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Eric Swalwell’s Bid For California Governor Hits Snag Over Residency Claims
Eric Swalwell’s Bid For California Governor Hits Snag Over Residency Claims
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has a major hurdle to overcome in his bid to succeed California Governor Gavin Newsom – he has been accused of not living in the Golden State.
California’s constitution requires gubernatorial candidates to have resided in the state for the previous five years, however a new lawsuit from conservative activist and filmmaker Joel Gilbert claims that Swalwell’s “home address” listed on his election paperwork is actually a lawyer’s office.
According to Gilbert, Swalwell actually lives in a $1.2 million, six-bedroom mansion in Washington DC with his wife Brittany Watts, who apparently didn’t take his last name (how progressive!) and their three children. The couple listed the DC home as their ‘principal residence’ when they took out a mortgage on it in April 2022.
Swalwell doesn’t appear to own any property in California at all, Gilbert claims in a five-page petition for writ of mandate filed against California Secretary of State Shirley Weber – accusing Swalwell of perjury, and imploring Weber to declare him ineligible to succeed Newsom in November’s election, the Daily Mail reports.
Swalwell filed a California Form 501 – Candidate Intention Statement – on December 4 giving his address as a business suite in a Capitol Mall, Sacramento, high-rise.
‘That address is not a residence. It is the office address of Swalwell’s campaign attorneys,’ Gilbert claims.
‘Form 501 is signed under penalty of perjury, and the use of a non-residential address constitutes a material representation in a filing required to establish candidate qualifications,’ he claimed
The suit asks Weber to ‘fulfill her constitutional duty’ by disqualifying Swalwell from a crowded field that includes Democrat Congresswoman Katie Porter, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and conservative commentator Steve Hilton.
Failing to do so would cause ‘irreparable harm’ to California voters and ‘undermine ballot integrity.’ -Daily Mail
“Eric Swalwell has no California address,” Gilbert told the outlet. “So either he’s guilty of mortgage fraud in Washington, DC, or he’s ineligible to run for Governor of California, he can’t have it both ways.”
Swalwell has represented the San Francisco Bay Area since 2012, and drew notable criticism over an alleged extramarital relationship with woman suspected of being a Chinese honeytrap spy, Christine Fang (Fang Fang), who came to the US as a college student before spending years cozying up to prominent California politicians. She reportedly worked on his 2014 re-election campaign before evaporating into thin air.
The alleged affair cost Swalwell his spot on the House Intelligence Committee, however the Mail notes that no further action was taken after a two-year standards probe.
Read the rest of the report here…
Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/19/2026 – 22:00
Tyrese Maxey celebra su 1er Juego de Estrellas como titular con 29 puntos en triunfo de 76ers
FILADELFIA (AP) — Tyrese Maxey anotó 29 puntos y logró ocho robos horas después de ser nombrado titular del Juego de Estrellas de la NBA por primera vez, y Joel Embiid sumó 30 unidades y nueve rebotes para llevar a los 76ers de Filadelfia a una victoria de 113-104 sobre los Pacers de Indiana el lunes por la noche.
Kelly Oubre Jr. anotó 18 tantos, y los cinco titulares alcanzaron cifras de doble dígito.
Andrew Nembhard lideró a los Pacers con 25 puntos y Pascal Siakam tuvo 24 en una noche en la que los fanáticos del deporte en Indiana probablemente estaban más atentos al juego del campeonato nacional de fútbol americano universitario.
El entrenador de los Pacers, Rick Carlisle, lamentó antes del juego que se perdería el enfrentamiento entre los Hoosiers y Miami.
Lo llamó un “fastidio”.
Carlisle probablemente se sintió de la misma manera después de que los Pacers siguieron una modesta racha de tres victorias con su tercera derrota en cuatro juegos.
Maxey —quien agradeció a sus “compañeros estadounidenses” por votarlo para el juego— lanzó 12 de 24 desde el campo y añadió ocho asistencias mientras continuaba demostrando por qué es una de las estrellas emergentes de la NBA.
Maxey fue nombrado uno de los cinco titulares de la Conferencia Este y está listo para jugar para Estados Unidos en la primera versión del juego All-Star del próximo mes entre Estados Unidos y el Mundo.
Maxey hará su primera aparición como titular y obtuvo su segunda selección para los Sixers gracias a un promedio de 30,3 puntos antes del juego.
Maxey dijo que estaba dormido cuando su compañero novato V.J. Edgecombe lo llamó alrededor de las dos de la tarde para felicitarlo por la selección. Maxey luego recibió una emocionada llamada telefónica de su madre, y volvió a la cama.
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Deportes en español AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
Fotogalería de los incendios forestales en Chile
Por The Associated Press
Incendios forestales que arrasan el centro y sur de Chile dejaron varias personas muertas el domingo, quemaron miles de hectáreas de bosque y destruyeron decenas de hogares, informaron las autoridades.
El país sudamericano está sufriendo una ola de calor.
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Esta es una galería de fotos seleccionada por los editores de fotos de la AP.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de la AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/19/fotogalera-de-los-incendios-forestales-en-chile/
Socialism Is A Noun – A Synonym For Socialism Is Theft
Socialism Is A Noun – A Synonym For Socialism Is Theft
socialism is defined as a political system advocating that the means of production and distribution are owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Words that you may have heard of being representative of socialism are collectivism, communalism, communism, leftism, progressivism, Marxism, Bolshevism, Leninism, Trotskyism, welfarism, Maoism, neo-Marxism, social democracy, consumer socialism, utopian socialism, classless society, collective ownership, public ownership, state ownership, Stalinism, Sovietism Marxism-Leninism, Eurocommunism, totalitarianism, radical socialism, state ownership, rule of the proletariat, and state socialism.
