An American tale: Rutgers athletics lost $78M in 2024-25, per NJ Advance Media. Since joining the Big Ten in 2014, RU's deficit is $516.9M. AD Keli Zinn: "You could make the argument that we do not have an expense problem. But we do in fact have a revenue problem." I'm not spending too much … 😅

Worth noting and not for nothing: USC has had 26 quarterbacks selected in the NFL Draft, the most of any school. Sam Darnold will be the first to •start• a Super Bowl. (h/t Yahoo Sports AM)

This white supremacist administration in a nutshell. 1. Lie and deny. 2. Insult and accuse. 3. Retreat without apology or acknowledgment This from the NYT "Morning" newsletter today.

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Ah, yes, the Noemburg defense.

I understand that the Washington Post is a business, but come on. Bezos has literally hundreds of billions of dollars. Instead of punishing the people who report, perhaps get rid of the executive class that can't to _its_ job. Bring in boneheads, get boned. bsky.app/profile/pass...

Republicans in complete disarray

Bull Connor investigating Birmingham law enforcement tactics.

Human thumb Tom Homan has been clashing with Nazi-leaning Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller because he thinks their made-for-TV violence is doing long-term damage to ICE and CBP. Public Notice's Aaron Rupar: “[I]f Tom ‘Cava Bag’ Homan is your emergency crisis comms guy, you’re fucked.”

Hey, Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis, required reading: Last year, the Philly Inquirer "had its first year-over-year increase in revenue since 2004, and an operating profit of several million." Publisher Elizabeth Hughes on how papers can grow their way to profitability. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

@npr.org's @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social reports that Bari Weiss "only wants top-flight performers committed to her approach to stick around." The key word there is "performers," not journalists but performers.

"(T)he court's patience is at an end." www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...

The worst contracts in the NBA? Yes, please! Friend + @sportingnews.com coworker @stephnoh.bsky.social built a salary model. www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/news/...

The administration sent ICE + CBP into Minnesota, so no matter how unwilling he is to take responsibility the buck stops with the President. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT): “The very specific moral question being put to the nation: Does the president of the United States get to murder American citizens?"

Yes, Greg Bovino got thrown under the bus. But in fairness he’s the perfect body type for a speed bump.

No, it isn't, which is why I wrote this two days ago and it's pinned to my profile: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“softened his tone” jesus christ

Hooboy. Great stuff here.

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

"We wish the Nazi Munchkin, as we've affectionately come to call him, a happy journey down the Yellow Brick Road."

"...we maintain this weird double standard: Soldiers in combat zones must refuse unlawful orders, but civilians facing unlawful force from domestic law enforcement must submit." publicseminar.org/2026/01/the-...

Ex-Chicago Tribune editor + media critic Mark Jacob's advice to mainstream media after Alex Pretti's murder: “HOMELAND SECURITY LIES ROUTINELY AS A MATTER OF POLICY. If you feel compelled to include the Trump regime’s version of events, you must include that context.” substack.com/home/post/p-...

Mark your calendars, y'all. The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile "Wienie 500" returns to the Brickyard on Friday, May 22. Slaw Dog (representing the Southeast), tries to defend last year’s inaugural crown vs. Chicago Dog (Midwest), New York Dog (East), Chili Dog (South) and Seattle Dog (Northwest). 📸 AP

We're the cavalry, folks. No one's coming to our rescue against the lying, licentious leaders who've unleashed these violent thugs on us. Again, Paul Krugman:

I've said it before, it's an asymmetrical information war. Media Matters' Matt Gertz: Fox’s “primary purpose is to explain to viewers why it is good that masked agents of the state are executing people on the street.”

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

👇👇👇👇

Catching up on the AmEx. Scheffler boat race. What a talent. Jack … Tiger … Scottie?

“Pretty nice preview of what being married to Ike Turner here is going to be like.”

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

🎶The Seahawks get Woolen, they do get Woolen🎶

Entertaining NFC championship, unlike Iowa-Michigan State in the AFC.

Here’s the other thing: The regime digs the chaos because the Epstein Files.

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox says what we're all saying. There's a cover-up happening right before our eyes. They've done this many times before, but never have so many cameras been in their faces. They may be copying Nazi strategies, but Nazis didn't have the Internet to contend with.

i like that every time jd vance tries to tell a story about some awful thing that happened he just sounds like the softest dude on the planet. aw, poor baby, you mean you and your chud friends were locked in a restaurant?

Hooboy these NFC teams, man. I know weather was a factor in Denver today, but the Super Bowl looks like Rams/Seahawks by a million.

Some of the protest signs are similar to anything else you’d see since the start of Trump 2. Others are directed at the concentration camp guards inside.

Don't call us Gestapo

As the guy who pays all the protestors, bonuses for an audible “Fuck ICE” chant at the Seahawks game, we just approved the budget for it

“Don’t call us the Gestapo or we’ll have to summarily execute people.”

WSJ, WashPost, NYT all have analysis saying pretty straight-up that videos refute administration claims on Pretti shooting. USA Today with a piece saying much the same. Major national media treating this as a major, top-of-site story, with fed govt depicted as bad guys.

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Pregame moment of silence for Alex Pretti, followed by several yells of "Fuck ICE!"

The lying never stops in this administration.

What a relief that they’re calling for a general de-escalation of tensions, since it’s hard to tell who’s at fault, the people murdering people or the people who aren’t doing the murdering.

We saw what we saw. Lie as much as you want. We saw what we saw.

Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”

This is so, so important. Our fellow Americans are risking arrest, injury and even death to bear witness to the atrocities. •WE• do our part, small as it is, by believing what we see from them. 🤝

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