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Its really bad that the only group with the power to lessen this particular issue is the democrats in the senate.
When people say shit like "normally its not the current opposition legislative leadership that does bla bla bla..." they are basically throwing foreign relations under the bus.
When people say shit like "normally its not the current opposition legislative leadership that does bla bla bla..." they are basically throwing foreign relations under the bus.
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.
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.
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 18, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Its really bad that the only group with the power to lessen this particular issue is the democrats in the senate.
When people say shit like "normally its not the current opposition legislative leadership that does bla bla bla..." they are basically throwing foreign relations under the bus.
When people say shit like "normally its not the current opposition legislative leadership that does bla bla bla..." they are basically throwing foreign relations under the bus.
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Also employees of the fascist regime, like ICE officers, go in the politician bucket.
Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives
This is aggravating, because on the one hand I think it's really important to give fascists an off-ramp and positive reinforcement when they use it...
...on the other hand, FUCK that guy, in particular.
...on the other hand, FUCK that guy, in particular.
January 18, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Also employees of the fascist regime, like ICE officers, go in the politician bucket.
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Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.
January 18, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.
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My Greenland prediction:
1.) The U.S. won't attack.
2.) It won't attack because it was stopped.
3.) It being stopped will be used to tar people urgent about it being stopped as hysterics
1.) The U.S. won't attack.
2.) It won't attack because it was stopped.
3.) It being stopped will be used to tar people urgent about it being stopped as hysterics
January 18, 2026 at 5:21 PM
My Greenland prediction:
1.) The U.S. won't attack.
2.) It won't attack because it was stopped.
3.) It being stopped will be used to tar people urgent about it being stopped as hysterics
1.) The U.S. won't attack.
2.) It won't attack because it was stopped.
3.) It being stopped will be used to tar people urgent about it being stopped as hysterics
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"That's enough from this guy" is a valid reason for impeachment, not funding the government, etc. We've seen enough, that'll do
January 17, 2026 at 8:39 PM
"That's enough from this guy" is a valid reason for impeachment, not funding the government, etc. We've seen enough, that'll do
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Twitter (pre-Musk) ran into a moderation dilemma when they discovered that their algorithms for detecting violent, hateful rhetoric were catching (and blocking) elected officials who were Republicans
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Twitter (pre-Musk) ran into a moderation dilemma when they discovered that their algorithms for detecting violent, hateful rhetoric were catching (and blocking) elected officials who were Republicans
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You just have to step back for a moment.
The US President is pledging to raise import taxes - paid by US importers - in a bid to seize the territory of a close NATO ally. Territory which, polling suggests, 75% of the American public do not want to acquire.
The US President is pledging to raise import taxes - paid by US importers - in a bid to seize the territory of a close NATO ally. Territory which, polling suggests, 75% of the American public do not want to acquire.
January 18, 2026 at 10:02 AM
You just have to step back for a moment.
The US President is pledging to raise import taxes - paid by US importers - in a bid to seize the territory of a close NATO ally. Territory which, polling suggests, 75% of the American public do not want to acquire.
The US President is pledging to raise import taxes - paid by US importers - in a bid to seize the territory of a close NATO ally. Territory which, polling suggests, 75% of the American public do not want to acquire.
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We don't need to play games parsing US law or international treaties to figure out if it's legal for Trump to do this. It's not. It's crystal clear it's all illegal. Everyone's just pretending we're not at the point where the thing to do is to remove him. It's an advanced state of political denial.
Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
French troops deploying to Greenland because the United States might try to take it over.
Today in 2026 sentences.
Today in 2026 sentences.
January 17, 2026 at 7:28 PM
We don't need to play games parsing US law or international treaties to figure out if it's legal for Trump to do this. It's not. It's crystal clear it's all illegal. Everyone's just pretending we're not at the point where the thing to do is to remove him. It's an advanced state of political denial.
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Covering this stuff tactically & reactively, focusing on "is this legal?" & "can he do this?" & "how will it work?" is important, but really beside the point. Enough. He's imposing fascism at home & destroying our most essential pillars of national security & world order abroad. The rest is noise.
We don't need to play games parsing US law or international treaties to figure out if it's legal for Trump to do this. It's not. It's crystal clear it's all illegal. Everyone's just pretending we're not at the point where the thing to do is to remove him. It's an advanced state of political denial.
Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
January 17, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Covering this stuff tactically & reactively, focusing on "is this legal?" & "can he do this?" & "how will it work?" is important, but really beside the point. Enough. He's imposing fascism at home & destroying our most essential pillars of national security & world order abroad. The rest is noise.
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Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
French troops deploying to Greenland because the United States might try to take it over.
Today in 2026 sentences.
Today in 2026 sentences.
❗️An initial group of 🇫🇷French mountain troops has arrived in 🇬🇱Greenland to prepare for the reception and deployment of the main contingent. French authorities have stated that additional land, aviation, and naval units will be dispatched in the coming days.
January 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
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This is a very easy situation where you can be the change you'd like to see bsky.app/profile/irvi...
At the protests I go to it’s still mostly people waving upside-down American flags and/or bringing Mexican flags. I support having all kinds of flags but we need more people to be willing to fly the American one normie-style and start retaking that messaging back from MAGA
January 17, 2026 at 9:26 PM
This is a very easy situation where you can be the change you'd like to see bsky.app/profile/irvi...
