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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42997966

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNr_QgIfReQ&t=27s

Feb. 8, 2026

On February 3, Aliya Rahman — a U.S. citizen and resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota — testified before a bicameral public forum at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.

The session on the violent tactics and use of force by agents of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was convened by U.S. senator Richard Blumenthal (Democrat, Connecticut) and U.S. congressman Robert Garcia (Democrat, California). Other testimony came from Miramar Martinez, who was shot five times by DHS agents in Chicago, Illinois, and from family members of Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis on January 7.

Rahman, who is autistic and has a traumatic brain injury, was on her way to a doctor’s appointment on January 13. She got stuck in a traffic jam created by an ICE operation in Minneapolis; Rahman was dragged from her vehicle by federal agents, cuffed, and taken to the Whipple federal building, where ICE processes immigrants targeted for deportation.

A few years ago I built a glorified home server PC, I'm considering dropping a decent video card into it and trying to use it hooked up to a TV as a Linux running Steam machine-esque system, but I'm not sure if it's worth it based on the other specs. I know the CPU in particular could use an upgrade, but as is should I bother dropping something like an RTX 5070 in it?

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LnrBDw

A federal grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict Democratic lawmakers who posted a video urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey any illegal orders from the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The declination is a rebuke of the administration’s efforts to paint the six lawmakers — all of whom served in either the military or intelligence services — as dangerously undermining the president’s authority as commander in chief.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42997527

In the NJ Primary, 'Abolish ICE' Looks Like A Winning Message

Opinion - Michelle Goldberg Feb. 9, 2026

https://archive.ph/2tFLT

When Analilia Mejia, the former political director of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, held town halls during her recent congressional primary race in New Jersey, she’d invite people to stay afterward for a training on nonviolent resistance to ICE. Voters, she told me, are desperate “to understand how rising authoritarianism functions, how it’s moved in other countries, how we can best resist it through nonviolence, noncompliance and education.” Running in a special election to fill the seat formerly held by New Jersey’s new governor, Mikie Sherrill, Mejia was determined to do “more than just traditional politics,” she said.

Her rivals in last week’s crowded contest also criticized ICE. But Mejia, the daughter of Colombian and Dominican immigrants and a veteran of the progressive Working Families Party, was unique in the clarity of her opposition. She called for ICE to be abolished, not just reformed. And she tied the agency’s violent rampages — seen most starkly in Minnesota — to President Trump’s broader assault on American democracy, while seeking to imbue people with a sense that they could fight back.

Sims 3 got me interested

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Hey. I was wondering if anyone had a list of switch games that use the touch screen. I want to game more at night when the wife is asleep and the buttons tend to wake her up.

I really enjoyed playing Banner Saga on the switch for this reason. There’s a few that I had in mind, but most seem be cheaper to buy and play on the phone.

Currently playing Dungeons of Dreadrock which can be played with the touch screen.

“With the death toll from President Donald Trump’s boat bombings of alleged drug traffickers now at 130 after a Monday strike, a pair of progressive congresswomen on Tuesday called for ending the Monroe Doctrine and establishing a “New Good Neighbor” policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean.

“In 1823, then-President James Monroe “declared the Western Hemisphere off limits to powerful countries in Europe””

DDoS hit blog that tried to uncover Archive.today founder's identity in 2023. [...] A Tumblr blog post apparently written by the Archive.today founder seems to generally confirm the emails’ veracity, but says the original version threatened to create “a patokallio.gay dating app,” not “a gyrovague.gay dating app.”

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Archive-today-Operator-uses-users-for-DDoS-attack-11171455.html:

By having Archive.today unknowingly let users access the Finnish blogger's URL, their IP addresses are transmitted to him. This could be a point of attack for prosecuting copyright infringements.

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In a recent Guardian article about the Guthrie kidnapping (and probable murder) they indicated at the end of the article that efforts to identify the kidnappers had been stymied because her Ring camera subscription wasn't active:

They had said that one roadblock in the ensuing search for Guthrie was the fact that somebody had disconnected her doorbell camera when she disappeared. And because she was not actively subscribed to the doorbell camera service provider, they could not immediately get images, they said.

Only for Patal (as of course he would seeing he has no comprehension of opsec) to expose the fact that the FBI able to obtain recordings from Ring cameras, even when the owner is unsubscribed to the cloud storage service they provide:

The FBI director, Kash Patel, published the images as the search for Nancy Guthrie, 84, stretched into its second week, saying the images had been “previously inaccessible” but were subsequently obtained from “residual data located in back-end systems”.

Pretty horrifying for those who don't want their cameras reporting back. And yes yes i get that Ring has some pretty severe security breaches and problems and you shouldn't be using them but the idea that video is being stored for over a week in Ring's non-volatile storage systems, even when you're not paying for it, is pretty damn bad,

Apologies if this fact, breach of privacy, was already known and in the public domain. This is something i've just learnt about.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/26671

The Pentagon is sending 200 troops to Nigeria in the coming weeks to train the country’s military to fight Islamist militants, US officials told media outlets on Tuesday, as President Trump continues to deepen US involvement in the country. A US official told The New York Times that the 200 troops will augment a small […]

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A good continuation to my last post, specially the discussion with the panel and the questions part. There's a lot of academic self-crit, observations, and good debate.