Source: Politico
“British MP Tulip Siddiq has been handed a two-year prison sentence in Bangladesh in her absence following a corruption trial she did not attend. Siddiq, a former U.K. minister, was found guilty of influencing her aunt, Bangladesh’s ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to secure a plot of land for her family in the outskirts of the capital Dhaka, according to a BBC report of the trial. Siddiq, a former U.K. Treasury minister, has strongly denied the claims and is unlikely to serve the sentence. She is based in London and is the MP for the London constituency of Hampstead and Highgate.” (12/01/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/british-mp-tulip-siddiq-given-two-year-bangladesh-prison-sentence-in-absence
Source: Quillette
“A Gay Author’s Escape from Cults, Drugs, Queer Radicalism, and ‘Scrupulosity.’” (11/30/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/11/30/podcast-314-a-gay-authors-escape-from-cults-drugs-queer-radicalism-and-scrupulosity/
Source: The UnPopulist
by Toby Buckle
“Until very recently, it was standard to dismiss as alarmists those who would invoke ‘fascism’ to describe the right’s transformation in the era of Trump. But even for the most committed of us — I’m someone who does use the f-word — endless media obliviousness and obfuscation can get in your head: Are things really as bad as I’m suggesting? Is liberal democracy really in this much danger? The modern illiberal right is bad, sure, but is this really fascism? And then you listen to a few sentences out of Elon Musk’s mouth and all doubts are dispelled.” (11/30/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/even-by-a-strict-definition-elon
Source: SFGate
“Luigi Mangione watched stoically in court Monday as prosecutors played surveillance videos showing the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York City sidewalk last year and Mangione’s arrest five days later at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. The videos, including footage from the restaurant previously unseen by the press or the public, kicked off a hearing on Mangione’s fight to bar evidence from his state murder trial, including the gun prosecutors say matches the one used in the Dec. 4, 2024, attack.” (12/01/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/luigi-mangione-fights-to-exclude-gun-notes-as-21215944.php
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“Powerful men rape and even when they get caught red handed, they tend to get away with it. This is a fact, and it is a fact impervious to partisan bullshit. This is also why everyone should be a feminist, and every feminist should be an anarchist who opposes the patriarchal institutional power represented by the two-party shell game. This should include libertarians and even conservatives, and this should also include men who frequently find themselves the victims of the patriarchy as well.” (11/30/25)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/11/in-age-of-epstein-files-true-populists.html
Source: In These Times
by Sarah Lazare
“Leslie Begay sets aside the last few bites of his BLT. It’s something he does every meal as an offering for the person who gave him his lungs, he explains at a family-run diner in Gallup, N.M. Every morning and evening, Begay prays for the person whose organ donation, four years ago, saved his life. He doesn’t know their identity. … He is the only person he knows who got a double lung transplant. When his friends, coworkers and family members got sick, they died. They moved heaven and earth to get what they wanted when they needed it. But they will not move heaven and earth to clean up the mess they left behind.” (12/01/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/they-worked-underground-in-the-uranium-mines-theyve-been-surrounded-by-death-ever-since-navajo-nation-war-trump-labor-abandoned-vanadium-cancer-lung-transplant-industry-homeland-southwest-atomic-energy-environment-justice
Source: US News & World Report
“Pope Leo will meet leaders from Lebanon’s diverse religious sects on Monday and is expected to urge Lebanese not to abandon their country despite years of conflict, political paralysis and economic crisis that have prompted waves of migration. Leo, the first U.S. pope, visited Lebanon’s Catholic community before hosting a dialogue with members of the Sunni Muslim, Shi’ite and Druze communities, as well as migrant workers and other Christians. The pope, on what he has described as a mission of peace, has urged Lebanon’s leaders to persevere with peace efforts in the aftermath of last year’s devastating war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, and continued Israeli strikes.” (12/01/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-12-01/pope-pushes-peace-message-on-second-day-in-crisis-hit-lebanon
Source: Free Talk Live
“PSYOPs :: NCI engineered reality scoring system :: Sarah in NM wants to vote for the mayor that will keep speeding cameras :: Rob from VT calls about the ‘Dick act’ :: Book: Lawful Tax Avoidance (.com) :: Dave Ridley calls about ex-cop turning pro-freedom and challenging the ‘resisting arrest’ law in NH :: Skeeter says freedom is the real psyop/ fails to deny working for the government :: Jet calls to discuss mindsets in relation to government :: Right to travel vs. driving :: FSP :: Freedom migration to New Hampshire :: 2025-11-30 Hosts: Stu, Bear Arms, Mr. Penguin.” (11/30/25)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/ftl2025-11-30
Source: Orange County Register
by Rafael Perez
“A year ago, to the day, I wrote a column (‘Americans really need to relax and stop taking national politics so seriously’) in which I argued that modern Americans are far too concerned with politics and too emotionally invested in what politicians say and do. … Relax, I said. Everything will be fine, I assured the toiling peasants from my ivory tower, naive and jolly, hands brown but never soiled. That is at least how many of our readers received it. … we are now seeing how wrong I was – Trump’s second term has been an ugly disaster. We have acquired a self-inflicted wound in the form of a global trade war. This administration is spreading medical misinformation, weaponizing the Department of Justice, destroying the separation of powers, and blatantly selling political favors. Ex high school benchwarmers are roaming the streets abducting mestizos.” (11/30/25)
https://archive.is/p8I2d
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Ukrainian naval drones hit two oil tankers from Russia’s so-called ‘shadow fleet’ as they travelled through the Black Sea, Ukrainian officials have said. Footage verified by the BBC shows waterborne drones speeding through the waves into the vessels, before detonating into a ball of flame, sending black smoke into the air. The targeted tankers were named by Turkish authorities as the Kairos and Virat, both flagged to the Gambia. Both were hit off the Turkish coast on Friday, with the Virat reportedly struck again on Saturday. No casualties were reported. The attacks appear to be an escalation by Kyiv as it tries to hit Russia’s oil revenues, which are critical for funding its war in Ukraine.” (11/30/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9ky5z2gx0o
