Wall Street Journal: "Americans, not foreigners, are bearing almost the entire cost of U.S. tariffs, according to new research that contradicts a key claim by President Trump." www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

Florida Passes Law Granting Viruses Personhood https://theonion.com/florida-passes-law-granting-viruses-personhood/

The message of Trump’s letter to the prime minister of Norway signals that the president “genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/U0fviLiM

Mēs dzīvojam "Dienvidparka" epizodē.

Call for papers: Experimental argument analysis: Interdisciplinary perspectives on verbal reasoning. Deadline: 30 April 2026. Guest editors: Eugen Fischer and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsoc #philpsy

Yeah, I don't know how you write a piece that features Niall Ferguson of all people and then pretend "they wanted a university without cancel culture"

Rīgas domes sēdē izcēlās diskusijas par līdzfinansējumu privātpersonu organizētiem kultūras pasākumiem. Deputāte Jūlija Stepaņenko apgalvoja, ka uz komisijas locekļiem tiek izdarīts spiediens atbalstīt pretendentus, kā negatīvu piemēru izceļot festivālu "2Annas", kurā demonstrētas kvīru filmas.

A very embarrassing day for the world

Early on in this Presidency I said that a major indicator that a society has moved from democracy to authoritarianism is to treat all opposition as treason.

Mortena ieteiktais raksts no EE ir diezgan interesants. "Many experts initially believed LV had the best prospects for success thanks to its infrastructure, ports and Riga.But the country quickly sank into corruption, overly cautious reforms and dependence on RU transit." news.err.ee/1609779081/t...

The Mythology Of Conscious AI www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...

⚡️Russian ballistic missiles rock Kyiv, target energy infrastructure across Ukraine. Russia launched numerous ballistic missiles towards Ukraine overnight on Jan. 13, according to monitoring channels. Emergency power outages and water shortages have been reported across Kyiv Oblast.

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

Diezgan depresīva, bet vērtīga intervija ar A.Kaktiņu par masveida parādību LV, kad valsts iestādes iepērk socioloģiju par zemāko cenu - kur zemāko cenu izskaidro tik apšaubāma kvalitāte, ka labāk šos datus būtu bijis izmest miskastē nevis ar tiem piesārņot smadzenes open.spotify.com/episode/5zoC...

Es pat nezinu, kā šo visu nosaukt. Varētu saukt par klaunādi, bet klauni nav pelnījuši, ka viņus tā apvaino, jo klauns tomēr ir normāls darbs, salīdzinot ar to, ko nu šie te veido www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas...

Naciķi 1935. gadā uzlika uz žurnāla vāka "ideāla āriešu bērna" bildi. Izrādās, ka tā bija Latvijas ebreju Levinsonu meita. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

Latest papers: Florian Cova & Angela Gaia Abatista present the results of an exploratory study, the goal of which was to identify ordinary experiences that might share the key characteristics of mystical experiences in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

It’s becoming increasingly hard to tell the difference between ICE operating in Minnesota and the FSB operating in Russia. It all makes much more sense when you think about it. Here is the FSB in Russia:

The Barcelona Principles propose some simple actions to create a less unequal play field between native speakers and non native speakers of English in philosophy. First among them: reviewers should not assess papers based on style. contesi.info/bp/

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

In RFK Jr.’s video about Germany prosecuting doctors who violated public health laws, he derided the idea of doctors acting for “the collective”. We all know he’s killing public health, but now he’s out there blatantly saying it. Public health is for the community. It’s for all of us.

Tomorrow, the Russian invasion of Ukraine will reach 1,418 days, the exact same number of days as the German invasion of the Soviet Union, from the border crossing on June 22nd to the official proclamation of Victory on May 9th and capitulation of Berlin.

Minneapolis ICE shooting live: Footage shows interaction before Renee Good shot dead

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

The creators of these apps make choices. Grok was created with the production of deep-fake abuse imagery as an option and that was a choice. The fact that the app is still producing these images, for free, with no restrictions, for anyone who wants them, is also an ongoing choice by its creators.

As technology gets better and better, everyone seems to be becoming worse and worse at interpreting the world around them.

Please understand what it means when journalists are evacuating their family members out of town. In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory

Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

⚡️Kyiv Mayor Klitschko urges residents to 'temporarily leave city' as Russia targets critical infrastructure. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko called on residents of the capital, if possible, to leave the city after a Russian attack on Jan. 9 left half of the city's apartment buildings without heating.

Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT: When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

checking in on elon musk, the guy who absolutely did not give a nazi salute last year

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

1984 is over-cited, but nothing fits the government and its supporters blatantly lying about ICE’s murder of Renee Good when video from multiple angles show she posed no threat than “the Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.

If a website appeared overnight that gave hundreds of millions of users the opportunity to create CSAM you'd expect governments to shut it down quickly, so the question is why X gets a pass when it's done just that? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A colleague at Texas A&M pointed out that they will now have to censor their own buildings.

Is the US neglecting Greenland & Arctic security? "Current and former Danish officials say that Copenhagen has regularly offered the US the chance to establish more bases on the island — whether air or naval — but has been met with a tepid response." www.ft.com/content/2f06...

Šis ir pat vairāk nekā traģikomēdijas izejmateriāls. nra.lv/latvija/5107...

"How could I, as a 3- or 4-year-old, understand that someone didn’t like me because of the colour of my skin?" fivebooks.com/best-books/r...

Can't they please just go back to talking about colonising Mars, for everyone's sake. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you thought Elon Musk's “Grok” chatbot couldn't get worse, read my latest article: Grok isn't just undressing women, it's now putting swastika bikinis on them. One woman who was targeted is a recently-deceased Holocaust survivor.

So glad we got rid of cancel culture though