Bad Bunny… Makes Super Bowl History With Record-Breaking Halftime Viewership of Around 135-141 Million… 🌎🔥

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

1/21/2026 - Minneapolis

Federal agents abduct two teenagers (15 & 16) from a doctor's appointment

At one point, it appears an agent tases one of the children

As great powers abandon rules and values for their own interests, middle powers like Canada have a choice: compete with each other for favour or act together with impact.

Trump:

"NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything."

Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.

Trump just repeated again that China just builds wind turbines but did not use them themselves.

Truth is :they actually do. China has more wind power than any other country.

Farage says Greenland would be safer as part of the US after Starmer says UK 'will not yield' to tariff threat - UK politics live Reform UK leader says Greenland would be 'more secure' if part of the US, after PM says he will not back down to Trump Andrew Sparrow Wed 21 Jan 2026 17.10 GMT

Quisling

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Opinion | Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise We know that Mr. Trump’s warmongering violates the law.

In Opinion

President Trump “is pushing our country toward an international crisis without valid reasons,” the editorial board writes after the U.S. attack on Venezuela was announced on Saturday. “If Mr. Trump wants to argue otherwise, the Constitution spells out what he must do: Go to Congress.”

Trump and Venezuela bombing.

Will Starmer be like this guy and sit on the fence?

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.

I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

ECF protests FIDE lifting of sanctions As reported, the FIDE General Assembly has fully restored the rights of all youth players from Russia and Belarus "in line with IOC recommendations". The FIDE Council also voted to finalise protocols ...

en.chessbase.com/post/ecf-pro...

The Thomas Crown Affair, by Norman Jewison (1968) - The Chess game YouTube video by Jérôme Labbé

@skipbolden.bsky.social Thomas crown affair Chess scene m.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPa...

This debate now playing out in public among the cabinet – and Starmer being outflanked.

In a lively moment in the Commons, Starmer said: “A little festive advice to those in Reform. If mysterious men from the East appear bearing gifts, this time report it to the police.”
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Good move Starmer.

Met Police to drop further investigation into Andrew Windsor

Looks like Met Police rolled out the same police officers who refused and resisted investigating Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak's Downing street parties during covid

"We believe recent events underscore the urgency of this issue."

The UK should never have left the Single Market or Customs Union, but neither Tories nor Labour fought the case for either out of fear of the right.

Now the right is far right, the country is poorer, and so the people angrier, and the flag-waving Brexit nationalism has spiralled out of control.

Just listen to Major. Brexit has ruined our economy and ruined the fabric of our society. The racist Farage and Russian money was central to Brexit. For Farage to be in government totally absurd.

#RejointheEU - blame #Brexit not immigrants. What destroyed the Dublin agreement? Who conned the country into Brexit? Farage and Johnson, who is keeping us out? UkLabour's red lines.

Here's the latest data on what Brexit has done to the UK economy ...
GDP down 6% – 8%
INVESTMENT down 12% – 18%
PRODUCTIVITY down 3% – 4%

Farage: epic grifter

The Albanian prime minister absolutely bodies UK politics here. Incredible

Naomi Smith, "For the last ten years we've had successive governments tell us what a great thing Brexit is"

"Well our polling shows that nearly 2/3 of people think Brexit has been more of a failure than a success"

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…