A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Marine Le Pen's trial for embezzlement — something they've done to other judges around the world

Where are Republican Senators? Where? And why isn't the media and Democrats trying to put them on the spot? It's one thing if you have a mad king; it's another if you have a mad country.

When the U.S. no longer looks like a safe investment, you have no choice but to diversify, even if with thugs. And to be clear here, the U.S. is clearly also a thug now.

Not if the U.S. doesn't look like a safe bet, guess the fuck what?

"Less well known is his (Thomas Hobbes) belief that for a commonwealth to survive in such a brutal world, a sovereign has to be able to exercise nearly unconstrained power at home."

Plans to sign proposed Ukraine “prosperity plan” worth $800B at Davos were scrapped. Greenland dispute derailed efforts to use the week to finalize security guarantees and reconstruction talks between US, Ukraine & Europe. US officials say no signing date was set and document still needs revision.

One major downside to 2025 is that we didn’t have a recession (just barely).

modern american politics consists of experts patiently explaining why something insane that people are talking about could never happen, followed by that exact thing happening

Dems should be saying this out loud.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.

Why the fuck aren’t Senate Republicans being absolutely hounded by the press right now, especially Thune?

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

Some real Fallout vibes

Because he’s a fucking racist.

Exactly this. In fact, with the argument that Denmark is too small to protect Greenland against China or Russia and that is why the U.S. needs to annex the Island, Trump just told everyone openly that he would not defend Denmark (and other NATO partners) unless the relevant country is U.S. property.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

What’s the better course for the EU here: 1. Blanket visa restrictions for all U.S. citizens Or 2. Selective restrictions for certain individuals

To those who are claiming that it'd be too cruel and extreme for the EU to cut off American tourist visas now (or to otherwise sanction or inconvenience us Americans in any way).... You're REALLY not gonna like what happens if the madman Trump is permitted to set off a hot war with Europe.

It’s weird to me that not one state governor has outwardly spoken about leaving the U.S.. Even if it’s just rhetoric. Concern over retaliation, sure. But let’s not pretend like we can continue like this.

Gosh, if only there were a constitutional mechanism for removing a president who is mentally ill and unfit to hold office.

We will have to watch German movies and listen to German pop music. 😫

Trump tells Norwegian PM Støre that he is insulted at not receiving the Nobel Prize and must have Greenland by way of compensation. Grandpa has gone completely batty. And US papers are afraid even to report about it. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

This drives me crazy. Instead of Dem leadership calling it an illegal and insane thing to do, they are more focused on explaining why it’s not in the U.S.’s interest to take Greenland. That leaves the question, so if it was in the U.S.’s interest to take Greenland it would be fine?

The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally. Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.

Yup.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Losing my mind at the Dems with their billionaire backers and powerful friends who have come up with the brilliant strategy that the party should adopt the policy positions of the avg MAGA voter — apparently ignoring that independents and swing voters even exist. Is this what $40 million gets you??

Springsteen dedicated “The Promised Land” to the “memory of slain Minneapolis woman Renee Good, decrying the ‘Gestapo tactics’ that he said have resulted in a climate where citizens can be ‘murdered for exercising your American right to protest.’” variety.com/2026/music/n...

The retaliation measures are being drawn up to give European leaders leverage in pivotal meetings with the US president at the World Economic Forum in Davos. ft.trib.al/aKexyt2

As a Christian, I don't support Vikings pillaging monasteries, but the Nordics should get to sack one of those abandoned Wal-Mart turned scam mega churches after all this is done as a treat.

How it started/how it's going

I heard that when Machado gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize, to reciprocate, he offered her his FIFA Peace Prize, but she turned it down. Machado said that she didn't earn it.

Peter Thiel wants Greenland

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

This is remarkable (not the hi-vis so much as the post). One of the reasons military uniforms are distinctive is to distinguish them from the civilian population. No matter what the right wants to insist, CPB and ICE are law enforcement and thus, legally, civilians.

New Jersey is up for sale too…let’s not forget, we’ve got a lot to offer and we’re closer to Europe.

for context here, you also have to remember that Canadian-Chinese relations *cratered* in the last few years as a result of Beijing's hostage diplomacy. That the Canadians now have more trust in China than the United States is quite an achievement by Trump.

Update on Media Taking Seriously End of Rule of Law: The New York Times digital front page FINALLY is leading with Minneapolis and Renee Good's killing. It took over a week. Pressure works. More pressure on Sulzberger to do accurate journalism, please.

Why are politicians not ask more often “How is doing X upholding your oath to the Constitution?”

Can I contentiously object to paying federal taxes?

In these dark times, I want to share with you a Ukraine WOW📹,created by Artem Skorozinskyi,set to a composition by the Ukrainian music project MUR "Tell me -has our time finally come? The time to fight,the time to stand as one. The goal has always been just one alone: That you are free,& I’m free”

Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms. www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

We recently tested ~ a dozen public statements from a diverse set of Democratic elected officials on the murder of Renee Good and this was the top testing one

I have never felt more pro-European.

More like this please

Best way to create more of an uproar about US threats to Greenland/Denmark is to remind US citizens that they can kiss easy travel to the EU goodbye.

Appointing the same leader to run both NJ Transit and the NJ Turnpike Authority is an innovative move. If it can reduce planning silos—and especially if it can begin finding ways to divert auto funding to transit—it could be a significant move for the region. www.northjersey.com/story/news/t...

Expropriate Mar a Lago.