🇺🇸 Donald Trump a signé un décret d'urgence destiné à placer sous protection spéciale les avoirs vénézuéliens, dont les revenus pétroliers, placés sur le territoire américain, afin d'empêcher notamment qu'ils soient saisis par des tribunaux ou des créanciers.

All true, a great paper. Also true that the Chinese Government subsidised their battery manufacturers to the tune of US$230+ Billion since 2009. BYD and CATL used this opportunity to invest high risk high return. Other CN firms didn't and got beaten by BYD and CATL. www.csis.org/blogs/truste...

🇬🇧🚗 How big is the Chinese car footprint in the UK market? (2025) 📊 Market share by Chinese brands: ➡️ Total: 213,212 vehicles ➡️ Market share: 10.55% 🔸MG: 4.21% (85,155) 🔸BYD: 2.54% (51,422) 🔸Jaecoo: 1.40% (28,232) 🔸Omoda: 0.98% (19,855) 🔸Polestar: 0.84% (16,959) 🔸Chery: 0.27% (5,517) 1/x

My economic outlook for 2026: "If someone is super confident on TV, telling you they know exactly what's going to happen, the only thing you're learning is about their disposition... their overconfidence."

Likely this American will block me, though he's missing the obvious in his lawyerly approach. If the US public has no recourse, then the only outcome is escalation. It works the same in any country. Perhaps VP Vance is right that federal operatives have absolute immunity, though that's equally bad.

Anything that inconveniences a right wing populist is censorship, part 1000. This depraved prick uses that term bc it puts his enemies on the defensive. They cower. Fact-checking is censorship. Labeling is censorship. TRANSPARENCY is censorship. Now, “no nonconsensual nudes” is censorship.

If Trump or Vance or Musk do something that seems completely irrational to you, ask yourself “is this getting them more attention?” If the answer is “yes” then actually it makes perfect sense. And the answer will always be yes.

Word and meetings are not sufficient. By request, we are deploying a contingent of Heard Island Defense Forces to Greenland to send a simple message. Flippers up and F*%# right Off! -General Thaddeus Snowclaw

NEW: The PRC is using the capture of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro to portray the US negatively and present itself as a responsible actor and leader of the “Global South.” China & Taiwan Update, Jan. 9, 2026: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwan0... More Key Takeaways ⬇️ (1/4)

Many of the European regions that are suitable for wine-growing in 2025 weren't so in 1960. Rising temperatures will continue to shift these growing regions.

...Engineering** < braddelong.substack.com/p/the-spearp... > 3/END

Dearborn, MI has often been subject to racist and Islamophobic scapegoating online, ranging from claims that the city is full of terrorist cells to complaints about a cop wearing a hijab. As seen in this graph of X posts, this activity tends to occur in waves (often correlated to major events).

Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool (Fransiska Nangoy/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

College Campus Tour Ends Inside Unmarked ICE Vehicle https://theonion.com/college-campus-tour-ends-inside-unmarked-ice-vehicle/

'Effectively all we are doing is turning criminals and perverts into X's paying customers' Dame Caroline Dinenage, chair of the Media Select Committee, speaks to #BBCBreakfast after X limited the use of its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok

EUMETSAT view: Europe's weather for the past six hours in motion to 1150 UTC.

A Supreme Court loss wouldn’t mean “Trump's tariffs disappear.” It would mean “this particular legal shortcut disappears.” Trump's love affair with tariffs will likely persist—but the tools he has to indulge it become narrower, slower, and easier to challenge.

NEW: The Iranian regime has sustained its nationwide internet shutdown, likely to disrupt protest coordination and obscure the scale of its repression. Widespread protest activity has continued to take place across Iran amid the internet shutdown. 🧵(1/8) Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate01...

The number of films in Sylvester Stallone's filmography correlates with The number of millwrights in North Dakota (r=0.787)

A good take on robotaxi services at CES: www.businessinsider.com/first-time-c...

Being teased for playing and mocked for quitting is how kids discover that approval is a moving target you will never actually hit. #CalvinandHobbes #SocialRules

Kamosy, a train conductor serow (Japanese goat-antelope), is the mascot for JR Takasaki Station.

