This is just from the past week. @washingtonpost.com @cbsnews.com

Republican legislators are unhappy about reaping the whirlwind. Poor babies.

Reaping

latest sham investigation just dropped

It's unclear how many times Marco Rubio can do this--hastily convene all of Europe to present a counteroffer that Russia will inevitably refuse, only to have the Russians throw a few more bribes onto the funeral pyre of the Western order and with those bribes rope in a few more venal Trump flunkies.

Exit polls way off the mark... Circa 1/3 of votes now counted in Veneto and League is way ahead (36% vs. Brothers of Italy at 19%). Salvini has been reprieved. Paradoxically, this result is not bad for Meloni. Salvini has fewer incentives to cause her headaches at national level now (see below).

I’m wondering how or if gun laws factor into where they deploy ICE. Did y’all see how fast Charlotte rode them out of town? I live in Washington and Trump has had a hard-on for Seattle since 2020. They haven’t come. I think it might be bc we are open-carry and armed to our rainbow-colored eyes.

In an interview today, Netanyahu says the following •There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia •Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories •Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran

Episode 46: Sapiens It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.

A friend has alerted me to this pressing and very real international incident involving the very sane Candace Owens.

I think it is very unlikely that most of these are Russian influence agents, and considerably more likely that they are people from developing economies who have cottoned on to ways to make relatively large amounts of money for them by being paid-per-view by X.

It was NOT the alternative - USSR pushing into the undefended western side of Japan was! Japan already lost nearly every city to napalm BEFORE Hiroshima, and the timing of General Staff's emergency conference best correlates to USSR's actions than to either bomb. web.archive.org/web/20160211...

From Wikipedia: "Guiducci grew up in San Diego. He is a 2010 graduate of Princeton University, where his thesis adviser 'encouraged us to analyze clothes as much as any other part of an artwork.'"

"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends." The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...

Reportedly, Indonesia destroyed 31 Chinese vessels allegedly involved in illegal fishing within its territorial waters. China describes it as “serious escalation.” Indonesia claims ships, linked to Chinese gov, were engaged in poaching and operated as covert intelligence-gathering platforms

The ad says the judges will "define America," rhetoric similar to that used by Trump immigration aid Stephen Miller: "America is for Americans and Americans only." www.npr.org/2024/10/28/n...

Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov

Look again

Rutgers is in the Big Ten.

New statement from US official, when asked about US threats to cut off weapons to the PURL program and intelligence sharing: “It was strongly implied to the Ukrainians that the United States expects them to agree to a peace deal. Any changes will be decided upon by POTUS himself.”

I mean, with a 100+ page dissent it seems like Smith was just trying to run out the clock and Brown lost patience with the gamesmanship?

In theory, Purcell sounds reasonable enough but in practice it’s just a stupid idea. There is almost ALWAYS an election at some level about to happen in every jurisdiction. Adding the time on appeal, it prevents any remedy from ever occurring if applied consistently. An election is always close.

#BREAKING: Just hours after Texas asked #SCOTUS to pause Tuesday’s ruling that had blocked its new House congressional district maps, Justice Alito has issued a temporary “administrative” stay pausing that ruling (and putting the new maps back into place) while the full Court considers next steps:

Subsidized laptops that locked school districts into a bunch of subscription services because everyone needed to learn the computer more than they needed to learn how to read.

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged." www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

one of the things I really do not understand is why so much of the development of robots seems to be focused on making them bipedal like humans. Why? It's an insane allocation of resources when it would be much easier to give them three or four "legs" or come up with some new system

The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.

What a clusterfuck. Typical of this administration's utter contempt for rules and norms which don't serve their purposes.

So when she learned the GJ rejected Count 1, Halligan was befuddled, someone said "Just Gaitherize it," but she either (1) didn't know she needed to present the new indictment to the full GJ, or (2) there wasn't enough time to reconvene the full GJ before the SoL ran out, so she tried to fudge it?

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

She did this because she’s ignorant, inexperienced, and an indictment that said NOT COUNT ONE LOL JUST THE OTHER TWO would be an embarrassment.

How egregious this is turns in part on when “count 1” was scribbled on that no bill—it sounds very much like it was after the GJ voted it out

The issue here is basically that the actual written document the grand jury returned just said they no-billed the whole thing. We have the GJ foreperson’s word that they *would have* voted out just the other two, but that doesn’t seem to be what actually happened and that’s not good enough.

South Carolina lawmakers debate abortion bill that could imprison people who receive the procedure A few lawmakers are holding a hearing to discuss the controversial bill. abcnews.go.com/Health/south...

Economic gloom spreads … #EconSky

ACAB.

This is the smartest thing said in the USA today.

NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public www.404media.co/contractor-p...

Country singer Alexis Wilkins is being protected by FBI agents normally assigned to a SWAT team in Nashville, according to a report.

The mass rallies took place yesterday, on the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, which brought an end to decades of communism in former Czechoslovakia. Recently, Fico’s government canceled the national holiday on Monday that marked the Velvet Revolution,calling it part of austerity measures.

"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."

"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."

For sure. They essentially mean “30% of the S&P 500 by market value is over-investing,” much of it in intended/committed projects over the next few years that are not in the economic aggregates. (And if that group is truly over-investing then another 20% of the S&P is over-earning.) Tricky spot.

Russian intelligence was behind the sabotage on the Polish railway - Reuters

"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."

How Many People Has the U.S. Killed in Boat Strikes? The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. 🧵🧵Mega-thread of coverage of the illegal extrajudicial killings below🧵🧵 theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

What's really important about this story to me is Thomas Massie stuck his neck out, and instead of being cowed like pretty much every other Republican, he's won, on this step at least. Makes it much easier for others to be brave in a year marked by a deep freeze of cowardice.

NEW: As Texas school districts scramble to comply with a new state law banning "indecent" and "profane" library books, one startup is cashing in. I dug into tens of thousands of dollars in contracts between the company and Texas public schools. Here's what I learned: 🧵