“Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland,” Vance said. “You have underinvested in the people of Greenland, and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass filled with incredible people. That has to change.”
I scoffed when I heard this on the news because how easily you could swap #Denmark for the United States and #Greenland for #PuertoRico. (Though from what I know Denmark has treated Greenland far better than the United States has treated Puerto Rico. And also, fuck the security/militarization shit.)
And now this. Again.
"Nearly 60 percent of Puerto Rico’s more than 1.4 million utility customers remained without power on Thursday, the morning after a #blackout knocked all of the island’s functioning power plants offline and left the entire island in the dark.
Service was unlikely to be fully restored before the early hours of Friday, Josué Colón, Puerto Rico’s energy czar, said in a news conference early Thursday. That was how long it would take, he said, to get all the power plants back online after the systemwide shutdown."
From the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/puerto-rico-blackout-power.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU8.9-eg.yr-OeeY3TNXb&smid=url-share