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News discussed:

Wisconsin “partial veto” upheld

Trump did the math wrong. The China tariff is 145%

According to WSJ (WSJ), someone distracted pro-tariff advisor Navarro

Everyone is insider trading

There are a bunch of exceptions for tech products, but not inputs to tech products

China is suspending critical mineral exports

China is strengthening alliances w SE Asia and reaching out to Europe

British Steel thing

California sued the Trump administration, alleging that use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs is unlawful

SCOTUS told Trump to bring back at least one guy in El Salvador jail

Bukele says he’s not going to “smuggle a terrorist into the United States”

Trump thinks SCOTUS ruled in his favor

he should have been deported due to multiple domestic violence restraining orders

Sen. Chris Van Hollen flew down to El Salvador to meet with him personally

SCOTUS: no more El Salvador removals while case in pending

We’re deporting all the smart people

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

Trump EO: do more coal mining on federal lands!

4chan is dead

Also, the Pope

Trump sent Harvard a ridiculous list of demands, and they refused

There is now a portal for deregulation suggestions

The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary

UK Supreme Court: trans women aren’t biological women

PA governor’s mansion set on fire while he & fam slept inside it.

Hilarious news

a German man was jogging in a park when he spotted a dead body. The German police called in homicide, cadaver dogs, morticians, etc. and investigated for five hours before they discovered the “dead body” was, in fact, a sex doll.

Judge denies qualified immunity to police officers who argued they had arguable probable cause to believe a driver was stoned

Director Kratsios of the office of Science and Technology Policy: “Our technologies allow us to manipulate time and space.”

Happy News!

Cambridge University's Institute of Astronomy found chemicals associated with life in alien planet's atmosphere.

OpenPhil donates $500k to save Tuberculosis vaccine study at Harvard

Scientists in Pennsylvania have created an antiviral chewing gum

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News discussed:

At least one person deported had no criminal record or tattoos, and was here on a legal asylum claim

Other people taken for random tattoos

Tariffs on everyone except Russia & North Korea

They didn’t even use the formula right

“Critical Trade Theory”

Kelsy Piper demonstrates how adults would approach tariffs

Stocks jumped massively on fake news of tarriff delay, Trump says lolno, stocks back down

China responds with 34% tariff

Vietnam offers to remove all tarriffs

Netanyahu vowed to eliminate Israel’s trade deficit

EO: proof of citizenship required to vote in federal elections

Trump fired a federal prosecutor who was prosecuting one of his wealthy donors

Peter Marks forced out of FDA(by RFK?)

Seems like it was because RFK hates vaccines

Trump fired the head of the NSA because Laura Loomer told him to

Says he won’t rule out running for a 3rd term

Hundreds of palestinians protest against Hamas in Gaza.

Hamas forcibly disperses them, only tortured to death a few.

Le Pen used $4.5M of EU funds to pay her party’s political staff

Claims this is lawfare

Protestors rally in support in Paris

Israel just announced “expanding operations” to seize “extensive territory”

Putin is drafting 160,000 new soldiers

“Black babies do better with black doctors” was a lie

Quote: “I’d rather not focus on this. If we’re telling the story from the perspective of saving black infants this undermines the narrative.”

Cory Booker sets a record for talking a lot in the Senate

State Supreme Court elections in Wisconsin and Florida retain status quo of D/R split

AI-2027 is the latest in the AI Essay Meta

Happy News!

Chinese autonomous passenger drones (driverless flying taxis)

AquaDream, the world’s first fully underwater theme park. roller coasters beneath the waves, drift past glowing jellyfish, dodge sharks, and even race dolphins. No word on if they’ve discovered a magic-power-granting insanity-drug. From the video game “Don’t Create BioShock”

A woman with complete paralysis and zero vocal function just regained the ability to speak at ~conversational speed. Fancy Nature Article here, twitter thread breakdown here

Direwolves are back!

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News discussed:

Kelsey Piper and friends dug deep into PEPFAR effectiveness

The astronauts stranded on the ISS are back safe. And they were greeted back to Earth by a pod of dolphins!

Federal government awards contract for our angry triangle to Boeing

ICE rounded up a bunch of Venezuelans and flew them to prison in Venezuela

Roberts responds in a public statement

Vance is explicitly promoting defiance of the courts

Chief Justice Roberts's 2024 year-end report calls it out directly.

