This game is an absolute rock fight. #MarchMadness

Joff Oddie and Ellie Rowsell on stage at Royal Albert Hall

The Wolf Alice show at Royal Albert Hall needs to be released as a live album. Absolutely top notch performance!!

What an absolutely joyless bunch and a sad way to squander the amazing joy and energy of the World Baseball Classic.

This team can piss up a rope, and are ample evidence that MLB players should be kept from participating in the Olympics. FOH with this vibe.

Security breach Since 2024, the Oscars have provided a new path forward for shouldering the policing costs of major events

Host cities are increasingly on the hook for policing costs for major events. But why aren’t these costs covered by the event organizers?

Thanks to a 2024 deal with the Academy Awards, LA’s no longer paying for Oscars security.

Plus World Cup updates and so much more in this week’s Hot Links 🔥

Tell me you’re going to do this for the Paralympics

It's me in a hot pink vest, green and pink polka dotted shirt, and green sunglasses sitting in a leafy and green Grand Park downtown between LA City Hall and the LA County Hall of Administration where the Board of Supervisors meet

A sticker for Torched that reads So LA doesn't get burned and the URL torched.la plastered on a pillar with other stickers

Hello there Olympics watchers and watchdogs 👋🏼 LA's up next and I write Torched, *the* essential newsletter about LA's megaevent era. Sign up here: torched.la

Become a paid subscriber to support my work and you'll get invites to events and early access to my weekly news roundup. Plus stickers! 🔥

Will you be covering the Paralympics as well for CBC?

PONY - "Cleary Cursed" - YouTube PONY - "Clearly Cursed" Out February 13th via Take This To Heart Records Listen/Purchase: https://linktr.ee/ponytheband https://www.takethistoheartrecords.com

Attention music supervisors: The new Pony album is 🔥🔥🔥 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

If it happens, I bet it will also be the first Super Bowl held in Europe

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Wired doing the serious hard work - free from Paywalls
Reward them with subscriptions and circulate their stories !

www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

@minakimes.bsky.social Congratulations! I’m glad for all of the Seahawks fans out there.

Did anyone else catch the Rick James “F Yo’ Couch” guy in the background of the Svedka Vodka commercial?

Pretty cool that a band I saw play at the tiny 7th House in Pontiac, MI is playing the Super Bowl. #GreenDay

@pablo.show Emergency Show! Monday!! @katienolan.bsky.social @danlebatardshow.bsky.social

An F1 team (who shall remain nameless) sent me a survey asking about my opinion of AI. It was fine until I got to question #10 here. There’s no “None of the Above” option. Just a bunch of positive sentiments to choose from. Not exactly a true reflection of opinions. #Formula1Sky

Concert Tickets Are Now Luxury Goods—And That's A Crisis For The Music Industry What do we lose when music fans are priced out of casual concert going?

www.forbes.com/sites/olivia...

Visa is a major sponsor of both the World Cup and the LA28 Olympics. What would happen if all of America just used MasterCard, Amex and Discover (or cash!) for a month or two? 🤔

Still brilliant. Love this album.

Ernie Johnson announces that the Timberwolves-Warriors game, which was scheduled as part of the ABC tripleheader, has been postponed by the NBA after Saturday's shooting in Minneapolis.

Charles Barkley: "Somebody's gotta step up and be adults... 2 people have died for no reason, & it's just sad."

If the NFL had a spine, they’d postpone both games tomorrow. But the “Inspire Change” and “It Takes All Of Us” messaging apparently stops at the end zones.

The NBA postponed a game because the United States government is killing its citizens.

Can’t emphasize it enough.

Hey, Adam Silver and @nba.com, you may want to cancel today’s Minnesota Timberwolves game. The Minnesota Wild and @thepwhl.com Frost should cancel their games as well!

Henry Cuellar (Texas), Tom Suozzi (New York), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Laura Gillen (New York), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington), Jared Golden (Maine), and Don Davis (North Carolina)

these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw

ICE-involved shooting reported in Minneapolis on Saturday KARE11 says there are reports of another possible ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis Saturday morning.

Another shooting in Minneapolis. Surges of poorly trained ICE agents are leading to predictable and tragic results. What are we doing?
www.kttc.com/2026/01/24/i...

117 billion humans are estimated to have ever lived, and I gotta be stuck in the same era as these pig-stupid Nazi dipshits

Maybe the Indiana CFP football championship can correct the timeline?

Every team has the ability to spend like this. They choose not to for their own reasons.

it's so cool that everyone's phone is a dopamine casino now and because the economy is in shambles and fascism is on the rise it seems like a more viable option than a stable job

America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster Why is the media obsessed with prediction markets?

It is INFURIATING to watch media outlets trivialize the destruction of democracy by turning it into a (rigged) game. Constant gambling messaging has ruined sports, so why not every other aspect of life?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster Why is the media obsessed with prediction markets?

It is INFURIATING to watch media outlets trivialize the destruction of democracy by turning it into a (rigged) game. Constant gambling messaging has ruined sports, so why not every other aspect of life?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...