The headlines, footage, and stories we heard this past month were overwhelming. When I started archiving the news, one month at a time, I dreaded the arrival of a month like this.

A month that opened with the kidnapping of a foreign president, darkened by multiple filmed murders at the hands of the State, and punctuated with the release of files outlining a horrific pedophile ring.
A month where leaders abandon the rule of law, persecuting journalists and citizens for engaging in constitutionally protected dissent.
A month where algorithms under the control of billionaires, bury facts under mountains of manufactured content designed to harm and mislead.

However, it is months like this where Americans show their teeth. If you look closely, the headlines from this month narrate the rejection of tyranny and the refusal to abandon our neighbors.
It is with my deepest appreciation for the journalists and activists fighting for the truth, hope, and sovereignty through unprecedented times that I present to you, my first newsletter of 2026.

Federal Government

Threats in the name of “Peace”: Kidnapping presidents, Nobel Prizes, and undermining the United Nations.

Trump’s department of Defense (Now Department of War) announces the capture of Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife in an operation named “Absolute Resolve.” The Venezuelan interior minister reported 100 deaths during the capture. A combination of US Army Delta Force special operations troops and CIA intelligence carried out the operation. Donald Trump oversaw the raid, not from the Situation room, but from Mar-a Lago in Palm Beach Florida. Reactions from congress were split along party lines. The US announced that it would oversee Venezuela’s transition, that all U.S. oil companies will move to the country, and that the airspace would be reopened for commercial flights. Trump opposed endorsing Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
Machado presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Trump during a meeting in the White House prompting the Norwegian Nobel Committee to release a statement clarifying that the honor and recognition remains linked to the winner of the prize.

The White House released their Gaza Peace Plan, termed the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict. The plan outlines new demilitarization principles for the Gaza Strip and the formation of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG). The White House says the NCAG will be overseen by the “Board of Peace” with Trump as the chair. According to US officials, a $1 billion contribution secures permanent membership instead of a three-year appointment, which has no contribution requirement. Countries have received invitations to join the Board of Peace, major UN players declining, including our western allies. Many of whom have spoken out against the board , calling it an attempt to consolidate power and sidestep the United Nations. Trump threatened a 25% tariffs increase on goods to European countries until the US is allowed to purchase Greenland, then withdrew the threat following a call with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Davos.

Big Big Big Lies: Epstein Files, DOGE, and beating the dead horse known as the 2020 elections

The Justice Department disclosed in a court filing that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees, who were detailed to the Social Security Administration last March, shared sensitive data through a non secure third party-server, in violation of agency security policies.

The House Democrats held a special hearing for the 5 year anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, incited by sitting President Donald Trump in 2020 after he lost the presidential election. Ex-Special Counsel Jack Smith says Trump acted criminally and capitol police retold their stories from that day. The White House published a web page blaming capitol police and Mike Pence, his former Vice President, for the violence that turned deadly that day.

The Justice Department sued Connecticut and Arizona as part of effort to get voter data from the states. Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter roll to the U.S. Justice Department. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is refusing to turn over sensitive personal information from Georgia’s voter rolls to the U.S. The FBI raided the Georgia elections office with a warrant to seize records from the 2020 presidential vote in Fulton County. The Supreme Court ruled that candidates can sue to challenge election laws. Federal Judge dismissed DOJ lawsuit requesting detailed Californian’s voter data.

In a letter to Congress, the DOJ announced that it has completed review, redaction, and release of all documents related to convicted sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein. 3 million documents were released, again incomplete, full of redactions, and publishing victims names and images. The documents mention Trump’s name hundreds more times along with tech billionaires Elon Musk and Bill Gates. Earlier in the month, US representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie sent a letter, to New York District Judge overseeing the Ghisllene Maxwell case, to suggest the appointment of a Special Master and Independent Monitor to oversee DOJ compliance. A Federal Judge ruled that Congress has no authority to compel or oversee the DOJ as they release the Epstein files. Maxwell has agreed to testify under oath at a congressional hearing on Feb 9. The committee subpoenaed the Clintons, who were both mentioned in the files, for testimony. However, they declined to testify, risking being held in contempt of Congress.

