Nicholas Cross

WSJ Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions. Another Trump donor, Stephen P. Lynch, paid $600,000 this year to a lobbyist close to Trump Jr. who is helping him seek a Treasury Department license to buy the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from a Russian state-owned company.

One sign that he may be serious is that some of his most-trusted friends, sanctioned billionaires from his St. Petersburg hometown-Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk and the Rotenberg brothers, Boris and Arkady-have sent representatives to quietly meet American companies to explore rare-earth mining and energy deals, according to people familiar with the meetings and European security officials. That includes reviving the giant Nord Stream pipeline, sabotaged by Ukrainian tactical divers, and under European Union sanctions. Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil met with Russia's biggest state energy company, Rosneft, to discuss returning to the massive Sakhalin gas project if Moscow and Washington gave the green light.

Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.

🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Also: where’s the fecking investigation, Keir Starmer?

The Welsh parliament, Nigel Farage, @prifweinidog.gov.wales @eddavey.libdems.org.uk & @zackpolanski.bsky.social are all now in agreement that we need a govt-led inquiry into Russian interference. So what on earth is the problem??

Anyone who says “Ukraine is losing” hasn’t been paying attention.

Ukraine, small in size but big in courage, has defended Kyiv from a full-scale invasion for YEARS.

Russia has been trying to take the Donbas for over a decade.
It didn’t work then — and it won’t work NOW! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

SLAVA UKRAINE!

For more than a decade now the government’s answer to how to fund universities has been to make money from overseas students.

The last lot then tried to discourage students from coming here.

This lot just want the money back.

But then how do we fund ourselves?

Crazy.

When voices in the media were saying that that the Trump deal was something cooked up by an inept freelancing Witkoff, this source spoke the truth. This is now what this source is saying about about the Trump deal.

“Trump is deadly serious in his plan to force this terrible deal on Ukraine”
Ugh

Trump's full 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan The full plan was obtained by Axios and verified by Ukrainian and U.S. officials.

Here is Trump's full 28 point plan for Ukraine. It would destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state and leave it helpless to face a Russian attack in the future. It would also give Putin full vindication and immunity from prosecution.
www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...

Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States:

- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats

Those are just factual statements.

More signs Russian oil exports are sinking.

🔹Primorsk exports down 73% last week, in 3 tankers vs 9
🔹Ust-Luga down 40% vs last year
🔹Novorossiysk and Tuapse way down due to strikes
🔹Oil and gas revenue down 21% year-to-date, or 2 trillion rubles

Make Russia Broke Again.

Gill is being sentenced today for 8 counts of bribery from a Russian agent.

Follow @thenerve.news for updates throughout the day.

This is why it matters & this is who it harmed: Ukrainian protestors outside the Old Bailey.

That whole US–Russia capitulation plan for Ukraine can go f*ck itself.

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.

So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?

Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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Hope it gets better soon

Just curious: what’s NATO doing? What’s Europe doing? We’re not planning to face all of this with hope and prayers, right? Or do people still believe war will never come to them?

Because Russia is industrialising its war.
The West still hasn’t industrialised its defence.

Turning Bakhmut into lifeless ruins in 2023 cost Russia over 100k men and most of Wagner, their most effective assault forces.

Yet today, 30 months later, they're still clambering over their own corpses for the outskirts of Chasiv Yar 10 miles further up the road.

This isn't success. Cost matters.

This year, North Korea has more than halved its supply of ammunition to Russia and has been sending mostly outdated shells, as Pyongyang has exhausted its stockpiles, – GUR.

Snapshot of a part of Euclid VIS detectors, almost saturated with cosmic ray hits.

Those were beautiful #aurorae in the past days. A solar storm brought a lot of protons to Earth. Not only to Earth but also to #ESAEuclid – but does #Euclid notice? Oh yes.

www.euclid-ec.org/here-comes-t...

#ESA #Sun #SpaceWeather #space

I think there was a paper a few years ago about how accretion disks around SMBHs may help to increase the merger rate of BH binaries. If it is a real - and I think you are right to be sceptical - it may be a combination of unusual systems and unusual environments.

Primordial black hole?

Initial sky localization. 90% area 1,200 sq deg.

Initial three-dimensional volume localization. Distance around 96 Mpc.

Oo! Interesting #GravitationalWave candidate #S251112cm potentially from a *subsolar* mass source

If real, the source is probably has chirp mass ~0.1–0.87 solar masses

False alarm rate 1 in 6.2 yr
GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/...
GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/42...
Rating 📏🍬

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And is trying to be an autocrat.

That it might delay them enough, or that the recent knowledge he has gained may not be passed on.

Rhetoric vs. Reality Slogans won’t get Britain building again

This is rhetorically the most pro-building govt ever, but housebuilding has ground to a halt and Heathrow still expect their planning app to cost £800m to produce.

The problem is there's a massive gap between what Labour say they want and what they're doing.

www.samdumitriu.com/p/rhetoric-v...

Is there a connection to the UK? I guess Indonesia could be a big beneficiary of this.

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of France Fabien Mandon:

In the near term, Ukrainians need help - and what they need most is air defense, as they face numerous Russian attacks every week.

In just one week, Russia launches about 1,700 drones against Ukraine.

When I was a graduate student I frequently went to the Isle of May with the St Andrew’s diving club. Lots of seals around there. Tentsmuir beach was another good place.

Now they have to do something useful with the win.

The Slow Death of Russian Oil Why Ukraine’s campaign against Moscow’s energy sector is working.

A very important article in @foreignaffairs.com The real sanctions hurting the Russian economy are the Ukrainian long-ranged sanctions on Russian oil refining and production. Unlike Trump's sham "sanctions", these are real ones which are taking a real toll. www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/slow-...

When the revolution comes they will be the first against the wall.

They threatened this at least 3 years ago. They had a video showing the mega tsunami that it purportedly creates sweeping across Ireland first before destroying Britain. In reality the wave would probably be tiny and people might enjoy the surf.

Oh look.

The thing that everyone with a smidgen of the smarts and common sense said was going to 100% happen ….. is 100% happening. 🤷🏼‍♂️