This is one of the most unsettling three-paragraph sequences I've read in my life, and I've spent two decades reading the most deranged people on the planet.

And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization. Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard. www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

The full story from my colleagues: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

🚨BREAKING: The House GOP point person on election issues demanded information from top election officials in ten states — five Democrats and five Republicans — related to voter registration systems and how they “verify eligibility, including citizenship, when registering voters.”

I’m told Raiklin, who has allegedly threatened to have Fanone’s children raped, said “Pleasure to see you here, buddy.” Fanone said “F you” and Raiklin winked at him. You can see below what happened next.

Mike Fanone and Ivan Raiklin get into it at the Jack Smith hearing.

Jack Smith on Trump pardoning J6ers: "I think all of us, if we're reasonable, know that there's going to be more crimes committed by these people in the future. I do not understand why you would mass pardon people who assaulted police officers. I don't get it. I never will."

"I did not go to law school, go to Quantico and work counterterrorism operations overseas to be doing traffic control for arrest-a-brown-person day." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

US weighs complete military withdrawal from Syria – WSJ.

#BREAKING Trump sues JPMorgan Chase, CEO Jamie Dimon: court document

🚨🚨 NORDIC PENSION GIANTS RETHINK U.S. ASSETS Major Northern European investors are reassessing their exposure to U.S. assets as geopolitical tensions, rising debt, and policy uncertainty increase risk. Pension funds in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland say the risk premium on U.S.

🇪🇺 Kallas: Today, the EU provided the first €10 million for a new Special Tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders for their role in Moscow’s war against Ukraine.

Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law

Incredible, Greenland's PM is now refuting the one part of this that represented any change to the status quo ante. *GREENLAND PM: NOT AWARE OF TALKS ON MINERAL RESOURCES

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."

Trump's pardons wiped out financial crimes that came with hundreds of millions of dollars in punishments: Over half of Trump's 88 individual pardons are for white-collar offenses, with money laundering, bank fraud and wire fraud among the most frequent crimes the president has wiped clean.

You breed contempt Mr. President, and that’s the second put-down to veterans in as many days, and to those who fought and died in Afghanistan to support you, the US

Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:

China Dumping US Treasuries Stockpiling Gold China Treasury Holdings Down To $680B 18 Year Low Gold Reserves Near 74M Ounces Record High

Elon Musk shows up on stage at Davos, a place he has hated on from afar for years. After tepid applause, his interviewer, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, asks the crowd to clap again.

In the 34 days since the Epstein files were supposed to be released

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

“You’ve got the highest law enforcement officer in the country and the president of the United States essentially saying they’re going to wield their power against you, even if you’ve done nothing wrong. But he’s pretty unflappable, and I think he’ll be able to separate that out.”

Remarkable really, isn't it, after all these years, how closely Clinton's birthday letter to Jeffery Epstein mirrors Trump's birthday letter to Jeffery Epstein, almost as though they all have a shared secret, in common

IMO Musk's goal was to desensitize us to sexualized images of children before Epstein file images of topless children next to men (and likely more deviant imagery) is ultimately released; Tate seems to be on a text mission on this front

Musk’s participation in the bikini trend opened the floodgates. Grok went from making 300k images a week to 4.4 million. Read more from me, @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com and @stuartathompson.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Trump: "We will cut your energy prices in half. Mark it down. And you can get very angry at me if we don't do it. Within 12 months your energy prices will be cut in half." Trump's been president for more than 12 months. Has your energy bill been cut in half?

What will Iran become after this bloodshed? If the regime survives, it sends a clear signal to every bully: kill enough people and you stay in power.

🇮🇷 Zelensky: There was so much talk about the protests in Iran, but they drowned in blood. The world has not helped enough the Iranian people; it has stood aside. By the time politicians started forming positions, the Ayatollah had already killed thousands.

🇬🇱🇺🇦 Zelensky: Everyone gave attention to Greenland, and it is clear most leaders are not sure what to do about it. It seems like everyone is just waiting for America to cool down on this topic, hoping it will pass away. But what if it will not—what then?

We are now 34 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files

7. It's worth noting the agreement was ILLEGAL. It is a violation of federal law to use official resources for political advocacy or to impact the outcome of an election.

6. The group the unnamed DOGE staffer conspired with is also unnamed but the evidence points to True The Vote, the voter conspiracy group behind the debunked documentary 2000 Mules.

5. Gracias also went on the All-In podcast, where he described the issuing of Social Security numbers to non-citizens — a standard practice for those with work permits and other categories of legal residents — as a “move to import voters.”

4. Gracias went on Fox News a few days later and, speaking from the White House lawn, made similar claims. He stressed the importance of allowing databases to “talk to each other.”

3. Gracias said that he had compared SSA data with voting records and found that non-citizens were registered to vote and did vote. He claimed he referred these people for prosecution. (There are no known charges or convictions resulting from those alleged referrals.)

2. Antonio Gracias, a DOGE staffer who was embedded at the SSA, publicly spoke about using Social Security data to “expose” voter fraud. During a March 30 rally alongside Elon Musk, Gracias — a fellow billionaire — made a variety of false and misleading claims.

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

That is an awfully low level of diplomatic representation for such a supposedly big event. Jordan’s deputy Prime Minister? When the Saudis sent someone like this to meet Biden on his visit it was universally understood to be a deliberate and gratuitous snub.

Weighing in on global tensions, Dalio said a lot of attention is being paid to the trade war, but very little to what he called a “capital war.”

Can the Democrats in Congress match the performance of the Europeans in Davos? That is the question. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4jW7LVt

We don't need you. But don't you dare stop lending us money.

Referring to his keynote address at the World Economic Forum, Trump told the audience that sometimes “you need a dictator.” To be clear, this is the President of the United Staes telling the world (including us) that we need a dictator, and HE is that dictator.

The Board of Peace is to other international institutions as Truth Social is to other social media.

🤔 Trump: We have never needed them (NATO). We have never asked anything of them. You know they say they sent troops to Afghanistan, and they did. They stayed a little back, little off the frontlines.

BARTIROMO: You've taken a 10% stake in Intel. You've taken a stake in MP. You told the defense companies 'don't pay dividends, don't do buybacks.' So please explain to our audience, how is that free market capitalism? TRUMP: Well, it's very free market