Tuesday, February 03, 2026

Social Media Restricts Free Speech for Protestors

 This week US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined the Miami talks with Kirill Dmitriev, whom he previously dismissed as a “Russian propagandist,” alongside Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio and Jared Kushner.

In response to released Epstein files, Russia's envoy says 'satanist cabal' exploited situation in Ukraine



How Epstein used a private detective to dig dirt on Australian victim


Washington/London | Jeffrey Epstein’s private investigator advised the convicted sex offender to leverage his relationship with disgraced royal Andrew Mountbatteni-Windsor and his likely sway with British intelligence agencies to dig dirt on his Australian victim, Virginia Giuffre.
Bill Riley, a Miami-based private investigator who worked with Epstein for at least a decade, wrote to his client in January 2015 with the audacious idea, according to new documents released by the US Department of Justice


The Australians named in Epstein’s diaries and emails

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Kevin Rudd, Katherine Keating, Clive Palmer and Andrew Forrest are among a disparate group of Australians mentioned in the latest dump of documents on the activities of the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, whose ties to sex-trafficking and underage girls have rocked the global elite.



All rise for JudgeGPT
The Verge – The legal system is flawed — could AI actually make it better? [no paywall] “Bridget McCormack is used to correcting judges’ work. As the former chief justice on the Michigan Supreme Court, it was her job to review complaints about how judges at the lower courts failed to consider key evidence or rule on certain aspects of a case. 

In her current job, McCormack is working on a new kind of legal decision-maker. McCormack leads the American Arbitration Association, which has developed an AI Arbitrator to help parties settle document-based disputes in a low-cost way. Like a judge, it would make mistakes. 

But unlike many judges, it wouldn’t be burdened by more casework than it had hours in the day. It could make sure to always show its work, check that each side agreed it understood all the facts, and ensure it ruled on each issue at play. And it wouldn’t be human — it’s made of neural networks….Optimists like McCormack, meanwhile, see huge potential upsides for bringing speedier justice to the American legal system, even as they see an enduring role for human decision-makers. 



“Most small and medium businesses in the United States can’t afford legal help at all, and one dispute can put them under,” she says. “So imagine giving all of those businesses a way to resolve disputes and move forward with their business in a way that they could navigate, afford, and manage on their own.” 

She and others are balancing a difficult question: Can a new technology improve a flawed and limited justice system when it has flaws and limitations of its own?…”


Social Media Restricts Free Speech for Protestors

“Meta users have been restricted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads from sharing links to the ‘ICE List,’ a website compiling names of DHS employees in an effort to hold them accountable. Last year, ICE ran at least $2.8 million worth of ads on Facebook and Instagram.”



ProPublica – Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence – “The Trump administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to write federal transportation regulations, according to U.S. Department of Transportation records and interviews with six agency staffers. The plan was presented to DOT staff last month at a demonstration of AI’s “potential to revolutionize the way we draft rulemakings,” agency attorney Daniel Cohen wrote to colleagues. 

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured

The American Prospect –  ICE doesn’t share its violent incidents with the public. So here’s our list. “The Trump regime’s deportation monomania has left far more people dead and wounded than it wants you to know. Agents’ public executions of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have rightly drawn widespread fury, heartbreak, and action. 

And they are just two of the at least eight people agents have murdered or caused to die in the field between July 2025 and January 28, 2026. Even more people have died in immigration prison, in an even shorter time. 

Between July 2025 and January 28, 2026, 35 people have died in Trump’s concentration camps. These are minimum numbers—only the ones that the Trump regime has told us about, only the ones that have made it, sometimes, into the news cycle. And as for the people federal agents have merely injured? An official count doesn’t exist. 

There is no doubt that the regime is working overtime to hide the full scope of the terror campaign spreading across our country. The Prospect is launching this tracker to do our part to stop them from getting away with it. We are collecting data to bring the real harm into sharper focus than Trump and his sadistic coterie want you to know. We are also doing it as a counterbalance to the mainstream media’s sanitation of what we would call “pogroms” if it was happening in any other country. 

Consider, for example, how The New York Times represents the deadly operation in Minnesota, under the title “Minneapolis Tensions.” Now consider if that would accurately reflect your anguish if modern-day slave catchers used your toddler as bait and then threw him in prison. 

Or if they marched your grandfather outside in the snow, wearing only his boxers. Or, God forbid, chased your beloved husband or brother or uncle to his death. Would “tensions” be good enough? No. None of these deaths had to happen. All are a result of Trump’s racist mass deportation drive. They are a stain on our country and we refuse to forget…”

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