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. 🤷‍♂️

Don't want to be a Debbie Downer but....

Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.

...if you fell in love with the format of an un-conference today, but wanted more folk from the third sector, and more conversations of a charitable focus. May I interest you in UKCharityCamp, same city, same deal, but the other end of the year. (It's a Nov. thing.) #ukgc26 www.ukcharitycamp.com

social by 🎵 Jadu, shake pineapple, shake the tree🎵 #ukgc26

at #ukgc26 for first Gov Camp outside London, lovely day for it

😳 Isaiah Taylor of Valar Atomics—which somehow scored a DOE contract to build a nuclear reactor by July 4—claimed that “a person cld hold the spent nuclear fuel from [Valar’s] reactor in their hand & get the same amount of radiation as one would expect from a hospital CT scan.” About that… 1/

See me, gonnae crime in Brazil

Useful idiots learn their usefulness was temporary and conditional.

anybody about tonight for #govcamp looking to meet up somewhere?

At least now if Trump thinks he's won the Nobel Peace Prize because he's got the shiny medal he'll stop going on about it and getting annoyed every year he doesn't get it. Next time he comes to the UK we'll say he can drive the DLR.

Any strategy for dealing with Trump's projection of power outside the US needs to consider how to undermine his power inside the US for two reasons: 1. Trump is primarily focussed on consolidating rule within the US and any threat to that will hit home 2. Our many friends in the US need our help.

this is how ya do it

good read

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the Danes agreed to form a working group to discuss the surrender of Greenland to Trump. "No we didn't" says the Danish foreign minister, indeed "there will be no discussion of turnover." www.berlingske.dk/indland/det-...

Move fast * and break ** things *** * throw flash bombs and tear gas ** car windows *** 6 month old babies Tech is tech, but government is government

Naaaaaaailed it

It’s important that everyone read this, past the header. It’s a fact filled and legally accurate rundown, one that we all must familiarize ourselves with; with no time to wait. Thank you. @joycewhitevance.bsky.social

Got Petula Clark's English language version of 🎵 I Will Follow Him 🎵 and I can see why they use the Italian version 🎵 Chariot 🎵 at the start of Pillion - the lyrics in English would blow the plot lololol

Are we?

Holy hell. The description of death row in apartheid South Africa was one of the most harrowing things I've ever read. Also. This guy wasn't fucking around.

The Trump regime will end when its security services (army, police, assorted paramilitaries) desert to the opposition and not before Votes in November, partial or complete, counted or miscounted may effect that or they may not, but that remains the crucial thing

Not quite because as Anastasio Samoza said "Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count" There might be 150,000 voting places but there are a lot less counting ones - even up to the old outgoing Congress refusing to seat the 'wrong' winners becuz 'voting irregularities'

St Stephens Kirk in golden time

[singin] open.spotify.com/track/4WVUtb...

I think the European military tripwire in Greenland should adopt the motto of the Greenland Lottery as their slogan ❄️ Ya gotta be Inuit to win you it ❄️

Telling you right now that if this happens, it will include a test run of shutting down the internet, via the National Emergencies Act, the Communications Act of 1934, and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

Either Palestine becomes free, or every place gradually becomes Gaza.

One thing this piece gets right: the talent at 18F was unreal. In my 4 years as Head of Design, I can count on one hand the number of times a candidate didn’t accept an offer. We were recruiting from the best places in the country, people wanted to do important work. We also graduated leaders.

Helpful explainer from an ex-Bundeswehr officer

Is that a Tuscan border I see around the drawing room, Tarquin?

One of the often forgotten moments of the Indie Ref was former Labour FM Henry McLeish flsdhing his petticoats about coming out for indie Just as the great day finally approached Blair McDougall of Better Together just tweeted out that McLeish was for indie, the launch, splash, ta-da never happened

Yorkshire folk! The daughter of a friend's friend is making a film about the bands that played at Minsthorpe High School in the late 80s/early 90s – the likes of the Weddoes, Cud, House of Love etc. They're trying to track down the teachers who put the bands on – Mel and Trev. Anyone know them?

The Danish foreign minister, coming out of a meeting with the Americans: "It's clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland." I don't think that people have quite measured the severity of what is happening nor the intensity of the required response.

I think/hope that the point isn't to deter war but to deter the spectacle of a walk in the park - and perhaps remind Americans that there are 50,000 US troops in Europe and no European troops in the US

If there are German troops in Greenland and Trump does decide he wants it, what does that mean for Israel and other players in the Middle East in light of Ramstein?

"... otherwise the person is gone for good, maybe." I think constantly about how many people have disappeared never to be heard from again because they have no family or friends to search for them or their family and friends are too scared to search for them.

happy @tomforth.co.uk all the new railways ;-)

the structure of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 is visible in the code repositories for the Social Security Agency

at my Dad's reading BlueSky, drinking coffee out of a childhood mug and pondering America's place in the world

Something sociologists know (and the general public doesn’t) is that most people don’t actually hold very firm political beliefs. They just follow political directives from people they trust—in large part, to seek social status and acceptance. Stigma is a powerful tool in shaping ideology.

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

Eric Adams new selfie dropped

This is a very important video to watch. Thank you Ashley the Barroness. One comment from IG was America isn’t becoming Germany. America is becoming America. That really hit home for me. Watch this! Be uncomfortable.

Spring seasons starts tonight substack.com/home/post/p-...

so have the Titans Of Wall Street called BS on this Fed project yet? if they stay silent indefinitely they share some of the responsibility when this all goes Pete Tong, imo. yer man Powell could do with some backup here, lads

Well, they did ask...

Lady Jane Gray, the 9 Day Queen of the Treasury