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ICE Is A Paramilitary Force, And Those Don’t End Well This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. As the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement have intensified over the pas…

ICE Is A Paramilitary Force, And Those Don’t End Well
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/03/ice-is-a-paramilitary-force-and-those-dont-end-well/

Techdirt Podcast Episode 442: Does AI Remove Or Provide User Agency? Support us on Patreon » On a recent episode of our other podcast, Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Mike was joined by guest host Konstantinos Komaitis for a far-reaching discussion about online speech. …

Techdirt Podcast Episode 442: Does AI Remove Or Provide User Agency?
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/03/techdirt-podcast-episode-442-does-ai-remove-or-provide-user-agency/

ICE Director Says Officers Are Now Allowed To Make Arrests Without Warrants The administration’s racist goon squads have absolutely been steamrolling the Constitution since Trump’s return to office. When ICE et al started roving throughout the nation looking fo…

ICE Director Says Officers Are Now Allowed To Make Arrests Without Warrants
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/03/ice-director-says-officers-are-now-allowed-to-make-arrests-without-warrants/

Daily Deal: The Complete Raspberry Pi And Alexa A-Z Bundle Learn Raspberry Pi and start building Amazon Alexa projects with The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle. Catered for all levels, these project-based courses will get you up and running with…

Daily Deal: The Complete Raspberry Pi And Alexa A-Z Bundle
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/03/daily-deal-the-complete-raspberry-pi-and-alexa-a-z-bundle-5/

Turns Out They Didn’t Really Want You To Bring Your Whole Self To Work For years, we watched Silicon Valley executives perform elaborate corporate theater about “values” and “belonging” and “bringing your whole self to work.” If you…

Turns Out They Didn’t Really Want You To Bring Your Whole Self To Work
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/03/turns-out-they-didnt-really-want-you-to-bring-your-whole-self-to-work/

MN Police Chief Intervenes To Free A US Citizen Arrested By Federal Officers No doubt this will be spun as some form of Minnesota-specific obstruction, but until that happens, let’s just appreciate the fact that not all cops are willing to be appendages of the Trump a…

MN Police Chief Intervenes To Free A US Citizen Arrested By Federal Officers
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/03/mn-police-chief-intervenes-to-free-a-us-citizen-arrested-by-federal-officers/

Whoops, Websites Realize That Killing Their Comment Sections Was A Mistake So for years we pointed out how the trend of news websites killing off their comment section (usually because they were too cheap or lazy to creatively manage them) was counterproductive.…

Whoops, Websites Realize That Killing Their Comment Sections Was A Mistake
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/03/whoops-websites-realize-that-killing-their-comment-sections-was-a-mistake/

The CDC Has Mysteriously Frozen Vaccine Databases Without Explanation In any war, information is power. Be it kinetic wars, cyberwarfare, or information wars, data is everything. And since RFK Jr. has clearly declared war on vaccines in America, it’s not a huge…

The CDC Has Mysteriously Frozen Vaccine Databases Without Explanation
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/02/the-cdc-has-mysteriously-frozen-vaccine-databases-without-explanation/

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation For Propaganda U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor wh…

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation For Propaganda
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/02/beware-government-using-image-manipulation-for-propaganda/

ICE, CBP Brag About Stealing A Legally-Impossible $14,000 From US Citizens At The Minneapolis Airport Let’s just clear the air right up front: this is just the government mugging Somalis because they’re currently at the top of Trump’s shitlist. Prior to last month’s escalati…

ICE, CBP Brag About Stealing A Legally-Impossible $14,000 From US Citizens At The Minneapolis Airport
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/02/ice-cbp-brag-about-stealing-a-legally-impossible-14000-from-us-citizens-at-the-minneapolis-airport/

Six Months Of ‘AI CSAM Crisis’ Headlines Were Based On Misleading Data Remember last summer when everyone was freaking out about the explosion of AI-generated child sexual abuse material? The New York Times ran a piece in July with the headline “A.I.-Generated I…

