"Trump’s approach to leadership is primarily transactional," Fareed Zakaria writes. "For him, diplomacy is the art of the squeeze."

A side effect of the Trump government is that we are getting a baseline to measure conspiracy theories against. In real-life situations involving unethical government pressure and a sufficient number of participants, the more ethical people resign, or leak information, and we hear about that.

Minnesota is the best of us.

Immer wieder werden Briefe und Fotos von KZ-Häftlingen auf Plattformen wie eBay zum Kauf angeboten. Angehörige zeigen sich entsetzt und fordern ein Verkaufsverbot - doch juristische Handlungsmöglichkeiten sind begrenzt.

Infinitely Greenland | Billion Dollar Peace Board | Chairman For Life | Peace Buddies

I don’t know if this has had any play in the US news, but Trump’s comments about Nato troops not fighting alongside the US have caused a pretty big backlash across Europe. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.

Super excited to share the cover of my children’s book Jacob’s Transition Goals! Jacob’s Transition Goals is about an 8 year old transgender boy who starts playing football for his local boys team. It’s a joyful story that I wish I’d been able to read when I was a trans kid. Out April 21st! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

The Pentagon criticized the military newspaper Stars and Stripes as “woke.” Now the outlet’s leaders — and some members of Congress — are trying to assert its independence.

Happening now: a large group of mostly clergy — primarily local faith leaders, some not — are staging an anti-ICE protest at the Minneapolis airport.

ICE says it arrested 10,000 "criminal illegal aliens" in MN but it has only released 240 names of immigrants arrested as of Jan. 19. Of those 240, 80% have felony convictions. Nearly all had served their time and were not actively wanted when they were detained, according to a Star Tribune analysis.

The Guitar of Time aka Buddy Guy in Sinners #Sinners

Former special counsel Jack Smith offered a robust defense of his derailed efforts to prosecute Donald Trump, telling lawmakers in his first public testimony that the president “willfully broke the very laws that he took an oath to uphold.” https://wapo.st/4qFjsSX

Heute vor 150 Jahren wurde der sel. Rupert Mayer SJ (1876-1945) geboren, der dem NS-Regime in München öffentlich die Stirn bot, mehrfach interniert war und kurz nach Kriegsende entkräftet verstarb: „Ich werde Ihnen ganz klar sagen, dass ein deutscher Katholik niemals Nationalsozialist sein kann.“

Crews today dismantled plaques telling the stories of enslaved people who lived in the President's House in Philadelphia following orders by President Trump and Interior Secretary Burgum to remove content at national parks that “inappropriately disparage” the US. 6abc.com/post/philade...

The US withdrawal from #WHO became official today, leaving the world less prepared for dangerous disease outbreaks. “When that will bite us in the ass, it’s impossible to predict. But there is a 100% certainty that it will bite us in the ass,” one expert told me. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/u...

In better news, though: I finally got my hands on Nicholas Biggs’s new biography of James Baldwin (“Baldwin: A Love Story,” 2025) and can’t wait to get into it! 🗃️ #Blackademics

'Sinners' brings 'true representation' of Choctaw Indians to the big screen

Ich weiß, es wird viel über Trump und Grönland diskutiert. Aber ich möchte den Blick auf etwas ebenfalls Wichtiges richten: Wie mutig die Menschen in den USA (zum Beispiel in Minneapolis) sind, die gegen ICE und gegen Trump protestieren. Und wie kreativ sie dabei vorgehen Dazu meine Kolumne:

Jack Smith: "Trump was charged bc the evidence established he willfully broke the law -- the very laws he took an oath to uphold... After leaving office, Trump illegally kept classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago social club... highly sensitive natl security info was held in a ballroom & bathroom."

@ustinoff.bsky.social 10 Vergessene DDR Sänger, die einfach so verschwunden sind (einfach so natürlich nicht)

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

remarkable how much contempt this white house has for the nation’s historical and artistic treasures

Wunmi Mosaku earns her first-ever Oscar nomination. #WunmiMosaku #Oscars

So bereichert sich Donald Trump im Amt

@jamessullivan.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social Der Vampir-Horrorfilm "Blood & Sinners" hat mit 16 Kategorien einen neuen Rekord für die meisten Oscar-Nominierungen aller Zeiten aufgestellt. web.de/magazine/unt...

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Heinrich Böll: "Katharina Blum lebt!"

@amphibol.bsky.social Lagoon sand is particularly prized by builders, who say it produces stronger concrete than sand that is dredged inland. Dredgers and local traders say the price of sand, has risen steadily as development in Lagos has accelerated.

Germany take note! 📝

It's not about Denmark. It's about weakening the EU, defunding aid to Ukraine, undermining NATO and doing Putin's bidding, all while stealing the state, ruining the US economy, distracting from the Epstein files, cracking down on internal dissent, & staying out of prison. Have I missed something?

Red baseball caps, a take on President Trump’s MAGA hats, have become a symbol of defiance against Trump’s threat to seize Greenland. "Nu det Nuuk!" swaps the Danish word "nok," which means enough, with "Nuuk," the capital of Greenland, creating a pun for "now it's enough." https://wapo.st/4a9ApxV

Halligan was picked for the role by Trump in September only to have a judge two months later rule that the appointment was illegal

I know "Obvious Racist Says Obviously Racist Thing" isn't automatically newsworthy, but if that racist is the current president, it sure as hell is.

Ich übersetz das mal: "Kanzler Merz fällt EU bei gemeinsamer Zoll-Strategie in den Rücken"

It is. And it’s MJ’s best album, in my opinion. #OffTheWall #HeeHeeSky 🕺🏾

Did you know that Phillis Wheatley had only wrote an ode to George Washington while still an enslaved teenager, but sent it to the general himself along with a note of introduction? Just one of many badass facts about the first author & text in my blog series on American occasional poetry! 🗃️

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

If witchcraft wasn’t at play in the Salem witch trials, what caused the symptoms that sparked the accusations? Read this week’s post from @pennngg.bsky.social student Emma Fischer to explore possible medical explanations. pennneuroknow.com/2026/01/20/t... #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦 🧪

Aus der Druckerei und ab kommender Woche im Buchhandel: „Kekeli“, der erstaunliche Debütroman von Jessica Mawuena Lawson (Coverkunst von Xiaoyu Feng). Leseprobe: www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/kekeli/

Ibrahim Akkuş wollte, dass seine Geschichte gehört wird Ich hoffe dieser Nachruf kann ein wenig dazu beitragen. taz.de/Hanau-Ueberl...

Die Tonspuren auf Ö1 widmen sich heute der Barockdichterin Sibylla Schwarz, die mit nur 17 Jahren starb und deren Lyrik als unbeugsam und feministisch gilt. oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

Renee Good was alive when ICE agents prevented a physician from helping her. Records show she was not breathing but had an irregular pulse when medics arrived, & had no pulse when they removed her from her car. A video showed ICE yelling at a medic who offered aid as Good lay dying.

Anaelle Kouevi & Yann Homawoo 🎶 Young, Gifted and Black 🎶#BlackSky

“Neighbors found the 6 year old girl walking down the street alone crying out for her father”

"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. . . ." Excerpt from the “I Have a Dream” Speech by Martin Luther King Jr. at the “March on Washington,” 1963 #BlackSky #MLKDay