The dual motivic Steenrod algebra with mod \(\ell \) coefficients was computed by Voevodsky over a base field of characteristic zero, and by Hoyois, Kelly, and Østvær over a base field of characteristic \(p \ne \ell \) . In the case \(p = \ell \) , we show that the conjectured answer is a retract of the actual answer. We also describe the slices of the algebraic cobordism spectrum \(\textrm{MGL}\) : we show that the conjectured form of \(s_n \textrm{MGL}\) is a retract of the actual answer.
