Christian Dimmer
@remmid.bsky.social
dad／urbanist／assoc.prof. transition design + urban studies｜waseda university｜Tokyo｜co-learning／co-design｜public spaces／spheres｜urban practices／theories｜place {un}making／becoming｜climate + sustainability／resilience
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I hate this, but I felt compelled to return to Twitter temporarily and turn myself into a bot for retweeting pro-democracy, pro–rule of law content. You might consider doing the same to help crowd out pro-totalitarian voices there.
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“It’s the silence of the elites that is poisoning the public (in the struggled to hold Trump accountable).”
— Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark to Bill Kristol
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
@thebulwark.com @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
youtu.be/vzCpjNPfvjk?...
— Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark to Bill Kristol
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
@thebulwark.com @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
youtu.be/vzCpjNPfvjk?...
Trump Voters Don’t Know What to Believe About the Shooting (w/ Bill Kristol) | Focus Group Podcast
YouTube video by The Bulwark
youtu.be
January 18, 2026 at 2:21 AM
“It’s the silence of the elites that is poisoning the public (in the struggled to hold Trump accountable).”
— Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark to Bill Kristol
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
@thebulwark.com @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
youtu.be/vzCpjNPfvjk?...
— Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark to Bill Kristol
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
@thebulwark.com @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
youtu.be/vzCpjNPfvjk?...
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“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
— Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (1776)
This moment marks a test of character: figures like Vance & Rubio have reversed course and abandoned their stated principles, while most good-faith U.S. citizens continue to do what they can to help & resist.
— Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (1776)
This moment marks a test of character: figures like Vance & Rubio have reversed course and abandoned their stated principles, while most good-faith U.S. citizens continue to do what they can to help & resist.
"Neighbors in neon vests dot the neighborhood... Information-sharing networks have been built. Residents have connected with non-profits and churches to deliver food to people who are locked in their homes out of fear. Resistance signs are everywhere..."
www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...
So, How’s the Occupation Going for You?
What’s it like to live in America with a domestic military occupation? Minnesota has the answer.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:02 AM
“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
— Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (1776)
This moment marks a test of character: figures like Vance & Rubio have reversed course and abandoned their stated principles, while most good-faith U.S. citizens continue to do what they can to help & resist.
— Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (1776)
This moment marks a test of character: figures like Vance & Rubio have reversed course and abandoned their stated principles, while most good-faith U.S. citizens continue to do what they can to help & resist.
Reposted by Christian Dimmer
History warns us: The Guns of August & Clark’s The Sleepwalkers show how great powers drift into crises through miscalculation & bravado. The #Greenland situation feels uncomfortably similar—small moves, big symbols, and leaders (in the U.S. Congress) assuming it will all work out…until it doesn’t.
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 AM
History warns us: The Guns of August & Clark’s The Sleepwalkers show how great powers drift into crises through miscalculation & bravado. The #Greenland situation feels uncomfortably similar—small moves, big symbols, and leaders (in the U.S. Congress) assuming it will all work out…until it doesn’t.
Reposted by Christian Dimmer
Only the oldest among us—or so it seems—remember a time when such blatant breaches of etiquette would have led to an outcry in U.S. media and swift resignation. After a single year of Trump’s rule —which feels like a century—marked by a deluge of broken taboos that is no longer remotely conceivable.
Trump officials are now threatening to attack and annex Iceland.
January 18, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Only the oldest among us—or so it seems—remember a time when such blatant breaches of etiquette would have led to an outcry in U.S. media and swift resignation. After a single year of Trump’s rule —which feels like a century—marked by a deluge of broken taboos that is no longer remotely conceivable.
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The 1964 LBJ “Daisy” ad warned how recklessness could end in catastrophe. Trump’s volatile, impulsive geopolitics revive that same fear: power wielded without restraint, assuming the worst won’t happen—until it does. Congress, please exercise your constitutional role and stop this!
