Mind-blowingly cool use of AI “Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Today’s Russian papers on chances of a peace deal: “Don't count on Russia making noticeable concessions.” But: “If proposals are acceptable to Russia, one could talk of a summit in Budapest.” Meanwhile, Russia’s “economic malaise betrayed by rise in wage arrears." #ReadingRussia

Wild how people like this, just like russians, still can’t comprehend that the Revolution of Dignity wasn’t staged. It was Ukrainians choosing freedom over fear. Imperialists and small minds always assume someone else must be pulling the strings, because they’ve never seen a nation with a spine.

Yes, we’re used to the madness but this sort of thing is still utterly ridiculous. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

He’s blocked me, but I’m sure Tommy Stephen Yaxley-Lennon Robinson is chuffed to feature in my ‘2025’ 1000 piece jigsaw 👇👇👇 www.coldwarsteve.com/2025/11/18/u...

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

Oil tanker M/T Mersin is sinking off Senegal after visiting Russia's Taman port in August.

I'm going to guess the Your Party membership has some factions who are very much of the "Assad didn't use chemical weapons" ilk, so I expect they'll try to dominate the party leadership.

Tankers vanished from Novorossiysk port oil terminal with only tugboats remaining visible on satellite images, Crimean Wind monitoring group reports.

Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

For those kind enough to be paying subscribers, I have done a treat post: How the BBC censored the line that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history” emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...

Ofc, we didn't actually invade Finland. We "assisted" the new "legitimate government" who "asked" for help after tiny Finland aggressively attacked USSR just as our army was peacefully massed on their previous border in attack formation. Again. Imagine that happening today

OTD in 1939 USSR began to liberate Finland from themselves in the Winter War. It followed denials, a false flag, a bullshit excuse, us deliberately targeting civilians while we took massive casualties we lied about. Imagine that happening today...

OTD in 1951 3rd wave of Operation Osen deportations began. 20,000 Lithuanians were forcibly deported to Siberia as USSR continued to "liberate them from fascism" 6 years after WW2 ended Imagine mass deportations happening today...

OTD in 2013 CIA began its “coup” by sending group of unarmed students to repeatedly headbutt the batons & boots of peaceful riot policemen so as to start Euromaidan so Nyland could give them cookies.

When the six Democrats said military officers ”can refuse illegal orders”, they were correct—indeed they went no further than the Department of Defense’s own guidance, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.

Good front-paging.

Markwayne Mullin: "The president and the secretary of war have been very clear. They're gonna use lethality against our enemies -- home and abroad."

$1.6bln: The amount of his fraud scheme 7: Years of his sentence 10,000: Victims of his fraud 1,000: Letters from victims to the court 13: Days he served 1: Pardon from Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

Mark Kelly: "We have a president who doesn't understand the Constitution, who installed an unqualified secretary of defense. I cannot think of a secretary of defense in the history of our country that is less qualified than Pete Hegseth. He should've been fired after Signal-gate."

We have spent more than 1,000 years trying to separate the awesome prosecutorial powers of the state from the personal whims and vendettas of the head of state. Trump’s actions and ideology seek to reverse those gains. Here’s the history he’d like to reverse www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...

Van Hollen: "It's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong, and I think the weight of the legal opinion is they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept it, then it is a war crime. I do believe the secretary of defense should be held accountable"

Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven. The hypocrisy is stunning.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff announced he flies to Moscow tomorrow for Tuesday talks with Putin.

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

If Russia wanted peace, they would stop killing Ukrainians. If the US wanted peace, they would stop Russia.

When the country needed them most, it was utterly betrayed. Careerist chancers.

God knows I've vehemently disagreed with many politicians in my voting life, but I have honestly never known a generation of politicians so lacking in basic political talent or ethics as this one. Right across the board.

So... this just happened. archive.ph/2025.11.29-1...

Santa Claus has been arrested under the Terrorism Act in Norwich after it turns out Santa oppo-ho-ho-ses genocide and supports Palestine Action. These four officers will be having their names checked twice this year. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. wedonotcomply.org

Two significant takeaways from this: - done in broad daylight - done out of range and relative safety of Russian Navy & air power To compensate Russia would need to devote security teams to every tanker – which even then is no magic cure – at a time when they have manpower issues. Smart tactics.

Whoever leaked this information served Hegseth up in a platter. Good.

“It’s good to remember that the simplest explanation is often the correct one: Trump and Republicans are lying. Lie after desperate, confusing, and impossible lie, all aimed at an impossible goal: erasing history and the many deep and troubling ties between Epstein and Trump.” x.com/atrupar/stat...

Which one?

The Ukrainian front is not about to collapse. But the Russians want you to think that understandingwar.org/research/rus...

The US government is totally audience-captured by a tiny faction of internet fascists, and spends huge amounts of time trying to impress them, dedicating official communications channels to barely-concealed in-group references, and making horrific, murderous policy decisions to thrill this group

They didn’t hide it.

"Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions.” www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Genocide just as Lemkin defined it. euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/27/r...

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

The house and senate have both expressed interest in investigating the strike on survivors of the first boat strike. Both Hegseth and adm Bradley will need to answer some questions. This is why a reminder to not follow illegal orders is important

NEW What do you do with unlawful orders? The critical - and topical - issue of when the military and security services can refuse to do what they are told By me emptycity.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...

Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments. 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Sec of war confesses to war crimes while trying to dunk on the MSM

Time to ask: In whose interests is American foreign policy being conducted?

Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.

a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats

"Labour has managed to squander its capital with immense speed, it's more than a little shocking." Salman Rushdie says a reluctance to acknowledge the damage Brexit has done and is harming people's faith in politics. @jonsopel1.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com

To understand the balance of power between Trump and Witkoff, you must understand this. If Trump was president and did not appoint Witkoff, US policy towards Russia/Ukraine would be identical to how it is now. If Trump were not president, Witkoff would be irrelevant