Somebody please tell me I didn’t hear Trump say what I think he said on Tuesday. What I heard is that he wants to explore annexing Greenland, Panama and Canada, possibly by using the military.
Then I thought heard him threatening to “blow up” the Middle East unless the remaining hostages are returned.
Then I heard him say he’s going to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
Then…I stopped listening.
Compared to these ideas, his mass deportations and mass pardons and other domestic agenda items now seem relatively tame and familiar.
Somewhere I read about the link between imperialism abroad and autocracy at home. It was probably from Mao Zedong, back in the days when I was young and naive.
My God. What have our fellow citizens done?
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I continue to sort through images of my experiments with colors and shapes I did years ago during difficult transitions. You can draw your own conclusions about what I think of this transition. The above was a shot of seaglass on a plate, photoshopped.
HEADLINES:
Trump refuses to rule out using military force to take Greenland and Panama Canal (Politico)
Europe will not allow attacks, says France, after Trump Greenland threat (BBC)
Trump declines to rule out ‘military or economic’ force to expand U.S. (WP)
Trudeau says 'not a snowball's chance in hell' Canada will join US (BBC)
AG Merrick Garland intends to release special counsel report on Trump's Jan. 6 case, DOJ says (NBC)
Pacific Palisades fire explodes to nearly 3,000 acres as thousands of residents flee, homes are lost (LAT)
Indians slam MAGA ‘war’ over H-1B skilled-worker visas as ‘racist’ (WP)
Harvard-educated Elon Musk biographer says billionaire is going mad: ‘I legitimately believe…’ (Hindustan Times)
Meta ends fact checks on Facebook and Instagram, adopts a process pioneered by Elon Musk’s X (WP)
Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them (Wired)
A new era of lies: Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media (Guardian)
Trump spent years trying to undermine Jack Smith. Now he wants to block special counsel’s final word (CNN)
CFPB issues rules to remove medical debt from consumer credit reports (WP)
Supreme Court Will Hear TikTok Ban This Week—Here’s What To Expect (Forbes)
Emeralds for Sale: The Taliban Look Below Ground to Revive the Economy (NYT)
A powerful earthquake kills nearly 100 people in Tibet. (Reuters)
Archaic Humans Might Actually Be The Same Species as Us, Study Suggests (ScienceAlert)
What America's top economists are saying about AI and inequality (NPR)
Apple’s AI Is Proving It’s Anything But Intelligent (Bloomberg)
Japanese Fishermen Catch 600-Pound Can Of Tuna (The Onion)
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