MyInnerSocialDemocrat
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“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” is, I fear, a sentence future kids may be made familiar with in history lessons.
January 19, 2026 at 12:48 PM
“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” is, I fear, a sentence future kids may be made familiar with in history lessons.
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Multi-layered “look what you made me do” lie.
Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).
Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).
![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 5:36 AM
Multi-layered “look what you made me do” lie.
Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).
Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).
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Counterpoint: they should also be saying "this is stupid and absolutely super duper illegal and anyone who goes along with it is going to prison"
the only thing Democrats should be saying on Greenland is "this is evil and wrong and if we do it we will be punished"
like do i trust bernie would oppose the annexation? yes. do i think this is good messaging that is what EU allies need? no
January 19, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Counterpoint: they should also be saying "this is stupid and absolutely super duper illegal and anyone who goes along with it is going to prison"
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what do you MEAN the NSC forwarded this to multiple Euro ambassadors
January 19, 2026 at 5:10 AM
what do you MEAN the NSC forwarded this to multiple Euro ambassadors
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If anyone is left to study American history in fifty years they’re not going to believe it
January 19, 2026 at 5:13 AM
If anyone is left to study American history in fifty years they’re not going to believe it
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Starting to become religious as it becomes clearer by the day that Trump was sent as divine punishment lol
January 19, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Starting to become religious as it becomes clearer by the day that Trump was sent as divine punishment lol
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This as not just a post, but a formal diplomatic demarche to European govts? Thinly veiled threat of US military aggression against ally (for now) Denmark? I really hope Europe is waking up to the threat they face
January 19, 2026 at 5:42 AM
This as not just a post, but a formal diplomatic demarche to European govts? Thinly veiled threat of US military aggression against ally (for now) Denmark? I really hope Europe is waking up to the threat they face
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this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
January 19, 2026 at 2:12 AM
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
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We need to cure people of the idea that they are Reasonable and Serious as long as they can locate themselves between two poles. Very few things are a spectrum as opposed to an archipelago of possible positions with only incidental relationships, and you have to make the argument for yours
January 18, 2026 at 11:42 PM
We need to cure people of the idea that they are Reasonable and Serious as long as they can locate themselves between two poles. Very few things are a spectrum as opposed to an archipelago of possible positions with only incidental relationships, and you have to make the argument for yours
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Once again reiterating that to be concerned about immigration is to be a gigantic fucking loser.
i simply don't think we need ICE and do not care how someone showed up in whatever place they happen to live.
January 18, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Once again reiterating that to be concerned about immigration is to be a gigantic fucking loser.
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Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
January 18, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
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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 10:05 PM
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.
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Again reminded of standing in the middle of my hometown one Saturday during the 2016 EU referendum politely trying to disagree with a Brexit-voting woman who kept saying "how can things get any worse?" - like... please have some imagination, I'm begging you
Fundamentally the lesson American voters took from Trump I and Stop the Steal is that Worse Things Aren't Possible imo
The North Atlantic Treaty was, to be fair, on the ballot in 2016, ‘20, and ‘24 and a decadent voting public made some horrible choices.
January 18, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Again reminded of standing in the middle of my hometown one Saturday during the 2016 EU referendum politely trying to disagree with a Brexit-voting woman who kept saying "how can things get any worse?" - like... please have some imagination, I'm begging you
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Planlos wie in der Pandemie. Seit 11/2024 hätte es in der BuReg eine hochrangige Taskforce zu Trump-Autokratie/Zerstörung der US-Demokratie geben müssen. Bis heute gibt es keine systematische & umfassende strategische Beschäftigung mit dem innenpolitischen Wandel beim wichtigsten Sicherheitspartner.
January 18, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Planlos wie in der Pandemie. Seit 11/2024 hätte es in der BuReg eine hochrangige Taskforce zu Trump-Autokratie/Zerstörung der US-Demokratie geben müssen. Bis heute gibt es keine systematische & umfassende strategische Beschäftigung mit dem innenpolitischen Wandel beim wichtigsten Sicherheitspartner.
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Bessent making it clear selling Greenland is a euphemism for Europe declaring itself a vassal continent.
WELKER: Is Greenland or NATO more vital to natl security?
BESSENT: That's obviously a false choice
W: Not to European leaders
B: They will come around & understand they need to be under the US security umbrella. What would happen in Ukraine if the US pulled support? The whole thing would collapse
BESSENT: That's obviously a false choice
W: Not to European leaders
B: They will come around & understand they need to be under the US security umbrella. What would happen in Ukraine if the US pulled support? The whole thing would collapse
January 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Bessent making it clear selling Greenland is a euphemism for Europe declaring itself a vassal continent.
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Jesus fucking christ, even the literal Vichyists are being less cowardly than British politicians.
January 18, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Jesus fucking christ, even the literal Vichyists are being less cowardly than British politicians.
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Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind.
Second Enlightenment level.
Second Enlightenment level.
We think of the postwar world order as having been built by the US. But as Getachew makes clear, that world order was completed by the intellectual giants of the African, pan-African and African diaspora liberation movements.
It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.
It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.
January 18, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind.
Second Enlightenment level.
Second Enlightenment level.
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No. Because there is no global majority. India, China, Brazil, and Nigeria really don’t have any more similarities in their foreign policy goals between each other than any one of them does to the EU.
If we hadn't been complicit on Palestine; if we hadn't appeased Trump on Venezuela, might the Global Majority have stood alongside Europe, with all of us stronger, on Greenland?
January 18, 2026 at 11:29 AM
No. Because there is no global majority. India, China, Brazil, and Nigeria really don’t have any more similarities in their foreign policy goals between each other than any one of them does to the EU.
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It’s unusually cold in Kyiv and Russia has wrecked Ukraine’s energy supply. The situation is seriously dire.
@lapatina.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org have set up a fundraiser for portable batteries for Kyiv. Please consider this if you can.
@lapatina.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org have set up a fundraiser for portable batteries for Kyiv. Please consider this if you can.
I'm in Kyiv. The energy crisis here is an emergency
Join my fundraiser to buy batteries and warm clothes for kids
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January 18, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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“The combination of extreme cold and wave after wave of Russian attacks are pushing Ukraine’s energy system to the edge,” Maxim Timchenko, CEO of DTEK, the largest private energy company, told FT. “We are facing an unprecedented threat and fighting for every megawatt.”
www.ft.com/content/ec1b...
www.ft.com/content/ec1b...
Russia unleashes ‘energy terror’ in bitter Ukrainian winter
Moscow targets energy system as Kyiv suffers minus 20C temperatures
www.ft.com
January 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM
“The combination of extreme cold and wave after wave of Russian attacks are pushing Ukraine’s energy system to the edge,” Maxim Timchenko, CEO of DTEK, the largest private energy company, told FT. “We are facing an unprecedented threat and fighting for every megawatt.”
www.ft.com/content/ec1b...
www.ft.com/content/ec1b...
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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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Trump is actually Hitler they govern the same lazy way.
He does not understand the act of either governing or let alone legislating. He understands only vague "decrees" that are not laws but only vague intent directives the lower ranks are encouraged to work towards bsky.app/profile/ixs....
He does not understand the act of either governing or let alone legislating. He understands only vague "decrees" that are not laws but only vague intent directives the lower ranks are encouraged to work towards bsky.app/profile/ixs....
Even better: How does Trump think setting tariffs on specific members of the single market works?
Hello? Yeah, please ship the stuff not to our German warehouse but instead to our Polish transshipment warehouse? Yeah. 10% cheaper that way.
Hello? Yeah, please ship the stuff not to our German warehouse but instead to our Polish transshipment warehouse? Yeah. 10% cheaper that way.
January 17, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Trump is actually Hitler they govern the same lazy way.
He does not understand the act of either governing or let alone legislating. He understands only vague "decrees" that are not laws but only vague intent directives the lower ranks are encouraged to work towards bsky.app/profile/ixs....
He does not understand the act of either governing or let alone legislating. He understands only vague "decrees" that are not laws but only vague intent directives the lower ranks are encouraged to work towards bsky.app/profile/ixs....
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Due to reasons, spending my Saturday evening reading about the Anti-Coercion Instrument
Anti-Coercion Instrument - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 17, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Due to reasons, spending my Saturday evening reading about the Anti-Coercion Instrument
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Everyone learning very quickly that nationalism is a political winner, and caving to US pressure sucks
NEW - Starmer says US "completely wrong" in threatening tariffs over Greenland
January 17, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Everyone learning very quickly that nationalism is a political winner, and caving to US pressure sucks