US troops arriving in Greenland for a "long-planned exercise" says #r4today. I think it's worth telling us whether "long-planned" means before or after last year's inauguration; meaningless otherwise.

I don't know how many go to the Hague before this man goes to the Hague, but I want as many as it takes to get this man to the Hague too. #Newsnight

Here's some history, and a well-written speech too

A batshit post from Trump about Diego Garcia contradicting his own admin's policy? We *could* talk about it all day. Or we could ignore it #r4tofay

Don't make me do my Duplomacy joke.

Angie Wong "he's not an imperialist... ...his administration is all over Venezuela... ...if we control the "Polar Silk Road" and the Panama Canal we own the Western Hemisphere" (The British Empire made deals too) #Newsnight

There's absolutely no way btw they're making Greenland a state if they acquire. 51st State is nonsense. #Newsnight

This is wild. Given the US is sure the police turn up at a British door whenever we text that the reason dogs follow the king around is his sausagey fingers, worth emphasising that there's NO WAY this text would have caused a police visit here. The "incitement" claim such nonsense.

Whoever forms the committee, does Trump think Alfred Nobel invented the concept of peace itself? #wato #bbcwato

To do this Warsaw Pact shit properly he should be pushing Canadian and Swedish tanks over the borders

Still no-one's told Trump Greenland's got a Nuuk, I see.

GOP politicians really should take notice of their party's name and worry rather more about the survival of the republic itself, rather than their midterm chances or the future of that party #bbcwato #wato

Those spear-Danes in days gone by had courage and greatness... ... so his mind turned to hall-building. He handed down orders For men to work on a great ballroom It would be his throne-room and there he would dispense His god-given goods to young and old But not the common people.

Slightly startled that I read this and remembered who'd won.

Ken does disappoint so often. You'd really think he could look at an immigration graph. #r4bh

You see things like this and know that it's now "so what?" To think how much time we've expended worrying about our constitution of convention and precedent, and our dependence on "good chaps". Good chaps and chapesses really are what matter most, and you don't keep them or lose them by accident.

Just heard the Deputy Attorney General of the US say that advising people to call 911 when they see ICE breaking the law is "very close to a federal offence"

Classy new lettering for Number 10.

Remarkable the number of responses from Minnesotans saying not to come. It looks like they think that all a journalist could want is disaster porn. The state of the US media is pretty bad, maybe that's why. But I also think most in the US still underestimate that *we too* are justifiably afraid.

Russia has warned its citizens against visiting Poland due to "a rise in Russophobic sentiments and cases of persecution of Russian citizens".

Surely after that press conference, nobody else puts themselves through it?!

Farage sounds very angry - perhaps because Jenrick's a leadership threat? Why else? #wato #bbcwato

If Europe let Trump take Greenland, what's to stop him taking Iceland? The Faroes? Rockall?

Amazing to think that maybe a million times more people will have heard of Hans Island this time next year than have now.

I always like to have a go at the local language. Tried saying beers in Berlin, and was pretty pissed.

In Idiocracy, the president is a fool, but also marginally less idiotic than everyone else; and he is well-intentioned, which means he is ultimately prepared to listen to counsel. Our timeline is less good than Idiocracy's.

Why does the US want Greenland? It's already got so many iceberks.

Does anyone on this platform know why doesn't every home in the UK today have brand new solar panels? 🤔

Old men who think they kill for God. But the Old Testament and the Koran would both be a lot shorter if Abraham had put the knife through his son.

We may be in the last few decades of being able to know for sure anything that's happening much further than the reach of our eyes and our hands, or the scope of our memories. Given that, isn't it amazing how many have already chosen to consume misinformation and embraced intellectual oblivion?

Thought I was going to get a ticket for the metro but looks like RATP wants to teleport me.

Are you anywhere on the origin of "one of ours, all of yours" @ottoenglish.bsky.social? Attribution to the Nazis after Lidice and the Falangists both seem invented.

It would be very understandable if a lot of Americans haven't looked away from what their regime is doing domestically, and when they do they'll see European countries beginning to seriously discuss aligning against them...

A good reason not to believe in any given conspiracy theory is that conspiracies cannot be kept secret when they require even a few actors. The conspiracy to end democracy in the US has been planned and developed in plain sight. Opponents who see incompetence or political capital both miss the point

What this policeman means is "I am the law". The US is now definitively a police state. Farewell, nation of liberties. You blew it, and just short of the big two-five-oh, as well.

It does make a nice change when leaked whatsapp group messages show government MPs being privately better than they are in public; used to be very much the opposite.

Poor Wossy, not even the most famous Jonathan Ross anymore.

So far the BBC’s coverage of the Minnesota killing seems really, really off Get Verify to verify what happened - NYT, Bellingcat etc already have - and report that

The US administration is deliberately instrumentalising something and that's what the media elsewhere in the world needs to report on and analyse; not adjudicating the facts which are entirely clear whatever noise they and their outriders are generating. This is really important. 1/2

Lad should have been on leave then.

Streets around the world should be named after Renee Nicole Good. Not because of what she did or even how she died, but because her government is trying to destroy her reputation instead of giving her justice.

When O'Brien required Winston Smith tell him that two plus two equals five, that was not a Rorschach Test: and nor is this. Media complying with this is unreal, and includes the #BBC.

The idea the video is ambiguous is just ridiculous. Those of your listeners who haven't seen the video are being very ill-served by this"balanced" reporting #r4today.

What priorities should we set for reconstructing the United States once there's regime change?

Wait, is Leavitt wearing this colour *on purpose*?

Everyone here is obviously taking deep fake porn on X seriously, but I'm still surprised by how many seem to miss the point- those making the requests are often directly targeting another poster on the site, making her (mostly) know and see what they've done. That is serious, directed harassment.

We don't really need two types of parsley

Are WE in the Western Hemisphere (as these twats see it - not wondering whether East Anglia specifically is safe)

"America seems nervous" Yeah right. Realistic politics is important, but the time for journalists to grant this administration any presumption of good faith is gone. #wato #bbcwato

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