The Administration has threatened investigation and charges under the FACE Act for protestors - and Don Lemon — for a protest at a St. Paul church where one of the pastors is an ICE official. There are stupid responses to this, which get on my last fucking nerve, and arguable responses to this.

Oil Companies Ramped Up Their White House Lobbying on Venezuela Before Maduro’s Capture www.notus.org/energy/oil-c...

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

This is a bit chaotic in the beginning but a good watch for yall “what am I supposed to do I’m just a powerless and weak white person” people.

In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, eggs and bacon at Bob Evans, and then down to the old courthouse to declare yourself U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.

Even when there's a bit of a pileup in rapid-fire exchanges, the Chief intervening like this to tell counsel, much less the solicitor general, to let another justice talk is unusual and a bit excruciating.

I already posted a bit about the updated natsec NOTAM that allegedly now prevents drones from operating near ICE/CBP convoys in Minneapolis and elsewhere but I wanted to expand on that My main thesis is that I don't think the underlying statutes, namely 6 USC § 124n, support that interpretation

This is the subject of my next book

Public safety means stopping violent crime — not weaponizing ICE against our communities. That’s why I'm proposing a bill that redirects nearly $75 billion from ICE to local law enforcement.

Indeed. But it can go both ways. This is actually why I thought the rapid deployment of the small number of European forces to Greenland was such a bold & smart move. It forced Trump to think about how he should react. They’re just there to help! That’s what he wants, isn’t it?

I hate that I had to write this. It’s a terrible idea for Europe’s security to consider using the US’ military bases in Europe as leverage. Unfortunately, we’re at a stage where all options are bad - so at the very least we need to put them all on the table to decide which to use when.

It is amazing how far Google is going to make their products worse. They had total market domination and now I am actively looking for ways to stop using it.

When they're ripe, the spores are intense purple.

As of tomorrow, the US will be out of #WHO. It's leaving the organization with a large unpaid bill — 2 years of unpaid membership dues, including from the last year of the Biden administration. www.statnews.com/2026/01/21/t...

In all seriousness, this is quite a revealing conversation from the perspective of world-systems theory. Macron is appealing to Trump by saying "hey were are both part of the imperial core, let's focus on our shared objective of subordinating the periphery".

I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans. When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.

Scoops did a deep dive into this "church" bsky.app/profile/scoo...

She calls out her own mother, a very public figure, about a very public issue, on a very public platform. And white people won’t even confront their Republican families in private. 🫤

Would this be your classic illegal order?

man could we please stop with the ignorant “Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, so the people who live there must be white” takes? 89.51% of Greenland’s population are Greenlandic Inuit.

pitchfork announcing you need to pay them $5 for the privilege of seeing what score readers who have paid $5 would give an album rather than the score reviewers are giving the album — just a perfect encapsulation of prestige media enshittification.

I could give you a great summary of our new warbler diet paper… but if a picture says a thousand words, this awesome graphical abstract by @rushstudio.bsky.social tells the whole story. 🦉🧪 academic.oup.com/auk/article/...

What I don't see is a discussion about why the average person is asked to subscribe to 20 outlets, often a single expert's work, in order to get a good idea of what's going on. The cost is too high.

I remember how I was asked, live on German television, a mere 48 hours after No Kings II: “Why are there no protests?” And three months later, as the people of Minneapolis are standing in solidarity against the outrageous occupation of their city, I’m still getting that question in most interviews.

The idea that there are no protests in the US and no one is standing up to Trump is proving incredibly hard to kill over here in Germany. It’s become dogma, utterly detached from empirical reality. I wonder if the people who keep talking like that understand they’re perpetuating regime propaganda.

Politifact rated it pants on fire.

In Davos, President Trump said, "China makes almost all of the windmills, and yet, I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China." That's Pants on Fire! buff.ly/oVpoVgj

And yet Florida Attorney General says race based policy should be illegal. What do they have in common? Pretending they have a motivation that isn't racist AF.

NEW from me: DOGE is officially the largest one-year cut in the federal workforce since the end of WWII, with 279k jobs lost—though it didn't come close to its supposed goal of reducing the deficit & cut some of the federal government's most effective programs 🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/the-econom...

New polling data shows that it's getting increasingly embarrassing to identify as a Republican, and some Trump voters are slinking away and pretending it never happened. www.salon.com/2026/01/19/s...

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Deporting 11 million in short order is not "routine immigration enforcement." How ICE and associated forces have operated is not "routine immigration enforcement" - taking immigrants from courts, running cars off the road, mass presence marches, deportation to third countries...

Hadn't thought of that before - good angle. Weve been thinking about it re: Oreskes et al (1994) non verifiability of open earth systems. What's a company to do when they can't prove their estimates are worth one's salt? Cite their peer reviewed study and say it's science based! (This is happening)

If you want access, give them a pint of blood. This makes it complicated if you want to study across several platforms.

fwiw these are unionized hotels and their local sent a formal request to employers not to accept ICE bookings or allow ICE to use their facilities www.facebook.com/share/p/1aV9...

I want to address my friend Ilan who says here that he has been subject to “a lot of hate” from academics who “should know better” and haven’t respected the “academic enterprise.” I don’t dislike Ilan. I also think his paper is fundamentally wrong and not scholarly. m.youtube.com/watch?v=pFge...

"Listen, my nurse friend Brynn was made for this—how many of your goons can say that? West Virginia Senator Jim Justice was a seven-time national champion corn grower, which is where his reproductive knowledge starts and stops."

Now let's see who agrees with Josh. Fingers crossed.

What's the difference between remembering and learning? Researchers found evidence that AI models are apparently storing training data. OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet. 1/2 futurism.com/artificial-i...

OMG Gain of Function O_o Do you know people that read this crap? 1/4 sharylattkisson.com/2026/01/bird...

I can't repeat this enough.

"We just need better training " isn't true for generative AI any more than it's true for ICE

Trump's guilty as sin.

DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.

What's the difference between remembering and learning? Researchers found evidence that AI models are apparently storing training data. OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet. 1/2 futurism.com/artificial-i...

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

This is a preliminary injunction (not a Temporary Restraining Order) — it is very, very thorough and to my mind written to withstand appellate review.

"This has been obvious for the past year to all who have eyes to see, or who are willing to let their eyes do any seeing. But the last few days have provided especially clear instances of the assault on the rule of law."