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Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

Breaking MS NOW:

Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available.

Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is trying to expand the state’s already massive tax breaks for data centers.

Data center companies are already saving nearly $500,000,000 in local property taxes this year in Oregon.

Now the Governor wants to double key tax breaks from 5 years to 10.

Headline warns millions risk identity theft from exposed Social Security numbers in a large data breach.

🚨 Millions of Social Security Numbers have been leaked, putting Americans' private data at risk.

Thanks to @wired.com for this critical info: www.wired.com/story/a-mega...

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.

Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.

Beautiful and devastating all at once.

Trump Bends Tough Border Rules for Convicted Far-Right Fraudster The notoriously strict entry requirements apparently do not apply to one thug who boasts a long criminal history.

Britain’s self-styled free speech warrior has been allowed to enter the U.S. despite a long criminal rap sheet.

ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.

“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

DHS is issuing subpoenas to ask for the names & contact info for the social media accounts criticizing ICE.

This is a complete violation of your rights. The First Amendment doesn’t have an asterisk that says “unless you criticize the government.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

'A different set of rules': Thermal drone footage shows Musk's AI power plant flouts clean air rules • Tennessee Lookout Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company continues to fuel its data centers with unpermitted gas turbines, according to a Floodlight investigation.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is continuing to fuel its data centers with unpermitted gas turbines, according to a @floodlightnews.org visual investigation. Thermal drone footage shows xAI is still burning gas at a facility in Southaven, Miss., near Memphis.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

DHS is being more aggressive than ever targeting anonymous social media accounts that have spoken out against ICE, asking Big Tech to hand over information on users without signed judicial warrants

story w/ @sheeraf.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Trying some posing for the base. The shield will be stuck into the ground. I’ve got some spare rockets and an ammo crate to go in as well. Now I need to source some xps foam. #gunpla #scalemodels #scalemodeling #ipmsnorge

Working on this for SKALA 2026. Next up, work on the base. #gunpla #scalemodeling #histscalemodels #mg #ipmsnorge

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.

She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.

She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra from Colombia was detained on her way to Disney World. She told me when I met her that what was supposed to be a 10-day dream vacation to the park’s Halloween celebration turned into a 100+ day nightmare at Dilley. 6/

Whistle-Blower Report Involved Intelligence About a Trump Contact

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard BLOCKED an NSA report of a call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump. I will sit down with the whistleblower lawyer TOMORROW at 12 PM PT on @meidastouch.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Republicans’ new tax law decreased Amazon's taxes 87%, while the corporate giant's profits grew.

The company’s U.S. taxes went $9 billion $1.2 billion.

Amazon is also in the process of cutting 30,000 jobs.

Call your Dem Senators and ask them why they voted unanimously for the Sanders Amendment to defund ICE last week, but it's not on this list.

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

YouTube video by ProPublica A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign

Year 1 of Trump’s immigration crackdown:

- U.S. citizens were held against their will.
- ICE placed at least 600 immigrant kids in federal shelters.
- Student activists became a target.

That’s not all. Our year in review:

Exclusive | Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency Congress hasn’t seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community watchdog’s office.

Who could've predicted when Gabbard placed a mole in the intel community’s inspector general's office that it would result in complaints about her disappearing?

It’s way past time to get serious about IC whistleblower protections.

Exclusive | Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency Congress hasn’t seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community watchdog’s office.

An intel community whistleblower is being gagged by the very person they’re trying to expose.

Under current rules, IC whistleblowers can’t go to Congress until the DNI tells them how.

The problem? Gabbard is the subject of the complaint and is slow-walking the process.

Beaker is now Dr.Beaker - Lookout Honeydew!

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

You can't "move fast and break things" in government work. People will die.

And that's something tech bros don't understand or care enough about.

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan.

Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

BREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more detailed information about its users, including precise location data.

My latest for @wired.com:

www.wired.com/story/tiktok...