Saturday, January 17, 2026

Today's news and jokes







(Somehow driving a Japanese car is going to be patriotic)















"Australia’s longest waterway is under such dire threat of collapse that the entire lower Murray River ecosystem, which stretches nearly 1000 kilometres from western NSW, through Victoria and to the sea in South Australia has been classified as critically endangered." www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

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— Tim Stephens (@proftimstephens.bsky.social) January 14, 2026 at 5:11 PM








CBS's write-up







(Apparently, the only thing the administration won't leave to AI is document review)

Some people are surprised by this but the Right has always loathed the TSA because they are essentially security guards, so they're not in the cop clan, and are a lot more diverse than the cops (federal employment protections and unions make that moreso)...

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— Your Friend Michael (@michaelpg.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 8:25 AM
(Get Out is a good movie)

@cnn A crowd confronted federal agents attempting to enter a Minneapolis pizza restaurant. The owners aren't sure why their restaurant was targeted. CNN has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for more information on the incident. #CNN #News #Minneapolis #BorderPatrol ♬ original sound - CNN


(From here.) (Also, this)

They're going to start using the Kirk witch hunt strategy.

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— digby (@digby56.bsky.social) January 15, 2026 at 6:04 PM


Jimmy Kimmel offers to let Trump have one of his trophies if he will pull ICE out of Minneapolis.

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 5:12 AM


Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost. Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746

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— City of Minneapolis (@minneapolismn.gov) January 16, 2026 at 12:11 PM


Dear neighbor, It’s become common practice for ICE to stage its operations at the Target parking lot on East Lake Street. While immigration officials tear families apart, Target corporation is silent and makes its workers and customers feel unsafe. 1/

— Jason Chavez (@jchavezmpls.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 9:15 AM

As the Council Member who represents this area, I am calling on Target to speak up, take action to make its parking lot and stores safe, and to be on the right side of history. 2/

— Jason Chavez (@jchavezmpls.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 9:15 AM








(Quoting this)







If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

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— Molly White (@molly.wiki) January 15, 2026 at 5:09 PM
("The school was 'surprised' to learn of the investigation because there is no record of a complaint about the cheerleading program and it is co-ed activity where no one is cut from the squad")

is it normal for encyclopedias to include “skin tone” or just when they’re generated by a white nationalist’s ai?

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— Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) January 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM

also just super random but revealing that it hallucinated immigrant status for my dad bc he’s Chinese

— Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) January 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM








It seems to me that if you're trying to figure out if originalism is a really deep and consistent commitment of the originalist Justices or is something that gets trotted out from time to time as needed, today's opinion in Case v. Montana is a data point clearly for the latter.

— Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) January 14, 2026 at 12:24 PM
(Thread continues.)







Oh! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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— Alissa Wilkinson (@alissawilkinson.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 6:02 PM


NY Times: “Trump pardons a convicted fraudster for the second time.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

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— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 10:58 AM








I had to look up Lizardman's Constant: the 4% of people who will tell a pollster lizard people are taking over the world, ie the minimum answer you will get for even the most absurd question.

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— Lane Greene (@lanegreene.bsky.social) January 14, 2026 at 11:19 AM
















Ludacris has dropped out of Kid Rock’s “Rock the Country” music festival, with his spokesperson saying there was a “a mix-up” about the rapper’s involvement

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— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 11:41 AM








This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

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— I R A (@roira.bsky.social) January 15, 2026 at 11:08 AM








That laugh when you’re at Whiskey Fridays and you see Tony Dokoupil and you know it’s about to get crazy

— Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant.lawyer) January 14, 2026 at 6:41 PM


everyone is making the whiskey friday joke so I am sorry to inform you that they have, in fact, tucked their tail between their legs

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— April Glick Pulito (@aprilglick.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 6:11 AM








Why respond with that mealy-mouthed denial







You think 9 NFL coaching vacancies is a lot? We had 10 in 2022. EIGHT of those 10 have already been fired.

— Andrew Siciliano (@andrewsiciliano.bsky.social) January 14, 2026 at 11:37 AM








Sorta, but Ohtani in this situation is a perfect storm of financial fuckery that will likely never happen ever again until MLB involves intergalaxy travel or something.

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— Chad Moriyama (@chadmoriyama.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 5:37 AM
























it will never stop being funny that this post *still* gets new people to discover or remember the game

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— Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 (@malicedafirenze.bsky.social) December 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM








[After two glasses of wine at every dinner party] Hey did you know comic books imposed self-censorship to avoid government intervention so for like thirty years Superman comics stopped being about punching bad guys and instead he’d be like IF I DON’T EAT ALL THESE PIES JIMMY WILL TURN INTO A CLOCK!

— Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith.com) December 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM








@maiseymcginnis1 #maltese ♬ original sound - Joe Gunn




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