That they publish these pictures with nary a word that the president is clearly deeply unwell and not of sound mind is a disgrace to journalism.

The cover of Germany’s taz die tageszeitung - story in center below the picture: “The end of Europe.” That’s what it says it means if the U.S. invades Greenland.

btw for those who don't know why Americans with chronic illness got like 75% more stressed on Jan 1st, it is not just because all the insurance rates blew up. On 1/1, deductibles reset. which means you have to spend some amount of money (up to $10k sometimes) before your insurance COVERS ANYTHING

So just remember as brown and black people are being snatched up by ICE, that whiteness is not going to save you because authoritarians come after everyone eventually whether you bend the knee or not.

Very proud of my name, Kat. ✊🏼 Which when I started going by that as a teenager rather than full name, I knew no other Kat’s.

Can we get universal health care? No. Can we restrict access to machine guns? Pfff, no. Can we forgive student loans? Girl, please. Can we invade Venezuela & kidnap its presiden, taking the oil for profit of US President & oil companies, while threatening to invade Greenland? Now you’re talking. 🫠

What a f-ing second - the President will use money extorted from a foreign government to fund spending without any congressional approval? Forget the impact on Venezuela, this is full-blown dictatorship in the USA.

This post popped up thatI made on Facebook 5 years ago after the insurrection (I’m sure I posted extensively on Twitter, but I deleted my account there in 2024). I have to say it all held up very well and none of what I said needed to happen happened. And now we no longer have a democracy.

I just counted more than 20 posts asking Grok to put various women, many of whom are Jewish, in a "swastika bikini"

I think also, you seen the sharp downturn in literacy from 2017 until now. Which aligns quite well with Trump’s presidency.

Y para terminar Reyes (aunque ya pasó la medianoche), os dejo este artículo muy bonico sobre una inmigrante en Barcelona quien tenía su vida salvada por el sistema sanitario - público. Comenta que habría muerto en mi país natal. www.lavanguardia.com/opinion/2026...

Sin reaccion institucional, el derecho internacional ya no existe. “La impunidad del crimen, su …despavorida aceptación, el sometimiento a su violencia y prepotencia equivalen siempre a su legitimación.” Os recuerdo que el Congreso PODRÍA acabar con todo mañana. Pero no. elpais.com/opinion/2026...

Buen análisis en @lavanguardia.com: Algo muy repetida en la historia, cuando te va mal como líder en lo doméstico, incita alguna causa en el exterior. Mientras tanto, la represión interna irá aumentando. Así está la cosa en la venerada antes democracia de 🇺🇸 www.lavanguardia.com/internaciona...

The scale of the AI-fueled, nonconsensual sexualization of women in photos on X is staggering. The internet has suffered tools like this for years, but never at this scale, with this reach, and this out in the open. from @regret.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social

It doesn't matter if you can't remove him from office. When a president breaches the authority of his office, failing to use the only instrument available to you normalizes his actions. There area lot of poor foreign policy choices a president actually has the authority to make. War is not one.

He is unfit for office, constitutionally prohibited from serving, and a danger to the country and world.

Daría muchas cosas a cambio de que me dejaran bombardear mi propio país y matar a ciudadanos y vender mi país a una nación extranjera si así consigo gobernar, por ejemplo una de las cosas que daría sería mi nobel de la paz

Good for these 10 companies, sticking to not donating to Congress members that voted to overturn the election. Wow, only 10. They deserve a shoutout: Nike Airbnb Expedia Clorox Farmers Insurance Eversource Energy Whirlpool Lyft Holland & Hart Qurate

1984 was a children’s tale. Help us.

For a moment, some Venezuelans allowed themselves to celebrate Nicolás Maduro’s fall. But as the government moves to crush dissent, joy has given way to fear, dread & uncertainty. “It feels like it did after the presidential elections in 2024. We won, but we also lost.” My latest: wapo.st/45HA83w

Today I read a newsletter that started: “It’s January 2026, and the global order is collapsing in real-time.” I think precision of words is important in these times. What’s happening is the U.S. President is taking sledgehammers & explosives to the world order, which was built to benefit the U.S.!

A collection of newspaper covers from across Europe and the Americas (sorry, the sites I go to for covers don’t have strong coverage of Africa or Asia, and this is time-consuming to compile). Interesting how 3/4 French papers used term “predator” about Trump. Translations in alt text. 1/2

This reporting by @davetroy.com and America 2 News is very eye-opening, on the origins of Trump’s Venezuela & Greenland aspirations & the Russian links. Also deeply disturbed if not surprised to see the co-founder of my grad program, Ronald Lauder, deep in it. america2.news/the-russian-...

Pedro Sánchez about Venezuela: "We're not going to shut up in front of violations of international law, which are sadly becoming ever more frequent. Spain won't be an accomplice to this trampling," he says in Paris. "An illegitimacy cannot be responded to with an illegality."

New York Times reporter on the situation in Venezuela

A friend just had her checking account wiped out by her family's new health insurance premium (which went from $890 a month to $2800). The thing is, she'd cancelled the policy in early December, assuming it would also cancel the autopay. Nope.

Important story by @tatumhunter.bsky.social. Musk’s brazen enablement of non-consensual sexualization of girls and women is not just outrageous, but without precedent. Grok’s capabilities are like a tooling factory for CSAM — and he treats it all like a big joke. Gift link below. wapo.st/4jpy8ma

I know there are so many more important things happening, but he is also lying throughout (check longer video) talking about Imane Khelif (who he doesn’t name) as transgender, and she was born female. The impunity with which he gets away with lying is fundamental for how he gained so much power.

Last year I told a friend that the best case scenario for Trump 2.0 is we turn into Putin’s Russia and worst case Germany in the 1930s-1940s. My friend thought that was overly pessimistic. Almost a year later, less so.

Re-posting every year, on January 6… 👇👇👇

This is so crazy, if somebody ends up marginally above the cutoff for income, even a few dollars over (!!!), they could have to pay back thousands of dollars of subsidies. Even $10,000 or $20,000!

Two policemen remember January 6. One was defending the Capitol, the other attacking it. Both were transformed by the experience, and by the photos and video taken that day www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

This is an astounding clip — and one I haven’t seen.

Truly, someone who was an expert in gender studies and race studies would be extremely well-equipped to have warned us (they probably did and we ignored it as a society!) of two key items underlying the ideology of this administration: racism and sexism. Also Mafia rules minus any honor.

“Gender studies is useless! Now, please subscribe to my podcast on the male loneliness epidemic and be sure to check out my substack about the birth rate crisis and whether we should repeal the 19th amendment”

There Is a Sickness Eating Away at American Democracy by @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...

Gracias a mi Presidente. El del país donde vivo, no del país en que nací y donde soy ciudadana. Mientras el presidente ilegítimo (si el Congreso y el Supremo hacían su trabajo, no podría ser Pres.) de mi país natal va destruyendo el país y el mundo, hay algunos que defienden la ley y la democracia.

Longest run since Dec 2023 Valencia Marathon (holiday today for Reyes Magos). Thought about stretching to 20 miles but I was out of gas. Ran on the beautiful Carretera de les Aigües on a chilly (getting soft in my 4th Spain winter) sunny day. FYI Barcelona people, they’ve upgraded the Espai Mireia.

Os digo la vedad, hay que hacer un volcado de estos tuits porque la Historia va a ser inmisericorde con él.

Things are changing in the relationship between politics and "technocrats". In my blog in English, "Real Progress," I argue that a new balance is necessary. @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social realprogressinenglish.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-ne...

Two places in Spain make the @nytimes.com list of 52 places to travel in 2026: the neighborhood of Poblenou in Barcelona and “Sorolla’s Spain” with Madrid & Valencia celebrating their painter of light. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Comic in Spain’s La Vanguardia (requires play on words in Spanish - grande = both great and large): Trump adding US flags on the map, saying that bit about making America great (grande) again was literally true.

Found this piece in Italy’s Corriere fascinating. The author calls OFAC (U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control) the new Kremlin, noting that Venezuela is at crossing of sanctions & oil, 2 things Putin uses to enrich himself by confiscating & doling out to cronies. www.corriere.it/economia/fin...

The failure of our elites to hold Trump accountable for January 6th is as disgraceful as what happened on that awful day. Since 2010, 35 democratic leaders around the world have been criminally convicted. Only Trump went unpunished and unconstrained. Now he threatens democracy at home and abroad.

Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid | Nathalie Tocci

Five years ago.

🚨 "Canada, for several months now, has been developing a military strategy for how they will respond if there is an incursion over their southern border...that is now a real thing that the Canadian military is thinking about. Didn't use to be." – @economist.com's Hal Hodson (Sorry, no 🎁🔗 avail.)

Not having my job tied to my health insurance has literally been the most freeing thing I've ever experienced. It allowed me to take months off of working to heal from a bunch of shit that I could not heal from in real time because I was working.