“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris. hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...

The "Australia effect" or as I like to call it: summer.

You can’t stop refreshing Air Force One I see you!

UPDATE Air Force One is returning to Andrews due to a “minor electrical issue.” The President and his delegation will board a different aircraft and head to Davos.

It’s insane how bad media coverage has gotten in the U.S. The sanewashing of Trump, lack of investigative reporting, failure to do due diligence. And the lack of outlets. I used to check so many different sites and now it’s… bleak.

The 25th Amendment is not for the type of incapacity that Trump has. All he has to do to resume power is inform Congress that that he's resuming power. The VP can try to contest that resumption, but that requires a 2/3 majority of both the House and Senate. Impeachment has a lower bar.

Trump says Congress no longer necessary.

I have to imagine Chuck Schumer is having conversations with Republican senators and senior military about what happens if Trump actually tries to order an invasion of Greenland...

The top 10% now account for nearly half of all consumer spending.

A weird article where Democratic strategists tell us what they think about 2028 thehill.com/homenews/cam...

ImagiNation

Incredible moment here of Chuck Schumer refusing to do politics. Notable that this sort of pointed questioning comes from a student journalist rather than one of the networks.

The AI bubble has fundamentally worse unit economics than anything of the Dot Com bubble era, with no signs of improvement. GPUs quickly depreciate, have limited use cases, and have incredible capex and opex. There is no "dark fiber" use case for them. www.wheresyoured.at/dot-com-bubble/

Do any of my followers know anyone who has retired from DHS?

I’m secondhand embarrassed. How does Trump not know this makes him look dumb?

I’m watching 90s television; let’s bring back the phrase “this bites.”

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

Finally finished my revise and resubmit. Let’s party! 🥳

Impeach and remove Trump today. I need a new No Kings protest like yesterday!

Maybe the Trump administration will radicalizing Americans so that they become radically pro-immigrant

Some Democrats don't want to impeach Noem because they think it will distract from affordability messaging? Like seriously, what are Dems in Washington even doing? Just start saying "peace and prosperity," it's not hard. Voters can handle 2 issues at once!! www.axios.com/2026/01/14/k...

I don't understand how this is legal...? www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

So because my representative @nadler.house.gov is retiring he is no longer going to oppose Trump & hand him a blank check to go to war? Wake up. Are there any candidates for NY-12 who will actually try to stop the president?

So because my representative Jerry Nadler is retiring, Trump gets a blank check to go to war with whichever country he wants? Which candidate for NY-10 is going to oppose the president?

Also, it is completely idiotic for Trump to force this wedge within NATO. It makes Russia think the time is right to be more aggressive if the alliance is divided. Short-sighted, illegal, and stupid beyond belief.

Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.

Hypothesis: In cities where DHS was deployed to conduct aggressive raids (such as Minneapolis), voter turnout will increase and vote share for Dems will increase.

This has to be the stupidest sentence I've read in a while: "The only way lawmakers can put guardrails on the controversial agency and curb President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda at this moment is to hand it billions of taxpayer dollars." www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

What a role model!

Kinda fed up with our tyrannical government!!

ICE is now routinely using government data to get the personal information of observers without benefit of a subpoena, and then using that data to intimidate those observers from exercising their civil liberties.

It's almost as if regular citizens don't take kindly to having their communities invaded by fascist stormtroopers.

Let your investors be your jesters at the rugpull of success

rahm emmanuel is getting asked "didn't you cover up a murder" whether he likes it or not

Honk shoo honk shoo

I can only speak for myself but I believe sincere conversions on the road to Damascus should be welcome.

One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

I am writing a book about this!

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

WOMP

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

Where are Democrats right now. It’s insane

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

So war in Taiwan it is then?

Amendment 25 please

Autocratic America complete with Secret Police

Where the hell are Google and Apple enforcing their app store terms of service on X? Grok doing CSAM should instantly be a removal from the app store. Any other app doing this would be pulled instantly. Journalists should be asking for comment from these companies.

Things are not going well for Republicans rn www.politico.com/news/2026/01...