Carney Speech on U.S. ‘Rupture’ and Canada’s Survival Draws Standing Ovation at Davos www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/w...

New research: Noncitizens Were Underrepresented in Welfare Fraud Convictions in 2024. Noncitizens were 8% less likely to be convicted of welfare fraud in 2024, and they were 28% less likely to be convicted of fraud that imposed monetary losses to the government.

We have some data. @davidjbier.bsky.social got data on just people with prior convictions booked into ICE detention in the first six weeks of the fiscal year. Only 5% had a violent offense. The rest either had no criminal record or pending criminal charges.

Incredible. The Border Patrol recruiter literally filled in every part of the resume for her, including having AI write the resume.

Detail from @davidjbier.bsky.social —>

As of today, 90% of African legal immigration has been banned. Overall, half of all legal immigrants are banned. These people are pro-illegal immigration. They want immigration to be illegal. www.cato.org/blog/new-ban...

THIS IS CHILD ABUSE.

If these dudes approached my kid like that, my anger would be enough to power four dozen medium-sized cities for 250 years.

Hearing similar things from other sources…. The security establishment in Israel has raised its alert level in recent days due to the possibility that President Trump has decided to attack Iran – perhaps in the coming days. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis” that is eroding trust and deterring people from seeking care. www.wired.com/story/survei...

"nice store you got here, be a shame if something happened to it" does not equal "support and good wishes for local business"

You're going to read a lot of headlines out of Davos that misleadingly suggest that a transatlantic crisis has passed. But if you listen to Trump's entire speech, it sounds like the crisis is just getting started.

I’m not going to destroy you right now but I could is not a reassuring message for our most important allies

Trump’s tariff threat leaves Europe with a choice: fight back or cease to matter | Georg Riekeles

If you missed yesterday's incredible speech by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and why everyone's talking about it, I got your explainer right here.

FRIEDMAN: His management style “led to six bankruptcy filings .. Unfortunately, today we’re all his shareholders, and I fear he is going to bankrupt us as a nation — morally for sure, if not one day financially and politically.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Among the Education Department’s new appointees is Lindsey Burke, the lead author of Project 2025’s education section. She envisions dramatic enrollment declines for public schools: “We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.” (Published Oct. 2025)

Trump’s statement that he’s not going to actually send troops to invade Greenland is the kind of temporary retreat he makes when he gets meaningful pushback. He still plans to use economic coercion, and he’ll put the military threat back on the table before long.

Well maybe he should not have donated millions to Trump. F*ck Ken Griffen…

“Tariffs are Taxes” Bumper sticker of the decade

"Unfortunately, what was going to happen, we were told was going to happen, did happen"

Did Ken griffin really not know this? Or Is he just pretending to be a fucking idiot? Because I learned in freshman Econ about how this works and I’ve done a lot of drugs to kill my brain but that much I remember. I’ll never forget smoothly hawley even if I don’t know 100% detail.

There is no other solution for the One Special Boy at this point. If anything matters, including the oaths on Bibles that people in Congress swear, we are here: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Sadly, this failed to make it into the President’s speech today. @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

Members of a celebrated Florida State Guard unit have taken to social media to allege the organization’s director used state planes to practice flying and misspent millions of dollars.

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Trump just openly declared that invoking the Insurrection Act will let him implement his immigration crackdown without going "through the court system." That's nonsense, but it's telling: Trump *thinks* it allows him to rule like a military dictator. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2055...

EXCLUSIVE: Newsom was informed at the 11th hour that his Davos talk was canceled. His administration claims the State Department played a hand.

California was just denied at the USA House. Last we checked, California is part of USA.

What can we learn from the disturbing similarities between the death of a civil-rights worker, in 1965, and the death of Renee Good? “The circumstances surrounding the latter’s death may be even more bleak,” Jelani Cobb writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/CE-601

“.. The administration’s aggressive position in the case about presidential power over Fed firings “would weaken, if not shatter, the independence of the Federal Reserve,” he said. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

This morning Donald Trump announced breaking news about prosecutions related to the 2020 election. The legacy media ignored it, but I did not. Democracy Docket members never miss any pro-democracy news and can access past content. Support its 22 person team by joining today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

The President of the United States is delusional & unfit for office. Legacy media newsroom leaders have not effectively communicated this & are complicit in the destruction of America by their institutionalized sanewashing. AGSulzberger/Joe Kahn NYT Will Lewis WaPo Emma Tucker WSJ #FrontPages today

Meanwhile over on the US legacy media channel… bsky.app/profile/medi...

I don’t know why we have a #25thAmendment if we haven’t used it on him yet. He’s a picture of what should be the explanation of why we have the #25thAmendment

it's bizarre to see both CNN and CNBC run with chyrons reporting that Trump said he won't "use force" to take Greenland, when the comments in question were clearly a threat to take Greenland by force. How naive are we at this point?

To quote @mcopelov.bsky.social: "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party" www.publicnotice.co/p/mark-copel...

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

".. The share of U.S. Treasury debt held by non-U.S. investors has fallen from around 50% during the global financial crisis of 2008-09 to around 30% today .. a massive shift .." @mdbaccardax.bsky.social @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

congratulations mitch mcconnell, john roberts and the rest of the republicans in this country. you fucking destroyed it.

There is no difference between Trump the candidate and Trump at Davos. He is what he was-a nonsensical, racist warmonger spewing lies and ranting over perceived slights But because inflation-which was plummeting in 2024-still affected people, they voted for him Now we suffer the consequences

the absolute idiots and morons of this administration, from trump on down, have utterly destroyed the united states in the span of 1 year. cancel the birthday celebrations, american democracy ceased to exist when the constitution was ignored and trump was allowed to run for president again.

Financial Times: „Lutnick told his audience that the world should focus on coal as an energy source rather than renewables“ Lagarde simply left the room. #WEF www.ft.com/content/e2ae... Howard Lutnick heckled at Davos dinner as Christine Lagarde walks out

Sure, today at Davos Trump said he’d rule out force to acquire Greenland. The operative word here being “today,” I don’t think this substantively changes things

“Donald Trump is a pathological liar, a bully and an offensive boor. He proved it once again in Davos today. In the process, he strongly made the case for why Europe and the world can no longer count on America as a credible or reliable partner.” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

Trump's speech in Davos contained multiple threats to Europe...not just the ones about NATO and Greenland. Mine with @johnstratford.bsky.social on the UK's rolling news station LBC News. 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/883771...

"Under both Democratic and Republican administrations, the answer has been in the millions of dollars. The higher the value, the more the government has required businesses to spend on their operations to prevent a single death."

US gas prices soar as America hit with life-threatening Arctic front

Unfortunately, the calamity has already happened. None of our former allies will ever trust us again and they shouldn’t.