"The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that, whatever its long-term potential, contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." archive.is/hvRv2

China Executes 11 in Myanmar-Linked Telecom Fraud Gang www.occrp.org/en/news/chin...

German prosecutors searched Deutsche Bank offices in Frankfurt and Berlin as part of a probe into suspected money laundering linked to past transactions, adding to a series of high-profile investigations involving the lender. www.occrp.org/en/news/germ...

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you. Luke 6: 26

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

Job security is a myth, but permanent lifelong survival security can become a reality through universal basic income and healthcare.

Chester County is fucked up. I tried getting around and it is not working. Not even KOP is fully accessible.

BREAKING: A suspect was taken into custody after three people were found dead inside a Bucks County home, officials say. https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/northampton-township-pennsylvania-police/ 

Two Philadelphia City Council members are planning to introduce legislation this week aimed at limiting how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates in the city.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Breaking news: The EU has launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s xAI following a public outcry over how its Grok chatbot spread sexualised images of women and children. ft.trib.al/vo4sV5z

"A competent autocrat selects his enemies with skill. Trump’s Achilles Heel is that he gets worse at this with experience." Me on his administration's darkly comical and profoundly inept depiction of Pretti and Good as terrorists. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/60a0a558-2...

really quite funny that weiss is a one-trick pony and that trick is “give jobs to my dumbass friends”

Federal funding cuts are hindering decades-long efforts to curb sexual abuse in prisons. Restoring the funds is crucial to keeping both incarcerated people and corrections staff safe. bit.ly/49ZCc8q

All grocery delivery apps in New York City (including Instacart) must now pay workers at least $21.44/hr. That number does not include tips. Companies must also provide workers with annual increases adjusted for inflation.

This five year old is still in jail

Who funds NATO budget ⬇️

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

Talk to em Guy

The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."

Gold and silver commodity value lost 1.7 trillion dollars of market cap in 90 minutes today. That's so fucking cool.

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Years of equating subtlety, understatement and indirection with artistic merit have left many people unprepared for the pulp nature of the Real.

Salamanca used to be CSRL territory at least a couple of years ago but mass shootings of bars and rehabs is something both CSRL and CJNG have done www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/w...

Fun fact: the global wellness industry, composed mostly of unregulated snake oil, is at about $6.32 trillion dollars a year, 4x larger than the pharmaceutical industry. Similarly, Roblox is worth $44 billion to Valve's $10 billion. Roblox has more concurrent users than Steam.

This kind of cowardly response was also typical during the civil rights movements of the 1960s -- the white moderates who want to "ease tensions" that MLK destroyed in his Letter From Birmingham Jail

For decades, Israel trained Colombia’s right-wing and cartel paramilitaries, a partnership forged in mutual reliance on the U.S., as well as a willingness to label any dissent as terrorism. But that alliance has fallen apart.

"psychogeography ... is essentially a form of productive paranoia, an experience of intense interrelatedness, of being at the center of a story that doesn’t really want to be a story, that would probably rather be a map or a diagram."

Bugsy Siegal was one of the last Real Americans in the Hegelian sense if you think about it.

for the weekend crowd: I dug into a new podcast that pins a bunch of notorious murders on a long-dead Jewish man from San Diego. It's the ugliest true crime property in recent memory. [gift link] defector.com/michael-conn...

China’s calculus for a possible invasion of Taiwan — and the island’s ability to defend — could depend on one major factor: a fertility crisis. How declining birth rates could play out for the military in both countries in today's Forecast newsletter 👇

None of this really means shit. People still do not grasp what is coming and they will die stupid because of that. It is all still small potatoes in the grand scheme of things. Total systemic collapse and balkanization is coming

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Jan. 25, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

they are sending people to Black Beach, in Equitorial Guinea, for third-country detention.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

i want everyone who was once jizzing over tim walz to understand that you liked him because he was folksy and white and said everything you wanted to hear and from now on we need to be thinking more critically than that.

it doesn’t matter to them it doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or if you were born here or if you have your certificate of naturalization in your back pocket or if you never committed a crime they are shooting whoever they want to

FWIW this is close to my long held belief about the reddest lines in terms of the Rubicon

BlueSky won’t let me share the video, but you can see one of the ICE agents rip a gun out of this man’s waistband *before* the shooting starts. From this angle, it’s hard to see how this was anything but an execution, unless simply carrying a gun is now illegal in America.

I’m sorry but as someone who has a book and a PhD on this exact thing, this is just straight up not true. The majority of Nazis discovered living abroad (particularly in the US, Australia, and UK) faced almost no legal consequences beyond the occasional loss of citizenship.

5 years in prison for corrupt former DEA special agent Joseph Bongiovanni who deserves a hell of a lot longer than that for shielding a mafia boss from federal investigators to protect an international drug trafficking conspiracy. apnews.com/article/dea-...