I found out today that one of the forces pushing Trump the hardest for this Greenland shit is… the owner of Estée Lauder. Sharing this here because they own SO MANY makeup brands and I bet a lot of you might like to join me in not repurchasing anything from this makeup brand family!

Tonight's reminder that fewer than 10 people can end the worst of all of this immediately, simply by caucusing with Democrats & giving them control of both chambers of Congress. Absolute Profiles in Cowardice. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

These people are just begging for the gods to punish them for violating xenia. One of the oldest, most fundamental human ethical practices. It's in all the stories.

the famous quote is from the end of his reply to Young. from the middle: "...we live in a failed system. Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level."

I'd like to revisit this

And to top it off — as many have pointed out — a defence treaty with Denmark has given the USA virtually unfettered military access to Greenland since 1951. At its height, there were 17 US military bases on Greenland; today, there is one. That is a policy choice the US could change if it wished.

Likewise, Arctic resources are abundant but the cost of extracting and transporting them is high. The Arctic’s defining qualities remain sparse populations, vast distances, limited infrastructure, extreme winters, and huge seasonal variation. This environment makes attracting investment difficult.

In the 15 years+ since, what happened instead was continued regional governance and multilateral cooperation between all 8 Arctic states until the Western Arctic countries finally imposed serious diplomatic consequences on Russia after its expanded invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

this is pretty much the only 1950s aesthetic i’d like to bring back

Troops could be landing in Greenland and Chuck Schumer would be saying “The price of greens in our land has gone up five percent. Let’s talk about the affordability crisis.”

This is a WILD thread—that is still ongoing bsky.app/profile/musi...

From the series "It's not me, it's you": "FUUUCK!", oil on canvas, 12x12", 2024- (private collection) #art

A Skardsgården

cool name why’s it called that

ICE agents pose as utility workers to get inside immigrants’ homes to detain them. The utility company has posted guidelines on how to recognize real utility employees. I have no words!

#writinglife #amquerying #writesky #amediting #writingcommunity

The point was to address the gap between the idea that “going viral” is a thing you can do at will/for free to get your message out, and the fact that “going viral” more often happens by accident and/or for all the wrong reasons. “What you probably want me to do is buy some ads,” I’d end up saying.

I used to work in social media for a range of charities and nonprofits, so I used to sit in a lot of meetings with VPs and board members who would say they wanted us to “go viral,” and now and then, I’d explain that the best way for us to “go viral” would be if I posted a string of curse words.

i am a middle aged white mom with a minivan. i live in a brick ranch and vote democrat in every election. i am the electoral equivalent of a free space in bingo. I PROMISE THIS IS NOT WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AT MY KITCHEN TABLE

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Incredible. The Border Patrol recruiter literally filled in every part of the resume for her, including having AI write the resume.

Every time Trump breaks the clear letter of the law, the NYT and WaPo write a story about how he’s “pushing boundaries” or “testing the limits of his authority” He's not Chuck Yeager, guys. He's a crook.

Days since a downtown Toronto driver has cut me off by inches rather than waiting two extra seconds while I was crossing with the right of way at an intersection: 0. It had been close to 60 before a few minutes ago, which is still not nearly enough.

A key passage especially relevant today:

@british_editorial the boys will be home by christmas. @reply_guy which christmas

@random_citizen_1914 anyone remember what peace felt like @reply_guy it’s like sleep but for countries

@franzf_royal parades before noon. meetings all afternoon. love my life.

They've changed their faces to please the patriarchy. It's not about what types of women those patriarchal men personally prefer; it's about showing those men that they are willing to submit. And it's a specific kind of look. It shows their willingness to be controlled.

This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model. ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.

inconvenience is our achilles heel. it’s the vent shaft to the reactor core of the death star. this is a country full of baby-brained main characters who will absolutely lose their shit if they have to stand in line for an extra minute at a grocery store

The White House has confronted questions for months about whether presidential pardons are effectively for sale. Those questions are quite a bit louder now.

The modern office

Assuming they're going to Minnesota and not Greenland. This is the 11th Airborne, the unit Malcolm Nance flagged months ago as the one that Trump would use if he wanted to do a flash invasion of Greenland.

this is the most ridiculous thing we could make life enormously less stressful and awful by simply Not Doing Any Of This call off the ICE goons, rescind the tariffs, stop threatening Greenland just stop it! problem(s) solved!

Just leaving this definition here for any & every politician with a backbone.

Learning how to pay attention to small details, how to deliberately strain yourself to notice tiny details that are off, is a skill programmers learn the painful way. And, using a chatbot deskills you in this very extremely important skill of being able to pay attention to small details.

A lot of Dems fall into this trap: "we shouldn't fight this fight because we can't win it NOW." Wins take time and sustained effort. Will this Congress remove Trump? Of course not! But down the line? Still probably not! But laying the groundwork now matters. Lead now to set the terms of debate.

This is where I struggle with the idea that he/the base have only recently lost their minds. Yes he has gotten older and more demented, but he was already deep into the racial conspiracy mines 15 years ago, and the hogs were oinking for it.

fwiw i think his obsession with the nobel prize is entirely about obama getting it (setting aside whether or not obama ought to have received it)

To recap: the two major parties refuse to rein in the reign of a demented sociopathic king who daily is marching us into both World War III and the next Civil War simultaneously because a Black president once made fun of him and also the Special Boy wasn't given the Shiny Golden Medal he covets

I’m the one in the brown hat. What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs. Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car. #AbolishICE

It's not that Donald Trump is the one person in the world who least deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. Not at all. He's in third place, after Putin and Netanyahu.

Was Weiss rapping this? "You got an issue with me? Take your shot You never seen my likes, so unpredictable, so heterodox"

Infuriating that “cancel student loans” is a nonstarter but “dismantle entire post-war coalition” and “unaccountable masked federal agents killing people with impunity” are viewed as legitimate policies.

Dear Democrats, TALK ABOUT TRUMP'S ABUSE OF POWER AND GOP CONGRESS' UNWILLINGNESS TO REIGN HIM IN.

Something deeply ironic about the end of the Atlantic alliance happening in a dispute over Greenland, given that it was the first part of the Western Hemisphere where white people showed up and stuck around, way back in the late 900s AD

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

I really just want to hear the news come on and hear nothing other than a boring litany of minor mishaps and political peccadillos. I just want not to be subjected to installment number five thousand and seventeen of the misadventures of the orange chaos goblin and his pack of farting trolls.