Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies release alleged wiretap of Yulia Tymoshenko discussing vote-buying with an MP: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/ukrainian-anticorruption-agencies-release-alleged.html
US companies are gathering for the spoils.
One contender, the Guardian has learned, is Gothams LLC, a politically connected contractor that won a $33m contract to help run the notorious south Florida detention center nicknamed
“Alligator Alcatraz”,
where immigrants are housed in tents and trailers.
Documents and three people familiar with the plans say that the contractor had an “inside track” to secure what might be the most lucrative contract it’s ever had.
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Pats' Diggs pleads not guilty to assault allegation https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47919485/patriots-stefon-diggs-pleads-not-guilty-assault-allegation
#Economist #WordOfTheYear
... with an ironic twist
The NYC token, launched by ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$100M after suspicious liquidity activity (Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/354377/eric-adams-nyc-token-crashes-amid-liquidity-extractio…
"This project started as a search problem and ended as something more. The most important result isn’t which neighbourhood tops the rankings - it’s the realisation that platforms now quietly structure survival in everyday urban markets. London’s restaurant scene is no longer organised by taste alone. It is organised by visibility that compounds, rent that rises when discovery arrives, and algorithms that allocate attention long before consumers ever show up. What looks like “choice” is increasingly the downstream effect of ranking systems."
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates
Epstein files show he tried to squash alleged victim's blackmail attempt of New York elites (NewsNation)
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/epstein-files-squash-alleged-blackmail-attempt-new-york-elites/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260213/p117#a260213p117
The final order approved by the Commission imposes a five-year ban on GM disclosing consumers’ geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies.
https://www.ftc.gov/new…
Rams LT Jackson to play amid lawsuit allegations https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46967942/rams-lt-alaric-jackson-play-amid-lawsuit-allegations