Tonight on a special edition of APTN National News: We take a look inside the world of Indigenous literature, from novels to memoirs to an Indigenous-led publishing house.

❗️The United States has suspended the operation to seize the tanker Bella 1 after a Russian flag appeared on board, according to The Wall Street Journal. The U.S. Coast Guard has been pursuing the vessel in the Atlantic Ocean for more than 10 days.

⚡️Ukraine's military reportedly strikes oil depot in Russia's Krasnodar Krai. Preliminary reports indicate that Ukrainian forces struck an oil depot near the Russian city of Tuapse in Krasnodar Krai, Russian Telegram channels reported on Dec. 30.

Calls to strip pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his British citizenship pile torment on top of torture. New piece by me on a dangerous and manufactured storm: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🔥 This morning, Enterprise "Temp Combine" of Rosrezerv was hit 💥 Rybinsk oil depot is an important point for the storage and distribution of petroleum products in the North-Eastern region of the Russian Federation.

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

Have to admit I'd never heard of Compact Mag until like two weeks ago and both stories I've now heard about published in it are whining from white dudes who don't feel appreciated enough for being white dudes. And, as a white dude, gotta say, this all seems fucking stupid.

whose got the marshmellows and chocolate????

💥👀 Ukraine has stepped up attacks on Russian energy infrastructure this month, inflicting the most damage to assets and the widest range of targets since the war began, — Bloomberg. ❗️The attacks are adding pressure on Russian exports, which are already struggling due to international sanctions.

For the record, I was an advisor to Ed Miliband's Labour Party on tax policy, I strongly support a wealth tax, and I am aware of a viable and fully costed proposal to implement one in the UK.

I've waited 3 years to make this post

A warning was issued as icy conditions are expected in parts of the country.

Private equity struggles to value assets, sells assets to itself to pay investors. Sold £79.2bn of assets to itself, to new entities under its control with money from new investors to pay earlier investors. A ponzi scheme full of conflict of interests.

Ukraine war briefing: ‘Attack on global food security’ as Russia hits wheat ships and ports

This is how the Andromeda galaxy would appear at night if it were not obscured by interstellar dust. It’s hard not to wonder how this might have shaped human history: the realization that we live in one galaxy among many could have emerged millennia earlier, changing everything @manlius.bsky.social

A trillion galaxies, each with a billion stars, each hosting at least an exoplanet, with 20% odds of being in the habitable zone. Million-to-billion years to capture those photons marking the proof of ✨ existence. How many potential worlds out there? 🪐 manlius.substack.com/p/a-whole-lo...

…and this is by no means unusual in UKHE. As a consequence, medievalists across depts are routinely required—and expected—to cover several centuries and territories whilst some (not all!) modernists get away with teaching/researching the five-year history of a singular locality (I exaggerate, ofc)…

from your post to the ear of an imaginary god....

this is the best NYE present ever...

Divine tech? Tatiana Bur is marrying science and religion in ancient Greece - ANU Reporter reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/...

Today on Volts: I've got a nerdy one for you! I talk with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about the epistemic crisis & its roots in social identity. He explains why factchecking & media literacy classes will never solve misinformation -- why something deeper & stronger is required.

M 5.3 earthquake 14 km NNW of Susanville, CA Did you feel it? Report it? earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

YESS!!!!!!!!!!!!

I cannot really express what a pathetic level of grifter Lindy Li is

It’s sad it’s come to this. But we refuse to be bullied into financial distress by an industry that knows it has us by the nuts. We’re taking a chance, but what we’re not doing is getting played. And if it sounds to you like we’re giving up, wrong. We’re taking control of our healthcare expenses.

And for folks who keep voting against their own interests, especially for Republicans who just skipped town for the holidays instead of voting to extend ACA tax credits, congratulations. You’re about to find out what you truly voted for. This will affect you too. 5/6

My wife and I are partners. We share finances but split responsibilities. One of the things she handles is our health insurance. That means the monthly premium. The phone calls. The disputes. The endless back-and-forth when the same charge magically shows up twice. 🧵

I’ve been researching alternatives that don’t involve bleeding thousands every month just to stay “covered.” Solid options, and I’ll share our journey down the road because I know we’re not the only ones staring at these numbers in disbelief. 4/6

So my wife did the only rational thing left. Today, she canceled our policy. As of January 1, we’re uninsured. This isn’t a reckless decision. It’s a calculated one. 3/6

At this time of the year, I'm simply trying to give my family a small sense of safety. We're not asking for much—just for hearts that still believe that giving, even in small ways can make a real difference. A simple donation, even £25 can mean: 🧒a child’s smile ❤️the feeling that we are not alone.

I'm a former federal prosecutor who handled criminal prosecutions for DOJ. This comment by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social is exactly correct.

🌰 🌍 news.mongabay.com/2025/11/fran...

Trump vetos a unanimous, bipartisan bill to provide clean water in rural Colorado which would create jobs. Is this retaliation that the governor refuses to pardon Tina Peters convicted of election tampering or bc it’s in Lauren Boebert’s district and she voted to release the Epstein files?

When you're blocking Doctors without Borders, you should really rethink your choices.

'we can't afford climate action' says country whose annual car and car infra costs are over twenty times this

oh man

The results of Musk’s chainsaw.

I was on a regional transit train, maybe 18 or 19 years old, and I was sad for some reason. A man made me an origami crane and handed it to me.

WSJ breaks significant news reporting that Mar-a-Lago’s spa *for years* regularly sent young staffers to Epstein’s home purportedly to give him massages, contorts its scoop to find a more flattering angle for Trump, and still gets an icy blast of a comment from Leavitt. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before. In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵

MAGA influencer's viral Somali fraud claims shot down by CBS News fact check www.rawstory.com/cbs-fact-che...

The whole universe is summed up in the Human Being. Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a voice inside. Look for Your Devil in Yourself, not in the Others. Don’t forget that the one who knows his Devil, knows his God. ~ Shams Tabrizi

Seriously. We haven't had a liberal court since Rehnquist joined the crew.

NEW: Jan Crawford's attack on SCOTUS "corruption" narrative was its own substance-free narrative. On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics. Tonight, at Law Dork:

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

“ANIC senior advisor Bilal Rauf said much of the abuse had been aimed at women across Australia, particularly in Sydney.”

“"It's been very difficult for the community in having to deal with that and confront such hatred, sadly in part flowing from the divisive rhetoric of some politicians and statements made in some quarters of media…””

“The ANIC has recorded a near-200 per cent increase in reported anti-Muslim hate incidents since the attack.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

*adjusts glasses* Your honor, human mortality, like the proverbial fire, was not ignited by my clients.

Next is"Gotta Study War Work More" (vol. 22, no. 3) by @tejnagaraja.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1547...