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Donald Trump, who has repeatedly denounced the Affordable Care Act as a “disaster,”
is considering backing an extension of insurance subsidies tied to the health law that are set to expire at the end of the year,
according to a senior White House official.
“Until President Trump makes an announcement himself, any reporting about the administration’s health care positions is mere speculation,” said Kush Desai, a White House spokesman.
Extending the subsidies was at the …

Trump Is Considering a Push to Extend Obamacare Subsidies
President Trump has not made a final decision. But he is under pressure to address the cost of health care, which for many Americans will jump if the subsidies expire.

How Stars and Stripes is responding to the Pentagon's plans to make it not "woke"; the Pentagon hasn't communicated with the paper since posting its plans on X (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/23/pent…

Inside the effort to shield Stars and Stripes from Pentagon control
The Pentagon criticized the military newspaper as “woke.” Now the outlet’s leaders — and some members of Congress — are trying to assert its independence.

The first seems underspiced/undercheesed but the second one looks interesting. I am suspicious of any Mac & Cheese recipe that does not require the creation of a proper bechamel-based cheese sauce. The 2 methods here (both basically creating the sauce as part of the bake) make me very nervous.
OTOH, I do like the concept of not fretting over a sauce. I am intrigued by the concept of saucing uncooked pasta before baking… @…

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
Two of the best macaroni and cheese recipes I’ve ever tried came from a 2006 NYT Food article called “the Winter Cook.” One is a classic mac and cheese casserole with crispy edges. The other is a more unusual creamy mac and cheese casserole that includes cottage cheese and a hint of nutmeg.

"The only way to deal with rapists is to put a gun to their head. The United States is the greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the world today. Preserving freedom and democracy is worth paying any price. It is not subject to deals."
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America the predator: Trump wants to show the world he can take what he wants
The Trump administration has now taken the logic of rape as a primary modus operandi. It begins with the raw worship of force, with the premise that might entitles the holder to whatever he likes

Google's Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI's ChatGPT Images can make nonconsensual bikini deepfakes from photos of fully clothed women; Reddit bans r/ChatGPTJailbreak (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-and-openais-chatb…

Google’s and OpenAI’s Chatbots Can Strip Women in Photos Down to Bikinis
Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes.

You know who else dealt with people "as efficiently as Amazon moves packages"?
The Nazis.
We call it the Holocaust.
Source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/24/ice-immigrants-detention-wareho…

Mr. Pretti, wearing brown, is filming with his cellphone
when agents approach m,
then bring him to the ground.
An agent begins shoving the demonstrators,
and squirts pepper spray at their faces.
At this moment,
Mr. Pretti has both hands clearly visible.
One is holding his phone, while he holds the other up to protect himself from pepper spray.
He moves to help one of the protesters who was sprayed, as other agents approach and pull him from be…

Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis
Federal authorities said the slain man, Alex Pretti, had approached agents with a gun. But videos show Mr. Pretti was holding his phone, not a weapon, when they pulled him to the ground.

How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…

A Father and Son’s $108 Billion Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Larry and David Ellison didn’t always have a close relationship. Now they’re one of the most intriguing partnerships in business.

A teardown of Huawei's Mate 70 Pro and Pura 80 Pro shows 57% of components were made in China; similarly priced Huawei phones in 2023 had 32% Chinese components (Takehiro Hasegawa/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/china

Huawei boosts ratio of Chinese parts in new smartphones to 60%
Teardown shows sharp rise in domestic components after US export restrictions

Source: by the end of 2025, Claude Code's ARR had grown by at least another $100M from the $1B announced in November, making up 12% of Anthropic's total ARR (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/claude-code-success-anthropic-business-model/…

How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic
WIRED spoke with Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, about how the viral coding tool is changing the way Anthropic works.