Megan Stifel

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?

Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

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

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Russia’s Channel One airs fake front pages spread by Matryoshka bot network for the first time On Jan. 29, the “Vremya Pokazhet” talk show on Russia’s Kremlin-controlled Channel One (Perviy Kanal) presented “proof” of what the program’s host said was criticism directed against Ukrainian Preside...

Russian TV isn't the most accurate media, but it passed a milestone last week when it aired a fake news headline from Russia's own info-ops group Matryoshka, passing a made-up headline on a fake Le Parisien site as a real event

Don't get high on your own supply, Russia

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Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite’s Veil of Silence Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as fallout from the Epstein files grows across th...

“The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening."

Microsoft says hackers are exploiting critical zero-day bugs to target Windows and Office users | TechCrunch Critical security flaws targeting Windows and Office users allow hackers to take complete control of a victim's computer by clicking a malicious link or opening a file. Patch now.

By me: Microsoft has fixed three zero-day bugs in Windows and Office that are being actively abused by hackers to break into people's computers. Microsoft said three of the exploits are now public.

Google, which helped find the bugs, said one of them is under “widespread, active exploitation."

how bad do you have to fuck up to allow an exploit in fucking NOTEPAD

The Logical End Point of ‘America First’ Foreign Aid Under Trump, foreign aid is no longer an ideal. It’s just a deal.

The Trump administration’s approach to foreign aid brings the U.S. “in line with authoritarian countries that have historically prioritized strategy over charity,” Hana Kiros writes:

You can't attend #MSC2026 in person? Good news: You can still follow everything that's happening!

📲 Sessions will be streamed live on our website and covered on social media. Stay tuned!

Stop the SAVE Act Trump Has Pushed for a Vote in the House This Week On A Bill That May Disenfranchise Tens of Millions of Eligible Voters

My new piece is up and it requires your URGENT ATTENTION!

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Claude telling me today is 2025.

Both times I used Claude today it gave surprisingly bad answers. In this response, it claims that the current year is 2025.

Announcing Finalists for the Third Annual Cyber Policy Awards™ The Cyber Policy Awards™ organizing committee is pleased to announce selection of 23 finalists who are in contention to receive The Atlas trophy, chosen by an august panel of judges from across the cy...

The #CyberPolicyAwards organizing committee is pleased to announce the finalists in contention for the Atlas at the Third Annual Cyber Policy Awards™. After careful review of more than 85 submissions, the judges have selected 4 finalists per award category.
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As terrible as what is happening right now to journalism, we actually should dismantle the romantic myths we have of the press in America.

I teach in my class about colonial press censorship, and then how the independent press was a tool for the wealthy, white power holders to maintain dominance.

Former MI6 spy insists Jeffrey Epstein was 'recruited by Russian organised criminals' and 'likely' had kompromat on Trump | LBC Mr Steele told Tom Swarbrick that he believes Epstein - and subsequently the Russians who were handling him - had kompromat on Mr Trump

Christopher Steele, who used to head up MI6's Russia desk, told Tom Swarbrick that the latest Epstein files published by the DOJ on Friday show the extent of the connection between the disgraced paedophile financier and Russia.

Alphabet Plots Big Expansion in India as US Restricts Visas Alphabet Inc. is plotting to dramatically expand its presence in India, with the possibility of taking millions of square feet in new office space in Bangalore, India’s tech hub.

The most predictable outcome of the Trump's hostility to immigrants is mass outsourcing of those jobs from the United States.

This is another example of damage being done to the economy which will be hard to reverse in a few years when people finally figure out how badly Trump screwed things up.

It’s important to realize that the subtext of Trump freaking out at Kaitlan Collins when she asks him what he’d say to the Epstein survivors is that she may in practice be asking what he’d say to the *Trump* survivors, and they both know that. A well worded question

Former Comms Director for Nancy Mace responds to her claim today that she isn’t able to drink any alcohol because of a medical condition.

The messaging is already starting for whatever evidence Tulsi Gabbard is about to fabricate. REMEMBER: Every person in the Trump administration 1.0 said there was NO outcome determinative FOREIGN ELECTION INTERFERENCE in 2020.

Intelligence watchdog shares whistleblower complaint involving Gabbard with Congress after monthslong delay The complaint was closed administratively by the intelligence community inspector general's office in June 2025, under prior leadership, watchdog says.

Gabbard held this up for 8 months with a truckload of excuses from executive privilege to "It's too classified for Congress." They have FINALLY transmitted the whistleblower report to Congress. www.cbsnews.com/news/intelli...

America First, No New Wars, etc, etc.

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Being a person who has implemented age gates: if I put this as the age gate on a video game I would be prosecuted.

“While it remains unclear how much of this content is performative versus genuine, moltbook serves as a reminder that these systems are not operating in isolation: Moltbot deployments often have access to highly sensitive information, & their growing public exposure demands careful security review.”

Silas Cutler (p1nk) on X: "I wrote up a quick overview of what we are seeing at @censysio on @openclaw deployments in the wild. https://t.co/zi6FlGfiTY" / X I wrote up a quick overview of what we are seeing at @censysio on @openclaw deployments in the wild. https://t.co/zi6FlGfiTY

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Researchers and observers have already noted toxic behaviors emerging on the platform, including harassment-style roleplay, anti-human rhetoric, and agents attempting to manipulate or deceive one another.

The Week Ahead February 1, 2026

The Judge who ordered the release of five-year-old Liam wrote quite an opinion. Come read it with me.
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FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn The search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald ...

Experts said the FBI’s seizing of ballots in Georgia triggered fears of federal interference in this year’s midterm elections:

“It's a dramatic escalation … to expand federal control over our country's historically state-run election infrastructure.”

‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company $500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.

This is corruption on a breathtaking level. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi royal nicknamed the "spy sheikh", pumped $187mn into Trump family businesses. A WSJ team has the whole story, reported here for the first time. Remember: Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm.

Just a reminder that our rapist President, who partied with a pedophile, sold out America and weakened our national security for millions from the UAE.

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

Democrat wins special election for red Texas Senate seat With ballots tallied from all but a handful of voting centers, Rehmet had 57% of the vote, besting the 43% for his GOP opponent, Leigh Wambsganss, who had a massive spending advantage.

Dem veteran wins a stunning special election Saturday in a solid red Texas Senate district Trump carried by 17 points in 2024. The upset, against a Trump endorsed candidate, injects panic into the GOP and White House heading into November’s midterms. www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...

Screenshot of TruthSocial post by President Trump complaining that Mayor Frey won't enforce federal immigration law, and calling it a "very serious violation of the Law."

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.

The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:

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