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Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in years blazed late into the night on Wednesday as the city’s leader confirmed at least 36 people, including a firefighter, had died and another 279 people were reported missing. https://to.pbs.org/3M00t64
36 killed, 279 missing after raging fire spreads through Hong Kong high-rise residential buildings
Hong Kong leader John Lee has said 36 people were reported killed in the fire that spread through a dense high-rise residential housing complex Wednesday.
www.pbs.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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This seems like a play to cut NPS profitability to make it easier to open these lands up to extraction. 35% of NPS visitors are from overseas
US triples national park fee for non-residents, amid ‘new’ fee for Americans
Interior department, which has defunded conservation organizations, claims fee hike is for conservation
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”

“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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This headline in Politico says it all: this is all about Trump's personal gratification and wish to be the star of a big show on the international stage, not about getting a fair or durable agreement.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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“When we talked to people who were showing up to the meetings, whether at commissioners court or the precinct meetings ... It became almost contagious for folks to realize their voice had power.”
In Tarrant County, a Grassroots Coalition Pushes Back on Christian Nationalists
The recent redistricting of the county commissioners court has galvanized progressive organizers heading into 2026.
www.texasobserver.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I'm ICE, boys. I love crashing cars, getting divorced, crashing cars, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, crashing cars, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—crashing cars
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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BREAKING: Judge Scott McAfee grants motion to dismiss Georgia case against Trump, others.

The Fulton County case -- which resulted in guilty pleas by Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Scott Hall, and Kenneth Chesebro -- is officially done.
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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“Policy Violence”: ICE Raids & Shredding of Social Safety Net Are Linked, Says Bishop William Barber
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/26/bishop_william_barber
Bishop William Barber: ICE Raids & Shredding of Safety Net Are Linked
Protests have erupted in North Carolina after federal agents arrested 370 people in immigration raids. On Monday, Bishop William Barber and other religious leaders gathered in Charlotte to demand an e...
www.democracynow.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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1/5 Why do we still allow Trump to negotiate on the war in Ukraine?

The US does not fund Ukraine. Trump and his team are compromised by Russia.

Europe pays the bills, yet Trump sits at the table.

There is zero reason for him and his team of traitors to be involved
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Fucking unbelievable
In which Ross Douthat makes the case for American neo-Imperialism. Why the US invasion and occupation of Canada, Greenland and a few other countries would be great for Trump, and possibly also for others, too. Remember: NYT is sponsoring this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNhY...
Should Canada Join America?
YouTube video by The Line
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Jeff Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic, is a villain who has helped create American fascism.
Kudos to Kennedy's handlers for getting him a cover shoot -- praying with a rosary! -- at the same time he's at the center of a 🤢 cyber infidelity scandal. No notes.
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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By the way, note that the description of Biden as being "in obvious mental decline" was left in the speech, while the description of Trump as the "most openly corrupt president in American history" was removed:
Note that the BBC openly admits in an email to me that the removal of this claim about Trump's world-historical corruption was done "on legal advice."

Translation: Trump's threat of a lawsuit, no matter how bogus, has now been rewarded.

newrepublic.com/article/2036...
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Big thanks to the editors and fact checkers at @nymag.com for investing in the "stranded" -- See the other two installments here:

nymag.com/intelligence...

nymag.com/intelligence...
Why Did DHS Send a Russian Exile to Costa Rica?
How Trump’s third-country removal strategy forced an asylum-seeking family to start over — in Monteverde.
nymag.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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If the justice system "works," then why is a deportion and, in this case, this permanent stripping of status (and, by extension) human rights needed? Is that punishment fair or proportionate? Is it the best way to hold people accountable for the harm they did?
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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A key question the story raises is about the moral consequence of deporting people who have done their time -- and doing so in the way the Trump admin has, by rushing due process and sending people to third countries at a scale never seen before.
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless.

nymag.com/intelligence...
What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?
More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
nymag.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Want to know how bad Donald Trump is losing his trade war with China?

Last month, he said China will buy 12 million tons of US soybeans by January. China hasn’t even bought 1/10th of that amount yet.

Trump is getting played by China while American farmers pay the price.
CNBC: My understanding is the White House said that China was gonna buy 12 million tons of soybeans from the US by January. That's approaching and they've only purchased 332,000. China has not confirmed that pledge.

BROOKE ROLLINS: Your point is salient. We've got a significant way to go
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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South African émigré David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws — and it blew up in his face. A leaked executive order draft reveals the tech billionaire making a power play to become America’s AI policy gatekeeper. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws — and it blew up in his face
A leaked executive order reveals that the tech billionaire would have become America’s AI policy gatekeeper.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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"My pal Witkoff is selling Ukraine to Russia." Donald Trump.
Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?

TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Call me crazy but I really do think if you've been face swapped into nonconsensual porn because you, a woman, dared to have a photo online, you should be able to sue everyone involved into oblivion
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM