Lacey Eden roller blades into Lake Mendota to celebrate Wisconsin Women's Hockey's championship MADISON, Wis. --- How do you celebrate becoming the first women’s hockey player to win four national titles?

How do you celebrate becoming the first women’s hockey player to win four national titles?

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.

@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:

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Wired’s New Editor Doesn’t Care if the Tech Bros Are Mad Katie Drummond has transformed the publication into a bright spot for Condé Nast with aggressive political reporting.

Wired’s top editor, Katie Drummond, has transformed the publication into a bright spot for Condé Nast with aggressive political reporting. Here's how.

This community festival embraces the joys of a frozen lake — while it still has one As climate change accelerates, local experts say the date Wisconsin's Lake Mendota freezes over is getting later, making safe conditions for activities that rely on snow and ice harder to predict.

As climate change accelerates, local experts say the date Wisconsin's Lake Mendota freezes over is getting later, making safe conditions for activities that rely on snow and ice harder to predict. n.pr/3ODwqCz

‘Abolish ICE’, ‘Caleb Chilliams’ Among Winners of Annual Snowplow Naming Contest The other winners of the fourth annual contest were Stephen Coldbert, Pope Frío XIV, The Blizzard of Oz, Svencoolie and Caleb Chilliams, Chicago officials announced.

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

Wisconsin Assembly passes anti-SLAPP legislation  • Wisconsin Examiner AB 701, which would help protect people from Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP), passed on a voice vote.

Good news: The Wisconsin Assembly advanced its anti-SLAPP bill to the the Senate.

Legislatures in red, blue, and purple states understand there's nothing partisan about protecting journalists, activists, and everyone else from anti-speech lawfare.

Madison, Wisconsin — 2026

Built in 1917, the Wisconsin State Capitol is a Beaux-Arts masterpiece constructed materials such as Algerian onyx, Italian marble, and Wisconsin granite. Designed by George B. Post, its massive dome is one of the largest masonry domes in the world. FORWARD!

Or anyone else

She spent the whole morning performatively screaming at Congressmen, but this image of Bondi saying nothing and refusing to turn around will be the only real takeaway from her testimony today.

Everyone has had a coworker like this, who is in over their head and shouts to mask their incompetence.

Now we learn the billionaire owner of a bridge that will compete w/the new Canada-MI bridge met with Lutnick right before Trump issued his threat to shut down the new bridge. The Trump admin is a lawless mafia gangster extortion racket existing to enrich oligarchs at our expense.

It's A 'New Era' For The Chicago Reader As Iconic Alt Weekly Shifts To Monthly Magazine The Reader has struggled in recent years amid funding gaps and administration changes. Editor-in-Chief Sarah Conway says she plans to honor the paper's history while focusing on its future.

The stalwart alt-weekly @chicagoreader.com, which has served the city for a half century, returns to print today in a new monthly format.

I talked to new EIC Sarah Conway about what Chicagoans can expect from this new era for @blockclubchi.bsky.social: blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/04/i...

Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

10/10 ICE protest sign

"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ

If Democrats haven't announced their proposal for the Donald Trump No Guns in Public bill by the end of the day, they're missing an easy shot

CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.

This hit so fucking hard today.

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

SHINE A LIGHT FOR MINNESOTA TONIGHAT AT 7:00PM STEP OUTSIDE AND LIGHT A CANDLE ON OUR STREET CORNERS. WITH OUR NEIGHBORS. FOR OUR COMMUNITIES AND ALEX. ICE OUT NOW SAT. JAN 24, 7:00PM

was forwarded this by some Minnesota people; sharing here

Both of Nevada's senators--Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen--have officially come out against the DHS funding bill following the execution of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis this morning. This effectively ends the DHS funding bill in the Senate.

Post from Pete Buttigieg that reads: If there was ever a moment for libertarians and conservatives to step up and join the rest of us, we’re in it. Americans have to unite and stop this descent from a freedom-loving nation into the kind of place where masked, militarized government agents are sent to politically noncompliant areas to roam the streets, terrorize civilians, and deploy violence with impunity.

Unless the *federal government* very quickly commits to a clear and credible investigation and to hold wrongdoers accountable, all hell is about to break loose.
But we have every indication that is what they want so they can further escalate and declare an insurrection.

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.

As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.

Here's what happened:

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

This is not accurate. The interim supervisor will not be on the ballot unless they happen to be one of the top two vote-getters in the primary.

From the story, "For District 15, the two candidates with the most votes will appear on the ballot along with whoever the district’s new interim representative will be."

Who’s running for office in Madison this spring? The April 7 election includes races for state Supreme Court, the Madison city council, Dane County board and Madison school board.

There's an election on April 7 in Madison, with a primary on Feb. 17.

Here's who's running for what, by @liamberan.bsky.social:

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The Shadow Over ‘60’ As Sharyn Alfonsi's “60 Minutes” report remains shelved, Status has learned that an Anderson Cooper piece is also caught in a prolonged editorial review process, frustrating the veteran producer attac...

At Status_ @oliverdarcy.bsky.social has learned that Bari Weiss, CBS News' Trump-approved minder, has held up another “60 Minutes” report:

An Anderson Cooper investigation of Trump’s acceptance of white S. African refugees, which is “guaranteed to provoke Trump and inflame his MAGA base.”