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The New York Times, AP, RCFP, and other media organizations back an effort to block a new Texas law requiring app stores to verify users' ages (Wendy Davis/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/411151/new-yor…

New York Times, AP, Others Ask Court To Block Texas Law Restricting App Downloads
"The Act renders wide swaths of speech at the very heart of the First Amendment's protection presumptively off limits to minors when accessed through apps -- a critical channel of distribution for news organizations," news organizations argue in a proposed friend-of-the-court brief filed Wednesday with U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman in Austin.

Sleeping on the job used to be frowned upon.
But a Pew Research Center survey found that 34% of Americans take daily naps.
According to experts, 30 minutes or less of catnapping can “restore alertness, enhance performance and reduce mistakes and accidents” in the workplace.
In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy caught some extra z’s in early afternoon to keep up his stride.
And NASA pilots take in-flight naps as short as 26 minutes to enhance performance and alertn…

Midday Power Naps: 7 Reasons To Sleep On The Job In 2025
Scientific-backed research shows that midday power naps at work can be a game changer in your mental alertness, energy and productivity—even the company's bottom line.

Read "How To Survive In A Science Fiction Universe" by Charles Yu, a novel about a time-machine repair-man getting stuck in a loop during his search for his father.
First person narrated, in a fictional universe in which you can travel in time but you can't change anything about the past.
It was fun and an easy read, lots of interludes about the physics of fictional universes and explanations of acausal items causing their own existence, including the book itself that you read in your hands.
Its nice if you'd like something with experimental narrative form twisting the usual story format.
#reading #books #charlesYu

Giants shrouded in mystery, just like the year ahead...
(Also, it's the last #SilentSunday of this year, hope you enjoyed my selection of 52 images... Analog & digital prints will be available soon!)
#LandscapePhotography

From that observer who was taken yesterday, shared here with permission, because we could all use a good laugh. (Note: Whipple is the fed bldg that’s ICE’s MSP HQ)
❝So here’s my story about returning to the world…
When they let you out of Whipple, they give you back your personal effects (minus your phone). And just send you out the front door with whatever you were wearing when you came in.
So I’m walking out the front door of Whipple, probably looking like an ice agent coming off shift, and pulling all of my random shit out of my bag/dropping it in the snowbank, etc.… And I can hear the protesters at the gate, taunting me… “oh did you drop your phone, you piece of shit?” “You’re TERRIBLE!” “Fucking Nazi!” And I was just loving it, actually. But when I got closer and used my big voice “You assholes are barking up the wrong tree…. These MF’ers just released me!” The crowd went absolutely crazy.❞

The race is on to succeed Gavin Newsom,
the California governor with presidential ambitions
whose terms runs out next year
– and it’s already a crowded field.
More than 95 candidates have so far submitted paperwork
indicating their intention to run,
though the official filing period doesn’t start until 9 February.
The field looks wide open,
with polling yet to indicate a clear frontrunner
and nearly half of voters describing their prefere…

"Liam, who had recently turned five, is one of four children in the school district who have been detained by federal immigration agents ... in the region over the last two weeks, the district said...
An agent had taken Liam out of the car, led the boy to his front door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in, “in order to see if anyone else was home – essentially using a five-year-old as bait”, the superintendent said in a statement.
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For the last year, the nation has witnessed Trump’s rapid physical and mental decline.
The 79-year-old president has repeatedly lost track of his thoughts, his whereabouts, and even his grasp on the English language.
The New Republic’s breaking news team has put together a list of the president’s most senile moments in his first year in office

Cognitive Decline? These Were Trump’s 11 Most Senile Moments This Year
When Donald Trump wasn’t busy falling asleep in front of the cameras, he spent his first year in office struggling to form coherent thoughts.

A court in Russia on Thursday convicted a pro-war activist and critic of Vladimir Putin of
justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison.
Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front movement that opposes Putin and is affiliated with the Communist party, was arrested last year.
According to Russian independent news site Mediazona, the charges against him stem from an article Udaltsov posted online in support of another group of Russian activists accused of …

Angered by the Democratic leadership’s fecklessness and lack of a bold vision for the future,
a group of senators including Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
has formed an alliance to push back on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the party’s campaign arm ahead of next year’s critical midterm elections.
The “Fight Club” is pressing the Democratic Party to
“embrace candidates willing to challenge entrenched corporate interests,

Sanders, Warren Help Form Senate Democratic ‘Fight Club’ Challenging Schumer’s Leadership | Common Dreams
"So glad there are some Senate Dems willing to fight back," said one progressive strategist.