- Boing Boing, Finnish police confiscate 9-y-o’s laptop after she downloads a song from the Pirate Bay
- Medical Daily, (via, slashdot)
- Mat Taibbi finds One Interesting Thing About Paula Broadwell’s Petraeus Biography (via Leiter)
- Man arrested for theft of “9 million files” said to comprise identity data for roughly 2/3 of the Greek population (via RISKS)
- Naked Capitalism, An Inconvenient Truth About Lincoln (That You Won’t Hear from Hollywood)
- Jon Huntsman continues his strategy of positioning himself as the sane alternative for the GOP. Fortunately, there’s no sign at present that this can work.
- U.S. Deficit Shrinking At Fastest Pace Since WWII, Before Fiscal Cliff & Your helpful Thanksgiving charts about the deficit (via Maddow Blog) … partial corrective at Kevin Drum, The Federal Deficit Is Shrinking Already, But That’s Not Really a Good Thing
Recent Bluessky Posts- Pritzker (with Warnock) February 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- The only in any way good thing about this is that the vast majority of Americans are utterly disgusted by it. (Although not, polls tell us, a majority of Republicans who are thus revealed as either blissfully ignorant, willfully ignorant, or vicious.) But midterm election still feels too far away. February 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Minds think alike! bsky.app/profile/mfro... February 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Brownshirts are feeling their impunity. And since prosecutors are told to stand down, what do they have to worry about, at least in the medium term? This is why Schumer-style milquetoast ICE funding conditions are completely useless. Only defunding will stop this. February 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- More than somewhat worrying about how some commanders would react if push comes to shove--by which I mean the Insurrection Act. February 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
