I'll give them a pass on the U.S. instead of United States. But they also appear to be missing a comma between Enters. and Inc. And there's a space missing between 292,297. And the quote is missing a comma after "violated." And the quote itself is actually a quote within a quote. Other than that...

This gotta be the most pro-cancer administration in our country's young life

that's the fun part! you just have to ... see if anyone tells you that they saw your name!

Could someone please reset the "Hours without an embarrassing DOJ filing" clock to 0?

“America’s calendars now have eight days a week. That’s not even touching the mangled American flag and the random splattering of stars around it.” The least of the issues with the cooption of the IMLS, but also so representative of all that Kelly Jensen has been documenting.

Scenes from a personalist regime

“by ignoring de minimis privacy encroachments, the law is complicit in normalizing surveillance. Privacy law helps acclimate people to being watched by ignoring smaller, more frequent, and more mundane privacy diminutions. We call these reductions ‘privacy nicks’…”

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

But this is not one of those times. I will not change a presentation title, and quite literally erase the word “trans” from my entire presentation, to comply with a regulation that undermines academic innovation, independence, and integrity, solely to receive funding. Absolutely not.

We asked four horses in a rural diner why they think AI is the future

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

How to avoid getting an education while paying for one:

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

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Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents: From Minnesota to Texas - @justsecurity.org @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and Sophia Khoroushi

Is this the most valid excuse in academic history? Canadian figure skater Maddie Schizas posted her email to her professor, asking for an extension due to her participation in the Milano Cortina Olympics 🔥

I am not a Philadelphia sports fan and I can’t read Hebrew but I would still buy 10 prints of this

Wait these mini lecterns at Mayor Mamdani’s press conference are so cute. (Video via Josie Stratman)

Two property lawyers secretly pine for each other. Deeded Rivalry.

"a bizarre act of cultural vandalism"

"All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing."

Volunteer #librarians from around the world joined forces to build the Nancy Drew collection on Open Library—volunteering their time to organize series, verify editions, untangle authorship, and clean up metadata so anyone can discover these books. Learn more ➡️ blog.openlibrary.org/2026/01/30/a...

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

“The Evidence for Justice Lab, at the Washington, D.C., university’s McCourt School of Public Policy, published the Justice AI Tracker, or JAI-T, documenting where and how AI technologies are being piloted, tested or implemented in law enforcement, courts and corrections.”

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

A federal judge, in a published order, so very much on the record: “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

The story of Grandpa and her kittens and their adventures in the basement of @geneweingarten.bsky.social is just the morning read, these days more than ever. open.substack.com/pub/genewein...

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

Amount of time network evening newscasts devoted to reporting on today’s protests and general strike in MN (not including coverage ICE actions or their attempts to spin) ABC: 45 seconds NBC: 20 seconds CBS: 15 seconds PBS: 2 minutes, 20 seconds

I am now up to $680 and as a reminder, I am personally pledging to match everything I raise through the weekend.

What is "your" Newbery book? The one you read when you were little (or not so little), and took into your soul? Mine's The Perilous Gard.

"At a mushroom hot pot restaurant there, the server set a timer for 15 minutes and warned us, 'Don't eat it until the timer goes off or you might see little people,'"

The Wingspan Americas and Viticulture: Bordeaux expansions are available now on our webstores! Shipping will proceed throughout February. This link goes to the US webstore, but we also have webstores for Europe, Australia/NZ/Asia, and Canada. store.stonemaiergames.com/collections/...

Giving the people (and the Swifties) what they want: Direct links to the court exhibits containing Taylor Swift's texts to Blake Lively. Read the texts -- and subscribe to my Substack! open.substack.com/pub/annabowe...

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL: $28.99 hardcopy $59.99 ebook $69.99 audiobook DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

I love this guy.

Well well well. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/h...

“More than half of the USWNT’s starting lineup that secured the 2024 Olympic gold medal now play their professional soccer in Europe.“ Massive fail by NWSL. #nwsl #woso #uswnt @abigailsegel.bsky.social for @theguardian.com

"The substance use and mental health ecosystem is being decimated."

Microsoft Copilot strikes again?

take a second to really wrap your head around this.

Posted by the EIC of ProPublica. Every person with a conscience should be decrying this.

All very true. But wow did this book freak young me the hell out (every time I reread it, and which was surpisingly often).

In today's Peter Cadaver #comicstrip, Francie's mom attempts to exercise her "parental rights." An example of how "soft censorship" works. #PeterCadaver #KidLitSundayScaries #HappyNewYear @authorsagainstbookbans