WATCH: "We are in a new era… where international relations aren’t going to be determined by rules… they're going to be determined by strong men."

Former MI6 boss Sir Alex Younger on Trump, Putin and changes to global diplomacy.

#Newsnight

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FocQITpJnaQ

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

🚨 A Day Without Immigrants 🚨
• Schools saw massive absences (L.A. Unified: 66% attendance vs. 93% usual)
• 250+ businesses nationwide closed in solidarity
• Protesters marched in L.A., Santa Ana, & beyond
• “Without us, El Norte no existe.”
📷: rosacuhh

On Mao’s birthday, Dec 26, #China showed new warships and aircraft:

* First Type 076 twin island assault carrier ‘Sichuan’ launched
* first (public?) flight of CAC’s 3-engine tailless J-36(?) stealth
* first (public?) flight of new stealth jet from SAC
* first flight of Y-20 based AWACS

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Amilah is 9 & needs a stem cell transplant, but there are no matches worldwide. Her family are calling for as many people as possible aged 16-30 to sign up and become a potential donor.

It’s simple to join the register using this link🙏
www.anthonynolan.org/help-save-a-...

Just when you thought Elon Musk couldn’t sink any lower he takes to X to outrageously & ominously accuse the key witness in Trump’s first impeachment of treason while calling for him to “pay the appropriate penalty”

Heaven help America
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

If you don't like saber-rattling, I'm going to have to disappoint you, because as Trump's presidency gets nearer, Putin will use escalatory rhetoric more often, in order to convince Trump that prolonging the war brings too high a cost and that he should cut the knot in Putin's favor.

"Each of Trump's proposed appointments is a surprise. It is comforting to think that he is simply a vengeful old man, lashing out. This is unlikely. He and Musk and Putin have been talking for years. The whole idea of his campaign was that this time he had a plan"
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...