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Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order
-- then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents were indeed deployed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/po…

Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in Minnesota Protests, Then Backtracks
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order, then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents deployed.

SBU strikes chemical factory used for explosives production deep inside Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/sbu-strikes-chemical-factory-used.html

I've added an installer for Arcaneum
- https://github.com/cwensel/arcaneum

GitHub - cwensel/arcaneum
Contribute to cwensel/arcaneum development by creating an account on GitHub.

🥳 New Kitten¹ Release
• Fixes: Page infinitely refreshes if class does not extend `kitten.Page`
Kitten now shows a helpful error message for this authoring error.
(The issue was due to the page getting rendered without the necessary scaffolding provided by the base class for maintaining the web socket connection,. leading to Kitten thinking the socket connection had failed and triggering a reload to reestablish it.)
Full changelog of today’s updates:

app/CHANGELOG.md at main
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in Minnesota Protests, Then Backtracks - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/politics/noem-chemical-agents-minnesota.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Chemicals:
🎵 Chemical Burn
#Chemicals
https://badchemicalsband.bandcamp.com/track/burn-it-down

UCLA cancels Bari Weiss' Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on "the future of journalism", following student protests; a source says it will be rescheduled (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/bari-weiss-ucla-lecture-canc…

Bari Weiss' UCLA Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Has Been Rescheduled
The CBS News editor-in-chief was set to appear at the university for a discussion centered on the "future of journalism."

Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in Minnesota, Then Backtracks (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/politics/noem-chemical-agents-minnesota.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p68#a260118p68

Mamdani proposes cutting NYPD budget, canceling 5K new officer hires (Rachel Wolf/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mamdani-proposes-cutting-nypd-budget-canceling-5k-new-officer-hires
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p94#a260218p94

Lawyers allege Dept. of Homeland Security is denying legal counsel to Minnesota detainees (Associated Press)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-allege-dept-homeland-security-denying-legal-counsel/story?id=129335914
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p92#a260118p92