President Trump’s aggressive negotiating style risks alienating the country’s closest allies.

Many observers say this is the end of the international order, but #putinsagent is taking us farther back than that: America being an “arsenal for democracy” and “making the world safe for democracy” are ideas that go back to World War I, not the second one www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

As the #inequalitycrisis comes to a head, something is afoot. Whatever happens, “the fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves” #taxtherich #socialcontract www.fastcompany.com/91477850/mil...

Three of San Francisco’s pizza heavyweights have brought frozen pies to grocery aisles. So we conducted a blind taste-test to find the best one.

Some investors argue that Donald Trump’s proclivity for backing down is what keeps the stockmarket propped up. That is only part of the answer

DHS is reportedly having trouble finding agents to send to Minneapolis for its “Operation Metro Surge.” “There is a video and [Kristi Noem] just lied,” one Border Patrol agent said, and added that there were others who agreed with him but were afraid to speak up. trib.al/zOWU8qo

Emmanuel Macron’s sunglasses have been the talk of Davos this week. Fortunately for the French president, when the internet noticed, the verdict was largely positive. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/fran...

It really is quite a view.

BREAKING: DOGE employees improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says

As the global elite mingle in Davos this week, resentment over rising income inequality is building back home — and it's manifesting in a renewed interest in wealth taxes in countries around the world. More in today's Forecast newsletter👇

For 2026, I have a new hashtag to propose to promote the #socialcontract: #closetheloop Associated with #sustainability, we need similar empathetic, long-term planning when it comes to how companies make #business decisions www.inc.com/ken-sterling...

Minneapolis residents have joined a church-run effort to donate groceries to immigrant families who fear being caught in public by federal agents. What started with a couple of hundred deliveries a week has quickly swelled into a vast operation involving thousands of volunteers. trib.al/1qT1xMw

The supermarket self-checkout machine is a parable of technology adoption (how something can spread despite imperfections) and also of management (how real-world trade-offs affect rates of change)

As much noise as we’ve heard about Somalis in Minnesota, I came across this article from 2024. It’s not just immigrants trying to milk the system, and maybe they learned from us #racism is intellectual poison —and Donald Trump is the new Jim Jones www.wsj.com/health/healt...

So much for “just come here the right way” #racism #magacult

In Chinese video games the “kill line” describes a perilous position for combatants. The use of the term has migrated from gamers’ chatrooms to political agitprop in the past month

Whatever Putin loses from the performative actions Trump has taken against Russia in recent days is far outweighed by what he stands to gain if NATO is divided or dissolved #geopolitics www.cnbc.com/2026/01/08/r...

#putinsagent … can a MAGA cult member explain to me why it benefits us to be at war with our historical and economic peers? Trade multiplied wealth, the previous generation learned. And Europe had been a reliable customer for US weapons

$3 Million Now in the Bank to Support Signature-Gathering Effort for Regional Transit Measure - sf.streetsblog.org/2026/01/15/3...

The fallout of USAID cuts coming into sharper relief (via Instagram & @newyorker.com) www.instagram.com/reel/DTjN7pr... www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

OpenAI is planning to bring over more researchers from Thinking Machines Lab after nabbing two cofounders, a source familiar with the situation says. Plus, the latest efforts to automate jobs with AI. www.wired.com/story/inside...

Repair work has been completed two months early on the landslide-covered section of Highway 1 in Big Sur; the SFPD releases photos of a Tenderloin assault suspect; and the last restaurant at SF's otherwise shuttered downtown mall has closed. buff.ly/YbXqQqp

Watch live: Denmark, Greenland FMs give press conference after White House meeting

Big tech companies want 64 countries to get rid of their anti-monopoly and consumer privacy laws. “The broad idea is to deregulate the tech ecosystem as much as possible.” From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/TlKuc6c

The Post analyzed hundreds of conversations to see how businesses navigated economic changes in 2025 — and found that corporate leaders struck a more optimistic tone as the year progressed, even as consumers soured on the economy.

A post-US world order is already emerging, fueled by the #inequalitycrisis on top of unforced errors made by the Trump administration #geopolitics content from @weforum.org: www.instagram.com/p/DTfHZMkjHF... www.instagram.com/reel/DTQRFS3...

