This diagram is in Polish, but fairly easy to understand. The upper section is U.S. assistance for Ukraine during the Biden and Trump admin The lower is russian drone and missile attacks during the same time frame Tell me more about how Trump's negotiations are working.

💥"Ukraine is our enemy!" said Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán at his "anti-war rally". He argued Ukraine wants Hungary cut off from "cheap Russian energy". In reality, Hungary buys Russian gas above market price. Fuel prices are also higher than in countries that buy non-Russian oil.

Remember when we thought Sarah Palin was the dumbest person in politics Good times.

“Dictators are such incredibly damaged personalities that, in their desperate quest for attention they don’t care whether this comes from a Nobel Prize or a genocide” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

A monologue by commentator Vitalii Volochai during the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. 📹 suspilne. sport/Instagram

🇭🇺🇪🇺 "Hungary's opposition Tisza party plans to introduce a wealth tax for the rich, adopt the euro currency and firmly anchor Hungary in the European Union and NATO, its 240-page election programme published on Saturday said." @reuters.com

The US could be solving this problem. We are letting Russia kill, injure, and harm people. Enabling massive human suffering — a cold winter without heat and water — is wrong in itself and will not lead to peace.

🔎 NEW INVESTIGATION: In Viktor Orbán's Hungary, children in care homes are targeted by criminal networks, with pimps effectively embedding themselves within the child-protection system. Those working in the sector say they are powerless to stop the abuse. @vsquare.bsky.social @atlatszo.hu

I haven’t bought a book today. True, it’s not dawn yet.

Russian clown Peskov: "We have problems with Poland and Baltic states. For some reason, they are always afraid of us, they demonize us. Everyone who comes to power there begins to hate Russia and the Russians." For some reason? 🤡 FOR SOME REASON. 😂🤡😂🤡

Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free - Rolling Stone

Cold War Steve

De Russen bombardeerden zojuist #KryvyiRih.

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...

David van Weel heeft de Amerikaanse ambassadeur ontboden om te bespreken of 10% niet te weinig is. www.ft.com/content/6055...

Jah, persze. A Felcsuti Napoleon kapaszkodik a hatalomhoz. Elfelejtette, hogy valamikor fiatal volt. És KISZ -tag, azt is felejtette. Orbán Viktor: A szülők felelőssége is, hogy sok fiatal szembefordult a kormánnyal - 24.hu A következő cikket ajánlom: 24.hu/belfold/2026...

Dijk van een column @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social! 🎁 artikel @nrc.nl 👇

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It reminds me a bit of Brexit: we now spend so much time and effort solving a problem that is unnecessary and self-made - while there is an actual war going on on our continent. My thoughts on the Greenland discussion 👇 Full interview www.welt.de/videos/video...

I guess if we're all getting vaporized tomorrow, we might as well get 25% off our snacks today.

Kijk naar Ruben Terlou zolang het nog kan, want de kans op zulke antropologische en culturele rijkdom wordt bij een afgeknepen publieke omroep (een van de goedkoopste in Europa) snel kleiner. 👉 buff.ly/RJ2aV5R

Honora is an upcoming album by Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassplayer Flea. "The cover is a photograph of my mother in law, in Iran in late 60’s, the beautiful Shahin Badiyan. Shahin is a strong Persian woman, and the spirit of a free Iran lives in her heart." Featuring Nick Cave and Thom Yorke.

#theafghanwigs ‘Do the Beast’ this splendid album ages so well. #nowplaying

People sleep in apartments at temperatures as low as minus 5 degrees Celsius (about 23 degrees Fahrenheit). Houses stand without windows or doors. Firewood has replaced radiators. Campfires in the streets serve instead of gas or electric stoves. Water is carried in buckets.

The Evenings is an interesting and most unusual novel. First published in Dutch in 1947, Reve’s book was given a deserved new lease of life by the excellent #PushkinPress with a new 2016. It details the absurdities and quotidian boredom of a very modest household through young Fritz’s warped humour.

A Russian soldier films a large detachment of African mercenaries recruited to wage war against Ukraine. Behind their backs, he comments in Russian that they are essentially disposable cannon fodder: "Look how many disposables are here."

Lieve lieve mensen, de officiële reactie van PvdA/GL over de gebeurtenissen Iran moet helaas nog even op zich laten wachten. Aangezien het winterreces nog niet voorbij is, zal er morgen een officiële reactie komen vanuit de partij komen. De situatie gaat ons uiteraard wel enorm aan het hart.

I start to prefer #X above #bluesky. Ok, a lots of trolls, idiots of extreme- and radical right, but more amusing than this political correct bubble. Nothing about #Sudan and #iran whilst it was full of #gaza.

W.F. Hermans had zoveel schijt aan zijn haters dat hij ze allemaal op de kaft van de negentiende druk van ‘Het behouden huis’ liet vereeuwigen, inclusief een doodzieke spoiler. Koning.

🇮🇷🇫🇷 Le Figaro reported that senior Iranian officials have been trying to obtain French visas for their families in recent days. Meanwhile, a strike is underway across Iran. Shops, stalls, and bazaars are all closed.

#nowplaying #vinylrecords #charlesdegoal ‘Algorythmes’ #postpunk outstanding album of pioneer Patrick Blain

2026 going so well I have already finished vodka free January.

#nowplaying #mecano ‘Untitled’ #vinylrecords #postpunk

Update #IranProtests (35): De stakingen breiden zich uit! Vandaag houden de winkeliers in Sanandaj, provincie Koerdistan. Deze staking is een uiting v solidariteit met de bevolking van de provincies Ilam, Kermanshah en Lorestan, en tevens een steunbetuig aan de protesten in #Iran. #WomanLifeFreedom

@nieuws.nos.nl @nu.nl

Waarom zo weinig berichtgeving over Soedan en Iran?

Slovak-made Grand Power weapons are still sold in Russia because a licensed factory in Nizhny Novgorod produces them. The Investigative Center of Ján Kuciak and The Insider found the license was granted pre-2022, but some arms still reached Russia illegally.

Update #IranProtests (13): Dit is geschiedenis in wording! Een ongelooflijke foto van gisteravond uit de stad Mashhad: Verschillende jonge demonstranten knielen in vreedzaam verzet tegen de repressie troepen. Reminder: Mashhad is een vd meest religieuze en conservatieve steden van #Iran, en de >

protests spreading across Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

Belangrijke mededeling

I regret to inform you that more than half the entries in this feature on 'the best old music we discovered this year' are from the 2000s.

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

Waar is de internationale ophef? 10duizenden worden over de kling gejaagd, maar geen hond die zich bekommert over het lot van de mensen in deze hel. ‘150 stapels lijken te zien in Sudanese stad Al-Fasher: ‘Het is een slachthuis’ #Soedan #darfur

“I wanna f… you slow with the lights on”—a Hungarian government-funded student group posted a TikTok of schoolgirls cheering Orbán's education state secretary Zoltán Maruzsa to this The Weeknd song. It comes after weeks of child abuse and exploitation scandals. We're just speechless. WTF.

Foto's van Oekraïense kinderen in Noord-Koreaans kamp: zo zit het www.nu.nl/322406/video...

"But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think." -Neil Postman Somehow, they made both Huxley and Orwell right.