so I guess Trump just made up this whole deal in his head and declared victory over Greenland?

love me some Hyperloop

ICE kidnapping five year olds

Bret Stephens now astutely drawing our attention to Thomas Mann and Settembrini and Naphta what has the world come to.

There are so many outrages at the moment but there is no logical rational even by any of the conservative's own cherished formalist theories that could justify Fed independence but not the independence of any other federal agency so dictated by congress. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

mainstream media (I include NPR here) is getting closer but wake me up when they are openly wondering if Trump is insane

man if you want to see some crazy things ask your favorite AI bot to some theoretical questions about some moderately famous classical music piece

the rout is on

Abolish ICE

I have my weird differences with Will but listen to his interview on Liberal Currents it's some of the most important journalism done this week. And like get him on more major media outlets.

Your semi-regular reminder that this does not matter. Foreign bond holders do not have leverage over us. They cannot en mass dump their holdings- there would need to be buyers!

Wait a second Klaus Makela isn't 30 yet? This is nonsense.

I'll make this very simple Norway: Give me the Nobel Peace Prize, or we invade. Incredible stuff.

The US—focused on invading Greenland, deposing presidents, digging for oil, polluting the skies, deporting immigrants, repressing cities, denying people health care, subsidizing billionaires, undermining freedoms—has completely missed the plot.

trump and his republican party are infected with the same death cult imperialism that brought the world to cataclysm twice in the twentieth century. there's no reasonable sane sensible foreign policy way of dressing up this "strategic logic." history is explicit: this is madness.

this seems correct.

this seems pretty crazy

I think the first I heard of Game of Thrones it was fans mad that he wasn't writing books fast enough and I thought, that's weird. But now this is getting a bit ridiculous. Come on man. Dance of Dragons was apparently 2011?? Try.

if there's such momentum for wealth taxes and everybody's worried they might pass I wish advocates could design good ones

I don't know what this is teasing but if you want to hear Vivek spout of 2+ minutes of nonsensical mouth vomit here you go

These are DHS agents not MPD according to their uniforms. What federal crime was the dancing fox reasonably suspected of?

I'm hearing of multiple ICE operations in Los Angeles today

Just as the framers imagined: the president uses IEEPA to impose tariffs unilaterally on foreign allies until they cede territory to us. Maybe the Supreme Court should release its tariffs ruling soon.

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.

alright so it's time to take away presidential pardon power

“ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do”

Primal scream

oh fuck this people don't understand that. Abolish ICE

hero

Really want to stress that this crowd formed in a matter of minutes.

what in the fuck are we doing here this is so insane

A lot of absurdly brazen unconstitutionality going on, too much to take. Gotta log off or go insane.

Laundering the $$$ through Qatar instead of American banks is a huge red flag. The corruption is out in the open.

So I find this indicative of our general confusion about how interest rates actually work in the economy. There's a lot of things we don't really understand about interest rates affect the real economy! www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

no this isn't true the president can abolish any agency unilaterally

this is pretty dark

The President telling a prime time network news host effectively "I got you this job" is not something you see every day.

are we going to have to create monastic orders that maintain the old ways of knowing and being as humans (writing and internet searching without AI)

this shit drives me bonkers. Here's the Turkish Central Bank's discount interest rate for the same time period. Can somebody please show me the insane adjustment in interest rate policy they made in 2021 that lead to 86% inflation?

It's time to move to war-mode liberalism. I've also tried to be nice. But certain very powerful / rich individuals do need to be crushed.

it's extremely important that Europe move troops to Greenland right now

Hey Senate republicans! You can actually stop this!

Treaties ratified by the Senate have the same standing as federal laws btw. Invading Greenland is extremely illegal under *our own laws*

I think we’re at the Rubicon. Who knows, of course, but it feels like what happens over the next few weeks will define the rest of our lives.

I think Trump’s in an age/cognitive decline spiral and Rubio, Miller, and Voight are running fiefdoms with occasional check ins with grandpa.

too much stuff this week pretty hard on the mind

I'm really struggling to find the words to describe how insane this is. These Nazi cosplayers are doing this for what? Likes in the internet facism bubble. It doesn't play well anywhere outside those circles.

there is something about watching them clearly envisioning themselves to be an elite fighting force, yet barely able to keep up with townspeople in snow pants who are outnumbered the dangers to citizens are obviously real but aren't more ppl going to watch these videos and think "I could take them"

the way the internet is driving us towards societal disaster is pretty apparent (I have no obvious solutions)