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Opinion | Ring is using lost dogs to make the surveillance state adorable The same technology the Amazon-owned company uses to find lost dogs could easily be turned against their owners.

I am so glad people are catching on to this. No, a surveillance state isn't about finding your cute lost puppy. No one is building camera networks for that. Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos and the rest of the broligarchs are shooting their shot at a corporate techno state. www.ms.now/opinion/ring...

Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More Humanity was already enjoying motion pictures a century ago. But the ability to do so at home still lay a few decades in the future, and the ability to pull up a movie on demand through a streaming se...

Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More

Gov. JB Pritzker talked Bears with NFL commissioner, says progress is being made to keep team in Illinois While Indiana officials play up their efforts to lure the Chicago Bears across the border for a new stadium, Gov. JB Pritzker said Monday that he and his staff have made “progress” to i…

While Indiana officials play up their efforts to lure the Chicago Bears across the border for a new stadium, Gov. JB Pritzker said Monday that he and his staff have made “progress” to incentivize the football team to stay in Illinois.

Arizona House approves resolution ending Election Day ballot drop-offs, Arizona House passes early voting restrictions as Kolodin attacks Senate Republicans over ballot drop-off resolution

“Kari Lake ran twice on this, and she was humiliated at the ballot box twice. So, it is not true that the people of Arizona support these kinds of measures. That is empirically false, as we have seen.”

story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Kids like 7-year-old Mia write about missing their friends and family, wanting to go back to school, and not sleeping or eating well at the Dilley detention center in Texas. These stories expose the inhumanity of this administration's immigration policies.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

🚨BREAKING: Puerto Rico has been part of the United States since 1898, and people still act confused that Puerto Ricans are American.

States that joined after Puerto Rico:
• Oklahoma — 1907
• New Mexico — 1912
• Arizona — 1912
• Alaska — 1959
• Hawaii — 1959

Yet somehow this is still news to folks.

GOP Sen Lummis says she’s changed her mind after the new Epstein revelations today: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!”

Senior U.S. Church leaders call for presidential apology in wake of racist social media post Cardinal Blase Cupich Archbishop Edward Weisenburger called on Trump to apologize for sharing a racist video meme to his Truth Social account, calling the harm done by his action real and saying his e...

Senior U.S. Catholic Church leaders call for Trump to apologize in wake of racist social media post

Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States

Trump again seeking revenge against four leading Democratic states (California, Colorado, Illinois, and Minnesota) by denying them health funding. This is evil. Let's start calling such actions evil. Because that's what they are.

The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the fede...

"A conservative researcher whose theories have often been rejected by Georgia election overseers and who once pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of voyeurism is emerging as a central figure in the investigation..."

Exclusive | Trump to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Huge Regulatory Rollback The move would reverse a legal determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

We're in court this week challenging a New Hampshire law that forces people to provide documents like a birth certificate or passport in order to register to vote.

This unnecessary restriction makes it harder for thousands of citizens to exercise our right to vote.

I asked Ari Berman—who has covered Voting Rights for more than a decade—to take on the concern that it's doomerism to take Trump's threats to steal the 2026 elections seriously.

He thinks we're having the wrong conversation.

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.”

(Published Dec. 2025)

NIH Grant Disruptions Slow Down Breast Cancer Research - KFF Health News The Trump administration has made the future of federal funding for cancer research uncertain. At one groundbreaking breast cancer research lab, work that could save lives has slowed significantly.

This is the plight of #breastcancer scientists all over the country. Even though Congress approved an increase in the #NIH budget, much has irrevocably changed. Research staff has been laid off.

In Joanne Brugge’s case, her federal support ends in August.

🧪 kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

They're Coming for Our Daughters The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”

The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

JFK to Trump: Insurrection Act Goes From Civil Rights to Political Combat The military has been used domestically about 30 times since 1807, mostly to enforce civil rights and quell riots. Can they be used to quash political protests?

The Insurrection Act allows presidents to deploy the military domestically. While historically used to uphold rights or quell riots, the president has threatened to deploy troops for a far different reason, highlighting a shift in its application.

bit.ly/3LG0KLP

Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown.

New DHS data undercuts the “worst of the worst” claim: less than 14% of ICE arrests in Donald Trump’s first year back involved violent crimes—nearly 40% had no criminal record.

~2% were tied to gangs
<2% to homicide or sexual assault.

So who, exactly, is this crackdown really? #BlueSky #PoliSky

Federal prosecutors in Minnesota were preparing to start a civil rights investigation into Renee Good’s shooting.

Then top administration officials intervened and ordered them to stop, triggering a wave of resignations in the process.

What is the regime trying to hide from us?

eufy - Built with Care | Home Security System & Robovacs eufy has developed a new generation of easy-to-use smart home devices that are designed to enhance your life at home.

Did a little research, and if you have a Ring camera and don't like what you've been hearing about the company, this seems to be a good alternative

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month Age verification for all.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

JUST IN: DOJ is trying to help Steve Bannon erase his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Motion has no career prosecutor on it, just signed by US Attorney Pirro. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Is Netflix raising subscription cost to $49.99 as of March 1? It's unclear how the looming merger between Netflix and Warner Bros. would affect costs, though the alleged price hike is pure satire.

❌ Netflix is not hiking prices to $49.99 on March 1. Here's where the rumor came from and what we actually know about Netflix's fees.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/n...

RFK Jr misled Senate during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor say Newly revealed emails undermine Kennedy’s testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of deadly measles outbreak

RFK Jr misled Senate during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor say

Newly revealed emails undermine Kennedy’s testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of deadly measles outbreak

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch A massive warehouse in Tremont, Pa., that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in a $119 million ICE deal.

I wrote about the plan to turn a Big Lots warehouse for cheap goods into a concentration camp for 7,500 in a coal country community of just 2,000 share.inquirer.com/KDkdeE

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting The “show your papers” requirement is an attack on the freedom to vote.

The SAVE Act is part of the Trump administration’s agenda to sow distrust in elections, undermine election administration, and discourage Americans from making their voices heard. bit.ly/4rA2p4R

There is no clause in the Constitution or law on the books—none—that allows a President to commandeer state elections. No emergency power. No implied authority. No ‘because I say so.’ We will not let Trump take over our free and fair elections.

Immigration Raids in South Texas Are Starting to Hit the Economy Trade groups are raising alarms about aggressive immigration enforcement hurting businesses in the region.

Immigration Raids in South Texas Are Starting to Hit the Economy
Trade groups are raising alarms about aggressive immigration enforcement hurting businesses in the region