The Federal response to the rogue paramilitary also known as ICE

So far this year, ICE has reported 6 deaths of people detained, as is required by law. ICE had its deadliest year in 2025 with 32 confirmed deaths making it the deadliest year since 2004. The White House has blamed Minnesota Democrats resisting ICE for the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. An off duty ICE agent shot and killed Kieth Porter during New Year’s Eve celebrations. ICE stopped paying outside medical providers for detainee care, according to Senator Ossoff’s report investigating human rights abuses by ICE. Top House Democrats on Tuesday told Donald Trump to fire Kristi Noem or they would launch impeachment proceedings against the homeland security secretary. The chief federal judge in Minnesota says the Trump administration has failed to comply with nearly 100 court orders, just this month, to hold hearings for detained immigrants. The chief of ICE is ordered to appear before him and argue why he shouldn’t be held in contempt.

A whistle-blower complaint revealed a DHS memo released in May. The ICE memo said ICE agents could enter homes with only an administrative warrant, rather than the constitutionally required judge signed warrant. The Department of Homeland Security is pausing immigration applications from an additional 20 countries after an expansion of travel restrictions took effect Jan. CNN claimed to have reviewed a memo that asked ICE agents to capture images of protesters to be added to a centralized database.

The White House and the Senate Democrats struck a deal over ICE and DHS funding but failed to avoid a partial government shutdown. The House passed funding for 438 government agencies, including ICE with only 7 House Democrats voting to fund DHS. The Senate voted to approve a partial government funding package and leave DHS funding up for debate in mid February.

The Federal Brain Drain: Health, Cybersecurity, and Science

The fallout after President Trump dramatically shrank the federal workforce reveals that 10,109 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left or were laid off from their jobs last year. Nearly half of CDC databases aren’t being updated as experts sound alarm over gaps in health data. The CIA, CISA, and the FBI withdrew from the RSAC Conference, one of the world’s biggest cybersecurity gatherings, after the event’s organizer appointed a Biden administration official as its CEO. Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT.

The Trump administration will close NASA’s largest research library, located at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. The proposed budget would have cut about a third of NASA staff. library staff are working on a 60-day review of the collection and have been reportedly been given permission to save the most rare 10%-15% of it, with the remainder to be picked up by the General Services Administration. According to The Times, the federal government will store some of the collection in warehouses, and trash the rest.

States

Minnesota defends its sovereignty.

A Minnesota federal judge put limits on the tactics that federal law enforcement are permitted to use after the killing of civil observer and mother Renee Good. Articles of impeachment were introduced against Tim Walz, citing unbased claims of Fraud. Walz demanded that ICE agents leave the state immediately following the murder of ICU nurse and civil observer Alex Pretti. President Trump threatened to invoke the “Insurrection Act” to deploy federal troops against protesters. The Minnesota Attorney General launched an online portal to report federal actions. Minnesota’s prisons launched a website to correct ‘inaccurate’ arrest info from Trump’s DHS.
Following a phone call between Trump and Governor Walz, Trump confirmed that Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol chief leading the surge, will soon leave the state and announced that border czar Tom Homan would replace Bovino. Pam Bondi sent a letter to Minnesota officials outlining terms that Minnesota officials must meet before considering a withdrawal of troops from the state. All of the demands are based on conspiracy theories, including a demand for voter files. Tim Walz refused, telling DOJ to “go ahead and work on those Epstein Files”.

States stand their ground: Launching story portals & setting the record straight.

Arizona Attorney general warned that stand your ground laws may make ICE escalation combustible in the state. Pheonix PD released a statement detailing its concerns over ICE presence in the state.
Colorado launches platform to report misconduct by federal officers.
Adams County health officials are investigating the Aurora ICE detention facility after allegations of untreated illness outbreaks and inadequate medical care, following complaints from immigrant rights advocates and families of detainees.
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell office recently launched two new public tools: a Storytelling Portal and Federal Funding Dashboard.
A federal judge in Columbus ruled Ohio State University likely violated a student’s free speech last year after he was expelled after he posted pro-Palestine and anti-Israel comments on social media.

North Carolina’s student voters demand access to the polling booth

A group of college students from three North Carolina universities filed a federal lawsuit against North Carolina election officials. The College Democrats of North Carolina are fighting the removal of early voting sites on college campuses. They argue that the state’s election board is violating the 26th Amendment by abridging their right to vote based on their age. But in a 3-2 vote along party lines, the NCSBE refused the proposal. The vote prompted a brief protest from NC A&T students, who had come to the Raleigh meeting in support of early voting sites on the campus of the historically Black university.

Cyber Rights

The latest in age-based tech restrictions

New Jersey Governor signed into affect a school cell phone ban, a similar cell phone ban went into affect in Ohio. Federal Judge to hear challenges to Virginia age verification laws that limit teen access to 1 hour. A Federal Judge blocked Texas’s Age verification law from going into affect. VPN use spikes in Missouri after Age Verification law goes into effect.

Victims of algorithmic harm on track to get their day in court

NCAA urged federal regulators to suspend prediction markets that look like gambling.
Meta, Snapchat, YouTube and TikTok and parent ByteDance, urged the judge to rule that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects their activity, after six school districts from states across the country argued that the platforms’ design harmed students’ mental health and forced districts to spend money and staff time. Meta and Youtube are set to go to trial after TikTok and Snapchat settled to avoid the trial.

Corporation Watch

Data Breach

An unnamed app designed to help people stop consuming pornography has exposed highly sensitive data, including its users’ masturbation habits. Some of the data exposed includes the users’ age, how often they masturbate, and how viewing pornography makes them feel. According to the data, many of them are minors.
Comcast agrees to $117.5 million settlement to resolve data breach lawsuits.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a dispute involving fines imposed by the FCC on major U.S. wireless carriers for sharing customer location data without consent

Brightspeed, one of the largest fiber broadband providers in the United States, is investigating claims that hackers stole sensitive data tied to more than 1 million customers. The allegations surfaced when a group calling itself the Crimson Collective posted messages on Telegram warning Brightspeed employees to check their email.

AI. Irresponsible, Harmful, and Expensive.

Microsoft gave the FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data. The tech giant said it receives around 20 requests for BitLocker keys a year and will provide them to governments in response to valid court orders. Microsoft shares fell by 11%, after the company’s investment in AI infrastructure failed to return profit.

OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers.
Leidos and OpenAI are partnering to provide OpenAI for the Federal Government. U.S Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth annnounced that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network.
X is being investigated by authorities in Europe, India and Malaysia, after Grok began flooding the app with graphic AI generated images, including sexual images of women and children.

The DHS released their AI use case library for 2025, revealing 238 use cases for AI, primarily for law enforcement by ICE and CBP. 404 media obtained exclusive information about how ICE uses its recently purchased surveillance tools to spy on Americans. Penlink, (originally Israeli firm Cobwebs Technologiess) is one of the companies powering ICE’s surveillance of neighborhoods and online speech. Webloc is the user portal that allows ICE agents to trace a boundary then track mobile phone location history. To circumvent this type of surveillance, phone users are encouraged to disable real-time location data sharing.

Build that “Firewall”: Monopolies, Censorship, & Surveillance.

Google pleads with District Judge to lower data sharing mandate pending the anti-trust investigation. Child rights group says google undermined Parental protections after sending emails about disabling parental controls to children.

A List exposing ICE member’s identities “ICE list” goes dark after it was likely taken down by Russian hackers according to the founder. Meta blocked posts containing links to the list on Facebook, Instagram and Threads.

FCC to require Talk Shows to file for special exemption to the rule requiring equal air time for candidates.

Oracle began moderating the TikTok algorithm on the 22nd after a $14B deal. and TikTok exploded with complaints of anti-ICE censorship . Users have reported not being able to send the word “Epstein”. One Epstein survivor posted to TikTok that a porn audio replaced the original audio of her video. Oracle Corp., the Austin-based tech giant, is facing a potential class-action lawsuit over multiple data breaches this year impacting millions of people.

The FTC also said it will appeal a federal judge’s decision that Meta Platforms Inc. doesn’t have a monopoly in social networking. FTC finalized an order with General Motors to settle allegations that the automaker collected and sold drivers’ location and behavior data without their consent. Class action complaint was filed against Samsung in a New York federal court. Samsung allegedly violated state and federal privacy laws with some of its smart televisions.

Weather Report

ICE’s enemies: The right to protest, the right to due process, and literal children.

