A drone attack on a town in Sudan's South Kordofan region is said to have hit a kindergarten and killed at least 50 people, including 33 children. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd61d0jl6no

Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged against them?

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

The new Pentagon press corps is laser focused on serving the American people by working their sources to bring you the most impactful stories because, as Jefferson said, “a well-informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.”

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom: We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

Column: A TikToker warned shoppers not to donate at checkout, saying companies use the donations as tax write-offs. But corporations can’t claim deductions for money donated by customers — it would be illegal. Here is the truth about checkout donations:

Israeli forces killed two children in Gaza in a strike on Saturday, according to the family and a Gazan health official, amid persistent violence in the territory despite an ongoing cease-fire.

White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby

Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith: “In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’” open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

“Teamwork”

President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Thursday defended President Trump’s special envoy against accusations of pro-Kremlin bias.

The Trump administration will reexamine green cards issued to people from 19 countries "of concern." https://cnn.it/3M1L8C4

Boats already stopped in the water. People about to die. Clues to drone and manned aircraft fighting systems. —Findings of our freeze-frame study of the Trump administration’s promotional videos of its bombing campaign on suspected drug smuggling boats. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Over and over, the mainstream press reports that Trump has secured a “trade deal” with a foreign country and every single time he’s just making it up. When will they learn?

Trump reposted on Truth Social multiple accounts from X this weekend who have been identified as foreigners posing as American MAGA supporters. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...

394K followers, Morocco…

Duffy: "Trump talks about the golden age of transportation. But the golden age in transportation truly begins with you ... People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly ... so we want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season: Help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"

Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao

The great crypto crash entered a new phase as Bitcoin plunged to its lowest level in seven months, extending the more than $1 trillion wipeout across the digital‑asset world. Read more: bloom.bg/4pkUIxZ 📷️: Camilo Freedman/Bloomberg

A large fire tore through a densely populated district of Oita, Japan, destroying more than 170 structures and leaving one resident missing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/japan/oita-fire/

A new episode of our podcast Sand Hill Road with Freestyle Capital's Maria Palma about ethics, engineering creativity, venture regret, and even the art of naming startups (“Cluster Fudge” stays). sand-hill-road.simplecast.com/episodes/the...

UNIFIL says the IDF this morning fired on its peacekeepers from a Merkava tank from near a position Israel has established in Lebanese territory. “This represents a serious violation of Security Council resolution 1701.” https://t.me/UNIFIL_Lebanon/752

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

Breaking news: Newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that he appeared to be texting a member of Congress during a congressional hearing investigating Donald Trump, and that those texts may have influenced the lawmaker’s questions.

A 1953 draft story described two collaborative teams (the experimentalists Wilkins-Franklin; the theorists Watson-Crick), with Franklin as an equal partner in testing the model. The draft was discovered by Cobb and Comfort in the archives and represents contemporary evidence... 🧪 #histsci 1/4

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

I always roll my eyes at these sorts of takes when someone creates something miraculous.

Rep. Adam Smith: "This country has not agreed to have the death penalty for drug smuggling. If we want to have that policy conversation, we can have that policy conversation, but the president has unilaterally decided that lethal force is going to be applied. It's an enormous expansion of power."

‼️ Russians shelled a children’s hospital in Kherson with artillery. At this moment, nine people are reported injured, including four children and three hospital staff members.

That tracks.

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Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

This week on Sand Hill Road the podcast: Eugene Malobrodsky of One Way Ventures. sand-hill-road.simplecast.com/episodes/eug...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC

A man who was pardoned by President Trump on charges related to his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was arrested last week after allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York).

NEWS: A 9th Circuit panel rules 2–1 (2 Trump-appointees, 1 Clinton appointee) that Trump can deploy the Oregon National Guard to guard an ICE facility in Portland while the lawsuit plays out. The Texas Guard remains blocked.

Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House to build President Trump’s long-desired ballroom — despite his pledge that construction of the $250 million addition wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing building. https://wapo.st/4hl7jyF

That’s some chyron. 👑 @atrupar.com

Customer cancellations for Disney’s Disney and Hulu streaming services jumped in September, after the company briefly suspended the ABC late-night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

A shell prematurely blew up on Saturday during a military event in California. Debris fell onto California Highway Patrol vehicles near a major freeway that had been ordered closed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, who had warned that the plans to fire shells over Interstate 5 could pose hazards for motorists.

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right? MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.

Trump: "Israel can say that 'we killed 50,000' and so you'd say it's a whole net set of people. And it is. They get replaced by other people. Young people."

Trump responds to No Kings by posting video depicting him as a king

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America