Six Months Of ‘AI CSAM Crisis’ Headlines Were Based On Misleading Data
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/02/six-months-of-ai-csam-crisis-headlines-were-based-on-misleading-data/

Daily Deal: Rosetta Stone (All Languages) Embark on the journey of language learning with the Rosetta Stone unlimited subscription for all languages. Rosetta Stone has been the go-to software for language learning for the past 27 years. Wi…

Daily Deal: Rosetta Stone (All Languages)
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FBI Raids Fulton County, Georgia To Seize Ballots On Behalf Of A Guy Who Refuses To Believe He Lost The 2020 Election Trump’s going to win the election he lost, no matter what he has to do to make that happen. Surrounding himself with a better set of sycophants this time around has really allowed him to gain…

FBI Raids Fulton County, Georgia To Seize Ballots On Behalf Of A Guy Who Refuses To Believe He Lost The 2020 Election
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/02/fbi-raids-fulton-county-georgia-to-seize-ballots-on-behalf-of-a-guy-who-refuses-to-believe-he-lost-the-2020-election/

Hey Gavin Newsom! Investigating TikTok’s Moderation Is Just As Unconstitutional As When Texas & Florida Tried It We called bullshit when Republicans tried to order websites to carry content. We’re calling bullshit now when Democrats are trying to do the same. We spent years explaining to politicians acr…

Hey Gavin Newsom! Investigating TikTok’s Moderation Is Just As Unconstitutional As When Texas & Florida Tried It
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/02/hey-gavin-newsom-investigating-tiktoks-moderation-is-just-as-unconstitutional-as-when-texas-florida-tried-it/

Trump Is Helping Elon Musk’s Starlink Get Billions In Taxpayer Dollars With No Oversight We’ve long noted how the 2021 infrastructure bill included $42.5 billion for broadband grants dubbed the Broadband, Equity, Access And Deployment (BEAD) program. The program wasn’t without it…

Trump Is Helping Elon Musk’s Starlink Get Billions In Taxpayer Dollars With No Oversight
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/02/trump-is-helping-elon-musks-starlink-get-billions-in-taxpayer-dollars-with-no-oversight/

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Raphael with a comment about Trump demanding billions from the IRS: This reminds me, Trump loves to rant and rave about how poorly and dy…

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/01/funniest-most-insightful-comments-of-the-week-at-techdirt-194/

This Week In Techdirt History: January 25th – 31st Five Years Ago This week in 2021, we looked at the future of net neutrality under the new interim FCC boss, and at how broadband monopolies continued to get money for networks they never fully depl…

This Week In Techdirt History: January 25th – 31st
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/31/this-week-in-techdirt-history-january-25th-31st/

DOJ Arrests Journalists Don Lemon & Georgia Fort For Acts Of Journalism, Even After Courts Rejected Arrest Warrants Last week, a federal magistrate judge told the DOJ it could not arrest journalist Don Lemon. The DOJ appealed and lost that appeal too. The legal system said no. So the DOJ arrested him anyway. On …

DOJ Arrests Journalists Don Lemon & Georgia Fort For Acts Of Journalism, Even After Courts Rejected Arrest Warrants
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/30/journalists-don-lemon-georgia-fort-arrested-for-covering-mn-pop-up-church-protest/

Search Engines, AI, And The Long Fight Over Fair Use Long before generative AI, copyright holders warned that new technologies for reading and analyzing information would destroy creativity. Internet search engines, they argued, were infringement mac…

Search Engines, AI, And The Long Fight Over Fair Use
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/30/search-engines-ai-and-the-long-fight-over-fair-use/

Bari Weiss Pauses Her Pathetic Podcast To Focus Full Time On Ruining CBS If you’ve been napping, Trump-allied billionaire Larry Ellison and his nepobaby son David hired an unqualified troll named Bari Weiss to “run” CBS News. And by “run” CBS news, I mean destroy …

Bari Weiss Pauses Her Pathetic Podcast To Focus Full Time On Ruining CBS
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/30/bari-weiss-pauses-her-pathetic-podcast-to-focus-full-time-on-ruining-cbs/

