Trump claims NATO has never been there for the US. Can anyone think of an example of NATO being there for the US? Maybe around 24 years ago? Bueller? Bueller?

"Usually they say, 'He's a horrible dictator-type person.' But sometimes you need a dictator." As I have always said, he is at his most honest when he is at his most malevolent and depraved.

Tune in! substack.com/@jimacosta?r...

COLLINS: Did it stand out to you that he said Iceland multiple times when he was talking about Greenland? NEWSOM: And that every time a windmill turns it costs $1,000. A lot of stuff stands out. None of this is normal. There's a deviancy of consciousness. He's graded off the curve.

#SCOTUS is likely to do the right thing in the Lisa Cook case. But it's worth bearing in mind that this idea that the Fed is some bespoke exception to the unitary executive theory is utterly incoherent as a matter of both law and history—and is really just proof that the UET is itself bollocks:

Today is the most humiliating day in the history of the United States of America. At least until tomorrow.

Greenland, Iceland, Iceberg, Greenberg, Goldberg, Hamberg, Hamberder, Covfefe, Arnold Palmer, Hannibal Lecter, Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV, Giraffe, Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!

Trump in Davos, Switzerland: "Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German". German is the main language of Switzerland.

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

She’s leaving the position she didn’t have.

This is the outcome I expected. The appropriate vehicle is a lawsuit or congress.

President Trump says he decided to levy a 39% tariff on Swiss exports because Helene Budliger Artieda, director of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, “just rubbed me the wrong way.”

NEW: It appears that the Trump administration expects to lose the Tariff case. According to an anonymous source at CBP who sent me the below email, they’re already having meetings on how to refund the tariffs they’ve collected from importers - many American. 1/

Breaking: The European Union's legislative body halted work on the formal approval and implementation of the trade deal it reached this summer with Trump. The move came after Trump said he would hit seven EU countries, plus Britain, with tariffs if they did not allow the U.S. to control Greenland.

It's as though the media heard Don Corleone say, "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse" and reported, "Don Corleone backs off threats of force. Promises only to make a really nice offer."

The House Oversight Committee just scheduled a virtual deposition with Ghislane Maxwell on February 9.

A more measured discussion of how Trump is turning Christianity into something alien to itself: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Another spoke coming off this hub... "Cardinal Tobin said he was struck by voices in the Trump administration who seemed to be advancing a moral framework he described as 'almost a Darwinian calculus that the powerful survive and the weak don’t deserve to.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

Jesus Christ www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/c...

A normal attorney who was the subject of this memorandum would walk into the ocean and never come back

Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...

"I thought he was only going to abuse gay people" is not really a save, but maybe it will lead to some reflection

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia US attorney Lindsey Halligan, who sought indictments against Trump adversaries, is leaving her position.

Amazon's CEO says Trump's tariffs are driving prices up. www.axios.com/2026/01/20/a...

Ray Dalio: "Global monetary order is breaking" Dalio thinks the US and the allies are losing trust in one another, so central banks don't want to hold the US bonds. This is why commodities are skyrocketing, and it won't reverse anytime soon. His advice? Buy gold. ht: @thexcapitalist.bsky.social

"And yet, the prognosis for democracy in the United States is far better today than it was at the start of Trump’s second term" - @qjurecic.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

He seems tired and confused. I'm not a doctor; can't speak to whether this is medication or some other condition, but it's weirdly mumbly and unfocused, even for him

Quite a job posting! Federal judges in the eastern district of Virginia are seeking a candidate to appoint to replace ..... Lindsey Halligan

This has been a completely random 45 minutes of slushy mumbling. If this were any other president, networks would be cutting *in* and covering this with doctors and experts trying to explain what they're seeing.

"The most corrupt president The United States have ever seen." UK Member of Parliament Ed Davey does not mince words when characterizing Trump after his move to take Greenland.

I have one request for everyone outside the United States. Stop being polite to us Americans. Tell us what you really think.

That was not my intent, as I noted later. I think of @markhertling.bsky.social as part of a small and honorable group of former senior commanders who have spoken up - and I am disturbed that there aren't more like him. The silence from people who *could* speak out, as Mark as, is unsettling.

A powerful paragraph: Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social

“People think we’re not at the level of crisis yet. But we are: with the Canadians, with NATO, Great Britain, the Danes, the French, talking about us as if we are a putative enemy at this point. All because of these deranged plans from one man…” — Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Two members of Elon Musk's DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to "overturn election results in certain states," and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls.

the idea that DHS can fix this through More Posting is very revealing

What an unbelievable clown.

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”

I'd suggest this is polling capturing public opinion coalescing around "Trump has lost it."

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

From Carney's Davos speech: "A country that cannot feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself" www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

✈️ Probably Nothing 🤷‍♂️ 👉 An Omni 767 (tail N225AX) frequently used for U.S. military and ICE charters departs Baltimore en route to Anchorage, home of the Army's "Arctic Angels" 11th Airborne Division 👀