Let’s review Trump’s crisis response during COVID: 1. Blame: the Dems, the media, his predecessors 2.Inflame: promote quacks and fringe social media influencers & attack experts. 3. Lie constantly 4. Claim credit for the hard work of those same professionals he attacked

Thread. Greenland. 1/

It’s cold comfort right now but, if past is prologue, spectacles of violence committed by the state against sympathetic civilians—especially when captured on camera—were the beginning of the end for Bull Connor and Jim Crow, too.

Saying Trump was "snubbed" for the Nobel Peace Prize is like saying Goonies 3 was snubbed for the Best Picture Oscar. He was never in contention because he is a war mongering fascist.

I don't completely track how russia can be threat so imminent and great that the u.s. needs to forcibly take greenland from an ally, but also not worth sending weapons to ukraine to fight

Looks like we’re in for the latter. “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen” Lenin

🚨🚨In light of recent events, it is worth to recap that the #tradebazooka, aka as the #Anti-Coercion instrument now is more serious on the table as the EU is considering its response to #Trump's insane Greenland plans. 🧵 policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-...

The mad king will speak at Davos on Wednesday. “In a new report, the U.S.-based Eurasia Group identifies the United States as “the principal source of global risk in 2026.” Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/b...

What other measures can EU and NATO implement? -An EU suspension of US Tourist Visas? -Suspension of trade agreements and retaliatory tariffs? -Suspension of Intelligence sharing (to the extent that it still exists)? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

This is utterly deranged.

Gifting this - a long read but well worth it. The American-led world order established harmony among the great powers within it, and left those outside it relatively isolated and insecure, Robert Kagan argues—and all of that is now ending. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

TFW you’re on the other side of the “expedited removal” process

Nonsensical Orwellian doublespeak.

Wins the competition for the most punchable face in the administration.

The easiest EU option in response to US threats is to apply the retaliation already agreed in response to Trump's first round of tariffs - now that he has ripped up the Turnberry deal that supposedly resolved the issue

Narcissistic rage shitting on the people and institutions that stand up to him. bsky.app/profile/samf...

My guess is his post was a reaction to being told that there was no realistic military option that would have support from congress + the joint chiefs. Particularly because it's open-ended. There's no ultimatum.

🧵 Trump has been gagging to invoke the Insurrection Act and if it doesn’t happen this week in Minnesota, it’s a near certainty that it will happen before the midterms. Maximum spectacle and minimal strategy. 1// www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

You can paraphrase Thucydides all you want like a pseud, but it doesn't change the fact that we're signatories to multiple treaties that explicitly forbid the use of force to change State borders.

If sent to MN (*big if* ) not sure what they would be ordered to do other than direct support (security, maybe ISR and logistics support). Another reality show spectacle for FOX & Xtwitter, Milling about aimlessly in front of federal detention facilities in zero degree temps sounds like fun.

Another late Friday night DoJ filing timed for wjem the media spotlight is at its dimmest.

BREAKING: Judge enters TRO blocking feds from interfering with or arresting peaceful protesters in Minnesota. Judge Kate Menendez, Biden appointee. Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

ICE/CBP/HSI use the “Mobile Fortify” smartphone facial recognition app. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

Anecdotal but I live in a deeply red rural district. Not seeing the Trump lawn signs, bumper stickers or T-shirts that were omnipresent for the last 8 years. Grocery & home energy costs are up & farmers are getting squeezed. Wouldn’t surprise me if many rural voters stayed home in November.

Let’s look at this as it might lead to a partial gov’t shutdown in two weeks. 🧵 1. The current CR expires on 30 January. Important to note that the military and many other agencies/ departments are fully funded and won’t be affected if the federal gov’t shuts down. 1//

Important thread on the Insurrection Act from @lizagoitein.bsky.social.

And right on cue, Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act. Trump and Stephen Miller are deliberately trying to cause the rule of law and civil order to collapse in Minnesota for a reason. This is that reason.

We live in Orwellian times. “War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength" Gift article “Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared or transferred to others,” the institute wrote. “The decision is final and stands for all time.”” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/w...

"Would this be a simple operation to intimidate the locals? Or would we have to fight – to fight the soldiers of a nation I had served with on operations, trained with at school, & are our allies?" A fiction story of a U.S. military operation in #Greenland. mickryan.substack.com/p/the-greenl...

New and highly recommended follow. h/t to @ambassadormoreno.bsky.social

So far 8 countries have committed to sending troops to Greenland. Sweden🇸🇪 Norway🇳🇴 Finland🇫🇮 Estonia🇪🇪 Great Britain🇬🇧 Netherlands🇳🇱 and France🇫🇷 We are very grateful for the support. We are also grateful for the many American politicians and people🇺🇸supporting us. Let's talk and find solutions together.

Evergreen

@starsandstripes.bsky.social Let’s review: 1. LTG Rudd is a U.S. Army GO.

Specialists in violence applies to young E-4’s in 75RR who just graduated Ranger School. Not the Bubba McChubbys, the out of shape, undertrained, morally deficient cadre in ICE/CBP who are a danger to themselves amd everyone around them.

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

To what degree is Blanche laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to invoke the insurrection act? Doubtful that the principals (DHS and DoJ) have thought through the 2nd and 3rd order effects or planned for the most likely/most catastrophic points of failure for ICE/CBP going forward.

Suspect this may be intended as much as a loyalty test for the JAG corps, which Hegseth loathes and whose leadership he targeted immediately upon becoming SECDEF, as anything else

Anduril literally is the stereotype of defense contractors everyone has in their heads—making expensive gimmicky bullshit that doesn’t work to needlessly prolong wars for their own profit—and for it are being rewarded and praised by all the people who thinks the rest of the major contractors do that

This is what this despicable anti- American thinks of free speech.

A federal judge has barred USDA from cutting funds to help Minnesota administer its SNAP program.

As Marie Antoinette famously said, “let them eat corn tortillas.” Compromises have to be made when steak is too expensive and road kill is too scarce.

Trump bullies NATO allies to increase defense spending which *checks notes* they will now use to form a multinational coalition to protect Greenland from Trump.

Germany and France joining Denmark and Sweden in Greenland.

🇩🇪🇬🇱Germany plans to deploy its first soldiers to Greenland as early as this week. An advance team of a few Bundeswehr personnel is expected to go first, - BILD

Sure, keep up the kind of middle school trolling that has made Trump the most unpopular president in modern history both at home and abroad. Hard to see the administration as anything other than a regime bent on self immolation.

🇳🇴🇬🇱 Norway has decided to send two members of the Armed Forces to Greenland to plan further cooperation between the allies. 🇩🇰🇺🇸 Danish delegation arrived in Washington, DC at a time when the relationship between the two NATO allies is at a very critical point.

Healthcare premiums will spike and this all but guarantees another federal gov’t shutdown.

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.