Former Mayor Eric Adams has agreed to pay a $4,000 fine after NYC’s officials found he used city resources to target a political opponent during last year’s mayoral race: gothamist.visitlink.me/4h6Nio

chappellroan • 17m ... X As of today, 1 am no longer represented by Wasserman, the talent agency led by Casey Wasserman. I hold my teams to the highest standards and have a duty to protect them as well. No artist, agent or employee should ever be expected to defend or overlook actions that conflict so deeply with our own moral values. I have deep respect and appreciation for the agents and staff who work tirelessly for their artists and I refuse to passively stand by. Artists deserve representation that aligns with their values and supports their safety and dignity. This decision reflects my belief that meaningful change in our industry requires accountability and leadership that earns trust.

1. Chappell Roan says she is no longer represented by the Wasserman agency, which is owned by major Democratic donor and LA Olympics chairman Casey Wasserman.

This comes after emails between Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell were revealed in the last Epstein files dump.

ICE Arrests Transplant Patient and Cuts Off Life-Saving Meds The 38-year-old hasn’t had his kidney transplant medication since he was detained on Thursday.

A kidney transplant recipient in Minnesota who was arrested by ICE has allegedly been denied access to life-saving medication for more than four days.

“Ring is rolling back many of the reforms it’s made in the last few years by easing police access to footage from millions of homes in the United States … police have used Ring footage to spy on protestors, and obtained footage without a warrant or consent of the user”

YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT [a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision] "In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors! See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/ https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

Icing on the cake is that hyper-pro police surveillance founder Jamie Siminoff, who recently returned to the CEO roll and dismantled years of privacy reforms appeared in the commercial.

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Ring thought they were cute by saying they’re hacking everyone’s cameras to look for lost dogs. If they can do that for dogs they will do that for whatever people they want to hunt down.

fellow engineers,

you really need to start asking yourself some questions when building something:

1. how will the police use what i'm making?
2. what kinds of people are the police going to use it against?
3. how many people will be harmed in silence before we find out?

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

How Ring Transmits Fear to American Suburbs Why do we surveil ourselves?

Back in 2019, @carolinehaskins.bsky.social wrote a killer series on Ring. Worth revisiting. www.vice.com/en/article/h...

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”

Think the cold is painful, NYC? Wait until you see your Con Ed bill. https://gothamist.com/news/think-the-cold-is-painful-nyc-wait-until-you-see-your-con-ed-bill

the last two Popes went out of their way to call this man an immigrant hating freak and a fake Catholic.

Bless his heart for going to Italy expecting to have a normal one❤️

Gateway commission sues Trump administration over blocked tunnel funding Gateway Development Commission sues Trump administration for withholding Hudson River rail tunnel funds since October four days before construction is schedule to stop.

Trump illegally withholding funds for the Gateway Tunnel project will put 1,000 workers out of jobs and stop construction on the most important infrastructure project in the country.

Trump Administration Sued Over Cutting Off Funds for $16 Billion Tunnel

NEW: According to Punchbowl News, Trump told Schumer he'd remove a block on the Gateway Tunnel funds if Schumer helped name Dulles Airport and Penn Station after him. The Gateway Development Commission has already sued Trump for blocking the funds: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/n...

French police raid X offices and summon Musk in probe involving sexual deepfakes Grok, the social media platform's AI chatbot, has sparked global outrage for generating a slew of sexually explicit images and Holocaust denial statements.

French police have raided the Paris offices of X and summoned Elon Musk for questioning as part of a cybercrime investigation into artificial intelligence-generated pornographic deepfakes and Holocaust denial. www.ms.now/news/french-...

Speaker Johnson is lying.

He knows that counting mail votes is not “magic” or “fraudulent,” it is following the law.

Echoing these lies shows how beholden Johnson is to the Liar In Chief, but the Speaker of the House should be above such awful behavior.

This is disgraceful.

Feb. 2 is the last day to register to vote and to submit an address change for Texas' midterm primaries.

Here's what you need to know about checking your registration, registering to vote and submitting a name or address change. 🧵

Gabriel and Gabriel Martinelli are at the Women's Champions Cup final between Arsenal and Corinthians 👀

Both grew up Corinthians fans, so they get a pass on the half-and-half scarves 😅

This explains why Virginia Giuffre was so reluctant to name #Trump

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This morning, I joined PIX11 to announce a new executive order requiring every city agency to designate a Chief Savings Officer.

Within 45 days, these officers will identify which city services deliver the strongest results for New Yorkers—and where we can streamline processes and cut waste.

Judge in Minnesota Says ICE Has Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders

ICE has violated judicial orders 96 times in Minnesota alone: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Perry: Abolish ICE? How about DHS altogether. "We have models for how to structure federal immigration oversight that doesn't rely on an unaccountable masked secret police force running rampant in our streets," David M. Perry writes.

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

A group of anti-ICE protesters gathered in the lobby of a Houston Texas Hilton hotel to express their concerns about DHS agents being housed in their hotel.

ICE OUT OF HILTON

SHAHEEN: It's been reported that the oil sold for $500 million and $300 million went to Venezuelan government. What happened to the other $200 million?

RUBIO: It's still sitting in the account is my understanding

SHAHEEN: The account in Qatar?

RUBIO: Yes

Meta allowed minors access to sex-talking chatbots despite staff concerns, lawsuit alleges Filing by New Mexico’s attorney general includes Meta staff emails objecting to AI companion policy

"Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, approved allowing minors to access artificial intelligence chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions, according to internal Meta documents filed in a New Mexico state court case and made public on Monday."