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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Philip Pilkington thinks Trump’s push for an energy ceasefire in Ukraine is about more than protecting infrastructure. He believes Russia’s winter strategy is to make major Ukrainian cities increasingly difficult to live in, potentially driving another wave of migration into Europe. At the same time, Trump has been pressuring Zelensky to stop Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy targets. Pilkington sees a political calculation in that too. If shortages worsen before the midterms, Trump needs someone else to blame. “Trump also needs a bad guy for the midterms to blame the diesel shortages on, and Zelenskyy is perfect for that.” What makes this more interesting is that the interview itself pushed back on one of Pilkington’s claims: Zelensky’s approval is not around 5%, with cited polling putting it much higher. So the broader argument may be worth examining, but some of the political assumptions underneath it clearly deserve more scrutiny. @philippilk

🇺🇸🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV says doctors have discovered a small, localized nodule in his lung during a recent examination. He says it was caught at a very early stage and that he will undergo surgery in the coming days on medical advice. Wishing him a successful operation and a full recovery. Writer: Oliver

🇳🇴 Throwing pig's blood at a Quran in front of Muslims... Is that supposed to be protest? That's just pure, vicious religious hatred. Writer: Sol, Oliver t.co/9vZ4qlQiht

Watch this crow go sledding using a plastic lid on a snowy rooftop. I'm starting to think we've seriously underestimated these birds. Writer: Oliver t.co/Lq1oWElrO8

Elon speaking about his Terafab ambitions is genuinely fascinating. “I do not know how to make chips. I have no idea how to make them, but we will figure it out.” You have to start somewhere. I did not know how to make cars or rockets either.” There's something meaningful to learn about how @elonmusk approaches these enormous industrial challenges. He doesn't wait until he's personally mastered an industry before entering it. He learns enough to identify the fundamental problems brings together people who know how to solve them and starts building. Semiconductor manufacturing is a different beast entirely. Even the most experienced companies spend decades mastering it. But that's what makes this interesting. And we've seen that approach before with Tesla and SpaceX. 🔥 Writer: Oliver t.co/hk5wKI3jXE

🇪🇺🇷🇺 Philip Pilkington thinks Europe is slowly talking itself into a much wider war with Russia. Not because one dramatic event suddenly changes everything, but because the rhetoric keeps moving. Sabotage. Drone incursions. Assassination claims. Russian operations inside Europe. At some point, Pilkington argues, governments may feel forced to act on the threats they have spent months describing. “The war is going to spread in Europe.” His concern is that Poland and Romania could become especially important if the conflict expands, simply because they have some of the more substantial and usable military forces on NATO’s eastern flank. The danger is not just escalation from Moscow. It’s that Europe keeps raising the stakes rhetorically until someone decides credibility requires following through. @philippilk

🇺🇦🇷🇺 This Ukrainian woman was just recording herself when she heard a missile coming. She turned to run, but barely took a step before it hit. That's how little time she had. She survived with injuries, and that quick reaction might have saved her life. What's really sad is how familiar these sounds have become for Ukrainians. Imagine just going about your day, hearing a missile coming, and knowing you have to run right away. And that's the reality for people living through this war. You never really know when an ordinary moment might turn into something like this. Writer: Daniyal t.co/3UivsdhrHz

The employee: He's literally gonna do everything he can to destroy that cage right now. The python: Watch! Writer: Oliver t.co/X86GT3HNas

🇱🇧 Lebanon finally has a train running again after more than 50 years. It's called BaraTrain, a small solar-powered train that can carry around 45 people. But locals aren't exactly sold on it and are already making fun of the design, with one saying it looks like a train from an amusement park, especially compared to the bullet trains in Japan and China. Still, Lebanon's railways have been shut down since the civil war, so even this little train is a start. Writer: Daniyal t.co/OH61yJkKQW

🇺🇸🇬🇷 Kimberly Guilfoyle could be fired as U.S. ambassador to Greece this week. She’s Don Jr.’s ex-fiancée, and Trump picked her for the job in December 2024, the same month the 2 split. But things went south when reports said she’d asked a Trump donor to pay off her $100,000 American Express bill shortly before her Senate confirmation hearing, while offering to get him access to top Trump officials. The donor says he never paid, and her lawyer says the messages aren’t real. That’s left Trump and Rubio reportedly furious, and now they’re weighing her removal, with a decision likely after Monday’s holiday. It’s quite a turn for Rubio, who was calling her “a strong ambassador” just days ago. Now he could be helping decide whether she stays. Source: Fox News / Writer: Daniyal

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian drones BLASTED Ukrainian grenade launchers and mortars at their firing positions in Zaporozhye. Writer: Sol t.co/BvogbEa20i

