NASA just announced that Suni Williams retired from the agency three and a half weeks ago, on Dec. 27. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls" www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

okay so fun news, I am launching a macro newsletter from Common Wealth about the supply side data and the US economy called Forces of Production Charts for bsky forthcoming at: @forcesofproduction.com Launch essay below: www.forcesofproduction.com/p/atop-the-f...

Translating Davos speak www.ft.com/content/ab4f...

Carney’s full speech. Banger. open.substack.com/pub/paulwell...

i talked to die-hard traders on Kalshi and Polymarket and spent some time in prediction market spaces on Discord and Reddit to try to understand how this techno-financial wild west is utterly flourishing right now www.npr.org/2026/01/17/n...

TIL that the Gramsci quote is a) from zizek and b) entirely not what Gramsci said. Which doesn't mean that zizek is wrong, as this does seem a time of monsters, and yet ... it's not what this says.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

Adam "I Would Shoot Biden Cabinet Members in the Head like My Hero Stalin" Tooze is doing panels at Davos with trump cabinet members, lol, lmao, lol

The inevitability of AI is now under threat from no one wanting to use it.

So about that recovery in housing....30-year rates climbing as global bond rout continues. Under current conditions the dollar and U.S. treasuries are not a safe haven. That means higher rates and higher mortgage rates.

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

Those who claim to defend 'Western civilization' are today gutting the institutions on which the West's civil, peaceful coexistence has rested for all our lives.

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

Oh genuinely this photo of Artemis II is just so good.

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

Beijing watching a completely mentally unstable U.S. President reorient all U.S. foreign policy to coerce Brussels:

Space sector eyes further investment growth in 2026 after record year reut.rs/3LHjFpp

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

I keep seeing this paragraph shared and I'm curious what the actual sources for these claims are--there are no links or names

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

fun tidbit from today's Artemis II presser: Astronauts on the mission may have the opportunity to see parts of the Moon that humans have never laid eyes on before, according to Jacob Bleacher, who leads the mission's scientific efforts.

🏜️My first feature for @sfgate.com, and such an important story. For decades, the inventory & monitoring program has ensured that parks are being managed based on the best available science. Now, that effort is being threatened.

Congress has passed the minibus spending bill for NASA, which would reject most of the proposed budget cuts for the agency www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Statement on the passage of HR 6938, which includes funding for NASA in FY 2026: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

Artemis II rocket revealed and ready for its ride out to the pad!

NEW >> The Defense Department said it plans to overhaul Stars and Stripes, the storied military newspaper that has long enjoyed editorial independence, to rid it of “woke distractions” and refocus coverage on “warfighting.” w/ @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Also new in v1.114 today: cashtags! Like hashtags, but for stocks. Tag your posts with #$AAPL, #$NVDA, whatever, then tap to see everyone else's equally unqualified analysis!

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

I knew immediately that I wanted to talk to @jaspercwang.bsky.social for my first episode of The Kicker — no one is smarter about the promises *or* the challenges of worker-owned media. I'm really excited to start my era of the podcast here!

me rn

👉🏼 www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

White settlers taking native Americans hostage in order to force an immigration agreement with the tribe, in the literal year 2026

it's the big day

Interesting anecdote arguing AI is more likely to compete with offshore workers in the short-term given its current level of effectiveness. Beige Book, Jan 2026, Philly Fed

The US Dept of Energy, in re its announced plan to develop on the lunar surface, posts an image seeming to identify itself with the supervillain of a children’s movie who plots to steal the moon.

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

"BlackRock, Fidelity Management ..., and Baron Capital declined to comment. A spokesperson for Morgan Stanley initially told us that she could find no documentation that the company is a major investor in xAI. After we sent a public announcement ... the spokesperson did not answer our questions. "

mark zuckerberg is visited by the ghost of Meta Reality Labs layoffs and restructurings past

the funniest thing is that this guy is using the BoomerVision big text in public and expecting no one, much less a reporter, will read them? www.portlandmercury.com/news/2026/01...

They are unlawfully detaining people for First Amendment protected activities, as far as I can tell. Dragging people out of their vehicles absent witnessing a crime and without a judicial warrant is repugnant to our constitutional order.

Breaking News: Three Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the wife of Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent. The Justice Department sought to examine her supposed ties to activist groups.

a key part of modern parenting is going to be teaching your kids to self-police their parasocial relationships

In San Francisco, the "progressive" view is that there should be more cars and fewer parks 🙃

If I had to predict what the future of the AI labs are, I would say XAI and OAI wind up roadkill, Anthropic becomes a premium-priced B2B SAAS company, Google wins consumers via the ad cross-subsidy, and Meta/Chinese open source models monopolize “specialized use cases” ie goonbots

the funniest graph in the Weiss piece: look, I booked America's media gadflies, who else could do that?

Rick Pazdur, very briefly and until recently the FDA's top drug regulator, rang the alarm about political influence at the agency at a @statnews.com event. At the end, he quipped: "I hope the IRS doesn’t come and audit me now.” www.statnews.com/2026/01/13/r...