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You have to admit these letters from Trump to foreign governments would actually seem less bizarre if they had been written in crayon
January 20, 2026 at 1:44 AM
You have to admit these letters from Trump to foreign governments would actually seem less bizarre if they had been written in crayon
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Norway apologises for not presenting Trump with a Nobel Prize and sends an alternative as a peace offering #trumpawards
January 19, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Norway apologises for not presenting Trump with a Nobel Prize and sends an alternative as a peace offering #trumpawards
A plan of Trumps that doesn't add up? Truly shocking.
The centrepiece of Donald Trump’s expansive vision for the “Golden Fleet” is an enormous, Trump-class “battleship”. But his plans to improve America’s navy do not add up
A strategy that needs rethinking
The president’s plan for a “Golden Fleet” does not add up
econ.st
January 19, 2026 at 3:41 PM
A plan of Trumps that doesn't add up? Truly shocking.
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Considering Norway has not awarded me the Nobel Prize in Physics despite me following ALL of Newton’s and Einstein’s laws, I will be forced to think of myself and wage war on gravity
January 19, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Considering Norway has not awarded me the Nobel Prize in Physics despite me following ALL of Newton’s and Einstein’s laws, I will be forced to think of myself and wage war on gravity
The old "if you don't say I'm peaceful, I'm going to beat the crap out of you" gambit for winning the peace prize.
(NYT) - President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a message he sent to Norway’s prime minister over the weekend.
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...
January 19, 2026 at 2:06 PM
The old "if you don't say I'm peaceful, I'm going to beat the crap out of you" gambit for winning the peace prize.
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The only U.S. heavy icebreaker turns 50. That's an interesting landmark given recent U.S. criticism of other countries for not taking Arctic security seriously.
USCGC Polar Star, the U.S. Coast Guard’s only heavy icebreaker, turns 50. All U.S. military icebreakers are part of the Coast Guard; the Navy does not operate any vessels of this type.
militarnyi.com/en/news/u-s-...
militarnyi.com/en/news/u-s-...
U.S. Coast Guard’s Only Heavy Icebreaker Marks 50 Years in Service - Militarnyi
Polar Star can navigate ice up to 6 feet thick at 3 knots. Using a continuous ramming process, drive, strike, retreat, and strike again, it can penetrate ice up to 21 feet thick.
militarnyi.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:40 PM
The only U.S. heavy icebreaker turns 50. That's an interesting landmark given recent U.S. criticism of other countries for not taking Arctic security seriously.
Mental rsiliency and toughness are far more important to making a champion than is physical talent.
A new study has shown that it is not just that exceptional performance in childhood did not predict exceptional performance as an adult. The two were actually negatively correlated
Why child prodigies rarely become elite performers
Hot-housing promising youngsters works—but not as well as you might think
econ.st
January 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Mental rsiliency and toughness are far more important to making a champion than is physical talent.
A lot of them are looking for jobs with the administration and the lucrative private industry jobs that follow because they don't believe they'll have a job in Congress after the mid-terms.
1) Here's the thing: this Greenland thing is wildly unpopular. Like 50 points underwater. WTF is wrong with the GOP that they feel the need to run and defend this thing that the American people absolutely fucking do not want?!
Cruz: "When it comes to Greenland, I want to commend President Trump for being single-mindedly focused on America first... I believe it is overwhelmingly in America's national interest to acquire Greenland... the whole history of America has been a history of acquiring new lands and new territories"
January 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
A lot of them are looking for jobs with the administration and the lucrative private industry jobs that follow because they don't believe they'll have a job in Congress after the mid-terms.
This is something Canadians and Mexicans understood from the start and has guided their dealings with the US all along. It has been painful watching the European grovelling to Trump from Canada.
What Greenland shows is (as @davidallengreen.bsky.social argued last yr) Trump is an extortionist - give him s’thing, & he demands more, w more menaces. You can’t sustain an alliance like that. Question now is whether Europeans, incl UK & Ukraine, can unite to stand up to Trump as well as Putin. 2/2
January 18, 2026 at 3:57 PM
This is something Canadians and Mexicans understood from the start and has guided their dealings with the US all along. It has been painful watching the European grovelling to Trump from Canada.