Just a taste of the almost Nordic-like beauty on offer here on Deeside yesterday. It really doesn't get better than this in Scotland 🙂 Well.....not any more anyway 😉

"Today we learn yet again -- we get more evidence -- that the economy right now is... merely moderate, muddling along, perhaps even doing poorly."

Markets run on trust. If the ref starts live-tweeting the score before kickoff, don’t be shocked when fans stop buying tickets—and investors stop buying stocks.

Vance's conduct this week is obviously impeachable. I'm talking about his public conduct. Whatever private murder coverup he's participating in is what you find out once you start impeachment.

My view: Trump will become more and more coercive until something backfires or Congress stops him. When he says the only limit to his power globally is his own 'morality', this is what he means bsky.app/profile/carl...

Conclusion: Trump thinks coercion works for him. He's ever more convinced that he now has dominance to make anything happen. If oil companies don't comply he will beat them over the head with whatever stick he can find - taxation, expropriation, etc. This is where we are

Misogyny is the root of fascism. Misogyny is the root of terrorism. It is the hatred of women that seeds hate towards society. From ISIS to MAGA, Russia to Israel. Misogyny is the driving force behind the evil that has declared war on all that is good. #3E #EndImpunity #GoodVsEvil #JusticeForGood

Renee Good’s murder was not just a homicide, it’s a hate crime against women, called femicide. Good told ICE, "That's fine, I'm not mad at you" and was shot 3 times in the head point blank, Ross yelled the misogynist slur, "fucking bitch" after killing her. #3E #endimpunity

Aaaand there it is.

This, combined with him *moving to the front of the car* and then reaching for, if not actually unholstering, his weapon before Good even begins moving forward deminstrates that the intention to shoot was not reactive to a threat posed by the vehicle

A rundown of the free cycling coverage available to watch on TV and live stream online around the world this year. 🔗 Read more: https://www.cyclist.co.uk/buying-guides/free-to-air-cycling

Amazon files planning documents in Illinois to construct a 225,000 square foot big-box store, a return to a "Target-like" retail concept it previously shelved (Ann Gehan/The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The US Supreme Court said Wednesday will be its next opinion day after leaving the market in suspense Friday on the fate of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, his signature economic policy

In Musk's latest masterful gambit, instead of putting a stop to the wave of sexual abuse imagery generated by Grok, he's attempting to monetize it instead by only letting paying subscribers generate images in replies. This isn't curbing abuse, it's profiting off it www.404media.co/x-premium-gr...

hey uh if you have autoplay on videos still NOW is the time to turn it off

In the United States you can now travel to Greenland to get US citizenship plus $100,000 from Donald Trump, instead of paying $100,000 for an H1-B visa.

The money to be made from rare earths in Greenland, is from selling the Rights to Mine. Until the glaciers mostly melt, it's not economically viable to mine in Greenland. In that future glacial melt scenario, there will be far more important issues in the world.

Uh oh 😅 #CalvinandHobbes

DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/

Russian soldier to his sister: "They send us as cannon fodder while commanders sit in bunkers shouting 'Forward!' They shake us down for money, fill their pockets, then send us to die so we can't come back for what's ours"

She is aggressively trying to turn the wheel AWAY from the ICE agent. It is her very last action. They provoke her, surround her, then kill her in cold blood. I have barely slept since this happened and I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about this.

Could 1929 repeat? I don’t think so but @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social is not so sure about that. We are up with Andrew Ross Sorkin on all podcast platforms and YouTube youtu.be/tt8_qWeKYCw?...

She smiles at the man who shoots her and says she isn't mad at him. Clearly initiates the effort to leave when the aggressive agents arrive. The question now (not that this was in question) isn't who's telling the truth. It's when DHS had this video and knew that what they were saying was a lie.

ECMWF IFS stratospheric wave reflection index forecasts now online, just in time for a reflection event! simonleewx.com/ecmwf-ifs-st... Reflection events tend to precede a transition from PT to AKR regimes and drive an abrupt cooling across large parts of North America doi.org/10.5194/wcd-...

I know there are tons of folks trying to make the Japan wage-inflation spiral happen (Ueda being one of them), but its not real. Most upward inflation pressures these days are from domestic rice or import prices due to the falling exchange rate, which is a whole other issue...

🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific. They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him. Stop the lies.

In Texas si censura Platone: il Simposio parla «di genere e razza»

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging govt to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK" The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"