Very Cold Weather, Sewer Problem, But Otherwise Fine

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National Weather Service national weather map 22:28 UTC (January 22, 2026)
It’s COLD outside, here in Minnesota. (4:28 p.m. (22:28 UTC), January 22, 2026)
Louis M. Glackens' cartoon in Punch: 'The Yellow Press'. William Randolph Hearst as a jester tossing newspapers with headlines such as 'Appeals to Passion, Venom, Sensationalism, Attacks on Honest Officials, Strife, Distorted News, Personal Grievance, Misrepresentation' to a crowd of eager readers, among them an anarchist assassinating a politician speaking from a platform draped with American flags; on the left, men labeled 'Man who buys the comic supplement for the kids, Businessman, Gullible Reformer, Advertiser, and Decent Citizen' carry bags of money that they dump into Hearst's printing press'. (October 12, 1910)
Eager readers and a jester-journalist. (1910)
More than a century later, still familiar.

Minnesota's in the news, but not because of the weather. That's another topic, for another day.

An Extreme Cold Warning has been in effect for my part of Minnesota since 3:00 this afternoon. It runs until noon tomorrow, when a Cold Weather Advisory starts. That'll run until Saturday noon.

But the weather my news feed has been showing me is about the "heavy snow, crippling ice and frigid temperatures" of a winter storm that'll make life interesting for folks in "more than 2 dozen states". Maybe excessively interesting. Focusing on states from New Mexico and Texas to Maine and the Carolinas does make sense....

More at A Catholic Citizen in America.

(How I see current conditions: Cold Weather Advisory here in Sauk Centre, winter storm from New Mexico to the east coast. And sewer trouble getting fixed.)

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