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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalStarlink Shutdown: Musk Throws Russian Forces Into Chaos
Russia has been using unregistered/illegal starlink units because the Russian systems do not work. Musk is now only allowing authorized/whitelisted units to work which is hurting the Russian military operations.
Starlink Shutdown: Musk Throws Russian Forces Into Chaos
— Samuel Bendett (@sambendett.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T14:10:48.756Z
www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2026/02/06/starlink-shutdown-musk-throws-russian-forces-into-chaos/
Both sides have made extensive use of the commercial Starlink service, which provides long-range, jam-resistant communication. Now the service operated by SpaceX is being denied to the Russians, and only terminals officially registered in Ukraine will work.
“The Starlink terminals added to the ‘whitelist’ are working. The Russians’ terminals have already been blocked,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said in a statement on Thursday,
The effect on the Russians has been catastrophic, with some units reporting 90% loss of internet communications. There have reportedly been a rash of ‘friendly fire’ incidents as the Russians struggle to tell friend from foe.
“All command and control of the [Russian] troops has collapsed. Assault operations have been halted in many areas,” stated Serhii ‘Flash’ Beskrestnov, electronic warfare expert and adviser to Fedorov.
Outrage as video of JD Vance being booed at Olympics gets blocked on social media
Musk tried to delete the boos
Outrage as video of JD Vance being booed at Olympics gets blocked on social media www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-267...
— Sal Vadacchino 🇨🇦 (@sal-vadacchino.bsky.social) 2026-02-07T21:42:53.489Z
https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-2675108277
Acyn Torabi, or @Acyn, “is an industrialized viral-video machine,” the Washington Post explained last year, “grabbing the most eye-catching moments from press conferences and TV news panels, packaging them within seconds into quick highlights, and pushing them to his million followers across X and Bluesky dozens of times a day.”
In this case, Torabi, who’s now senior digital editor at MeidasTouch, reshared a video of the vice president and his wife, Usha Vance, being booed that was initially posted by filmmaker Mick Gzowski.
However, the video was shortly taken down and replaced with the text, “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.”
Noting the development, Torabi, said: “No one should have a copyright on Vance being booed. It belongs to the world.”
As of press time, the footage is still circulating online thanks to other X accounts and across other platforms—including a video shared on Bluesky by MeidasTouch editor in chief Ron Filipkowski.
ICE chief counsel in Minnesota leaves his job amid burnout and dissent
The latest departure comes as ICE continues to draw the ire of judges for failing to comply with court orders.
ICE chief counsel in Minnesota leaves his job amid burnout and dissent
— MS NOW (@ms.now) 2026-02-07T22:36:03.576Z
https://www.ms.now/news/ice-chief-counsel-in-minnesota-leaves-his-job-amid-burnout-and-dissent
Amid a torrent of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration tactics, the chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota has departed.
The top lawyer, Jim Stolley, retired after 31 years of service, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW in an email. Questions from MS NOW sent to Stolley’s Department of Homeland Security email address prompted an automated one-line response that read: “I have retired from public service.”
Stolley’s departure, reported first on Saturday by The New York Times, comes as ICE continues to draw the ire of judges for failing to comply with court orders. Federal officials are also battling an immense caseload, with prosecutors resigning — or being fired for speaking out.
Julie Le, according to NBC News, was removed from her temporary post at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota after she told a judge “this job sucks” when grilled about why the government was not heeding court orders to release unlawfully detained immigrants.....
MS NOW reported that top officials from the DOJ’s civil rights division quit in January after the department declined to investigate Good’s fatal shooting. The New York Times reported in January that six federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Minnesota resigned after the DOJ officials sought an investigation into Good’s widow, Becca Good.
ICE chief counsel in Minnesota leaves his job amid burnout and dissent
Source: MS NOW
Amid a torrent of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration tactics, the chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota has departed.
The top lawyer, Jim Stolley, retired after 31 years of service, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW in an email. Questions from MS NOW sent to Stolley’s Department of Homeland Security email address prompted an automated one-line response that read: “I have retired from public service.”
