Links 1/24/26

Links for you. Science:

People Who Go Off GLP-1s Are Experiencing a Sudden and Terrible Hunger
Astronomers Discovered Something Near the Dawn of Time That Shouldn’t Exist
What A Week Of Freedom Can Do For A Lab Mouse
‘Gifted’ Dogs Learn Human Language
If You Give A Crocodile A Kawasaki Ultra 310LX
Why It Still Makes Sense to Limit Saturated Fats

Other:

Trump Gets Up, Walks Away From Meeting To Stare Out Window At Ballroom
“We Killed That Lesbian B*tch”: ICE Uses Renee Good’s Death as Threat
See no evil
Letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation
Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter
States move to rein in ICE after fatal Minnesota shooting
Minnesota Attorney General: Trump Blocked Probe Into ICE Shooting. Keith Ellison said federal authorities stonewalled his office hours after an ICE agent killed Renee Good.
US Authoritarian Regime Executes Unarmed Civilian as Ruler Grows More Erratic, Isolated
The Wolves of First Street: The once quixotic, bipartisan crusade to ban congressional stock trading is gaining real momentum—but in the least productive Congress in history, getting Washington’s best-informed traders to give up their Robinhood accounts may be a long shot.
Thomas Pain
Trump’s Mile-High Revenge Tour
“ICE is chickenshit”: A view from Minneapolis’s front lines
The Case Against Billionaires
Minneapolis ICE Shooter Told Longtime Neighbor He Was a Botanist: ‘I Had No Idea He Was an ICE Agent’
MacKenzie Scott Donates $45 Million to the Trevor Project
The Ignominious Death of Drill, Baby, Drill
35 Theses on the WASPs: On the Rise and Fall of a Past Establishment (I think it overstates the lack of influence from 1930-1970, but still interesting)
We’re all just content for ICE
Damages as a (Missing) Deterrent. It’s worth reflecting on how different things might look right now if federal officers—or the federal government itself—faced a meaningful specter of monetary liability for constitutional violations.
Monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis and AI is complicating efforts to capture them
In a Mamdani-era primary, J Street endorses pro-Israel incumbent — and, in a first, ‘approves’ his challenger. Incumbent Dan Goldman is facing off against Brad Lander in the 10th district
Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists
Reining In Trump’s Goons. With the apparent murder of Renee Good, our thugocracy has outed itself for all to see. We cannot let them escape the consequences.
‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson discloses stock shares in ICE contractor Palantir
FBI Agent’s Sworn Testimony Contradicts Claims ICE’s Jonathan Ross Made Under Oath
Pastor: ICE Let Me Free Because I’m White and It Wouldn’t Be “Fun”
Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says
Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error
LA County Sheriff Slams Starbucks After Deputy Handed Cup Decorated With A Pig Drawing

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1 Response to Links 1/24/26

  1. Lucy Kemnitzer says:

    Re- the terrible glp-1 article. Yes, and people who go off blood thinners get clots. & people who go off insulin experience a steep rise in blood sugar & maybe die. Glp-1 isn’t a spa treatment, it’s medication for a chronic metabolic syndrome.

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