Lithuanian authorities charged six people in a GRU-coordinated sabotage network that targeted facilities in Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic. Suspects - from Spain, Colombia, Cuba, Russia, and Belarus - were paid up to €10,000. They face up to 15 years in prison.

Poland announces it will transfer another 9 MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine 🇵🇱→🇺🇦 In exchange, Warsaw will receive advanced Ukrainian drone technology. Poland is also preparing another major military aid package for Ukraine. 🇵🇱🤝🇺🇦

Devastating new CNN poll on the anniversary of Trump’s first year in office: voters think he’s made everything worse — crime, free speech, health, global security. Literally every promise. www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...

Trump: “I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland because we need Greenland for national security.” Trade war incoming! Does he really think people are so scared of tariffs? Probably, as he clearly doesn’t understand what they are.

The Trump regime’s escalation in Minneapolis is by design. The shortest path to an authoritarian regime was always Trump’s mass deportation campaign. It requires authoritarian infrastructure. And it provokes a response that they then portray as “insurrection”- a pretext for seizing more power.

This is a defining image of our times. Aside from its neat encapsulation of vice & virtue (L: pride, greed, envy; R: humility, selflessness), it’ll be used by historians to illustrate the disproportionate effects on geopolitics of one man’s narcissism during the 2020s.

On 12 January the UN Security Council will convene over Russia's use of an Oreshnik missile against Ukraine's Lviv region.

If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it

Russia’s attack on Kyiv tonight is yet another act of terrorism against civilians. A missile struck a residential building, killing an entire family. A medic was killed and other medical workers wounded. They had rushed to help the injured after the strike in Darnytskyi district, said Mayor.

Three dead, six injured in Kyiv so far in Russian Blitz air raid. Russians carried out “double tap” strike on the site of a previous impact, killing one medic, injuring others, Mayor Klitschko says. Explosions still audible just now here in western Kyiv.

Alleged footage of Russian Oreshnik missile strike in Lviiv/Lviv Oblast. Six rapid streaks of light can be seen impacting, matching the six warheads of the Oreshnik IRBM. The video time stamp matches the time of the reports of explosions. However, authorities have not confirmed.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Around 60 Russian drones in Ukrainian airspace right now. Much of east of country on air alert. Monitors say up to 15 Russian strategic bombers in a state of high combat readiness. Massive Russian Blitz air raid expected as temperatures fall, several areas already suffering severe energy outages.

Air raid sirens in Kyiv now. Kamikaze drones en route...

You will be executed if you “get in the way” of ICE. This is the Republican Party. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Welcome to the US, where a chatbot has more protection than a mom observing demonstrators

Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.

Aerial footage shows a large crowd gathering at the site where 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was killed in an ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Breaking Tonight: The Islamic regime in Iran has lost control of its first city. The anti-regime protesters have taken full control of the city of Abdanan near the border with Iraq

Basically "Sell it to us or we’ll take it by violence", pure gangsterism.

1984 stuff here. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

"utilising the US military is always an option". If you hadn’t already thought he’d lost it, he’s now totally off the scale.

As discussed here previously, the US seems to be gearing up for a strike on Iran.

The Netherlands has pulled out of U.S.-led counter-drug missions in the Caribbean, a reaction to the rising death toll from American military attacks on vessels suspected of being used to smuggle narcotics.

Since Labour introduced VAT on private school fees, the number of private schools has actually increased. Obviously still good business.

Trump has just named Venezuela’s ruling junta: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and Vice President JD Vance. (NBC) “It's a group of all. They have all expertise, different expertise,” Trump said. Trump has final say.

Stephen Miller to CNN: "The United States is the power of NATO. For the United States to secure the Arctic region, to protect and defend NATO and NATO interests, obviously, Greenland should be part of the United States."

"Don’t play games with President Trump." - U.S. State Department accounts on X posted a message addressed to Russians and Iranians.

top risks 2026 is officially out after 28 years of analyzing geopolitical risks this year is the tipping point:

Went to check if this screenshot (posted by @aric.bsky.social) was real (it is) and then made the mistake of also scrolling through Grok's replies on X. Still constantly cranking out sexualised images of young girls. Beyond bleak.

Denmark's PM urges Donald Trump to stop threats to take over Greenland

Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen: “There is neither reason for panic nor for concern. “The image shared by Katie Miller, depicting Greenland wrapped in an American flag, changes nothing whatsoever. “Our country is not for sale, and our future is not decided by social media posts.”

WELKER: Is the Cuban government the Trump administration's next target? MARCO RUBIO: Well, the Cuban government is a huge problem. Yeah. WELKER: Is that a yes? RUBIO: I think they're in a lot of trouble, yes

I had forgotten this, but it is consistent with Trump's efforts to pressure Zelenskyy into dangerous concessions to Putin. It should be (yet another) alarm signal to European leaders - Trump's goals in Ukraine may be the opposite of Europe's.

Why should Trump stop at Venezuela? They’re champing at the bit for territorial expansion. Katie Miller, Stephen Miller‘s wife, posted a map of Greenland marked as a US territory with the words „SOON“.

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Morning Bluesky.

A fascinating thought through account of action trump could take in Mexico, Panama, Greenland and Canada.

“The actual neocon project spent years denying that its invasion of Iraq was anything to do with oil, and became so sensitive to that accusation that it minimised the use of oil funds in Iraq’s reconstruction. By contrast, Trump is openly declaring plans for the US to monetise Venezuelan oil.”

They’ve got Twitter up on the big screens in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago makeshift “situation room.” Photos from Trump’s Truth Social account.

Trump to Fox & Friends on the raid that captured Maduro: "I mean, I watched it literally l like I was watching a television show. If you would've seen the speed, the violence -- it was an amazing thing."

Next stop on the War Tour: Trump to Fox: “Claudia Sheinbaum is a good woman, but the cartels are running Mexico. “She’s not running Mexico — the cartels are running Mexico. “Something’s going to have to be done with Mexico.”

We've been upgraded from 'forever wars' to 'whatever wars'.

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: “Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe. “Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.”

Trump isn’t predictable or consistent, but this particular action *would* be consistent with the emergence of a G2+1 order where Washington and Beijing, with Moscow as a junior partner, give each other free rein in their purported spheres of influence.

🔥Citing “national security,” Viktor Orbán’s government denied my public information request for agreements signed with Maduro’s Venezuela (incl. oil & gas) two years ago. Mentions of FM Péter Szijjártó’s meeting with Maduro are nowhere to be found on the Hungarian government’s website. I wonder why.