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Even after losing at the Supreme Court, Trump has plenty of ways to reconstruct his trade regime

Even after losing at the Supreme Court, Trump has plenty of ways to reconstruct his trade regime

Rogé Karma writes: The Trump tariffs are dead. Long live the Trump tariffs? This morning, in a 6–3 opinion, the Supreme Court struck down the bulk of the president’s sweeping global tariffs. The majority ruled that the law Donald Trump had used to carry out most of his trade policies does not, in fact, allow the president to impose tariffs at all. This is a major setback for Trump’s trade agenda, but it is far from a fatal one. The…

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U.S. plans online portal allowing hate speech and terrorist propaganda to be spread across Europe

U.S. plans online portal allowing hate speech and terrorist propaganda to be spread across Europe

Reuters reports: The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, a move Washington views as a way to counter censorship, three sources familiar with the plan said. The site will be hosted at “freedom.gov,” the sources said. One source said officials had discussed including a virtual private network function to make a user’s traffic appear to originate…

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After prior attempt to enter U.S. illegally, convicted far-right agitator from UK is welcomed in Washington

After prior attempt to enter U.S. illegally, convicted far-right agitator from UK is welcomed in Washington

First stop in the USA, meeting up with the legend that is @GenFlynn 🇬🇧 🤝🏻 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Gf1Lw0EENs — Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) February 19, 2026 The i Paper reports: Tommy Robinson has travelled to America – despite a reported travel ban and tough border controls on travellers with criminal convictions. In a series of videos and posts on X, the far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, said he had “landed in the United States of America” and that…

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Outrage won’t rescue us from the Epstein abyss. Disclosure and accountability must

Outrage won’t rescue us from the Epstein abyss. Disclosure and accountability must

John Hiner writes: There is a force tearing at the fabric of America, and it has nothing to do with red or blue. More accurately, it is a void – a black hole of unaccountability surrounding the horrors of Jeffrey Epstein’s network of recruiters, groomers and abusers of children. You don’t need a political philosophy or a moral compass to know where to stand on this. The behavior was monstrous. Crimes were committed. Lives were shattered. And yet, in the…

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Allegations in Epstein files may amount to ‘crimes against humanity,’ UN experts say

Allegations in Epstein files may amount to ‘crimes against humanity,’ UN experts say

Reuters reports: Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a “global criminal enterprise” that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, according to a panel of independent experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council. The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the U.S. Justice Department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes, they said, showed a…

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The price of admission to Epstein’s world: silence

The price of admission to Epstein’s world: silence

Lisa Miller reports: When Jeffrey Epstein said “massage” in the years after he got out of jail in 2009, what did his friends and associates think he meant? Epstein had been convicted in a Florida court of sex crimes with minors in 2008. His method, reported in The New York Times at the time, had been to recruit girls as young as 14 to his home and persuade them to undress and massage him. Then he would force them to…

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After my ICE arrest, I learned one crucial way to respond to trauma. We can all take part

After my ICE arrest, I learned one crucial way to respond to trauma. We can all take part

Rümeysa Öztürk writes: It started off as a normal Tuesday. On 25 March 2025 I reviewed applications from university students applying for a summer research position at my lab. I told friends I would bring pastries from Harvard Square for the Friday dinner we were planning. I finalized my schedule for an upcoming child development conference. I worked on my dissertation proposal. The day was busy but not unusual – until I left home after quickly dressing for an iftar…

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DHS opens a billion-dollar purchasing agreement with Palantir

DHS opens a billion-dollar purchasing agreement with Palantir

Wired reports: The Department of Homeland Security struck a $1 billion purchasing agreement with Palantir last week, further reinforcing the software company’s role in the federal agency that oversees the nation’s immigration enforcement. According to contracting documents published last week, the blanket purchase agreement (BPA) awarded “is to provide Palantir commercial software licenses, maintenance, and implementation services department wide.” The agreement simplifies how DHS buys software from Palantir, allowing DHS agencies like Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and…

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How a CIA-trained Afghan commando brought America’s shadow war to Washington

How a CIA-trained Afghan commando brought America’s shadow war to Washington

Tam Hussein writes: On the eve of Thanksgiving last year, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan who had once served alongside U.S. Special Forces, drove across the United States and opened fire on two National Guard members posted near the White House, killing one and critically wounding another. Authorities described the attack as an ambush. Lakanwal himself was injured during the shootout and taken to hospital. He is now facing a first-degree murder charge with the death penalty on the cards….

