The most accurate headline yesterday on Davos came from the German satire magazine "Der Postillon" framing the Trump speech as a "severe security breach." It roughly translates as "Scandal in Davos: Confused old man storms the podium and rants for an hour" www.der-postillon.com/2026/01/davo...

Europeans after managing to prevent the collapse of NATO for another 1-2 weeks… #Europe #Rutte

I am positively surprised that Switzerland shows a spine here and commits to its obligations.

For the price of a Rolex watch and an engraved gold ingot he was willing to lower tariffs for the Swiss. He is clearly very fair minded and laser-focused on what is best for the USA. That really taught us a lesson and we immediately stopped doing that unfair trade thing, whatever it was.

2 push alerts already saying Trump declares he won't use force to take Greenland. He *made a trade deal with the EU* and *threatened new tariffs yesterday* - even if you take his words at face value and ignore the mob language ("I don't want to hurt you"), his word means nothing. Don't fall for it.

*Attenborough voice*: "Every winter, when weather conditions get tougher, the Bearded Texas Bustard individually migrates to take refuge in warmer areas, leaving behind his nest and his flock."

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

This. And I thought it was just me. I think it felt too informal, quick and unvetted to be a means of communication between world leaders.

I am, I don’t why, surprised to learn that world leaders text each other.

Damn. He is onto us. Abort! Abort!

i just feel like america has no business starting fights with the country that makes ozempic

i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe

What Europe wants to hear is an unequivocal, unanimous statement from the congressional opposition that "If Trump attacks Greenland, we will do everything in our power and take any action available to stop him, including physically standing between US troops and NATO defenders if necessary."

Sweden. Not Switzerland. Very different countries when it comes to NATO and sending troops abroad.

Koizumi visiting DC while the admin talks about invading Greenland, getting the Nobel peace prize, and rambling about whole milk for some reason:

This must be that „meritocracy“ they keep on mentioning.

These days it is important to also take in the wins. This is fantastic news.

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Remember when everyone locked arms for freedom of speech defending Charlie Hebdo? Well, people are upset in Switzerland because they published a cartoon about the nightclub fire and its victims. There is also a lawsuit against Charlie Hebdo because of that. 1/4 www.belganewsagency.eu/charlie-hebd...

On the other hand, have you seen the size of Greenland when using a Mercator projection?

Finally I had a look at the full list of orgs. Their creativity in hurting US interests with the stated purpose to pursue said interests apparently knows no bounds. So much damage for nothing in return. Uncle Sam is aiming a machine gun at his foot and doesn't stop firing.

There honestly cannot be a satire cutting enough to make fun of Americans. What the fuck do you mean the highest colonial ideal you could imagine was a parking lot with McDonald's on both sides

The important thing is, it’s what Alfred Nobel would have wanted.

Sure. And if someone's hands get dirty from that crude in the loading process they can wipe their fingers with pages from the US constitution. Because what else is it good for?

Remember "The Wørd" segments of the Colbert Report, with the deadpan comments, often snarky as side bar messages? This is was normal journalists need to do now in articles when they report on a speech by the US President.

Honestly, I thought that was the implicit point of the map, not at least because it looks as if done haphazardly and in crayon. Do I start seeing subtext were there is none? I think I am not build for today's social media information environment.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

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Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

Even with Maduro removed from power, are we sure anything even changes? Like, the odds that we just obliterated international law & norms into a trillion tiny pieces just to get right back to square one are probably pretty high. Is Venezuela just supposed to forgive textbook acts of war?

Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year

Foreign Policy Analysis is low key the darkly funniest field ever now. Are we at war? Does the president himself know? Who are we at war with? Why? Something to do with drugs and/or oil? We’re either invading Venezuela, Nigeria, neither, or both.

"large-scale illegal deportations of thousands of Sudanese were secretly being carried out in violation of international refugee conventions that Egypt had long ratified... Follow-up reporting... reveals a further escalation in the deportation campaign." #KeepEyesOnSudan

I really hope the international community does not allow humanity to backtrack on moral principles that got codified into international law, many after World War II. It is especially sad and shocking to see Israel on the wrong side of this.

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This is what the world's largest humanitarian crisis looks like.

it really is something that no one affiliated or allied with trump seems to have any sense of how to use power with subtlety and finesse.

They really are cheap, all the way down to the details: FIFA's peace participation trophy given to Trump is just a smaller version of an existing piece of art, gifted to the UN by Azerbaijan in 2017. That explains why it looked so familiar. (first reported here: www.letemps.ch/sport/le-tro...)

"Should we implement stricter gun control measures?" "Nah, let's do a racism." "Sweet."

At the core it is a variation on "the foreigners take our jobs" sentiment, just with the racism even more explicit.

They really are cheap, all the way down to the details: FIFA's peace participation trophy given to Trump is just a smaller version of an existing piece of art, gifted to the UN by Azerbaijan in 2017. That explains why it looked so familiar. (first reported here: www.letemps.ch/sport/le-tro...)

I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...

I would like to talk a little bit about the experience of living in the Roman ghetto in Renaissance Europe for you guys. Just to give a sense of why the idea that Nazis learned from the US is so offensive. A thread of uncertain length. To start, the Roman ghetto was deeply overcrowded swampland.

had our first new game release in months, and it's my crossword dice game cross4! I made it because I love the crossword dice games of the twentieth century, and wanted to make one with a little more arc and meat to it. 🧵

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

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