Latest week in review is out! m.youtube.com/watch?v=VKj7...

Musk will have to testify over his role in shuttering USAID, a judge has ruled. The DOJ tried to protect Musk from testifying, arguing it would “intrude on White House activities," but as Musk wasn’t a secretary or agency head, this reasoning doesn't excuse him. trib.al/EGROKkN

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

LITTLE DONNY FUCKFACE POSTED A SUPER-RACIST VIDEO, AND THEN THE WHITE HOUSE LIED ABOUT IT. I COVER THIS AND ALL THE OTHER DUMBFUCKERY THAT HAPPENED IN MY "THIS WEEK IN STUPID," A POST THAT HAS BIG STRONG PEOPLE SAYING "SIR! SIR! I'M THANKING YOU FOR MY ATTENTION. SIR!" LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4knJQOR

Is Gabbard a conduit between Trump and Putin?

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

After the murders of Alex Pretti and Renée Good, the number of ice watch volunteers in Minnesota went up, not down. If Germans had done that for the Jews, the holocaust would’ve never happened.

The president is avoiding his top critics by not inviting them to a traditionally bipartisan event.

I keep thinking about Ted Cruz, who fervently backed Texas Republicans' partisan gerrymandering scheme, crying online about how mean it is that Virginia Democrats pulled off a partisan gerrymandering scheme. I know he has no principles, but Jesus Christ, man, have some self-respect and dignity.

Ottawa gives Canada Post a $1.01-billion loan amid ongoing financial struggles

Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich. Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else. Trickle-up economics.

“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney. Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social

Major mid-day update: White House pressures Republicans into silence over Epstein files. New, important documents reveal close, previously unreported relationships as DOJ scrubs critical documents. There was a call between a foreign intelligence officer and someone close to Trump.

3 minutes of pure, unfiltered russian tears about Starlink shutdown: “In a single night we utterly descended into the Stone Age 😭” “We don’t have internet to aim our missiles 😭” Music to my ears 😁

If you missed it last week, here's my new thread. It's about the key distinctions I have used to open space for thought in my 35 years as a press critic. It's long (29 slides) but I tried to make it worth the trip. It ends with the people of Minnesota and their turn to "citizen journalism."

A federal judge ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming.

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We really need to end monopoly media

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Members of the gold-medal-winning 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team get recognized around the towns they now call home.

Woman’s hockey today: US 4, Finland 0! Great start, question is why the hell are the boards dark blue??? You lose the puck against them which seems like it could be dangerous.

NEWS: The entire Swiss women’s hockey team is in isolation after a player was diagnosed with norovirus. Switzerland is scheduled to play Canada — whose Olympic debut was already delayed because of a norovirus outbreak on Finland's team — on Saturday. www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...

Team Canada Olympic athletes to watch for: curling, hockey, speed skating, more #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/0...

This year’s dogs came from 72 shelters across the United States, Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands. Meet them all: https://cnn.it/4qjg5A9

I will never let her forget this.

‼️Russian terrorists carried out another massive attack on Ukraine’s main energy grid. Nuclear power plants were forced to reduce generation capacity. This is not about the territories. This is about freezing civilians, crippling hospitals, and breaking daily life of Ukrainians

“We were so in sync; it was just an amazing feeling,” handler Andy Linton said of his Best in Show win with Penny the Doberman pinscher.

An antibody that has the power to neutralise any influenza strain could be widely administered in the form of a nasal spray if a flu pandemic emerges

❗️🇺🇦Lazar unit destroys a 🇷🇺Russian 122-mm MLRS BM-21 Grad using a heavy drone of the Baba Yaga type

We could watch these over and over again 😍 The Greatest Saves of the Week presented by /HyundaiCanada

This is scathing. Kash Patel and anyone else involved in this must be impeached. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/renee-good-investigation-minnesota-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVA.pAnP.FE6p37Nwd1TA&smid=nytcore-ios-share

But we will have to keep defending this vital project, and the thousands of workers who will deliver it, from the President's nakedly political games.

A federal court has blocked Trump’s shutdown of America's biggest critical infrastructure project - which makes sense, since he's violating legal commitments the federal government made in good faith on my watch.

"Think carefully before you buy," @petridishes.bsky.social advises Jeff Bezos circa 2013. "Do you really want to own a newspaper? Do you really have what it takes? Or do you just want to own another yacht?"

WATCH — @patryanforcongress : “DHS and ICE are attempting to build a national network of warehouses for mass detention… 80,000 at a time… tens of billions of dollars… Trump’s multi-billionaire donors will benefit…”

OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥

POLITICO: “As Europe’s political class moves to clean up its mess and address its shame concerning ties with Epstein , it’s inadvertently highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in 🇺🇸- No prominent politicians have taken a fall.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

"President Obama and Michelle Obama are brilliant, caring and patriotic Americans. They represent the best of this country. It's time for John Thune, Mike Johnson and Republicans to denounce this serial fraudster who's sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue pretending to be the President."

more than anything

The text messages a Border Patrol agent sent to colleagues and family after he shot a Chicago woman five times can be released to the public, a federal judge rules. In messages previously released, the agent had bragged about his marksmanship.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

"They bought or inherited aging apartment buildings, hoping to bring home a little extra cash" ... bought, or inherited, whole ass apartment buildings

“Trump may be racist but you’re fat” isn’t the sick burn whatever moron runs the GOP account thinks it is

Just monstrous.

This is not an institutional problem. This is a problem of leadership at the ODNI & above. As David notes, ODNI has thrived when led by experienced intelligence leaders like Hayden & Clapper.

I mean, look at how disastrous letting an Ivy Leaguer like him into the military turned out to be? Debased the entire military.

Epstein and Russia with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social substack.com/@phillipspob...

Smart move Comer. Now we can drag former Presidents in front of Congress! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...