This short note opens the Sunday Comment section. Although I usually do not comment on the news on Sunday, the monumental idiocy of Trump’s threat to impose a 10% tariff on eight European nations that do not support his bid to conquer Greenland cannot go unremarked.

Foreign nations do not pay tariffs on goods imported into the US. Tariffs are paid by US companies that import goods into the US. Those companies pass their costs onto US consumers.

The effect of Trump’s threat is that he will increase consumer prices in the US to “punish” eight European companies for not supporting the US effort to conquer Greenland.

That not only makes no sense, but it is also the height of stupidity.

Enough said.

The Civics Center

As part of my ongoing series of interviews with leaders of organizations that are working to preserve our democracy, I interviewed Laura Brill of the Civics Center. Laura is the Founder and CEO of the Civics Center.

The Civics Center promotes student-led voter registration drives of high school students. Each year, 4 million high school students become eligible to register to vote. Unfortunately, registration rates are. But if high school students register, they vote at roughly the same rate as the general population.

If you are looking for a worthy cause that is working on long-term solutions to our current democratic crisis, please listen to my interview with Laura Brill.

Learn more about or donate to the Civics Center here: The Civics Center - Empowering the Youth Vote in America through High School Voter Registration

Pro-democracy protest photos

Richmond, Virginia

Downtown Suffolk

Middletown CT

Hyannis Airport Rotary, Cape Cod, MA, protest today- 1/17/26

Louisville, KY

Peterborough, NH

Farmington ME

Suttons Bay MI

Westbrook Maine,

Suffolk, VA

MN. The pictures are outside, across the street and on a sidewalk, of the Federal Whipple detention center.

Edina, Minnesota pedestrian bridge over Highway 62

Tempe overpass

Refuse Fascism Fridays in a community called Mill Creek, just north of Seattle

Great Neck, NY.

Brattleboro, Vt

Daily Dose of Perspective

Galaxy NGC 7331 is located about 44 million light-years from Earth. It is notable because its galactic core rotates in the opposite direction to the galaxy’s spiral arms.

The smaller galaxies in the background are located between 300–350 million light years from Earth.

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