WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Trump administration's Department of Transportation announced a new proposal to repeal an existing waiver and dramatically raise the domestic content requirement for electric vehicle charging stations-from 55 to 100 percent-for federal-aid highway projects, including the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program (NEVI). NEVI is a $5 billion federal ... [continued]
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For years we have known that pollution is making us dumber, extreme heat is making us more violent and we can directly connect several historical revolutions to the price of grain.
Now a new study has been shared by Afro Barometer and the results are not encouraging. The researchers found that increasing drought in Africa is linked to a similar rise in intimate partner violence and eventually child abuse. This is collapse related because climate change is causing a ripple effect of violence throughout the world, from the individual to the societal scale, and often going quietly unnoticed, comfortably hiding in the privacy of the home. The most oppressed group in all of this is, and always has been, children.
For once I can ask the question without the slightest bit of sarcasm - won't someone actually think of the children?
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The photographs I kept of you have blurred—
Not from the water damage or the years—
I handled them so often they're interred
Beneath the sediment of touch and tears.
I used to trace the landscape of your face,
The weight of you, the scent your neck had spelled—
But touch leaves no archive, keeps no trace;
The body can't recall what it once held.
Your voice was something I could almost hold,
A living thing that curled inside my ear,
But I've listened until listening went cold—
Now when I replay, I hear it disappear.
Perhaps it's mercy, this soft erasure—
Or so I say, as if the mind were kind.
But kindness would not smile while taking pleasure
In leaving me with nothing left to find.
I should have memorized you while I could,
Read every freckle, translated your terrain,
But I took love for granted, understood
Too late. Now grief bleeds out through every vein.
And so I hold what's left: a fading blur,
Some muscle memory of how you felt,
A static hiss where once I heard you stir.
I hold on anyway—to what I held.
In Zach's recent article, he states that "Electric Cars Are Simply Better." That's the overall truth. In most cases, EVs are more convenient for regular use and drive better. Many models also offer more power, comfort, technology, and agility — in China, increasingly at a lower price than legacy ICE ... [continued]
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Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino has been sent back to the border after making himself the Nazi scum face of the Trump administration's brutal efforts to purge this country of as many non-white people as possible.
Bovino made it clear what team he really wanted to play for before Trump was even sworn in for the second time. After Trump's election win (but before Trump actually took office), Bovino self-authorized an expansive anti-migrant operation without bothering to check in with DHS leadership to make sure he was cleared to do this.
Trump is always capable of recognizing opportunistic thugs whose dark hearts are as corroded as his own. Bovino was swiftly elevated to an unappointed position as the nominal head of Trump's many inland invasions of cities run by the opposing political party. Bovino embraced the role of shitheel thug, leading directly to court orders that attempted to restrain his brutal actions. Bovino appeared willing to ignore most court orders he was hit with, increasing his brutality and his public contempt of not only court orders, but the judges themselves, who he insulted during public statements to journalists.
After two murders in three weeks, the Trump administration started to realize it has lost the "hearts and minds" battle with most US citizens and residents. While ICE operations continue to be indistinguishable from kidnapping and the DHS is still ambushing migrants attempting to follow the terms of their supervised release agreements, Bovino has become the now-unacceptable personification of the administration's bigoted war on migrants.
Bovino has been sent back down to the minors, so to speak. He's been removed from high-profile surges in Chicago and Minneapolis and remanded to his former patrol area, which is much, much closer to the US border where there's nearly no immigration activity happening thanks to the ongoing war on migrants.
Insubordination is fine as long as it doesn't create friction Trump may have to eventually deal with. Bovino, however, is just as incapable of picking his battles as the president himself. Too many cocks spoil the broth, as the saying (almost) goes.
Thanks to a leaked email shared with NBC, we now know more about Bovino's resistance to anyone anywhere who attempted to tell him what to do.
Bovino wanted to conduct large-scale immigration sweeps during an operation in Chicago in September, but the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Todd Lyons, told him the focus was to conduct "targeted operations," arresting only of people known to federal agents ahead of time for their violations of immigration law or other laws, according to the correspondence.
"Mr. Lyons seemed intent that CBP conduct targeted operations for at least two weeks before transitioning to full scale immigration enforcement," Bovino wrote in an email to Department of Homeland Security leaders in Washington, referring to Customs and Border Protection, which oversees Border Patrol agents. "I declined his suggestion. We ended the conversation shortly thereafter."
