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We understand that you’re sorry for what your government is doing to former friends and allies.
Unfortunately that’s sounds to us a lot like “thoughts and prayers” after a mass shooting.
We would much rather you do something than be sorry.
Unfortunately that’s sounds to us a lot like “thoughts and prayers” after a mass shooting.
We would much rather you do something than be sorry.
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Politician from the country that saddled the rest of us with this mess: "I can't believe you aren't dealing with this mess better!"
January 20, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Politician from the country that saddled the rest of us with this mess: "I can't believe you aren't dealing with this mess better!"
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January 20, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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Trump is handing China our lunch www.politico.eu/article/chin...
China pitches itself as reliable partner amid Trump threats
Vice Premier He Lifeng says the world shouldn’t slide back into “the law of the jungle, where the strong bully the weak.”
www.politico.eu
January 21, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Trump is handing China our lunch www.politico.eu/article/chin...
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"I’ll add right up front that nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training."
Essential reading from Andrea Pitzer, and while you're at it, also read her book ONE LONG NIGHT: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
Essential reading from Andrea Pitzer, and while you're at it, also read her book ONE LONG NIGHT: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
January 20, 2026 at 1:01 PM
"I’ll add right up front that nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training."
Essential reading from Andrea Pitzer, and while you're at it, also read her book ONE LONG NIGHT: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
Essential reading from Andrea Pitzer, and while you're at it, also read her book ONE LONG NIGHT: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
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This is a great speech, but its also completely insane that the Prime Minister of Canada needs to call for coordinated global resistance to American tyranny.
The Carney speech is worth reading in full: globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
globalnews.ca
January 21, 2026 at 2:17 AM
This is a great speech, but its also completely insane that the Prime Minister of Canada needs to call for coordinated global resistance to American tyranny.
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People are saying you have to accept repentance and changed minds, but what does that mean, for someone like this? Do we need to accept someone who says “I realized I’m against his anti-Somali policy and looking for someone who likes Somalis but hates all the other people I hate”?
Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
January 20, 2026 at 11:16 PM
People are saying you have to accept repentance and changed minds, but what does that mean, for someone like this? Do we need to accept someone who says “I realized I’m against his anti-Somali policy and looking for someone who likes Somalis but hates all the other people I hate”?
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Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her
January 21, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her
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Read the room, Pierre.
January 20, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Read the room, Pierre.
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Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
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World Economic Forum Moderator: Prime Minister Poilievre, your comments on the current worldwide crisis?
Poilievre: i just think that Trump would never have threatened to take over the world if Trudeau hadn't hidden a carbon tax in every Canadian's car
Poilievre: i just think that Trump would never have threatened to take over the world if Trudeau hadn't hidden a carbon tax in every Canadian's car
January 20, 2026 at 10:49 PM
World Economic Forum Moderator: Prime Minister Poilievre, your comments on the current worldwide crisis?
Poilievre: i just think that Trump would never have threatened to take over the world if Trudeau hadn't hidden a carbon tax in every Canadian's car
Poilievre: i just think that Trump would never have threatened to take over the world if Trudeau hadn't hidden a carbon tax in every Canadian's car
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“Several women who have appeared on CNN panels have spoken privately about how they are suddenly never invited back after embarrassing [Jennings] on air.” - @julieroginsky.bsky.social
I’m Probably About to Be Banned From CNN — But Someone Has to Say This About Scott Jennings
There are times when you need to tell your friends that they are committing a grave mistake, even if they resent you for telling the truth.
saltypolitics.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:28 PM
“Several women who have appeared on CNN panels have spoken privately about how they are suddenly never invited back after embarrassing [Jennings] on air.” - @julieroginsky.bsky.social
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All the TikTok bros who were filming themselves being so hardcore as they took entire plane trips with no entertainment should step up and film themselves living off the Brooke Rollins Feed Yourself For $15 A Day Challenge.
Brooke Rollins is still at it!
"We had run almost 1,000 simulations, and between $3 and $4 is a fair number if you can have access to that food. I just saw new numbers that were run: a full day, meaning 3 full square meals and a snack, is about $15.64."
"We had run almost 1,000 simulations, and between $3 and $4 is a fair number if you can have access to that food. I just saw new numbers that were run: a full day, meaning 3 full square meals and a snack, is about $15.64."
January 20, 2026 at 6:19 PM
All the TikTok bros who were filming themselves being so hardcore as they took entire plane trips with no entertainment should step up and film themselves living off the Brooke Rollins Feed Yourself For $15 A Day Challenge.
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January 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Yes, but the point of his speech was that -- to borrow his analogy -- there has to be a shopkeeper willing to take down the poster in their window first for others to do it.
Why are we keeping the proverbial poster in the window, then?
Why are we keeping the proverbial poster in the window, then?
We also don’t know what is happening behind the scenes vs what is playing out publicly.
January 20, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Yes, but the point of his speech was that -- to borrow his analogy -- there has to be a shopkeeper willing to take down the poster in their window first for others to do it.
Why are we keeping the proverbial poster in the window, then?
Why are we keeping the proverbial poster in the window, then?
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Carney: "We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland's future. Our commitment to NATO's Article 5 is unwavering ... Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland"
January 20, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Carney: "We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland's future. Our commitment to NATO's Article 5 is unwavering ... Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland"
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What Carney have you been watching this past year?
Carney is just one of the few global leaders that gets it. Stop treating this with kid gloves, treat it as a serious matter. No amount of bootlicking and appeasement will stop him until you start fighting back.
January 20, 2026 at 4:46 PM
What Carney have you been watching this past year?
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Fuck body cams, the masks are the first thing that needs to go. Agents of the state working with the American public should be clearly identifiable. Local cops don’t get to mask.
Minibus is out. Democrats were able to include some guardrails in about ICE:
-restricts ICE to spending $3.8 billion of its annual budget
on detention as opposed to being able to spend $10 billion
-$20 million that must be used for body cameras 1/
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
-restricts ICE to spending $3.8 billion of its annual budget
on detention as opposed to being able to spend $10 billion
-$20 million that must be used for body cameras 1/
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov
January 20, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Fuck body cams, the masks are the first thing that needs to go. Agents of the state working with the American public should be clearly identifiable. Local cops don’t get to mask.
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Also: bsky.app/profile/asha...
This is an excellent explainer. 👀 quote: “In rough terms, the workforce of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents commit crimes at an equal or even greater rate PER CAPITA than the population of undocumented immigrants do in the United States.”
If you are appalled at the tactics of ICE and CBP, you should be! They in fact are *NOT* trained for the work they're doing in America's interior right now—and they're scared of interacting with US citizens. That's a recipe for the exact disaster we see: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
January 20, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Also: bsky.app/profile/asha...
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The funny thing about media outlets like CNN trying to be “balanced” by inviting conservatives is that they don’t really know many normal conservatives and so when someone says “bring on a conservative“ they inevitably think “Who is the absolute biggest asshole I can think of?”
Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
January 20, 2026 at 7:32 PM
The funny thing about media outlets like CNN trying to be “balanced” by inviting conservatives is that they don’t really know many normal conservatives and so when someone says “bring on a conservative“ they inevitably think “Who is the absolute biggest asshole I can think of?”
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We told you so.
We fucking told you so and you mocked us.
May everyone have the day they voted for.
We fucking told you so and you mocked us.
May everyone have the day they voted for.
January 20, 2026 at 7:32 PM
We told you so.
We fucking told you so and you mocked us.
May everyone have the day they voted for.
We fucking told you so and you mocked us.
May everyone have the day they voted for.
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It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.
US trade secretary Howard Lutnick really not mincing his words here at Davos: "We are here to make a v clear point: globalisation has failed the West and the USA. It's a failed policy. It's what the WEF has stood for, which is, export, offshore, find the cheapest labour in the world."
January 20, 2026 at 3:47 PM
It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.
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Carney is bluntly telling the world, and Americans, that the post WW2 order is gone and America is left behind.
January 20, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Carney is bluntly telling the world, and Americans, that the post WW2 order is gone and America is left behind.
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Really good speech from Carney at the World Economic Forum today.
Genuinely gives the impression he understands the gravity of the moment, which is why I'm struggling to square it with his actual actions and policy re: the United States.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStu...
Genuinely gives the impression he understands the gravity of the moment, which is why I'm struggling to square it with his actual actions and policy re: the United States.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStu...
PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum in Davos – January 20, 2026
YouTube video by cpac
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Really good speech from Carney at the World Economic Forum today.
Genuinely gives the impression he understands the gravity of the moment, which is why I'm struggling to square it with his actual actions and policy re: the United States.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStu...
Genuinely gives the impression he understands the gravity of the moment, which is why I'm struggling to square it with his actual actions and policy re: the United States.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStu...
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Why can't Democratic leadership say this?
Because they DONT WANT TO.
Because they DONT WANT TO.
Mamdani: I am in support of abolishing ICE… I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life.
January 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Why can't Democratic leadership say this?
Because they DONT WANT TO.
Because they DONT WANT TO.