The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

Sandy Trust, the report’s lead author & director of sustainability risk at Baillie Gifford, says the use of inadequate models inside the finance industry has left banks, insurers & asset managers accepting a “chance of failure”... “100X greater than the chance we accept of insurance company failure”

the only good thing about this part of the horrible shooting story is that it may turn out to be a gut shot for the carcass of @cbsnews.com and that's great. and unlike the ICE goon CBS has real internal bleeding.

Kyle Tucker signing with the Dodgers pushes the NL West's combined payrolls to almost $1.1 billion.

Not only has Rand Paul increased this cost by a factor of 10,000, there was actually useful science behind the research as I explained in 2021. wapo.st/4pKScAV

Beautiful graphic of the day (because that should be a thing: Our Solar System By my data hero Eleanor Lutz

Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee

📌URGENT: Trump's regime is trying to turn Stars & Stripes into state-run media. I was the ME of S&S. It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops. So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

Congress passes minibus spending bill that rejects proposed NASA cuts Congress has approved a fiscal year 2026 spending bill that largely restores funding proposed for deep cuts to NASA while canceling one major mission.

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

Florida and Deep South gang – not liking the cold? Here's where your air is coming from! Yep. You're breathing in air that, a week ago, was over Siberia, the Bering Strait, Chukchi Sea and northern Alaska above the Arctic Circle.

An additional dataset in showing that global ocean heat content (0-2000 m depth) is surging off the charts after another new record in 2025... 🌊 Graphic/data (anomalies) from www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...

“the Antarctic region recorded its warmest year on record and the Arctic its 2nd warmest.” (Copernicus ECMWF)

”It's time to officially let X go. That platform's decline from a vibrant public square to what is now a platform for hate & disinformation has been painful to experience.” @rweingarten.bsky.social AFT President / Teacher "US teachers union says it is leaving X" - Raphael Satter Reuters - 2/5🧵

The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of: - Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute - operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history - Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used

Some protesters have reported being hit with rubber bullets close to the scene of a reported shooting in north Minneapolis involving federal agents in the area of W. 25th Street and Lyndale Avenue N. Federal agents have deployed chemical irritants. Updates here: bit.ly/4sI4z3q

Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

"Argentina's done it. Russia's done it. Turkey's done it. Venezuela's done it. And Zimbabwe's done it. It's a thing that tin pot dictators do... right before starting a hyperinflation and destroying their own economies."

Important update about Congressional efforts to prevent the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from being dismantled. Last week the White House threatened to veto any appropriations bill that protects NCAR. Despite this attempt at intimidation ... (1/ )

Video shows a chaotic scene from earlier Tuesday a couple of blocks from where Renee Good was killed. Agents released a high-powered smoke grenade to clear the way through a crowd of protesters at the intersection of Oakland Avenue and 34th Street. Video by Louis Krauss.

The majority of the leadership team inside Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney’s Office resigned Tuesday in protest of directives from federal officials in the wake of the killing of Renee Good, according to sources familiar with the decision.

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. fierce blowback .. now threatens to undermine President Trump’s effort to assert dominance over economic decision-making.” @nytimes.com @colbylsmith.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

“.. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo, 'Where's your papers?' Is that what we've come to?"

NEW: A federal judge today struck down a stop work order Trump issued before Christmas on a big New England offshore wind project under construction It’s a huge ruling and suggests other stop work orders against offshore wind farms in progress may very soon fail too

🗻 Live from Antarctica! Today, NOVA @pbs.org is livestreaming from the ice as researchers—including Scripps & @ucsandiego.bsky.social geophysicist Jamin Greenbaum—study the rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier, one of the most consequential glaciers on Earth. www.youtube.com/live/W7ejeYD...

The judge ordered the restoration of nearly $12 million in funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including money for rural health care and the identification of disabilities in children. n.pr/4jEOjMz

The Republican Party has become an overtly racist party. They are done with the "dog whistles" that only their neo-Nazi supporters can hear. Now they are saying it out loud to all of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

I'm starting to suspect that 20-30 year long bull markets in specific asset classes may occasionally lead to unworthy individuals becoming very wealthy and powerful.

Casino bankrupter attacks the dollar itself. 'Sell America' trade: Dollar drops, gold surges as Trump's Fed pressure campaign raises fears www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/s...

@the1a.org it's all about the pathological narcissism. End of story.

Adding market manipulation to the grift: Stock futures slide as Trump’s DOJ opens criminal investigation into Fed Chair Powell: Live updates www.cnbc.com/2026/01/11/s...

Europe and allies are doubling down on clean power as the US moves to exit the International Renewable Energy Agency. At IRENA’s assembly they called the energy transition “unstoppable” and reaffirmed funding and cooperation to keep renewables rising. 🌍⚡️ #CleanEnergy

Bribery Barbie

Washington National Opera joins artists exiting Kennedy Center www.npr.org/2026/01/10/n...

Bankrupter of 6 casinos says this is a great place to invest 100s of billions of dollars in the oil industry.

DCA actually broke a daily precip record today, mostly because the existing record was just 0.81”, the second weakest in the entire calendar year behind only Feb 5th at 0.80”. Records in DC go back to 1871

Because it's easier than Mars! #broligarchy

In 1916, the United States ceded any interest it had in Greenland to Denmark as part of its compensation for the Danish West Indies, which are now the US Virgin Islands. News you won't hear on Rupert Murdoch TV, nor, indeed, any actual facts or history. www.diis.dk/en/research/...

Parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes region seeing record high temperatures - in the middle of the night. Near record warm Gulf waters feeding unusual moisture and warmth ahead of slow moving storm system via @wxmanms1.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

The new season of Breaking Bad is getting really weird.

The number of people on the right using what happened yesterday to compete for the title of worst human being in history is actually rather impressive.

Ledo Pizza cofounder Thelma Beall ate pizza once a week, even at 101 www.thebanner.com/obituaries/l...

Goodbye, national interest. Hello, ego gratification and profits for the ruling clique. "Trump has been remarkably transparent about his goals in Venezuela: It’s all about looting." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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