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Stop what you’re doing and read this whistleblower report. ICE has been training its agents that they don’t need a judicial warrant to break down your door - a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Here is a gift link to the Times’ new analysis of the Good shooting. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

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By day and night he wrongs me, every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other That sets us all at odds. I’ll not endure it. His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us On every trifle.

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Goodbye Scott Adams, and good riddance.

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Was Bob Weir the person who spent more time performing music on stage than anyone else ever? Probably not, but he was pretty close. ariklistens.substack.com/p/i-dreamed-...

Google just won the most world's most prestigious AI OEM deal. Apple just admitted it can't catch up to the foundational models form OpenAI, and Anthropic. It's a massive validation of Gemini's model quality, infrastructure maturity. Alphabet has earned that $4 trillion market cap.

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I’ve heard it said and wondered myself if Bob Weir is the one rock performer who has appeared live on stage more than any other. Between all the iterations of The Dead, and his own acts like Ratdog and Wolf Bros. Etc, the numbers must A) really high relative to others and B) countable.

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Not Bobby….

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I just saw an ad for Customs and Border Patrol in my LinkedIn feed. I reported as “a dangerous or extremist organization.”

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Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Kelly “isn’t likely to be cowed by .. Hegseth’s lawless attempt to silence him .. “.. ‘It’s dead on arrival,’ said Gene Fidell, an expert on the Uniform Code of Military Justice .. ‘If this ever gets in front of a judge, the judge is going to say, ‘Fuck you.’” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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AOC: ICE has less accountability than virtually any law enforcement agency in the U.S., yet they are some of the most well-funded, operating with impunity—and we just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood in the street.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

First a murder, then accessories to it.

One way or another, this darkness has got to give.

HuffPost has obtained a video of a physician trying to give medical care to the woman shot and killed by ICE goons today, and not being allowed to go near her. The ICE agents claim there are medics on site, but witnesses scream that there are no medics present

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My latest Genealogy post took longer to write than most. Updated this morning with corrections, citations and acknowledgements. ariks.substack.com/p/i-just-spe...

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Save your family documents, folks. You never know how valuable they'll be a century or two from now. ariks.substack.com/p/i-just-spe...

I just finished a monster of a genealogy post that will hit my Substack at the top of the hour. Check it out at ariks.substack.com

Well I guess the 21st Century has a new Noriega.

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