Rupert Stubbs
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An advance look at the cover for next week’s issue: “Targeted,” by Till Lauer.
January 28, 2026 at 11:10 PM
An advance look at the cover for next week’s issue: “Targeted,” by Till Lauer.
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“Abolish” or “defund” aren't within grasp in 2026. But where are:
- End qualified immunity
- Rewrite use-of-force so this crap isn't ruled “within policy”
- Overturn July 8 mandatory detention memo
- Reinstate TPS
- Open up detention centers, enforce humane conditions
He doesn’t even *ask* for it.
- End qualified immunity
- Rewrite use-of-force so this crap isn't ruled “within policy”
- Overturn July 8 mandatory detention memo
- Reinstate TPS
- Open up detention centers, enforce humane conditions
He doesn’t even *ask* for it.
Chuck Schumer just announced demands on DHS to avoid shutdown:
1. End roving patrols, tighten rules on warrants
2. Enforce accountability & unified code of conduct for agents
3. No more masks & require bodycams
There are *already* standards on much of this.
The issue is DHS isn't following them!
1. End roving patrols, tighten rules on warrants
2. Enforce accountability & unified code of conduct for agents
3. No more masks & require bodycams
There are *already* standards on much of this.
The issue is DHS isn't following them!
January 28, 2026 at 10:09 PM
“Abolish” or “defund” aren't within grasp in 2026. But where are:
- End qualified immunity
- Rewrite use-of-force so this crap isn't ruled “within policy”
- Overturn July 8 mandatory detention memo
- Reinstate TPS
- Open up detention centers, enforce humane conditions
He doesn’t even *ask* for it.
- End qualified immunity
- Rewrite use-of-force so this crap isn't ruled “within policy”
- Overturn July 8 mandatory detention memo
- Reinstate TPS
- Open up detention centers, enforce humane conditions
He doesn’t even *ask* for it.
All those poor young sods thinking studying coding would make them valuable, instead of learning plumbing…
Canaries in the coal mine. Worth paying attention to.
(And yes, they are both obviously interested in seeing their own products used, but hearing enough from other, independent coders that make me believe them. I wrote more about the shift here: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/management...)
(And yes, they are both obviously interested in seeing their own products used, but hearing enough from other, independent coders that make me believe them. I wrote more about the shift here: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/management...)
January 28, 2026 at 10:34 PM
All those poor young sods thinking studying coding would make them valuable, instead of learning plumbing…
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This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.
Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.
That’s what we have to change.
That’s what we have to change.
January 28, 2026 at 7:59 PM
This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
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He’s shaken because 5 women asked for his credentials…imagine ICE asking you for your papers…
January 28, 2026 at 2:35 PM
He’s shaken because 5 women asked for his credentials…imagine ICE asking you for your papers…
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Artist De Strandharker, a Dutch creator known for large-scale beach rake drawings, give remarkable tribute to the victims of Trump's ICE (Renée Good and Alex Pretti) 🫶
January 28, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Artist De Strandharker, a Dutch creator known for large-scale beach rake drawings, give remarkable tribute to the victims of Trump's ICE (Renée Good and Alex Pretti) 🫶
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there is some serious self dealing!
TESLA TO INVEST $2B TO BUY SERIES E PFD SHARES OF XAI
holy crap
y'all knew it was coming!
TESLA TO INVEST $2B TO BUY SERIES E PFD SHARES OF XAI
holy crap
y'all knew it was coming!
January 28, 2026 at 9:11 PM
there is some serious self dealing!
TESLA TO INVEST $2B TO BUY SERIES E PFD SHARES OF XAI
holy crap
y'all knew it was coming!
TESLA TO INVEST $2B TO BUY SERIES E PFD SHARES OF XAI
holy crap
y'all knew it was coming!
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There are lots of things that should be written into law, but it’s a completely pointless exercise so long as they are free to break the law and there are no real enforcement mechanisms and no consequences. These are rogue lawless people and removing them is necessary for anything else to matter.
January 28, 2026 at 9:12 PM
There are lots of things that should be written into law, but it’s a completely pointless exercise so long as they are free to break the law and there are no real enforcement mechanisms and no consequences. These are rogue lawless people and removing them is necessary for anything else to matter.
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“Danes responded by placing hundreds more flags in front of the American Embassy, according to video shared by TV2.”
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/e...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/e...
US Embassy in Copenhagen removes flags honoring fallen Danish soldiers, angering veterans | CNN
The US Embassy in Copenhagen has angered Danish veterans by removing flags honoring soldiers killed in Afghanistan from an area outside the building.
www.cnn.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:51 PM
“Danes responded by placing hundreds more flags in front of the American Embassy, according to video shared by TV2.”
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/e...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/e...
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Bondi: You get those photos of the rioters?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin cool just like you asked.
Bondi: what
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin cool just like you asked.
Bondi: what
Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
January 28, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Bondi: You get those photos of the rioters?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin cool just like you asked.
Bondi: what
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin cool just like you asked.
Bondi: what
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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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Judgment at Noemberg
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
January 28, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Judgment at Noemberg
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Every accusation being a confession, and such.....
Trump continues to lie and incite violence against Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I think she's a fraud ... she probably had herself sprayed, knowing her."
January 28, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Every accusation being a confession, and such.....
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![3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia3p425asp237hjolbn5lly6g6hzm2eoygqjpkd5dii6zrwqnp7qi@jpeg)
January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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Irving Berlin wrote an anthem for 2026 in 1941
When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take)
YouTube video by Lizzy & the Triggermen
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January 28, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Irving Berlin wrote an anthem for 2026 in 1941
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January 28, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Excellent news!
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DUCKWORTH: If it's true that we are not at war with Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act?
RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger
D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war?
R: No
RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger
D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war?
R: No
January 28, 2026 at 5:08 PM
DUCKWORTH: If it's true that we are not at war with Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act?
RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger
D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war?
R: No
RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger
D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war?
R: No
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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Meanwhile the U.S. government just shed **10,000*** STEM PhDs from the federal workforce in a single year.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
January 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Meanwhile the U.S. government just shed **10,000*** STEM PhDs from the federal workforce in a single year.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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And what rough beast, it’s hour come round at last, slouches towards the library for double revision
w.b. yeats died on this day in 1939. if, instead of dying, he had begun to age again but in reverse, he would have reached his birth - i.e. become 0 years old - in 2012. Assuming that he then began ageing in the normal direction again, he would currently be 14 years old and preparing for his gcses
January 28, 2026 at 5:55 PM
And what rough beast, it’s hour come round at last, slouches towards the library for double revision
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The best name I’ve ever come across for the triangular checkout divider at supermarkets is the colloquial Swiss word Kassentoblerone, or “cash register Toblerone.”
January 28, 2026 at 5:55 PM
The best name I’ve ever come across for the triangular checkout divider at supermarkets is the colloquial Swiss word Kassentoblerone, or “cash register Toblerone.”
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Why did you delete this, Matt Goodwin?
January 28, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Why did you delete this, Matt Goodwin?
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This is how “straight” reporting distorts the news. Trump says he wants an “honest” investigation. But the DOJ is not doing an independent investigation, and, instead, CBP will be investigating its own officers. Sounds like it could be a rigged inquiry. Trump’s “vow” is worthless PR.
January 28, 2026 at 2:25 PM
This is how “straight” reporting distorts the news. Trump says he wants an “honest” investigation. But the DOJ is not doing an independent investigation, and, instead, CBP will be investigating its own officers. Sounds like it could be a rigged inquiry. Trump’s “vow” is worthless PR.
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One Battle After Another (2025, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
One Battle After Another (2025, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
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Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
January 28, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."