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Third time in the last 25 years we’ve had more or less a failed presidency inside of the first year. We really need a mechanism to address this.
Pollster: 58% of Americans say Trump's second term has been a failure. A year into term number two, Trump's numbers look worse than any other president. Trump is even worse than George W. Bush after Katrina and a long period in the Iraq War. This is really, really bad.
January 17, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Third time in the last 25 years we’ve had more or less a failed presidency inside of the first year. We really need a mechanism to address this.
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People seem to think my issue is with reflective vests. It is not. My issue is with civilian officers enforcing laws in a constitutional republic dressed as members of the military.
January 17, 2026 at 11:34 PM
People seem to think my issue is with reflective vests. It is not. My issue is with civilian officers enforcing laws in a constitutional republic dressed as members of the military.
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I am once again begging Congress for the sake of our Republic to pass a law forbidding law enforcement from wearing military uniforms.
January 17, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I am once again begging Congress for the sake of our Republic to pass a law forbidding law enforcement from wearing military uniforms.
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we really need to fully comprehend the assumptions they made about us (if we find the lever that turns off DEI, every white American will gratefully throw off the shackles of multiracial democracy!) and get angry about it.
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.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 5:31 AM
we really need to fully comprehend the assumptions they made about us (if we find the lever that turns off DEI, every white American will gratefully throw off the shackles of multiracial democracy!) and get angry about it.
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like i am not saying it was good and cool to grow up in a place and time where white nationalists were constantly a/b testing whether your community makes a better target for recruitment or for terrorism. but it does bring a certain amount of clarity about the present situation! and also rage
January 18, 2026 at 6:04 AM
like i am not saying it was good and cool to grow up in a place and time where white nationalists were constantly a/b testing whether your community makes a better target for recruitment or for terrorism. but it does bring a certain amount of clarity about the present situation! and also rage
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reactionaries discovered a way to use free speech concerns against liberal democracy. liberal democracy needs to learn about the state's instruments of coercion.
January 18, 2026 at 7:31 AM
reactionaries discovered a way to use free speech concerns against liberal democracy. liberal democracy needs to learn about the state's instruments of coercion.
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just a quick reminder that one of the countries we're tariffing over Greenland is home to The Only Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Company That Matters
January 17, 2026 at 6:58 PM
just a quick reminder that one of the countries we're tariffing over Greenland is home to The Only Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Company That Matters
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I think the most important phenomenon of Trump-era politics that people don't understand is that if people have to pretend to believe something for long enough they eventually start believing it for real.
I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 6:52 PM
I think the most important phenomenon of Trump-era politics that people don't understand is that if people have to pretend to believe something for long enough they eventually start believing it for real.
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Look man. What can I tell you. Miller is just a fascist.
We're signatories to the UN Charter. The territorial integrity of States is legally guaranteed under the UN. It's also an attack on a NATO member. We're also signatories to a treaty for the defense of Greenland. None of this is up for debate
We're signatories to the UN Charter. The territorial integrity of States is legally guaranteed under the UN. It's also an attack on a NATO member. We're also signatories to a treaty for the defense of Greenland. None of this is up for debate
This guy is basically inviting China to take Taiwan.
January 17, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Look man. What can I tell you. Miller is just a fascist.
We're signatories to the UN Charter. The territorial integrity of States is legally guaranteed under the UN. It's also an attack on a NATO member. We're also signatories to a treaty for the defense of Greenland. None of this is up for debate
We're signatories to the UN Charter. The territorial integrity of States is legally guaranteed under the UN. It's also an attack on a NATO member. We're also signatories to a treaty for the defense of Greenland. None of this is up for debate
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The "other" other issue is that a lot of people who engage in this kind of academic edgelord stuff, yeah they dislike Trumpism, but they also said things like Bush was fascist, Biden was genocidaire, etc. And, like, no, Trump is materially different.
January 17, 2026 at 1:56 AM
The "other" other issue is that a lot of people who engage in this kind of academic edgelord stuff, yeah they dislike Trumpism, but they also said things like Bush was fascist, Biden was genocidaire, etc. And, like, no, Trump is materially different.
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As WSJ calls Mamdani a "communist" for suggesting that the wealthiest pay tax rates that are still lower than they were under Eisenhower, Trump is engaged in bona fide communism by forcing state ownership of major commercial ventures. Here's yet another one.
January 16, 2026 at 3:39 AM
As WSJ calls Mamdani a "communist" for suggesting that the wealthiest pay tax rates that are still lower than they were under Eisenhower, Trump is engaged in bona fide communism by forcing state ownership of major commercial ventures. Here's yet another one.
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Hundred percent. And honestly it puts me firmly in camp “never let republicans have an opinion about anything ever because if they say something reasonable they’re lying.”
Which is probably bad but I’m not moving off that position for fifty years. I might die of old age holding that view.
Which is probably bad but I’m not moving off that position for fifty years. I might die of old age holding that view.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Hundred percent. And honestly it puts me firmly in camp “never let republicans have an opinion about anything ever because if they say something reasonable they’re lying.”
Which is probably bad but I’m not moving off that position for fifty years. I might die of old age holding that view.
Which is probably bad but I’m not moving off that position for fifty years. I might die of old age holding that view.