⚡🇺🇸 NEW - ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt visibly disgusted after two men making out popped up on his screen during New Year’s coverage.
“Yeah… Live makeouts on Sports Center. Get into it,” he said in response to the normal couples.
“Ohhhhhhhh! What are we….” he said in response to the gay couple before catching himself. https://blossom.primal.net/0864900f8ccaab0a31268239a8a89c7971af4348aaa318c8ea4bd6837a9fd6ca.mp4
⚡🇷🇺 NEW - Russia's Ministry of Justice has proposed a draft law that would criminalize unregistered Bitcoin mining. Penalties include fines of up to 2.5M rubles (~$31K) and up to five years in prison for large-scale violations. 
⚡🏴 NEW - Scottish activists take direct action against edinburgh firm linked to genocide
Only hours into 2026, an autonomous direct action group carried out a break-in at the Bruntons Aero Products factory in Inveresk Industrial Park, Musselburgh, on the outskirts of Edinburgh. Activists reportedly dismantled CNC machinery, servers, and computer equipment using hammers, paint, and fire extinguishers found on site.
Graffiti left on the walls and machinery read: “There’s only one way this ends” and “Drop Leonardo.”
The group said Bruntons was targeted due to its role in supplying Leonardo, a major international arms manufacturer. Leonardo produces laser targeting systems used in F-35 jets and supplies military equipment and training aircraft to Israel, as well as weapons systems used in conflicts across the Middle East.
Both Bruntons and Leonardo are members of ADS, the UK arms industry trade association, alongside companies such as BAE Systems, Thales, GKN, and Serco.
The action comes amid growing protest activity in Britain over Gaza. On New Year’s Eve, thousands demonstrated outside prisons in solidarity with Palestine Action prisoners, several of whom have been on hunger strike since November. As of today, Heba Muraisi has reached Day 60, with two others passing 50 days without food.
The Bruntons incident is believed to be the first pro-Palestine direct action in Britain in 2026. A spokesperson for the group described the action as part of a wider campaign targeting what they call the UK’s role in supplying weapons linked to the ongoing war in Gaza.
“Today is Day 1,” the statement said. “Free Palestine.” https://blossom.primal.net/645ae93b65f573a3d91b0b45cccfb0e2be9f86071a29ea6ca4daf7ae0db41bea.mp4
⚡🇯🇵 WATCH - One of the world’s largest single-blast fireworks lights up the sky over Nagaoka, Japan https://blossom.primal.net/8bbd6374afd6b15295b9b8faf436ea2cff47c873ed544f0281e6ecf6886f6254.mp4
⚡🇮🇷 NEW - Iran: Protests escalate into riots, becoming increasingly intense and violent across the country. https://blossom.primal.net/f719f4369253f53f3ce9b2cf7d63b3d36e17b0de931f026711be6471191de9da.mp4
⚡🇺🇸🇮🇱 NEW - Netanyahu:
I appreciated that President Biden came to Israel in the beginning, but President Trump has been unflinching, consistent — he never wavered. https://blossom.primal.net/a3df2091b731dd0f0ee441baa9c112146c844503df034e9ad5f858ae703cfb91.mp4
⚡🇨🇳🇹🇼 NEW - In his New Year's speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that reunification with Taiwan was “inevitable.” https://blossom.primal.net/41adbed26b5408545a6e0a68ca16406dbaf4c6d23e6abdf46ec3f2c2bb0c7910.mp4
⚡️🇨🇭 NEW - Switzerland: Several people were killed and others seriously injured in an explosion at a bar in the Crans-Montana ski resort. Local media reports suggest dozens of people were injured, but no provisional figures have yet been released.
https://blossom.primal.net/92e24ac47d47d38b133307284cb6b7d0b191cecd1be26ceeab7deacdc6ef8ac7.mp4
⚡🇨🇭⚠️ WATCH - People trapped by flames in the Crans-Montana bar desperately try to escape through the only exit, which is blocked. (witnesses)
https://blossom.primal.net/8045f545f2fbb553d6f9a93bb657495bd50dc07b526b3fc0f0c6debe2d331421.mp4
⚡🇹🇷 NEW - Tens of thousands gathered in Istanbul early on New Year’s Day for a rally in support of Palestine.
