on the evening of 9/11 i worked in the operations center at the state department helping field incoming calls & cables. ally after ally promised support under the north atlantic charter. trump is shredding the bonds that make that kind of support natural.

This is real "every accusation is a confession" territory

For the second night in a row, the skies over Ukraine are magnificent.❤️💚

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.

Thousands rally in Greenland’s capital, chanting “Greenland is not for sale,” after Trump doubled down on the US initiative to takeover the country. The protests are the largest in the nation’s history.

The report demands humans urgently end water overuse and pollution because no one knows when the system could collapse.

We are all going to die of natural causes before Trump stops ranting today. This is incredible.

Chinese commentators having a lot to be thankful for these days

The US is literally the only NATO country that's ever used Article 5. Everyone else showed up. Like... what are you even taking about???

He’s out of his fucking mind #25thAmendmentNow

Trump rambling for an hour is not proof of his stamina or some sort of knock on Joe Biden. It's a demonstration of how the press and the GOP have let him do this for a decade and now nobody can stop him. Also, he likes to just talk! This is his happy place. He'd go for 10 hours if he could.

Good morning on Day 1427 of the war in Europe. It was another difficult night for Ukrainians as Russia continued its genocidal policy by continuing to hit heating and power targets. The is THE daily thread - just one guy still going strong every single day!

1/3 Russia’s economy is collapsing after 25 years of elite looting. Unable to fix its own rot, the Kremlin exports violence. Last night’s missile & drone attack on Ukraine followed the same terror-by-volume playbook. Reuters: www.reuters.com

🇺🇦 Zelensky: In Kyiv alone, as of this evening, more than a million consumers are without electricity. A significant number of houses are without heat – more than 4 thousand apartment buildings. Government officials must give non-linear proposals that will protect life and how to restructure work.

❗️"We are on the path to a cardinal resolution of our war," – Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Budanov at the economic forum in Davos. "I cannot say that peace will come tomorrow. If someone says that – it's definitely not true.

California Governor #GavinNewsom urged Europeans on Tuesday to stop playing nice with US President Donald Trump over Greenland, "develop a backbone" and "punch him in the face". www.france24.com/en/europe/20... Live @france24.com

Zelensky said all officials and energy leaders must remain in Ukraine to restore and protect vital services. Over one million in Kyiv are without power and 4,000 buildings have no heat. He demanded concrete steps from the government by tomorrow. #Ukraine

Gavin Newsom, Governor of California at Davos, does not hold back in criticising Keir Starmer and the European Union for capitulating to Trump, "I can't take this complicity, people rolling over, I should have brought a bunch of kneepads for all the world leaders" "Trump has a police state"

You can either deny reality or fix it, Trump is a reflection of your country as it has always been. It's not enough to reject or oust his regime, but also, have a serious reflection as a nation of how you actually got here, allowed corruption & impunity to exist openly for so long, and change it.

Iconic Davos look.

Utterly extraordinary. Trump is clearly very serious about using every tool at his disposal to help his far-right allies abroad. This would ordinarily surely be grounds for revoking the culprits' diplomatic credentials.

This is nearly as bad as when Obama wore a tan suit.

Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, is sending a message to both, West and East, to what appeasement can lead. It appears that more and more European leaders are showing their anger, though still in diplomatic clothes. But there is no denying that Europe is extremely agitated.

January 20 is the Day of Remembrance for the Defenders of Donetsk Airport. The battle for it lasted eight months, from May 26, 2014, to January 23. The Donetsk airport was protected by Ukrainian heroes who became known as “Cyborgs.” 📹🖊️MFA of Ukraine

Mamdani: I am in support of abolishing ICE… I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life.

