This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.
green is better change it back
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. Sheβs married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
Theyβve already sent her to Louisiana.
BREAKING β 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.
Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, πΈ by @tiltoncreative
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
Itβs always 건배, 건배, girl, whatβs up?
And never 건배, 건배, girl, how has life been treating you?
Contract worker dies at Rio Tinto mine in Guinea reut.rs/3MpgFOT
A photo of Jill Scottβs tiny desk
Jill Scottβs long awaited NPR Tiny Desk concert will premiere Monday at noon EST:
Amazon's latest data center construction outside Canton is one of a fleet of data centers announced statewide. Additional data centers are planned for Lauderdale & Rankin counties, & a third Amazon facility is planned for Vicksburg. Elon Musk's xAI is also building a data center in DeSoto County.
As Northwest Indiana residentsβ utility frustrations mount over triple-digit increases, legislators, too, are feeling the pressure to use the tools at their disposal to help provide relief.
https://gary.capitalbnews.org/indiana-utility-bill-relief-nipsco-costs/
Fell in love with the girl at the gem show πΆ
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
Weβll let the childrenβs words speak for themselves. π§΅
A rainbow, a family portrait, a heart. These are the drawings found in handwritten letters from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. Read them today on @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Katie Mettler, a former chair of the Washington Post Guild, said on Saturday: βIβm glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.β
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
It was an honor to photograph Jaylynn for this story.
An officer stands next to a rifle and binoculars.
The sun breaks over a distant mountain range with the border wall in the foreground.
Kristi Noem stands behind a lectern. The photo uses an effect called Zoom Punching to make it look like a famous image of Mr Krabs.
Kristi Noem
Scenes from a Kristi Noem presser east of Nogales, Ariz this morning. Images made for Bloomberg.
If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286
NEW: The FBI has been unable to access a Washington Post reporterβs seized iPhone because it was in Lockdown Mode, a sometimes overlooked feature that makes iPhones broadly more secure, according to recently filed court records.
βYou donβt have to torture people. Theyβre not going anywhereβtheyβre on a plane.β
A private equityβowned airline is profiting from Trumpβs migrant crackdown. Now, ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler as a result.
American-made munitions have played a significant role in Israelβs operations in Gaza. Bellingcat has collated scores of incidents where the remnants of US-made munitions have been found in the aftermath of Israeli strikes. Read here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
Im deeply angry and sad about this
Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn Β· Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn Β· 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn Β· Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil β pen ink freezes β by headlamp.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
In a wide-ranging interview this week with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Marimar Martinez discussed her shooting, the federal governmentβs failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fight for accountability.
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as βtraitorsβ with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
This is wild
I get tired of saying it, but Iβll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
americans hate it when they're shown on tv doing something cool
Springsteen and Bragg got new tunes out this week. My favorite in the vein is Robesonβs classic version of Joe Hill.
"The Copper Bosses killed you Joe;
They shot you Joe" says I
"Takes more than guns to kill a man"
Says Joe "I didn't die"
Says Joe "I didn't die"
