Tuesday, February 03, 2026
AFTER CLEANING MY EYEGLASSES SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE HALF-HOUR THAT I STUDIED THE PICTURES, I'VE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THERE'S NOT A DAMN THING WRONG WITH CHAPPELL'S OUTFIT
Chappell Roan fires back at outrage over shockingly revealing Grammys gown that hung from her nipple rings
By Deirdre Durkan-Simonds
Daily Mail
Feb 3, 2026
Chappell Roan is unfazed by the uproar surrounding her headline-making 2026 Grammys outfit
Chappell Roan is unfazed by the uproar surrounding her headline-making 2026 Grammys outfit.
On Monday, the pop star, 27, addressed the scrutiny over her look after posting a series of Instagram photos showcasing her sheer burgundy gown by Mugler, which featured a daring design that appeared to be secured at the chest with faux piercings and left little to the imagination.
'Giggling because I don't even think this is THAT outrageous of an outfit,' Roan wrote, brushing off critics. 'The look's actually so awesome and weird.'
She added with a wink, 'I recommend just exercising your free will - it's really fun and silly :D,' before thanking the Grammys and voters for the honor of being nominated.
Fans quickly rallied behind her in the comments, praising the ensemble as 'exceptional' and 'fearless,' echoing Roan's unapologetic stance.
'Some people have never seen boobs in their life and it shows,' one of her followers joked. 'You looked absolutely INCREDIBLE!'
Upon arriving to the red carpet, the Pink Pony Club singer turned heads as she removed the shawl across her chest and exposed her bare breasts.
Despite her fans fiercely rallying behind her, many social media users took to X to tear apart Roan's racy ensemble, with many suggesting she 'put some clothes on.'
On the red carpet, Roan admitted the attention could be overwhelming.
While speaking with Zuri Hall, she said she felt 'a bit overstimulated' by the frenzy of cameras.
'People are just filming you and you don't know what you're doing with it,' she explained, calling the carpet 'the hardest part of the whole night.'
Still, Roan insisted she was 'feeling good,' adding that not performing this year made the evening 'a piece of cake.'
The moment comes after a string of high-profile red-carpet clashes for the Grammy winner.
At the MTV Video Music Awards, she famously snapped back at a photographer who shouted at her, and later confronted another at a premiere tied to Olivia Rodrigo's Guts World Tour, demanding an apology for what she called disrespectful behavior.
She added with a wink, 'I recommend just exercising your free will - it's really fun and silly :D,' before thanking the Grammys and voters for the honor of being nominated
That history prompted extra caution from organizers at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in November, where an attendant was overheard warning photographers to keep things calm ahead of Roan's arrival.
Although Roan walked away from the Grammy Awards empty-handed, she earned two nominations, for Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance, for her single The Subway.
Last year, the star was nominated for six awards and won Best New Artist.
During her acceptance speech, she advocate for better treatment and fair wages for artists.
'I told myself that if I ever won a Grammy and got to stand up here before the most powerful people in music, I would demand that labels in the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists would offer a livable wage and health care, especially developing artists,' she said on stage.
Last year, the star was nominated for six awards and won Best New Artist; seen in 2025
Roan continued: 'As I got signed so young, I got signed as a minor. When I got dropped, I had zero job experience under my belt, and like most people, I had … quite a difficult time finding a job in the pandemic and [could not] afford insurance.'
'It was devastating to feel so committed to my art and feel so betrayed by the system and dehumanized.
'If my label had prioritized it, I could have been provided care for a company I was giving everything to... record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection.'
Chappell ended her speech by declaring: 'Labels, we got you, but do you got us?' earning a huge cheer from the crowd.
JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME
Alicia Silverstone saves life of pregnant dog and her 12 puppies hours before scheduled euthanasia
By Cassie Carpenter
Daily Mail
Feb 3, 2026
Alicia Silverstone was instrumental in saving the life of a dog and her 12 puppies mere hours before her scheduled euthanasia at a San Bernardino animal shelter due to overcrowding (pictured January 11)
Alicia Silverstone was instrumental in saving the life of a dog and her 12 puppies mere hours before her scheduled euthanasia at a San Bernardino animal shelter due to overcrowding.
It all went down six weeks ago when the 49-year-old Clueless alum forwarded the heartbreaking Facebook post to Helen Woodward Animal Center CEO Mike Arms, telling NBC 7 San Diego: 'Her face was just so beautiful and lovely, and so I thought, "Call Mike."'
Arms quickly enlisted his staff at the Rancho Santa Fe Center to rescue the then-pregnant pooch, who immediately gave birth to 14 puppies 'within minutes of their arrival' but sadly two did not make it.
The terrier mix was named Noel in honor of the Christmas holiday and her puppies received 12 Days of Christmas-themed monikers: Drummer, Piper, Lord, Lady, Maid, Swan Goose, Ring, Calling Bird, French Hen, Turtle Dove and Partridge.
