Anyone who's been to the store recently doesn't need a study to know this. The tariff scam has to end.

Took my wife out to dinner & by happenstance I had the opportunity to thank someone who has been an exemplar of courage & integrity in the current moment. All while he faces threats & the expectation of prosecution. As he reminded us this week—the rule of law is not self executing. Hold the line.

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

Nobody will forget nor forgive this.

I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.

GOP Rep Criticizes ICE Detention of 5-Year-Old: ‘That Should Not Happen’

Found this on the National Park Service site, but it may not be up for long. www.nps.gov/inde/learn/h...

There's a clear precedent she's set here, and it's that you can say whatever you want about the inner workings of CBS News and just sign it "the editors".

3/6 If Putin wins in Ukraine, the odds of China invading Taiwan rise. Every major U.S. tech company relies on chips from Taiwan. To pretend that we don’t have a stake in that fight is naïve.

JUST IN: Judge Richard Leon (GWBush) sounds skeptical of Trump's power to build WH ballroom w/o Congress' OK. "The '77 Gerald Ford swimming pool? You compare that to ripping down the East Wing & building a new East Wing? C'mon, be serious!" he told DOJ lawyer.

(MINNEAPOLIS) - Federal judges in Minnesota have several times in recent weeks rejected arrest warrants for people protesting a surge of immigration officers in that state, finding that federal agents do not have sufficient evidence .. @ms.now www.ms.now/news/minneso...

Pretty funny to see Trump, who has pardoned more fraudsters than all prior presidents combined (no one has ever seen anything like it!) say he wants to crack down on fraud www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Yesterday Jack Smith hearing in congress is a textbook example. All the protocols are here, however from the introductory speech onwards, it was clear the goal was never to hear his testimony.

As I've written before, people don’t trust institutions because institutions aren't doing the job. Democracy rests on three pillars: Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, which can be understood as being substantial, performative, and simulated. demos.co.uk/research/ver...

Verification (establishing truth), Deliberation (arguing about it), and Accountability (binding power to it). When these work, you have substance. When they break, you slide into performance, and eventually, simulation, and people recognise this, even if they don't use a shared terminology.

Please watch PM Carney's speech. Powerful, and in my view as a political scholar, 100% accurate. We must stop living within the lie. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fV5f...

Donald Trump is furious not because Jack Smith did anything wrong as special prosecutor, but because he did everything right.

Extremely important and welcome news. The war is not ending anytime soon, and Europe must urgently scale up long-term air defense orders for Ukraine

Jim Jordan cuts off Jack Smith when he describes that they paid someone to analyze video evidence to show that people came directly from the Ellipse to attack the Capitol. Hope to hell some Dem follows up. [They can show it with Danny Rodriguez, who almost killed Michael Fanone.]

This judge should haul Bovino in every time one of his goons violates the order.

I'm just spitballing here, but I bet people in Minneapolis would be nicer to ICE agents if the ICE agents would stop harassing, assaulting, kidnapping, and murdering their neighbors.

Darrell Issa claims that he and Jordan "saw wrongdoing" after 2020, so they voted against accepting electors from two states. But, of course, they didn't see any such wrongdoing, since there wasn't any.

Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:

Jack Smith: "Trump was charged bc the evidence established he willfully broke the law -- the very laws he took an oath to uphold... After leaving office, Trump illegally kept classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago social club... highly sensitive natl security info was held in a ballroom & bathroom."

Interesting that the unitary executive theory could undermine the Trump administration's argument that they can rely on administrative warrants signed by "neutral & detached" executive branch officials because under that theory there's no such thing as a neutral executive branch official.

Jim Jordan is now hammering on Cassidy Hutchinson, and how Smith wouldn't use her as a witness in court. The reason isn't because she's a liar, but because her testimony was second-hand. Totally disingenuous of him to consider hearsay a lie.

How dare Jim Jordan, who lies incessantly, claim that "everybody knows" Cassidy Hutchinson was dishonest.

I can't even keep up with the lies in Jim Jordan's opening statement, but I find it interesting that he's complaining about toll record warrants obtained by a judge, while this administration has determined judicial warrants aren't needed to enter our homes.

Jim Jordan just started speaking and has already lied. (Said Smith's team sought "phone calls.") He wastes no time. A master of efficiency.

WATCH NOW: Jack Smith testifies before the House Judiciary Committee

1. After months of denials, the Trump administration has admitted that DOGE staff misused Social Security data. A DOGE staffer signed a deal to share the data with a “political advocacy group” seeking to “overturn election results" The identity of the staffer is not disclosed but there are clues

Zelensky is in a good position to know this, direct experience. Please listen, Europe. Those of you still hanging on to wishful thinking need to deal with the world as it is, challenging and painful though it may be. Some pain, unfortunately, is unavoidable. The part that isn’t is your response.

If this is accurate, Good was killed by a bullet fired after there was any conceivable argument Agent Ross was in the path of her vehicle, which means there was no legal justification for using deadly force. But DOJ says there’s no reason to investigate. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties

Jack Smith's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee marks the first open testimony about his work after presiding over two federal criminal indictments of President Trump. n.pr/49AkNEw

Trump's Board of Peace will be a farce without virtually any European countries, but including Russia, Belarus, Hungary, and a slew of other authoritarian countries.

Dreadful WSJ editorial. Since when do we judge countries by whether they can repel a US invasion? Ludicrous standard. Also no thought given to whether US can defend the Arctic alone, w/out Europe. It can't. US needs Canadian icebreakers to supply Pituffik, for instance www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

The president has backed off his threat to take Greenland by force. But his highly inflammatory remarks in Switzerland rattled U.S. allies and threatened to tear down the pillars of the world order. n.pr/4pQdAVs

Incredible sadism www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

The hilarious thing is that two major members of this proposed "Board of Peace" cannot attend the ceremony as there is an international warrant out for their arrest for Genocide & War Crimes! You couldn't make it up!

Trump’s Board of Peace logo is basically the UN logo, except dipped in gold and edited so the world only includes America.

Unsurprisingly, Trump appears to have been gaslighting everyone about what he and NATO's Rutte discussed yesterday. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Europe backs away from Trump’s Board of Peace www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Judge blocks feds from accessing devices seized from Washington Post reporter www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Judge Rules for Democrats in Push to Redraw N.Y.C. House District The ruling, which is expected to be appealed, allows the state to change the boundary lines of a district held by a Staten Island Republican since 2021. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/n...

Ty Cobb: “This is a man who is demented… I don’t think there’s anybody outside the boundaries of the United States who believes for a second that Trump is sane at this stage of the game.” via @outfrontcnn.bsky.social

Health Groups Pleased With Proposed NIH Budget in Bipartisan Funding Bill www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

The United Kingdom will not immediately join Donald Trump’s Board of Peace due to the participation of Vladimir Putin and “broader issues” related to the UN system, says Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.