Fedorov-effect? Ukraine is developing AI-driven air-defense interceptors with Palantir to counter Russian attacks, The Washington Post reports. The system will use AI to predict strikes and guide autonomous missiles, expected to be operational in six months. #Ukraine

🥶 Nearly 4,000 residential buildings across the city are left without heating after Russian Jan. 20 attack, with temp. outside -10 °C (14 °F), Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: "Trump said that Greenland is important for the security of the U.S. Crimea is equally important for the security of Russia." 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

And Trump spent a few hours this morning humiliating European leaders more--even releasing their private messages. If they now revert to their habit of praising him, he will despise them even more.

Finnish President Stubb: I have met Putin a few times. I think the DNA of Russia is still expansion and imperialism, and I think the driver of Putin is Russkiy Mir – Great Russia – which basically means one Russia, one language, one religion and one leader.

"The world has changed, but the blinkered and complacent elites haven’t. Their failure to come to grips with the new world disorder is no longer relatively harmless...Trump will be greeted with flattery and obsequiousness at worst, evasion and indirection at best." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

In the summer of 2024, Charles Zimmerman set off on his own yacht from North Carolina to Russia to meet a woman from Kazan whom he had met online. During a customs inspection in Sochi, a rifle was found in his possession, after which he was detained.

As these shifts in European opinion build up in the next few months, the people demanding that the Europeans do not escalate against the Trump administration will find it increasingly difficult to keep up with the pace of events

Arctic security can only be achieved together. This is why the proposed additional tariffs are a mistake, especially between long-standing allies. The EU and US have agreed to a trade deal last July. A deal is a deal. And when friends shake hands, it must mean something.

Zelenskyy’s speech in Davos today has now been canceled. Official reason: he stayed behind in Kyiv due to overnight shelling.

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

At this point I’ve not had electricity for a full day, but now I also don’t have heating and running water. The attack is ongoing.

Ukraine is winning now Zelensky Claims Ukraine’s Army Has Mostly Shut Down Russian Attacks www.kyivpost.com/post/68356

Starmer: Trump's posting about the UK on Truth Social. Starmer, 30s later: Gah!!! Trump's posting about the UK on Truth Social?!?

How on earth do they expect to succeed with that? They can't even cross rivers in Ukraine. Now they think they can do amphibious landing operations? And on Spitzbergen they will basically be served up to bombing runs by the Norwegian Air force on silver platter.

Does anyone remember the classic "ICE vs The Viking in a Bathtub" sketch on Monty Python? Good times!

🔥➕1⃣1⃣3⃣0️⃣ ⚰️ ➡️🚉➡️🇷🇺 1130 wounded/killed ruzzian occupiers during one day, high figures - Drunk, disabled, elder, soldiers with broken limbs forced to fight for genocide ruzzia #ForFreedom | Подписаться✌️

“We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal"…It was "illegal" to aid & comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.” 🎯MLKJr. He could have as easily been speaking of the USA under this regime.

Satire is dead.

"In the immediate aftermath of the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis... an FBI agent in Minnesota conducted an initial review of the shooting and determined that sufficient grounds existed to open a probe into the actions of the officer who shot Good..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Donald Trump shares another text message on Truth Social, this time from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte:

@chuckpfarrer POKROVSK: The sector remains in a grinding stasis with UKR maximizing the advantage of defensive operations in an urban battle space. Continued Russian assaults have turned Pokrovsk an attritional fight, with Ukraine .... 1:25 engagement statistics in favor of UKR defenders.

This

1/ The enemy attacked approximately 14 energy facilities - transformer substations, thermal power plants, heat and power stations, - monitoring communities t.me/mon1tor_ua/6... The main direction of the attack is Kyiv, Dnipro, Chornomorsk, Kyiv, Chernihiv, -

Beim 2. AI-Slop „präsentiert“ Trump Grönland mit US-Flagge der europäischen Führung. Vielleicht ist Merz‘ Haupthaar im Bild. So unwichtig ist der selbsterklärte Trump-Flüsterer Merz. So unwichtig, dass Trump Merz nicht promptet. So unwichtig, dass ihn die KI nicht ins Bild nimmt.