Trump threatens Macron with extortion After Macron refuses to pay $1 billion to join his phony 'Board of Peace', Trump threatens to impose 200% tariffs on French wines and champagne. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/t...

Watch this video of @milesobrien.com from a Korean Icebreaker in Antarctica. Glad he mentioned that the US no longer has this capability because of the Trump regime. There are also two @nytimes.com reporters on the same ship. 🌊

A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.

The moment I saw his reaction to being roasted by Obama, I knew Trump was a madman. This is not hyperbole. He is a madman and an evil one to boot. He is the most dangerous man because he’s also extremely unstable.

January 19, 2026

As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership | Gordon Brown

Trump is proposing to open 1.27 billion acres of our public waters off the coasts of California, Florida, and Alaska to new oil and gas drilling. This proposal puts coastal residents, communities, and economies as well as ocean ecosystems and marine wildlife at risk of pollution and oil spills.

Not a criticism of the sentiment. But ultimately LAPD's budget is taxpayers money. We need a better way - i.e. policing that doesn't violate human rights and cost taxpayers billions in payouts.

aw man, I’ve been listening to a lot of Midnight Oil these days for reasons you can imagine

Pirate Imperialism is now officially published. Probably of interest to anyone who wants to understand, well, everything that is going on today. #bskyhistorians #skyhistorians Here: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

I've actually come to find the new Model Y more insidious because it's the stealth "I approve of or don't care about white nationalism and USAID-cuts-induced deaths" vehicle bsky.app/profile/jing...

"We're here because of the comments you made online about Israel." A man in Texas shared a video saying local police came to his home to question him over posts critical of Israel. @CensoredHumans

Former President Bill Clinton on Netanyahu: "Mr. Netanyahu has long wanted to fight Iran because that way he can stay in office."

It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees (RIP, Rob Hirst). youtu.be/6pKPNnk-JhE?...

John Green is going to be fucking furious

Protecting the secrets of a #coldwar wreck – diving on HMS Coventry www.navylookout.com/protecting-t...

accurate headline: "Greenlanders in tears, Ukrainians die, Kremlin in joy" euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/19/g...

This is the piece to send people to get them off the fence about this, I've bookmarked it in a new folder I've called 'weaponry' lol

It is time to be honest about Europeans who support Putin. They are traitors. The exact same label applies to those who support Donald Trump. Both leaders are openly hostile to European interests and security. Supporting them is not a valid political opinion

A lot of these political editors see Starmer/Trump and Mamdani/Trump as unexpected bromances, rather than what the rest of us see, which is someone trying to gamely manage a lunatic.

Make Heaven Crowded is an insane title.

Some angry politically disengaged NIMBY is totally gonna get piled on by an army of feds for shooting at ICE drones. It's gonna be really dumb all round.

And for all the culture war bullshit regressives are trying to push on us, *this* is the real problem. We HAVE to stop adding more energy into our global weather systems. The rate of change is approaching an extinction event.

Tonight's reminder that fewer than 10 people can end the worst of all of this immediately, simply by caucusing with Democrats & giving them control of both chambers of Congress. Absolute Profiles in Cowardice. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Trump coming in strong again with the delusions. And I mean that in the most clinical sense of the word, as in “a false belief not based in reality.”

Reminder that all these lawsuits are going to be paid out with taxpayer dollars.

PLEASE boycott the World Cup.

ICE’s actions tear families apart, intimidate communities, & undermine the conditions that make education, research, healthcare, & public trust possible. We’re calling on scientists to join the general anti-ICE strike in Minnesota on January 23rd.

Jesus Christ flipped over tables in the Temple bc less fortunate people weren't being treated fairly. ICE - which violates His commandments on caring for strangers and the poor, would probably rate a bit worse than a flipped table.

Nobody was given anything remotely close to 40 years for FACE act violations. Longest sentence I can find is 57 months.

This is a very scary thread, but now that everything's all right, I think it's everyone's duty to convince this person they never actually woke up.

Just got back from my first day as a bus driver. I think it went well, despite the passengers telling me (wrongly) I was going to wrong destination. Now to crack open a beer and check BlueSky...

If your peace plan includes Vladimir Putin and excludes actual allies, it’s not peace. It’s submission.

Even on here, I’ve noticed a distinct shift from people outside the country that’s essentially, “This isn’t funny anymore, fix your shit America.” I just wonder if our congressional invertebrates are feeling that at all.

Today feels like a good day to spotlight the recent appeal made by Kurihara Toshio, one of the preeminent Japanese reporters on the war memory beat, to journalists covering war today. Its drawn from his research on the failures of Japan's media establishment in the 1930s: apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman

I see some people interpreting this as a metaphor for the state of America, but in that case about 45 percent of the passengers would be insisting that they actually wanted the bus to go to Vienna as long as it ran over some immigrants on the way.

What My Mom’s Dementia Tells Me.

not enough people are rude to blatant liars like Jennings to their face and in public.

agreed. it sucks! the FAA used to work pretty damn well!

This stopped being funny a long time ago. The only people this helps want to see us fall.

The coming war with Scandinavia is really going to make for some compelling Winter Olympics competitions! /s/

Ashamed to say I'd never heard Dr Martin Luther King Jr's acceptance of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. Such a contrast to discussions today about the award. So we played King's comments on-air.

RIP Valentino Garavani. You can always tell the fashion designers who really love women. He did.

The irony of ICE detaining and disappearing the original Americans should stop everyone cold. As a Lakota proverb says, when you discover you’re riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. This system isn’t broken. It’s dead.