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So they’re indicting James Comey… again. I think there’s a song for that… youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?...

“The White House is a sacred place,” begins [DoJ lawyer] Michael Velchik, arguing that the President can arbitrarily ban news organizations because he doesn't like their coverage of him. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/disp... (Pictures from NPR.)

😂😂😂

Fixed it for Trump.

Trump bans CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-bans... Oh wow. So, so accurate!

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The constitution is just another piece of paper if nobody upholds it.

Someone else said it for him. Love him. Miss him.

Mike Luckovich cartoonist:

A collaboration with the excellent satirist Andy Borowitz @borowitzreport.bsky.social anntelnaes.substack.com/p/other-plac...

will Trump be flying on Cart Force One exclusively now?

The catering cart memes are doing me in ☠️😭 Please add any I missed in the replies. We need this laugh.

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and large language models. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."

What a time to be alive.

Brilliant! 🤣

Not content with leaving junk on this planet, St Elmo has started littering on the Moon... www.reuters.com/science/piec...

The other week, I bought some Draino at a local supermarket. Since then, I've had been presented ads for drain cleaning chemicals every few *hours*! (They've just started declining in frequency.) I like Gruber's idea of privacy being treated like it used to be. daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

I've been telling my wife, for ages (since at least the Bush years!), that America needs to stop giving the president so much authority if not outright power. Here's how it could be done. asharangappa.substack.com/p/we-need-a-...

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Oy... www.404media.co/buspatrol-pu...

This guy seems a little cranky. Meh. Blocking him.

You know they won't.

I bet he is using this sort of data.

😂😂😂 Short, sweet and oh so good! MAGA and Idolatry open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

‘Dispute’, a quite impressive real picture captured by Polish photographer Jacek Stankiewicz, featuring two birds embroiled in what appears to be an animated argument. Original post

What's to discuss? Begone, already! www.reuters.com/world/exit-t...

This war should be called the "War of Theocratic Idiots". www.lawfaremedia.org/article/unde...

Powerful... adrianatrigiani.substack.com/p/the-epstei...

I knew the FBI/DoJ firings were bad, but... holy cannoli, they're Really Bad! Iran Will Retaliate in the U.S. We May Not See It in Time. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/iran...

What could possibly go wrong? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Foreign Affairs finally gets it? They've keep publishing articles that accept the assumption the administration has America's interests at heart. As anyone who's not a foreign policy expert can tell them, that is not, and never has been, the case! www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Let’s figure this out first ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊

Paul Krugman telling it as it is. "Fed chairs can only drive policy through persuasion — and Warsh lacks the intellectual and moral credibility to be effective on that score."

So the state of play for Congress is the Dems want ICE to stop shooting people and the Republicans are calling that an unreasonable request. Nope, not making that up.

Iceland is (probably) now wondering if they're going to be invaded (or whatever), simply because the Diaper Prize whiner can't tell the difference... www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Well, when you put it like that, it sure sounds bad... (Unless you're Peter Thiel or Vladimir Putin. The former because he's not as clever as he thinks, or Curtis Yarvin told him, he is, and the other one because he hopes it will.)

Jonathan Last, @jvl.bsky.social, mentioned that Peter Thiel is, unsurprisingly, a major player behind the whole "Greenland" idiocy. He was relying on an article in The New Republic and... yeah. It's worth a read. So here's why the billionaires want it: newrepublic.com/article/2051...

Machado offered her Nobel Peace Prize to the Demented Warmonger? Is she nuts?!? (Like Europe, she needs to realize that appeasing the blowhard is *not* the right thing to do. Just as trying to appease the schoolyard bully is never the right thing to do.) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

John Gruber (@gruber.foo) hails Caitlin Calleson's courage. daringfireball.net/2026/01/lets...