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Monday, February 2, 2026

Thousands March in Toronto, London in Support of Iranian People and Their Fight for Freedom

Mossad Commentary: In Toronto today (Feb 1, 2026), all around Sankofa Square and beyond, tens-of-thousands showed up to march in support of Iran’s continued protests against the Islamic regime. Below freezing temperatures clearly didn’t deter anyone from standing in solidarity with the Iranian’s current, and most severe uprising, and all unanimously in support of one thing: REVOLUTION. By waiving pre-1979 flags, and chants for regime change by replacing the Islamic Republic with Reza Pahlavi as the Shah, the call to action was impossible to ignore. Some demonstrators even more boldly expressed their demands by burning photographs of Ayatollah Khameini in the streets (Mossad). London: Absolutely massive crowd of Iranians calling for the return of the Shah, and outside help for the 85 million hostages in our homeland. No “Allahu Akbar” No “Globalise the Intifada”. Instead you can hear “Iran yes, islam no”(Berg). Video out of Toronto (PM).

Report: US Strikes on Iran a Question of ‘when not if’

That report comes from pro-freedom Iran International: With US military assets building up across the Middle East and Washington warning Tehran that “time is running out,” a former Israeli military spokesperson says US strikes on Iran now appear increasingly likely. “I think it’s only a matter of time before the US will conduct strikes against the Islamic Republic,” Lt Col Jonathan Conricus said in an interview with Iran International’s English podcast Eye for Iran (Iran). The assessment from Mike Pompeo was similar: Mike Pompeo, who served as secretary of state in the first Trump administration and previously as CIA director, said he believes President Donald Trump’s threats toward Iran and his promises to supporters of protests against the regime will be translated into concrete action. Pompeo said Trump has a record of standing by his word, and that leaders in Tehran should be worried about the direction being set by the White House (Israel Hayom). This comes amidst somewhat contradictory reports that Iran is ready for a deal.

Mayor Mamdani Prohibits Clearing Out Homeless Encampments; 13 Die in Cold Front

In the runup to his election, Mamdani vowed to discontinue the sweeps of homeless encampments (City). ABC: This week, thirteen people were found dead on the streets of New York City, despite the Code Blue issued by city leadership (ABC). Michael Goodwin argues that Mamdani ought to open the door of Gracie Mansion: Even if he doesn’t open Gracie’s doors, the horrifying homeless deaths, 13 at last count, are just part of Mamdani’s baptism by tragedy and circumstance. Enough so that his first month in office can fairly be called the 34-year-old nepo baby’s introduction to the real world. His political honeymoon was over before it started. A look in the mirror would reveal the culprit. The homeless deaths are especially revealing of his arrogance. Every mayor in the last 40 years has wisely adopted some version of Ed Koch’s policy that the city require people to take shelter, or move them indoors, when they refused or were incapable of making the decision for themselves. As one of those mayors, Rudy Giuliani, writes on X, “The policy of NYC before, during, and after I was Mayor was to remove homeless from the streets when it approached freezing. The incumbent Mayor has changed that policy” (New York Post).

LA’s Top Federal Prosector: ‘arrest anyone engaged in violence on the spot’

Bill Essayli is the California’s Central District US Attorney. His message is no-nonsense law and order. New York Post: Central District US Attorney Bill Essayli threatened on-the-spot arrests of agitators breaking the law on federal property – as The California Post has learned that black-clad members of Antifa have been terrorizing workers for months outside the federal building in downtown LA. “I have authorized federal officers to arrest anyone engaged in violence on the spot,” the top prosecutor told The Post Saturday – a day after violent anti-ICE protesters caused chaos and clashed with federal agents outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building, which houses the Central District courthouse and agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (New York Post).

Trump Pick at Federal Reserve Receives Widespread Praise

And not just from Trump acolytes. On Friday, Trump announced Kevin Warsh as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. David Bahnsen: He has the respect and credibility financial markets. I worked with him at Morgan Stanley, thought very highly of him. Look, there was no person who was going to get this job, who wasn’t going to be cutting rates in the short term. However, I think longer term, I believe he will be a credible candidate and his opposition to QE [quantitative easing] in the early days of Bernanke put him on a little different place as far as his intellectual position. I think that Walsh has credibility (Bahnsen). Wall Street Journal: More important, Mr. Warsh has been arguably the leading voice in public life for reforming the Fed. He left the board of Governors in 2011 after then Chairman Ben Bernanke made vast bond-buying a permanent part of Fed policy rather than an emergency resort. Mr. Warsh’s critique, which he made public at the time in these pages, has proved prophetic. The Fed in its “quantitative easing” era has presided first over an historically weak economic expansion, and then in round two during and after the pandemic the worst inflation in 50 years. Mr. Warsh is known as an inflation hawk, which makes Mr. Trump’s nomination especially notable (Wall Street Journal). James Thorne: He is one of the few candidates whose record already fits Bessent’s project: sceptical of balance‑sheet activism and mandate creep, but realistic about managing a high‑debt, dollar‑centric system without shock therapy. A Warsh Fed could narrow the mandate, normalise the balance sheet over time and still cut rates in a way that supports a supply‑side agenda rather than another round of financial engineering (Thorne).

