The administration appears to be laying the groundwork for designating "antifa" as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. www.state.gov/releases/202...

This is an exceptional George Will column. The Revolution's brutality was also driven home to me in Alexander Rose's account of Howe's frontal attacks on the rail fence at Bunker Hill in his book, "Men of War": www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Nighttime helicopter raids were a GWOT tactic and this operation feels just as arbitrary: "ProPublica has observed eight of their hearings, and not once has a government attorney mentioned any pending criminal charges or membership in Tren de Aragua." www.propublica.org/article/chic...

"the only thing I am surprised about is that it took him this long to come after me." A Trump loyalist referred Eric Swalwell to DOJ the very same day that Gateway Pundit targeted him (and published his home address). www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Judge appears skeptical of DOJ arguments for keeping Lindsey Halligan as prosecutor in James Comey and Letitia James cases www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Scoop: Military officials on Weds presented Trump with updated options for potential operations in Venezuela, including land strikes, per sources. Hegseth, Caine at White House yday afternoon for briefings. No final decision made, two of the sources told @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-v...

[email protected] confirms there are wire-guided small drones that can reach 30 miles. A terrifying new milestone (because these are impervious to EW detection and defeat): www.businessinsider.com/unjammable-r...

The annual report comes late this year because cuts to the federal workforce led to a months-long delay getting data www.kpbs.org/news/politic...

Great kicker on this @ashleyrparker.bsky.social story: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This is a grim story even by the Russian military's standards. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

The correspondence between a NYT reporter & Epstein is extraordinary. But the NYT also has questions to answer: it fired him for soliciting a donation from Epstein. Did it not conduct any sort of investigation? Or did it just decide to not make public?

"Should Japan dare to resort to force and intervene in the Taiwan Strait, that would constitute an act of aggression. China will meet it with resolute counteractions," warns Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian. english.news.cn/20251113/8ea5...

"what began as a way to increase the pace of deportations has come to look like a national police force, answerable to the president, that is at least as focused on bullying the residents of Democrat-run cities as it is on deporting undocumented migrants" www.economist.com/interactive/...

This isn't proof that the Kremlin had a unique source of kompromat on Trump, but it's shall we say highly suggestive.

🔥 The White House released an article on Monday citing a DoorDash report as confirmation that "inflation has been tamed." I asked a DoorDash spokesperson today if the company had concluded from its report that inflation had been tamed. DoorDash spokesperson told me, "We did not write that."

This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein? Yes, you can read it here www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

3. The 2019 email mentions a developer named "Pulty" who was somehow involved with Trump's original purchase. There was a developer in Florida with a similar name: William Pulte. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

Russia is exploiting the thick fog obscuring drones to move into Pokrovsk, BI's Matthew Loh reports: www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-dron...

Xi views the US — and not Taiwan — as his biggest obstacle to seizing the self-ruled island: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/w...

As I sometimes like to mention, s the only reason you know who Jeffrey Epstein is (that is, if you weren't one of his friends/clients/beneficiaries) is because Ms Brown, below, broke the story of his sweetheart deal to get out of the 2008 trafficking charges.

Hell of a quote: "She was the best man for the job" www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States. Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011: "i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."

Great scoop @danlamothe.bsky.social The OLC memo is a shield to a US prosecution of a military commander for participation in boat strikes, but not to an international effort. Int'l law is very clear about command responsibilty:

Flight cancellations have improved from their high on Sunday. @trainsonplanes.bsky.social has the data: www.businessinsider.com/finally-some...

“This never has been about money. The key issue always has been that no one is above the law. No one can trample on the First and Fourth Amendments for personal or political purposes and get away with it.” - Marion County (Kansas) Record publisher Eric Meyer

The CIA conducted an audacious highly classified program to covertly manipulate Afghanistan’s lucrative poppy crop, blanketing Afghan farmers’ fields with specially modified seeds. An extraordinary story from Warren Strobel. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump just claimed his tariffs have pulled in $2 trillion. Then literally hours later, he inflated that to $3 trillion. With this absurdity, he undermined his case for tariffs, revealing that he's just pulling numbers out of his ass. On the pod we dig deep into this: newrepublic.com/article/2030...

Not the main point, but can we just say that this is a very odd email exchange for a reporter (Michael Wolff) to conduct with a source (Jeffrey Epstein)? Esp a source who, 7 years pvs, had pled guilty to solicitation of prostitution w/ a minor, and who'd been sued by a victim just 3 months earlier.

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

The great Philip Bump's first MS NOW column — check it out!

Fannie Mae watchdogs "had received internal complaints alleging senior officials had improperly directed staff to access mortgage documents." The report eventually wound up in the hands of ... Trump-appointed interim U.S. attorney, Lindsey Halligan. 🎁 Link www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

“Modern warfare rewards those who can produce effective, scalable systems quickly — not just those with the most advanced or expensive ones.” Wise words, via @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social

This isn’t a scene from Mad Max: Furiosa - it’s more like Mad Maxim: Alcohosa, featuring Russian assault troops in Pokrovsk rolling in on hacked-up motorcycles and jery-rigged civilian trucks

Not just stupider — more sinister, as the experience rewards 4chan-like conspiracy theories

"It's kind of a big leap to actually make something without people," Blue Water Autonomy's CEO told @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/us-company-l...

Good point @nslayton.bsky.social Also Veteran's Day isn't about "winning" — it's about recognizing those who served. They are only about 6% of the US population now

"If the conditions make refueling difficult, it can be stressful," a refueling boom operator told @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/how-air-forc...

The point of having a standards editor is that you bring in a skilled, disinterested person to read or watch a story and point out possible bias, errors and lapses. The actual story editors can miss those things because they're so closely tied to the production and reporting of the piece.

This is a very significant scoop from Natasha, the intel relationship between the US and UK is a key to US national security.

National Guard soldiers, let alone active-duty troops, are not crime-stoppers or detectives. If the problem is crime, the solution is more law enforcement

The U.S. Air Force Academy's academic accreditation is under review following a formal complaint that the institution no longer has sufficient Ph.D.-level faculty as the federal government reduces its civilian workforce // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social

Air traffic controllers are in their 41st day of working without pay via @trainsonplanes.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/private-jets...

The United States killed six more men in Sunday strikes on suspected drug boats. Our news article and tracker on this offensive, which has killed at least 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Deep State still alive and kicking, ODNI says. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... New w/ @qjurecic.bsky.social.

Insightful assessment of the Pokrovsk battle and Ukraine's need to withdraw its forces earlier due to the expanded reach of Russian attack drones

The challenge is that drones now effect fire control in 15-20km depths such that it is not possible to withdraw equipment, and much harder to extract people from the pocket (especially from any forward positions). It is no longer possible to wait to the last minute. 9/

Gen. CQ Brown argues the US needs reduced red tape & consistent budgets. It's a sign of the times that his urgent plea falls during the US's longest government shutdown, driven by hyperpartisan politics: warontherocks.com/2025/11/raci...

Pretty rare for General Brown to write something, so probably a good idea to read it. And not surprisingly, he’s spot on…we need a revolution in the way we develop and procure munitions

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