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Trump Deletes Ape Obamas Video After Claiming He Did Nothing Wrong
New Republic • Feb 6, 2026

Trump Deletes Ape Obamas Video After Claiming He Did Nothing Wrong

Donald Trump has deleted a post from his Truth Social account that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.An unnamed source told Politico that “President Trump didn’t see the video (legitimately didn’t), a staffer posted it.”White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to downplay the video Friday morning, saying, “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”There’s only one primate in The Lion King, and that’s Rafiki, who is a mandrill. The clip is clearly not from the Disney film, either.A video posted on President Trump’s Truth Social account portrays former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. pic.twitter.com/B6TLnB2Vqm— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) February 6, 2026The video, which Trump posted Thursday night, drew backlash from Democrats and Republicans alike, including Republican Senator Tim Scott, who is the longest-serving Black senator in U.S. history. He said on X, “Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.”Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican who represents a swing district in New York, said, “The President’s post is wrong and incredibly offensive—whether intentional or a mistake—and should be deleted immediately with an apology offered.”Trump has a history of racism, especially regarding President Obama. Long before being elected president, Trump pushed the birther conspiracy that Obama wasn’t born in the U.S., and has said, “Laziness is a trait in Blacks.” Did a staffer really post the video without Trump seeing it?

“Walking on Eggshells”: Colleges Are Censoring Professors for Trump
New Republic • Feb 6, 2026

“Walking on Eggshells”: Colleges Are Censoring Professors for Trump

College professors are facing censorship and self-censorship as Donald Trump’s administration emboldens state lawmakers to increase scrutiny and surveillance on college campuses, The New York Times reported. Universities in several states, including Texas, Ohio, and Florida, have adopted new rules requiring professors to share their syllabi in publicly searchable databases. While those guidelines have been celebrated by administrators and conservative activists for increasing transparency, they have also gifted online trolls with easy targets for their vitriol—particularly in departments that trigger conservatives, such as gender studies and Middle Eastern studies.The recent surge in surveillance was born from the work of groups such as Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, said Dr. Isaac Kamola, a political science professor at Trinity College in Connecticut. TPUSA has spent over a decade developing a “watch list” directing angry mobs at professors who used the wrong words in class. “Everybody is walking on eggshells,” Dr. Kamola told the Times. “Faculty are walking on eggshells. Administrators are walking on eggshells. Students are walking on eggshells. And what you get is the opposite of free speech.”At an annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Dr. Dan Royles, a historian, advised “minimum compliance” with new rules. Royles and his panel discussed how to signal to LGBTQ+ students that their classes would cover topics pertaining to queer history without using keywords conservatives might use to target them. “None of this is happening in good faith and we shouldn’t treat it as such,” Royles said. Emboldened by Trump’s anti-woke crusade against higher education, conservative lawmakers are hoping to crack down on universities’ liberal tilt—or what others might call free speech.PEN America’s Jonathan Friedman told the Times that while the new rules may seem innocent enough, “publishing syllabi when it is coupled with this McCarthyist environment is really dangerous.”While Friedman acknowledged that conservative professors had faced social and career backlash from the left in recent years, “nowhere in that was a serious effort to use the power of government,” he said.“The stakes of this are simply much higher,” he added. After a student complained that their professor, Dr. Benjamin Robinson, had shared pro-Palestinian views and criticized the university, administrators at Indiana University cited a law meant to promote “intellectual diversity” to reprimand Robinson.Robinson told the Times that the law’s vagueness was “utterly chilling,” and established a “hostile, suspicious relationship between faculty members and their students.”

'DOJ Falsely Charged Me, Then Used AI to Manipulate My Arrest Photo': Interview w/ MN Activist
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BreakThrough News Video • Feb 6, 2026

'DOJ Falsely Charged Me, Then Used AI to Manipulate My Arrest Photo': Interview w/ MN Activist

Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Back in Jail for Destroying Anti-ICE Sculpture
New Republic • Feb 6, 2026

Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Back in Jail for Destroying Anti-ICE Sculpture

January 6 insurrectionist, far-right activist, and Republican Senate candidate Jake Lang was arrested in Minneapolis after destroying a “PROSECUTE ICE” ice sculpture that was outside the Minnesota state Capitol on Thursday. “President Trump, we support you. We support ICE. Our country was made for Americans, not for Somalis,” Lang says in a video he posted to social media, before awkwardly kicking some of the ice blocks down to spell a new message. “Pro-ICE baby! America first, America only! We’ll see ya here, February 7th, Saturday, 12 noon, outside the Minnesota state Capitol!”I’m currently being arrested outside the Minnesota State Capitol for turning the“PROSECUTE ICE” sign the Democrats erectedInto the wonderful“PRO ICE” 🧊❤️ pic.twitter.com/Oc3hDvMWBE— Jake Lang - January 6 Political Prisoner 🇺🇸 (@JakeLang) February 5, 2026Lang was later arrested by local police.“They are charging me with a felony for $6000 in damage I’m being taken to Ramsey County Jail in Minnesota,” he wrote on X. This arrest is yet another hurdle for Lang, as the prominent far-right influencer was booed and jeered out of his own event last month in Minneapolis. Lang has a history of antagonistic and confrontational action, hence his participation in the January 6 riot. Now it seems like he may actually face some repercussions.Lang, a white supremacist who is particularly focused on the so-called “great replacement theory,” is running to replace Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Florida. He was accused of assaulting law enforcement with a deadly weapon and engaging in physical violence on restricted grounds at the Capitol on January 6, before President Trump pardoned him.

I’m Team Gus Kenworthy This Olympics
Jezebel • Feb 6, 2026

I’m Team Gus Kenworthy This Olympics

The skier, who’s competing for Team Great Britain, wrote “fuck ice” in urine—using the wand that God gave him—and posted it to Instagram.

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