Trump-Epstein ‘Best Friends Forever’ Statue Reappears In DC After Bombshell Emails Anonymous activists are back with their statue, which the Trump administration previously damaged, to satirically honor the men's "long-lasting bond."

NEW: A 12-foot-tall, faux bronze statue of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein skipping and holding hands has magically reappeared in downtown D.C. this morning.

A day after Dems released bombshell emails suggesting Trump knew about Epstein's child sex trafficking ring. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Per @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social, DOD presented Trump with plans for strikes in Venezuela yesterday, including on the ground. Astonishing to see the U.S. on the brink of another regime-change invasion with essentially none of the pre-2003 effort to rationalize it domestically and internationally.

Thanks to everyone who participated but it turns out that none of you were able to imagine the greatest horror: a successful small business with beef patties.

People are assuming Epstein bill dies in the Senate and that's a reasonable expectation, but I'm getting less sure. They were so desperate to avoid a recorded vote they tried to pass the House by UC. All that pressure is about to turn on the Senate. It's not unthinkable he ends up having to veto it.

2025 on pace for best global vs. US returns in >30 years (annualized) $VEU $SPY @AugurInfinity

i keep thinking about that article in the economist from 5 years ago about the role of bottle girls for powerful men, it's like the skeleton key for understanding our politics www.economist.com/news/2020/06...

The Justices speaking, dressing, and acting like Fox News talent probably deserves more attention than it's received.

Can anything halt the decline of German industry? Europe’s manufacturing champion is in free fall. Economists are suggesting radical steps to save what is left

Can anything halt the decline of German industry? – FT: ‘Industrial production sits at the 2005 level even after a partial rebound in September. “Many of Germany’s economic core strengths have turned into vulnerabilities,” says Marcus Berret’

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.

The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Gaza woman blinded in Israeli strike opens bakery to subsist and hope Despite her injury, Warda Abu Jarad has started baking cookies and bread to help provide for her family.

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Zohran Mamdani’s NY mayoral victory marks shift in US voter support for Israel Jewish Americans are among those demanding a change in Washington’s stance

Financial Times with the assessment of the political terrain vis a vis US public sentiment towards Israel after Zohran's victory

© Reuters Subscribe = US intel revealed Israeli officials discussing use of human shields in Gaza, sources say By Erin Banco November 12, 2025 1:07 PM CST • Updated 19 hours ago Aa SERGENCY

Another Reuters exclusive

The Biden administration acquired evidence in the last months of its term that senior officials in the Israeli government were openly discussing the ongoing use of Palestinians as human shields by the IDF in Gaza. They sat on the evidence.

Chow says these permissions are really about "cutting red tape" and creating jobs.

"We need to find a way to allow these ambitious entrepreneurs — especially newcomers, small business owners — to operate in the City of Toronto."

She encourages councillors to add their wards to the list.

Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.

I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs.

Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.

In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance

A Conservative view of mine: Hume was spot on to criticize the Stoics for disregarding reputation.

We need to bring back shame, fear for reputation.

Like: giving a public speech to defend promoting a proud, sneering NAZI—then mumbling “I don’t know much about him”—is craven and filthy.

just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car

he was married at the time

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Planning staff seem a bit bemused by all these questions worried about property owners converting residential to retail. The typical pattern they see in applications is owners wanting to convert commercial spaces to residential. Rare to see a request to go the other way.

Councillor Bravo remembers going to corner stores as a kid. She asked what happened to corner stores like that. Staff say new zoning bylaws in the 50s created a "separation of uses." Existing neighbourhood stores continued to operate, but new ones weren't allowed. The number dwindled.

Nygard, Weinstein, Epstein were all kept aloft by a scaffolding of complicity. Their victims--women and children--considered expendable. Fuel for these men's appetites

For two decades, whenever I speak on emergency law and emergency powers, I underline this fundamental truth:

Law never rules on its own.

Constitutions, laws, and policies are but instruments; they require liberal purpose if they are to be put to the right ends.

Blanche didn’t ask Maxwell a single question about any of these emails. Then he moved her to Club Fed where she is served individual meals and has a puppy and numerous other special privileges while she prepares her clemency petition. WHY?

Hear me out guys: we could look at the existing neighbourhood retail in the city and see this isn't a problem anywhere.

This is the crux. There is an entire cohort of municipal politician in Canada who actively don't like that they live in cities (reflective of a lot of voters).

It's also important to understand bad mayors come from the left and right. The establishment NDP are basically conservatives in their urban approach. See: bunch of downtown Toronto councillors over the years.

Elite and establishment rot of all kinds in plain view everywhere, and for a while, but man these latest emails are incredible.

Perfect example of political media operating under the post-truth standard that (1) distorts the facts until the parties look approximately equal, and (2) holds “do MAGA voters care?” as a higher standard than “is it true?” or “is it important for the public to know about this?”

At the same time the New York Times was running nonstop stories on Hillary's email server, they were sitting on this emails (and photos of Trump with Epstein victims, apparently).
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