Tactical cereal

Ending the Avelo contract with DHS also a big win. And a place where, as with many fights against logistical networks, local action against a national or international problem can be surprisingly effective. New Haven is its biggest airport! And they got the mayor against the airline.

The Underbeast slept well because we fed him well.

The lack of an extremely impersonal and fully automated system that just hands out 24 hour bans for stuff like this (which is something League of Legends has had for like 10 years now) is a massive problem because it really does arrest a lot of bad behavior

the top stupidest things you can believe in are paid protestors, paid agitators, and crisis actors. people know if there's papered seats at a pro wrestling show while it's airing, you think anyone could keep a lid on pretending to have a dead kid for more than a week

I mean, there it is, right?

GFM for Keith Porter, another ICE victim killed on 12/31. He should have been able to celebrate the new year. If you can help: www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...

I appreciate this and I've been thinking about it a lot today. Not "Good or Porter were innocent and did not threaten the agents who killed them" but "goons are kidnapping and killing our neighbors and must be stopped."

How's this for the K-shaped economy? Labor's Share of US GDP Drops to Record Low in Data Going Back to 1947 also: US Household Worth Climbs to Fresh Record on Stock Market Rally

the best antidote to blackpilling is remembering that every video you see of an ICE thug abusing their power was recorded by an American who volunteered to put themselves in harm's way for the sake of people they've likely never met and never will

Jared Polis isn't quite Pritzker rich but he's crazy rich. He can get himself some private security. He doesn't have to worry about his next job. He doesn't even have to worry about reelection! Giving in to Trump is a choice.

Lady who owns the juice shop keeping copies of The Isis Papers on hand. God bless America, everyone is insane.

The US economy has a case of AI Dutch Disease--sectors that produce no jobs are driving growth/wealth and keeping demand for capital and rates high at the expense of job creating sectors. A low UR says this is more structural than cyclical

Now THAT’S the top:

Cop who volunteers as crossing guard at our elementary school found out his dad got kidnapped this morning.

He's literally a firearms instructor for other goons. This is the training.

Yes, Reza Pahlavi called on people to take to the streets last night. But he also did in the summer during the Israeli bombing of Iran and people ignored him. A broken clock…. U.S. media, including PBS, needs to stop framing protests in Iran around a 65 year old who has never held a job

I have mastered the technique of pressing the lever so I almost always get a pellet and rarely shocked

In a similar vein, one-third of Americans killed by strangers are killed by police. granta.com/violence-in-...

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i made a helpful reference

The other parents on here all have a household TLC remix called "no crumbs" about how your kid needs to clean up after dinner right

Wow America, you gonna let Iran show you up like that

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to ABC News sources. The shooting occurred near East Burnside and 141st Avenue. Updated 3:38pm PT January 8, 2026

Capitalism for developers and communism for landlords is, imo, simply the correct approach to housing policy.

A government of the content, by the content, for the content

it’s happened even in high tech industrial policy, the pentagon, places usually more sheltered from looting www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Clearly in my feels on this one: I'd love to see the outpouring of media and interest for state schools being stripped of academic freedom the way we breathlessly looked at funding coersion against the ivies. Florida, Ohio, and Texas educate exponentially more students.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

It’s a structural issue driven by a market that lends obscenely long so offers a one-way ratchet for refi. The work-out is poor real price returns. But most people are sort of fine with that because their disposable income is rising over time.

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

My understanding is that this is a very serious rebuke to Trump & Vought insofar as science funding remains basically at 2024 levels. NASA in particular was ready for a bloodbath. A ways to go yet but a tremendous win for scientists who have been working their asses off to lobby for their jobs.

I know there's a lot going on right now but don't lose sight of the fact that Vivek Ramaswamy's bodyguard is a fentanyl trafficker www.cleveland.com/news/2026/01...

For people too stupid to get it, the connection between Bush administration lawlessness and what's happening right now is that nobody from the Bush administration was ever held accountable for their crimes

When George Floyd was murdered, Dems decided to throw in their lot with the grassroots movement for racial justice. We know empirically that doing so played a serious role in Biden’s 2020 election win. Their lesson from this, however, was that activists actually have demands and must be shunned.

Top-tier bluesky post

Yup. Bovino's formal role is unclear (itself a red flag) but he reports directly to Noem, so he's essentially the CBP chief and/or an undersecretary. And yet he's always on-scene in tactical gear. 100% playing a part for TV, but with real consequences for everyone else.

What do you like on the 1956 Dartmouth conference? Besides that Ron Kline article

As a country, we are sundowning on da computer

I now firmly believe Trump’s handlers are constantly showing him AI slop content - created to support those handlers own individual, often-clashing agendas. GenAI companies have created Grima Wormtongue as a service.

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com

BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.

In peak pandemic, Top Chef demonstrated it could be a great sports substitute. Culinary Class Wars (it could only be Korea, this is a Physical: 100 rip-off) just goes straight for that and leaves aside the Real World stuff that fills up every other season of Top Chef.

“Faculty at Texas A&M Univ were told..that roughly 200 courses…could be affected by a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race & gender, the implementation of which has.. led administrators to direct a philosophy prof to remove Plato readings” www.texastribune.org/2026/01/07/t...

really aggravating that the NYT has a huge pack of the best journalists on the planet, and then nearly all of the key decisions regarding attention, framing, and overall coverage are driven by a crypto right wing nepo baby and a dozen-ish of his toadies

Par for the course but still unnerving to contrast the Trump admin's Minneapolis & Jan 6 narratives. Renee Nicole Good was "stalking" officers & was "trying to run over" an officer, whereas Ashli Babbitt was "murdered in cold blood...as she climbs through a broken window toward the Speaker's Lobby."

This is great folks, they're coming up with synonyms for "abolish." That's a hegemony we're making.

Watching videos of these shootings, I'm struck by how they mirror the kind of gunfire that's common in cop shows--with officers firing recklessly at suspects' cars. Which I think speaks to both ICE's lack of training and the way cop-aganda media can erode our ability to see each others' humanity.

If you work in higher ed, we need you in the fight. That means joining @aaup.org and organizing with friends. "Organizing" can sound like something only crazy charismatic activists do. It's not--it's a science and an art and anyone can do it. National has a new (remote) Core Skills training in Feb.