All of these synonyms can be replaced with 1 word, and that word is THEFT.
Theft of your money or theft of any person / victim who earns money and pays taxes, where those taxes go into pet projects which the victims did not vote for and or to cover the compound cumulative interest on the non-stop production of fraud created by the fraudsters (socialists).
It is no coincidence that the 2 largest purveyors of fraud in the U.S. are the Federal Reserve and the School Districts, which own the Central Appraisal Districts, both of which utilize the mantra of printing money. One, the Federal Reserve via its right hand, the U.S. Treasury, prints money, not backed by assets, at will. The other being the School Districts which print their money by committing accounting fraud and bond fraud, demanding continuous bond raises, delivering pre-determined budgets for their owned CAD to contrive additional property valuation fraud and thus over taxation for you the victim to pay for in perpetuity, and as a result the median household income (MHI) shrinks at an alarming rate. In other words, the FED, School Districts, and CADs are socialist organizations that execute the plan socialism while simultaneously paying themselves which is again, transferring your money via fraud into their pockets.
This Article is now part of a series of recent important articles all of which should be read by every citizen in the U.S. & Canada, and any country across the world, to help people understand that socialism is the scourge of any society.
Chain the Doors of the Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve is a Failure – Thesis & Fact Part 2
I Don’t Know What They Think They Know, What I Do Know is This…
We Live in the World of Fraud and Fraudsters – How to Protect Yourself
Daily Affordability is Unobtainable – What can you do about it
How to Audit Your School District & Central Appraisal District
The reason why these articles are so important is that our goal is to expose the fraud that touches the lives of every property owner and also, directly or indirectly, every single Citizen.
It has become clear in recent years that many people paid for an education that did not create a return on their investment. It is also clear that many so-called bastions of education have now been exposed as incubators for socialists. Isn’t it interesting, and not at all coincidental, that on average, across the U.S., property taxes account for 83% of local revenues for public schools, allocated in two components: operations and maintenance (O&M) and interest and sinking fund (I&S), both of which are now proven to be counterproductive to the education of students. We have shown conclusively how the theft of your money by the school districts occurs. See School Districts and Accounting Fraud – Presentation to President Trump and Elon Musk and article, For the Kids.
The psychology of a socialist is detailed in “Chain the Doors of the Federal Reserve” linked above and further expanded below.
In this Article, an extension of Chain the Doors article and the writing of Thomas Pain presented in Thomas Paine – Quotes on Taxes & The Necessity of Taxation, I would like to dig deeper to show why socialism is the antithesis of capitalism and the U.S. Constitution and why socialism should be codified as illegal.
Without exception and without question, stealing private property is immoral and illegal. socialists via taxation, and as you are seeing play out in Minnesota, want to make this acceptable.
To crystalize the thought, money is property. Physical assets are property. Businesses are property. Your mortgage is property from which over time the amortization on your mortgage being the principal reduction is property. Bank accounts are property. In all 5 instances, which in totality are your life, the socialists want to steal your money.
Therefore, as socialists promote socialism (A) and socialism is theft (B) then socialists are thieves (C).
If A = B and B = C then A = C.
Not just theft of property, but theft of Constitutional Rights, and theft of the fabric of civilized society, being morals and respect for individual rights.
Could it be that the warped moral view of socialists is a direct result of an education system that does not teach how to survive and prosper in the real world thus making / brainwashing people to be dependent on the handouts from the government rather than participating in the only system that has worked for 5,000 years which is capitalism?
Are the students to blame, or are the teachers and politicians who are the preachers and screechers that create the fraud from which to take your tax dollars to support the fraud they created? Our goal is to explain to those who have been misled to at least consider the truth of socialism which is that it leads to death and destruction and no rational person would want that upon themselves or their families.
The legal view of a socialist, which is not legal under Constitutional law, is that preventing others from stealing your private property is somehow tyrannical. This is beyond rational thought and can only be the ramification of intentional brainwashing from which those in positions of power, regardless of political party affiliation, including the press, receive the benefit of profit and or perceived power.
Organized retail theft rampant in the most socialist US cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, and Minneapolis is a ramification of socialist policies. The socialists make the argument that they are just the poor working class needing to prevent starvation and homelessness so stealing $5000 Louis Vuitton Bags is perfectly acceptable. This is beyond rational thought.
The need for socialists to support theft and immigration for votes (which costs the taxpayers roughly $1 Trillion per year – $64K per illegal immigrant), also conveys that socialists are not capable of building an economy, or products and services, from scratch. Socialism has never, in the history of the planet, worked because it terminates when it runs out of other people’s money to steal.
The socialist mantra: “The capitalist is stealing from the worker under wage labor slavery and the worker is not receiving the full value of their labor by pocketing what worker created”.
Proof of the idiocy of the socialist cult mantra:
In truth, the worker and the capitalist employer voluntarily agree beforehand to wages and the work to be done, so it is not stealing.
The Worker would not be able to produce any goods or service of value if they are not working for their employer.
The worker can quit and engage in self-employment.
Setting up a business, making agreements with suppliers, arranging financing, and setting up a pipeline for customers, which is often what capitalists do, is labor and is much harder than a worker being involved in just one component of the company.