"Daisy" Ad (1964): Preserved from 35mm in the Tony Schwartz Collection
YouTube video by Library of Congress
youtu.be
January 18, 2026 at 1:43 AM
The 1964 LBJ “Daisy” ad warned how recklessness could end in catastrophe. Trump’s volatile, impulsive geopolitics revive that same fear: power wielded without restraint, assuming the worst won’t happen—until it does. Congress, please exercise your constitutional role and stop this!
“It’s the silence of the elites that is poisoning the public (in the struggled to hold Trump accountable).”
— Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark to Bill Kristol
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
@thebulwark.com @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
youtu.be/vzCpjNPfvjk?...
— Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark to Bill Kristol
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
@thebulwark.com @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
youtu.be/vzCpjNPfvjk?...
Trump Voters Don’t Know What to Believe About the Shooting (w/ Bill Kristol) | Focus Group Podcast
YouTube video by The Bulwark
youtu.be
January 18, 2026 at 2:21 AM
“It’s the silence of the elites that is poisoning the public (in the struggled to hold Trump accountable).”
— Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark to Bill Kristol
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
@thebulwark.com @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
youtu.be/vzCpjNPfvjk?...
— Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark to Bill Kristol
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
@thebulwark.com @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
youtu.be/vzCpjNPfvjk?...
The 1964 LBJ “Daisy” ad warned how recklessness could end in catastrophe. Trump’s volatile, impulsive geopolitics revive that same fear: power wielded without restraint, assuming the worst won’t happen—until it does. Congress, please exercise your constitutional role and stop this!
"Daisy" Ad (1964): Preserved from 35mm in the Tony Schwartz Collection
YouTube video by Library of Congress
youtu.be
January 18, 2026 at 1:43 AM
The 1964 LBJ “Daisy” ad warned how recklessness could end in catastrophe. Trump’s volatile, impulsive geopolitics revive that same fear: power wielded without restraint, assuming the worst won’t happen—until it does. Congress, please exercise your constitutional role and stop this!
Reposted by Christian Dimmer
I hate this, but I felt compelled to return to Twitter temporarily and turn myself into a bot for retweeting pro-democracy, pro–rule of law content. You might consider doing the same to help crowd out pro-totalitarian voices there.
January 14, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I hate this, but I felt compelled to return to Twitter temporarily and turn myself into a bot for retweeting pro-democracy, pro–rule of law content. You might consider doing the same to help crowd out pro-totalitarian voices there.
Reposted by Christian Dimmer
"License plate readers and personal data from car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists
MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...
www.mprnews.org
January 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
"License plate readers and personal data from car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Only the oldest among us—or so it seems—remember a time when such blatant breaches of etiquette would have led to an outcry in U.S. media and swift resignation. After a single year of Trump’s rule —which feels like a century—marked by a deluge of broken taboos that is no longer remotely conceivable.
Trump officials are now threatening to attack and annex Iceland.
January 18, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Only the oldest among us—or so it seems—remember a time when such blatant breaches of etiquette would have led to an outcry in U.S. media and swift resignation. After a single year of Trump’s rule —which feels like a century—marked by a deluge of broken taboos that is no longer remotely conceivable.
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He's been wearing this Nazi-look greatcoat for months.
Greg Bovino was seen earlier today at the Minneapolis ICE facility dressed in a very nazi-inspired outfit. They don’t even hide anymore.
January 17, 2026 at 10:01 PM
He's been wearing this Nazi-look greatcoat for months.
History warns us: The Guns of August & Clark’s The Sleepwalkers show how great powers drift into crises through miscalculation & bravado. The #Greenland situation feels uncomfortably similar—small moves, big symbols, and leaders (in the U.S. Congress) assuming it will all work out…until it doesn’t.
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 AM
History warns us: The Guns of August & Clark’s The Sleepwalkers show how great powers drift into crises through miscalculation & bravado. The #Greenland situation feels uncomfortably similar—small moves, big symbols, and leaders (in the U.S. Congress) assuming it will all work out…until it doesn’t.
