Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard blocked spy agencies from seeing an intelligence report about a Trump associate — but she made sure the White House chief of staff got a copy.

The report involves an NSA intercept of two foreign nationals discussing someone close to President Trump. — Read the rest

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we are in 2026 and my friend genuinely requires a source for McDonald's being human meat despite the fact that if the general public had any sort of source for something like that there would be mass hysteria. Word of mouth is the only way this will get around before the tipping point of things and yet it's like speaking to a brick wall. i can't make him understand and i never will

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On Friday, New York State Senators Liz Krueger and Kristen Gonzales introduced a bill that would stop the issuance of permits for new data centers for at least three years and ninety days to give time for impact assessments and to update regulations. The bill would require the Department of Environmental Conservation and Public Service Commissions to issue impact statements and reports during the pause, along with any new orders or regulations that they deem necessary to minimize data centers' impacts on the environment and consumers in New York.

The bill would require these departments to study data centers' water, electricity and gas usage, and their impact on the rates of these resources, among other things. The bill, citing a Bloomberg analysis, notes that, "Nationally, household electricity rates increased 13 percent in 2025, largely driven by the development of data centers." New York is the sixth state this year to introduce a bill aiming to put the brakes on data centers, following in the footsteps of Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma, Vermont and Virginia, according to Wired. It's still very much in the early stages, and is now with the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee for consideration. 

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/new-york-lawmakers-introduce-bill-that-aims-to-halt-data-center-development-for-three-years-224005266.html?src=rss

In the latest blow to right to repair, BMW has patented a screw which incorporates the automaker's iconic logo design into the head. The screw head design patent filing was spotted by Autoblog:

Instead of a Torx, hex, or any other recognisable screw head, this one is shaped like BMW's roundel.

— Read the rest

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TL;DR: MacMagic unlocks hidden Mac features like force-delete, cache clearing, and PDF tools without Terminal commands or subscriptions. Get it for just $29.99 (reg. $99).

Look, your Mac can do a lot more than Apple lets on. Buried somewhere in the labyrinth of macOS are legitimatly useful tools that never made it to your dock or menu bar: things like force-deleting stubborn files, combining PDFs without a subscription service, and actually seeing where all your disk space went. — Read the rest

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A federal judge has once again found that DHS agents' lies violate the law and invalidate their deportation of three families. The judge ordered the government to undo their evil post haste.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return three immigrant families to the U.S.

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According to multiple reports, U.S. military commanders coerced active-duty troops to attend screenings of "Melania," the critically panned vanity documentary that paid the First Lady $28 million.

Turning a box-office dud into a mandatory loyalty test, Raw Story and Business Insider report that US Commanders "advised" their troops to attend, and everyone got the message. — Read the rest

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It seems Northern California has its own lexicon, but not much of a distinct dialect.

These videos take a look at the Northern California way of speaking. Largely, it seems based on the standard newscaster blandness that much of America is moving towards. — Read the rest

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This Scotch Tape ad from the 1940s is every hairdresser's nightmare. It shows a photo of a young girl getting a DIY bangs trim with scotch tape as a guide for cutting. I have a feeling that anyone who tries that at home will not be smiling like the girl in the image after they see the results. — Read the rest

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Just as the administration yanked $500 million in funding to clean up abandoned coal mines, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum made the social media debut of Coalie. Coalie, a pink-cheeked, googly-eyed lump of coal, is the mascot for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. — Read the rest

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Burning Man dodged a bullet. The party in the desert won't have to explain why one of its board members, much like his brother Elon, shares an uncomfortable proximity to Jeffrey Epstein. Kimball Musk, board member of the Burning Man Project, has stepped down, sparing the festival a looming reputational problem it very clearly did not want. — Read the rest

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Antetokounmpo is the first NBA player to directly invest in Kalshi.

I saw this on Ethos this morning and figured I'd share. Collapse related because landfill pollution is a major contributor to climate change and waste as a whole contaminates soil and waterways across the world.

From the article:

Recycling and reducing myths feed our latest obsession — that we can achieve truly zero-waste status. Certainly, earnest efforts matter, but assumptions that we're not making trash because we bring reusable flatware and straws with us don't make it so.

Our waste problem has us cornered — both up and downstream — and it's big business.

The article did make one error. It claims the garbage industry is worth nearly 70 billion dollars. That is not true.

Its closer to 150 billion dollars.

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Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery isn't quite a done deal yet. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the US Department of Justice has started its probe of Netflix's proposed purchase, but is notably interested in whether the streaming giant was involved in any anticompetitive practices. According to the civil subpoena seen by WSJ, the Justice Department is looking into any "exclusionary conduct on the part of Netflix that would reasonably appear capable of entrenching market or monopoly power."

While Netflix announced plans to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in December at a value of $82.7 billion, the deal was expected to close in 12 to 18 months, subject to required regulatory approvals. The DOJ has the power to block the transaction and this investigation could hint at the agency's approach, which may involve proving that Netflix put its competition at an unfair advantage.