'The day they were going to kill her, she happened to have her babies, which is kinda crazy,' marveled Silverstone.
The two-time Daytime Emmy nominee 'couldn't resist fostering four of the' cute canines after she and her 14-year-old son Bear Blu Jarecki visited the HWAC shelter Saturday despite it being 'three weeks before I leave for Europe.'
It all went down six weeks ago when the 49-year-old Clueless alum forwarded the heartbreaking Facebook post to Helen Woodward Animal Center CEO Mike Arms, telling NBC 7 San Diego: 'Her face was just so beautiful and lovely, and so I thought, "Call Mike."'
'I would have taken them all if I could!' Silverstone gushed on Instagram Monday.
'Yesterday I did nothing but clean pee and poo, feed tiny mouths and try to keep everyone warm and alive. It's the sweetest, most adorable thing… and also complete insanity given everything I need to get done. Praying it was just day one energy!'
The California blonde - whose own adopted dogs have vegan diets like herself - spent Monday tempting her 10.4 million social media following to adopt the adorable foster puppies.
'Just look at these faces. How can you say no?!' Silverstone pleaded.
'These four (and eight of their siblings) need forever homes. If you're read for a life-changer contact @hwac in San Diego [starting mid-February].'
The A Merry Little Ex-Mas producer-star urged her fans to 'stop going to breeders, stop going to pet stores and just rescue.'
Last Thursday, the National Film Registry announced they inducted the Golden Globe nominee's breakthrough 1995 film Clueless for preservation by the Library of Congress along with 25 other 'culturally, historically or aesthetically significant' works.
Arms
quickly enlisted his staff at the Rancho Santa Fe Center to rescue the
then-pregnant pooch, who immediately gave birth to 14 puppies 'within
minutes of their arrival' but sadly two did not make it
The terrier mix was named Noel in honor of the Christmas holiday and her puppies received 12 Days of Christmas-themed monikers: Drummer, Piper, Lord, Lady, Maid, Swan Goose, Ring, Calling Bird, French Hen, Turtle Dove and Partridge
The two-time Daytime Emmy nominee 'couldn't resist fostering four of the' cute canines after she and her 14-year-old son Bear Blu Jarecki visited the HWAC shelter Saturday despite it being 'three weeks before I leave for Europe'
Silverstone - whose own adopted dogs have vegan diets like herself - spent Monday tempting her 10.4 million social media following to adopt the adorable foster puppies
Last Thursday, the National Film Registry announced they inducted Silverstone's breakthrough 1995 film Clueless for preservation by the Library of Congress along with 25 other 'culturally, historically or aesthetically significant' works
The Bugonia actress is set to reprise her role as lawyer Fiona Fox in the six-episode second season of Acorn TV murder mystery Irish Blood, which begins production in three weeks
Silverstone might make an appearance at the 98th Academy Awards - airing March 15 on ABC/Hulu - in order to support her film Bugonia, which scored four nominations including best picture and best adapted screenplay.
The Pretty Thing actress is set to reprise her role as lawyer Fiona Fox in the six-episode second season of Acorn TV murder mystery Irish Blood, which begins production in three weeks.
Silverstone also devotes much of her time preaching the benefits of the plant-based movement through her blog, The Kind Life.
The attachment parent famously claimed in her 2014 book The Kind Mama that a vegan diet prevents postpartum depression as well as curing PMS, breastfeeding issues and MS.
PIRRO GOES OFF THE RAILS, SHREDS THE SECOND AMENDMENT
Trump prosecutor stuns MAGA with chilling Second Amendment threat: 'I don't care if you have a license'
By Ross Ibbetson
Daily Mail
Feb 3, 20226
US attorney for the District of Columbia Jeannine Pirro has threatened jail time for anyone who enters Washington armed, including anyone who is a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else.'
Jeannine Pirro, the US attorney for
the District of Columbia, has threatened jail time for anyone who enters
Washington armed, sparking fury from Republicans.
'You bring a gun into the District, you mark my words, you're going to jail,' Pirro told Fox News on Monday as she touted a historic decline in DC homicides.
'I don't care if you have a license in another district, and I don't care if you are a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else.'
The declaration sparked a swift backlash from the Republican Party's powerful pro-Second Amendment wing.
Representative Greg Steube of Florida, a US Army veteran, wrote on X: 'I bring a gun into the district every week. I have a license in Florida and DC to carry. And I will continue to carry to protect myself and others. Come and take it!'
Thomas Massie of Kentucky said Pirro's statement was contradicted by a Supreme Court ruling.
'The District of Columbia has been "shall issue" since 2017 when the requirement that you must have a "good reason" to carry a handgun was struck down,' he posted on X. 'Non-residents can obtain a permit in DC - don't ask me how I know.'
The National Association for Gun Rights, an influential lobby group, said these were 'unacceptable and intolerable comments by a sitting US attorney'.
