Ann M. Lipton

"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference"

"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"

"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"

A win!

it's germane. it's also extremely weak sauce. hard to say if it has any useful effect, given the fast moving pace of things

a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies ALT: a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

not gonna include this, just gonna be thinking it

for those following my teaching query, i ended up making a brief statement that we all saw video, it's difficult to ignore, there are other classes more suited to unpacking it, but this class will - soon - address the role of business in the current moment.

this kind of stuff will be on point

i know this is about ai but i once again say it's teaching us a valuable lesson on the psychological effects of sycophancy

king shit

this is making the rounds again and my only comment is please ignore it.

Protective gear, fine. But this is a different country and a different context. Looking dangerous and anonymous is not helpful. Looking like a 70 year old using an assistive device to walk into tear gas is.

Efficient capital markets hypothesis

Germany’s Fed Foreign Office has issued updated travel advisory for US, citing risks linked to immigration enforcement and public-order situations.

The update follows recent incident in which reporters from RAI, Italy’s state broadcaster, reported being threatened by ICE while working.

Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

Service journalism in 2026:

I use Geo Group's stock price on the day Trump was elected to illustrate the ECMH. What a bookend for this year's lesson.

France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

Germany urged to repatriate £122bn in gold from Trump’s ‘risky’ America Germany has been urged to withdraw gold worth more than £100bn from American vaults because Donald Trump’s unpredictability has made keeping it there too “risky”.

German elites call for repatriating 1,236 tons of gold held in the US:

"Given the...geopolitical situation, it seems risky to store so much gold in the US"

"Trump is unpredictable"

"German Bundesbank [faces risk it] will no longer be able to access its gold"

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Democrats have put too much pressure on judges.

That's not fair. We also have gambling.

My contacts with my reps also invoked staffers and asked why they even wanted to go into politics if they won't stop a masked secret police.

Andrew here. I’m back from Davos, Switzerland, just in time for a storm that has blanketed much of the East Coast, and as the latest shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis raises serious concerns throughout the country. Occasionally in this space, I have raised questions about how the business community uses its voice. In recent years, that group has gone largely silent on issues deemed “too political.” But at some point, business leaders — not just those in Minneapolis — need to raise their hands. They don’t have to do it individually; they can do it collectively, as the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce has done. (More on that below.) Whatever your politics, we can all agree that federal agents shouldn’t be killing U.S. citizens except in the most dangerous circumstances. Even if you believe an officer acted in good faith or out of fear for his or her life, the frequency of these episodes suggests a systemic training failure.

The regime has lost Andrew Ross Sorkin

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/b...

Rabbi among dozens arrested in faith leaders’ anti-ICE protest in Minnesota “What did we learn from the Holocaust? We have to act and we have to resist,” one visiting rabbi said.

This, too, is Torah. forward.com/fast-forward...

God Save the King

How Trump’s Ally at the Fed Is Remaking Bank Oversight Michelle Bowman, the central bank’s vice chair for supervision, is slashing staff, changing rules and adding to the tension at the Fed in the process.

What Miki Bowman is doing to the bank supervision & regulation operation at the Fed: slashing staff, rolling back regulation, restraining supervisors. By @nicktimiraos.bsky.social & Dylan Tokar of @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

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it’s okay. I’ve been reliably informed that this dog can’t read

And, tonight, the network's flagship news program -- 60 Minutes -- ran a clip show of old celeb interviews to "celebrate the movies" rather than put together an episode focused on what's going on in Minnesota.

Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.

Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.

Well, here’s a link:

georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc

(GFM in next post)

www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

a man is hanging from a rope in the desert while wearing a hat . Alt: a man is hanging from a rope in the desert while wearing a hat .

fury road

it's not just minnesota.

a texas judge randomly told the NYT that an ERISA dispute was moving slowly because of the habeas induced backlog:

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/b...

Target in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job.

“I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.