Is our air and water cleaner? No. Are our bills and expenses at least going down? Also no. Trump is destroying our planet while making life worse for every American.

"…two primary types of people… perpetrate violence. The first is the small fraction… independently motivated to commit violent acts. The second, and much larger group, are those who commit violence to seek approval and status from others… especially… men who use violence to affirm masculinity.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

This is a very sinister thing to say. An ability to engage in civilised debate is vital in a democracy. By contrast, this statement shows that Zia Yusuf clearly believes that anyone who does not share his world view is a sworn enemy. In other words, he’s a fanatic.

“The unemployment rate for Black women rose significantly from the start of 2025 to December, where it stood at 7.8 percent. That pattern of dramatic job loss was not seen for other groups.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...

Congress could step in any time. Would only take a handful of Rs to come to their senses. But they are pathetic cowards who would rather impoverish our nation than muster the courage to speak up for their constituents.

Having captured the Supreme Court, corrupted the U.S. Congress, and occupied the executive branch from the inside, why would they not expand their corrupt ambitions overseas? www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...

A terrible day. The U.S. government vs. the free world.

I no longer recognize this country.

What Greenland shows is (as @davidallengreen.bsky.social argued last yr) Trump is an extortionist - give him s’thing, & he demands more, w more menaces. You can’t sustain an alliance like that. Question now is whether Europeans, incl UK & Ukraine, can unite to stand up to Trump as well as Putin. 2/2

He's still committing his frauds against reality and getting paid for it. Falling upwards must stop.

Letting this happen to the mother of one of your many, many many children seems like next level misogyny

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

BREAKING: Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom:

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

In sum, Europe has little to lose in hitting back hard. The hope here is Europe hits back hard and prompts Trump to deescalate, just as he has done on China. Thus by escalating Europe is also creating a pathway to deescalate this crisis.

Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/

Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.

It was raining on this protest in Nuuk. Temperatures in Greenland have been absurdly warm recently. THAT is what we should be talking about.

There's a reason Trump put a portrait of President Andrew Jackson, the genocidal sponsor of the Removal Act of 1830, in the Oval Office.

🇪🇸🇺🇦 Spanish PM Sanchez: "A US invasion of Greenland would make Putin the happiest man in the world. Why? Because it would legitimize his invasion of Ukraine. If the US were to use force in Greenland, it would be a fatal blow to NATO. Putin would have double reason to rejoice."

Delighted to see that @joannapocock.bsky.social's GREYHOUND is the book of the week in THE WEEK.

The High Seas Treaty came into force today following ratification by over 60 countries. Multilateralism is not quite dead yet. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524322...

The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.

Why, with the right leadership (currently absent), the Tories can yet be redeemed.

once again this just reads like a horror story

Carole Cadwalladr, "But trying to suck up to Trump.. Totally disastrous deals with Silicon Valley companies in which we're bringing their software into the critical functions of how the UK state operates" "We have put ourselves in a vassal of complete surrender"

He rarely debates. He knows people would mention his actual agenda. This is what it's like when he has to face the truth. youtu.be/yrPUm94iUvE?...

believe it or not the 1980s also had delayed trains, unemployment, industrial strife, turds in rivers, crime, riots, underperforming schools some things have improved and some things have got worse Britain isn’t perfect but I don’t trust the people talking it down for their own populist purposes

It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions. Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.

When will there be accountability for the people who hate Britain.

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

Basically zero ideological difference between the White House and the fascist pseudo-philosopher of the Kremlin.

David Cochrane said last night: "America isn't the way it is because he's president. He's president because America is the way it is."

Further datapoints for how Europeans can no longer trust American elites whether or not Trump is in power

Farage, The Telegraph, The Spectator, GB News: hating liberal democracy so much that they side with its enemies. All of them draped in the flag, all of them patriotraitors.

These so-called "patriotic" 🇬🇧newspapers who brought you Brexit were never really patriotic at all. They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America. They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.

"A Unicef spokesperson, James Elder, said more than 100 children had been killed in the territory since the ceasefire came into force in October." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Donald Trump threatens 10% tariffs on UK and Nigel Farage who has positioned himself as the president's best mate in Britain drops out of a much promoted interview on the BBC. Strange. Almost like the two things are connected.

When are people going to be held accountable for the nonsense slop and puff they emit.

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

There are going to be limits to what you can make other countries do by threatening to tax your own citizen's purchases of their products. I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits. 🤷‍♂️

Trump just placed a tariff on most of the EU of 10% that will increase to 25% in June unless they agree to sell him Greenland. This is mad king shit.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, works save standing up to him.

KKKapitalism.

Would you believe me if I told you a new international law dedicated to environmental protection is coming into force today? And that it covers nearly half the surface of the planet? 🌊

Don't ever tell me "people aren't doing shit." People are doing amazing things every day in incredible acts of resistance, courage and support for one another. Here's nearly 50 staffers of the U.S. Minnesota Attorney's office leaving their jobs in protest of Trump administration actions.

When Democrats folded in the last government shutdown—rescuing the GOP majority from itself and helping them pass a budget, giving validation to the Trump administration’s lawbreaking—the savvy politics knowers explained that folding was clearly worth it because it got the Epstein Files released.

"On company earnings calls, mentions of words like climate and sustainability have plunged by 75 percent over the past year."

Those impacts are directly impacting financial markets. Earlier last year, for example, a global insurance executive warned that capitalism (and civilization itself) would not be able to survive the climate crisis on the current trajectory. 2/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...