In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.

Five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father released from Texas detention center Boy and his father back in Minneapolis after being detained by ICE and held in immigration facility for more than a week

a bit of good news:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In Minneapolis, Knitters Are Protesting With Red Hats

yay knitters (and yes I have ordered the pattern)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/s...

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: The culture war is an actual war.

yes
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

YouTube video by Billy Bragg BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES

yes
youtu.be/IKOW2ZikGW8?...

Greg Bovino Loses His Job The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

well this is a positive development -- even if it's appalling that it took so much violence and death to get here:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Welcome to the American Winter In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

heartbreaking detail of the toll this occupation is taking on the entire community in Minneapolis: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

NOW

If I’d pitched Trump’s Greenland plot for Borgen I’d have been laughed at. Now we’re living his sinister drama The only positive of this stranger-than-fiction scenario is that Greenland and Denmark stand more united than ever, says Adam Price, the creator of the TV series Borgen

I must admit, I did start re-watching season 1 this week - it seems so sane by comparison...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez assured US of cooperation before Maduro’s capture Exclusive: sources say powerful figures in the regime secretly told US and Qatari officials they would welcome Maduro’s departure

surprising? not at all.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

yes, continuing concerns here in the neighborhood...

as a friend said, given his reluctance to ever admit to making a mistake, this mental scrambling of Iceland and Greenland could be very worrying...

Trump ‘crossing red lines’ says Belgian PM after US president warns ‘there can be no going back’ on Greenland – Europe live Belgium’s PM says Europe is ‘at a crossroads’ and 80 years of Atlanticism could be drawing to a close

considering how reluctant Belgium has been up to now, this is pretty explosive: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

unhinged is the right word

Iceland endorses condemnation of Trump tariff threat - RÚV.is The eight countries with whom Trump has threatened new tariffs issued a joint statement yesterday, condemning the plan. Kristrún Frostadóttir and Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir say the Icelandic gover...

The countries with whom #Trump has threatened new #tariffs over opposition to his #Greenland takeover plan, issued a joint statement condemning the idea. #Iceland's PM and FM say the #Icelandic #government endorses that statement.

European leaders warn of ‘downward spiral’ after Trump threatens tariffs over Greenland – Europe live Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland will face tariffs from 1 February

glad to see some firm, if sometimes overly diplomatic, pushback: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

appalling behavior

Politico report: Trump's ambassador-designate jokes that Iceland will become part of the US - RÚV.is Billy Long, Trump's ambassador-designate to Iceland, reportedly joked with members of Congress this week that Iceland would become part of the US.

more on this story - and yes, I've signed the petition mentioned in the article:
www.ruv.is/english/2026...

Incoming U.S. Ambassador Jokes About Iceland Becoming The 52nd State The incoming U.S. ambassador to Iceland and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives joked yesterday that Iceland would...

no. no. NO.
grapevine.is/news/2026/01...

Trump’s Most Dangerous Gambit His irrational obsession with Greenland could lead to global conflict.

Danish and Greenland ministers just left the White House. It did not go well.
I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III.

(Gifted.)

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Greenland. Danish Foreign minister after meeting:

“We didn’t manage to change the US position.”

That’s not good. The floor has been set. Let’s watch Trump go below it.

Again, I’m going to keep banging the lonely drum that the fact that we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations, poses a massive threat to national security & world order, & should immediately end this presidency.

apparently Sweden and Norway are sending support, too

Greenland chooses Denmark

Greenland chooses Denmark

‘We’re Not Stupid’: Greenlanders Fear What a U.S. Takeover Would Mean

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

Breaking: NYT now says *six* federal prosecutors in Minnesota have just resigned over the Justice Department's push to investigate the widow of Renee Good and the department's reluctance to investigate the ICE agent who shot Good, according to people with knowledge of their decision.

Iran crisis live: Trump says killers of protesters will ‘pay a big price’ and urges Iranians to ‘take over your institutions’ US president cancels meetings with Iranian officials ‘until senseless killing of protesters stops’

circumstances in Iran sound beyond horrific -- yet the contrast of Trump's comments about Iranian protesters vs. ICE protesters in the US could not be more stark...

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

What Stephen Miller Gets Wrong About Human Nature The Trump adviser’s assertions about the “real world” reflect a deep misunderstanding of Thomas Hobbes’s dog-eat-dog worldview.

Stephen Miller really seems to be the source of most of the most evil things this administration does...
www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...