Since December, Israel has undertaken groundwork for what seems to be a development site in east Rafah, within the Israeli military-controlled zone. It sits at the intersection of the Morag and Magen Oz corridors, close to the “yellow line.”

Our analysis of satellite imagery suggests that this area is being prepared for the construction of infrastructure, possibly as part of Phase 2 of Trump’s plan to build so-called “Alternative Safe Communities” to house tens of thousands of “non-Hamas affiliated” Palestinians within the Israeli-controlled area.

The area of interest is half a kilometer into Israel’s area of control, bound by two military corridors, and near the camp of the Israeli-affiliated “Counter-Terrorism Strike Force,” several military outposts, and former GHF sites. This environment suggests supervision and control, rather than humanitarianism.

The area of interest is on the northern edge of the planned “humanitarian city” in Rafah — a “secure” zone intended to concentrate Gaza’s population, that Israeli defense minister Israel Katz announced in July 2025.

Since December, Israel has undertaken groundwork for what seems to be a development site in east Rafah, within the Israeli military-controlled zone. It sits at the intersection of the Morag and Magen Oz corridors, close to the “yellow line.”

Our analysis of satellite imagery suggests that this area is being prepared for the construction of infrastructure, possibly as part of Phase 2 of Trump’s plan to build so-called “Alternative Safe Communities” to house tens of thousands of “non-Hamas affiliated” Palestinians within the Israeli-controlled area.

The area of interest is half a kilometer into Israel’s area of control, bound by two military corridors, and near the camp of the Israeli-affiliated “Counter-Terrorism Strike Force,” several military outposts, and former GHF sites. This environment suggests supervision and control, rather than humanitarianism.

The area of interest is on the northern edge of the planned “humanitarian city” in Rafah — a “secure” zone intended to concentrate Gaza’s population, that Israeli defense minister Israel Katz announced in July 2025.

Since December, Israel has undertaken groundwork for what seems to be a development site in east Rafah, within the Israeli military-controlled zone. It sits at the intersection of the Morag and Magen Oz corridors, close to the “yellow line.”

Our analysis of satellite imagery suggests that this area is being prepared for the construction of infrastructure, possibly as part of Phase 2 of Trump’s plan to build so-called “Alternative Safe Communities” to house tens of thousands of “non-Hamas affiliated” Palestinians within the Israeli-controlled area.

The area of interest is half a kilometer into Israel’s area of control, bound by two military corridors, and near the camp of the Israeli-affiliated “Counter-Terrorism Strike Force,” several military outposts, and former GHF sites. This environment suggests supervision and control, rather than humanitarianism.

The area of interest is on the northern edge of the planned “humanitarian city” in Rafah — a “secure” zone intended to concentrate Gaza’s population, that Israeli defense minister Israel Katz announced in July 2025.

Thao, who has been a U.S. citizen for decades, said that as he was being detained he asked his daughter-in-law to find his identification but the agents told him they didn’t want to see it.

Instead, as his 4-year-old grandson watched and cried, Thao was led out in handcuffs wearing only sandals and underwear with just a blanket wrapped around his shoulders.

Videos captured the scene, which included people blowing whistles and horns and neighbors screaming at the more than a dozen gun-toting agents to leave Thao’s family alone.

Thao said agents drove him “to the middle of nowhere” and made him get out of the car in the frigid weather so they could photograph him. He said he feared they would beat him. He was asked for his ID, which agents earlier prevented him from retrieving.

Agents eventually realized that he was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, Thao said, and an hour or two later, they brought him back to his house. There they made him show his ID and then left without apologizing for detaining him or breaking his door, Thao said.

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-immigration-us-citizen-detained-hmong-d009590a491c0c8243ef21ef24db7182

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/climate/trump-coal-plant-centralia-washington.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1A.wmfj.u_eXxWkskYqP

This conclusion comes from a three-continent investigation—current and former employees across R&D, Business, and Marketing at headquarters in China and regional offices in the US, India, and Europe. It’s confirmed by four independent analyst firms whose market data verifies what OnePlus won’t say. And it’s informed by 15 years covering OnePlus and the smartphone industry’s business dynamics—watching Samsung and Apple rise while Nokia, BlackBerry, HTC, and LG followed this exact pattern into irrelevance.

The evidence is damning. Shipments in freefall. A premium stronghold that collapsed almost overnight. Headquarters shuttered without announcement. Partnerships ended. Western teams gutted to skeleton crews. Product cancellations—the Open 2 foldable and 15s compact flagship have both been scrapped; neither will launch as planned. And every major decision now flows from China—regional offices don’t strategize anymore, they take orders.

