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GEORGIA — Trump’s DHS just bought an ICE detention warehouse for $128 MILLION… that sold for $29 MILLION two years ago… from a Russia-based real estate company.🤔

Nothing to see here, folks!

We are being looted so hard by these crooks

Screencap of a bbc article: Italy’s lovers arch collapses into the sea on Valentine’s Day

new allegory for modern dating just dropped

Photo of Prime Minister Carney with President von der Leyen of the European Commission and President Costa of the European Council.

Canada is now the first non-European country to be granted a membership in SAFE. This is a gamechanger program that means Canada can rearm our Canadian Armed Forces members more effectively and scale up our defence industries with more contracts overseas.

Courts Have Ruled That ICE Illegally Jailed People More Than 4,400 Times in Less Than Five Months | Common Dreams ​In some cases, the administration has kept immigrants locked up even after a judge has ordered their release, according to an investigation by ​Reuters.

Courts Have Ruled That ICE Illegally Jailed People More Than 4,400 Times in Less Than Five Months - commondreams.org

"The number of people in ICE custody ballooned to 68,000 this month, up 75% from when he took office."
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FBI Interviewed Trump Accuser, Epstein Files Show Trump was credibly accused of sexual assault in the Epstein files. It's unclear what became of the DOJ's investigation.

NEW: The FBI interview implicating Trump for raping and assaulting a 14 year old took place one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, and emails about the credible accusation came around the time Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell in pirson. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy A simulation shows that social media bots powered by today’s AI can infiltrate human networks on social media and influence what people believe.

Consider it a red flag if “everybody” online seems to agree. You might be scrolling AI-generated posts by a bot swarm, coordinated to fake consensus, game the algorithm and make fringe ideas look mainstream. buff.ly/CjqxvIP

What should a more European NATO look like? The US and Europe disagree Europe’s push to reduce its reliance on the US is likely to be permanent. US policymakers should wake up to this new reality.

Europe’s push to reduce its reliance on the US is likely to be permanent. US policymakers should wake up to this new reality. https://bit.ly/4tBhYL4

"It makes sense that we support the project of an enlarged European Union."

Oana Țoiu Minister of Foreign Affairs for Romania on the importance of EU membership.

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I’m trusting European politicians know a toxic partner when they see it

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

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This is what a rigged economy looks like.

If you need us we’ll be over here starting the @samstroozas.bsky.social fan club🦸

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Empty Warehouses, Secret Deals: Insiders Poised To Profit From Trump’s Deportation Boom As the Trump administration hunts for massive detention sites, politically connected real estate brokers are lining up t

DHS has begun purchasing warehouses to detain tens of thousands of immigrants.

The big winners? Real estate brokers facilitating the deals stand to rake in millions — including one previously run by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and now run by his son.

Cashing in on cruelty.

DHS AI Surveillance Arsenal Grows as Agency Defies Courts A Department of Homeland Security AI inventory contains details on new tools used by ICE and border patrol agents in Trump's deportation campaign.

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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Instead of Pandering, Democrats Should Try Changing Voters’ Minds How can the party of liberalism make liberal ideas more popular? By creating a more liberal electorate. Yes, it can be done. Here are five ways how.

"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...

We have now entered the "His Opponents Are Afraid of Falling Out of Windows" stage of Donald Trump's emulation of Vladmir Putin.

From the Epstein community on Reddit: I mapped every connection in the Epstein files. It started with 6,000 documents. It's now 1.5 million. Here's what changed. Explore this post and more from the Epstein community

Dude on Reddit doing God's work

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I discovered Israeli government procurement documents showing a Canadian group that's sending right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel was granted funds from Israel's foreign ministry

The funding came through an arm of the ministry focused on managing “public perception of Israel”

What do you call warehouses full of humans? Podcast Episode · Next Comes What · 02/12/2026 · 27m

She wrote a global history of concentration camps. Now she has a warning for her own country.

In a better world, Andrea Pitzer would be delivering this warning on 60 Minutes.

But you need to listen to how we can stop these systematic atrocities being committed in our name on Next Comes What.

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed.

Is it any wonder why so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void.

This is why we must fix the system. AOC is right.

The AU summit is an opportunity for decisive action to end the war in Sudan The upcoming African Union summit is an opportunity for African leaders to reset the union’s role on Sudan and take decisive action to end the war.

The upcoming African Union summit in Addis Ababa on 14–15 February is an opportunity for decisive AU leadership on Sudan – it must not be missed. https://bit.ly/4rOLxXR

related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter

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