AI Pioneer @yann-lecun.bsky.social warns the tech ‘herd’ is marching into a dead end. He helped create the tech behind today’s chatbots. Now he says many tech companies are on the wrong path to creating intelligent machines." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/t...

ALEX JEFFREY PRETTI. Gone, but never forgotten... #RIP_Alex 💔

@gkerag.bsky.social: Steve Kerr calls it 'one of the most bizarre, sad games, describes mood in Minneapolis. People outside @targetcenter.bsky.social in Minn. continued protesting the killing of a man by federal immigration agents. The effects were felt inside and out. www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

@brianbeutler.bsky.social: Failure In Plain Sight. Who will acknowledge the obvious & do something about? Roll call for Friday House vote to fund DHS. The bill passed 220-207, with the help of 7 Dems. With party-line discipline, Dems could've have taken bill down. www.offmessage.net/p/a-failure-...

@callumsutherland.bsky.social: ‘A Horrifying Situation’: GOP calls for ‘Transparent’ Investigation of fatal Shooting. Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA hospital nurse, was shot after surrounded by Border Patrol. Videos show him being sprayed w/ a substance & pinned to ground. time.com/7357837/repu...

@jasonzinoman.bsky.social: To judge by this year's nom comics Hart, Maher, Nanjiani, Silverman), Globes are interested in fame, not humor. They aren’t funny, but there's a different standard. It’s more likely comedy noms are moonlighting at stand-up. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/a...

5 Reasons Electric Bills are so high now. If you’re being drained this winter, you’re not alone. Costs have steadily risen for years. Avg. monthly residential electricity bill rose from $121 in 2021 to $156 in 2025, ~ 30% rise. From last Jan. to Oct. alone, bills rose 12.7%. time.com/7355839/why-...

The Battle for Minn. As Trump brings retribution, citizens, protesters & civic leaders try to protect one another. On Jan. 23rd, residents declared a general strike. Businesses suspended operations for the day, museums didn’t open & people stayed home from work. www.newyorker.com/news/dispatc...

Trump’s EPA has put a value on human Life: Zero Dollars. The @usenvironment.bsky.social agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...

Helen Lewis: The Front-Runner: CA’s @governor.ca.gov would rather be wrong than weak. Gavin Newsom has a 30-page file of reasons Dems lost 2024 presidential election. He lists them: incumbency, inflation, interest rates, Israel & that’s just the letter I. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

@jamellebouie.net: The public face of ICE is a brutal, paramilitary force of masked men who hunt immigrants & terrorize US cities on behalf of POTUS. The not-so-public face is somehow even worse. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

Worth a listen pals. youtu.be/Wfotg_q5Bkc?...

@parkermolloy.com: The campaign to destroy #ReneeNicoleGood. After an ICE agent shot & killed her, conservative media launched an all-out attack on her reputation. She was a poet, a mother of 3, a wife. As far as the govt was concerned, she was a domestic terrorist. www.wired.com/story/the-ca...

@joespring.bsky.social: Park Service removes slavery exhibit at Independence Park in Philadelphia. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I spent the morning at the San Antonio immigration court. It’s out of control. Crawling with ICE - arresting legal immigrants showing up for court appearances. I asked one officer who they are prioritizing. His answer: everyone. I need to share with you what I saw.

@vermontgmg.bsky.social: We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower with Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis & Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States. www.wired.com/story/donald...

@governor.ca.gov blames Trump for cancellation of his Davos Appearance. Trump admin denied him entry to an American venue at the World Economic Forum. It’s not clear if the administration was responsible. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Soumya Karlamangla: At Yosemite, Rangers Are Scarce & Visitors Have Gone Wild. After Trump admin’s cuts, workers at the national park are spread too thin to stop people from littering, flying drones and cliff-diving. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

Trump admin admitted staffers affiliated w/ DOGE misused SSA data. Gov lawyers repping SSA revealed in 2025, a DOGE staffer signed an agreement to share American' private data with a “political advocacy group” seeking to “overturn election results in certain States.” popular.info/p/doge-staff...

@jonathanblitzer.bsky.social: The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees. @replamonica.bsky.social toured immigration jail in her NJ district. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

For decades, Owl Farm was Hunter S. Thompson’s lair, where he wrote, drank & drugged, entertained celebrities, shot guns at all hours, commanded his quixotic campaign for sheriff &, finally, on a snowy Sunday evening in Feb. 2005, died in front of his typewriter from a gunshot to the head."

Study finds, Americans Are Paying For Trump’s Tariffs. When Trump unveiled his vast tariff regime, he promised foreign countries would pay levies & Americans would reap the rewards. time.com/7353475/trum...

'Like cockroaches': OpenAI is facing a huge legal risk that almost no one is talking about A new era of accountability could be coming for California's tech industry. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Joel Embiid couldn't help but troll VJ Edgecombe during his scrum. Embiid: "He must have dunked on somebody, look at how many people are around him?" VJ: "I hate passing Joel the ball." Embiid: "I don't like playing with you." VJ: "That's fine. I don't love you no more either."

