How the once-richest nation in South America suffered the biggest non-war economic collapse in modern history. From 2024:

Economists may have a pretty dismal record with predictions. But we're still interested in what they see in their non-existent crystal balls. n.pr/4b5g6np

Undermining the Constitution itself by withholding government funds from states that oppose the regime in power. (Also, there are around 15M Republicans in those states.)

Starting tomorrow, the Trump administration is set to send notices to 1,000 student loan borrowers (first round) noticing them of an intent to garnish their wages for student loan debt. This is cruel and unnecessary. If you receive a notice, send it to us and we'll try to help.

Trump on return trip to Washington predicts demise of Cuba, warns Colombia, threatens Greenland

“Hours after the U.S. invaded Venezuela to seize President Nicolás Maduro, President Trump sent a warning to the governments of Mexico, Cuba and Colombia that their countries could be next.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01... Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, in an address to the nation, “the masks had fallen off, revealing only one objective: regime change in Venezuela. This regime change would also allow for the seizure of our energy, mineral, and natural resources."

Dante’s “Paradiso” is usually the part of the “Divine Comedy” that most people skip, Eric Bulson writes. A new colloquial translation is trying to change that.

Worth checking out some Venezuelan newspapers if you can read Spanish or use Google translate. www.elnacional.com/2026/01/quie...

Courts blocked troops from deploying in Chicago and Portland, Ore., and the Los Angeles deployment effectively ended after a judge blocked it earlier this month. n.pr/49fi9CC

The VA has officially published its final rule on the abortion ban in the Federal Register as of today. It says the rule is effective Jan. 30, but the dept has actually implemented it since Dec. 18, as I scooped for @ms.now last week 👇

sfstandard.com/2025/12/29/s... by @jonahowenlamb.bsky.social #SanFrancisco #sfnews

We have identified what is likely the first technical support area in Belarus for the Oreshnik missile. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

‘Dead’ to City Hall, but funded by the state: The high-stakes fight over a Los Angeles affordable housing project

A third of the women in the maternity ward have life-threatening complications that could be treated simply with food. They suffer from anemia and high blood pressure. Their babies are born early, weighing too little and with underdeveloped lungs.

”The task of selecting and ordering… news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.” Walter Lippmann www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is a harrowing account of city under siege www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Derrick Lew was the least favored of the three candidates sent to the mayor by the San Francisco Police Commission, according to sources. sfstandard.com/2025/12/16/l...

More S.F. sheriff security lapses, but this time in court www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...

Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

“I fear for this institution,” Republican state Sen. Greg Walker, chair of the Senate Committee on Elections, said during an emotional speech this week. “I fear for the state of Indiana and I fear for all states if we allow intimidation and threats to become the norm.”

Internal reports show that the sheriff’s department has had problems properly staffing SFGH, which is where the alleged killer of a social worker remains sfstandard.com/2025/12/09/s...

President Trump threw a temper tantrum Monday, demanding an apology from Paramount after recent MAGA defector Marjorie Taylor Greene bashed him on their network—and it’ll probably work. trib.al/2fWCVMA

In which my colleague Aaron Krolik finds out just how easy it would be to money launder with stablecoins, which gets an immediate reaction from the company that made it possible: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...

Length of Africa vs Russia 6 more maps: brilliantmaps.com/mercator-...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court seems likely to expand president's power and back Trump's firing of independent-agency board members.

one of the funniest pieces The Onion has done all year, and it's been a GOOD YEAR. theonion.com/oprah-pursue...

Nuzzi was accused last month of having an affair with a second politician twice her age she was reporting on.

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

is the world really getting worse or is getting older just growing to hate everything? truthout.org/articles/cnn...

Indiana’s House of Representatives passed a new legislative map that will make it harder for the state’s only two Democrats to be reelected. But the map now faces hurdles in the state's GOP-controlled Senate, as Republican senators have warned there isn’t enough support. trib.al/cUC3ASh

The attack of a social worker at SF General highlights security concerns at the hospital in the wake of a security plan that nearly halved the number of Sheriff’s Department officers. sfstandard.com/2025/12/05/s...

Here is the newest: www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...

This SF employee, who created a fake company to bilk the city of hundred of thousands of dollars, pleaded guilty yesterday. sfstandard.com/2024/03/21/a...

Per my reporting on the ”Shrimp Boy” case: The department opened its investigation after filings from the federal “Shrimp Boy” case alleged that Kim had formerly been in a gang with ties to Chow and still spent time with defendants in the case. www.sfexaminer.com/news/sheriff...

SFPD’s new chief Derrick Lew vowed at a press conference with Mayor Daniel Lurie to make S.F. the safest big city in America.

At least 40% of the book is just tortured descriptions of her surroundings.

Israel's chief collaborator in occupied Gaza, the former ISIS member Yasser Abu Shabab, is reported to have been killed.

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

Wow, Adm. Holsey didn't leave of his own accord, Hegseth pushed him out. What looked like the SOCOM head resigning rather than do war crimes now looks like SecDef canning him to facilitate war crimes. Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.

New police chief in SF. sfstandard.com/2025/12/03/d...

If he can do it, can‘t the next president?

BREAKING🚨🚨🚨: Judge rules Trump pick Lindsey Halligan illegally appointed to US Attorney post, dismisses Comey & James cases. But "without prejudice," so they could be refiled although Comey's attorneys say statute of limitations has run. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

San Francisco police ramp up late-night drug raids to appease Trump and feds sfstandard.com/2025/11/24/s...

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