Broken beyond repair.

Trump’s posturing over Greenland has irrevocably changed the transatlantic relationship, even after he backed away Wednesday from his threats of a US takeover of the Danish autonomous territory, European officials told CNN.

One European diplomat, speaking anonymously, described the last week as a “whirlwind of absurdity that damages transatlantic relations, distracts from Ukraine, and makes China and Russia very happy.”

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Trump ruled out using military force to annex Greenland in his keynote speech at Davos on Wednesday, and he went on to drop his threatened tariffs and announce “the framework of a future deal” over the island after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

But the diplomatic chaos he unleashed over the last

Ah yes the old “It was another guy, you don’t know him, he doesn’t go to this school” alibi.

The judge in the Sandie Peggie Employment Tribunal case has laid blame on a “judicial colleague” for the numerous errors in his ruling.

Cool cool.

Wait a second.

What?

Aren’t judges kind of expected to do their own homework? If they consult colleagues isn’t it still their responsibility to get it right? Kind of like the military, where the top brass is not supposed to blame the troops for failure?

Judge Sandy Kemp insisted that he did not us AI to help him write his 312-page judgment in the case, which has now been corrected a number of times.

His claim

Your basic local extortionist speaks to the world:

Trump said Wednesday that he had reached the framework of a deal with NATO over Greenland’s future, hours after alliance officials separately discussed the possibility of the United States obtaining sovereignty over land for military bases, according to three senior officials familiar with the talks.

Mr. Trump’s announcement was among a series of moves on Wednesday that appeared to draw the United States back from the possibility of military and economic conflict with his allies over Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.

Mr. Trump also withdrew the threat of additional tariffs for European allies that had resisted his insistence on owning Greenland, and said he would not use force to assert

Dictator blocks speech.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has said he was blocked from speaking at a World Economic Forum event in Davos and blamed the Trump administration.

Newsom’s office said on X that USA House, the official US pavilion at the global event, denied his entry to speak there on Wednesday despite being invited as part of an event by media partner Fortune.

The Democratic governor, whose state has the fourth largest global economy, wrote on X: “California was just denied at the USA House. Last we checked, California is part of USA.”

I didn’t know that about the fourth largest. Google says it’s true: right up there with Germany and Japan.

But wait, it gets worse.

The

Naomi Cunningham on “the dolls”:

So in plainer words, “dolls” refers to men who say they are women. And “protect the dolls” means “protect men who say they are women from being faced with the reality that they are men, and the consequences of that reality”.

Ok, that’s clarifying. I’m not going to protect those men. They don’t protect us so why should we protect them?

“Trans women” are a subcategory of men. They are men who for whatever reason (and we are not privy to their individual reasons) either wish actually to be mistaken for women, or would like other people at least to pretend to mistake them for women. They go to a variety of different lengths

They’re trying to tell us he didn’t say it. Child we heard him.

No he didn’t, Libby. His written remarks referred to Greenland as a “piece of ice” because that’s what it is.

You’re the only one mixing anything up here. https://t.co/awRQO3eN3Y pic.twitter.com/pkAQysW06h

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) January 21, 2026

“His written remarks” she said, as if we were born yesterday. His written remarks were written by people who are not quite as bad at writing (and talking) as he is. His blurted remarks said Iceland. What you wrote down for him to say is not the same thing as what he did say.

Lying for Trump isn’t going to look good on your resume forever.… Read the rest

Scottish Daily Express:

Ross Greer questioned the “reliability” of Sandie Peggie as he complained that the employment tribunal involving her had “ruined” the life of Dr Beth Upton. The Scottish Greens co-leader also doubled down on his refusal to call trans double rapist Isla Bryson a man, hitting out at [rebuking] this line of questioning by the BBC.

So the Scottish Greens co-leader thinks Sandie Peggie is the one who messed up someone’s life, and that it wasn’t at all “Beth” Upton who messed up Sandie Peggie’s life. Women must always comply when men tell them to, even (or especially) when the men in question are pretending to be women and forcing themselves on women in the rooms … Read the rest

Take a deep breath first.

Trump just went full racist on the world stage.

He called Somalis “low IQ,” then said they’re “higher IQ than we thought” because he claims they went to Minnesota and “stole all that money.”

This is the President of the United States. pic.twitter.com/EpsuGItZ9M

— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) January 21, 2026

… Read the rest

Oh darn, Trump fucked around and found out.

The European Union’s legislative body on Wednesday halted work on the formal approval and implementation of the trade deal it reached last summer with President Donald Trump.

“Given the continued and escalating threats, including tariff threats, against Greenland and Denmark, and their European allies, we have been left with no alternative but to suspend work” on the deal, said Bernd Lange, the chairman of the European Parliament’s international trade committee.

Wait that’s not supposed to happen. Everybody is supposed to say “we bow before your superior wisdom Sir” – not “ok then no trade deal for you, Donny from Queens.”

On Thursday, leaders of the 27 E.U. countries will meet to

Trump is on a calling-other-people-stupid roll.

Trump on Tuesday accused Britain of “an act of great stupidity” for agreeing to end British sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, in a blow to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s attempts to cultivate the president.

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In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday morning, Mr. Trump abruptly reversed that position and argued that the decision strengthened the case for the United States to acquire Greenland.

“Shockingly, our “brilliant” NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER,” he wrote.

