Another AI think piece marching to the conclusion @polcz.bsky.social and I proposed in Sharing the Algorithm —the public is entitled to be shareholders in all generative AI firms and the time to act is now! TLDR: Tax the robots! And make ‘em pay with stock not cash!

Stephan Tontrup and I have a short piece about our new experiment up on the Wharton Accountable AI site. The experiment looks at whether people will delegate moral decisions to AI to spread the blame when they act unfairly. Bad news: they will. And ... 1/ www.accountableaiforum.com/p/will-peopl...

When Trump complained he couldn’t understand a word Bad Bunny was saying, perhaps he was referring to this message BB posted (in English) on a giant billboard.

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The Trump effect.

A majority of Americans disapprove of the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as recent enhanced enforcement operations spread to new cities across the country, a new PBS News/NPR/Marist Poll found. to.pbs.org/4aeohM2

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

GOOD NEWS: California and Oregon federal district courts dismissed the DOJ’s lawsuit against those states for their refusal to turn over state voter data—calling the Trump administration’s efforts “unprecedented and illegal.” 🧵

JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

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They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.

I just voted NO on the spending package because it still includes DHS funding. NO blank check for ICE to continue lawless killings. Let’s get real changes made.

Hey GW Law (or other DC folks)! I'll be doing this panel with some really smart people exploring various legal issues about what's happening in Minnesota right now. Come check it out!

Deleted TikTok, which under Larry Ellison’s control is now rather obviously pushing right-wing content.

Concern is growing on Wall Street that Donald Trump's belligerence and belittlement of Europe could take some of the biggest buyers of US equities out of the market. There are signs that’s already beginning to happen.

I'm on site where a federal agent shot a Minneapolis man this morning. It's bad. Dozens of federal agents are facing off with hundreds of outraged residents. People being tear gassed, helicopters above, I keep hearing pops, and lots of loud BANGS. This smoke is from tear gas:

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...

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Just spoke with a reporter about the upcoming tax filing season. My toplines: I expect filing this year to be more expensive, more time consuming, and more chaotic. This is attributable to the cancellation of Direct File, the mass firings of IRS staff, and the illegal sharing of taxpayer data.

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

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.

What no way etc. etc. etc. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Tuesday January 20, 2026 walkouts... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Was just on w/ @chrislhayes.bsky.social talking about the impact ICE is having on public opinion toward immigration and Trump’s second term in general. The bottom line is that people hate the violence against Americans, and this is moving a significant number of people against Trump in a new way

US federal forces blind two protesters shot in face with ‘less-lethal’ munitions www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

New at Can We Still Govern? "I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government." Please read, share, help. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...

Enrollment at colleges and universities has increased for the third straight year, with headcounts across undergraduate and graduate programs reaching 19.4 million — the largest total enrollment in a decade, according to a national report.

Virginia's legislative session only started yesterday, and it was a very big day. The House already passed four constitutional amendments on Day 1: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. Next: Senate.

Beware the legal scholar who starts every paper of their career with the premise that you are all rubes and everyone for all of time has been wrong, except them.

Not the key part of this story, obviously... but they *sold* his phone? WTF?

New York City turned OUT. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️

I think we can all agree that @daniellecitron.bsky.social and @maryannefranks.bsky.social have been right on this topic for a very long time.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

This January 6 I am thinking of the public servants working to restore our democracy. Senator Andy Kim was my classmate at Deep Springs College, an entirely free college with the mission of preparing students for a life of service. Our work continues. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Five years ago.

Ban stock trading by lawmakers in Congress. Full stop.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Stable rent. Affordable necessities. Free childcare. Free busses. This is the bare minimum that people deserve and people really act like he has outlandish ideas.

The race to tax AI is finally heating up! And there's a clear winner IMHO: require AI firms to pay a tax in equity so that the public shares ownership of what was stolen. Full article now out in @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's Journal of Tax Law journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/ta...

Need a New Year’s resolution? There are more than 250 same time/ same place weekly anti-Trump protests in communities around the USA. Find one near you on mobilize.us or indivisible.org. Or start your own.

More seriously, as most readers here know I helped draft the CA billionaire tax initiative text and you just can't get out of it by setting up a couple of LLCs in Florida. We have thought about how to block these fake paper moves for 4 years.

" The total number of student news programs in the country that distribute work to local outlets is now roughly two hundred and fifty. "... the addition of a student-run paper is a lifeline for community news." via @columjournreview.bsky.social

at least EIGHT flights within three years…

Over the past eight weeks, the dismissal rate of the Trump DOJ's criminal complaints in D.C. has risen to 21% — compared to 0.5% over the past decade. Some errors came after senior officials made public statements that strayed from the allegations in sworn court filings, violating department rules.

📣 The Science Friday team has spoken: Here’s a roundup of our favorite stories of 2025, from death metal to duck stamps, and that time we put kids in touch with astronauts on the International Space Station: buff.ly/96pM7H1

Barbara Rose Johns was only 16 when she led a walkout in 1951 to protest horrendous conditions at her segregated high school in Virginia. Now her statue will replace Robert E. Lee’s at the U.S. Capitol. https://wapo.st/3N4yDpy

Save the date! Jan 15. 1 hour webinar covering 2 years of empirical research on how to message about reparations!

BREAKING: Democrats have flipped a conservative state House seat in Georgia in yet another upset. It's a 14-point overperformance *and* the 25th legislative flip of the year for Dems. Republicans? Zero. Read our complete writeup here -->

This is a great take on the use of AI at universities. And when you add in the value of the academic output that was stolen to build the product, the price tag gets even higher. blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/oblb/blog-po...