Keep in mind that Bovino is a Border Patrol commander who was working nowhere near the border. Also, keep in mind that ICE is the lead agency in any immigration enforcement efforts because… well, it's in the name: Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This is Bovino not only giving the finger to the chain of command, but also insisting his agency (along with the CBP) take the lead in Midwestern apprehensions, despite neither agency having much in the terms of training for inland operations.
Speaking of chain of command, the commander of an agency that's a component of the DHS made it clear he believed he didn't have to answer to the DHS either, as Leigh Kimmons reports in their article for the Daily Beast:
The email also revealed a rather bizarre chain of command, with Bovino saying he reported to Noem's aide, Corey Lewandowski, and appearing to defy Lyons' authority. "Mr. Lyons said he was in charge, and I corrected him saying I report to Corey Lewandowski," Bovino reportedly said of the unpaid special government employee.
This email makes one thing perfectly clear: Bovino appeared to believe he answered to no one. And he would only "report" to people he felt wouldn't push back against his confrontational, rights-violating efforts. This probably would have never been a problem, but Bovino consistently crossed lines that even Trump's high-level sycophantic bigots were hesitant to cross.
And now he's the one who is experiencing the "find out" part that usually follows the "fucking around." He's been sidelined, perhaps permanently. Acting ICE director Todd Lyons is the new face of Trump's inland invasions. Kristi Noem herself seems to be on the list of potential cuts, should the administration continue its on-again, off-again pivot to a less outwardly racist agenda when it comes to immigration enforcement.
But I'm not here to damn with faint praise or even damn with faint damnation. I hope Bovino's last years as a Border Patrol commander are as terrible as his haircut. I hope Todd Lyons veers so far to the middle that Trump shitcans him. I hope Noem is on the path to private sector employment, tainted with the scarlet "T" that means any future version of MAGA won't even bother to check in with her now that the only people she can make miserable are her own children. Adios, Bovino. Sleep badly.
The Department for Work and Pensions' most senior civil servant has resigned. Peter Schofield has faced furious criticism since the true scale of the carers' allowance scandal was brought to light. However, the decision is said to be due to personal reasons, rather than taking responsibility for the DWP's failures.
A catalogue of failures from the DWPIn November 2025, an independent review found that the scandal was in no way the carers' fault. Instead, it placed the blame squarely at the feet of the DWP. The review said longstanding systemic issues within the department, unlawful internal guidance and poor design and communication were to blame.
The review found that many carers ended up in thousands of pounds of debt. Some also contemplated suicide due to the distress of being expected to pay back their overpayments.
You'd think, in light of the review, that the DWP would show a tiny bit of remorse. But another senior official in the department came under fire when he blamed carers for failing to report changes.
In an internal blog post, Neil Couling said:
Incidentally, what has been missed in all the [media] coverage is that this error (and hands up we made it and we will put it right) affects only a relatively small number of cases and wasn't the cause of the original complaint. Because at the heart of the overpayment issues in CA is a failure to report changes of circumstances
This is despite the government taking responsibility. In a statement read by Baroness Sherlock, Stephen Timms said
Schofield hauled before the committeeThe Review finds that some carers could not have known that they were building up overpayments because it was not clear how their earnings would affect their entitlement, and this lack of clarity was due to issues with operational guidance. The Government accepts this and we will act to put it right.
In January 2026, Schofield was forced to answer to the Work and Pensions committee for the department's crimes, as well as Couling's disgusting comments. Chair of the committee Debbie Abrahams asked him how the DWP could justify not making any changes and the department's attitude towards carers.
His response was a masterclass in bluster, culminating in
We were making a difference
Schofield was also taken to task by disabled MP Steve Darling, who accused him of basically talking rubbish:
What a coincidenceYou've given me a lot of blancmange that I'm finding difficult to nail to the ceiling what clear evidence of management change is there and I'm concerned that you're not able to give me any.
Whilst neither the DWP or Schofield mentioned the carers allowance scandal in their statements, it feels like a pretty big coincidence
In a message to colleagues, Schofield said
My decision to leave the department is not one I have taken lightly. It has been an absolute privilege to serve, first as director general, finance and then as your permanent secretary.
He said one of his highlights was
the massive achievement of completing the rollout of Universal Credit for our working age customers
He continued that this
paved the way for our transformation journey - and our continued focus on doing things better for our customers and colleagues - providing support in better and more effective ways
I'm not sure I would class something that left thousands of vulnerable claimants at the mercy of cruel sanctions as a success, but then I'm not a DWP ghoul.
