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Bettors on the prediction platform #Polymarket made a killing with suspiciously timed wagers that the United States would attack Iran by February 28
-- the day Donald Trump announced a bombing campaign against the Middle East nation.
Bloomberg reported that six accounts on Polymarket
-- all newly created this month
-- “made around $1 million in profit” by betting on the timing of th…

'Insane This Is Legal': Bettors Make Huge Profits From Suspiciously Timed Wagers on Iran War | Common Dreams
"Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year."

'Fucking Insane': Journalist Finds at Least 2,300 Illegal ICE Detentions Since July | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-detention

OpenAI has hired 7 employees from AI coding startup Cline, including Nik Pash, who left Cline after posting "imagine the smell" on X regarding an xAI hackathon (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Hires at Least Seven Staffers From Coding Startup Cline
OpenAI has recently hired more than a half dozen employees from Cline, a startup that develops an open-source, AI-powered coding assistant, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed. The hires could help OpenAI accelerate improvements for its Codex coding product, which it sees as a key tool to make its ...

You keep hearing about “European values” but might be confused about what they are so here’s an incomplete list based on historic and current evidence:
• Colonialism
• Slavery
• Ethnic cleansing
• Genocide
• Hypocrisy
Sorry if I missed any.

Cleared off the driveway from the second snow. It was nice and powdery, so no big deal.
Then I had to clear in front of the garage doors from the first snowstorm. Snow drifts with frozen rain on top had turned them into glaciers.
After some trial and error, I found that using the maul would break the ice into boulders. Then it was a function of breaking the boulders to the point where I could lift them and toss them clear.
They were not light and I am very tired.

27% approval is an insanely low number. You can typically get 30% approval for the most batshit ideas, just because people aren't paying attention. This has to be the least popular war in American history, started by choice, in blatant violation of us and international law, by a president who ran on a promise of no more war. https://

Insane commando plan to seize Iran’s uranium came at Trump’s request
The U.S. military has given the president a plan to seize nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium in Iran
that would involve flying in excavation equipment and building a runway for cargo planes to take the radioactive material out,
according to two people familiar with the matter.

The complex plan was briefed to the president in the past week after he asked for a proposal, they said,

Risky commando plan to seize Iran’s uranium came at Trump’s request
A plan briefed to Trump last week to insert ground forces to remove Iran’s nuclear material would be a very difficult endeavor of a type never before attempted in wartime.

Assessing the Vera #Rubin Observatory's Ability to Discover Asteroid Impactors Before They Collide with Earth: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16255 -> Can Rubin Spot an Incoming Asteroid in Time? Testing LSST’s Early-Warning Power: https://www.newplanetarium.com/journal/2026-01-29

I can’t stop thinking about
Nurul Shah Alam,
the disabled refugee who died after Border Patrol left him outside in the cold with no way to contact friends or family.
It took five days for him to die.
He was blind and didn’t speak English.
They took the pole he was using as a cane.
This man survived an actual genocide only to be killed by the incompetence and cruelty of the Trump regime.
Five days of wandering around lost, sick and disoriented.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold
"They just left him."