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DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’
Court records obtained by the Guardian reveal a Department of Justice prosecutor later directly contradicted DHS’ Tren de Aragua statements in court, telling a judge, “We’re not suggesting … [Niño-Moncada] is a gang member.” An FBI affidavit issued following the incident also suggests that in the previous shooting cited by DHS, Zambrano-Contreras was not a suspect, but rather a reported victim of a sexual assault and robbery. Neither Niño-Moncada or Zambrano-Contreras have prior criminal convictions, their lawyers have said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/portland-venezuelans-shot-border-patrol-court

Judge lifts order to preserve evidence in Alex Pretti shooting
“Though the record is not one-sided, the greater weight of the evidence shows Defendants are not likely to destroy or improperly alter evidence related to Mr. Pretti’s shooting during the life of this case, and other relevant considerations do not on balance favor a continuing preservation order,” the Trump-appointed judge wrote.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/02/minnesota-judge-alex-pretti-gun-00761319

‘Surveillance Is Not Accountability’: Noem Sending DHS Agents in Minnesota Body Cameras
Critics of the administration cast doubt on whether adding more bodycams to the mix will reduce violence by DHS. Campaign for New York Health executive director Melanie D’Arrigo said that immigration agents “murdered two people on video since the beginning of the year, and the Trump administration still lied about what happened and tried to justify it. I don’t think cameras are the solution.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-body-cameras

Bill and Hillary Clinton agree to testify in House Epstein investigation
Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed on Monday to testify in a House investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, days before the chamber was expected to vote to hold them in contempt of Congress. The concession follows a tense back-and-forth between the Clintons and the Republican James Comer, chair of the House oversight committee, who on Monday said that he would insist both Clintons sit for a sworn deposition before the committee in order to fulfill the panel’s subpoenas.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/bill-clinton-interview-rejected-epstein

Mayor of Portland, Oregon, demands ICE leave the city after federal agents gas protesters
Witnesses said agents deployed tear gas, pepper balls and rubber bullets as thousands of marchers arrived at the South Waterfront facility on Saturday. Erin Hoover Barnett, a former OregonLive reporter who joined the protest, said she was about 100 yards (90 meters) from the building when “what looked like two guys with rocket launchers” started dousing the crowd with gas.
https://apnews.com/article/portland-protest-tear-gas-mayor-keith-wilson-1f21fc3d3d4b7a2874239a29ece52c06

Strike by 31,000 Kaiser nurses continues, as strike looms for thousands of pharmacy and lab workers
Friday marked the fifth day of an open-ended strike by 31,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers in California and Hawaii. The strike is part of a broader upsurge of social struggles, including nationwide protests Friday and Saturday against the ICE rampage in Minneapolis, as well as a three-week strike by 15,000 nurses in New York City.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/31/dsnb-j31.html

Nevada school budget heyday was short-lived. Why several districts are now in dire straits
Superintendents across the state say flat K-12 education funding, increased costs that have chipped away at their reserves, declining student enrollment and policy changes under the state’s new funding formula have created a perfect storm for their budgets. Carson City, Douglas County, Elko County and Washoe County are among the school districts that are facing budget deficits forcing them to make tough decisions.
https://apnews.com/article/education-funding-schools-clay-anderson-joe-lombardo-nevada-4666158d198e2318b686d6f3cb9407ce

"Leadership Would Like Your Help": Indian Billionaire Tapped Jeffrey Epstein Before Modi's Visits to U.S. and Israel
Documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday reveal previously unreported details about financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s role as a backroom power broker amid the rapid strengthening of India-Israel ties in 2017. Epstein connected an Indian billionaire close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak ahead of the first ever trip by an Indian PM to Israel. Days later, that billionaire, Anil Ambani, told Epstein after a visit to Delhi that “Leadership” wanted Epstein’s help for Ambani to meet “jared and Bannon asap,” and requested his “assistance” regarding Modi’s upcoming meeting with Trump. Modi’s landmark visit to Israel in 2017 helped accelerate the burgeoning relationship between the three countries. Afterward, Epstein celebrated in an email that Modi had “danced and sang in Israel for the benefit of the US president.” On Saturday, the Indian government responded to the revelations about Modi’s visit to Israel in Epstein’s communications. “We have seen reports of an email message from the so-called Epstein files that has a reference to the Prime Minister and his visit to Israel,” said a statement by India’s foreign affairs ministry. “Beyond the fact of the Prime Minister’s official visit to Israel in July 2017, the rest of the allusions in the email are little more than trashy ruminations by a convicted criminal, which deserve to be dismissed with the utmost contempt.”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/modi-epstein-files-bannon-billionaire-anil-ambani-india-israel-united-states-justice-department