It's also another absolutely huge coincidence that this was announced whilst the press is distracted by Keir Starmer's premiership imploding.
Campaigners must keep the pressure on DWPSchofield will remain in his role until July, which means there's still plenty of time for him to be held accountable. His leaving also shouldn't see the end of pressure on the government for justice for the victims of the carers' scandal.
We need to fight harder than ever to ensure the department and his predecessor to take responsibility.
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The Jewish Anti-Zionist Action group has disrupted Nigel Farage's so-called 'Reform Jewish Alliance' launch. Jews for fascism, who'da thought?
A statement on the group's social media says that:
As well as picketing outside the Central Synagogue, which was hosting the event, we also infiltrated and disrupted from inside, reminding Farage and all in attendance what Reform actually stands for:
Racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, queerphobia, and xenophobic anti-immigration policies that would have seen Jewish refugees, many of which were our own family, prevented from entering the UK last century.
We will not stand by whilst fascists are welcomed into our community and places of worship.
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An invoice featured in the latest batch of Epstein files, reveals that Jeffrey ordered 330 gallons of concentrated sulphuric acid to be delivered to his paedophile island in 2018. The order was placed on the same day the FBI opened a new child-trafficking case against him:
Other documents in the latest US government release suggest that Epstein used sulphuric acid for water treatment. However, the acid has also notoriously been used by criminal gangs to dissolve bodies. Orders for large quantities of acid would, of course, need a pretext.
The US justice department (DOJ) has admitted that evidence is it still withholding includes footage of torture, rape and murder. Many victims of Epstein and his twisted circle have never been found. Files in the DOJ release even accuse Epstein and his guests of eating some victims.
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By Skwawkbox
The final election phase to decide Your Party's collective leadership has begun. And for many, it has become a race to determine how much member empowerment and control there will be. As one candidate for Yorkshire & The Humber told the Canary:
'Open Your Party up to the hundreds of thousands of people who need it'This party and its growth and its development shouldn't be down to what a few people—who have found themselves at the top of it before any democratic structure's been put in place—think it should be like.
Chris Saltmarsh is on the Grassroots Left slate in the Central Executive Committee (CEC) elections. And while he called this slate "really diverse," he described how everyone participating broadly shares:
A political vision and understanding for what we want the party to be.
That centres around "maximum member democracy".
Saltmarsh explained why this is so important for him, saying:
Most people have seen the [Your Party founding] process and thought: 'oh, this doesn't feel like a welcoming space where I can come and express my politics and learn and develop and contribute to building this project. It feels like a space where I have to come and pick a side in a factional feud and I'm expected to care about this very detailed and, probably to most people, irrelevant stuff.'
I think people don't want to be involved in a party where it appears that it's the source for people to litigate these personal feuds. And I think they don't want to be involved in a party where it doesn't feel like they have any say.
Statistics seem to back that up. Because while around 800,000 people initially expressed interest, only about 1% actually became full members who participated in the votes at the Your Party's founding conference. Something that deterred hundreds of thousands of people. And for many, it's clear what that was.
Saltmarsh called for an open, inclusive culture going forwards, stressing:
We should open this up to the hundreds of thousands of people who have a stake in this party existing. If I want the party to be eco-socialist… then it's not for me or anyone else to say that that absolutely has to be the case. What we need is a genuine democratic structure so that we can organise around those ideas openly and transparently.
Reflecting on the challenges that Your Party has faced and the possible election results, he said:
For all the demotivation that people might have, this is an incredibly important moment. And I would just plead that people - even if it's just voting - do get involved and do participate in this. Because I think what the British left looks like in 1, 5, 10, 20 years really could be quite different, depending on how this election goes.
Whatever the outcome, though, he believes there is democracy in Your Party and there will still be space for people with differing views to make their cases.
Your Party or the Greens?Saltmarsh previously co-founded Labour for a Green New Deal. And because he believes climate politics is 'a question of justice, inequality and oppression', he thinks it's important to bring:
an environmental or climate perspective into left spaces, but also a kind of socialist politics into climate spaces
The wealthiest 10% of people in the world have been responsible for the overwhelming majority of global warming. And while richer countries do the most damage, the poorest countries suffer the most as a result of climate breakdown.
Saltmarsh isn't in the Green Party, however, because he thinks an explicitly socialist mass organisation on the left is necessary. And while the Greens are already "up and running" and have a leader in Zack Polanski who's "clearly very skilled at communicating", he said:
A cynical interpretation would be, it's like a really good Instagram account.
