- In Hackwhackers, Trump writes a disjointed missive, complete with logical lapses and run‑on sentences, that threatens Norway with an invasion of Greenland against Denmark because a private group in Norway did not award him their peace prize.
Got that?
Hackwhackers has a thought:
It’s past time for the 25th Amendment to be implemented.Update: Yeah, there is more.
Followed by someone convincing Trump that maybe invasion and tariffs are not a good idea after all.
- The Nobel Committee explains that, regardless of Trump’s childlike desires, the Nobel Peace Prize is not transferable…
…while, PZ Myers explains that regardless of Trump’s childlike delusions, the government of Norway does not confer the Nobel Peace Prize.
- In spite of Trump’s more recent I‑don’t‑really‑care petulant clarification, much of the world is startled and alarmed by his earlier weird Greenland tantrum, via message to Norway, about the Nobel Peace Prize so unfairly denied to him.
At The Moderate Voice, Robert Levine contrasts the toddler foot-stamp hysterics motive with another sinister possibility:
Apt headline:
Is Trump a Cry Baby, or Just Doing Putin’s Bidding? - Infidel753 provides the most in depth analysis of Trump’s Greenland bluster we’re likely to see.
Turns out any economic actions Trump is likely to take against those who have been our allies will hurt us more than them. The retaliation available to them will be devastating to the US.
- Dave Barry undertakes explaining to us current US foreign policy.
Right now the United States is facing two major foreign-policy crises:
1. Greenland.
2. Where King Charles III will go to the bathroom.
I will take these crises one at a time. - I tried, I really did try, to watch my President’s speech to world leaders.
I couldn’t get through it.I thought back to my first journey into debating contests while in high school, too many decades back. I had watched two teams argue on some selected topic in front of an assembled band of adult judges.
I mostly remembered the second team. A newbie – a poor fellow just starting to learn debating ‑ began to speak:
Ladies and gentlemen…He paused, perhaps wondering whom he had left out…
students and, uh, judges…He cleared his throat.
We have heard the other team present their case. And now…Another awkward pause…
I would like to throw up for you on the floor……long silence…
…our side!On television, taped for future reference, in front of the world, God, and everybody, Donald Trump didn’t bother with the awkwardness.
He just threw up for them on the floor.
- In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson analyzes the weird, very weird, ultra‑weird speech Trump stumbled through at the World Economic Forum.
Inescapable facts:
The president of the United States went on to give a virulently racist, insulting, rambling speech in which he complained that people call him a dictator but that “sometimes you need a dictator.” More than anything, though, the speech demonstrated his mental unfitness for his position.The same analysis is now available in audio format, as Richardson narrates in podcast.
- It isn’t name-calling.
It really isn’t.Journalist Marcy Wheeler at EmptyWheel watches Trump at the World Economic Forum, goes to the record, to video, and to experts. She voices what everyone is now thinking: that Trump does not need a new set of advisors. He needs a shrink and a babysitter.
- In Canadian satire, The Beaverton reports as Trump tells everyone not to worry about…
…his large box labeled Plans to Take Over the World.
- Jason Linkins accurately criticizes mainstream media coverage of Trump and Greenland:
Right on cue, here are the push alerts from the 3 major newspapers lmao
— Erick Fernandez (@erickfernandez.bsky.social) January 21, 2026 at 9:36 AM
this is a pretty epic act of sanewashing given that a) that one stray statement was bracketed by rhetoric that suggested force was indeed on the menu b) the speech was basically otherwise senile rantings and c) can't believe I'm still explaining this but Trump lies all the time
— Jason Linkins (@dceiver.bsky.social) January 21, 2026 at 10:26 AM
- Dave Columbo bravely tries to direct Donald Trump’s rocky rumble ramble:
- Brian Beutler uses a bit of chess analogy to argue that Trump seems to be losing, but that he is still capable of lasting damage:
It’s an error to confuse flailing for forward momentum, but it’s also an error to grow complacent, simply because at this point in the game he’s closer to defeat. He’s also creating big problems that will be hard to fix in the future, when he’s gone.
But there’s one important caveat I didn’t address: the interim risk that he overturns the game board. That may be what he’s working himself up to do. - CalicoJack in The Psy of Life speculates that Trump will at least attempt to steal the 2026 congressional election.
Jack encourages comments from those who would change his mind.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil links to multiple credible sources, all pointing to Trump as waging war against the United States.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz considers how he can describe the injury to America caused by Donald Trump’s presidency.
If asked by someone in the future to summarize in a single word, the scope and scale of the collective injury we’ve sustained as a people and a nation during that time, the word I keep coming back to is waste. - When it comes to at least sounding reasonable, Max’s Dad sees Trump as no longer even trying.
Forlorn hope of 25th Amendment:
Sorry as I start laughing. The 25th allows a cabinet to vote to remove the President. Some cling to this idea as hope. Cmon now. You think Kristi Noem or Pam Bondi or Marco Rubio or Doug Burgham or Bessent or that idiot Ag Secretary, the $3 a day to eat woman, are going to do the right thing? EVER? Keep dreaming.Forlorn hope of impeachment and removal:
But of course, the pussies in the Senate would never cross their mob boss lest they be threatened with death from the millions of goons out there who have waited to be fascists for years.Key near hopeless concern:
I worry for my country. I worry for my fellow citizens of color, gay citizens, women and all the rest. - News Corpse has the latest on Trump’s instructions to the FCC applying a new fairness rule to stop late night hosts from making fun of Trump.
