The last U.S.-Russia nuclear weapons treaty expires this week.
Without a new agreement, we're at risk of an arms race.
This is serious.
The Trump Administration must continue to pursue arms control deals to keep Americans safe.
The last U.S.-Russia nuclear weapons treaty expires this week.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts
Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?
The Washpost's editor said today that, amid the layoffs, one of the Post's top priorities will be "national security, in DC and abroad."
And at the same time, the Post is laying off every journalist in the Middle East. And Ukraine.
Lawyers dream of this sort of thing. Big dreams.
"Answer the question, Mr. Musk."
NEWS
Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation.
Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service."
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for every increase of 200 electric vehicles, nitrogen dioxide emissions decreased by 1.1 percent.
If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
To put it another way: Jeff Bezos could easily ensure there are no staff cuts at The Washington Post for the next decade, and he'd still have more than $249B in net worth left over.
Jeff Bezos' wedding last summer cost somewhere around $50M. That, alone, could have saved all 300 positions cut today at The Washington Post for a year.
Of course, he wouldn't have to choose. He could do both because he's worth $250B, which is nearly the GDP of New Zealand.
Is Trump finally figuring out that the Koch operation (Leo/McGahn) really picked “his” Supreme Court justices; that Trump was their chump.
Trump the chump! Hysterical.
JUST IN: Trump takes another hard shot at former adviser and conservative legal activist Leonard Leo. Unclear what prompted. Last time it was fears of losing tariffs case at
#SCOTUS
Steve Bannon says the federal government is planning to send ICE officers to patrol polling stations during the midterms.
"We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November."
"We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again."
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
To be clear: a zoom call with the employee’s webcams disabled so they didn’t have to see any of their faces while they laid them off.
I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore.
bsky.app/profile/benm...
FUN FACTS
Jesus' name is mentioned 983 times in the New Testament.
Trump's name is mentioned over 38,000 times in the
#EpsteinFiles.
New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too
www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...
Here is the relevant section of the court record. Very explicit in that FBI could not access the iPhone because of Lockdown Mode
www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3A success story for a physician with Alzheimer's which, in spite of the obstacles outlined, is a precursor for our enhanced ability to prevent the disease in the future
gift link
www.wsj.com/opinion/i-ca...That's still 3 times as many ice officers as Minneapolis police officers.
Homan says that 2,000+ DHS immigration enforcement agents will be left in Minnesota even after the drawdown he announced this morning
Wow. This thread
I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.
A thread.
Quiet. We’re busy rebuilding Venezuelan infrastructure. And the Kennedy Center. 🤡
Tens of thousands of people across Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana have gone a week without power or heat after a brutal ice storm. At least three dozen people have died in connection with the storm, officials have said.
Fear and Anger Grow as Thousands Remain Without Power in the South
More than 30 people have died across three Southern states in connection with last week’s storm, and thousands remain without power.
A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account.
A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech.
New from us at the Post:
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.socialAll 83,000 acres of an Alabama National Forest.
I did not want to share this week’s USDA press release as there’s no comment or objection period, and I don’t want things to seem hopeless.
So I’ll note the comment and objection period is the midterms.
These are your lands.
These are the stakes.
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2026/01/27/usda-forest-service-issues-revised-oil-and-gas-leasing-rule
The proposal to open all 83,000 acres of Conecuh National Forest to oil and gas leasing raises serious questions about risk and reward.
The forest has low development potential, minimal existing leasing, and acknowledged environmental risks.
Yet climate impacts aren’t addressed.
#UnmuteAlabama
Happy Anniversary to those who celebrate cat attorneys.
Colorado is sending at least 34 athletes to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, more than any other state
Colorado is sending at least 34 athletes to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, more than any other state
The skiingest state in the U.S. is sending 29 skiers and snowboarders, two figure skaters and a bobsledder to the 25th Winter Olympics
I'm a bit late on this one, but you know - life.
New: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok.
The chatbot still produces sexualized images —
even when told the subjects don’t consent.
even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation.
even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse.
www.reuters.com/business/des...
Exclusive: Despite new curbs, Elon Musk’s Grok at times produces sexualized images - even when told subjects didn’t consent
Elon Musk’s flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people even when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent, Reuters has found.
⚡️Update: Russia launches 'most severe' mass attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure since start of 2026.
Local authorities in Kharkiv classified the consequences of the Russian strikes as a local-level, man-made emergency.
In largest missile attack of winter, Russia targets Ukraine's power plants amid brutal freeze
Russian forces launched a mass ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight on Feb. 3, striking multiple residential buildings across the city and injuring at least three people, officials sai...
Congress appropriated $257 million to renovate the Kennedy Center before Trump shut it down. Follow that money and see where it goes.
