“Nicki Minaj is not here, she’s still at the White House with Donald Trump” — Trevor Noah during his #GRAMMYs  opening sequence.

The Onion straight up reporting the news now

The President and the Min of Defence have acknowledged that an instruction was given "to all parties concerned" for Iran to downgrade to Observer status. Instructions were given, they were not followed. Now you're attempting to shift blame.

Iranian warships leave Cape Town. Having completed the maritime Exercise Will for Peace last Friday, Iranian navy corvette Naghdi has only this morning departed Simon's Town harbour. At the same time, forward base ship Makran departed Table Bay Harbour in Cape Town.

Trump is just a symptom of our having created a completely untouchable class of billionaire overlords. If we do not eliminate obscene wealth, the world will continue to be at their mercy.

Gordon Brown is right, we need a new global framework that rejects coercion and restates values in a 21st century setting (probably therefore also has to say something about company responsibilities too). Hard to see it happening though. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

He’s seizing Trumps Scottish golf course and turning it into a wind farm? 😏

Palantir was a warning sign. Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment. All in the name of "investment." What about national security?

Star Trek has always been political. On The Lieutenant, Gene Roddenberry's series before Trek, scripts on racial bigotry and the inhumanity of warfare met network censorship. GR designed ST to use s-f allegory to tell stories that wouldn't otherwise be allowed on network TV.

How warm was Europe in 2025? 🔍 It was the third‑warmest year on record for Europe, with an average temperature of 10.41°C, 1.17°C above the 1991–2020 average and 0.30°C below the record year of 2024. #CopernicusClimate #GCH2025 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima... @ecmwf.int

Holy hell, what an obituary

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Dion George resigned from DA over: 1 Steenhuisen is financially compromised, cannot quit the GNU if he wants to because without his minister's salary he cannot service his debts and maintain his lifestyle. He thinks investigation that cleared Steenhuisen is a whitewash. www.enca.com/news-top-sto...

America bringing back the dompas. Your revival of apartheid is well on its way, with "cops" harassing and attacking people on the streets and demanding their ID. #AmericanApartheid

2025 has been confirmed as the third warmest year on record, following 2024 and 2023, in a series stretching back to 1850. Data from the Met Office, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social shows 2025 was 1.41 °C above the average for 1850-1900. Read more 👉 bit.ly/3NkfQH9

Zapiro today. www.dailymaverick.co.za/cartoon/2026...

Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art show —giving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there— is a disgrace! A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!

Mood:

*laughs in South African* do it

When I was a kid watching Jurassic Park, I thought Ian Malcolm was a killjoy who didn't understand how cool it was to have real live dinosaurs. It's an understandable position for a nine year old. But some people never grew out of that mindset and unfortunately some of them have billions of dollars.

Murders in London in 2025: 86

If the old robber barons like Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan had a stock ticker showing them nonstop insults from the hoi polloi they too would send the Pinkertons into random Midwestern cities to get into fights with locals.

When Keir Starmer appointed Mandelson I said publicly it was a serious error of judgement. I’ve always been a supporter of the BBC in its role as a public broadcaster but the decision to invite Mandelson onto the Kuensberg programme calls into question once more its own judgment.

great post - also read the comments, great names...

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

Awesome photos of the SAAFs 22 Squadron Oryx helicopter tackling the Overstrand fires, taken by Rayno Snyman, crewman of the Leading Edge UH-60A Black Hawk.

This day in history. 1968. In Australia following the disappearance while swimming of the previous prime minister, a new one was sworn in without incident though his face was bandaged from a platypus bite.

“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are: From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Can the pope not just excomunicate this guy already? Idk how it works. I'm not a catholic.

"no, your honor, it's not a publicly accessible CSAM machine. it's a for-profit CSAM machine. that's very different and clearly not somehow even worse"

I want to see 2,500 houses and MAKE IT SNAPPY.

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

Onions are the best vegetable. They're delicious raw, sauteed, pickled, fried, stewed, and caramelized. They improve nearly every savory dish. The GOAT.

Sources: Bari Weiss has kept Anderson Cooper's unaired 60 Minutes piece about Trump's decision to accept South African refugees in a prolonged editorial process (Oliver Darcy/Status) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Status scoop: Bari Weiss is subjecting another "60 Minutes" piece to scrutiny that has yet to air: one in the works for months by Anderson Cooper examining Trump's decision to accept white South African refugees. Details in @status.news www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

This is also very similar to the argument that was made to oppose the end of Apartheid in South Africa, but, guess what, once the black people came into power in South Africa, they didn't commit white genocide. Evil always assume everyone else thinks like they do and in doing so reveal themselves.

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

Women’s Aid ends use of X, saying Grok AI’s creation of child sex imagery is ‘tipping point’

For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...

they just spent 12 months deporting anyone who looks foreign and then kidnapped an entire south american country

“The Brazilian response reflects a hard-earned lesson from the comparative study of democratic collapse: early, forceful, and legally grounded intervention is often the only way to stop backsliding once elites signal a willingness to subvert electoral outcomes”

Newly appointed National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Andy Mothibi says he was asked to put his name forward for the position after the panel interviewing six current and former prosecutions bosses for the vacancy found that none of them were suitable.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Dear God I thought this was an onion post

New year. New ewe.

"gnu year, gnu me" - a wildebeest, probably