low-info voters are very responsive to national conditions. which is they they voted for trump in 2024, and now why they're even more anti-trump on affordability than high-knowledge (dem-leaning) voters thanks to @verasight.io for partnering on this poll! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

lmao. I've been using Claude to build some docket scraping scripts, and in the process I've been feeding it court docs from Chicago and Minnesota. It's fun to imagine it's getting increasingly ACAB-pilled, but I'm not that gullible.

Guy's Entire Job Just Asking People If They Have Time For A Quick Chat https://theonion.com/guys-entire-job-just-asking-people-if-they-have-time-fo-1819574667/

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

What makes this even crazier is that even Josh Gottheimer called Mejia to congratulate her (she told us that for a Breaking Points interview we’ll air tomorrow)

Revival Of Internship Program Heralds CEO’s Daughter Coming Of Age https://theonion.com/revival-of-internship-program-heralds-ceos-daughter-coming-of-age/

"After BART installed fare gates last year at many of its stations, crime on the trains plummeted by 54% in a single year." www.noahpinion.blog/p/roundup-77...

excuse me autocorrect. i deliberately spelled it valentimes day because that's what it's called

Great Robert Samuels lede here --->

💀 www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...

You folks wouldn't believe the shit that Jeff Goldberg flew with/without www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

This week's newsletter had a ton of interesting stuff, if I do say so myself. Here's a thread including a lot of it.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Tom Malinowski says that if AIPAC tries to back a candidate in the June primary against Analilia Mejia, he'll encourage all his supporters to vote against whoever AIPAC throws out there

"One person who worked on the project said the UAE hopes the chatbot will project a political line consistent with the monarchy’s." www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

Analysis: Starship Troopers is a fun time at the movies but anyone looking for a political or social message will be left wanting as at no point do the characters turn to the audience and say “it is wrong to Starship Trooper someone”

My wife informed me last night of how dirty they did Logan Echolls in Season 4 of Veronica Mars, which I never watched. Outrageous!

"The Minnesota welfare fraud... isn’t an immigration story or a story about an excessively generous welfare state. Rather, these thefts were the predictable result of a... decision to embed middlemen throughout our welfare system," Matt Bruenig argues: open.substack.com/pub/theargum...

This paper, via @mattyglesias.bsky.social, argues that firewood was 30% of U.S. GDP in the 1830s: www.nber.org/papers/w3397...

Carjackings in DC (and overall) have fallen by a remarkable amount: open.substack.com/pub/jasher/p/carjackings-have-fallen-an-incredible

some of you are saying “go bad bunny” or “go kid rock” im saying “go robert mueller” and the rule of law

Most Republicans won't criticize Trump in public. But privately, some express rising frustration with an apparent lack of urgency from Trump and his staff. Inside the GOP midterms effort, via @iarnsdorf.bsky.social + Liz Goodwin: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

* clears throat * let him cook

"power holds no value unless it is exercised"

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

very important that as we enter day 10 of "lots of snow everywhere" drivers continue to not alter their behavior at all. you *need* to double-park to buy milk. you cannot let the buses win.

I'll go further! I have never liked Neil Gaiman's work very much, and the temptation is there to smugly say, "SEE??!" now that his shittiness has come to light. But I didn't dislike his work because I could tell he was terrible; I disliked it because it didn't work for me! That's a different thing.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

Read Naftali Bendavid on this: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Find and replace for Geese

Not the main point here, but I'm struck by Benny Johnson still insisting that his house was set "on fire in a gang war" and he had to move because it "obviously had been set ablaze." His neighbor's house was set on fire, which was put out in 20 minutes. www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnso...

goated museum curator, 77, learns Gen Z slang and goes viral: ‘Honestly, she ate’ wapo.st/4rfxaM4

In theater. So they think they’re at war.

I love Dan McQuade dearly and will miss him terribly. No one else like him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Did not know Dan but his curiosity and light shined through so clearly in all his work. What a loss. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

VA leaders have barely acknowledged Alex Pretti’s death, workers say www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This seems good: yaledailynews.com/articles/yal...

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims. We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear. Never again means never again for anyone.

Nominative determinism www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/s...

UPS plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs in 2026 as it untangles its partnership with Amazon. They will also shutter 24 buildings in the first half of the year. The moves are projected to achieve $3 billion in savings.

RE: Recent claims about Anne Frank's legal status, some perhaps relevant passages from "Eichmann in Jerusalem" -->

The sister of Alex Pretti issued a statement memorializing her brother and condemning “disgusting lies” she said had been told about him since his fatal shooting by Border Patrol in Minneapolis on Saturday.

"Sir, r/catbongos has fallen" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Since July, Trump aides have declared 16 DHS shootings justified -- all before probes of those shootings were completed: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

high-grade Maine nugget alert

"The resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A collection of Kaleb's writing put together by his family. www.kalebchorton.com

New video analysis from the Times: “A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.”

"The problem for elites who wish to silo their politics in the realm of pure economics is that it is not actually possible to cleave the 'rule of law when it comes to dealing with protesters' away from the 'rule of law that enforces contracts.'" www.theargumentmag.com/p/alex-prett...