The latest from YouGov (n ~ 2.2k): No one's buying this Greenland shit. Trump loses virtually everyone on the threat of force. He barely gets *half of Republicans* on "purchasing" Greenland. today.yougov.com/topics/overv...

Matt Taibbi says that America should've taken Iraq's oil when they invaded. "And as for the Iraq oil thing, I was all in favor, like if we were there, yeah, let's take it... I guess the idea of turning it over to the Iraqi people, but I don't know, I felt a little more mercenary about that."

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Reinventing colonial mercantilism to own the libs

This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training. This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One. I think they know this is bad. Really bad.

"UPDATED: Tariffs “Funded” Everything in 2025—Will the Fantasy Continue in 2026?" ANSWER: YES www.cato.org/blog/tariffs...

Was the Supreme Court’s pre-Christmas decision in Trump v. Illinois a sign that it also planned to rule against Trump’s tariffs? by Alan Wm. Wolff

New rationale for the military action in Venezuela just dropped: It was about reducing the trade deficit.

US federal budget deficit was about $1.8 trillion in FY 2025 ($7.01 trillion in spending, $5.23 trillion in revenue), so sure, how about throwing another half a trillion dollars on there next year. What could go wrong?

Rest assured, this is not the bad kind of oil-involved regime change, where America gets mired endlessly in a war whose wafer-thin justification could barely pass Congress. This time, Congress has not been consulted at all!

who here wants drafts? ✋

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What would Greenlanders want? The latest available opinion poll: 85 % says "No" to the question "Do you want Greenland to exit the Danish Kingdom and instead become part of United States?" The poll (www.veriangroup.com/da/news-and-...) also show that a small majority supports independence from DK

This would be much better than the "it's a distraction" talking point.

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

"A move to crack down on private equity’s ownership of homes could allow Republicans to claim ownership of a talking point that has also enjoyed support among Democrats." I suppose so, but my guess is that more Dem members of Congress would support action of some sort here than Rs would.

Clearest angle yet of the ICE officer fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis. DHS said a "violent [rioter] weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them." Is that what this shows?

This angle. My god.

NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed

wtf dude

“There is a massive gap between public and private reactions from European leaders.”

What a headline www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...

My feed is full of posts about both J6ers and 76ers and if I don't look closely at the context it's easy to get confused.

Interesting that Axios chooses not to list X among "U.S. right-wing apps." One of the biggest cultural and epistemic problems in American media and elite circles is failing or refusing to recognize X as a far-right platform. www.axios.com/2026/01/06/m...

This is nonsense. Majority minority places are fine. The only real downside for a decent white person is that the white racists will sometimes talk badly about your neighbors and expect you to feel the same. You don't have to do that though.

Some reasons why LinkedIn is not the future of social media (the recent surge in posting on there notwithstanding).

They are not. In 1916 the U.S. entered an agreement w/Denmark in which in exchange for taking control of the islands of St. Croix, St. John, & St. Thomas (then the “Danish West Indies”), the U.S. would pay $25 million & not object to Danish control of Greenland. history.state.gov/historicaldo...

It's basically an ad.

"why aren't people watching cable news?" cable news:

WSJ: a US invasion and occupation of Greenland would be a bad idea.

I agree that Rahm's thinking on what to say about Trump's foreign policy is misguided, but also I have doubts that he will come up with anything useful to say about the kitchen table issues.

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

I miss the era of "the era of the Monroe Doctrine is over" (John Kerry for the Obama administration, 2013). 2009-2017.state.gov/secretary/re...

I've gotten health care bills where the insurance claim didn't go through for some reason, and the price was, in fact, much higher.

Two things about LinkedIn that may appeal to policy wonks: - a less confrontational culture - the absence of character limits But I hope LinkedIn isn't the future of online policy discussions.

Carney to make first visit to China next week www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

And if you are wondering why Blinken is bad, may I present the last 2 years of Biden and Israel/Palestine:

you know what the American oil industry loves, when there's a bear market and someone drops more supply into it

I'm not an economist but I feel like if I'm a company that extracts oil in the united states I don't love what this is going to do to the price

If I were the Prime Minister of Greenland, I'd think about hiring some extra security.

Brazilian exports surged to record levels in 2025, shrugging off months of punishing US tariffs thanks to expanded shipments to China and other major trading partners.

they are completely serious about this and may legitimately shatter every post-WW2 relationship with Europe over trying to take over an island that wants nothing to do with us

I assumed the Trump Greenland takeover plan would involve tariffs in some way. Did he forget to check the tariff shelf?

The tariff impact hasn’t been larger due to delays and exceptions, meaning the actual rate is only half the announced rate, from Gita Gopinath and Brent Neiman www.nber.org/papers/w34620

Wrote up some quick thoughts on the final and strange contours of the TikTok deal for @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/how-to-make-...

I see some fun arguments happening about British food and I have hot takes I'd like to offer, but I have to run out in a minute and don't want to start fights that I can't finish, so unfortunately I'll have to wait for the next round.

#AKSen: It's been expected for a while, but Mary Peltola is getting ready to run against Dan Sullivan. www.axios.com/2026/01/06/m...

The Trump Effect (The area in pink/red shows additional taxes resulting from tariff increases above the 2.2% January rate.)

Here is the Wyoming Supreme Court's 4–1 decision striking down the state's draconian abortion bans under the state constitution's provision guaranteeing residents the right to make health care decisions (which was enacted as a rejoinder to the ACA). documents.courts.state.wy.us/Opinions/S-2...