Trump has launched a major offensive aimed at ending oil and gas sanctions against Russia and promoting European reliance on Russian oil and gas production to meet its need, marking a 180º shift in policy for no ostensible reason. www.wsj.com/world/europe...
This is the third time now that Tucker Carlson is warning that Trump is actively considering the use of nuclear weapons in his imminently planned resumed attacks on Iran. x.com/TuckerCarlso...
These remarks are being picked up around the world as more evidence of Trump's acute senile dementia, especially where he says he would have bombed Ho Chi Minh City... apparently unaware that this is the contemporary name of Saigon.
Moscow, MAGA, Musk—the new troika
Investors have pulled $3.6bn (£2.7bn) in funds from the cryptocurrency exchange Binance as it recovers from a record hack in which billions were stolen from customer accounts. The platform was hit by a $6.3bn theft on Thursday, which has since been described as the biggest heist in history.
The final NYT/Siena poll shows steady gains for the Democrats across the country.
Patrick Poch fled communist Czechoslovakia to come to the US. He finds what's going on right now extremely disturbing. "What worries me the most is not Trump himself or those who do his bidding, but rather the willingness of so many ordinary citizens to look away."
Former Gov Jim Blanchard describes his recent dinner with Haley Stevens and her fiancé Jason Turkish in which he berated her publicly for being too soft on El-Sayed and insisted that she needed to be more forward about her support for Israel. He was flabbergasted at how both of them behaved.
What Gen McCaffrey says
There has been a consensus that Trump's tilt to Russia and decision to abandon Ukraine is not an issue for the election. That is a terrible thing.
Today, Haley Stevens' own staffers are blowing the whistle on her Pavlovian AIPAC relationship.
ICE agents really believed Trump when he promised them that bonus. Then it never materialized.
NYT furnishes a perfect demonstration of why no one takes them as a credible source for domestic politics reporting. It's not about supporting one or another party. It's about discerning significant issues and reporting on the dialogue over them...
Spurning Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, Democrats demand new leadership
Trump insists on having Dubuque's Solidarity Mural covered up so it can't be seen during his visit. The mural shows people of a variety of skin colors, whereas the Trump campaign prefers whites only. www.kcrg.com/2026/11/01/s...
On the front-page of today's NYT, the editors discover something that happened roughly ten years ago—Trump in his campaign rallies is vulgar, advocates violence and is generally incoherent. By sane washing, NYT covered this up for many years. And even now, the grotesquely understate the scope of it.
Trump's economics: With 32 companies now outfitted with a golden share held by the state, Trump is steering the US into the clutches of State Monopoly Capitalism—a form of communism that was refined by the East German Communist Party. The amazing thing is that no one in America is even taking notice
There appears to be a majority in the new Knesset opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to resume bombing of Iran in the coming week. And a majority opposed to Netanyahu's continuation as caretaker prime minister. www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...
The Texas GOP faces the perfect storm.
Netanyahu will be out this week. Israel’s Arab parties will tell Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president, that they will support the Zionist opposition bloc in forming a new Israeli government. Both the Joint List and Ra’am will recommend that Eisenkot, former IDF chief of staff, become prime minister
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