Douglas Gillison

Fred Smith, Television bassist, dead at 77 Fred also p

Fred Smith, bass player in legendary band Television, has died.

Sender appears to be Gwendolyn Beck, whose congressional campaign got $$ from JE

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

> @reuters.com highlights some of its pictures from January 2026.

Clare Caulfield

More than 200 killed in coltan mine collapse in east Congo, official says More than 200 people were killed this week in a collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Lumumba Kambere Muyisa, spokesperson for the rebel-appointed governor of the province where the mine is located, told Reuters on Friday.

More than 200 killed in coltan mine collapse in east Congo, official says reut.rs/4rn3SuY

Everyone knows that if you nominate someone to replace a Fed Chair you don’t like, then all subpoenas are immediately quashed and any concerns about fraudulent cost overruns on building renovations are forever absolved.

Look dude. I don’t make the rules.

Yeah, I know… a lucky couple of years that also didn’t include a once-in-a-generation freeze… but no excuses: Eorum maxima culpa…

Okay okay but… like… in the last seven years we did see the lowest and second-lowest annual totals ever, tho…

Top US immigration judge says bond hearings should be denied despite court rulings, documents show The top U.S. immigration judge has told her colleagues that they are not bound by a federal court ruling that declared the Trump administration cannot place thousands of people in mandatory detention ...

New: The nation's chief immigration judge told her colleagues this week that they are not bound by a federal court ruling that declared the Trump administration cannot place thousands of people in mandatory detention without an opportunity to be released on bond. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

In an interview yesterday with Reuters, President Trump boasted that he has accomplished so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.”

www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

Around 9 p.m., federal agents shot rubber bullets and released gas canisters in north Minneapolis as protesters gathered after a federal agent shot a man in the leg.

📸: Susan Du

Yeah, the online hate of the NYT seems to have calmed for a sec

That said, it seems that 25 years after 9/11 TV news has forgotten the lesson it learned about not showing catastrophe footage on a loop AGAIN and AGAIN to already traumatized viewers...

Can the ICE agent who shot a Minneapolis woman be prosecuted? Local officials rejected the Trump administration's explanation that the shooting was self-defense.

Reuters: Online videos of the shooting verified by Reuters cast doubt on the federal government's narrative - www.reuters.com/world/us/can...

By the time Sy Hersh got the Abu Ghraib photos, there was already an investigation underway and some print coverage.

It didn’t become a scandal until people could see it. Sometimes we have a duty not to look away.

ICE killing also leaves an orphan.

This one seems to have passed unnoticed. Senate Banking Committee last Saturday quietly rejected Trump's nominee to run the CFPB... so Trump's budget director Russ Vought now has until Aug 1 and then will have to end his acting CFPB directorship...

A fervent wish:

…that one day I get invited to dinner at Georges Collinet’s house

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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"Athens Means Antifascist City"
Graff in Athens, Greece by Panathinaikos football fans.

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.

Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it

Literally the same thing the neo-nazis say about Jews. Saying the below is not an argument; it's just a self-identification as a bigot

No, Anthony Weiner is not allowed to gloat

And, if you are a non-US citizen who did this work, you and your entire family will be banned from the United States. (I know this is incredible, but read the order—that’s what it says!)

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Watch The Lady and the Dale | HBO Max Watch The Lady and the Dale on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. From Mark and Jay Duplass comes this documentary series that explores an audacious 1970s auto scam centered around a mysterious ent...

He was interviewed extensively for that doc

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