Look at this, just look at it. There was a time that we as a species couldn't even make fire and now we can see the goddamn mountains on Pluto.

Agree with @gideonrachman.bsky.social excellent column. European appeasement hasn't worked. It's time to try a different approach.

🚨🚨In light of recent events, it is worth to recap that the #tradebazooka, aka as the #Anti-Coercion instrument now is more serious on the table as the EU is considering its response to #Trump's insane Greenland plans. 🧵 policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-...

Quite apart from the obvious narcissistic derangement, a) the Norwegian government does not award the peace prize; and b) there is a written document - the US agreed with Denmark not to pursue territorial claims to Greenland

If this text is real (no reason to think it isn’t) we have to accept that the only solution here is Congress doing its job. He cannot be a president in this deteriorating mental state. But Congress won’t act. We’re f*cked

I'm honestly less mad at the President, who is clearly not well, that I am at his outriders and enablers. They see messages like this and then, with straight faces, go on television or write op-eds retroactively constructing grand strategy justifications. Pathetic.

The very stable geniuses of British politics should not be allowed to forget their sycophancy towards Trump.

Don't ask, when are we going to do MMT? We already are youtu.be/J6ZUJbl829E?...

Absolutely did. A lot of nations learned from the Falklands that, for better or worse, if you kick off woth one of the major European powers they circle the wagons and start suddenly sharing intel very fast.

So do I.

Kids loved playing with toys in #Roman times too! Some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on for wheels. It was definitely a beloved toy that the kid was also meant to play with in the afterlife. 📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln 🏺 #archaeology

But…but….but we gave you a second state visit! #NeverEverEVERSuckUpToABully

America is the richest country in the world, with the strongest military. But, it still needs allies, trading partners. It can’t do it all alone. It’s powerful, but not impregnable.

I’ve been stalwart backer of transatlantic alliance all my life. I understand why Europeans have so far trod softly/tried to keep Trump onside. But, there comes a time when you have to face reality. The US is no longer our ally. Its defense guarantee is worthless. Time to kick ass back🧵

Isn’t this the time that the rest of the world has to work out trade without USA - or is this utterly impossible ?

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

This is only 4 months ago bsky.app/profile/adam...

This whole piece by the formidable @iandunt.bsky.social is as usual very good. "rem acu tetegisti" as Jeeves might have put it. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Starmer keeps using this line, & it's bonkers. Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders". It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer

Nice to know what UK govt and NHS contractors are also up to

This isn't satire. This is a real headline published in the UK.

Here is the list of the MPs who were officers and supporters of Labour Friends of Israel before it suddenly removed this page from its website.

"soon after, Ireland was invited to join the UK"

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

Someone inside DHS leaked the names of 4,500 ICE and CBP officers to a nonprofit that tracks ICE. About 80 percent of those name are active. www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-d...

Workers recapture 15,000 crabs ‘making bid for freedom’ after truck entered ditch

If Greenland wants closer relations with the EU, then the EU should facilitate that as quickly as possible.

This is 100% true. This short book is very helpful to understand how the Nazis took Jim Crow laws, our eugenics laws and ours+british models for concentration camps into their own antisemitic, white supremacist laws & structures. bookshop.org/p/books/hitl...

Our researcher @godin.bsky.social has collated our analysis so far on the fatal shooting of Renee Good on Jan 7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, into one shareable article. Read here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.

"All of this will require Democrats, and others in the anti-Trump opposition, to overcome their discomfort with a stance of 'mere' resistance. That discomfort, if it ever was justified, is no longer. If not resistance now, then when?"

Fascinating article.

Amid yet another day off what=the-hell news, this really is almost beyond belief: the chair of the US Federal Reserve releasing a video statement stating that he is being threatened with concocted criminal charges because he won't set the interest rates the president wants to see.

'Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.'

Rutte's War on Woke "NATO is falling into line with the US warpath against DEI. Phrases have been rephrased in legislation by NATO committees. Any language around 'gender' or 'women, peace & security' is avoided. 'Worst thing you can do is present it as a diversity issue. It’s not a woke agenda.'"

This story always come to mind when thinking about Trump, Musk, Thiel etc.

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

An absolute nightmare for the 'London has fallen' brigade

In @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social this week, I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to Renee’s murder. Every Republican voted it down. Now, the FBI has blocked Minnesota officials from conducting an independent investigation. Republicans have never cared about accountability.

It is so strange that crime doesn’t occur where people don’t live.

Today on my Sunday show I interviewed Donald Trump’s pastor. He accused me of having “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” You can judge for yourself which of us you think might be deranged. youtu.be/z9eL-y6MRs8?...

"... the Israeli army’s attack on the car containing Hind and her family, ...and the Israeli strike on the ambulance after its route had been approved cannot be explained by a mistake, or even a series of mistakes....These aren’t mistakes. Genocide isn’t a mistake. tinyurl.com/ymnr9rxx

11. Dennis Goris

Once again, one <very easy way> for the New York Times to escape the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years would be for it to stop acting in ways that <completely justify> all of the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years 🧐🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents. @zeteo.com

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

It’s hard to know if people outside MN understand how much of life is grinding to a halt here because of Trump’s occupation. Schools have shut down, businesses are scaling back hours or closing because their employees aren’t safe. The whole city is weighted down.