Trump as #putinsagent is the most likely conspiracy theory, if you choose to subscribe to one: His private meeting with Putin denied access to U.S. intelligence in 2018, and his past business ties meant unsupervised visits to Russia foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/h...

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read articles was this opinion piece on how Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland could destroy the transatlantic alliance. ft.trib.al/soHOYvL

President Trump said Sunday he may veto a bill to extend Obamacare subsidies if Congress sent one to his desk

A group of European countries, led by the UK and Germany, is discussing plans to boost their military presence in Greenland to show US President Donald Trump that they are serious about Arctic security and tamp down American threats to take over the self-ruling Danish territory.

Trump and his gang are deconstructing America. This is their purposeful goal and an obvious one, if you look past the daily barrage of absurdity, indecency, corruption, wrongdoing, and abuses of power. It is the story that must be conveyed to the citizenry.

More than 170 U.S. citizens have been held by immigration agents, according to a report from our friends at @propublica.org. Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Cruelty has been normalized in capitalism. But leaders can still center care and fairness and build profitable, resilient companies

The only thing stupider than the #inequalitycrisis is how within reach the solutions are. All that’s standing in our way is political will, and a mentality shift from entitlement to #abundance www.fastcompany.com/91468647/15-...

Trump says Venezuela does not give China a Taiwan precedent, but 'it's up to' Xi reut.rs/4jsJWUI

Delightfully glitchy remix / cover for our broken times #music on.soundcloud.com/i85clm6jVzIO... music.apple.com/us/album/tha...

GOP leaders played down the prospect of long-term US involvement, after secretary of state Marco Rubio and other officials held a classified briefing that lasted more than two hours. ft.trib.al/JXiXwBF

“Far from making us more powerful, the pursuit of American dominance will make us weaker, eventually leaving us with no sphere, and no influence, at all,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues:

In San Francisco, storm surge drenched onlookers on the Embarcadero and at Crissy Field. Elsewhere, storm surge forced other road closures in Alameda County and as far as Pacifica and Half Moon Bay.

By attacking Venezuela, seizing its president, and promising to “run” the country indefinitely, Trump may have shredded what little is left of international norms and opened the way to new acts of aggression from China and Russia, columnist Michael Hirsh writes.

BREAKING OVERNIGHT: President Trump confirms U.S. strikes on Venezuela, saying President Maduro was 'captured.'

“When customers accept a mere five-minute delay, the total kilometres travelled by delivery vehicles falls by around 30 per cent” #urbanism #sustainability #gigeconomy

The U.S. Postal Service made a technical change that could have consequences for anyone who relies on a postmark to prove they met a deadline — including millions of Americans who vote by mail.

Interesting #etymology for a common UI element When people are getting rid of multiple data fields rather than backing out of a single action, in #ux work lately I’ve been changing the word to “discard” for extra clarity of function and a bit of a warning (without needing a modal)

“Future mundane” is an approach recommended by a futurist to encourage companies to avoid the pitfalls of short-termism in quarterly capitalism. IBM’s CEO said to avoid "toys on the side” and focus on “the things you can scale” www.fastcompany.com/91426058/why... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

From massive solar panels to the difficulty of staying cool - not to mention high-energy radiation - there are a lot of engineering problems that need to be solved before we can build data centres in space

“As with any euphemism, replacing or abandoning ‘global South’ will not erase the ugly racial history of the current global order,” writes Zachariah Mampilly.

For a lesson in contrasts, Latin America’s social capital seems to be increasing. Not bad for what are supposed to be “shithole countries [sic]” —i.e. the #globalsouth www.economist.com/the-world-ah...

The job-market impact of AI may already be visible at the bottom of the career ladder. In The World Ahead, we examine what this means for graduates in the coming year

“A good idea without #marketing is like winking at a girl in the dark” —William Randolph Hearst III, heir to the Hearst Newspapers dynasty, shares a #business tip from his father. “How do you know what people want until you show it to them?” #strategy #dataism magazeum.co/content/will...