Green Card Holder Who Has Been in US for 50 Years Detained for weeks.

Canadian held for two weeks in prison for document snafu

EO Abolishing DoEd.

What the DoEd actually does:

Bad news on the economy

RFK is trying to remove cell phones from schools

Gaza war back on

Bombed the s**t out of the Houthis, Iran disavows, Trump doesn’t buy it

SecDef was discussing the plan on Signal with a reporter

Russia & Ukraine agreed not to damage energy infrastructure

Russia immediately attacked Ukrainian energy infrastructure

Subscriber request: NYU was hacked

Education Department investigating more than 50 colleges and universities over racial preferences

Columbia University has agreed to a list of demands in return for negotiations to reinstate its $400m Columbia said it expelled, suspended, or temporarily revoked degrees from some students who seized a building during campus protests last spring

Greenpeace must pay more than $660 million in damages

Happy News!

Prisoners in solitary confinement given VR

Taiwan signed a deal to invest $44 billion in Alaskan LNG infrastructure

MIT engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy

Mexican government found a swarm of giraffes in the state bordering El Paso

BYD (china) unveiled a new battery and charging system that it says can provide 249 miles of range with a five-minute charge

Idaho cuts regulations by 25% in four years by implementing Zero-Based Regulation

Utah just passed a permitting reform law

Troop Deployment

David - If you liked The Dragon’s Banker, you should read Oathbreakers Anonymous

Eneasz - How To Believe False Things

Wes - Men and women are different, but not that different

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News discussed:

Making nuclear fusers is a DIY thing for tech people, but you can kill yourself

DoJ dismissed police/fire cases against Durham, Maryland, and South Bend

PEPFAR is not, in fact, back

It’s effectiveness is probably overstated, but still substantial

RFK says you should maybe, perhaps, consider getting the MMR vaccine

Texas measles outbreak now has 29 hospitalizations and 1 death

Kash Patel in as director of the ATF.

25% tariffs went into effect on Mexico & Canada

Exemptions for car makers. Also all USMCA-compliant goods

Ontario put 25% surcharge on electricity sales to U.S.

They backed down 20 minutes ago

Trump: our tariffs will increase by however much you tariff us!

Some Canada and Mexico tariffs paused, then more paused

Trump says we’re increasing Canadian steel tariff to 50% and will increase tariff on cars April 2nd.

Trump wants to sell green (“gold”) cards for $5 million

ICE arrested a grad student Palestinian activist on a green card

Volokh: it’s unclear if they can actually do this

Being held in Louisiana.

“Antisemitism Task Force” cut $400 million from Columbia university

Administration revoked Chevron’s license to pump oil in Venezuela

Trump EO: law firm that represented Hilary Clinton in 2016 loses security clearances, contracts, and access to federal buildings (like courts!)

Trump DoJ dropped civil fraud charges against Justin Sun after he invested $75mil in Trump’s shitcoin

Bitcoin lost value immediately after announcing Bitcoin Reserve

The CDC is doing a study on vaccines & autism. JFC

Autism diagnoses have probably been rising because of incentives, not because of vaccines

during state of union Rep Al Green was so disruptive he was escorted out by the sergeant-at-arms.

Twitter is currently getting DDOS’d apparently

Armed gunman arrested outside the White House

SCOTUS: Trump must pay USAID contractors who completed work before EO was issued

SCOTUS: San Francisco can s**t all over the ocean and the EPA can’t stop them

Virologists found a coronavirus in bats that can spread to humans and did experiments with it in a lab that doesn’t have good biosafety protocols. This year.

Emergent Misalignment. Training an AI to write intentional vulnerable code will make it broadly evil across many domains!

“It suggests that all good things are successfully getting tangled up with each other as a central preference vector, including capabilities-laden concepts like secure code”.

See Zvi for a comprehensive post

Poland planning to give military training to every adult male, wants an army of 500,000 (currently 200,000) and announces plans to develop a nuclear arsenal.

Zelenski s**t the bed and torpedoed Ukrainian relations with the Trump admin

A Nordic company refused to sell fuel to an American navy submarine, which is a decision you sure could make.

US cut off intelligence sharing (satellite surveillance) with Ukraine

Last year US fit Ukrainian F-16s with EW pods (radar jammers). They require regular updates to remain useful, Trump is cancelling them (French fighter jets to step in)

Europe is realizing US can just stop supporting the weapons they buy

the Ukrainians threw a box of bees into a Russian bunker to clear it.