Detransitioner Wins $2 Million in Medical Malpractice Verdict

A number of people have commented that the dam has finally broken. We can only hope so. Wesley Smith: The first gender “detransitioner” medical-malpractice case to go to trial resulted in a $2 million dollar verdict against the medical professionals who approved a double mastectomy for the plaintiff, Fox Varian, in 2019 when she was only 16…. This verdict is an important development in the great cause of protecting gender-confused minors from being subjected to irreversible procedures from which they can never be made whole. Why? Trial lawyers! I know this community well. Hell, I was one! Most are liberal politically, but if they smell money in the water, they will sue the “gender-affirming” care industry into the ground just as they do other business sectors with deep pockets (National Review). Next case to watch: Chloe Cole v. Kaiser Permanente (Dhillon).

Federal Judge Overrules State Court Decision Stopping Minnesota Enforcement Surge

The work of ICE can continue. Axios Reports: The surge of immigration agents into Minnesota can continue, a federal judge ruled on Saturday. The decision is a win for the Trump administration, which has argued that “Operation Metro Surge” has “succeeded” with thousands of arrests. The decision, from U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez, comes just days after 37-year-old Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents. “Ultimately, the Court finds that the balance of harms does not decisively favor an injunction,” the judge said in the order. Menendez noted that plaintiffs “made a strong showing” that Operation Metro Surge “will likely continue to have, profound and even heartbreaking, consequences” (Axios). Ed Morrissey: The outcome should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment, on which Minnesota AG Keith Ellison relied for his lawsuit. What may come as a surprise is that not even the normally sympathetic federal judge hearing the case would swallow it. Judge Katherine Menendez, a Biden-appointed jurist whose recent stay on ICE operations got sharply overturned by the Eighth Circuit, threw in the towel early this time…. With this dismissal, Tim Walz has little choice now but to begin cooperating with Tom Homan, ICE, and Border Patrol. They won’t win this Tenth Amendment argument on further review, and they know it (Hot Air).

Abortion Numbers Skyrocket in UK; ‘Close to one in three pregnancies in Britain now ends in termination’

Killing the next generation. Abigail Shrier: Abortion is increasingly common in the UK. According to government statistics released last week, the number of abortions in England and Wales has dramatically spiked, reaching its highest level since the Abortion Act was introduced in 1967. In 2023, there were 277,970 abortions—an 11 percent increase on the previous year. The abortion rate rose from 21.5 to 23.4 per 1,000 women. Put more simply: Close to one in three pregnancies in Britain now ends in termination…. But if we want to understand the abortion spike, we need to be candid about the fact that abortion, in the UK, is something women are choosing to do—and ask them why. I spoke to a dozen British women of different ages across the country about their abortions. The cost of having a child did not come up. Not once, even among younger or working-class women…. what emerged was a pervasive belief that parenthood is a high-risk opportunity to do irreversible harm, and that opting out entirely is the responsible choice. The fear in these women was palpable (Free Press).

Chairman of LA Olympic Commission Appears in Newly Released Epstein Files

Watch to see if the Olympic Commission shows concern. New York Post: Racy emails between a Hollywood mogul tapped to head the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted sex-trafficking madam were revealed in the latest document dump tied to the late pedophile. Casey Wasserman, the 51-year-old CEO of Wasserman Media Group, traded a flurry of risqué messages with Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003 — just two years into his marriage with then-wife Laura Ziffren — including one in which he asked to set up a sensual massage. “Where are you, I miss you,” the chairman and president of the 2028 Olympics organizing committee wrote to Epstein’s confidante on Apr. 1, 2003. “I will be in NYC for 4 days starting april 22…can we book that massage now?” … Wasserman has previously been accused of being a serial adulterer with a “chronic condition of sleeping with people who work for him,” the Daily Mail reported in 2024 (New York Post). More from the Daily Mail on the moral turpitude of Wasserman: Casey Wasserman ‘love bombed’ potential conquests, showered them with Louboutin shoes, La Perla lingerie, handbags, and even Range Rovers – but when his interest waned he callously dropped them like a hot potato, sources claimed. ‘When he dumped me I was in shock and disbelief that he could go from 100 to zero in just hours,’ one ex-mistress said (Daily Mail).

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Babylon Bee Wins Free Speech Case Against Hawaii’s Censorship Law

For readers that may have been hiding in recent years, Babylon Bee is a satirical website with a heavy social media presence. Alliance Defending Freedom represented them before the US District Court in Hawaii: Federal district court ruled Friday that a Hawaii law that censors online political speech is unconstitutional. In its decision in The Babylon Bee v. Lopez, the court ruled that the state can’t censor certain political speech it doesn’t like. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent satire website The Babylon Bee and Hawaii resident Dawn O’Brien in the lawsuit. Gov. Josh Green signed S2687 into law in July 2024, prohibiting the distribution of “materially deceptive media” that portrays politicians in a way that risks harming “the reputation or electoral prospects of a candidate” or simply risks “changing … voting behavior.” To post such content, The Bee and others must include large disclaimers that undermine the speaker’s message and the purpose of satire…. ADF attorneys argued that the law violates fundamental free speech rights by using vague and overbroad standards to punish people for posting certain political content online, including political memes and parodies of politicians. “For centuries, humor and satire have served as an important vehicle to deliver truth with a smile, and this kind of speech receives the utmost protection under the Constitution,” said ADF Legal Counsel Mathew Hoffmann, who argued before the court. “The court is right to put a stop to Hawaii’s war against political memes and satire. The First Amendment doesn’t allow Hawaii to choose what political speech is acceptable and censor speech in the name of ‘misinformation.’ That censorship is both undemocratic and unnecessary.” “This decision marks yet another victory for the First Amendment and for anyone who values the right to speak freely on political matters without government interference,” said The Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon (ADF).

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