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Talos, which develops digital asset trading infrastructure, raised a $45M extension from Robinhood and others to its $105M Series B, at a $1.5B valuation (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/

Robinhood (HOOD) is investing in crypto trading platform Talos at $1.5 billion valuation
The $45 million Series B extension also includes participation from new strategic investors Sony Innovation Fund, IMC, QCP and Karatage.

If you read just one thing today, make it this:
"By not impeaching, or even starting the process of getting there, Congress sends the message that Trump is America,
and that it has acquiesced to the Constitution being replaced by Trump’s brand of corrupt evil."

Oaths Of Office, And How Everyone Not Moving To Impeach Trump Is Violating Their Own
Until very recently the only member of Congress excused from not having moved to impeach Trump was Rep. Grijalva, because until someone swore her in there was nothing she could officially do. But f…

Book Review – Just Use #Postgres!
https://vladmihalcea.com/book-review-just-use-postgres/

US offered Ukraine 15 years of security guarantees, Zelenskyy says (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine-peace-plan-to-national-referendum-us-security-guarantees/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p25#a251229p25

Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones that are being used by Ukraine, raised €180M, tripling its valuation to €3B since May (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Defense Startup Quantum Systems Triples Valuation to €3 Billion
Quantum Systems, a German drone maker backed by Peter Thiel, boosted its valuation to €3 billion ($3.5 billion) in a new funding round as the defense startup plans to increase production capacity of unmanned aerial systems.

Not going backwards is a win.
Given Donald Trump's fraught relationship with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, that's important.
The Mar-a-Lago meeting did not materially move things forward
but nor was there a bust-up like that Oval Office moment in February.
There were however some notable takeaways.
First, Zelenskyy's facial expressions...

It's easy to get lost in multi-point plans and spin - but Zelenskyy's reaction to Trump said it all
The Mar-a-Lago meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy did not materially move things forward, but there were some notable takeaways - and no bust-up like the infamous Oval Office encounter in February.

Five Constitutional Amendments Trump Is Ignoring in Minnesota (Pema Levy/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/constitutional-violations-minnesota-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p100#a260128p100

Airtable unveils Superagent, a service that can deploy AI agents in parallel for tasks like market analysis, its first standalone product in its 13-year history (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/airt

Airtable jumps into the AI agent game with Superagent | TechCrunch
SuperAgent is Airtable's first standalone product in its 13-year history, and signals both the company's ambitions and the reality of the current AI moment: every serious software player is racing to prove they can deliver on agents.

A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving
was instead deported to Honduras
in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19,
had already passed through security at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20
when she was told there was an issue with her boarding pass,
said attorney Todd Pomerleau.
The Babson College student was then detained by immigration off…

College freshman deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise
A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was deported to Honduras in violation of a court order. That's according to an attorney for Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old at Babson College. She was detained by immigration officials at Boston Logan International Airport on November 20. A federal judge issued an emergency order the day after her arrest prohibiting the government from removing her from Massachusetts for 72 hours. However, withi…

Despite Palantir's high trailing P/E ratio of ~450x, retail traders have poured billions of dollars into the stock, which is up ~3,000% in the past three years (Alex Harring/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/25/palantir-retail-investors-valuation-karp.html<…

Wall Street wrote off Palantir as too expensive. Retail investors can't get enough
The stock, which made its market debut in 2020, is an indisputable star of the retail investing world.