A tremendous loss for the Post. Bezos, Lewis, and WaPo leadership is trying to gut any accountability work from the paper performed by journalists like Nitasha.

Gosh, data centers actually drive up consumer energy prices... (via Bloomberg):

Corruption = regime's only actual talent. www.ft.com/content/129b...

Not innocent (via Casey Newton):

"Instead of baby photos or family mementos, viewers get so many shots of Melania in high heels that it starts to feel “like an OnlyFans account crossed with that meme of Kim Jong Un visiting factories” www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

"The (UK) needs (a) national strategy... as it is largely impossible to plan, the UK economy must be as flexible, adaptable and dynamic as possible... diversification, but the country’s core strengths, its great universities, its scientific standing and its financial sector, must be maintained.

Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter.

It was probably difficult to foresee that Trump would put the Kennedy Center out of business.

To be clear, the other biggest story in AI right now is that NVIDIA is specifically NOT giving OpenAI $100 billion, which they need so that they are able to start paying Oracle, who needs that money to pay the debt. Hey where’re you going didn’t you want any stock

Colorado water officials plan for “exceedingly grim” drought forecasts, low reservoir levels - The Colorado Sun

Bottomless corruption

Tech beneath the ICE www.wired.com/story/mobile...

BREAKING: Democrat Christian Menefee wins special election for Texas U.S. House seat, narrowing GOP's slim majority.

An anti-woke Stanford wann-be without STEM or innovation. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

1/ Ian Austin has since been re-arrested along with Don Lemon, which he believes is bc the video we made of him (below) criticizing the Trump regime and encouraging fellow vets to wake up had gotten millions of views. It's not just journalists. It's ANYONE. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

$75 million.

Called it.

"It’s not just housing policies that seem adrift." No kidding. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I wrote yesterday about Kevin Warsh, saying what everyone who really follows monetary debates knows: he's a bullshitter who uses big words to make incoherent arguments that always amount to stimulus for Republicans, austerity for Dems 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-bad-heir...

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

Meanwhile in the real economy:

On multiple fronts, the administration is weaponizing the power of law enforcement, from the FBI to ICE to the DOJ, to target blue states and counties and coerce them into taking actions that benefit the administration and punish those who don’t comply.

Population Growth Is Stagnating. What That Means for Economic Activity. - Barron’s ““This aging of the population and the shrinking of the working age population is a real risk to the U.S. sustainably maintaining a pace of growth around 2%,” Barron’s

Washington Post can't do international news or sports, but... "Amazon is spending $35 million to promote “Melania,” its movie about the first lady. Critics are questioning the eye-popping outlay — and South Africa has pulled the film from theaters." --NY Times

Someone should play the video of Fátima Lucas Henrique’s screams as she was kidnapped by federal agents on the way to her early morning nursing shift to Sen Susan Collins wherever she shows her face. This is happening to Mainers on her watch. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/s...

A new University of Oxford study finds that almost half of the global population (3.79 billion) will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2.0°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...

Relatively low unemployment due to immigration suppression does not = consumer confidence or spending. Not sustainable.

For ... 400 jobs...

WSJ too:

" If you exercise your constitutionally protected right to bear arms, masked federal agents can murder you in cold blood, simply because an American citizen exercising their Second Amendment rights scares them." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

BREAKING: A young doctor who lives near where Alex Pretti, a nurse, was killed by ICE says in a declaration he saw the shooting, went out to help, was not let through at first then patted down before being let by, and was apparently the first to try and provide any medical assistance to Pretti.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Alex Pretti was a nurse and an an alum of UMN.

Woman tells Minnesota Public Radio that the man killed today was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather and "next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/live-updates....

Portable benefits are long overdue. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

both showed remarkable modesty, magnanimity, and restraint — starkly different from the triumphalism, meanness, and vindictiveness that defines Donald Trump’s reign of horror. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Wonderful.

Several key figures were missing from the first day of the Colorado Rapids’ preseason last week while waiting for U.S. work authorization to be approved.

News Analysis: President Trump used a keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to renounce the last vestiges of the liberal democratic order.

Masterpiece, indeed …

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

CO Public Schools: "DPS officials say the decline is tied to several factors, including lower birth rates since 2002 and housing affordability challenges. This year, the district also saw about 700 new-to-country students leave the system." www.denver7.com/lifestyle/ed...

While Bessent skiis Davos....

End of Davos : open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

Today's @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Science.

"If we want AI to earn trust in healthcare, we must demand more than leaderboard wins and must hold AI systems accountable to ensure robustness, sound reasoning, and alignment with real medical demands." www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.18234

It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.

Renee Good was found with gunshot wounds to the chest, arm and head after a federal immigration officer shot her the morning of Jan. 7, according to the Minneapolis Fire Department’s incident report.