Chinese state media made an AI-generated cartoon about the US-Iran conflict. Complete with fighting Persian Cats! Well I subtitled it for you so you can enjoy it in all its trope-laden glory! Remember kids, the mountains will stay standing while the green water flows, and the true art of war is not figuring out how to fight, but how to stop!

uploaded to tankie.tube here - https://tankie.tube/w/nAx1xxpGRpBLDE9UfxWiyH

from youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As0rplNJTZI

5 minute AI animated explainer on the imperialist war against Iran, best use of AI I have seen.

Shamelessly stolen from a hexbear post from the 12 day war

Thought I'd check in on Drew Pavlou to see what he has to say about recent events.

'twumpikins, harden your heart, free Iran, there are MINT women I could sleeze on'

he's fucking disgusting.

he's mostly been doing some bit about fraud in australias national disability insurance scheme (NDIS), ala that young yankee youtuber and the day care thing. He's not very original. The NDIS is honestly fucked, but funny to see him suggest it should be a centralised government run thing.

https://xcancel.com/DrewPavlou/status/2032599031982207298#m

Title written on a missile, some Arabic and or Farsi I can't read is there too

edit: probably not real but whatever

Comic was in theage.com.au letters today, the artist shares comics here https://meganjherbert.substack.com/

"Enduring peace will be achieved when knowledge and understanding are fully valued within all societies" - Melania Trump at the UNSC

https://xcancel.com/MELANIATRUMP/status/2029313033114148880#m

No one's talking about it, so I'm going to, etc, whatever, OMG they were room mates

surely someone did make this comparison and I just missed it

Chinese Vlogger travels Solo in IRAN's MOST Conservative City 🇮🇷 I - Jan, 2026 - Little Chinese Everywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_m9LxdQ0Xo

this person makes some of the best videos on youtube, just traveling around, showing people where they live, shining a light on their humanity

A tombstone reads here lies a good western leftist, died waiting for the perfect revolution, vale

Recording of a seminar hosted last week by www.red-spark.org

VENEZUELA — EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS Popular power in the face of US attacks

Red Spark organised this public webinar to examine the current phase of US aggression against Venezuela through first-hand eyewitness accounts from those living and organising inside the process itself.

The discussion focuses on what has actually taken place on the ground, including the role of Venezuelan state institutions, communal organisation, and government responses to external pressure.

The speakers address how this risk-back operates in everyday life: from shortages and infrastructural strain to political destabilisation and militarised threats. The webinar also explores how communal institutions and popular organisation have emerged as collective mechanisms for managing, redistributing, and resisting this imposed risk, while continuing to defend popular power under siege.

The discussion situates these experiences within the broader geopolitical and military dimensions of US intervention, cutting through disinformation to provide grounded analysis rooted in lived political practice.

Speakers

Chris Gilbert is a professor of political studies at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, a contributing editor at Monthly Review, and the author of Commune or Nothing!: Venezuela’s Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project (Monthly Review, 2023), among other books and articles.

Cira Pascual Marquina is a popular educator at the Pluriversidad, El Panal Commune’s educational initiative in the working-class barrio of 23 de Enero in Caracas. She is also a founder and member of the Communal Democracy Network.

Chair: Marley L (Sydney)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7QbdwFTIXI

Beijing confirms Japan's pandas will leave before February, invites panda lovers to China

ShanghaiEye魔都眼 - 20sec clip from YT

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FAFO 😤

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado says she has presented her Nobel Peace Prize to US President Donald Trump.

She did not say whether Mr Trump accepted it.

The pair met in Washington on Thursday, local time, for lunch before Ms Machado left to meet senators at the Capitol.

As she left that second meeting, she was swarmed by media and said she had presented Mr Trump with the esteemed medal in "recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom".

Ms Machado then referenced the 200-year-old gifting of a medal by the Marquis de Lafayette, a general who fought against the British in America's Revolutionary War, to South American revolutionary leader Simón Bolívar, to signify the pair's shared values.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-16/donald-trump-meets-marina-machado-venezuela-opposition/106235644