E. Wayne Ross

Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences Several faculty members who spoke regularly with Epstein have been stripped of their titles or teaching duties.

Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences
Several faculty members who spoke regularly with Epstein have been stripped of their titles or teaching duties.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The NFL Owners and Olympic Organizers in Epstein’s Inbox The sports media is ignoring the story, but wealthy sports figures are all over the Epstein files.

Epstein Football League & Epstein Olympics.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Americans Are Paying the Bill for Tariffs, Despite Trump’s Claims

From the No-Duh Department:
Americans Are Paying the Bill for Tariffs, Despite Trump’s Claims
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...

UK and US sink to new lows in global index of corruption Countries’ drop in scores in annual table comes amid ‘worrying trend’ of backsliding in established democracies

UK and US sink to new lows in global index of corruption
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months Seamus Culleton has lived in US for two decades, married a citizen and runs a plastering business but faces deportation

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

Seamus Culleton has lived in US for two decades, married a citizen and runs a plastering business but faces deportation

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

San Francisco Teachers Walk Out for the First Time Since 1979

San Francisco Teachers Walk Out for the First Time Since 1979
The strike closed public schools for more than 50,000 students in the city and had no end date. Health care costs are a key issue in negotiations.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Could This Concept Help Canada Fight Off a US Attack? | The Tyee ‘Total national defence’ enlists decentralized forces. But it carries risks.

This is where the conservation about Canada-USA relations is.
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football What time is kickoff? The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. f...

FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football

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BTW, Sifton admits his name comes up in the files ...

I admit I have made Sifton recipes from NYT Cooking, but never again.

NYT's Sam Sifton downplaying depravity of Epstein and friends:

"The Epstein files are a lot ... They present such a sprawling, sordid, sometimes inchoate scandal that it can be difficult to understand exactly what they tell us, except that the guy had a lot of powerful friends."

Israeli strikes kill at least 21 in Gaza as Rafah patient crossings halted Six children among dead as Israeli agency restricts evacuations two days after crossing to Egypt reopened

The Gaza genocide continues ...

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency Conservatives once panicked about a supposed federal plot to invade their communities and quash dissent. Now they’re cheering it.

Right wingers once panicked about a supposed federal plot to invade their communities and quash dissent. Now they’re cheering it.

theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...

Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023 Our analysis in this paper shows that immigrants generated a fiscal surplus of about $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023, that the average immigrant is much less costly than the average US-born American,...

Cato Institute: The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

www.cato.org/white-paper/...

As BC’s Universities Struggle, Students Are Ready to Fight | The Tyee A deep drop in international students has led to a funding crisis. Cuts can’t be the answer.

As BC’s Universities Struggle, Students Are Ready to Fight

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender

Texas A&M announces transition from university to MAGA Patriarchal White Supremacy Bible College.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Jim Pattison Developments will not sell Virginia warehouse for use by ICE The company said when it agreed to sell the building, it didn't know it could be used as an ICE detention centre.

Jim Pattison Developments will not sell Virginia warehouse for use by ICE

The company said when it agreed to sell the building to the U.S. government it didn't know it could be used as an ICE detention centre. Read more.

vancouversun.com/news/jim-pat...

Educator Workshop (PD): Palestine in the Classroom

blogs.ubc.ca/ross/2026/01...

Billy Bragg Releases New Song "City of Heroes" Supporting Minneapolis Protesters Billy Bragg has shared a new song, "City of Heroes," written, recorded, and released within 24 hours as a tribute to those protesting ICE in Minneapolis.

Billy Bragg Releases New Song "City of Heroes" Supporting Minneapolis Protesters

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I am so excited to not watch Melania's movie that I'm not watching it right now and will be not watching it all weekend!

Save-On-Foods Union Is Concerned about Pattison’s Warehouse Sale to ICE | The Tyee But UFCW Local 1518 says calls for a boycott of the grocery store could hurt workers.

Save-On-Foods Union Is Concerned about Pattison’s Warehouse Sale to ICE #boycottJimmyP

thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

Nenshi Challenges UCP MLAs to Sign a Pro-Canada Pledge | The Tyee Danielle Smith has been flirting with separatists, Nenshi says. Will her party back Canada?

Nenshi Challenges UCP MLAs to Sign a Pro-Canada Pledge
Danielle Smith has been flirting with separatists, Nenshi says. Will her party back Canada?
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Ranking how much Vancouver councillors have distanced themselves from Mayor Ken Sim The ruling ABC party was shown the door in the byelection and it’s unclear whether it’s improved its position.

Kim Sim hates poor people.

www.straight.com/city-culture...

Virginia county opposes sale, conversion of Pattison-owned warehouse to ICE facility | CBC News A gigantic warehouse across the street from an outdoor equipment store has become a flashpoint in Virginia as the U.S. grapples with the Trump administration's immigration crackdown — and a British Co...

County in Virginia opposes sale, conversion of Jim Pattison-owned warehouse to ICE facility

Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, set to purchase facility

www.cbc.ca/news/world/h...

UBC Faculty for Palestine online panel discussion on Anti-Palestinian Racism and community-building event. Feb 5. See link for details.

blogs.ubc.ca/ross/2026/01...

Bruce Springsteen Rallies Against Trump and ICE in New Protest Song “Streets of Minneapolis” “Trump’s federal thugs beat up on his face and his chest/Then we heard the gunshots, and Alex Pretti lay in the snow, dead”

Bruce Springsteen Rallies Against Trump and ICE in New Protest Song “Streets of Minneapolis”
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US government response to school shooting: "thoughts and prayers"

US government response ICE murder of civilian: "you can't have a gun"

The term “scholasticide” emerged in the context of Israel’s long history of targeting Palestinian institutions of higher learning, culminating in Israeli forces destroying 95% of campuses and university buildings in Gaza from 2023 to 2025.

Throwing to the Wolves The Steady State | by Steven A. Cash

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All regime mouthpieces who have lied about the murder of VA nurse Alex Pretti must resign immediately. All DHS officials and agents involved must be prosecuted.

It’s posts like this that make Canada and other countries want to do deals with China and leave the United States all alone. This is the language of an abusive ex.