Trump: the Sith apprentice. All ambition, no talent.
January 18, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Trump: the Sith apprentice. All ambition, no talent.
The optics are the point. The tactics chosen aren't effective for generating large numbers, they are effective for providing video for X. If the Trump regime was interested in actually deporting significant numbers, they would be using the Obama template and adding people to the task.
Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn
So the president doesn’t like the “optics” of what ICE is doing. But there’s no such thing as sanitized, popular mass deportations—and this is by design.
newrepublic.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:44 PM
The optics are the point. The tactics chosen aren't effective for generating large numbers, they are effective for providing video for X. If the Trump regime was interested in actually deporting significant numbers, they would be using the Obama template and adding people to the task.
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Sums it up.
Europeans, Canadians and Mexicans can't trust America again until America visibly changes in strategic approach and cultural outlook towards the world. Americans can't afford their hubris anymore.
Europeans, Canadians and Mexicans can't trust America again until America visibly changes in strategic approach and cultural outlook towards the world. Americans can't afford their hubris anymore.
January 18, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Sums it up.
Europeans, Canadians and Mexicans can't trust America again until America visibly changes in strategic approach and cultural outlook towards the world. Americans can't afford their hubris anymore.
Europeans, Canadians and Mexicans can't trust America again until America visibly changes in strategic approach and cultural outlook towards the world. Americans can't afford their hubris anymore.
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Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/
January 18, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/
Trump doesn't want Greenland for any US security interests. He wants Greenland because he thinks he can make money for himself by auctioning off the mineral rights in Greenland.
Friends, what kind of arguments are important on the issue of Greenland, in your opinion?
Evidently, President Trump believes that Greenland would make the United States more powerful. However, the opposite is more likely to happen⤵️
Evidently, President Trump believes that Greenland would make the United States more powerful. However, the opposite is more likely to happen⤵️
January 18, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Trump doesn't want Greenland for any US security interests. He wants Greenland because he thinks he can make money for himself by auctioning off the mineral rights in Greenland.
The irony in this is that Americans can in one breath talk about the dysfunctional system in Washington and in the next breath talk about how they are the most democratic nation in the world and the "beacon on the hill" to all other nations.
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Americans have a distorted political self-image.
They believe they have strong checks-and-balances - they don't.
They think they're prone to rebel against authority - obedience is the norm.
Domestic politics is played as if harmful foreign actors had no vote - by hook and by crook, they do.
Americans have a distorted political self-image.
They believe they have strong checks-and-balances - they don't.
They think they're prone to rebel against authority - obedience is the norm.
Domestic politics is played as if harmful foreign actors had no vote - by hook and by crook, they do.
January 18, 2026 at 2:14 PM
The irony in this is that Americans can in one breath talk about the dysfunctional system in Washington and in the next breath talk about how they are the most democratic nation in the world and the "beacon on the hill" to all other nations.
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Americans have a distorted political self-image.
They believe they have strong checks-and-balances - they don't.
They think they're prone to rebel against authority - obedience is the norm.
Domestic politics is played as if harmful foreign actors had no vote - by hook and by crook, they do.
Americans have a distorted political self-image.
They believe they have strong checks-and-balances - they don't.
They think they're prone to rebel against authority - obedience is the norm.
Domestic politics is played as if harmful foreign actors had no vote - by hook and by crook, they do.
January 18, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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Americans have a distorted political self-image.
They believe they have strong checks-and-balances - they don't.
They think they're prone to rebel against authority - obedience is the norm.
Domestic politics is played as if harmful foreign actors had no vote - by hook and by crook, they do.
Americans have a distorted political self-image.
They believe they have strong checks-and-balances - they don't.
They think they're prone to rebel against authority - obedience is the norm.
Domestic politics is played as if harmful foreign actors had no vote - by hook and by crook, they do.
This is why Trump is looking for forward sources of revenue that he can control without Congressional oversight or interference. Venezuelan oil or Greenland mineral concessions paid into foreign bank accounts under his control aren't necessarily about corruption.