🇸🇦 Philip Pilkington thinks Saudi Arabia has backed itself into a very dangerous financial corner. The kingdom has roughly $420 billion in reserves against about $520 billion in external debt. His biggest concern is the currency peg. As long as creditors believe the riyal will stay fixed to the dollar, they can remain relatively calm. But if confidence in that peg starts to crack, capital could leave fast. “The peg is the key.” Under normal circumstances, Saudi Arabia could respond with tax rises, spending cuts and other painful adjustments. But wars have a habit of overruling economic logic. Pilkington’s warning is that Riyadh may now be trying to defend its currency, finance a war and reassure creditors at the same time. That is an ugly tightrope. @philippilk

Kick is now allowing people to stream from prison. The creator economy has officially reached the point where “going live” no longer implies being free. Somewhere at Twitch, someone is trying to figure out how to compete with a captive audience. Writer: Oliver t.co/RZLINXeVU0

🇷🇺🇪🇺 The Kremlin has ordered operatives to assassinate European defense company CEOs, with drone manufacturers specifically in their crosshairs. This is happening because the battlefield is deadlocked and Russia is running out of clean options. "With progress on the battlefield deadlocked in Ukraine and Russia's economy struggling, the Kremlin has ordered an expansion of sabotage and hybrid operations in Europe as it seeks to fatally weaken support for Kyiv in the coming months." If you run a defense company right now, you need more than a bodyguard. @WeTheBrandon

🇫🇷 WTF HAPPENED IN FRANCE?! An absolutely INSANE flash of light appeared above the clouds, looking like some giant alien creature lighting up the night sky. It's believed to be a rare atmospheric phenomenon called a SPRITE, a massive electrical discharge that occurs high above thunderstorms and lasts just milliseconds. These things can stretch for TENS OF KILOMETERS across the sky. Writer: Sol t.co/irZMbf5lOS

🇰🇵🇯🇵 North Korea fired MULTIPLE BALLISTIC MISSILES, triggering an emergency alert from Japan. South Korea says the missiles traveled more than 900 KM, while Japan detected at least two launches that apparently landed in the sea outside its territorial economic zone. This is Pyongyang's FOURTH missile test in roughly a month. Kim Jong Un is keeping the region on edge, and Japan is preparing for the possibility of more launches. Source: PM's Office of Japan / Writer: Sol

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇾🇪 Trump is thinking about joining Saudi Arabia's fight against the Houthis, but that could open another can of worms. Saudi Arabia has faced more attacks, including a deadly strike on Riyadh's main airport that killed an American. Trump says the U.S. might join the fight. But there's a catch. Trump already has a ceasefire with the Houthis, and bombing them again could end it, putting American ships back in their sights. The Houthis could also threaten Red Sea shipping, creating another choke point while Hormuz is already in trouble. So Washington might end up with another war on its hands. Writer: Daniyal t.co/GSOPQlO6jF

🇮🇷 The chaos in Africa, the Red Sea, all of it connects to a single war most people aren't paying attention to. Brandon Weichert says the ripple effects are spreading fast, and the seeds were planted earlier than anyone admits. "The origins, the immediate origins of the war in Iran, you can see the seeds being planted not by Donald Trump, but by Joe Biden and his advisors in Gaza in 2023, in 2024." Conflict is a contagion, and no one is mapping where it spreads next. @WeTheBrandon

🇬🇹 A 15-year-old girl in Guatemala WOKE UP INSIDE HER OWN COFFIN Yuleidy Ixcotoyac had collapsed with severe chest pain, and her father believed she was dead after finding no pulse or breathing. The family brought her home, bought a coffin, and started the wake. Then she suddenly MOVED, opened her eyes, SAT UP, and asked for water. Ok, too much internet for one day... Writer: Sol t.co/mFZRJvWgve

🇵🇰 The Houthis just expanded their target list to include a NUCLEAR-ARMED country. Brandon Weichert believes U.S. forces massing in the region aren't headed for Yemen at all. "I think he is marshaling everything for the strikes on Iran, which I think are still coming." The map is getting bigger and the stakes just went nuclear. @WeTheBrandon

Wearing this and filming people's reactions sounds like a great plan 🤣 Writer: Sol t.co/9Z8y9ZZRqz