The worker can quit and join or start a coop if they believe that that type of work arrangement works better.
Society can’t fix what it can’t define and that is the main emphasis of these articles. In the furtherance of defining the issue, what was in the 1980’s and 1990’s a “democratic party” no longer exists. This is not to say there are not reasonable Democrats who would like to participate in a legitimate political party to voice their opinion. This is to say that reasonable Democrats have been cast aside and overshadowed by pure socialism and that means pure theft. The truth is laid bare in the finances of the DNC which are now negative.
Gustave Le Bon, in his work “The Psychology of Socialism,” argues that socialism and radicalism function similarly to religious movements. He suggests that political controversies often stem from contrived emotional responses rather than rational deliberation. This perspective highlights the role of psychology in shaping political ideologies and movements.
socialism as a cult involves extreme devotion to a leader or ideology, often characterized by manipulation and control over members’ thoughts and behaviors. This can lead to a lack of critical thinking and a strong group identity, which may be reinforced through propaganda and social pressure.
Socialism cults often revolve around a charismatic leader who promotes a vision of a collective society. These groups may exhibit extreme devotion to their ideology and leader, which can lead to a strong sense of community among members. Key characteristics include beliefs that diverge significantly from mainstream society, use of manipulative techniques to maintain loyalty and control over members, and the focus is on communal ownership and the idea of working towards a common goal.
The psychology behind socialism cults can involve several factors including that members often find a sense of identity and purpose within the group, which can be appealing, especially in times of social uncertainty. A clear pattern of cognitive dissonance emerges as its members may experience discomfort when their beliefs are challenged, leading them to reinforce their commitment to the group via emotional outbursts, or violence. It is a combination of emotional outburst, violence, and non-willingness to participate in conversation which attempts to strip the rest of society from their first amendment rights of free speech. It goes one step deeper in that there are socialists working among government entities that undermine the purpose of the entities and knowingly, with intent, break the law to support the socialist cult. This is the prime example of the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Charismatic leaders play a crucial role in socialism cults. They often create an idealized image where the Leaders are portrayed as heroic figures, which can enhance loyalty. Propaganda is used to manipulate and maintain a positive image of the leader and the ideology. The leaders may invoke nationalistic sentiments to strengthen group cohesion while simultaneously failing to provide one stitch of evidence against the simple fact that socialism dies when it runs out of other people’s money to steal, including the theft of money from its own members.
See if you can figure out where this brilliant quote came from….”They’d come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island, hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait. The rats would come for the coconut and they would fall into the drum. And after a month, you’ve trapped all the rats. But what did you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it. And they begin to get hungry. Then one by one, they start eating each other, until there are only two left, the two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees. Only now, they don’t eat coconut anymore. Now they only eat rat. You have changed their nature.” This is the back story to Last Rat Standing and exactly what happens with socialism and socialists.
We are proving the truth with irrefutable evidence, on just a few inter-linked issues with property tax at the nucleus, so that society, being rational thinking people, can deal with the fraud of the socialists and insist that the Republic of the United States stand strong under its Constitution.
What we have discovered is very much applicable in Canada, and any other Country that claims to use Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, in which USPAP has been rendered meaningless by intent to defraud, which proves the policy is that of socialism executed by socialists.
The Constitution of the United States of America or socialism???
Over 100 million people have died due to socialist, Marxist, and communist regimes—not from war, but from their own governments’ brutal policies.
Socialism is cloaked in promises of equality, justice, and “free” service including free education, healthcare, housing, and jobs. Its appeal is emotional, targeting the hopes of the marginalized and the frustrations of the working class. Beneath the promises, lies the historical reality of oppression, economic collapse, and human suffering.
With Cuba and many others listed herein, socialism has consistently failed not just economically, but leaving behind a legacy of destroyed economies, starved populations, and crushed freedoms.
The False Promise of Equality
socialism is all promise and no deliver because it is a con. It centralizes power into the hands of the few, creating the very hierarchy and inequality it claims to abolish. The result is not a classless society, but a society where the government becomes the new elite, often ruled by a dictator, while the people suffer under authoritarian control and economic misery. socialism demands a revolution to tear everything down first, in order to create its new communist infrastructure and you can see this playing out live in Minnesota, Germany, European Union, the UK, and played out in our hemisphere, in Cuba. You can see a portion of my story in Cuba in an above linked Article.
After Castro took over in 1959, he nationalized 70 percent of farmland. The result? Between 1957-58, the period before Castro, and 1963-64, by which time the nationalization had been done, the production of beef, pork, poultry, eggs, milk, corn, rice, root vegetables malanga and yucca, and potatoes all fell by a double digit, and typically a high double-digit, percentage. Output of their biggest crop, sugar, fell by 35 percent. Why didn’t Cubans starve? The Soviet Union bailed them out. The CEA report notes that Puerto Rico and Cuba had relative equal national incomes in 1950 but, by 2000, Cuba’s national income relative to Puerto Rico’s had fallen by almost two thirds. I saw stores in Cuba where the locals go, and even basic toiletries were not available.
The Soviet Union: Death by Utopia
The USSR was the first major experiment in socialism after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Under Stalin, the state controlled all means of production, abolished private property, and forced collectivization of farms. The result was beyond catastrophic:
The Holodomor (1932–1933) – A man-made famine in Ukraine caused by forced collectivization. An estimated 3.9 million people starved to death.
Stalin’s purges, gulags, and mass arrests led to millions of deaths and imprisonments, often without trial.
