It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

One of these stories is not like the other two...

L: Private Eye front cover, yesterday. R: News headline, today. Stay ahead of the news; buy the Eye.

I am def not here to praise Reagan. At no point do you have to hand it to the guy who launched his Prez campaign by taking states rights in Philadelphia … Mississippi. But there is a Reagan-did-the-right-thing anecdote that is worth telling.

If appointed World Dictator one of my first acts will be to mandate that statements like this, if reported in the media, must be reported as "xxx refuses to apologise for comments, and blames those who offended for being offended"

"Smash your thermometer and you won't have a fever" - Lech Wałęsa

Not going to lie, this is happening faster than I predicted, and I’m glad that it is.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Once again: if these LLMs could actually do all the things their owners claim, they wouldn’t be selling access. They would be building and selling all the things they claim their software can do.

This remarkable fact caught my eye in a piece that I don't otherwise agree with "One remarkable fact is that today.. customs officers and Border Patrol agents have committed crimes at a per capita rate that is greater than the crime rate for people who immigrated here illegally" tinyurl.com/2bkkc22b

When this is all done we will finally have an answer to the question people have been asking for decades: what if Juan Perón had been a monumentally stupid and breathtakingly narcissistic real estate developer from Queens.

But: CBP is uniquely lawless. As this piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social points out, CBP has a LONG history of lawlessness--it's officers likely get arrested at a HIGHER per capita rate than undocumented immigrants ... and that's not taking into account our general unwillingness to arrests cops.

Curtis Yarvin's intellect is about as deep as a puddle.

Remember and as I always says: Antivaccine activists don’t care about you or your family. They have another agenda

And an election victory is no guarantee of re-democratisation. Fidesz are soaked into the Hungarian state like cat piss on a carpet.

great blog maxread.substack.com/p/suicide-ri...

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

This post (JD's, not JW's) further reinforces my belief that a low-hanging-fruit law for a future Dems to pass is one that uses spending power to restrict what govt officials can post from their official social media accounts: just announcements, and no pics except narrow cases (like weather maps).

Bezos spent $40 million on this, of which $28 million was a direct gift to the Trunp family, plus another $35 million marketing blitz for a propaganda clunker absolutely nobody could have believed would recoup even a small fraction of that cost. It is a flat bribe, right out in public.

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Some of the quotes on this are exactly as expected. Two thoughts: 1) As a general rule, do not punish the behaviour you wish to see (see below). 2) In *this* scenario, if you want ideological purity/the chance to liquidate rival factions, it's advisable to do this after the principal foe is defeated

My Christopher Browning sense is growing...

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Everybody should read this book

Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?

this guy is a terrible liar who genuinely believes he is great at lying

"in most cases, these videos appear to have been filmed secretly - using Meta smart glasses." Argh for the love of god BAN. THE. PERVERT GLASSES.

From this zinger of a paragraph

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

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

Man of the Paypal

What happened to "the market will decide", motherfucker?

Make Heaven Crowded is an insane title.

Just reflexively oppositional, YOU NEGOTIATED THIS DEAL! If you'd not held the election when you did, Rishi would have signed it. YOU WERE IN THE FOREIGN OFFICE AT THE TIME.

Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.

Boy embodies spirit of his country's president when killing his own father.

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

The AI bubble and Dot Com bubble were both bubbles — but that’s the only real point of comparison between them. The AI bubble has no "dark fiber" story, AI startups are inherently unprofitable thanks to LLMs' rotten economics. There's no way out I can see. www.wheresyoured.at/dot-com-bubble/

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Worth every second

This. The list is insane for an incalculable number of reasons, but the English language is an insufficient medium to express how bonkers it is that Uruguay should be on the banned list. The people who can't tell Australia from Africa are in charge of US Immigration Policy.