A jumble, of a sort.

Josh Johnson is up for an NAACP Image Award for The Daily Show.Take a look, and vote! Right now!

Also he’s hosting The Daily Show next week, T-Th nights. 🙂

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxX7xdrgo6C73tJ3UlZKTEAPyRmpTcEsB7?si=qZ4LDDE713mt-7yx

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In their words: Greenlanders talk about Trump’s desire to own their Arctic island

U.S. President Donald Trump has turned Greenland into a geopolitical hotspot with his demands to own it (Note: there is a video of this report on the page, if you prefer; click the title just above -A)

By EMMA BURROWS AP european security correspondent January 16, 2026, 12:17 AM

In their words: Greenlanders talk about Trump’s desire to own their Arctic island

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NUUK, Greenland — U.S. President Donald Trump has turned the Arctic island of Greenland into a geopolitical hotspot with his demands to own it and suggestions that the U.S. could take it by force.

The island is a semiautonomous region of Denmark, and Denmark’s foreign minister said Wednesday after a meeting at the White House that a “fundamental disagreement” remains with Trump over the island.

The crisis is dominating the lives of Greenlanders and “people are not sleeping, children are afraid, and it just fills everything these days. And we can’t really understand it,” Naaja Nathanielsen, a Greenlandic minister said at a meeting with lawmakers in Britain’s Parliament this week.

Here’s a look at what Greenlanders think:

Trump has dismissed Denmark’s defenses in Greenland, suggesting it’s “two dog sleds.”

By saying that, Trump is “undermining us as a people,” Mari Laursen told AP. (snip-MORE)

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(It’s like another world inside my state, which is sorta nice. -A)

‘This is what you built’: Kansas workers rally in solidarity at the Statehouse

By:Sherman Smith-January 14, 20262:11 pm

TOPEKA — Union leader Jake Lowen told the hundreds of workers who gathered Wednesday in the first floor rotunda of the Statehouse to look around and take in “the house that labor built.”

He referenced the stonemasons who cut every piece of limestone in the walls. The iron and steel workers who raised the dome, with the help of operating engineers who ran the hoists built by machinists. Plumbers, boilermakers and electricians brought light, heat and water.

Lowen, the executive secretary-treasurer of the Kansas State AFL-CIO, said some of the workers who started building the Statehouse, which took 37 years to construct, never saw it finished. At least seven gave their lives in the process, he said.

“The work was hard and the price was high, and yet they persevered,” he told the crowd that was gathered for an annual “solidarity day” labor rally.

He said the workers were building a Statehouse by day and a movement by night. In 1890, the year they raised the Statehouse dome, workers formed the Kansas State Federation of Labor, he said. (snip-MORE)

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Update about Minnesota ICE reporting

Ben Werdmuller

16 Jan 2026 — 1 min read

After today’s post, Seth Larson let me know that the Minnesota Attorney General, Keith Ellison, has established a portal for sending in evidence of ICE activity.

I’ve updated the web version of the post, but I wanted to send out an email update too so that readers on the ground in the Twin Cities are aware of the resource.

I’ll republish Governor Walz’s quote for emphasis:

“Tonight, I want to share another way you can help: Witness.

Help us establish a record of exactly what’s happening in our communities.

You have an absolute right to peacefully film ICE agents as they conduct their activities.

So carry your phone with you at all times.

And if you see ICE in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record.

Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans – not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution.”

If you are local to the Twin Cities, and feel safe and able, this is a concrete way in which you can help.

Here’s that link to the submission form again.

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One of those young Democrats I keep writing about. We can help her get elected.

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Some humor:

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