In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said the app's results are a “definitive” determination of someone's immigration status.

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On Saturday in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, a pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and anti-Muslim hate rally organized by racist Jake Lang was abruptly aborted after Lang was swarmed by local residents and counterprotesters. The robust community response to the rally underscores the unpopularity of Trump’s “mass deportation” policies and attacks on immigrants.

According to the account provided to Payam, Eli was standing next to her older sister during a protest in Karaj, about 44km from Tehran, when she was shot dead on 8 January.

Trust had $254m invested in companies such as Chevron, BP and Shell in 2024, a nine-year record, analysis shows

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No surprise — business executives have all been cowed into supporting Trump's fascism

TranscriptScreenshot of a tweet by @jrhennesy: "Logging onto X the everything app and feeling my neural pathways develop", followed by a screenshot of a conversation: Erik: "Coffee has gotten weaker. Used to be that a cup of coffee would energize you like crazy. Back when I first started, the coffee was so high quality that it would almost get you 'high'. It felt like a legitimate psychotropic. Now coffee only gets you to baseline. It changed." Nahum: "Everyone blames the coffee, but have we considered the mugs?" Erik: "Wow. No. No, I haven't. Wow."

Listen to Donald Trump and you would think Moscow and Beijing were lying in wait off the coast of Greenland, ready to pounce to boost their power in the Arctic.

Source https://xcancel.com/shaTIRED/status/2012639454687604816#m

[purple, speaking with a bit of an anxious look] My mom used to say there's always a creepy person on every bus [purple is now on the bus, looking smug and proud, holding a bar] Well, I take the bus every day And I've never seen them [behind purple, a crowd of diverse characters are all reacting in various ways while looking at purple, most of them are cringing or disgusted]

Russian authorities have detained an Indigenous climate advocate, accusing her of participating in a terrorist organization in what international observers are calling “retribution” for her United Nations advocacy on behalf of Indigenous peoples.

Ich werde langsam alt. Rentenantrag ist bereits eingereicht.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/45810913

A 16-year-old was among protesters sexually assaulted in custody by the security forces in Iran during the nationwide uprising that has left thousands dead, according to a human rights group.

https://github.com/ryzendew/Linux-Affinity-Installer

A developer has submitted a draft to the KDE team for KWin to hook up a full Plasma VR mode and it looks pretty awesome. As it's currently a draft, it needs plenty more work before being accepted but the idea behind it and how it looks has me quite interested.

Star Trek: Discovery S3E12 "There Is A Tide..."

The vote will decide all 465 seats in parliament’s lower house and mark Takaichi’s first electoral test since becoming nation’s first female leader.

"The enemy is unable to push us back and entrench itself in Huliaipole, so [...] the enemy's engineer units have received a large number of anti-personnel and anti-tank TM-72 mines to mine all the roads, streets and gardens.

Since the declaration of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on October 10, 2025, Israel has violated the agreement with near-daily attacks, killing hundreds of people.

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What began as a joke on social media has snowballed into one of the most talked-about political satire campaigns in Europe this year. More than 200,000 Danish citizens have now signed a viral petition proposing that Denmark buy the U.S. state of California, a tongue-in-cheek response to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s past interest in acquiring Greenland.

I spent some time setting up a Pentium II with Windows 98 and a Voodoo 3 on PCem this weekend.

Kontext: Erst ploppt ich_iel_but_american auf, und jetzt hab ich auch noch mind. zwei Michmichs auf 196 gesehen, die mir verdächtig bekannt vorkamen. Was für eine bodenlose Frechheit!

Alt text: A man gently touching a ball upon which it rotates with kinetic energy, causing a twink to get up rapidly. Above the text "straight man touches balls for the very first time and feels something electric"

seems like they're overhauling the game and making big updates

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/sustainability/p/957928/u-s-public-invited-to-weigh-in-on-major-offshore-drilling-proposal

The crisis is most acute in cargo aviation: air cargo turnover fell from 9.2 billion tonne-kilometers in 2021 to 1.9 billion in 2024. Experts note that without access to modern aircraft and service, the degradation of the industry may deepen further.

MaiaSpace has been selected by Eutelsat for multi-year OneWeb LEO satellite launches, strengthening Europe’s access to space from 2027.

An Ontario woman who regularly shared her experiences as a sexual assault survivor at police training courses says she’s ending her relationship with the Ontario Police College and is raising concerns about what she and several experts say are harmful biases among some officers and a lack of accountability from the college.

Israel routinely confiscates what it calls uncultivated Palestinian land. In the West Bank towns of Beit Furik or Beit Dajan, farmers who refuse to be driven from their territory are subject to constant attacks by armed settlers and the Israeli army.

Russia’s false claim about the city was an attempt to justify personnel losses, quell war fatigue and draw out peace talks through claims of territorial gains, said Fedorenko, the Achilles commander.

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The only investigation is going to come from the county DA, and be done without federal cooperation

Welp that'll be another year or so.

Mon 19 Jan 2026 13.00 EST

Need some happy news in here occasionally...

Experts probing the cause of Sunday's derailment of a high-speed train in Spain, which killed at least 39 people, found a broken joint on the rails, according to a source briefed on initial investigations into the disaster.

Millions of people on Sumatra remain displaced by November’s cyclone, showing the dangers of the climate crisis and indiscriminate logging and habitat destruction.

The Supreme Court of Canada is hearing arguments today on a Quebec case that could have far-reaching implications on policing across Canada.

Serbia entered 2026 in full pre-election mode — even though a date for a parliamentary election has not yet been set.