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FBI will not provide the BCA access to evidence gathered from Pretti shooting, BCA says Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.

Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…

Colbert and Talarico ended up talking at length about Freedom of Religion in the interview that Brendan Carr censored.

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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly premiered #OnThisDay in 1904. Ganna Walska wore this 1923 Erté designed rayon and chiffon kimono with silk ribbon tie and metallic sequin embroidery, worn over a silk under kimono to portray Cio-Cio-San in the opera. LACMA collection. #fashionhistory

“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.

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US build-up of warships and fighter jets tracked near Iran BBC Verify has seen US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln near Iran ahead of talks between the two countries

US build-up of warships and fighter jets tracked near Iran

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

a squirrel is standing on its hind legs and holding a nut in its paws . Alt: a squirrel is standing on its hind legs and holding a nut in its paws .

I was eating lunch outside on campus and a squirrel faced me down for my lunch. He jumped up on the small stone bench with me. and when I jumped off he grabbed my sandwich holder and tried to run up a tree with it. His campus. 💯

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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Elon Musk, a pro-apartheid South African, may have come here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture. (By the way, were the Irish welcomed by the English?)

My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom, tolerance, equal rights, and opportunity.

wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that

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Harrisonburg Mennonites stage anti-ICE protest at Target store A group organized by Mennonite Action gathered for a hymn sing inside the Harrisonburg Target store on Saturday.

Yep, the Mennonites are rising up. They took over the Target for an anti-ICE hymn sing to shame Target for their cooperation. augustafreepress.com/news/harriso...

rubio’s invocation of “western civilization” — defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy — is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of america’s two revolutions.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Allow me to invite to consider what the Sunday Shows would look like if Joe Biden or Kamala Harris had done this. Now allow me to invite you to consider what fresh hells await us instead on tomorrow's Sunday Shows.

Happy week, everyone!

👇🎯 Also, for the very first time since Iran-Contra (if not 1865; bsky.app/profile/mcop...) , we actually have to send a bunch of senior elite individuals to jail & shame the rest forever from polite society & lucrative ex post sinecures at corporations, universities, think tanks, & media outlets.

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

The fleecing of America continues. "Trump administration deported some migrants at a cost of $1 million each, Democratic report says." www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...

This is corrupt.

How tech giants track you across the web, even if you don't use their apps Ad tech giants use near-invisible "pixels" on web pages to track what you do online, even if you don't have an account or use their apps. Thankfully, there is a solution.

I wrote some words for this.weekinsecurity.com about how social media giants (aka: ad tech companies!) track you around the web, even if you don't have an account or use their apps. Follows from a brilliant column in the BBC about TikTok's use of website "pixels" to track people's browsing activity.

A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

C’mon, Chuck. You’re fighting to “rein in” ICE? DEFUND ICE.