Nick Durant
@skeowsha.bsky.social
Playwright, librarian and children’s writer
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Game on.
Time for his former European allies to start dumping treasury bonds.
Things are going to get very very expensive in the US of A
Time for his former European allies to start dumping treasury bonds.
Things are going to get very very expensive in the US of A
January 17, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Game on.
Time for his former European allies to start dumping treasury bonds.
Things are going to get very very expensive in the US of A
Time for his former European allies to start dumping treasury bonds.
Things are going to get very very expensive in the US of A
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If you listen very carefully, you can hear Charles de Gaulle screaming I BLOODY TOLD YOU SO from some rural French cemetery.
January 17, 2026 at 5:59 PM
If you listen very carefully, you can hear Charles de Gaulle screaming I BLOODY TOLD YOU SO from some rural French cemetery.
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I understand that this would delight the America first crowd and their ideological allies in Russia. My question is more what level of aggression makes the status quo untenable. If American forces fire on EU troops for example…
January 17, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I understand that this would delight the America first crowd and their ideological allies in Russia. My question is more what level of aggression makes the status quo untenable. If American forces fire on EU troops for example…
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I am wondering at what point some variant of "it would be good for Beitain to move closer to Europe" becomes a significant strain of thought in Europe again. I understand why there is caution - but it still feels like there must come a point where the advantages outweigh the bullshit
January 17, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I am wondering at what point some variant of "it would be good for Beitain to move closer to Europe" becomes a significant strain of thought in Europe again. I understand why there is caution - but it still feels like there must come a point where the advantages outweigh the bullshit
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The EU cut a deal with Trump on tariffs, hoping it would get him off their backs. Hopefully they have learned the lesson: any concession simply invites more demands. The only way to beat a bully is to tell him to go to hell.
January 17, 2026 at 6:54 PM
The EU cut a deal with Trump on tariffs, hoping it would get him off their backs. Hopefully they have learned the lesson: any concession simply invites more demands. The only way to beat a bully is to tell him to go to hell.
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I think the most important phenomenon of Trump-era politics that people don't understand is that if people have to pretend to believe something for long enough they eventually start believing it for real.
I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 6:52 PM
I think the most important phenomenon of Trump-era politics that people don't understand is that if people have to pretend to believe something for long enough they eventually start believing it for real.
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Keir Starmer says Trump’s threat to impose tariffs over Greenland ‘completely wrong’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Keir Starmer says Trump’s threat to impose tariffs over Greenland ‘completely wrong’
Prime minister and opposition politicians condemn threat to impose 10% tariff unless deal reached to buy the Arctic island
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Keir Starmer says Trump’s threat to impose tariffs over Greenland ‘completely wrong’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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As the famous saying goes….”The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” Likewise, the best time to start weaning ourselves off dependence on the US……..
January 17, 2026 at 7:41 PM
As the famous saying goes….”The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” Likewise, the best time to start weaning ourselves off dependence on the US……..
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We don't need to play games parsing US law or international treaties to figure out if it's legal for Trump to do this. It's not. It's crystal clear it's all illegal. Everyone's just pretending we're not at the point where the thing to do is to remove him. It's an advanced state of political denial.
Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
French troops deploying to Greenland because the United States might try to take it over.
Today in 2026 sentences.
Today in 2026 sentences.
January 17, 2026 at 7:28 PM
We don't need to play games parsing US law or international treaties to figure out if it's legal for Trump to do this. It's not. It's crystal clear it's all illegal. Everyone's just pretending we're not at the point where the thing to do is to remove him. It's an advanced state of political denial.
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Another manifestation of the political genius of David Cameron was holding the referendum six months *before* the 2016 US election.
"🎵🎶🎵 pom-pom-pom 🎶🎵🎶" indeed.
"🎵🎶🎵 pom-pom-pom 🎶🎵🎶" indeed.
Brexit increasingly resembles a middle-aged man insisting on going off on a remote wild camping trip shortly before the arrival of a mini Ice Age.
January 17, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Another manifestation of the political genius of David Cameron was holding the referendum six months *before* the 2016 US election.
"🎵🎶🎵 pom-pom-pom 🎶🎵🎶" indeed.
"🎵🎶🎵 pom-pom-pom 🎶🎵🎶" indeed.
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Europe has - in technical terms - an absolute sod load of potential economic leverage over the United States.
It has turned the other cheek due to security concerns.
The US seems intent on demonstrating that it will not guarantee European security.
So Europe may start using that leverage.
It has turned the other cheek due to security concerns.
The US seems intent on demonstrating that it will not guarantee European security.
So Europe may start using that leverage.
January 17, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Europe has - in technical terms - an absolute sod load of potential economic leverage over the United States.
It has turned the other cheek due to security concerns.
The US seems intent on demonstrating that it will not guarantee European security.
So Europe may start using that leverage.
It has turned the other cheek due to security concerns.
The US seems intent on demonstrating that it will not guarantee European security.
So Europe may start using that leverage.
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What Europe could do is threaten to boycott the World Cup. It won't. But that might actually work. Trump wants his big show.
January 17, 2026 at 6:51 PM
What Europe could do is threaten to boycott the World Cup. It won't. But that might actually work. Trump wants his big show.
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The EU should be cutting ads featuring Danish and other families who lost loved ones fighting in America's stupid recent wars and airing them in every swing district.
January 17, 2026 at 7:44 PM
The EU should be cutting ads featuring Danish and other families who lost loved ones fighting in America's stupid recent wars and airing them in every swing district.
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Macron now refers to "intimidation or threat", explicitly comparing US behaviour in Greenland to Russia's approach to Ukraine. Sweden's PM says: "We will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed". Much, tougher language from Europeans than we have seen before, responding to the US escalation.
January 17, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Macron now refers to "intimidation or threat", explicitly comparing US behaviour in Greenland to Russia's approach to Ukraine. Sweden's PM says: "We will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed". Much, tougher language from Europeans than we have seen before, responding to the US escalation.
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When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways
The top 10% now account for nearly half of all consumer spending.
January 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM
When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways
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Iratxe García Pérez, leader of the Socialist group:
"Trump’s 25% tariffs on allies supporting Greenland against his imperialist threats are unacceptable.
We must act now: suspend negotiations on the EU-US trade deal and activate the Anti-Coercion Instrument.
The EU will not bow to intimidation."
"Trump’s 25% tariffs on allies supporting Greenland against his imperialist threats are unacceptable.
We must act now: suspend negotiations on the EU-US trade deal and activate the Anti-Coercion Instrument.
The EU will not bow to intimidation."
Manfred Weber, the leader of the EPP, says the approval of the EU-US trade deal should be "put on hold" in response to Trump's 10% tariff threat.
Until today, the EPP, the largest group in the European Parliament, wanted to move forward with ratification despite the Greenland tensions.
Until today, the EPP, the largest group in the European Parliament, wanted to move forward with ratification despite the Greenland tensions.
January 17, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Iratxe García Pérez, leader of the Socialist group:
"Trump’s 25% tariffs on allies supporting Greenland against his imperialist threats are unacceptable.
We must act now: suspend negotiations on the EU-US trade deal and activate the Anti-Coercion Instrument.
The EU will not bow to intimidation."
"Trump’s 25% tariffs on allies supporting Greenland against his imperialist threats are unacceptable.
We must act now: suspend negotiations on the EU-US trade deal and activate the Anti-Coercion Instrument.
The EU will not bow to intimidation."
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Bingo. These idiots should NEVER be heard from ever again.
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Bingo. These idiots should NEVER be heard from ever again.
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Trump could eventually become a serious problem for Reform (without necessarily becoming any better news for Labour)
January 17, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Trump could eventually become a serious problem for Reform (without necessarily becoming any better news for Labour)
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Place yer bets now on whether kunnesberg will ask Farage tomorrow if he will change his current address of ‘up Trump’s back passage’ since he claims to be a ‘patriot’ and Trump is harming and threatening the uk. What d’ya reckon?
January 17, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Place yer bets now on whether kunnesberg will ask Farage tomorrow if he will change his current address of ‘up Trump’s back passage’ since he claims to be a ‘patriot’ and Trump is harming and threatening the uk. What d’ya reckon?
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I can't repeat this enough.
I've said this before and I'll say it again.
It would only take a tiny handful of Republican Congress members or senators to stop the slide of America toward authoritarian fascism, but nope. They're all in.
It would only take a tiny handful of Republican Congress members or senators to stop the slide of America toward authoritarian fascism, but nope. They're all in.
January 17, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I can't repeat this enough.
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If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head
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the fact that Republican senators like Schmitt can’t even write a fascist screed on their own and instead have to rely on chatGPT perfectly captures the unique combination of evil and stupid that defines the modern Republican Party
January 17, 2026 at 7:16 PM
the fact that Republican senators like Schmitt can’t even write a fascist screed on their own and instead have to rely on chatGPT perfectly captures the unique combination of evil and stupid that defines the modern Republican Party
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Just a month ago the UK agreed to a deal in which the NHS has to pay £3bn a year more for US drugs.
The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs.
Today that deal has been broken by the USA.
The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.
The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs.
Today that deal has been broken by the USA.
The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.
January 17, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Just a month ago the UK agreed to a deal in which the NHS has to pay £3bn a year more for US drugs.
The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs.
Today that deal has been broken by the USA.
The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.
The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs.
Today that deal has been broken by the USA.
The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.
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New US-Tariffs for several nations are unbelievable. This is no way to treat partners. A new line has been crossed. Unacceptable.
POTUS is using trade as an instrument of political coercion. The EU cannot simply move on to business as usual (1/3)
POTUS is using trade as an instrument of political coercion. The EU cannot simply move on to business as usual (1/3)
January 17, 2026 at 7:21 PM
New US-Tariffs for several nations are unbelievable. This is no way to treat partners. A new line has been crossed. Unacceptable.
POTUS is using trade as an instrument of political coercion. The EU cannot simply move on to business as usual (1/3)
POTUS is using trade as an instrument of political coercion. The EU cannot simply move on to business as usual (1/3)