They really are going with immaculate asymmetry of tariffs, which didn't raise prices when they were imposed but will cut them when they're withdrawn.

Israel is advancing a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners. Right-wing leaders want to go even further and use the bill to give Israeli forces the authority to carry out extrajudicial killings. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

Iran’s foreign minister says his nation is no longer enriching uranium

"Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By: Jews of Conscience on Palestine" gathers over a century of Jewish voices opposing Zionism. The moral clarity of its contributors is more needed than ever as the self-proclaimed Jewish state commits a genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/book... #Palestine #Israel

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 15, 2025 @thestudyofwar.bsky.social #ISW Key Takeaways: ⤵️ understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#China Escalates Japan Feud With Island Patrols and Warnings to Citizens @nytimes.com 😬 China sent Coast Guard ships near disputed islands and warned travelers and students about safety risks in Japan. The escalation is over comments on Taiwan by Japan’s new prime minister.

@pbsnews.org Representatives of #Syria civil society held rare open discussions Saturday in Damascus in the presence of officials from the EU and the transitional government. They touched on sensitive topics including sectarian tensions, ethnic divisions and people killed by different sides. ☑️ 1/3

Israeli Entity Continues Attacks on Southern Lebanon | Qatar News Agency 🤬 The Israeli entity continued its attacks on Saturday on southern #Lebanon, in a persistent violation of the ceasefire agreement. 1/2

Heavy Winter Rains Flood Gaza, Destroying Makeshift Shelters — Heavy winter rains have battered Gaza, flooding camps and tearing apart makeshift shelters as rain pours through damaged tarpaulins. Residents dug trenches to divert water while aid groups warn worsening weather will deepen…

#Gaza: Israel Launches Air Strikes as Ceasefire Violations Go On @aljazeera.com 🤬 • Israeli attacks inside Gaza ceasefire’s “yellow line” hit near the cities of Khan Younis in the south and Gaza City in the north • Soldiers in the occupied #WestBank wound at least 2 Palestinians and arrest 15 others

Scientists Reverse Kidney Damage in Mice, Hope for Humans Next @sciencedaily.bsky.social By altering ceramide metabolism or using a new drug candidate, the team was able to protect mitochondrial function and completely prevent kidney injury in mice. 👍

The Epstein emails are devastating. Trump is toast.

LeCun: “I’ve been not making friends in various corners of Silicon Valley, including at Meta, saying that within three to five years, this [world models, not LLMs] will be the dominant model for AI architectures, and nobody in their right mind would use LLMs of the type that we have today."

The day after Mayor Daniel Lurie's D4 supervisor pick Beya Alcaraz resigned, political insiders in S.F. were unified in their response: How could this happen? And, what happens now? via @io-y-g.bsky.social & Xueer Lu missionlocal.org/2025/11/beya...

With since-resigned Supervisor Alcaraz, the mayor's office failed to vet a candidate who literally had skeletons in her closet. It was a major misstep for Daniel Lurie and a disservice to the political neophyte Alcaraz Latest column from @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/11/the-...

THANKSGIVING RECIPES THREAD 🧵🍁🦃 I’m Head Chef at this year’s Bower family Thanksgiving. The soup season thread was a hit, so now I’m turning to Bluesky for your best Turkey Day recipes. What’s the one dish you can’t live without? Drop recipes and tips in the replies ⬇️ (Photo: my fave appetizer)

Savory Baked Pears with Gorgonzola, Walnuts, and Cranberries www.threeolivesbranch.com/savory-baked...

Lawyers say Palestinians are being assaulted, deprived of contact with outside world at underground Rakevet facility.

"Throughout the US, private equity has increasingly monopolized industries through the practice of “roll ups,” acquiring many small local firms and rolling them into one larger firm, giving them power to simultaneously raise prices and lower quality." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

@apnews.com déjà vu Trump wants to lower prescription drug costs, as did Biden. Both tried to shame companies for price increases. Trump is even leaning on a message that echoes Biden’s claims in 2021 that elevated inflation is simply a “transitory” problem that will soon vanish. 🤭

@thehill.com Furious Democrats are set to train their fire far beyond the eight Senate Democrats who cut a deal to end the shutdown, directing their frustration into defeating establishment-leaning candidates in primaries across the country. 👍👍

@thehill.com AG Matthew J. Platkin and Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo have sued Amazon for misclassifying drivers on its Uber-like Flex delivery app as independent contractors, and for related wage-theft, withholding of paid sick leave and failure to pay into state social insurance funds. 👏

@thehill.com Judge Rita Lin placed a preliminary injunction against threats to [UC] funding, citing admin’s repeated vow to launch civil rights investigations to justify severing those funds “with the goal of bringing universities to their knees and forcing them to change their ideological tune.” 👍

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Nov. 14, 2025 @thestudyofwar.bsky.social #ISW Key Takeaways: ⤵️ understandingwar.org/research/rus...

