All key European leaders now said they won’t go along with this. So if the objective was coercion it has already failed. (This is not a US miscalculation- its a very Trumpian one).

EU ambassadors will hold an emergency meeting Sunday after Donald Trump threatened escalating tariffs on European allies until the US is allowed to buy Greenland. Cyprus, which currently holds the EU presidency, called the meeting, set for 5 p.m. Brussels time, according to Reuters. #Greenland

There's NO business like SNOW business

The neo-fascist group Patriot Front is building a network of businesses in North Texas in an attempt to create a parallel, self-sufficient white nationalist economy. The Observer identified the men behind 4 of these companies.

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More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, today: a massive protest outside the U.S. embassy against the sale/occupation of Greenland by the United States

What makes this statement by Emmanuel Macron so unprecedented is, for the first time, a leading European ally is equating Trump with Putin. “No intimidation or threat will influence us - neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world.” EVERYTHING has changed.

French MP ⬇️

Trump puts 10% tariff on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, and Finland from Feb 1st on. If by June they haven’t “given Greenland to US”, the tariff will be 25% from June 1. He says US “has subsidized Europe by not imposing tariffs”, hence US “already paid for Greenland”

A very dramatic encounter with ICE. Nothing but intimidation to diminish free speech and a free press.

This hits on something that a friend said to me that I think is absolutely right: people who are not grasping the gravity of the situation & meeting the moment, where politicians have utterly abandoned us, are doing it because of the fear of confronting that there are no guardrails anymore.

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account. Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

Given the number of visually identifiable Native Americans who've been illegally picked up by ICE around Phoenix and Tucson, and given my current state of dark beige skin, I think I'll just not go out to the store today.

He doesn't need to actually cancel the elections in order to effectively cancel the elections. This is how competitive Authoritarianism works. Just imagine what is happening now in Minneapolis happening in a just a few key urban districts, but during elections season.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Guterres warns of ‘powerful forces’ undermining ‘global cooperation’

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

The LUCE network has been *doing* protection work since the beginning and has a ton of trainings this weekend. If you are in MA save their number to your phone and consider getting trained. www.lucemass.org

People have asked me if I need anything or how to help from afar. It’s been truly touching to get your messages. I had a small need but it’s taken care of. If it comes up again, I will contact folks who offered. In the meantime if you want to make an impact, here’s a place that could also use help.

“These are no longer dog whistles,” Jon Lewis, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, said. “They’re bullhorns.” www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

DHS employees entered our store this afternoon and served us a Notice of Inspection, demanding copies of I9 forms for each employee. In 27 years as shopkeepers, we have never been subjected to this type of investigation.

Nice thing about Minneapolis being kinda small is that it’s hard to convince us protesters are being paid because you’d go out and oh there’s that kid from my high school who played Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha one year, and is that the pharmacist at my CVS over there, and there goes our realtor

More in Prize Studies, a field I did not know I cared about until today

The new global binary is not East v West or Communism vs Capitalism or even Global North v Global South - it’s dictatorships vs democracies, because each individual dictator knows his survival depends on the destruction of all democracies

I guess I can announce this now! I'm going to be a Practitioner-in-Residence at the Media Archaeology Lab later this year, working on some SPECULATIVE CHIPTUNE ~-~ music from an alternate world based on forgotten and overlooked technologies!

So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them

Right now, Congress is working on an appropriations bill to fund these guys

Simple thing: the states are subordinate but separate sovereign powers in the US constitutional system. They have robust powers to self-govern and resist criminal and unconstitutional infringement from a corrupt, renegade federal executive. Tell the Feds to bring it.

Lots of potential pullquotes here, but I think this piece works best as a whole - a powerful, infuriating overview to share with out-of-town relatives or friends who are wondering "just how bad it is in Minneapolis."

Trump clearly thinks the Insurrection Act is a sort of Wonder Twins Powers, Activate! Take the form of a military dictator! That's actually very different from what the act says.

ICE/CBP is following school busses now. My husband (a school bus driver) was just in an urgent all-hands meeting about it this afternoon.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Minnesota Star Tribune Editorial Board: Minnesota is under siege. This cannot stand. "ICE presence has disrupted all aspects of life in Minnesota, and led tragically to the death of Renee Good. It’s the outcome of government overreach that favors force over legitimacy."

🚨 No accident they just announced a DOJ probe into Walz and Frey—potential pretext for Insurrection Act. Trump literally said this, as I detailed in my story “We have an Insurrection Act for a reason...if governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I’d do that” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

DOJ is out of control. The crime of impeding federal agents requires physical force. Speaking out against the way ICE is being deployed is not a crime. www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

American Indian Movement (AIM) patrol trucks have been spotted around NE and folks are flagging them as suspicious and giving them unwelcoming glances because they don’t know who they are. This is the AIM logo and flag, which you might see on their trucks. They are friends!

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"Fierce opposition to ICE and the Border Patrol has sprung up through block clubs, neighborhood group chats, school Facebook groups and Catholic parishes, stretching beyond the typical Democratic voter base..." Yup. Exactly. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

Former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani says Iranian asylum seekers are "suffering" in Aust after a UN committee this week found Aust breached its int legal obligations by allegedly exposing an asylum seeker from Iran to torture in immigration detention #auspol > www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Trump threatened to send the military to Minnesota to stop protests against ICE’s killing of a Minneapolis woman. Prior to the threat, the DOJ called the protests an “insurrection” and accused state and local officials of committing “terrorism.”

A federal judge just rejected the Justice Department's attempt to obtain California's voter rolls — delivering a setback to the Trump admin as it seeks to gather private information on millions of voters.

A video in Minneapolis appears to show a federal agent kneeing a man in the face while he is being arrested.

Bad day for good journalism. These journalists did excellent work for Inverse and The Verge - we need their voices more than ever.

For those who remember, the '90s UK print ads for Action Replay cheat devices (this one for the Mega Drive/Genesis) always had fully chaotic art direction. [Ad scan via the VGHF Library.]

Look at this absolute queen

A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:

slate.com/news-and-pol... @juliestonepeters.bsky.social @slate

Hundreds of high schoolers in Northfield walked out of school and to our town square in support of our immigrant neighbors and against the ICE occupation of our state. I’m so unspeakably proud of them (especially of the head organizer who is one of the teens from my parish.) 🕯️