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Start Here - Sources: Soldiers on Standby to Deploy to Minneapolis

The Pentagon has ordered 1,500 active duty troops to be ready to potentially deploy to Minneapolis, sources tell ABC News. President Trump threatens tariffs against European countries who oppose his plans for Greenland. And Prince Harry heads to the U.K. to testify in his lawsuit against the publishers of the Daily Mail.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 1.18.26

Alabama

  • President Trump endorses Barry Moore in GOP Senate primary race
  • AL House passes post-election audit bill, now heads over to state senate
  • APLS has voted to not send more state funds to Fairhope Public Library
  • USDA Secretary appoints 5 Alabama farmers to Farm Service Committee
  • An Alabama farmer is nationally recognized by the Farm Bureau

National

  • Anti ICE protestors with Don Lemon invade Minneapolis church service
  • Trump Admin. has 1.5K troops prepare to deploy to state of Minnesota
  • Treasury Secretary says SCOTUS not likely to rule against Trump tariffs
  • Federal judge in AZ rules in H-1B Visa case and the gaming of lottery system
  • Covid 19 memo shows Fauci had data on natural immunity being better but still pushed for useless vaccine
  • US House to offer SAVE Act Plus and send to US Senate where John Thune is being blasted for failing to get the SAVE Act onto the floor for a vote
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What A Day - A Brief History of ICE

Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn't some storied government agency from the 19th century. ICE was invented back in 2003 — but now it has a multi-billion-dollar budget and many officers who are undertrained at best. So, how did we get here? To find out, we spoke to Garrett Graff. He's a historian and journalist who has covered federal law enforcement for 20 years.

And in headlines, President Donald Trump threatens fresh tariffs on America's NATO allies over Greenland, the Pentagon ordered 1,500 National Guard troops to prepare for possible deployment to Minnesota, and a seat on Trump's Board of Peace reportedly has a $1 billion price tag.

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Strict Scrutiny - Will SCOTUS Keep Trans Kids Out of Sports?

Melissa, Leah, and Kate kick off by discussing the functional suspension of the Constitution in Minneapolis and Trump’s targeting of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Then they dissect the arguments in a pair of cases that came before the Court last week about whether state laws barring trans girls and women from their schools’ sports teams violate the Constitution or Title IX. Finally, they break down new opinions from SCOTUS involving criminal law, the Fourth Amendment, and mail-in ballots.

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Python Bytes - #466 PSF Lands $1.5 million

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Brian #1: Better Django management commands with django-click and django-typer

Michael #2: PSF Lands a $1.5 million sponsorship from Anthropic

  • Anthropic is partnering with the Python Software Foundation in a landmark funding commitment to support both security initiatives and the PSF's core work.
  • The funds will enable new automated tools for proactively reviewing all packages uploaded to PyPI, moving beyond the current reactive-only review process.
  • The PSF plans to build a new dataset of known malware for capability analysis
  • The investment will sustain programs like the Developer in Residence initiative, community grants, and infrastructure like PyPI.

Brian #3: How uv got so fast

  • Andrew Nesbitt
  • It’s not just be cause “it’s written in Rust”.
  • Recent-ish standards, PEPs 518 (2016), 517 (2017), 621 (2020), and 658 (2022) made many uv design decisions possible
  • And uv drops many backwards compatible decisions kept by pip.
  • Dropping functionality speeds things up.
    • “Speed comes from elimination. Every code path you don’t have is a code path you don’t wait for.”
  • Some of what uv does could be implemented in pip. Some cannot.
  • Andrew discusses different speedups, why they could be done in Python also, or why they cannot.
  • I read this article out of interest. But it gives me lots of ideas for tools that could be written faster just with Python by making design and support decisions that eliminate whole workflows.

Michael #4: PyView Web Framework

Extras

Brian:

  • Upgrade Django, has a great discussion of how to upgrade version by version and why you might want to do that instead of just jumping ahead to the latest version. And also who might want to save time by leapfrogging
    • Also has all the versions and dates of release and end of support.
  • The Lean TDD book 1st draft is done.
    • Now available through both pythontest and LeanPub
      • I set it as 80% done because of future drafts planned.
    • I’m working through a few submitted suggestions. Not much feedback, so the 2nd pass might be fast and mostly my own modifications. It’s possible.
    • I’m re-reading it myself and already am disappointed with page 1 of the introduction. I gotta make it pop more. I’ll work on that.
    • Trying to decide how many suggestions around using AI I should include.
      • It’s not mentioned in the book yet, but I think I need to incorporate some discussion around it.