Shortages became the norm. Citizens stood in long lines for bread and toiletries. Just like
By the time it collapsed in 1991, the Soviet socialist system had claimed over 20 million lives through executions, famines, and forced labor.
Mao’s China: The Socialist Engine of Death
Under Chairman Mao Zedong, the Chinese Communist Party unleashed two of the deadliest campaigns in human history:
The Great Leap Forward (1958–1962) – Mao’s forced collectivization and industrialization effort caused the deadliest famine in world history, killing an estimated 30–45 million people.
The Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) – A purge of perceived “capitalist” elements, during which millions were tortured, killed, or driven to suicide, and priceless cultural heritage was destroyed.
All of this was carried out in the name of socialist ideology. The people were promised prosperity. What they received was death and devastation.
Venezuela: The Collapse in Real Time
Venezuela, once one of Latin America’s richest countries, embraced socialism under Hugo Chávez and continued under Nicolás Maduro. Promising to redistribute oil wealth and end poverty, the regime nationalized industries, restricted private property, and eliminated market competition.
The result?
Inflation surpassed 1,000,000% in 2018, making its currency practically worthless.
Food shortages became widespread.
90% of the population fell below the poverty line.
Hospitals lacked basic medicine.
Children died of malnutrition.
Millions of Venezuelans fled the country, creating one of the largest refugee crises in the Western Hemisphere.
Far from bringing justice, socialism in Venezuela robbed an entire generation of hope.
Cuba and North Korea: Islands of Oppression
Both Cuba and North Korea remain socialist examples of totalitarian control:
Cuba, under Fidel Castro, jailed dissidents, eliminated press freedom, and kept the population under tight surveillance. To this day, internet access is restricted, dissent is punished, and scarcity remains the norm.
North Korea represents perhaps the most extreme example. Ruled by dictatorship, its citizens face starvation, public executions, and complete isolation. Meanwhile, the regime invests in nuclear weapons and luxury for the ruling class.
Why socialism Always Fails
socialism destroys the incentive to innovate, produce, and excel by removing profit and competition. It replaces market decisions with bureaucratic ones, often by force. Worse, it concentrates immense power in the hands of the state and as we have seen that power that is almost always abused.
My Father taught me that “absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
socialism is a con, and in every case, without exception, it led to:
Authoritarian control
Economic collapse
Suppression of dissent
Loss of personal freedom
Mass death
The Human Toll: Over 100 Million Dead
According to The Black Book of Communism, a publication by European scholars, the death toll from socialist regimes in the 20th century exceeds 100 million. These are not deaths from war, but from starvation, executions, prison camps, and purges and all were committed in peacetime by governments against their own people.
To the socialists, it is ok if you disagree with your position in life or even this Article. However, if you are a rational thinking person, then ask yourself if there is anything in this Article that is not true. As it is true, then what does that say about you as a person wanting to put yourself, your family, and alleged friends in harms way of a horrific con that has ended in death?
To the alleged Republicans, it is time to look at the policies you created and if they were for socialist reasons and ended in socialist non-stop compound cumulative interest on fraudulent bond debt, then you either move immediately to destroy those polices (all property tax) or the only thing that separates you from the socialists in Minnesota is the violence. If any new policy is a socialist policy, that is, for the benefit of the government and not the citizens, then that attempted policy should never see the light of day or be approved.
We are now at the Supreme Court of Texas with the published statement that either the black letter of the law exists or it does not. See The Importance of the Vexler Case to Texas. The reason for this case is the refusal of the courts to deal with the legal dead zone they created and that is exactly for what the Supreme Courts exists. Either the law exists or it doesn’t. We are about to find out.
Conclusion:
socialism delivers control, coercion, and collapse.
socialism promises free, but the truth is… the world can’t afford free.
socialism must be codified into law as illegal. It is a cult. Call it what it is, and let’s deal with it.
Society, regardless of political affiliation (if any) should realize that a social policy is not socialism. A social policy could and should be a policy to eliminate hunger in the U.S. or a policy to eliminate cancer. These social policies are set forth and defined by the government but financially executed without government involvement. The market must do the lifting, not the government.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/19/2026 – 21:30
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/socialism-noun-synonym-socialism-theft
La lesión en el tendón de Aquiles de George Kittle es considerada el ‘mejor escenario’ por médicos
Por JOSH DUBOW
SANTA CLARA, California, EE.UU. (AP) — George Kittle, ala cerrada de los 49ers de San Francisco, quien ha sido seleccionado para el Pro Bowl, dijo que los médicos caracterizaron su ruptura del tendón de Aquiles como un “mejor escenario posible”, lo que le da esperanza de poder regresar sin perder tiempo significativo la próxima temporada.
Kittle se lesionó el tendón de Aquiles derecho en una victoria en la ronda de comodines sobre Filadelfia el 11 de enero y se sometió a cirugía la semana pasada en Los Ángeles. Kittle dijo que el Dr. Neal ElAttrache le informó que tenía un “desgarro limpio” cerca de su músculo sóleo, que está más arriba en el tendón de Aquiles.
“No tuvieron que perforar mi talón”, dijo Kittle el lunes. “Donde fue la reparación, hay más flujo sanguíneo, por lo que reduce el tiempo de recuperación. Así que está muy emocionado por todo. Mi recuperación —cuando estaré corriendo, cuando estaré listo para jugar de nuevo— le entusiasma mucho. Así que eso me pone de muy buen humor. No es tan malo como otros casos”.
“Lo mantendré como una sorpresa”, comentó Kittle cuando se le solicitó comentar sobre un cronograma de su recuperación. Pero un regreso en ocho a nueve meses podría llevar a Kittle de vuelta al campo cerca del comienzo de la temporada 2026.
Kittle dijo que supo de inmediato cuán grave era la lesión, diciendo que “se sintió como si alguien pusiera una escopeta contra mi pantorrilla y apretara el gatillo”.
Le dijo al entrenador de los Eagles, quien fue el primero en el campo para revisarlo, que necesitaba un carrito y fue llevado de regreso al vestuario. Kittle fue acompañado allí por su familia, así como por el propietario de los Niners, Jed York, quien consiguió una botella de tequila para su estrella.
“Recibir su apoyo fue absolutamente fantástico”, dijo Kittle. “El hecho de que el dueño del equipo baje para darte sus condolencias y simplemente se quede allí contigo realmente muestra qué tipo de lugar es este y las personas que están en este edificio. Y me hace muy feliz ser un Niner”.
Kittle ha sido dos veces All-Pro y siete veces seleccionado para el Pro Bowl, siendo una parte clave de la ofensiva de San Francisco como amenaza en el pase y como bloqueador en el juego terrestre. Tuvo 57 recepciones para 628 yardas y siete touchdowns esta temporada.
Los Niners tuvieron dificultades ofensivas en su ausencia la semana pasada, perdiendo 41-6 ante Seattle en la ronda divisional.
Actualización de lesiones
Hubo algunas otras actualizaciones de lesiones en el día de limpieza de vestuarios para San Francisco.
El destacado linebacker Fred Warner dijo que estaba listo para regresar si el equipo avanzaba al juego por el título de la Conferencia Nacional, pero ahora ralentizará su trabajo de rehabilitación con significativamente más tiempo para sanar.
“Creo que mi rehabilitación se había acelerado obviamente para intentar llegar al juego de campeonato de la NFC”, dijo Warner. “Ahora, solo puedo ralentizar las cosas y realmente trabajar en todos los pequeños detalles que no pude trabajar antes de que todo esto sucediera. Es solo negocio como de costumbre”.
El ala defensiva novato Mykel Williams, quien se rompió el ligamento cruzado anterior en la semana nueve, dijo que su rehabilitación va bien y espera estar listo para el inicio de la temporada.
El quarterback Brock Purdy dijo que no necesitará ningún tratamiento especial para su lesión de dedo de césped que lo dejó fuera de juego durante ocho partidos de la temporada.
“El dedo está listo”, dijo Purdy. “Obviamente, continuaré fortaleciéndolo y dándole algo de descanso y demás. Pero está bien”.
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Deportes en español AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
Musk’s Boring Company To Build Free 1-Mile Tunnel In “Tunnel Vision Challenge!”
Musk’s Boring Company To Build Free 1-Mile Tunnel In “Tunnel Vision Challenge!”
In a new contest, Elon Musk’s tunneling firm, The Boring Company, will build a 1-mile tunnel for free to the best idea submitted to the company.
The Boring Company’s Prufrock 5 tunneler (via X)
“Announcing the Tunnel Vision Challenge!” the company wrote on X. “Pitch us your best 1-mile tunnel idea (Loop, freight, pedestrian, utility, etc.), we’ll pick a winner, and build it…for free!”
Announcing the Tunnel Vision Challenge! Pitch us your best 1-mile tunnel idea (Loop, freight, pedestrian, utility, etc.), we’ll pick a winner, and build it…for free!
Details:https://t.co/xRTmClRjVt
Criteria:
-Usefulness (good bang for the bore)
-Stakeholder Engagement (get…
— The Boring Company (@boringcompany) January 19, 2026
In an announcement on their website, the company said (emphasis ours):
Do you have Tunnel Vision?
You might if you often look around and wonder, wouldn’t it be a lot easier if I could get from Point A to Point B without the hassle of crossing busy roads, intersections, or other obstacles. Tunnels may be your answer!
The Boring Company (TBC) invites you to submit your proposal for a tunnel project up to 1 mile in length with a 12-foot inner diameter. TBC will select a winner from the proposals submitted and construct the tunnel free of charge. The tunnel can be a Loop tunnel, a freight tunnel, a pedestrian tunnel, a utility tunnel, a water tunnel, or any other use case where a tunnel would be useful. Prufrock is designed to construct mega-infrastructure projects in a matter of weeks instead of years – so let’s build!
The deadline for submissions will be February 23, 2026, and a winner will be picked on March 23, 2026.
As Tesla Oracle notes further;
Musk founded The Boring Company in an effort to reduce tunneling costs. To achieve this, the diameter of the tunnel boring machines (TBMs) was reduced to 12 feet.
Following the same principle of constant improvement, The Boring Company continually upgrades its TBMs. The latest TBM is named Prufrock 5 (pictured above).
With the previous version (Prufrock 4), The Boring Company achieved a phenomenal tunneling cost efficiency of $27 million per mile. Musk’s company is aiming to achieve a cost of $10 million per mile of tunneling with Prufrock 5 and its future TBMs.
Compared to the US standard, boring a 1-mile tunnel costs a staggering $2.5 billion on average (see graph below). So, the Tunnel Vision Challenge is offering at least a $27 million value for free.