US appeals court lifted the temporary order that halted ICE agents ability to use force on peaceful protesters. Escalation that has gotten so bad that students were given the option to do virtual learning through February 12.

At least four senior leaders of the DOJ’s division that investigates police killings have resigned in protest over the handling of the fatal shooting of Renee Good. in Minnesota, six other federal prosecutors have left their posts

ICE detained Liam “conejo” Ramos, a five-year-old Minnesota boy, as he returned home from school then transported him and his father to a Dilley detention center in Texas. Agents reportedly used the child as “bait” to knock on his front door to see if anyone else was home. A federal judge blocked the deportation of Liam and his father. A day later a Judge ordered the release of Liam Ramos and his father from immigration custody, condemning the arrests as driven by “the perfidious lust for unbridled power”.
Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democratic congressman, visited the five-year-old boy and his father at the detention center. The 5 year old was depressed and ill with stress, according to his father. Liam is the fourth child from his school district to be taken away by ICE in just the past two weeks, Columbia Heights Public Schools said.

ICE deported the prime suspect for a jewel thief, who has now pulled off the biggest heist in US history. The Trump administration apologized in court for a “mistake” in the deportation of a Massachusetts college student who was detained trying to fly home for Thanksgiving, despite an emergency court order directing the government to keep her in the United States for at least 72 hours.

A 6-month-old baby hospitalized after federal law enforcement agents in Minneapolis struck a car full of children with a flash bang, before flooding it with tear gas. The family was were driving their six children home from a basketball game. “My kids were innocent, I was innocent, my husband was innocent, this shouldn’t have happened,” she told Fox9. “We were just trying to go home.”

Protesting ICE: in church, in detention centers, and in the streets

21 year-old Californian was left permanently blind in one eye after a Federal agent shot him with less-lethal round at an anti-ICE demonstration after the murder of Renee Good. In her first on-camera interview, Dayanne Figueroa, a U.S. citizen, described what happened when Border Patrol collided with her car in October. The situation escalated: agents drew their guns, pulled her out of her car and arrested her.

Dozens of immigrant families protested Saturday behind the fences of Dilley detention center in Texas. some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” Families could also be heard outside chanting “Libertad!” the protest was organized internally by the families exhausted by the long detention and conditions that advocates say have included food with worms, constant illness and insufficient medical access.

Following the execution of American citizen Alex Pretti at the hands of ICE agents in Minneapolis over the weekend, thousands of Wisconsinites took to the streets to protest ICE.

Postal workers marched against Federal immigration officers. Over 100 Clergymen were arrested at Minnesota’s largest airport amid a protest demonstration against ICE deportation flights. A noise demonstration held outside of Home2 Suites by Hilton led to arrests and deployment of flares and tear gas on the crowd outside in St Paul Minnesota.

Immigration rights group Portland Contra las Deportaciones led demonstrators in condemning the Minneapolis shooting and called on Portland city officials to revoke the conditional use permit for the city’s ICE facility. The group then marched to the ICE facility, where protests continued into the evening. Federal agents pepper sprayed and pepper bombed protesters in front of the Federal Building in downtown Eugene.

Protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a Cities church by chanting “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good.” where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, David Easterwood, serves as a pastor.

Chilling dissent and journalism

The Justice Department vowed to press charges after the demonstration at Cities church and 3 activists were arrested. Nekima Levy Armstrong, an attorney and longtime activist, was among the three arrested. A Magistrate judge ruled that independent journalist Don Lemon would not face federal charges for covering the demonstration . Don Lemon was later indicted by a grand jury out of Minneapolis, and arrested in Los Angeles. Also arrested was independent journalist Georgia Fort, who live streamed her arrest. Ian Austin, an army veteran, was arrested and taken into federal custody along with the journalists, after being identified in a video of the church protest. Chauntyll Louisa Allen, a St. Paul school board member was the second person arrested, and is charged under a law that prohibits physically obstructing or using the threat of force to intimidate or interfere with a person seeking to participate in a service at a house of worship.
Judge Miko noted that the government failed to show probable cause for one of the charges listed in its initial charging documents that had accused the defendants of violating the FACE Act. After Don Lemon was released he said to reporters “The first amendment to the US Constitution protects that work for me and countless other journalists who do what I do. I stand with all of them, and I will not be silenced. I look forward to my day in court.” After Georgia Fort was released, she asked , “Do we have a constitution?”

