The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

"All X’s changes do is make some of its users pay for the privilege of producing horrific images on the X app, while Musk profits from the abuse of children," @wyden.senate.gov tells me & @raphae.li re Grok, & demands on Apple and Google to remove the apps: www.reuters.com/world/us/dem...

NEW: MN right wing Alpha News just released new footage that appears to be taken from Jonathan Ross’s phone. He calls her a fucking bitch after he shoots her. You can see her tires and hands turning the wheel to drive right and that he seems to step in front of her path. Link to longer video below

At Pittsburgh’s Public Source, we believe local journalism is essential to civic life. When local newsrooms disappear, communities lose a shared source of information, accountability and connection. buff.ly/YamHfDl

Well, this is weird. Maduro's actual lawyer tells the court they have no idea what Bruce Fein is doing and neither Maduro nor any of his lawyers have ever spoken to him. The court had already granted his pro hac vice, too, before being informed of this. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Let me call you after 9. I’m almost out of minutes.

Two people have been shot by federal agent in Portland, Oregon and have been hospitalized per the FBI.

404 is consistently doing some of the most critical reporting on ICE/CBP/DHS. Their newest reporting on the tech they’re using to track Americans is chilling.

Wild so many coaches from such a "fraudulent" team getting interviews elsewhere. /s

Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

"Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods" @josephcox.bsky.social @404media.co www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

amazing

Absolutely wild and awful that a city of Pittsburgh's size and importance faces the prospect of no daily newspaper.

Reactions (near and far) to the announced closing of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette herald concern for the city’s civic life if the newspaper goes dark and nothing replaces it. 🧵 buff.ly/pYyC84c

Reminder: The Minneapolis shooting is not the only ICE-involved violence in recent memory.

Major blow to the PGH news landscape, obviously. PGH news outlets like @publicsource.org need all the more support.

Local news has now posted video from a neighbor's surveillance cam. It does appear like the officer may have been pushed aside slightly by the bumper as the victim turned to leave. Again, seems clear from the video that there was no deliberate attempt to run anyone down.

Here are two key frames of the video. (Changed language on the first notation.)

The family that runs the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is shutting it down:

This is the video.

Jesus Christ, the situation in Minneapolis is horrific.

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

NEW: We obtained 100 gigabytes of data from unlisted websites associated with Canary Mission, revealing their internal workings, employees, and an internal website called BlackNest where the group celebrated its “impacts”— arrests and deportations. www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...

The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

European allies working on plan should US move on Greenland www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Exclusive: US seizing Venezuela-linked, Russian-flagged oil tanker after weeks-long pursuit www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Trump administration cannot slash NIH research funding, court rules - www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

I'm putting together a piece about how much investigative journalism actually costs. If you are an investigative journalist and you're willing to share (not for attribution) what you make and how many hours (years!) you put in, my DMs are open. Estimates fine, just want to get a sense of it.

Denver Broncos Move to 14-3, Earn No. 1 Seed Despite Shaky Offense It seems very clear at this point that Sean Payton has coached the offense not to lose, relying on the defense to win. He needs to scheme up some offense for the playoffs with this bye week.

On the Reuters wire:

I really do love|hate RegExes. This week, a short walkthrough on how to use them to find DPRK hackers. buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...

We finally bought 404media.com. We couldn't afford this when we launched a couple of years ago, but it recently became available. You can read the transcript of some of the group call here: “This is so fucking stressful.” Only possible thanks to our subscribers. www.404media.co/we-bought-40...

Many are just waking up to the Grok-nonconsensual images story as these pictures began flooding X over the holidays, but here’s our piece from Jan 2 featuring a victim, Julie Yukari, who was brave enough to speak on the record and on camera: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

*sigh* I've watched alt-weeklies slowly disappear over the last 2 decades and each one makes me sad 😔

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times. Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.

Crappy news to kick off 2026: The owners of the Pittsburgh City Paper have shut it down. www.wesa.fm/arts-culture...

Here's the Reuters report mentioned above, from @ajvicens.bsky.social and @raphae.li:

Riana is the author of numerous reports, papers, and articles on related phenomena: bsky.app/profile/rian...

In what Reuters called a "mass digital undressing spree,” Elon Musk is provoking outrage after his Grok chatbot responded to user prompts to remove clothing from images of women and to create "sexualized images of children" and post them on X. I spoke to Stanford HAI's Riana Pfefferkorn about it:

Inside the US operation to capture Maduro - www.reuters.com/business/aer...

New: @ajvicens.bsky.social spoke to one of the women — a Brazilian musician — digitally stripped of her clothing by xAI’s Grok. When she saw the chatbot being asked to virtually strip her down to a bikini, she thought there was no way it would comply. She was wrong. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

It's really great to see some solid reporting on this, with details that confirm and expand on what we all knew. Great work by @transnews.network. They have four days left in their fundraiser, kick them a few $ if you can. transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

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