Rooting for the high north

As with too many things, the governments in too many democratic nations are no longer the safety net, and it falls to individuals to build the new institutions of democracy.

Perhaps just me, but should Europeans actually lead on this and make this be costly to China?

A daily reminder that while there’s headline talk of “peace,” Russia continues its war against all Ukrainian civilians & their systems of resilience and survival, because the goal of the full-scale invasion has always been the annihilation of Ukraine as a nation, culture, language, and history

Remember the 5 minutes when peeps were like “today is the day potus becomes president and he’s going to save the protesters in Iran” but then he was like “thank you for shooting the prisoners instead of hanging them” and all the gulf princeling bros stopped worrying about a better Middle East again

Because everybody is exactly who you thought they were. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-is-tul...

The russian drones attacked railway infrastructure in the Sumy region. The carriage which Ukrzaliznytsia kindly put specifically to warm people up and save from freezing was also destroyed. It's -10/-17°C in Sumy today. No, you don't hate russia enough.

“Tech bros and venture capitalist backers of the engine of imaginary money worship the same god of bold disruption, and this would inevitably put them at odds with the preservation of the architecture of the free world.”

Our allies — who answered our call — deserve better from us, America www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/w...

A year ago, two dams were opened as propaganda, spilling vital water resources into a void. Now, it seems America is also spilling out into a void, evaporating away for absolutely no reason and nothing at all. But we have a choice: say no to the lie. I say no. www.greatpower.us/p/2026-nonse...

POTUS can only succeed in his reordering of the nation if we decide to participate in the lie And I say — don’t

“Happy” February, all Buckle in with this classic www.youtube.com/watch?v=38PB...

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POTUS can only succeed in his reordering of the nation if we decide to participate in the lie And I say — don’t

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

A year ago, two dams were opened as propaganda, spilling vital water resources into a void. Now, it seems America is also spilling out into a void, evaporating away for absolutely no reason and nothing at all. But we have a choice: say no to the lie. I say no. www.greatpower.us/p/2026-nonse...

I agree. No Thank you for this piece @mollymckew.bsky.social “No to making America small. No to nonsense orders. No to living in the lie. No to thinking freedom is something only some people can have. No to preserving what is left and not fighting for the rest.” www.greatpower.us/p/2026-nonse...

"A year ago, two dams were opened to spill something vital out into a meaningless void. And now it seems America is also spilling out into a void, evaporating away for absolutely no reason and nothing at all." Another great read.

A year ago, the president gave a nonsense order, and the Army Corp of Engineers complied. We should have seen the flood that was coming. My latest: www.greatpower.us/p/2026-nonse...

If they want to speak about a war, the rules of war apply www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...

This clickbaity headline belies that this article is about the fabric of the American nation and how we all have to step up while our government taps out www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

This piece from @admiralstav.bsky.social is quite rational and calm in its approach to the question of European defense without the US

Should have happened in 2021

They’ve already shown what the funding is for.

OTD in 2003 Prez & then Ukrainian president signed “Treaty Between the Russian Federation and Ukraine on the Russian–Ukrainian State Border”. It set Ukraine’s borders as they were in 1991 & was lodged with the UN. So you can trust Russia on a new deal on Ukraine's borders

A complete and utter word salad of nothingness

The party of “states’ rights”

“Children are protesting inside their detention center” where they are being fed “putrid water” and “food with debris in it” is not a sentence I ever wanted to read about America www.tpr.org/border-immig...

“We’re barraged by videos of people we don’t know getting ripped from their families & beaten by agents whose salaries we pay. Bits & pieces come together about each day of unfolding tragedy, and more & more of us realize that those pieces belong to someone we know” www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

Bad news for Russia’s shadow fleet www.gov.uk/government/p...

“The humans cut apart all the books filled with their knowledge to teach the AI” is absolutely the beginning of a good sci-fi series www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Once you teach unqualified recruits to shoot unarmed civilians in the face with pepperballs and then you hand them live ammo and tell them to go full FPS and they do — it doesn’t matter who “steps back,” the reflexes are there, and with no investigation, charges, or condemnation, the orders remain

The blind leading the blind only now it’s the brocasters leading the brocasters

“The discombobulator” apnews.com/article/trum...

“Across the federal govt, officials are advocating for a radical new understanding of the American idea, one rooted not in the vision of the Founders, but in the ideologies of European fascists” Many won’t want to hear what @alibreland.bsky.social lays out here www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Board of Peace or bored of peace?

MORE: The Kremlin remains committed to its original war aims and is not publicly showing any new willingness to commit to meaningful compromises to end its war against Ukraine. 🧵(1/4)

When tacticool becomes an operational threat, the national guard has to fuzzy it up Deeply fascinating on many psychological levels taskandpurpose.com/news/minneso...

Can’t believe no one sees he’s just channeling Putin.

I have never heard a statement from an American president more disgraceful about battlefield sacrifice than today. The hollowest man, and the most insecure. An abomination.

POTUS says the US “used to have Greenland” and stupidly “gave it back” — in a strange mirroring of Russian narrative on all its grievances. To be clear, this is an untrue story. We are owed nothing but what we already have. No serious nation has this as its leader.

And Americans just like lah dee dah

I’m not to blame but I am responsible. I wrote this during the protests & riots after the murder of George Floyd. What I knew then is what I know now: that we all matter or none of us do. Please read this. And act accordingly. Courage. Use it. www.sunjournal.com/2020/06/07/i...

Every American who still thinks they can walk in the world like “yeah, it’s a bit mad, but don’t blame me for it” needs to understand that our internal self-delineation ends at the border, and what allies, adversaries, and indifferent nations see is America doing this, an America in rapid decline

OTD in 1945, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved 15,000 Jews in WW2, was kidnapped by the Soviet NKVD who took him to Moscow & killed him. Cos we're the real anti-fascists

Russian milbloggers continue to loudly reject the alternate battlefield reality that Russian President Vladimir Putin and senior Russian military commanders are trying to create. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...

We are a nation happy to live wrapped in lies, exalting those who best use lies as weapons to positions of power

BREAKING: A full-scale airlift is running around the clock, transporting troops and military equipment to Greenland. The operation is extensive, “beyond anything we’ve tried before,” a source tells DR. Danish F-35 fighter planes and warships from European allies involved. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

🧵Applications are now open for the second-ever Disinformation Summer Institute, taking place June 15-18, 2026 on Bainbridge Island, Washington. The deadline to apply is February 15. Learn more: disinfoinstitute.org

(1/2) Denmark’s Armed Forces have released new photos of F-35s flying over Greenland. According to DR’s information, the Danish Army’s special forces Jaeger Corps are also part of Operation Arctic Endurance (full story in post 2).