The South Korean fighters bombed Seoul (by accident)

Syria erupts in conflict

Kurdish break-away section of Syria agrees to reintegrate into Syria

Happy News!

Sick video https://x.com/Firefly_Space/status/1898033592191582430

Colorado Gov Polis moving to abolish 2-staircase requirement for midrise buildings.

We have a new mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer

Children with autosomal recessive deafness 9 were given single shots of a new gene therapy in each ear, and after just a month, they were able to hear. (ht Cremieux)

Covid killed Influenza B!

Sweep The Leg Johnny!! Martial Arts instructor chases down purse-snatcher, kicks him in the leg, recovers purse.

42-yr-old lady with black belt attacks a man robbing a gas station, kicks him in the leg, he flees.

Troop Deployment

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News discussed:

Ziz arrested with accomplices (WSJ here)

Big EO on shrinking federal workforce

Bird flu researchers

Nuclear weapon safety people

FAA “probationary” technicians and engineers

Most “probationary” positions across all the govt

They are barely saving anything and making up numbers

Elon on Saturday: what would you say you do here?

Big EO on cutting regulations

Hegseth is trying to cut 8% of military budget each year for next five years

Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, + chief naval officer and vice chief of staff of air force.

Trump justice department dismissed Eric Adams indictment

Hagan Scotten, got two Bronze stars in Iraq - “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Judge canceled April trial but left charges intact

Mitch McConnell was the only vote against RFK and Gabbard

Kash Patel confirmed as FBI director

Trump defunded Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

NIH caps “indirect costs” at 15%

Trump is trying to kill NYC congestion pricing

Also posted this

Utah banned public sector unions from collectively bargaining

Hanania: “Conspiracies against the taxpayer no longer allowed in Utah”

Largest measles outbreak in 30 years in Texas

German snap elections big win for center-right

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip includes eight quantum bits

Sam Altman gearing up for biggest theft in history

Musk offers nearly $100B for OpenAI, rejected

Vance speaks at AI Summit - full speed ahead and F safety

Trump Attacked Zelesky and blamed him for starting the war

Demanding 50% of Ukraine’s mineral deposits

Wants Russia back in the G7

Happy News!

Bay Area startup working on gene-edited super babies! (also interview with lead at TBC)

Michael Jordan Opens 4th Health Clinic in Home State of North Carolina.

Baby humpback whale gets stranded on a beach, pushed back out by everyone around.

Woman in flipped, burning truck rescued by those nearby.

Brickworkers teach their friend how to read every day during their lunch break

Troop Deployment

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News discussed:

Walking 4 days for PEPFAR treatment

Counter

FAA authorized mystery drones

Trump turned the government off and back on

Only 1% took the Musk buyout

Canada’s border security measure was announced in December

USPS stopped deliveries from China for 1 day.

Reciprocal tariffs announced, 25% on steel & aluminum

Trump possibly terminating USAID

this is pretty bad, but I’m against Hostage Puppies

National Science Foundation laying off 25% to 50% of staff

Trump EO: create a sovereign wealth fund

With what surplus?? Or are we just nationalizing industries?

Trump cut funding to UN Human Rights Council and UNRWA

Order imposes sanctions on ICC

Trump wants to take over Gaza

No one wants Gazans, “worst nightmare”

Egypt is hosting emergency Arab summit

Trump signed EO saying he’ll deport non-citizens who took part in Gaza protests

Trump is housing migrants at Guantanemo Bay

EO states Title IX must separate by biological sex

Elon Musk + staff gain access to Treasury payment system.

5 days later judge blocks access. ordered the destruction of any downloaded information.

Some public derisions about some of DOGE staff being young?

Fight-For-25 vibes

The CIA sent an unclassified email to the White House listing the first name and last initial of all new hires in the last two years

DNC elected new leadership including David Hogg as vice chair

TracingWoodgrains article on FAA hiring scandal

Iraqi man who burned Quran at a protest in Sweden in 2023 shot dead

Man in Manchester (England) arrested for… burning a Quran.

Do we need another Everyone Draw Muhammad Day?

Anthropic really does give the promised money to charities.

A young man slowly builds credibility with an AI to convince it to help him build a nuclear fusor

$Trump and $Melania memecoins

DJT stock still at $6.5 billion market cap

Happy News!

