Wall Street clearinghouse DTCC selects the Canton Network blockchain as a real-world asset tokenization partner after receiving a No-Action Letter from the SEC (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/
Rams focused on playing 'great for 60 minutes' at Chicago https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47631615/los-angeles-rams-focused-playing-great-60-minutes-chicago-bears-divisional-round-playoffs…
One of my pet peeves of recent years has been the mainstream press:
(1) adopting “populism” as a euphemism for fascism (e.g. “Trump’s populist rhetoric”), which is at best a blurring of the word’s actual meaning (yes, fascists can use populist language, but populism is not their defining feature), and then
(2) applying the word in its original meaning (i.e. mass appeal to ordinary people) to leftists in direct comparison to fascists as if this constitutes a useful insight (e.g. “politicians with a populist message, such as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders”).
Vote for a fascist, suffer under a fascist:
A Trump Veto Leaves Republicans in Colorado Parched and Bewildered - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/us/politics/colorado-water-trump-veto.html
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SOAPBOX:
🎵 Fascist Bob
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https://soapboxgla.bandcamp.com/track/fascist-bob
https://open.spotify.com/track/4sXLPgHzJ742DRqms3CSrI
Mike Evans accepts 1,000-yard streak is over, focused on helping Buccaneers reach playoffs https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-evans-1000-yard-streak-over-focused-on-helping-buccaneers-reach-playoffs
Fascists: can’t live with ‘em, can’t kill ‘em.
Oh, no, wait…
Warning: kissing fascist ass may result in liquid glass.
So my phone tricked me into updating to iOS 26 (nice one, asshats). And wow: it really is a case study in form over function. Gratuitous, meaningless aesthetics and motion. Decoration, not design. “Look what I can do!”
Oh well, if it gets me using my phone less, that’s a good thing, I guess.
But the next time you hear someone from Apple talking about design, please feel free to laugh in their damn faces. What a sad j…
ICE, Trump's fascist militia is mutating into a paramilitary juggernaut - Canary
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2026/01/15/ice-trumps-fascist-militia/