AND NOW THE NEWS
#581
FEBRUARY 8, 2026
Four Haitian women deported from Puerto Rico have been found decapitated
Minneapolis City Council delays liquor licenses for 2 hotels over hosting federal agents
‘I felt hopeless’: Hmong refugee from Minnesota is stranded in Texas after release from ICE jail
ICE and CBP’s face-recognition app can’t actually verify who people are
Swapped, covered and removed: The license plate tactics ICE is using in Minnesota
Minnesotans have started using “filter blockades” to keep ICE out
Secret Police are lying about everything
‘Operation Dildo Blitz’ anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis ends with 50+ arrests
‘I saw everything’: Woman speaks out after ICE shot and detained her partner in north Minneapolis
California: Pregnant woman abducted by ICE, disappeared
Of course, feds were lying about midnight immigration raid on a Chicago apartment building
Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school
Texas: Secret Police break into a home without any warrant and assault the occupants
Lawsuit accuses Washington detention center staff of assault, sexual abuse
Asylum-seekers at the Center for Victims of Torture say ICE reminds them of what they escaped
Some Public Health Service officers deployed in detention centers suffer ‘moral distress’
Excerpt: On Tuesday, election officials in all 50 states received an email from Kellie M. Hardiman, who identified herself as an “FBI Election Executive.”
Hardiman said the officials were invited to a call on February 25 with “your election partners” at the FBI, the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the US Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), and the Election Assistance Commission (EAC).
The email, obtained via a public records request by Matt Berg of Crooked Media, did not specify the purpose of the meeting other than to say it was “to prepare for the 2026 US midterm elections.”
Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Trump-Epstein files show
FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show
DHS shutdown allegedly looms as Senate immigration talks sputter
This is 100% bullshit news coverage. A shutdown of the Dept of Homeland Security over lack of funding? That’s impossible, simply cannot happen, because both parties enthusiastically support DHS.
Stocks hit historic milestone as Dow crosses 50,000 points for first time ever
A record-setting Dow Jones means things are great for rich people, but things are always great for rich people. Today’s the greatest of the great days for rich people.
You and I don’t know any rich people, though.
How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
This is ancient news to me, but apparently it’s the first time the facts of Substack have made it to mainstream news?
State Department will delete Xitter posts from before Trump returned to office
I rather abhor Xitter, but this is more destruction of history.
AMA endorses Republican-backed restrictions on gender-related surgery for minors
Trump posts, defends, finally deletes but makes no apology for racist video depicting Obamas as apes
Xitter pays $2-million+ to right-wing & racist users
Galveston man sues California doctor under new Texas law allowing lawsuits over abortion pills
Pardoned J6 rioter pleads guilty to threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries
RFK Jr lied during his confirmation hearings
RFK Jr says something stupid about schizophrenia
Kennedy’s anti-vax squad takes aim at COVID shots, vaccines given to pregnant women
Super Bowl ad promotes dodgy test for cancer
AMERICAN POLICE ARE OUT OF CONTROL
IGNORING THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY
THE LORD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS
MY BROWSER HISTORY, MINUS THE PORN
And nothing will meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives.
2/8/2026
Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. Tip ‘o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Daily Grail, Joe My God, Republican Crimes Tracker, Voenix Rising, What’s Not, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.
Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Joey Jo Jo & John the Basket emeritus, Jeff Meyer, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn’t always shitty.
News always and only from reliable sources, and I decide what’s reliable — no right-wing bullshit, no Substack because fuck Nazis, and no RawStory, Newsweek, or other clickbait sites. Written news is preferred; video links will be rare, and never to videos where a camera is pointed at a reporter or podcaster — that’s show biz, not news. When necessary, links lead to secondary sites that strip away paywalls, aggressive ads, or the original site’s dumbass design.
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