US President-elect Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., lashed out at the Democrats following reports that ongoing President Joe Biden had allowed Ukraine to use American-made long-range missiles to strike internationally recognized Russian territory.

Trump Jr., who campaigned alongside his father during the 2024 presidential election and has been helping him pick members of his future cabinet, did not mince words on social media.

“The Military Industrial Complex seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives,” he wrote on X on Sunday. “Gotta lock in those $Trillions. Life be damned!!! Imbeciles!”

The origins of the Great Jacquerie are not well known. It seems to have occurred following clashes between armed groups and peasants, in the gloomy context following the Great Plague of 1348. The Hundred Years' War resumed in earnest in 1358. King John was a prisoner of the English, and troops were pillaging villages.

The illumination, taken from Froissart's Chronicles (picture above), shows one of the concluding episodes of the Great Jacquerie. The peasants and the few lords who had joined them were massacred by the troops of Jean de Grailly and Gaston Fébus, while they were besieging the fortress of the Meaux market where the Dauphin's wife had taken refuge.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has described this week’s phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as detailed and very frank, with both leaders outlining their positions. He was speaking to journalist Pavel Zarubin in an interview broadcast on Sunday.

The call took place on Friday, marking the first time the two leaders communicated directly in nearly two years. The Kremlin stated that the last time Putin and Scholz spoke over the phone was on December 2, 2022.

This week’s conversation lasted about an hour and included the topic of the Ukraine conflict.

Tulsi Gabbard, US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for national intelligence director, is “likely a Russian asset,” according to Democratic Party Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In an interview with MSNBC on Friday, Schulz accused Trump of making “irresponsible” choices for his new cabinet.

If you are like me, you are fed up with the so-called educated ‘Left’ who are not at all educated in the underlying causes of humankind’s current problems and the solutions to them. You will also be fed up with people believing that when we elect Left or Centre-Left parties, the world is on track to solve its problems, and we can live happily and equitably in the meantime.

The cause of Kamala Harris’ disastrous failure in the 2024 presidential election will forever be debated, but there are good reasons to believe the Israeli genocide in Gaza played a significant role.

Why did Kamala Harris lose the 2024 presidential election?

There is no shortage of answers to this question, most of them self-affirming and offered up to serve whatever agenda the pundit in question is trying to advance. That is certainly what you’re seeing now on CNN and MSNBC.

President-elect Donald Trump has announced that Karoline Leavitt, the spokesperson for his 2024 campaign, will become the White House press secretary when he takes office in January. At just 27 years old, Leavitt will make history as the youngest person to hold the position.  

In a statement released on Friday, Trump praised Leavitt for her performance during his campaign. “Karoline Leavitt did a phenomenal job as the National Press Secretary on my Historic Campaign,” he said. “She is smart, tough, and has proven to be a highly effective communicator. I have the utmost confidence she will excel at the podium and help deliver our message to the American People as we, Make America Great Again.”  

Shill. Sheep. Cooker. Anti-vaxxer.

Michelle Hunder's been called many names in the past few years.

It all began when she started speaking publicly about the crippling chest pains she experienced after getting her COVID-19 vaccines.

"People who are really pro-vaccine would be like, 'You are lying. Or you're just a shill for the anti-vaxxers,'" she recalls.

"People that are really vehemently anti-vax would be like, 'You're a sheep, you're an idiot. This is what you get.'"

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles announced Sunday that Japanese troops will regularly deploy to northern Australia

About 2,000 U.S. Marines are stationed in Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, for six months each year.

The deployment is in response to growing worries among Washington and its allies about China's increasing military strength in the Indo-Pacific region.

If there’s anything more gratifying than watching conservatives win, it’s watching celebrities lose. The pampered, out-of-touch A-listers who shilled for Kamala Harris have not coped well since Tuesday’s results (if threats of death-by-Drano are any indication). But in every meltdown, one thing is clear: their despair isn’t just that the vice president failed, but that the country is too stupid to understand that famous people know better. It’s the same campaign of condescension that led to the demise of woke corporations. And with a little luck, celebrity endorsements will meet the same fate.

As President-elect Trump’s team is taking shape, we’re learning more about who will take the lead on energy, climate and the environment. The first announcement on that front is Lee Zeldin, a former GOP congressman who will head the Environmental Protection Agency. Trump has called climate change a “scam” and says addressing it hurts business. William Brangham discussed more with Coral Davenport.

• As we reported, president-elect Trump's new team will include a former Republican congressman to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

  William Brangham takes a closer look at the stakes for energy, environment and the climate.

• William Brangham:

Post mortemis….. Can angels lie? Or die?

Vaccines against small pox, measles and rabies

Round pills to calm violent schizophrenics

No cure for warmongering mad men

Hating hysterical freedom-loving loud women

Angels in heaven America that do not want babies

Have screwed-up the dying demographic dynamics

Humans of races and creeds are not that beautiful

Eight billion of us, one small per cent could qualify

From which women still have to perfect their looks

Cuticles, eyebrows, lashes and bright red lips

Men cut their beards, hair and muscle their nooks

Not to look like Neanderthals dumb and dark dips

Cave brutes nor brown bears that just awoke

In a world suddenly gone from carnivore to woke

For freedom-sake Orange Donald is vile we testify

Harry Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, once quipped: ‘Polls are like sleeping pills – designed to lull the voters into sleeping on election day’. And the truth of Truman’s thesis has been confirmed once again by the recently concluded US presidential campaign – the outcome of which contradicted the pollsters.

Donald Trump is back.

Anatomy of victory: The five reasons Trump won
The Republican candidate’s victory was total, and it was carefully – and expertly – planned....
By Maxim Suchkov

The climate crisis is much more severe than most people and politicians realise. Most information, education and media reporting around climate change (global heating) focuses on reducing our annual emissions to a target based on a ‘trajectory of progressive reduction’, and eventually ‘net’ zero annual emissions by 2050 or some other date.

But this ignores the reality that it is the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and their contribution to radiative forcing in real time that actually drive global heating.

The term “neoliberalism” is frequently invoked but often lacks a clear definition. The concept requires an in-depth examination that dissects its origins as a philosophy of governance and its transformation into a political and cultural project. Over the course of the twentieth century, powerful interests adapted the concept to consolidate their influence, reshape public perception, and embed market principles into all facets of society. Unraveling the complexities and varying interpretations of neoliberalism can shed light on its profound and deleterious impact on contemporary political and social structures.

The Dream and Nightmare of Neoliberalism

AN INTERVIEW WITH
ALEX HIMELFARB