@jelaniya.bsky.social: From Selma to Minneapolis. On MLK Day, the death of Renee Good calls to mind another woman who died protesting for the rights of others. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

@obwax.bsky.social: How Stevie Wonder’s “Happy Birthday” Song Helped Make MLK Day Official. Jan. 19, 2026 marks the 40th year MLK Jr. Day has been observed as a federal holiday on the 3rd Monday of the month. It honors the civil rights activist’s Jan. 15 birthday. time.com/7346323/mlk-...

In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters. Legal and criminal justice experts said a ruling by a federal judge last week revealed conduct by immigration agents that evokes the civil rights era. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

“Meet the network preserving federal environmental data. But how long can this effort last? Weeks after Trump was elected president for the 2nd time, a group of federal data-watchers gathered in Denice Ross’ dining room.” time.com/7344773/wome...

Yes, we’ll still talk about that Caleb Williams play, just like we still talk about this Jerry West shot even though he went on to lose in overtime

Ten months until this is happening to black, brown and, yes, white voters known Democratic precincts. A year and a half until a full-blown Kristallnacht. For those who continue to dissent, we already have the camps operational. America is dying.

DavidWallace-Wells: Why Trump Supports Protesters in Tehran But Not in Minneapolis. During his 2nd Administration, universal principles such as self-determination and human rights are wielded only opportunistically. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Brett Kavanaugh must be so proud.

Philip Elliott: Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social is a lawmaker who picks his words carefully. When he navigated the crowd outside an ICE office to mark the ICE officer shooting & killing of Renee Good, he stuck to thoughtfully crafted policy he felt properly met the moment. time.com/7346014/ice-...

@themarshallproject.org: Within hours of reports ICE agent Jonathan Ross had shot & killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis, Trump admin made its position clear: The agent’s actions were justified. DHS said Ross fired in self-defense after Good “weaponized” her vehicle.

@adamliptak.bsky.social, per a new study: "SCOTUS increasingly favors the rich. The court’s Republican appointees voted for the wealthier side in cases 70% of the time in 2022, up from 45% in 1953. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

@bobweir.bsky.social’s Feral Radiance. The guitarist had the nature of a well-meaning cowboy & a lasting capacity to access wonder & deep engagement. He died on Jan. 10th at 78. I thought he was immortal. He moved in a lurching, twitchy way, like a marionette. www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

@xwaldie.bsky.social: How to Recover from Caring Too Much. Everywhere you turn, yearlings with saucer eyes, brown felt noses & stilt-like legs are wondering if you’re mad at them. The fawn response bundles forms of ingratiating, people-pleasing behavior. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

@jamellebouie.net: This is the only card Trump can play. Not since the British occupation of Boston on the eve of the Revolutionary War has an American city experienced anything like the blockade of Minneapolis and its surrounding areas by the federal government.

@adamshaw502.bsky.social: In the US, home prices have shot up ~ 45% since 2020, 2X more than twice the typical rate of appreciation. In the UK, household energy bills are 52% higher than prepandemic level." time.com/collections/...

@lilahassan.bsky.social: Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot & killed > 2 dozen people. Not a single agent has faced criminal charges. When Ross shot & killed Renee Nicole Good, she became one of at least 25 people killed by an ICE agent since 2015. www.wired.com/story/why-ic...

You probably didn't know that you need to see this video tonight, but you do. youtu.be/7RUjb9zHh-A?...

@dplouffe.bsky.social: In election after election last year, Dems had big wins everywhere. It may be discordant to believe the party is still in crisis. It’s much easier to hope the storm has passed. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...

@dwallacewells.bsky.social: ICE is waging war on blue cities. They've discharged their weapons ~16 times since POTUS & Miller launched mass intimidation & deportation campaign last summer. Renee Nicole Good, who died last Wed. in Minneapolis, isn't even the first of these victims who've been killed.

@vinsoncunningham.bsky.social: 23 at the time. I skimmed articles about politics to my first real job, fund-raising for @barackobama.bsky.social’s 2008 campaign. I opened a @politico.com article about a quickly growing controversy. Apparently, the latest cover of The New Yorker was a doozy.

Frey: "This is not sustainable. This is an impossible situation our city is being put in. We cannot be at a place in America where we have 2 governmental agencies literally fighting one another. We are put in this position b/c we have approximately 600 police officers & there are 3,000 ICE agents."

Joel Embiid's dominant again, and he's *exactly* what Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe need. I dove into the details of that in a new series I'm bringing out: the Sixers stat of the week. allphly.com/joel-embiids...

To Dems squeamish about the phrase "Abolish ICE" -- it's not the self-defeating rhetoric of Defund or Abolish Police. INS, Customs, Border Patrol are intact to police immigration. ICE did not exist to snatch any random brown people and shoot moms in the head until 2003. We're okay walking it back.

Trump: Civil Rights Led to White People Being ‘Very Badly Treated,’ a blunt distillation of his admins’ racial politics & belief whites are the real victims of discrimination. He equated diversity with incompetence & inferiority, casting him as protector of whites. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

All kidding aside, that really is a short little finger.