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TikTok creator @Jahlen.Johnson has alleged a small connection between Jonathan Gerlach, the man recently arrested for grave-robbing in Pennsylvania, and the Harvard morgue scandal, involving the alleged theft and sale of human remains from Harvard Medical School’s morgue. Importantly, Johnson does not claim Gerlach is charged in or directly tied to the Harvard case. Instead, she alleges the connection runs through personal relationships and alleged transactions within the underground “oddities” and human remains marketplace. In her post, Johnson says: “The Pennsylvania grave robber who was arrested earlier this week,” meaning Gerlach, “has a small connection to the Harvard body parts scandal, which LED me down a completely different rabbit hole.” According to Johnson, the unconfirmed connection between Gerlach and Harvard is Jeremy Pauley, a Pennsylvania man recently sentenced in the Harvard morgue case. Pauley operated a museum and educational nonprofit involving oddities and human remains. Johnson recounts Pauley’s claim that he did not knowingly purchase stolen Harvard remains, saying he bought items from third parties and believed they were legitimate. “He believed it was legit and he always did everything above board,” Johnson said, summarizing Pauley’s defense. Pauley’s partner Sarah It’s a local story that made national headlines.Jeremy Pauley, sentenced to six years in the stolen human remains case. Before he reports to prison, he’s speaking out.It’s the first of our two-part exclusive interview, TONIGHT on FOX56 News First at Ten. pic.twitter.com/1yRHqgFqXT— FOX56 NEWS WOLF-TV (@FOX56WOLF) January 14, 2026 Johnson then alleges that Pauley’s ex-partner, Sarah, removed human remains and items from his collection during a personal dispute and made it appear they were being improperly stored. She claims Pauley has said shipping records show items arrived at the home while he was not present, and that Sarah later admitted to lying, resulting in a perjury charge. Johnson further alleges that Sarah knowingly sold remains connected to the broader scandal. This is where Gerlach enters Johnson’s narrative. Gerlach and Sarah allegedly know on another @jahlen.johnson Jonathan Gerlach’s connection to Harvard. When I first heard this I thought it was absolutely crazy but it turns out this is the least crazy of all the connections he has. *reposting because I had to edit something* #jonathangerlach #jeremypauley #harvard #pennsylvania ♬ original sound – jahlen.Johnson According to Johnson in her post, Gerlach knew Sarah personally, comparing her to “a little sister.” Johnson alleges that Gerlach helped broker the sale of disputed items taken from Pauley’s collection, knowing they belonged to Pauley, and later denied doing so. She references alleged text messages, online listings, and items such as a hippo foot and a lion skull, suggesting Gerlach may have attempted to sell them across state lines. Johnson is careful to frame these claims as ongoing and unresolved, saying, “way more is gonna come out of this now.” As of now, no court filings or law enforcement statements verify that Gerlach handled Harvard-sourced remains or participated in that criminal conspiracy. The Pennsylvania grave-robbing case Authorities have uncovered shocking details about Jonathan Gerlach, who is accused of robbing graves in Delaware County. https://t.co/1nYwW7PSQj— FOX 29 (@FOX29philly) January 10, 2026 Gerlach, 34, is charged in Pennsylvania after investigators say he repeatedly broke into mausoleums and underground vaults at Mount Moriah Cemetery near Philadelphia. Police allege they found more than 100 human skulls, skeletal remains, and multiple decomposing bodies in his home and a storage unit. Some remains were believed to belong to children. Gerlach faces hundreds of charges, including abuse of a corpse, desecration, theft of venerated objects, burglary, and related offenses. Investigators are still determining whether any remains were sold and…

What are we to do about ICE? After the events of the last few weeks in Minneapolis, Americans are beginning to wake up to the reality of living with a poorly trained and heavily armed paramilitary force, which has given complete immunity for any crimes they commit against regular Americans. The U.S. Constitution just doesn’t mean much on the streets of Minneapolis at the moment, with masked, screaming thugs demanding to see people’s papers, dragging screaming women through smashed car windows, blinding kids, and – of course – executing innocent mom-of-three Renee Good. Throughout this, there are the familiar cries from the public to “abolish ICE”. So far, establishment Democrats have preferred to sit on the fence on this issue, arguing that maybe these racist goons just need better training. Now it appears that a movement to destroy ICE altogether is gaining momentum in the party. Yesterday, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) appeared on CNN to argue that ICE is so fundamentally rotten and riddled with evil that reform is impossible. It has to go: Wow! Sen. Ruben Gallego becomes