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9th Circuit allows Trump administration to end TPS protections for Honduras, Nicaragua, Nepal A federal judge had previously blocked the administration's actions, saying they appeared to be racially motivated.

A federal judge had previously blocked the administration's actions, saying they appeared to be racially motivated.

A very important geopolitical event.
Congratulations to the great geostrategist Putin.

The United States signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Armenia, pledging as much as $9 billion in potential investment as the South Caucasus country seeks to reduce it’s ⤵️

📹: New York Post

Etsy Witches Say Spell Casting Is No Longer Welcome on the Platform For years, you could hire someone on Etsy to curse an evil ex, protect your home, or manifest better luck. Well, until now.

Etsy just kicked witches off their platform.

What could possibly go wrong.

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Tina Kotek is trying harder to throw public money at the Blazers than she is trying to stop ICE from abducting our neighbors or making sure we have busses

The thing that everyone knew would happen for the last two years has happened

2. Music agents at Wasserman are threatening to leave the agency unless Casey sells the business to them, per The Wrap.

Wasserman is also under pressure to resign as chairman of the 2028 LA Olympics.

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.

Newly Unbound, Trump Weighs More Nuclear Arms and Underground Tests

Trump has had a lifelong fascination with nuclear weapons.

Now he’s considering more nuclear weapons and tests.

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YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor State TV explains Russia's diplomatic strategy

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV explains that contrasting statements by Sergey Lavrov and Kirill Dmitriev are part of the same strategy, designed to prompt Trump to pressure Ukraine into accepting a deal allegedly reached by Putin and Trump in Anchorage.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRRx...

horrifying

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JUST IN: Justice Department files brief w/4th Circuit, seeking to revive criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James, arguing that AG has power to make successive interim US attorney appointments. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Dear Ms. Wolfe, Petitioner-Appellee Rümeysa Öztürk submits this Rule 28(j) letter to advise the Court that on January 29, 2026, the immigration court held that the Department of Homeland Security had not met its burden of proving removability, and the immigration court thereby terminated removal proceedings against Ms. Öztürk.' This development underscores the dangers of the government's interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the government's view, it could punitively detain any noncitizen in retaliation for her speech for many months, so long as it simultaneously institutes removal proceedings—no matter how unmeritorious—all without any federal court review of the lawfulness of detention at any time. To be clear, the termination of Ms. Öztürk's removal proceedings does not moot her habeas case. (By contrast, as Ms. Öztürk has argued, this appeal is moot. Br. 18-20.) Without habeas jurisdiction and the bail order that is currently in place, any government appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals would again subject Ms. Öztürk to re-detention. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.6(a). For that reason, she continues to suffer the threat of continuing "now-or-never" First and Fifth Amendment harms. Br. in Opp. 55-57.

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

Spoiler alert: Elon Musk will not build a colony or an outpost or so much as an outdoor toilet on the Moon. Not in ten years. Not in twenty years. Not ever. When your dipshit friend or relative expresses excitement over his announcement, just change the subject. There's no point. It's a cult.

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JUST IN: Judge John Tunheim (Clinton) rejects Trump admin bid to lift order blocking mass detention of immigrants in Minnesota admitted to US as refugees. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The ‘Melania’ director was behind that Mike Tyson Super Bowl ad Brett Ratner faced #MeToo allegations and now he’s in the Epstein files, but the MAHA movement turned to him for its big moment.

The 'Melania' director was behind that Mike Tyson Super Bowl ad.

Brett Ratner, who has come under fire for sexual misconduct allegations and appearing in the Epstein files, directed the ad encouraging Americans to "eat real food." www.ms.now/news/the-mel...

As they should. JFC

please put in the newspaper that I got mad

Josh Blackman has self-published his letter to the editor to the New York times (which they declined to publish) and GUYS

If you think that nothing matters, you’re part of the problem.

Speak up.
Forge a path.
Join others.
And stop being the voice of doom.

Surrender is surrender.

Oregon lawmakers spoke Feb. 9 about the need to preserve public access to Abiqua Falls, and one lawmaker is already making plans for it to happen, after the Statesman Journal reported on the iconic waterfall going up for sale last week: tinyurl.com/2jpnnpm6

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If left labor hadn’t kept the Portland Police Association out of the labor council, NOLC would likely be supporting PPA’s raid on the Portland Clean Energy Fund now instead of the police being supported by just some huge developers & capitalists.

These institutional battles have huge consequences.

With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients • Oregon Capital Chronicle If hospitals don’t disclose that the patients’ information is shared with federal law enforcement, they might not know that their medical coverage puts them at risk of being located by Immigration…

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients.

JUST IN: DOJ is trying to help Steve Bannon erase his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Motion has no career prosecutor on it, just signed by US Attorney Pirro. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

In recent years, we learned that if they are scared or mad, Portland liberals will reject (1) a strident, progressive black councilwoman, and (2) a DA isn't excited about prosecuting houseless people and protestors.

And they will replace them with Republicans who say they are "moderate"

I Had a Dream Journalism Job. Here's Why I Quit. The rot that hollowed out trust in corporate media finally reached OPB. I had to go.

This is easily the hardest thing I've ever had to write.

Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown.

Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records

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