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting officially dissolved after Federal Funding cuts. PBS Newsweekend went off the air for the last time, at least for the forseeable future, after losing federal funding.

The current state of racial extremism and gender-based hate.

Trump Administration is using influencers as a part of White House Comms Strategy to create pro-immigration enforcement content. This is likely connected to a surge of right-wing influencers streaming ICE escalation in Minnesota. This includes far right influencer and pardoned insurrectionist, Jake Lang. Lang recently announced plans to run for US Senate in Florida, is known for making anti-Muslim and antisemitic comments. He was met with angry counterprotestors after he organized a “Pro ICE rally” where he would commit an act of hate targeting the Somali community. Charged, now pardoned, insurrectionist David Medina’s will run for governor in Ohio as a Republican

Federal immigration officials say they are investigating reports of ICE agents leaving racist Ace of Spades ‘death cards’ on detained immigrants’ cars. The White House posted AI manipulated images of activist Nekima Armstrong’s arrest where she appears to have darker skin and is crying, where in the original photo she has a neutral expression.

$30 Billion dollars worth of grants are covered in expansion of rule that blocks US from extending aid to organizations providing abortions to include DEI and “gender ideology”. The FTC announced that it had written to 42 law firms warning them about diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring, which it described as potentially unfair and anti-competitive. Supreme Court seems likely to uphold state bans on transgender athletes in girls and women’s sports

Rep Ilhan Omar was assaulted at a Town Hall event by a man who sprayed her with unknown liquid, while making opening remarks at her first town hall of the year in Minneapolis, . Maxwell Frost, the first Generation Z member of Congress, was physically assaulted at the Sundance Festival by a drunken man shouting racial slurs. Christian Joel Young was arrested and charged with aggravated burglary and assaulting an elected official.

Good News

Luigi Mangione will not face death penalty after US judge dismisses murder charge.

Bitter-sweet news.

Shirley Raines, a social media creator and nonprofit founder who dedicated her life to caring for people experiencing homelessness, has passed away, according to her organization Beauty 2 The Streetz. Her work involved bringing respect and dignity in the form of direct mutual aid and care to people experiencing homelessness on skid row in Los Angeles. Her work earned her the title of CNN’s 2021 Hero of the Year and the NAACP’s 2025 Social Media Personality award. To honor her memory and legacy, supporters have already begun contributing to a GoFundMe campaign established by her nonprofit, which has raised over $200,000 to ensure the organization’s work continues. Others who were touched by her work can be seen spreading love, care, and dignity to people experiencing homelessness in their communities.

Sean Grayson, A former Illinois deputy, has been sentenced to 20 years for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, a Black woman after calling 911 for help. The case also prompted a change in Illinois law requiring fuller transparency on the backgrounds of candidates for law enforcement jobs. After the hearing, Massey’s relatives thanked the public for the support and listening to their stories about Massey. “Twenty years is not enough,” her daughter Summer told reporters. Her two children said they had to grow up without a mother, while Massey’s mother said she lived in fear. “Today, I’m afraid to call the police in fear that I might end up like Sonya,” her mother Donna Massey said. While the sentencing does not right the wrong of having a loved one killed by police, the case is a step in achieving accountability for extrajudicial killing of Black women at the hands of law enforcement.

In case you needed a laugh: The girls are fighting & He ate what?

Podcaster Candace Owens dropped alleged audio on her show of Erika Kirk addressing Turning Point USA just five days after her husband, Charlie Kirk’s death.“It is the general tone that is off-putting, it is the laughter that is off-putting, we are not even two weeks after watching your husband be assassinated,” she said after playing the audio.

Graham Granger, a film and performing arts major at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief after ripping AI-assisted artwork from a campus gallery wall and eating around 57 of the images as part of what he described as a protest and performance piece against the use of AI in art.

