Source: The Hill
“Lindsey Granger gives her lens on the ongoing turmoil in Minnesota, with Governor Tim Walz asking President Trump to, ‘turn the temperature down,’ after Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in the state.” (01/16/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5692625-rising-january-16-2026/
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“Welcome to the Trumpian ICE Age, a vivid lesson in the frigidity of collectivism. Take note, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Compared to Trump, you’re a piker.” (01/16/26)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2026/01/tgif-trumpian-ice-age-frigidity-of.html
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“Thanks to everyone who sent in condolences on my recent death from prostate cancer at age 68, but that was Scott Adams. I (Scott Alexander) am still alive. Still, the condolences are appreciated. Scott Adams was a surprisingly big part of my life. I may be the only person to have read every Dilbert book before graduating elementary school. For some reason, 10-year-old-Scott found Adams’[s] stories of time-wasting meetings and pointy-haired bosses hilarious. No doubt some of the attraction came from a more-than-passing resemblance between Dilbert’s nameless corporation and the California public school system. We’re all inmates in prisons with different names. But it would be insufficiently ambitious to stop there. Adams’[s] comics were about the nerd experience.” (01/16/26)
Source: Fox News
“Multiple documents released by Argentine President Javier Milei last year reveal how Argentina’s search for Nazi war criminals, who found refuge in the country during and after the Second World War, were able to avoid arrest and, for the most part, live ordinary lives. While Argentina’s Peronist government sympathized and often knew of Nazi criminals hiding in their territory – often under their auspices – once the populist regime fell, the South American nation half-heartedly tried to keep tabs on the war criminals hiding there. Though many high-profile cases went nowhere, the case of Hitler’s henchman Martin Bormann is exemplary in showing how inefficient Argentina was in its investigations.” (01/18/26)
Source: Crooked Media
“ICE’s Reign of Terror.” (01/16/26)
Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Snider
“merican negotiators have been negotiating on separate tracks with Ukraine and Russia in the hope that those two tracks will eventually converge. Despite President Donald Trump’s recent statement that the two sides are ‘maybe very close’ to a deal, and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s evaluation that a plan is ’90 percent ready,’ the two sides seem to be moving no closer together. In negotiating, the Ukrainian and European sides may be hoping to highlight that it is Russia that is saying no. And there is plenty in — and not in — their latest position that Russia will say no to. But, incoherently, Europe seems to have negotiated itself into a corner from which Russia doesn’t have to be the one to say no because Europe will.” (01/16/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/russia-wont-have-to-say-no-europe-will/
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“This past week has shown that you can’t leave something as important as resisting the government up to the opposition party. Democrats in Congress, like the majority of the country, are incensed about the murder of Renee Good, the subsequent wounding and maiming of others, and the seeming improbability of forthcoming accountability for any of this. To use the most salient example, federal investigators have commandeered the Good case, are withholding evidence from the state of Minnesota, and have turned the probe into a smear job against her and whatever activism she and her wife were engaged in. Justice Department prosecutors have resigned in protest. While state and local prosecutors try to keep the Good case alive, ICE agents are unquestionably violating their own written policies and the constitutional rights of citizens expressing their opposition through free speech and peaceable assembly.” (01/16/25)
https://prospect.org/2026/01/16/what-people-powered-movement-looks-like-minneapolis/
Source: Yahoo! News
“A Redlands man was arrested late Thursday after police say he broke into a home, pointed a shotgun at the resident and was then shot by the homeowner. The Redlands Police Department responded to a report of shots fired shortly before midnight on Jan. 15. The homeowner arrived home and found the intruder inside. He armed himself with a handgun before confronting the intruder, who pointed a shotgun at the homeowner, according to police. That’s when the homeowner shot the intruder and immediately exited the home to call police, officials said. When officers arrived, they cleared the home and followed a blood trail that led to the back yard where they found the intruder suffering from a gunshot wound.” (01/17/26)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/homeowner-shoots-intruder-during-attempted-024846673.html
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Surging Military Assets to Middle East, Israel Kills at Least 10 Palestinians in Gaza, and More.” (01/16/26)
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Francisco Rodriguez
“‘We’re going to run the country,’ President Trump said regarding Venezuela at a press conference just hours after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s capture in a U.S. military raid in Caracas. To do so, the Trump administration has begun taking charge of Venezuelan oil shipments and selling them directly in international oil markets. The U.S. plans to make sure that these revenues are used only to buy imports from American companies. Whether this will at some point transform into a net benefit for the Venezuelan people depends on the granular details of the plan, which currently we know little about. The broader outlines of the vision are of course enough to make the blood of any Latin American nationalist boil.” (01/16/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-oil-industry-venezuela/