A belated hello on Day 1518 of Russia's illegal full invasion.
Apologies for the very late start, I will catch up, it's just been a difficult day technically and with other commitments.
I have been keeping an eye on Ukraine of course.
Thankfully, it's been a quieter day.
You've found the start of my daily Ukraine thread on what is Day 1506 of the country's defence against a far larger neighbour and much greater army, in terms of personnel and equipment.
But it turns out size isn't everything!
Goliaths fall very loudly and spectacularly....
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Artemis ll is fake and gay. The crew are being sequestered in some ritzy hotel, ready for their make up team to make them look skanky for the staged scenes where they are recovered from the ocean. Then they'll lie for the press conference. And hate themselves for ever after.
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson's former best friend and Spectator journalist, James Delingpole, is speculating on Artemis 2 being fake.
Quite how he still has a career is something of a mystery.
the nuclear bros are cooked
Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal.
Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big.
And here we are.
I can’t believe we’re still doing this shit.
Four headlines in which Marjorite Taylor Greene, Tucker Carolson, Piers Morgan, and Alex Jones condemn Trump for his genocidal threats to Iran.
Imagine being a moderate Republican and getting outflanked on decency, morality, and basic humanity by these four nutters
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth...It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken."
-Carl Sagan
Keep on keeping on fella
Does he need locking up for his own good, & the sake of all of us?
I'm sure we'd all like a less barbaric leadership in Iran, without nukes.
But this looks like a ham-fisted, intel ignored, stupid war, probably to boost trump's falling popularity & now he's desperate, angry & an embarrassment.
Day 1499 of Russia's illegal war and the Moscow terrorists continue to be emboldened by Trumpty-Dumpty's inept handling of everything - unless his true aim is to help Putin, in which case he's doing well.
I do this every day without fail.
My friends tell me to sleep more😳
Kampf to Washington
I regret to inform you that the Globe and Mail's business section is at it again.
I'll be taking two pieces into the ol' woodshed today. Let's start with this one:
Evander Kane skated this morning but is not going to play tonight.
Not sure what's up with that.
Needs 11 games to 1,000 btw.
Canucks have made "a couple of minor moves" I'm told.
Will know more soon.
Norwegian PM Støre says Trump repeatedly raises—complains about, pleads for, and demands—the Nobel Peace Prize every time they meet. Støre gives same answer each time: decision is made independently by Norwegian Nobel Committee, with no role for Norwegian gov—a concept Trump appears unable to grasp.
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
“I love the Canadian people. I just don’t think their leadership has really reflected the silent majority, if I may, in Canada. It’s too Ontario-centric. It’s a great country. And out in Edmonton they just scratch their heads.”
Gee, I wonder where Peter Navarro is getting this idea from? 🤔
Maybe we could subsidize childcare and healthcare and feed people if we weren’t so busy giving billions of dollars to a bunch of chucklefucks in spirit Halloween costumes playing Temu Commando in the streets of American cities.
The world turns at a crazy pace.
It's only 18 January and 2026 has already seen Venezuela, Iran, now Greenland again dominate the news.
And through it all, innocent residents in Ukraine continue to freeze after the illegal invasion of their country nears a 5th year.
Here's the🧵
This information by "Bild" is wrong.
This very small mission was planned until Jan. 17th.
See:
archive.fo/4kX9j
>> "The German soldiers will participate in a multinational reconnaissance mission from January 15 to 17 [...] as the German Federal Ministry of Defense announced in writing [...]"
I despise #Merz and am shocked that it took him 18hrs longer than Macron&Starmer to post any sort of official response (however pathetic+meek that response was)…
…but the Reconnaissnce Exercise was ALWAYS scheduled to be from Jan 15-17 so the soldiers’ departure had nothing to do w/ #Shitler ‘s TT
Really? That desperate to appease a bloated tangerine?
Just wait for TACO Tuesday, Merz!
It's a NATO exercise!
The last one is 🤣
Situation in Copenhagen 🇩🇰👀
Today’s estimated Ruzzian losses
