Imagine if I had a hiring rule that said, “I won’t hire anyone born in Utah,” as a mechanism to screen out LDS members and deny equal opportunity. We’re okay with legalizing this? I don’t think so! This is just a sure fire way to segregate our workforce and call it justice.

I’ve got great news for you We can accomplish more than a quarter of California’s state-wide housing goals by developing just one plot of federally owned land. Exactly 0 people live on it today. It’s a peninsula in the Bay Area. This is the “other place” where you can build!

Only around 32% of city employees live in Oakland. Their unions are campaigning for taxes that most city workers don’t pay. 👇 oaklandreport.org/p/only-32-…

The New School rejects its student senate’s dismissal of Hillel — “Does not have the authority”

A U.S. Special Forces Soldier involved in Operation Absolute Resolve, the capture in January of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, has been arrested by federal agents and charged for allegedly betting on the operation via the prediction market platform Polymarket, netting him $400,000 in profits, according to CNN. The Soldier, identified as Master Sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an active-duty senior enlisted servicemember stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, opened an account in late December on Polymarket. Betting a total of approximately $33,034 in 13 bets from December 27, 2025, through the evening of January 2, some only hours before the overnight operation to capture Maduro. Federal authorities state that Van Dyke “participated in the planning and execution of the U.S. military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro,” being charged with “unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction.”

🚨 As I have been predicting for weeks, Washington has jumped into the hornets nest of Red Sea politics, holding secret meetings with Isaias in Cairo in a bid to increase its influence in the region by lifting sanctions on Eritrea. What will Eritrea do in return? How will Addis react? What does this mean for Trump's promise to restart GERD talks? How will this a US-Eritrea rapprochement affect the SAF and Sudan's war? And what will UAE and Saudi make of the US effort to enter Red Sea political debates, seemingly aligning itself against Ethiopia? Too many questions to answer. But what I can say is that the US is doing it all without a strategy with a used truck salesman at the helm. What could possibly go wrong?? wsj.com/world/africa/u-s-see…

If you think the California governor’s race is a shitshow, you’re right. USC canceled tonight’s debate. It was controversial because every candidate of color was excluded, and the school’s explanation was weak. Matt Mahan entered late, was polling below Becerra, and still got an invite. That decision left an all-white stage in a majority-minority state. The fix: hold two debates with mixed polling tiers, then one debate later with only the top candidates. Other states have done this. It’s not hard.