From January 2026:
“Trump called me down to the Oval Office,” John Bolton, national security adviser in 2018, told the Guardian.
“He said a prominent businessman had just suggested the US buy Greenland.”
It was an extraordinary proposal. And it originated from a longtime friend of the president who would go on to acquire business interests in the Danish territory.
The businessman, Bolton learned, was Ronald Lauder.
Heir to a makeup fortune
– the global cosm…
I am a radical in many ways by society’s standards, I’m sure — my ideas of goodness and universal liberation are apparently off the map — but I’m not one of these people who longs for destruction. At heart I’m not a revolutionary, but an engineer.
Destroying things is easy. Building things is hard. And the certitude that we will actually get a better society by destroying the current one first? I don’t buy it. That’s the foolish myth of the greenfield rewrite turned into a social theory.
So when I agree with the QP at the top of the thread, don’t misunderstand me: my agreement is not a wish. It’s a warning.
Meta says it reached a deal with 51 US AGs, including "strict daily time limits teens can't turn off", and calls on TikTok and YouTube to adopt the standards (Meta Newsroom)
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/agreement-with-state-attorn…