“Gunmen attacked a government boarding school in Nigeria’s Kebbi state early on Monday, killing the vice principal and abducting an unspecified number of female students, according to a security report and a school official. The assailants, armed with rifles and reportedly using coordinated tactics, stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga town around 1 a.m. local time. Vice Principal Hassan Yakubu Makuku was shot dead while resisting the attackers, and a security guard sustained injuries, a teacher told Reuters on condition of anonymity due to safety concerns.” (11/17/25)
“Robby gives his radar on Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene drawing fiery comments from President Trump, who labeled her a ‘traitor’ for her recent criticisms of his administration.” (11/17/25)
“Seizing the means of production requires control of not only private businesses, natural resources, and factories, but human bodies and minds.” (11/17/25)
“On November 9, The New York Times published an update on the situation with Iran’s nuclear program. The article contains some valuable material. But it also gets three important things wrong. The article badly misses the shift in relations in the region. By implying that other countries in the region are more willing to work with the U.S. and insisting that ‘Iran is more isolated from the West than it has been in decades,’ the article presents an Iran who is increasingly alone in the region. Nothing could be further from the truth.” (11/17/25)
“X has revealed Chat, an encrypted upgrade to the platform’s direct messaging service. It also includes support for video and voice calls, disappearing messages, and file sharing. The company announced Chat on Friday, and it’s available now on iOS and the web, with an Android version coming ‘soon.’ It replaces X’s existing messaging system, though your old messages should be carried across. X says that Chat supports end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for both messages and files, though a support page notes that this doesn’t cover message metadata — such as who received it, or when it was sent. There’s also no protection against man-in-the-middle attacks, the company admitting that if ‘a malicious insider or X itself’ compromised an encrypted conversation, there would be no way for users to know, though ways to verify message authenticity and device identity are coming.” (11/17/25)
“Perhaps the quote that will define the next Great Financial Crisis will be this one from an executive at a former lender to the $10 billion fraud known as First Brands. ‘You’re not paid to do due diligence in this market.’ There have been three high-profile Private Credit (PC) blowups in the past month. All were due to fraud, and all had telltale signs of problems ahead if anyone bothered to look under the hood. … The same was true leading up to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis. No one was looking under the hood of either the borrowers or the lenders. The game plan was to make your money, move on to the next deal, feign ignorance when it all blows up, get a bailout, and let others pay the price.” (11/17/25)
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Jennifer Kavanagh
“Every threat has failed and it is too late for the US to just ‘walk away’ from the Ukraine war. But Washington has something Russia wants, badly.” (11/17/25)
