Posts from me will be sporadic today because I’m traveling, which I fully expect means it will be a crazy news day

It’s a morning for the WH to hide the ketchup bottles:

Bad GDP numbers.

Not great inflation numbers.

Tariffs overturned by SCOTUS.

Neal Katyal: "In America, the chief justice said only Congress can impose taxes on the American people, and that's what tariffs are. Tariffs are taxes."

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Today at school dismissal, I followed a suspicious pickup around for a bit, keeping an eye on them, trying to figure out if they were ICE. Then I realized they were keeping an eye on me also. Then I realized they were, in fact, other parents. Life in Minnesota, January 2026.

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

The Peter Thiel connections to Epstein, Ehud Barak, Palantir and...of course....JD Vance should get more scrutiny.

Thiel created Vance and essentially hand delivered him to the White House.

Thiel is a white nationalist billionaire, part of the "Pay Pal" mafia. Buddy David Sacks is Trump's AI Czar

Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

Insane

Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show Epstein sent Reinaldo Avila da Silva payment in 2009

I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in

Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files

more to follow

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Feds Knew Who Alex Pretti Was—and Broke His Rib in Earlier Fight — The New Republic A chilling report raises new questions about why federal agents killed Alex Pretti.

You all may know this, but I'm just now reading that Alex Pretti had his rib broken by ICE agents one week before they shot him. They knew who he was. And must have known he was a licensed gun owner.

#alexpretti
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It's crucial to know these ICE officers knew Pretti. They broke his rib when they arrested him a week earlier. So they knew he carried a gun & had a concealed carry permit. They knew if they shot him he'd probably have a gun. And it appears they track folks—and hold grudges.
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“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

@playtwowords.bsky.social I love the way two words collide in your game ☁️🌧️⛈️

Closed Bonners stand in Covered Market.

As of Wednesday, and without warning, it seems Bonners, one of the last remaining fresh produce suppliers in Oxford's Covered Market has closed. This is very sad. Market needs diversity.

Bonners were absolute stars during Covid lockdown.

cc. @oxfordclarion.bsky.social

Great & Small - Organ and Fiddle Album Will Allen and Becci Pamely are making a full album of traditional English music for fiddle, viola, and pipe organ.

Check out Great & Small - Organ and Fiddle Album by Will Allen & Becci Pamely on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

it’s v easy, 1st half of the tune, all face into middle of the circle, bourée steps in and out, then B part of the tune, you do the spinning/crossing by yourself but slightly diagonally aligned to the right, progressing anti-clockwise around the circle. No caller/partners, very wholesome dance 💃 🕺

YouTube video by Joseph Tawadros Song for Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Suella Braverman and everyone else who wants to divide us 😎

Now that’s an English folk song I can get behind … love the musical references too!

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Almost there:
Trump is of today officially supporting fascists.

Why all Soviet jokes needed to be approved by the Department of Jokes In Soviet Russia, comedians needed to run every joke they planned on telling in a given year through the Ministry of Culture of the USSR.

Posting this for no particular reason today. Nope. No reason at all.
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Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”

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Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests

Corruption Inc

Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals.

Used publicly funded office to manage commercial deals.

Secret meetings with Palantir, handed NHS data.

Secret Dinners during COVID lockdown to secure refurbishment of his flat.

£200,000 from a hedge fund.

U.S. moves to scrap emissions reporting by polluters U.S. President Donald Trump has heavily promoted new oil, gas, and coal extraction while moving to suppress competition from solar and wind.

The United States moved on Friday to dismantle a "burdensome" federal program that tracks greenhouse gas emissions across the U.S. economy.

target CEO about to start wearing kente cloth

Every state that doesn't ascribe to fascism should pass a version of this bill. If I have to show my papers to the Gestapo, the Gestapo needs to show me their face and their badge number.

US judge blocks HUD from tying homeless grant funding to Trump policies A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday blocked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from requiring applicants for grants to build housing for the homeless to align themselves with U.S. President Donald Trump's positions on immigration enforcement, transgender people and other issues.

qualify, a loyalty screening for funds. A judge in Rhode Island ruled that this was not permissible and blocked the government from enforcing those conditions.

Like this🤔🤔🤔🤔✊✊✊✊✊

I often wondered what the world would look like if the most ignorant, dangerous & daft opinions of radio phone-in hosts/callers were permitted to prevail. I never expected to find out…

@playtwowords.bsky.social some pairs of words go well together