Congress is quietly rejecting almost all of the deepest cuts to federal programs that Trump requested, turning back his efforts to slash foreign aid, global health, scientific research, the arts and more in a bipartisan repudiation. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
Congress Is Spurning Many of Trump’s Proposed Spending Cuts
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:29 PM
This is why Trump is looking for forward sources of revenue that he can control without Congressional oversight or interference. Venezuelan oil or Greenland mineral concessions paid into foreign bank accounts under his control aren't necessarily about corruption.
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The accuracy of any poll depends on the subjective opinion of the firm conducting the poll. A correction factor is applied to the responses to bring them in line with what the polling firm "thinks" the voter pool will actually look like. Who will show up to vote, is something they can only guess at.
Dems command a 4.2pt lead in the Generic Congressional Vote average of polls (WSJ D+4 released).
Very consistent since early December, no matter the pollster. Well, maybe not Atlas Intel!
Very consistent since early December, no matter the pollster. Well, maybe not Atlas Intel!
January 17, 2026 at 3:20 PM
The accuracy of any poll depends on the subjective opinion of the firm conducting the poll. A correction factor is applied to the responses to bring them in line with what the polling firm "thinks" the voter pool will actually look like. Who will show up to vote, is something they can only guess at.
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1/ Donald Trump isn't the first person to be given someone else's Nobel Prize medal. The last recipient of an unearned Nobel medal was none other than Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, at the instigation of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. ⬇️
January 16, 2026 at 6:35 PM
1/ Donald Trump isn't the first person to be given someone else's Nobel Prize medal. The last recipient of an unearned Nobel medal was none other than Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, at the instigation of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. ⬇️
She should have recognized a decade ago that she belongs in the pages of the history books, not the halls of power. The future belongs to generations of Ukrainians who did not come of age in the era of Soviet corruption, who don't believe that bribes are the only way to get things done.
They called Yulia Tymoshenko Ukraine's Joan of Arc. She survived oligarch wars, the Orange Revolution, prison under Yanukovych, and three presidential runs.
In July, she called parliament's vote to gut anti-corruption agencies "the brightest day."
In July, she called parliament's vote to gut anti-corruption agencies "the brightest day."
January 17, 2026 at 1:49 PM
She should have recognized a decade ago that she belongs in the pages of the history books, not the halls of power. The future belongs to generations of Ukrainians who did not come of age in the era of Soviet corruption, who don't believe that bribes are the only way to get things done.
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Net-Support For A New Oil Pipeline From Alberta To BC's Coast:
🟢 All: +44%
🟢 Conservatives: +69%
🟢 Liberals: +42%
🟢 NDP: +7%
🟢 Albertans: +72%
🟢 British Columbians: +25%
Abacus Data / Jan 14, 2026 / n=1850 / Online
🟢 All: +44%
🟢 Conservatives: +69%
🟢 Liberals: +42%
🟢 NDP: +7%
🟢 Albertans: +72%
🟢 British Columbians: +25%
Abacus Data / Jan 14, 2026 / n=1850 / Online
January 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Net-Support For A New Oil Pipeline From Alberta To BC's Coast:
🟢 All: +44%
🟢 Conservatives: +69%
🟢 Liberals: +42%
🟢 NDP: +7%
🟢 Albertans: +72%
🟢 British Columbians: +25%
Abacus Data / Jan 14, 2026 / n=1850 / Online
🟢 All: +44%
🟢 Conservatives: +69%
🟢 Liberals: +42%
🟢 NDP: +7%
🟢 Albertans: +72%
🟢 British Columbians: +25%
Abacus Data / Jan 14, 2026 / n=1850 / Online
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Support For A New Oil Pipeline From Alberta To BC's Coast:
Support: 62%
Oppose: 18%
Abacus Data / Jan 14, 2026 / n=1850 / Online
Support: 62%
Oppose: 18%
Abacus Data / Jan 14, 2026 / n=1850 / Online
January 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Support For A New Oil Pipeline From Alberta To BC's Coast:
Support: 62%
Oppose: 18%
Abacus Data / Jan 14, 2026 / n=1850 / Online
Support: 62%
Oppose: 18%
Abacus Data / Jan 14, 2026 / n=1850 / Online