Netflix's attorney, Steven Sunshine, told WSJ that this probe was standard practice and that, "we have not been given any notice or seen any other sign that the DOJ is conducting a separate monopolization investigation." Netflix also said in a statement that it's "constructively engaging with the Department of Justice as part of the standard review of our proposed acquisition of Warner Bros." According to WSJ, the investigation is still in its early stages and could take up to a year to complete.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/doj-is-investigating-if-netflix-used-anticompetitive-tactics-as-part-of-its-merger-probe-210940856.html?src=rss

The State Department is wiping the post history of its X accounts and making it so you'll have to file a Freedom of Information Act request if you want to access any of the content it removed, according to NPR. The publication reports that the State Department is removing all posts from before President Trump's current term — a move that affects several accounts associated with the department, including those for US embassies, and posts from the Biden and Obama administrations. Posts from Trump's first term will be taken down too. 

Unlike how past administrations have handled the removal of social media content and the transition of accounts, these posts won't be kept in a public archive. A spokesperson for the State Department confirmed this to NPR, and said the move is meant "to limit confusion on U.S government policy and to speak with one voice to advance the President, Secretary, and Administration's goals and messaging. It will preserve history while promoting the present." The spokesperson also called the X accounts "one of our most powerful tools for advancing the America First goals." 

The Trump administration has been purging information from government websites since he took office last year. Just this week, the CIA unexpectedly took down its World Factbook, a global reference guide that's been available on the internet since 1997.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/the-state-department-is-scrubbing-its-x-accounts-of-all-posts-from-before-trumps-second-term-205515745.html?src=rss

The techno tones of Ramin Djawadi briefly teased in 'Supergirl' are now possibly replaced with Junkie XL.

Surprising no one, Elon Musk's X awarded a million-dollar prize to a "creator" with a long, documented history of racist and antisemitic posts. Demonstrating that hate speech is not a moderation failure but occasionally hands terrible people cash.

When Elon Musk's social media platform X launched a contest to promote its "Articles" feature, the guidelines were explicit: Submissions "must not contain political, or religious statements."

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Submission Statement:

You can find this post verbatim on my substack, but I post there once a year at best and I think moving forward maybe even less - because frankly, what is the point?

Another month, another hot off the presses paper bucking the gag orders which have stifled academic honesty for decades, and stating the blunt reality we need to accept: we are facing the global collapse of civilization within ten years. This time from Hansen, the esteemed and irreproachable elder for the darker truth of emissions science.

Some choice quotes:

We inferred that global temperature, after reaching a minimum about +1.4°C in the first half of 2026, will rise to about +1.7°C in the first half of 2027, as spurred by even a moderately strong El Nino.

The graph begins in 1979 because upper 300 m data only goes back that far, but the trend rates of global temperature and Nino3.4 are nearly unchanged when their data begin in 1970. Global warming begins to diverge from the linear trend in about 2015. The magnitude of this gap is the source of befuddlement for climate models, especially those with low climate sensitivity. This persistent, seemingly growing, gap implies an increase of the net climate forcing.

If we characterize this forcing change with a single "turning point," that turning point is in the range 2010 to 2015, probably closer to 2015. Thus, in finding the best linear fit to accelerated global warming in Fig. 1, we show results with the linear fit starting on the trend line for both choices: 2010 and 2015. The latter, more realistic, choice results in global warming reaching 2°C in the 2030s.

Hansen of course ends on a polite note, because he has to if he wants to keep his job:

Don't be too pessimistic as the evidence for high climate sensitivity grows. Realistic understanding of the climate situation, and public recognition of that, is the essential first step toward successfully addressing climate change. Progress in climate science during the next 5-10 years is needed for the development of effective energy and climate policy because the pressure for policy action will grow along with climate impacts as global temperature approaches +2°C. The current flippant attitude - 1.5°C isn't so bad, we can deal with 3°C - of people who should know better will dissolve, if we can improve understanding of the danger of passing the point of no return. Yes, we know, this all sounds very theoretical. That is the world we live in. Politicians cannot see past the end of their nose, the next election. Young people understand that and have the potential to affect the future. It will be an interesting story.

Left unspoken, for those with reading comprehension, is how this paper is entirely about acknowledging that we passed a critical (still unidentified) tipping point for the rapid acceleration of warming 11 years ago, and have done nothing except keep the gas pedal flat-out ever since.

Hard Talk:

Those few who are still paying attention to the science for the past three years, instead of sitting around jerking themselves off with one-line jokes and AI-generated bullshit which have come to dominate the white noise of this subreddit however, can understand what this represents. Last years "Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly" paper lays the math out of the trajectory out very clearly:

• At the current 0.4~ degrees of warming per decade we will hit +2 degrees of warming globally by the early 2030's, potentially in 2030. With this will come the catastrophic disruption of critical systems we rely on to maintain our civilization, which we are already witnessing worldwide. The rate of warming will, of course, continue to increase dramatically over this period. It is a self-feeding cycle now.
• We will reach +3 degrees of warming globally by the early to mid 2040's, and what remains of the core systems for our civilization at that point is going to very rapidly fall apart. The actuaries paper among others has not held back on the impacts of a +3c climate regime. With only a rough idea of what feedback loops will be triggered in this timeframe, the rate of warming - having doubled from +0.2~ since 2015 - would if progressing linearly be 0.8~ per decade by 2035 and +1.6~ per decade by 2045.We are no longer experiencing a linear pathway of warming. It is very clear: we left that behind in 2015.
• Speculating on 2045 and beyond is, to be blunt, irrelevant. If you are lucky you will be dead, everyone you know will likely be dead, and the period of 2050 onwards will feature a handful of scavengers sifting through the choking dust of a world in chaos - one which burns and freezes without any cyclicity while unprecedented storms ravage it. It is evident now that for over a decade we have been locked into a progressive regime of accelerating warming and feedback loops - from which we have no way out other than pleading for technology which does not exist, which fundamentally cannot exist, and is thus little more than magical / religious thinking. The science which would have revealed this situation was suppressed by governments, we have all kept the party going while knowing consciously and subconsciously that things were getting worse every year, and now it's all falling apart. I'm not really interested in arguing the point with the quality of poster on this subreddit anymore, if you can't understand the math that's your failure.

In Closing:

For the better part of the past year and a half I've been experiencing terrible writers block, while trying to write something about "How To Live While The World Is Dying". I gave that up, and after friends kept asking me to explain my position it morphed into trying to tie together all of the existing cutting edge science on the situation in a digestible form for the layman. I thought I had a respectable draft together and had sent it to Richard Crim in early January for feedback and ideas, only to find out this week he has passed away. Forgive my rage here: I'm pretty pissed that we lost one of the few who could cut through the bullshit and see this situation for what it is, and present it in a coherent fashion, in an era when most of the humans left on the internet seem to have half a brain per half million of them.That essay has been ready to go for months, really, but every month a new paper drops with a bombshell and I have to re-write a huge chunk of it to reflect what we now know.

At the end of it all, after all these words, what we know is that we are fucked, cooked, totally shitfucked with no hope of recovery. We're all gonna die, quite miserably, decades before we should have, and any hope of stopping this process ended definitively over a decade ago. All that remains is to witness the end out of morbid curiosity for how it plays out, because we damn well know how we got there.

So stop fucking around on this godforsaken brainrot, touch grass before it burns, and do something meaningful with the last five to ten years of your life.

For the crowd who are just here to post uneducated doom because you yearn for the end of the world to release you from your shitty miserable lives, good news:

You're already dead.

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Five Years Ago

This week in 2021, the attacks on Section 230 were coming fast, with a Columbia law professor spewing blatantly false information in the Wall Street Journal and Joe Lieberman calling for its repeal, followed by the Democrats introducing the dumpster fire that was the SAFE TECH Act, which we dug into in depth. We also wrote about how attempts to tie 230 to a horrific story of online stalking were just plain wrong. Meanwhile, a federal court tossed out a constitutional challenge to FOSTA, 14 states were considering right to repair laws, and the RIAA launched a brand new front group pretending to represent independent artists.

Ten Years Ago

This week in 2016, a DHS official was calling for an end to anonymity online, French politicians were trying to ban linking to any website without permission, and India was getting ready to ban zero rating after the failure of Facebook's misleading lobbying. We wrote about how lobbyists turned an education reform bill into a copyright propaganda push, Take Two Software was sued over tattoo copyrights, Hasbro was sued for font piracy on My Little Pony merchandise, and a ridiculous copyright fight was still keeping the only video of the first Super Bowl locked up.

Fifteen Years Ago

This week in 2011, there was a lot of coverage of the recent uprising in Egypt and the government's response. We looked at just how the government shut down the internet in an attempt to quell the protests, then at how they turned it back on for the same reasons. Al Jazeera offered up its Egypt coverage under a Creative Commons license, while China was trying to prevent people from talking about it online. Meanwhile, Homeland Security embarked on a new round of domain seizures that raised serious questions and strongly suggested the agency was twisting the law, especially with the now-infamous seizure of Spanish streaming site Rojadirecta.

Stellantis announced that it is taking a $26 billion hit associated with backtracking on EVs. The vast majority of the write-down is specific to North America, where Stellantis has essentially given up on plug-in vehicles. EV production is being replaced with a return of ICE powertrains, including the "Hemi." This ... [continued]

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Luke Akehurst isn't very well liked here at the Canary. Conversely, seeing Akehurst make a fool of himself is super popular, hence this:

Mate, do you genuinely think you're helping here.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) February 6, 2026

Spy hard

Akehurst and Hodges are discussing Labour Together's spying scandal. As Ed Sykes wrote on 6 February:

Labour Together is part of the shady right-wing infrastructure that, along with Peter Mandelson, helped to undermine the left and boost Keir Starmer into power. And a new report reveals how Labour Together spent tens of thousands of pounds getting a dodgy company to investigate journalists looking into all this. This behaviour shows it's not just Mandelson that should never be near government again. It's the whole sinister machinery that put Starmer where he is today, including his right-hand man and Mandelson protege Morgan McSweeney.