Prufrock-4 is our smartest, fastest and safest Tunnel Boring Machine. And the next iterations (5, 6, and 7) are already being built at The Boring Factory in Texas. Goal is Continuous Mining and Zero-People-in-Tunnel (ZPIT).
We are hiring exceptional ME, EE, and SWEs – join us! pic.twitter.com/oKntdUnOsf
— The Boring Company (@boringcompany) September 14, 2025
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The outlet also notes that the Boring Company’s Las Vegas Convention Center Loop (LVCC) is the best example of a finished tunnel, which carries Tesla vehicles around the strip as long as you have a Model S, 3, X, Y, or Cybertruck (so basically all of ’em). The company collaborated with the Las Vegas Airport and city officials to set up a service called Vegas Loop that helps visitors with airport dropoffs.
Vegas Loop dropoff at the Airport!
Still in the early phases of the program, providing a small number of rides each day.
The ride includes both a tunnel portion and a long surface portion, with the latter shifting to subsurface when the 2.25 mile Airport Connector twin tunnels… https://t.co/uoqer0Jye5 pic.twitter.com/dMUAQUboAh
— The Boring Company (@boringcompany) December 30, 2025
Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/19/2026 – 21:00
No. 1 UConn extends winning streak to 19 games with 85-47 win over Notre Dame
STORRS, Conn. — Sarah Strong had 18 points, including the 1,000th of her career, as top-ranked UConn beat Notre Dame 85-47 on Monday and extended its winning streak to 19 games.
Strong added 11 rebounds, three steals and three blocked shots. The Huskies (19-0) snapped a three-game losing streak against Notre Dame.
KK Arnold had 12 points, five assists, two steals and one turnover while drawing the defensive assignment on Notre Dame star Hannah Hidalgo. Azzi Fudd added 15 points and Ashlynn Shade finished with 10 points and four assists as UConn won its 35th consecutive game and posted its largest margin of victory against the Fighting Irish.
Hidalgo, who averaged 31.5 points in the previous two games against UConn, had 16 points on 5-of-15 shooting for her 85th straight game of scoring in double figures. Cassandra Prosper added 12 points for Notre Dame (12-6).
UConn used an 18-2 run in the third quarter to break the game open.
Notre Dame missed its first seven shots and the Huskies jumped out to an early eight-point lead. A basket by Arnold gave the Huskies their first double-digit point lead late in the first quarter.
Hidalgo was held scoreless in the first quarter. With UConn up 25-11, Hidalgo scored 10 of the final 12 points in the second quarter as Notre Dame cut its deficit to 32-23 by the break and became the first team this season to be trailing by less than double digits going into the second half against UConn.
Strong scored her 1,000th career point on a 3-pointer with 7:31 left in the first half. She hit the milestone in 59 games. Paige Bueckers and Maya Moore are the only Huskies to reach the milestone in fewer games.
KK Bransford hasn’t played since a Dec. 11 win over Morehead State. That left Notre Dame playing three starters at least 36 minutes.
Up next
Notre Dame: Hosts Miami on Thursday.
UConn: At Georgetown on Thursday.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/19/notre-dame-uconn-winning-streak/
Why California Is Bleeding Tech Jobs: Decline Is A Policy Choice
Why California Is Bleeding Tech Jobs: Decline Is A Policy Choice
Authored by Vance Ginn via the American Institute for Economic Research,
For much of the past half-century, California benefited from a powerful first-mover advantage.
Dense networks of talent, capital, and research institutions allowed the state to absorb policy mistakes that would have crippled competitors. High spending and taxes, restrictive housing rules, and regulatory complexity were treated as nuisances rather than binding constraints, because growth could outstrip their costs.
That margin of error has narrowed dramatically.
What California is now experiencing is not a cyclical tech downturn or a post-COVID-19 pandemic anomaly. It is a measurable, policy-driven decline in relative competitiveness.
The most important evidence is not that tech employment has fallen in absolute terms, but that California’s share of national tech employment has been shrinking, while other states gain ground.
Markets are responding to incentives exactly as economic theory predicts.
Employment Share, Not Headlines, Tells the Story
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Current Employment Statistics data, California’s technology employment growth has underperformed national trends for several years, including during periods when tech hiring stabilized or rebounded elsewhere, and recently has been declining. California’s share of U.S. tech jobs is falling from roughly 19 percent pre-2020 to closer to 16 percent in recent years, a nontrivial shift for an industry this large.
This is a classic example of relative decline. California still employs more tech workers than any other state, but it is no longer where the marginal job is being created.
Commercial real estate data corroborate the employment figures. Office vacancy rates across Silicon Valley remain elevated well beyond what remote work alone would explain. Bay Area office markets have not recovered in the way peer regions have. Persistent vacancies signal not just a shift to hybrid work, but also geographic reallocation of firms and labor.
Migration as a Labor Market Signal
Labor mobility reinforces the same conclusion. U.S. Census state-to-state migration data show continued net domestic outmigration from California, particularly among working-age adults. While international immigration partially offsets population losses, domestic migration is more relevant for employer location decisions, especially in high-skill sectors.
Economic theory predicts that firms follow labor when relocation costs are low and regulatory frictions are high.
California now faces both: high regulatory frictions at home and increasingly credible substitutes elsewhere.
Founding Versus Scaling: A Crucial Distinction
California still dominates early-stage venture capital totals, as shown in venture investment data. This is often cited as evidence that concerns about the state’s competitiveness are overstated. That interpretation conflates firm formation with firm expansion.
