Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Yeah, real professionals will quit because this is not Justice. This is a concocted lie by a corrupt President who wants his followers to believe nonsense.

Personal favourites: * Smedley Crooke, MP for Birmingham Deritend * Seymour Cocks, MP for Broxtowe * Waldron Smithers, MP for Chislehurst * Dingle Foot, MP for Dundee and Ipswich * Bartle Bull, MP for Enfield * Isidore Salmon, MP for Harrow

New: We've translated in full a 1988 KGB training manual on how to infiltrate U.S. government facilities in the Middle East and North Africa. Something of a Russian growth industry these days, you might say. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

New: On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command." www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

Minds over AI: To tackle disinformation, look to education www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/minds-...

That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death. The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Completely normal

Fresh insights from my colleagues @brookings.edu: fraud under universal vote-by-mail is extremely low They find that mail voting has substantial benefits 4 the election administration & millions of voters Find out more👇 –TN www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...

Alexander Smirnov, the Russian agent who lied to the FBI that Joe and Hunter Biden were doing corrupt business in Ukraine (which became the basis for GOP attempts to impeach Biden) is on medical furlough from prison, just months into his six-year prison sentence. 1/

Sunday: Trump applauds the resignation of Beeb execs bc Panorama truthfully said that Trump encouraged rioters. Monday: Trump pardons over 50 of his co-conspirators and enablers in attempting to steal the 2020 election.

Another uplifting Rant! open.substack.com/pub/alexzfin...

Peskov: we want diplomacy but we will continue the war, and it's all Europe's fault! Russia's "peacefulness" in a nutshell. "Of course, we would like this conflict [the Russia-Ukraine war] to end as soon as possible. And it can end when Russia achieves the goals it set initiall”he said

As soon as he arrived in Kupiansk, he immediately fled and surrendered to Ukrainian soldiers. Alaa also shared that Russians treat foreigners disgustingly, and they are often subjected to abuse and beatings.

According to him, he came to Russia on a tourist visa, but he and his friends were detained and forced to sign a contract; otherwise, they would have been imprisoned or killed. They were promised that they would not fight, but they were deceived.

"Russians are disgusting; they treat people cruelly and beat them up. They’re very bad,treat foreigners badly,like slaves” Ukrainian soldiers of the 125th Heavy Mechanized Brigade captured an Iraqi citizen in the Kupiansk area,a 30-yr-old Alaa Mohammed Thajil (Al-Jubair village,Dhi Qar Governorate)

For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.

Shaheen and the other Democratic Senators who voted for this betrayal are exactly what’s wrong with the Democratic Party today. Until we grow a pair, Americans will continue to look at us as weak and incompetent. Meanwhile billionaires get tax cuts and health insurance premiums skyrocket.

NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including: -Rudy Giuliani -John Eastman -Mark Meadows -Sidney Powell -Ken Chesebro -Christina Bobb -Kelli Ward -Jenna Ellis www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Democrats can't defeat Trump-MAGA authoritarianism without an agenda that stands squarely on the side of working people. We need a pro-worker, pro-democracy, anti-establishment movement that will take on oligarchy like never before. It starts with the party rejecting Big Money.

Today with espionage historian @intelhistorian.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Absolutely, positively. And for the Caribbean boat strikes, too.

it's true and they should say it but it's a real bad sign it's winding up in print

“A Nigerian official was told by a U.S. counterpart that, with Thanksgiving coming up, Nigeria should go quiet and wait for the president’s attention to shift, a Nigerian official said.” Ladies and Gentlemen, the commander in chief of the U.S. military.

if you believe fully autonomous robot butlers are just over the horizon you are actually one of the dumbest motherfuckers alive and we should take your money from you so we can put it towards something worthwhile

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

Oh, hey! That's me!

DHS stopped automatically archiving officials’ text messages. Now to save messages — as law requires— officials gotta… -take a screenshot. -send it to their work computer -run the file through a program there -repeat www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

am I wrong in thinking that The Troops who would use these commissaries are not being paid at the moment

'How Elon Musk Is Boosting The British Right. For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.' - Sky News, h/t @campuscodi.risky.biz news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

“Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin confirmed the exchanges were carrying Trump wines in a statement to Forbes, saying, ‘The brave men and women of the USCG are pleased to be able to buy Trump wine and cider tax free.’”

Allégorie de la situation mondiale depuis janvier 2025...

This is the hype video the White House posted when they arrested Sandwich Guy, who was found not guilty today.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Incredible- Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day."

😮 Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China! The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more. www.focus.de/panorama/wel...

5/ Full special report:

Ladies, are we really doing the wide leg pant thing that looks like a rodeo clown? We’re better than this.

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit