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Lmao send us a photo of everyone at your house so you don't need to expend energy counting while ordering pizza from Papa John's is the funniest fed post I've ever seen
January 16, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Lmao send us a photo of everyone at your house so you don't need to expend energy counting while ordering pizza from Papa John's is the funniest fed post I've ever seen
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If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News:
"A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it." www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...
"A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it." www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...
What the Trump Administration Is Buying With CBS's Reputation
The administration's story about the Renee Good shooting was falling apart. CBS gave them the credibility to put it back together.
www.readtpa.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:34 PM
If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News:
"A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it." www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...
"A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it." www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...
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NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend.
This is Alice's story:
This is Alice's story:
Queer trans ICE protester in small Minn. city recounts agents' violence and humiliation
Alice Valentine of St. Cloud was pepper sprayed and jailed by ICE for trying to protect immigrant neighbors.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 16, 2026 at 6:58 PM
NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend.
This is Alice's story:
This is Alice's story:
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They are canceling youth sports across the city in Minneapolis this weekend because lawless masked armed federal paramilitaries are targeting the children and families.
Minneapolis Parks and Recreation has canceled youth sports because ICE is terrorizing our community
January 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
They are canceling youth sports across the city in Minneapolis this weekend because lawless masked armed federal paramilitaries are targeting the children and families.
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I don’t think this stuff is recoverable. I think these are the crucial four years where we just cede all basically all green tech production to China.
January 16, 2026 at 2:58 PM
I don’t think this stuff is recoverable. I think these are the crucial four years where we just cede all basically all green tech production to China.
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The scale of China's clean energy buildout is difficult to fathom. Check out these pictures.
Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout
e360.yale.edu
January 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
The scale of China's clean energy buildout is difficult to fathom. Check out these pictures.
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I was just thinking today that I can't remember the last time I heard or read about *strategic competition* with China.
Instead we hear about "winning the future," and my read is that the US is betting on AI and China is betting on green tech.
I suspect China's bet will pay off sooner and better.
Instead we hear about "winning the future," and my read is that the US is betting on AI and China is betting on green tech.
I suspect China's bet will pay off sooner and better.
I don’t think this stuff is recoverable. I think these are the crucial four years where we just cede all basically all green tech production to China.
January 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I was just thinking today that I can't remember the last time I heard or read about *strategic competition* with China.
Instead we hear about "winning the future," and my read is that the US is betting on AI and China is betting on green tech.
I suspect China's bet will pay off sooner and better.
Instead we hear about "winning the future," and my read is that the US is betting on AI and China is betting on green tech.
I suspect China's bet will pay off sooner and better.
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Not only that, but -- you're never going to believe this part! -- it appears DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin put out a grossly misleading account of the circumstances of Campos's death.
ICE appears to have strangled a detainee to death.
An employee with El Paso County’s Medical Examiner says the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center is likely to be ruled a homicide. A fellow detainee reports witnessing guards choke Campos to death.
wapo.st/49FW4NG
An employee with El Paso County’s Medical Examiner says the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center is likely to be ruled a homicide. A fellow detainee reports witnessing guards choke Campos to death.
wapo.st/49FW4NG
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
wapo.st
January 16, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Not only that, but -- you're never going to believe this part! -- it appears DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin put out a grossly misleading account of the circumstances of Campos's death.
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Seems as if this works — if employers start firing people for standing up for their neighbors and fellow humans — than a remedy is publicizing the identity of those employers.
Publishing the names of protesters and contacting their employers to have them fired for exercising their rights is a tactic straight out of the White Citizens Councils.
They're going to start using the Kirk witch hunt strategy.
January 16, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Seems as if this works — if employers start firing people for standing up for their neighbors and fellow humans — than a remedy is publicizing the identity of those employers.
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In Europe, you typically see the anger of US tech executives openly. They fight the authorities and try to get regulations repealed.
But in Canada, they aren’t as visible. Instead, that happens behind the scenes and locals spread their narratives for them.
disconnect.blog/escaping-the...
But in Canada, they aren’t as visible. Instead, that happens behind the scenes and locals spread their narratives for them.
disconnect.blog/escaping-the...
January 16, 2026 at 5:44 PM
In Europe, you typically see the anger of US tech executives openly. They fight the authorities and try to get regulations repealed.
But in Canada, they aren’t as visible. Instead, that happens behind the scenes and locals spread their narratives for them.
disconnect.blog/escaping-the...
But in Canada, they aren’t as visible. Instead, that happens behind the scenes and locals spread their narratives for them.
disconnect.blog/escaping-the...
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Over the past year, concern about digital sovereignty has increased — in part because of tangible examples of how the US can cut people off from its services.
US cloud giants like Microsoft are selling “sovereignty” as a service, but US law still trumps their claims
disconnect.blog/escaping-the...
US cloud giants like Microsoft are selling “sovereignty” as a service, but US law still trumps their claims
disconnect.blog/escaping-the...
![Microsoft tried to distance itself from the controversy, but even its spokesperson admitted there had been a “disconnection of [the court’s] sanctioned official.” The company didn’t help its case when Microsoft France’s director of public and legal affairs told the French Senate under oath in June that it “cannot guarantee” it would be able to deny requests from the Trump administration for data stored on its servers within the European Union.