Czech beavers built a dam before government could even apply for permits

We have laser guns!

HELIOS - “High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance”

We have a treatment for prion diseases!

Dog treats made from cultured meat available in UK

Chemical building blocks of life and a history of saltwater on samples returned to Earth from the asteroid Bennu

first new pharmaceutical approach to treating pain in more than 20 years. Non-opiod!

Shortage of IV fluids for animals in Australia addressed by vet asking for discarded half-full bags from blood donation centers

No more pennies!

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News discussed:

Newsome made it illegal to offer to buy fire-damaged properties at market rates

Hawaii did that after their devastating fires 18 months ago and were stopped via lawsuits brought by the Sierra Club and ACLU

Biden Shenanigans

Claims the Equal Rights Amendment passed

Biden pardoned his shady family members, Fauci, Milley, and Jan. 6 committee on the way out

Commuted sentences of 2,500 more nonviolent offenders

SEC is suing Elon Musk for fake reasons

Ceasefire in Gaza

Trump Executive orders

Revoked 78 Biden EO’s

Bio sex only on federal documents

No more DEI programs for feds or contractors

repealed EO 11246, the “origins of woke” one

DEI grifters put on paid leave already

Terminated birthright citizenship??

A judge has already blocked it - “blatantly unconstitutional”

Declared emergency at Southern border

Build! The! Wall!

Also directs military to enforce border control

Also paused refugee program

Also deny funding to sanctuary cities and deport illegal migrants

Speaking of which - Houthis too!

GULF OF AMERICA!

CO state gov fucked Mt Evans in 2023

Freeze on all new regulations

DOGE neutered?

Declared a “national energy emergency”

But also suspended offshore wind projects

Then added solar on federal lands

Revoked EO allowing CEQ to make rules (previously suspended by DC Circuit)

Made Architecture Great Again

Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement and WHO

Pardon for all Jan. 6th rioters

And Ross Ulbricht, the Dread Pirate Roberts

No more remote work :(

Also hiring freeze

Also reclassified “policy-influencing” positions as Schedule F

Revoked security clearance for everyone who said Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation

Other Trump stuff

Hegseth confirmed 51-50

Trump reinstated ban on money going to foreign NGOs that perform or promote abortions

State Department put “freeze” on all foreign aid

halted PEPFAR program and President’s Malaria Initiative

Trump fired 18 inspectors general

Euros refloating the idea of putting boots on the ground in Ukraine

Tik Tok Ban?

SCOTUS ruled 9-0 that the ban is Constitutional

Trump EO says not to enforce law for 75 days

Colombia wouldn’t let 2 planes of deportees to land, Trump threatened universal 25% tariffs, Colombia yielded.

OpenAI announces $500B AI infrastructure project

DeepSeek - Chinese AI company - releases a competitor to ChatGPT.

Nvidia down 17% in one day, many other tech stocks also down.

Local violent deathcult ups their body count by 2

The Vietnamese Communist Party adopts Mileism as national policy

Happy News!

Justice Department is going to stop suing police departments for having standards!

Rents in Austin are 8% less this year, third year in a row, and still going down :)

FDA approves new depression treatment - ketamine-based nasal spray

68yr old today healthier and more generally capable than 62yr old of a decade ago.

Truck Driver - Timothy VanNostrand - Intervenes in Highway Shootout, prevents shooter from escaping

Olympic Kite Surfer Saves Drowning Woman, with video

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Eneasz - The Patriarchy is run by women, and Barbie knows it

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News discussed:

Early signs look like congestion pricing is reducing traffic in Manhattan

Trump sentenced to “unconditional discharge”

Dockworkers union has a tentative deal

FIRE to defend pollster in Trump lawsuit over outlier election poll

Some accounts criticized H1B visas and Elon retaliated by removing their verification

At least 24 people killed in LA fires

Over 12,000 homes and businesses burned

Newsome executive order waives CEQA and Coastal Act requirements for rebuilding

There will be no post-blitz boom

Mayor of LA ensures very little rebuilding will happen

The state of California got 6 month's advance warning from the best risk-assessment professionals

Every time an insurance company wants to raise rates for automobiles or homes, they have to have a public hearing and an elected insurance commissioner has to approve.

1600 policies cancelled in the Palisades over the summer (major devastation area).