one of the first U.S. Senators to call for ICE to be DISMANTLED. “I think ICE needs to be totally torn down. People want immigration enforcement that goes after criminals…not the goon squad from Stephen Miller…”AMEN! pic.twitter.com/VzA9ExtulO— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) January 18, 2026 “I think ICE needs to be totally torn down. It has to be created in the image of what people want. What does that look like? From my experience running in Arizona, a very hard, hard state when it comes to immigration issues, people want immigration enforcement that goes after criminals and focuses on criminals. Immigration enforcement that’s actually focused on security, not the goon squad that has come from Stephen Miller and Donald Trump.” Trump and Miller’s ‘goon squad’ Gallego underlined that a federal law enforcement agency must respect the law and the Constitution, saying they can’t just smash their way into homes, businesses, schools, and places of worship without a warrant. He also says it’s untenable to allow them to wear masks that allow them to escape culpability for their actions, something you’d expect to see in a third-world tinpot dictatorship, not the U.S. Gallego is right that ICE is beyond saving. At this point, it’s riddled from top to bottom with people who signed up so they could legally terrorize, assault, torture, and kill people they don’t like. I mean, is someone like Greg Bovino, who spends his days strutting around in SS Officer cosplay, going to change his mind after a seminar on responsible law enforcement? Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino marches through Minneapolis surrounded by federal agents, shouting at American citizens. This isn’t about deporting “the worst of the worst.” It’s about deliberately sowing fear and chaos in cities that oppose the Trump regime pic.twitter.com/zxP10HVsll— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) January 17, 2026 With the midterms looming, Democrats need to get on message about ICE, and the obvious reality is that it’s far beyond reform. It needs to be totally dismantled and a new immigration agency built from scratch that must adhere to the law and respect Constitutional rights. That replacement may still be kind of evil, but at least it wouldn’t be what’s currently stinking up the streets of Minnesota.

The boulevard that runs from Florida’s Palm Beach International Airport toward Mar-a-Lago has officially been renamed… President Donald J. Trump Boulevard. Trump celebrated the renaming publicly as an “amazing gesture” and proudly unveiled the new sign. Trump claimed he’s “tremendously honored” and called the road a “very important stretch.” This adds to a growing list of things Trump has attached his name to, including last month’s Trump-Kennedy Center. But unlike the Trump-Kennedy Center, the boulevard renaming doesn’t bother people much. Trump’s infamous Mar-a-Lago has been under a bad light anyway after the release of Epstein’s case files, so why not underline his connections to a place that’s becoming a byword for child abuse? Now, the renaming has given people another reason to steer clear of the place. But that didn’t stop social media users from taking jabs at the announcement. One user on X wrote, “Bet a vast majority of people will do everything they can to avoid that road.” Another added, “Epstein likely also traveled that same road. Where are the rest of the files?” Nobody was sentimental about the boulevard to begin with A majority of comments folded in long-running public criticism of Trump’s associations and unanswered questions surrounding the Epstein files. One mocked, “Is the new name ‘pedophile protector’ boulevard?” While another added, “A street named after a pedophile, how exciting, not.” Most comments were accusatory, angry, and intentionally provocative. They reflect how poisonous Trump’s public image has become. Yet, here we are, renaming public streets after such a figure. But what makes Trump’s renaming movement even more absurd is the timing. Trump: I am tremendously honored that the main boulevard from palm beach international airport to mar-a-lago is being renamed in my honor. That's a very important stretch. A lot of important people… and not important people travel that road. pic.twitter.com/cnpzntQcNz— Acyn (@Acyn) January 16, 2026 It’s true that cities rename streets after presidents all the time. But it’s usually after they leave office and some historical distance has settled. But Trump has been dedicated to putting his name on everything while he remains politically active and under constant scrutiny. This doesn’t symbolize service, but his ego. As one user puts it, “He thinks he’s a f—king Pharaoh.” Pharaohs carved their names into stone because they believed permanence validated power. But chances are, Trump’s name will be wiped off everything as soon as his party loses power. Which might be sooner than we think, judging by the GOP’s actions. But the less poetic truth of the boulevard is that the road itself was never beloved. So, Trump slapping his name on the sign isn’t half bad, if we ignore the ego-boost he’s getting.

