Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

1. HealthEquity, the nation's largest administrator of health savings accounts, just donated $1 MILLION to Trump's Super PAC.

Previsouly, the company had never donated more than 5K to any political committee

WTF is going on?

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Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Nekima on the Target boycott.

Ditto! I saw it Friday on a whim and wish it would've gotten more attention while it was still in theaters. Such an experience!

I’m always confused as to why rich people don’t all have chauffeurs.

(Editor’s note: Please assume “sic” for all quotes.)

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

I'm so sorry for your loss and am glad that you were there to comfort Rider in her final moments (and over the past 8+ years). Thanks for sharing this beautiful tribute.

My new word for the day is "scofflaw" -- one who not only breaks the law, but holds it in contempt.

I still think it's meaningful that we saw Liam in him. Every Liam deserves to have a chance to pursue his dreams.

Everyone is stealing TV Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes.

www.theverge.com/streaming/87...

I'm currently in this Yahoo Mail notification feedback loop on my phone and can't access my accounts.

This runs the risk of finally motivating me to quit Yahoo after more than 25 years.

This has been the hardest realization for me after 18 years of not driving in NYC. 😫

Woman who accused high-profile twins of sexual assault found dead in Australia The woman, who accused Oren and Alon Alexander of sexual assault, was found dead in Sydney late last year.

Yall I just went down the “Alexander Brothers” rabbit hole and this alone should take Trump down.

“Woman who accused high-profile twins of sexual assault found dead in Australia” - BBC 1/16/26

www.bbc.com/news/article...

It took me a month of failed XFinity installation attempts and inscrutable customer service before I just cancelled and went with Quantum Fiber here in Denver.

Paper details how police pushed for body cams so that they could protect themselves and control narrative while policing and surveilling more aggressively.

Dems allied w cops to create narrative that this was somehow a corrective for state violence, now every time they kill they get more $$/power

My grandma's kitchen radio was locked on KDKO and Dr. Daddio's voice soundtracked so many happy childhood memories for me. ❤️

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Denver Bassist Has Been in ICE Custody for Over a Month Aurora's ICE Detention Center is near capacity; one detainee is a bassist from an up-and-coming Colorado band.

www.westword.com/music/denver...

“.. Federal agents pin a protester to the ground and spray a chemical irritant directly into his face at 28th and Blaisdell Avenue S. in Minneapolis on Jan. 21.”

@startribune.com
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

A picture of heavily armed DHS officers smashing into the house of a person. All are masked, all carry long rifles but the one man who's holding a battering ram.

A sobbing woman cries in the arms of another person. Her husband was arrested in the raid.

In short, this secret memo explains SO MUCH of what we've been seeing over the last months, including this raid of a home in Minneapolis where ICE officers presented no judicial warrant before breaking in the door.

Turns out they were secretly told they don't need one!

Over half of my interview sample gave examples of concrete resistance they encountered when proposing stories that made white people feel uncentered or uncomfortable. When producers and reporters pitch stories for air, if “the audience” won’t like or understand it, the pitch is typically a nonstarter. “The audience” is invoked vaguely, but when named it is always white and middle-aged or older. This demographic also reflects the bulk of public radio’s news editors and station managers across the country. Employees who do not keep this core audience in mind often hear that the ideas they pitch do not match the tone the station wishes to set. Editors have told their direct reports to consider an audience listening on the way to work or with their kids in the car. What about a woman listening in the suburbs? Will she understand or relate to the story?

I think about this research a lot

prospect.org/2020/08/18/i...

If you enjoyed the video of this person slamming greg bovino at a gas station, watch this

this is some bidness - a wee spot of frank talk about risk, fear, whiteness and doing more

a brief introduction to a vast set of truths that many of us need to spend much much more time sitting with

My new imaginary band name is "Humiliation Ritual."

The scenes of giant trees being cut down by (presumably) Ai driven machines had me shook.

I've been taking for granted where my calamari may come from. 😫

‘Mad fishing’: the super-size fleet of squid catchers plundering the high seas Every year a Chinese-dominated flotilla big enough to be seen from space pillages the rich marine life on Mile 201, a largely ungoverned part of the South Atlantic off Argentina

"The consequences extend far beyond squid. Whales, dolphins, seals, sea birds and commercially important fish species such as hake and tuna depend on the cephalopod. A collapse in the squid population could trigger a cascade of ecological disruption"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

It's really an infuriating disservice to present current AI in this misleading way.