Gisèle Pelicot a été reçue par la reine Camilla à Londres https://l.bfmtv.com/Sg4O

💬 "Non merci, nous avons un système de santé public où les soins sont gratuits" ➡️ https://l.bfmtv.com/iFTT

Important front page coverage of Russian war crimes in Ukraine from the international edition of the New York Times this weekend. Russia engages in routine and large-scale sexual violence against Ukrainian prisoners and the civilian population

The IOC panics over a tribute helmet to Ukrainian athletes killed by russia's war, but has no problem letting russian athletes compete. 🖼: Heorhii Kliuchnyk

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić on local TV: “These Epstein documents are appearing, and I now expect a strike on Iran and other major developments within the next 48 hours.”

TikTok users say the platform suppressed or delayed videos about the killing of Alex Pretti, accusing that posts tied to the incident drew few views or were stalled amid broader technical issues on the site.

‼️ A genocide is taking place in Ukraine right now,committed by Russia This is barely being discussed or covered in the Western press I know that many Ukrainians living abroad follow me.I’m calling on international organizations&the Ukrainian diaspora to organize demonstrations in support of Ukraine

Largest European pension fund ABP cut back US Treasury holdings last year reut.rs/4qCvAE2

Ideal response

Even, er contextier

Time to sell the $8T of US T Bills that Europe holds. That’s more than 50% of US debt. I suspect the Chinese would welcome the opportunity to own a majority share of the USA finances

19 January 2014: Kyiv’s Hrushevskoho Street erupts as Maidan protests turn violent. Frustrated by new repressive laws & stalled leadership, protesters clash with police in what becomes known as “Vohnekhreshche” (Baptism by Fire), the moment peaceful dissent became revolution. 📷 Msyslav Chernov

This is a very good point. The November 2025 US National Security Strategy never mentions the Arctic at all. The idea that it's a genuine security priority for the Trump administration is not credible.

Today's winning comment!

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.

Oh “In late 2024, while Mr. Herrera was facing felony charges in the case, his daughter, Isabela Herrera, donated $2.5 million to MAGA Inc., a super PAC devoted to Mr. Trump … In July, Ms. Herrera donated another $1 million …Trump this week pardoned Mr. Herrera” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

🛡️ Resilience as resistance. @ukrainianspaces.bsky.social x @pravda.ua Podcast – new episode out now. In Six windows on Ukraine: Resilience, Olia Hercules talks family, memory, and how survival is not just enduring but rebuilding and remembering amid war. 🎧 Listen now:

🔹 “Zelenskyy is a tough, stubborn leader who stands his ground, speaks openly, and knows exactly how to handle the media” – Keith Kellogg. 📹 ITV News

🙏🇺🇦 Blackout in Kyiv

Keith Kellogg praised Zelensky, calling him a “tough son of a bitch”, determined, outspoken, and media-savvy. “We haven’t seen a leader like him in the U.S. since Abraham Lincoln,” he said.

“And let me live, live with my heart And people to love” These words of Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian national poet, are written on the rescue vehicle that responded to Russia’s strike on Kyiv on January 9. 📹Radio Svoboda/MFA_Ukraine

Finally a sense that something will be done in the UK about the deepfake X porn. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

English speaking newspapers don’t seem to have picked up on Trump administration threats of sanctions against judges in current appeals case involving Marine LePen’s indictment regarding European Parliament fund embezzling which could cost her the right to run for president next year.

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

Fiona Hill posited this in 2019 archive-yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/hill...

Leading UK far-right activist spoke at Russian extreme nationalist event www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

🔴 "Nous allons les remplacer" ▶️ https://l.bfmtv.com/GhcW

Rupert Lowe-Life knows a lot about owing HMRC money, he’s had no less than 19 companies go bust dissolved, or liquidated 😳 One Digme Fitness collapsed owing creditors circa £6.1 million, inc taxpayer money Full list found at companies house, Credit to @sky2b.bsky.social highlighting info 🙏🏼 1

Kommersant claims the US discussed using the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant for crypto mining and joint control without Ukraine, allegedly with Putin’s knowledge. If true, it fits Trump’s playbook perfectly: profit over principles, deals over sovereignty, money made on anyone’s back.

I caught this on an @espiers.bsky.social repost: bsky.app/profile/smok...

They’re actually redacting Trump’s name AFTER the release.

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

Russians sunk several barges at the entrance of their naval port pier in Novorossiysk, so that no other Ukrainian drone can enter it. This also confines the remnants of the Russian Black Sea Fleet to this little basin. Russians literally barricaded themselves. Embarrassing..

You may remember the last An-22 plane used by Russia, crashing into a reservoir this week and killing all 7 senior military servicemen. The plane had been decommissioned but was still flying, presumably through desperation & without maintenance as this incredible vid shows its catastrophic demise.

Kherson is in total blackout. Civilians are hunted by drones. This weekend, be their voice. GLOBAL RALLY: STOP HUMAN SAFARI / SAVE KHERSON, 14 December. Join the rally or join online: #StopHumanSafari #SaveKherson See www.humansafari.org

‘Harder work than almost any album we ever did’: Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here turns 50

A split between the US and Europe will have to come: Der Spiegel: “Two villains, one goal. “How Trump and Putin are attacking Europe.”

A new investigation reveals how a Dubai-based Russian entrepreneur uses a Hong Kong company to move European electronics into Russia. The shipments include high-end oscilloscopes and signal generators used in radars and electronic warfare. euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/10/r...

Norway did the math: Arm Ukraine to win, or pay double when Russia does Norwegian think tank calculates Europe’s binary choice. 🎥: @corrie-ua.bsky.social

...marking a significant leap from data consumer to independent provider, enabling real-time, all-weather surveillance for defense and state security, with full national control. This satellite system is also supporting Ukraine in its defense against the Russian invasion.

‘Zombie’ electricity projects in Britain face axe to ease quicker grid connections

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Russia has welcomed US President Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy, calling it "largely consistent" with Moscow's vision. 🤡 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script

Poland‘s Vice President Radoslaw Sikorski absolutely torches Elon Musk.