Jess Gitner

Every child in this fucking country deserves to see themself in the books they read.

Podcast delights of today:

1. The @annkpowers.bsky.social shoutout by Amy Poehler and Sarah McLachlan on this week’s Good Hang (cool women talking about cool women!)

2. The Lambrusco shoutout on today’s Who Weekly (don’t sleep on this chilled red sparkling wine)

I love both! 🎵 ✏️ 🍷

The basic questions repeat over and over in history.

😪 so sad.

I just generally think the antidote to dooming and feelings of helplessness is getting involved in any way. It can be as a poll worker, doing ICE watch, running for local office, helping with mutual aid, whatever.

You can get so much accomplished in your town or city if you just get involved.

Inspired throughout this Grammy Awards and then the end of Pharrell’s speech happened.

Why does it look so empty st the Australian Open Pegula vs Anisimova quarterfinal?

I had rewatch the clip several times to understand wtf they’re talking about, and it was dumber than I could’ve imagined.

Like I said, I agree it should be on the website.

Agree it should be on city website, but they did post it here as well: www.facebook.com/share/p/1bZ8....

Whew.

I need Amanda Anisimova to put a pin in this ASAP, so I can go to sleep happy and without anxiety 😅🙏.

This might be a hot take - coming from me, the woman who thinks the Wimbledon noise rules and curfew are lame - but maybe don’t schedule a patriotic air show to fly over a major sports stadium during an international sports event? 🎾

Fascinating. Big, if true.

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This is appalling. I can say with certainty that Steve Jobs would be ashamed of Tim Cook at this terrible moment, one of many these days, and he has sullied the last year of his tenure and the Apple brand by his craven need to please shareholders over holding onto some basic values of decency.

reddit Today's top content from hundreds of thousands of Reddit communities.

looking at reddit.com/r/all right now is wild. 80% of the posts are anti ice from every kind of subreddit like NBA, climbing, nursing, batman, catbongos and music

There were six or seven agents, trying to harm a man who looks unarmed and still they murdered him in broad daylight. These ICE agents are venal, incompetent, cowardly and this type of execution will keep on happening because they are an unchecked paramilitary force of scared men who crave power.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:

"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

Tennis player that looks like he peed his pants based on sweat stains on brown shorts

Unfortunate shorts and sweat stains for Opelka 🙊.

Such a fun weekend for sports with the Australian Open 🎾, PPA Masters 🥒, and Unrivaled 🏀! Apparently there was a big football game too, but I don’t watch that 😛.

Makes barely leaving the house on this miserable, freezing weekend a little better.

St. Paul woman, a U.S. citizen, recounts her two days in detention Nasra Ahmed, 23, said she was taken to the hospital for an MRI with hands and legs shackled

Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...

It’s getting flagged since it’s copyrighted material, so I can’t upload it anywhere public. Happy to email it, but it is truly just 1:45 of Kpop Demon Hunters songs gracefully smashed together (just to set expectations).

Trump Is Making China Great Again America’s friends and trading partners are running into the arms of our adversaries. What a mess.

Against the odds, Trump has succeeded in peacefully uniting the world. Unfortunately, he's uniting it against us.
This Pax (Ex) Americana era was illustrated Friday, as Canadian PM Mark Carney wrapped up a trip to China--the first by a Canadian PM in 8+ years. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-maki...

Once a year I make a mashup for my friend’s daughter’s talent show and am reminded how much I still love audio editing. Still got it! 🥲

These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country

Stars and Stripes job applicants are asked if they back Trump policies People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.

People seeking jobs at military newspaper Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.
Reporting from @liamjscott.bsky.social
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Large numbers of people called it before Trump even won the nomination: if elected, he would attempt to rule as a dictator. The prediction was based on who he WAS. Concerned people were called hysterical and derailed into pedantic "debates" about whether he was "really" a fascist or something else.

Nikki Glaser calls out CBS News at the Golden Globes while it’s being broadcast on CBS.

“And the award for Most Editing goes to CBS News. Yes, CBS News, America’s newest place to see B.S. News.”

Two people close to the White House said the president's lack of interest in boosting Machado, despite her recent efforts to flatter Trump, stemmed from her decision to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, an award the president has epenly coveted Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an "ultimate sin," said one of the people. "If she had turned it down and said, 'I can't accept it because it's Donald Trump's,' she'd be the president of Venezuela today," this person said.

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Not 40 yet, but this hits.