By the time this is over there’s going to be like $12bn a quarter of depreciation charges and a PP&E pile the size of Utah. I don’t think this kills Meta but I believe it begins its slow, painful collapse. You can’t run a business like this without killing the golden goose by getting greedy.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

If the poling gets any worse, Trump is going to start bringing up Epstein to distract from Greenland.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

it is not the most important thing here but how much of this “8 wars” stuff is just him mindlessly repeating what his handlers tell him when they hand him stuff to sign

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

“.. When Amazon says prices are rising, it carries outsized weight — signaling that even the world's largest e-commerce platform is running out of room to absorb tariff costs.” @axios.com #$AMZN www.axios.com/2026/01/20/a...

KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?” @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

For the first time in history, the archbishop responsible for U.S. service members said officers may be morally obligated to disobey a sitting president’s orders. Broglio said a Trump-ordered invasion of Greenland would violate Catholic teaching and that Catholic troops could refuse to comply.

Today I talked with police chiefs from across the metro area. This isn’t just happening in Mpls and St. Paul. The 3000 ICE agents are in the suburbs and across our state. The surge is disrupting the work of local law enforcement.

Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are going back and forth on X about whose product has killed more people, ChatGPT or Tesla Autopilot. KenWatanabeVoice(“Let them fight”);

Also, please note: they tried very hard to be scary, kept saying “this is where you live, go home” over the loudspeaker. But when you continue to follow them, they don’t arrest you, they run. Their tactics are based in fear and bullying, not any true legal authority.

I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Just a small difference between the front of the Guardian (UK and Guardian (US)

Remember: We are currently living in the America that Susan Sarandon wanted.

There are anti-ICE signs on every business, every streetlight, every blank wall, in half the windows. Everyone is wearing anti-ICE clothing. No one talks about anything else, at the bus stop, at work, at the bars and restaurants, at the store. Total unity around one idea: ICE OUT NOW

that tech bubble can’t burst soon enough

Whether folks believe the numbers in the NC Senate poll today or not, it’s undeniable that NC & GA are well to the left of OH now bc they invested in education & creating a 21st century economy while OH hasn’t. Conceptions of the South & the Midwest haven’t remotely caught up to this yet.

Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.” What?

I'm late, but this is the first confirmation I've seen of Waymo using foreign-based remote operators. Prior, there was only a rumored podcast ep, immediately cease-and-desisted. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Today I was Kidnapped By ICE - Dawokefarmer

bill cassidy traded countless lives of babies and children and grandmas so trump wouldn’t burn him. and trump just burned him.

What makes this even more depressing is that Cassidy literally founded a clinic to provide uninsured residents w/access to free healthcare while also setting up another nonprofit specifically to vaccinate children. He's shit on everything he used to stand for...like so many other Republicans.

WELKER: Is military action on the table? BESSENT: I believe the Europeans will understand that the best outcome is for the US to receive control of Greenland

Trump has reunited the world—with China. A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)

WELKER: What is the national emergency that justifies this new slate of tariffs? BESSENT: The national emergency is avoiding a national emergency

Electricity-cost increases are outpacing other kinds of inflation and vaulting utility bills into the political discourse ahead of the midterm elections.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said te US won’t back down on taking over Greenland, arguing that Europe is too weak to ensure the island's security.

Last July, ProPublica documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts and former ICE insiders say was rarely used before President Trump began his second term:

De Speld (a Dutch satire site) has been on top of this: "Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced that the Arctic island will henceforth be called Epstein Island, so that Trump will stop talking about it." speld.nl/2026/01/08/d...

This should concentrate some minds. Will it?

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

“Minimum wage laws do not apply to those convicted of a crime. The average daily wage is 86 cents, which represents a decline from 91 cents in 2001.” boltsmag.org/the-past-and...

Combining film criticism, biography, history, and cultural commentary to tell a story that pulls you in and leaves you both thoughtful and moved, the obvious precedent is Kael’s Raising Kane, and @bobchipman.bsky.social ’s essay stands up remarkably well to the comparison. youtu.be/Y4KcKvDer-U?...

if the president says he wants to blow up the moon, you should be very scared about what he might accidentally blow up in pursuit of the moon and everything downstream of his diminished mental state, but the ball is in your court to tell me how he’s actually going to blow up the moon

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

I had no intention of watching the whole thing, but from the "what was the best job you ever had" hook to the end, I never came close to turning it off. youtu.be/Y4KcKvDer-U?...

We have reached the Furry part of the Niemöller poem.

Peter Yazzie, a Navajo man, was asked by ICE agents to prove he was a US citizen. He produced both US and Navajo IDs. They didn't care. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

One of the core rules of doing what I do is that if something confirms my bias in check it harder. His single citation for these claims is a dodgy website which looks like it’s using AI generated copy maarthandam.com/2025/12/25/s...

New tariff just dropped. Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June. (Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).

DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.

Investment spending on information processing equipment, software, data centers and R&D drove 39% of American GDP growth in the first 3Q of 2025. Those same categories were responsible for 28% of GDP growth in 2000, during the dot-com boom. www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-econo...

No article written this year about who's the Democratic front runner in 2028 is worth reading. Or publishing.

Something strange happened on conservative Twitter on Thursday. A dozen right-wing influencers suddenly became passionate about semiconductor export policy, posting nearly identical (and often false) attacks over a 27-hour period on a bill most people have never heard of. 🧵

Appears that the most recent negotiated EU-US trade deal is dead, with Renew Europe and EPP party leadership rejecting the deal in light of Trump’s recent threats.

what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS