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Reuters: New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women.
February 17, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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Minnesota's top investigative agency says federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti

www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
FBI formally refuses to share evidence in Alex Pretti killing, Minnesota investigators say
Minnesota's top investigative agency said Monday the federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti.
www.cbsnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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The open racism you guys have emboldened, megyn
February 16, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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Mark Warner, vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on elections: In the past, we’ve mostly seen foreign interference — my bigger fear now is domestic interference, some of that potentially originating inside the administration.
February 16, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.
Noah Rothman on the Epstein files: "It is a witch hunt. It‘s a moral panic."
February 16, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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Anderson Cooper has decided to nope out of '60 Minutes' and will not return next season, according to Breaker's Lachlan Cartwright.

www.breakermedia.com/p/scoop-ande...
🔎 SCOOP: Anderson Cooper To Depart 60 Minutes
Legendary Newsman Will Focus on CNN And Family
www.breakermedia.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Dilley must be shut down and everyone inside must be freed and provided immediate medical care. www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...
Two-month-old baby 'choking on his own vomit' while detained in Dilley
'His life is in danger,' U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility...
www.sacurrent.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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Every American over the age of ten knows this is an attempt to suppress voting.
the new Republican talking point is that it's insulting to complain about requiring women to show their birth certificate and passport in order to vote because they're smart enough to figure it out
February 16, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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“I’m stepping down to spend more time avoiding consequences.”
Billionaire Hyatt Hotels chairman Thomas Pritzker announced he is retiring following emails showing his relationship with sex predator Jeffrey Epstein
Hyatt Chairman Pritzker leaves board over Epstein ties
The 75-year-old billionaire heir said he would not seek reelection to the board at the annual stockholder meeting.
www.cnbc.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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I've been part of local campaigns to close prisons. There's so much organizing that has to happen. I wish people understood that it often takes years. We're going to need state/county level moratorium campaigns as a start.
February 16, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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It's not enough to tell people to be "outraged." What precisely is it that you want them to DO? This is where so much falls apart and where a number of people fall short. Part of it is that people do not actually know what they want people to do; the other part is that it's DIFFICULT to organize ppl
February 16, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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TX now trying to DEFUND schools whose students protest...sounds illegal to me. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...
Students Across the U.S. Are Protesting ICE. Texas Wants to Punish Their Schools.
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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ICE doesn't ever "leave" any state. There will continue to be ICE and CBP enforcement actions as there were during previous presidents. Hillary Clinton was saying this in her remarks. She doesn't like the visible violence but she is fine with "regular" violence.
February 16, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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it’s exactly what Republicans did to the IRS money in the Inflation Reduction Act
ICE/CBP have gone unfunded for 3 days; how about 3 years? The best way to claw back the $170 billion immigration enforcement surge in the Big Beautiful Bill is to just claw it back. The 2nd-best way is to slowly drain it by never funding the underlying appropriation. @ryanlcooper.com makes the case:
The Case for Keeping ICE and CBP Defunded - The American Prospect
Democrats should not provide one thin dime to MAGA storm troopers.
prospect.org
February 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Happy belated Valentine’s to Andy McCabe - AKA Mr February in our 2019 Sexy Justice Calendar.
February 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
February 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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MORE: Magistrate Judge Dulce Foster also rejects the notion that the announced end of Operation Metro Surge has any bearing on the issue because the withdrawal has not actually occurred yet. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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A completely unhinged tantrum from someone who didn’t get their way.

I don’t know one person in NJ, Republican or Democrat, who doesn’t see the power and value of the Gateway Tunnel Project.
February 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia.

Happy Presidents Day.
February 16, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Massie not backing down.
February 16, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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This is happening everywhere. No one wants (more) concentration camps. Organize and fight back.
"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government.

“God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision...

www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...
Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center
The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...
www.dallasnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of a man who had been in immigration detention due to "objectively unreasonable failures of care that more likely than not resulted in permanent disability, including the loss of his toe and part of his foot."
February 16, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.

"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.

"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Take over the voting in at least many -15 places
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 2:13 PM