Hopefully, this will signal to the EU that the time has come to rhreaten the US with massive tariffs vs US digital services companies doing business in the EU if the US tries to annex Greenland. Note: the EU is the US's largest export market for services in general & digital ones in particular

🇨🇳🇺🇸 Is it fair to say that you’re concluding that China is a more predictable and maybe reliable partner to Canada than the US is today? 🇨🇦 Carney: In terms of the way our relationship has progressed in recent months with China, it is more predictable — and you see results coming from that.

Fedorov is the best Ukraine can offer right now. New Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov: The top 50 of 400 drone units deliver 70% of enemy losses. Grow the rest, and results explode. Leadership will be judged by results, not titles. 1/

Her father faced bribery charges. She donated $2.5M to a pro-Trump Super PAC. Trump's Justice Department gave her father a lenient deal, overruling prosecutors. She gave another $1M. Now Trump has pardoned her dad. @kenvogel.bsky.social @susannecraignyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

Big news. Father is practically gone and now the son.

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As of publication, DHS had not responded to Bellingcat’s requests for comment. Read the breakdown of each of the five shots and the incident at the high school here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

Bellingcat and @evidentmedia.org analysed and geolocated the five shots. All five instances appeared to violate CBP use of force policies in at least one way, including aiming at the faces of four different people when he fired at them.

Just hours after Renee Good was shot, one member of Customs and Border Patrol’s elite tactical team on an adjacent street fired a less-lethal weapon five times in less than five minutes, with four shots aimed at the faces of protestors. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

🇺🇸🇻🇪 The first U.S. sale of Venezuelan oil under Trump went to Vitol, whose senior trader John Addison donated about $6m to pro-Trump groups and recently met Trump at the White House, - FT

Expert psychologists and psychiatrists are telling us—in no uncertain terms—that we’re fucked. If only any Republican in DC were listening. Don’t they realize that when American democracy falls to a madman, every single one of us will be in grave danger?

The NY Times concludes that the ICE agent who shot Renee Good was NOT hit by her car “the visual evidence shows no indication that..Jonathan Ross, had been run over..It also establishes-millisecond by millisecond-how Mr. Ross put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place”

It's honestly kind of funny that they're trying to paint Minnesota of all places as a violent crime infested hellhole and the people there as "dangerous radical communists" or whatever when the biggest stereotypes about Minnesotans is how nice they are. Their state slogan is "Minnesota nice" lol.

President Trump: It was my great honor to meet Maria Corina Machado, of Venezuela, today. She is a wonderful woman who has been through so much. Maria presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done. Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you Maria!

President Macron: Whereas Ukraine was overwhelmingly dependent on American intelligence capabilities a year ago, today two-thirds are provided by France. Two-thirds.

This isn’t Minnesota. It’s how they respond to protests in Russia. Look familiar? The flags may be different, but right now it’s the same playbook, for the same reason… silencing dissent.

In a discussion with @aaronparnas.bsky.social, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker likens the first year in Trump's America to the "early days of Nazi Germany." "That is where we are right now."

As ever, read (and follow) Liza:

A very embarrassing day for the world

Good Night World

Lutnick on Taiwan: "They need to keep our president happy. Because our president is the key to protecting their country. So they need to make him happy. So you say, why would they do this? The answer is because Donald Trump is vital to protecting them."

This sounds more like a scheme to abandon Taiwan than to make America great.

Leavitt needs to be grouped with Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Greg Bovino, Homas, Vance, and Trump himself as modern vehicles of the Klan. Listen to this.

Déjà vu, indeed

Observing the situation around Greenland, I have a strong sense of déjà vu - we’ve seen and heard this before. It reminds me of 2014 and Crimea. Let's recall and compare⤵️

NEW @CookPolitical House ratings show Dems as modest favorites for control, as Republicans would need to win two thirds of Toss Ups (67%) to keep the majority. www.cookpolitical.com/r… Lean/Likely/Solid Dem: 211 Lean/Likely/Solid GOP: 206 Toss Up: 18

For better or worse, public law schools have to account for state politics when making decisions about who to hire as their next dean. But hiring someone and *then* rescinding the offer is something else altogether, and ought to be a huge black eye for the University of Arkansas.

Trump to Reuters about the midterm elections: "When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

Trump a imposé des taxes douanières à tous ses alliés, mais pas à Poutine. Trump travaille ardemment au démantèlement de l'Europe, le plus vif désir de Poutine. Trump est en train de faire imploser l'OTAN, pour le plus grand bien de Poutine. Tirez-en la conclusion que vous voulez.

🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦 Trump claims that Ukraine, not Russia, is holding up a potential peace deal. “I think Putin is ready to make a deal. I think Ukraine is less ready to make a deal,” Trump said in an interview with Reuters. When asked why U.S.-led talks have so far failed to end the war, he replied: “Zelensky.”

He really is doing all of it.

This is fucking insane and the kind of thing that could only happen under a corrupt, idiotic tyrant.

Russian propagandist Solovyev: "America's military budget is $1,5 trillion. And for us, it would be very beneficial if it were a war with Europe. And we would be ready to help Trump liberate Greenland from this alien influence. Why not?"

ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.

Trump: "The US needs Greenland for the purpose of National Security. It is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building. NATO should be leading the way for us to get it. IF WE DON’T, RUSSIA OR CHINA WILL, AND THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! ... Anything less than that is unacceptable."

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The majority of the leadership team inside Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney’s Office resigned Tuesday in protest of directives from federal officials in the wake of the killing of Renee Good, according to sources familiar with the decision.

Pour la première fois depuis au moins 2 ans, les gaz à effet de serre des USA ont augmenté en 2025 à cause de la demande d'électricité qui bondi (du fait de l'IA et des data centers). www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/c...

Les deux pétroliers chinois qui faisaient route vers le Venezuela pour charger du pétrole ont finalement fait demi-tour. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

We are up against a murderous fascist regime, an unscrupulous oligarchy, a corrupted DOJ, a cowardly Congress and a supine SCOTUS. We have lost our guard rails, from co-equal branches to the fourth estate. It’s a lot. It’s past time to put all our petty differences aside and band together. …

NEW: Mass resignations at the DoJ Civil Rights Division - including the Chief of the Criminal Section - over the administration’s refusal to investigate the murder of Renee Good. www.cbsnews.com/news/minneap...

4 associations have written to the EP's ENVI committee asking them to vote in favour of the NGT compromise dated 4 December, including 2 definitions (for "tolerance to herbicides" and "production of a known insecticidal substance") and a clause allowing the revision of Annex Ia. lnkd.in/dq8bjdM3

If the Iranian regime has to admit that we have a 4-digit number in deaths, then expect the death toll being far higher, probably over 10,000 as some opposition sources have already mentioned. This is a massacre as many - myself included - have predicted.

From @hcrichardson.bsky.social Thank you Heather !!

Honestly didn't expect this of Tillis. Here's hoping he stands by it.

NATO partners and our enemies are listening.

Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted. One officer who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter got a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast. (Published July 2025)

TWO. Two chances this Supreme Court had to make the right call. One was the simply call January 6 what it was: An insurrection. Even the liberal justices couldn’t do that. The other was to not make sham and politically-motivated investigations an “official act.” And here we fucking are.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis blasts Trump for weaponizing the DOJ against Jerome Powell and the Fed: "It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question."

Trump has just declared himself the "acting president of Venezuela" over on Truth Social in case you're wondering about his mental health.