He added: “The UK giving

Trump calls other people stupid.

“If they don’t get this done, they are stupid,” Trump says of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia reaching a peace deal. Trump, who is now speaking with Borge Brende, the World Economic Forum president, then caveats, “I don’t want to insult anyone,” prompting one person in the crowd to cackle.

Only one?

Many of President Trump’s comments about energy in his speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, were not grounded in reality…And China and the United States get a similar share of their electricity from wind turbines — about 10 percent as of 2024, according to data from the research firm Ember Energy and

We are sooooooo tired of having to point out the glaringly obvious problem.

Banning biological males who identify as transgender from being placed in female prisons would violate their human rights, the Scottish Government will argue in court.

Not banning men from being placed in female prisons would violate women’s human rights you obtuse clueless head in the sand lunatics.

The campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) has launched a legal challenge seeking to overturn existing prison guidance in Scotland, with a hearing due to begin at the Court of Session on February 3.

Current rules allow trans people to be placed in a prison matching their gender identity if it is considered safe to do so. This does not

The Magic Ten Orders yet again.

The ten orders suck. They’re not just theocratic, they’re bad. Don’t steal; don’t kill; don’t lie. Well no shit; can you not come up with a little more than that? Be compassionate? Don’t hurt others? Be generous? Try to make your part of the world a little better? Can’t you come up with some affirmative suggestions instead of just the most basic don’ts plus a ton of godbothering nonsense?

No, you can’t, so get that crap out of the schools.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, who was in the courtroom for the debate, said, “I like our chances.” Asked what he would say to parents who don’t want their children

Originally a comment by maddog on mostly white.

“We didn’t introduce this fight about sports. This was picked by the other side,” said AJ Hikes, executive director of strategy and culture at the ACLU . . . .

The hell you say! Women and girls were not the ones who introduced the bizarre and dangerous notion that men and boys should be able to shove their way into sports for women and girls, so long as the guys say the magic incantation, “I identify as a woman/girl.” This was a fight picked by men and boys to bully and Lord it over women/girls, to steal their places, steal their victories, literally beat up on them, as well as to … Read the rest

Powerful ratiocination.

Heaven help us

Trump: “If anybody thinks that Norway doesn't control the Nobel Prize, they're just kidding. They have a board, but it's controlled by Norway, and I don't care what Norway says."pic.twitter.com/Csg46p8dvF

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) January 20, 2026

So by the same token the US controls the Oscars and the Pulitzer and the Emmies and the Grammys? … Read the rest

The lies persist:

As the US supreme court heard arguments on Tuesday for a case that could determine whether transgender children can participate in school sports – and potentially impact LGBTQ+ civil rights protections more broadly – competing groups of activists rallied in Washington DC.

First lie. The issue is not whether “trans” children can participate, it’s whether boys can and should play in girls-only sports. If they can’t, they can still participate in boys-only sports. That is participating. It’s not fair to let them ruin sports for girls on the pretext that anything else is preventing them from playing at all. Journalism really needs to stop lying about this.

On one side was a multiracial mix of

The Times on Trump’s Davos Show:

Andrew here. I am in Davos, Switzerland, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. President Trump is expected to speak here on Wednesday.

The mood: trepidation, for those who are being honest. I attended several events last night, where some C.E.O.s openly questioned the president, using words like “wild” and “bizarre.” Yet many of them are planning to attend a reception in his honor, with some even joking about the best way to praise him in person. “Tread lightly,” one C.E.O. said. Contrast that with a number of international politicians wringing their hands over the growing tensions about Greenland.

Contrast what? It sounds to me like the same thing. They all … Read the rest

Trump’s latest entertainment is creating a “board of peace” that is inclooosive of all the neighborhood warmongers. Countries that don’t join get punished.

Trump has confirmed he invited Vladimir Putin to join a US-proposed Gaza “Board of Peace”.

The board is part of Trump’s 20-point plan to end the Israel-Hamas war and expected to temporarily oversee the running of Gaza and manage its reconstruction.

On Monday, the Kremlin said the Russian president had received the offer. Neither Moscow nor Trump has said whether Putin had accepted.

Washington has asked various world leaders to sit on the board. On Monday, Trump threatened 200% tariffs on French wine after President Emmanuel Macron declined to join.

Well don’t stop there. Put also 200% … Read the rest

Another thing, that I didn’t pay enough attention to. (It’s like reading Hamlet. There’s always something you missed – some theme or repeated metaphor or word with multiple meanings and overtones – so that it expands like one of those paper flower things, except that it never stops. In Hamlet, that is. In Trump it’s just a bit of stupidity or venality you didn’t notice fully enough the first few times around.)

Why did he send his idiotic letter to multiple ambassadors?

What was the plan? They were going to text each other and hastily put together a rebellion of the ambassadors and keep at it until Norway gave in and handed over the prize in a big silver-paper box … Read the rest

And another thing. I just can’t let go of this one, can I.

What could possibly be more uncool, more gross, more not in the spirit of the thing, more tacky, than telling the world that you think you should have won a big major famous global prize? You’re not even supposed to say you’d like to win, let alone screaming like a giant baby with a wasp up his ass because you didn’t, and let alone times a billion saying that you should have won it because you deserve it more than 8.3 billion people.

This is of course even more true when you are a murderous megalomaniac who has caused many deaths.… Read the rest