“But in the Nazi scheme of things one concession from a yielding opponent must lead quickly to another.” — The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, p. 553

The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson

hope @thisamericanlife.org gets these girl scouts in their reporting on this

Featured story: As the healthcare workers approach the small collection of makeshift shelters along the train tracks that cut through the northern Mexico industrial hub of Ciudad Juárez, the people who gather in this place to use drugs prepare for their arrival. ...

Not sure if these are the Page One headlines WH was going for. @wsj.com

"A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that the president spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open at a recent event" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Former military lawyer calls U.S. boat strikes "murder" tinyurl.com/2td4vt92

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

I’m not sure “Trump cancelled your Thanksgiving travel” is going to be the political win the White House thinks it’s going to be. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.

The password to the Louvre’s video surveillance system was “Louvre,” according to a museum employee

A jury acquitted the D.C. man who was charged with assault after throwing a sandwich at a federal agent during President Trump’s crime crackdown in the capital. https://wapo.st/4qL8SKr

The agency put money set aside in case of a foreign invasion into a luxury goods group, and its former head is accused of orchestrating threats to retrieve it

When the shakedowns just start happening in public. $NVO

"According to documents obtained by FOIAball, the Ole Miss-Georgia matchup was one of at least two games last year where the school used a Department of Homeland Security information-sharing platform to keep a watchful eye on attendees." Crazy reporting from @foiaball.com:

I wrote about yesterday's Texas election, which featured the usual giveaways to the rich (natch) BUT there are a couple of reasons for Dems to be enthusiastic. thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/05/w...

A Christian youth pastor, who shared posts that claimed children weren’t safe around LGBTQ+ people, has been arrested on charges of child sexual abuse. www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/04/y...

Oh come ON!

Kudos to Sky News for a project trying to measure the political bias of the X algorithm. Looks like a lot of work involved here: news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

"Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags," said a US Army website in Germany about the government shutdown. It was a list of local food banks

So uh. I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and... you can now preorder it!

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty. “They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

NEW: FBI fires, unfires, refires employees linked to Arctic Frost and Jack Smith probes. Inside the clusterfuck: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

"Agent Lairmore, how would you describe your relationship with condiments before the tragic events of that fateful day?" "I loved them! I couldn't get enough!" "And now?" <uncontrollable sobbing> "take all the time you need, Agent Lairmore; take all the time you need."

MOULTON: If you're like Trump & took advantage of girls w/Epstein- SCARBOROUGH: We don't have evidence he took advantage of girls w/Epstein M: Common sense be damned S: Is he in the files? M: Obviously S: You have absolutely no evidence he took advantage of girls M: I think it's pretty obvious

A 61-year-old Tennessee man posted a liberal meme on Facebook after Charlie Kirk's death. A conservative sheriff had him arrested. Bail was set at $2 million. He spent nearly 40 days in jail before charges were dropped. Now he's planning to sue. Our story: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

"Suddenly, nothing—including the racism, Holocaust denialism, and antisemitism Fuentes has championed—seems to be too hot for MAGA media to embrace" —@willsommer.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...

A three-star general serving on the Pentagon's Joint Staff has been pushed out of his position following months of sustained tensions with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, according to people familiar with the matter. https://cnn.it/3LdbosG

BREAKING: In a 51-42 vote, the Virginia House advances a measure proposing a constitutional amendment that would allow the state to redraw its congressional map until 2030 “in response to actions taken by another state.”

Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇

Trump’s nominee to the US export bank has withdrawn amid scrutiny of his close familial ties to Russian banks and Putin-linked oligarchs. Bryce McFerran had no previous government experience but gave $1 million to Trump’s campaign.

Just want to reiterate that there’s no reason for this. There is no increase in crime. There are no riots. There’s no insurrection. They’re doing this without provocation. At least until they create one.

NEW: Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social is one of six protestors charged in a newly unsealed indictment for "conspiracy to impede or injure" an ICE officer at Broadview. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."

Among the highlights, Bovino is to appear in court every day at 6pm to recap the day’s events. And ICE is to submit all use of force reports and details of every person detained, every 24 hours.

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

"You Don’t Argue With Extremists. You Organize Against Them" A fascinating piece from a researcher on why debates don't always work as a method of effecting change. As a debater, I don't agree with all of it, but Zeteo is all about encouraging... debate:

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

Thank you, Chicago.

Some background on this from TPM talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

The specifics of this are extremely bad. DHS is using a tariffs/product importation law to demand Meta unmask the identity of an Instagram account that posts about ICE enforcement actions. The page sells no merch. Lawyers call it "wildly outside the scope" of the law www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to...

SCOOP! Post reporter Paige Winfield Cunningham obtained documents showing that average Obamacare premiums are set to spike 30 percent. This escalates the stakes of the government shutdown fight over soaring insurance costs wapo.st/477rixd

We’ve updated our story with an additional comment provided by the United States Justice Department.

Israel continues to hold 80 Palestinian doctors and medical workers from Gaza and 15 from the occupied West Bank.