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Pointed out just some of the many hypocrisies (not to mention stupidities) of the US gov't threatening the UK for opening an investigation into Grok generating NCII.
State Department Threatens UK Over Grok Investigation, Because Only The US Is Allowed To Ban Foreign Apps
So let me get this straight. The United States government spent years championing a ban on TikTok, rushed it through the Supreme Court with claims of grave national security threats, got a 9-0…
So let me get this straight. The United States government spent years championing a ban on TikTok, rushed it through the Supreme Court with claims of grave national security threats, got a 9-0…
State Department Threatens UK Over Grok Investigation, Because Only The US Is Allowed To Ban Foreign Apps
So let me get this straight. The United States government spent years championing a ban on TikTok, rushed it through the Supreme Court with claims of grave national security threats, got a 9-0 ruling blessing government censorship of an entire platform used by 170 million Americans… and now it’s the US State Department thinking that it’s all cool to…
www.techdirt.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Pointed out just some of the many hypocrisies (not to mention stupidities) of the US gov't threatening the UK for opening an investigation into Grok generating NCII.
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it's like someone got a prize for going to the moon and he thinks he can say he went to the moon too if he gets his hands on it.
January 15, 2026 at 10:05 PM
it's like someone got a prize for going to the moon and he thinks he can say he went to the moon too if he gets his hands on it.
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Penn has refused to comply with an EEOC subpoena seeking a list of Jewish students and faculty at Penn. The EEOC is now suing the university over its refusal to cooperate.
Jewish students and faculty at Penn ask that their names not be turned over in federal antisemitism investigation
www.inquirer.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Penn has refused to comply with an EEOC subpoena seeking a list of Jewish students and faculty at Penn. The EEOC is now suing the university over its refusal to cooperate.
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NOW: In an emergency phone hearing, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Yonan is asking U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow for clarity on this.
"Nearly every piece of evidence in this case touches, in some fashion, on the Latin Kings."
"Nearly every piece of evidence in this case touches, in some fashion, on the Latin Kings."
Federal judge bars gang evidence from Bovino murder-for-hire trial
DEVELOPING via @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
DEVELOPING via @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Federal judge bars gang evidence from Bovino murder-for-hire trial
Juan Espinoza Martinez was once accused by prosecutors of being a ranking member of the Latin Kings. But without evidence to prove it, the judge won't let the feds even offer evidence of his "affinity...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:51 PM
NOW: In an emergency phone hearing, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Yonan is asking U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow for clarity on this.
"Nearly every piece of evidence in this case touches, in some fashion, on the Latin Kings."
"Nearly every piece of evidence in this case touches, in some fashion, on the Latin Kings."
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Roblox is a conduit for radicalization: the teen-led white supremacist group “Blueshirts” recruits children, mimics neo-Nazi Patriot Front marches, and coordinates on Discord to spread propaganda and harass players.
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Online Neo-Nazi Group Using Children’s Video Games For Recruiting And Propaganda
A disturbing trend is emerging on Roblox, a platform with tens of millions of young users: online white supremacist groups are using children’s video games to recruit and spread propaganda. The “Blues...
globalextremism.org
January 15, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Roblox is a conduit for radicalization: the teen-led white supremacist group “Blueshirts” recruits children, mimics neo-Nazi Patriot Front marches, and coordinates on Discord to spread propaganda and harass players.
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Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Venezuela's Machado says she presented Trump her Nobel Peace Prize to recognize his commitment to her country.
January 15, 2026 at 10:03 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Venezuela's Machado says she presented Trump her Nobel Peace Prize to recognize his commitment to her country.
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“The Venezuelan-voting-machine conspiracy theory has returned as the Trump administration is using the government to investigate a valid election whose outcome the president didn’t like.”
MAGA Thinks Maduro Will Prove Trump Won in 2020
The capture of the Venezuelan leader has revived a debunked conspiracy theory.
www.theatlantic.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:04 PM
“The Venezuelan-voting-machine conspiracy theory has returned as the Trump administration is using the government to investigate a valid election whose outcome the president didn’t like.”
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“We have been doing training around how to be an observer, how to go on patrol, ...most risky times for students to be dropped off.. how can we do mutual aid for families who can’t pick up their kids. ..staff members were...ready to ID ICE and physically get in between them and their students.”
Your read of the day. So much out there about how ICE is marauding its way through Minneapolis but very little about grass roots resistance. Here I speak to a teacher on the front lines and he breaks down the *numbers* of people involved in resisting ICE. Chills.
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
A Minneapolis Teacher Wants the Whole Country in the Streets Confronting ICE
Dan Troccoli, a public middle-school teacher, says everyone should start “emulating” Minneapolis’s resistance to the Trump regime.
www.thenation.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:47 PM
“We have been doing training around how to be an observer, how to go on patrol, ...most risky times for students to be dropped off.. how can we do mutual aid for families who can’t pick up their kids. ..staff members were...ready to ID ICE and physically get in between them and their students.”
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Yesterday, Coinbase withdrew its support for the crypto market structure bill. Hours later, the Senate Banking Committee canceled the markup hearing. They’re not even trying to pretend anymore that this bill isn’t written by the industry, for the industry.
January 15, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Yesterday, Coinbase withdrew its support for the crypto market structure bill. Hours later, the Senate Banking Committee canceled the markup hearing. They’re not even trying to pretend anymore that this bill isn’t written by the industry, for the industry.
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The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
January 15, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
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*gestures wildly* See? SEE??
Trump’s Golden Dome excuse for Greenland grab is ‘detached from reality,’ experts say www.defenseone.com/threats/2026...
Trump’s Golden Dome excuse for Greenland grab is ‘detached from reality,’ experts say www.defenseone.com/threats/2026...