“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
— Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (1776)
This moment marks a test of character: figures like Vance & Rubio have reversed course and abandoned their stated principles, while most good-faith U.S. citizens continue to do what they can to help & resist.
— Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (1776)
This moment marks a test of character: figures like Vance & Rubio have reversed course and abandoned their stated principles, while most good-faith U.S. citizens continue to do what they can to help & resist.
"Neighbors in neon vests dot the neighborhood... Information-sharing networks have been built. Residents have connected with non-profits and churches to deliver food to people who are locked in their homes out of fear. Resistance signs are everywhere..."
www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...
So, How’s the Occupation Going for You?
What’s it like to live in America with a domestic military occupation? Minnesota has the answer.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:02 AM
“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
— Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (1776)
This moment marks a test of character: figures like Vance & Rubio have reversed course and abandoned their stated principles, while most good-faith U.S. citizens continue to do what they can to help & resist.
— Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (1776)
This moment marks a test of character: figures like Vance & Rubio have reversed course and abandoned their stated principles, while most good-faith U.S. citizens continue to do what they can to help & resist.
After 9/11, the U.S. invoked NATO’s Article 5 for the 1st—and only—time. Troops from Denmark, the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Finland and others fought in Afghanistan, where over 1,000 paid the ultimate sacrifice.
January 17, 2026 at 11:51 PM
After 9/11, the U.S. invoked NATO’s Article 5 for the 1st—and only—time. Troops from Denmark, the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Finland and others fought in Afghanistan, where over 1,000 paid the ultimate sacrifice.
The off-ramp is rapidly disappearing, and I wish the United States had a Congress willing to stop this madness. Trump and his handlers are sleepwalking the world into escalating instability, and the window to prevent even greater damage is rapidly closing.
BREAKING: Trump Threatens Europe Over Greenland; Europe Responds
YouTube video by The Bulwark
youtu.be
January 17, 2026 at 10:55 PM
The off-ramp is rapidly disappearing, and I wish the United States had a Congress willing to stop this madness. Trump and his handlers are sleepwalking the world into escalating instability, and the window to prevent even greater damage is rapidly closing.
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#GVerse #BreakingNews
Thousands of Danes and Greenlanders are protesting #Shit4Brain’s annexation efforts today in Copenhagen to make clear we shouldn’t annex Greenland.
We stand with our NATO partners.
Thousands of Danes and Greenlanders are protesting #Shit4Brain’s annexation efforts today in Copenhagen to make clear we shouldn’t annex Greenland.
We stand with our NATO partners.
January 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM
#GVerse #BreakingNews
Thousands of Danes and Greenlanders are protesting #Shit4Brain’s annexation efforts today in Copenhagen to make clear we shouldn’t annex Greenland.
We stand with our NATO partners.
Thousands of Danes and Greenlanders are protesting #Shit4Brain’s annexation efforts today in Copenhagen to make clear we shouldn’t annex Greenland.
We stand with our NATO partners.
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That's according to energy historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, whose 2025 book More and More and More is a splash of ice-cold Evian on the California-SunKist Abundance discourse.
(He even calls out Vaclav Smil for being overly optimistic!)
(He even calls out Vaclav Smil for being overly optimistic!)
January 15, 2026 at 9:35 PM
That's according to energy historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, whose 2025 book More and More and More is a splash of ice-cold Evian on the California-SunKist Abundance discourse.
(He even calls out Vaclav Smil for being overly optimistic!)
(He even calls out Vaclav Smil for being overly optimistic!)
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"After 2 centuries of 'energy transitions', humanity has never burned so much oil and gas, so much coal, and so much wood."
Solar and renewables aren't replacing fossil fuels, just as EVs aren't replacing gas-powered cars.
There is no energy transition.
It's just more and more and more...
🧵
Solar and renewables aren't replacing fossil fuels, just as EVs aren't replacing gas-powered cars.
There is no energy transition.
It's just more and more and more...
🧵
January 15, 2026 at 9:35 PM
"After 2 centuries of 'energy transitions', humanity has never burned so much oil and gas, so much coal, and so much wood."
Solar and renewables aren't replacing fossil fuels, just as EVs aren't replacing gas-powered cars.
There is no energy transition.
It's just more and more and more...
🧵
Solar and renewables aren't replacing fossil fuels, just as EVs aren't replacing gas-powered cars.
There is no energy transition.
It's just more and more and more...
🧵
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Ted Cruz, 2016
“We’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark.“
Remember?
“We’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark.“
Remember?
Cruz: Trump "Would Have Nuked Denmark."
YouTube video by America Now
youtu.be
January 16, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Ted Cruz, 2016
“We’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark.“
Remember?
“We’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark.“
Remember?
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Europeans have real leverage in the face of Donald Trump’s threats towards Greenland and time on their side. They must use it to raise the prospective costs of annexation. @ecfreuropeansec.bsky.social
ecfr.eu/article/arct...
ecfr.eu/article/arct...
Arctic hold‘em: Ten European cards in Greenland – European Council on Foreign Relations
Europeans have real leverage in the face of Donald Trump’s threats towards Greenland—and time on their side. They must use it to raise the prospective costs of
ecfr.eu
January 16, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Europeans have real leverage in the face of Donald Trump’s threats towards Greenland and time on their side. They must use it to raise the prospective costs of annexation. @ecfreuropeansec.bsky.social
ecfr.eu/article/arct...
ecfr.eu/article/arct...
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It’s even more embarrassing than I imagined.
January 16, 2026 at 2:33 AM
It’s even more embarrassing than I imagined.
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Ben Santer, an outstanding scientist and historically significant figure in the development of understanding of climate change, is relocating to the UK. Very much looking forward to him visiting the @metoffice.gov.uk to talk about our common research interests.
NEW – Prof Ben Santer: Trump administration is ‘embracing ignorance’ on climate science | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org
Read here:
Read here:
Prof Ben Santer: Trump administration is ‘embracing ignorance’ on climate science - Carbon Brief
In an interview with Carbon Brief, Santer says the Trump administration is “engaged in a systematic attempt to dismantle climate science”
buff.ly
January 16, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Ben Santer, an outstanding scientist and historically significant figure in the development of understanding of climate change, is relocating to the UK. Very much looking forward to him visiting the @metoffice.gov.uk to talk about our common research interests.
Ted Cruz, 2016
“We’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark.“
Remember?
“We’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark.“
Remember?
Cruz: Trump "Would Have Nuked Denmark."
YouTube video by America Now
youtu.be
January 16, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Ted Cruz, 2016
“We’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark.“
Remember?
“We’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark.“
Remember?
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“Boy, when I went to American history I did not think … literally the material that I am going to talk about today would cover an entire administration in any other presidency and we’re doing it all in this 1 day. And it’s every day like this.”
—Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social for you guidance!
—Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social for you guidance!
Politics Chat, January 15, 2026
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:51 AM
“Boy, when I went to American history I did not think … literally the material that I am going to talk about today would cover an entire administration in any other presidency and we’re doing it all in this 1 day. And it’s every day like this.”
—Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social for you guidance!
—Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social for you guidance!
Japan’s one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world—it always has been. Over centuries, a “disaster culture” has developed as people adapted their social practices& cities to constant threat, cultivating both individual& community resilience. The next Tokyo quake is just around the corner.
The probability of an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8-8.5 occurring along the Chishima Trench off the city of Nemuro in Hokkaido within 30 years has risen to around 90%, according to a Japanese government panel.
Hokkaido megaquake probability rises to around 90%, says panel
The panel estimated the probability of an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8-8.5 occurring along the Chishima Trench off the city of Nemuro in Hokkaido within 30 years.
ebx.sh
January 16, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Japan’s one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world—it always has been. Over centuries, a “disaster culture” has developed as people adapted their social practices& cities to constant threat, cultivating both individual& community resilience. The next Tokyo quake is just around the corner.