BREAKING: Europe issues a stern warning to Trump. Germany’s Foreign Minister confirms that any attempt to invade Greenland would trigger NATO’s collective defense under Article 5, as Greenland falls under Danish sovereignty.

As Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen prepares for a meeting with JD Vance, Berlingske offers a psychological profile of Vance. In general, Vance practices deceit, misrepresentation and the politics of humiliation to achieve his goals, very much like Nazi diplomats in the late thirties.

BREAN: “.. The CPI readings stand in marked contrast to the NFIB small business survey, which reported 30% of firms raising prices in December following 34% in November (the highest two-month average since April 2023).” 👀

“Food inflation broadly has been a thorn in Americans’ sides for years — especially for people living paycheck to paycheck. And that’s something policymakers must keep an eye on, even if the broader data looks somewhat encouraging.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Elizabeth Warren: "Here's the thing: Donald Trump has already said repeatedly publicly that anyone he appoints to be chair of the Fed will be somebody who agrees with Donald Trump all the time. In other words, Donald Trump has publicly announced he wants a sock puppet running the Fed."

The President of the United States Is Out of Control President Donald Trump Has Threatened War Against Allies, Undermined Courts, and Menaced the Independence of the Federal Reserve. The United States Is in Free Fall. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-presid...

Trump has no intention of campaigning for a Republican successor to the presidency. | TDBP 637

It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican. It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong. People are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up. The sleeping giant of America is roaring.

Donald Trump continues to abuse his office by using our criminal justice system as a political cudgel — this time in an effort to extort Fed Chair Powell to cut interest rates for his political benefit.  Will ANY House Republicans join Senator Tillis in standing up for the rule of law?

This is happening on an American street right now. No fucking way should this be happening in America. If this kind of fascist, un-American bullshit doesn’t motivate you to vote against EVERY Republican on the ballot this year, nothing will. And you will deserve living under a fascist boot.👇

Just checking in: in addition to not settling seven wars, Donald Trump has started a new one, so that's how that's going. @markhertling.bsky.social from the archives: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pCOzNB

Donald Trump called me today. It's long past time to deliver lower costs for working people.

Vigil at the US Embassy in London for Renee Nicole Good and all victims of ICE violence. #AbolishICE

This is so insanely pathetic from Machado and its not even going to get her to her actual goal: presidency of Venezuela. Like so many others, shes going to go crawl to Trump to debase herself for absolutely nothing

🧵Yes, Panama transitioned into a pretty stable democracy from a military dictatorship. But the capture of Noriega is not even remotely the same as the capture of Maduro, and Venezuela will not for a second become a stabilized democracy as long as Trump and the GOP are upon it. This is why:

Leavitt on Trump's Venezuela coup: "That [oil] money is going into an account that is controlled by the United States government. I mean, the world has never seen such success like this before, and it's because of the creative thinking but also the action of President Trump."

Exxon said they are out of venezuela.... want nothing to do with it... what is this communicating folks

I wrote for @theguardian.com on the parallels between Iraq and Venezuela | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump ally openly cheers starving neighboring country as negotiation tool McFarland boasted Monday that the president is in a solid negotiating position thanks to the recent US attack on Venezuela, which she excitedly cheered would starve Cubans ‘in about a week’s time.” www.rawstory.com/trump-cuba/

Paul Singer poured tens of millions into the 2024 election cycle and now his hedge fund is buying Venezuelan oil refineries after Trump bombed and effectively took over the country. If you didn't know Trump's actions in Venezuela were rooted in corruption, now you do.

The Venezuela crisis is a "wag the dog" crisis designed to prevent the release of the Epstein files because our president raped teenage girls.

Jerome Powell has more decency, courage, and love of country in his right pinky finger than can be found in the entirety of every single member of my former political party.

An important message from Fed Board Chair Jerome Powell, against whom the Trump regime has now opened a bogus criminal investigation.

Trump can't outright fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell (SCOTUS said so in the MSPB/NLRB case), so he has to create "cause." That's what this investigation is about, as I mentioned here: bsky.app/profile/muel...

we have been way too tolerant of cowards: we should be demanding that far more people in power who claim to be against the murderous evil of MAGA meet the standard currently being demonstrated by Jerome Fucking Powell

Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."

BREAKING: The Department of Justice subpoenas the Federal Reserve, says Chair Jerome Powell.

Holy shit. Jerome Powell just accused the Trump Administration of attempted extortion, to influence monetary policy.

Jerome Powell out here showing off a stronger spine than every member of Congress.

✊ I stand with Jerome Powell We know Trump is weaponizing the government for vindicative prosecutions. There is a clear pattern of those actions.

NEW: Statement of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Trump’s criminal investigation into him. He says they are seeking an indictment over his Congressional testimony, but calls it pretext to pressure him into lowering interest rates.

Flashback to this past July when Jerome Powell corrected Trump’s math on national television, live, and called out his disinformation.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis blasts Trump for weaponizing the DOJ against Jerome Powell and the Fed: "It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question."

Bravo Jerome Powell. This is leadership.

Donald Trump’s threats against Jerome Powell aren’t going to save the disastrous Trump economy, it’s just political retribution.

Jerome Powell is doing what all those Big Law firms and universities should have done instead of immediately knuckling under

This is a five alarm fire. Thank you Jerome Powell.

Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators: "The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President." www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

crazy that Jerome Powell has more respect for his office and institutional independence than basically every university board in the country

This story isn’t about Jerome Powell. It’s about whether your economic life is still insulated from raw political power.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

BREAKING: New polling reveals that Jerome Powell is far more popular than Senile Satan.

It just never ends. FFS! The Trump regime has opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

JPOW literally said

Quiet, decent, unassuming, fearless, tough, follow the law, put the country’s interests first…Jerome Powell is the antithesis of Donald Trump. Jerome Powell is the hero we need.

Jerome Powell responds to Trump’s criminal investigation of him.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

It's now over three weeks past the deadline to release the Epstein files.

Why don’t our foreign allies release the information which THEY have on Epstein? Epstein was an international criminal. He clearly had ties to the Brits. Probably had travel to all around the world and had relationships with a bunch of foreign banks. Just release it!

The congressmen behind the Epstein Files Transparency Act on Thursday asked a federal judge to appoint a “special master and/or independent monitor” to ensure that the Trump regime actually releases the Epstein files.

CBS News filmed but DIDN'T air this interview in which NYC Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss defends NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, clarifying that Mamdani is opposed to Zionism and Israel's genocide but he's NOT antisemitic. A Jewish rabbi praising a Muslim Mayor. I wonder why they didn't air it? 🤔 #USPolitics