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January 21, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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Simon & Kirby were creative partners.
Lee & Kirby were creative collaborators, but Lee was the boss.
That's not the same thing.
Lee & Kirby were creative collaborators, but Lee was the boss.
That's not the same thing.
January 20, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Simon & Kirby were creative partners.
Lee & Kirby were creative collaborators, but Lee was the boss.
That's not the same thing.
Lee & Kirby were creative collaborators, but Lee was the boss.
That's not the same thing.
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When the bubble bursts expect a lot of “you refused to adopt it” talk
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 PM
When the bubble bursts expect a lot of “you refused to adopt it” talk
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We have an entire class of Democratic "leadership" that has been told that it's dangerous and extreme to say this, and that does not understand that what Democrats want is for their leaders to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. That should not be as big an ask as it apparently is.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
We have an entire class of Democratic "leadership" that has been told that it's dangerous and extreme to say this, and that does not understand that what Democrats want is for their leaders to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. That should not be as big an ask as it apparently is.
This is how the death camps started. “We didn’t technically kill them, we just refused to give them any medical treatment for the thing that killed them.”
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 4:33 PM
This is how the death camps started. “We didn’t technically kill them, we just refused to give them any medical treatment for the thing that killed them.”
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ICE got plenty of money when Chuck Schumer folded and now they're saying fuck you. What a shock. If anyone continues to fund the government at the end of the month they are Republican.
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
🧵
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
🧵
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 3:10 PM
ICE got plenty of money when Chuck Schumer folded and now they're saying fuck you. What a shock. If anyone continues to fund the government at the end of the month they are Republican.
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Because you can never have enough games in your backlog, Marty just made a video about 20 games you probably shouldn't have missed in 2025.
20 Rad Games You Missed in 2025
YouTube video by Second Wind
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January 20, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Because you can never have enough games in your backlog, Marty just made a video about 20 games you probably shouldn't have missed in 2025.
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The right believes everyone thinks like them, but doesn't show it unless "given permission."
That's why all their accusations of their opposition are things they do themselves. They can't conceive of someone acting differently than they do.
That's why all their accusations of their opposition are things they do themselves. They can't conceive of someone acting differently than they do.
January 19, 2026 at 2:05 PM
The right believes everyone thinks like them, but doesn't show it unless "given permission."
That's why all their accusations of their opposition are things they do themselves. They can't conceive of someone acting differently than they do.
That's why all their accusations of their opposition are things they do themselves. They can't conceive of someone acting differently than they do.
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What is hope, if not spite persevering?
January 19, 2026 at 10:35 PM
What is hope, if not spite persevering?
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“…nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training”
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
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January 20, 2026 at 1:05 PM
“…nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training”
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I know people have an instinctual revulsion and hatred of religion and just kinda assume they're all Joel Osteen but small churches scattered in towns are actually community centers religion is supposed to be and this is going to foster a lot of backlash to ICE. No one likes this shit!
January 20, 2026 at 9:48 AM
I know people have an instinctual revulsion and hatred of religion and just kinda assume they're all Joel Osteen but small churches scattered in towns are actually community centers religion is supposed to be and this is going to foster a lot of backlash to ICE. No one likes this shit!
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What’s so funny about this is that ultimately Sarah Friar’s idea is “somebody else comes up with an idea and they pay OpenAI for it”
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death to immoral rent seekers
January 20, 2026 at 5:48 AM
What’s so funny about this is that ultimately Sarah Friar’s idea is “somebody else comes up with an idea and they pay OpenAI for it”
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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
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January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
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I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 4:38 AM
I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.
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I really like the word "grok." I've used it for years. I really love Stranger in the Strange Land. I really love Heinlein books.
I hate that Elon Musk has co-opted it for CSAM and a wildly inaccurate online encyclopedia to the point where the word is going to mean the opposite of its definition.
