And Azerbaijan gets the minimal screen no commentary short stick from NBC. Bravo.

Armenia at the Armonia themed Olympics. Too bad Armani isn't still with us.

Good. Shame on Harris and Illitch for taking things this far. They better win it all this season.

Umm, what are the Pacers doing exactly?

Apparently, Minute Maid is discontinuing all its frozen concentrated juices. It's only appropriate to show this clip from Trading Places (1983) on the attempted conquering of the Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice market www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDHS...

Wizards doing Wizards things: Dumb trades

You might think sports isn’t as important as other parts of the paper, but the WaPo covers sports like news — sports betting, political lobbying by leagues, accountability journalism even for local owners like Dan Snyder. No wonder the moneyed class didn’t like WaPo sports.

Awful on so many levels.

Lol

Well, then...

CASABLANCA was released 84 years ago. One of the biggest and most iconic films to ever come out of Hollywood, the story behind the scenes is like the beginning of a beautiful friendship… 1/53

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

Now we lost the Son of Sanford and Son

Michigan wins at Michigan State in basketball for the first time since before dating my Sparty wife.

The refs gave Tom Izzo a technical foul birthday present.

Noooooooooooooo 😢🙏

"If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." John 15:18-21

Today was one of those days where I'm finishing it with a bit of an Irish beverage. That means it was *a day*

It is nice to see the Roman Catholic bishops (at least the high-ranking ones) have a backbone and stand up to what's happening. The orthodox denominations have been very silent with the exception of the Greek Metropolitan's statement the other day.

This is a heckuva list and has some of my all time favorite films.

Periodic reminder that ICE still isn’t going after “hardened criminals” We would all support that. What do we gain from yanking this father away from his wife and child? What do we gain from deporting people who have been here for 20 years and never been in legal trouble?

The sports section at The Washington Post is one of the few remaining where the goal is to cover the whole of sports in the same way an organization covers news. And that is huge. If it is sabotaged, the sports ecosystem loses a huge chunk of serious reporting and meaningful commentary.

Asked about Minneapolis, Victor Wembanyama says, “PR has tried, but I’m not going to sit here and be politically correct.” Then says “it’s crazy that people make it seem like … the murder of civilians is acceptable.”

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

Couple of years ago, our family visited the Twin Cities. We absolutely could have seen ourselves there. Still can. The people are awesome.

So far, I've only seen the Greek Archdiocese release anything re Minnesota whey it comes to the Orthodox denominations, both Eastern and Oriental...and it was one of those statements that doesn't come off well.

The biggest group that got hoodwinked in all this mess are the baby boomers and 70s immigrants who miss 1980s morning-in-America conservatism and thought Trump and his cronies were representing that. There is nothing conservative about what's going on.

Ooooof

Sooo, 20 years after Gannett (current USA TODAY Co) sold the Detroit News in order to buy the Freep from the dissolving Knight-Ridder Co, they buy it back and now will have a newspaper monopoly in Motown.

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

“As of Saturday evening, the family said they had still not heard from anyone at a federal law enforcement agency about their son’s death.”

"These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren." Proverbs 6:16-19

I would be very surprised if a full accounting in the future didn't reveal more than one mass grave at the detention centers. If they're behaving this way in public, what's happening out of sight must be many times more brutal.

A nurse at the VA. A helper. This guy was more of a patriot than the scumbags that executed him.

Holy shit. He was filming. He went over to help a lady that ICE shoved down. Agents engaged him. His hands were on the pavement when he was shot. He never had his hand on a weapon. Cold blooded murder.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an ICU nurse. 😢💔🙏 He spent his life helping people, and now our government is peddling lies in an attempt to make you believe them.

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

😢

Lord, have mercy.

😬

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

"The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it. It requires dedicated service on behalf of others, especially when that service is difficult and comes with costs," former special counsel Jack Smith said. https://to.pbs.org/4sYZVhW

My dream scenario was getting a sports category. Alas.

Danish pension fund to sell 100 million in treasury bonds because of what it calls “poor US government finances” If Trump keeps pissing people off, they’re *all* going to dump their bonds and tank our economy. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/01/...

I'm not Roman Catholic, but it's very encouraging to see these Bishops speak up.

Even Sparty Wife will hehe to appreciate this

ST. PAUL MAYOR: “We’ve received reports of ICE officers going door to door asking where the Asian people live… I myself have received advice to carry my passport with me because they may target me based on what I look like.”