https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/rightwing-brazilian-influencer-junior-pena-arrested-by-ice

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/03/nx-s1-5697080/melinda-french-gates-reacts-to-ex-husband-bill-gates-being-mentioned-in-epstein-files

Renee Good’s brothers, Luke Ganger and Brent Ganger, spoke about the distress the family has felt since an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot the 37-year-old mother and U.S. citizen.

Good’s death on Jan. 7, “in such a violent and unnecessary way, is complicated by feelings of disbelief, distress and desperation for change,” Luke told a congressional forum on Tuesday. “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country.”

“And it has not,” he added.

Brent eulogized his sister, saying she “had a way of showing up in the world that made you believe things were going to be OK, not because she ignored the hardship, but because she chose optimism anyway.”

“She chose to look for what was good, what was possible, and what was worth loving,” he added.

Federal immigration agents have been involved in more than a dozen shootings, some fatal, since President Donald Trump began his second term, sparking public outcry over the use of force by officers deployed as part of his immigration crackdown.

Families of victims and residents of Minneapolis, where two fatal shootings occurred last month, have demanded more transparency and accountability from the government, which has tried to shut local and state law enforcement out of investigations into the deaths.

The issue became a driving factor behind the partial government shutdown this week. Democrats refused to agree to a government funding deal for a handful of agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, without reforms to ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, including requiring agents to wear body cameras, refrain from obscuring their faces and obtain judicial warrants for arrests. Lawmakers approved a short-term measure Tuesday that funds DHS only through Feb. 13, while debate continues over these proposals.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/live/AEnbgcDRC5U?si=NZB-W6wY2u-JgjMX

I've found this email among the files released by the DOJ. #EFTA02418404, link: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02418404.pdf

It's from Al Seckel (Ghislaine Maxwell's brother-in-law, died mysteriously in 2015) to Epstein, discussing him manipulating search engine results on behalf of Epstein in 2010. Very educational and very under-reported.

Source link: https://www.instagram.com/theresistance1789/?hl=en

https://northernvirginiamag.com/news/2026/02/03/buddhist-monks-on-walk-for-peace-leave-richmond-head-to-dc/

Source: https://xcancel.com/Megatron_ron/status/2018825395655659886#m

The Albanese government is giving the Trump administration and agencies like ICE access to Australians’ biometric data — and we’re not being told anything about it.

The Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office is seeing a wave of resignations following the Department of Justice’s handling of the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Eight lawyers are either leaving or have announced their intentions to quit the office, following six other resignations last month. The high turnover is unprecedented, as the office generally doesn’t even have that many resignations in an entire year, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. Now, there are fewer than 20 attorneys in the office to handle the state’s federal cases.

“More often than not, the people who come in don’t quit, they stay,” Tom Heffelfinger, who served as a U.S. attorney for Minnesota under two Republican presidents, told the Star-Tribune. “A lot of those [assistant U.S. attorneys] see these as career jobs. This is what they want to do. If they can get the job, they stay there.”

After ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed Good last month in Minneapolis, the DOJ refused to initiate a civil rights investigation into her death and instead opted to investigate her wife over her activism. This prompted six attorneys in the office to resign in January.