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For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.
An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:34 PM
For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.
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I don't know. I suspect that in the case of Venezuela strikes, some lawyer at the Pentagon was told to bless it as legal, which gives temporary cover to the operations.
At lower levels, the operators are thinking: "I assume someone up the chain was okay with this."
At lower levels, the operators are thinking: "I assume someone up the chain was okay with this."
@radiofreetom.bsky.social this is perhaps a very naïve, but honest question. I always thought that if we had an obviously unstable president as we do now that the senior military staff would simply firmly say no Mr. President, we will not carry out that order. Why isn’t that how this is working now?
January 19, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I don't know. I suspect that in the case of Venezuela strikes, some lawyer at the Pentagon was told to bless it as legal, which gives temporary cover to the operations.
At lower levels, the operators are thinking: "I assume someone up the chain was okay with this."
At lower levels, the operators are thinking: "I assume someone up the chain was okay with this."
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Wow! Thanks! These are all cool concepts and very concerning, and I'll start paying attention to them now that you've posted this and alerted me to stuff Trump was doing while I was watching Star Trek
January 19, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Wow! Thanks! These are all cool concepts and very concerning, and I'll start paying attention to them now that you've posted this and alerted me to stuff Trump was doing while I was watching Star Trek
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The tyranny is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed.
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:31 PM
The tyranny is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed.
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Just for the record, and it’s insane that the mad king made me look this up, there is documentation of the US giving up all claim to Greenland to Denmark when we bought the Virgin Islands from them in 1916.
history.state.gov/historicaldo...
history.state.gov/historicaldo...
![DECLARATION
In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respecting the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
ROBERT LANSING
New YorK, August 4, 1916.
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January 19, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Just for the record, and it’s insane that the mad king made me look this up, there is documentation of the US giving up all claim to Greenland to Denmark when we bought the Virgin Islands from them in 1916.
history.state.gov/historicaldo...
history.state.gov/historicaldo...
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Imagine if protesting was not actually a bank robbery, and that journalism was not a crime. Imagine if the people who were weaponizing the justice system to attack Trump's enemies took the constitution seriously rather than cooking their brains all day on social media.
Harmett Dhillion threatens Don Lemon: "Imagine you have a bank robbery that's being planned by a number of criminals ... and then a podcaster says, 'Let me embed myself in here and come along for the ride and livestream the crime.' That would not be protected by the 1st Amendment."
January 19, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Imagine if protesting was not actually a bank robbery, and that journalism was not a crime. Imagine if the people who were weaponizing the justice system to attack Trump's enemies took the constitution seriously rather than cooking their brains all day on social media.
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Good morning members of the GOP in Congress. Today would be a good day for you to wake up.
January 19, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Good morning members of the GOP in Congress. Today would be a good day for you to wake up.
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Kate Andrews: The president has succeeded in drawing national attention to what his federal forces are doing, and millions of Americans are horrified by what they see. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The White House wanted an ICE spectacle. It backfired.
The shooting of Renée Good in Minneapolis may mark a turning point in public opinion.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Kate Andrews: The president has succeeded in drawing national attention to what his federal forces are doing, and millions of Americans are horrified by what they see. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Norwegian Prime Minister on Trump’s deranged letter:
Statement from Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre regarding communications with President Donald Trump.
'I can confirm that this is a text message that I received yesterday afternoon from President Trump…
Statement from Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre regarding communications with President Donald Trump.
'I can confirm that this is a text message that I received yesterday afternoon from President Trump…
January 19, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Norwegian Prime Minister on Trump’s deranged letter:
Statement from Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre regarding communications with President Donald Trump.
'I can confirm that this is a text message that I received yesterday afternoon from President Trump…
Statement from Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre regarding communications with President Donald Trump.
'I can confirm that this is a text message that I received yesterday afternoon from President Trump…
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You know, as someone who did grad school work on Arctic warfare, reformed DoD policy and readiness on the Arctic on the hill, and even advised OSD on Arctic policy matters….the Arctic is supposed to be the place where all of NATO is in firmest agreement. To call this insanity is to undersell it.
January 19, 2026 at 3:21 PM
You know, as someone who did grad school work on Arctic warfare, reformed DoD policy and readiness on the Arctic on the hill, and even advised OSD on Arctic policy matters….the Arctic is supposed to be the place where all of NATO is in firmest agreement. To call this insanity is to undersell it.
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People with no experience of the military can convince themselves it's a partisan institution, but it isn't a secret police force, it's made up of people from every corner of the country. Yeah, JTF-LA in 1992 is one case study, but 1967 Detroit is another.
Two infantry battalions of the Army’s 11th Airborne Division have been given prepare-to-deploy orders, defense officials said.
Army readies 1,500 soldiers for possible Minnesota deployment: sources
Two infantry battalions of the Army’s 11th Airborne Division have been given prepare-to-deploy orders, defense officials said.
www.armytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:48 PM
People with no experience of the military can convince themselves it's a partisan institution, but it isn't a secret police force, it's made up of people from every corner of the country. Yeah, JTF-LA in 1992 is one case study, but 1967 Detroit is another.
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EXACTLY. Wake the fuck up already.
January 19, 2026 at 12:25 PM
EXACTLY. Wake the fuck up already.
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The message of Trump’s letter to the prime minister of Norway signals that the president “genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues.
Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?
bit.ly
January 19, 2026 at 2:50 PM
The message of Trump’s letter to the prime minister of Norway signals that the president “genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues.
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The Maduro regime continues to run Venezuela with Trump’s backing.
January 19, 2026 at 2:52 PM
The Maduro regime continues to run Venezuela with Trump’s backing.
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Anywho, there are two types of people in the Trump administration: The people, like Trump, who don't understand this; and the people who do understand this but are afraid to explain it to him.
January 19, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Anywho, there are two types of people in the Trump administration: The people, like Trump, who don't understand this; and the people who do understand this but are afraid to explain it to him.
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"We're in uncharted waters" is the Navy version of "Dorothy, we're not in Kansas anymore"
January 19, 2026 at 2:07 PM
"We're in uncharted waters" is the Navy version of "Dorothy, we're not in Kansas anymore"
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No, Greenland is a crucial place in the defense of the Northern Hemisphere, which is why *it's already bound to us by the most powerful alliance in history*
It's absurd at multiple levels.
Greenland isn't much useful for America's national security interests. Standing upto China's insane Current Account fudging is, so is helping Ukraine.
America lags behind in processing and refinement of rare earth minerals, not extraction.
Innate stupidity ignorance
Greenland isn't much useful for America's national security interests. Standing upto China's insane Current Account fudging is, so is helping Ukraine.
America lags behind in processing and refinement of rare earth minerals, not extraction.
Innate stupidity ignorance
Every time someone says "well, it's not an absurd idea," they're normalizing an absurd idea. We have everything we want from Greenland, and Trump isn't thinking about strategy, he's thinking about vanity and conquest.
January 19, 2026 at 4:09 AM
No, Greenland is a crucial place in the defense of the Northern Hemisphere, which is why *it's already bound to us by the most powerful alliance in history*
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This is the natural consequence of the unitary executive theory. In foreign policy there are no checks. And in this case, personal whims and status dominance drive decisions. welcome to neo-royalism.
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 1:21 PM
This is the natural consequence of the unitary executive theory. In foreign policy there are no checks. And in this case, personal whims and status dominance drive decisions. welcome to neo-royalism.
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On the upside, it’s shorter than many of his Truth Social posts, so a prepared broadcast interviewer can have it up on a screen to read.
Now we begin the familiar ritual where 95% of the Republicans in Congress claim they are completely unaware of Trump’s deranged letter to the PM of Norway so they are unable to comment on it.
January 19, 2026 at 1:24 PM
On the upside, it’s shorter than many of his Truth Social posts, so a prepared broadcast interviewer can have it up on a screen to read.
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This has become a feature not a bug in a neo-royalist order.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System - Volume 79 Issue S1
www.cambridge.org
January 19, 2026 at 1:24 PM
This has become a feature not a bug in a neo-royalist order.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The problem isn’t our laws, the problem is our leaders.
Our system has many problems, but the issue here isn’t that Trump has found some legal loophole. It’s that a critical mass of our politicians have broken their oaths and abandoned their sacred duty to uphold our fundamental laws.
Our system has many problems, but the issue here isn’t that Trump has found some legal loophole. It’s that a critical mass of our politicians have broken their oaths and abandoned their sacred duty to uphold our fundamental laws.
I've harped on congressional war powers for a long time and we do need to fix all that, but threatening to invade Greenland while ranting at Norway about the Nobel Peace Prize and imposing trade sanctions on NATO is more the kind of thing you can only fix by not having a literally insane president.
January 19, 2026 at 12:57 PM
The problem isn’t our laws, the problem is our leaders.
Our system has many problems, but the issue here isn’t that Trump has found some legal loophole. It’s that a critical mass of our politicians have broken their oaths and abandoned their sacred duty to uphold our fundamental laws.
Our system has many problems, but the issue here isn’t that Trump has found some legal loophole. It’s that a critical mass of our politicians have broken their oaths and abandoned their sacred duty to uphold our fundamental laws.
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If you are unwilling to acknowledge the dangerous insanity of Donald Trump you are part of the problem.
January 19, 2026 at 11:25 AM
If you are unwilling to acknowledge the dangerous insanity of Donald Trump you are part of the problem.
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2026 is going to be a very dark year for US foreign policy, where everything that was built over many decades by leaders for collective security is torn apart by one madman, but only because people in his own party remain silent.
January 19, 2026 at 12:04 PM
2026 is going to be a very dark year for US foreign policy, where everything that was built over many decades by leaders for collective security is torn apart by one madman, but only because people in his own party remain silent.
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It is excruciatingly painful that American imperial decline has to happen on the internet, as posts. We Americans learn about which of our limbs our leaders are amputating from posts.
Trump's obsession with Greenland and erratic interventionism towards Venezuela are almost textbook case studies of a declining great power externalising its growing domestic instability into external imperial quagmires
January 19, 2026 at 12:05 PM
It is excruciatingly painful that American imperial decline has to happen on the internet, as posts. We Americans learn about which of our limbs our leaders are amputating from posts.
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25th Amendment. Now.
![Screenshot of a post by Nick Schifrin (@nickschifrin) on X/Twitter. The post reads:
“NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
‘Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT’”
At the bottom of the screenshot: “8:31 PM · Jan 18, 2026 · 25.6K Views.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xjc7mkotpenvhh6ffewkdpyn/bafkreidksjuj7yrvabefolz3tgep5cwvyiyutv6w5fahfm344p7eq2jzzq@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 12:09 PM
25th Amendment. Now.