Measles cases in the US have reached their highest number in almost 30 years. This is likely because people are not getting vaccinated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s_N...

The guy who attacked Ilham Omar had a sad life of divorces, estrangement from family members, 10 DUIs, and limited money. He supported Trump and followed right wing podcasts. He posted racist stuff online. 1/2

New Epstein Files Star Trump, Musk, Gates, Lutnick and more w/ Brace Belden www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQM...

Local police have to be careful about how long they hold illegals in their jails, because it isn't legal for them to hold people longer than a certain amount of time. 1/2

Using supercritical CO2 instead of water for steam engines, we can more efficiently make electricity. They can be built anywhere and work better because the CO2 is like a water and a gas. China currently leads this technology race. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNDr...

Xi Purged His Top General—What It Means for Taiwan www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vnZ...

When Russia licensed China to manufacture their own Su-27s, China broke the contract by reverse engineering the aircraft, making improvements, and then building them completely on their own, stealing Russian technologies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt7Q...

Trump administration arrests journalist Don Lemon because he tagged along with and covered a protest that invaded a church and interrupted its service. Career officials refused to charge him, but the administration found people willing to bend the law and attack the freedom of press. 1/2

The Trump administration is deregulating betting markets, and people with insider knowledge are winning big and screwing people who don't have that special information. Trump's son is partnered with two major betting markets as an investor and advisor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KtG...

The Trump administration goes out of its way to arrest people on camera and then makes crude and mean memes out of the images. 1/4

"Warsh has been critical of the Fed in recent months but is seen as a conventional choice...Warsh has a background in the Bush administration, and he was appointed by former President George W. Bush as Fed governor, serving in that role during the financial crisis from 2006 until 2011. 1/3

Some Moldovans want to reunify with Romania, but that would put Russian forces inside NATO because Russia is helping separatists in the east. www.youtube.com/watch?v=21MV...

Iran slaughtered its people. Thousands are dead. Maybe over 30k murdered. Maybe more. Iran used Iraqi Shite militias to help kill Iranians. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdmy...

What the Neocons Got Right www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3kl...

"Trump's use of the FBI to pursue his obsession with the 2020 election is part of a pattern of the president transforming the federal government into his personal tool of vengeance. ... 1/3

Respected general arrested by Chinese President Xi may have written a letter describing the problems with Xi's rule and warning of where Xi is taking the country. He may have not actually written this letter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Ay...

Shocking New Report Shows US Company Ubiquiti Aids Russian Military www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KyM...

The centrality of the United States in the world financial system allows it to use that power to cut countries and people off from basic financial services. 1/4

There's a good chance that the Chinese company ByteDance still controls the TikTok algorithm, so Trump's deal does not solve the national security concerns, yet it makes some of Trump's friends a lot of money. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jvd...

The Philippines is having trouble returning to pre-Covid levels of tourism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr2v...

Trump's Greenland quest was an embarrassing shitshow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1W8...

WOW: Fox host FURIOUS at ICE over latest shooting www.youtube.com/watch?v=roX1...

Flawed Science, Twin Studies, and Schizophrenia with Jay Joseph, PsyD www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AVD...

Davos Dispatch: World Order on Edge | Prof G Markets www.youtube.com/watch?v=S57O...

Can Science Explain Everything? - Sean Carroll www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8k3...

The Phillipines beat out India on out-sourced phone customer service jobs because Filipinos could speak English with an accent more understandable to Americans. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXm5...

Twins separated at birth studies are problematic for multiple reasons. Studies comparing twins reared together to siblings doesn't isolate genetics because the environment is different for each sibling cohort. 1/2

"While the US can draw a certain degree of confidence in its capabilities from the success of the mission, there's a risk of reading too much into that success, especially when it comes to weapons made by American rivals in the hands of other militaries. 1/3

A summary of all we know about the massive rise in gold and other precious metals. Foreign central banks are steady buyers, but didn't ramp up buying after US sanctions on Russia. The gold bubble is driven by retail investors, like every previous bubble... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/everything...

The rise in gold and other precious metals has until recently been taking place with a stable Dollar. So this was about debasement of all G10 currencies, not just USD. This past week changed that. USD is falling and that will accelerate the rise in gold... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/profound-d...

How can the Dollar be falling if foreign flows into the US are super strong? Foreign investors are bullish on US growth, but they're worried this growth is increasingly coming at the expense of stability. So they're increasingly hedging their US holdings... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/dollar-deb...

Another problem is that the purged Adults In The Room from Trump I are now invisible & silent. Where are Mattis, Kelly, McMaster, Esper, Pence, Mnuchin, etc.? Shameful, unpatriotic cowards. They claimed to be duty-bound patriots when serving. They should be out demanding impeachment & removal now.

CRUZ: “.. You're going to lose the House, you're going to lose the Senate, you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week." @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/01/25/c...

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian regimes

The rise in gold and other precious metals has long stopped being a fringe event and is now front and central to global markets. Although real rates are high, investors are flocking to safe havens. We're witnessing a crisis of confidence in fiat money... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/everything...

Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)

Good morning. What fresh hells await us on the Sunday shows tod- 🧐🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️ Congrats again to the coastal elites who told us this guy was a “credible Treasury Secretary” & a “renaissance man” because he went to the right schools & the right cocktail parties

1. Wasn’t at a protest 2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down 3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight bsky.app/profile/atru...

👇🎯 We're now having a "debate" on the Sunday shows & in the Sunday papers about whether the Second Amendment exists, or whether the last 20 years of far right behavior with guns in public exists. It's a total failure of journalism to fall for this diversion.

As #Venezuela skids deeper into a "food emergency," Trump's de facto new alliance with the repressive, corrupt regime there makes the crisis even more deadly. My article @newrepublic.com. @deanbaker13.bsky.social @dceiver.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2056...

The rise in other currencies, relative to the dollar, contributed to the higher gains elsewhere. Measured in dollar terms their markets rose more than in their own currencies

Japan is in denial on debt. Latest sign of this is escalating rhetoric on FX intervention, which comes from both Japan and the US. It won't work, just like it didn't in 2024. Only way to stabilize the Yen is to bring debt down. Everything else is denial... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/japanese-d...

“Without waiting for facts, the Trump team has advanced one-sided narratives to justify each of the killings .. “.. Trump has found that putting out a story line early and repeating it often can .. convince a sizable share of the public..” @peterbakernyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...

This is a clarifying moment: one that reveals the particularly vicious form of authoritarianism taking root in America today www.vox.com/policy/47639...

👇🎯 Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party" They got it right in January 2022, & then they went straight back to ignoring that & pretending there were both sides to the "existential threat" right in front of us.

If Americans excuse unjust killings and a lack of due process for the sake of protecting American culture from immigrants, then the efforts are in vain because American culture is already dead.

If Americans in 1775 were so ready to excuse the unjust killing of Americans by agents of the state, we'd still be speaking English.

US Health Department pauses about $5 billion in state public health grants, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/49E70g3

This is insane… US Dollar share of global reserve currency has fallen to its lowest levels this century. It’s literally unprecedented.

Volkswagen AG won’t go ahead with a planned Audi factory in the US unless automotive tariffs are reduced, CEO Oliver Blume told Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper.