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Federal charges have been dropped against two men who had been charged with assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minneapolis last month, including one Venezuelan defendant who was shot in the leg by an officer. The Justice Department's motion cited "newly discovered evidence" that was "materially inconsistent" with the allegations against them.

The filing, entered Thursday by U.S. Attorney in Minnesota Daniel Rosen, moved to dismiss the charges against the men with prejudice, meaning the charges cannot be reintroduced. On Friday, a judge granted the request.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said Friday that two officers have been placed on administrative leave after a review of video evidence indicated they provided "untruthful statements" in their sworn testimony.

"Upon conclusion of the investigation, the officers may face termination of employment, as well as potential criminal prosecution," Lyons said.

In January, the two men, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, were charged in a federal criminal complaint with forcibly assaulting, resisting or impeding federal officers in performance of their official duties. The charges came after Sosa-Celis was shot by an ICE officer, which drew nationwide attention amid the federal immigration surge in Minnesota.

From early on, the government's account of the alleged assault was not consistent.


>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-drops-charges-assaulting-ice-officers-inconsistent-evidence/

https://www.rawstory.com/amp/thomas-massie-2675268698-2675268698

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) posted a startling message on social media Friday declaring, “I am not suicidal,” following a heated public clash with conservative media figures over House voting procedures.

Massie's comment came after a lengthy thread in which he criticized what he called “the swamp” and accused conservative commentators, including Laura Ingraham, of misleading the public about a House procedural vote related to the SAVE Act.

“Can you, the people, ‘vote your way out of this?’ Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks,” Massie wrote, claiming that even members of Congress are deceived by conservative media.

The thread escalated when he issued a follow-up post that appeared to reference his personal safety.

“I am not suicidal,” he wrote Friday. “I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and I’m a pretty good swimmer.”

Massie has recently drawn attention for bucking GOP leadership and for pushing the Justice Department to unredact Epstein-related files.

I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and I’m a pretty good swimmer.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-require-voter-id-midterms-regardless-congress-2026-02-13/
WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would seek to impose voter identification requirements for the November midterm elections whether Congress approves them or not, without explaining the legal rationale underlying his assertion.
Trump added that he plans to issue an executive order on the matter, without providing details. The Republican president is backing a House-passed bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote in U.S. elections, which is not expected to advance in the Senate.
The bill is the latest version of election legislation that first emerged during the 2024 presidential campaign, driven by Trump's false claims that his 2020 election defeat was caused by large-scale voter fraud. A similar measure passed the House twice - last April and in 2024 - only to die in the Senate.
"I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future!," Trump said on Truth Social.
Under the U.S. Constitution, state governments oversee elections, not the federal government, and most contests are administered by county and local officials.
Trump's Republicans hold narrow majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate. Incumbent presidents' parties typically lose seats in Congress in midterm elections.

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Sweethearts, the candy hearts with messages company, is leaning into recession indicator memes with its 2026 batch. Phrases like “split rent” and “buy in bulk” feature on many of the hearts this year in another sign that the economy is bad, regardless of what the White House might claim.

Every year, Sweethearts, owned by the Sprangler Candy Company, releases a new batch of edible hearts for Valentine’s Day—some with new messages meant to reflect the times. The vibe in 2026 is, apparently, poverty.

This is a recession indicator if there ever was one.

“Sweethearts has always evolved with the times by staying aware of current dating trends and relationships—and being practical is having a moment,” said Sprangler’s Vice President of Marketing Evan Brock in a press release.

“That’s why some of the messages on our Sweethearts candies aren’t just about finding love the old-fashioned way this year.”

The new hearts feature phrases like “share logn,” “car pool,” and “cook for 2” in addition to classics like “I luv you.” One even says “joint taxes,” referring to tax benefits enjoyed by married couples.

It doesn’t exactly warm the heart as much as “my hero” or “ur cute,” but Sweethearts isn’t wrong about 2026 dating trends. According to Consumer Affairs, 78 percent of Gen Z rated financial responsibility as an important factor in choosing a romantic partner.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/recession-indicator-2026-economy-bad-123000355.html

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Are there any Americans left who even like Trump?

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-polls-2675266227/

MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough was taken aback Friday after new polling revealed that President Donald Trump had suffered a staggering 51-point swing in net approval among young voters in just a year’s time, something the “Morning Joe” host said he hadn’t seen in his entire career covering politics.

“I've never, in 32, 33 years following this very closely on the Hill, I have never seen 50-point swings,” Scarborough said. “Here we have a 51-point swing on the economy, a 51-point swing among [young] voters, and that's in the past year!”

According to a new YouGov/Economist poll, Trump’s approval among young voters – those between 18 and 29 years old – has cratered since he took office last year, dropping by 51 points to -42 net negative approval.

