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NY Times: Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Ms. Good’s vehicle, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have departed, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office in turmoil.
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Cindy Burnham, a spokeswoman for the F.B.I. in Minnesota, declined to comment for this article, as did Daniel N. Rosen, the U.S. attorney in Minnesota. Emily Covington, a Justice Department spokeswoman, did not respond to a request for comment.
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Marcy Wheeler: Blood Spatters and Newbie JAG Officers
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As I said at the time, this is bigger than Kash Patel’s sycophancy. There’s good reason to believe that Greg Bovino took his orders on use of force from Stephen Miller, and Bovino has been in the neighborhood of most of the most problematic uses of force from DHS (he was either on scene at the Good killing, or arrived almost immediately thereafter). And if Miller told Bovino to target protesters, than covering up the shooting of Good would be tantamount to covering up White House complicity in it.
Refusing to test the blood spatters — which may never have happened at this point — amounts to covering up a potential murder, one that may implicate orders the White House issued.
(Marcy Wheeler more…)
Fox News: DOJ says it owes deported Venezuelans no due process, dares courts to intervene
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – February 7, 2026
Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be arrested and held in detention centers without the right to release until they are deported.
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ICE said it could not provide “dialysis, prenatal care, oncology, [and] chemotherapy.” ICE officials described the loss of care as an “absolute emergency” that needed an immediate solution to “prevent any further medical complications or loss of life.” But it did not get solved.
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On Tuesday, February 3, more than a thousand people turned out for the Surprise City Council meeting to oppose the establishment of the federal detention center. One of the speakers reminded the council of Ohrdruf, the first Nazi camp liberated by U.S. troops, on April 4, 1945.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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WSJ: Mass Deportation and Florida Jobs
Florida’s economy has been one of the great success stories in recent decades with robust jobs growth. But in the last year employment has suddenly slowed. Could the cause be a misguided immigration enforcement policy?
(WSJ more…)Barron’s: US Bitcoin Reserve loses nearly $5 billion in value after crypto wipeout
It’s been nearly a year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a “strategic Bitcoin reserve” and vowed that the government would never sell the cryptocurrency on his watch. The bet has been a disaster for taxpayers so far.
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Inside Climate News: Under Trump, EPA’s Enforcement of Environmental Laws Collapses, Report Finds
Analysis of federal data by a nonprofit watchdog group found that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable.
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truthout: Indigenous-Led Collectives Are Keeping Minnesotan Communities Safe From ICE
A cozy cafe in the heart of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has become a staging ground for Indigenous-led patrols working to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) off their streets. Pow Wow Grounds, opened in 2011 by Bob Rice, has been both a gathering place for community members attempting to make sense of the scale of violence they have witnessed over the past few weeks and a place to strategize an autonomous response.
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Ken Klippenstein: Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users
Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users
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NPR: State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office
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In a similar but unrelated move this week, the CIA abruptly took down its World Factbook, a widely used reference manual seen as an authoritative source of information about countries, their economies, their demographics and more. The CIA’s announcement said the publication, which has been published since 1962 and first went online in 1997, was being “sunset” and gave no further explanation for the decision.[WayBack Machine archive.]
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Thor Benson: Anne Applebaum on Trump’s betrayal of Europe
“They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen.”
Last month’s Davos World Economic Forum will be remembered primarily for two things: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s historic speech about the end of Pax Americana, and then President Trump making Carney’s point the next day by sounding like a fascist dictator with a concussion while he threatened our Western allies over Greenland.
(Thor Benson more…)
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Norman Eisen and Gabriel Lezra: Trump & Cronies’ Top 10 Corruption Scandals
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Thom Hartmann: Surprise Surprise?! TrumpRX is a fake. Read the fine print…
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Most drug companies offer introductory specials on their new drugs, where if you contact them they’ll give you a substantial discount for the first one or two months. Trump’s new TrumpRX website claims to reduce the cost of drugs for Americans, but all it does is link you to the drug companies’s websites where these very limited coupons are available. It’s just another grift, as one should always expect from this professional grifter…
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Morgaan Sinclair, Ph.D.: What Jeffrey Epstein Knew: Predators Gravitate to Girls 10 to 16.
RAINN stands for Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. They gather, analyze and report data on sexual abuse of both men and women at all ages. The short version of a huge database of information shows this information, directly from RAINN:
Gender Disparities in Sexual Violence
RAINN data shows females have a higher rate of sexual violence than men and boys. 1 out of every 6 females in the U.S. has been the victim of attempted or completed rape in their lifetime. Girls and young women between 10 and 16 are four times as likely than the general population to be victims of sexual violence. 1 in 33 men has experienced attempted or completed rape in their lifetime, and 1 in every 10 rape victims is male.
(Morgaan Sinclair, Ph.D. more…)
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NY Post: Emails reveal new theory about whom Jeffrey Epstein was really working for
Thousands of cryptic messages tying Jeffrey Epstein to Vladimir Putin have been discovered in the latest release of files related to the late pedophile financier — raising a new theory about whom he was really working for.
ICE deaths 2026 – They deserve remembrance and justice.- January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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