🇬🇧 Britain has 3,369 neighbourhoods where a majority of working-age adults claim out-of-work benefits. But who lives in these areas, and what's driving the numbers? Take Sparkbrook and Balsall Heath East in Birmingham, one of the areas examined by The Telegraph. The 2021 Census puts its population at 47% Pakistani, 12% Bangladeshi and just 9.5% White. Now look at the national employment figures. A third of working-age Pakistanis and Bangladeshis were economically inactive in 2022, compared with 21% of White British people. Among women, the difference was 48% versus 24%. That's a significant demographic disparity, particularly among women, and it deserves serious investigation. But these are population and economic inactivity figures, not a breakdown of actual benefit claimants in those streets. The missing question is how much of the local welfare concentration is explained by longstanding differences in employment patterns, health, household circumstances and access to work. That's the breakdown Britain needs to see. Source: Gov .UK, Office for National Statistics, censusdata / Writer: Oliver

🇵🇱 Poland says it may have STOPPED AN ASSASSINATION PLOT against PM Tusk and DM Kosiniak-Kamysz Police detained a man in his 60s in Lower Silesia after analyzing online material. Officials say the threat was serious enough to trigger an emergency counterterrorism meeting, and investigators are also checking for possible foreign-state involvement. Poland is NOT treating this as another anonymous threat. They moved fast because they believed someone might actually try to carry it out. Source: UBH / Writer: Oliver

Elon wants to meet his Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma. 😂 He's not entirely convinced the guy is real, but with 1.4 billion people in China, someone MUST look almost exactly like him. Now he wants to invite his lookalike onstage. Two Elons in one room. Let's make it happen! Anybody know a guy? 👏 Writer: Oliver t.co/95kvzDprho

🇮🇱🇺🇸 WATCH this dude screaming and rambling about Trump and the Epstein files and Israel First, while Shapiro tries his best to argue reasonably against him Only to later just tell him to "shut the f*ck up" 😂 Honestly, "read a book, get a job and do something useful with your life" is serious advice for the guy. Writer: Oliver t.co/Vy1n9h4DJx

🇺🇸 How laughably performative! James Talarico has just discovered that capitalism, white supremacy and climate change are ALL PART of the same problem. One very convenient villain, isn't it. I'm surprised he hasn't blamed capitalism for his 12-day flu recently... Writer: Oliver t.co/zJ6a6ympyN

🇺🇸🇵🇦 The U.S. military has been making some pretty big deliveries to earthquake-hit Panama. After Friday's 7.7 quake damaged roads and bridges, getting supplies to some communities hasn't been easy. So U.S. Chinook helicopters have been flying in with water, food, and medical tents, working alongside Panamanian troops. And they've moved quite a lot already. More than 54,000 cases of water and 50,000 cans of food. The helicopters land wherever there's room, troops unload everything by hand, and then they're off to get the next load. Writer: Daniyal t.co/1DCjGbjKVT

Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang says @ElonMusk taught him something that helped shape Meta's AI strategy You don't necessarily need thousands of engineers to move fast. You need a small group of exceptionally talented people, very little hierarchy, and the freedom to get things done. Wang says he brought that idea to Mark Zuckerberg, who embraced it as a central part of their approach to AI. Meta, a company with enormous resources, is now deliberately borrowing from the way Elon builds small, highly technical teams. At some point, adding more people stops making you faster. And in AI, where the technology can change dramatically in a matter of months, the speed of a decision can matter as much as the resources behind it. Source: @davidsenra / Writer: Oliver

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S. could strike Iran again, but what comes after? We had an interesting conversation with former CIA operations officer Charles Finfrock, who thinks Washington may be preparing another major round of strikes against Iran. And unlike some of my other guests, Charles believes a concentrated 72-hour campaign could do serious damage, especially if coordinated with Israel. He wants the U.S. to target Iran's leadership, military command structure, missile capabilities and the security forces keeping the regime in power. But our disagreement really began when we talked about what happens afterward. Charles believes removing the regime could give Iranians a chance to determine their own future. Yet he also acknowledged that Iran could end up looking like Libya, with prolonged instability and no functioning democracy emerging anytime soon. That admission stuck. We've already seen what happened in Iraq and Libya. Removing a government is one thing. Building something better is quite another. Charles argues that Iran's nuclear ambitions make the risk worth confronting. But Brandon worries that another war could leave us with a fractured country, dangerous weapons in uncertain hands and yet another American commitment we can't easily escape. And perhaps the most revealing part of our conversation was that neither of us could confidently describe what a stable postwar Iran would actually look like. @WeTheBrandon @finfrockcharles

🇸🇦🇾🇪 This man barely survived the Houthi attack on Riyadh’s airport. He says he was with his brother when the missile hit, and the blast threw his brother into the air before he came down right in front of him. No one should ever have to watch that happen to their own brother. Now he’s asking the world to step in, and he wants justice for everyone who was hurt or killed that day. His wounds may heal with time, but what he saw that day might never leave him. Source: Al Arabiya YT / Writer: Daniyal