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12:10 PM ET, February 2, 2026

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Wall Street Journal:
Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency  —  Congress hasn't seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community's watchdog office  —  WASHINGTON—A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director …
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
DOJ Released Unredacted Nude Images in Epstein Files  —  The Department of Justice left multiple unredacted photos of fully nude women or girls exposed as part of Friday's dump of more than 3.5 million pages of files related to the investigations and prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Discussion: CBS News
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New York Times:
The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files  —  The photos, which showed young women or possibly teenagers with their faces visible, were largely removed after The New York Times began notifying the Justice Department.  —  The Justice Department published dozens …
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Martha McHardy / The Daily Beast:
DOJ Makes Bizarre Attempt to Redact Trump's Face in Epstein Files Photo  —  CENSORED  —  The newly released materials contain frequent references to Donald Trump.  —  The Justice Department is drawing fresh scrutiny after releasing Epstein-related records that appear to black out Donald Trump's face in a photograph.
Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
New Epstein files reveal he may have trafficked girls to others despite official denials
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Post
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive  —  Amid calls to increase transparency and revelations about the court's inner workings, the chief justice imposed nondisclosure agreements on clerks and employees.  —  In November of 2024, two weeks after voters returned President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Steve Vladeck / One First:
207. The Justice Department Beclowns Itself (Again)  —  The denouement of DOJ's misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg provides useful lessons relating to both the Department's continuing misbehavior and the emptiness of calls for impeachment.  —  Welcome back to “One First,” …
New Republic:
Trump Tirade Over Protests Goes Off Rails as Crushing Fox Poll Hits … Donald Trump appears in deep denial about how widely hated his ICE raids have become.  He let out a strange, rambling tirade to reporters about how the “silent majority” is still behind what ICE is doing …
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Thor Benson / madness:
How ICE turned into what it is today  —  ICE has been a malignant force in American society since it was created in 2003, but it's quite obvious that the agency is worse today than it's ever been.  Donald Trump ran on mass deportations as a candidate in 2024, and now the country is seeing what that looks like.
Discussion: Vox and Fox News
Jake Lahut / New York Magazine:
Nancy Mace Is Not Okay  —  “Something's broken.  The motherboard's fried.  We're short-circuiting somewhere.”  —  Right up until she lit the fire, some of Representative Nancy Mace's own staff and advisers didn't know what she was going to say on the House floor in February 2025 …
Discussion: New Republic, HuffPost and Raw Story
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
ICE halts “all movement” at Texas detention facility due to measles infections  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement halted “all movement” at a detention center in Texas for families and quarantined some migrants there after medical staff confirmed two detainees had …
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Max Rego / The Hill:
DHS locks down detention center hit by measles outbreak
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Fox News
Stephanie Koithan / San Antonio Current:
Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE's Dilley family detention facility
J. David McSwane / ProPublica:
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting  —  The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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emptywheel:
Stephen Miller Paid Latino Thugs to Murder Alex Pretti
Ben Blanchet / HuffPost:
‘Loser Behavior’: Trump Roasted Over His Post-Grammys Freak-Out  —  The president launched an ominous threat at “talentless” Trevor Noah after the comedian clowned him while hosting the Grammy Awards.  —  President Donald Trump became a social media punch line after he took aim at Trevor Noah …
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over joke about Jeffrey Epstein's island
Sebastian Starcevic / Politico:
Trump vows to sue comic Trevor Noah after Epstein island jibe at Grammys
New York Times:
Trump Had Unusual Call With F.B.I. Agents After Election Center Search  —  The phone conversation was arranged by the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who met with the agents a day after the search for reasons that remain unclear, The New York Times has learned.
Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Hill and CNN
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Jason Morris / CNN:
Fulton County expected to sue over FBI's seizure of 2020 election records
Discussion: NBC News and CBS News
Washington Post:
Inside Musk's bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator  —  Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk's xAI loosened its guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.  —  Weeks before Elon Musk officially left his perch in government last spring …
The Wrap:
CBS News Expected to Cut Ties With Contributor Peter Attia Over Epstein Links |  Exclusive  —  In newly released emails, the wellness guru made crude jokes in chummy correspondence with the late convicted sex offender  —  CBS News is expected to cut ties with new contributor Peter Attia …
Aidan Sadovi / The Daily Illini:
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid Minnesota killings  —  In a post that included a stylized graphic of a presumed federal officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE” amid the killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.
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Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Elite Law Firm Boss Who Bent the Knee to Trump Sucked Up to ‘Amazing’ Epstein  —  FANBOY  —  The embattled chairman of Paul Weiss has now had his embarrassing emails to Jeffrey Epstein exposed.  —  The chairman of a major law firm that sparked backlash by caving to President Donald Trump …
New York Times:
We Were Top Homeland Security Lawyers.  You Can't Wish Away the Fourth Amendment.  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly issued a memorandum that authorizes its agents to enter private residences forcibly without a judicial warrant.  James Percival, the general counsel …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
What a Comparison With Roosevelt Reveals About Trump  —  A little more than a year into President Trump's second term, his executive power grabs have been arrestingly similar to ones pioneered by an iconic predecessor liberals revere: Franklin D. Roosevelt.  —  Yet this comparison …
Discussion: New York Sun
Financial Times:
Jeffrey Epstein asked for Snow White costume weeks before Jes Staley email  —  Former Barclays chief has insisted he had no recollection of what Disney character reference was about  —  Jeffrey Epstein asked an unidentified woman to buy a Snow White costume just weeks before he and former …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A 1987 Proposal Could Help Hold ICE to Account for Constitutional Violations  —  A proposal in a 1987 law review article could address a gap that makes it all but impossible to sue federal officials for violating the Constitution.  —  The key to holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents accountable …
Discussion: Raw Story
Mary Carolan / The Irish Times:
George Mitchell's name removed from US-Ireland scholarship after Epstein files release  —  Scholarship was set up in name of former US senator who brokered Belfast Agreement  —  The release of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has prompted the removal …
The Bulwark:
This Isn't What De-escalation Looks Like  —  Trump can't tame the monster he made.  —  Think you've lost your capacity to be shocked by stories of Donald Trump's open corruption?  Try this one on for size: The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that a UAE sheikh bought a 49 percent stake …
Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE  —  Trump supporter Júnior Pena falsely claimed migrants being rounded up, including Brazilians, were ‘all crooks’  —  A rightwing Brazilian influencer who claimed Donald Trump's immigration crackdown targeted only …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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