Pablo Picasso The classical head 1922 • Self-Deportation Comes To Washington Ahead Of Trump’s Return (JTN) • Trump Invites World Leaders, Not Their Messengers, To Inauguration (JTN) • ABC To Pay Trump $15 Million For Defamation, Issue Apology (ZH) • Biden Planning Last-minute Ukraine Arms Surge – CNN (RT) • Biden Aims to Go Out With a Bellicose Bang (Ottenberg) • Trump Calls For Ending Daylight Saving Time (JTN) • Biden Never Considered Specifics of the 1500 Clemency Cases
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René Magritte The menaced assassin 1927 • Trump Wants ‘Day One’ Ukraine Ceasefire – NBC (RT) • Christmas Ceasefire Still Possible – Orban (RT) • Trump’s Ukraine Envoy Pick Predicts End Of Conflict Within Months (RT) • Ukraine Vows ‘Zero Gas Transit’ To EU (RT) • Kremlin Reacts To Trump’s Stance On Long-Range Strikes Into Russia • Clintons Open to Preemptive Pardon as Deep State May Abandon Them (Sp.) • Modified Limited Hang-out (Kunstler) • Mounting Boeing Delays Suggest
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Pablo Picasso Women running on the beach 1922 • Marc Andreessen Gives Insider Peek At DOGE Decisions (ZH) • ProPublica Pats Itself On Back After Hegseth Hitpiece Humiliation (ZH) • Trump Says He Will Not ‘Abandon’ Ukraine (RT) • West Will ‘Betray’ Ukraine – Fico (RT) • Strikes Deep Into Russia ‘Big Mistake’ – Trump (RT) • Trump Wants EU To Send Troops To Ukraine – WSJ (RT) • Six Major NATO States Sign Document On Ukraine’s Accession Plans
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Alfred Sisley A Village Street in Winter 1893 • Trump Wants ‘Day One’ Changes To US Policy (RT) • Trump Told Zelensky He Wants ‘Immediate Ceasefire’ – Reuters (RT) • Trump Likely To Leave Ukraine With Financial Black Hole – NYT (RT) • FBI Director Chris Wray Resigns (ZH) • Sheriff’s Assn. Embraces Kash Patel As FBI director: ‘He’s A Butt Kicker’ (JTN) • RFK Jr. Wants To Prove CIA Killed His Uncle – Axios (RT) • Trump Mocks
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Johannes Vermeer Woman holding a balance 1662-63 • Pressure Mounts For Support Of Trump’s Cabinet Picks During Honeymoon (JTN) • 250 Conservative Veterans Sign Letter Backing Tulsi Gabbard Nomination (Hill) • Pete Hegseth Lashes Out At Media ‘Smear’ Campaign (RT) • Pete Hegseth Will Be Confirmed As Secretary of Defense, Predicts His Lawyer (JTN) • DOJ Spied On Kash Patel, Staffers Without Telling Courts (JTN) • How Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Plans To Keep Trump Case Alive (ZH) •
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Pablo Picasso Portrait of Dora Maar pensive 1937 • Western Democracy Is Dead – RT Editor-in-Chief (RT) • Why Trump Needs To Call Putin On Day One (Dmitry Trenin) • Trump Tells Putin to Agree to Immediate Cease-Fire in Ukraine (ET) • Trump Signals Shift From Unnecessary Military Intervention (JTN) • Trump Says Developing Concept to End ‘Ridiculous’ Conflict in Ukraine (Sp.) • Zelensky Rules Out Lowering Draft Age (RT) • Pardon Envy: Democrats Vie to Make the Biden
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Johannes Vermeer The soldier and the laughing girl 1657 • Syria’s Assad Resigns Amid Peace Efforts, Orders Peaceful Power Handover (Sp.) • General Staff, Kremlin Agree To Withdraw Under Turkish Safe Passage (Helmer) • Syria’s Assad In Moscow – Senior Diplomat (RT) • Putin and Xi and Iran The Unready (Paul Craig Roberts) • Trump Was ‘Reluctant’ To Meet Zelensky – Axios (RT) • Zelensky Rejects Trump’s Peace Call (RT) • Trump Says He’ll ‘Probably’ Cut Ukraine Aid (RT)
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Alfred Sisley Snow at Louveciennes 1878 • Syrian Army Informs Officers Of Regime Change – Reuters (RT) • ‘Not Our Fight!’: Trump Weighs In On Syria’s Unraveling (ZH) • Ukraine ‘Would Like To Make A Deal’ With Russia – Trump (RT) • Meeting With Trump And Macron Was ‘Productive’ – Zelensky (RT) • Megyn Kelly Warns Deep State Is Coming For Hegseth, Gabbard, RFK Jr (ZH) • The Clintons Need Biden’s ‘Blanket Pardons’ More Than Other Democrats (Sp.) •
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Johannes Vermeer Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window 1657-59 • Not a Joke (James Howard Kunstler) • Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Biden’s Pardon Of His Son Hunter (JTN) • Trump Confident About Getting Pete Hegseth Confirmed As Defense Secretary (JTN) • National Police Association Strongly Endorses Kash Patel For FBI Director (JTN) • NYC Mayor Eric Adams Hints At Switch To Republican Party (ZH) • Jeff Bezos Expresses Optimism About Trump’s Deregulation Agenda, Offers to Help (ET) •
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Gerard Dou A woman playing a clavichord 1665 • Trump Has Two Years To Push His Biggest Policies Through – Gingrich (JTN) • What the Trump Nominees Have Not Done—And Will Not Do (Victor Davis Hanson) • Trump Sticks With Hegseth As Ernst, Others Reportedly Eye Pentagon Post (JTN) • Trump Appoints David Sacks As New ‘White House AI & Crypto Czar’ (JTN) • Tulsi Gabbard A ‘Regular Reader’ of RT – ABC News (RT) • Impoundment, For Lack
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