Representative Greg Steube of Florida and his wife Jennifer at the White House in June. Steube said, "I bring a gun into the district every week. I have a license in Florida and DC to carry. And I will continue to carry to protect myself and others. Come and take it!"
Pirro's comments come as the Trump administration has been increasingly at odds with Second Amendment supporters.
White House officials, including the President himself, sought to shift blame onto Alex Pretti for carrying a gun when he was shot dead by Border Patrol agents at a protest in Minneapolis last month.
'I don't like that he had a gun, I don't like that he had two fully loaded magazines, that's a lot of bad stuff,' Trump told reporters in Iowa last week.
A Second Amendment advocate told Politico after the President's comments: 'I've spent 72 hours on the phone trying to un-f*** this thing. Trump has got to correct his statements now.'
He warned that gun owners would be furious, adding that it imperiled the Republican Party ahead of the midterms: 'They will not come out and vote. He can't correct it three months before the election.'
Carrying a concealed firearm in Washington is legal for those who obtain a District-issued permit, which the Metropolitan Police Department is required to issue if the applicant passes the necessary checks.
The permit, which can be obtained by non-DC residents, is subject to strict background checks and requires mandatory training.
The District does not recognize concealed carry permits from any other state.
Possessing a firearm in DC without a permit is a felony punishable by up to five years in jail.
A SECOND GUNMAN?
JFK assassination film held by feds could be worth $900M – and could prove 2nd shooter on ‘grassy knoll’
A 62-year-old home movie could blow the JFK assassination wide open — and prove once and for all there was a second shooter on the grassy knoll that fateful day.
The grainy 8mm footage, captured by Dallas air conditioner repairman Orville Nix as bullets ripped through Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963, hasn’t been seen since 1978, when it was sent away for analysis by an LA company and later fell under federal ownership — although the feds claim they don’t have it.
Nix died in 1972, and his granddaughter continued her late dad’s legal war to recover his film — which she’s convinced is worth more than $900 million as it may hold the key to exposing one of history’s biggest cover-ups.
Now a federal judge has ruled that the battle over the film can go forward — and the footage might finally see the light of day.
Unlike the famous Zapruder film showing the moment President John F. Kennedy was shot in the head, Nix’s camera was pointed at the infamous grassy knoll — the exact spot where many witnesses thought shots originated. Conspiracy theorists have long believed a second gunman was hiding behind a fence on the knoll.
The Nix film captured first lady Jackie Kennedy climbing on the back of the presidential limo immediately after her husband was shot — and a view of the fence.
The film could reveal evidence that gunman Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone — thanks to new optic technologies and AI, according to Scott Watnik of Wilk Auslander LLP, a lawyer for Nix’s granddaughter, Linda Gayle Nix Jackson.
“It’s really the only one that is known to have captured the grassy knoll area of Dealey Plaza right as the assassination occurs,” Watnik told The Post, noting that the film could bolster a 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations report that found Kennedy “was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.” That panel obtained the Nix film and played a role in the legal saga over its return.
“If we subjected the camera-original film to optics technology of 2026, we can certainly capture details in the film that we never could have captured when … the committee had the film in 1978,” he said.
The FBI, in its own 1980 analysis, found inaccuracies in that report, which relied on acoustic analysis to try to pinpoint the location of a potential second shooter.
During the last six decades, the Nix film has been held by the FBI, news outlet United Press International, Congress, and a private firm called the Aerospace Corporation in Los Angeles, which analyzed it and says it handed it back to the National Archives.
The National Archives in 1988 said it had only a copy of it — and the legal discovery process set forth by Court of Federal Claims Judge Stephen Schwartz in a Jan. 15 order gives lawyers a chance to try to force the government to reveal information about its stewardship.
The family’s case rests on the 5th Amendment, which states that the government shall not take property without providing “just compensation” in return.
But the 1992 JFK Records Act law granted the government ownership rights to JFK assassination evidence, while setting up a process for release of records to the public.
But the family’s massive monetary demand could run into trouble — given that an arbitration panel valued the Nix film’s more famous counterpart, the 8mm film shot by dress maker Abraham Zapruder, at $16 million back in 1999, calling it “a unique historical item of unprecedented worth.”
Lawyers for Nix’s granddaughter cite that value as a benchmark for what Nix’s film might have been worth back then — but want their client to get a whole lot of interest, based on the government’s longtime possession.
“If one were to say this film is worth what that one is worth as of ’92, and you apply 32 years of compound interest at a quarterly compound basis, you start to get numbers in the many, many hundred of millions,” Watnik said. One “preliminary estimate” his team reached was $930 million.
It’s not just about getting money to Nix’s heirs — Nix’s son, Orville Nix Jr., died in July, slowing proceedings.
Lawyers for Nix Jackson say they want to use the court case and potential trial that would come if no settlement is reached to force new information from the government about how and where it has stored materials, including fragments of JFK’s brain, and recordings of internal communications by Dallas cops the day of the shooting.
“This is evidence of a murder, after all, of our nation’s president,” said Watnik. “So it’s even more important that we know where these records are.” The Nix family’s lawyers aren’t willing to take the government’s responses at face value. Among the Kennedy records they say have become “unlocated” over the years: the original copy of the supplementary autopsy report of the president, up to three photos taken at the autopsy, and Kennedy’s brain.
The National Archives and Records Administration did not respond to a request for comment.
The 1964 Warren Commission report concluded that Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy from the Texas School Book Depository as the president’s motorcade drove past, but conspiracy theorists have long dismissed its conclusions.
TRUMP NEGOTIATING WITH IRAN SEEMS TO BE A REPEAT OF ANOTHER OBAMA FIASCO
Trump shouldn’t fall into the Iran negotiations trap
Tehran’s Islamist despots can’t be trusted to abide by agreements. Throwing them a lifeline, which they will use to go on spreading death and terror, would be a major blunder.
By Jonathan S. Tobin
JNS
Feb2, 2026
President Donald Trump was re-elected to the presidency to drain the swamp in Washington, push back the tide of illegal immigration and roll back the dead hand of toxic woke leftism in American government and society. He wasn’t returned to the White House to enact regime change in Iran or anywhere else. Those two basic truths are the foundation of any argument on behalf of the United States not getting actively involved in the effort to topple the Islamists theocrats in Tehran.
Still, there’s another angle from which to consider that question.
Whatever else was on his agenda or that of his voters, it is equally true that the second Trump administration was not summoned into existence to re-enact the failed foreign policy of former President Barack Obama. And that’s the main thing for the president and his team to remember as they engage in negotiations this week with Iran.
The Islamist regime is sending senior officials to Turkey, where they plan to meet with the president’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, as well as his son-in-law and informal adviser, Jared Kushner. The United States says that a whole range of issues, including Iran’s nuclear program, missiles and terrorism, is on the table. The Iranians say they want only to discuss the nuclear issue.
Obama’s Iran folly
But that is a formula for Iran to do what it has always done with Western, and especially American, envoys who are desperate for a deal with the mullahs: prevaricate and string the diplomats along until they give up or give in to Tehran’s demands.
That’s what happened to Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry, who arrived at talks with Iran in 2013 with a strong hand backed by global sanctions that had shaken a regime that was tottering due to domestic unrest. Over the course of the next two years, Kerry abandoned Obama’s demands and campaign promises to end Iran’s nuclear program and to end its role as the world’s leading state sponsor of terror. The result was the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that actually guaranteed that the country would eventually get a nuclear weapon, rather than preventing it from building or acquiring one.
It rescued the Islamist theocrats from the predicament that they had created at home and flooded it with billions in cash used to suppress dissent at home and spread terror around the Middle East.
That’s exactly what Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is hoping will happen again in talks with Trump’s team. It comes at a time when his government has been shaken by massive protests in the past few weeks, which have been suppressed by the murder of as many as 30,000 protesters. Khamenei knows he needs a lifeline. He knows that a repeat of last summer’s joint Israeli-American air campaign aimed at weakening the regime’s ability to project terror abroad might be the spark that finally blows up the Islamist government. A deal right now with Washington will ensure that it survives and lives to fight the “great Satan”—ironically, the United States, the same entity that may give it a lifeline—and Israel, the “little Satan.
That would be bad enough. But the spectacle of repeating the pattern of Obama’s appeasement of Iran by repudiating his promises to the Iranian people that “help is on the way” would be a disaster for Trump’s foreign policy and embolden foes around the globe.
A ‘red line’ precedent
It would also seem to be a repeat of another Obama fiasco. Obama backed off on his 2012 threat to Syrian President Bashar Assad, saying if the despot were to use chemical weapons against his own people, then it would cross a “red line” and ensure a U.S. military response. Nothing came of that; it was another milepost on the road to American decline. By punting on the threat and offshoring the job of dealing with the problem to Russia, Obama threw away American credibility, handing Tehran and its allies a huge and undeserved victory for its plans for regional hegemony.
For the same thing to happen to Trump would be an even greater disaster since his foreign-policy successes have been based on the fact that foreign adversaries and allies have been reluctant to test his mettle in a confrontation. If, under pressure from critics on the far right and far left who oppose a strong stance against Iran, Trump wilts, then no one will or should take his threats seriously again.
It’s entirely true that Trump and the American people would prefer to avoid using military force against Iran, as well as have zero interest in fighting a land war there or engaging in “nation-building.” Washington won’t repeat President George W. Bush’s mistaken policies that landed America and its troops in an Iraqi quagmire. But neither can Trump afford to demonstrate weakness just at the moment when he needs to project strength if he is to deal with this and other ongoing difficulties, like ending the war in Ukraine.
Witkoff and Kushner’s hubris
The dilemma here is partly the trap that talking with an insincere negotiating partner always provides. Trump, Witkoff and Kushner all believe themselves to be master negotiators because of their past work in real estate, coupled with the administration’s successes during the president’s first term, such as brokering the Abraham Accords between Israel and four Muslim-majority countries.
