🚨 Size Isn’t Everything – January 13 2026

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Lead: Trump’s Iran Tariff Threat Is a Race Against the Supreme Court

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President Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on any country that does business with Iran, citing large-scale protests inside Iran. Protests that, somehow, Trump now wants to treat as a pretext for escalating toward war.

If you’re having a hard time following that logic, you’re in good company.

The U.S. and Israel are pretending that internal unrest in Iran is “about them,” and that concern for the Iranian people requires bombing their country. No one should buy that. If a U.S. politician really cared about the people of Iran, they would lift sanctions, not make it harder for Iranians to buy food, medicine and infrastructure. Sanctions of mass destruction on Iran were tightened under the Obama Administration under the false pretense of a nuclear arms program.

In reality, the only clear connection between these protests and the U.S./Israel alliance is that both countries are openly instigating them and have been for years. Before anyone claims the U.S. is merely ‘reacting’ to events in Iran, remember: Stanford and Graphika documented years of pro-Western covert influence operations from the Pentagon that explicitly targeted Iran.

President Trump’s threats of tariffs were announced while he knows that the Supreme Court may take this power away from him.

The Court is currently weighing whether presidents have the constitutional authority to impose broad tariffs under emergency powers at all. A ruling may come as early as this week.

In other words, Trump is announcing one of the most expansive tariff threats yet at the very moment the Court may be preparing to shut that authority down.

And how do we really know what is happening in Iran? It is admittedly challenging. There is an Internet blackout and state media has reported only security personnel deaths, not civilian deaths.

Journalist Michael Tracey points out that most reported death numbers are coming from an organization called “Human Rights Activists in Iran” that is overwhelmingly funded by the US government. The image that activists like J.K. Rowling are sharing to support the revolution is of a woman in Canada, not an Iranian.

Do the Iranian people want regime change? Many of them do. Do they want it at the hands of the U.S. and Israel? That is doubtful.

Congress floats a Greenland annexation bill—seriously

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It feels like we’re being punked but now there is a bill on the floor to make Greenland the 51st American state.

Congressman Fine (FL-06) introduced the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act. It gives President Trump authorization to “take whatever steps necessary to annex or acquire Greenland as a territory of the United States.” Whatever steps necessary? Including force?

The White House provoked this idea with this post on Monday. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen doesn’t seem to find this funny. She said that Denmark is facing “a decisive moment” over its ownership of Greenland and that the country is ready to defend its “values.”

That’s not exactly tough talk now, is it? It’s less “you’ll never take Greenland” and more “we’re very disappointed, and we’ve scheduled a meeting.”

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