Here's the full moment of silence including a fan yelling "Go home, ICE"

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good

Hard to overstate how much US foreign policy has switched from “we want to discourage grand corruption” to “we want you to bribe us” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/w...

Here’s what the helicopters were for it seems abc7ny.com/post/brookly...

Brooklyn helicopter status currently: 3️⃣

I've been pessimistic about whether the cycle of masss protests in Iran will ever break through into something else, but the images now... it makes you wonder if this could be the one.

<Stares in American>

Reportedly, this is Tehran right now

(Which is really a fourth term, because this is actually his third term as president, but the opposition decided not to make that an issue because Erdogan controls the courts and they were sure they would lose)

In pro-government Turkish circles, no one is hiding the fact that the recent transfers of opposition MPs to the AKP have one goal: to enable the ruling party to reach the threshold needed to call early general elections and allow Erdogan to run for a third term. www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/abd...

This stuff all takes time but the result is the US gets poorer and weaker

Canada’s PM Carney frames his upcoming visit to China as part of a push to diversify trade away from US www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

Minnesota Star Tribune reports it has identified the agent who killed Renee Good

But the US doesn't have oversight or control of Venezuela

Eating choreg with spicy lime curd like a rootless cosmopolitan

“He described (Renee Good) as a devoted Christian who took part in youth mission trips to Northern Ireland when she was younger.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Excited to teach a new course on Authoritarianism through Film, in which we explore what narrative films say about how authoritarianism is lived/experienced. Up first: Brazil (1985), which reminds us that an innocent-seeming typo can prove deadly in authoritarian bureaucracies.

Yesss

ICE as the RUC circa 1969

"lham Ahmed, co-chair of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria’s External Relations Department, said on Thursday that there is ongoing communication with Washington, Paris, and Ankara regarding recent developments in Aleppo" npasyria.com/en/134345/

Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma member from Chechnya, has claimed that work was being carried out outside the republic to focus on the ‘spiritual and moral upbringing’ of young Chechens residing outside the republic.

So I'm hearing about this often in various institutional settings, where people (who are often not the authors) are using AI for the really annoying endgame editorial stuff like footnotes or copy-edits, and it is messing things up.

The covering-their-faces thing really hits home when they kill someone

So, Enisa, the cybersecurity agency of the EU, releases a yearly Threat Landscape. In the 2025 edition, they've used AI. And the AI introcuded loads of errors. Five percent of all the links end up 404 www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Rents in Austin have declined for almost 2 years now www.texastribune.org/2025/01/22/a.... You can actually build your way out of a shortage.

Where is the Broadway production of The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui when we need it

Also in this analogy, the burglar said he isn't interested in freeing the starving child

LFG

Gov. Hochul, Mayor Mamdani announce push for free child care for NYC 2-year-olds https://gothamist.com/news/gov-hochul-mayor-mamdani-announce-push-for-free-child-care-for-nyc-2-year-olds

He’s gonna get hired by Palantir

Anyone know an immigration lawyer that specializes in trans clients and their passports?

The US just left the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC), which it was a founding member of in 2011 and chaired in 2023. FOC was established to protect free expression and human rights on the Internet in coordination between governments, civil society, academics, and businesses.

Be aware of the politicians (most of them republicans) who will praise the martyred protestors in Iran, the disappeared in Venezuela, and the oppressed in Cuba but call Renee Good a terrorist.

In the photo roll

Trump pulls out of long list of international organizations, conventions, treaties.... including (of particular note to digital rights folks) the Freedom Online Coalition. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

But most notably, some of these withdrawals will hit the same populations that were already hard hit by slashing US aid even harder

one net effect of this will just be to make life a little harder for Americans in ways, they can’t quite put their finger on, because some of these organizations do the invisible work of multilateralism that enables contemporary life; another will be to hold up progress on most shared global goal…

Among those that strike me are the Freedom Online Coalition, the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, the European Centre on Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)—of the 31 organizations listed

The US is withdrawing from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the treaty that has governed international climate diplomacy since 1992, per the AP: heatmap.news/sparks/us-wi... George H.W. Bush first signed the pact, and the Senate unanimously ratified. US has been a member since then.

I don’t understand why this would work

You’d be surprised at how many folks yell at me for taking down stuff that would get their door kicked in.

This is why I don't understand orgs and think tanks trying to pretend like what happened didn't happen for the stated reasons that it happened

I used to work on a team with people who had to watch very bad videos professionally, and let me tell you, there is nothing that makes it worth it if it is not your job and your mission

Is this outfit a Grok reference

The existential crisis of the think tank

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