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NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.

JD Vance repeats comments he wants wife Usha to convert to Christianity US vice-president announces to 10,000 attenders of Turning Point USA that he prefers wife, who is Hindu, to be Christian

The timing is probably just a coincidence

The Great Gatsby was better when it was fiction.

And the Handmaid’s Tale

Laurels and Darts: 60 Minutes of soft soap. Some puffery at CBS News. Plus: Radley Balko reads the receipts, New York magazine thieving from the New York Times, and a “high-ranking dumb” drug bust.

What will become of CBS News and 60 Minutes?

It’s far too early to say, but a segment on last week’s show isn’t encouraging.

In Laurels & Darts, via @columjournreview.bsky.social

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Excuse me but who is the woman on the very left in this photo with (former Prince) Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein?

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

And there you have it: In just a few days CBS/60 Minutes turned into Fox News sycophantic TV

Exactly.

I do not want a robot to load the dishwasher, or a flying car, or data centers in space that create automatic email summaries, I just want to stop feeling constant anxiety about losing access to health care

Opinion | My Bosses Were Afraid of Crossing Trump. So, I Quit. A veteran journalist opens up on the censorship that he says led to his resignation.

A must-read on the silent censorship taking place in the US press.

So much of this is going on in American newsrooms right now, and not just to kowtow to Trump.

Example: Consider how little is being written about the extreme radicalization of Silicon Valley.
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🇪🇺🛣️ On November 19, the European Commission will present a package of proposals that will transform EU logistics into military artery. The goal is to ensure the immediate transfer of weapons and personnel.

Poland, Germany, Romania, the Netherlands and the Baltic states will become key transit nodes.

When you watch your husband get handsy with a single mom in leather pants, but you can't make him sleep on the couch cause he'll fuck that too

YouTube video by Slate The Federal Judiciary Is Trapped | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

This is one of the most powerful podcasts I have listened to in a while. Terrifying, but important. @dahlialithwick.bsky.social

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Here’s a different angle of the video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground shared with the Tribune from a different source

JD Vance repeats comments he wants wife Usha to convert to Christianity US vice-president announces to 10,000 attenders of Turning Point USA that he prefers wife, who is Hindu, to be Christian

Pretty sure this is not legal grounds for divorce

JD Vance repeats comments he wants wife Usha to convert to Christianity US vice-president announces to 10,000 attenders of Turning Point USA that he prefers wife, who is Hindu, to be Christian

I’m pretty sure this is its legal reason to get a divorce

Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)

My god, WHAT is in those Epstein files that has him so terrified of swearing in Vote Number 218?

“I will not bring the House back to session until the Congress negotiates a budget that it needs to pass” is pretty much a pure pi-r-squared circle.

Opinion | How the Supreme Court Paved the Way for Revenge Prosecutions

Must read piece by @weissmann.substack.com & Mary McCord: In the year since, rather than preventing the weaponization of prosecutions, the court has unleashed it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

Goodbye Opus Dei. We did two episodes on it.

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Intense fighting continues in Pokrovsk as Ukrainian defense forces repel Russian assaults under relentless drone attacks. Combat footage from the area shows the intensity of the battles.

Ah, yes. During WW2 in The Netherlands Nazi’s paid bounty hunters to hunt for Jews.

The money was called “kopgeld”, Head money, though a derogatory term for head, that we use for animals.

Authoritarian regimes are notorious for making people think what they perceive to be reality is not actually real. Sometimes this is called creating "unreality" sometimes "gas-lighting." It doesn't matter which label is used, the goal is the same: make people doubt what they see with their own eyes.

ciatterelli has locked up an endorsement from the coveted murderer voting bloc

If you live in New Jersey please make sure you get out and vote for Democratic candidate for governor Mikie Sherrill. She will be an amazing governor fighting for everyone. Polls are very close meaning very vote counts. Don't let Trump's handpicked GOP nominee win! Vote Democratic!

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