Trump’s Golden Dome excuse for Greenland grab is ‘detached from reality,’ experts say
Longstanding diplomatic agreements and an existing U.S. base already enable military expansion.
www.defenseone.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:17 PM
*gestures wildly* See? SEE??
Trump’s Golden Dome excuse for Greenland grab is ‘detached from reality,’ experts say www.defenseone.com/threats/2026...
Trump’s Golden Dome excuse for Greenland grab is ‘detached from reality,’ experts say www.defenseone.com/threats/2026...
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The Trump administration apologized in court for a “mistake” in the deportation of a Massachusetts college student who was detained trying to fly home to surprise her family for Thanksgiving, but still argued the error should not affect her case. https://cnn.it/4jF2scC
January 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
The Trump administration apologized in court for a “mistake” in the deportation of a Massachusetts college student who was detained trying to fly home to surprise her family for Thanksgiving, but still argued the error should not affect her case. https://cnn.it/4jF2scC
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ICE agents left a Mexican restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota, after patrons yelled at them to get out.
President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota to quell protests over a recent federal immigration enforcement surge. https://wapo.st/4by8f1A
President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota to quell protests over a recent federal immigration enforcement surge. https://wapo.st/4by8f1A
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
ICE agents left a Mexican restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota, after patrons yelled at them to get out.
President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota to quell protests over a recent federal immigration enforcement surge. https://wapo.st/4by8f1A
President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota to quell protests over a recent federal immigration enforcement surge. https://wapo.st/4by8f1A
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Q: Why does Trump keep talking about canceling the election?
LEAVITT: He's speaking facetiously
LEAVITT: He's speaking facetiously
January 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Q: Why does Trump keep talking about canceling the election?
LEAVITT: He's speaking facetiously
LEAVITT: He's speaking facetiously
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good. more of this.
.@PabloReports: Stephen Miller seems to be operating sort of as a shadow president at this point. Is there any legal liability he could face at the end of this presidency?
Ryan: There’s going to be legal—and I think criminal—liability for multiple members.. certainly Stephen Miller.
Ryan: There’s going to be legal—and I think criminal—liability for multiple members.. certainly Stephen Miller.
January 15, 2026 at 5:27 PM
good. more of this.
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Crazy: Evangelical leaders are reacting to ICE violence by calling for people to pray...not for the victims, but for ICE and Kristi Noem! Evangelical Mike Johnson is also blaming the victim in vile ways.
On the pod @sarahposner.bsky.social is brilliant on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
On the pod @sarahposner.bsky.social is brilliant on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
Mike Johnson Goes Off Rails in Vile Gaslighting Display on Trump, ICE
As the House speaker offers disgusting comments about ICE and Renee Good, a scholar of the religious right explains how it is that evangelicals like him see no evil whatsoever in ICE’s violent attacks...
newrepublic.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Crazy: Evangelical leaders are reacting to ICE violence by calling for people to pray...not for the victims, but for ICE and Kristi Noem! Evangelical Mike Johnson is also blaming the victim in vile ways.
On the pod @sarahposner.bsky.social is brilliant on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
On the pod @sarahposner.bsky.social is brilliant on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
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Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
January 15, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day
January 15, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day
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And there it is.
January 15, 2026 at 3:41 PM
And there it is.
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Despite a pledge to reject compensation from cryptocurrency firms for four years after his OECD tenure, former Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), will head up a Crypto.com-Coinbase-funded lobby for prediction markets. From Henry Burke:
trib.al/T8aPGW1
trib.al/T8aPGW1
Sean Patrick Maloney’s Vanishing Ethics Pledge - The American Prospect
The former member of Congress and DCCC chair is now head of the Coalition for Prediction Markets, funded by the crypto firms he promised not to work for.
trib.al
January 15, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Despite a pledge to reject compensation from cryptocurrency firms for four years after his OECD tenure, former Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), will head up a Crypto.com-Coinbase-funded lobby for prediction markets. From Henry Burke:
trib.al/T8aPGW1
trib.al/T8aPGW1
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"Dangerous dependence":
Trump managed to turn full-scale de-risking from the US into the major topic of early 2026 in the German debate.
Trump managed to turn full-scale de-risking from the US into the major topic of early 2026 in the German debate.
January 15, 2026 at 4:46 PM
"Dangerous dependence":
Trump managed to turn full-scale de-risking from the US into the major topic of early 2026 in the German debate.
Trump managed to turn full-scale de-risking from the US into the major topic of early 2026 in the German debate.
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VARNEY: Are you okay with Trump invoking the Insurrection Act?
JIM JORDAN: This is the president making sure that people are safe
JIM JORDAN: This is the president making sure that people are safe
January 15, 2026 at 4:26 PM
VARNEY: Are you okay with Trump invoking the Insurrection Act?
JIM JORDAN: This is the president making sure that people are safe
JIM JORDAN: This is the president making sure that people are safe
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Rep. Jim Jordan: "The people in Minnesota are trying to distract from the 15 year fraud scams that were going on. That's exactly what's going on."
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Rep. Jim Jordan: "The people in Minnesota are trying to distract from the 15 year fraud scams that were going on. That's exactly what's going on."
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I made this argument last year that the preponderance of former SF/SF adjacent people in national security positions in the administration was going to lead to SF solutions to non-SF problems and low and behold
The U.S. is escalating pressure on Mexico to permit the U.S. military to target fentanyl labs, according to American officials.
The U.S. Is Pressing Mexico to Allow U.S. Forces to Fight Cartels
The United States is escalating pressure on the Mexican government to permit the U.S. military to target fentanyl labs, according to American officials.
nyti.ms
January 15, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I made this argument last year that the preponderance of former SF/SF adjacent people in national security positions in the administration was going to lead to SF solutions to non-SF problems and low and behold