Need A Friday Night Challenge? Whip Up A Quick Game For The Public Domain Game Jam! We’ve been running our annual public domain game jam for eight years now, and as far as game jams go, it’s always been on the long side of the scale with a full month for people to work…

Need A Friday Night Challenge? Whip Up A Quick Game For The Public Domain Game Jam!
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/30/need-a-friday-night-challenge-whip-up-a-quick-game-for-the-public-domain-game-jam/

Tom Homan To Minneapolis: Look, I Warned You If You Weren’t Nice, We’d Have To Kill Again, And Look What You Made Us Do A couple weeks ago, in the wake of the murder of Renee Good, we wrote about “border czar” Tom Homan’s ridiculous TV comments suggesting that if Democrats didn’t stop calling ICE & CBP murderers…

Tom Homan To Minneapolis: Look, I Warned You If You Weren’t Nice, We’d Have To Kill Again, And Look What You Made Us Do
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/30/tom-homan-to-minneapolis-look-i-warned-you-if-you-werent-nice-wed-have-to-kill-again-and-look-what-you-made-us-do/

Daily Deal: Cable Blocks Magnetic And Weighted Cord Organizers Keep your workspace neat and clutter-free with this premium magnetic cable management system. The latest version of Cable Blocks is almost twice as heavy as the original version with only a slight …

Daily Deal: Cable Blocks Magnetic And Weighted Cord Organizers
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The Casual Cruelty Of The GOP’s Migrant Purge Yeah, there’s the overt cruelty. There’s the murder of protesters. The chasing of day laborers across Home Depot parking lots. The snatching and separation of children from parents. The…

The Casual Cruelty Of The GOP’s Migrant Purge
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/30/the-casual-cruelty-of-the-gops-migrant-purge/

Trump Demands $10 Billion From Taxpayers For Leaked Tax Returns; His Own Lawyers Get To Decide What He Gets Back in May, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt offered what might be the single most audacious statement of the Trump era—and that’s saying something: I think everybody – the…

Trump Demands $10 Billion From Taxpayers For Leaked Tax Returns; His Own Lawyers Get To Decide What He Gets
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/30/trump-demands-10-billion-from-taxpayers-for-leaked-tax-returns-his-own-lawyers-get-to-decide-what-he-gets/

Enshittification Ensures Streaming Prices Soar Faster Than Any Other Consumer Good According to new data from the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), streaming video subscription prices jumped a whopping 29 percent year over year. That’s compared to t…

Enshittification Ensures Streaming Prices Soar Faster Than Any Other Consumer Good
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/30/enshittification-ensures-streaming-prices-soar-faster-than-any-other-consumer-good/

Stop Killing Games Gets Over 1 Million Petition Signatures Verified By EU I’ve been talking about the Stop Killing Games movement for some time now, so important is its mission to me. This collection of volunteers focused on video game and cultural preservation is …

Stop Killing Games Gets Over 1 Million Petition Signatures Verified By EU
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/29/stop-killing-games-gets-over-1-million-petition-signatures-verified-by-eu/

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Think Globally, Stack Locally Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, …

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Think Globally, Stack Locally
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/29/ctrl-alt-speech-think-globally-stack-locally/

Administration Lied To Itself To Keep Pushing Its Fake ‘Tren De Aragua’ Terrorism Narrative We always knew the narrative was false. The administration’s insistence that Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) was somehow an international menace always rang hollow — just another w…

Administration Lied To Itself To Keep Pushing Its Fake ‘Tren De Aragua’ Terrorism Narrative
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/29/administration-lied-to-itself-to-keep-pushing-its-fake-tren-de-aragua-terrorism-narrative/

Speak Its Name: Yes, This Is Naziism History never repeats exactly the same, which is how it can be hard to recognize when it is indeed repeating—too many little things may be different the second time around for subsequent events to …

Speak Its Name: Yes, This Is Naziism
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/29/speak-its-name-yes-this-is-naziism/