Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 13. Sunrise is 7:12 and sunset is 5:04 for 9 hours 52 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 85.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1891, following the death of her brother Kalakaua, Lili‘uokalani is sworn in as the first and only queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom. (Her reign would end two years later when the Hawaiian monarchy was abolished following a U.S. military-supported coup d’état.)
Yesterday’s post contended that, with Mr. Trump’s endorsement of U.S. Rep. Tiffany, the WISGOP Gubernatorial Primary Is Effectively Over.
Yes.
See Shawn Johnson, Republican Josh Schoemann drops out of Wisconsin governor’s race (‘Schoemann, the Washington County executive, announced his decision the day after he failed to receive the endorsement of President Donald Trump’), Wisconsin Public Radio, January 28, 2026.
The WISGOP is merely a chapter, however small, of a national party. That national party is closer to a movement than an ordinary political party. That movement has a base, a core, that follows the will of one man. Those running statewide in the WISGOP are not running for office — they are running for that one man’s endorsement for office.
Those who tell you that these are ordinary times could not be more wrong. See generally A Conventional Framing for Unconventional Times.
Hubble and AI discover over a thousand unusual astronomical objects: