Rick Allen
@rallennautilus.bsky.social
Director, producer, editor and cinematographer continues to pursue copyright protections for all artists harmed by infringement by states in his landmark case, Allen v. Stein (ne v. Cooper). https://www.nautilusproductions.com/
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Queen Anne's Revenge, stock footage, video production, shipwreck, piracy, IP, QAR, Lawsuit, NCDNCR, copyright, Supreme Court
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Blackbeard Copyright Lawsuit Sails Forward in NC
North Carolina’s Department of Natural and Cultural Resources received a stern reminder that those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it.
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Lewandowski, an unpaid special government employee who unofficially acts as chief of staff for Noem — with whom he’s had a years-long affair — has overseen a reign of terror over department workers since President Trump took office last year.
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February 14, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Lewandowski, an unpaid special government employee who unofficially acts as chief of staff for Noem — with whom he’s had a years-long affair — has overseen a reign of terror over department workers since President Trump took office last year.
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DHS initially said the officer fired a shot to "save his life" after being "ambushed and attacked" by three immigrants with a snow shovel and a broom handle during a "targeted traffic stop."
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DHS says immigration agents appear to have lied about shooting in Minnesota
Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot in the leg during the incident. Another Venezuelan man was also accused of attacking an immigration officer.
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February 14, 2026 at 8:57 PM
DHS initially said the officer fired a shot to "save his life" after being "ambushed and attacked" by three immigrants with a snow shovel and a broom handle during a "targeted traffic stop."
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Logistical concerns such as unreliable broadband, low health literacy and fragile transportation systems. If AI systems can't function without a stable digital backbone, she said, they could deepen existing gaps.
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Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is advancing a $50 billion plan to modernize rural health care.
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February 14, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Logistical concerns such as unreliable broadband, low health literacy and fragile transportation systems. If AI systems can't function without a stable digital backbone, she said, they could deepen existing gaps.
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Wish We Could BOYCOTT Amazon
February 14, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Wish We Could BOYCOTT Amazon
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I fear this is being treated as background noise rather than the 5 alarm emergency it is. Absolutely terrifying.
Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...
Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...
Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren
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February 14, 2026 at 3:39 AM
I fear this is being treated as background noise rather than the 5 alarm emergency it is. Absolutely terrifying.
Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...
Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...
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When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.
February 14, 2026 at 11:59 AM
When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.
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"I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments."
No. He hasn’t. Or he would have learned the following.👇
No. He hasn’t. Or he would have learned the following.👇
February 14, 2026 at 11:48 AM
"I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments."
No. He hasn’t. Or he would have learned the following.👇
No. He hasn’t. Or he would have learned the following.👇
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Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.
February 14, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.
Democrats want federal agents to enter private homes only with a judicial warrant. They want agents to stop wearing masks and to have their names, agencies, and unique ID numbers visible on their uniforms, as law enforcement officers do.
February 14, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Democrats want federal agents to enter private homes only with a judicial warrant. They want agents to stop wearing masks and to have their names, agencies, and unique ID numbers visible on their uniforms, as law enforcement officers do.
It is among at least five shootings in which initial descriptions by the immigration officials were later contradicted by video evidence. Those included the fatal Minneapolis shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
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Perjury probe into ICE testimonies marks latest shooting where evidence contradicts Trump officials
Federal authorities have announced an investigation into two immigration officers who appeared to have made untruthful statements under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month.
apnews.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:59 AM
It is among at least five shootings in which initial descriptions by the immigration officials were later contradicted by video evidence. Those included the fatal Minneapolis shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
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Trump has good reasons to back down: The operation has been a political and moral disaster. Officers shot and killed two American citizens, and public opinion has turned against it.
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The ‘You Can’t Fire Me—I Quit’ Presidency
Trump has a pattern of taking radical steps to deal with what he says are serious problems—and then walking away once he encounters pushback.
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February 14, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Trump has good reasons to back down: The operation has been a political and moral disaster. Officers shot and killed two American citizens, and public opinion has turned against it.
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February 13, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hasn't held true to many of the promises he made while appealing to U.S. senators concerned about the longtime anti-vaccine activist's plans for the nation's care.