Stolley’s departure, reported first on Saturday by The New York Times, comes as ICE continues to draw the ire of judges for failing to comply with court orders. Federal officials are also battling an immense caseload, with prosecutors resigning — or being fired for speaking out.
Julie Le, according to NBC News, was removed from her temporary post at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota after she told a judge “this job sucks” when grilled about why the government was not heeding court orders to release unlawfully detained immigrants.....
MS NOW reported that top officials from the DOJ’s civil rights division quit in January after the department declined to investigate Good’s fatal shooting. The New York Times reported in January that six federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Minnesota resigned after the DOJ officials sought an investigation into Good’s widow, Becca Good.
Read more: https://www.ms.now/news/ice-chief-counsel-in-minnesota-leaves-his-job-amid-burnout-and-dissent
ICE chief counsel in Minnesota leaves his job amid burnout and dissent
— MS NOW (@ms.now) 2026-02-07T22:36:03.576Z
MaddowBlog-As layoffs surge and job openings fall, Trump offers a meaningless talking point
Is it any wonder why the public strongly disapproves of the president’s economic performance?
As layoffs surge and job openings fall, Trump has a talking point he’s excited about: The workforce is the biggest it’s ever been.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-06T20:26:12.655Z
The trouble is, his talking point means a whole lot less than the data that points to the worst job market Americans have seen in years. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/as-layoffs-surge-and-job-openings-fall-trump-offers-a-meaningless-talking-point
As is too often the case, Trump, who’s long struggled to understand economic data at even the most basic level, didn’t know what he was talking about. Putting aside the fact that this statistic was not “just announced” — the president started pushing this same line during his first term — the fact that more Americans are in the workforce is far less amazing than he realizes: As the nation’s population grows, the size of the workforce grows with it.,,,,,
Indeed, on the heels of the president’s misplaced comment to Llamas, the public got new data on the job market — all of it discouraging. Reuters reported:
U.S. job openings dropped to the lowest level in more than five years in December and data for the prior month was revised lower amid a softening in labor market conditions at the end of 2025.
Job openings, a measure of labor demand, decreased by 386,000 to 6.542 million by the last day of December, the lowest level since September 2020, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, on Thursday.
To make matters worse, as job openings dropped, CNBC reported that layoffs last month were the worst in any January since 2009, at the height of the Great Recession.
The fact that all Trump has to offer is a meaningless talking point helps explain why the public strongly disapproves of his economic performance.
MaddowBlog-Democrats won't cooperate with DOJ investigation into 'illegal orders' video
This week, the targets of this misguided inquiry started telling Trump’s Justice Department what it doesn’t like to hear: “No.”
https://x.com/SadieMaeTN/status/2019936809434669223
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/democrats-wont-cooperate-with-doj-investigation-into-illegal-orders-video
A few weeks ago, that’s exactly what happened: Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, a former CIA officer who served three tours in Iraq, announced that federal prosecutors had begun investigating her for having told service members not to obey illegal orders. Other veteran lawmakers who appeared in the same video confirmed that they, too, were facing DOJ scrutiny.
This week, the targets of this misguided inquiry started telling Trump’s Justice Department what it doesn’t like to hear: “No.” The Associated Press reported:
Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan is refusing to voluntarily comply with a Justice Department investigation into a video she organized urging U.S. military members to resist ‘illegal orders’ — escalating a dispute that President Donald Trump has publicly pushed.
In letters first obtained by The Associated Press, Slotkin’s lawyer informed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro that the senator would not agree to a voluntary interview about the video.
The Michigan Democrat isn’t alone: The New York Times reported that three House Democrats — Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania — said they’d also rejected overtures from Pirro, the former Fox News host who’s now serving as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia......
The latest developments did offer one notable twist: Slotkin’s legal team also requested that Pirro preserve all documents related to the matter for “anticipated litigation.”
In other words, the Democratic senator isn’t just refusing to play along with a baseless investigation, she’s also considering picking a legal fight of her own. Watch this space.
Nothing could stop the U.S. figure skating team. Not even JD Vance's motorcade.