Is it good for political parties to spy on journalists?

No.

Is it creepy?

Yes.

Does the terminally unaware Akehurst realise any of this?

Not according to the conversation he had with Hodges:

But do you think attempting do defend Labour Together's profiling of journalists in the current environment is really helpful to your party and Prime Minister.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) February 6, 2026

It's objectively extremely funny that Luke Akehurst's only objection to LT as front organisation, secret slush fund and journalist-hounder is not a moral one, but that he thinks that money would have been spent slightly better on the right-wing corporate ginger group he helms. pic.twitter.com/0CJooxsa61

— Scurial (@Scurial2940422) February 7, 2026

Akehurst didn't respond to the above, suggesting someone with more than one brain cell advised him to cut his losses. No doubt the same genius advised him to delete all his pro-Mandelson tweets:

Sometimes I almost feel sorry for @lukeakehurst. Such a loyal attack dog for the poisonous version of the Labour Party spewed up by the likes of Mandelson & Blair, he's now reduced to deleting his fawning tweets - like cleaning up the sick after a party he wasn't invited to.

As highlighted by journalist Michael Crick, Labour's chief whip apparently got where he is today with a little help from the 'prince of darkness' himself — Peter Mandelson:

Oh dear! According to the memoirs of former Stalybridge MP Tom Pendry, the selection of current Government Chief Whip Jonathan Reynolds as subsequent Labour candidate for the Stalybridge seat (and MP from 2010) was fixed by a chap called Peter Mandelson. pic.twitter.com/qmRJtSlUuc

— Michael Crick (@MichaelLCrick) February 7, 2026

Funny, isn't it, how so many people in the Starmer government seem to owe their career to Peter Mandelson.

It's almost as if Mandelson is actually the architect of this loathsome abomination of a government.

Mandelson — All coming out

The page Crick highlights reads:

I was of course a part, that a normal selection process could not take place - something that James almost certainly had planned on. The National Executive of the party convened a panel consisting of Tom Watson MP, Keith Vaz MP and a trade unionist member of the National Executive Committee to interview would-be candidates. The local party were informed that their panel's decision on a shortlist of candidates was sacrosanct and appeals were not allowed.

The panel duly came forward with a shortlist that did not include James Purnell's office manager, Johnny Reynolds - his favoured candidate. Not to be thwarted, Purnell, together with some assistance from Peter Mandelson MP, went over the head of the interviewing panel.

It was revealed in The Times Guide to the General Election of 2005 that Mandelson then surprised the National Executive to include Johnny Reynolds on the shortlist, which they dutifully did.

As Johnny Reynolds had managed Purnell's office, he had a great advantage over the other candidates regarding access to the names and addresses of local party members, which greatly helped with canvassing and postal votes. Johnny became the candidate, and subsequently MP.

I was asked three times to go on BBC's World at One with Mandelson to discuss whether there was any malpractice, but I refused as it could have harmed Johnny's chances had I done so. Peter did go on and, as I understand, he said he didn't intervene in the selection process - if that is what he said then that would be a blatant distortion of the truth, as pointed out in The Times Guide that stated that Jonathan Reynolds was 'selected amid a huge row with Peter Mandelson's involvement after failing to make the initial shortlist'.

In the Corbyn years, the media would call you a 'Stalinist' even if you carefully did the precise opposite of the above. You'll notice they've turned a blind eye to how the likes of Starmer and Mandelson operate, however.

Or they did, anyway.

Obviously they taste blood in the water right now, so they're noticing all the things they allowed to fly under the radar with Starmer.

Surprise, surprise

We've never cared for Reynolds, reporting in 2023:

We're at a point now at which even the austerity-pushers in the media are looking at Britain's crumbling infrastructure and saying 'maybe we should spend the bare minimum on this stuff'. Among the public there's been a hunger for public spending for years; now we're at a point at which you can voice that feeling without being dogpiled by the nation's thickest columnists. And yet - and fucking yet - Labour are using this situation to promote - of all fucking things - more austerity - i.e. the thing which got us here in the first place - the thing which we know from history never works:

Jonathan Reynolds says the Tories were wrong to cancel a Labour program to refurbish and rebuild our schools, but he refuses to say the next Labour govt will refurbish and rebuild more schools that the Tories have committed to doing #TrevorPhillips pic.twitter.com/0ICvkJMLIZ

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) September 10, 2023

Here's what our own James Wright wrote on him in 2024:

The Labour Party has offered corporate bosses the "unique opportunity to become a commercial partner at our business policy round-table over breakfast" for up to £30,000 - in another cash-for-access scandal.

For £15,000, corporations would give a keynote speech, have photographs with business secretary Jonathan Reynolds and have a dedicated Labour Party staffer to make introductions. And for £30,000, the corporation could also decide who else would attend the breakfast.

Given Reynold's track record, it's entirely unsurprising to learn that the sulphurous stench of Mandelson has clung to his career from the jump.

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By Willem Moore

Get ready to see Charli XCX go horror mode in the next horror project from Takeshi Miike.

