Best thing I’ve read in a while. By @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/content/7804... The pessimist who became a prophet

Trump Links His Push for Greenland to Not Winning Nobel Peace Prize www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

Hyvä kirjoitus. www.hs.fi/kirjeenvaiht...

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.

When the LAPD arrests a dude at a gas station they don’t take over the gas station and use it to gas up all the cop cars tho

“The logic was if foreign firms wished to sell to the mightiest consumer market in the world, they would have to pay a price,” Ms. Gopinath said. “In reality, the price has been borne by U.S. firms, and not by foreign firms.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/b...

It never was about anything else.

A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Zohran Mamdani “is part of a long tradition in New York City that has framed itself as seeking to reclaim the democratic community of the city from wealth, power and greed,” Kim Phillips-Fein writes.

Tämä on mitä parhain analyysi, suosittelen. yle.fi/a/74-2019878...

I joined Monocle’s founder and editorial director Tyler Brûlé on Monocle Radio’s Sunday show to talk about the latest news from the Nordics. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @charleshecker.bsky.social and Carole Walker on the US-Russia "peace plan" for Ukraine, and the day's other stuff, plus @pburtsoff.bsky.social reports from Hanaholmen. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Par for the course

When you politicise science and education, it’s a damn slippery slope. “How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

They changed the link. Now here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

Weaponising the Justice Department for personal vendettas. SAD!

What’s that line about not shooting the messenger? on.ft.com/4odo0PD Donald Trump to fire US labour statistics boss after weak jobs report

”People often become what they scorn. Donald Trump has become the deep state. He is the keeper of the secrets. He is the one stealing away people’s liberties. He is the one weaponizing government and protecting the ruling class.”

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @lynneodonnell.bsky.social and @pburtsoff.bsky.social on Trump's Nobel Peace Prize prospects and other matters, plus Ali Watkins on her new book "The Next One Is For You", about 70s-era IRA gun-runners the Philadelphia Five. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Yes, he is that dumb.

“Without cooperation in this area between European and national authorities, and industry, to define the terms of technological cooperation, location, and value sharing, European defense will be stillborn. This begins with industry, not structures.” @nicolastenzer.bsky.social

A must read.

As of today, Elon Musk is thought to be responsible for the death of 300,000 adults and kids due to the illegal closure of USAID (source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...) That's a 103 deaths per hour, each day. And it will get worse. His legacy is one of death, destruction, and failure.

”Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most primitive, atavistic tendencies.”

”The crucial divide in our politics is not defined by income levels; it’s defined by educational attainment, with more educated people swinging left and the less educated swinging right.”

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I failed to post this last week, but it’s one of the best op-eds you’ll read all year. Two politicians with *wildly* different orientations but a common thread of belief in the nature of citizenship and nationality. (They’re also 100% right obvs.) on.ft.com/3GS1rPl

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The best Pope Francis obituary I’ve read.

I was a Vatican correspondent during the previous sede vacante in 2013. I remember the long nights at St. Peter’s Sq, and the jubilation that followed the white smoke. Pope Francis was and has been immensely popular - now a power struggle is inevitable between the progressives and the conservatives.

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on.ft.com/3RWcglr They sat on that headline for a while

Jos Trump haluaa olla vielä vähän enemmän leninisti, hän erottaa valtaoikeuksistaan välittämättä Jerome Powellin, asettaa uuden lojaalin Fedin johtajan, Fedin itsenäinen rahapolitiikka kyseenalaistuu ja markkinat rommaavat vielä kunnolla lisää.

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Ah. The old “potential terrorist” argument for locking people up in a concentration camp for life. How many pardoned seditionists were “terror watchlist people”?