Yet they have already signaled that, like Kerry, they are far too eager for a deal with a regime that is at its best and most lethal when it is pretending to be reaching an agreement with the United States.
The problem, however, transcends the hubris that Witkoff and Kushner will pack in the bags they take to Istanbul. It is also about how to define the Trump approach to foreign policy.
“America First” means viewing the world through a realist prism rather than one determined by fantasies about a rapprochement with people whose main goal is to destroy the West. It also means overturning the conventional wisdom of the D.C. establishment about the value of appeasing the Islamist terror regime and ensuring that it is not allowed to use its oil wealth, nuclear program or its terrorist forces to destabilize the Mideast. And it means helping those who are aiding American foreign-policy goals without necessarily doing all the fighting for them.
Far from an isolationist creed, Trump’s vision is one that is essentially about projecting and embodying American strength abroad. That’s in direct contrast with the sort of weakness that led to the outbreak of wars in the Middle East and Ukraine in the four years Biden was warming Trump’s seat in the Oval Office.
That’s why Trump joined Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear program last June and inflicted the sort of damage that makes it unlikely that they will be able to use it to achieve their dream of regional hegemony.
And it’s also why Trump ought not to fall into the trap of negotiations with Iran just at the moment when a decisive push against them, both via sanctions and strategic strikes, might enable the Iranian people to overthrow the regime that has murdered and oppressed them for the last 47 years.
It’s not just that everyone knows that no deal with Iran could be verified by independent monitors of either its media or that the regime could be trusted to keep. They’ve cheated on the nuclear pact they made with Obama and virtually every other deal the regime has signed since the Islamist movement toppled the Shah of Iran in 1979.
Making Trump a lame duck
So, if Trump backs down on anything less than a change in the fundamental character of the Iranian regime and its transformation into a reasonable neighbor rather than the home base for terrorism, the damage he’ll be doing to himself will be as great as it is to the Iranian people’s hopes for a governmental alternative.
Few presidents have more at stake in maintaining their reputations than those who can’t be trifled with or bested in a negotiation. Surrendering to Iran will inevitably lead to surrendering to Hamas in Gaza. It would also end any hope of concluding Russia’s war with Ukraine on terms the West can live with or deterring global power grabs by an empowered China. It would also impair his ability to act for the rest of his term in office, which is still three full years.
We can’t know what the ultimate outcome of a U.S. or a joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran looks like or what all the consequences of such a policy would be. But we do know that failing to follow through on his threats would make Trump a lame duck on foreign policy and pin on him the responsibility for future massacres of Iranians by their Islamist tyrants. That’s a price the president simply cannot afford.
MSF WILL BE MISSED ... BY HAMAS
Doctors Without Borders is getting the treatment it deserves
Au revoir, Médecins Sans Frontières. Don’t let the door hit you in the derrière on your way out of Gaza.
By Ruthie Blum
JNS
Feb 3, 2026
A
Palestinian woman arrives with a child at the Doctors Without Borders
or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic, in the al-Rimal neighborhood
of Gaza City on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2025.
In a statement on Sunday, Israel’s Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism Ministry announced that it was “moving to terminate the activities of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)—Doctors Without Borders—in the Gaza Strip.”
According to the ministry, the departure of MSF will take place by Feb. 28. In the meantime, Israel is seeking to provide alternative solutions for the medical needs of Gaza’s residents.
“Humanitarian aid, yes. Security blindness, no,” said Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli in the statement. “Unfortunately, MSF is once again demonstrating a lack of transparency and acting out of irrelevant interests. The organization abruptly changed its position after publicly committing to act according to procedure.”
He was referring to the fact that MSF has consistently violated “existing registration procedures designed to facilitate legitimate humanitarian activity while preventing the misuse of humanitarian cover for hostile activities and terrorism.”
One such procedure involves submitting a list of the group’s local workers.
“We are aware that MSF employs individuals active in terrorist organizations, which is why it hides its employee lists,” said Chikli. “The organization operates in coordination with the Hamas Ministry of Health, and not by coincidence, its statements were published in proximity to similar statements from elements within the Strip.”
Chikli pointed to the “unequivocal and irrefutable evidence that aid organization employees have simultaneously acted as terror operatives.”
If there was any doubt about that, NGO Monitor has provided proof that MSF is not only far from a neutral humanitarian organization, but is openly partisan. Against Israel, of course.
It’s accused Israel of “genocide,” “collective punishment” and “apartheid,” while lobbying foreign governments to halt arms sales to the country. Nor has it ever condemned the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023.
But it has frequently decried Israeli operations in Gaza, downplaying or omitting Hamas’s systematic use of hospitals, ambulances and medical infrastructure for terrorist purposes. No wonder it’s been refusing to disclose the identity of its employees.