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I was driving through rural areas this weekend and realized something that's been nagging at me for a while. My windshield was completely clean. Not a single bug splatter.
I remember as a kid in the 90s and early 2000s, road trips meant stopping every couple hours to clean the windshield because it would be absolutely covered in dead insects. You couldn't see through it. It was gross but it was normal.
Now? Nothing. I drove for 6 hours through farmland and countryside and my windshield looked like I'd just washed it.

This isn't just anecdotal either. Insect populations have collapsed by something like 75% in the last few decades. And nobody's talking about it. Everyone's focused on climate change (which is obviously critical) but the insect apocalypse is happening right now and it's going to devastate ecosystems in ways we can't even fully predict.

No insects means no pollination. No pollination means crop failures. It also means the entire food chain collapses because insects are the base of so many ecosystems. Birds, bats, small mammals, amphibians, fish they all rely on insects. When the insects go, everything else follows.

And it's not like this is some distant future problem. It's happening NOW. We're living through a mass extinction event in real time and most people haven't even noticed because it's been gradual enough that we've adjusted to the new normal.

I see people talking about prepping for economic collapse or supply chain issues but ecological collapse is going to make all of that look like a minor inconvenience. You can't eat money. You can't grow food without pollinators.

When's the last time you saw a firefly? When's the last time you saw a monarch butterfly? When's the last time you heard crickets at night?
We're fucked and nobody's paying attention.

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You may have thought bubble wrap was invented to pack fragile items. While that's what it's used for now, it was actually invented as 3D wallpaper.

When the creators of bubble wrap gave up on their 3D wallpaper dream, they re-purposed their invention to be used as packing material. — Read the rest

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This footage of a Friday, October 6, 1978 Saturday Night Live rehearsal with the entire cast and the Rolling Stones has apparently been unseen until it appeared on YouTube a few days ago. It was for the next day's premiere episode of SNL's fourth season, which would be the last for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. — Read the rest

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I admit, I'm fairly obsessed with the "Have You Ever Had a Dream?" meme — it's one of my all time favorites. You know the one — that classic meme from the early days of YouTube, featuring that sweet little boy — whose name, we know now, is Joe Cirkiel — who stumbled nervously through his big moment as he tried so hard to lay down some deep insight about dreams, but failed pretty spectacularly (and also incredibly charmingly!).  — Read the rest

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The Federal Communications Commission has opened an investigation into ABC's The View, reports Mediaite. The probe was triggered by Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico's appearance on the show Monday.

"Fake news is not getting a free pass anymore," an FCC source told Fox News. — Read the rest

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Will the Chinese use Canada as their North American beachhead? As Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers look beyond Europe and Southeast Asia, Canada is quietly emerging as the most realistic entry point into North America. It combines stringent safety and environmental regulations, a consumer base already primed for electrification, and—crucially—slightly more ... [continued]

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As I've been saying for many years, there is some kind of organic, hard-wired, brain structure connection between hostility to climate science, and racism.Clear evidence, again, this week, that there is no bottom, and no limit to what Republicans, and supposed "Christians", will allow, and indeed celebrate. Below, Trump doubles down. "It was not a … Continue reading "Racist in Chief is also the Climate Denier in Chief. Not Coincidence."

Trump Mobile is already failing to deliver on some early promises, according to the latest report from The Verge. The report revealed the near-final design of the T1 smartphone and uncovered some major changes with pricing and manufacturing.

The Verge spoke with Don Hendrickson and Eric Thomas, two of the three execs behind Trump Mobile, about the company's first smartphone, which will get a more expensive price tag and no longer boast being made in the USA. Thanks to a screenshot from the report, we can see that the latest T1 design also changed the camera array, which first resembled the iPhone's but now has three cameras in a misaligned vertical stack.

As for the price, Hendrickson told The Verge that anyone who paid the $100 deposit will still pay $499 total for the T1 as an "introductory price," but that later customers could fork up to $999. Thomas also revealed that the T1 smartphone will go through "final assembly" in Miami and no longer be "proudly designed and built in the United States," as seen in the introductory press release. Instead, the website now shows a description that says, "with American hands behind every device." We still don't have a release date — and now we don't even have a final price — but the website still claims the T1 smartphone will be released "later this year."

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/trump-mobiles-t1-phone-is-apparently-still-coming-but-itll-be-uglier-and-more-expensive-190626835.html?src=rss

In an act of desperation, Labour deputy leader Lucy Power has asked the Green Party to stand down in Gorton & Denton:

This is staggering. @LucyMPowell writes to @ZackPolanski telling him to stand down @GreenPartyHan so Labour can win. Zack has a duty of care to Green Party members & voters, not to Labour. The arrogance from Lucy is staggering. Lucy give us something to vote for, that's democracy pic.twitter.com/8vsKP5eP0X

— Cantona & Best (@bestcanton7) February 7, 2026

It's an interesting tactic, but we're not sure it will catch on.

Yours, Lucy

In the interest of transparency, here is Powell's letter in full:

LUCY POWELL
DEPUTY LEADER OF THE LABOUR PARTY

Dear Zack,

I'm writing to you about the Gorton and Denton by-election and a number of misleading claims you and your party have made which may lead to Reform getting in through the back door - something I cannot stand by and let happen.

