Source: Reason
by Jack Nicastro
“Threatening European allies to further tax American citizens is unlikely to persuade them to surrender Greenland to the United States.” (01/20/26)
Source: SFGate
“Gov. Gavin Newsom was scheduled to speak during the World Economic Forum on Wednesday morning in Davos, Switzerland, but was barred from speaking at the very last minute by the White House, according to his office. ‘Under pressure from the White House and State Department, USA House (a church acting as the official US pavilion) is now denying entry to Governor Newsom after Fortune — the official media partner — invited him to speak,’ the governor’s office said in a text to the governor’s press corps and later posted to the governor’s official X account. The USA House is the collection of official U.S. venues during the World Economic Forum.” (01/21/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/white-house-newsom-switzerland-21307154.php
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“Trump’s (second) first year.” (01/20/26)
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/20/nx-s1-5682909/trumps-second-first-year
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“AI After Us: The ‘Succession’ Scenario | Robert Wright & Dan Faggella.” (01/20/26)
Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“As usual, today’s president, coming late to a long-standing problem, but presuming his original discovery of it, has made himself the issue. His acquisitiveness regarding Greenland has nothing to do with national security, and everything to do, as everything always does, with his fragile ego. He is pouting, and threatening aggression, because he has not received the Nobel Peace Prize. The Danes can perhaps take comfort from the fact that the president is contemplating military operations against another northern place. As this is being written, the Army is reportedly readying a potential deployment to Minnesota to quell disturbances stemming from ham-handed activities by the ludicrously — and lethally — militarized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. During all this, the president has announced he will order that no other football game can be televised during the annual Army-Navy game.” (01/20/26)
Source: In These Times
by Sarah Jaffe
“Around the United States, the rebellions against President Donald Trump’s militarized Immigration and Customs Enforcement invasions (bolstered by other agencies including the National Guard and, at least in one case, actual Marines) continue. National headlines have mostly skipped over Memphis, perhaps because it’s a smaller city in the South, far from the headquarters of national media. On the ground in Memphis, local policy organizer Amber Sherman explained, the fear (and resistance) are similar to what we see in bigger cities. It’s not so much the National Guard, she said, but around the city, there are some 1,500 federal agents from the so-called Memphis Safe Task Force working alongside existing police and using traffic stops (reportedly more than 35,000 in two months) as a way to get their hands on people. This is the very issue (pretextual stops) that Memphis activists organized against so effectively after police killed artist and skateboarder Tyre Nichols two years ago.” (01/21/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/capitalism-without-humans-labor-ai-tech-waymo-riot
Source: ABC News
“Mexico’s security minister said Tuesday that it had sent another 37 members of Mexican drug cartels to the United States, as the Trump administration ratchets up pressure on governments to crack down on criminal networks it says are smuggling drugs across the border. Mexican Security Minister Omar García Harfuch wrote in a social media post on X that the people transferred were ‘high impact criminals’ that ‘represented a real threat to the country’s security.’ It is the third time in less than one year that Mexico has sent detained cartel members to the U.S. as the country attempts to offset mounting threats by U.S.” (01/20/26)
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“What the Hell is Happening with Greenland? A Pre-Midterms Congressional Vibe Check (with Kirk Bado and Juliegrace Brufke).” (01/20/26)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/what-the-hell-is-happening-with-greenland
Source: Reason
“Is America Really Going to War for Greenland?” (01/20/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/01/20/is-america-really-going-to-war-for-greenland/
Source: Show-Me Institute
by Patrick Tuohey
“Missouri’s Sunshine Law was a product of the Watergate era, passed in 1973 with a clear message: the public’s business should be done in public. But in the decades since, while the language has been modestly updated, the spirit of the law has too often been ignored — and in some cases, actively undermined. Across Missouri, public officials routinely delay, dodge, or deny access to information that taxpayers are entitled to. They charge outrageous fees, cite vague exemptions, lose track of requests, or hide behind non-disclosure agreements, treating transparency as a nuisance rather than a requirement.” (01/20/26)