~50 vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police say Bundestag VP Omid Nouripour: "This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Politico: 'Donald Trump enters his lame duck era. Republicans are starting to contend with the fact that the president will soon be gone, and they'll be fending for themselves.' www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Putin’s repressive machinery turns inward to target pro-war figures www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

ADL's Greenblatt used to pride himself on converting, for lack of a better term, high-profile folks who he deemed to be insensitive to Jews. "Counsel culture, not cancel culture," Greenblatt called it. This is different. Perhaps because Mamdani is not looking to ADL for some sort of absolution.

A new Bellingcat investigation geolocates the site of a mass killing near Al Fashir, Darfur. More than eighty bodies were found beside destroyed vehicles along an earthen berm built around the city. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will turn to veterans of City Hall, nonprofit executives and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission — all of them women — to lead his official transition effort, he said on Wednesday. nyti.ms/4nHdyOP

Social media footage and satellite imagery show killings as Rapid Support Forces took over Al Fashir (El Fasher). Bellingcat geolocated one incident on the city’s outskirts and showed it to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...

A new Bellingcat investigation geolocates the site of a mass killing near Al Fashir, Darfur. More than eighty bodies were found beside destroyed vehicles along an earthen berm built around the city. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

A super PAC supporting former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the New York mayoral election is running a late ad that depicts Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in front of video of the Twin Towers crashing down on 9/11. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Normally, it's a problem if you say something to a federal court then the next day go online and admit you lied, but we're only talking about the President, the DOJ, and the US Attorneys lying about his plan to illegally withhold funds to starve people, so there likely won't be any consequences.

Both The New York Times and Airwars are tracking the U.S. strikes on boats in the Carribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. 64 or 65 killed in 15 separate incidents. NYT: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Airwars: airwars.org/conflict/u-s...

Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Reeves says UK has suffered ‘years of economic mismanagement’ in speech preparing ground for tax rises – politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Rachel Reeves to pave way for tax hikes in major pre-Budget speech - live

Personally, I blame woke

“Within certain MAGA circles, to criticize someone for being too racist or reactionary is a betrayal, signaling an acceptance of the very liberal morality that the movement’s vanguard seeks to destroy.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

The new Dwarf Fortress update looks sweet www.youtube.com/watch?v=67qF...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Starmer was briefed on Mandelson’s Epstein links before appointing him, say civil servants

In my VDA framework, this is the logic of hollow democracy. Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability still appear, but only as performances shaped by platform incentives. demos.co.uk/research/ver...

What they describe is performative discourse, where speech is rewarded for emotional impact rather than truth. Calm, reasoned discussion disappears because it does not perform well in the feed.

🧵 This piece captures a core problem of the hollow democratic state: politics has become performance, optimised for visibility, not understanding.

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Despite my online branding, I do actually try to avoid 1:1 Roman Empire comparisons but come on he is not making this easy

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🧵 This piece captures a core problem of the hollow democratic state: politics has become performance, optimised for visibility, not understanding.

In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The sad decline of Hersh, once America’s greatest investigative reporter.

The Nord Stream riddle: echoes of mistrust ripple through Europe www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ukrainian computer game-style drone attack system goes ‘viral’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

FBI fires top official amid Kash Patel’s outrage over reports of agency jet use www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public

At a recent presentation at Cambridge, (prince) Andrew biographer Andrew Lownie claims Epstein and Melania Trump were in a relationship before he introduced her to Trump. When his biography on Andrew was released, Trump forced the publisher to redact those portions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=62j0...

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Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Sure looks like no end in sight to shutdown….

Two sleeps.

I made this about people like you soundcloud.com/brown-moses/...

I should also point out that Cuomo confused one black MSNBC host for another here as he talked about diversity being a weakness.

This is flat out false. SNAP cannot be used for that. It’s not permitted under federal law and no states have an exemption for it.

You can't make this up.

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Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...