Ryan McNeill

Timeline cleanser

Trump war inflation watch. Barclays says “Oil markets might have to face their worst fears on Monday. As things stand right now, we think Brent could hit $100/b, as the market grapples with the threat of a potential supply disruption amid a spiraling security situation in the Middle East.”

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere The portal could potentially put Washington in the unfamiliar position of appearing to encourage citizens to flout local laws.

The Europeans should set up a version of this so that Americans can watched cancelled Lincoln Centre performances, university lectures, and episodes of 60 Minutes. www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...

BBC warns Russia is taking over World Service radio frequencies Russian propaganda is filling the void where the BBC has closed World Service radio services due to cuts

BBC's Arabic radio service in Lebanon closed after 85 years as part of a £28.5m savings drive. 'Just months later, in October 2023, the Russian state-owned Sputnik news agency took over the frequency. Its news bulletin opened with “This is Moscow”, replacing the previous “This is London” intro.' 🙄

I am here to serve my readers

Scanned the basset hounds with a thermal camera.

Johnny Dang & Co. on Instagram: "Paul wall caused a cold front? 🥶 #paulwall #grillz #reels" 9,154 likes, 190 comments - johnnydangandco on January 29, 2026: "Paul wall caused a cold front? 🥶 #paulwall #grillz #reels".

Paul Wall apologizes for his role in controlling the weather. www.instagram.com/reel/DUG6m7R...

Data sciencey people — if you haven’t tried Positron, I highly, highly recommend giving it a whirl.

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting.

Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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“Let’s do the fucking news”

Nice transatlantic military alliance you’ve got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.

SEOUL, Jan 13 (Reuters) - South Korea's special prosecutor on Tuesday requested the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.

me every single day

I work hard so my hounds can live the life of a nepo baby

Our basset hounds turn four today. Obligatory how it started and how it’s going pics.

#Rstats slides back into the top 10 programming languages. R is far from dead. www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

The newspaper of record of my entire childhood would literally rather die than pay its unionized workers the wages and benefits that the actual Supreme Court of the United States of America decided were owed to them.

*TRUMP AND TEAM DISCUSSING OPTIONS TO ACQUIRE GREENLAND: REUTERS

Reuters heads:

TRUMP AND HIS TEAM ARE DISCUSSING A RANGE OF OPTIONS FOR ACQUIRING GREENLAND AND 'UTILIZING THE US MILITARY IS ALWAYS AN OPTION'- WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT

Syria secures Assad-era mass grave revealed by Reuters and opens criminal investigation Syria’s government has ordered soldiers to guard a mass grave created to conceal atrocities under Bashar al-Assad.

Syria’s government has ordered soldiers to guard the mass grave and has opened a criminal investigation after the Reuters report.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

How we confirmed Assad-era mass grave conspiracy: Witnesses, science Drone technology, forensic science helped corroborate witness accounts of how Assad's government trucked bodies from a mass grave to a secret location.

And more on how we did it.

Assad-era plot to hide dead bodies turned Syria desert into mass grave For two years, Syria’s Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies from an exposed mass grave to the desert, trying to hide evidence of atrocities.

Read the full special report: www.reuters.com/investigates...

How the Hutton's Centre for Forensic Soil Science contributed to the identification of a mass grave in Syria Work by Professor Lorna Dawson, a soil scientist at The James Hutton Institute, has helped Reuters identify a mass grave in Syria.

Lorna Dawson describes how she helped Reuters uncover an Assad-era conspiracy to move thousands of bodies to an enormous secret mass grave in the Syrian desert. King Charles III just named Dawson dame commander of British Empire for her work in forensic/soil science. www.hutton.ac.uk/blog/how-the...

YouTube video by dsebban You know what ? I'm happy.

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Also….

Hear me out. I feel like my two basset hounds experiencing their first real snow in London is a really excellent timeline cleanser.

Kash Patel is on Fox & Friends kissing Trump's ass and you can hear an aide screaming "guys, you cannot be adjusting his light!" as they struggle with his shot

U.S. plan to ‘run’ Venezuela clouded in confusion In Washington and Caracas, the vision for administering Venezuela in the weeks and months ahead appears uncertain and stubbornly complex.

Sources close to the White House say Trump’s disinterest in boosting María Corina Machado was due her accepting the Nobel Peace Prize — an award he's openly coveted.

“If she had turned it down ... she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” they said.