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Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?

Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis.

This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg
Rep. Morrison details her oversight of the federal Whipple building
YouTube video by Rep. Kelly Morrison
youtu.be
February 1, 2026 at 10:14 PM
😍
February 1, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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“In the next few days a pall fell over the country. The quiet was chilling. We all knew that a bloodbath had taken place, though we didn’t know its true magnitude and perhaps never will.” A report from inside Iran by the novelist Salar Abdoh: www.equator.org/articles/the...
January 31, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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22 year old Bangladeshi man from Queens, Jabez Chakraborty, has had multiple surgeries after shot 4+ times by NYPD this week. Family said they called for medical help, not cops. after, NYPD confiscated phones & questioned their immigration status gothamist.com/news/family-...
Family of Queens man shot by cops: We wanted EMS, not NYPD
But the NYPD says the family wanted an involuntary removal, which involves police.
gothamist.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
January 31, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Texas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies.

“I have never seen anything like this.”

— Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President

@texasaft.org
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@cwa-tseu.bsky.social
Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!
January 30, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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STATEMENT FROM ABBE LOWELL,
ATTORNEY FOR DON LEMON
January 30, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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I went to New York's Metropolitan Republican Club to learn how to survive a mass shooting.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Manhattan Republicans Get a Lesson in Mamdani-Era Self Defense
A New York Republican club hosted a seminar dwelling on vigilante fantasies in one of the nation’s safest cities.
www.thenation.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Apple Drops $2 Billion on Israeli AI Facial Tracking Company
Apple Drops $2 Billion on Israeli AI Facial Tracking Company
Tim Cook is having a week.
gizmodo.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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Everyone read this and share it - Reece is the guy that literally wrote THE book on the history of the Border Patrol. I've been screaming that everyone needs to talk to him and read his book NOBODY IS PROTECTED for years. HAVE HIM ON YOUR SHOW.
I wrote for the New York Times about how state violence that was hidden in the borderlands has burst into view in Minneapolis. The solution cannot be simply to send it back there www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
Opinion | The Border Patrol Is the Problem. It Always Has Been.
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:31 PM
today’s walk
January 29, 2026 at 3:56 PM
only for 5-10 years!
House Republican chairman released texts between Michael Sacks and former NW President Michael Schill where Sacks criticized Daniel Biss and Jan Schakowski and said: “As for the professors out there like the guy from Medill my ask is that we just not hire assholes anymore.”
January 29, 2026 at 1:59 PM
"If the Gizmo watch doesn’t work, if they are not home, they should go to the nearest gas station or an adult with a whistle and ask to use a phone"
Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…”
Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…
lithub.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi, one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000.
January 28, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.

"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."

"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."

ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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This image is strikingly similar to the famous photo of a young Dilma Rousseff in front of a Brazilian military court also too cowardly to show their faces.
January 28, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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I’m going to be speaking at Princeton 2/11 and Yale (with Rob Malley) on 2/13, with my official NYC stop with the incomparable @jillianschwedler.bsky.social in the middle. If you’re in any of those places please please come out for the conversation!
January 28, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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READ: Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using racism and procedural tricks to prevent her release.
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-...
The last Columbia protester in ICE detention: Leqaa Kordia on her 9 months in captivity
Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using racism...
mondoweiss.net
January 28, 2026 at 1:32 AM