Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! We enter the final week of January, 2026— one of the most profoundly disruptive months in living memory. Vast institutions that everyone assumed were permanent fixtures in our world are washing away in real time, like a child’s driveway chalk drawing encountering the pressure washer. In today’s eye-popping roundup: Cities Church outrage leads to arrests that corporate media completely ignores; Don Lemon squirts out of FBI clutches for now, but goes to ground; era of immortal international institutions coming to a close; pandemic exposed international effect on individual liberties; German Chanceller excoriates EU regulations and promotes entrepreneurial freedom; USA formally withdraws from World Health Organization, at last; Trump’s new Board of Peace “challenges” United Nations; Trump poised to disembowel the UN and lots of evidence suggests it is already happening; the iron fist in the velvet tariff glove; DeSantis organizing constitutional convention for balanced budget, and he’s actually getting there; and Republican squishes disappoint conservatives with budget bill.

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