Gosplan and other Soviet committees had hundreds of thousands of economic planners and the economy failed. The US has Donald Trump planning the economy by himself on MacDonald wrappers. what could go wrong?

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Shocking.

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@sharonk.bsky.social I just noticed in a yougov poll that <$50k income is at 49% strongly disapprove of the pres., the highest of any income group. He's lost everywhere. If only we could recall him.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Chris Murphy: "The amount of training that's given to an ICE officer has been cut in half by this administration. The number of days of training they get are 47. You know why they get 47 days? As an homage to the vanity of POTUS. No wonder the number of violent incidents are going through the roof."

"With Audi’s Allroad models discontinued and the Subaru Outback becoming just another SUV, the underpowered Volvo V60 Cross Country might be the least-expensive #wagon left." This year just keeps getting worse! from: #globeandmail

LETTERMAN: “.. CBS News is a wreck. It’s just gone. .. The integrity of CBS News .. has been trampled on, pissed on and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over.” @letterman.bsky.social $PSKY youtu.be/CHYksa07oQA?...

90% of Greenland's population is native Inuit. Trump wants to steal more land from native Americans.

Coach McCarthy called, he wants his 2nd half game plan back. #Packers #nflplayoffs

Look, 50.2% of Americans voted for WWIII against the European Union and NATO, we gotta do it!

French General Nicolas Richoux: "Greenland is the red line. If the US invades, they stop being systemic adversaries, they become enemies.” “If the US attacks Greenland, we must fight the USians.” www.tf1info.fr/replay-lci/v...

For some agencies, the cuts have hollowed out decades-old functions of the federal government. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

When #Denmark sold the Virgin Islands to the US, it took decades of on and off negotiations. I don't see why Denmark doesn't entertain the idea, have some committees and just stall. Seems like a safe bet.

maybe 10 1/2 points for the Rams wasn't big enough.

January 9, 2026

Democrats who want to abolish ice should start introducing legislation to roll back the creation of DHS. It was a specific post 9/11 law that combined previously extant functions into a single new department. Let’s start getting that model legislation out there. (Is it already?)

please enjoy this timeline cleanse from 1997: Solutions to Cyber-stress with Tracy Penfield

Jan. 16, 2025: A SpaceX Starship rocket explodes over the Caribbean. Suddenly, dozens of planes in the area must scramble to get out of a newly designated FAA "debris zone." Their passengers are now unwitting participants in a test run gone wrong. (THREAD)

How about this: We fund training ICE in de-escalation and traffic signaling?

Made this last year.

I heard Malcolm Gladwell talking about his brother who is a school principal. His brother told him, "You can't fire you're way to success." and it made me think of Trump. Trump will not be president sooner or later, but if we don't fix the underlying system, it will make another Trump again.

Honestly, I see why the agent shot at the driver. He is not trained for traffic stops, probably fairly new at his job and was in front of the car. Also, there were a lot of angry people around and it can't be easy to stay calm in that environment.

When you send armed, under-trained amateurs into American communities with vague orders and no accountability, this is inevitable. ICE must be dismantled.

Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026

"The regime only gets tougher and harder line in circumstances like this, because now they're backed into a corner." Jonathan Blitzer and Tim Miller explain how U.S. saber-rattling and covert pressure gave the Maduro regime cover to escalate repression in Venezuela.

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Is Leaving Boat Strike Survivors to Drown The Coast Guard called off its search for people who jumped into the sea after watching the U.S. military destroy another ship. theintercept.com/2026/01/07/b...

I'm angry at how badly feminism has failed, or more accurately at how weakly we all defended it. We knew the threat, knew how it would pan out, saw the red lines being crossed and collectively did fuck-all about it. And now we're here and you can't put the shit back in the donkey.

NYT: The death toll for the US attack on Venezuela has risen to 80, including civilians and members of security forces, and could rise further.

The O-1B visa reserved for “exceptional” artists has become dominated by influencers and OnlyFans models given the metrics-based methodology for approval. Showing you have a lot of followers has become the objective measure for identifying exceptional artists for visas.

Among our most-read stories of 2025: Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit. (Published Aug. 2025)

It has long seemed to me that creating the internet as an explicitly lawless social and cultural space (ranging from simple sales tax collection up to prohibitions on fraud, defamation and harassment) was the foundational mistake that has eroded lawfulness across society.

Last Venezuela thought : Russia giving Kushner shares in oil and gas companies seems to be part a Ukraine peace plan. Was the ultimatum to Maduro to give a piece of PDVSA to Kushner or another Trump? I can't wait until we find out!

I find the Trump #FAFO message hilarious because I didn't know there was some ultimatum out for Maduro. FAFO suggests a clearly disclosed threat.

I can't decide which would be more appropriate : 1. Maduro pleads guilty and buys a pardon next year. 2. Maduro challenges the charge and gets found not guilty.

I know it won't happen, but it would be interesting if the Dems win the Congress, Trump passes away and before the Congress approves a new VP for Vance, they impeach him and make the speaker president. It won't happen because there won't be the votes to find him guilty in the Senate.

“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”

As are all of the billions or "trillions" that Alberta thinks they're going to get from another pipeline anywhere else.

A side story is there’s a ton of insider trading on these prediction markets. New accounts making hundreds of thousands on their first and only trade, that maduro would be ousted. Seems like insider trading is legal if not encouraged on these platforms

In the Maduro capture operation, the Trump administration relies on Bill Barr’s (discredited) 1989 memo claiming a President can disregard the UN Charter (CNN report). That is a loaded gun. The legal analysis is utterly flawed. My assessment just published: www.justsecurity.org/127962/madur...

The 1989 invasion of Panama was also not approved by Congress nor the UN security council. This is what happens when there is no accountability...

Wait, did we invade Nashville or Caracas? I'm confused.

Bluesky might have people I don't know lecturing me about leftist issues i am already fully aware of, but at least they are not asking an evil AI chatbot to photoshop pictures of me crying in a bikini, so I think I made the right choice to leave X tbh

What a Soros theory can tell us about the AI boom ft.trib.al/a69bSFg