EXCLUSIVE: OnePlus Is Being Dismantled

An investigation into the business collapse of a smartphone pioneer OnePlus, as you know it, is over. The brand is being dismantled—wound down and put on

^{Alexander Maxham (Android Headlines)}

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5697213-judge-currie-halligan-ruling/

  ~                                                                                                                                11:38:29
❮ sudo limine-snapper-sync 
Stop creating a snapshot boot entry because the boot partition usage limit 85.0% is exceeded.
Saved: /boot/8e894020c9ab48be8cae43e3b9a5598f/limine_history/snapshots.json
Updated: /boot/limine.conf
  ~                                                                                                                                11:38:42
❮ sudo limine-snapper-info

Version           : 1.20.0
Manifest version  : 1.3.0
UUID              : 619cf237-3877-416c-a318-6b2aab55db2a
Last snapshot     : ID: 498, date: 2025-09-26 23:28:22
Snapshots         : 0 (max 8)
ESP usage         : 45.4% of 2.00 GiB (max 85.0%)
Unused files      : 0
Missed files      : 0
Corrupted files   : 0

  ~                                                                                                                                11:38:54
❮ df -h /boot
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme1n1p1  2.0G  928M  1.1G  46% /boot
  ~                                                                                                                                11:39:01
❮ sudo limine-snapper-list

 ID │ Date      │ Description 
────┼───────────┼─────────────
  ~                                                                                                                                11:41:51
❮ lsblk -f
NAME        FSTYPE FSVER LABEL   UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
# I also have a windows drive nvme0n1 and sda is a HDD for media.
zram0       swap   1     zram0   e3b51290-5582-4a70-90bd-e5ab248bf116                [SWAP]
nvme1n1                                                                              
├─nvme1n1p1 vfat   FAT32         6439-85CB                               1.1G    45% /boot
└─nvme1n1p2 btrfs                619cf237-3877-416c-a318-6b2aab55db2a    309G    66% /home
                                                                                     /root
                                                                                     /var/cache
                                                                                     /var/log
                                                                                     /srv
                                                                                     /var/tmp
                                                                                     /

https://www.newsweek.com/people-discovering-last-land-denmark-sold-us-epstein-island-11385832

Israel’s prison system has become a “network of torture camps” targeting Palestinians, according to new findings released by B’Tselem.

The report details widespread abuse, deaths in custody and what the rights group describes as a deliberate state policy of violence.

It said on Tuesday that at least 84 Palestinians, including one child, have died in Israeli detention facilities since October 2023.

B’Tselem stressed that the real figure is likely far higher, as many cases remain unverified or concealed.

...

B’Tselem says at least 84 Palestinians killed in Israeli torture camps

^{Elis Gjevori (Middle East Eye)}

The move showed a significant expansion of the Justice Department’s investigation into the state’s leaders, including Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis

Notice how they are not investigating Ross for murdering Good, or the maga thugs who arent even employed by ICE but attacked legal observers in Sacramento this weekend

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/politics/subpoena-minnesota-democrats-immigration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1A.H7Oz.jdoCOAlXHnxx

A limited history of Trump’s expansion of presidential powers includes:

• The unilateral capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Máduro and deadly U.S. military strikes on suspected drug-running boats off that nation’s coast, as well as a threat to acquire Greenland.
• The targeting of Democratic-led cities with federal immigration agents — most recently Minneapolis — and National Guard troops.
• The threat to cut congressionally approved funding from institutions, including universities, that do not align with the administration’s ideology.
• The prosecution of political opponents and attacks on the free press.

Those actions and others, coupled with a cooperative GOP Congress, have created an unprecedented shift away from the United States’ democratic tradition and founding principles that establish a system of checks and balances, States Newsroom was told in extensive interviews over recent months.

https://northdakotamonitor.com/2026/01/20/repub/one-year-of-donald-trump-alarms-sound-over-relentless-expansion-of-presidential-powers/

In 2020, a foster care supervisor in Montcalm County, Michigan, messaged her boss with concerns about drug testing. A father who was working to reunite with his children had tested positive for methamphetamine with the lab the state had a contract with, Averhealth, and the results contradicted tests ordered by other law enforcement agencies, she wrote.

“Judge indicated on the record that the issue of Averhealth’s testing results was a state-wide issue and that probate court judges all over the state were having similar problems.”

Months later, another official with Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services wrote to colleagues about similar worries. “We are struggling to do casework with Averhealth and don’t trust them,” supervisor Sara Winter wrote. “We are making BIG decisions, including having parents leave home or removal, and that’s scary to do when you don’t trust who you’re getting services from.”

A Child Welfare Agency Doubted the Accuracy of Drug Tests Used in Court. The Testing Company Dodged Questions.

Averhealth’s lab practices have been faulted by its own accreditor, and the company has been targeted in lawsuits and dropped by two child welfare agencies, a ProPublica investigation found.

^{cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

ChongLy “Scott” Thao told the AP that his daughter-in-law woke him up from a nap Sunday afternoon and said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were banging at the door of his residence in St. Paul. He told her not to open it. Masked agents then forced their way in and pointed guns at the family, yelling at them, Thao recalled.

“I was shaking," he said. “They didn't show any warrant; they just broke down the door."

US citizen says ICE held him at gunpoint, led him outside in underwear

A St. Paul U.S. citizen says ICE broke into his home without a warrant, held him at gunpoint, and detained him in the cold before realizing their mistake.

^{AP via Scripps News Group (News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF))}

I want to leave my phone at home or not have it on me most of the time. Most calls I get are meaningless spam and I rarely need to answer my phone for real calls outside my home (though it does happen on ocassion). One thing I do want and am accustomed to is having music, however.

I was looking at Amazon and Aliexpress for devices that can play mp3/mp4s, some can do that and even have ebook readers which is great. I don't see any connectivity on them or microphones save for the one that is included on the earbuds or Bluetooth.

And that is one question I have: can Bluetooth compromised your privacy? I know Bluetooth hacking is real but how bad is it?

I guess if it has a microphone it is ok if I dont have any connectivity. What do you guys recommend?