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RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
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February 13, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hasn't held true to many of the promises he made while appealing to U.S. senators concerned about the longtime anti-vaccine activist's plans for the nation's care.
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The pending dismissal comes after a string of high-profile shootings involving federal immigration agents where eyewitness statements and video evidence called into question claims made to justify using deadly force.
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Justice department moves to drop charges against men accused of hitting ICE officer in Minnesota
Prosecutor says ‘newly discovered evidence’ in case against Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis ‘materially inconsistent with the allegations against them’
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:46 PM
The pending dismissal comes after a string of high-profile shootings involving federal immigration agents where eyewitness statements and video evidence called into question claims made to justify using deadly force.
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It’s kinda funny that he says “people learn” and then two minutes later he talks about taking over Greenland again.
Trump downplays the airspace closure over El Paso: "People learn. People learn."
February 13, 2026 at 5:33 PM
It’s kinda funny that he says “people learn” and then two minutes later he talks about taking over Greenland again.
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"The Arc of the Moral Universe is
Long,But it Bends Towards Justice". It Needs To Get Going, Now.......
Long,But it Bends Towards Justice". It Needs To Get Going, Now.......
February 13, 2026 at 10:07 AM
"The Arc of the Moral Universe is
Long,But it Bends Towards Justice". It Needs To Get Going, Now.......
Long,But it Bends Towards Justice". It Needs To Get Going, Now.......
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“Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On” via @404media.co:
You just can’t make it up…
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You just can’t make it up…
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Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On
A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.
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February 13, 2026 at 1:11 AM
“Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On” via @404media.co:
You just can’t make it up…
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You just can’t make it up…
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Two of them were convicted drug traffickers. But hey, they were former NFL players so they shouldn’t have to endure those kinds of things on their records. As usual, follow the money.
February 13, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Two of them were convicted drug traffickers. But hey, they were former NFL players so they shouldn’t have to endure those kinds of things on their records. As usual, follow the money.
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“I don't want #GavinNewsom as president.”
Okay. Show me someone better. Hard to find reasonable data though, isn't it? Bias is everywhere.
Our media ecosystem is structurally incapable of producing fair assessments of anyone operating at Newsom's level of visibility.
That's how this happened.
Okay. Show me someone better. Hard to find reasonable data though, isn't it? Bias is everywhere.
Our media ecosystem is structurally incapable of producing fair assessments of anyone operating at Newsom's level of visibility.
That's how this happened.
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
“I don't want #GavinNewsom as president.”
Okay. Show me someone better. Hard to find reasonable data though, isn't it? Bias is everywhere.
Our media ecosystem is structurally incapable of producing fair assessments of anyone operating at Newsom's level of visibility.
That's how this happened.
Okay. Show me someone better. Hard to find reasonable data though, isn't it? Bias is everywhere.
Our media ecosystem is structurally incapable of producing fair assessments of anyone operating at Newsom's level of visibility.
That's how this happened.
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In 2013, [Bondi's] office received dozens of consumer-fraud complaints about Trump University, an unaccredited real-estate seminar that charged up to $35,000 to purportedly teach Trump's secrets to success.
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Pam Bondi's fiery Epstein hearing raises questions about Trump's defense
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi faced intense scrutiny at a House hearing over the Epstein files, with lawmakers questioning her past defense of Donald Trump.
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February 13, 2026 at 1:41 PM
In 2013, [Bondi's] office received dozens of consumer-fraud complaints about Trump University, an unaccredited real-estate seminar that charged up to $35,000 to purportedly teach Trump's secrets to success.
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Trump maintains that climate change is a “hoax” and has withdrawn the U.S. from the main global climate treaty. Since he took office in January 2025, U.S. emissions have increased 1.9% largely because of the renewed use of coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels.
February 13, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Trump maintains that climate change is a “hoax” and has withdrawn the U.S. from the main global climate treaty. Since he took office in January 2025, U.S. emissions have increased 1.9% largely because of the renewed use of coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels.
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There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.
EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions
The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.
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February 13, 2026 at 6:06 AM
There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.