There is a lot at stake in this by-election which goes beyond the usual politics of who is up and who is down. For me, I am doing whatever I can to stop the nasty, divisive politics of Reform and Matt Goodwin getting a foothold and platform in my city. A city built on tolerance, openness and collectivism.

However, I fear you are being played by Reform and have a different agenda.

You know as well as I do, that the Green Party just doesn't have the base or the breadth of support across the constituency to win the seat. The best you hope for is to take support from us to boost your profile nationally. This is exactly what Reform wants - it's their only route to victory - split and suppress the long-standing Labour vote.

If just seven Green Party voters had backed Labour in Runcorn and Helsby, we wouldn't now have a Reform MP in Parliament who made appalling comments about seeing too many Black and Asian people on TV. A Reform victory in Gorton and Denton would usher in an even more extreme candidate into Parliament.

What's more, in seeking to push your agenda, you and your party have shared misleading election material and claims on social media.

Your bar charts would even make your former Lib Dem colleagues blush. The independent Full Fact organisation agreed, stating:

"The most recent projection from Election Maps UK for Gorton and Denton suggests the Greens will see the second largest increase in their vote share compared to the 2024 election, behind Reform UK. But it also suggests that Labour will still hold the seat."

Your claims that respected academics Professor Rob Ford agrees with you are also not true. Prof Ford said that your latest leaflet is "misleading and out of context" and "that you have misrepresented his views".

Your assertions do not reflect the reality on the ground. The evidence is clear. You have no councillors at all here. All of the councillors in Gorton and Denton were elected Labour, bar one.

Your briefings from doorstep to doorstep do not add up - which is extensive and more scientific - is clear: only we can beat Reform, your support is simply not anywhere near wide enough.

Labour has a strong Manchester Labour brand and organisation here, with Mayor Andy Burnham, the Labour Council and Labour Government delivering real change.

We all know what's at stake here. Both Nigel Farage and his candidate in Gorton and Denton, Matt Goodwin, have talked repeatedly about immigration and the far right racist rhetoric in their campaigns. We need to defeat them.

This contest is bigger than you. It's time that you stopped the bogus briefings and bar charts. The Greens can't win here. If you really thought that, you would have stood here yourself (as someone from nearby).

Voters won't forgive you and your disingenuous campaigning will come back to haunt you.

Only voting Labour's Angeliki Stogia can prevent a Reform win. You and I both know that.

Yours sincerely,

Lucy Powell
MP for Manchester Central
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party

For further transparency, this is what polling says right now:

Interested to see an update poll, but polling is difficult in by elections.

One thing is clear, Labour can't win. https://t.co/jXbRJUrsbv

— Curtis Daly (@CurtisDaly_) February 7, 2026

We can imagine the above Labour supporters going Green to keep Reform out; it's harder to imagine the Green's returning to Labour given everything that Starmer & co have done, as we'll get into.

Labour — step down, please

Lucy Powell is arguing that the Greens need to stand down, because they used an improper bar chart. The Labour Party at large, meanwhile, is dealing with the following scandal:

We all knew that Peter Mandelson kept a close relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction.

Yet Keir Starmer appointed him US Ambassador and said he had "full confidence" in the bestie of a convicted nonce.

My full speech in Parliament: https://t.co/CwRcTpMUKe pic.twitter.com/et0ofls0qB

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) February 7, 2026

You can't act like you're the arbiters or good and moral behaviour when your man literally did the following:

Peter Mandelson sold Government secrets to foreign agents for personal profit.

He doesn't need to be thrown out of the House of Lords, he needs to be thrown in jail. pic.twitter.com/ruBKPtQ16U

— BladeoftheSun (@BladeoftheS) February 2, 2026

Seriously — who do these ghouls think they're kidding?

Featured image via Barold

By Willem Moore

Micheál Martin's government is backing the criminal actions of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brownshirts by allowing Shannon airport to be used as a refuelling point for illegal deportations.

A report by The Guardian highlighted the latest breach, in which a private jet belonging to a friend of US president Donald Trump flew groups of Palestinian men to so-called 'Israel'. Once there, Zionist thugs transported them to the West Bank and dumped them at the side of the road.

One of the men is Maher Awad, a:

…24-year-old originally from the West Bank, who had lived in the US for nearly a decade.

He has a girlfriend and young son in Michigan where he lived. Awad was detained by ICE following a police arrest for a domestic violence charge a year previously. Despite authorities dropping this charge, he:

…spent [a] year being shuffled between immigration detention centres across the country, including in Michigan, Texas and Louisiana.

ICE — men illegally dumped in 'active conflict zone'

ICE then deported him to the illegitimate Zionist settler-colony. Another man The Guardian spoke to was Sameer Isam Aziz Zeidan. He had been in the US for over 20 years. Before ICE kidnapped him, he was living in "Louisiana with his wife and five children". They were among eight men shipped overseas in shackles, then left stranded with only a few belongings at a West Bank checkpoint on 21 January 2026.

