Rallying.

Several European NATO countries are deploying small numbers of military personnel to Greenland to participate in joint exercises with Denmark as US President Donald Trump ramps up his threats to forcibly annex the Arctic island.

Trump’s declarations have thrown Europe’s decades-old, US-led security alliance into crisis, raising the prospect of NATO’s largest and most powerful member annexing the territory of another.

And that another is very far from being NATO’s next largest and most powerful.

Denmark, which is responsible for Greenland’s defense, has warned an attack on Greenland would all but end NATO, and announced on Wednesday that it was expanding its military presence “in close cooperation with NATO allies.”

Germany, Sweden, France, Norway, the Netherlands and

Oh ffs.

Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, has “presented” Donald Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize as she attempted to woo the US president. 

Sigh. Look. That’s not how this works. The object is not the point. It takes someone pathetically literal-minded and obtuse to think it is. In fact, if you think about it for five seconds, it becomes obvious that being in possession of someone else’s prize is more a disgrace than an honor. It’s like being a toddler whining about not getting any presents at another toddler’s birthday party.

Mr Trump has made no secret of his desire to be awarded the honour, which has been bestowed on several former presidents including Barack

Trump is spoiling for a fight.

Trump threatened on Thursday to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy military forces in Minnesota after days of angry protests over a surge in immigration agents on the streets of Minneapolis.

Confrontations between residents and federal officers have become increasingly tense after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a U.S. citizen, Renee Good, in a car eight days ago in Minneapolis, and the protests have spread to other cities. Trump’s latest threat came a few hours after an immigration officer shot a Venezuelan man the government said was fleeing after agents tried to stop his vehicle in Minneapolis.

Rumor has it that immigration officers aren’t empowered to shoot people who are … Read the rest

What a bizarre headline:

Trump would want military action in Iran to be swift and decisive, sources say

Oh, so he doesn’t want it to be slow and futile? What a surprise!

Dumb headline aside, the subject is the usual Trump failure to grasp reality.

Trump has told his national security team that he would want any U.S. military action in Iran to deliver a swift and decisive blow to the regime and not spark a sustained war that dragged on for weeks or months, according to a U.S. official, two people familiar with the discussions and a person close to the White House.

Yes, bro, so would anyone, but somehow the other team never gets the message. That’s why … Read the rest

Much as I hate having to agree with Josh Hawley…god almighty “Doctor” Verma is a smug lying evasive enemy of women.

If you say men can get pregnant, no one should ever believe a single thing you say about anything else. Because if you will lie about something so obvious, we can assume you will lie about everything. pic.twitter.com/XXlrevytYh

— Sall Grover (@salltweets) January 15, 2026

… Read the rest

Mike Haubrich at Miscellany Room:

Hey, there’s even more alarming fuckery coming from the Trump admin, from the EEOC no less. They are demanding a list of Jews at UPenn.

The Guardian:

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding the university turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses. But some Jewish faculty and staff have condemned the government’s demand as “a visceral threat to the safety of those who would find themselves identified because compiling and turning over to the government ‘lists of Jews’ conjures a terrifying history”, according to a press release put out by the

Well, yes.

Any attempt to “modify” Greenland’s territorial or constitutional status would not only violate international law, but could also “undermine” regional stability, the experts, appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council, said in a statement Wednesday.

“Assertions suggesting that a territory can be taken, controlled or ‘owned’ by another state in pursuit of perceived national security or economic interests evoke a logic of colonial domination that the international community has long rejected,” the UN experts said on Wednesday.

Of course it does. There’s no other way to describe it. “I want this country, you have to give it to me or else” is colonial domination on stilts.

We’re going backward in time.… Read the rest

Again with the forced-team-labeling.

Men should never have been allowed to be women in law, go into female spaces or compete in female sport. It was an absolute brain fart of an idea, not a civil rights movement. pic.twitter.com/zNlo8gyyA2

— Sall Grover (@salltweets) January 13, 2026

There are no LGBTQ+ rights. There are universal human rights, and then there are lesbian and gay rights. I don’t know of any specific to trans people rights that don’t negate the rights of other people, mostly lesbians. The specific to trans people purported rights are not rights, they’re grabs and intrusions and sulks.… Read the rest

Freedom of the press on the way out?

The FBI raided the home of a Washington Post reporter early Wednesday in what the newspaper called a “highly unusual and aggressive” move by law enforcement, and press freedom groups condemned as a “tremendous intrusion” by the Trump administration.

Agents descended on the Virginia home of Hannah Natanson as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials. The Post is “reviewing and monitoring the situation”, a source at the newspaper said.

In other words the Post is not preventing the situation.

The reporter’s home and devices were searched, and her Garmin watch, phone, and two laptop computers, one belonging to her employer, were seized,

Saying “I need ___” is not automatically a valid claim to have a right to that ___.

Trump thinks it is, at least when he says it. If anybody says “I need” about something of his, of course that’s not a valid claim to have a right to it.

 Trump insisted that the United States “needs Greenland” on Wednesday, hours before the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland, a semiautonomous Danish territory, met with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House.

It doesn’t matter whether or not the US “needs” Greenland. It can’t have it. Trump can’t have it. Nobody can have it. Countries aren’t party favors or ice cream cones or … Read the rest

When you’re even losing the prosecutors…

At least six career prosecutors in the Minneapolis U.S. Attorney’s office — including Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson — have resigned as the office continues to face pressure to treat the investigation of the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer as an assault on a federal officer case.

