Just Beyond the Texas Border, Chihuahua Is Launching a Burgeoning State Surveillance System texasobserver.org

The 10 Senate races that will decide the balance of power in 2026 nbcnews.com

What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration nytimes.com

I had ChatGPT put together a list of NBA feeds that don’t use paywalls. It’s been running a few days and the results are impressive. I’ll do a writeup of the list in next few days feedland.com

AOC: Trump ran on a promise that ICE would go after the “worst" criminals. But the real crime is in oligarchs taking $170b from your healthcare and food assistance to form a secret police force x.com

I'm going to try commenting on other old school blogs more here on my blog. Want to see if we can reboot the original sphere as a way of priming the new one. scripting.com

Common Side Effects on HBO is a pretty good anime style story metacritic.com

Elon Musk drops 'sustainable' from Tesla's mission as he completes his villain arc | Electrek electrek.co

ICE’s interest in high-tech gear raises new questions politico.com

Kottke: Are We Still Loving Pluribus kottke.org

New Yorkers brace for biggest snow storm in years, up to 10 inches nydailynews.com

NYC Is Getting Hit Hard by the 'Super Flu'—and the Worst Is Yet to Come gizmodo.com

A Million More Epstein Documents Have Been Found, Justice Dept. Says nytimes.com

Zohran Mamdani on His Family’s Experience With Immigration Court and His Plans for ICE in NYC talkingpointsmemo.com

Riley Walz on creating viral internet pranks sfalexandria.com

'Pluribus' Finale Explained; Vince Gilligan Details Original Ending variety.com

Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban ms.now

How recall of career diplomats fits into Trump's foreign policy shift pbs.org

My favorite bingeable programs via Bingeworthy my.bingeworthy.org

Supreme Court Upholds Block of Trump’s National Guard Deployment in the Chicago Area news.wttw.com

Luigi Mangione Came to Our Prison prisonjournalismproject.org

Jasmine Crockett will teach Democratic consultants that voters want candidates with personality, not nobodies you can paint whatever picture on you want depending on the day and current events texasobserver.org

AT Proto devs: The web should be your plan B. The web will always want to help, but it isn’t rich or famous or give good interviews or have famous VCs backing it. � scripting.com

New batch of Epstein files include many references to Trump wapo.st

Turmoil at CBS News After Bari Weiss Pulls a ‘60 Minutes’ Segment nytimes.com