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BREAKING: Germany now on board with readying the anti-coercion instrument against 🇺🇸 “There is a legally established European toolbox for responding to economic blackmail...we should now consider using these measures,” 🇩🇪finance minister and vice chancellor Lars Klingbeil just said in Berlin.

Wait what?

I know this kind of language is infuriating. They wouldn't be talking this way if they were winning though. A guy like Ogles - who hates the US, who loathes the constitution - is apoplectic about the resistance the regime has met in Minnesota. This is the talk of a bully who's being defeated.

Going to war because you didn’t get a Nobel peace prize is a solid indicator that you probably shouldn’t have gotten the prize

I distinctly remember, in February 2021, feeling a sense of absolute relief that I was no longer being held one inch in front of a blazing fire of NEWS every fucking day and my god having that American boot on the back on my skull again is making me bitter and fatigued

Tbf I don't actually think there is a way to play this whole Greenland mess because it's just not a thing that was ever a realistic possibility before these past weeks. European leaders have been treating it like sabre rattling because you have to assume your opponent has some kind of coherent plan.

There’s a small counterpoint to the argument that Starmer still has to be nice and diplomatic with Trump even while he’s hitting us with tariffs and threatening a NATO member because he wants to play Napoleon: it isn’t fucking working

The American parties have real, meaningful differences, but there are two subjects on which they are fused in absolute lockstep: the maintenance of the police state at home, and the right to pursue military adventurism abroad.

i disagree. "this is evil and wrong and will destroy our alliances, and if the president tries to do this over the objections of Congress, we will mail him to the hague" is a definite option. Especially if Gallego gets there.

the only thing Democrats should be saying on Greenland is "this is evil and wrong and if we do it we will be punished"

I’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one. It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.

this is beautiful in so so many ways.

Unlike what most polls predicted, Seguro (PS, center left) seems to be the winner. He will go to second round against, most likely, Ventura (CH, far right). Huge loss for Marques Mendes (PSD, center right). bsky.app/profile/elec...

Jens Spahn relativiert mal wieder die rechtsextreme autoritär-expansionistische Politik von Donald Trump und findet unterstützende Worte für ihn. Man muss das ernst nehmen. Wir dürfen nicht so tun, als wäre es nicht klar wo die Reise bei Jens Spahn - Fraktionsvorsitzender der Union - hingeht.

By far not the worst thing happening in the world these days. And yet highlights the levels of impunity.

This is a very good point. The November 2025 US National Security Strategy never mentions the Arctic at all. The idea that it's a genuine security priority for the Trump administration is not credible.

Trump erpresst permanent US-Medien. Und die meisten knicken ein. Shame. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...

ICE actions are not a radical break but an intensification and extension of bipartisan consensus on the need for punitive immigration policy. Since its post-9/11 creation, people have warned that the tools given to ICE would eventually be turned on citizens.

This David French article shows the analytic peril of ignoring the way normal policing and repression work in communities of color. The so-called "dual state" he's highlighting (laws applied unequally, non-compliance met with violence) is *exactly* what Black Lives Matter was protesting.

"Wenn man die Lage Polens auf dem Globus anschaut, sind die vom Deutschen Reich gestellten Fragen übrigens nachvollziehbar." Was für ein wahnsinnig gefährlicher Trottel!

Gutes Statement!

Palantir was a warning sign. Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment. All in the name of "investment." What about national security?

This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵. The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.

I was raised in a Christian cult. Some people never got over the first time they experienced something unfamiliar like hearing two people speaking a non-English language or seeing two people of the same gender kiss. Neo-Christianity is basically that momentary discomfort, as a way of life.

BUT HOW WILL THEY UNDERSTAND OUR LOVE IF WE DON'T EXPLAIN IT FROM THE BEGINNING IN EVERY DETAIL

Andor ist eine Faschismusstudie. Es ist die beste popkulturelle Darstellung von Faschismus seit Cabaret.

Sehe ich richtig, dass Disney Staffel 2 von Andor nicht als physisches Medium herausgebracht hat? Und Staffel 1 ist quasi vergriffen? Und wenn Disney sich entscheidet Andor von Disney+ zu nehmen, dann existiert es quasi nicht mehr?

New favourite example of scalar implicature

Let me introduce you to the account that gives regular updates as to whether Hildegard von Bingen is dead bsky.app/profile/hild...

Nice examples of toddler overgeneralization in English past tense in this banger

Faschismus

British crowd cheer loudly when the US National Anthem is sung at an NBA in London, as he shouts, "Leave Greenland alone"

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

Der Chef der US-Grenzschutzbehörde marschiert, umringt von seinen Schergen, durch Minneapolis und schreit amerikanische Bürger an. 1 Jahr nach Trumps Amtseinführung ist das komplette System gekippt.

Ich mag nicht mehr. Frauen „sichtbar“ machen kann ich mit meiner Forschung, welchen Mehrwert hat denn jetzt hier bitte die KI? Die recycelt doch eh nur. Faschistische Technologie im Einsatz gegen systemische Probleme die durch white supremacy geschaffen wurden. www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/D...

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

I know we've all been having a big laugh about Trump teetering on the edge of an international crisis because of the Mercator projection, but I am actually seeing a lot of people become aware of the inaccuracy of certain maps seemingly for the first time.

Guess you could say the Metaverse Didn’t have legs 😎😎😎

Can't have people sitting around doing nothing, can we? Unless it's in service to a new bit of computational sleight of hand that we've invested way too much money in, when we're only too happy to admit this was all basically for show and a sufficiently large database could do it just as well.

Like, we were all *there* when corporate interests sabotaged pandemic restrictions on the basis that no one was doing any work on their sofas and they needed to be in the office to attend to important e-mail duties.

What I continue to remain shocked by, possibly unduly, is how hard capitalism punished ordinary workers for cutting corners and doing the bare minimum for decades, and now it's totally pivoted to telling us cheating is cool.

It's wild, really, but he does seem to have actually thought Denmark would just sell him Greenland.

Dr. Shure said: “The results of our study were unsurprising. The worst way to engage with ‘smart casual’ is to point out to your hosts that that is not only oxymoronic, but also just plain moronic.

Your favourite posters all live under the same unused and forgotten garden tile btw. If you lift it up you’ll see us all crawling around holding our tiny devices. We send funny poast ideas to each other through our funny little antennae

I feel like the sublime baby-brain of “you took the time to understand this deeply therefore you must be into it” is directly related to the sublime baby-brain of “you depicted this in a piece of fiction without noting THIS IS BAD every five words therefore you must be into it”