Russia continues to answer diplomacy with missiles. We are determined to make that choice painfully expensive. Today, we present our 20th sanctions package. Sanctions severely hurt Russia’s economy. And every sanction chips away at its capacity for war. (1/9)

Nær folk lyt lida ufrid, naud og svult, so batar det kje segja ‘deus lo vult’; det batar berre vinna kult i kult og yta, inkje stappa skåpet fullt.

Terrorism. Would get massive news coverage if it happened anywhere else. But Russia is protected by both media and western governments. God forbid they would call Russia out for its crimes.

“Jeffrey Epstein was running 'the world's largest honeytrap operation' on behalf of the KGB when he procured women for his network of associates, intelligence sources believe. The files include 1,056 documents naming Russian President Vladimir Putin and 9,629 referring to Moscow.” - Daily Mail

Med makt og rikdom fylgjer ymis freistn, og mang ein storkar klagar, folk hev neist’n av di han fór i miss og inkje visste, på rett og rangt gjeld ollom same leisten.

It’s very painful to see the mainstreaming of truth-telling as division-stirring. The line of questioning is so horrendous I could hardly bear to finish watching this short clip but I’m glad I did manage to get to Zack’s sharp answer.

“I don’t think that’s a divisive message, I think that’s a human rights message”. @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Moscow's propaganda machine has been hard at work depicting Europe as a "digital gulag," hellbent on suppressing free speech online. "Russian propaganda portrays any effort to combat disinformation as a threat to freedom of speech", says Jakub Kalensky, an expert on disinformation.

Nokon er for rettstryggleik og andre vanlege borgarrettar. Nokon vil rettferdiggjera nedskjoting av folk på gata. Polarisering.

Nær storm og strid fær bera namnet frid, og kvar ein drepar njota loglaust grid, kvat munar då å berre kalla på ei sanning som dei ei vil vera vid?

No søkjer alle einvaldsmenn til flokken hans Trump; det høver honom best — men hokken skal fylkja oss imote deim? Utokken vert større; snart kjem hovudi på blokken.

Island tar inn AMOC-kollaps som nasjonal sikkerhetstrussel www.naturpress.no/2026/01/17/i...

A Danish pension fund is selling all of its $100 million in US treasuries by the end of the month because of what it calls "poor US government finances.” www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/01/...

Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls" www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

If you still need to read something today, read the great speech by 🇨🇦 Prime Minister Mark Carney. “The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, and more just”. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee...

"The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together. That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently." Read the whole speech here. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Marine Le Pen's trial for embezzlement — something they've done to other judges around the world

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

This isn’t parody. It’s a message attributed to the sitting U.S. president arguing the world isn’t safe unless America has “complete and total control” of Greenland—because he didn’t get a Nobel Prize. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

The division has lost over $77 billion since its inception in 2020.

Innsamling av aggregater til Ukraina Direktoratet for samfunnssikkerhet og beredskap (DSB) ber i dag alle norske kommuner, offentlige etater og private bedrifter om å melde inn aggregater som kan doneres til ukrainske myndigheter. 🧵1/4

Dette er, potensielt, den nest beste nettleserutvidelsen i nettleserutvidelsenes historie (etter passordhvelv). Forskere ved Aarhus universitet som har mekka chromewebstore.google.com/detail/conse...

I Sambandsstatom veld no dilikt pakk som lovar gud, men veiter djevlēm takk med lygn og stuld — ja, styringi er skakk, men flokken fær visst driva lika frakk.

På heimsvevgjerd hev Donald atter lagt ei nokre ord som bryt ei gomol pakt, og fær dei standa liv, so — reint ut sagt — bid Sambandsstatarne ei uvinsmakt.

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

Ho flidde galningēm ei diger mynt som fekk han til å tru at han var krynt til fridarfyrste, men det bid snart synt at folket vert ei frelst, nei helder tynt.

You're willing to drag the world into deadly turmoil when your only reason for being in power it to avoid jail.

How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory

Casey Michel, on the oligarchs who want Greenland newrepublic.com/article/2051...

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Scandinavians have been in Greenland for a very long time. This video looks at the surprisingly robust amount of Old Norse texts written in runes that are preserved there, including the world's furthest-north runes. youtu.be/VeSjyN5hi3s?...

Under the guise of an easier workday and increased productivity, Google has been exposing more and more of its users to Gemini. They say data won't be used for training, but Google hasn’t been reliable in the past. So how do we get rid of this unwanted digital twin? ♊️ 1/6

«So hende ikkje meir den vetren.»

Dei stal guds ord og snudde det til hat som gav oss sorg og naud fyr frid og mat, men enden kom, og dei laut varast at å stela manna såli ingen gat.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

There is no legal justification, whatsoever, to use military force against a NATO ally like Greenland. If any military member participates in this without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders.

Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online www.openculture.com/2026/01/dict... #books #literature #language

Eg har ikkje tenkt å ta opp att fascistdebatten. Kanskje vi berre skal kalle washingtonregimet militaristiske og territorialt ekspansive høgreekstreme og valdsforherlegande revolusjonære kvit makt-rasistar med eit usunt oppheng i ein gullalder som aldri har eksistert, og la det bli med det.

If we can capture another country's president, can another country come and capture ours? Asking for a friend.

This is what happens when you recklessly extend BRICS right up to America’s borders and ignore America’s legitimate security concerns.

Hin galne kongen tok å Venezuela av di det totte honom verdt å stela, og fær han ros og inkje ris i husom, lyt mang ein snart med dilik fridom træla.

Robert De Niro sent Ukrainians a holiday greeting — a simple public gesture of solidarity at a time when silence is too common. Symbols don’t stop missiles. But they keep Ukraine visible, remind people what’s at stake, and push back against fatigue and indifference.

Happy New Year 2026! Ukraine will be providing the fireworks in Russia tonight.

Every single time Donald Trump opens his mouth

Did the United States really spend trillions of dollars on winning the Cold War, only for its president in 2025 take orders from a Russian dictator? This is an earth-shattering humiliation for America of which its reputation may never recover.

1.) The "attack on Putin's residence" is most likely a Russian propaganda lie. 2.) As the commander of Russia's war of aggression, Putin would be a legitimate target under international law.

Trump is always grateful for a new reason to "be angry" at Ukraine. He gladly repeats Putin's lies. One can easily imagine how things would go if Putin attacked a NATO member. The post-truth US is not a reliable partner. US security guarantees are not worth much.

Ukraine is expected to surrender its most fortified region in exchange for a promise of security from a man who believes putin’s residence was attacked simply because putin told him so. He accepts any absurd story putin feeds him without even bothering to verify it with his own intelligence.