Senator Patricia Stephenson, foreign affairs spokesperson for the Social Democrats, pointed out that the rendition amounts to leaving people in an "active conflict zone". The terrorist regime based in West Jerusalem has killed over 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank since 7 October 2023.

Land thieves — sometimes referred to as 'settlers' — have carried out a relentless series of ethnic cleansing raids in the last two years. 700 Palestinians have been subject to these pogroms in January alone. Deporting people to a territory where they are at risk of violence is illegal.

Stephenson said:

The government must now answer serious questions regarding whether they view this action as a breach of international law, and what action they will take to take control of the situation.

She continued:

The government claims it is a staunch supporter of international law, a beacon of hope when it comes to upholding human rights - it must now explain its hypocrisy.

This is not the first time the Irish government has assisted ICE crimes. In November The Ditch reported that US planes landed at the Clare airport to refuel while:

…carrying deportees to African countries they have no personal ties to…

Orville Etoria was one of those kidnapped, a Jamaican man with no connection to Eswatini, the country he was dumped in. His legal team say he was:

…illegally deported and imprisoned in Eswatini without charge or access to a lawyer for two months…

Government once again turning a blind eye to Shannon crimes

He eventually managed to make it back to Jamaica. The Irish government told The Journal that:

…stops at Irish airports by private aircraft and commercial charters for technical, non-traffic purposes (such as refuelling) "do not require prior authorisation from the Department."

The government takes a similar lackadaisical approach to military planes stopping off at the airport before going on to assist Zionist atrocities in Palestine. Shannon Watch has documented the massive volume of these warplanes using the airstrip. Given the scale of US criminality on all fronts, it would seem a sensible policy would be to inspect all flights coming from the North American territory. This would invert the current policy of inspecting virtually none.

Gil Dezer was the man responsible for ferrying the kidnapped Palestinians thousands of miles away from their homes. A close friend and business partner of Trump, Dezer is also a:

…member of the Miami branch of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

The private jet used appears to be the property of Dezer Development:

…a real estate company established by the Israeli-American developer Michael Dezer and today run by Gil Dezer, his son.

The company has built various Trump branded properties and contributed to his presidential campaign. In the wake of the latest Epstein documents, this serves as another example of the sickening links between the ultra-wealthy, US politicians, 'Israel' and serious criminality. A class of truly wretched people causing harm to everyone they deem beneath them, with their racism and misogyny exacting particular suffering on women and people of colour.

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By Robert Freeman

The Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine (MJAP) group has condemned a local Israel lobby group for attacking Manchester City football manager Pep Guardiola.

Guardiola, who has a consistent record of solidarity with and support for the Palestinian people, spoke out against Israel's slaughter again on 4 February. The BBC amplified the manufactured pearl-clutching of the — apparently entirely unelected — so-called 'Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester & Region' (JRCGM) that Guardiola should stick to football and not get involved in politics.

While it calls itself a council, JRCGM is in fact a company, registration number Company registration: 8953235. It is one of numerous self-appointed 'representative' organisations that act as lobbying groups for Israeli interests.

In a statement, MJAP condemned JRCGM for its whitewashing of the "horrors perpetrated by Israel". It also pointed out the lack of condemnation by footballing bodies for the 'right' kind of political statement and their failure to take appropriate action against the genocidal colony. And it reminded the 'council' that as a city — Manchester, including many of its Jews — is united against the crimes of the ethno-supremacist occupation:

Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine (MJAP) welcomes Pep Guardiola's recent comments decrying Israel's pursuit of a genocide in Gaza and calling on us all not to turn a blind eye to the suffering of Palestinian children. Guardiola's heartfelt statement that "to completely kill thousands of innocent people, it hurts me" captures our collective pain as we've watched the horrors perpetrated by Israel over the last two and a half years. Guardiola's brave comments build on expressions of solidarity with Palestinians from many other prominent football figures, including Jurgen Klopp, Mo Salah, Cristiano Ronaldo and Eric Cantona.

MJAP disagrees profoundly with the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester (JRCGM) in their criticism of Guardiola. They say that he "is a football manager" and "should focus on football" rather than "straying into international affairs". It is not Guardiola who is bringing international affairs into football. The Premiership were quick to organise official displays of solidarity with Ukraine in grounds across the country, and FIFA suspended Russia from international football competitions within days of the invasion of Ukraine. Yet football supporters are not allowed to take any expression of solidarity with Palestine into games (not just flags, but even badges), and after two and a half years of genocide, FIFA has still not suspended Israel from international football competitions. Guardiola is simply expressing a different view on international affairs to those of the Premiership, the FA and FIFA. In doing so, he is giving voice to millions of football supporters, around the world, in the UK and in Manchester.

The JRCGM does not speak for all the Jewish people of Greater Manchester. Many of us are horrified by the genocide that has been pursued in our name by Israel, and have joined countless marches and rallies to oppose it. "Never again" means never again for anyone, including the Palestinians. In failing to call out the crimes of the state of Israel against Palestine the JRCGM have effectively acted as apologists for the genocide.

