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Alex Pretti broke rib in confrontation with federal agents a week before death, sources say

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/us/alex-pretti-protesters-minneapolis-invs

Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System

"Your Ring camera is an ICE agent."

https://futurism.com/future-society/amazon-ring-cameras-ice

Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations

https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/vaccine-policy-adviser-kirk-milhoan-individual-rights-trump-public-health/

Minnesotans strike to protest ICE surge in state: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’

Organizers demand ICE leave state and agency be investigated for constitutional violations

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/23/minnesota-economic-blackout-ice-protests

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White House Uses AI to Alter Protester’s Face So That She’s Sobbing, Instead of Looking Brave, During Arrest

The White House edited a protester's face to make it look like she's sobbing.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/white-house-ai-protester

These are the arrests you’re not seeing

Not every ICE arrest comes with whistles and cameras

“Moments like this ultimately and quietly change how safe people, including myself, feel in their own neighborhoods.”

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/these-are-the-arrests-youre-not-seeing/

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows

Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/21/carbon-dioxide-co2-emissions-fossil-fuel-firms-study

ICE Reports Third Death at Texas Migrant Jail in 44 Days

Officials in both Texas and Minnesota are calling for an investigation into Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss.

https://truthout.org/articles/ice-reports-third-death-at-texas-migrant-jail-in-44-days/

AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst

“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-failing-boost-productivity

WTF

@ai6yr Speaking of school buses… 😫

https://m.ai6yr.org/@conejoclint/115907443947967445

As the old joke goes, an American diplomat and Soviet diplomat met up, and the American says "I really admire your country's propaganda." The Soviet says, "True, it is good, but it is nothing compared to American propaganda." The American, confused, responds "We don't have propaganda."

Cont’d

This seems bad. 😕

From a reliable source. https://www.thehandbasket.co/c/about

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How Las Vegas police ended up with a fleet of free Tesla Cybertrucks

Mysterious donors gave a fleet of 10 of the vehicles – which have had a number of recalls – to the police earlier this year

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/28/las-vegas-police-free-tesla-cybertrucks

Woman deported before she could see dying husband in ICE custody: ‘I never saw him again’

Francisco Gaspar-Andrés died in El Paso hospital after being detained at Fort Bliss – his wife was deported to Guatemala without a chance to see him

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/24/man-dies-ice-custody-wife-deported

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all.

It went up.

But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/doge-musk-trump-analysis.html

ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents

AI Solutions 87 says on its website its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.”

https://www.404media.co/ice-contracts-company-making-bounty-hunter-ai-agents/

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