I met someone 😍

The massive Dawson/Moura coal mine in QLD. It produces 8-9 million tons a year, mostly shipped to China. Tomorrow’s emissions, today

It’s a sign of how pliant Congress is now that GOP reps in these places went along with the gutting of the IRA after a few initial grumbles. The opposite of pork barrel politics www.cnbc.com/2026/02/01/e...

IAD —> SFO —> BNE tried to kill me but I lived, bitch

"To call 'Melania' vapid would do a disservice to the plumes of florid vape smoke that linger around British teenagers." www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Catherine O'Hara was transcendent in everything but I will always think of her most fondly as Moira Rose with her wall of wigs. Farewell to a great

Chilling how the government is snapping up logistics warehouses to create a network of detention mega-hubs. Great reporting here www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Trump's threats to annex Greenland have cast a pall on climate research on the island. Some projects have been halted and US funding is now viewed with wariness, scientists say. Gift link:

Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!

As the parent of a young man with a very similar name, who’s not a right-wing slop merchant, I’m annoyed by the rise of this guy www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

Breaking News: A man is facing federal charges after he tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail with a pizza cutter while impersonating an FBI agent, people familiar with the episode said.

Incredible stuff from Lululemon, although as the story points out, they're not new to patronizing their customers www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

My relative who works in family law says the number of divorcing spouses using ChatGPT to represent them(selves) in court is surging. Almost always men

Tomorrow I’m ditching the snow for blazing heat Down Under. Will gratefully accept your Sydney and Melbourne recs!

Injera For All

What a complete waste of money and Guard members' time and abilities

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

It’s very “Peter Principle” to use your massively increased stature and budget as a media boss to create a fancy version of your old masthead

Electricity is the backbone of every economy now. And we're undercounting how much a lack of reliable supply hurts the economy. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’ll add that I hate the idea of shoehorning a new terminal in front of Saarinen’s and don’t see why it’s necessary

Of course it’s Patrik Schumacher & co. proposing this www.axios.com/local/washin...

My friend Dave, one of the kindest people I know, got tear-gassed by ICE

Struggling to imagine what the Washington Post will look like without sports, metro, foreign coverage. I grew up with the paper and hate to see it come to this

If you need some good news: the cost of a revolutionary treatment for cystic fibrosis is about to go from 370k/year to 6k, or even 2k www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Just bizarre that because immigration agents now dress like soldiers, actual soldiers have to wear hi-viz vests to avoid confusion

If this is true (and that’s not a small if), it is reasonable to posit that Bezos is trying to offload the Post. Or kill it altogether. Sports is a top driver of traffic and subscriptions for most news sites. And we’ve seen how Bezos and Lewis have mangled the Opinion section.

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

“He wanted to help people”

This has been a long dry January. When the snow starts falling, I’m calling it Feb. 1

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

"The fact that GM repatriated the [gas Buick] Envision at the expense of the Bolt tells you what you need to know about this moment in the U.S. auto market."

What a service to readers! Great work

Belgium indignantly denying it wants any part in this

I think we have five (5) more days of being in the Paris Agreement www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Dear god

Carney’s speech today is well worth reading/watching, if you missed it like me www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

An era of 'global water bankruptcy' has begun, says a new UN report. Humans are squandering and mismanaging freshwater resources -- even as climate change drives up demand and makes the availability of fresh water less predictable. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How it started: "Many Snohetta employees assumed that the firm would be open to a union because it had a reputation for being progressive and worker friendly." How it's going:

Hope some DC area journos will report on the duck bus. I need to know more

It might sound silly, but I mean it: The easiest and most potent way for Europe to hurt Trump this year is to once again use its cultural soft power and to threaten a boycott of the World Cup. It would become a completely meaningless event and would hurt him where he is most vulnerable - his vanity.

I write headlines so I try not to be a headline complainer, and I get that “snub” is nice and short. But it echoes his absurd argument that the prize is his by right, as if there weren’t hundreds or thousands of (more) credible contenders

"What the White House has dubbed 'Operation Metro Surge' is definitely not just — or even primarily — an immigration enforcement operation. It is an occupation designed to punish and terrorize anyone who dares defy this incursion" (gift link)

How unhinged does he have to get for Congress to step in?

Lol. People in Alexandria are gonna hate this

Oof, this ad in a bridal magazine. “Your grown-up kid is getting married? Better get some work done first!”

Real estate priority ≠ security priority

Oh, they’re capable of embarrassment?

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now