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TikTok Users Report Trouble Posting About Epstein, ICE, Days After Company Finalizes Sale To US Investors

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:50 UTC
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Censorship concerns are back in the spotlight after TikTok users claim to be having trouble posting about Jeffrey Epstein and ICE raids.

Days after the company finalized a sale to a consortium of American investors who now control TikTok's business in the US - which averted a national ban of the app over national security concerns - users report being unable to use the word "Epstein" in direct messages.

The company responded, telling NPR "We don't have rules against sharing the name 'Epstein' in direct messages and are investigating why some users are experiencing issues."
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Life Preserver

Doing great harm? How DEI and identity politics are infecting American healthcare―and how we are fighting back

Stanley Goldfarb, MD
The Washington Free Beacon
Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00 UTC
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The Minnesota chapter of White Coats for Black Lives, a medical student group, greeted the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel by saying that Palestinians should "free themselves from their oppressors by any means necessary."

In 2024, the Oregon Medical Board proposed including "microaggressions" in the category of "unprofessional misconduct" for which doctors could be punished up to losing their licenses. Among the examples of microaggressions mentioned by one of the state's experts is saying "America is the land of opportunity" or "I believe the most qualified person should get the job."

The Ohio State University College of Medicine instructs students and faculty not to ask black colleagues "How are you doing?" It's not an appropriate question, the college explained, because "Black People (and all People of Color) ... experience racism every day."
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Violent anti-ICE protesters swarm Minnesota hotel they believe is housing fed agents

James Keivom and Caitlin McCormack
New York Post
Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:43 UTC
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© James KeivomThe protesters descended upon the Minneapolis hotel Jan. 26, 2026, one day after Border Patrol agents fatally shot armed protester Alex Pretti.
One officer left bloodied

Anti-ICE protesters violently swarmed a Minneapolis hotel where they believed federal officers were staying, hurling items at people inside, smashing its windows, and graffitiing "F-K ICE" across the building's facade Sunday.

The large mob descended on the Home2 Suites by Hilton Hotel late Sunday, as tensions gripped the Twin Cities just one day after Border Patrol agents shot and killed protester Alex Pretti, 37, in Minneapolis.

They shoved and hurled objects at a Minneapolis Police Department officer and others just inside the hotel's lobby and attempted to push their way in — forcing those inside to use two large vending machines to physically block the rowdy demonstrators.

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California's 'billionaire tax' is a mirror of EU green socialism

Thomas Kolbe
ZeroHedge
Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:53 UTC
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The mid-19th century Gold Rush earned California the nickname "Golden State." Over generations, the region became a place of aspiration — a projection screen for ambition and prosperity. Here, the American Dream coalesced into tangible stories of social mobility. Today, the state has become the stage for a political experiment that mirrors Europe's globalist ideology.

This year's World Economic Forum in Davos was entirely overshadowed by Donald Trump's speech. The U.S. President declared the centrally planned EU-style climate socialism a failure, sending a chill through those who had benefited economically from the past years' policies and fully embraced the green transformation agenda.

A politician who seems particularly devoted to this European-style centralist approach is California Governor Gavin Newsom. The day after Trump's grand Davos performance, Newsom had the chance to present his perspective — a performance that quickly struck observers as bizarre. He labeled the Western leaders' response to Trump's policies as pathetic, accusing them of cowardice and bowing to the Trump administration. Symbolically, he carried a pair of bright red Trump Signature Knee Pads as a political prop, claiming he should have brought a full set for every world leader.
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What journalist Andy Ngo saw in Minnesota's far left Signal chats

Andy Ngo
X
Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:06 UTC
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The mass mobilization agitation now unfolding in Minneapolis and St. Paul by far-left, open-border extremists bears the hallmarks of a coordinated and professional operation designed to obstruct federal law enforcement. None of this should come as a surprise. These tactics are an evolution of methods tested during the deadly 2020 BLM-Antifa riots, which were centered largely in the Twin Cities.

In recent weeks, numerous Antifa-linked revolutionary anarchist collectives have promoted organizing guides that explicitly instruct extremists on how to carry out obstructionist campaigns. These materials consistently recommend the encrypted messaging app Signal as the primary tool for coordination. Alex Pretti and Renee Good, two militant leftist activists shot dead this month, may have been part of these groups.

What are militants saying to one another inside these chats?

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Israel to reopen Gaza's Rafah crossing after search for captive's body ends


Al Jazeera
Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00 UTC
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© AFPPalestinians walk amid destroyed buildings • Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip • January 25, 2026
Israel has said it will allow a "limited reopening" of Gaza's Rafah crossing with Egypt when the operation to locate the body of the last remaining Israeli captive in the Palestinian territory is completed.

The announcement from the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office came late on Sunday as Palestinians mourned at least three people killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza.

