Orban Showers Trump With Praise to Avoid U.S. Sanctions foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/07/t...

China Commissions Newest Aircraft Carrier With Its Electromagnetic Catapults Front And Center www.twz.com/sea/china-co...

British Carrier Hosts Largest Number Of F-35Bs On A Ship Ever www.twz.com/sea/british-...

The Black Loyalists www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Why Did Benjamin Franklin’s Son Remain Loyal to the British? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

What We Learned Filming The American Revolution www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Republicans have had an advantage in this year’s redistricting wars because they control the redistricting process in states with more Democratic-held congressional seats. But that advantage is starting to look shaky, Nate Cohn writes. nyti.ms/4hQ8VAz

Funeral arrangements have not been set as of Friday morning.

A promise of Trump's first and second term was that the coal industry would surge back to it's old self under his leadership.

China Commissions 3rd Aircraft Carrier Fujian — USNI News news.usni.org/2025/11/07/c...

Erik Visits an American Grave: Carrie Jacobs-Bond www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/erik...

The United Kingdom as a rising power? Is this a put on? Did someone turn the clock back to 1660?

He viscerally alienates the average Bluesky user, but on that very score has a magnetic appeal to millions of others who viscerally hate the kind of person who has a Bluesky account

Hot.

Geno Smith looks like I feel after doing literally anything at the gym

How many people did Westley murder while he was the Dread Pirate Roberts?

Feeling depressed? If you'd like to feel more depressed read this story about Mike Trout. www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...

this is a miserable game of football

You can’t run as a democrat in red state pretending to be a republican…voters see through that…they don’t like it. omny.fm/shows/chewsv...

“But the Trump administration is seeking a separate legal opinion from the Justice Department that would provide a justification for launching strikes against land targets without needing to ask Congress to authorize military force, though no decisions have been made yet…”

The AI-powered chatbot amplified an inaccurate claim that a recent photo post by the Kentucky governor was from a previous disaster.

A ‘Small War’ Against Venezuela Is a Really Big Mistake - nationalsecurityjournal.org/a-small-war-...

The Looming Fall of Pokrovsk, and other observations about the front… www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/ukra...

one of the funniest things about all this is that when you read about the history of men and warfare it is an endless series of internecine feuds between the biggest fucking prima donnas you've ever heard of

I wish folks were as excited about Democrats beating Republicans as they are about one faction of Democrats beating another faction of Democrats.

ah hell Australia is disrespecting Jelly www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Great debate on "gulf" between academic community that believes in "theory of the nuclear revolution, strategic stability, counter-population or minimum deterrence & US gov't...who saw enduring value in damage limitation strategies or counterforce" strategicsimplicity.substack.com/p/debating-d...

Burn the filibuster to the ground! www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Lawfare Daily: The Looming Fall of Pokrovsk www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...

Restraint!

always important to consider the signaling effect of elections. one likely outcome of tuesday is to encourage the strongest candidates to throw their hats in the ring.

Somewhere John Mearsheimer is lurking with a “but what about…”

As someone who had the role of HOA President thrust upon him, let there be no doubt as to the value of well-meaning busybodies.

The crash of the UPS cargo plane in Louisville killed at least nine people. Gov. Beshear said Wednesday death toll will climb.

Cynicism usually ages better than optimism, but the Knopes of the world are the load-bearing pillars of democracy and civic life; sorry that they aren't cool. Also "neoliberal shill" lol she literally fights back against the growing power and negative health effects of Sweetums and Paunch Burger.

Pretty dire future for a lot of young men, here.

Worth noting that the diplomatic implications of striking down Trump’s tariff authority are pretty significant. Tariffs are the duct tape holding together most of Trump’s “deals.” If tariff authority becomes uncertain the deals themselves get pretty wobbly.

Latino voters swinging hard towards the Democrats in Jersey and VA makes that Texas gerrymander look a lot riskier for the Republicans than it did a month ago.

Can tariffs remedy America's critical shortage of drummers? www.vulture.com/article/drum...

The Question I Asked After Watching House of Dynamite - nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-question...

"I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life, but let tonight be the last time I utter his name." --Mamdani's victory speech is already rocking!

Moscow Just Gave Venezuela Air Defenses, Not Ruling Out Strike Missiles: Russian Official www.twz.com/news-feature...

How the Cop Show ‘Barney Miller’ Made Gay TV History, 50 Years Ago www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...

Let’s hope this has an impact on UVA’s decision to kowtow to the Trump administration

Kentucky Gov. Beshear briefing press in 10 minutes

Very sad about the young men whose lives are going to be ruined by being drafted by the Jets www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

Curious about the story behind this: KY car manufacturing plant closes, lays off 230 www.kentucky.com/news/busines...