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DOJ seeks to 'clean' Texas voter rolls using data provided by the state In December, Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson turned over to the Trump administration personal data on the 18.6 million Texans registered to vote.

DOJ seeks to 'clean' Texas voter rolls, as Trump calls to
"nationalize" elections www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/art...

The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass. As Europe moves to address its shame, it’s highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.

The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe's political class. In the US, they're getting a pass.
As Europe moves to address its shame, it's highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S. 🤷🏽‍♀️ www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Tenure Will Be Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma’s Public Colleges, Governor Says Gov. J. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, directed the state’s two-dozen regional universities and community colleges to phase out the practice. Existing faculty members will be grandfathered in.

Tenure Will Be
Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma's Public
Colleges, Governor Says 🤷🏽‍♀️ www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis abruptly resigns amid criticism of staff cuts Departure comes days after newspaper laid off nearly one-third of staff, including more than 300 journalists

Washington Post CEO
Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Federal prosecutors in Minnesota are cracking down on dissent But the pursuit of serious criminals has slackened off

Federal prosecutors in America are cracking down on dissent 🤷🏽‍♀️ www.economist.com/united-state...

The 'Ark of Return' is a permanent memorial honouring the victims of slavery & the transatlantic slave trade.
Designed by an American architect of Haitian descent, the memorial pays tribute to the courage of enslaved people, abolitionists & unsung heroes who helped end the oppression of slavery.

"The truth is that Bad Bunny's rise is plenty American & not simply because it reinforces the pluralistic ideals that Trump's movement seeks to diminish. Bad Bunny's music has reached all corners of the planet because it is a state-of-the-art product." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

UK PM’s top aide quits over Mandelson’s links to Epstein

UK PM’s top aide quits over Mandelson’s links to Epstein https://aje.news/a1gl7n

+972 and The Guardian report that Sameer Zeidan, a longtime U.S. resident with five U.S.-citizen children, a U.S.-citizen wife, was deported along with 7 other Palestinians after he failed to renew his green card, despite living in the U.S. for over two decades. 📌 Here’s what +972 write: — Sameer Zeidan, a 47-year-old grocery worker originally from the town of Bir Nabala, also near Ramallah, was on the same deportation flight as Awad. His uncle, Khaled, told +972 and The Guardian that Zeidan had lived in Louisiana for over two decades with his wife, who is also a Palestinian from the West Bank and a U.S. citizen. They had five children together, who all have U.S. passports. According to his uncle, Zeidan had a green card but allowed it to expire without renewing it. His parents and three of his siblings also live in the United States. Khaled said Zeidan, who served prison time around a decade ago, was in ICE detention for about a year and a half, during which time he was transferred between several facilities. He was notified about the deportation flight two months in advance. Like Awad, he said, ICE agents confiscated Zeidan’s ID an

Khaled said Zeidan, who served prison time around a decade ago, was in ICE detention for about a year and a half, during which time he was transferred between several facilities. He was notified about the deportation flight two months in advance. Like Awad, he said, ICE agents confiscated Zeidan’s ID and Palestinian passport and never returned them. Zeidan told his uncle that he was shackled by his hands and wrists “from the minute he left the [ICE] prison until he got out of the car at the checkpoint near Ni’lin.” According to his uncle, Zeidan was made to sign documents authorizing his deportation, which he regrets doing. “He told me that if he had not signed these papers, he would’ve been able somehow to renew his green card,” Khaled said. “Now he cannot go back to the [United] States. His whole family is there.” — The full story is linked below.

+972 & The Guardian report that Sameer Zeidan, a longtime US resident w/ 5 US-citizen children, a US-citizen wife, was deported along w/ 7 other Palestinians after he failed to renew his green card, despite living in the S for over 2 decades.

📌 Here’s what +972 write:
—
Sameer Zeidan, a 47-year-...

U.S. secretly deporting Palestinians to West Bank in coordination with Israel Palestinians arrested by ICE are being flown, bound and shackled, on private jet belonging to Israeli-American tycoon close to Trump, investigation reveals.

Full story: www.972mag.com/us-secretly-...

Refugees International’s Jeremy Konyndyk warns that “the Trump-Elon cuts are killing people.” A new report by the group documents deaths directly tied to the collapse of U.S. relief funding, which fell from $14B in 2024 to $3.7B in 2025, leaving 25 million fewer people with aid, even as global need surged. Health care and food aid, among the most life-saving interventions, were not protected. Food aid funding dropped 40%. More than 2,000 health clinics in crisis zones were shuttered. Communities began resorting to “negative coping,” a famine-warning pattern that includes consuming seed stocks, selling productive assets, sinking into debt, survival sex, and child marriage. These measures keep people alive short term but severely impact long-term survival, he writes. All of this devastation flows from a $10B cut in U.S. humanitarian support, what Konyndyk notes is a rounding error in a $7T federal budget.