Founding activity reflects legacy advantages such as universities, networks, and capital concentration. Scaling decisions reflect marginal costs. Increasingly, firms are choosing to incorporate or raise seed funding in California while expanding headcount in lower-cost, lower-regulation states.
From an economic standpoint, this is predictable. Scaling in California exposes firms to the nation’s highest marginal income tax rates, comparatively punitive capital gains taxation, rigid labor mandates, slow permitting processes, and volatile regulatory expectations. These costs rise nonlinearly as firms grow.
AI Regulation as a Binding Constraint
Artificial intelligence (AI) policy may become the clearest illustration of California’s regulatory overreach.
A recent CalMatters analysis documents how California lawmakers have pursued some of the most expansive state-level AI regulations in the country. These proposals extend liability, mandate preemptive risk assessments, and impose compliance obligations before alleged harms are empirically demonstrated or even defined.
From an economic perspective, this approach treats innovation as a presumptive externality rather than a productivity-enhancing input.
AI is widely understood as a general-purpose technology. Research shows that such technologies generate broad, economy-wide productivity gains, not sector-specific benefits. Overregulating AI therefore depresses expected returns not only in software, but also across health care, logistics, manufacturing, finance, and education.
California’s AI regulatory framework has drawn federal scrutiny, which is instructive. As noted in CalMatters, state-level AI mandates were referenced in President Donald Trump’s recent presidential executive order, citing concerns over fragmented and inconsistent state regulation. Regardless of political framing, the economic concern is straightforward: regulatory fragmentation raises fixed costs and discourages upscaling.
Regulation, Market Structure, and Incumbency
California’s regulatory posture also has implications for market structure. Extensive empirical literature shows that high fixed compliance costs reduce entry and increase concentration. The OECD’s work on regulation and competition consistently finds that heavier regulatory burdens favor large incumbents at the expense of startups and challengers.
This dynamic undermines the very competition that drives innovation. Europe’s experience with digital (over)regulation offers a cautionary parallel, acknowledged even in European Commission competitiveness reports. California risks reproducing that outcome domestically, exporting innovation to other states rather than other continents.
Costs Complete the Incentive Structure
AI regulation is best understood as the marginal constraint layered atop an already expensive environment. California has the highest top marginal income tax rate in the United States, and it taxes capital gains as income. Housing scarcity, documented extensively by the University of California–Berkeley’s Terner Center, raises labor costs without increasing real purchasing power. Energy prices remain among the nation’s highest, as shown by EIA electricity price data.
In combination, these policies alter the expected return on investment at the margin. States such as Texas and Florida offer credible alternatives: no personal income tax, faster permitting, lower housing costs, and a lighter regulatory touch.
Firms do not need ideological motivation to relocate. The incentive structure does the work.
Opportunity Costs and Distributional Effects
The economic cost of tech job relocation extends beyond headline employment figures. When tech employment relocates, these spillovers disappear as well.
The distributional consequences are regressive.
High-skill workers are mobile.
Lower-income workers tied to local economies are much less so.
Policies that suppress growth (even under the banner of equity) often hurt the poor most.
A Predictable Outcome
Unless California changes course, the trajectory is clear. AI firms will incorporate elsewhere. Venture capital will follow labor. Scaling will increasingly occur in states that treat innovation as an asset rather than a liability.
California will remain an important source of ideas. It will be a diminishing source of jobs. Markets are not ideological. They respond to incentives. On that front, the verdict is already in.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/19/2026 – 20:30
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-california-bleeding-tech-jobs-decline-policy-choice
Wembanyama anota 33 puntos en victoria 123-110 sobre Jazz tras ser elegido titular del All-Star
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Victor Wembanyama logró su mejor marca de la temporada con siete triples y terminó con 33 puntos y diez rebotes horas después de ser nombrado titular del Juego de Estrellas por primera vez, mientras los Spurs de San Antonio vencieron 123-110 al Jazz de Utah el lunes.
Wembanyama, nombrado para su segundo equipo All-Star y el octavo jugador de San Antonio en ser titular, acertó siete de 12 desde la distancia de tres puntos y se quedó a uno de su mejor marca personal, establecida el 13 de noviembre de 2024, contra Washington.
Los Spurs tuvieron a siete jugadores anotando en cifras de doble dígito en su tercera victoria consecutiva y la quinta en siete juegos.
El trío de la línea de fondo compuesto por Stephon Castle (18 puntos), Dylan Harper (15) y De’Aaron Fox (14) sumó 47 unidades para San Antonio.
Keyonte George anotó 30 puntos y Jusuf Nurkic añadió 20 para Utah.
El Jazz rompió la racha de ocho victorias consecutivas de los Spurs en el encuentro anterior entre ambos equipos el 27 de diciembre. San Antonio y Wembanyama se aseguraron de que no se repitiera el resultado.
Wembanyama acertó tres de cuatro en triples anotando 13 puntos en el primer cuarto y tenía 21 puntos al descanso.
Los Spurs superaron a Utah 35-23 en el tercer cuarto y convirtieron una ventaja de cuatro al medio tiempo en su 17ma victoria por cifras dobles.
Wembanyama promedió 31,3 puntos durante una barrida de tres juegos en casa de San Antonio.
Utah ha perdido cuatro seguidos y cerró su gira 1-4.
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Jonathan Toews on his long-awaited return to the United Center: ‘It’s always fun to feel the (Chicago) energy’
The Winnipeg Jets flew into Chicago this weekend after their 4-3 overtime loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. They’re on a Central time zone back-to-back, facing the Chicago Blackhawks first and then the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday.
