Ken Howery (below) is Trump’s ambassador to Denmark. He: Co-founded PayPal & The Founders Fund w/ Peter Thiel & attended the Jan 2025 inauguration party at Thiel’s mansion. Thiel’s Oct 2024 Hereticon event included a talk titled: “Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony” 1/

I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.

So now the’re death camps.

There's hung parliaments and then there's whatever this would be... electionmaps.uk/nowcast/custom

Strategic deployment of renewables, electrification, and targeted green hydrogen use could cut EU natural gas consumption by over 50% by 2050, enhancing energy security and reducing emissions. doi.org/hbkpk3

“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.” As a piece of prose and geopolitical analysis Carney’s Davos speech feels history-making. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland

French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Marine Le Pen's trial for embezzlement — and details how he has used similar fascistic tactics to intimidate other judges around the world who rule against his alt-right friends.

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

This is why there must be a televising of November's National Emergency Briefing across all networks and more public engagement. Plus all those MPs who couldn't be arsed to get informed should watch and be prepared to discuss with constituents. @zero-hour.bsky.social

Fun fact: Black Panthers doing perfectly legal (at the time) open carry in CA in the 1960s spurred then-Governor Reagan to sign the Mulford Act into law in 1965, prohibiting it. These people have no consistent politics outside a desperate, leering need to keep hold of power and privilege.

If we are going into a period of increased international insecurity and possible conflict, this is more important than ever. Historically works too, look to Keynes during WW2.

There are Uk/EU equivalents of near everything we get from the US, bar Trident (which doesn't seem to work when tested anyway). So a sensible thing would be switching contracts to a UK/EU only basis as they come up. Ajax scrapped for German Puma's or Swedish CV90's, French Hammer over paveway etc.

A Labour Peer, let that sink in, Labour, saying this. It needs to die as a organisation if it's deviated this far from what it was meant to be.

With a simple sieve, a father searches through the rubble for the remains of his wife and children Mahmoud sits on the rubble searching for a trace that would tell him his family had been there. A bone, a tooth, anything. This is now Palestinians' reality. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

"a new turnaround regime to force companies that are failing, either financially or in terms of sewage pollution and water outages, to fix their problems faster. The government said this would “give stability to investors”." With my whole heart, fuck the investors, what about the bloody people ffs!

Fartrage says it is unacceptable for King Donald the Mad to apply economic pressure on a long-standing ally of more than 100 years. But only a few weeks ago he was in the US asking them to put sanctions on the "undemocratic" UK. What a complete and total shit wankstain this man is.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace."

He never had any to start with.

EU plans 'made in Europe' rules for public purchases of green tech reut.rs/49v84TA

The toddler actually sent this to multiple ambassadors. I'll follow up with Norway's reply. It's completely bonkers. Congress could stop this today if they wanted to...

If this is true then those European officials are utterly naive. There are reasons not to get aggressive in public (quietly working with congress against him; some intelligence dependence) But Trump doesn’t do guarantees. He uses them for extortion.

‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says Oxfam Governments opting for oligarchy while brutally repressing protests over austerity and lack of jobs, charity report says www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

What the United States has done this week is as devastating for the cosy Atlanticist world view, as the Credit Crunch was for those who comfortably believed that left to themselves markets tended towards equilibrium. In other words: a serious conceptual rupture. A world view has died this week.

Trump says he needs to take Greenland to stop Russia. He is currently planning joint Arctic energy deals with Putin. He is blocking aid that would actually stop Russia in Ukraine. You don't go into business with an enemy you are trying to contain. Trump’s excuse is a scam

Y'know, rather than restricting kids and young people, why not concentrate on the platforms themselves and actually make then do their jobs with legal compliance and moderation or get shut down (Yes that is mentioned at least, thankfully, but it should be the focus, not banning kids outright).

Also, i don’t think Vlad really thought through what Europe does, without the US in NATO… It doesn’t suddenly fawn all over Russia like Blanche Dubois looking for a suitor... It gets its shit together and becomes a superpower itself.

It’s funny how many of those politicians who couldn’t shut up about “sovereignty” during the Brexit referendum have now spun on a dime because Daddy wants an island. #Greenland

It's the same as happened with Russia, UK/EU far too slow in waking up after Georgia/Crimea. But, on the plus side fairly resolute once the ball gets rolling.

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

The language of treachery and traitors (not the TV variety) is going to become increasingly central to British politics as the behaviour of the US/Trump comes into increasing conflict with our national interests.

Quoting Zack as done in the vid/article- “I don’t think it’s likely, I think that’s a different question, but I think the first question has to be ‘do you think we can work for peace and diplomacy in the world’. In other words it likely won't work but no harm in trying, not this interpretation.

🚨Parliament is going to debate the petition Calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy on 9 February. This is why it’s so important👇 youtu.be/Cnl8MNhwEY0?...

Carole Cadwalladr, "But trying to suck up to Trump.. Totally disastrous deals with Silicon Valley companies in which we're bringing their software into the critical functions of how the UK state operates" "We have put ourselves in a vassal of complete surrender"

UK Govt is concerned about waste crime. England's water companies are leaders, dump raw sewage in rivers, lakes & seas. They have nearly 1,200 criminal convictions but no director is fined, prosecuted or disqualified. Why is that so? What do you make of the Minister's reply?

"Under the weather" is a funny way to spell "chicken"

The same Toby Young who worked hard to remove former Oxford Union president-elect, George Abaraonye, when he exercised his right to freedom of speech? The same Tony Young who remained silent when the government wanted to curb Marieha Hussein, from exercising her right to freedom of speech?

When we said NATO wasn't working we were derided. When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid. The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe. It's time for a rethink.

Palantir was a warning sign. Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment. All in the name of "investment." What about national security?

In the second episode of Bear and Monk Debunk, we will be discussing a few apparent “perks” that are offered to Asylum Seekers - and @monkemma.bsky.social explains why often the real story doesn’t quite fit the narrative. You can subscribe at bearlypolitics.co.uk to get it straight to your inbox.

What is the Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI) that European lawmakers want to activate in response to Trump's 10% tariff announcement? Adopted in 2023, the instrument was designed to hit back at foreign acts of economic coercion. It was inspired by China's trade restrictions on Lithuania. 🧵

Tbf their first loyalty is to money, even over all the right wing crap, and Trumps actions threaten to cause some filthy unimaginably rich people to loose some of it/accumulate less. Why even Badenoch has spoken against.

Borders expert here! This ia a steaming pile of horseshit.

Y'know Trump ordered the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, well I think we need to get Europe to rename the US to the Democratic Peoples Republic of North America. That'll be a more factual change than his pointless one.

[1/6] A reminder: Europe has cards to use against the US. Lots of them. To cite some examples: - Tighten screws on US digital giants (taxes, fines, even bans) - Export taxes disrupting US supply chains eg pharma - Exclude US firms from European procurement, inc defence ecfr.eu/publication/...

Note that these are the usually Atlanticist pro-American centre right parties. They have given up appeasing Trump.

People need to stop being surprised by Trump's authoritarian illiberalism, accept what he is turning America in to (a fledgling fascist dictatorship) and plan action accordingly. No more 'there's no way a US President would do that', Trump has and will continue to do what was once unthinkable.