Russia is not in a position to dictate anything. It has been fighting for the Donbas region for four years, and despite over a million total casualties, it is still far from taking it

Zelenskyy calls Russia’s claim of a strike on one of Putin’s residences a “complete fabrication,” a lie designed to sabotage diplomacy, justify more attacks on Kyiv, and excuse Moscow’s refusal to end the war. He warns the world must not stay silent as Russia tries to derail peace.

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

The Takeover of Crimea - and What Strelkov, Surkov, Bannon, Trump, Farage and Johnson Were Doing in 2014 Halfway through Book 6, I've now got to the post Maidan turnaround, and we're back with many of our main players in the UK and US open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

Aha! Always remember about #chartercities when we're all scratching our heads and nothing is adding up.

Did someone mention Nigeria? “A Peter Thiel–Backed Startup City Wants to Be Africa’s Delaware ***Nigeria’s Itana partnered with Binance and the Charter Cities Institute to build a physical tech hub near Lagos, but the plan has sparked controversy.” 4/18/23… 1/ www.wired.com/story/itana-...

New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

The Trump administration is rolling out the red carpet for once-besieged prediction apps like Polymarket and Kalshi, with millions pouring into bets on the midterms. The companies wave away concerns about foreign influence and partisan meddling www.npr.org/2025/12/23/n...

Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying www.france24.com/en/americas/... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Analysis: Donald Trump’s top 25 lies of 2025

Seriously. At some point the penny has to drop in Europe's governments about these men.

Paul Nowak calls on Labour to forge closer relationship with Europe

Bombing on Christmas. Yeah that tracks for the dude who gave himself a madeup Fifa Peace Prize.

Damn, Bill Clinton just called Trump & Pam Bondi's bluff. Clinton released a statement calling on Bondi to release all of the Epstein files that mention him - including photos. This is what a president with a spine looks like. Meanwhile, Trump is having the FBI scrub his name from the files.

“As well as being the figureheads of their respective Brexit campaigns, Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson share another thing in common: as Russia launched its first phase of war against Ukraine in 2014, they both blamed the EU for the conflict” ⁦‪⁩ bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...

US has boarded a third tanker off the coast of Venezuela, according to Bloomberg. Just breaking now so waiting on details.

Deck the halls and lock him up. Written by Rikki Beadle-Blair Performed at Soho Theatre, Walhamstow for charity fundraiser "Comedians Do Carols."

"U.S. companies never owned oil or land in Venezuela, home to the world’s largest proven reserves of crude, and officials didn’t kick them out of the country." Trump continues to murder people using lies as justification for his crimes. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

“Back in June, medical researchers discovered a similar racial bias in large language model (LLM) psychiatric diagnostic tools. In that case, results showed AI tools often proposed “inferior treatment” plans for Black patients whenever their race was explicitly known.”

With the unemployment rate at the highest in four years, laid-off workers describe their job search as “disheartening.”

BREAKING: The Senate rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, as costs are set to rise for millions of Americans in 2026.

my five year old had RSV when he was six months old and when we brought him to the pediatrician they were like yeah go directly to the hospital we’re calling ahead scariest few days of our lives from the bottom of my heart: all these people can go to hell

🚨PHD Opportunity 🚨 Funded PhD place available from next autumn to work with me on a project improving services for children with complex health needs! Calling interested graduates with degrees in a numerate subject. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

So it appears that the donor of £9m to Reform UK also owns 10% of a crypto-currency company Russia has been using to avoid sanctions!?!

Nigel Farage appears to equate Alf Garnett - a satirical 70s character intended to lampoon racists - with hissing "Hitler was right" to boys at school. I wonder if he's missing the point www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uki...

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

Trump’s pardon of an ex-Honduran president is shocking. So is the history of US support for him | Dana Frank

Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight. The party has five MPs

Oh, THAT’s why Trump likes sovereign wealth funds. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/2038...

This alleges he “acted as a front for a major gambling syndicate that was “given control” of his betting accounts,” a high court document alleges. Cottrell acted as a stalking horse for a syndicate involving one of the world’s most successful gamblers, Tony Bloom, according to the high court docs

It seems that Farage’s key aide and “like a son to me” George Cottrell has been frontman for Premier League billionaire’s betting syndicate, lawsuit claims. He‘s also been in the inner circle of the Brexit Party and ReFuk despite his 🇺🇸 conviction for wire fraud www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

That "Premier League billionaire" is Tony Bloom of Brighton and Hove Albion, if you hadn't guessed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump has pardoned: (1) A former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking (2) Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold (3) Binance founder Zhao who failed to stop criminals from using Binance to move money tied to drug trafficking. 1/

Leavitt tries to explain why President Trump commuted the sentence of former GPB Capital Holdings CEO David Gentile, who was convicted of fraud last year

Trump just gave a commutation to David Gentile, a private equity executive who defrauded investors of $1.6B. Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct. A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.

Roger Stone on 1/24/25: “A well-timed pardon of former [Honduran] President Hernandez…cld be the final death blow to Castro w/ national elections set to take place later this year. Castro’s regime cld be upended” in a major “victory for…Próspera” (the network state project backed by Peter Thiel) 1/

Prospera Honduras is a Zone for Employment & Economic Development (ZEDE) backed by Peter Thiel. Trump plans to pardon the former Honduran president who championed ZEDES b4 his drug trafficking conviction. Honduras current outgoing president has tried to eliminate ZEDES, an obstacle for Prospera. 1/

"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside." I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless": www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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

Research Fellow Vacancy in brain imaging at UCL London supporting MXI Lab to develop AI tools for multiscale brain scans and coordinate imaging experiments. Closing date: 4th January www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

Genuinely really curious about the cognitive dissonance of #MAGA on this one.

Trump, with no authority to do so, demands the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela be closed as he threatens to bomb and invade the country.

Pope Leo's envoy to the United States is raising the alarm on JD Vance’s political ideology — warning it’s authoritarianism disguised as religion.

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

2/2 Both jailed Gill + David Coburn, who denies taking Russian cash, were "appointed" to a new “International Editorial Board” for 2 pro-Russia broadcasters in Ukraine, alongside Oleg Voloshin who prosectuors say paid Gill The now banned channels were owned by Putin's mate Medvedchuk.

Nyet, comrade. 🤝 'Farage regularly appeared on state-controlled Russia Today, which apparently paid him for his services and boosted every speech he made as an MEP in the European Parliament. It also offered him his own TV show following the EU Referendum.' www.bylinesupplement.com/p/nigel-fara...

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