Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft EO that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Gloucester Harbor - 1926
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104451
Gov. Pritzker sent an invoice to the White House demanding a tariff refund of $8.6 billion for all of Illinois's 5.1 million households -- roughly $1,700 each.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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In today's newsletter, about a week after Trump repeatedly said "Iceland" when he meant "Greenland" in his Davos speech, the Iceland amb. to the US hired a big K street firm to "provide strategic advice on navigating engagements with the United States government." www.thebulwark.com/p/so-you-lie...
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A year into the Trump economy, Americans are still laser focused on prices.
“A new set of tires now is $500 or $600. Who the hell has $500 to $600?”
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
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Jimmy Lai, an outspoken 78-year-old critic of China’s Communist Party, sentenced to 20 years in prison.
China made Lai one of the main targets of its crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong after widespread pro-democracy protests in 2019
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
Volkswagen factory workers in Tenn. would receive raises totaling about 20% over four years under a tentative deal between the automaker & the UAW union.
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
“.. In a blistering opinion, Judge Fred Biery .. condemned ‘the perfidious lust for unbridled power’ and ‘the imposition of cruelty.’”
@nytimes.com #Ramos
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Highlight of my career, probably
31.01.2026 01:10 — 👍 437 🔁 55 💬 8 📌 3Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
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Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”
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Canada isn’t alone in taking steps to mend ties w China. British PM Keir Starmer will travel to Beijing this week to meet with Xi — the first visit by a U.K. PM in 8 ys. South Korea's president said recently he wants “full-scale restoration” of ties w China
www.wsj.com/world/us-tra...
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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In Maine, Sheriff Kevin Joyce was among local officials who met with border czar Tom Homan a year ago to hear the administration’s immigration-enforcement plan.
But on Thurs, Joyce issued blistering criticism of federal agents, accusing ICE of “bush-league policing"
www.wsj.com/us-news/poli...
Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents
See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation Saturday
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
15.01.2026 19:22 — 👍 18020 🔁 7516 💬 917 📌 823seriously! i was just frantically googling looking for obits
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Everything has gone uphill for the Bears since this moment.
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You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Dreiser
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Karl Fredrik Nordström, Clear Evening in Late Winter (Winter Night), oil on canvas, 1907
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Earlier this year, the United States deported 252 Venezuelans to El Salvador and paid its government to imprison them. Now two human-rights organizations have found that all of those men were physically abused, Conor Friedersdorf writes:
24.11.2025 19:15 — 👍 146 🔁 67 💬 9 📌 5A snowy owl preening. November 22, 2025, Chicago.
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We used to call the debut LP "Cars greatest hits." Somehow the 2nd LP, "Candy O," topped it, at least in my world. Can a band that sold 43 million albums still be underappreciated? Buffalo Tom's Bill Janovitz, the band's biographer, makes the case on @soundopinions.bsky.social: shorturl.at/hvsrQ
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On Chicago’s South Side, students are bypassing traditional tips on job hunting in favor of lessons on getting rich.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
