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.

A bill prohibiting Oklahoma lawmakers from drinking while on the job has been quite controversial.

Lawyers group accuses Jean-Noel Barrot of spreading false information and exposing UN expert to risk of attacks after citing comments she did not make

Barrot had been responding to a question from Renaissance MP Caroline Yadan, who had previously wrongly accused Albanese of describing Israel as the "common enemy of humanity" during a virtual speech at the Al Jazeera Forum in the Qatari capital.

"We now see that we as a humanity have a common enemy and the respect of fundamental freedoms is the last peaceful avenue, the last peaceful toolbox that we have to regain our freedom," Albanese said in remarks delivered remotely at the Al Jazeera Forum on 7 February.

In an earlier speech in the Doha Forum in December, she said: "Palestine is allowing us to see what the law becomes when it's in the hands of power. Palestine is allowing us to see what connects all injustices; what happens to Yemen, to Sudan, to Congo, and including in places where poverty has not been so rooted as it is today for a long time, including in the West. We have a common enemy and we need to face it, where the politics is at the service of economic interests."

"Three European governments accuse me - based on statements I never made - with a virulence and conviction that they have NEVER used against those who have slaughtered 20,000+ children in 858 days," Albanese wrote on X, referring to the Israeli army's killing of Palestinian children in Gaza since October 2023.

Jurdi noted that partial excerpts of Albanese's intervention were circulated on social media by the pro-Israel group UN Watch in a "truncated form" that did not reflect the full context of her remarks.

A public call by a member state for the resignation of a mandate holder, it said, amounts to political pressure incompatible with that independence

In an interview with Middle East Eye's Expert Witness podcast in November, where Albanese discussed the findings of her latest report Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime, **she accused 63 states of enabling Israeli breaches of international law. **

She said that despite overwhelming evidence of genocide and mass atrocities in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, Europe's most powerful states, including Italy, Germany and France, continue to provide diplomatic, military and political cover for Israel.

On paper, the Americans are getting what they’ve long demanded.

A Europe that spends much more on defense and is much less reliant on Washington for its security. But Donald Trump may not like what American pressure is creating.

Leader after leader from Europe took to the podium of the Munich Security Conference on Friday and talked about boosting military budgets and reframing the transatlantic alliance as a “NATO 3.0.”

But then they followed that with hard-edged appeals to European patriotism and calls for the continent to boost its own arms, space and tech sectors to be less dependent on outsiders — including the United States.

Hacker News.

Author blog about that.

AI generated quotes in a story about AI clanker writing a blog post about a human developer because they didn't accept their code contributions.

How deep can someone go here.