On this day in conspiracies

Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany, heading a coalition in which Nazis are a minority. New Reichstag elections are called for 5 March 1933; the Nazis want a majority and a pretext to move against the Communists.

The Gold Reserve Act formalizes the policy and then revalues gold upward to $35 an ounce, so the government's later revaluation profited on the metal it had just bought in. The point of the whole exercise was monetary: to expand the money supply and fight deflation under a gold standard, not to enrich a raiding party.

On the Barstool Sports podcast Macrodosing, former NFL running back Arian Foster plays along with a bit that the league is "rigged" and that players received scripts, likening the NFL to pro wrestling: "We know what's going to happen, but you still got to put on a show." The clip supercharges the meme heading into the Super Bowl.

After a further review period beginning 5 January, the Justice Department publishes over three million pages and files, including more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. It states that redactions were limited to protecting victims and their families and that 'notable individuals and politicians were not redacted in the release of any files'. The sleuthing scales up accordingly, and people begin examining the gaps as closely as the pages.

The Department of Justice publishes more than three million pages of Epstein-related records (reported at about 3.5 million), along with thousands of videos and tens of thousands of images, to a public 'Epstein Library.' Officials cite the volume and a tight statutory deadline in explaining redactions of victim information and other sensitive material.

The Justice Department releases a large batch of Epstein-related records. Public appetite for damning images is intense, and the volume of material makes it hard for ordinary readers to know what is actually in the files.