Edouard Manet Gypsy with a cigarette 1862 • We’re 100% Heading for a Government Shutdown (Pinsker) • Democrats Look to Blow Up Budget Bill (Moran) • Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Zero-Basing the Federal Government (RCW) • Democrats Launch Anti-Trump Social Media Blitz (RT) • SCOTUS Dissenters Rage As ‘Liberals’ Unfreeze $2BN USAID Foreign-Aid Payments (ZH) • Supreme Court Rules 5-4 Against Freezing $2 Billion in USAID Funds (Turley) • Trump Will Remove RT Sanctions Within Two Weeks – US
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Gustave Courbet The desperate man (self portrait) 1852 • Common Sense Revolution: Trump Outlines Sweeping Vision For Next 4 Years (JTN) • Trump’s Big Speech Proves To Be Optics Nightmare For Democrats (JTN) • Half of Democrat Voters Are Tired Of Far-Left Politics (ZH) • Did Palantir Give Trump & Vance the Real Ukraine Intel? (Sp.) • Musk Offers Zelensky To Give Up Power, Leave Ukraine (TASS) • Zelensky Reverses Hardline Position On Peace Talks (RT) • Musk Wants
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Edouard Manet The absinthe drinker 1859 • Europe’s Reckless Warmongering Pushes Trump Toward NATO Exit (Sp.) • Why Is Europe Making Itself Irrelevant? (Paul Craig Roberts) • Europe is Falling & Needs War with Russia – Martin Armstrong (USAW) • Attitude Adjustment (James Howard Kunstler) • US Halts All Military Aid To Ukraine – Media (RT) • The Three Conditions For Zelensky’s Departure (Ryumshin) • Trump-Zelensky Clash Shows Ukraine Doesn’t Want Peace – Kremlin (RT) • Musk Slams Zelensky
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Gustave Courbet The village maidens 1852 • Europe Unveils Rival Ukraine Peace Plan (ZH) • UK, France, Ukraine Agree To Work On Cease-Fire Plan To Present To US (ZH) • We Won’t Give Kiev Money Until Zelensky Seeks Peace – Lutnick (RT) • US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz Suggests Zelensky May Need To Go (RT) • Trump, Vance, and the New New World Order (Soukup) • Musk Backs US Withdrawal From UN and NATO (RT) • Without The
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Giovanni Bellini Pietà c1460 • Putin Should Be The ‘Leader of The Free World’ – Medvedev (RT) • Musk Tips Vance To Become US President (RT) • US State Department Slashes USAID Assistance To Ukraine – NBC (RT) • Zelensky’s Presidency Is Over – Scott Ritter (RT) • A Dose Of Reality For The West’s Spoiled Brat (Amar) • Zelensky Is Done – Kiriakou (RT) • EU Trapped As ‘Cheerleader of US Hegemony’ – Jeffrey Sachs (RT) • EU
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Giovanni Bellini Pietà 1474 • Zelensky Not Ready For Peace – Trump (RT) • Trump Names Conditions For Resuming Talks With Zelensky (RT) • Ukraine Should Probably Go With New Leadership At This Point (Hanania) • US May Halt All Military Aid To Ukraine – WaPo (TASS) • EU’s Kallas Calls For ‘New Leader of Free World’ (RT) • Starmer Insists On Deploying British Troops To Ukraine (RT) • Chihuahuas, Not Dobermans (Patrick Lawrence) • A Trump-Putin Accord? (Paul
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Giovanni Bellini Pietà 1505 • FBI Withheld ‘Thousands’ Of Epstein Docs – US AG Pam Bondi (RT) • DOJ Releases ‘The Epstein Files: Phase 1’ (RT) • Macron Persuaded Trump To Receive Zelensky In Washington (TASS) • Trump Refuses To Guarantee Backup For British Military (RT) • Kiev Facing Pressure To Intensify Conscription – Economist (RT) • UN Showed ‘Common Sense’ On Ukraine Conflict Resolution – Moscow (RT) • Putin Says 6+ Hour Talks With US “Inspire Certain Hopes”
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El Greco La Pietà c1575 • US Relations With Russia Promise Rollback To Pre-Gorbachev Period (Krutikov) • America as Republic, not as Empire (Alastair Crooke) • US To Impose Blanket 25% Tariffs On EU – Trump (RT)) • US Can No Longer Subsidize NATO – Rubio (RT) • Trump Says US Could Lift Russia Sanctions (RT) • EU Trying To Block Ukraine Peace – Lavrov (RT) • Lavrov Calls Out Europe’s Peacekeeper Plan As Ploy to Rearm Kiev (Sp.)
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Rembrandt van Rijn The deposition 1632-33 • Trump Is Well Placed To Secure A Deal With Russia To End The War (Proud) • Zelensky To Visit White House Friday To Sign Minerals Deal (ZH) • Trump Wants Russia Rare Earths Deal (RT) • Majority Supports DOGE Measures to Reduce the Size of Government (Turley) • Calls for UK DOGE as Billions ‘Wasted’ on ‘Woke’ Projects Abroad (ET) • Florida GOP Gov DeSantis Announces State DOGE Task Force (JTN) •
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Tintoretto The crucifixion of Christ 1568 • No Way Out (James Howard Kunstler) • Liberals Panic Over ‘Politicized’ FBI After Bongino Appointment (ZH) • Musk Warns Fed Workers – Return To Office Or Be Placed On Leave (ZH) • Trump Officials Push Back Against Musk Initiative (RT) • Judge Blocks Education Department, OPM From Sharing Data With DOGE (ET) • US Adopting ‘Russian Narrative’ – EU’s Kallas (RT) • EU’s Chief Diplomat Backs Zelensky’s Refusal To Hold Elections (RT)
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