I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly
"If you hear that distinctive, piercing tone characteristic of LRAD activation, immediate distance becomes your priority"
It infuriates me weapons like LRAD are being used against human beings
This is the audiogram of familiar sounds. 162 dB is off the chart. LRAD can permanently damage hearing
This is 1% of the population of Springfield. This would be the equivalent of 40,000 showing up in Los Angeles.
Springfield is a red town in a red state.
Meeting in solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio now - over 600 people and still growing.
“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”
New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.
These are their stories:
What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids
Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack
“Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”
4) This “incinerator” is extra chilling… “Medical & Death: The services extend to “Medical Waste Management,” with specific protocols for biohazard incinerators…” 🫣
3) we are talking about 10,000 person tent cities!
•Infrastructure: Contractors are tasked with providing “soft-sided” tent cities capable of housing up to 10,000 people each.”
⛓️CONCENTRATION CAMPS & INCINERATORS—D.H.S. is setting up a huge network of camps. They are converting the U.S. as a region for ‘expeditionary military deployment’ & no-bid no-public-comment contracts to build a “ghost network” of 10,000-person concentration camps. Jesus. Thread 🧵
As I suspected, Gabbard was at the FBI raid in her capacity to look into foreign election interference- something Giuliani told Trump he needs to prove in order to have the military seize voting machines. From Hugo Lowell:
Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.
It's a tour de force:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...NO PLANTING TREES ON THE NEW YEAR OF THE TREES
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the mechanisms of apartheid control and its disregard for human life, dignity, safety, freedom---
wind up coming down to the absolute fucking absurd.
God foribid people have a tree. God forbid an olive.
IDF, police stop Tu B’Shvat coexistence olive-tree planting in beleaguered Palestinian hamlet
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Do you get it now?
NEW: House Democrats argued that new USPS changes threaten the reliability of mail voting such that it could disenfranchise voters ahead of the 2026 midterms, especially for a those in rural areas and states with strict election deadlines.
Democrats warn USPS changes could threaten mail voting in midterms
The lawmakers stress that voting by mail has been repeatedly shown to be secure and that any changes to postal operations must not interfere with ballot delivery.
Here’s a top CDC official claiming that the U.S. losing its measles elimination status would be “the cost of doing business.”
We are governed by the dumbest people.
What's Working: Aviation-related jobs are in high demand. Plus: Colorado unemployment rate falls to 3.8%, state adds 23,000 jobs last year and updates from Colorado Springs.
coloradosun.com/2026/01/31/a...
This 73-year-old Puebloan fixes planes for clients like a Saudi prince. Become an airplane mechanic and write your own ticket too.
Aviation-related jobs are in high demand. Plus: Colorado unemployment rate falls to 3.8%, state adds 23,000 jobs last year and updates from Colorado Springs.
What Bezos really, really cares about.
Blue Origin, his rocket company that he has invested billions in, needs and wants billions of dollars in DOD contracts to help pay its bills.
Here Bezos greets Defense Sec. Hegseth today at Blue Origin offices in Florida
WashPost budget is a rounding error
A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
Defendant contacted police before freeway shooting
Charles Glen Simmons, 53, of Dillard, is in the Douglas County Jail on $1 million bail after Thursday morning’s alleged crime spree. According to a press release from the Oregon
Requiring Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote would exclude millions of citizens from the political process.
bit.ly/4cikrkp
Millions of Americans Don’t Have Documents Proving Their Citizenship Readily Available
Requiring Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote would exclude millions of citizens from the political process.
The time of day for cancer immunotherapy is associated with major outcomes. Early is better. Results from a randomized trial of lung cancer, backs up the importance of our circadian rhythm and immune system
www.nature.com/articles/s41...Just spoke with my CDC sources.
They said RFK Jr. ordered tuberculosis cases to be hidden after more than 60 people tested positive at a San Francisco high school.
He’s also suppressing bird flu reports.
Pandemics don’t start with viruses. They start with secrecy.
RFK Jr. must resign now!
Columbia Heights (Liam's school district) cancelled school today because of a credible bomb threat at Liam's elementary and multiple ICE vehicles parking in the high school staff parking lot at 6:15am.
"There is no conceivable degree of institutional incompetence sufficient to explain ... the failures that occurred —particularly where the sole task ordered by the Court and repeatedly emphasized by DOJ was simple: redact known victim names before publication"
www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/p...
Epstein victims’ lawyers ask judges to force takedown of released Epstein files, citing ‘thousands of redaction failures’ | CNN Politics
Lawyers representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein are asking judges to force the Justice Department to take down the millions of Epstein-related documents it has posted online, saying in a letter dated ...
Breaking NYT:
Behind closed doors, Tulsi Gabbard met with some of the FBI field agents responsible for the Georgia election office raid.
During the meeting, she called Trump.
Trump addressed the agents on speakerphone, asking them questions as well as praising them for their work on the inquiry.
Trump Had Unusual Call With F.B.I. Agents After Election Center Search
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