Trump’s approval on the economy has also cratered, dropping by 26 points among all voters when compared to the same point during his first presidency, and by a whopping 53 points among independents, a key voter bloc that helped hand Trump the presidency in 2024.

Scarborough called the abysmal polling “self-inflicted,” and cast blame directly on the Trump administration for its policies, particularly its push to construct immigration detention centers across the nation.

“They're not detention centers, they're internment camps! And they're building these internment camps all over the United States,” Scarborough said.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has selected his daughter as his heir, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers on Thursday.

Kim Ju Ae - who is believed to be 13 - has in recent months been pictured beside her father in high-profile events like a visit to Beijing in September, her first known trip abroad.

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it took a "range of circumstances" into account including her increasingly prominent public presence at official events" in making this assessment.

The NIS also said it would keep close tabs on whether she will attend the North's party congress later this month - its largest political event that is held once every five years.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0e1g7kwglo

I am looking for a video clip of Jon Stewart’s funny segment where he pokes fun at PizzaGate from some years ago. I clearly remember him going on a rant about it but I can’t seem to find any trace of it. I’ve tried YouTube, Facebook, instagram, and TikTok but no luck. I found Stephen Colbert’s funny takedown of PizzaGate back in 2016 but I still distinctly remember Jon Stewart doing one as well around the same time. Does anyone have a link to the funny segment I’m talking about? Does anyone else remember seeing the same clip like me or am I not remembering correctly?

https://forward.com/schmooze/356073/jon-stewart-has-one-simple-tip-for-ending-fake-news/

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Recently there has been a school shooting in Canada, BC, Tumbler Ridge Secondary school and the shooter was identified yesterday, I dont know if this thread has been already made.

https://www.winnipegsun.com/national-news/mass-killing-in-tumbler-ridge-school-leaves-six-dead/article_61ba49bb-afc2-4616-95c8-87f9e59963bc.html

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“ Faced with what the authorities say is an immediate shortage of at least 2.3 million workers, a shortfall exacerbated by the strain of Russia's war in Ukraine and one that Russia's traditional source of foreign labour - Central Asians - is not able to fill, Moscow is turning to a new supplier: India.”

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/russia-facing-labour-crunch-worsened-by-war-pivots-india-workers-2026-02-11/

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Turns out Republicans were the real trannys all along

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-owens-tpusa-charlie-kirk-death-conspiracy-theories-elijah-schaffer

TURNING POINT USA COMMUNICATIONS staffer Aubrey Laitsch was called into a meeting last month and abruptly told she was being fired, according to a video she posted online last week.

In her telling, the reason Laitsch was given for being let go involved a convoluted story about an Uber ride. It went like this:

A TPUSA executive had taken an Uber and asked his driver what he thought of the organization. The driver replied that he had heard it was in chaos in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination—and that no one inside TPUSA liked Erika Kirk, Kirk’s widow and now TPUSA’s CEO. Then the Uber driver revealed to the TPUSA executive that the source of his information was Laistch, who the driver claimed was a high school friend of his daughter’s.

A strange story, and one Laitsch said she didn’t buy. She then offered up another explanation—one she said didn’t come up during her discussion with TPUSA executives but which she sensed was a factor in her termination.

Laitsch, as she outlined in her video, seems to genuinely believe that her own organization had something to do with its founder’s murder or an ensuing coverup.

The unfounded claim that Charlie Kirk’s assassination was some sort of inside job is growing in popularity on the right after being promoted by YouTuber and former TPUSA employee Candace Owens. Laitsch claims that others at TPUSA are suspicious about Kirk’s murder too—and that they had been discussing among themselves how they couldn’t raise the issue internally.

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https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-administration-set-revoke-basis-us-climate-regulation-2026-02-12/
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The administration of President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the repeal of a scientific finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, and eliminated federal tailpipe emissions standards for cars and trucks.
It is the most sweeping climate change policy rollback by the administration to date, after a string of regulatory cuts and other moves intended to unfetter fossil fuel development and stymie the rollout of clean energy.
"Under the process just completed by the EPA, we are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding, a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and drove up prices for American consumers," Trump said, saying it was the biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history.
The Environmental Protection Agency said in a press release the endangerment finding had relied on an incorrect interpretation of federal clean air laws meant to protect Americans from pollutants that do harm through local or regional exposure, not through warming the global climate.
"This flawed legal theory took the agency outside the scope of its statutory authority in multiple respects," it said.
Trump announced the repeal beside EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and White House budget director Russ Vought, who has long sought to revoke the finding and was a key architect of conservative policy blueprint Project 2025.
Trump has said he believes climate change is a "con job", and has withdrawn the United States from the Paris Agreement, leaving the world’s largest historic contributor to global warming out of international efforts to combat it. He has also signed legislation killing Biden-era tax credits aimed at accelerating deployment of electric cars and renewable energy.

