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‘They’re not wolves – they’re sheep’: the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone-actor mass killers Paul E Mullen has had a front-row seat to the men behind some of the worst public massacres. He says it’s possible to ‘disrupt the script’ for future violence

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Democrats should celebrate this week’s victories, but beware: Trump is already plotting his revenge | Jonathan Freedland The Maga machine is clicking into gear to ensure that defeat is all but impossible in next year’s midterm elections, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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From Land's End to the Levant: did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean? | Antiquity | Cambridge Core From Land's End to the Levant: did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean? - Volume 99 Issue 405

I've just come across this article this morning, in my FB feed and it is fascinating. It is directly relevant to Levantine archaeology, and I now live on the edge of the world's largest tin source, which is in Devon and Cornwall.

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OPINION: Another Inconvenient Truth for the GOP – Donald Trump Is Mentally Unfit for Office - Bucks County Beacon Bucks County military veteran and retired mental health professional Steve Nolan writes that Trump could be diagnosed with Personality Disorder NOS with Antisocial and Narcissistic traits.

This.
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YouTube video by PBS Is A New Constitutional Convention Around the Corner? | Civics Made Easy

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November 6, 2025 “None of this is complicated,” political data specialist Tom Bonier wrote yesterday about Tuesday’s dramatic Democratic victories around the country.

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Will 2026 Be a Fair Fight? Democrats swept the 2025 elections. But Donald Trump is already laying the groundwork to subvert the next vote.

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Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

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Groyper War Consumes the Biggest Right-Wing Think Tank Plus: Another round of nutty Trump pardons?

I will admit to a bit of schadenfreude as I read this piece. I have no time at all for the Heritage Foundation.

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November 5, 2025 New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a member of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, began his victory speech last night with a nod to Eugene V.

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Rachel Maddow: “Donald Trump has never been more unpopular than he is right now. His disapproval rating is higher than it was in the immediate aftermath of January 6th. 63% disapprove, only 37% approve of Trump. He is 26 points underwater. That’s astonishing”

Trump’s Targeting of ‘Narcoterrorists’ Is a Crime in Itself Shoot first, ask questions when?

"Drug trafficking is bad. It is a crime. But it is only very rarely a capital offense. This is not drug enforcement. This is murder." ICYMI:

November 4, 2025 (Tuesday) So much for obeying a court order, even if begrudgingly and with manufactured delay.

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November 2, 2025 Last Monday, October 27, right-wing personality Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist Nick Fuentes for more than two hours, mainstreaming the podcaster whose praise for Hitler, vows to kill Jew...

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President JD Vance or Marco Rubio? We’re seeing the first signs of the battle over Trump's succession | Simon Tisdall It’s currently a two-horse race – and the next US leader is guaranteed to be a careerist who knows nothing of statesmanship, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

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YouTube video by The Bulwark Heritage Foundation Americans | The Secret Podcast

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Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

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Is This What ‘Late-Stage Democracy’ Looks Like? What if the Constitution *is* a suicide pact?

Note: This edition of J.V.L.'s essays for The Bulwark dates to 10 October, 2025.

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Is America Sleepwalking Into The Dictator’s Playbook? History’s tyrants followed this same path — and those citizens who failed to resist lost their nations forever…

Note: This edition of The Hartmann Report is from 1 October, 2025.

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The Missing President Trump has been busy with everything but the government shutdown.

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None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"

YouTube video by Politics In The U.K. Ed Davey rips Farage over ECHR exit plan – Kremlin rat and Trump bootlicker

Ed Davey ripping #Farage a new one has to be the best thing to happen at #PMQs in a long time.

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October 29, 2025 Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House...

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Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show

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President for Life Donald Trump is trying to amass the powers of a king.

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Donald Trump’s War on Reality A deepfake president molds perception to serve his own interests.

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Trump Is Actually Failing Fast—and the Rabid MAGA Bigwigs Know It Yes, he’s done enormous damage. But he’s unpopular, the courts are checking him, and freako-extremists like Curtis Yarvin have thrown in the towel.

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Why We Fight On raising children during an authoritarian slide.

"Flash is older now and has experienced adversity. He no longer believes in magic....Last week a student at the college he’ll be attending was arrested by ICE and disappeared into the system. This is the world into which I am sending my son." www.thebulwark.com/p/why-we-fig...