FAIR testified it only had about $385 million, LA fires could have up to $24B of exposure

Newsome bans insurance companies from not renewing policies

Biden blocked sale of US Steel to Nippon Steel

Blinken, Yellen, and many other advisors against the block

Nippon Steel and US Steel filing suit to challenge

Federal judge found that requiring teachers to use preferred pronouns violates 1A

Also struck down the Biden administration’s unconstitutional Title IX rules

Trudeau is donezo

CFPB banned medical debt from lowering credit scores

Meta going based for Trump years

Fired chief diversity officer, ended diversity goals, stopped prioritizing minority-owned businesses

Removed tampons from mens bathrooms

The Sadam Statues are falling - Hanania

Pretty good Nate Silver piece on this

Tik Tok is probably going to shut down on January 19th

News You Can Ignore

“Grooming Gangs”?. (counter: Free Press?)

Elon Musk bought his Path of Exile account and his ranking in Diablo 4 is out of under 1000 players (Trace called it)

Happy News!

Amazon moving forward with WarHammer 40K series starring and lead by Henry Cavil.

WarHammer is For Romantics

US govt funding bird flu vaccine research and stocking up on vaccines

The Bukele Administration has turned the country from the most murderous in Latin America to the safest

Weather nerds found out where the water went during California’s drought!

Minnesota Summer Camp for HIV-Positive Kids Closes Down–Because There Aren’t Any More

Scientists drilled a 1.2M year old ice core out of Antarctica

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Eneasz - I have just released a short story collection titled Dear Grom

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News discussed:

Biden commuted sentences of 37/40 federal death row inmates

Jimmy Carter died

ABC New settled Trump defamation case for $15 million

Seems like a payoff (though Politico writer disagrees)

Trump sues Des Moines Register, pollster for ‘election interference’

Teamsters union hit Amazon with a strike during christmas peak season because they hate joy and jesus

Iran is shutting down.

Half of Iran’s industrial capacity halted.

Big ol’ spat over H1B Visas, including Musk saying he will go to war over it and telling people to f**k themselves in the face.

various proposed reforms

Porn will be blocked in 13 states

Republican Rep. Kay Granger moved to an assisted-living facility months ago and stopped casting votes

Russia shot down Santa, also an Azerbaijani passenger plane.

The USS Gettysburg shot down an F-16. The pilot was recovered safely.

Happy News!

Gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into human

Parker Solar Probe survives, sends back data

Magnus Carlsen quits tournament over jeans

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News discussed:

Daniel Penny acquitted

Also, possible shenanigans by the judge???

UnitedHealthcare CEO gunned down

Eventually found at McDonalds with the murder weapon, fakeIDs, and a handwritten confession

Shooter posted on reddit raving about how the back surgery he got completely freed him from pain

CEO helped keep thousands of hospitals and healthcare providers open during the pandemic

This was elf-on-hobbit violence (Scott Greer)

Best article on tpot so far

Unpopular South Korean president declared martial law

MP’s stormed parliament building, broke door and windows, and got 192/300 inside

chief of the Army Special Warfare Command defied an order from then Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun to drag out lawmakers

Ex-defense minister tries to kill himself after arrest.

President impeached

DC is suing Amazon for shipping too slow to black zip codes

TERF Island denies trans kids lifesaving healthcare!

Boeing guilty plea in plane crash rejected by judge due to concerns over wokeism!

Syrian navy wiped out by Israel

Demilitarized buffer zone near Golan Heights taken by the IDF due to concerns that the revolutionary government won’t uphold existing agreements

Rojava off the top rope cripples a bunch of Turkish-backed military’s vehicles

Also, war crimes

Syria’s new leader might be kinda based?

The leader goes by the name Abu Muhammad al-Jolani

Says they will protect rights of women & minorities and renounce terrorism

Announced “free-market model to attract investment”

Hamas to allow Israeli forces to remain in Gaza as part of ceasefire

Speed Round

Mysterious drones sighted over military installations and infrastructure in NJ.

Wray announced he’ll resign

Trump came out against port automation

French Govt collapses

Romanian election annulled because too many people on tiktok

China bans exports of Gallium and Germanium to US

Anesthesiologists have insanely good PR

public outrage leads Anthem to reverse policy

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident in violation of state law

In latest safety tests, o1 attempts to exfiltrate itself so it can continue its objective and lies about doing so but only in 2-5% of cases!

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Google unveils new quantum chip

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