@marcel@waldvogel.familyBullying tactics incoming:
"Talks [about the US acquisition of Greenland] could be helped along by the prospect of [Denmark] losing U.S. business if it fails to cooperate. More than 20% of Danish exports go to the U.S., including drugs from pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk, Danske Bank economists noted on Wednesday."
(Also, the US already can monitor activities by Rusdia and China; and Rare Earths are hard to extract.)
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Tells Walz, Frey It's Time to Cooperate With Feds, Stop Stoking Flames of Division, Chaos, Violence (Jennifer Van Laar/RedState)
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2026/01/25/new-president-trump-walz-frey-cooperate-stop-stoking-division-chaos-violence-n2198513
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p76#a260125p76
@cdarwin@c.imMexico is “a country that has done nothing but cooperate with US interests on all levels”, Thomas Payan said.
“And here he is rubbing Mexico’s nose in what is essentially a very deep wound in Mexico’s history … it’s seared in Mexico’s memory.”
According to Payan, the statement also speaks volumes as to how Trump would like his presidency to be remembered.
“He wants to go down as a great president who expanded the American Empire,” he said.
“It’s just sheer 19th-centu…
@cdarwin@c.imFederal judge Mary McElroy has blocked the Trump administration’s
attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling on Monday solidified a win for the coalition of 12 attorneys general
that sued the administration earlier this year after being alerted that their states would receive drastically reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump warns acting Venezuelan leader will 'pay a big price' if she doesn't cooperate (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/04/trump-warns-acting-venezuelan-leader-00710314
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p38#a260104p38
@Nathan@social.lostinok.comI am old enough to remember when federalism was a key principal of the conservative political philosophy. And yet it is always the left accused of shifting.
Trump says states are required to enforce federal immigration laws. He's wrong. https://reason.com/2…
@cdarwin@c.imAG Pam Bondi’s letter to Gov. Walz
What we know, according to Fox News:
In a letter obtained by FOX News, AG Pam Bondi dangled a path for ICE and other federal agents to leave Minnesota.
Here is that path:
🔸Walz’s office must share state records on Medicaid and Food and Nutrition Service programs, including SNAP, with the federal government.
🔸Repeal sanctuary policies. All state corrections facilities must cooperate with ICE, and permit ICE to interview detaine…
@buercher@tooting.chReports coming through now from vice-president Delcy Rodríguez that contrast sharply from the portrayal given by Donald Trump.
Trump said he understood she’d be sworn in as president of Venezuela, and that she had agreed to cooperate with the US because she had no “choice”.
Now Rodríguez has appeared on state television, saying that Maduro “is Venezuela’s only president”. She described Maduro as having been kidnapped and called for him and his wife to be freed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/03/caracas-explosions-venezuela-maduro-latest-news-updates-live?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
