This will be lost with what else is going on, but yesterday the Defense Department announced it was removing officers from degree programs at the country’s best universities and transferring them to places like Hillsdale College and Liberty University.

It's creepy that they're now routinely calling it the department of war. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

Today I had a conversation with ChatGPT about the economic phenomenon shown in this graph. My initial question of four was: “What was the reason that, in the early 1970s, average real earnings in the US stopped tracking the increase in productivity and leveled off?” 1/6

Will somebody please help me understand why this four-part thread produced ZERO responses?

🗽Robert Reich How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All: The Sunshine State has an opportunity to save American democracy from big corporate money! robertreich.substack.com/p/how-califo...

(This is a generic comment on the kinds of replies that appear to this underlying post. It is not a reply to that post's author, whose work I respect.) * * * Coming from an engineering/science background, I am appalled daily by the responses to posts about Trump's bad behavior. 1/4

BREAKING: The Amherst Town Council in Amherst, MA is the first elected body to call on state + local prosecutors to enforce state criminal laws against federal agents when they commit crimes. Let this be a spark that leads to similar votes across the country. 1/ www.commondreams.org/news/amherst...

We need this in Maryland. nj1015.com/nj-ice-porta...

My question for the pundits is: Do you really think that debating tricks are going to improve our politics?

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Is anybody thinking about the whole economy as a dynamical system? What I see among the people watching the AI capital expenditure boom is everybody fine-tuning their deck-chair-placement algorithms. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-s... 1/3

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

Quick round up: - the government is covering up evidence the president is a pedophile - he’s openly taking bribes from foreign governments - his masked agents are shooting citizens in the streets - the FBI is helping him steal the election - he’s threatening war against multiple allies 👍👍👍

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: ICE has halted "all movement" at a Texas detention facility due to measles infections, DHS confirms.

Because I'm talking about measles. It is also A VERY VERY VERY CONTAGIOUS VIRUS. If someone is in a room and has measles and then leaves that room and you enter that room within TWO HOURS (depending on humidity) you can get measles. And people are contagious for four days before the rash appears.

"Don't worry, I've got you" ‘For Alex’ Alex Jeffrey Pretti 1988 - 2026 rest in peace sir..🕊️ Beautiful tribute by illustrator MJ.Hiblen (@mjhiblenart on Instagram)...😢

Politics is, by far, the most powerful, and the most potentially destructive, force-multiplier technology humanity has ever invented. We are continually using it, yet we only pretend to understand it. No formal study of it as a technology exists. melconway.com/resume.pdf page 2

Looks like another instance of the Coupled Proxies pattern (see melconway.com/resume.pdf page 2, top). It's the same trap that has given us Big Oil and the F-35.

"Every political phenomenon is a network effect." How many people in the world can add value on both sides of that sentence? Left side: social science. Right side: engineering mathematics. The World's Big Problems need such people (see melconway.com/resume.pdf page 2). How can we engage them?

Every phenomenon in politics is a network effect. See page 2 of melconway.com/resume.pdf

What’s really going on with Greenland and Europe? Why aren’t people stepping up to this insanity? Because we don’t understand what’s going on. Read the middle paragraph on page 2 of melconway.com/resume.pdf . Then, if you see the opportunity, reply with names I should send it to.

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

Man detained in Minneapolis dies in ICE custody in Texas www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

How's that for use of the passive voice? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

BLOCK them.

Congressman Ted Lieu, a former Air Force veteran, issued a stark warning to U.S. military members, that military action against Greenland without explicit congressional authorization would constitute following illegal orders. He reminded service members they swear an oath to the Constitution, not 🤡…

They're in the land-grab stage now. End up in 1 or 2, or die. x.com/conways_law/...

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

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Can't reply, but check out Santa Fe Institute. www.santafe.edu

ICE agent was not in the vehicle’s path when he fired at driver, video shows www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Never before seen footage‼️ Tornado genesis of the Clear Lake, South Dakota tornado earlier this year. @myradar.bsky.social #tornado #weather

We can do better. x.com/conways_law/...

In case there was any doubt about where big tech stands.

There has been a startling & disturbing increase in violent threats against judges who rule against Felon Trump. I break down the latest data from the US Marshals Service & detail the hypocrisy from the Far-Right who accuse Democrats of promoting political violence. youtu.be/Elmprpo0miE?...

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

I checked Truth Social, and this is another one of the Trump account automated posting storms, the purpose of which is to do exactly what you see here and center Trump in the minds of his Truth Social followers on Christmas by inundating them with notifications.