fury from state election leaders
“This isn't leadership. This is blackmail," Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said. "This is the way organized crime works."
www.democracydocket.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Today’s retreat is absolutely an attempt to take pressure off of Congress to rein in ICE so that a funding package can get through.

That pressure has been effective. We can celebrate Minneapolis’ win but we need to keep the pressure on. They’re not going to stop forever.
January 26, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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The former Columbia student who tried to get leftist professors fired for their politics and the Stanford professor who told conservative students to "dig up dirt" to use against a leftist student for his politics have united, and I'm sure they have a lot to say about how cancel culture is very bad.
January 27, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Oh yeah, that'll fix it.
Turns out that Bari Weiss's all hands at CBS today is to announce she's bringing on some anti-vax guys and Niall Ferguson. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/b...
January 27, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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Alex Pretti's Phone Is What ICE
IS Afraid Of; The Truth......
January 27, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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If you thought the government was stupid WITH 10,000 PhD scientists, wait until you see how stupid it is without them.
January 27, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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Scott Galloway/Jessica Tarlov discuss how we ended up here, what accountability—if any—exists to hold fed. agents responsible when incidents like this happen—how the death of another 🇺🇲citizen could reshape the political & legal calculus around the administration’s immigration crackdown.

Thread 4/7🧵
January 27, 2026 at 11:20 AM
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
He’s going to retaliate until there’s no one else
Trump says DOJ and Congress are 'looking at' Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota
President Donald Trump said Monday that the Justice Department and Congress are "looking at" Rep.
www.yahoo.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Many TikTok users recently reported problems uploading videos, sudden drops to zero views, or posts getting stuck “under review.” Almost all of those complaints involved videos criticizing ICE or discussing the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
January 27, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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This is who this is ghoul is and has always been. We have been telling you, but NBC News gave her a record $69 million GUARANTEED to host a failed show that replaced a far more successful show hosted by 2 Black anchors, Tamron Hall and Al Roker.

Corporate media and institutions in a nutshell.
Megyn Kelly: “Do you know why I wasn't shot by Border Patrol this weekend? Because I kept my ass inside and out of their operations.”
Megyn Kelly: Minnesota protesters are “terrorists” who must “behave well and submit immediately”
www.mediamatters.org
January 27, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.
January 27, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM