@markvalley.bsky.social Happy birthday, Mark! I hope you have a great day. Wishing you health, joy and much happiness.

Happy Winter Solstice! Longer, brighter days ahead. #wintersolstice

Happy Lucia Day! Soon darkness will take flight. #happyluciaday #sanktalucia #saintlucy #luciaday #december

When I started making YouTube videos, I did not imagine that I would one day make one with this title. Watch here for my breakdown of the new U.S. National Security Strategy.

Thank you The Live Drop Podcast and @markvalley.bsky.social for this fun and fascinating interview with author Shawnna Morris about her new book on The Cambridge Five spy ring. Do have a listen 🎧 #CambridgeFive #spy shows.acast.com/the-live-dro...

An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.

Good for Denmark and California

Putin and Trump might think that they can do a new Yalta and divide the world, but they don't have the power to enforce it. It's a bit like trying to sell your neighbor's house.

A great explanation of the stakes in Western Europe of Russian aggression -- different from direct invasion on NATO's eastern flank, but still far, far more serious than most people realize.

I am very concerned when people say the soldiers will resist Trump's pressure. Since Huntington, American officers have been told that it's their task to stay out of politics and just focus on the "how" when politicians tell them what the goal is.

What a disgusting, ignorant, arrogant statement by the Secretary of Defense of the United States. Nobody trusts anything he says or does. That’s very dangerous for the US…we depend so much on our Allies. I served in Afghanistan in RC South 2009-2010 where thousands of Allies fought and many died.

Or he know exactly what he is doing and understands he needs widespread violence to maintain his grasp on power.

Our latest Origin Story is on the history of Mars - the planet that allows right-wing intellectuals to finally use the word 'coloniser' without being cancelled and by God aren't they happy about it.

Obviously this person should not be writing novels but I love the idea that 10 minutes is an unreasonable amount of time to spend writing a decent description of a location

80 years ago tonight, Denmark was liberated from Nazi occupation. Every year in the evening of 4th May, Danes put candles in the windows to mark the liberation. Tonight, we honour freedom, peace & democracy, never to be taken for granted 🇩🇰 #4maj #WWII #LiberationDay #NeverForget

Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

Flags at half mast today to mark Hitler's invasion of Denmark on 9 April 1940. Freedom and democracy should not be taken for granted. #neverforget #9april #aldrigmere9april

"The sheer scale of Donald Trump's witlessness is now evident to everyone, with no option for someone to credibly suggest otherwise. The man's mind is like a bag of mice." @iandunt.bsky.social absolutely nails it, not for the first time. You'll laugh. You'll cry. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Well, maybe the US should stop undermining European security by cozying up to Russia and threatening to invade NATO countries.

The populists didn't come to defend free speech. They came to butcher it iandunt.substack.com/p/progressiv...

The two places Trump wants - Greenland and Canada - share a land border. They fought the so-called Whisky War over it for almost half a century, and it was basically adorable.

The core argument here is unanswerable. For liberal democratic countries, buying American weapons is a security risk. It must be avoided at all costs.

Opinion: The DEI purge will weaken our military, writes former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.

BREAKING | Greenland election won by centre-right party who told Trump ‘we are not for sale’

"So it comes as a shock to hear threats from a country that I also love and to feel that alliance is being trampled on. This feels personal, not like some abstract foreign policy tactic." bbc.com/news/article...

You'd take Lex Luther or Doctor Doom over Trump any day of the week. Far less corrupt and infinitely more competent. You wouldn't even need to think about it.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

👇🎯 When it comes to things like "does the 14th amendment really say that about birthright citizenship?" & "did DEI cause the DC plane crash?" there is only one way to respond to the aesthetic interest in nuance:

I know everything feels grim right now but let's be realistic. These people are idiots. They're going to tank their economy. They're going to fuck-up every deal they sign. They're going to leave America looking shattered and deranged. And all those who supported them will look as idiotic as they are

I struggle to express just how *weird* Vance’s #MSC2025 speech was. This is a transatlantic security conference, happening while there is a war in Europe, and the US is announcing a partial withdrawal from European security. And the US VP speaks about (alleged) threats to free speech in Europe??

Nearly 200,000 Danes are supporting a comedic petition to buy California from the U.S., in what appeared to be a jab at President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to seize Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

The dream of technology is now under the control of men who are vain, foolish, self-centred, amoral, desperate for power, and in some cases openly fascistic. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...

Great listen for anyone who is interested in historic battles, what to learn from them and how intelligence, deception and leadership can affect the outcome. Great podcast all round. shows.acast.com/616a3615e98b...

If Trump threatens tariffs or military action against Denmark or Greenland, Denmark should threaten to stop selling Ozempic (a Danish Product) in the US. That’d shut Mar-a-Lago members up real fast.

@markvalley.bsky.social Happy birthday, Mark! May your day be filled with happiness and joy. Wishing you a fantasic year ahead.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! 🎅🎄#godjul #merrychristmas

Happy winter solstice! Brighter days are coming. #wintersolstice #shortestday #yule #godjul

Happy Saint Lucia's day! Soon darkness will take flight. #happyluciaday #sanktalucia #saintlucy #luciaday #december 🎨Sulamith Wülfing

Strong stuff from @claireberlinski.bsky.social. You may want to bookmark it. claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-rules-...

Hooray for the weekend with some time to write and catch up on my reading.