I hate that Elon Musk has co-opted it for CSAM and a wildly inaccurate online encyclopedia to the point where the word is going to mean the opposite of its definition.
January 20, 2026 at 5:11 AM
I really like the word "grok." I've used it for years. I really love Stranger in the Strange Land. I really love Heinlein books.
I hate that Elon Musk has co-opted it for CSAM and a wildly inaccurate online encyclopedia to the point where the word is going to mean the opposite of its definition.
I hate that Elon Musk has co-opted it for CSAM and a wildly inaccurate online encyclopedia to the point where the word is going to mean the opposite of its definition.
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The Newsom thing is because they think the pendulum effect will give the election to literally any Dem, which may well be true, so they want to make sure the nominee is as far-Right and ineffective as possible.
January 19, 2026 at 4:56 AM
The Newsom thing is because they think the pendulum effect will give the election to literally any Dem, which may well be true, so they want to make sure the nominee is as far-Right and ineffective as possible.
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One of my favorite things to do with the newsletter is to start looking at obvious data that is publicly available. This week’s premium is going to evaluate how much Crap these hyperscale hogs have hoarded and it’s so much more than I realised. This era stinks
January 20, 2026 at 4:58 AM
One of my favorite things to do with the newsletter is to start looking at obvious data that is publicly available. This week’s premium is going to evaluate how much Crap these hyperscale hogs have hoarded and it’s so much more than I realised. This era stinks
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Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!
“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.
www.wsj.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!
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The working class is, firstly, mostly women. And secondly, mostly non-white.
Your class is about your relation to how wealth is produced. Not some dumb racist moniker.
Your class is about your relation to how wealth is produced. Not some dumb racist moniker.
January 19, 2026 at 9:33 PM
The working class is, firstly, mostly women. And secondly, mostly non-white.
Your class is about your relation to how wealth is produced. Not some dumb racist moniker.
Your class is about your relation to how wealth is produced. Not some dumb racist moniker.
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This is not, to be clear, to paint them as people wrestling with some moral conundrum. The opposite really: I think it is damning to witness this violence and cling to some conviction about why it must remain a necessary capacity that is simply being “misused”
January 19, 2026 at 6:36 PM
This is not, to be clear, to paint them as people wrestling with some moral conundrum. The opposite really: I think it is damning to witness this violence and cling to some conviction about why it must remain a necessary capacity that is simply being “misused”
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I’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops
January 19, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops
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“Just following orders” didn’t work at Nuremberg, and it won’t work now. Fuck this guy.
In an interview with @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social, Blas Nuñez-Neto wouldn't tell us his clients, but did say we should remember that ICE agents are people too. (Can't believe this quote below)
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![Nuñez-Neto recommended that protesters understand that ICE agents are people, too.
“I think it would help both sides to appreciate the fact that that’s a human being across from you who may or may not want to do the things they’ve been ordered to do. In my long history being in and out of the Department [of Homeland Security], it is very often what makes the news are the terrible things that happen but what doesn’t get reported are the … stories about agents bringing toys into the border patrol station,” he said.
“We’re all human beings, many of them have families, many of them don’t want to be doing what they’ve been directed to do … so it would help us all to lower the temperature a bit. I’m angry too.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nztbvvo2gl4227zuxjf7gog3/bafkreia3sqpgq4ufvy746ld4tuadfwuf7ul4so6u2wjhf5oggd6kzxibtm@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
“Just following orders” didn’t work at Nuremberg, and it won’t work now. Fuck this guy.
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One tough thing for people who get abducted by ICE is that they have no charges against them, so nobody from the agency is attached to their detainment. They just get held up, roughed up, and robbed of their valuables for no reason until ICE figures that out, and then they get dumped outside.
January 18, 2026 at 10:14 PM
One tough thing for people who get abducted by ICE is that they have no charges against them, so nobody from the agency is attached to their detainment. They just get held up, roughed up, and robbed of their valuables for no reason until ICE figures that out, and then they get dumped outside.