Someone check the props bets on this game. Because that call was truly insane.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

ICE just released new detention statistics. As of January 25, 2026, ICE is detaining 70,766 people across the United States. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

By selecting Ms. Adams as her nominee for lieutenant governor, Ms. Hochul, 67, a Buffalo native, has created the first all-woman major-party ticket in New York State history, and has chosen someone who brings geographic balance and a shared political sensibility to the ticket.

Susan Collins raised more money from AIPAC donors last year than small donors. When we asked her campaign spokesperson about it, he hung up. New w/ @minnahfarshad.bsky.social @premthakker.bsky.social @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...

Laying off @joemenn.bsky.social is the newsroom management equivalent of stapling your dick to the wall. Truly insane move, and one of many.

🚨EPSTEIN'S SECRET FAMILY OFFICE REVEALED 🚨 Paul Barrett was Jeffrey Epstein's longtime private banker at JPMorgan What has never been reported until now: he set up a family office to trade on Epstein's behalf in the last years of the sex offender's life as.ft.com/r/8101f34a-f...

The revelations also raise questions for Citigroup, which hired Barrett in 2019, weeks after he wound down trading for Epstein Citi claims it only discovered Barrett's ties to Epstein in 2023, terminating him weeks later. But Barrett's lawyers submitted this exchange between Citi bankers into court

Speaking of the Washington Post, this is a must-read story it recently put out about how the government chased down a guy who sent critical emails to federal employees about current deportation policies.

These cuts at the Post are going to make the place *less competitive*, not more. Take @yjtorbati.bsky.social. She's a proven scoop-getter with hard-to-replicate skills. She'll get other work. And without people like her, the Post will find itself even further behind.

Cleveland Cavs are laser-focused on getting bounced in the first round of the playoffs again.

Do you know how hard it is to get two-thirds of New Yorkers to agree on *anything*????

Republicans mightily struggling in New York in a new Siena poll. Kathy Hochul leads GOP opponent Bruce Blakeman 54% to 28%. (She won by 6% in 2022.) Democrats have a 56/29 lead in the generic congressional ballot. (Result was 57/43 in 2024). Trump approval is 33/63. sri.siena.edu/2026/02/03/h...

Elon Musk’s flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent. In 17 tests, Grok generated images after being told they would be used to degrade the person. www.reuters.com/business/des...

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Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

"In October, a retiree emailed a DHS attorney to urge mercy for an asylum seeker. Then DHS subpoenaed his Google account and sent investigators to his home." www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

😳 On 2/24/18, Bannon messaged Epstein about forming a new Populist/Nationalist coalition that would include Conservative Christians, adding that it would “stave[] off ‘time’s up’ for the next decade plus,” apparently referring to the “Time’s Up” nonprofit that supported sexual harassment victims. 1/

Blanche: It's not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.

You may recall the many stories the paper ran—clearly fed to them by the administration—saying Harvard was about to fully capitulate any second now.

I have read entirely too many Epstein files at this point, but here is what's in there about the tech billionaires (and how often each of them shows up):

BIG SCOOP @heatmap.news: The Trump administration is now going after renewable energy projects on both public and private lands by indefinitely delaying water permits … on grounds that the projects might have bad “aesthetics” Yes, they’re hurting renewable energy projects by calling them ugly

Report author Steve Koonin wrote in the WSJ that the "peer-reviewed report is entirely our work, free from political influence — a departure from previous assessments.” But in reality, DOE and EPA political appointees shaped the report, and even sent Clean Air Act provisions to focus their work.

"We were kept in the dark about how our report would be used," one of the report authors told me. The emails show that it false. In an email, he told his colleagues that "All I can hope is that what we write will provide sufficient ‘reasonable scientific doubt’" to attack the endangerment finding.

Internal emails show Department of Energy's debunked climate science report was reviewed by scientists internally, who found it "biased," "misleading," and "hypocritical." Contrarian authors tailored their work to ensure it focused on weakening climate regulations. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

Not only is that the very same Nellie Bowles, but she pops up 17 different times in the files!

Google "Kinsley gaffe" www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The strictly business-brained NFL exec who months ago foresaw the February 2026 vibes and then hired Bad Bunny

No había otra opción.

That's like the 4th best song on that Clipse record

THE GRAMMY GOES TO LUTHER VANDROSS AHHHHHHHHHH

I will have whatever combination of vampire blood and plastic surgery Cher is having

Aretha Franklin singing for Carole King

TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend

Watching these Grammys, you have to wonder if perhaps the Silicon Valley bros made a classic VC mistake and went all-in on reactionary politics right before the bottom dropped out.

Here's the definitive (Fugees) version of "Killing Me Softly." From Chapelle's block party youtu.be/46GMRhqh78s?...

Wait, where's Pras ... ... Oh, wait.

The talent differential between these two tributes is staggering. One's a cover band; the other's an all-time all-star squad.

They must've told Lauryn this gig was at 4pm

Slash has officially become a muppet

We're getting a six-minute tribute to Jimmy Cliff and Sly Dunbar, I assume?

Two stunning revelations this weekend. WSJ: Trump crypto got half a billion from UAE “Spy Sheik” days before inauguration, then UAE got US-made AI chips NYT: DOJ pubbed nude pics of young Epstein women after redacting for Trump and lecturing us about child porn, victims, & how hard they worked

BTW not to interrupt the vibes but there were three incredible albums nominated for the reggae Grammy and they picked none of them.

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

The most political awards show since ... ?

Lola Young ... please take this as a sign to have a seltzer water and go back to the studio!!!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

Is Benito wearing a bulletproof vest????

"damn, Justin Bieber's old" -- my kid