Donald Trump‘s list of pardons is a rogue’s gallery of immoral, greedy criminals who exploit people to wring as much money out of them as possible. So, perhaps it’s not exactly a mystery why Trump sympathizes with them to the point of throwing out presidential pardons like confetti. Enter Adriana Camberos. In 2016, she and her husband were convicted on conspiracy charges after authorities unravelled an elaborate and bizarre scheme to import millions of bottles of counterfeit 5-Hour Energy shot drinks to the United States from Mexico. Aside from circumventing multiple importation laws, putting counterfeit energy drinks onto the market has the potential to harm the public, who are unknowingly consuming a highly caffeinated beverage that wouldn’t be regulated by the FDA. As such, a federal jury sentenced her to 27 months behind bars. She’d only served half her sentence when, in one of the last acts in his first term, Trump commuted her sentence and set her free. So, what did Camberos do with this lucky break? Learn her lesson? Go legit? Make money legally? Law & order huh?— THEE ROCKSTAR #rockstar (@VonWolf9) January 18, 2026 Turns out crime DOES pay! Well, no. The lesson she (totally understandably) learned was that crime pays and consequences are fleeting. And, by 2024, Camberos was back at it with a new scheme that involved defrauding major manufacturers by claiming she was buying goods for sale in Mexico or that would be sold to prisoners, while actually selling them to U.S. consumers at much higher prices. All too soon, Camberos was reaping the rewards of crime, owning multiple houses in San Diego and cruising the streets in a Lamborghini Huracan. Once again, the feds swooped in, she was once again convicted by a jury of multiple charges of fraud, and tossed back behind bars. But Trump, presumably thinking that the third time’s the charm, decided that she deserves one more chance of going straight. And so, on Jan. 17, Trump officially pardoned her again, leaving her free to stroll out of prison, hop into her Lambo, and peel out of there in a cloud of dust. By our reckoning, Camberos has at least three years to cook up one more massive fraud against American consumers and manufacturers, just in time for one more Trump pardon at the end of his second term. Maybe this time she can upgrade to a Ferrari, or possibly even a McLaren if she really puts some effort into her next enormous crime!

Late last week, the official White House X account shared a black-and-white image of Donald Trump leaning over the Resolute Desk. Yes, the exact photo used in his “Milk Mustache” edit by the Department of Agriculture a few days ago. But this time, there’s no white mustache on him or a glass of milk on the table. It’s “Mister Tariff” for you now. The picture is the same. Trump is glowering into the camera like a catalog model for authoritarian nostalgia. But the caption was different. It was simple, confident, and catastrophically unaware: “MISTER TARIFF.” It already looked like a meme. In response to the post, a user prompted Grok to edit the image by “replacing the desk with a walker.” And suddenly, the photo made sense. The posture, the stiff arms, and the gravity-defying lean all fit perfectly into the edit, and now the White House knows that if you treat governance like content, you can’t control the edits. This was inevitable The White House wants to portray Trump as the hard man of tariffs, the strongman taxing the world into submission. What people saw instead was a frail, aging president propped up by policy gimmicks. “Mister Tariff” is taxing Americans while pretending to punish foreigners. He doesn’t menace Beijing or Brussels; he raises prices at Walmart for his own citizens. That’s how tariffs work. Social media comments were as brilliant as the Grok edit. “ I prefer MISTER $2000 TARIFF CHECKS,” one user wrote. And there couldn’t have been a better jab at Trump’s long-abandoned promise of mailing tariff revenue directly to Americans. Others cut to facts, reminding the White House that “Tariffs aren’t paid by foreign governments. Companies pass the costs to consumers.” MISTER TARIFF pic.twitter.com/uC41VZYV6d— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 17, 2026 And just like that, the cosplay collapsed under basic economics. Then the edits escalated. A user replied to Grok’s walker version with an even cleaner edit. Trump was gripping the walker naturally, almost like it had always been there. Users admitted they’d thought the original already included one. One wrote, “It was how I thought the picture was, before I scrolled far enough down.” Another added, “Maybe they started with a walker and edited it out. It’s an awfully awkward pose.” We hardly needed much more proof, but this is something of a referendum on how unserious official communication has become. The White House posted a moody portrait instead of explaining policy, Grok added a walker, and the public added context.