Thune says his heart goes out to the family of Rob Reiner when CNN’s Ted Barrett asks him about Trump’s post about it. I tried showing him a screenshot but it he didn’t look at it as he went on the floor.

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Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.

I didn’t vote for war against Venezuela. How about you? 😡

Day 2 of the Holiday season. #Christmas

Happy #BlackFriday. May God have mercy on our souls.

A woman deported from Maryland after fleeing Sierra Leone 30 years ago says she reported to an ICE check-in and was flown to Ghana in shackles. In a country her family said she had no ties to, video shows her being dragged. www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...

You do realise that Trump is pushing Ukraine to sign a peace deal to knock Epstein off the front page. #fail

Blimey. The Governor of New York said this?

I think someone must have told Trump that the outcome that was most likely to disappoint Mamdani’s supporters was the sight of them getting along. I think a lot of New Yorkers wanted the Mayor-elect to deliver an ear-bashing.

Trump doesn’t mean a word of it, of course. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

NEW/EXCLUSIVE: A French branch of HSBC closed a bank account maintained by Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 after compliance officers flagged transactions for suspicious activity, including payments tied to a modeling agent later accused of rape & sex trafficking 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

All that investment, and it might be the wrong type of #AI - Behind the AI bubble, another tech revolution could be brewing - on.ft.com/4oVCLGJ via @data.ft.com #ArtificialIntelligence

This is getting out of hand. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence www.thecut.com/article/roma...

on.ft.com/4p8LViA Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn #AI

WOW.

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?

~ Epstein

When Jeffrey Epstein says you are a bad person…

Is this bad? I mean, offhand, I'd say it kind of seems bad. {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Well. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

Meanwhile. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And here it comes. #ai on.ft.com/43moM41 Tech stocks suffer worst week since April after $800bn AI sell-off

The premium this week is the precursor to something I'm working on coming out in the next week or two (which will be free). But one thing I can't stop thinking about - how has nobody else simply added up all the funding and revenues and costs? Hell, I should've done it months ago.

Not a bad week, really.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Don’t just focus on New York City. The Democrats even picked up seats in Mississippi. There is a seismic shift in progress.

Remembering how my archaeology lab prof in university was so sick of people picking up skulls and quoting MacBeth that he threatened to ban anyone who did it from the lab which meant you would have had to switch majors in order to graduate 💀

Zohran Mamdani wins New York as Democratic US electoral sweep deals blow to Donald Trump - on.ft.com/43SuXwG via @FT

I made a mistake. I believed the polls and thought that the US elections were going to be tighter and more dire than they turned out to be. The results are powerful and uniform: Trump and the GOP have received a solid rebuke from the voters across the country. Bravo.

[Narrator: they lost 13 seats]

Well, the year can conclude now. #GBBO is over.

Watching the #GBBO finale. It’s hard to believe it’s been 9 weeks.

Yikes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I take a moment to discuss the current state of the bubble, and the way we’re all feeling at this time in history. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

I’m glad Andrew has been stripped of his titles and is leaving his current residence. However this doesn’t seem like full justice for the victims. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In Feb 2025, Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccines. Now, the news comes out that the health department failed to inform the public or even healthcare professionals about the largest whooping cough outbreak in more than a decade.

I am very pleasantly surprised. | Centrist D66 party set to win most seats in Dutch election, exit poll suggests www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The third and final part of our epic 'Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin' Origin Story. We're now at the point of total homicidal breakdown, burying into some of the darkest experiments in human history.

"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence." Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana. open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...

Is anyone surprised? | UK trade contribution to GDP ‘stagnated’ since Brexit, warns WTO - on.ft.com/3JxTi44 via @FT

Dutch voters eye return to centre after far-right experiment fails - on.ft.com/3WYKZRU via @FT | Inevitable. Welcome.

It’s rather peculiar to watch old James Bond films and see that his main enemies were megalomaniacal billionaires only to realise the resemblance to our world now.

"I put the star in the star hole. A lot of people can't do that. They try to put it in the hexagon hole. But I put it in the star hole, and it only took me three attempts. I'd like to see AOC do that."

Many congratulations to the new President of #Ireland www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

No, I’m sorry. We need fresh talent. 'I am not done' - Kamala Harris tells BBC she may run for president again www.bbc.com/news/article...

Well well well. www.mlb.com/news/trey-ye... #worldseries