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Truthout reports that White House aide Stephen Miller, alongside Marco Rubio and other top officials, labeled the political left as ‘enemies of civilization’ and a ‘cancer’ threatening society, advocating NSPM-7-style measures to disrupt and prosecute left-wing groups and urging a global offensive against leftist networks in a speech echoing McCarthyism.
Organizers from Memphis (TN), DeForest (WI), and Tucson (AZ) share tactics to resist AI data centers: rapidly mobilize the community, attend public meetings, file open-records requests, and build coalitions; leverage social media, door‑to‑door outreach, and local experts to counter misinformation; focus messaging on water and electricity impacts and affordability to win broad support; maintain volunteer networks and power-map to target decision-makers. Their efforts have halted or slowed projects (e.g., Wisconsin’s DeForest case, Tucson’s Project Blue) and underscore how local organizing can push back against the AI data-center boom.
A Data for Progress poll conducted Jan. 30–Feb. 2, about a week after DHS agents killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good, finds 52% of likely voters say Kristi Noem should be impeached, with 36% opposing; support is 80% among Democrats, 54% among independents, and 21% among Republicans, signaling growing impeachment momentum amid DHS controversy.
Rep. Delia Ramirez argues that abolishing ICE isn’t enough and calls for dismantling the Department of Homeland Security altogether, citing DHS’s history of rights violations and endorsing the Melt ICE Act to bar DHS detention, contrasting her stance with fellow Democrats who favor training and reforms instead.
Truthout reports CBS Evening News lost over a million viewers in its first week with Tony Dokoupil as anchor after Bari Weiss became editor-in-chief, with Nielsen showing a roughly 23% drop from 5.4 million to about 4.17 million daily viewers and a sharp fall in the 25–54 demographic, amid claims of a Trump-friendly pivot and related leadership controversies.