The US is headed for mass unemployment, and no one is prepared

 https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5713876-ai-displacement-and-ubi/

The most sobering warning comes from Geoffrey Hinton, one of the architects of modern AI. Hinton hasn’t joined the hype merchants. Instead, he has joined the alarmists. His claim is troubling: AI capability is effectively doubling every seven months. Not every decade. Not every few years. Every seven months.

At that pace, change doesn’t arrive gradually but in overwhelming waves. First, it replaces what we dismiss as “menial” cognitive work — call centers, customer service, scheduling, transcription. That phase is already underway. Then it moves into clerical roles, basic accounting, paralegal research, routine journalism, marketing copy, and compliance work. Those jobs are next. After that, no profession is spared, not even software engineering itself.

Lay out the timeline honestly, and it becomes terrifying. In 2026, AI replaces support roles. In 2027, it consumes administrative and clerical work. By 2028, it’s performing serious professional tasks at scale. By the early 2030s, much of white-collar America may no longer be necessary to the current economic structure. 

Just say ‘Jew’: JD Vance’s Holocaust post shows why naming Jews and Nazis still matters -editorial

 https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-885138

Vice President JD Vance marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 with a message honoring “millions of lives lost,” yet he did not mention Jews or Nazis.

At a time when global antisemitism is at an all-time high, omitting these two simple words is more than just a small oversight. It weakens the very purpose of the day, and given the current split and rise of antisemitism within the Right in America, it is worrying that the omission came from the vice president.

What happened is simple. The vice president posted a solemn remembrance, invoked “never again,” and paired it with commemorative imagery. But he avoided naming the Jews as the targeted victims and the Nazis as the perpetrators. Other senior officials, in contrast, referenced Jews and antisemitism directly. The omission sparked backlash online from X/Twitter users, senior Jewish figures, and even op-eds in this very paper

32 Gazans said killed in wave of strikes as IDF responds to truce violation

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-least-28-gazans-said-killed-in-wave-of-strikes-as-idf-responds-to-truce-violation/

At least 32 Palestinians, including women, children and Hamas police officers, were reported killed in a wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Saturday morning — one of the highest death tolls since the October ceasefire — as the Israeli military confirmed it targeted terror commanders and infrastructure in response to what it called a “violation of the ceasefire agreement.”

The Israel Defense Forces said its strikes targeted four commanders in the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups, as well as a weapons depot, an arms manufacturing site and two rocket launching positions.

According to the military, the strikes were launched after eight gunmen emerged from a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Friday. The IDF said at the time that three of the gunmen were killed in strikes and a fourth, described as a key Hamas commander, was capture

Judge orders release of 5-year-old Minnesota boy, father detained by ICE

 https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5716881-texas-judge-orders-release-father-son/

A federal judge in Texas on Saturday ordered the release of the 5-year-old boy and father who were transported to a detention center in the state amid the Trump administration’s immigration operations in Minnesota.

The father and son were detained by federal officers last week when Conejo Ramos returned home from pre-school. A picture of the young boy wearing a bright blue hat and a Spider-Man backpack went viral on social media, prompting outrage in an already-tense climate over the immigration crackdown in the state. 

In a Saturday opinion, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery admonished the administration’s removal of Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, saying the pair “seek nothing but the modicum of due process and the rule of law.”

“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency,” Biery wrote. “And the rule of law be damned.”

Biery accused the government of ignoring constitutional rights, and suggested the administration needed a “civics lesson.” 

“Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster,” Biery wrote. “That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer.”

Trump gets BAD NEWS about Don Lemon arrest

Don Lemon's attorney one-on-one with Jen Psaki

תלמידי הישיבה קטנה בריקוד השיטה הקדושה לאחר תפילת שחרית בכותל המערבי

השיטה הקדושה (שיטת ה"שוואנצונעס")

 https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/מנחם_מנדל_הגר_(בני_ברק)#השיטה_הקדושה_(שיטת_ה"שוואנצונעס")

החצר בראשותו מחנכת לפולחן אישיות ומדגישה את חשיבות ההתבטלות המוחלטת כלפיו[11]. בעלונים שמתפרסמים בחצרו מרבים לעסוק בנושא ההתבטלות המוחלטת לצדיק[12], כך לדוגמה באחד המקורות שפורסמו נכתב: "שהרבי הקדוש אינו גוף ולא ישיגוהו משיגי הגוף, נערץ ונקדש מעל לכל דמות ודמיון […] לבדו ימלוך מלך ונשגב רבינו הקדוש לבדו, כי המלכות שלך הוא, ואנו קרוצי חומר זוכים בזכייה נשגבה ומתנת חינם ממש לעבדו בלבב שלם". עוד נכתב כי על הצעיר החסידי לשנן בכל עת "שיויתי הייליגער רבי לנגדי תמיד" (בתרגום לעברית: "שיויתי את הרבי הקדוש לנגדי תמיד"), משפט שבמקורו נאמר על אלוהים: שִׁוִּיתִי ה' לְנֶגְדִּי תָמִיד[13]. בשעת תפילת שמונה עשרה מתפללים לכיוונו ומביטים עליו, ואת ספריו יש להניח מעל שאר ספרי הקודש, ואף מעל החומש[14]. יש הטוענים כי החסיד מחונך שהאדמו"ר הוא מעל הכל, ואם יורה לאכול חזיר יש לעשות זאת.[15]

דער ויז'ניצע רבי פון בני ברק - מרכז זינגט אין א חופה די נייע וכולם מקבלים- שוואנצונעס

Lawrence: The protesters are forcing Trump’s retreat.

