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Monday, January 26, 2026
Trump's JPMorgan lawsuit underscores his growing clash with Wall Street
By Lananh Nguyen, Manya Saini and Douglas Gillison
January 26, 20264:03 AM PST
Updated 9 hours ago
Summary
- Trump's lawsuit against JPMorgan highlights political conflict with Wall Street banks
- Banks face unpredictable policy environment, affecting reputation and advocacy efforts
- Despite conflicts, industry expects capital relief and regulatory changes to boost profits
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
4 days ago
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom: visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture.
Gun rights groups and legal experts question Trump administration’s stance on the Second Amendment after shooting
By Devan Cole, Josh Campbell
The rhetoric from Trump law enforcement officials, including his FBI director and the top Border Patrol agent, goes against the decadeslong GOP effort to throttle gun control rules.
Trump’s New National Security Memo Is 30 Pages of Insanity
Released just before Christmas, Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy memo is a bizarre and frightening manifesto for MAGA’s second term. To help make sense of the document, Jacobin turned to Latin American historian Greg Grandin.
Interview by Sebastiaan Faber, Álvaro Guzmán Bastida
A year into his second term, President Donald Trump is wasting little time scouring American history for precedents that he believes legitimize his global belligerence. The latest US National Security Strategy (NSS), released in early December, resurrects the Monroe Doctrine — what began in 1823 as a simple declaration that Europe’s colonial ambitions would no longer be tolerated in the Americas. The NSS also rejects the “globalist” illusions that have guided the United States’ foreign policy for decades, announces the “civilizational erasure” of Europe, and proclaims the need to increase the number of “strong, traditional families” with “healthy children.” The thirty-page document prompts two basic questions: Who the hell wrote this? And what on earth does it mean?
Yes, it’s fascism
Until recently, I resisted using the F-word to describe President Trump. For one thing, there were too many elements of classical fascism that didn’t seem to fit. For another, the term has been overused to the point of meaninglessness, especially by left-leaning types who call you a fascist if you oppose abortion or affirmative action. For yet another, the term is hazily defined, even by its adherents. From the beginning, fascism has been an incoherent doctrine, and even today scholars can’t agree on its definition. Italy’s original version differed from Germany’s, which differed from Spain’s, which differed from Japan’s.
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Minneapolis Under Siege
Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis
What I saw, as federal agents stormed the city and residents banded together to protect themselves, was a dark, dystopian future becoming reality.
The money that Trump made from his Presidency is more than anything he made in his whole life.
The Greek Courier
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The money that Trump made from his Presidency is more than anything he made in his whole life.
Jamie Dimon: America's Economic Future is at Risk, with Unsustainable Debt and Shifting Global Politics
The Greek Courier
In a recent address, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, expressed grave concerns about the future of the American economy, emphasizing the escalating national debt and unpredictable global politics as two major forces that could disrupt financial stability.
Trump Just Proved Carney’s Point
Opinion
Jan. 25, 2026
By Ezra Klein
Opinion Columnist
“Dear Prime Minister Carney,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday. “Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Ραγίζει ο Καθρέφτης
Ο Ντόναλντ Τραμπ και η Αμερικανική Ψυχή
Richard David Hames
22 Ιανουαρίου 2026
Προέβλεψα τη νίκη του Ντόναλντ Τραμπ το 2016 και ξανά το 2024. Δεν ήταν και τόσο δύσκολο. Όταν μια κοινωνία παράγει έναν ηγέτη που φαίνεται να ενσαρκώνει τις αντιφάσεις της με τέτοια θεατρική ακρίβεια, πρέπει να αντισταθούμε στον πειρασμό να τον αντιμετωπίσουμε ως μια ανωμαλία. Ο Ντόναλντ Τραμπ δεν κατέβηκε από κάποιο εξωγήινο βασίλειο για να διαταράξει μια κατά τα άλλα αρμονική δημοκρατία. Αναδύθηκε μέσα από το ίδιο το αμερικανικό πείραμα, μια κρυστάλλωση παρορμήσεων που διατρέχουν τις φλέβες αυτού του έθνους από την ίδρυσή του. Το να κατανοήσουμε τον Τραμπ σημαίνει να κατανοήσουμε κάτι βαθύ για τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες – και κατ' επέκταση, για την αρπακτική φύση του βιομηχανικού οικονομισμού που έχει μετασταθεί από τις αμερικανικές ακτές για να κυριαρχήσει στη συνείδησή μας.
The Mirror Cracks
Donald Trump and the American Psyche
Richard David Hames
Jan 22, 2026
I anticipated Donald Trump’s win in 2016 and again in 2024. It was not that testing. When a society produces a ruler who seems to embody its contradictions with such theatrical precision, we must resist the temptation to treat him as an aberration. Donald Trump didn’t descend from some alien realm to disrupt an otherwise harmonious republic. He emerged from within the American experiment itself, a crystallisation of impulses that have coursed through that nation’s veins since its founding. To understand Trump is to understand something profound about the United States—and by extension, about the predatory nature of industrial economism that has metastasised from American shores to dominate our consciousness.
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Jared Kushner Unveils Next Phase of Gaza Ethnic Cleansing via PowerPoint at Davos
Barf Bag: Haunted real estate Ken and husband to Ivanka had a big presentation in Switzerland!
Photo: Getty Images
‘I agree with him’: Australian prime minister says PM Carney will visit Australia to address the parliament in March
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Published: January 24, 2026
SYDNEY, Jan 25 - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will visit Australia in March, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday, as he backed a speech by his Canadian counterpart decrying powerful nations using economic integration as weapons and tariffs as leverage.
Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony
Can Middle Powers Like Canada Exist Between America and China?
Opinion
Jan. 24, 2026
By Ross Douthat
Opinion Columnist
As Donald Trump rampaged about in his first term, leadership of the free world was transferred, by general liberal acclamation, to Angela Merkel of Germany. She was cast as the embodiment of internationalist virtue: prudent, broad-minded, diplomatic, multilateralist, and expertise-driven above all.
Carney vs Empire: How can we ensure that a dog that barks endlessly won't eventually bite?
Where I come from, we have a saying: "Don't be afraid of a dog that barks because it doesn't bite." Following the recent TACO incident at Davos regarding Greenland, one could arguably say the same about Donald Trump. The fact is, he has imperial ambitions, a childish attitude towards rejection, and an agenda he must fulfill before the midterms. However, he also has limits on what he can achieve through coercion. Apparently, some international rules still apply, even to a bully like him—remnant rules of the world order that Carney rushed to put to rest in Davos, including the American assets in European hands. But Canada is not the EU; it is an isolated neighbor to an indebted superpower that, for instance, requires vast amounts of energy to maintain its AI supremacy. And Canada possesses that energy. However, is Canada to the U.S. what Ukraine is to the Russian Federation? Is it breakfast?
Team Trump is livid after Canada’s Carney calls out US coercion
Story by Paul Vieira
OTTAWA– Canada and the Trump administration are locked in a war of words over Prime Minister Mark Carney’s bid to chart a new model for smaller powers to fight back against the U.S.’s aggressive use of its economic and military might.
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