- 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- People focus on the ABA's friendliness to DEI, but a much more consequential thing has been its demand for more clinical and experiential learning. This is commonly a right-wing demand (less theory! more skills!) so we'll see if this move changes anything in that respect. Might make it greater... January 18, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- This headline was a mild surprise. I had not contemplated that the thoroughly corrupt FIFA leadership had any capacity for shame. I suspect they just didn't like the bad PR of being so tightly associated with Trump. www.theguardian.com/football/202... January 18, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- "Never waste a crisis." January 17, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Would they consider Florida instead? January 17, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Reads like the news from Iran, doesn't it? January 17, 2026 Michael Froomkin