Israel has murdered thousands of footballers in Gaza - professional and amateur, adults and children - and has deliberately destroyed countless football stadiums, pitches and facilities. Israel has encouraged illegal settlers and their football clubs to operate in the West Bank, against the rules of FIFA.

MJAP supports the demand of football supporters around the world to "red card Israel", calling on FIFA to suspend Israel's national teams and clubs from international football competition until Israel ends its genocide, withdraws from illegally occupied land, drops the siege of Gaza and dismantles all its apartheid laws.

In particular, MJAP supports "A City United for Gaza", a local campaign who have been rallying outside games at Old Trafford and the Etihad for the last two and a half years, collecting signatures for a petition to FIFA."

Israel was condemned this week by one of its own top generals as modern-day 'nazis', doing to the Palestinians what Germany did to the Jews eighty-odd years ago. Solidarity with Pep Guardiola.

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By Skwawkbox

The political right wing has failed. Donald Trump has proven that. At the same time, the left wing has no answers. Whether that's in the UK, where the Labour Party is all at sea, or in the US, where the Democrats are frankly, well, floundering. Neoliberal politics, now embraced by so-called left-wing parties, is out of road, and that matters.

For the last year, politics has been dominated by the right.  Trump, culture wars, blame, authoritarian instincts, all have dominated our political narratives.  And now we can see the result: chaos, instability, economic incoherence. But there is a problem that no one wants to face: this has left the left wing of politics cruelly exposed without any answers to any of the questions that now arise.

The right runs out of road

Let's be clear, the right-wing's moment is over. I know that it won't be dying as yet, but the point is, the current political conversation was set by the right. They promised growth, strength, and national renewal. What we have got instead is institutional breakdown, policy incoherence, economic nationalism without an economic plan, and personalised power replacing competence.

Trump is not an aberration. He is the logical outcome of right-wing neoliberal populism, just as much as the right-wing leaders of European equivalent parties are, from Nigel Farage onwards. And what is clear is that the right wing has failed in the USA just as much as it will in Europe because it has no theory of care. There is no commitment within right-wing politics to public institutions. There is no concern within it for the distribution of income or wealth. There is no understanding of economic independence within their thinking. They presume everyone is an isolated individual with no relationship between the two. And there is no respect for limits, whether they be social or those imposed by our planet.

Markets solve nothing

They claimed markets were meant to solve everything. But the truth is, as we can now see, markets have solved nothing,  and voters are rightly turning away from those who promised them something, which has turned out to be hollow.

So  the consequence is that the right is failing, but the question is left: what can the left offer instead? And this is where the real crisis begins, in my opinion, because when asked for answers, Labour has none.

It's very clear  Keir Starmer is clueless as to why he is in office as Prime Minister, and none of his leadership team have any answers either.  Nor does Andy Burnham. The great saviour from the north does, in fact, share the same economic philosophy that has left the rest of Labour in trouble because he, like them, is a neoliberal.

Strip away the rhetoric, and what is left?

Labour talks about fiscal rules that prioritise markets over people. That is all that Rachel Reeves has ever said she'll deliver.

Growth is treated as the only objective of economic policy, irrespective of who gets the gains, and we know that the rich have always captured them.

Public services are treated as costs, and care is treated as if it is a private problem and not a matter for collective concern.

This is not a left-wing programme. It is neoliberalism with a softer tone, and neoliberalism has run out of road because, quite clearly, none of these prescriptions work.

Neoliberalism assumes that markets allocate resources efficiently, that growth fixes distribution, and that the state must step back and care will somehow happen anyway. Maybe out of charity, maybe because those who need it will die and therefore fall off the end of waiting lists. Who knows? But none of this is true; without care, economies fragment, trust collapses, inequality deepens, democracy weakens, and that is the reality that we are living through.

This means that better management is not enough. Starmer offered us competence without purpose. Burnham's offer is decency without a framework. Neither answers the central question: what is the economy for?  If the answer is still "growth first, and care later", then nothing changes, and voters will notice. That is the real crisis.

And so this is where both the right wing have failed in practice, and the left wing have failed in imagination. We are stuck with a political class that cannot think beyond markets, marginal tweaks, focus groups, and the fear of challenging the power of capital.

This is not leadership. This is exhaustion.

We do not need a new leader. We need a new organising principle. One person isn't going to change everything; ideas can.

A resilient state

A politics of care means that the economy exists to support life itself and the life of everyone.  And that public services are investments and not costs. And that care work is foundational and not residual. And that the state exists to enable resilience and not just growth.

This is not utopian. This is what is necessary, and deep down, that's what people know. That's why this whole idea that the left has nothing to say in response to the right is so well known in the community at large. In fact, you hear it in so many interviews.

They say, "They all say the same thing," and they're right, they do. If all you have is neoliberalism, then in 2026, you are definitely out of road.  The right has proved it. They have failed. The left is about to because they've got no answers, and until politics is rebuilt around care, this crisis will not end. That is the conversation we should be having, even if no one else is, because this conversation is the one that's going to change the political narrative and make it relevant again.

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