Late Night DESTROYS Melania’s Documentary 😂 | Kimmel, Colbert, Meyers, Desi Lydic & More

‘Melania’ promises to take us behind the scenes. There’s nothing to see.

 ‘Melania’ promises to take us behind the scenes. There’s nothing to see.

There is a controversial new Amazon documentary about Melania Trump released this weekend and every single review I’ve read has been terrible, but babe, if you suspect I have come here today to trash a movie about the wife of a notoriously thin-skinned, anti-journalist president, which was bankrolled by the company owned by the man who also pays my salary — NOT TODAY, SATAN. Do you think I’m a moron? (Don’t answer that). This house is clean.

What I ended up wondering throughout this documentary, while I kept waiting in vain for director Brett Ratner to peel back another layer on Melania, is if we were dealing with a situation that was not an onion but a potato. Yes, there’s a thin protective skin. But after you breach that, no matter how many times you go after it with a peeler, you’re dealing with pretty much the same pulp.

Her worldview seems based on optics more than reality: that what things look like is as important as what things are like. She carries on about redecorating the White House tennis pavilion not because she is dim but because, in her view, her highest calling is not to give the American public something they can identify with but rather something they can aspire to.

What is she thinking? It doesn’t really matter, honestly. The fact that she is disciplined enough to hide her true personality from the public is, in fact, her personality.

Epstein Survivors Slam Trump’s DOJ Over Shoddy Release of Files

 https://newrepublic.com/post/204717/epstein-survivors-trump-justice-department-files

All those redactions and somehow the Department of Justice still didn’t redact survivors’ names.

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse are claiming that the Trump administration broke the law by failing to redact some of their names and withholding other documents.

In a joint statement Monday, multiple survivors slammed the government’s recent document dump for failing to redact “numerous victim identities” while also making “abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation.”

“We are told there are that there are still hundreds of thousands of documents still unreleased. These are clear-cut violations of an unambiguous law.”

Tulsi Gabbard’s appearance at Fulton County FBI raid raises questions

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/30/tulsi-gabbard-fulton-county-fbi-raid/

There are “only two explanations” for why Gabbard was in Fulton County on Wednesday, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-Virginia) said at the hearing.

One is that she believes there’s a “legitimate foreign intelligence nexus,” he said, in which case Gabbard “violated her legal obligation to keep the intelligence committees fully and currently informed,” or she is attempting to insert the intelligence community into what Warner called “a domestic political stunt designed to legitimize conspiracy theories that undermine our democracy.’’

Former senior U.S. intelligence officials called Gabbard’s participation in the FBI action unprecedented, and out of line with her office’s legal authorities.

Trump has long maintained that the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was rigged. U.S. national security officials at the time said they found no evidence of widespread fraud and numerous courts rejected claims of election irregularities as unfounded.

Kosher Blackmail

 https://mishpacha.com/the-fur-coat/

The fur coat, they noted, wasn’t there — and my father-in-law was intrigued. He launched an investigation. I don’t know how he found this out, but he determined that the lawyer had stolen the coat and given it to his mother.

He sent him the photo he had taken of my mother-in-law wearing the coat and told him he knew that he had stolen it.

“I have no interest in sending this photo to the police and ruining your career,” he wrote, “even though you deserve it for stealing from your client. But you need to do one simple thing — release the $300,000 for my grandson. My son-in-law will use it to further his son’s education in any way that he sees fit, without your involvement. You will make the transfer as soon as you receive this email.”

Why did G-d tell Moshe to stop praying?

Shemos (14:15) Then G-d said to Moses, “Why do you cry out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.

Rashi ( Shemos (14:15)) WHEREFORE CRIEST THOU UNTO ME? — there is no mention that he prayed to God concerning this, but this teaches us that Moses stood in prayer. Whereupon the Holy One, blessed be He, said to him, “It is no time now to pray at length, when Israel is placed in trouble”.

