This is the opposite of what is about as close as you get to an objective fact in economics.

good morning after thinking about this more, I think the Sac State to the MAC math is riskier, but mangable, but MAC schools. For Sacramento State? Well,,,, www.extrapointsmb.com/p/so-how-doe...

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

Woo boy.

U.S. Rep. Jason Crow says ‘there will be costs’ to Trump officials after failed indictment attempt trib.al/oowFJvc

Niven, a political science professor at the University of Cincinnati, weighs in on Luke Perez of Ohio State University, who physically attacked a journalist yesterday.

this has it all: corrupt deal with deeply unpopular rich guy to *checks notes* keep people bogged down in traffic, staring out at the pristine alternative bridge they could be speeding down instead.

The @rooster.info is now reporting that this jerk has been suspended.

In the marketplace of ideas, a professor at Ohio State University's government-mandated "intellectual diversity center" is fighting back. Literally. www.rooster.info/p/ohio-state...

What in the world is going on in El Paso?

This was a very important vote tonight. Here's why. For the past year Trump’s illegal tariffs have crushed our economic growth, hit American families with higher costs, killed the very manufacturing jobs we were told they would multiply, and alienated our closest allies. 1/

The billionaire owner of a bridge connecting Michigan with Canada met Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, on Monday hours before President Trump lambasted a competing span.

He's talking about the new Gordie Howe Bridge over the Detroit River. Canada is paying for *all of it. Now this? What an asshole.

peak campaign websiting

In the DOJ’s botched Epstein release, confusion may be the goal. Read Jem Bartholomew. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

That time in Cincinnati when a newspaper managed to misspell its own name... in the flag.

If you are watching the opening ceremony on NBC, you won't hear the boos of JD Vance because NBC cut it. Corporations working to keep Americans in the dark about how unpopular their elected officials are. The White House reposted the censored clip. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW: Huge cheers earlier for the Ukrainian athletes at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Then huge BOOS as JD Vance comes on the big screen in the stadium. Even the commentators can’t hide it…

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

A sad day for American journalism.

Another round of dark headlines this am. @wsj.com @financialtimes.com @nytimes.com

Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.

New territory. Must read story from a colleague. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

SNL for the win last night.

Again, @politico.com claims 2024 was a blowout win for Republicans. Weird.

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

Thirty-five million dollars were spent marketing this! It is like someone eating spoonfuls of gold-encrusted garbage and beckoning you to watch. Look at how much gold I’ve put on it! More gold than anyone! Doesn’t it look delicious?

My father was a cop for years. He never wore a mask, and he always wore a name tag when in uniform. ICE’s obsession with secrecy makes no sense to me. They are supposed to be working for us, aren’t they?

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.

Tillis should start wearing a mask to work, then.

Goodness. This is so bush league by the @washingtonpost.com.

It's easy to get inured to this. But it's genuinely shocking. These are just untrained, hyped up hooligans terrorizing people.

The masks need to come off. Every agent needs a name tag.

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter believes that fans should avoid traveling to the United States for the World Cup this summer.

the smartest thing to do right now would be to make a show of disciplining some ICE agents and quietly pull back from minneapolis. the president offers his condolences and maybe even makes a direct donation to the family. you fire bovino and replace him with someone more quietly depraved, etc.

lol NRA

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

Literally nothing they tell the press or the public turns out to be true upon real investigation. Nothing.

Minnesota’s justice system will have the last word.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 25, 2026

Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.

Pritzker: "The GOP is nowhere to be found. They're the ones that scream and yell about 'federal tyranny' about interference with states' rights. And now, their president is violating states' rights and attacking our states and Republicans are nowhere to be found to talk about it."

CBS News is reporting that the ICE agent who abducted a Minnesota preschooler suffered internal injuries during the abduction.

I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.

The White House posted a digitally altered image showing a demonstrator involved in interrupting a church service in Minnesota last weekend crying as she was arrested on Thursday. A previous version of the image, also posted by an official government account, showed her looking forward calmly.

There's your headline, Toledo.

hello Mr Vice President this is your economist speaking I am advising you to keep using this metaphor