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Two-thirds of Germans now see US as threat to global peace, up from 24% in 2024 German perceptions of the United States have deteriorated sharply, with 65% now viewing America as a serious threat to world peace in the coming years, according to an Allensbach Institute survey…

Nearly 2/3 of Germans now see the US as a serious threat to world peace (65%, up from 46% last year), per an Allensbach survey cited by DW

In 2024, just 24% viewed the US as a threat to world peace. Russia remains #1 at 81%, China at 46%.
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“$5.2 million from Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago for increasing H.I.V. prevention therapy among Black women”

Congressional report: National Guard in DC has cost taxpayers $330 million - Maryland Matters The Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., has cost taxpayers more than $330 million, and that figure could nearly double if personnel remain in the District thro...

The Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., has cost taxpayers more than $330 million, and that figure could nearly double if personnel remain in the District through the end of the year, a new report says.
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Trump posts a picture showing Canada and Greenland as part of the US. As I note today, his rhetoric violates the U.N. Charter: It requires members to “refrain … from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.” wapo.st/3MsWi3c

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.

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Already better. No Collingsworth

Plato Understood Why Masking Would Turn ICE Agents Into Devils The Republic explained that social scrutiny was necessary for human virtue

"Plato Understood Why Masking Would Turn ICE Agents Into Devils." No names, no identifiability, no prospect of social consequences = setting the stage for humanity's worst instincts to run wild [@rosenzweigp.bsky.social]

Darnold prevented the TD by throwing behind the WR.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

The Death of Direct File Tech for good not welcome in the Trump administration

Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

The Sordid Story of Trump, the Trump–Witkoff Family Business, and the UAE | National Review Even if crypto makes your head hurt, you’re going to be hearing a lot about this in the months to come.

Whoa! Longtime conservative columnist, professional Dem hater, and spittle-flecked Obama/Biden critic Andrew McCarthy has a new piece in National Review ... absolutely taking Trump to task for corruption. Openly acknowledging it's far worse than anything Biden was even accused of.

Perfect

Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

It is nice to see at least one conservative publication acknowledging the most blatant corruption happening in the history of the US by far, but this will never be mentioned on Fox or Newsmax. On those networks, none of this is happening.

Trump said for years he'd make his tax returns public if he weren't under audit. Now he wants $10 billion dollars in "compensation" for something he said was no big deal.

For example: if 84% of people already agree that scientific research aimed at advancing knowledge is usually a worthwhile investment over time...

Why are you so sure that the real problem is that people "just don't know enough about why research matters"
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Terrifying that such powerful people have mad and dangerous religious extremist views.

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

This is where editorial writers can add context, but which the Post chose not to, like:
*A majority GOP SCOTUS decided they could not block gerrymandering
*Dems push anti-gerrymandering bills in Congress but can't get pass b/c GOP think they can benefit. Change the calculus, maybe they change.

Howard Lutnick went to Jeffrey Epstein's island 5 days before Lutnick and Epstein went into business together.

12/23/2012 — Lutnick goes to Epstein's island.

12/28/2012 — Lutnick and Epstein sign a stock purchase agreement.

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:

Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

Trump lawyers aim to deport five-year-old boy after judge ordered his release Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were seized by ICE in Minneapolis last month before a judge ordered their release Attorneys for the Trump administration are aiming to deport Liam Conejo Ramos, the five-year-old boy whose photograph wearing a bunny hat in snowy Minneapolis circulated globally after his detention last month by federal officials during the aggressive anti-immigration crackdown there. The child, Liam returned home to Minnesota earlier this week after being taken into custody alongside his father last month and transferred to a notorious family detention facility in Texas. Continue reading...

Trump lawyers aim to deport five-year-old boy after judge ordered his release

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

oh dear.

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Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.

DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

Donald Trump is ordered to pay $2 million for charity fraud It's the final settlement in a case the president vowed never to settle.

Ha ha ha. Trump is required to not ever start a charity in the state of New York because he actually stole money from his own charity. He is a fraud.
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Splinter: Trump Crushed U.S. Tourism Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

International travel rose 4% in 2025 around the world

It fell 4.2% in the United States

Trump take tourism www.jezebel.com/trump-crushe...

Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show Though the commerce secretary has called his interactions with Epstein as "limited," the two were in business together four years after Epstein's 2008 guilty plea.

(CBS News) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had "limited interactions" with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014.

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