David Frum: Trump’s Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious Trap. theatlantic.com

Trump’s Risky War in Venezuela. theatlantic.com

Can We Really Afford to Let Health Care Get Any Worse? nytimes.com

Slurry is one of my favorite internet words. scripting.com

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here. newrepublic.com

BTW, speaking of something futuristic. This is a page rendered by WordPress of something that's in Mastodon because the two products speak ActivityPub. Interop is fantastic, because things like this "just work" once you're hooked up to the same network. daveverse.org

Homeland Security’s increasingly unhinged social media posts. joeydevilla.com

One Battle After Another Reviews – Metacritic metacritic.com

The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life. openculture.com

What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo? – On my Om om.co