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Tuesday, 3 February 2026
White House Shamed In Court For Using Deep Fake To Smear Church Protester
A court filing called out the White House for creating a deep fake with artificial intelligence to smear Minnesota church protester Nekima Levy-Armstrong.
In a filing over the weekend, attorneys for Levy-Armstrong called on the government to drop pre-trial release conditions.
According to the document, Levy-Armstrong's co-defendants from the recent church protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did not face the same burdensome pre-trial conditions.
"There is no rational basis for treating Ms. Levy-Armstrong differently from her co-defendants," the attorneys insisted. "She has no prior substantive criminal record, she has lived in Minnesota for 23 years, she has a husband and children in Minnesota, and operates two businesses."
"Ms. Levy-Armstrong regularly travels in connection with her business and community activism, and should not be required to seek permission from probation or the Court for trips to other states or other countries," the motion continued. "There is no basis for concern that she will not return to Minnesota as required."
The document also alleged that Levy-Armstrong's husband was being deprived of his Second Amendment rights because she was ordered not to have a gun in her home.
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Monday, 2 February 2026
Two Stanford students launch $2M startup accelerator for students nationwide
Two Stanford students announced Monday that they have raised $2 million for an accelerator program called Breakthrough Ventures, which seeks to fund the businesses of college students and recent graduates nationwide.
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Donald Trump Hate-Watched The Grammys, And He Wants To Sue
Donald Trump hate-watched the Grammys, and quickly took his angry fingers to Truth Social to threaten to sue its host, comedian Trevor Noah, over a joke about the president and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Noah said, “That is a Grammy that every artist wants almost as much as Trump wants Greenland, which makes sense because Epstein’s island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton.”
Trump was filled with rage.
"The Grammy Awards are the WORST, virtually unwatchable!" Trump insisted. "CBS is lucky not to have this garbage litter their airwaves any longer."
"The host, Trevor Noah, whoever he may be, is almost as bad as Jimmy Kimmel at the Low Ratings Academy Awards," he continued. "Noah said, INCORRECTLY about me, that Donald Trump and Bill Clinton spent time on Epstein Island. WRONG!!!"
"I can’t speak for Bill, but I have never been to Epstein Island, nor anywhere close, and until tonight’s false and defamatory statement, have never been accused of being there, not even by the Fake News Media," he wrote. "Noah, a total loser, better get his facts straight, and get them straight fast."
"It looks like I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C., and suing him for plenty$," he added. "Ask Little George Slopadopolus, and others, how that all worked out. Also ask CBS! Get ready Noah, I’m going to have some fun with you! President DJT"
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What Snowflake’s deal with OpenAI tells us about the enterprise AI race
Snowflake is the latest enterprise to sign multi-year deals with multiple AI companies in what could be a sign to come of a future trend.
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Sunday, 1 February 2026
QAnon Sure Has Been Quiet Lately. Could This Be Why?
The latest batch of the Epstein Files is interesting, in a nauseating way. The people of the United States have been gaslit for so long, but now finally the truth is making an appearance. As it happens, the QAnon conspiracy ideology that claimed, without evidence, that the Democratic party was controlled by a cabal of global elites headed up by Hillary Clinton who engage in pedophilia, child sex-trafficking, ritual cannibalism of children, and worship Satan, isn't true. Who knew?
QAnon has been quiet even since batches of the Epstein Files were released, showing Donald J. Trump was mentioned thousands of times in notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's documents. The bizarre movement began when someone known only as Q posted a series of conspiracy theories on the internet forum 4chan, which was founded by Christopher Poole, who went by the online handle "moot."
Well, Poole got a shoutout in the Epstein Files.
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Amazon’s ‘Melania’ documentary makes $7M on opening weekend
While the documentary is exceeding box office expectations, it's unlikely to make a profit in theaters.
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