I don't understand where Carney's comms people are or if he's just overruling them. Even an entry level corporate communications person in a bank (That was me once.) would know that there's an entire, really important audience he's missing during this crisis. 2/2

Exactly this. In fact, with the argument that Denmark is too small to protect Greenland against China or Russia and that is why the U.S. needs to annex the Island, Trump just told everyone openly that he would not defend Denmark (and other NATO partners) unless the relevant country is U.S. property.

Pretty thin piece but spot on. "As Canada faces another year of uncertainty and its most serious challenges since the Second World War, Prime Minister Mark Carney would be wise to employ a much stronger communications strategy to bring Canadians on board in a 'far more substantive way." 1/2

Thanks for the hat tip, @ottawacitizen.com 🎩 "Credit to PressProgress for doing the legwork that the mayor, a former journalist, should have done"

New Abacus Data poll finds a third of Canadians say they would think less of a friend or family member who vacationed in the United States recently, showing how travel decisions are becoming socially and politically charged. Full details: abacusdata.ca/1-in-4-cana...

I mean, there are certainly people around him who want to remake the world order, and what he does might line up with their intentions. But it also might not, if he has a tantrum about something that has nothing to do with how they’re trying to steer him, or if someone else offers him a shiny pony.

Indeed. This is not “Trump’s attempt to remake the world order” or whatever. It’s an unusually spoiled and malevolent toddler somehow entrusted with the world’s most powerful military and economy lashing out.

This is truly insane. And PD should have refused to do it.

This is a very big deal. And Powell is a mensch. If democracy survives, he should get a presidential medal of freedom.

“Even by Trump’s standards, this letter is so dangerous and so delusional that there is no longer any question that the president is mentally ‘unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,’ as laid out in the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.” www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

As I understand it, the rationale of the cops and cop-defenders is that the rhetoric in the Facebook comment could have agitated someone else into doing something violent or illegal. Here are some of the problems with that theory. /1

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Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account. What the fuck are we doing here?

“St. Paul’s new mayor, Kaohly Her, who came to the United States as a Hmong refugee at the age of 3, told me she has started carrying proof of citizenship with her at all times, just in case she is stopped by ICE agents.”

It’s a dark Page One in Minneapolis this morning. @startribune.com

Not trying to defend the Ontario premier here re: policy. This is only about governance and process.

On Greenland, and how the President has actually undermined American leverage.

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.” What?

Carney: "I’m a firm believer and practitioner in cooperative federalism". First Eby, now Ford. This is not cooperative federalism.

A witness posted this to FB along with video of Saly being violently taken by ICE:

THE MAN THEY TOOK WRAPPED IN A BLANKET IS A U.S. CITIZEN. This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.

I love this point in Margaret Sullivan's newsletter: "There should be far less emphasis on 'we don’t want to look biased,' and far more on 'how well are we doing our jobs of getting across the truth?'” It's not biased to call out authoritarian liars. 1/2🧵 @sulliview.bsky.social

On this MLK Day, one particular passage from his address at the March on Washington seems especially relevant.

this is real, from the bbc news website www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

🚨🚨Excellent and nuanced long #tradesecrets piece by trade opiner @alanbeattie.bsky.social with a lot of food for thought on the EU's response to #Trump tariffs. No easy options ahead but I would (and I think Alan agrees here) vote for triggering the #tradebazooka (aka the #ACI instrument):

He’s out of his mind, a narcissistic megalomaniac in an all-consuming spiral of self-pity and selfishness, but the truly insane people are the thousands of powerful men around him who won’t say so and continue to dance around him like this is normal, rational behavior.

Me: We need to stand with our allies and also send troops. Carney fans: No. Carney is right not to send any. Do you want more tariffs? Carney: *Sending troops* Carney fans: Yes. This is the right thing to do. 🤷 www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

This is pretty strong stuff

This is a great example of state officials stepping up to ensure compliance with the law, if the feds won’t do it. Maine secy of state @shennabellows.bsky.social finding a way of restricting ICE illegal conduct wgme.com/news/local/m...

New in PN: Trump's long-awaited healthcare "plan" is a joke "Is it great? No. Is it a plan? Not really. It is, however, in its combination of stupidity, ideological derangement, and unseriousness, a near-perfect expression of Trump and his party."

The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”

It seems many think the USG can send people who broke the law in the US to other countries to serve their sentences. That’s not what happened, and that’s not how it works. If it were true, that would mean the US does not enforce its own laws, and thus is not a sovereign country.

Important to note most of these people, who went through a legal migration process, had no criminal record in the US. But even if they did, there was no legal basis for jailing them in El Salvador. What crime did they commit in El Salvador?

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize … I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” writes Trump, explaining to Norway his belligerence against Greenland. If the U.S. had a functional government, he would be removed promptly under the 25th Amendment.

Change from Alabama 1965 to Chicago, Portland, or Minneapolis 2025-2026. Reverse roles of federal and state forces (now the Feds are the brutal, vicious, lawless ones). But whether 1965 or 2026, those in power use the same techniques to whip up white hysteria and use violence to traumatize Americans

Yes, the screeching sound you’re hearing across the continent is Europe’s far right performing U-turns on Trump. One to watch: the UK’s Nigel Farage (“under the weather”’ yesterday).

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I'd wager this is the angriest statement ever issued by the Nobel Peace Prize people...

A Kavanaugh month.

Everything Trump says here is verifiably untrue. During this period of time the number of US installations on Greenland went from 17 to 1 as a result of US determinations that they were not needed.

Trump introduces a tariff for goods from The Netherlands. Great. Bring it on. I am happy to suffer any damage to our economy, and subsequent reduction to my wealth, for doing the right thing (being willing to protect Greenland).

Pay attention 🇨🇦

The Trump administration is seeking to deport two men who provided accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp that differed from the Department of Homeland Security’s description of the incident.

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

A defiant Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he will not be "intimidated" as the federal government has 1,500 paratroopers on standby to deploy to Minnesota.

This is a selection of front pages from the UK tomorrow, just as an example of how high Greenland is on the news agenda in Europe. bsky.app/profile/mcpl...

Just 34 people control 12% of income in the U.S. and people still think immigrants are the problem.