Lots of stories about Trump saying he won't use force to take Greenland. He said that, but also that the US "probably won't get anything, unless I decide to use excessive strength and force", so I wouldn't take this at face value. Here's the whole, mad section of the speech:

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The party line has gone from "women have to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or genAI will be left behind."

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

NEW: Glasgow City Council has just approved a massive AI-generated mural to be painted in the city centre. The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle. The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"

In advance of meeting with European leaders at Davos, Trump posted an image on Truth Social of him meeting with them with a map in the background depicting Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela as parts of the US. The image is an altered version of a photograph of a meeting at the White House in August.

This is a change in generational demographics -- lotta people died over 10 years and a lotta people came of age-- and the more extremist fundamentalism becomes a chokehold and takes over the conversation, the more regular folks of values & conscience assume there's nothing in there for them. Duh?

taking trump seriously rn would be too damaging to a US in decline so the whole system is squirming to not look at him directly. press translating what he says to sound more sane, democrats just talking about eggs. he's too big to fail

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time "All 98 editorials opposing climate action were in right-leaning titles, incl the Sun, Mail, Telegraph, Times & Express" By Josh Gabbatiss & Sylvia Hayes www.carbonbrief.org/...

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This is a very good point. The November 2025 US National Security Strategy never mentions the Arctic at all. The idea that it's a genuine security priority for the Trump administration is not credible.

Reform UK now counts as many Tory defectors in its Parliamentary Party as it does original 2024-elected MPs.

A bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators led by Chris Coons and Lisa Murkowski held a press conference in Copenhagen, reaffirming support for Denmark, NATO, and Greenland’s right to self-determination amid President Donald Trump’s renewed takeover threats. youtu.be/wa0zx4T1CmA?...

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Worth remembering: The world has been spending more on solar than oil for the last two years.

These people joining Reform tend to have particular difficulties with change, and want to make the world fit the picture in their head. But they all have different pictures. So it's likely that they can't work together long-term. We'll prob see that play out before the election.

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement was racing to add 10,000 new officers to its force, an artificial intelligence error in how their applications were processed sent many new recruits into field offices without proper training. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Do not be surprised if in the first days of an incoming populist radical government there is an entire raft of statutory instruments and other measures prepared and ready to go, exploiting every gap in our constitutional arrangements.

Fun East Midlands fact: With Robert Jenrick's defection, there is now not a single Conservative MP in the whole of Nottinghamshire After the 2019 general election, 8 out of 11 Notts constituencies were held by Tories

This is not going to work. Jenrick and Farage are going to kill each other. It's going to be very funny.

Farage spends ages insisting Jenrick was not about to defect. Only for him to announce that Jenrick has defected. And then for Jenrick not to appear.

Machado confirms that she gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize ..despite the fact that the Nobel commission has issued a statement that this kind f gesture is prohibited.

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans defeat Venezuela war powers resolution, bowing to Trump’s pressure as Vance casts tie-breaking vote.

➡️ Lowest Reform % in Any Poll since April 2025.

Not sure about 'this century', but linked article looks like a good view of how the US has screwed its icebreaker capacity.

All these Reform defections are short term gains which undermine their core selling point - which is change. Why would the country elect a party full of all the same washed-up, scandal-hit former Tory ministers they just kicked out of office? Opens the space for both a Labour and Tory recovery

Not sure Badenoch understands the Conservative Party. Secret Plotting is a merit badge.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

The idea that Russia - a state that has spent almost four years throwing everything it has at conquering its neighbour, and failing - is remotely capable of invading Greenland, or is going to be in the foreseeable future, is ludicrous.

Danish Foreign Minster Lars Løkke Rasmussen speaks after WH meeting: "For us, ideas that would not respect the territorial of the Kingdom of Denmark and the right of self-determination of the Greenlandic people are of course totally unacceptable. We therefore still have a fundamental disagreement."

In 1935, a publisher named Allen Lane walked into a train station and asked a radical question: “Why shouldn’t a great book cost as little as a pack of cigarettes?” That question led to the paperback revolution. Books in kiosks, corner shops, train stations. Books not for elites, but for everyone.

BREAKING: Denmark has deployed an advance force and military equipment to Greenland, tasked with preparing to receive reinforcements from the rest of the Danish Armed Forces and allied nations. Follow the story on DR, Denmark’s public-service news outlet. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

The Trump era in a nutshell: Ordinary citizens are holding ICE accountable, while large law firms are doing nothing. Small businesses are speaking out, while large corporations remain silent. Independent media show moral urgency, while legacy media reports "both sides."

Greenland says it cannot accept US takeover ‘under any circumstances’. Trump must be resisted at the outset, it it is as as slippery as slope for everyone. Trump wants mineral wealth to boost profits of US corporations who fund the political system.

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This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

Some Tories, after 14 years in power… …are saying nothing now works in the UK. So they’re joining Reform, so they can complain about the Tory record - and you can vote them right back in, in a few years’ time, under new anti-Tory branding. 🤷🏻‍♂️

the thing about “ICE needs training” is that Jonathan Ross was a ten year DHS vet and a firearms instructor he’s the kind of guy they get training from the whole institution is rotten, throw it out

It's remarkable how frustrated -- like toddler-level frustrated -- these guys are that people aren't just terrified of them. THEY live in a world where bullying and force reigns supreme, and others not just folding genuinely confuses them.

When I was growing up there was an active IRA bombing campaign, London's crime and homelessness were exploding out of control, the schools were struggling to stay afloat and people were fleeing the capital as fast as poss. The portrait of London we see now is the product of deep historical amnesia.

Just compare and contrast...