The agreement is not expected to immediately change things on the ground, but to move forward a larger peace process.

Oregon said its own police had the situation under control; the Justice Department claimed the city was in the grip of a violent emergency. slate.trib.al/VVMNFGN

UTTERLY ABSURD: Trump Administration Plans SNAP Reapplication Due To Fraud After Shutdown @thehill.com 🤬 “It’s going to give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit …"

The deal is expected to be one of the largest settlements against an opioid manufacturer, with funds for victims.

#Iran Seizes Tanker in Strait of Hormuz, US Official Says @apnews.com 😬 Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday, a U.S. official said, turning the ship into Iranian territorial waters in the first-such interdiction in months …

READ: The Palestinian Authority is criticized for aiding the Israeli occupation, and yet Israeli leaders are threatening to shut it down. This is because even its basic efforts to be recognized as a state challenge Israel's colonial project. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/why-...

How California’s ultimate power broker went down

Rocket Attack in Syria’s Capital Wounds One Person @aljazeera.com #Syria Explosion in the Mezzeh district of Damascus injures one woman and causes material damage, according to Syrian state media. 1/2

Israel's Occupation and Bombing of South Lebanon Makes Return Home Impossible | Middle East Eye #Lebanon 🤬 Constant Israeli attacks turn life into a struggle for survival, uprooting families and crippling recovery 1/2

#Gaza Ceasefire Without Justice or Palestinians at the Table Is a Betrayal | Middle East Eye 🤬 Palestinian families have been starved and bombed for two years, their lives and livelihoods shattered. Without true accountability, there can be no healing

"Almost all Palestinians have been displaced to ‘red zone’ where no reconstruction is planned" Half of Gaza to be stolen, the Palestinians to be left to survive in the remaining ruins of their country Monstrous, criminal and indefensible www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

#Gaza: 260 Palestinians Killed Since Ceasefire Began – Middle East Monitor • 2 more Palestinians were killed & 5 others injured in past 24 hours amid ongoing Israeli violations of ceasefire • brings total death toll from Israel’s offensive since Oct 2023 to 69,187 Palestinians, with 170,703 injured

"Russian Partial Battlefield Air Interdiction Enabled Recent Russian Advances in Pokrovsk." @thestudyofwar.bsky.social understandingwar.org/research/rus...

Donald Trump Net Approval: -16% @fiftyplusone.news fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

BREAKING: President Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices.

What? You mean this piece was a lie?! Say it isn't so! 🤭 Consumers Haven’t Noticed a Price Hike from Tariffs…and Tariffs Aren’t a Sales Tax | Coalition For A Prosperous America

Will Lower Tariffs Bring Down Prices of Coffee, Bananas? Experts Weigh In | ABC News #tariffs "recent price increases for those goods owe in part to a global supply shortage, meaning tariff adjustments will have limited impact on prices"

“Average retail prices for ground roast coffee rose over 40% in the past year, with ground beef up 11.5% and bananas up 8.6%.”

‘Young adults are growing increasingly economically dislocated. The group we are most concerned about — young adults who are neither in education, working or seeking work, or parenting — is marching upwards in many countries.’ www.ft.com/content/bd61...

The problem of inequality has become so pressing that it needs coordinated global action to address it, a group of over 500 economists and scientists said today.

BREAKING: Trump drops tariffs on dozens of food items

Trump’s criminal case in Georgia gets a new prosecutor after no one wanted to take it

UNIFIL says it asked Israeli army to move walls, which cross unofficial 'Blue Line' border between Lebanon and Israel.

#Nevada Supreme Court Revives Criminal Case Over Trump Elector Gambit @politico.com 👍 The 6-0 decision comes just days after Trump pardoned dozens of allies — including these defendants — for any potential federal crimes related to the 2020 election.

#Iran Asks UN To Hold US Accountable for Directing Israel's Summer Strikes @reuters.com Araghchi said that President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials bear "criminal responsibility" for the strikes after Trump's statement last week that he directed Israel's initial attack on Iran on June 13.