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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-owens-tpusa-charlie-kirk-death-conspiracy-theories-elijah-schaffer

TURNING POINT USA COMMUNICATIONS staffer Aubrey Laitsch was called into a meeting last month and abruptly told she was being fired, according to a video she posted online last week.

In her telling, the reason Laitsch was given for being let go involved a convoluted story about an Uber ride. It went like this:

A TPUSA executive had taken an Uber and asked his driver what he thought of the organization. The driver replied that he had heard it was in chaos in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination—and that no one inside TPUSA liked Erika Kirk, Kirk’s widow and now TPUSA’s CEO. Then the Uber driver revealed to the TPUSA executive that the source of his information was Laistch, who the driver claimed was a high school friend of his daughter’s.

A strange story, and one Laitsch said she didn’t buy. She then offered up another explanation—one she said didn’t come up during her discussion with TPUSA executives but which she sensed was a factor in her termination.

Laitsch, as she outlined in her video, seems to genuinely believe that her own organization had something to do with its founder’s murder or an ensuing coverup.

The unfounded claim that Charlie Kirk’s assassination was some sort of inside job is growing in popularity on the right after being promoted by YouTuber and former TPUSA employee Candace Owens. Laitsch claims that others at TPUSA are suspicious about Kirk’s murder too—and that they had been discussing among themselves how they couldn’t raise the issue internally.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ocearch-shark-contender-north-carolina-cape-fear/

Contender, a large male great white shark tagged by the marine research group OCEARCH has been spotted in waters off the coast of North Carolina after months of cruising around Florida.

Contender was tagged by the research group in January 2025. He weighs nearly 1,700 pounds and measures over 13 feet long. The tag provides real-time data about his location, allowing researchers to learn more about migration patterns and other habits.

Great whites like Contender tend to spend the summer in cooler, prey-dense northern waters near Maine and Canada before migrating south for the winter, OCEARCH said on Instagram.

Sharks don't ping every day. Their movements are tracked by devices attached to their dorsal fins. The trackers can't transmit through water, OCEARCH senior data scientist John Tyminski said in a video published by the organization. To accurately confirm a shark's location, the tracker must break the surface while an Argos satellite is above. The satellites are only in a given spot for about 13 minutes. During that time, the tracker must send multiple messages for a location to be confirmed.

If a shark's tracker only sends one message to the satellite, it is considered a "Z-ping." Those are less specific and only give scientists a general sense of where the shark may be, Tyminski said.

Each shark's tag can provide real-time data for several years, according to OCEARCH. That information is available online.

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Friendly reminder that most Republicans aren't pedophiles, they're just closeted homosexuals

https://ew.com/house-republicans-call-for-investigation-of-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-11904174

Two days out, Bad Bunny's epic Super Bowl halftime show, which featured cameos from stars such as Lady Gaga, Pedro Pascal, and Ricky Martin, is still getting a lot of attention, especially from Republican lawmakers. They were not entertained.

By Monday, one of the detractors, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), asked officials to look into the performance, which he called "pure smut" that he claimed was "illegal to be displayed on public airways."

Ogles cited "choreography featuring overtly sexualized movements, including widespread twerking, grinding, pelvic thrusts and other sexually suggestive conduct."

He is, therefore, "requesting that the Energy and Commerce Committee launch a formal congressional inquiry into the National Football League and NBC immediately for their prior knowledge, deliberate approval, and facilitation of this indecent broadcast. American culture will not be mocked or corrupted without consequence."

Ogles' colleague Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.) said Tuesday that he and his Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives have already embarked on an investigation into the event.

"On the Bad Bunny bad performance at the Super Bowl — we're still investigating this," he said on TV's Real America's Voice, per The Wrap. "There's a lot of information that has come out about the lyrics."

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5736499-kennedy-cocaine-toilet-seat-recovery/

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during the latest episode of Theo Von’s podcast Thursday that he once snorted cocaine off of a toilet seat while talking about not fearing germs.

Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, appeared on “This Past Weekend” when he made the remark. He reflected on meeting with Von at recovery meetings in the Los Angeles area when he brought up still going to in-person recovery meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I mean for me, I said this when I came in, ‘I don’t care what happens, I’m going to a meeting everyday,'” Kennedy said. “I’m not scared of a germ, you know. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats. I know this disease will kill me. If I don’t treat it, which means going to meetings everyday, it’s just bad for my life. For me, it was survival.”

The secretary, who has been in recovery for more than 40 years, called it “heartbreaking” when meetings tried to go virtual rather than in person.

The two moved on to discuss Kennedy’s work at the HHS, and he reflected on his time working as a lawyer.

Kennedy has been open about his past drug use, which he said started in the years after his father, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968 in Los Angeles after winning the state’s presidential primary for the Democratic nomination.

Kennedy was arrested twice for drug possession, the latter of the two arrests leading him to commit to becoming sober.