What Caught My Eye forJanuary 25 - 28 (#1)

Some of the articles that caught my eye that I felt were worth sharing from January 25 to 28.


White House Push AI-Altered Images Of Arrested ICE Protesters To Manufacture Cruelty

By Timothy Geigner techdirt.com

An excellent piece talking about the cruelty of the current administration and our inability to trust a word that comes out of their mouths.


Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder

By Mike Masnick techdirt.com

Sadly it’s happened a second time in Minneapolis. This article well encapsulates many of my thoughts. ICE needs to be abolished, and those in charge need to be held responsible lest even more innocent American citizens get murdered by the state.


Trump's Plan to Tank America

By On The Media wnycstudios.org

Fantastic interview with Garrett M. Graff in the opening segment of On the Media about how we as a nation, through Trump, keep shooting ourselves in the foot.

Someday, we will tell our children about this month of January 2026 in world politics. They will not be able to fathom what we chose to do as a country to ourselves. They will never be able to contemplate what the United States once meant to the world beyond, because the relationship of the United States to the rest of the world has been so fundamentally altered by this last year.


Why isn’t corporate America standing up to Trump?

By The Indicator npr.org

When you have the President of the United States willing to pick winners and losers, do you really want to start speaking out against him?