Alone In The World January 21, 2026 In one year, for all our considerable flaws and missteps, we’ve gone from being the world’s good guy . . . its beacon of hope and reliable ally . . . to being its blundering, boorish bully. No one likes a bully. All root for bullies to fall. Who are our allies, asked Rachel Maddow Monday night — Russia? North Korea? Putin is winning. It is to cry. ANNE APPLEBAUM CRIES OUT TO REPUBLICANS Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw. Will Republicans in Congress ever step in? . . . The people around Trump could find ways to stop him, as some did in his first term, but they seem too corrupt or too power-hungry to try. That leaves Republicans in Congress as the last barrier. They owe it to the American people, and to the world, to stop Trump from acting out his fantasy in Greenland and doing permanent damage to American interests. He is at risk of alienating friends in not only Europe but also India, whose leader he also snubbed for failing to nominate him for a Nobel Prize, as well as South Korea, Japan, Australia. Years of careful diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, are now at risk because senators and representatives who know better have refused to use the powers they have to block him. Now is the time. Join Indivisible! Support the opposition party! HYMC Shares we bought for $2.30 a couple of years ago and $3.20 in June changed hands at $45 in after-hours trading last night. Don’t hate me for suggesting you sell some and write calls against some more on the way up. I may take a loss on some of those calls and replace them with further out-of-the-money calls. PIRATE SHIP FedEx charged me $83.93 for second-day delivery of a 3-pound envelope. PirateShip.com would have charged $16.43. They route a zillion packages via UPS and USPS (yours among them) and pass most of their huge-customer-discount on to you. The reviews are 75% outstanding, though definitely not all. BREE FRAM FOR CONGRESS Ousted under Trump’s trans military ban, retired Space Force Col. Bree Fram launches bid for Congress. I’m proud to know her. And I love that Four-star General Stanley McChrystal (“perhaps the finest warrior and leader of men in combat I ever met” — former Defense Secretary Robert Gates) recently honored Bree and four others of the thousands Trump fired on New Year’s Eve.