Jamaica faces $9.5 billion finance gap to rebuild after Melissa reut.rs/49srZ5R

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The House has passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Who knew he hates women?

Can't find out if Cloudflare is down because Cloudflare being down has taken out DownDetector, along with half the internet.

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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

Dictionary day is finally here! The first new print M-W in more than 20 years

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

Elizabeth Warren called on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after he featured prominently in the latest Jeffrey Epstein emails

Shabana Mahmood tells MPs that "it is not the policy of this government to confiscate jewelry from those who are... accessing asylum accommodation." This is the opposite of what the Home Office minister Alex Norris said this morning

There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel. Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children. These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.

Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

This does seem to be a relevant question. Reading the Sun and Guardina pieces side by side it is hard to believe they are describing the same policy. That kind of spin might have worked in 1990s but in a social media ecosystem where anger goes viral is is likely to generate own goals

The inhumanity of some of the proposals expected today is truly shocking. The Denmark model is not something that should be welcomed by anyone who proclaims to cherish so-called “British values”. What is happening?

Listening to a news item on improving train wifi while I fail to connect to Scotrail wifi. Monday is Mondaying already.

For the love of God Scotrail/Network Rail, please stop putting the Glasgow train on platform 8 at Waverley.

AI-generated images of extreme poverty, children and sexual violence survivors are flooding stock photo sites and increasingly being used by leading health NGOs, according to global health professionals who have voiced concern over a new era of “poverty porn”. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.

Again:

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says he'll approve a $7 billion opioid settlement with the Sacklers' Purdue Pharma, including money for victims.

Crap! There goes Christmas. Santa denied entry. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein. So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Yes: all these people corresponded with, spoke with, and met with a man after he was convicted and served time as a sex offender in 2008. Despicable and morally bankrupt.

Yes: all these people corresponded with, spoke with, and met with a man after he was convicted and served time as a sex offender in 2008. Despicable and morally bankrupt.

Good Lord I am sure I have now heard the name Morgan McSweeney more times than I heard Alastair Campbell’s by this point. What a ridiculous, distracting and inept soap opera.

About one-in-five U.S. adults (21%) say they regularly get news from news influencers on social media. Among 18- to 29-year-olds, that figure jumps to 38%.

Ruemmler worked for Obama until June 2, 2014. She then worked for Latham & Watkins. This email is dated September 19, 2014.

Breaking News: Kim Kardashian’s clothing company, Skims, is worth $5 billion after a new fund-raising round, a jump from its previous round.

Most white colleges wouldn’t accept Black students, and Black colleges didn’t have the capacity to handle the post-war demand—by 1947, as many as 50,000 qualified Black veterans had been turned away.

Is this good? It doesn't seem good. "Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."

WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Then you pretty much have to resign. Guaranteeing safety is the job.

Exclusive: Police investigating ‘The Penguin Lessons’ author as fresh sexual abuse claims revealed www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...

Will we remember them.

🔥 The row between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana gets even more bitter tonight as the two row over hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth of donations. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As predicted, they’re going after the entire childhood vaccination schedule (second slide, from WaPo).

One nice detail that can easily be lost in this graph - even right wingers trust the BBC more than the right wing tabloids

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...

I have to hand it to Democrats. I'm one of the feds working and not getting paid and they manage to make reopening the government feel worse than the alternative. Like, why did I miss 2.5 paychecks to end up right back where we were before the shutdown started?

Because many struggle with math…

Trump getting booed at the Commanders game

My 2 cents: The Trump docu screwup is just one small part of a big story. There are near-daily disputes over the BBC's Israel/Gaza coverage; equally frequent attacks from BBC rivals; and the looming license fee review. When you run the Beeb, the pressure is relentless; the job can feel thankless.

Almost every family is failed on special needs, says ombudsman ✍️ Jon Ungoed-Thomas https://bit.ly/4qOSoRF

Tim Berners-Lee dreamed of a World Wide Web for everyone. Nick Clegg and Meta had different ideas. In new books, both ignore how profit undermined the internet.

Lest we forget.