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Sunday, January 11, 2026
Links 1/11/2026
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 94 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: One Eyed Jacks (1961) Run Time: 2H 21M And A Bonus Documentary!
One Eyed Jacks is a movie about love and revenge in the Old West.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 20 Comments »
Schumer, Jeffries Refuse to Join Democrats’ Growing Calls to Slash ICE Spending
“I just don’t understand how we provide votes for a bill that funds the extent of the depravity,” says one senator.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 15 Comments »
Is an Attack by Iran Imminent?
Signals are growing that Iran may be on the verge of Doing Something.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:16 am | 51 Comments »
Links 1/10/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 181 Comments »
Rodriguez or Trump: Who Is Really Running Venezuela?
Will Delcy Rodriguez govern as a compliant and coerced US puppet, or as leader of an undefeated and independent Venezuela?
Topics: Energy markets, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:05 am | 50 Comments »
Thrift Store. Clinic. Roller Rink. New Orleans Center Becomes ‘Radical’ Lifeline Amid Homelessness, Drug Crises.
A New Orleans collective is a heartening example of community self help…and an indictment of income inequality and failing social programs.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:00 am | 9 Comments »
Coffee Break: Pluto’s Republic, Dietary Guidelines, Vaccine Nonsense, Ancient Poison Arrows, and Renaissance DNA
Part the First: We Live in Pluto’s Republic. With apologies to the shade of Walt Disney, this was bound to happen eventually. From Corey Robin, who notes that at Texas A&M a philosophy professor must dispense with Plato in his course because the content will be in violation of this edict: “No system academic course […]
Topics: Africa, Coffee Break, Garrulous insolence, Health care, Science and the scientific method
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 35 Comments »
Portland Mayor Decries Mounting Bloodshed, Tells ICE to Get Out After Federal Agents Shoot Two
Portland mayor Keith Wilson called on ICE to halt operations pending a probe of its latest shootings. That won’t happen. So what do cities do?
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 49 Comments »
Links 1/9/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 136 Comments »
Even the US’ Most Servile Vassal State in Latin America, Argentina, Is Determined to Keep Trading With China
“One thing is geopolitics, another is trade,” said Milei. “I’m not going to break commercial ties with China”.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 11 Comments »
Russia’s Second-Ever Use of the Oreshniks Was a Response to Three Recent Provocations
Russia seems finally to have gotten the memo about Trump’s worse-than-bad-US-norms duplicity and love of violence and is escalating.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 82 Comments »
The Next Frontier of Climate Accountability: Making Big Food Pay Its Ecological Bill
Food industry induced environmental degradation is more serious than most realize. We could reverse this trajectory….but will we?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Permaculture, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:20 am | 11 Comments »
The U.S.–Venezuela Coup: The Quiet Part Out Loud
The analysis of the U.S. abduction of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro offers three theories: an elite military raid, imperial aggression, or an internal coup
Topics: Coffee Break, Politics
Posted by Curro Jimenez at 2:00 pm | 44 Comments »
New York City’s MTA Explores How to Use AI to Monitor Thousands of Cameras in Transit System
The NYC transit authority considers how AI with its existing cameras might detect weapons, monitor unattended items or even foresee stampedes.
Topics: Guest Post, Moral hazard, Politics, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:57 am | 1 Comment »



