Things come out precisely as most macroeconomists said they would. Such a shock.

Europeans scramble to deal with mad king across the Atlantic, most wondering at this point why the US Congress can't just use the constitutional vehicle to remove him. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

We know that MAGA is committed to erasing all the gains made in the Civil Rights movement. And now we learn that resegregated schools are a high-priority item. www.concordmonitor.com/2026/01/15/f...

Patrick Blower, The Telegraph

The prolific way in which DHS, at highest levels, gushes forward with easily exposed lies is astonishing, even after a year of it. bsky.app/profile/reic...

Lindsey Graham never saw an opportunity for a war he could pass up, and he's really getting into the swing of things threatening US allies (which is what Trump tells us Damascus is, but it seems to change based on hotel licensing agreements).

Two federal judges say it's time for the legal profession to reclaim its dignity.

This Interior Department policy has quietly derailed 22 GW of utility-scale wind and solar projects on federal land, based on concern that it might undermine demand for fossil fuels.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court's hearing on Trump's attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.

pro·jec·tion /prəˈjekSHən/—n, attributing your own unwanted feelings, impulses, or traits to another person, e.g., a bully projecting their insecurities.

The history of the "outside agitator" shtick. youtu.be/MocqoPSA84U?...

Has all the air gone out of Chuck Schumer's tires? Yes. "If you sit on the sidelines and we lose the Senate by one vote and the Supreme Court gets stacked so that even your grandchildren won’t live in a democracy, you’ll regret it. You won’t be happy in your retirement"

A breakdown of the Trump looney gram to PM Støre.

The values of Chuck Fleischmann are the values of the Confederacy, not of America. Just listen to him talk.

With a psychopath in the United States threatening to invade and annex Canada, the country really has no option but to shape a new relationship focused on a strategic alliance with the EU and UK. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/03/cana...

This man is the shadow president. He's also a dangerous psychopath.

Amanda Marcotte: New polling data shows that it's getting increasingly embarrassing to identify as a Republican, and some Trump voters are slinking away and pretending it never happened. www.salon.com/2026/01/19/s...

Note how NYT continues to do "analysis" focused on Trump as a rational actor in international relations matters. He isn't. And treating him this way is dangerous sane washing.

Charlie Sykes: Trump really did write that letter to the Norwegian PM, whining (once again) about not getting the Nobel Prize and declaring that since he didn’t get the Prize, “I no longer feel any obligation to think purely of Peace.”

US archbishop for the military: an order to invade Greenland would be an unlawful order, and it must be disobeyed. This was cleared directly with Pontifex maximus, the first pontiff in a century who is also a canon lawyer.

Vatican News reports this correctly and properly, unlike the utterly insane spin of NYT, with substantive internal reporting that misconstrues almost everything that is said. The points raised are straight-forward and in accordance with canon law which is clear.

This is the voice from the shadows guiding Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, the two utterly clueless Democratic leaders in Congress.

CTB 1: The Medulla Nebula: CTB 1 is the expanding gas shell that was left when a massive star toward the constellation of Cassiopeia exploded about 10,000 yrs ago. The star likely detonated when it ran out of elements, near its core, that could create stabilizing pressure with nuclear fusion.

Precisely the conduct that a federal judge held to be illegal on Friday, and which ICE continues, oblivious to the federal court order. This is a lawless organization.

Note how the NYT fundamentally misstates the concerns raised by the US prelates. This headline is insultingly stupid. bsky.app/profile/nyti...

The principal victim of Trump's tariff policy is the US and US manufacturers in particular

Lydia Polgreen: The Trump administration "seems unprepared for what they are facing. They have misjudged the ground beneath their feet: a state full of ordinary people—real estate agents, high school students—who’ve decided that watching their neighbors being dragged away is an intolerable sin..."

Echoing the words of the pontiff in Rome which were not reported in US media, three senior archbishops said recent events raise “basic questions about the use of military force” and have put America’s moral role “under examination.”

Denmark dispatched additional troops to Greenland on Monday as Trump declined to rule out using force to seize control of the vast Arctic island. The Danish defence forces said that a plane with a “substantial contribution” of soldiers and the head of the country’s army would land in Kangerlussuaq

Not the Onion. Because you can never be too white.

Kristi Noem, who as governor of South Dakota developed horrible rapport with Native Americans and was banned as persona non grata from their reservations, appears to have directed ICE to single out and arrest Native Americans. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

In Minnesota, apply for a green card and Kristi Noem will turn you into an instant target. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/5...

A techno-colonialist project sees Greenland as the perfect opportunity to trial its utopian ambitions. Its author is Peter Thiel, who has put JD Vance in charge of making it happen. gizmodo.com/peter-thiel-...

n a report timed for the opening of the World Economic ‌Forum, anti-poverty group Oxfam said billionaire wealth surged at three times its recent pace last year to reach its highest level on record, deepening economic and political divides that threaten democratic stability reut.rs/4b8PEcw

Dr. Robert Rohde: While the world sometimes seems metaphorically on fire right now, global warming is still progressing as well. In 2025, global warming delivered the 3rd warmest year since measurements began. A modest step down from 2024's records, but still well above 20th century norms.

Among the many rank stupidities in this reporting is its failure to report the context or to bring things up to date, and its failure to report Støre's joint reply to Trump with Finnish president Alex Stubb, not to mention the fact that NYT apparently can't spell the Norwegian PM's name correctly.

The Legacy Museum is the most important museum in Alabama and perhaps the entire American South. But the State of Alabama fervently hopes you never see it.

What the techbros and Trump are achieving together.

Anne Applebaum: "Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." I fully subscribe to this analysis.

Clare Malone's study of the Bari Weiss hostile takeover of CBS News: solid reporting and analysis of every aspect of the matter. Superlative journalism. Everything that CBS News is not, or is no longer. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Afraid not. More evidence were it needed that Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are asleep at the wheel.

Why is the US media so reticent even to report the basic facts of Trump's message to PM Støre? Largely, I think, because the message reveals an obvious dangerous mental illness that would require commentary and exploration of his mental health, and they really don't want to go there.

The upshot of this piece is that the nuts are now running the Tory Party and it needs some more traditional Tories in charge. Obviously correct. www.ft.com/content/e1b4...

The Day of the Endangered Lawyer, an annual event to raise awareness of risks to members of the profession, has in recent years picked Belarus, Iran and Afghanistan as its subject. For 2026, it has chosen the US. An international coalition of lawyers’ groups, backed by the UN’s special rapporteur

Exactly as I predicted. Also North Korea's Kim and China's Xi. All his favorite blood-stained dictators will be invited to be in on the grift. www.ft.com/content/4b16...

The lead story around the world that US media simply doesn't want to report: Trump has linked his pursuit of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize in a message to Norway’s prime minister. Trump told Støre in a text message that “considering your Country decided not to give me the