By resisting such transparency, it thought it could dupe Israeli authorities into allowing it to continue collaborating with mass murderers under the protective international cloak—and guise—of selfless physicians devoted to helping Palestinians in need of medical treatment.
How ironic that it’s been doing so for the very people whom the terrorists have purposely maimed and killed, as well as tried to starve, in order to frame Israel for their deaths. Talk about giving new meaning to the Hippocratic Oath.
As NGO Monitor founder and president Gerald Steinberg told JNS’s David Isaac on Monday, “MSF has gotten away with using its massive annual budget ($2.4 billion) and the influence this buys to promote antisemitic propaganda … and to avoid accountability for links to Hamas. But attempts to use bullying tactics through journalists and European political allies to avoid vital Israeli counterterror registration have failed. Their moral medical facade has been exposed for all to see.”
Indeed, even the best surgical masks can’t hide the group’s true face and ill will—for which there’s no cure.
Au revoir, MSF. Don’t let the door hit you in the derrière on your way out of Gaza.
WILL TRUMP SUE TREVOR NOAH ?
By Bob Walsh
During
the Grammy Awards last night the M.C., Trevor Noah, took a shot at
Donald Trump. No surprise there. He did however at least strongly
imply and maybe outright assert that Trump had history of Epstein and
Bill Clinton ON "Lolita Island." Trump has repeatedly denied any such
thing ever happened and I expect he is telling the truth or the falsity
of it would have surfaced by now.
In any event Trump is PISSED and is asserting that he might very well sue Noah, and presumably the Academy as well.
It
is hard to defame a public figure but there might be enough there to do
it. As I understand it (I could be wrong) there is a multi-step
threshold. The statement has to be false, the person making the
statement has to know it is false and have made the statement anyway
knowing it is false with intent to damage.
There
just might be some there there. It will be interesting to see what
Noah and the Academy will do if Trump goes ahead with it.
CA DEPT. OF PUBLIC HEALTH ASKING FOR E-VERIFY
By Bob Walsh
The
CA Dept. of Public Health employs a fair number of Spanish-speaking
employees to interact with their client base. The agency just directed
ALL of it's employees to be processed thru E-Verify +, the system
maintained by the feds to verify the right to work of people who might
not be U S citizens (or for that matter people who maybe are I guess).
I
guess they are hoping to not have ICE jumping their people as they
interact with ag workers and others who need public health services but
maybe are not here legally.
Actually that is probably a smart move on their part. They don't need Trump screaming that Gavin Newsom is employing illegals.
Monday, February 02, 2026
JUDGE: 'A PERFIDIOUS LUST FOR UNBRIDLED POWER'
Judge’s scathing order could reshape detention fights as dad, 5-year-old return
Before the Court is the petition of asylum seeker Adrian Conejo Arias and his five-year-old son for protection of the Great Writ of habeas corpus. They seek nothing more than some modicum of due process and the rule of law. The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.
by Yami Virgin and Mike Guerrero
NEWS4SA
Feb 1, 2026
SAN ANTONIO — Today, 5-year-old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, are back home in Minneapolis after a federal judge ordered their release from immigration detention in Dilley, Texas. Attorneys say the judge’s sharply worded opinion could have implications beyond this one case.
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery in San Antonio granted the family’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, a legal action that requires the government to bring a detained person before a judge and justify why they are being held. The ruling criticized how the government handled its detention and invoked both the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
In his opinion, Biery wrote that the father and son “seek nothing more than some modicum of due process and the rule of law.” He said the Constitution “trumps this administration’s detention” of the two. He also wrote that the government’s actions reflected a “perfidious lust for unbridled power” and the “imposition of cruelty in its quest,” adding, “the rule of law be damned.”
The judge wrote that the family was seeking asylum and had no deportation order, but were detained anyway. He criticized what he described as the government’s “ill-conceived and incompetently implemented” pursuit of daily deportation quotas, “apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.”
The opinion includes historical and civic references. Biery wrote that the government appeared to ignore the Declaration of Independence, noting that Thomas Jefferson listed grievances against an authoritarian king, including sending “swarms of officers to harass our people,” “excited domestic insurrection,” and “quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.” Biery wrote that “we the people are hearing echoes of that history.”
Biery also cited the Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures and requires warrants to be supported by probable cause and issued by an independent judicial officer. He wrote that administrative warrants issued within the executive branch “do not pass probable cause muster,” describing it as “the fox guarding the henhouse.” He further wrote, “The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer.”
San Antonio attorney Tim Maloney said the ruling is significant in part because of who wrote it.
“When you have an opinion from a judge with such gravitas, it changes the game plan,” Maloney said. “He issued a writ of habeas corpus and right now, a five-year-old kid is heading home, and that’s a big deal.”
Maloney explained that habeas corpus is a fundamental legal protection, sometimes called the “Great Writ,” that protects people from unlawful detention by requiring the government to prove in court that it has legal authority to hold someone.