Resisting ICE despite icy conditions: Strikers and Hackers

Despite the bitter cold in many parts of the country, people are still taking to the streets to protest and organize against ICE. Minnesota staged an effective general strike in protest, after ICE escalation left businesses disrupted. Hundreds of businesses in Minnesota closed on Friday and thousands of protesters turned out in severely cold weather to demonstrate against the ongoing immigration crackdown in the state. Faith leaders organized a seven-hour sit-in at the Target corporate headquarters, ultimately persuading CEO Brian Cornell to agree to a meeting.

The People’s Assembly of Detroit and 22 partner organizations called on workers and students across Michigan to stay home from work and school and avoid shopping for the day, describing the action as an economic boycott aimed at federal immigration enforcement.

STOPICE.net is now a national database of plates used by immigration authorities, expanding outside of Illinois, North Carolina, Oregon, Minnesota, and California. Similarly, activists in Portland Oregon built a database of ICE license plates, in hopes of empowering communities against the terror of unmarked vehicles abducting neighbors. What makes the Portland database different is that the updates are posted through the InterPlanetary File System, or IPFS, a decentralized, peer-to-peer method of file distribution, to circumvent site take downs and subpoenas.

The Kids are Alright!

Small scattered protests led by students in the suburbs of Chicago. Hundreds of high school students walk out of class in protest of ICE escalation in Tucson, Arizona and Phoenix Arizona. Students walk out in protest of ICE enforcement in Wauwatosa Wisconsin. High school students walk out in East Lansing Michigan. Students walk out in Minnesota. Cleveland Ohio, Students out of Roosevelt High in Minnesota were sprayed with teargas as they walked out. The Bay area students walked out. Hundreds in Colorado took to the streets to protest ICE’s killing of Alex Pretti. Student protested in Ogden Utah drawing over 250 demonstrators. Around 2,000 Students walked out in Protest in Lakeside Georgia, “I saw my friends who were feeling afraid, who were just not feeling okay coming out here,” Siye said. “They came out here. Nearly the entire school was here. People who said they were too scared to come, they came because of the numbers.” Student architecture organization leads anti-ICE walkout at Howard “Today, people across the country are organizing across states and multiple cities to organize actions exactly, like what students are doing at Howard”

Liam’s classmates shared their hope that Liam would return to school soon. “You are scaring schools, people and the world,” one student at Valley View Elementary,wrote to ICE.

After overhauling federal DEI programs last January, the Defense Intelligence Agency ordered a pause of all activities and events related to MLK Day. That did not stop students from writing to their local papers in support of Martin Luthur King day.

Even more divestment from surveillance and deportation.

Bend City Council has moved to turn off four AI-powered license plate cameras and not renew the city’s contract with the company, Flock Safety. Cities across Oregon and Washington have been steadily divesting from the automated license plate reading.

Avelo Airlines is cutting ties with ICE less than a year after inking a deal to carry out deportations for the agency. New Haven Immigrants Coalition published an online petition urging people to boycott Avelo and call their state representatives to ask that they prevent the company from receiving tax breaks. The petition was signed by more than 40,000 people, and garnered attention nationwide. Activists began protesting outside of Tweed New Haven Airport, and as video of the rallies picked up views online, activists in other cities took up the fight as well. 

Information access and privacy wins!

After the Washington Post demanded that the FBI return these seized devices, a federal Judge ruled that the devices cannot be searched. Federal Judge unseals court records of wrongfully detained Turks student and Journalist.

9th Circuit revived a California law banning forced outing of transgender students

Hawaii got final Federal approval to use $149 in expanding reliable internet access.

Wikipedia celebrated its 25th Birthday! To celebrate, the Wikimedia Foundation — the nonprofit that backs Wikipedia — is releasing brief clips that highlight eight of its editors from across the globe. Some of the featured editors include “Hurricane Hank,” who joined Wikipedia in 2005 and contributed to the Hurricane Katrina page, along with Netha, an Indian doctor and experienced Wikipedia editor who used her knowledge to combat misinformation on the site during the covid pandemic.

Horoscope

February starts with the Full Moon,also known as the Snow Moon due to high snowfall during the time of year. Uranus stations direct on the 3rd, which means the changes that have been on hold are ready to roll forward. The New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aquarius on the 17th sheds light on new friendships. This is your sign from the moon and stars to prepare for long awaited changes and remain open to new friendships,

Happy New Year!
Until next month,

<3 Raelyn