Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, the CEO of the mega trade and logistics company DP World, has resigned from his position after he was named in documents of Jeffrey Epstein, who referred to the Dubai businessman as a “close personal friend.”

The UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands are confident that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin.

This is the conclusion of our Governments based on analyses of samples from Alexei Navalny. These analyses have conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine.

Epibatidine is a toxin found in poison dart frogs in South America. It is not found naturally in Russia.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43166102

Similar Student Protests Spread in Dozens of U.S. Cities on February 6

February 9, 2026

On Friday, February 6, 2026, students at Bellaire High School in Houston, Texas, walked out as part of a coordinated regional effort involving several area schools, including Cypress Falls and Conroe High Schools, to protest operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amid fears that its agents will be allowed onto school property to detain students and their families.

The Houston Chronicle article reproduced below on the Bellaire walkout conveys important developments in the fight to oppose deportations across the United States.

The widespread high-school student walkouts on January 30 are now being followed by new and similar grassroots initiatives at schools around the country.

Organized locally, these protests show that high school students are not waiting for others to prompt them into action. They’re taking initiatives that can help build a nationwide movement to oppose the anti-immigrant crackdown.

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Materialious is usable on Web, Android (TV too) & Desktop.

It can be used with Invidious or using its own YouTube backend.

Has its own account system with end-to-end encryption for subscriptions.

In the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day, dating apps typically see a spike in new users and activity. More profiles are created, more messages sent, more swipes logged.

Dating platforms market themselves as modern technological solutions to loneliness, right at your fingertips. And yet, for many people, the day meant to celebrate romantic connection feels lonelier than ever.

This, rather than a personal failure or the reality of modern romance, is the outcome of how dating apps are designed and of the economic logic that governs them.

These digital tools aren’t simply interfaces that facilitate connection. The ease and expansiveness of online dating have commodified social bonds, eroded meaningful interactions and created a type of dating throw-away culture, encouraging a sense of disposability and distorting decision-making.

The Council on American Islamic Relations (Cair) said this week that not a single one of the 51 US university campuses it investigated since 2024 is "unhostile" to Muslim students, as well as those protesting or speaking out in favour of the Palestinian cause.

The 51 universities were chosen because civil rights concerns were raised about them, Cair said.

The organisation's dedicated website, which monitors anti-Muslim acts, includes a section where members of the public can report hostile acts by academic institutions.

Twelve of the 51 universities had embraced the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism, which conflates anti-Israeli criticism with antisemitism, Cair said.

They are Harvard University; Yale University; Columbia University; City University of New York; Northwestern University; New York University; George Mason University; Case Western Reserve University; Ohio State University; Colorado State University; Pomona College; and Wayne State University.

Initial operations at H-ACE Europe will focus on the local production of the K9 Self-Propelled Howitzer and K10 Ammunition Resupply Vehicle.

Karl Marx is my best friend and works at Antifa HQ so he knows everything about leftism.

He said that you got all this communism stuff wrong. He also said real communism is when you give free stuff to me, your ol' pal Dort_Owl!

In July 2019, Worden alleged that her estranged spouse, astronaut Anne McClain, had guessed her password and illegally accessed her bank account while deployed to the International Space Station.

The Department of Homeland Security is pushing Silicon Valley to strip anonymity from Americans who track or criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agency has fired off hundreds of subpoenas demanding names, email addresses, and phone numbers tied to anti-ICE social media accounts, the New York Times reported Friday.

Unlike traditional warrants, administrative subpoenas do not require approval from a judge before they are issued. Instead of seeking court authorization first, DHS can sign and send the demands directly to tech companies—a power civil liberties advocates say is now being deployed far more aggressively.

Google, Meta, Reddit, and Discord received subpoenas targeting anonymous accounts that posted about ICE activity, the Times reported.

Archive report: https://archive.is/QW78b#selection-723.0-731.17

300 million workers, farmers, students, and professionals from various fields took to the streets across India on Thursday, February 12, in defense of their rights and to denounce the policies of the ultra-right-wing government in the country.

Workers went on strike shutting down thousands of coal fields, refineries, factories, banking, and transportation in remote corners of the country, heeding the call of the Central Trade Unions (CTUs), a joint platform of major trade unions in India, including the Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), and the Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), among others.

At the Munich Security Conference on February 14, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a wide-ranging speech focused on security guarantees, battlefield realities, Western responsibility, and what he described as the fundamental nature of Russia’s leadership.

Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20260214134808/https://www.euractiv.com/news/von-der-leyen-calls-for-independent-europe-with-strong-mutual-defence-clause/

In her address to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen argued that Europe has “no choice” but to become independent, citing Europe’s sharp increase in defence spending in recent years.

My voice is being erased from all major platforms as I type this out. This is a coordinated campaign to delete my work off of the internet all at the same time. Here’s what’s happened this week (going backwards):

Today, Feb 13, I was notified by YouTube that my channel had been terminated.

Yesterday, Feb 12, Instagram deleted my account. An employee at Meta has explicitly blacklisted my identity on all Meta products, labeling me as a “terrorist”.

Beginning of the week: TikTok demonetized me overnight.

I intentionally have avoided even saying the word Hamas in my videos for months to reduce all risk of ending up in exactly this situation - where my advocacy is labeled dangerous and my voice is silenced illegally and unfairly.

How YOU can help fight back:

• Cancel YouTube Premium and post your cancellation screenshot with #BoycottYouTubePremium
• Cancel Google One and any other Google subscriptions
• Leave 1-star reviews on the YouTube app (iOS/Android) citing unfair censorship
• Switch your viewing to alternative platforms

Please stand with me so I can continue standing up for others.

Italy plans to participate in US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace as an observer country, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Saturday during a visit to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

The Italian leader had previously said Italy could not become a member of the body for constitutional reasons.

Meloni, who is considered to have good relations with Trump, said Washington has now invited Italy to join as an observer country, which she described as "a good solution."

Given all the work that needs to be done to stabilize the situation in the Middle East, an Italian and European presence is important, she emphasized.

Trump officially launched the Board of Peace last month at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Originally conceived to oversee the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, the body's ambitions are now unclear, with Trump suggesting it could also be used to address conflicts and crises worldwide.

Many European countries see the body as an attempt to undermine the United Nations and have refused to join, with Bulgaria and Hungary the only EU countries among the body's 26 members so far.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The real threat facing Hungary is not Russia but the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a speech to supporters on Saturday, as his nationalist party ramps up an anti-EU campaign ahead of national elections.

While many nations occasionally resort to a “state of exception” to deal with temporary crises, Israel exists in a permanent state of exception. This Israeli exceptionalism is the very essence of the instability that plagues the Middle East.

During the Super Bowl, Anthropic ran a dystopian AI ad about dystopian AI ads featuring an AI android physical trainer hawking insoles to a user who only asked for an ab workout. Not to be outdone, Amazon ran a commercial for its AI assistant Alexa+ in which Chris Hemsworth fretted over all the different ways AI might kill him, including severing his head and drowning him in his pool. Equally bleak, the telehealth company Hims & Hers ran an ad titled “RICH PEOPLE LIVE LONGER” in which oligarchs access such healthcare luxuries as facelifts, bespoke IVs, and “preventative care” to live longer than the rest of us. It was an anti-billionaire ad by a multibillion-dollar healthcare company.

Turn on the TV today, and you will drown in a sea of ads in which capitalists denounce capitalism. Think of the PNC Bank ads where parents sell their children’s naming rights a la sports stadiums for the money to raise them or the Robinhood ads where a white-haired older man, perhaps meant to evoke Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn, curses the “men of means with their silver spoons eating up the financial favors of the one percent” from the deck of a yacht.

After years of ingesting the mainstream discourse around surveillance capitalism, Occupy Wall Street, and democratic socialism, corporations are regurgitating and even surpassing the rhetoric of the modern left. Naturally, it’s all a winking sleight of hand meant to corral us back into engaging with the same capitalism they portray as a hellscape — but with new and improved privatized solutions. In another widely reviled Super Bowl ad, the video doorbell company Ring tells us that every year, 10 million family pets go missing, and by opting into a web of mass surveillance, the company has reunited “more than a dog a day” with their families.