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Kash Patel’s days as FBI director may be numbered. 
MS NOW reported Tuesday that Trump is considering firing the embattled director as his errors pile up.
Three anonymous sources told MS NOW that Patel had drawn Trump’s ire for his presumptuous social media posts during ongoing cases,
using a government jet for a date night with his 27-year-old girlfriend,
and assigning a SWAT team for her security detail. 
Andrew Bailey, the FBI co–deputy director, is reportedly …

Trump Secretly Considering Firing Kash Patel as Blunders Pile Up
Donald Trump seems to have had enough of Kash Patel and his negative headlines. Here’s who could replace him as FBI director.

How Trump is destroying the FBI.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/22/magazine/trump-kash-patel-fbi-agents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GlA.O1yR.JafUUP1qOWQw&smid=url-share<…

Kash Patel’s FBI Is Making America Less Safe, Current and Former Employees Say
Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.

Kash Patel's new ride of choice: an armored luxury BMW (Ken Dilanian/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/kash-patels-new-ride-of-choice-an-armored-luxury-bmw
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p28#a251222p28

Q&A with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan on the use of AI in game development, the gaming community's pushback against AI, partnering with Grok, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/863361/razer-ceo-min-lia…

Gamers love AI in game dev — they just don’t know it yet, says Razer’s CEO
Razer’s Min-Liang Tan on gaming’s AI backlash, partnering with Grok, and creating anime waifus.

"Chris Rea, le chanteur de « Driving Home for Christmas » et « The Road to Hell », est mort Š l’âge de 74 ans" 😢
https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/articl

Chris Rea, le chanteur de « Driving Home for Christmas » et « The Road to Hell », est mort à l’âge de 74 ans
Le chanteur britannique « s’est éteint paisiblement » lundi à l’hôpital « des suites d’une courte maladie », a annoncé sa famille à des médias britanniques.

Eagles offensive coordinator search: 12 candidates to replace Kevin Patullo https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6967896/2026/01/13/eagles-offensive-coordinator-candidates-search-kevin-patullo/

Die #Bundesregierung will die #Luftverkehrskosten durch geringere Steuern und das Aus für die PtL-Quote senken.
Physiker Jakob Graichen warnt, dass solche Schritte den #Klimaschutz

Forscher über die deutsche Luftfahrt: „Der Staat muss nicht jede Reise subventionieren“
Die deutsche Flugbranche klagt über hohe Kosten – und die Bundesregierung gibt nach. Physiker Jakob Graichen erklärt, was das fürs Klima bedeutet.

Kash Patel has reportedly assigned a security detail of SWAT agents to guard his country singer girlfriend,
in the latest chapter of the FBI director’s blatant misappropriation of bureau resources.
A group of elite agents from the FBI Field Office in Nashville have been assigned to protect Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins.
The sources added that those agents, who are typically charged with responding to high-risk situations, would likely be unable to respond in the event o…

Kash Patel Assigns FBI SWAT Team to Protect 26-Year-Old Girlfriend
The latest episode in questionable uses of government resources

FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director
Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members,
exempting them from passing polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information.
People familiar with the matter say his ascent to his position without passing a standard FBI background check was unprecedented.
Bongino was selected for the role at the FBI although he, like Patel, had no prior exper…

FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.

Tech journalist Gil Duran outlines a disturbing theory
that a growing number of Silicon Valley elites are pursuing a vision of power
not rooted in the common good,
but in profit, feudal hierarchy, and total control of the platforms that define daily life for hundreds of millions of people.
Duran dubs this emerging ideology the “Nerd Reich”
— a slurry of right-wing ideas championed by ruthless tech overlords like
Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
Tesla an…

Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’
Guest host Jon Fortt and The Nerd Reich author Gil Duran discuss why Silicon Valley wants a king so badly.