Dim-witted and racist banter passes for humor on Israeli TV. Rather than satirize Mamdani's actual positions or gaffes, the show reduced him to a bumbling "terrorist" stereotype. Many criticized it for the racist undertones and stereotyping. But more egregiously – it just wasn't funny.

Police are investigating suspicions that the Military Advocate General's Office misled the High Court of Justice in its reports on the investigation into the leak of a video allegedly showing the abuse of Palestinian detainees at the Sde Teiman facility. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

This is an outrageous lie and smear targeting Native Americans. There was no practice of child sacrifice by Native Americans, and this is a subject which has been explored exhaustively by sociologists, anthropologists and historians.

Because Greenblatt thinks Tucker and Nick Fuentes are the future of the GOP, apparently.

A ‘drunk driving’ ICE agent continued to question a Black deputy’s nationality as he was being driven to jail in extended footage unearthed by The Independent. www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/ice-...

Megalomania. Americans rage against Trump's demo job at the White House and his plans for a golden ballroom. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“I think most people are going to say, OK, I had a great deal during COVID,” said Club For Growth President David McIntosh. “But now it’s back to business as usual, and I should be paying for health care.”

The handiwork of Trump's secret police: Feds arrested Juan Barbosa Gomez in Portland on Oct 15, even though his family says he's got a valid work permit and no criminal record. But he's not on ICE's detainee locator. His family only could find out his location on a 3rd-party inmate messaging app

Rupert Murdoch introduces today's sharpest-ever attack on Mamdani

John Hudson summarizes his scoop here. Be sure to read the summary and the original article. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19839...

Correct. And almost entirely uncommented upon today.

Is the highest and best use of Texas to turn it into a massive concentration camp system with an anus pointing south? The idea has some visceral appeal, if you're a monster.

Integral to Mussolini's notion of corporatization was the absorption of corporate leadership into the ranks of the Partito Nazionale Fascista.

Usha Bala Chilukuri, JD's wife, the daughter of immigrants from Andra Pradesh, is a practicing Hindu. Here Vance states his expectation that she will convert to Christianity. He has described his religious beliefs in various interviews as white Evangelical, atheist, and most recently, as Catholic.

The King of Ketchup and Kakistocracy. What the Koreans did is so over-the-top it can easily be read as mockery. In any event it looks like a crafty foreign power bribing a three-year old with cookies and ice cream (or, in this case, with hamburgers and ketchup).

Trump's senior echelon are stealing all the general-officer housing in metro DC for their personal use.

CATO takes a remarkably firm stand on Trump's secret police and their tactics.

The shorter Trump: We don't want no damned immigrants, but we're make exceptions for Aryans who can demonstrate their genetic purity and their fidelity to fascist ideology. (This is what is meant by "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination,"

The Art of Letting Trump Claim a Win, While Walking Away Stronger: how Xi outsmarts Trump time after time.

Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of raw partisan political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.

Mamdani would be the first fluent Spanish-speaking New York mayor. He's also fluent in Gujarati. bsky.app/profile/zohr...

with preliminary results suggesting it edged out the far-right Freedom party, which was set to lose 11 seats compared with the 2023 election. The pivot back to the centre has lifted liberal hopes across Europe, even as far-right populists remain a disruptive force.

Liberal Dutch leader Rob Jetten is tipped to become the next prime minister in the Netherlands after voters rejected a shortlived experiment with a government led by the far right. Jetten’s D66 party performed better than expected in parliamentary elections on Wednesday,

The votes will have zero effect. The initiative will fail in the House of Representatives, whose cowed Republican Speaker Mike Johnson habitually does Trump’s bidding. They would need two-thirds majorities to overcome a presidential veto in any case.

This week saw a rare and extraordinary thing: congressional Republicans standing up to Trump on trade. 5 of their senators voted with the Democrats to oppose Trump’s 50% tariffs on Brazil, and four to overturn his import duties on Canada, both among his most ridiculous acts of protectionism.

Mira Nair, an Indian-American filmmaker, is still trying to digest the adulation being heaped on her son, Zohran Mamdani, the rising star of the American left. Polls suggest the 34-year-old is on course to become New York’s first Muslim mayor in next Tuesday’s election. Nair experienced the full

Quantum computing able to harness the subatomic world may seem like a distant prospect to some people. This misapprehension persists despite recent research breakthroughs, many built on the foundational research of 2025 Nobel laureates John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis.

You caught us, okay. www.ft.com/content/d646...

Love you all, but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you are a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but give your money away, shorties.” Zuckerberg did not clap along with the rest of the audience at Eilish’s comment.

“We’re in a time right now where the world is really, really bad and really dark and people need empathy and help in our country,” Eilish remarked. “I’d say if you have money, it would be great to use it for good things and give it to some people that need it.

Ka$h living up to his name bsky.app/profile/newr...

Max Boot‬: "The pace of boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific—aka extra-judicial killings—seems to have accelerated since Adm. Alvin Holsey, commander of US Southern Command, announced he was retiring after reported disagreements with Hegseth. Coincidence?" Obviously not.

Pointless brutality targeting US citizens with dark skin is the calling card of Trump's secret police. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Rear Admiral Kurt Rothenhaus was removed from his post as chief of naval research, the top post at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and replaced by Rachel Riley, a MAGA political hack who has been serving since January in a DOGE-related roles inside the Trump administration.

In a scathing order, a judge in Washington State said the government’s real purpose was to intimidate providers into dropping or paring back transgender care.

This is a degenerate form of democracy. Unfortunately it is our form.

Hegseth orders a US brigade home to the US without sending a replacement. Another sign of America's faltering commitment to NATO? It seems that way. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/usa-...

Trump's secret police in action.

Excellent investigative work by WSJ tracks down one of the greatest presidential corruption scandals in US history, www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

A preposterous case dealt with dismissively by a Virginia jury. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

In the editorial judgment of NYT, being paid $5 million last year and failing to disclose by whom is no big deal. But correctly pronouncing Haiti is an unforgivable sign of snobbishness.

The Bari Weiss makeover is well underway

Decisions of the utmost gravity and consequence to life on this planet made by Trump unilaterally based on completely false understandings. But one thing's clear. He really admires Rocket Man.