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One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
January 22, 2026 at 3:30 AM
One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
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An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 9:18 PM
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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The Trump disbelief that the Norwegian govt doesn't control the Nobel process is deeply indicative of his thinking. He can't conceive that an institution could (or should) be genuinely independent of coercion or political power. That's the change he represents.
Trump: "I should have gotten the Nobel prize for each war...I saved millions and millions of people...and don't let anyone tell you that Norway doesn't control the shots. It's in Norway. Norway controls the shots. It's a joke. They've lost such prestige.“
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 PM
The Trump disbelief that the Norwegian govt doesn't control the Nobel process is deeply indicative of his thinking. He can't conceive that an institution could (or should) be genuinely independent of coercion or political power. That's the change he represents.
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Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
January 21, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
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the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.
Genuinely insane we are living in a world where the Danish have to deploy a battlegroup to protect themselves against America. Makes my blood turn molten, honestly
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January 20, 2026 at 10:32 PM
the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.
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The most beautiful thing about ‘when it happens’ is that when you turn around and say, “oh my god I think it might be happening” and you will finally be right.
January 21, 2026 at 4:45 AM
The most beautiful thing about ‘when it happens’ is that when you turn around and say, “oh my god I think it might be happening” and you will finally be right.
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I wish I could be more confident we're not gonna be in the thermostatic enshitification ratchet until the end of time
January 21, 2026 at 3:01 AM
I wish I could be more confident we're not gonna be in the thermostatic enshitification ratchet until the end of time
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We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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im not going to lecture europeans (in my capacity as an american at least) but i do think we get to be a bit sad at this right? like. everything is getting worse and its the fault of our neighbors. that is a particular sort of humiliation.
January 19, 2026 at 10:13 AM
im not going to lecture europeans (in my capacity as an american at least) but i do think we get to be a bit sad at this right? like. everything is getting worse and its the fault of our neighbors. that is a particular sort of humiliation.
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Us and the lxds at the Battle of Nuuk because Americans couldn't bear to vote for a woman
January 19, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Us and the lxds at the Battle of Nuuk because Americans couldn't bear to vote for a woman
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Below I paste a message sent by Trump to the prime minister of Norway.
This is an emergency. Every member of Congress, Republican and Democratic alike, must demand Trump's immediate resignation. He wants to destroy everything.
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel
This is an emergency. Every member of Congress, Republican and Democratic alike, must demand Trump's immediate resignation. He wants to destroy everything.
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel
January 19, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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Question in Copenhagen: why is Trump focussed on a Russian threat that doesn't exist (in Greenland) as opposed to one where it does (Ukraine)?
January 19, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Question in Copenhagen: why is Trump focussed on a Russian threat that doesn't exist (in Greenland) as opposed to one where it does (Ukraine)?
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Interesting psychological games the Russians are playing ... "Kremlin says Trump would 'certainly go down in history' if he took Greenland" www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
January 19, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Interesting psychological games the Russians are playing ... "Kremlin says Trump would 'certainly go down in history' if he took Greenland" www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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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 8:35 AM
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.
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Good lord.
If Trump seizes Greenland, he will have launched an unprovoked attack on a treaty ally, a true knife in the back of an old friend who bled for us in Afghanistan.
THAT, not healthcare, not anything else, is the story.
Trump proposes to rob and murder our old friends, are we to let him?
If Trump seizes Greenland, he will have launched an unprovoked attack on a treaty ally, a true knife in the back of an old friend who bled for us in Afghanistan.
THAT, not healthcare, not anything else, is the story.
Trump proposes to rob and murder our old friends, are we to let him?
i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe
January 19, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Good lord.
If Trump seizes Greenland, he will have launched an unprovoked attack on a treaty ally, a true knife in the back of an old friend who bled for us in Afghanistan.
THAT, not healthcare, not anything else, is the story.
Trump proposes to rob and murder our old friends, are we to let him?
If Trump seizes Greenland, he will have launched an unprovoked attack on a treaty ally, a true knife in the back of an old friend who bled for us in Afghanistan.
THAT, not healthcare, not anything else, is the story.
Trump proposes to rob and murder our old friends, are we to let him?
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Every once in a while I remember that as an adult I learned the word cuck from a presidential campaign. That doesn't seem like a thing that should have happened
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Every once in a while I remember that as an adult I learned the word cuck from a presidential campaign. That doesn't seem like a thing that should have happened
This is fucking insulting. That useless old man needs to retire.
i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe
January 19, 2026 at 4:09 AM
This is fucking insulting. That useless old man needs to retire.
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The basic problem is that high-quality journalism is not a viable market product. If it is not protected from market forces, it will inevitably degenerate into the ragetainment that dominates these days.
Ragetainment is what, measured on a pure impulsive will-they-click-it basis, the public wants.
Ragetainment is what, measured on a pure impulsive will-they-click-it basis, the public wants.
January 16, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The basic problem is that high-quality journalism is not a viable market product. If it is not protected from market forces, it will inevitably degenerate into the ragetainment that dominates these days.
Ragetainment is what, measured on a pure impulsive will-they-click-it basis, the public wants.
Ragetainment is what, measured on a pure impulsive will-they-click-it basis, the public wants.
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Want modernity? Vote Dem.
The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session:
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
These will all go to 2026 referendums.
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
These will all go to 2026 referendums.
January 17, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Want modernity? Vote Dem.
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The answer to this riddle, of course, is that people's feelings about the economy are derived not from objective circumstances, but from the information environment, from the sources they trust, from their friends and family. Changing objective circumstances will not change that.
January 18, 2026 at 6:50 PM
The answer to this riddle, of course, is that people's feelings about the economy are derived not from objective circumstances, but from the information environment, from the sources they trust, from their friends and family. Changing objective circumstances will not change that.
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For decades we stood by and let assholes say over & over again that the government is incompetent and federal bureaucrats are greedy and stupid. After all, the assholes are "real Americans," and we can't argue with Real Americans. We just have to understand them harder.
January 18, 2026 at 7:18 PM
For decades we stood by and let assholes say over & over again that the government is incompetent and federal bureaucrats are greedy and stupid. After all, the assholes are "real Americans," and we can't argue with Real Americans. We just have to understand them harder.
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For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply.
Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
The Purged
Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.
www.theatlantic.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:17 PM
For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply.
Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.