Trump must be getting closer and closer to overreach. When it happens the implosion will be very quick, I think.

Inciting chaos, destruction, and corruption.

The thing with start-ups is that 90% of them go bust but that doesn't fundamentally matter because it is the investors who get hosed. If your school/hospital/benefit system gets fucked, no one steps into replace it.

must-read column today by @edwardluce.bsky.social who accurately analysed the dangers posed by Trump long before many commentators www.ft.com/content/dede...

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

There is no strategy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Excellent article by @davidgauke.bsky.social

US sec of state Marco Rubio, May 2025: “Today, the US welcomed the historic agreement [on Chagos]. Following a comprehensive interagency review, the Trump Administration determined that this agreement secures the long-term, stable, and effective operation” of the base at Diego Garcia.

Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…

After a year of Trump's second term

"l no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Assuming anyone survives this decade, USians will wear "not all USians" around their necks like an anchor for *generations*. And they will never be able to understand why.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

Wonderful to find the documentary proof!

Toddler is having Big Emotions today.

67% of Britons support retaliatory tariffs against the US if Trump imposes tariffs as a result of UK opposition to his attempts to take over Greenland Support: 67% Oppose: 14% Net support by 2024 vote Green +73 Lab +65 Lib Dem +64 Con +60 Reform +29 yougov.co.uk/topics/inter...

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Charmed by the idea that pipsqueak Farage "will have a word" with the US at Davos.

You WHAT?

Think it would be easier than people think to get the public to accept real lower consumption if politicians were more forthright about the case for it. People did so for COVID. "Russia is invading eastern Europe and America is run by a mad king, we need an army" doesn't seem that hard a sell.

🔥🔥🔥 DO NOT BE DISTRACTED BY MADURO, IRAN NOR GREENLAND & STAY LOUD 🔥🔥🔥 🔥🔥🔥 DONALD TRUMP IS GOING DOWN 🔥🔥🔥 🔥🔥🔥 TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS & I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared 🔥🔥🔥

German Finance Minister

Prior to Trump, I always thought someone could do a cutting satire of US politics with a show about a president who loses his mind while in office, and the lengths to which his party will go to justify and defend his increasingly insane pronouncements. We’re living in that show.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

Worth noting Russia's response to Trump's attempt to snaffle Greenland. Putin's spokesman didn't condemn the move. Instead he said it would "make US and possibly world history" - an open invitation for Trump to go ahead, thus destroying NATO. Trump is and has always been a traitor. A Russian asset.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

This is gold from Stephen Colbert 👇 “Where are the Epstein Files? We were told there would be Epstein Files. You signed a law mandating you would have to release the Epstein Files by the middle of last month, but you still haven’t. It kind of makes you seem like a...pedophile protector!”

Springsteen dedicated “The Promised Land” to the “memory of slain Minneapolis woman Renee Good, decrying the ‘Gestapo tactics’ that he said have resulted in a climate where citizens can be ‘murdered for exercising your American right to protest.’” variety.com/2026/music/n...

“I appreciate your attention to this matter”… 🤣🤣🤣

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

This demonstrates the realistic limit of keeping the US engaged for Ukraine If they're going to consciously hold it over us as a blackmail tool every time they have a new demand then we can't keep saying yes

Reminder of the spectacularly poor judgement of these people

I think setting off your car alarm from the safety of your home to alert your neighbors to the presence of ICE is a great form of resistance.

Greenland crisis means we're going to be talking a lot more about what a breach with the US would involve in practice & this is worth reading on the granular bits

It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions. Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.

If God is reading the news correctly, the US government is deploying two army battalions to Minnesota to distract from their illegal non release of the Epstein files, is that right?

How it started/how it's going

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

I wonder why Nigel Farage has pulled out of The Laura Kuenssberg TV programme this morning? 🤔

“It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race.” ~ Karl Stojka, Auschwitz Survivor

There's a daft notion around that Europe "needs to find a compromise" with Trump over Greenland. This is wrong. We should treat him like the spoilt child he is and say "No". There will be tantrums and the odd vase may get broken, but it's the only thing to do.

Give it up for Britain's Wrongest Man

Just yesterday he tried to rollout a “healthcare plan” that he couldn’t describe at all. Nothing. It’s like 800 words of fluff and he has no idea what’s in it.

What Europe and Canada need to do, months later than they should have done, is decide how to deal with a US that's an adversary not an ally, that has a predatory approach to them, and that can't be negotiated with in good faith. It's encouraging that France, at least, seems to understand this.

Hurrah! Baby steps, but this is the very first hint of any sort of backbone from Starmer. Much now depends on what he does when Trump doesn't back down. And whether he continues to try to sweeten an already ridiculously one-sided trade deal, or walks away. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...