Media analysis is all I can rationally offer right now, and I hope that people who often rightly dunk on cable news can give MSNOW their flowers for this extremely impactful, on the ground coverage.

ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

MS NOW has live coverage of the current confrontation between ICE and Minneapolis, just airing the scene without much commentary. Which is actually a really good use of a 24 hour news network vs a talking head.

I don’t know why I’m still on the State of Louisiana text list, but I think if Jeff wants to run Greenland he better get used to the ice.

They, like me, are from southern Louisiana don’t know exactly what an “ice storm” is. But we might be about to find out! Best of luck everyone!

We shall never be warm again.

In the 95 Quebec referendum, the Quebec government tried to get silent conversations with Washington for recognition and trade deals if they won and were frustrated that not only would we not talk to them, we seemed genuinely confused that they would be potentially breaking away from Canada.

The Australian opposition conservative Coalition has split (again!) as the Nationals resign from Sussan Ley’s frontbench after Ley fired three Nationals ministers over opposition to the government’s hate speech laws, which the Coalition had agreed to support.

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

Wait that Trump note was real?!? I thought it was a satire. Genuinely.

“Leave Greenland alone!” Heckler interrupts Star-Spangled Banner at NBA game in London, wins cheers from crowd. (Video via Reddit)

This is for every European Redditor that complains about Americans not being “out in the streets.” Minnesotans have spontaneously built most organized resistance/defense movement since the Civil Rights Era.

FWIW, I don’t think Trump is going to “invade” or occupy Greenland in any meaningful way. Far more likely he tweets at 2 AM that we are annexing it and announces Greenland is American territory, they send two soldiers out to raise a flag for a photo op, and Denmark/EU tries to ignore it until 2029.

Did any Democratic politician go on TV this morning and point out that Russia and China WANT us to take Greenland? To counter the administration’s talking points about Russia and China being the reason we “need” it?

10/10 job to the Danish military PR team for releasing a briefing photo with the most Greenland thing ever - a skinned bear fur on the wall of the briefing room.

No he won’t be. Bacon may support it… I’d wager Bacon would vote to impeach now. But if the GOP isn’t willing to remove him BEFORE he does this, they won’t be after either.

I thought we were worried about Arctic defenses?

I mean this was predicable, no?

That’s why I’ve been a Haas fan for years

Saturday night in Oxford with @kelsapellettiere.com

a few things I want people to get from this: -how tense it is here. I was death-gripping the steering wheel during this, even watching it makes me tense up -how organized the community is. the rapid response networks are ENORMOUS and highly effective -how completely the city is united against ICE

Also airing the output of someone’s Vision Pro is extremely nauseating, not sure if they realized it was going to be like that. Pre-record it!

You know I’ve worn a Vision Pro before (cool product, I like VR, so not hating) but man they are for wearing at home alone. I know they put those stupid fake eyes but you look like an idiot wearing any of those things.

Update: oh god.

Ford CEO: “you never want to let a crisis go to waste… America loves an underdog, right?” Faint praise from the audience. I don’t think that “America rah-rah” stuff works right now.

It’s been like one month since Abu Dhabi and we are already watching team launches.

And the next logical question is what exactly would the point of that be if we’ve already attacked? And let’s be real: if he actually DID seize Greenland, they would still do nothing and say it’s disappointing but it’s the reality now and Europe just needs to deal with it.

France is our first and oldest ally. The fact that they are sending troops to fight against us should actually fill every American with horror and shame.

The line during the primary was “we lose with Cruz, we lose everything with Trump.” It meant the party getting wiped out in 2016, which we were obviously wrong about, but boy did it become true later.

The int'l press, let alone the intelligence and diplomatic communities worldwide, know there are sane anti-invasion actors within the Pentagon. I have to believe, aside from literal territorial defense, Arctic Endurance helps grant those folks more leverage against Trump's imperial delusions.

🚨 51-50, Senate votes to block Venezuela war powers resolution after 2 Republicans succumb to Trump's pressure tactics Josh Hawley & Todd Young flip, vote to sink it. All Dems + Paul, Murkowski & Collins vote to advance. Vance breaks tie, blocking it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Those are the same side. There are no two countries on earth that would be more thrilled to see the US invade Greenland than Russia and China.

So I know there’s no “plan” behind any of this, but I’d love to know how we plan to fight Iran, Venezuela, and the entire rest of NATO. We literally just humiliatingly lost a 20-year-long war against the Taliban a few years ago.

In fact, Trump was like the only person in American public life who *praised* the Chinese government for its Tiananmen crackdown.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

It would be a mistake to see Trumpism as authoritarianism imposed on an unwilling nation, as opposed to authoritarianism implemented in a nation with a plurality that is already made up of authoritarian bootlickers who created the context for Trumpism to thrive.

As W would have called it, a “one fingered victory salute.”

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

She is in the region on her book tour. Which I decided not to go to because it’s $200 for two tickets and I actually do like Harris and as you know one of the greatest curses in American politics is being in the same room as me dooms your presidential bid.

maybe an unpopular position on this website but i think the moderate dem focus on ICE training can be, with political pressure, the pathway to more fundamental reforms. rhetorically it is not too hard to move from “more training” to “turns out they’re untrainable and we have to start all over.”

In my continuing series of “Kamala Harris is going to be the 2028 nominee whether you like it or not” she swore in the new mayor of New Orleans today… which is unusual. www.wwltv.com/video/news/l...

Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.

Trump’s attack on Fed already starting to backfire. Republican Sen. Tillis: “I will oppose the confirmation of any nominee for the Fed—including the upcoming Fed Chair vacancy—until this legal matter is fully resolved.”

Powell is smart here - they knew of the subpoena since Friday, timed his announcement on Sunday nights before overseas markets open and American markets in the morning so it gets maximum attention without the chance for something else to drown it out.

The Minneapolis pastor had observed "ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic" and insisted they take him instead of harassing her. An agent then “came, got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, ‘Are you afraid now?’” trib.al/kv6rA7r

And yet even if this were actually true… no one would believe them. Ever again.

America: not great right now

Lankford knows better than that. He may be trying to keep his head in the sand on this, probably hasn’t watched any videos and just hearing what his side is telling him. But that’s not an excuse especially from him, one of the more “normal” and coherent of the Senate GOP.

Dude was itching for a reaction. Trying to get the activist to give him an excuse.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"