Rex Tillerson, Trump's first term Secretary of State, dubbed him right on the nose when he referred to him as a "fucking moron"!

Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland

Or he could ask the president.

This man is very seriously ill. bsky.app/profile/atru...

US cops making statements like this, we’re really through the looking glass

Here is the full text of Carney's speech. Very much worth reading. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

At some point it has to be acknowledged that the 'just placate him' strategy has been tested to destruction.

Spot on ⬇️ "Leaving the EU was a disaster a decade ago." "And it's even more of a disaster given the international situation now."

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

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.

The US pays for Europe's defence? No it doesn't! Of a $968bn global defence budget, only $33bn is spent in Europe, mostly on US bases which are not NATO bases. The actual US funding of NATO is approx $600m a year, the same as Germany. The myth dies on contact with arithmetic.

Left: Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, talking about liberty and freedom in the US in the UK parliament Right: ICE agents attacking a dancing fox

Well played, Channel 4.

Nobody in Britain should be remotely surprised this morning. The minute last year’s State Visit ended, the die was cast.

I see the 'patriotic parties' are now leaping to the defence of the man currently threatening to impose economic sanctions on our country, while seizing the European territory of our neighbours and allies

"Trump is so deeply unwell that it's time to stop blaming [him]..responsibility rests with his enablers." As Krugman says, some are monsters, some narcissists, some amoral opportunists, some just cowards. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundow...

Newsom commenting on EU approach to dealing with Trump (in Davos): “This is not diplomacy, this is stupidity”

Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland. There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same. And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment. 1/

Have you seen this?! 👇🏽

Reform UK’s Lincolnshire Mayor Andrea Jenkyns has zero self-awareness. She’s a former Conservative Minister that propped up Boris Johnson. Lincolnshire had an establishment takeover attempt the moment she and Council Leader Sean Matthews (also a Conservative) stood for election.

🚨 Reform UK MP Robert Jenrick worked in Moscow as a solicitor at firms handling Russian oligarch clients, as did his wife, who now works for a firm described in 2021 as ‘a pioneer in corporate tax dodging, acting for notorious tycoons, arms makers, and authoritarian regimes’. 🤑

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Putin-world egging Trump on: "If Trump annexes Greenland by July 4 2026, when America celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, he will go down in history as a figure who asserted the greatness of the United States" writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta…1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

French President Emmanuel Macron will request the activation of the European Union’s anti-coercion instrument after US President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on European countries over Greenland.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

That 'BBC boycott' in full

Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.

that’s not very free speech-y

NEWS: Canada just checkmated the United States. Breaking with the U.S., Canada has struck a major deal with China: Ottawa will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for dramatically lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.

Massive crowds have taken to the streets of Nuuk to protest the Trump administration with one message: Greenland is not for sale. It is not negotiable.

Such judgement

I saw a post once that said ‘living in Europe is basically having a really nice day until 5pm when Trump wakes up and announces something batsh*t’.

The next chance for the Supreme Court to rule that these kind of tariffs are illegal and that the law Trump is using was never meant for this kind of thing will be on Tuesday, when the justices said new decisions will be announced.

Dangerous new step in Trump's deranged pursuit of Greenland: economic punishment of allies to coerce Denmark into selling Greenland—on demonstrably spurious grounds. The president is lying: US missile defence can function perfectly w/out US ownership of Greenland. It has done for decades.

Oh My Gawd.. Why doesnt anyone Fact check him?

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

NEW: The DOJ has filed a motion to block the appointment of an independent monitor to release the Epstein files in the Ghislaine Maxwell case. The DOJ argues that federal courts lack the authority to enforce the Epstein Transparency Act… 1/

The families of Danes killed in Afghanistan have a message for Trump www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

'happy to make this clear' (following repeated escalation in public pressure for us to do so over a period of months including even an intervention by a senior politician)

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Jenrick’s incredible journey – from self-centred halfwit to self-centred halfwit

Is any Democrat besides Jamie Raskin going to talk about Trump selling pardons for millions of dollars to some of the most disgusting fraudsters and drug dealers in history? Any one of these is an impeachable offense and there are new ones almost every day. He isn’t even hiding the quid-pro-quo.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Newsom press account for the win 🤣

Basically Trump is threatening to sanction NATO unless NATO commits suicide. And people still think he might sanction Russia. He is doing Putin’s work.

Nuclear defense is why we built a base on Greenland in 1951. We had this idea 75 years ago. The base has been there since then. You don’t have to invade a country where you already have everything. Invasion just destroys what you have and much else besides.