See new posts Conversation Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk · Feb 5 A year has passed since @elonmusk began the wood-chipper-ing of @USAID . Since then, global humanitarian funding has collapsed by almost 1/3, mostly due to the Trump/Elon cuts. Vast suffering has ensued. 🧵 Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk US relief aid collapsed from $14bn in 2024 to just $3.7bn in 2025. This meant global humanitarian relief reached 25 million fewer people, even as the number of people needing aid rose. We at @RefugeesIntl have a new report that assesses the emerging human toll.

Refugees International’s Jeremy Konyndyk warns that “the Trump-Elon cuts are killing people.”

A new report by the group documents deaths directly tied to the collapse of US relief funding, which fell from $14B in 2024 to $3.7B in 2025, leaving 25 million fewer people w/ aid, even as global need...

PBS reports on Sudan’s civil and proxy war, documenting a catastrophic humanitarian collapse as famine spreads and civilians continue to bear the brunt of the fighting. Recently, the army broke a two-year RSF siege of Kadugli, but survivors in the South Kordofan city still describe extreme hunger, ongoing drone attacks, and children dying in camps. Aid workers report families eating leaves and grass to survive, with deadly poisoning cases across the area. The nearly three-year conflict between the Sudanese army (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has displaced around 14 million people and killed an estimated 40,000. With fighting now shifting east from Darfur into oil-rich Kordofan, civilian casualties are continuing, war crimes allegations are mounting, and acute malnutrition now affects more than half of children under 5 in parts of Darfur and Kordofan.

PBS reports on Sudan’s civil and proxy war, documenting a catastrophic humanitarian collapse as famine spreads & civilians continue to bear the brunt of the fighting.

Recently, the army broke a two-year RSF siege of Kadugli, but survivors in the South Kordofan city still describe extreme hunger...

See new posts Conversation MSF International @MSF Following two drone attacks in Sudan, near the border with Chad, 29 people sustaining injuries were referred to the MSF-supported hospital in Tine, eastern Chad. 6 people were reported killed during the attack, and 4 more died in hospital. “The situation in Tine hospital is critical since this morning. We kept receiving patients with massive bleeding and serious injuries. We are doing our best to stabilise and refer the patients, but the hospital does not have the capacity to treat critical cases,” explains MSF staff in Tine. Our teams are responding to the medical needs of Sudanese refugees in Tine and Oure Cassoni. In Tine, nearly 4,000 refugees who have fled the violence in Darfur live in dire conditions in the saturated transit camp. There are more than 100,000 in Oure Cassoni since 2025.

MSF says 2 drone attacks near Sudan’s border with Chad have killed 10 people and wounded 25.

The wounded were referred to its hospital in Tine, eastern Chad, which MSF warns lacks capacity for critical cases. The org said thousands of Sudanese refugees in Tine and Oure Cassoni face dire conditions.

The U.S. government has moved forward with new arms transfers to Israel worth about $6.67 billion, separate from the $3.3 billion in annual military aid and $500 million for missile defense in the FY 2026 budget. The package includes 3,845 guidance kits for 2,000-pound “bunker buster” bombs, the same class of weapon Israel used in Gaza today, on the 120th day of the so-called “ceasefire.” 👇

See new posts Conversation Trevor Ball @Easybakeovensz MK-84 2,000-pound bomb with a JDAM kit hitting a building in Gaza. Bellingcat recently asked the IDF about the lack of evacuation distances in public evacuation notices in Gaza, which are included in notices in Lebanon, so interesting to see a 100m distance in the notice here.

The US gov't has moved forward w/ new arms transfers to Israel worth about $6.67 billion, separate from the $3.3 billion in annual military aid & $500 million for missile defense in the FY 2026 budget. The package includes 3,845 guidance kits for 2,000-pound “bunker buster” bombs, the same class...

AIPAC Coordinates Donors in Illinois House Primaries Three Democratic candidates are benefiting from dark-money super PACs, and they share hundreds of donors who have previously given to AIPAC and its subsidiaries.

⚡️NEW: AIPAC Coordinates Donors in Illinois House Primaries

3 Dem. candidates are benefiting from dark-money super PACs, and they share hundreds of donors who have previously given to AIPAC and its subsidiaries.

By @ryangrim.bsky.social and @ddayen.bsky.social

www.dropsitenews.com/p/aipac-supe...

AIPAC is quietly coordinating donor networks and dark-money super PACs to boost three Democratic House candidates in Illinois. Filings show hundreds of overlapping donors, many tied to AIPAC and its super PAC United Democracy Project, giving identical amounts on the same days to Donna Miller, Laura Fine, and Melissa Bean. Read the full report, a collaboration with The American Prospect, at the link shared above.