- Julian Sanchez does remember:
Hey, remember when people used to say Trump wouldn’t be bought or corruptly influenced by wealthy interests because he was already so rich? That was fun.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) January 20, 2026 at 10:41 AM
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the numbers as Americans, by a large, wide, bigly margin, consider the past year a Trump failure.
- This past Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, celebrated by millions of Americans and, of course, skipped over by Donald Trump, the first President to ignore the holiday since it was signed into law by Ronald Reagan in 1983.
From The Borowitz Report, Andy departs from his usual satire and posts the last essay by the civil rights leader, published after his murder in 1968.
From a Testament of Hope:
It is possible for me to falter, but I am profoundly secure in my knowledge that God loves us; he has not worked out a design for our failure. Man has the capacity to do right as well as wrong, and his history is a path upward, not downward.
The past is strewn with the ruins of the empires of tyranny, and each is a monument not merely to man’s blunders but to his capacity to overcome them. - Journalist Arturo Dominguez does the research that escapes most of us, reviewing Martin Luther King and what Dominguez calls MLK’s Social Capitalist Dream.
Dr. King asserted that the government’s efforts to tackle poverty incrementally — providing improved housing, better education, and more family support — were “piecemeal and pygmy.”
- driftglass celebrates MLK Day with a 1942 message from White Rose, a German anti-Nazi group calling for resistance to fascist tyranny.
Against passive acceptance:
Do not forget that every people deserves the regime it is willing to endure! - At The Onion, Trump’s primary advisor Stephen Miller reminds his picky-eater son that there are starving kids in the basement.
- The Propaganda Professor begins The Week in Stupid with the ICE murder of Renee Good and varying degrees of how she had it coming.
One explains why protests are wrong:
“If this was IRS agents, you know, going after somebody in Florida, and right-wing protesters were getting in the way, there will [sic] be a lot of people on the left saying how dare you get, you know, this is insurrectionist, and that kind of thing. It’s dumb on either side.” – Jonah Goldberg, confused about the distinction between trying to collect taxes and dragging families out of their homes and locking them in cages. - Interesting that @whiskeywhistle98 has to explain why ICE cannot be supported in using teargas to attack a family coming home from a basketball game:
- Scotties Playtime has the story as ICE agents fire a non-lethal round, blinding a protester.
We can believe a later DHS statement that the young man, and others, were assaulting a federal officer. We could offer both sides and say either could be correct. We could say that the truth is somewhere between.
Or, as Scottie suggests, we can believe the actual video evidence showing that ICE is lying and the assault was on the protester.
- It isn’t simply assault or even murder.
Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit points to a continuous, largely unreported, human rights abuse by ICE. - Disaffected and it Feels So Good posits that Trump’s War on Minnesota…
…is designed to expand through to the whole Nation.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors reports there is a chance Democrats, and maybe enough Republicans, might vote against DHS funding unless ICE is constrained, followed by passage of funding with no constraints.
- Juliet at Decoding Fox News watches 15 hours, the highlight of which is a discussion on the fearsome, yet pathetic army of childless cat ladies protesting ICE.
Jesse Watters framed the anti-ICE demonstrations last week in Minneapolis as misguided activism from emotionally broken women who were lost without strong male guidance.
More detailed information is presented by Juliet in an hour long entertaining podcast.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson takes to task a Catholic bishop who ignores the attacks by ICE, insisting that the issue of social justice in Minneapolis narrows down only to welfare fraud.
No comment about ICE surveillance of Catholic churches, or the denial of Communion to detainees, or even a comment about the treatment of detainees and their families.
As a religious man, Barron is undoubtedly aware of the parable of the Good Samaritan. Perhaps he has forgotten how it begins:30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. (Luke 10:30-31)Pope Leo XIV has repeatedly made clear his disapproval of Trump’s treatment of immigrants, but Barron moves on with indifference to their plight. - Author and educator Amanda Nelson says politics have changed dramatically when it comes to putting ICE on ice:
- Legal expert Imani Gandy dusts off the 3rd Amendment to point out the Constitutional right of hotels to refuse service to ICE troops.
- Tommy Christopher brings us Trump apologist Scott Jennings getting stomped into dust on CNN by guest Leigh McGowan, after his dismissive comments about the Epstein files cover‑up
Beginning at about :36
JENNINGS: …they should follow the law but let’s not get our knickers in a twist here. ..
MCGOWAN: (Interrupting) Yes, let’s not get our “knickers in a twist” over child rape! Why are you talking like that? It’s insane! - Right Wing Watch brings us another war of rightwingers as QAnon believer Lauren Witzke speculates that self‑described pro‑White nationalist Laura Loomer’s DNA is tainted with a demon
- Frances Langum wishes a Happy 80th to the great Dolly Parton.
- Dave Dubya periodically seeks out civil but vigorous exchanges with MAGA folk. In this case, he debates online with a radio talk host about whether there is room for Christ in Christian Nationalism.
- In Rural Missouri, Jess Piper remembers the very first time she heard someone say, right out loud, that they were an atheist. She was 22.
I had been taught that atheists were hateful. Selfish. Bad. I had been taught that progressivism was also hateful. Selfish. Bad.
I was wrong.
Doris showed me that goodness doesn’t belong to any one religion. It belongs to humanity. - In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce, having departed from Christianity, considers our place in the universe.
- Noted author John Scalzi shows a photo of Johnscalzi the almost‑planet.
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It comes courtesy of the Cline Observatory at Guilford College - SilverAppleQueen photographs a flowered stem in a living room setting.
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