Jennifer (Jenn) Weaver

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Incredible.

Plus the zoom-in on James Brown. Love.

UNC retired coach Roy Williams with a huge smile after beating Dook 71-68

God is a Tar Heel, y’all. 🩵

After a generation of one side relentlessly using all of its power to shape the ideological composition of the federal courts, and the other side straining to show everyone how noble they are—fair and measured and eager to bind themselves by the norms of the past—you get this.

One of the funniest, most specific jokes Kenan ever made was “Charlotte: the Gateway to Gastonia!” Kills me every time I think about it.

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

This should be a bigger story.

A Reagan-appointed judge just ruled Trump’s Energy Secretary illegally ran a secret panel of climate deniers to cook up a biased report and sabotage clean air rules.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots:

1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI

www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...

Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson & Demeanor briefly performed on the #GRAMMYs red carpet.

Computer, rewind to a few minutes ago when I didn’t know Catherine O’Hara died and pause forever. 😭

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

They don't care what you believe. They are about imposing dominance and control over everything including you.

The regime will lie. That's what fascist regimes do.

It will continue to murder people in different ways. That's also what fascist regimes do.

Regular people will continue to refuse and to not cooperate and to fight back in all of the ways we can.

A farm worker holding up a sign saying: solidarity with Minnesota

Farm workers in solidarity with Minnesota!

¡Campesinos en solidaridad con Minnesota!

#IceOut

"I am Puerto Rican," she says. "I send my kids with their passports to school. I'm having conversations with them about safety: Am I safe at school? A week ago we had an incident where there was a school bus with the STOP sign open and kids were getting on the bus and it was surrounded by ICE agents. And this is 7:20 in the morning and - just - you get that fight-or-flight response." At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it's in her back pocket. "I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped," she says. "I said, Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away."

Our kids

nymag.com/intelligence...

state-sponsored child trafficking

🧵ICE's tactics for arresting and holding observers and protestors is ever-shifting, and I'm hearing lots of different stories. Right now, my perspective is that these are your best practices:

Apologies to the rest of America we know things are falling apart but the South may (or may not!) get a crippling wintry mix in several days and that is all we can think about or discuss.

Column: When this is over, we will need another Nuremberg "Regardless, we need to establish a few fundamental values: no grace for fascism, no tolerance for state terror and no illusions that compromise will beget accountability."

The Daily Tarheel 🔥

www.dailytarheel.com/article/5671...

Great article on single stair buildings and my Toronto sixplex.

With multiplexes now as-of-right, single stair solutions offer huge potential for simple, high quality, livable, replicable buildings within neighbourhoods.

I hope many others will be encouraged to pursue this potential.

According to Forbes, since the start of his presidency, Trump's net worth has more than doubled—from $2.3B in 2024 to $6.7B by the end of 2025.

Meanwhile, many of the folks who voted for him are in a worse financial predicament than ever.

Tap 👇
www.thelivingsouth.com/trump-is-get...

gets to the heart of the matter

This

Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...

Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested.
It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here

The everyday courage of normal people is breathtaking