Michael:

Joke: Reverse Superman

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What Next - Minnesota’s AG Will See ICE in Court

Attorney General Keith Ellison is one of the few top Minnesota officials not being investigated by the DOJ… yet. We ask him why, talk about charges for Jonathan Ross, and ask what it’ll take to get ICE out of Minneapolis. 


Guest: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison


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Short Wave - Come critter spotting with us on a cold winter’s night

In today's episode, host Emily Kwong leads us on a night hike in Patuxent River State Park in Maryland. Alongside a group of naturalists led by Serenella Linares, we'll meet a variety of species with unique survival quirks and wintertime adaptations. We'll search out lichen that change color under UV light and flip over a wet log to track a salamander keeping warm under wet leaves. Emily may even meet the bioluminescent mushrooms of her dreams. Plus, we talk about community events to get outside, such as the City Nature Challenge and Great American Campout.Do you have a question about changes in your local environment? Email a recording of your question to shortwave@npr.org — we may investigate it as part of an upcoming Nature Quest segment!Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.

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The Best One Yet - 💄 “Makeup King” — Elf Beauty CEO Tarang Amin’s Interview with TBOY

The CEO of e.l.f. Beauty says charging $38 for lip oil is "immoral."

In this fun exclusive interview, e.l.f.’s CEO Tarang Amin explains why he thinks big profit margins are unethical and how his biz creates "dupes" better than the lux originals… for a fraction of the price.

So we glammed up with Tarang to break down the economics of the $3 lipstick, how e.l.f. legally copies rivals like Dior, and why he shares the company's "nuclear codes" with every employee.

Of course we got all the details on his acquisition of Hailey Bieber’s Rhode Skin for $1B, the fastest-growing beauty brand in America (spoiler: It all went down over a dinner in LA).

And there’s even an investment angle: Wall Street fell in love with $ELF stock as it rose 800% in just a few years. While tariff fears recently cooled the price, Tarang explains what investors are missing in the mirror… And why that epic Hailey Bieber’s Rhode deal was a true makeover.

(Plus, Tarang helped Jack add another cream to his 42-step skincare routine)

Some of the Takeaways & Insights:

  • "It's Immoral": Tarang’s controversial take on why charging $40 for lip oil is a scam.
  • The $38 vs. $8 Math: How e.l.f. beats luxury brands at their own game
  • The Crash vs. The Opp: Why the stock is down 60% and why Tar
  • The $1B Rhode Deal: The inside story of buying Hailey Bieber’s company.
  • S&: Why "Scrolling & Development" (reading TikTok comments) beats traditional innovation.
  • Where there’s Mystery, there’s Margin: Why cosmetics are so expensive in the first place.

Timestamps: 

0:00 - Intro: E.L.F. Beauty Explained 

4:38 - Why E.L.F. Stock Is Up 800% 

5:31 - How to Keep Prices at $3 (Inflation Hack) 

13:38 - The $1 Billion Bet on Hailey Bieber & Rhode 

29:24 - The "Dupe" Strategy Explained 

29:55 - The Dior Lip Oil Story ($38 vs $8) 

33:28 - CEO: "It's Immoral To Charge You $38" 

37:16 - "Scrolling & Development": Using TikTok to Invent Products 

40:30 - The "Nuclear Codes": Sharing Secrets with Employees 

53:43 - The Takeaway on E.L.F.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘This is Where the Serpent Lives’ is a sprawling debut novel set in modern Pakistan

Author Daniyal Mueenuddin has hit the ground running with his debut novel, This is Where the Serpent Lives. Set in modern Pakistan, the story spans generations and explores class, corruption, and crime — themes that  Mueenuddin says he believes might resonate with American readers in particular. In today’s episode, Mueenuddin speaks with NPR’s Scott Simon about his novel-writing process for This is Where the Serpent Lives, and why he sprinkled subtle autobiographical details across its pages.

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Opening Arguments - RFK Jr. Is Practically Running a Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Almost No One Is Talking About It

OA1227 - Come play the worst ever round of the Connections game and figure out what on earth Tuskegee Alabama, the CDC, Southern Denmark University, and the West African country of Guinea-Bissau all have in common, as RFK Jr. continues his campaign of “just asking questions” that we already have the answer to.

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