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)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-putin-ukraine-talks/
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“The rate of new international students enrolment at US universities dropped by 17% this autumn compared to previous years, research released on Monday indicates. The drop comes as the Trump administration has made it more difficult to obtain student visas, with the research suggesting visa application issues like delays and denials are among the top reasons for the decline in first-time students. The survey found a modest overall 1% decline in international students when taking into account students who have been in the US for years. Foreign students make up about 6% of total US enrollment and contributed $55bn (£41bn) to the economy, according to 2024 figures from the commerce department. The survey by the Institute of International Education examined the population of international students at 828 higher education institutions.” (11/17/25)
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“If we think of it as a particular kind of ecosystem, the West has cultural, institutional, and ideological features that have made it successful, but also easy to exploit. In other words, invasive ideological species (IIS) don’t care a jot about those institutions, but will use them to take power.” (11/17/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/invasive-ideological-species
Source: The American Prospect
by Gillian Brockell
“In a memo to staff on October 30, Avelo Airlines’ head of flight operations Scott Hall painted a rosy, if defensive, picture of the company’s future. Avelo’s financial strategy was working, he said. The company had a big contract from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to do charter deportation flights … Sure, shutting down their entire West Coast operation looked bad, but it was good, actually, a long-planned move toward efficiency that had nothing to do with the ‘outrage mob’ boycotting Avelo for its association with ICE. … The truth is much more bleak: Avelo’s ICE flights appear to be a fiasco, defined by the poor planning, cruel treatment, and serious safety lapses endemic to ‘ICE Air,’ the network of charter carriers and military planes that transport shackled migrants to detention facilities and out of the country.” (11/17/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/11/17/ice-airs-sloppy-dangerous-deportation-flights/
Source: United Press International
“Indian authorities have arrested a man whose vehicle was used in last week’s Red Fort car bombing attack that killed 10 people and injured 32 others. In a statement Sunday, India’s National Investigation Agency said Amir Rashid Ali was arrested in Delhi by NIA agents in a massive search operation. Authorities identified the accused as a resident of Pampore in Muslim-majority Kashmir, a disputed region under Hindu-majority India control. The NIA accused Ali of conspiring with the alleged suicide bomber Umar Un Nabi in the attack, which occurred Nov. 10 near the tourist-heavy and crowded Red Fort in New Delhi.” (11/17/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/11/17/india-Red-Fort-blast-arrest-made/6631763366974/
Source: The Dispatch
“Will AI Destroy Humanity? | Interview: Andy Mills.” (11/17/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/will-ai-destroy-humanity-interview-andy-mills/
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Transparency is usually a good thing. But so is privacy. And so, too, are limits on government power.
Which bring me to the Epstein files — or, more accurately, those files bring me here. …. The public has a right to know! But does it?” (11/17/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/11/17/transparency-weaponized/
Source: SFGate
“U.S. immigration agents [abducted] more than 130 people in a weekend sweep through North Carolina’s largest city, a federal official said Monday, as the governor warned that the crackdown is simply ‘stoking fear.’ The Trump administration has made Charlotte, a Democratic city of about 950,000 people, its latest focus for an immigration enforcement surge it says will combat crime, despite fierce objections from local leaders and declining crime rates. City residents reported encounters with immigration agents near churches, apartment complexes and stores. … Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that Border Patrol officers had [abducted] ‘over 130 illegal [sic] aliens, who have all broken’ immigration laws [sic].” (11/17/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/after-weekend-s-border-patrol-surge-in-north-21192075.php
Source: The American Conservative
by Peter Van Buren
“Jon Stewart joked Trump ‘already has the merch,’ referring to a red ‘Trump 2028’ cap. Steve Bannon keeps teasing ‘a plan’ to keep Trump in office. The Russian dissident and former chess champion Garry Kasparov warns of democracy’s demise. It’s a perfect storm of satire, conspiracy, and clickbait, but none of it adds up to a third term for Donald Trump. … Who knows what goes through Trump’s mind when he thinks of 2028, but we do know there is no way he is going to run for a third term. Three things make a genuine third-term bid for Trump impossible: the 22nd Amendment, the extraordinary difficulty of changing that amendment, and the legal implausibility of proposed way-out-there workaround schemes.” (11/17/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-third-trump-term-is-an-impossibility/
Source: Orlando Sentinel
“Paul John Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a German refugee camp a year after World War II ended. His family legally emigrated to the United States in 1952 when he was five. More than seven decades later, the 79-year-old Sanford grandfather – still a man without a country – found himself in legal limbo in the Alligator Alcatraz detention camp in the Everglades, [abducted] on a decades-old deportation order authorities had previously chosen not to enforce. … The retired optician, [abducted] late last month, was recently moved to the Krome Detention Center in Miami and has a bond hearing on Nov. 18. His family worries his health is failing while he’s in custody and fears for his future.” (11/16/25)