Washington Post:
Thousands march in Minnesota and hundreds of businesses close to protest ICE
Some businesses closed for the day to protest the Trump administration’s tactics, and 100 clergy members were arrested at a sit-in.
On Friday morning, about 100 clergy members were arrested at a peaceful sit-in at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport protesting deportation flights. Labor leaders said more than 15,600 people had claimed tickets to the 2 p.m. march in Minneapolis — where the National Weather Service warned of minus-50 degree wind chill through Sunday morning.
Bundled in down coats, beanies and ski goggles, demonstrators chanted “What do we want? ICE out!” and held signs bearing slogans such as “No MN Nice for ICE” and “Leave Us Alone!” as they marched peacefully.
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I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.
— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox.bsky.social) 2026-01-22T16:04:31.649Z
James Horwitz/CT Insider:
Who should speak up against Trump? We the People
There is a temptation, to be resisted, to close our eyes and cover our heads with a pillow. It is tempting to submit to frustration and indifference until this assault on our democracy ends. It is tempting to conclude that nothing you do can make a difference.
But we do not have that luxury to stand by, do nothing, say nothing. The admonition to speak up on behalf of “we the people” is an age-old tradition and has been addressed for thousands of years. Religious scholars of many faiths admonish, “if not now when,” “deed and truth” and “act justly.” These admonitions demand deed, truth and action now.
New York Times:
‘Enough Is Enough’: Hundreds of Minnesota Businesses Take Stand Against ICE
After protesters called for a pause on economic activity and work to strike against the federal immigration crackdown, many business owners kept their doors shut on Friday.
The action on Friday, which unfolded in subzero temperatures, was the most widespread and organized demonstration since federal agents arrived in Minneapolis more than six weeks ago. It was aimed at pressuring the federal government to pull thousands of its agents from the streets.
Businesses, many of them locally owned, closed their doors to halt economic activity, saying that losing a day’s revenue was worth the cost to be part of the effort to end the immigration enforcement.
“There’s a time to stand up for things, and this is it,” said Alison Kirwin, the owner of Al’s Breakfast, a Minneapolis restaurant that closed on Friday. “If it takes away from a day of our income, that is worthwhile.”
New York Times:
Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person’s right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.
Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who is chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said that he did have “concerns” that some children might die of measles or become paralyzed with polio as a result of a choice not to vaccinate. But, he said, “I also am saddened when people die of alcoholic diseases,” adding, “Freedom of choice and bad health outcomes.”
In the case of an infectious disease, a personal choice to decline a vaccine may also affect others, including infants who are too young to be vaccinated or people who are immunocompromised. But a person’s right to reject a vaccine supersedes those risks, Dr. Milhoan said.
“If there is no choice, then informed consent is an illusion,” he said. “Without consent it is medical battery.”…
Outside experts had sharp words for Dr. Milhoan, saying the changes in vaccine policy he was suggesting would result in unnecessary deaths among children.
“He has no idea what he’s talking about,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of the infectious disease committee at the American Academy of Pediatrics.
He’s as responsible for killing children as RFK Jr. Both of them were reprehensible choices for their positions.
Washington Post:
On Greenland, Europe stood up, Trump blinked, and the E.U. learned a lesson
For some in the often fractured E.U., Trump’s retreat on the Arctic territory proves that retaliation — not conciliation — is the answer to his hardball tactics.
The brazen ultimatum — give up Greenland or face tariffs — elicited a level of unity that largely had eluded the leaders of the 27-nation E.U. in the year since Trump’s second inauguration.
POLITICO:
These Gen-Z Trump voters don’t want JD Vance in 2028
A recent focus group of 18- to 24-year-old Trump voters suggests weaknesses for Vance among young Republicans
In a focus group of nine young men who supported Trump in 2024, conducted Monday by Longwell Partners and shared with POLITICO, they showed tepid enthusiasm about the vice president and suggested he is too bridled by the baggage of Trump’s second term.
Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse:
Breaking the Fourth Amendment
ICE seems to be arguing that if they think a non-citizen for whom there is a final order of deportation is in a house, they can blow right past the Fourth Amendment, take the doors off the house if they aren’t admitted voluntarily, and go right in. But the Fourth Amendment doesn’t change just because ICE says so.
The Supreme Court has made it clear that a search warrant must be signed by a “judicial officer” or a “magistrate.” Their signature on the warrant says that they have reviewed the evidence that the agents believe constitutes probable cause to justify a search, and they agree that it is sufficient to breach the wall otherwise established by the Fourth Amendment and allow law enforcement into a private home (or car, or private areas of a business, etc.). The idea is that a detached, neutral judge—not someone involved in investigating a case or “on the same side” as law enforcement—should evaluate the evidence before a search warrant or an arrest warrant is issued.
David Shuster/Blue Amp:
Trump's Greenland Tantrum Sinks Stocks
Trump’s impulsive threats are crashing markets and terrifying America’s allies
The market rout erased billions of dollars. Not because America is weak, but because Trump is erratic. Trump lashed out after Europe – responding to his threats to invade Greenland – dispatched more troops, planes, and ships to the Danish territory.
Trump keeps governing as if the presidency were a combination poker game and reality TV show. Trade policy, in his hands, is not a matter of economics but of Trump’s mood. A nation or trading bloc that displeases him? Trump threatens tariffs. A leader of France or Norway fails to flatter Trump sufficiently and praise his Greenland vision? Trump rattles sabers. A headline that wounds Trump’s vanity? The global economy must pay.
This is not strategy. It is emotional incontinence.
