Jen

A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Those toe beans are epic

@Acyn Mamdani: I have spoken about the Israeli government committing genocide and our government funding it and I shared about the concern that New Yorkers of wanting their tax dollars to go to the benefit of New Yorkers and what we see right now we are in the ninth consecutive year of children being homeless…

Zohran Mamdani standing beside the President of the United States just said that the US is funding Israel's genocide and yet can't take care of its own unhoused children on live television.

I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime

Beth Rigby • @BethRigby X.com Both @HarrietHarman & @RuthDavidsonPC impressed with Mahmood this week, and they explain why on this week's Electoral Dystunction. Find us wherever you get your podcasts so Sky News @SkyNews • •7h The Home Secretary is going hard on immigration and she's taking a lot of people with her, not least Kemi Badenoch and the Reform party. Listen to the latest episode of Electoral Dysfunction now with @BethRigby, @RuthDavidsonPC and @HarrietHarman trib.al/8JRXero

Harman explaining that actually, horrible migrant crackdowns are left wing politics and if you - a white person - don’t like it, then you are actively harming people from ethnic minorities. An outrageous insult to the public’s intelligence IMO, offhandedly dropping a dog turd onto your dinner plate.

Home Office post with a black background and the words Access to benefits restricted to British (with a union flag as the texture for the word "British") Citizens in all caps bold font

Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?

Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.

COP30: UN climate summit drops mention of fossil fuels from draft deal A row over fossil fuels has broken out at COP30 but this is also likely to be a negotiating tactic.

Here's what 1,600 lobbyists gets you #COP30

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Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”

Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.

There is a lot of good research and amazing people working on #LongCovid in Europe! Yes, the road is long, but after today, I feel my hope is restored. Some of my favorite moments from today's meeting at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani in Rome:

As a Jew, I've always worried that "Never Again" would mean "Never Again TO US," but it's wild to see someone just come right out and say that.

If their immigration policies weren't racist they would have a white person giving them.

Instead it is Suella Braverman, Shabana Mahmood and Zia Yusuf.

We see, it only makes it more obvious.

1) Researchers from Stanford University published an important paper linking Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) with the autoimmune disease Lupus.

The first (Dr. Shady Younis) and last author of the paper (Dr. William H. Robinson) have previously been involved in ME/CFS research.

Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
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Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’ The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers

Pretty sure it’s racism which is tearing Britain apart

WHAT.

whhhhattttt.

To be clear we are talking about Donald J. Trump fellating William Jefferson Clinton?

IS THAT WHAT I AM READING

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Covid is well known for reactivating the latent virus and causing shingles. I had them once while I was having treatment for cancer but I luckily avoided the associated nerve pain!

“Protect our investments under the guise of national security!”

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

A pop up saying “maximise your benefits - £23 billion of government support is unclaimed each year” then a link saying “check eligibility”

Why is the UK govt obsessed with cutting benefits when my banking app tells me this DAILY???

Ahhh I wonder if the US date vs Rest of the World date got them confused? They said 11/10 in their first skeet.

I think the confusion was because she posted it a whole month ago and only now she’s getting a suspension.

Do you think saying that it took you a month to see a supposedly serious death threat makes you look more competent, less competent, or just as competent as before?

Bad snap judgments happen. But if it’s already been up for over a month, time is obviously not an important factor.

Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

The president of the united states is a pedophile rapist who was best buddies with Jeffrey Epstein and spent hours with an underage victim at Epstein's home. Now he's currently huddled in the situation room directing a cover up about it like it's a seal team 6 operation. Do I have that right?

"As soon as the 'redundant' data disappeared[...]free test sites disappeared & PCR testing was privatized. Those of us who did as we were told & attempted to 'make our own risk assessments' found ourselves scouring obscure, difficult to use websites designed to track the levels of COVID virus in..."

This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.

New piece laying this out:

newrepublic.com/article/2030...

🚨The @college-de-france.fr just canceled a conference on Palestinien history organized by one of its faculty.
Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/

We are currently looking into arresting Johnny Cash.

If Bluesky will suspend writers like Sarah Kendzior, then I have no use for this platform. It's less than useless.

A line and area chart titled “SARS-CoV-2 New Daily Infections, Wastewater-Derived Estimates (U.S.)” dated November 10, 2025. The x-axis shows years from 2020 to 2025. The y-axis shows estimated daily infections ranging from 0 up to 5 million. The chart displays repeating large waves of infection, with a very sharp peak in early 2022 (reaching near the top of the chart), followed by multiple smaller but still large waves through 2023, 2024, and 2025. A label in the center reads “Nov 10, 2025.” At the bottom, text explains that current transmission is estimated to be about 25% of the peak from two months prior, but still very high overall. It notes many COVID-conscious patients are scheduling appointments soon, despite lack of localized CDC data. The chart is credited to Michael Hoerger, Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC).

A U.S. map labeled “COVID-19 Heat Map, Based on CDC Wastewater Data and Levels (U.S.)” dated November 10, 2025. Most states are shown in uniform grey labeled “No Data,” indicating a widespread loss of CDC wastewater reporting. Puerto Rico is highlighted in yellow and light orange, showing low to moderate transmission. A key at the bottom shows color categories ranging from “Very High” (dark red) to “Very Low” (yellow), as well as “No Data” (grey) and “Limited Coverage” (striped). The surrounding text explains that the CDC wastewater dashboard remains largely offline, leaving only Puerto Rico reporting separately. It advises consulting localized dashboards and WastewaterSCAN data, but cautions that non-CDC regional comparisons are often inconsistent and should be interpreted carefully. The map is credited to Michael Hoerger, Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC).

A data summary table titled “National COVID-19 Estimates (U.S.)” dated November 10, 2025. The table is divided into three sections: Infections, Long COVID, and Excess Deaths. Infections: Proportion actively infectious: 1 in 162 people (0.6%) Estimated new daily infections: 301,000 Estimated infections in the past week: 1,990,000 Estimated total infections in 2025 so far: 199,000,000 Average cumulative infections per person: 4.72 Long COVID: Long COVID cases resulting from new daily infections: 15,000 to 60,000 Long COVID cases resulting from new weekly infections: 100,000 to 400,000 Excess Deaths: Excess deaths from new daily infections: 90 to 140 deaths Excess deaths from new weekly infections: 600 to 900 deaths A note below states that new daily infections are estimated at 301,000 and transmission is flat but expected to rise soon. The source listed is pmc19.com/data from the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative.

A table titled “National COVID-19 Risk Table (U.S.)” dated November 10, 2025. The table shows the probability that at least one person is infectious with SARS-CoV-2 in a group of a given size, assuming average national conditions and no masking or testing. The left column lists the number of people present (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 50, 75, 100, 200, 300). The right column lists the corresponding chance that someone is infectious, starting at 0.6% for a group of one person and increasing with group size: about 3% for a group of 5, 6% for 10, 14% for 25, 27% for 50, 46% for 100, 71% for 200, and 84% for 300. A note below explains that this is based on an estimated national infection rate of 1 in 162 people actively infectious, and highlights that even with seemingly low prevalence, exposure risk in classrooms and larger gatherings can be substantial.

US Weekly COVID update: Nov 10, 2025

🔸1 in 162 Actively Infectious
🔸301,000 New Daily Infections
🔸1,990,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸199,000,000 Infections in 2025
🔸100,000 to 400,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸600 to 900 Weekly Deaths

Source: pmc19.com/data/