It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

RUSSIANS NO LONGER CARE ABOUT WHO THEY UPSET Moldova was plunged into darkness over the weekend, the whole country losing electrical power because of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid. Their grids, historically interconnected in the Soviet era are vulnerable to Russian attacks on transformers

The French once again taking no bullshit.

1/2 "according to this FBI report an anti-money laundering specialist at Deutsche Bank traced "mind boggling" crypto payments from a Jared Kushner company REAL CONTRAD, LLC to a suspicious Russian individual" (Michel de Cryptadamus) www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

That third one is rough.

Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.

It would be good if @bellingcat.com could verify this story. Really important. @eliothiggins.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

Today the winter Olympics open. Russia and Belarus are allowed to participate under neutral flag. Picture by Gatis Šļūka

Part 3 of @anderspucknielsen.dk's trip to the bunker is up. "Russia will be able to attack Europe sooner than you think" youtu.be/AAVN0NMCl7I

Åh fy for helvede

Satellite images confirm the FP-5 Flamingo strike on Russia's Kapustin Yar, where Oreshnik missiles are launched. Damage visible at the 28th complex, likely from the 1-ton warhead, Defense Express reports. en.defence-ua.com/analysis/ukr...

Bitcoin is down 7.5% from a day ago with a Forbes senior contributor writing that an “apocalypse” appears to be quietly emerging with crypto traders scrambling to get ahead of what could become a full-blown crash. www.forbes.com/sites/digita...

Shadow tanker BORACAY had two Russian "technicians" on board as her voyage past Denmark coincided with multiple drone sightings CNN now shows how at least one of the technicians is actually a mercenary and many other tankers are crewed by mercs. As reported by DK pilots earlier

Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark sent a tip to the FBI accusing Trump of authorizing his murder: “I have reason to believe he was killed because he was about to name names. I believe Present Trump authorized is murder.“

Vor diesem Hintergrund muss man sich noch ein bisschen genauer anschauen, was auf der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz passiert.

@pkrugman.bsky.social this morning. Bitcoin's morning so far. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-this-cr...

I can confirm that, it’s indeed a concept rarely understood in Western Europe ⬇️

So I guess that's it. New START has expired and almost 54 years of bilateral US-Soviet/Russia strategic nuclear arms control ends (for now).

A passenger An-28 aircraft armed with miniguns is shooting down Russian drones over Ukraine, French TF1 got an inside. The crew consists of civilian volunteers who have already destroyed nearly 150 drones during air defense missions. #Ukraine

Her er en til “det går nok over efter midtvejsvalget”-crowded.

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

RUSSIA IS PUSHING THE ENVELOPE ON WHAT SHAHEEDS CAN DO AS STRATEGY SHIFTS Anti-drone tech has started to reach a level where areas of Ukraine are becoming increasingly difficult to penetrate - especially the cities. Russia is compensating for that with a 200% increase in Iskander SRBM use -

this part is so true, i mostly travel in women-and-children spaces in far outer SE, so the exact opposite end of town, and since saturday i've overheard and had multiple conversations about how to launder tear gas out of things like diaper bags including one at the methodist church

Mohammad Marandi, former adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiating team and son of Khamenei’s personal doctor, threatens all countries hosting US military bases in the Middle East.

in my lifetime, the Washington Post has gone from All The President's Men to All The Dictator's Lapdogs

I mean, here it is in black and white. So, I better not see anyone criticising Mandelson. (sarcasm)

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

BREAKING Nuclear talks between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran are collapsing due to the Islamic Republic’s demands. Full Story: bit.ly/3NWzJEE

Talks between Iran and the US set for Friday have been canceled. The nuclear discussions were called off due to the Iranians’ refusal to engage on non‑nuclear issues.-Axios

"We told them it is this or nothing, and they said, 'Ok, then nothing,'" a senior U.S. official told Axios.

Unbelievable

🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

@washingtonpost.com will survive in some degraded form. But this is literally the day in which a precious and storied institution, which among its thousands of accomplishments has served an indispensable historic role of holding power to account, was killed.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.

For those of you who: * Feel enraged to watch billionaires destroy important newsrooms and * Recall vaguely that Jeff Bezos was once considered a courageous owner who fortified the Washington Post I recommend this piece by the Post's former fact-checker glennkessler.substack.com/p/a-billiona...

Social media nonsense about stuff like tear gas gets scraped up and repeated by AI LLMs. This is one reason why I am duelling with bullshit.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Mark: Where are you? Jeffrey: Paris with Woody Allen Mark: For les pedophile convention? Jeffrey: I think pedophilee is the plural Mark: lol #EpsteinFiles

news.err.ee/1609930742/e... "According to information available to the Estonian Navy, the vessel is not part of the Russian "shadow fleet" nor is it subject to European Union sanctions," the MTA said.

Echoing Noam Chomsky, who claimed that Russia was fighting more "humanely" in Ukraine than the U.S. did in Iraq, and that Russia was "acting with restraint and moderation", the German right wing extremist Alina Lipp called Russia's war "the most humane war the world has seen in the last decades"

The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version. This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/

Den danskgrønlandske musiker Simon Lynge frygter, at amerikansk kultur vil tromle Grønland. Han kender begge dele – for han bor i USA. Læs interviewet med Simon Lynge her: www.information.dk/moti/2026/01...

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

"The fact that the 1st and 2nd Brigade Combat Teams...were allegedly placed on four-hour notice, yet left no observable trace, indicates that whatever the 11th Airborne is preparing for is not intended for public visibility...And that is deeply concerning." 👀👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/us-arc...

The US military shot down an Iranian Shahed 139 drone that aggressively approached the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, Reuters reported. The drone was flying toward the carrier with unclear intent and was destroyed by an F 35 fighter jet. #Iran

🚨BREAKING: The French government is currently raiding the X/Twitter offices in Paris.