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Amid mass ICE arrests, Trump pardon recipient Juan Orlando Hernández treated like royalty

Amid mass ICE arrests, Trump pardon recipient Juan Orlando Hernández treated like royalty

By Keri Blakinger This story was originally published by ProPublica For months, President Donald Trump has railed against Latin American narcoterrorists flooding the United States with “lethal poison.” He has used the scourge of drug trafficking as a rationale for dozens of military strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, which have left more than 140 people dead. Last month, Trump cheered a military assault by U.S. forces that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and…

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The ‘most massive attack on free speech’ is happening right now, and the Twitter Files crew is mighty quiet

The ‘most massive attack on free speech’ is happening right now, and the Twitter Files crew is mighty quiet

Mike Masnick writes: For the last five years, we had to endure an endless, breathless parade of hyperbole regarding the so-called “censorship industrial complex.” We were told, repeatedly and at high volume, that the Biden administration flagging content for review by social media companies constituted a tyrannical overthrow of the First Amendment. In the Missouri v. Biden (later Murthy v. Missouri) case, Judge Terry Doughty—in a ruling that seemed to consist entirely of Twitter threads pasted into a judicial ruling—declared…

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Trump wants to prosecute anti-fascists as domestic terrorists. This Texas trial will test his power

Trump wants to prosecute anti-fascists as domestic terrorists. This Texas trial will test his power

MS Now reports: On July 4 last year, a few hours after sundown, about a dozen left-wing activists gathered outside the Prairieland Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in North Texas. Some protesters set off fireworks while others spray-painted cars and a guard booth. As federal officers stepped outside to confront them, local police arrived, and shortly after, shots were fired. Investigators say an Alvarado police officer was hit in the neck by a bullet and released from the hospital…

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More than 600 people were fired or punished for posting about Charlie Kirk’s death. They want justice

More than 600 people were fired or punished for posting about Charlie Kirk’s death. They want justice

The Guardian reports: Julie Strebe, a 55-year-old sheriff’s deputy in the small Bible belt town of Salem, Missouri, was on a date with her husband at a Buffalo Wild Wings when her husband slid his phone across the table. On Facebook, people were demanding Strebe’s immediate termination, calling her a “wacko” with “extreme mental health issues”. It was the afternoon of 13 September 2025, just a few days after Charlie Kirk had been killed by a sniper’s bullet on a…

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ICE officials knew use of force was rising well before Minneapolis homicides

ICE officials knew use of force was rising well before Minneapolis homicides

Politico reports: Top Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials knew as early as March of last year that officers were using dramatically more force against civilians and the targets of their enforcement operations, months before ICE and Border Patrol officers shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. Internal emails obtained as part of a Freedom of Information Act request from the liberal-leaning watchdog nonprofit American Oversight show that top officials knew the amount of force — be it lethal force…

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Federal judge says Trump can’t ‘erase’ history, orders slavery exhibit restored

Federal judge says Trump can’t ‘erase’ history, orders slavery exhibit restored

The Washington Post reports: A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore displays discussing slavery at a site in Philadelphia where George Washington lived as president. In a 40-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania compared the displays’ removal last month to the government mind-control employed in George Orwell’s famous novel “1984.” “The government claims it alone has the power to erase, alter, remove and hide historical accounts…

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Cover-up: FBI won’t share Alex Pretti homicide evidence, Minnesota authorities say

Cover-up: FBI won’t share Alex Pretti homicide evidence, Minnesota authorities say

The Guardian reports: Minnesota law enforcement authorities have said the FBI is refusing to share any evidence on its investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal immigration authorities in late January. Pretti was shot on 24 January by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials in Minneapolis during the Trump administration’s surge of immigration enforcement operations in the city. His killing came just two weeks after an immigration official shot and killed Renee Good and 10…

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