Netanyahu's office said the Rafah crossing, which was supposed to have opened during the initial phase of a United States-brokered ceasefire in October, would reopen for the passage of people only.
"The move is conditioned on the return of all living [captives] and the execution of 100 percent effort on the part of Hamas to locate and return all deceased [captives]."
All have been returned, except for the body of police officer Ran Gvili. ‍The Israeli military ⁠said on Sunday it was searching a cemetery in northern Gaza near the "yellow line", which marks off Israeli-controlled parts of the territory, while an Israeli military official said there were "several intelligence leads" regarding Gvili's possible location.
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Argentina's economy shrank more than expected after midterms

Manuela Tobias
Buenos Aires Times
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:43 UTC
Electra-Aires del Sur Electra factory in Rio Grande
© Lujan Agusti/BloombergWorker assemble air conditioner parts at Electra-Aires del Sur Electra factory in Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego Province
Argentina's economy contracted for a second consecutive month in November on the heels of a crunch midterm election that had precipitated a sharp market sell-off.

Economic activity fell 0.3 percent from October, the INDEC national statistics bureau said Wednesday, after a 0.4 percent decline in October. Economic activity also shrank 0.3 percent compared with the same month of the previous year, far below the median estimate of two-percent growth from economists surveyed by Bloomberg.

Fishing, manufacturing and retail led the year-on-year decline, while agriculture, mining, finance posted annual growth.

President Javier Milei's libertarian party recovered from a devastating setback in September's Buenos Aires Province balloting to score a landslide victory in the midterms. Argentine assets plunged in the seven weeks leading up to the October 26 ballot as traders bet voters would again hand Milei a crushing loss. A key element to the turnaround was a financial lifeline from the US, which stepped in to shore up the peso with a currency swap that Argentina paid down earlier this month.
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Sudden chaos in Japan's bond market puts stock bulls on notice

Abhishek Vishnoi and Hideyuki Sano
The Japan Times
Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:40 UTC
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© ReutersA man uses a phone in front of an electronic board displaying Japan's 10-year government bonds level outside a brokerage in Tokyo on Wednesday
From the start of the year, Japanese stocks surged on bets that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi would cement power through a snap election and then ramp up spending. Then on Tuesday, the so-called Takaichi trade unraveled.

A bond slump that sent yields soaring to records on her election pitch to cut taxes on food rippled through markets in Tokyo, spurring a two-day decline in the benchmark Topix that was its biggest since mid-November. And while markets somewhat stabilized toward the end of the trading week, the Topix still finished with a weekly decline, trailing a broader gauge of Asian shares.

Equity investors see reasons to be on guard as sentiment remains fragile in the runup to the Feb. 8 election.

State Street Investment Management says a move above 2.5% in 10-year bond yields and near 4.5% in ultra-long yields risks crowding out stocks. Already, Japan's equity risk premium — the extra return investors demand to hold stocks over government bonds — narrowed to less than 3% this week, the lowest since 2010, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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FAA says 7 killed, 1 seriously injured in jet crash in snow in Bangor, Maine

Patrick Whittle and Holly Ramer
PBS
Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:33 UTC
bangor plane crash
© News Center MaineA small business jet crashed at Maine's Bangor International Airport
The Federal Aviation Administration says seven people were killed and a crew member survived with serious injuries when a private business jet crashed in a snowstorm at Maine's Bangor International Airport.

The Bombardier Challenger 600 carrying eight people crashed on takeoff at around 7:45 p.m. Sunday night as New England and much of the country grappled with a massive winter storm. The airport, about 200 miles north of Boston, shut down after the crash. Snowfall was heavy at the time, as it was in many other parts of the country, but only a couple of inches had fallen at that point and other planes were taking off safely.

The jet was registered to a corporation that shares the same address in Houston, Texas as the personal injury law firm Arnold and Itkin Trial Lawyers, and one of the law firm's founding partners is listed as the registered agent for the company that owns the plane.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating. The NTSB said preliminary information shows the plane crashed upon departure and experienced a post-crash fire, but that it would have no further statement until after investigators arrive in a day or two.
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The far-left chat network that helped put Alex Pretti in harm's way, then made him a martyr

Asra Nomani
Fox News
Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:40 UTC
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© Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA federal law enforcement agent outside a home during a raid in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026.
Encrypted Signal messages show 'rapid responders' mobilized demonstrators to harass federal agents, then socialist groups capitalized on killing to foment protests

The skirmish that led to Saturday's fatal shooting of an agitator by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis and the response that followed were driven by a complex network of far-left organizations with a wide range of causes, a Fox News Digital investigation found.

A coordinated web of encrypted chats, street alerts and tracking of ICE "Abductors" in a sophisticated database reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that agitators were already mobilized at the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed minutes before any shots were fired.

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