“Habeas corpus is the only remedy that, when you're picked up, it demands that you are taken before a judge and given the right to determine whether or not you are lawfully detained,” he said.
Adam Loewy, an Austin attorney, said the case should matter even to people who support stricter border enforcement.
“We are a nation of laws,” Loewy said. “When people come here and apply for asylum, there is a whole process they must go through.”
Loewy said he supports border control but believes this case shows how enforcement can clash with due process.
“To seize a five-year-old boy who is in the process of applying for asylum, I think, is nuts,” he said.
Maloney cautioned that the decision does not automatically mean others in ICE custody will be released.
“This was extraordinary,” he said, adding that many others remain detained. “That’s the true tragedy behind it.”
NO SURPRISE HERE ... AFTER ALL, IT'S UBER-LIBERAL SAN FRANSICKO
Fury as new pro-ICE billboards create tension in San Francisco hotspot ahead of the Super Bowl
By Alex Raskin and Max Winters
Daily Mail
Feb 2, 2026
Three pro-ICE billboards have gone up in San Francisco ahead of next week's Super Bowl
Tensions are rising in San Francisco after pro-ICE billboard ads were put up in a bustling part of the city, just as thousands of NFL fans arrive for the Super Bowl.
The billboards, seen in person by the Daily Mail, were originally posted on social media by an account named 'American Sovereignty', whose 'mission is to strengthen border security, end trafficking and cartel exploitation, and close loopholes that reward unlawful entry.'
Located on the intersection of Jefferson and Mason in the bustling Fisherman's Wharf area that is already flooded with fans, locals have shared their fury at the messaging.
Kim from St. Louis told Daily Mail: 'It’s really unnecessary. If you’re already an American, you’ve already formed your opinion about ice and that billboard is a waste of money. And it isn’t going to make anyone change their mind one way or the other.'
Her husband, Mark, added: 'I get angry when I see anything about ICE.'
Anastasia Ray and Tyler from Phoenix added: 'That seems absolutely disgusting. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if the entire time people were targeted while flying in just for the event. I mean, that's disgusting.'
The billboards are located on the intersection of Jefferson and Mason in Fisherman's Wharf
It comes amid rising tensions just days before thousands of NFL fans arrive for the Super Bowl
Susan Holder, an American citizen originally from Peru, told Daily Mail: 'What ICE is doing right now, that’s completely illegal. I’m not going to agree with that.
'Of course, illegal people, is a big mistake to continue living in this country. But it’s too many people, hard workers, who are being deported. Families that have been separated. Kids. I don’t think that’s fair.'
One of the football-themed billboards shows a law enforcement officer holding a trophy aloft with the words 'Defensive Player of the Year: ICE'.
The billboard is split in half on the second with a picture of a football team on the left and the words: 'They can't win without defense'. On the right, alongside a picture of ICE agents, it says: 'Neither can America'.
The third and final billboard shows a picture of officers in front of Trump's wall and says: 'Cheering because the home team finally started investing in defense.'
The Trump administration is expected to send ICE agents to the Bay Area ahead of the Seattle Seahawks' clash with the New England Patriots on February 8.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem previously vowed 'we’ll be all over that place' while a DHS official this week warned: 'Those who are here legally and are not breaking other laws have nothing to fear.'
The Super Bowl heads to Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara amid heightened tensions across America following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, which came two weeks after 37-year-old Renee Good was fatally shot in her car by an ICE officer.
ICE agents will not be patrolling around Levi's Stadium on Super Bowl Sunday, reports claim
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Secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem previously said: 'We’ll be all over [the Super Bowl]'
Their deaths have sparked widespread protests, with some in the Trump administration accusing local officials of not doing enough to support federal law enforcement and even heightening tensions.
This week, Santa Clara County Sheriff Bob Jonsen stoked the fires by revealing his forces won't help ICE with their crackdown.
'We will not be working or supporting ICE Immigration Enforcement,' he told a news conference on Thursday.
'I urge our federal partners, if there's something that you’re planning to do in our community, please, please be transparent and reach out to your local officials so we can work as best we can.'
Jonsen attempted to reassure fans in the Bay Area, telling them: 'If you see us out there, we’re there to help you and we will be there. Don’t hesitate to contact someone wearing a uniform as these events unfold if they’re walking around trying to engage and make sure you remain safe.'
He continued: 'We are going to be here for you, side-by-side. So, as you're getting off those trains [or] those buses... [there is a] high probability you're going to see somebody in uniform.
'But if they're not masked, if they're wearing tan and green or blue or black, trust me, they're there for your protection. They are there for your protection.'
Reports on Thursday claimed there are no plans for ICE to carry out operations at Levi's Stadium or at NFL-sponsored events in the build up to Super Bowl Sunday. But DHS told TMZ that their plans to be on the ground around the Super Bowl had not changed despite unrest in Minneapolis.
