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...

China’s loan book is now worth $2.1trn, which is far larger than previously published estimates. But the “really striking” discovery is how much goes to rich countries, argues Bradley Parks

Read the full report here: www.levernews.com/wall-street-...

open.substack.com/pub/theliber... “…they must finally accept that Trump, an inveterate disruptor, displaced the fading conflict between “liberalism” and “conservatism” by co-opting the issues and resentments that mainstream leaders from both parties had neglected for years.”

Federal Border Patrol agents are expected to expand their operations in North Carolina on Tuesday to include Raleigh, the state capital, local officials said. It's the latest escalation of President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, which has targeted Democratic-run cities.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... “…Like critical race theory and “wokeness,” “gender ideology” is both a bogeyman for the right and a reactionary backlash to social progress.

Steve Bannon, MAGA influencer and former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, promised to shield Jeffrey Epstein from prosecution just months before his death in prison, newly unearthed text messages suggested Monday.

Well, duh

Richardson spent “limited time in daily operations meetings and shrank away from his role,” according to The Washington Post.

BREAKING: A judge says “government misconduct” may have tainted the criminal case against James Comey, describing apparent errors by prosecutor Lindsey Halligan.

Lovely interview with the CEO of The Onion. english.elpais.com/technology/2...

The Epstein scandal has always been a scandal about the ruling class as a whole, not one individual or political party. Epstein trafficked not just in the bodies of the children he abused but also in social connections that could bring elites together.

A coronal mass ejection recorded on Friday could reach Earth and cause geomagnetic storms on Sunday night.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.

Immigration crackdown inspires uniquely Chicago pushback that's now a model for other cities apnews.com/article/chic...

It feels like popular music has been sugary and synthetic slop for a very long time, before AI. Since the 70s at least. Hard to get outraged at this. The industry & the “artists“ have gotten lazy. It is why AI can mimic it.

I don’t think the comparison is perfect, but there are parallels with ICE. It has similar ideological, fanaticism and funding by the state, but the Gestapo was better organized. Stephen Miller would be just as happy in the gestapo. youtu.be/s-1w2bB5DS8?...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... I guess we’re about to find out how bad the porn addiction in the population is. Maybe we’ll all just think this is not that bad?

Ohio food pantries see record demand in food crisis. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/11/o...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... “…Epstein would have felt still welcome as a member of polite society, receiving no social incentive to change his ways. Far from being ostracised as a sex offender, he was normalised….”

More than 2 million oil and gas wells sit unplugged in the U.S., many leaking contaminants into waterways, farmland and neighborhoods. Time and time again, oil companies have walked away — leaving taxpayers to pay for cleanup. Here’s how. (Published Dec. 2024)

A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina. The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.

📽️VIDEO: Trump has tried to keep the Epstein files hidden — but could his fear of their release be far more influential than we realize? Marc Elias explains what the released emails reveal and how the political gridlock may have been a diversion all along.

“After the gringa left, the guards came in to beat us,” said one detainee of what occurred after a visit from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

The image of gun ownership in America has been white, rural and Republican, but that's been changing as more liberals and minorities have been buying guns, especially after the 2024 election.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... I guess we’re about to find out how bad the porn addiction in the population is. Maybe we’ll all just think this is not that bad?

The U.S. intelligence community concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing and dismemberment of a Post columnist, making President Trump's formal dinner for the prince on Tuesday a dramatic step in public rehabilitation. https://wapo.st/3LOwEFn

Bill Pulte arrived at his job running the FHFA amid a flurry of criticisms that he is both a “nepobaby” and unqualified for the job. And it's only gone downhill from there.

Agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter in a massive show of force. Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. But after the cameras were gone, federal prosecutors did not charge anyone. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social & @blockclubchi.bsky.social

We found that a company with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly got money from DHS contracts. “It’s corrupt, is the word,” a contract law expert said. “Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer.”

OPINION: On Monday, the Trump administration submitted arguments to the Supreme Court claiming that no court — including the Supreme Court — can question Trump's decision to deploy military troops against US cities.

Legal claim: “Intentional infliction of emotional indifference.”

“It’s astonishing, really, how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out.”

This reminds me of other examples from history, like Caligula. On the throne for barely 4 years, but whose statues and insignia were literally erased very shortly after he died.

Let’s hope she follows through on this. Someone’s got to pierce the veil.

This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.

Just stop and think: We are sitting here, in November 2025, in the middle (or the beginning-middle) of a credible investigation into whether the president of the United States engaged in sex acts with underage girls. Let that sink in. trib.al/EftXZVw

The Biden administration sought to create a streamlined refund system free of hoops for passengers who experienced canceled or significantly changed flights.

The US Transportation Department is abandoning an effort started by the Biden administration to require airlines to provide meals, hotels and cash payouts to passengers affected by significant flight disruptions.

OPINION: A proposal to prohibit using SNAP to purchase sugar, spices and condiments reveals the far right's appetite for cruelty, writes guest columnist Lindsey Hanlon.

NEW: Missouri Republicans are in a "bare-knuckle brawl" to create legal delays in hopes of sabotaging a citizen-led ballot measure aimed at blocking the state's new Trump-backed gerrymander ahead of a major Dec. 11 deadline.