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107 votes
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Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her
33 votes -
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney calls for snap election amid trade war with US
24 votes -
US Federal Communications Commission chair threatens to block mergers of media companies engaged in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
14 votes -
Why Maui still hasn’t recovered
6 votes -
EU slams the door on US in colossal defense plan
36 votes -
lobsters admin discusses the impact of the UK Online Safety Act
15 votes -
US President Donald Trump's lawyers assert unchecked authority over international waters in hearing related to deportation case
18 votes -
For four Venezuelan friends, Alien Enemies Act cuts short an American dream
9 votes -
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
52 votes -
Donald Trump administration aims to eliminate US Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific research arm
21 votes -
"Make America Healthy Again" is dead - there is nothing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can do at the US Department of Health to make up for what's happening at the Environmental Protection Agency
20 votes -
A federal judge rules the dismantling of USAID likely violated the Constitution and blocks Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts
37 votes -
Why Sweden needs the bomb – country best served by nuclear guarantee outside of traditional NATO reliance on US atomic umbrella
15 votes -
Texas arrests midwife and associates on charges of providing abortion
30 votes -
US President Donald Trump invokes the Alien Enemies Act for the first time against Venezuelan criminal organization
43 votes -
The real reason US President Donald Trump submits to Vladimir Putin
10 votes -
American Library Association statement on White House assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services
16 votes -
European rearmament - the rearm Europe plan and the future of US weapon sales
10 votes -
Is US President Donald Trump planning to invade other countries?
There have been frequent and repeated comments by Trump about "annexing" or "absorbing" or taking over other sovereign countries. NY Times How 51st State talk became seen as deadly serious White...
There have been frequent and repeated comments by Trump about "annexing" or "absorbing" or taking over other sovereign countries.
NY Times How 51st State talk became seen as deadly serious
White House Asked US Military for Panama Options
CNBC - Trump on US Annexation of Greenland
I think anyone paying attention to this should be extremely alarmed, especially when you connect this to the purges that he is doing to the US military and other organizations that would limit the power of the president, and of course recent supreme court rulings about presidential power.
It appears like he's trying to get people used to a new colonialism. Maybe if he attacks Panama and there isn't much internal resistance, then he'll attack Greenland, and so on. Sure we can guess whether he is doing this to help Putin, or to normalize Putin's invasion. In any case just the discussion of these things harms the other countries, the reputation of the US, and world stability.
Frankly I think this stuff, and the attack on federal workers and social programs and social security, is an attempt to not only do these things, but to generate mass protests which will be used as an excuse for martial law and the removal of other rights, including future elections.
Here's another article, This is by David Frum about how we allow people to minimize Trump's actions at our peril: The MAGA-Strategy Spin Machine
I don't think it's possible to overreact to this. A functioning US Congress would remove him from office right away.
36 votes -
Pentagon tasked with providing ‘military options’ to ensure US access to Panama Canal, memo says
16 votes -
An unexpected Donald Trump bump for the world's centrists
26 votes -
6,000 Syrians work as doctors in Germany. Some weigh whether to stay or go.
11 votes -
US President Donald Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department
62 votes -
Greenland’s center-right opposition wins closely watched election dominated by Donald Trump’s annexation threat
15 votes -
Internet shutdowns for political and social control at record high in Africa
17 votes -
Hungary's government targets dual citizens, LGBTQ+ community in proposed constitutional changes
16 votes -
Court asked to intervene after email tells USAID workers to destroy classified documents
18 votes -
What a landmark ruling for the Sámi people in Finland means for the protection of Indigenous rights globally
8 votes -
US Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests
50 votes -
Iceland may be small, but its strategic importance is vast – as Donald Trump questions NATO commitments, European allies must step up before the Arctic becomes the next geopolitical flashpoint
17 votes -
Utah legislature sends bill banning water fluoridation to governor for signature or veto
13 votes -
Canadian provinces’ measures to limit electricity exports to US could strain cross-border ties, experts say
18 votes -
The changing war in Ukraine - the US aid freeze, momentum and how the war has changed in 2025
17 votes -
French university to fund American scientists who fear Donald Trump censorship
19 votes -
Poland seeks access to nuclear arms and looks to build half-million-man army
35 votes -
US Federal Aviation Administration workers threatened with firing if they ‘impede’ Elon Musk’s SpaceX federal deal
16 votes -
Denmark's spectacular shift from Atlanticism to European defense – fearing destabilization of transatlantic relationship, it had historically avoided European defense integration
7 votes -
Donald Trump weighs revoking legal status of Ukrainians as US steps up deportations
32 votes -
Critics ask if US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are 'intentionally crashing the economy', as described in the book Disaster Capitalism and seen in the transition from the USSR to Russia
34 votes -
US President Donald Trump calls for an end to the Chips Act, redirecting funds to national debt
25 votes -
US Department of Government Efficiency set to cancel lease on weather 'nerve center' as tornado season begins
25 votes -
Sweden and Finland's defence sectors are benefiting from their countries joining NATO – both aim to raise defence spending to between 2.6% and 3% of GDP in the next three years
11 votes -
Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia promises to force a vote in the US Senate over whether to authorize Donald Trump Canada tariffs
19 votes -
White House seeks plan for possible Russia sanctions relief, sources say
26 votes -
German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
42 votes -
Norway's natural gas windfall should go to Ukraine – the country provides less support, as a share of GDP, than its neighbours
6 votes -
Midwives could be allowed to prescribe abortion pills in Sweden under new abortion legislation – home abortions without prior clinic pill visit to be permitted
15 votes -
US commerce secretary suggests the Donald Trump administration may exclude government spending from calculations of GDP going forward, obscuring the impact of large government staff cuts
20 votes -
Could Europe defend itself without the US? - the US split, rearmament and defence independence
18 votes