The way in which the US Supreme Court has been trying to for a year now illogically carve out a "none of this applies to the Fed" exemption from the administration's reign of terror on civic institutions, which it is otherwise agrees with, underlines the only way to hurt these guys is in the money.

I am but a child growing up in a candy store of slop, learning from masters and taking copious notes

Lot of people responding with 'people who already work for the Border Force', which defeats the purpose of the exercise. Generally think it would be a mix of hooligans and Robinsonites for when noise and terror was the objective, ex-forces and immigrants for the actual work of seizing people.

Literally 10 years ago this is what Davos was about.

I don't think this is a new type of guy

After a century of what now?

'Yuan Yi Zhu has arrived on another social media network'

[michael_scott_visibly_torn.jpeg] when you're desperate to make some gags about 'Nanny Sandra' but you know it's not appropriate or kind really

What's great about this is that ukgov spent years pushing universities down the fees route, getting them to base their finances on streams of foreign students, only to then say "we've realised foreign students are foreign and that's bad, so we're stopping all that."

Maybe it would be better if the Home Secretary's soundbites didn't sound like they were being delivered to James Bond strapped in a chair?

americans deciding why it was necessary to inflict this demented freak on the rest of us

The phrase ‘fortified tower with non castle features’ keeps swirling round and round in my head

"He said the same thing he'd been saying for hours: 'Give me the Nobel or I'll burn all of Greenland.'"

The messages on these pictures are too parodic for words. If you told me Stephen Miller had sat up all night refining the perfect AI prompt to make them, it would be very easy to believe.

Well the average comment from big Democrat poobahs has so far been 'we absolutely shouldn't invade, we should make them an offer' so I think people assuming this idea will die when Trump leaves office (if it hasn't already been resolved in Trump's favour by then) may end up disappointed.

I don't mind this though. I mean, I don't agree with it, but at least it's crystal clear about what the pitch is.

FIFA don't get to pretend they're embarrassed about Trump's peace prize until they pressure either UEFA or CONCACAF into accepting Greenland as a confederation member IMO.

1-8 We're getting very close to what Anders describes. Normal, civilised US citizens need to understand it's their system that is sick, not just one man. In pretty much every other democracy I can think of, doing a January 6 number would have meant imprisonment and being barred from public office.

Ppl talking about what this place lacks that you do get from the other one . . . I've been laughing to myself about 'a fortified tower with non-castle features' all evening

There's never been a guy who just loves fraud and self-dealing quite like him. Just an abject moral vacuum. I hate to do sincereposting but he's just so fucking disgusting

Absolutely impenetrable banter on the Guardian MBM here. If you read these often enough, you realise there are only about half a dozen people who ever write in, so if it isn't Ian Copestake there's a good chance it will be 'Kari Tulinius' or 'Peter Oh'

Quite fun that government still reliant on communication technique honed three decades ago, like Tony Blair aping Alec Douglas Home

Tired: Committing fraud, getting a Trump pardon Wired: Committing fraud again, getting a Trump pardon again www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Does this even fall within the remit of Ofsted, or indeed the Education Secretary? It appears we are allowing the agencies of the state to be politicised. They're not about to shoot protestors in the head, but this is akin to the use of ICE in the US. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

WRONG! It's actually the sound of this specific Friday afternoon

10/10 FT article, headline, picture - on top of their game here, so to speak

Gone out with maximum dignity, avoided sack or resignation. Chapeau sir 👍💪

If you want to read thousands of replies from the smuggest technophobes on the planet, this is the thread for you.

Mary Lattimore and Juliana Barwick collaboration release day let's fucking goooooooooo

Farewell Malen, we hardly knew ye. Quite sad really, I quite liked him, though that may be because he looks incongruously more like a cruise ship magician than a footballer.

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

This whole stream started in hardbitten cynicism, and somehow it's ended up here

Imagine being an American Samoan in Alaska. Whatever they're alleged to have done, they've been punished enough already

Concept from alternate history in which the Edwardians won the Space Race

It's the most wonderful time of the year (the annual discovery of Tesco's latest atrocity on the hot cross bun shelf)

BOOOOOOOOOOOO

Great to see European culture and solidarity at last 🙏💪

BREAKING: Denmark has deployed an advance force and military equipment to Greenland, tasked with preparing to receive reinforcements from the rest of the Danish Armed Forces and allied nations. Follow the story on DR, Denmark’s public-service news outlet. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

The MP named here who is allegedly 'hailed the "grandfather of Labour YIMBYism"' is 40 years old. Are they sure they don't mean 'godfather'?

Everyone is like 'come over to Bluesky'. But have you considered that Yuan Yi Zhu might hear you?

Well that's not the issue so that's not going to help.

Feels mean and like it's underestimating her to call her thick, but also . . . she just is?

Really do believe this about Greenland tbh. Danes still think they can get out of their jam by trying to make a new agreement or appealing to diplomatic niceties/convention/Trump's better nature/shared sacrifices in the past/the future of NATO, but the only way to make him pause is a real cost.

Should be more discerning about this IMO. 'Senpai' and 'love hotel' are defensible, the rest are too obscure. We need to play harder to get!