Corey Pein
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author, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
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writer, @thebaffler.com, @majorityreport.bsky.social's daily amquickie.com newsletter
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An interview with security expert Runa Sandvik on the FBI search of a WaPo reporter's home and seizure of devices, and how journalists should reassess security (Maddy Crowell/Columbia Journalism Review)
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January 15, 2026 at 10:11 PM
An interview with security expert Runa Sandvik on the FBI search of a WaPo reporter's home and seizure of devices, and how journalists should reassess security (Maddy Crowell/Columbia Journalism Review)
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Trump's response to questions about Iran was incoherent. Seems like Vance and Rubio are running things but honestly who knows? Could be Gen. Jack D. Ripper.
January 15, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Trump's response to questions about Iran was incoherent. Seems like Vance and Rubio are running things but honestly who knows? Could be Gen. Jack D. Ripper.
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while Trump cancels billions of dollars in renewables development, including large-scale projects on the cusp of completion
Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout | Discussion
Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout
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January 15, 2026 at 11:03 AM
while Trump cancels billions of dollars in renewables development, including large-scale projects on the cusp of completion
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Villagers shiver in China's north as government gas subsidies shrink reut.rs/3LeiLk8
Villagers shiver in China's north as government gas subsidies shrink
The combination of impoverished local governments, energy market reforms and a stalling economy weighing on farming income growth is forcing many in rural China to make hard choices.
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January 15, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Villagers shiver in China's north as government gas subsidies shrink reut.rs/3LeiLk8
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After a document leak from DHS outed him, Enrique Tarrio, head of the Proud Boys militia group, acknowledged that he was now an ICE officer. www.telemundo.com/noticias/not...
Enrique Tarrio, exlíder de los Proud Boys, dice que se ha convertido en agente de ICE
Tarrio, quien recibió un indulto de Trump por su participación en el asalto al Capitolio en 2021, fue detenido un mes después de su liberación por un cargo de agresión en Washington D.C.
www.telemundo.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:55 AM
After a document leak from DHS outed him, Enrique Tarrio, head of the Proud Boys militia group, acknowledged that he was now an ICE officer. www.telemundo.com/noticias/not...
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"During the evening, as some children ran down 146th Ave playing with sticks, a woman stepped out of her apartment and told them not to speak to each other in Spanish, and not to open the door if anyone came to their apartment."
This story has been updated throughout the day/eve (and will continue to be!). Follow for updates on the feds' shooting of of two Portlanders this afternoon -- and related protests and lawmakers response.
Mayor Keith Wilson calls on ICE ‘to halt all operations in Portland’ after federal law enforcement shooting
Two people were shot Thursday by federal officers in East Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The two people who were shot have been transported to local hospitals. Their condition was ...
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January 9, 2026 at 4:39 AM
"During the evening, as some children ran down 146th Ave playing with sticks, a woman stepped out of her apartment and told them not to speak to each other in Spanish, and not to open the door if anyone came to their apartment."
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By refusing to coordinate with local law enforcement, ICE is not making our community safe. It is making it less safe.
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‘She was an amazing human being’: Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in Minneapolis with her partner just blocks from where she was shot.
www.startribune.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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How else to explain the medbed video? Rule by ai is already here.
i firmly believe — like you would have to give me hard evidence to convince me otherwise — that they feed trump a steady diet of AI slop
man, did the viziers in the WH not actually show him the actual video?
January 8, 2026 at 4:29 PM
How else to explain the medbed video? Rule by ai is already here.
My headline, by contrast: ICE Executes a Witness
Hell of a thing to publish the same morning multiple major outlets are running forensic analyses showing it's not ambiguous at all
Ugh. This is from Brian Stelter's newsletter.
One side says this an unjustified shooting, based on video footage. The other is calling the victim a domestic terrorist who intentionally ran over an ICE officer, based on zero evidence.
This is "nuanced" in the way the flat-earth debate is nuanced.
One side says this an unjustified shooting, based on video footage. The other is calling the victim a domestic terrorist who intentionally ran over an ICE officer, based on zero evidence.
This is "nuanced" in the way the flat-earth debate is nuanced.
January 8, 2026 at 3:55 PM
My headline, by contrast: ICE Executes a Witness
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Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul, partnering with Mayor Zohran Mamdani, will unveil a plan to expand free or affordable child care for New Yorkers across the state.
Hochul and Mamdani to Announce Road Map to Expand Child Care
Governor Kathy Hochul will appear with Mayor Zohran Mamdani to lay out a plan to expand free and subsidized child care in New York, which had been a central focus of his campaign.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul, partnering with Mayor Zohran Mamdani, will unveil a plan to expand free or affordable child care for New Yorkers across the state.
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Greenland should hold talks with the US without Denmark, opposition leader says reut.rs/4jvc3mh
Greenland should hold talks with the US without Denmark, opposition leader says
Greenland should hold direct talks with the U.S. government without Denmark, a Greenlandic opposition leader told Reuters, as the Arctic island weighs how to respond to President Donald Trump's renewed push to bring it under U.S. control.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Thousands of Minnesotans gathered last night to honor Renee Nicole Good. We will never accept that a single federal agent can be judge, jury, and executioner in our streets. ICE needs to get out of Minneapolis.
January 8, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Thousands of Minnesotans gathered last night to honor Renee Nicole Good. We will never accept that a single federal agent can be judge, jury, and executioner in our streets. ICE needs to get out of Minneapolis.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette owners couldn’t bust the union, so they shut down the paper
#labor
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#labor
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Post-Gazette Closure: SCOTUS Decision Ends 240-Year Legacy
The PG shuts down its 240-year-old paper after losing court battles over workers' rights. Discover the details behind this historic closure.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette owners couldn’t bust the union, so they shut down the paper
#labor
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#labor
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Minneapolis residents gather to mourn Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by a U.S. immigration agent during an immigration enforcement surge, according to local and federal officials.
January 8, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Minneapolis residents gather to mourn Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by a U.S. immigration agent during an immigration enforcement surge, according to local and federal officials.
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Vending machines didn't have this problem when I was a boy
January 8, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Vending machines didn't have this problem when I was a boy
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Weighing evidence is fine but it’s wild how US media never starts from the presumption that cops should never shoot citizens dead
Three videos taken of the scene and reviewed by CNN, however, show nuance. What took place prior to the shooting remains unclear. | Analysis
DHS says woman attempted to run over ICE officers before being shot in Minneapolis. Here’s what the videos show. | CNN
Three videos taken of the scene and reviewed by CNN show nuance. What took place prior to the shooting remains unclear.
www.cnn.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Weighing evidence is fine but it’s wild how US media never starts from the presumption that cops should never shoot citizens dead
A lot of ritual self-abuse by Americans in response to this drivel, which completely erases the real international solidarity that has solved past authoritarian crises -- including, memorably, in Europe.
January 7, 2026 at 5:04 AM
A lot of ritual self-abuse by Americans in response to this drivel, which completely erases the real international solidarity that has solved past authoritarian crises -- including, memorably, in Europe.
Standard issue ghoul but in shorts
Fetterman on Fox & Friends on Trump's Venezuela coup: "I don't know why we can't just acknowledge that it's been a good thing what happened ... I think we should really appreciate exactly what happened here."
January 5, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Standard issue ghoul but in shorts
"The White House is weighing giving Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy White House chief of staff and homeland security adviser, a more elevated role in overseeing post-Maduro operations in Venezuela, according to one person with knowledge of the conversations..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. plan to ‘run’ Venezuela clouded in confusion
In Washington and Caracas, the vision for administering Venezuela in the weeks and months ahead appears uncertain and stubbornly complex.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:02 AM
"The White House is weighing giving Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy White House chief of staff and homeland security adviser, a more elevated role in overseeing post-Maduro operations in Venezuela, according to one person with knowledge of the conversations..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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The U.S. intervened to oust governments in Latin America a total of at least 41 times — about once every 28 months from 1898 to 1994 — including 17 cases of direct intervention by the U.S. armed forces, intelligence agencies, or locals employed by U.S. government agencies.
A 2023 analysis of the effects of CIA-sponsored regime change in five Latin American countries found the interventions caused “large declines in democracy scores, rule of law, freedom of speech, and civil liberties.” interc.pt/4sinphB
January 2, 2026 at 6:46 PM
The U.S. intervened to oust governments in Latin America a total of at least 41 times — about once every 28 months from 1898 to 1994 — including 17 cases of direct intervention by the U.S. armed forces, intelligence agencies, or locals employed by U.S. government agencies.
Elliot Abrams has gone WOKE
January 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Elliot Abrams has gone WOKE
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Top 5 Mistakes Bush made in Iraq that Trump is making in Venezuela
Top 5 Mistakes Bush made in Iraq that Trump is making in Venezuela
The Bush administration attacked Iraq in 2003 without any foundation in international law.
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January 4, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Top 5 Mistakes Bush made in Iraq that Trump is making in Venezuela
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Harold Meyerson writes that Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration speech was a “resounding rejection of the neoliberalism that characterized the politics of both parties for most of the past half-century,” as well as a fitting homage to NYC.
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Enter, Stage Left, Mayor Mamdani - The American Prospect
Rather than tell his fellow New Yorkers to lower their expectations of what government could do, the city’s new mayor vowed that “the only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.”
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January 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Harold Meyerson writes that Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration speech was a “resounding rejection of the neoliberalism that characterized the politics of both parties for most of the past half-century,” as well as a fitting homage to NYC.
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It must be alarming to every head of state to learn that possessing machine guns in their own countries is reportedly now one of the grounds for the US to invade kidnap and imprison them.
January 3, 2026 at 3:22 PM
It must be alarming to every head of state to learn that possessing machine guns in their own countries is reportedly now one of the grounds for the US to invade kidnap and imprison them.