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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Fulton county to challenge FBI seizure of election documents
Commissioner to file motion requesting return of property unlawfully taken during raid related to 2020 election…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/georgia-fulton-county-fbi-election-raid
US contractor sent Gaza plan to White House that would secure 300% profits
Exclusive: Gothams LLC's draft proposal, obtained by the Guardian, suggests seven-year trucking and logistics monopoly…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/02/contractor-gaza-profits-white-house-gothams
DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’
"The federal government cannot be trusted. Our default position should be skepticism and understanding they lie very regularly," said Sameer Kanal, a Portland city councilor. "There's a playbook of demonizing people … and claiming vehicles were used as 'weapons.' We see a pattern of victim-blaming, and it's important we push back, because it's propaganda."…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/portland-venezuelans-shot-border-patrol-court
Trump says he can solve UN financial problem 'very easily' - POLITICO
Trump declined to tell POLITICO Sunday whether the United States would make good on the billions of dollars it owes the international body...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/01/trump-solve-un-financial-problem-00759213
Capitol agenda: Mike Johnson’s shutdown gamble - Live Updates - POLITICO
The speaker is hoping to quell an internal Republican revolt in order to pass the funding package Tuesday.
Meta drops $65 million into super PACs to boost tech-friendly state candidates - POLITICO
The efforts launched last fall to counter what the company cast as a flood of overly burdensome AI bills from state governments...
In Scathing Ruling, Federal Judge Orders Release of Liam Ramos From Detention – Mother Jones
Biery wrote of the detainment: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency."…
Judge Biery accused the federal government of "ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence" and "that pesky inconvenience called the Fourth Amendment." At the end of the ruling, he includes that now indelible photo of Liam with two Bible verses. Matthew 19:14, which quotes Jesus: "Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven."
And John 11:35, "Jesus wept."
Lame duck no more? Trump stockpiles hundreds of millions ahead of midterms. - POLITICO
Campaign finance disclosures filed late Saturday revealed details of the president's unmatched political fundraising operation…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/01/donald-trump-fundraising-midterms-00759005
Federal Agents Launch Tear Gas at Nonviolent Anti-ICE Protesters—Including Children – Mother Jones
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson released a statement late Saturday night, saying that it was a "peaceful daytime protest" that "posed no danger to federal forces."
"To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave," he continued. "To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children. Ask yourselves why you continue to work for an agency responsible for murders on American streets."…
Judge says Trump administration must let lawmakers make unannounced visits to ICE detention facilities - POLITICO
The Department of Homeland Security had implemented a one-week notice for lawmakers' visits…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/02/ice-detention-congress-visit-00759990
Trump says Republicans should ‘nationalize’ elections - POLITICO
The suggestion — which runs contrary to the Constitution's delegation of election administration to state governments — comes less than a week after the FBI raided an elections office outside Atlanta, seizing ballots and other voting records from the 2020 election...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/02/trump-nationalize-elections-2026-midterms-00760015
Trump’s SNAP Rules Are About to Imperil Food Access for Millions – Mother Jones
" These work requirements aren't really about promoting work. They're about dehumanizing people and attacking the 'other,'" Joel Berg, CEO of the nonprofit Hunger Free America, told ABC News. "Most SNAP recipients are pro-work, and most SNAP recipients are already working, or children, or people with disabilities, or older Americans. So all this is sort of a diversionary debate."…
WATCH: RFK Jr. and others launch new addiction and homelessness initiative | PBS News
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will also make faith-based organizations eligible for addiction-related grants and expand states' ability to use federal health funding for substance abuse treatment in certain situations involving children, Kennedy said at an annual "Prevention Day" event for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration...
Yet the announcements come as the administration's actions so far have created uncertainty, fear and logistical challenges for mental health and substance abuse treatment providers around the country…
An Arizona Push for School Board Prayers (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #620)
— The scandal rocking Bethel Church and the world of charismatic Christians. (1:07)
— Arizona GOP pushes bill to allow school board prayers, despite obvious constitutional violations. (18:54)
— After Bible-thumping backfires, Maryland county won’t open meetings with the Lord’s Prayer. (32:50)
— In Oregon, a local official’s “State of the County” address turned into a Christian revival. (40:16)
— A pastor who rejects “established science” decided polio & measles vaccines should be optional. (50:15)
— An Oklahoma lawmaker wants Creationism taught in science classes. His bill is doomed. (1:03:26)
Interview:
— Arizona GOP pushes bill to allow school board prayers, despite obvious constitutional violations. (18:54)
— After Bible-thumping backfires, Maryland county won’t open meetings with the Lord’s Prayer. (32:50)
— In Oregon, a local official’s “State of the County” address turned into a Christian revival. (40:16)
— A pastor who rejects “established science” decided polio & measles vaccines should be optional. (50:15)
— An Oklahoma lawmaker wants Creationism taught in science classes. His bill is doomed. (1:03:26)
Interview:
History Minute (084): KKK concept of the Nordic noble race
The Ku Klux Klan combined its concept of race with contemporary thought about eugenics -- good genes versus bad ones. Klansmen religious nationalist talk about the past is frequently in terms of inherited "Nordic-ness". White Americans -- at least those of Nordic descent, as a certain percentage of Anglos are thought to be -- are part of a "noble race". In their view, God intentionally gave America to this noble race of superior white men for the purpose of their rebirth and expansion. God has destined them to save white civilization.
Members of this noble race of superior white men can be identified, in their thinking, by their "Nordic" traits: wavy brown or blond hair; light skin; eyes that are blue, grey, or biscuit; a nose that is symmetrical; a sturdy physique; and a skull that is relatively long, with a width of less than 80% of its length. Such people might come typically from eastern Germany, Poland, and Russia, as well as eastern Ukraine -- though not every person from these lands are members of the "noble race".
Members of this Nordic "noble race" allegedly created ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, both of which declined due to intermarriage with non-Nordic people. They say further, that when the Roman Empire fell, it was Nordic Goths who acquired the science, literature, and aesthetics of the Roman Empire and supposedly initiated the Renaissance. They assert that all the great minds of this era -- Dante, Michelangelo, da Vinci, etc. -- were racially Nordic. In our time, they claim that the vast majority of people of the British Isles belong to the Nordic race -- most especially Scotland, where the race is thought to be most pure.
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