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I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Posting tips for women on how not to get murdered according to Dateline NBC. Will update with more tips 1. Don’t go on a boat with a man 2. Don’t go on a hike with a man 3. Don’t go near a hot tub or bath tub with a man.

Almost every week, we see a liberal writer condemn “wokeism” or the “woke. . .” They are attacking a caricature, a perversion, a distortion of a historically Black concept that MAGA propagandists first distorted. These people are not serious thinkers.

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

U.S. Mint Unveils Series Of Gold Coins Commemorating President’s Extramarital Affairs https://theonion.com/u-s-mint-unveils-series-of-gold-coins-commemorating-presidents-extramarital-affairs/

…misread the job description

I wrote about RAMageddon, and resisted the temptation to talk about that time when a spike in RAM prices meant I couldn’t afford a 1MB upgrade for my Amiga (which I think would have cost $800). https://www.fastcompany.com/91571454/ramageddon

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

These takeaways are ... very good?

Not sure how to get started with agentic AI? From our new print issue, here’s my concise guide to a whole lot of useful tools. https://www.fastcompany.com/91549052/42-ways-you-should-be-using-ai-right-now-agentic-vibe-code-openclaw-podcast-platform-video-newsletter-course-app

‘A Crock of Shit’: Amid Misconduct Allegations, Broadview Six Transcripts Offer Rare Window into Grand Jury talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-crock...

Forcing immigrant detainees to work for their captors isn’t just exploitative It’s unconstitutional Trump's policies are dramatically expanding both the immigration detention population and the nation’s Thirteenth Amendment crisis ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Truly honored and excited to share that @status.news won the Mirror Award in the inaugural Best Media Newsletter category this evening. 🙏

This is a critically important article Trump did this to us here at Duke as well (@michaeldgreen.phd and I wrote about it here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...) His war on diversity in medical education & training will worsen the health of Americans

”It should be for everyone.” I so agree with my friend below. Wake up people , evil is crawling out from under it’s rock ! It never left us, it’s been here all along.

something about how the essential innumeracy of racism has seeped its way into every fucked-up and broken american institution really got me worked up today www.theverge.com/policy/92159...

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security. A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2074...

Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

I wrote about the idea that AI will destroy today’s software giants, and why it seems equally possible they’ll use it to become even more gigantic. www.fastcompany.com/91498768/saa...

Life under the Clicktatorship: the FBI Director is off watching hockey at the Olympics, and the administration is trying to send hospital boats to a country with universal health care even as they are gutting health coverage. Great content, owning the libs etc.

"Clicktatorship" is fucking phenomenal.

The Supreme Court's remarkable ruling against tariffs is another sign that Trumpist nationalism is in crisis. Tariffs and deportations are key pillars of Trumpism. Both are major fiascos. Both have caused his approval to crater. Trumpism is failing. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2068...

Until I researched this piece, I didn’t realize that Congress figured out that the equal time rule was ineffective and annoying as early as the late 1950s. It hasn’t improved with age! www.fastcompany.com/91495025/ste...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Trump's utterly predictable complaint about Bad Bunny singing in Spanish was thoughtless culture-war stuff — but also failed to understand how many Americans speak Spanish. www.pbump.net/o/actually-l...

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE 👇

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

More than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises: -- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation -- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.

I invested so much of my life tracking this stuff, damned if I’m not going to generate content from it now.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

DO IT

Ein Land, das öffentlich Menschen hinrichtet, kann keine Fußball-WM ausrichten. #WMBoykottjetzt www.zdfheute.de/panorama/deu...

Like most here, I am horrified and heartbroken over what has happened in Minneapolis with the death of yet another brave citizen in the fight against ICE abuses. No one should have to pay that price for our freedom, and no family should have to hear that terrible news.

Wrote about the observers. The people standing by and filming and the risk they are taking to let the world see what is happening. It's crucial and its the only way to combat the lies and blatant propaganda. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026