Let's normalize requiring people to actually go out into the world and learn about something -- some actual subject matter -- before becoming pundits. The vibe I get from TCW, or Weiss, or [pick a name] is that they emerged from college directly into the mediasphere & know nothing else.

What a deranged whiny little bitch

I’m probably about to be banned from CNN — but someone has to say this about Scott Jennings. open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

Awful

European Union member states are discussing several options for how to respond to President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat, including imposing retaliatory levies on €93 billion ($108 billion) of US goods, according to people familiar with the talks.

The Nobel Foundation clarified earlier this week that the Nobel Prize cannot be given, even symbolically, to another person after being awarded.

$1 BILLION per nation to stay on the Gaza “Peace Board” — with Trump controlling the money. Obscene, indefensible corruption. Monetizing the slaughter. There is no bottom. finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-w...

Martha Graham Dance Company the oldest dance troupe in the United States decided not to perform at the Kennedy Center www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/a...

A man who was charged with a felony for allegedly shining a laser pointer at Trump's helicopter was acquitted in 35 minutes

The details are horrific. “He was just lifeless, like he had foam around his mouth... He had tears coming out of his eyes. I was giving him mouth-to-mouth, and I remember stopping, and I said, ‘I will give you all my breath ‘til you get yours back.’”

DEESCALATION TRAINING WON’T FIX THIS!

Do any MAGA Christians care?

Democrats operate in the real world. MAGA operates in fantasyland, which is why they can never follow through on policies like this, tariffs, social safety net cuts, etc… They talk a big game, but their policies, if enacted, would harm so many Americans they’d never get elected again.

During 1st Trump term insiders kept writing 'Jared and Ivanka privately appalled" stories which never had any bearing on policies but were pushed by Javanka to convince their social circles that they had nothing to do with those particular horrors and should still be invited to things. This is that.

Ah yes, the famously “not woke” franchise that featured an interracial kiss on tv in <checks notes> 1968. Imagine being this stupid.

If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News: "A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it." www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...

“I’m a citizen!” You’re a n*****!” MAGA brainrot on display. Citizenship reserved for whites. If non-white, you must think/speak/act just like them. And maybe you’ll be tolerated. But you’ll never be the same. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTi41cSkqpO/?igsh=MTRyM3lndGlscGNtNQ==

None other than Fox News reports that "Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino was found by a federal judge to have been 'evasive', 'not credible', and was 'outright lying' at times when questioned under oath about how agents used force against the public."

You can't accuse Bari of being subtle! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Jagged little shill www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/jagg...

I was actually fine not knowing my neighbors and most of my family would be Nazis just because Donald Trump tells them to be. Ignorance is fantastic actually.

An 823-word health insurance plan that forgets pre-existing conditions is like a fire insurance policy that doesn’t mention fire. Bold choice.

Federal agents arrest a woman for "impeding" A man nearby starts blowing a whistle while other observers honk their horns The agents pepper-spray the man with the whistle, he continues, and they tackle him then arrest him 1/16/2026 - Minneapolis

They are canceling youth sports across the city in Minneapolis this weekend because lawless masked armed federal paramilitaries are targeting the children and families.

“I think about you in the shower…”

Shocking to discover that the economic impact to Georgia of new data centers may have been overinflated https://www.wabe.org/georgia-data-centers-economic-impact-massively-overstated/

“I’m a good boy!”

America losing influence fast. "A trade negotiator for a Mercosur nation ... insisted [the American side] had not been contacted about the issue recently." www.ft.com/content/1442...

These people will believe anything. I almost pity them.

They like the ethnic cleansing. They love it.

This is so funny. Kash Patel has to offer a $100k reward because Cletus left all the phone numbers of everyone in charge of the Minnesota occupation in one of the ICE cars that they had to abandon because they peed their pants at a few grandmas blowing whistles. www.startribune.com/white-house-...

So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them

The FBI Freeze-out in Minnesota Is a Bigger Deal Than You Think talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

“Huge internal concern” among CBS staff over that “internal bleeding” story. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

what a legend lmao

Learning things I didn't need to know about Kristin Sinema; she (allegedly) slept with multiple members of her security detail.

The argument that the "real" component of a country isn't where the overwhelming majority of people live is self-evidently absurd, and yet it's basically taken as gospel in the mainstream press.

remember, a college student who gets an F because she wrote "because Jesus says so" in an essay she didn't do any reading for is tyranny but a dean losing her new job because of her beliefs is freedom. what are you not getting about this.

This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India. It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Think "race war" works, too.

47 days of training turns a high school drop out with child support problems into Reacher.

"Career diplomats and lawmakers interviewed for this story describe a narrowing circle of influence around the Oval Office, with advisers selected for loyalty rather than expertise.”"

There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.

This is already getting very Diary of Anne Frank.

Men don’t call a woman a fucking bitch when they’re afraid for their lives—they say it when they hate us. They say it when they’re punishing us. jessica.substack.com/p/ice-shooti...

Kristi Noem held a press conference in NYC on Jan 8th on the shooting of Renee Nicole Good. The slogan on her podium "One of ours, all of yours" is a reference to a massacre in a Czech village during WWII. A Nazi soldier was killed so the Germans murdered every male. Trump has warned of retribution.

2/ What it was like being an Obama US Attorney

1/ “President Trump criticized a group of U.S. attorneys at a White House event last week, calling them weak and complaining they weren’t moving fast enough to prosecute his favored targets, according to people familiar with the exchange.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...