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us for the Corner Protest happening every Tuesday and Thursday from
3:15 to 5:15 PM at the southwest corner of Drake and College. We engage
positively and advocate for democracy, with the upcoming event on
January 8, 2026.
Join
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Overpass Bannering event aimed at making a visible statement. We'll
gather at Boulevard Rd SE / I-5 to stand up against political issues.
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Monday, January 12, 2026
Olympia Visibility Brigade Overpass Bannering: Dark Mode
Tumwater, WA
Join
us for an overpass bannering event with the Olympia Visibility Brigade.
Bring warm clothing and a good mood as we gather on the Pedestrian
Bridge over I-5 in Tumwater to make good trouble.
We
invite everyone to join us with high-visibility protest signs and flags
to stand on the bridge and make a strong statement against attacks on
democracy.
Join
us for high-visibility protest signs and flags to make good trouble on
Chehalis Western Trail / I-5 in Lacey. Olympia Indivisible invites
participants to gather in support of democracy.
Trump Accidentally Admits His Ukraine Peace Deal Is Crumbling
Donald Trump hasn’t gotten Vladimir Putin to agree to anything.
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Russia has apparently not agreed to a ceasefire, according to Donald Trump.
The
U.S. president told reporters Sunday that Ukraine’s near-term peace
prospects with Russia did not include an end to the violence.
“Did
[Russian President Vladimir] Putin agree to a ceasefire to allow a
referendum to take place?” a journalist asked Trump Sunday evening
during a Palm Beach press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelenskiy.
“Not a ceasefire, and that’s one of the points that we’re working on right now,” Trump said.
“He feels that look, you know, they’re fighting and to stop—and then if
they have to start again, which is a possibility, he doesn’t want to be
in that position. I understand that position. The president feels
strongly about that, or something.”
“You know you
have to understand the other side,” Trump insisted, speaking of the
Russian dictator while just steps away from Zelenskiy. “I’m on the side
of peace, I’m on the side of stopping the war.”
The detail adds to a growing pile of evidence
that Russia isn’t negotiating in good faith to end its assault on
Ukraine. The hostile foreign power has offered virtually nothing—not
even temporary peace—to resolve the nearly four-year conflict. Yet it
has been gifted unprecedented capitulations from the Trump
administration, upending longstanding U.S. policy in the process.
Last month, the Trump administration unveiled a 28-point peace plan
that catered to some of Russia’s most outrageous demands, such as
requiring Ukraine to swear off NATO membership and to hand Moscow Crimea
and the eastern Donbas region.
Still, Ukraine is pushing toward a resolution. In the weeks since Trump unveiled his plan, Zelenskiy and his team have drafted their own version
of a peace plan, which he told reporters Sunday was “90 percent agreed
to,” noting that the U.S.-Ukraine security guarantees were “100 percent
agreed” to.
The sensitive issue of ceding Ukrainian territory to Russia, however, was still up in the air.
“I
would not say agreed, but we’re getting closer to an agreement on that,
and that’s a big issue. Certainly, that’s one of the big issues, and …
it’s unresolved,” Trump said Sunday.
More
than 13,300 civilians have been killed and 31,700 injured in Ukraine
since Russia invaded in February 2022, according to a United Nations report from June. Last week, Russia bombed Kyiv, devastating portions of Ukraine’s war-torn capital and killing at least one person while injuring 27.
Trump
pledged on the campaign trail that he would end the war on his first
day in office, but still the conflict has dragged on, in large part due
to Moscow’s tireless and ever-shifting demands. On Sunday, Trump told
reporters that he has “no deadline” to resolve the war.
By Monday morning, Russian officials suggested that Moscow’s position could change yet again as they accused Ukrainian forces of attempting to attack Putin’s residence in the Novgorod region.
Trump Casually Reveals U.S. “Knocked Out” a Facility in Venezuela
Here’s what we know about what happened.
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
President
Trump is claiming to have successfully bombed a “big facility” in
Venezuela in yet another act of aggression and sign of the
administration’s interventionist goals in the region.
“We
just knocked out—I don’t know if you read or you saw—they have a big
plant, or a big facility, where the ships come from. Two nights ago, we
knocked that out. So we hit them very hard,” Trump told GOP donor John Catsimatidis on his Friday radio show.
A
staffer close to the situation later described the target as a “drug
facility.” And while details remain virtually nonexistent (how do we
know this even happened?), the attack does align with the
administration’s unsubstantiated narrative that the Venezuelan
government is directly supporting drug traffickers.
This
is a major, violent escalation against Venezuela with absolutely zero
explanation or justification to the American people. The so-called
“peace president” has bombed ships full of fishermen, stolen an oil
tanker, threatened Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with regime change, and even given the CIA the greenlight to meddle there.
The Venezuelan government has yet to respond.
Trump
was later asked to shed more light on the apparent bombing while taking
questions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.
“Can you say anything more about the explosion in Venezuela that you mentioned in a radio interview?” a reporter asked. “Did the military do that?”
“Well
it doesn’t matter, but there was a major explosion in the dock area
where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump replied. “They load the
boats up with drugs. We hit all the boats, and now we hit the area....
It’s the implementation area, that’s where they implement … and that is
no longer around.”
He
also refused to confirm whether the attack was performed by the CIA,
but said that he knew “exactly who it was” but didn’t “want to say who
it was.”
Zaha Hadid sent shockwaves over the Internet yesterday
when she released her design for Qatar’s new World Cup Stadium.
Headlines that sounded like a chorus of giggling Beavis and Butt-Heads
all agreed: Qatar’s World Cup 2022 Stadium Looks Like A Vagina.
AECOM, a firm Hadid is partnering with on the project, reportedly said
that the stadium was inspired by “the dhow boat that carried
generations of local fishermen and pearl divers.” They insist its
resemblance to genitalia was accidental, but what if it wasn’t? SO THE
HELL WHAT? The world’s phallic versus vaginal building ratio could use
some balancing out. Practically every city is a ragingly Freudian
cluster of glass, concrete, and stone cock. (Fun fact: There are so many
phallic buildings that, in 2003, Cabinet Magazine launched a
Most Phallic Building Contest. After writer Jonathan Ames claimed that
Brooklyn’s Williamsburg Bank Building was the world’s most phallic,
defensive readers attacked him, claiming that their city’s dick-like
building was the most dick-like in the land. The score was settled by
voting, and Michigan’s Ypsilanti Water Tower, AKA the Brick Dick, emerged as the proud winner.)
So what of more feminine architecture? If Hadid’s flowery
stadium is indeed built, it will boost the world’s small cadre of vulvar
buildings:
