It's colder in Minnesota, but the wind is gusting in Cupertino. daringfireball.net/2026/01/po...

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

"Fascist" and "Nazi" weren't slurs applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That's what they called themselves. This madness will not end until we make the names Trump's regime calls themselves universally acknowledged slurs. daringfireball.net/2026/01/th...

This is the mainstream position! It’s just our deluded Supreme Court that thinks it must pretend to look into George Washington’s soul before saying the Second Amendment means whatever they think it should mean

On Saturday, @theverge.com's creative director @kristenradtke.bsky.social carefully watched a video of a shooting in Minneapolis, twice. Hours later, she found out that the man who was killed was her childhood best friend. www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

And now a word from measles

“The brave men and women of ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol are doing their best to carry out these executions in a safe and professional manner,” said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

Conference championship betting: gruber.micro.blog/2026/01/25/...

Incredible headline.

Imagine going to this screening on a night like this one. The blood of an American civilian runs on a Minneapolis street. These people have no shame.

Please note that NYT is leading with what the videos show, not the lies from the feds. This is what every news organization should be doing. This is how you cover a government that lies as it breathes. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice

The cops in Grand Theft Auto — games that celebrate and reward gratuitous violence — are better-trained and more restrained than these ICE goons.

Jesus Christ. Multiple goons had a man on the ground but that wasn't enough brutality for them. One had to pull his gun and shoot someone who was prone on the sidewalk. They're going to tell us the agent feared for his life and was justified.

Patrick Bateman hasn't aged a day.

In the same way that baseball has an official scorer who decides what counts as an error, football should have a scorer who can rule that a Hail Mary INT doesn't count against a quarterback's stats. Same for a pass that should've been caught by the targeted receiver but gets bobbled and intercepted.

Whether it’s Donald Trump tanking the economy, shredding the Constitution, and executing civilians or Joe Biden having a raspy voice at a debate, both men have defiled all that is sacred about about our nation.

Josh Allen lost that game with his dumb play at the end of the first half that handed Denver 3 more points.

I suspect the folks at FarmArt didn't think about how their logo would look with the van doors open.

This is not a paraphrasing. This is the transcript:

For as ugly as last night's game was for the Steelers as a team and Aaron Rodgers as a player, it was nothing compared to Dan Marino's final. (Marino, in my opinion, is underrated because he never won a Super Bowl. Many of Marino's numbers are bananas for his era.) www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameI...

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

Illegal smugness.

We don't spend more time on Vance because Vance is basically irrelevant. He's not going to be president. Not only down to his own lack of talent, but because he lives in a bag of rats. None of them like each other but they don't like him most of all.

Wildcard weekend picks: gruber.micro.blog/2026/01/10/nfl…

I was told that the US is running Venezuela now and it would be easy and there'd be lots of money... and now the US govt is telling Americans to get the hell out. These guys don't even know what a plan is. It's all just wish casting. It's incredible that they currently run the world.

Callenson had the courage and conviction to stay with the scene and keep filming. Not to run away, but instead to follow the scene. To continue documenting what was unfolding. I'd like to think I'd have done the same. I'm not sure at all that I would have. daringfireball.net/2026/01/le...

my immediate thought is they are sending vance out to eat shit for the administration

It's time to state clearly that if MAGA and Republicans can't condemn any part of this shooting, continue to blame the victim for it, and even hint that it's a just outcome that others "deserve," that's a crossing of the line that the rest of us won't ever be able to forget.

One of my goals in the remaining years of my career as a columnist is to be around when soulless sacks like this beg forgiveness and cry crocodile tears seeking redemption. I want to be there to tell them: No. Sit in your space on the wrong side of history and live with the cruel choices you made.

Some context: Venezuela: 28.5 million people, 912,050 sq km Texas: 31.5 million people, 678,052 sq km Very similar population, 1.4× bigger land mass than Texas.

61-56 on the season heading into the final week: gruber.micro.blog/2026/01/03/nfl…

Some good games today: gruber.micro.blog/2025/12/27/n...

"There's no word yet on Donald Trump's favorite books of 2025." politicalwire.com/2025/12/19/...

Anyone else think Apple's icons for Journal and Shortcuts are way too similar? Shortcuts's icon makes more sense to me: it's a nice stylized "S". I don't even get what the Journal icon represents. Sheets of paper?

Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.

Go blue! www.nytimes.com/athletic/6879...

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A very DF scoop: daringfireball.net/2025/12/fu...

The New York Times is consistently running photos of Trump where he looks half-asleep, half-confused.

Seems legit.

Not so good last week but I’ll get ’em today. gruber.micro.blog/2025/11/23/nfl…

this is what people are referring to when they talk about "blueskyisms"

Somehow I got all the way to mid-November 2025 without having created a “Jeffrey Epstein” tag at DF. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/11…

No snark. This is Trump at his best. No other politician in modern history could zig-zag from “This guy’s a communist and I’d even support Cuomo over him” to “I think he has a chance to do a great job” 2 weeks later, and seem like he completely meant both of them.

The tech press isn’t like this. If a tech CEO addressed a woman reporter in a scrum as “piggy” it would not stand. The next question from the next reporter would almost certainly be “What did you just call her?”

The national press corps is comprised of elitist fops who see their job as punching down, never up. Sycophancy, bowing to power, hiding behind the ever more ludicrously transparent guise that to punch up — to call something like out — would be to betray their sacred oath of “objectivity”.