Isak Hüllert

Reporter based in Nuuk, Greenland I @columbiajourn alum I [email protected] I Signal: ihullert.22

[Vera Bergengruen @VeraMBergen]

Rep. McBride: “I assume you’re aware that Greenland is indeed part of Denmark?”

Rubio: “For now.”

[Adam Federman @adamfederman]

US is looking to hire *7* unarmed security guards for the consulate in Nuuk, according to this March story by @IHullert. Seems like a lot for a sleepy city in the Arctic & would be more than double the number of staff employed at the former location. Hmm.
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[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: “Hello, Greenland!”

[Markus Valentin 🇩🇰🇬🇱 @marfus_valentin]

Bare lige til historieskrivningen, så var det KNR, der fandt amerikaneren samt vores arbejde, der førte til, at DR kunne få et interview med manden.

[Markus Valentin 🇩🇰🇬🇱 @marfus_valentin]

Frygt for likvidering, undersøgelse af hans virke som påvirkningsagent samt planer om overtagelse af Canada og samarbejde med Saudi-Arabien.

Her er pensionisten, som turnerer rundt med en hjemmelavet folkeafstemning i Grønland.

@IHullert

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[Markus Valentin 🇩🇰🇬🇱 @marfus_valentin]

Min kollega @IHullert og jeg mødte den amerikanske pensionist, Clifford Stanley, som turnerer rundt med en hjemmelavet folkeafstemning om, hvorvidt Grønland skal tilhøre USA.

De kommende dage offentliggør vi en række informationer på KNR. Følg med.

[Isak Hüllert @IHullert]

Profiled @OJoelsen -- one of Greenland’s leading activist voices -- for the island's public broadcaster: https://t.co/9quxSx1ywY

[Michael Kruse @michaelkruse]

“I feel like he’s solved multiple murders,” @jiatolentino tells @Jonesieman about @praddenkeefe. https://t.co/bYA6oRL2ox

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

The NYT’s @ShawnMcCreesh, who has a knack for finding a path into the biggest stories, says he went to South Dakota yesterday, hoping to convince Kristi Noem’s husband to talk.

Then today’s Daily Mail photos happened.

Another classic McCreesh piece.

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[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

"A statue of Jefferson Davis still holds pride of place inside the Capitol a mile or two from where we are meeting. “I mean, are there statues of Hitler in Berlin?” Stevenson asks." Lunch with Bryan Stevenson - one of the most remarkable people I've met. https://t.co/H16ufbCsud

[Josh Dawsey @jdawsey1]

Incredibly fascinating and well-written NYT obit of Robert Mueller here: https://t.co/AamWWaItRU

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

(3/4) Taub received the Whitman Bassow Award for the best reporting on international environmental issues, for an article about how climate change is endangering the traditions and livelihood of polar-bear hunters in a remote area of Greenland. https://t.co/KbLBy5Nqil

[M.A. Columbia Journ @ColumbiaJournMA]

Congratulations to @ColumbiaJournMA alum Ben Taub (MA Politics '15), who received @opcofamerica's Whitman Bassow Award for the best reporting on international environmental issues for his @NewYorker/@pulitzercenter story "The Big Ice is Sick." https://t.co/DjlfKidVrf

[Jose Antonio Vargas @joseiswriting]

"Nearly five years."

Investigative journalism takes years and years. The investment is immense, and always worth it, and, in the era of "hot takes" and ephemeral "content," rigorously reported journalistic work is needed more than ever. We must keep supporting investigative journalism.

From @mannyNYT, lead reporter of the blockbuster piece on Cesar Chavez ⤵️

[Juan Forero @WSJForero]

As Trump prepared to take out Maduro, the CIA asked Chevron’s man in Venezuela for advice.

Take out the entire regime and install an opposition led by María Corina Machado and you’ll create a quagmire, he told them.

That concern landed on Trump’s desk. https://t.co/p8yfeY1h8G

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

While Donald Trump’s Arctic representative defended the administration’s Greenland policy at a conference in Rome, a hall full of researchers sat stunned. According to one participant, the session provided a disturbing insight into the Greenland crisis.

Last week, researchers, politicians, and officials from around the world gathered for the Arctic Circle Forum in Rome.
On the final day of the conference, a plenary session featured a panel debate titled “The New American Arctic.”

Although it was the last event on the program, it was far from uneventful.

According to one attendee, it was an uncomfortable and deeply troubling session to witness.

“It was truly painful to sit in the audience and listen to how the representative of the Trump administration justified their interests in Greenland,” wrote Johanna Ikävalko, director of the Center for Geopolitics, Peace and Security at the Arctic University of Norway, afterward on LinkedIn.

On stage, the two poles of the struggle over Greenland were represented by Thomas E. Dans, chairman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission — adviser to the president and Congress on Arctic research goals.

He is known as Trump’s “true man in the Arctic” and as someone who routinely defends the American president’s ambition to take control of Greenland.

At the other end of the spectrum was another American with a very different perspective: David Balton, senior fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center Arctic Initiative.

For many years he has served several U.S. administrations as a senior official dealing with Arctic affairs.

The panel debate lasted about 45 minutes and was moderated by former Icelandic prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir.

According to Johanna Ikävalko, who attended the debate, Thomas E. Dans presented numerous explanations for the Americans’ interest in Greenland, including that it concerns “humanitarian” assistance.

At one point he said that “the United States has done the rest of the world a great service by making everyone understand that people live in Greenland,” Johanna Ikävalko recalled.

David Balton then presented his view.

He stated that countries no longer buy or take over other countries, and that the international community today respects sovereignty and the right of peoples to self-determination — rules that the United States itself helped establish, he reiterated to KNR.

He told Thomas E. Dans that Greenland has rejected the United States’ overtures, and that this should close the entire discussion.

He also emphasized that the Trump administration’s concerns that Russia or China might be ready to take over Greenland had no basis in reality.

Finally, he pointed out that the Americans’ claimed security concerns can be addressed under the existing defense agreement and do not require taking control of the island.

But according to Balton, he failed to persuade Thomas E. Dans.

Dans simply replied that there are “different perspectives” on the situation surrounding Greenland, Balton explained.

“It was surreal,” said Johanna Ikävalko.

“He (Thomas E. Dans) was like a cat on a hot stove.”

—KNR

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

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[Abigail Hauslohner @ahauslohner]

Tehran’s 10 million residents now risk exposure to “highly dangerous and acidic” rain, in addition to fuel shortages, after Israeli bombing of 3 fuel depots unleashed clouds of noxious smoke over the city. By @Najmeh_Tehran via @FT https://t.co/qXSHM5i5WF

[Robbie Gramer @RobbieGramer]

Former Estonian President:

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Quote of the day/year/century https://t.co/IgxqMLd7MX