Greenland is fed up with Tinyhands McFelony and his bullshit. They're protesting the barrage of verbal abuse and unwelcome visitors, and now they have something special to wear while doing so. Apparently many Canadians are asking for these, too.

The hat is the creation of a citizen named Aannguak Reimer-Johanson, who challenges his fellow Greenlanders to stand firm and hold together.

One thing I can say about Felony47...he has a way of bringing people together.

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/3/24/2312313/-Greenland-Now-Has-Their-Own-Red-Hat#

I don’t want to say I told you so. Because lots of people were saying similar things. But I think I was right when I said that Chuck Schumer didn’t grasp the magnitude or the intensity of the fissure he was opening up in the Democratic Party with his handling of the Musk/Trump continuing resolution. (I said he was like one of those Chernobyl victims who’s already been fatally irradiated but seems fine. Radiation poisoning takes a few days to get you.) They thought it was just the online resistance types acting up and wanting a fight. They didn’t understand the depth of it. I’m pretty certain Schumer didn’t think he’d still be making the rounds of the morning shows going on two weeks later trying to hold on to his job.

In my mind, the real failure wasn’t even so much the one people watched play out a week ago. The real failure was in the preceding six weeks. I still think they should have refused the continuing resolution for all the reasons we discussed at the time. But by that time the Democrats really were in a jam. By laying no groundwork for the coming confrontation, they’d made it a much harder choice. In the internal hand-wringing I picked up in the 24 hours before Schumer’s cave, people were saying, “Yeah, we should be fighting. But it’s basically too late.”

… This is a perfect example of clever tactics devoid of a larger strategy. Yes, draw back a bit when your political foes are getting hammered. In general. But that’s tactics — fiddling over timing to let your foes take some bruises, fine tuning and adjustment on the margins. The White House strategy here is to move so fast that by the time the courts and or public opinion catches up with them the deeds are done and cannot be undone. That’s a very plausible strategy and they’re continuing to execute it. If Democrats were going to fight and risk a shutdown they needed to be explaining well in advance why they were doing it. They needed to be explaining that it was the White House that was forcing the matter, that for anyone upset or worried about DOGE, it was the Democrats who were saying no. Each scary thing or outrage that comes down the pike Democrats say: “We don’t accept this. We’re putting the White House on notice: stop this now and, if you don’t, we’re not going to give you the votes you need in March. Someone has to speak up for the people you’re hurting and the people you’re stealing from. Someone has to channel people’s feelings of powerlessness.”

When you’re reacting, you’re usually losing and at best you’re treading water. It’s different occasionally but not often. A couple days ago I was talking to one TPM Reader who was very upset about Schumer and asked if I thought Schumer would be ready to draw some new red lines and stick to them. I told him I thought red lines were irrelevant. We’re way downstream of every red line I can think of. A red line is just marking some new set of actions that if Trump does them Democrats are going to do something in return. As I told this reader, the way I see this, the White House has us on our own 30 yard line. Structurally, the Democrats are on defense, both in my analogy and in reality. There’s no point denying that. Republicans have the executive power. Republicans control the Congress. But in football you can go on offense on the defensive plays. I don’t want to wait until they’re in the red zone, let alone the end zone. I want to take some risks to get some sacks now. I want to get aggressive and force some turnovers. Quite simply, I don’t want to react.

Read at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/schumer-didnt-know-the-can-of-whoop-ass-he-was-opening

The Trump Department of Justice asserted in court Tuesday that, under their theories, the President’s removal power is so all-encompassing that he could fire all female agency heads, as well as those over 40 years old. The startling admission came in response to a federal judge’s hypothetical.

“Could the President decide that he wasn’t going to appoint or allow to remain in office any female heads of agencies or any heads over 40 years old?” Judge Karen Henderson, a Reagan appointee on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, asked Deputy Assistant Attorney General Eric McArthur Tuesday in proceedings over the fired board members of two independent agencies.

“I think that that would be within the President’s constitutional authority under the removal power,” he responded, adding that “there would be separate questions about whether that would violate other provisions of the Constitution.”

Judge Justin Walker, a Trump appointee on the panel, then swooped in to try to salvage the moment, saying to the DOJ attorney that he didn’t think “you would have to go there,” pointing to the protections of the 14th Amendment. The stunning moment, two minutes into arguments over the firings of board members at the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board, encapsulated just how broadly Trump’s vision of presidential power sweeps.

More at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj-trump-fire-women-over-40-agency

The French government is reportedly planning to send a “survival manual” to every household in the country with instructions on how to prepare for an “imminent threat” including armed conflict, a health crisis or a natural disaster. If approved by François Bayrou, the prime minister, the 20-page booklet will be sent to households before the summer, French media reported.

It will be divided into three parts with advice on how to protect “yourself and those around you”, what to do if a threat is imminent – with a list of emergency numbers, radio channels and a reminder to close doors and windows if the threat is nuclear – and details of how to get involved in defending your community, including signing up for reserve units or firefighting groups.

It will also suggest putting together a “survival kit” consisting of at least six litres of water, a dozen tins of food, batteries and a torch, as well as basic medical supplies including paracetamol, compresses and saline solution, according to Europe 1 radio, which reported the story. It quoted a spokesperson from the PM’s office saying: “The purpose of this document is to ensure the resilience of populations in the face of all types of crisis, whether natural, technological, cyber or security-related.” The French PM’s office did not respond to the Guardian’s request for confirmation of the information.

The report comes after Emmanuel Macron said France would speed up and increase orders for Rafale fighter jets, boosting the country’s air force “to prepare if we want to avoid war”… Visiting a military base in eastern France on Tuesday, Macron said the decision on additional investment in military hardware to respond to the “acceleration of events” would be announced in the coming weeks. “Our country and our continent must continue to defend itself, to equip and to prepare if we want to avoid war. Nobody can say what will happen in the months or years to come. What I want is for us to be ready. What I want is for us to be protected.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/18/france-preparing-survival-manual-for-every-household-report-says?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

National Public Radio dissuaded one of its most visible gay employees from attending a corporate LGBTQ Pride event, as the Trump administration and congressional Republicans put pressure on the public broadcaster.

“The guidance in our ethics handbook is to ‘avoid appearances at private industry or corporate functions,’” the organization’s managing editor for standards and practices, Tony Cavin, wrote to longtime anchor Ari Shapiro on Wednesday in an email, which was apparently sent by accident to many other NPR journalists. “Because this is a closed corporate event I think it would be best to politely decline,” Cavin wrote, according to a copy of the email exchange seen by Semafor.

The All Things Considered host replied several minutes later asking Cavin why he had previously approved appearances at similar events. “Every year I’ve spoken at corporate pride events and you’ve personally signed off on them. It has never been an issue before,” he said. “I’m curious what’s changed.” (Shapiro also noted that Cavin had “mistakenly replied to newsdesk and international editors” so the message “went to pretty much everyone in the newsroom.”)

… As Semafor first reported last year, NPR and its member stations have become targets of an increasingly intense Republican funding squeeze, and now find themselves at the center of the new administration’s attempts to put federal pressure on media organizations it sees as ideologically opposed to its agenda. The organization has attempted to make moves on the margins to placate the Trump White House and congressional Republicans, who want to strip federal funding from NPR, PBS, and their various member stations.

More at https://www.semafor.com/article/03/12/2025/npr-urged-anchor-to-avoid-upcoming-pride-event