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Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

“The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN”

www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Make it to a hundred, pay off that 50-Year Trump Mortgage™ and you're sitting pretty for the rest of your life.

Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:

"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"

Democrats "have to give up on the idea that they're a governing party. They have to give up on the idea that the Republican party is a traditional political party of which you can have some sort of meeting of the minds."

@stuartpstevens.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

US sliding towards 1930s-style autocracy, warns Ray Dalio Billionaire hedge fund boss says other investors are too scared of Trump to speak out

"Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up."

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Our president is a confessed serial sexual predator, an adjudicated rapist, and a convicted criminal.

He’s the most dangerous one out there.

KESSLER: “Why I left the Washington Post… like being on the Titanic, drifting aimlessly as it sank with not enough lifeboats…”

An editor asked him: “How do we appeal more to Fox News viewers”? 🤔

The fact-checker’s reply: “We have to tell the truth.” glennkessler.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

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Dave Whamond @davewhamond.bsky.social

If the line prosecutor was fired, and there were no FBI agents in the interview, and the only people there were Blanche and Maxwell, WHO is your source and WHY do you consider it credible?

🚨 At the White House, Trump vowed to cut drug prices by 1,500%, a mathematically impossible promise that drew instant ridicule, viral memes, and widespread disbelief.
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“She’s worse than Epstein”

This is the child sex predator Trump may trade leniency/release for to try to clear his name. What is he hiding?

We normalized political violence years ago. Most obviously, we normalized political violence when January 6, 2021 happened & Donald Trump faced exactly zero consequences for it. We're 15 exits past this on the interstate in 2025.

Good read.

Bingo. This has always been the fire @repjeffries @senschumer etc. are playing with. If you don’t show up for Zohran good luck asking young/progressive voters who aren’t die hard to show up for your/your preferred candidates down the line.

Wowza.

“Here’s what caught my attention: the files were stored on a shared drive that anyone in the division could access. Normally, access is only granted to those working on a project, but because of the hurried nature of the exercise, the usual permission restrictions were not in place. …”

Even God cannot hear us here My mother called me which is a rare enough thing so I was already like uh oh who died and she said Luke in a tone of voice I hadn’t heard in a long time and my heart sank. She had just gotten a call f...

This encapsulates the little horrors and the big horrors of just trying to live during all this, and it's overwhelming. "What are we gonna do here man?" www.welcometohellworld.com/even-god-can...

“They ended my ability to even apply to med school. Everything I worked for is gone.”

Trump’s cuts are slamming doors on future doctors—forcing students out of medicine and into debt they can’t escape.

This is how we lose the next generation of healers.

#ClassroomsNotCuts

#USDemocracy

I'm sorry, nine HUNDRED former DOJ lawyers all signed this letter opposing Emil Bove's nomination to be an appellate federal judge?

900?!

One example widely shared on social media - and which Willison duplicated - asked Grok to comment on the conflict in the Middle East. The question made no mention of Musk, but the chatbot looked for his guidance anyway. Much ike those made by rivals OpenAl or Anthropic, Grok 4 shows its "thinking" as it goes through the steps of processing a question and coming up with an answer. Part of that thinking this week involved searching X for anything Musk said about Israel, Palestine, Gaza or Hamas. "Elon Musk's stance could provide context, given his influence," the chatbot told Willison, according to a video of the interaction. "Currently looking at his views to see if they guide the answer." Musk and his XAI co-founders introduced the new chatbot in a livestreamed event Wednesday night.

Grok now searches Musk's X profile before answering questions.

Only a tech bro would invest millions in an advanced language model that can process tens of thousands of pieces of data in seconds ... & then ruin it by programming it to copy a single person's view of the world!

Great investment!

I’ve had quite a few conversations about this in recent weeks with contacts across the north and further afield. There is definitely something more explicit going on - bolder - in terms of explicit racism. And not just online

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We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders," yet they're being arrested at their workplaces and LA's economy is floundering without them.

Hello?

Surprise, surprise. All roads lead to Putin.

Those who only believe in neoliberal transactional behaviors, those who have this absurd obsession with markets in every fucking situation, they cannot understand this.

"You'd be kind? For free?!"

Yes. Your transactional world has brought us to ruin.

It's time to just be kind.

The Republicans are building concentration camps to carry out ethnic cleansing.

Riley Gaines spinning coming 5th in a college swim meet into a career as a political commentator says a lot about the dynamics of right-wing punditry.

This is the thread Americans needed to see this weekend to feel better about our country.

A two-panel meme featuring a scene from the TV show The Eric Andre Show. In both panels, a man in a gray suit (Eric Andre) is standing next to a seated man who has been slumped over, appearing to have been shot. Smoke is in the air. • In the top panel, Eric Andre is holding a handgun pointed at the slumped man. The label “LISA MURKOWSKI” is placed over Eric Andre, and “US SOCIAL SAFETY NET” is labeled over the slumped man. • In the bottom panel, Eric Andre looks confusedly at the camera while the slumped man remains motionless. Text at the bottom reads: “WHY WOULD THE HOUSE VOTE FOR SUCH A THING?” The meme format implies hypocrisy or deflection of responsibility.

When our future historians are writing about this period in in dyed clay on a cave wall, they better not leave out Maine and Alaska

“It turned out, I had made a terrible mistake: I had remained friends with someone who had appeared on Kash Patel’s enemies list. How did Bongino find out about this private friendship? I honestly don’t know. … I faced a choice: get demoted or resign.”

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