Key events in Bangladesh as Hasina sentenced to death reut.rs/4o3tpap

Think about how much the press obsessed over Barack Obama’s “relationship” with former Weatherman Bill Ayers, a relationship that consisted of their serving on the same nonprofit board of directors for three years.

It's remarkable that the number of news analyses/pundit takes that the Democrats are too extreme--out of touch, too focused on divisive cultural issues, too beholden to progressive orthodoxy--far exceeds the articles on the Trump/GOP's connections to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

my heart sank when i got to “this will likely require a robust multi-national humanitarian response” because we probably won’t be showing up. other countries don’t currently have the capacity to fill the void that we’ve left

Hurricane Melissa has strengthen into a Category 4 storm and could reach Category 5 status Sunday night, unleashing torrential rain and threatening to cause catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti and Jamaica, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. RFK Jr. must resign.

Having a fun text exchange with a helpful human being after my car died

And former chief counsel for nominations to Grassley on Judiciary. This was someone who came to where he is at now right through the middle of the “traditional” GOP elites’ path.

White people are by far the largest recipients of SNAP. Maybe it is time they change their "shitty culture"

Many young Ukrainians are too isolated and anxious to imagine a future after three years of war, Robert F. Worth writes. That's why a movement has sprung up to create new forms of social life, many of them literally underground.

Houthi rebels raid UN premises in Yemen, detain at least 11 people reut.rs/3UQ2KSB

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” Yet revisions by the BLS were neither historic nor evidence of corruption. cnn.it/3UbQcEQ

"The brazen partisan redistricting underway in Texas, with Republicans attempting to entrench themselves in office and Democrats weighing a counter-offensive in blue states, was greenlit by the US Supreme Court six years ago," writes Joan Biskupic. cnn.it/4lezvnb

The outcome of the political battle over Texas’ redistricting effort is already having major implications across the country.

JUST IN: The Supreme Court rejects a challenge to an Affordable Care Act provision that set up a panel to recommend preventive care services that insurers must provide at no cost to patients.

BREAKING: Supreme Court rules in favor of parents seeking to opt their kids out of exposure to LGBTQ-themed books in elementary schools.

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to an Affordable Care Act provision that set up a panel to recommend preventive care services that insurers must provide at no cost to patients. The ruling gives RFK Jr more power. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

More pieces of the big bill have been invalidated by the Senate parliamentarian, including GOP provisions on private school vouchers, religious college carve-outs and nixing regulations on gun silencers. These are ruled to be mainly policy—not budgetary—thus subject to 60 votes.

The Supreme Court rejects a challenge to a FCC program that subsidizes phone and internet services in underserved parts of the country.

The Supreme Court upholds a Texas law aimed at restricting young people’s access to pornographic content online.

Should Pete Buttigieg play Brad Stevens in The Brad Stevens Story or should Brad Stevens play Pete Buttigieg in The Pete Buttigieg Story?

More on this: "The changes will leave Hegseth without a chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, or senior adviser in his front office...'There is a complete meltdown in the building, and this is really reflecting on the secretary’s leadership.'" Via Politico

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

"This matter is no longer just about deportations or undocumented immigrants. The Trump administration's defiance of a Supreme Court order is a new step into presidential lawlessness," writes Adam Serwer:

The Trump administration has revoked hundreds of international student visas across the country, setting off a desperate scramble for them to leave the United States within days.

Less than 48 hours after the Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport noncitizens with little-to-no due process, a federal judge in New York on Wednesday will consider blocking any future removals.

Even Trump backing down can't break the MAGA tariff delusion, Charlie Warzel writes.

Tesla stops taking orders in China for models imported from the US finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-s...

Best part about this win? It’s a team win. Paige didn’t put up 40. Azzi didn’t drop 30. Sarah Strong was Sarah Strong. KK. Kaitlyn. Jana. Ashlynn. Basketball is a team sport & the great teams win championships. This year’s team was the UConn Huskies. I saw this coming back in November, mind you!

Paige Bueckers exits college as a champion.

When Trump imposed tariffs during his first term, companies who contributed to Republicans were more likely to be granted tariff exemptions. Trump's corporate donors won't shoulder the cost of his trade wars — working class Americans will. It's crony capitalism at its worst.

I’d guess about 1,300 people at Juneau’s protest today in front of the Alaska Capitol. Largest I’ve seen there since the women’s march and march for science during the first Trump term. Extra credit to the person who had a Greenland flag — not many of those in town, I’d guess. #akleg #Alaska

The tiny Southern African kingdom of Lesotho — which Trump has described as a country 'nobody has ever heard of' — is one of the world's poorest nations. Thanks to Trump’s tariffs, 'Lesotho will be dead, so to say,' an economic analyst there said reut.rs/4joDEVb

Lots of farmers thought ICE would leave them alone. They thought wrong: Mom, 3 kids detained in ‘cruel,’ ‘horrifying’ ICE dairy farm probe in Northern NY www.syracuse.com/politics/202...

Eviscerated retirement savings. Blown-up supply chains. Pissed-off allies. sbg1.bsky.social writes about the aftermath of Donald Trump’s tariff announcements.

Stock markets plunge as China announces retaliatory 34% tariffs on US goods – business live

Breaking news: China said Friday that it will impose an additional 34 percent tariff on U.S. goods, matching this week’s hike in levies targeting China by President Donald Trump that Beijing called “inconsistent with international trade rules.”

"A very large Italian man came up to me, tears in his eyes, and said 'Sir, we would love to have your beautiful beef. Our beef is weak, so weak.'"

I don’t think people realize how bad it’s going to get tomorrow when Wall Street finally collectively realizes that these people have no idea how economics work, and then it’s gonna be a scramble to not be the one left holding the bag.

"How freaked out are you—scale of 1 to 10—about how bad things are, about how bad these first two months are?" asks @chrislhayes.bsky.social. "Oh, I think I'm at about an 8," says former attorney general Eric Holder.

"Those firms that have cut deals so that they can I guess keep their profits at high levels are not going to earn the respect of other lawyers and I think will be judged harshly by history," says Eric Holder on Trump targeting Big Law. "We've got to push back on in every way that we can."

Update

The US has escalated a global trade war with sweeping new tariffs that will hit the EU and some of the poorest countries in the world the hardest. Here's what you need to know: www.ft.com/content/a5cc...

First of all, the WH calculations apparently only include trade in goods, not services. This makes our trade imbalances look a lot worse than they actually are. We have a trade deficit in goods of $1.2 trillion, and a trade surplus in services of $293 billion.

Second of all, Trump set the minimum tariff rate at 10 percent even for countries that don't have a trade surplus with the U.S. Like Australia. Minimal tariffs on U.S. goods. Buys more stuff from us than it sells to us. Tariff rate: Still 10 percent.

So just to recap: 1. The reciprocal tariffs aren't reciprocal. The rates announced by Trump are unrelated to the tariffs charged by other countries. Imports from Brazil, which imposes relatively high tariffs, will face lower rates than countries that impose little or no tariffs on US goods.