As European lawmakers grew increasingly concerned about a U.S. digital “kill switch” and the security of the cloud services supplied by major U.S. companies they’d come to rely on, one thing was clear: they were not nearly as sovereign as they previously believed, and their dependence on U.S. tech had to be addressed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/bafkreia3hz57cb6tpr5yg6cs2uzng6b5s5bc5xgvnfeh76crcryyho6v6y@jpeg)
January 16, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Over the past year, concern about digital sovereignty has increased — in part because of tangible examples of how the US can cut people off from its services.
US cloud giants like Microsoft are selling “sovereignty” as a service, but US law still trumps their claims
disconnect.blog/escaping-the...
US cloud giants like Microsoft are selling “sovereignty” as a service, but US law still trumps their claims
disconnect.blog/escaping-the...
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When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
Canada needs real digital sovereignty, not our own digital colonizers
disconnect.blog
January 16, 2026 at 5:38 PM
When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
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Dilbert Creator Dies https://theonion.com/dilbert-creator-dies/
January 16, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Dilbert Creator Dies https://theonion.com/dilbert-creator-dies/
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pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
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Israeli soldiers in Israeli-occupied Syria stole over 250 goats from a Syrian farmstead and took them to multiple illegal settlements in the Israeli occupied West Bank
Israeli troops smuggled herd of 250 goats from Syria to West Bank farms — report
IDF tells Israeli TV network that team commander was dismissed from service over incident and company commander reprimanded, while squad itself was suspended for significant period
www.timesofisrael.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Israeli soldiers in Israeli-occupied Syria stole over 250 goats from a Syrian farmstead and took them to multiple illegal settlements in the Israeli occupied West Bank
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The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
January 16, 2026 at 3:38 PM
The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
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It's really not clear to me what outcome Trump will gain from invoking the insurrection act in Minneapolis.
He can do it, I suppose. But then what? Military forces are certrainly not going to be as violent as ICE has been.
And, in the end, there is no insurrection to suppress.
He can do it, I suppose. But then what? Military forces are certrainly not going to be as violent as ICE has been.
And, in the end, there is no insurrection to suppress.
January 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
It's really not clear to me what outcome Trump will gain from invoking the insurrection act in Minneapolis.
He can do it, I suppose. But then what? Military forces are certrainly not going to be as violent as ICE has been.
And, in the end, there is no insurrection to suppress.
He can do it, I suppose. But then what? Military forces are certrainly not going to be as violent as ICE has been.
And, in the end, there is no insurrection to suppress.
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Right now there are American Samoans who moved to Alaska, cast votes in a local election, and may end up in jail bc they're not allowed to do that. alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/14/a...
Americans by name, prosecuted for voting in Alaska | Alaska Beacon
American Samoans are classified simply as “U.S. nationals” — a sort of limbo state that acknowledges they are American by birth, but denies them the full rights and privileges of citizenship.
alaskabeacon.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Right now there are American Samoans who moved to Alaska, cast votes in a local election, and may end up in jail bc they're not allowed to do that. alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/14/a...
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So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away.
Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
January 16, 2026 at 3:03 PM
So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away.
Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
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Surrounded by family in the band and in the audience, John Fogerty bookends solo material with the rock and roll staples of Creedence Clearwater Revival. n.pr/3LCBfL2
John Fogerty: Tiny Desk Concert
Surrounded by family in the band and in the audience, John Fogerty bookends solo material with the rock and roll staples of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
n.pr
January 16, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Surrounded by family in the band and in the audience, John Fogerty bookends solo material with the rock and roll staples of Creedence Clearwater Revival. n.pr/3LCBfL2
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As someone who has walked out of a job because my principles mattered to me more, I just can't empathize with the cowardice evinced by GOP lawmakers. The quality of your character is the most important thing there is, and to jetison so thoroughly is humiliating and deeply sad.
Why does Sen. Thom Tillis keep blaming Trump's Greenland obsession on bad staff advice?
Because Republicans in Congress know the obsession is Trump's, "but they decided long ago, even when he tried to overthrow our government, that they would never stand up to him."
My report in @thebulwark.com.
Because Republicans in Congress know the obsession is Trump's, "but they decided long ago, even when he tried to overthrow our government, that they would never stand up to him."
My report in @thebulwark.com.
Can Trump Be Duped Into Dropping His Greenland Obsession?
Thom Tillis, hoping to change the president’s mind, is blaming the Greenland idea on Trump staffers giving bad advice. Good luck with that.
www.thebulwark.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:34 PM
As someone who has walked out of a job because my principles mattered to me more, I just can't empathize with the cowardice evinced by GOP lawmakers. The quality of your character is the most important thing there is, and to jetison so thoroughly is humiliating and deeply sad.
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There’s nothing left wing socialist or progressive about violent policies towards Black and brown people seeking asylum and the Labour Party will find out what this means for you at the May elections
On Monday, the Home Secretary will outline the biggest set of changes to the asylum system in modern times.
These changes will restore order to our asylum system. There is nothing ‘left wing’, ‘socialist’ or ‘progressive’ about insecure borders.
These changes will restore order to our asylum system. There is nothing ‘left wing’, ‘socialist’ or ‘progressive’ about insecure borders.
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
There’s nothing left wing socialist or progressive about violent policies towards Black and brown people seeking asylum and the Labour Party will find out what this means for you at the May elections