While asserting that communication is definitely important, he also thinks Your Party is about taking "a longer view" than just elections. Its mission, he stressed, is to:
build in communities, to organise hundreds or thousands of socialists in any given town and city, not just to win elections when that's expedient but also to coordinate campaigns, to raise consciousness, to build socialism through social infrastructure.
That means building a "collective political life" in communities, with things like:
socialist schools, where members and supporters come along and learn about socialism
And it means having a party where, from the beginning, members agree on a socialist, anti-imperialist platform.
"An incredibly important moment"Saltmarsh isn't the only person who thinks the CEC elections are "an incredibly important moment". Because the Canary has interviewed a range of candidates who want a member-led party that breaks with top-down, personality-driven politics.
Candidates have emphasised the importance of transparency, accountability, and a collective leadership that focuses on solidarity, bringing people together, and empowering as many people as possible. This message has shone through from everyone who's spoken to us.
There absolutely have been questions surrounding accountability and transparency during the founding phase of Your Party. And whether you think this messy start was avoidable or unavoidable, countless members and candidates want that to change, and hope the CEC elections will help to overcome these challenges.
If you're a Your Party member and you want to vote:
- You need to log in on the top right of the party's website.
- On the Your Party Members Area page that will pop up after logging in, you will see "EVENTS" on the right hand side. Below this, you will see "VOTES AND ELECTIONS", and two options: "CEC Election - Public Office Holders" and "CEC Election - [the name of your local section of the party]".
- If you click on each of those 'CEC Election' links, you'll be able to see the candidates and their statements. You then need to put a number next to all the candidates you want to support (1 being your favourite, 2 your second favourite, and so on).
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By The Canary
Recently, Rory Stewart argued that western politicians are "impoverished" on their lofty annual salaries of £93,904, attempting to excuse their corruption.
He ignored the generous expenses MPs claim from taxpayers, and critics have condemned what they view as a blatantly self-interested attempt to provide political cover for corruption. Since then, the Canary has spoken with Andrew Feinstein for his take on corruption in the UK government, the disgraced Mandelson, and his response to Rory Stewart.
Feinstein is a former ANC member alongside Nelson Mandela and has built his career fighting corruption linked to the global arms trade. He also challenged UK prime minister Keir Starmer in the Holborn and St Pancras constituency during the 2024 general election. His experience gives him a unique perspective on corruption.
And unsurprisingly, Feinstein was far from impressed at Rory Stewart's desperate defence.
An existential moment in human historyRecent revelations involving Mandelson and public figures connected to the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein have exposed a sprawling web of corruption among powerful men. This elite group of politicians and royal family members have used women and girls, trading them around the world to serve their nefarious, self-interested agendas. Their actions reveal a disturbing pattern of exploitation at the highest levels of power. The extent of their abuse continues to outrage the global public.
Rory Stewart's remarks compound the damage, showing disregard for the severe harms ordinary people suffer.
Andrew Feinstein — 'From the belly of the corrupted beast'Here's Rory Stewart describing MPs as being on "low incomes".
Their basic annual salary is £93,904, putting them in the top 5% of earners.
There's a nuanced debate to be had about MPs' pay, but describing them as "low income" is an insult to those who really are. pic.twitter.com/2qE8fYn1sJ
— James Hanson (@jhansonradio) February 4, 2026
Our own Joe Glenton recently gave his take on Rory Stewart's desperate attempt to defend the indefensible, writing:
The average wage in the UK seems to be about £30,000. The mathematical geniuses among us will notice that that is…. quite a lot less than what MPs get paid.
It's almost like Roderick James Nugent "Rory" Stewart - a humble Oxford educated one-time tutor to the future king of England, former army officer, and imperial governor of a province of Iraq - hasn't got a fucking clue what he is talking about.
When we put Rory's defence of 'impoverished MPs' to Feinstein, he responded with:
So that tells you everything you need to know about Rory Stewart, whose podcast, of course, is co-hosted by a war criminal in Alastair Campbell, who enabled Tony Blair's extreme war profiteering and lied in order to get Britain into the invasion of Iraq. So I take that comment as coming from the belly of the corrupted beast.
To think that a political class, an MP, earning £94,000 a year before expenses, and as we all know, claim ridiculous expenses, is frankly an appalling insult to the vast majority of people in Britain. And if that's what he thinks is impoverishment, then he needs to get his head out of the sand or out of the fancy restaurant he spends his life in and actually understand how many people in Britain are living right now.