Strategic Shift and Kinetic Action: The U.S. Approach Against the Islamic State in Nigeria
Nigeria’s domestic insecurity has increasingly been instrumentalized within U.S. foreign policy discourse. In November last year, President Donald Trump threatened direct kinetic intervention to counter a so-called “Christian genocide” in Nigeria. Despite these claims, insecurity is driven by overlapping and long-standing land disputes, herder-farmer tensions, communal violence, and organized crime, with the vast majority of victims of militant violence in northern Nigeria being Muslim. Washington’s framing of the crisis through a religious lens, therefore, reflects political utility rather than empirical accuracy. Washington’s strategic recalibration in West Africa has occurred alongside an ongoing decline of U.S. influence across the Sahel. Following Niger’s 2023 coup, the United States lost its primary intelligence hub at Air Base 201 near Agadez, while Chinese and Russian engagement expanded as junta-led governments increasingly distanced themselves from Western security partnerships. Since its expulsion from Niger in 2024, Washington has sought to reconstitute its regional intelligence and security posture, with Nigeria emerging as a central anchor for U.S. engagement. These have efforts have been made visible shift has bed by a marked increase in U.S. intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) activity over Nigeria since late November, with flights reportedly originating from Ghana—underscoring Washington’s efforts to project influence and maintain situational awareness outside the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), including through partners such as Ghana, Benin, and Chad.
https://www.militantwire.com/p/strategic-shift-and-kinetic-action

Andrew Windsor accused of involvement in torture and murder – Down with the Epstein class!
The Epstein scandal is continuing to fuel class hatred worldwide, against the billionaire elites and members of both the US and British establishments. An email in the latest tranche of ‘Epstein files’ released by the US Department of Justice accuses former-prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of being an accessory to the death of a girl trafficked for sex and torture in the 1990s. The sickening accusations state that the girl was “sold as a slave for sex and torture”, and that the King’s brother allegedly tortured her, before forcing another individual to murder her. Separate claims describe events in Surrey, England, again during the 1990s, where a victim (aged 6-8 at the time) was allegedly drugged, tied to a table, and tortured by Jeffrey Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell, while the then-Prince and other men watched. These claims remain unverified. But fear not: the Surrey Police have politely “asked” the FBI for more information. Keir Starmer, meanwhile, has suggested that Andrew “should be prepared” to testify before the US Congress. Stern words! The hypocrisy of the establishment is astounding. Labour, Reform, and Tory politicians – alongside the billionaire press and right-wing grifters like Musk and Co. – have spent years whipping up divisive, culture-war hysteria about Pakistani grooming gangs, and the threat that asylum seekers supposedly pose to women and girls. And yet those very same people all prefer to turn a blind eye to the depraved crimes of the rich and powerful elites – the biggest grooming gang out there. They only feign concern about victims of sexual abuse when it suits their own divisive agenda. Elsewhere, Lord Peter Mandelson – Tony Blair’s former sidekick and, until recently, Starmer’s ambassador to the USA – has been further implicated in this sordid affair, having received £55,000 in payments from Epstein in the early 2000s. As an aside, in 2009 he also told his friend Epstein that the boss of American bank JPMorgan should “threaten” Mandelson’s own government over a proposed tax on banker bonuses. The class solidarity of our ruling elites evidently transcends borders.
https://communist.red/andrew-windsor-accused-of-involvement-in-torture-and-murder-down-with-the-epstein-class/

>(((Elites))) that are bad because satanism and pedophilia

Go back to reddit

>>2678207
pedantic autism born solely out of spite and contrarianism while relying on floating signifiers like "based" and "reddit"
kill yourself

>>2678211
Class struggle will supplant your class collaboration and your grave sites will be turned common-owned toilets for future generations