After morning prayers at major mosques, participants marched in groups toward Galata Bridge, waving Turkish and Palestinian flags and chanting slogans. https://blossom.primal.net/621daf57b3515154324bfa8a213965bc613b3f4f48d363b8360af75a5b21a382.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/5f5c740565cce3435eb88f92f4d4966c12c62f38d61d84428959427c3a3af791.mp4
⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Netanyahu:
“Nvidia — you know Nvidia, a small company, four trillion dollars — they decided to have a massive investment in Israel, and we welcome it.“
https://blossom.primal.net/79b6e766f6d95a420ff19c9308816b2030236f6bbfa81b892c63caf262df5ae2.mp4
⚡️👀 WATCH - Inside look at an immersion-cooled Bitcoin mine. The company CleanSpark operates a 20 megawatt mine in Norcross, Georgia using 180 tanks of biodegradable dielectric synthetic fluid to cool 4,167 Bitcoin mining machines more efficiently than air cooling.
https://blossom.primal.net/9d214ccc60f8f98abe2d1d08699934217e2cca32ecdf18b48c443fe90e8b3afb.mp4
⚡🇺🇸 ICYMI - The US Air Force pays $90,000 for a bag of bushings that normally cost under $100. Our tax-dollars flushed down the drain.
"You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?" https://blossom.primal.net/f5681963d498d13d088977ed5c4237376380d9c0e027820b58b0f5414101bbff.mp4
⚡🇬🇧 NEW - Apparently, the UK government is advertising military jobs on Xbox. https://blossom.primal.net/36a6201f12a45bdd16d15e1aec6ea01d41603708ece287d9cb2eef9091888a25.mp4 
⚡🇺🇸 WATCH - Joe Rogan & Bill Maher on the obesity "disease" narrative & the real driver: ultra-addictive processed food
Rogan: "There's no biological free lunch. Ozempic makes you less hungry, but you're losing muscle, connective tissue, bone mass. Friends on it had serious GI issues. Peter Attia’s patients lost weight but gained body fat percentage."
Maher: "In just a few years, the consensus flipped: obesity is now a disease you can't control with diet/exercise. 50 years ago, people resisted cake. Now it's 'out of your hands.' But food companies have labs engineering max addiction—fat, sugar, salt so you can't stop at one."
The system profits from the problem, then sells the "cure."
https://blossom.primal.net/e8083fbf23be15ad5ec88147cb9457445f3d3efe18dcb55a5013e6ac43bb9899.mp4
⚡🇫🇷 ICYMI - France seeks to ban social media for children under 15.
The initiative is backed by President Emmanuel Macron, who said earlier this month that Parliament should start debating such a proposal in January.
"Many studies and reports now confirm the various risks caused by excessive use of digital screens by adolescents," the French draft says.
There are words like that which remind us of things 😅
⚡🔈 WATCH - This JBL speaker was found after floating in the ocean for 3 months, and it still works perfectly. https://blossom.primal.net/af0168265be1582492d478dad78a92f60660c808c9d29002607fc651af62b877.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/76ad9c51ab7ddfbdd9b7d26fa2f7c16d4a781ef6de1a2fe7c876354b907f4281.mp4
⚡🇸🇾🇮🇱 NEW - Responding to statements made by Benjamin Netanyahu, Patriarch John X of Antioch affirms that Christians in Syria do not need protection or external guardianship.
“We are an integral part of this nation and, alongside all Syrians, we will work to protect and rebuild it.” https://blossom.primal.net/5a21c01e90f614f507a085137d1a338354f8e25300cc448cc36c9db218edab64.mp4
⚡🇮🇱 NEW - Twenty-six percent of all Israeli soldiers have symptoms of depression, and every third Israeli feels that they need psychological support, study shows (Haaretz)
No figures are available for the Palestinian side, but I leave it to your intelligence to imagine the proportion.
https://blossom.primal.net/394f5b3f323db0f33844af71060578f34c48b602cb0e529184c818da47147932.webp https://blossom.primal.net/0baef200dc6794082f480c43f2add7a6b862b41c7bd631d101256d5c135b66fe.webp