Because in Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell's Britain, we have more billionaires than at any time in this country's history, while more families are having to use food banks to feed themselves than at any time since the end of the Second World War. And if he thinks the solution to that is to pay our mendacious, mediocre, corrupted politicians more money, then he's even more stupid than I thought he was.
But at the same time, it's important to say that I've experienced a totally corrupted political class in apartheid South Africa. And South Africa again now, 30 odd years after our democracy, has another corrupted political class running it. But we still managed to defeat the system of apartheid. We didn't get rid of any of the economic problems. But simply by dint of the fact that we managed to defeat the apartheid state, it makes me think that enough committed people within a country around the world can bring fundamental political change.
We also asked Feinstein for his perspective on the importance of radical honesty and transparency in government. Referring to known war criminals and the recently exposed shadiness of Mandelson and co, he said:
The agency to decide how our world is organisedAbsolutely. I think we, just as responsible citizens, have a duty to expose the lies of our leaders, remembering that we elected them, that they exist because of the money that we pay to the state, and they're ingratiating themselves and their billionaire friends and corporate donors. And I like the idea of radical truth, because if we are truthful about our political systems, we would have to admit that they are not fit for purpose and require fundamental change.
I mean in Britain as we speak, we have someone [Mandelson] who is and has been for decades incredibly powerful and influential in our politics. Not only being close friends with a convicted pedophile and sex trafficker but actually giving information to this person that is then used in this web of influence and deceit.
And all the while, we are participating in conflict and often causing conflict around the world from which again, the same elites profit. And the corollary of that is that our own democratic space is closing so rapidly because it's the only way you can maintain such a totally corrupted system is if you reduce democracy, you reduce civil rights.
And the companies that are central to these conflicts now, the AI companies, the big tech companies, are exactly the same companies who are central to the erosion of our democracies, are central to the authoritarianism that is becoming a part of our daily lives in the US and Britain and in much of Europe. And so, by being aware of what we're doing in the rest of the world, we're also becoming aware of what is being done to us by our own leaders. We're at an existential moment in human history. And if we don't inform ourselves and challenge our political and economic elite who have become one and the same thing, we're effectively consigning our countries to despotism. So that's really the scale of the moment we're in.
Finally, Feinstein finished with a rallying cry to voters and activists across the country:
And I think that's what we need to do. We need to realise that one of the things that the sort of late era neoliberal capitalism does is it intentionally stifles our imaginations and our creativity to make us believe there is no alternative. As Margaret Thatcher famously and evilly said, to believe that this is the only way the world can be organised. And it's not. We have the agency to decide how our world should be organised and we need to take that agency.
Referring to his upcoming book set for release in Autumn this year, he added:
And this book [Making a Killing] is an attempt to give people the information and to propose some of the ways in which we can take agency about something that is destroying our societies and our politics. And I'm always reminded when people feel very depressed and defeated, which of course I sometimes do too, I'm always reminded of what Nelson Mandela said when he was asked how he retained hope in an apartheid prison and in very dark and depressing days.
And he [Mandela] said, because anything is always impossible only until it's done.
And I think we have the ability, we have the brains amongst us ordinary people to change the world profoundly and fundamentally. And I hope that this book will be a very small contribution towards that.
Rory Stewart and his neoliberal ilk can consider themselves 'told' after this brilliant takedown from a man who makes fighting corruption his day job.
Featured image via the Canary
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After kicking off CES 2026 with its "First Look" event, Samsung is ready to announce the first of what should be several new Galaxy smartphones this year. The company is officially hosting a Galaxy Unpacked event on February 25 at 1PM ET, where it'll introduce the Galaxy S26 series and updates to Galaxy AI.
Leaks that have trickled out ahead of the event suggest that the Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra will feature a new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, and could come with more RAM and storage. Only the Galaxy S26 Ultra is expected to include major hardware changes, though, with an updated camera system, and possibly proper support for Qi2 charging. Alongside new smartphones, Samsung is also expected to introduce the Galaxy Buds 4 and 4 Pro, which will reportedly feature a new design, support for head gestures and an Ultra Wideband chip so they're easier to find using Google Find Hub.
As in previous years, Samsung has an optional deal for anyone who wants to lock in a discount before the company's new smartphones and accessories are announced. If you reserve Samsung's new devices now, you can receive a $30 credit and be entered to win a $5,000 Samsung.com gift card. When you do pre-order, the company also claims that it'll offer up to an additional $900 in savings if you trade-in a device or $150 off even without a trade-in if you pre-order through Samsung.com.
