Woah! Nearly a month before Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top diplomat: If you want to understand Trump, talk to me. [email protected] & @nahaltoosi.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Nothing seemed to work today.

SCOOP: Guess which country has been freaking out about the US shutdown? It's all laid out in a State Department cable I obtained: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Before becoming the first Syrian president to visit the White House, Ahmed Al-Sharaa was seen playing basketball with top US military officials in a video posted to social media yesterday. Al-Sharaa is set to meet with President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, on Monday.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

This is a ridiculous adorable story.

This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it. But most people won't believe that for several good reasons. /1

No SNAP for you!

“The Constitution is not a suicide pact,” someone just said at a Federalist Society event.

Does Viktor Orban understand that Democrats watch these press conferences, too?

As of this week, Yad Vashem has identified the names of five million out of six million Jewish Holocaust victims. www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

Did anyone figure out what TYPE of sandwich it was?

A day many will relish.

12 Hangry Men.

Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, endured two and a half years of captivity in Iraq, held in solitary confinement by an Iran-backed militia. She recounts a harrowing story of cruelty, survival, U.S. diplomatic pressure and, finally, release.

There is an entire PhD about the 21st Century to be written among the intersection of three events in the last 24 hours: Dick Cheney's death; McClatchy (key to disproving Iraq War lies) closes its DC bureau; & the US elects first Muslim mayor of NYC and first statewide official ever (in VA).

Nothing makes any sense, so it's hard to write sometimes.

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if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

The news is very stressful.

This story ... www.wsj.com/business/pal...

What if goals are bad things and we’re better off not having them?

(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald .. @miamiherald.com www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

SCOOP: A classified U.S. report finds a backlog of "hundreds" of possible Israeli human rights violations in Gaza that will take "years" to review, raising doubts about future accountability. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The Andrew formerly known as Prince

NEW: Almost a month into the government shutdown, and some federal workers are barely making it through. One fed, who spoke with @telliotter.bsky.social, is out tens of thousands of dollars waiting to be reimbursed for their husband's cancer care. More here: www.wired.com/story/federa...

The European reaction to US action in Venezuela thus far suggests that if the US forces regime change in Caracas, European allies will cough and look the other way. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

NEW COLUMN: Many Caribbean leaders are feeling sidelined & beaten up by the US military campaign in their backyard. But there's nothing they can do about it. President Trump is being blatant about something nations have long known: The strong will dominate the weak. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Exclusive: The Trump administration has used misleading footage to promote its immigration agenda in at least six videos in the last three months. Some videos that purported to show chaos in Trump-targeted cities had footage from completely different states.

A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent said the DEA made “high-level arrests” of 171 Sinaloa Cartel members across New England in August. A Globe investigation found that many of the DEA’s targets were addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and homeless people.

APNewsAlert: CAIRO (AP) — WHO chief says over 460 people were reportedly killed at a hospital in Darfur city taken by Sudanese paramilitary forces.

NEW COLUMN: Many Caribbean leaders are feeling sidelined & beaten up by the US military campaign in their backyard. But there's nothing they can do about it. President Trump is being blatant about something nations have long known: The strong will dominate the weak. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

COLUMN: With every boat strike, Trump exploits a power asymmetry, writes @nahaltoosi.bsky.social. "To be a Caribbean leader in the age of Donald Trump is to be a portrait of powerlessness — and a harbinger of the unvarnished might-makes-right global order the U.S. president is shaping."

Surely both left and right can rally around this:

Ok this is good #auntgate

Guess Bibi didn't like all those stories about Trump calling the shots in Israel: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Also the Antichrist

The uniforms of The Empire's Stormtroopers don't seem very practical.

“The Trump administration is hailing a potential deal that may return the U.S.-China relationship to where it was before the president began a trade war against Beijing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

More brilliant journalism from @radleybalko.bsky.social The awful story of how wrongful accusations destroyed a man's life. radleybalko.substack.com/p/accusing-j...

Is Canada running in 2028

“a framework of a trade deal to avert additional 100 percent tariffs” 🤔 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This piece is helpful to me because it assures me it’s not my fault that I’m struggling so much in writing my latest column about Trump. Its basic gist is: “Trump, 🤷🏽‍♀️.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

As a supervising attorney, I am here to tell young lawyers that AI is absolutely a threat to your career. I do not mean that it will replace you. I mean that if you use it, you increase the risk that another attorney will replace you when you are fired. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Did we really have a deal? Or did we have a framework for a deal?