https://apnews.com/article/trump-davos-housing-greenland-gaza-a2f3f4c18ba321c8025a3e208fc0ddf6

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — After first threatening another trade war and then hinting at an actual one to wrest control of Greenland away from Denmark, President Donald Trump Wednesday backed down from all his threats and claimed victory.

Trump crowed about a “framework of a future deal” — reminiscent of his “concept of a plan” to solve the health care crisis — as sufficient to end a weekslong crisis of his own creation.

“Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region,” Trump posted on his social media platform. “This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all NATO Nations. Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the Tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st.”

Trump had announced he would levy 10% tariffs on all imports from Denmark and seven other NATO allies who held a joint exercise in Greenland after he began his latest round of bluster about the Arctic island. That tax, which like all U.S. tariffs would have been paid by Americans, was to have risen to 25% come June 1 if Denmark had not handed over Greenland by then.

Trump has been obsessed with Greenland since his first term when he wanted to purchase it. In those years, he was surrounded by traditional Republicans, many with substantial military and foreign policy experience, who were able to talk him out of pressing the matter after Denmark showed no interest in giving up the semi-autonomous possession.

In other news, the Catholic Cardinals have publicly condemned the American fascist right's war mongering, anti Christ like foreign policy.

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/broglio-us-troops-could-refuse-greenland

The archbishop of the U.S. military services said Sunday that he does not believe military action to take control of Greenland could be justified – and that U.S. troops in good conscience could refuse orders to do so.

Speaking to the BBC on Jan. 18. Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services said he “cannot see any circumstances” in which an American military operation to take control of Greenland or another ally’s territory could fulfill the criteria for a just war.

The archbishop also said administration rhetoric on Greenland “tarnishes the image of the United States.”

Broglio previous served in the Holy See’s Secretariat of State as a Vatican diplomat, including as Apostolic Nuncio to the Dominican Republic and Apostolic Delegate to Puerto Rico.

The archbishop was also previously elected as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; his term as head of the USCCB ended in November of last year.

Asked whether he is concerned about Catholics serving in the military who might be asked to participate in a military operation to take control of Greenland, Broglio responded, “I am obviously worried, because they could be put in a situation where they’re being ordered to do something which is morally questionable.”

“And it would be very difficult for a soldier or a Marine or a sailor by himself to disobey an order such as that,” he continued. “But strictly speaking, he or she, within the realm of their own conscience, it would be morally acceptable to disobey that order. But that’s perhaps putting that individual in an untenable situation, and that’s my concern.”

Trump announced these tariffs 24 hours ago, and he has already balked. Why???

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cjrzjqg8dlwt

Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls, the Justice Department revealed in newly disclosed court papers.

Elizabeth Shapiro, a top Justice Department official, said SSA referred both DOGE employees for potential violations of the Hatch Act, which bars government employees from using their official positions for political purposes.

Shapiro’s previously unreported disclosure, dated Friday, came as part of a list of “corrections” to testimony by top SSA officials during last year’s legal battles over DOGE’s access to Social Security data. They revealed that DOGE team members shared data on unapproved “third-party” servers and may have accessed private information that had been ruled off-limits by a court at the time.

Shapiro said the case of the two DOGE team members appeared to undermine a previous assertion by SSA that DOGE’s work was intended to “detect fraud, waste and abuse” in Social Security and modernize the agency’s technology.

“SSA believed those statements to be accurate at the time they were made, and they are largely still accurate,” Shapiro wrote, adding “At this time, there is no evidence that SSA employees outside of the involved members of the DOGE Team were aware of the communications with the advocacy group. Nor were they aware of the ‘Voter Data Agreement.’”

>https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/20/trump-musk-doge-social-security-00737245

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5gg05y0mlo

Thank God it was Barron who picked up the phone, if it was Hunter she'd still be waiting for help.

DOJ investigating Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-department-investigating-tim-walz-jacob-frey-minnesota/

The Justice Department is investigating Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, over an alleged conspiracy to impede federal immigration agents, an extraordinary escalation in the Trump administration's clash with Democratic leaders there, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

One of the sources, a U.S. official, said the investigation stems from statements that Walz and Frey have made about the thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents deployed to the Minneapolis region in recent weeks.

Subpoenas are likely to be issued in the probe, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment.

"This is an obvious attempt to intimidate me for standing up for Minneapolis, our local law enforcement, and our residents against the chaos and danger this Administration has brought to our streets," Frey complained like a faggot in a statement to CBS News. "I will not be intimidated. My focus will remain where it's always been: keeping our city safe."

Traitor Walz said in a statement: "Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system and threatening political opponents is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."

Nearly 3,000 federal immigration agents have been dispatched to Minneapolis, with a stated objective of arresting people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally and probing allegations of fraud in Minnesota. The Department of Homeland Security has called the massive deployment the largest operation in its history.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-03/trump-says-venezuela-s-maduro-captured-and-flown-out-of-country-mjy3kziv

President Donald Trump said the US captured President Nicolas Maduro and flew him out of Venezuela after a series of airstrikes, an extraordinary escalation in his months-long campaign against the country.

“The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country,” Trump wrote on social media.

When the usual oil shills say we need more drilling, leaking pipelines and deregulation. Remember to post that trump tried to give land away to drill and no one wanted it.

https://www.cpr.org/2026/01/09/bureau-of-land-management-oil-gas-auction-zero-bids-colorado/

Going once, going twice, sold to ... no one.

On Thursday, the Bureau of Land Management auctioned off leases on more than 20,000 acres of public land in Colorado for oil and gas drilling. The land, divided into 23 parcels, was offered at the minimum starting price, just $10 an acre, and could be leased indefinitely once oil and gas starts flowing.

But during the sale: crickets. Not a single parcel received a bid, and only two companies had even registered for the sale.

The sale reveals the limits of the Trump administration’s push to open more public land to oil and gas drilling. Simply put, many areas across the West with easily accessible oil are already developed.

“In general, everything that is really high value across the West that will ever produce oil has already been sold,” said Aaron Weiss, deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities, an environmental group, which criticized the auction.

The BLM did not directly respond to criticism about the sale.

The sale represents a renewed push by the Trump Administration to ramp up domestic oil and gas production, and achieve so-called “energy dominance.” The United States is already the world’s largest producer of crude oil.

Thursday's lease sale, or lack thereof, came on the heels of a previous auction in December, which yielded nearly $5 million in revenue for Colorado and the federal government. While that may seem significant, it did not meet the threshold set by President Trump’s landmark domestic policy law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The law mandates that the BLM hold a replacement sale if a quarter or more of the acres offered for leasing receive no bids.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-issues-1st-vetoes-2nd-term-including-bipartisan/story?id=128801089

President Donald Trump issued vetoes for the first bills of his second term, including a bipartisan bill intended to provide funding for a water infrastructure project in Colorado, a measure that passed the House and Senate unanimously.

The Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act was set to provide clean water to rural parts of Colorado.

"Enough is enough. My administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies," Trump wrote in a veto letter sent to Congress. "Ending the massive cost of taxpayer handouts and restoring fiscal sanity is vital to economic growth and the fiscal health of the nation."

Trump also vetoed the Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendment Act, a bipartisan bill that aimed in part to optimize water flow into part of Everglades National Park designated for the Miccosukee Native American tribe and to incorporate the Osceola Camp into the Miccosukee Reserved Area to improve the governing structure of the tribe.