Monday was the typical routine: the home team had its morning skate, Hawks coach Jeff Blashill spoke to the media and the road team had its morning practice. Well, normal for everyone except a certain veteran.
Jonathan Toews wears Winnipeg blue these days, but his history never left the United Center. His name is engraved on three Stanley Cup rosters outside the Hawks’ locker room.
The Jets entered the visiting locker room after their practice to prepare for their road game versus the Hawks. It’s pretty nice — not as comfy as the Hawks’ room Toews spent 15 seasons in, but it’ll do.
“It’s definitely different, just being out of the city for a while and coming back, especially with a big Bears game last night,” Toews said. “It’s always fun to feel the energy when you come back to Chicago, so it’s nice to be back.”
This date has been marked since the day he signed his one-year contract with the Jets. Toews is back playing in the United Center for the first time in three years.
Jonathan Toews kisses the Cup during the Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup Victory Rally at Wacker and Michigan on Friday, June 11, 2010. (Brian Cassella/ Chicago Tribune)
There isn’t a speck of animosity from the Hawks faithful; they shared their thanks to the former team captain in a pregame social media video. The United Center will be full of number 19 jerseys.
Toews feels the love already, so much that he said he doesn’t know how he’ll receive the rest of it during his tribute. He labeled his return with the same word that Patrick Kane used to describe his visit.
Weird.
“You don’t get games like this all the time,” Toews said. “At the end of the day, you want to go out there and play well, and you want to win the game, so you got to keep some level of focus and not get too distracted with all the things going on around you.”
Patrick Kane said on Sunday that he expects Toews to get an equal — or greater — ovation from the Hawks when he’s honored during the game. No. 88 did set the bar high when it comes to Chicago returns.
No need for comparisons, Toews will just take in the moment. Without the advice of Kane.
“He tends to do that, I stopped comparing myself to him a long time ago,” Toews said with a smile. “I thought about (asking for advice) and then I was like ‘You know, what am I calling him for advice for?’”
You know the story: Toews was drafted No. 3 in 2006 by the Hawks — followed by Kane (No. 1) the year later — and kicked off the modern dynasty of Hawks hockey.
Toews skated in the United Center for 15 years, scoring 883 points (327 goals, 511 assists). The three-time Stanley Cup champion is the second-youngest player to win the Conn Smythe Trophy, and has a Selke Trophy in his case as well.
Toews was named among the NHL’s top 100 players in 2017. He’s what every team captain strives to be — a winner.
“He’s a winning player, it’s something we’ve talked about,” Blashill said. “There are great point-getters and there are great winners, and for me, he’s a great winner.
“What we’ve talked about with our group from day one here is we want our guys to become those winning-type championship-level players that understand you have to check for your offense, understand not every shift are you going to be able to make an amazing play. You pounce when you get the opportunity to pounce and you play smart when you don’t.”
As current Hawks captain Nick Foligno and alternate captains Jason Dickinson and Connor Murphy edge closer to the end of their Hawks tenures, some leadership decisions may need to be made. Blashill said he is seeing captain-like tendencies in young players like Connor Bedard, who could go on a similar ‘C’ patch trajectory as Toews.
“Everybody has to do it their own way, part of leadership is being genuine and being who you are and not everybody is the same,” Blashill said. “I don’t know Jonathan well personally, so it’s hard for me to say what exact traits he had, but one thing you could certainly model is the way that he played.”
Toews is seeing it in No. 98, too.
“I can’t compare anything that I went through to the pressure he’s been under since he was a junior hockey player, I can’t imagine,” Toews said. “Only one guy knows what that’s like, and that’s him.
“It’s pretty incredible to see how he keeps raising his game, what is he, 20? The pressure that’s on him, what he walks around with every day, it’s not an easy way to grow up as a young man, but from afar, it looks like he’s doing a heck of a job.”
This is Toews’s first appearance at the United Center in three years, but also his first season playing hockey in that span this year. It’s been a season of rust-shaking for the 37-year-old, who took time away due to health problems.
“It’s definitely been an adjustment,” Toews said. “I mean, there’s a lot of things that I’ve mentioned when I’ve been asked this question throughout the year that I didn’t really predict or foresee. As time went along, I’ve been able to feel more comfortable and just find my game and settle in and find a role on this team.”
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He seems to be getting back into the flow, scoring four goals in his last five games. It’s the style he’s had in all those years with the Hawks.
“The beauty of our game is it’s so team-oriented, and I’m always trying to be cognizant of the fact I was thrown into a really incredible opportunity,” Toews said. “I’ll give myself credit, I definitely had a lot of will, a lot of energy coming into my career as a young kid here in Chicago, but it was just a perfect storm.
“I went to play in the world championship after my last year in college, and all the guys there were always like, ‘Chicago is such a great sports city.’ Sure enough, that really came true within a couple years of being here.”
The Hawks faithful are still in his heart, too. He remembers the experiences he gained with the fans as much as the ones he was able to give them on the ice.
In short, the former captain says thank you for the memories.
“That’s one of the coolest things, and ultimately that’s a big reason why I wanted to play hockey when I was a young kid,” Toews said. “When people would come up to you and talk about where they were when you won one of the Cups, or whatever it was — the story they want to share — it gives people memories (and) it’s pretty special to have those memories.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/19/jonathan-toews-united-center-return/












