I figure the putative President is disabled from his two-day vanity junket, and also this weekend was scheduled for his heavy drug regimen

Le Figaro (France, center-right / conservative) No "involved shooting" word salad

elpais.com/us/migracion... "Police loose a campaign of harassment against activists protecting migrants in the US." If you can read (or kinda read, or are ok with machine translation) other languages, now is the time to branch out, media-wise.

Somedays I'm just, "bless this man."

dear God

it is funny how all the fictional monsters we imagined taking over the U.S. for the last 30 years are objectively better people than the current regime. Give me Skeletor, please. Cobra Commander wants to run shit? He can hardly be worse than what we're rockin' today. It's worth a shot!

why does the intro to Quand Un Roi Perd La France seem so apropos to the current US

nippoles ready for ice play

hell, G.I. Joe fighting Cobra would be viewed as insufficiently pro-Trump at this point www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEmn...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

cyberpunk future is samizdata-on-the-Seine l'avenir, c'est aujourd'hui

www.latimes.com/california/s... "You ask for miracles, I give you the F.B.I."

in a little less than 300 days the median US voter is going to try to make it 2022 again or whenever it was that their fucking brain meds were last covered

the peals of church bells most unexpected but dearly welcomed

evergreen post for 2026-2028

is this even the WH briefing room or just a set at the memory care facility at this point

Canadian PM Mark Carney: "nostalgia is not a strategy." www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStu...

www.lemonde.fr/economie/liv... EU parliament drops ratification of trade deal with USA

Davos speeches make this look like a economic integration / globalization going out of business sale

hoo boy

If he wasn't actually wearing sunglasses they'd have to be generated in for this quote

Outside the propaganda bubble news: www.lemonde.fr/internationa... EU prepares its reponse to the "economic blackmail" of Donald Trump; an extraordinary summit is announced for Jan 22nd (Le Monde)

"Why won't Mom stop violent drunk Dad," I say, after buying Dad whiskey again. "What's that? Well he'd get even more violent without more booze. Nothing is about gender ever."

new European diplomatic effort: sponsoring a new film called "47: The Nation's Pride," and offering an intimate and glamorous debut soiree with Trump, Vance, Miller, and Rubio in attendance

El País, Spain: a good example of not lying in a newspaper elpais.com/us/migracion...

glad we went to church people need hugs

Un vieil homme dans un grenier Pour la nuit nous a cachés Les Allemands l'ont pris Il est mort sans surprise

I'd like a multibillion-dollar grant to search for the elusive hugs boson

“don’t GIVE him what he wants just let him DO whatever he wants!” - half the Democratic Party and also the ghost of Neville Chamberlain, probably

If there are cold weather deaths because people are dropped off in the middle of nowhere without coats next week, those are murders

Well ok; France and Germany send mission to Greenland explicitly to counter US threats to take the territory (Le Monde) Language skills (or tech) allows you to get past the US propaganda filter

links so you don't need to go to the hell site www.sciencesetavenir.fr/high-tech/in... comma.inria.fr/catalog

Y. pestis was determined to be carried by rats and isolated as the cause of the plague in ... 1894, and recognized as passed by fleas four years later.

El País a little more clear with their headline than US regime news sources elpais.com/internaciona...

they can try to control the day, but the lesbians reappear at night as they have the hearts of the local women

I like that they’ve given up on even having immigration enforcement as a pretext for any of this. It’s just purely armed masked goons wandering around in the middle of intersections harassing U.S. citizens as a display of force now.

I will think there's even a shred of "officers are being targeted" when we see the first deadly ambush while agents of the state are distracted while looting a home or business Counterattack while undisciplined troops rummage through your camp is one of those hoary precepts of war

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

sauvignon bloc

pastor delivered a sermon about this incident yesterday and I cried in church today: yeah, "Nuremberg" is the moderate position

response to the domestic version of attacking Greenland

2026

the "forces of order" are under civilian control it's just that 95% of the civilian control doesn't want citizens on the streets for anything but taxable reasons

In light of what happened to Renee Good, I thought it important to reiterate my grandmother's advice.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

yep if you thought that saying or posting "Black lives matter" was a step too far, I have news for you -- now, your life doesn't matter to the regime either oops all whiteness conditional on repression and collaboration

boosters: OMG just look at what all these amazing machines can do now American history: hey did you know Woodstock and Altamont happened in the same year?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs5h... "... I was cautioned to surrender, this I could not do ..."

I remember that my grandfathers didn't want to carry a BAR in France and Germany, or bomb Japanese shipping from a TBF Avenger, respectively, and that gives me my perspective on the times we sadly find ourselves in