Thompson also previously served as the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota; he was appointed by President Trump in June and served in the position until October. He resigned from the attorney’s office along with Harry Jacobs, Melinda Williams, Thomas Calhoun-Lopez, Ruth Schneider and Tom Hollenhurst.

Two sources familiar with the matter tell CBS News the resignations stemmed from concern over a

Trump says anything short of grabbing Greenland by force is unacceptable.

The Trump administration is poised for crunch talks with Greenlandic and Danish officials on Wednesday, amid the U.S. president’s ongoing push to take control of Greenland.

Greenland Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt and her Danish counterpart, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, are expected to convene at the White House for talks with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Trump doubled down on his aggressive rhetoric shortly before the high-stakes meeting. In a social media post on Wednesday, the U.S. president said anything less than Greenland becoming a part of the United States would be “unacceptable.”

So this is the new rule now, yes? We say it’s … Read the rest

NPR does the same thing.

SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST:

This week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments from two separate cases weighing the rights of transgender athletes. Little v. Hecox challenges Idaho’s ban on trans athletes playing on women’s and girls’ sports teams. West Virginia v. B.P.J. challenges a similar ban in West Virginia. 

Male athletes you fool. The issue is that they’re male so they don’t belong on women’s and girls’ sports teams.

MCCAMMON: So, in essence, what are these two cases about?

SOSIN: So conservatives have increasingly argued that transgender women and girls have an unfair advantage in sports, that their hormone levels make them stronger and faster, and for that reason, they say, trans women should be

The ludicrous things Trump says. His total lack of awareness of other minds. Normal people know it’s not clever to say idiotic things out loud in public, let alone to the New York Times.

Whether he’s trying to make the country Whiter

TRUMP: No, I just want people that love our country. It’s very simple. I want people that love our country. I want people that respect our country, respect the laws of our country, and I want people that can embrace our country.

(The reporters pointed out that the only refugees currently allowed to enter the country are White South Africans.)

TRUMP: Well, I haven’t seen that. I mean, I certainly haven’t seen that. But over the

Prosecutors say no.

Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.

Right. When a cop kills a random bystander the thing to do is investigate the bystander’s spouse rather than the cop.

Joseph H. Thompson, who was second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office and oversaw a sprawling fraud investigation that has roiled Minnesota’s political landscape, was among those who quit on Tuesday, according to three people with knowledge of the decision.

Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal

The thumb always on the scale.

Right before Becky Pepper-Jackson sets up to shot put, she always taps her left foot on a board at the edge of the throwing circle.

The ritual helps her focus on her form amid the pressure of the track and field competition — not to mention the additional pressure of spectators wearing T-shirts that say things like “Protect Women’s Sports,” which Pepper-Jackson says are worn specifically for her.

The 15-year-old is the sole transgender student-athlete in West Virginia, according to her attorneys, and her bid to continue playing competitive sports is in the hands of the Supreme Court.

Three words in, there’s the thumb – Becky. Followed by she, her, her, her, her, … Read the rest

The DoJ is not investigating.

Trump’s Department of Justice is seeing its latest mass resignation over its handling of the case of Renee Good, who was fatally shot by a federal immigration agent last week in Minneapolis.

Days after Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, announced that the agency’s Civil Rights Division would not be investigating the shooting—despite the fact that the office’s criminal unit would ordinarily probe any abuse or improper use of force by law enforcement—four top officials in the section have resigned.

As MS NOW reported Monday night, the chief of the criminal unit—listed on the DOJ website as Jim Felte—has resigned, as well as the principal deputy chief, deputy chief, and

Sigh. An act of resistance ffs.

The trans youth athletes in the US fighting for their rights: ‘Playing is an act of resistance’

Yeah right. Boys invading girls’ sports is the maquis itself. Women and girls, obviously, are the Nazis.

As the US supreme court weighs bans on trans athletes, five students speak about the joy of sports and toll of exclusion

Ah yes, the joy for boys of destroying girls’ sports, and the dreadful toll of not being allowed to destroy girls’ sports. Girls, naturally, were not asked for their opinions on this matter.

The US supreme court on Tuesday is considering state laws banning transgender athletes from school sports.

The cases were brought by trans students who challenged

Heather Cox Richardson tells us some things about the timing. She starts with the Epstein files, then

the Supreme Court on December 23, 2025, rejected the Trump administration’s argument that it had the power to deploy federalized National Guard troops in and around Chicago, a decision that seemed to limit Trump’s power to use military forces within the United States.

Oh so that’s why he stepped up the non-military bullying to such dramatic effect.

Yet another part of the backstory is that on New Year’s Eve, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee released a 255-page transcript of former special counsel Jack Smith’s December 17 closed-door testimony before the committee. In that testimony—under oath—Smith said that his office had “developed proof

Bash Free Speech

Trans activists have hacked into the website of the Free Speech Union (FSU) and published a list of its donors online.

A direct action group calling itself Bash Back said it had breached the FSU’s online security and was revealing the names of all those who had donated more than £50 over the past two years. Hours after the list of names appeared online, the FSU obtained an emergency injunction from the High Court, forcing the group to remove the donor details.

What was the point? Just random intimidation, I suppose, because what else could it be?

Bash Back, which describes itself as a direct action group “focused on total transgender liberation”, recently made headlines after allegedly