Alysa Liu and world champion dance team of Madison Chock and Evan Bates have the Americans leading the team event after day one.
https://x.com/washingtonpost/status/2019946741303247333
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2026/02/06/olympics-team-figure-skating-jd-vance
“We almost didn’t make it,” Liu’s coach, Phillip DiGuglielmo, later said.
Liu, who appears to live in a perpetual state of controlled chaos and was running late because she hadn’t gathered all of her gear in time, handled the holdup better than DiGuglielmo and choreographer Massimo Scali, who still looked rattled at the end of the team event. Liu made it into her dress and onto the ice in time to finish second in the women’s short program just behind Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto. That was enough to help the United States finish the first of the event’s three days with a two-point lead over Japan and a three-point margin over Italy.
'Absolute lie': Dem leader calls out Trump's claim he suggested 'Trump Station'
trump is trying to blame the proposal to change the names of Dulles Airport and Penn Central Station on Senator Schumer. This is a typical trump lie to try to shift the blame to someone else. There is no way that Senator Schumer made this proposal
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer didn't waste any time firing back at President Donald Trump on Friday over claims that it was the New York Democrat who suggested renaming New York Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport after Trump.
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-02-07T14:01:06Z
https://www.rawstory.com/dulles-trump/
“Chuck Schumer suggested that to me about changing the name of Penn Station to Trump Station,” the MAGA leader reportedly said while speaking to reporters on Air Force One.
But Schumer fiercely rejected that premise.
“Absolute lie,” Schumer wrote in a post on X. “He knows it. Everyone knows it. Only one man can restart the project and he can restart it with the snap of his fingers.”
The political back and forth came as reports emerged this week that Trump wants his name on both Dulles and Penn Station while threatening to withhold federal funding for a major transportation project connecting New York City and New Jersey. Schumer swiftly rejected the suggestion, according to media reports.....
https://x.com/SenSchumer/status/2019937129657139344
Insider reveals Trump's 'absurd' Kennedy Center plan -- that aides scrambled to kill (taking the Kennedy name off center)
trump really wanted to rename the Kennedy Center to the trump center. trump really wanted to take Jack Kennedy's name of the center and just has his own name. trump cannot stand sharing credit with anyone.
President Donald Trump's advisers stopped him from ripping John F. Kennedy's name off the Kennedy Center altogether, leaving the cultural hub simply called the Trump Center, his biographer said."Why does this have to be Kennedy?"
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-02-06T18:00:18.860Z
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kennedy-center-2675105563/
“Why does this have to be Kennedy?" the president apparently argued. "That was such a long time ago.”
Trump, 79, has substantially remade the Washington, D.C. performing arts institution in his image, taking control of its board, renaming it "The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" without congressional approval, and announcing plans to close it for extensive renovations.
But writer Michael Wolff, who spent months inside the first Trump White House, told the Daily Beast that Trump's original proposal was far more ambitious. Wolff stated, "His first idea was to call this the Trump Center."
"I was almost assassinated," he said, according to Wolff. "Therefore, it should be me." Trump experienced two assassination attempts in 2024.
Trump's inner circle was able to persuade him away from the plan. Wolff said, "You can't say, 'This is a terrible idea. This is a megalomaniacal idea. This is not good politics.' You just cannot say any of that stuff to Trump. So instead, they said, 'Well, why don't we call it the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center?'"
After trump closes the Kennedy Center for two years, I would not be surprised to see the Kennedy name removed. Hopefully, trump will be gone before the two years are up
Court blocks Trump administration's freezing of Gateway funding
This ruling makes me smile
https://x.com/News12NJ/status/2019938234885669269
https://longisland.news12.com/court-blocks-trump-administrations-freezing-of-gateway-funding
Work on the Hudson River rail tunnel officially stopped at 5 p.m. Friday after funding ran out.
Officials from both New York and New Jersey sued the Trump administration over the issue. They were looking for a temporary restraining order to keep the work going.
The project would double the number of rail tunnels between New Jersey and Manhattan. Construction has been going on since 2023, and $1 billion has already been spent. There were five active worksites.
The project was fully funded by Congress in 2024. New Jersey and New York argue that withholding the funds is a breach of contract.
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