Belgium is growing frustrated with the European Commission for the lack of alternative options to the reparations loan, @shonamurray.bsky.social reports after today’s technical talks. “All options must be on the table.”

Via Euronews: EU Commission and Belgium see no breakthrough yet in Ukraine reparation loan talks  www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Did Women Ruin the Workplace

On the agenda of Coreper II today data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...

The Lux agenda covered contingency planning for a cyber attack in Europe, satellite connectivity and the future extension of the bloc’s mobile roaming area to include Ukraine and Moldova. Luxembourg or La-la land? Patrick O’Donovan chooses Hollywood over EU huddle www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Powerful Democrat Pelosi, 85, says she will not seek re-election, but she will finish the final year of her term.

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

Nov 5, 2025 Chicago, IL: ICE raids day care and arrests teacher with citizenship papers; Alderperson Andre Vasquez says city can’t wait for elections to fix Trump-era chaos, urges Chicagoans to act now

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Everybody wants Belgium to use immobilised Russian assets to pay for Ukraine. But what about Russian assets elsewhere? Why won’t other countries state what they have in their financial system? @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social and me went to look.. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

We know that Belgium has the bulk of Russia's immobilised assets. But where are the others? My colleague @shonamurray.bsky.social and I reached out to the Western countries believed to hold the remaining assets. But our efforts were met with a wall of silence. Here's why nobody wants to speak up.

B-H Levy is like the Holy Ghost of hopelessly failed causes. If he shows up in support of you, it means you’re ☠️

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

A ‘Mamdani Monitor’?? Zohran RESPONDS to the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt for vowing to “track” his admin for antisemitism. “I have some doubts in Jonathan's ability to do so honestly, given that he previously said I had not visited any synagogues only to have to correct himself.” zeteo.com/subscribe

Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Never have I seen such a perfect example of Schrödinger's Migrant. Zia Yusuf, asked whose PIP Reform would cut, talks about "foreign nationals". Less than a minute later, same "foreign nationals" are taking all the jobs and damning British youth to life on PIP. 🤡 Utter clownshow. ~AA

In campaigning for the UK to quit the ECHR, Farage is continuing his collaboration in Putin's war against democracy, human rights and international law The only European countries outside the ECHR are Russia and Belarus. Farage is a traitor, serving a hostile foreign power.

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...

"If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." --Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Arson attack by racists on women and children’s home in Ireland. Five hospitalised. No fatalities this time.

Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-razes-entire-neighbourhoods-east-khan-younis-report

Joe's point is basically returning to "What's the Matter With Kansas," the book that pointed out that people will vote against their material interests when motivated by ideological and cultural hot buttons.

This is so badass and beautiful and one of the greatest American political ads I have ever seen. A frontal engagement with bigotry, and completely beyond the script of approved political discourse in this nation. May he be protected and kept safe.

The absolutely brilliant pitch perfect troll of getting targeted by your opponent with virulent Islamophobia and then immediately releasing an ad in all Arabic.

This is so cheerful

You can't make this up.

"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do. Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

🇪🇺🛣️ On November 19, the European Commission will present a package of proposals that will transform EU logistics into military artery. The goal is to ensure the immediate transfer of weapons and personnel. Poland, Germany, Romania, the Netherlands and the Baltic states will become key transit nodes.

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"If we Europeans do not wake up and say, ‘We want to take back control of our democracies,’ I can tell you this: Within 10 years [...] we will be a continent, like many others, of conspiracy theorists, extremists, noise and fury." defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Firefighters rescued five people, including three children under ten, from the top floor of an Ipas centre in Drogheda last night after a major fire. Gardaí have preserved the scene while the cause of the blaze is investigated. www.thejournal.ie/fire-ipsa-ce...

“the story that Trump tells about Maduro and Venezuelans as an enemy that poisons Americans with drugs is clumsy and weak, but that doesn’t mean that Maduro’s is a normal Latin American government with some rotten apples” www.caracaschronicles.com/2025/10/31/h...

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

An IPAS centre burnt out with fireworks thrown into it - women and children lucky to get out alive - when are we going to start taking the far right violence in Ireland seriously? It's been like watching the world's slowest train crash. For 5 years.

New: I sat down with @aljazeera.com to talk about my firing from the Washington Post, being the last Black staff columnist left at the Post. And how I believe the right is not just engaging in “cancel culture”, but “annihilation culture”. Full video here: youtu.be/89qMGkK3LBc?...

If anything, Trump-Xi talks have emphasised the tight spot the EU is in going into tomorrow's talks on export controls with China. In order to lift rare earth restrictions for a year, Trump lowered tariffs, seems to have opened the door to Chinese investments, and paused probes

The British government spent over €4 million defending Soldier F, a former paratrooper who was last week acquitted of the murders of two men during the events of Bloody Sunday in 1972. jrnl.ie/6859897

Elon Musk is once again inciting violence on British streets because the government has taught him there are literally no consequences for doing so. They even carry on using his far-right social network to promote government policy as he does it. The absence of backbone is *astounding*.

Systematic execution of hundreds in a hospital in Darfur, as RSF/Janjaweed take over the city of El Fasher (population ~250k) in Darfur. That adds to an estimated 150,000+ death toll from fighting, plus many more from famine. But Sudan is one of those places the outside world cares little about.

Always on the money @privateeyenews.bsky.social