Opinion | Trump’s Slip With the Saudi Crown Prince Readers discuss what President Trump revealed in his meeting with the Saudi crown prince. Also: Albania’s A.I. “civil servant”; bullfighting as torture.

“I’d like to make a suggestion to all journalists,” Beth Rosen writes in a letter to The Times. “When the president refuses to answer a question or calls a journalist a derogatory name, every journalist should continue to ask that same question immediately.”

The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.

The men who raised the flags Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

Good lord. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/raise-the-co...

Aw ❤️. What lovely cuddles.

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

3 Scandals in 4 Days That Would Define Any Other Presidency During the second Trump administration, corruption scandals that would typically define a presidency receive a day or tw

Last week:

-Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm
-Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm
-Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation"

We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define

New report confirms local government crisis is growing The Institute for Government’ annual review of the state of local government, published last week, paints an alarming picture

Local government isn’t “boring bureaucracy.” It’s social care, housing, libraries, leisure centres, youth clubs.

When these vanish, communities fracture – and people notice. When local government breaks, so does trust in politics itself.

"You left Europe because you wanted less boats, you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment."

Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.

Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0

Same might be said for many of us.

IL Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is warning federal immigration agents that swapping/altering license plates during Trump's ICE raids is against the law & "will not be tolerated." A Plate Watch Hotline has been implemented for people to report cases of license plate tampering:
(312) 814-1730

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

A cartoon by Asher Perlman. #NewYorkerCartoons

See more cartoons from this week’s issue: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pEDcks

A*very fascinating and important biscuit* that you *will be sharing* as soon as the #sophiefromromania mind meld takes effect 👀.

‘He wasn’t this national hero’: US college students voice concern over Charlie Kirk’s idolization Black, brown and LGBTQ+ students across the US are puzzled by all the praise the far-right commentator has received after his killing

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Very impressive composure by the bin lorry all in all. Well done team. Hope the back improves @rorycj.bsky.social 🤞.

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

WIC program - Wikipedia

WIC serves 53% of all infants born in the United States.

This is literally taking food from babies.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIC_pro...

It’s lovely how her story has captured hearts, but I’m pretty sure #sophiefromromania knows she has all the love in the world from those who matter most.

h/t jonathan zasloff

Oct. 4, 1961: Burglund High School Walkout Burglund students walked out in response to the expulsions of their classmates and the murder of Herbert Lee.

#tdih 1961 McComb, Miss., at great risk, 100+ HS students walked out to protest the expulsion of classmates for sit-in & murder of voting rights activist & farmer, Herbert Lee.

Marched to City Hall.

While the teens prayed, police beat & jailed them. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bu...

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

30 more women to tip this over 55k today? The calm, compassionate, inclusive feminists, who might not have seen the amazing support received for the trans community and the rejection of hate so far? Go on…

This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon

Absolutely delighted that Project Play has raised more than £10,000 so far in their latest fundraiser. We are match funding this campaign, so every donation will be doubled - that's double the play and double the impact!

Find out more and make a donation, below 💚

Oh ❤️, well done lass. True testament to team #sophiefromromania.

It’s a tough job but . . .😊