Thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, Amazon saw its corporate income taxes shrink by more than HALF last year, even as its profits climbed. But instead of investing the savings into their workforce, Amazon just announced thousands of layoffs and plans to spend $200B on AI. Textbook corporate greed.

🚨I took to the Senate floor to pass a bill to force the Senate to sue the Trump administration for violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Republicans objected.

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

AOC on Epstein Files: We need to get to the bottom of it. It does not matter if you are a Republican, Democrat, or donor. We are talking about sexual crimes and trafficking.

watch out boys, we had a rash of these types in America and it turned out it was because they were all diddling ten year olds

holy shit

I know abuses perpetrated against children is at the top of all of our minds with the horrible details revealed in the Epstein Files. While we seek justice for those victims, we must demand that the children being traumatized in detention centers be released immediately too. Please call your reps 📞

www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/b... BREAKING: A search was being carried out at the French offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X as part of an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.

MAGA people lining up wanting the taxpayers to give them money. Trump wants $10 billion. Lindsey wants $1 million. J6ers want money. Farmers want money. Of course CEOs want their contracts, subsidies & tariff waivers. It’s griftapalooza at taxpayer expense for the gangsters.

Gavin Newsom: “ You will not have a country if he rigs this election — you will have a president who will be running for a third term He is wrecking this country, wrecking the economy. He's a lawless president. Wake up, America — wake up to what's going on”

Catherine O’Hara of Beetlejuice and Schitt’s Creek has died at age 71. RIP to one of the all-time greatest women in comedy. people.com/catherine-oh...

I am no longer with the New Stack. What I hate is the stories I didn’t get a chance to finish. Covering frontend and web development was a fun and interesting beat. I will miss it.

Mastra empowers web devs to build AI agents in TypeScript: thenewstack.io/mastra-empow... via @thenewstack

Don’t forget Keith Porter!! On December 31, 2025, Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old father of two, was shot and killed by an off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles.

High school friend remembers Alex Pretti: “He was a singer, a dancer. He was a very funny individual, and he was a role model. He was one of those effortless leaders, through his kindness & his generosity. He was the best of us.” #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

Frontend news Anthropic extends MCP with a UI framework: thenewstack.io/anthropic-ex... via @thenewstack

“The only thing more dangerous than speaking your truth is pretending you don’t have one.” — Inspired by Virginia Woolf

Real leadership listens first. Really listens. Not just listening for confirmation bias.

A security checklist for your React and Next.js apps: thenewstack.io/a-security-c... via @thenewstack

Developer proves AI agents can be reprogrammed via new exploit: thenewstack.io/developer-pr... via @thenewstack

Developer proves AI agents can be reprogrammed via new exploit: thenewstack.io/developer-pr... via @thenewstack Special thanks to @ike.io for his help on this and showing how the exploit can be used against AI agents.

@ike.io I updated the story to add your comments. I appreciate it!

Wow! Great work.

What do AI agents and microservices have in common? More than you think. CNCF’s Chris Aniszczyk connected with @thenewstack.io to share how CNCF projects are powering scalable and interoperable AI. Catch the conversation and see what’s ahead for the community: thenewstack.io/cto-chris-an...

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

“.. foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.” 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

I like Confer.to. It' stealing a lot of wisdom from somewhere: "The people who make the fastest changes are often the ones who: Understand the least, Earn trust the slowest, and Burn out (or get pushed out) the fastest."

Some leaders confuse motion with meaning.

According to a blog post announcement, the move will let the Astro team “double down” on making Astro the best framework for content-driven websites. By @lorainelawson.bsky.social

The React Framework Face-Off: Which One Owns the Future?: thenewstack.io/the-react-fr... via @thenewstack

The Key to Agentic Success? BASH Is All You Need: thenewstack.io/the-key-to-a... via @thenewstack

Postman Adds Open Source Documentation and SDK Products: thenewstack.io/postman-adds... via @thenewstack

Tailwind Creator Says AI Played a Role in Downsizing: thenewstack.io/tailwind-cre... via @thenewstack

Good read medium.com/@ArkProtocol...

Donald Trump wants the Fed to cut interest rates So he directed Pam Bondi to file subpoenas so they could threaten Jerome Powell with possible criminal charges unless he does what Trump wants Government by extortion to force policy decisions that will hurt the US MAGA-is this what you voted for

Americans have gotten so good at pretending while our country falls apart. Every Monday, for instance, we pretend it's fine.

U.S. debt past $38 trillion & we borrowed $601 billion in 1st three months of new fiscal year. All while he builds ballrooms, arches & plants flags on foreign soil. “America First” is a costume. A chant to keep the crowd busy while our bank accounts are emptied. Do not salute the lie. Refuse it.

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

A New JavaScript Framework? In this Economy?: thenewstack.io/a-new-javasc... via @thenewstack

I don't know how else to say this: We are ALREADY "at war" with our own government.

Walz: "I saw an individual at the scene identify themselves as medical personnel and ask to provide aid, and an ICE agent said 'I do not care.' That lack of humanity was chilling to me."

Just saw this in LinkedIn for anyone interested in looking into Grok's production of CSAM and non-consensual sexualised imagery. www.linkedin.com/posts/mtechl...

I hate this. futurism.com/space/nasa-l...

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