Why did G-d tell Moshe to stop praying?  The Medrash Rabbah says

Shemos Rabbah (21:07) WHEREFORE CRIEST THOU UNTO ME? It is written, Hast thou prepared thy prayer before thy trouble came?  (Job XXXVI, 19).2 Why is this so? R. Eleazar b. Pedath said3: The proverb has it: ' Honour thy physician even before thou hast need of him. R. Simeon b. Lak. ish says: Prepare thy prayer before thy Creator, so that no troubles may befall thee from above. R. Hama b. Hanina said: When Israel departed from Egypt, the angel Samael arose to accuse them. R. Hama added the following explanation in the name of his father: It can be compared to a shepherd who was leading his sheep across a river when a wolf came to attack the sheep. What did the shepherd, who knew well how to deal with such emergencies, do? He took a large he-goat and threw it to the wolf, saying to himself, Let him struggle with this till we cross the river, and then I will return to bring it back. So, when Israel departed from Egypt, the Angel Samael arose to accuse them, pleading before God: ' Lord of the Universe! Till now they have been worshipping idols, and now Thou dividest the sea for them? ' What did God do? He delivered into his hands Job, one of the counsellors of Pharaoh, of whom it is written, And that man was wholehearted and upright (Job I, 1), and said: Behold, he is in thy hands (ib. II, 6). God reckoned: While he is busily occupied with Job, Israel will go through the sea! Afterwards, I will deliver Job; this is why Job said, I was at ease, and He broke me asunder (XVI, 12). ‘I was at ease in the world,’ said Job, but He broke me asunder, He hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces (ib.), in order to make me the target for His people, for it says, He hath also set me up for His mark (ib.), God delivereth me to the ungodly (ib. 11), He hath delivered me into the hands of Satan; and in order that Israel may not emerge guilty from the trial, He hath delivered me into his hand’; hence, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked (ib.). It was then that God said to Moses: Moses, behold I have given Job over to Satan. It is for you to Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.

How two federal agents escalated an encounter with Alex Pretti into a deadly shooting

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/29/politics/video/immigration-agents-shooting-alex-pretti-vid-invs

In the chaotic moments leading up to Alex Pretti’s death on Saturday, the aggressive actions of two federal agents transformed the encounter into a deadly shooting, a CNN analysis of video has found.

The conduct of those two agents, from the earliest moments interacting with demonstrators up through their decision to pull weapons and fire at Pretti, illustrate the dangers of flooding American cities with officers ill-equipped to deal with protesters in urban environments, experts told CNN.

While major city police departments have embraced a philosophy of cooling down heated encounters with the public, the immigration officers in Minneapolis did the opposite – right up to the moment of Pretti’s death.

Law enforcement experts who reviewed the videos for CNN said the officers’ use of deadly force likely stemmed from lack of training or a failure by the agents to follow it during the heated encounter.

Fuel tanker overturned, flooding section of Highway 60 in Jerusalem with flammable material

 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/wwecwhp07

A gasoline tanker rolled down a hill onto Highway 60 in Jerusalem, between the neighborhoods of Beit Hanina and Neve Yaakov, flooding the road with flammable material. Firefighting teams and a hazardous materials unit are working at the scene in coordination with police to prevent ignition.

https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/930728.shtml#5

Melania Trump documentary bombs with only 1 ticket sold

 https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/01/28/melania-trump-documentary-box-office-failure-empty-theaters/

First Lady Melania Trump's documentary "Melania" sells just one or two tickets per screening worldwide, turning Amazon's $75M investment into a historic flop.

The Daily Beast reported that the flagship Vue cinema location in Islington, London, sold just one ticket for the 3:10 p.m. screening and two tickets for the 6:00 p.m. showing. A similar picture emerged at an AMC theater in Orange County, California, which failed to sell a single ticket for Saturday evening's screening – evidence that the failure has crossed the Atlantic Ocean.

Online reactions have been scathing. The Queerty website noted that users of the film review social media platform Letterboxd left insulting comments on the page for the 2020 film "Looking for Melania Trump" – which is unrelated to the new film. One called the new documentary "a 104-minute perfume commercial for 'gold-plated despair.'" Another user wrote, before the comment was deleted: "No one asked for this burning garbage."

Not to disagree with Evil People!?

 The gemora seems full of contradictions. Tonite I leaned that one should not figtht against Evil Men

Sanhedrin (110a)With regard to the verse: “And Moses arose and went to Dathan and Abiram” (Numbers 16:25), Reish Lakish says: From here we derive that one may not perpetuate a dispute, as Rav says: Anyone who perpetuates a dispute violates a prohibition, as it is stated: “And he will not be like Korah and his assembly, as the Lord spoke by the hand of Moses to him” (Numbers 17:5). Even the aggrieved party must seek to end the dispute. Dathan and Abiram accused Moses and by right should have initiated the reconciliation. Nevertheless, Moses was not insistent on this; he went to them.

However The Mishna Berura and many others say that one should protest against evil doers and hate them until they are defeated and destroyed

Biur Halacha (1.1) And he should not be embarrassed - Refer to the Mishna Berurah quoting the Beis Yosef.  Know that the Beis Yosef is only dealing with [a case of]  where he does [an exclusively] personal Mitzvah  and men mock him, for then certainly their is no thoughtful assumption to mock them, nor to quarrel with them. However, if he is in a situation where there are heretics who rise against the Torah, and want to pass certain rules in matters of the city, and through this, detach the public from the will of Hashem, and, if one would try to negotiate peacefully, they wouldn't listen to his words- the Beis Yosef wasn't speaking about an example like this at all. Rather, it is a Mitzvah to hate them and to quarrel with them and to contradict their advice in whatever way one is able. As King David said in the verse, "For indeed, those who hate you, O Hashem, I hate them, and with those who rise up against you I quarrel! With the utmost hatred, I hate them...."(Psalms 139, 21).