Last year, meanwhile, Trump ally Corey Lewandowski warned: 'There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally, not the Super Bowl, and nowhere else.'
Super Bowl LX between the Patriots and Seahawks will take place in Santa Clara, California
He continued: 'We will find you, we will apprehend you, we will put you in a detention facility and we will deport you.'
Noem even urged people to avoid the Super Bowl 'unless they are law-abiding Americans who love this country,' adding: 'We’ll be all over that place... we’re gonna enforce the law.'
And earlier this week DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said: 'DHS is committed to working with our local and federal partners to ensure the Super Bowl is safe for everyone involved, as we do with every major sporting event, including the World Cup.'
But there are concerns among local officials that the presence of ICE could 'increase the level of tension and fear in our area.'
Peter Ortiz of the San Jose city council told the San Jose Spotlight: 'We’re already seeing that they are scared to go out to eat, scared to go to the local corner store, scared to send their kids to school.'
President Trump has said he will not attend this year's Super Bowl, having also slammed the decision to choose Bad Bunny for the halftime show.
The Puerto Rican artist previously cited ICE agents as a reason he did not include any mainland US dates for his tour.
TULSI MAY BE IN HOT WATER
Secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard sends shockwaves through DC: 'Grave damage to national security'
By Phillip Nieto
Daily Mail
Feb 2, 2026
The whistleblower accuses
Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint by refusing to provide the
necessary security guidance for congressional lawmakers to review it
The whistleblower accuses Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint by refusing to provide the necessary security guidance for congressional lawmakers to review it
Donald Trump's spy chief Tulsi Gabbard is accused of wrongdoing in a whistleblower complaint so highly classified it has been sealed inside a safe.
The sensitive allegations against Gabbard have triggered months of debate over how to present the complaint to Congress, amid warnings it could cause 'grave damage to national security,' the Wall Street Journal reports.
The 'cloak-and-dagger mystery' implicates a second government agency, and raises claims of executive privilege that may involve the White House, officials said.
The whistleblower accuses Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint by refusing to provide the necessary security guidance for congressional lawmakers to review it.
The intelligence community's inspector general received the complaint last May, according to a November letter sent by the whistleblower's lawyer to Gabbard.
A spokeswoman for Gabbard acknowledged the existence of the complaint but claimed it was 'baseless and politically motivated.'
Gabbard's office also said it was not stonewalling the whistleblower's allegations but navigating a unique set of circumstances in order to resolve the classified complaint.
A representative for the inspector general told the Journal that it had determined some specific allegations were not credible. The whistleblower's lawyer, Andrew Bakaj, said they were never informed that any determinations were reached.
Trump publicly rebuked Gabbard in June after she said during congressional testimony that Iran was 'not building a nuclear weapon'
The controversy comes as Gabbard has been sidelined in the Trump administration over major national security matters, including Venezuela and Iran
The November letter Bakaj wrote to Gabbard was shared with House and Senate intelligence panels, but lawmakers have not received the complaint months later.
Democratic congressional aides on the intelligence committees have tried to probe for details of the complaint in recent weeks but have not been successful.
The information divulged by the whistleblower is so highly classified that not even Bakaj has been able to view it.
Watchdog experts and former intelligence officials claim the delay in sending the complaint to Congress is unprecedented.
The inspector general is usually required to assess whether the complaint is credible to share with lawmakers within three weeks of receiving it.
The Daily Mail cannot confirm the substance of the allegations.
Director of National Intelligence spokeswoman Olivia Coleman said: 'This is a classic case of a politically motivated individual weaponizing their position in the Intelligence Community, submitting a baseless complaint and then burying it in highly classified information to create 1) false intrigue, 2) a manufactured narrative, and 3) conditions which make it substantially more difficult to produce "security guidance" for transmittal to Congress.'
The controversy comes as Gabbard has been sidelined in the Trump administration over major national security matters, including Venezuela and Iran.
Instead, Gabbard has been tasked with verifying Trump's claims of election fraud stemming from the 2020 election.
A joke was being circulated around the White House that Gabbard's DNI title stood for 'Do Not Invite,' following Nicolas Maduro's capture last month.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly argued that she should be excluded from the mission, with the White House fearing that Gabbard, who in 2019 argued against intervention in Venezuela, would not support Operation Absolute Resolve.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe was front and center as the most senior intelligence official, beamed out in White House pictures that included the President, Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
As DNI, Gabbard is supposed to be Trump's top intelligence adviser overseeing America's 18 spy agencies, including the CIA.
Trump publicly rebuked Gabbard in June after she said during congressional testimony that Iran was 'not building a nuclear weapon.'
The comments were put to the President as he planned to strike the country's nuclear sites alongside Israel.
'I don't care what she said,' he told reporters aboard Air Force One.
NANCY MACE, WHO IS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLIMA, CALLS THIS A 'HIT PIECE'
Nancy Mace Is Not Okay
“Something’s broken. The motherboard’s fried. We’re short-circuiting somewhere.”
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