In the President's big speech at Davos, he keeps referring to America's need for Iceland. He came here to ask for Greenland.

The same Europeans complaining about the failure of U.S. institutions to constrain Trump are sitting through his speech while planning to send teams and delegations to the World Cup and Olympics. They are just as unserious, guilty of learned helplessness and captured by capital as the U.S. Congress.

I have covered many Trump rallies, speeches, and pressers over the past decade. This still felt extraordinary and weird. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...

there's a lot of things you can lie about and then tie up anyone who disagrees in endless semantical runarounds, but like... car factories are notoriously perceivable? just a fascinating lie to try to pull off

Trump on NATO: "Until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy." (He means Greenland.)

"Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct," writes Claire Finkelstein.

History will likely teach the US had more to lose by abandoning our European allies than it ever had to gain from Donald Trump

What Carney said about NATO & trade was hugely important, but it’s what he said about truth that’s even more so. His choice of Vaclav Havel was not accidental. His concept of ‘living in truth’ is an essential guide to this moment open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

"The gathering descended into uproar after combative remarks from Lutnick, the people said, with widespread jeering, some guests walking out and appeals for calm from Fink" Literally the only good Davos ever as.ft.com/r/fc8cb382-4...

When U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked how concerned he is about European investors pulling out of treasuries, Bessent said at a press conference at the World Economic Forum: “Denmark’s investment in U.S. Treasury bonds, like Denmark itself, is irrelevant.” cnb.cx/45I3MGb

Nick Fuentes urging Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota: "Bro, do it. Do something. Just stop chickening out. I'm just tired of the idle threats... Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. Please just kill them." www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...

It is tough here right now in Minneapolis but Greg Bovino crying to the paper about how he’s getting his ass handed to him by plant sale moms has been a real pick me up

Jones to Hannity: Shame on you. Your children will be ashamed of where you stand. I’m going to pray for you. Tell Trump to put down the pardon pen and pick up a mirror if he wants to go after criminals.

THE WOMAN WHO WAS DRAGGED OUT OF HER CAR AND ARRESTED BY ICE SPEAKS OUT… We’ve all seen the videos, but it matters to hear Aliya Rahman say it herself. 📌 She says her treatment in custody was dehumanizing, and that officers completely failed to take her disability seriously.

Why would Donald Trump pardon a child molester? Oh, wait! I think I know the answer to that.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Insane — a French judge says Trump’s goons tried to pressure her over Le Pen’s prosecution and she was so “taken aback” she told the French foreign office “There’s a political project behind all this and we must be vigilant”

Bizarre editorial choice by @nytimes.com to portray Trump's threats toward Europe as strong and fearsome rather than as a madman and unhinged tyrant spiraling out of control before our very eyes

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Most people really don't understand what's happening with the EU and how the old post-WWII order has just effectively died. Now that it's gone, they might finally understand what they've lost but it's never coming back. The world will be poorer, more unstable, and more vulnerable to crisis.

The vibe shift in the EU and Canada over the weekend is unlike anything I've ever seen. US hegemony in military and economic alliances is effectively dead. History will look back and wonder how the elites in power not only did nothing to stop it but cheered it on willingly.

An off duty local cop in MN, a woman of color, was stopped by ICE and they demanded to see her papers. When she reached to get her phone to record the interaction, an ICE agent knocked it out of her hand.

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

Go and read WIRED's new China issue on wired.com

Things are going well. (Yes, that’s the US President posting an AI image of himself planting the US flag on Greenland.)

“Neighbors found the 6 year old girl walking down the street alone crying out for her father”

Russia is committing genocide. The evidence is in the thousands of kidnapped children. It is in the forced Russification of occupied cities. It is in the public speeches by officials calling for the elimination of Ukraine. They are trying to delete a country from the map

France said it won’t join Trump’s “Board for Peace,” and so this is what he did in response. We are being ruled by a complete madman. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

If your peace plan includes Vladimir Putin and excludes actual allies, it’s not peace. It’s submission.

Distributing! That means lots. Dad's loyalty puts a drug distributor back on the street! This America is sooooo broken 😒

10/10. No notes.

Women search for their belongings amidst the rubble of demolished houses, during a demolition drive by authorities at a slum near Vatva Lake, Ahmedabad, India, on January 20, 2026. 📸 Amit Dave

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Steven Meiner is the mayor of Miami Beach. He left the Securities and Exchange Commission due to sexual misconduct allegations. The woman who made the comment should sue the city.

Her comment — FREEDOM of SPEECH

Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account. What the fuck are we doing here?

It's cool that these guys just use pepper spray casually now, against people who are wholly within their rights, without a moment's hesitation. Several shots of them using it as they climb into their cars and drive away, not even a pretense of urgency or need. Just a parting "fuck you" to them.

Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

You cannot ask, Why Minnesota? Why Minneapolis? Without thinking about George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020. Trump wanted protestors shot. This is his do-over. Trust me when I say, he wants more people than Renee Good, killed. Happy #MLK Day www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1... y

I wish I was exaggerating but this is literally how the conversation went. I also noted that the only reason Greenland is becoming more strategically relevant is because of global warming. It was like showing Jeffery Wright the schematics for a robot in Westworld.

I went into a MAGA TikTok live (it’s a sickness) to try to understand the arguments for annexing Greenland. They were so incoherent I can’t even summarize them.

"The Gestapo are people, too."

In an interview with @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social, Blas Nuñez-Neto wouldn't tell us his clients, but did say we should remember that ICE agents are people too. (Can't believe this quote below) prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...

The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries. prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...

DHS said in October that "comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences." After I found one of their lawyers for ICE is a racist and a self-described fascist who has praised Hitler, there have been no consequences.

"One day, there will be a historic marker like the one that marks the murder of the civil rights workers in Minneapolis, where Renee Good was gunned down by a fascist killer who shouted, “F*cking bitch!” after taking her life." steveschmidt.substack.com/p/murdered-f...