For #caturday, this finely-whiskered individual is a member of a cat colony living by the Ponte del Risorgimento on the Tiber in Rome.

Under Italian Law 281 (1991), cat colonies are legal entities with specific rights, including the right to live in their chosen location and to be protected from harm or ill-treatment.

#cats #CatsOfMastodon

Sir Keir Starmer has said Donald Trump's claims British troops were not on the frontline in Afghanistan were "insulting and frankly appalling" - and suggested he should apologise.

Veterans and their families, as well as MPs from all parties, have reacted with fury after the US president said NATO troops stayed "a little off the frontlines" in Afghanistan.

https://news.sky.com/story/trump-sparks-fury-by-claiming-us-allies-stayed-off-afghanistan-frontline-13498044

I present to you: Trump's "Board of Peace" — a long list of representatives of the most oppressive, most corrupt regimes around the world, including the wanted war criminal Vladimir Putin, the journalist killers in Saudi Arabia, and the only truly unfree NATO country, Turkey.

And of course, Hungary's most dedicated Putin sympathizer, Viktor Orbán, just had to be in the club.

Hitler and Stalin just rose from their graves to join the gang.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/01/22/who-is-on-trumps-gaza-board-of-peace.html

"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK36YjEx6PWcaiwVCToEIk3KY