Saturday Morning Covfefe: Five Things That Matter
Olivia of Troye
This is the first Covfefe of 2026. Before the headlines, a quick thank you to my paid subscribers and everyone who shows up here by reading, sharing, or replying. This isn’t a drive-by news roundup. It’s a community built on context, memory, and calling things what they are. That work matters now more than ever.
Let’s get into it.
1. Jack Smith Said It Plainly: Trump Caused January 6
Five years later, the record isn’t ambiguous, and it isn’t debatable.
In sworn testimony to Congress, Jack Smith laid out what many Americans watched unfold in real time: Donald Trump’s lies didn’t just precede January 6. They caused it.
Smith didn’t hedge. He described a direct chain of events, knowingly false claims of election fraud, deliberately amplified, aimed at stopping the peaceful transfer of power. The violence wasn’t spontaneous. It was foreseeable.
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