The FAA urged aircraft operators to ensure they have enough fuel in case they are put in a holding pattern due to a rocket explosion. We found that several planes ran low on fuel after the Jan. 2025 Starship incident. At least one declared a mayday and crossed the no-fly zone to reach an airport.

Go Seahawks!

Um... this version looks different? spectrumlocalnews.com/content/dam/... Still happy with the outcome.

This is the epistemic cliff that American normie shitlibs are all peering over this morning. It appears to be literally true that our entire political discourse for the last 15 years is just rich sex monsters who are also 4chan edgelords. It is all posting. It’s posting all the way down.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Good time to turn off auto play folks

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

What a bummer.

The application deadline for our PhD Program is tomorrow. And the hits just keep on coming. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Listen to this. As loud as possible. youtu.be/NWKf2VhnoHE?...

Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

RIP Chris Rea. youtu.be/OcW-BSEB3ng?...

Can't help but root for Old Man Rivers.

O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!

i’m convinced they bulldozed the east wing so fast so they could ward off this kind of opposition by basically saying “but we CAN’T delay the ballroom and just leave everything a mess like this”

Announcement: Please note that the JOP will be on hiatus from December 17 to January 12. During this period, we will not be accepting new submissions.

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Whenever some sanctimonious Dem announces that America needs a functioning Republican Party, I always think “I’d settle for a functioning Democratic Party.”

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

After Tuesday's glimmer of hope, this is deflating. And also completely unsurprising. Well done, Ds.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Freiheit ist das Einzige was zählt. youtu.be/agKE1TuUOuM?...

We are in this weird situation where we would prefer they not think they are going to prison, because it means they are more likely to give up power peacefully. But they also need to go to prison, and we need to build a consensus around that point

Landgericht Halle (Regional Court) in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, completed in 1905

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

This is evil. Full stop.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

I see posts saying 'Not now, death ball sponge', and I have to ask: Do you really think we can do better? Bring on the death ball sponges!

It's still hard to believe he just tore down the East Wing of the White House as if he owned the place.

Please repost: We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

So tired of academic administrators who are AI-boosters calling anyone who expresses even mild concern "a dinosaur."

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Serious question: Is this legal? wapo.st/4hqBNiU

In the grand scheme of everything terrible, maybe this is small potatoes. But WTAF? wapo.st/4hqBNiU

Yes! Yes, we are hiring! Two positions are opened, one in International Trade. The other one in Microeconomics. Full time. Great colleagues. Great location. Have you already applied ? www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... #job #economics #professorship @ulbruxelles.bsky.social

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Cancer: You will be the worst possible version of yourself today, but no one will notice the difference.

My book is now available for pre-order with Cambridge University Press (cup.org/4nfM2IM). Here, I reflected on America's acceleration of reliance on Medicare Advantage and the new traditional Medicare prior auth administrered with AI, through the lens of my findings open.substack.com/pub/miranday...

Pleased to share that UNC PoliSci is hiring in political methodology! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network.

Yesterday I posted about how I used comet browser to take a Qualtrics survey almost undetected. Last night, I ran a pilot (N=400) on @joinprolific.bsky.social . I found that almost 10% of "respondents" identified as AI when directly asked.

We are hiring at The Economist. This is not just any internship. You will be a paid staff member and writer for 6 months. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Best thing on the internet today, no contest.