AIPAC is quietly coordinating donor networks & dark-money super PACs to boost 3 Dem. House candidates in IL. Filings show hundreds of overlapping donors, many tied to AIPAC and its super PAC United Democracy Project, giving identical amounts on the same days to Donna Miller, Laura Fine, & Melissa...

🚨🇸🇩 SUDAN | “We have three more months to avoid an epic biblical famine before the rainy season comes and the roads will be impossible in this part of Sudan.” That’s the warning from Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, after returning from a visit to South Kordofan. He says cities like Kadugli are already facing famine, with women and children fleeing drone attacks, burned homes, and total aid blockades. Despite new donor pledges this week, the aid has not reached the ground. Egeland says without an immediate give surge in food, access, and funding, mass starvation is imminent. He stresses the “countdown to famine” is on, “but it’s not too late” to help. @NRC_Egeland | @NRC_Norway | @nickschifrin

🚨🇸🇩 SUDAN | “We have three more months to avoid an epic biblical famine before the rainy season comes and the roads will be impossible in this part of Sudan.”

That’s the warning from Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, after returning from a visit to South Kordofan. He says cities...

Report From Sudan: In Besieged City, Massive Numbers of Displaced Find Little Shelter or Food "The security and living conditions have become unbearable.”

⚡️Report From Sudan: In Besieged City, Massive Numbers of Displaced Find Little Shelter or Food

"The security and living conditions have become unbearable.”

By Me’ad al-Khair for Drop Site News, in collaboration with Egab.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/sudan-obei...

Who is Leqaa Kordia, the Columbia protester still in ICE detention? Palestinian woman in custody for nearly a year is hospitalised in the US after a seizure at detention facility.

Palestinian woman in custody for nearly a year is hospitalised in the US after a seizure at detention facility.

Celebrating Black military service is not “DEI woke shit.” It’s essential to America’s defense. The Trump administration has sullied the legacy of soldiers our nation relies on.

The Trump administration has sullied the legacy of soldiers our nation relies on.

Trump’s ICE Invasion Is Upending Daily Life for Minneapolis Children Parents struggle to explain the occupation to their kids and teachers face empty classrooms as many students stay home.

Parents struggle to explain the occupation to their kids and teachers face empty classrooms as many students stay home.

“We're in serious trouble right now as a country… [Trump’s] decline is getting worse.”

John Harwood and Jim Acosta discuss Trump’s mental health.

Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/trump-don-...

The Brutal Murder of Emmett Till led Rod Serling to create The Twilight Zone. The Child’s Murder lead him to tackle social issues like racism after his direct teleplays about Till, such as "Noon on Doomsday" & "A Town Has Turned to Dust," were heavily censored by the networks. #BlackHistoryMonth

“Sinners”: Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit, Delta Blues, His Mississippi Roots & Vampires We speak with acclaimed director Ryan Coogler about his latest film Sinners, which is set to be one of the biggest box office hits of the year. Starring Michael B. Jordan, the genre-bending horror fil...

As "Sinners" becomes the most Oscar-nominated film ever, revisit our extended interview with director Ryan Coogler, who discussed the movie's finances, the importance of Delta blues music, his own Mississippi roots and more.

Affordability, Authoritarianism, and the Climate Crisis: The Fight in California ​There are real challenges that must be addressed to transition to a clean energy economy while maintaining affordability. And there are difficulties that are intentionally caused by the fossil fuel industry’s insistence on fighting a transition away from dependence on its products.

In this period, environmentalists cannot afford to ignore the issues of energy prices and job loss. But neither can we allow the fossil fuel industry to slow our progress on getting off of fossil fuels.

From blackouts to food shortages: How US blockade is crippling life in Cuba

From blackouts to food shortages: How US blockade is crippling life in Cuba https://aje.news/k20j1l

Anti-Abortion Groups Try a New Intimidation Tactic: Make Abortion Records Public Abortion rights opponents want Indiana to use reporting rules to expose abortion providers and recipients to targeting.

Abortion rights opponents want Indiana to use reporting rules to expose abortion providers and recipients to targeting.

Feb. 8, 1968 | State Troopers Kill Three Black Students in Orangeburg, South Carolina Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1968, white state troopers fired into a mostly African American crowd on the campus of South Carolina State College, a historically Black college in Orangeburg, and killed three young Black men.

“[Trump’s] whole shtick is everybody has got their hand in the till. Everybody's as bad as everybody else.”

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social and Financial Times editor @edwardluce.bsky.social dive into Jeffrey Epstein’s social circle covering up for one another.

Watch: zeteo.com/p/epstein-fi...

An Injury to Immigrant Workers Is an Injury to All Workers ​The Trump administration claims that its assault on immigrants will protect American workers. But its masked, armed federal agents are creating hostile environments for all workers, not just immigrants.

“They treated us like animals. And it’s not some immigrants who are affected—it’s everybody,” one worker said.