Engadget will have coverage of everything Samsung announces at Galaxy Unpacked right here, but if you want to watch along, you can catch the company's livestream of the event on Samsung's YouTube channel, the Samsung Newsroom page or at Samsung.com.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/samsungs-galaxy-s26-unpacked-event-is-on-february-25-230000375.html?src=rss
The National Labor Review Board (NLRB) has dropped a case accusing SpaceX of illegally firing eight employees who criticized the company's CEO Elon Musk, The New York Times. The employees were originally fired in 2022 after circulating a letter that referenced reports of Musk's sexual misconduct and called the executive "a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment." The NLRB filed a complaint claiming the firing was illegal in 2024.
Originally, SpaceX's opposition to the NLRB's case was that the agency is unconstitutional, The New York Times writes. Complaints about the NLRB's independence and power are not uncommon. Amazon has previously claimed that the board's structure "violates the separation of powers," a critique the company has made even more recently about the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The NLRB dismissed its SpaceX case following an even more unusual line of argument, though: that regulating SpaceX actually fell under the jurisdiction of the National Mediation Board, the government agency that handles mediation in the airline and railway industries.
Because the company will technically let anyone book a space flight with it, and it operates under a license from the Federal Aviation Administration, SpaceX's lawyers argue it should be treated like an airline. According to The New York Times, the National Mediation Board issued a decision affirming that logic in January, and not long after, the NLRB dismissed its SpaceX case using the same line of thinking.
Elon Musk and his companies maintain a close relationship with the Trump administration. Musk spent over $250 million to help re-elect President Donald Trump, and he briefly served as a special government employee overseeing budget cuts and layoffs across various government bodies as part of the Department of Government Efficiency. The NLRB gave up its own authority to regulate, rather than it being stripped of funding or employees, but the decision still fits a larger pattern of independent agencies being disempowered during the second Trump administration.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/the-nlrb-just-gave-up-on-spacex-workers-who-claim-they-were-illegally-fired-215332847.html?src=rss
In the last few years, the Supreme Court has been paying a lot more attention to the internet than it ever has before, and the cases keep on coming. This is already having a big impact on how the internet functions, and it doesn't look likely to stop any time soon. Given all that, this week our own Cathy Gellis joins the podcast for a discussion all about the past, present, and future of SCOTUS and the internet.
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What better way to say I love you than with an update? Attackers exploited a whopping six Microsoft bugs as zero-days prior to Redmond releasing software fixes on February's Patch Tuesday.…
TL;DR: You have through February 15 to get a Rosetta Stone lifetime subscription for $149.97 with code LANG30 at checkout (MSRP $399). After that, the sale and deal are disappearing.
You don't need to learn another language. But the world feels like it's gently suggesting you might want to. — Read the rest
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A tortoise in Fullerton, California, escaped its burning shed and reached safety.
Slow and steady doesn't always win the race, but sometimes it keeps you alive. No word on the hare.
Previously:
• Tortoise races hare, wins
• Tortoises opening doors
• Help track tortoises in the Galapagos with Zooniverse
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"If you don't want to be called a fascist regime or a secret police, then stop acting like one."
That was Rep. Dan Goldman's advice to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons at a House Homeland Security hearing on Tuesday. Lyons had opened by objecting to people labeling his agents "the Gestapo" and "the secret police." — Read the rest
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A family argument about Donald Trump ended with a British woman dead on a bathroom floor in Texas, after her father told her it "would not upset him that much" if she were sexually assaulted because he had "two other daughters," then followed her upstairs with a gun that discharged in his hands. — Read the rest
The post "I have two other daughters": Texas man shoots daughter after argument about Trump appeared first on Boing Boing.
"Did we get a report on where she went after lunch?" Jeffrey Epstein asked Brad Karp, then leading the prestigious law firm Paul Weiss, in August 2015. Karp's reply: "To the Cielo apartment bldg on 83rd and York where she stayed until she traveled to JFK. — Read the rest
The post Epstein and a top Wall Street lawyer plotted to have a woman deported appeared first on Boing Boing.
Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie spent two hours at the Department of Justice reading the supposedly unredacted Epstein files. They found 70 to 80 percent of the documents still redacted — and six names hidden for no apparent reason, The New Republic reports. — Read the rest
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