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FIRST YEAR WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2026 — THE EVENING EDITION FREE, FOREVER — EVERY CLAIM LINKED

NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps headquarters needed British police to catch its own Russian spy

photo: France 24

By The LodgersThe Euro Desk

Today we are making an espionage case, which is not a dish you can get over here in quite this cut, not because you lack the arrests but because yours do not usually begin inside a NATO headquarters. A senior officer of the United States Army, stationed not at home but at a base in Britain, was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of spying for Russia. The British police made the arrest; the Americans are named only as support.

The base itself has a name: Imjin Barracks, home to the headquarters of NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, the formation built to move fastest when Europe needs it moved. Turn that name over and look underneath, the way you would a chicken: the reacting, this time, was done by London police, with support from the American military and law enforcement, not by the Corps itself.

Clive Support. …

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Tennessee asks court to shield execution drug supplier from the lawyers of the woman it failed to kill

By SterlingThe Ownership Desk

You are calling this a cover-up. Do not. A cover-up wants something broken, and nothing in Tennessee has broken. Forty minutes after a double dose of pentobarbital, Christa Pike, 50, was still breathing — forty minutes, and her lawyers told a court on October 2 that she was in critical condition.

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On cocked and loaded

By LouThe Word

Democrat

Democrat: the needle points at TACO, out of A DRONE, A TWEET, NOT PROPORTIONATE, 3,684, TACO. A DRONE A TWEET NOT PROPORTIONATE 3,684 TACO

This is the one entry on the ledger that could have gone in a different column. By his own number the fold spared 150 people. His account of the moment was exact: "150 dead people, that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after I said go ahead. And I didn't like it" 1. It is entered here because the threat was published after the retreat.

The arithmetic has since been revised. U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran began in late February of this year, and by mid-October the war was in its eighth month 2. The rights group HRANA counted 3,684 dead in Iran through July 17; Iran's health ministry gave 3,528; the Pentagon had acknowledged 23 American military deaths by late October 3. None of those figures is final. In 2019 the president said the unmanned part was "a big, big difference" 1. The number that was not proportionate was 150. The HRANA count is more than 24 times that, and it stops in July.

Sources

  1. "150 dead people, that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after I said go ahead"; "And I didn't like it"; the drone being unmanned made a "big, big difference" — NPR, 21 June 2019 ↑
  2. U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran in late February; the war enters its eighth month — Euronews, 15 October 2026 ↑
  3. HRANA: 3,684 deaths through 17 July; Iran's health ministry: 3,528; the Pentagon acknowledged 23 U.S. military fatalities in late October; figures not finalized — Wikipedia, Casualties of the 2026 Iran war ↑

“I'm slow with these things, so I wrote it on a napkin. The Times says the planes were in the air. The president says no, "pretty soon." He says ten minutes before. He also says they came in about a half an hour before. I'm sure there's a reason. On the other side of the napkin I put 150, not proportionate. Under that I put this year's count, 3,684, and that one stops in July. Sorry, one thing before you go. The man who said 150 was too many. Did anybody bring him the second number?”— Lou

“Cocked and loaded. You know when a guy tells you that? The morning after, when there's nothing to show you. A general says 150, he stops it ten minutes out, fine, I'll buy that man a drink. Then he tells NBC the planes never went up. So what was cocked? The tweet was cocked. Nobody cuts the trailer for the movie he didn't shoot unless the trailer was the product. And hold on to that number, 150, because that was too many. Too many. Now go read this year's number and tell me who moved the line.”
Sal
“The president's restraint in 2019 proves he understands proportion, and the events of 2026 prove he understands that proportion can be revisited, which is what you want in a commander: a firm line, reviewed regularly.”
Chip
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Nvidia prices its CEO's spy-affair scandal at $500 million, with two-day delivery.

By RuthThe Money Desk

Nvidia's stock traded above $227 a share on August 27th, up roughly 8.5 percent on the day, after the company reported strong second-quarter earnings. The Hill called it a leap. Call it that.

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Schumer says he has the votes; every published count against him is a word, not a number.

By RuthThe Money Desk

Start with the entry that is not about the leader at all. On 31 August, Bernie Sanders said the party's own leaders were not enthusiastic enough about their Michigan nominee to win Michigan. That is a complaint about effort. Eighteen days later it became a complaint about the leader: on 18 September, Adam Hamilton, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Kansas, told CNN, I'm not supporting Schumer for leader — a vote withheld by a man who would not have one to withhold unless he beat Roger Marshall in November. The receipts do not say whether he did. They say he was early.

Then the good night. On 4 November, with at least six Republican seats flipped, Chuck Schumer told reporters: Oh man! Wow, wow, wow! The same day he filed his headcount. The issue is not me, he said; I'll be reelected as majority leader. The Hill put the other column at a handful of newly elected senators. The caucus had not voted. It votes next month.

Six days later, on 10 November, Sanders stood in a Capitol hallway and subtracted himself: thirty years of acquaintance, nobody works harder than Chuck, the time is now for change. The Guardian's video desk described the leader as confident despite dwindling votes, and put the Democrats at fifty-four seats. The Hill's headline that week carried two names, Sanders and Slotkin.

The next morning, 11 November, two papers published the same count in different units. The New York Post: a number of incoming Democratic senators have echoed the call. The New York Times: a few Democrats signaled skepticism, while allies offered support and called for party unity.

So the ledger, hon. The column in his favor holds one claim and one numeral — I'll be reelected, fifty-four seats. The column against him holds four entries gathered across ten weeks and not one numeral among them: a handful, a growing list, a number, a few. One side of this page is unitemized. Both sides are.

On this desk that filing has a name. A total announced before the receipts arrive is not a count; it is a projection with a quote stapled to it. Fifty-four senators. A majority of fifty-four is twenty-eight. Nobody has shown twenty-eight — not the senators saying no, and not the man who says he already has them. That is not an opinion about Schumer. It is two columns side by side, the vote still sitting on next month's calendar, and the only published figure in the whole business being the size of the room.

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Investigative Reporting

THE RATION LINE

Chapter 3: Three Prices, One Owner

Clear a space on the table. You have three pieces of paper now and I want them in a row. On the left, the wall of a Tehran bakery, with a sangak loaf at 155,000 rials by order of the provincial authorities as of June 23, 2026. In the middle, Article 12 of a law of January 2010, which sends "all income sources resulting from implementation of this law into a special account titled subsidy targeting account with the General Treasury." On the right, a single sentence of March 1951 that put every operation of "exploration, extraction, and exploitation" of Iranian oil "in the hands of the Government." Three documents, seventy-five years apart. Look at them long enough and you notice they are not…

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The Political Weather

65°

The front moving through: the freshest poll on any question, the temperature its own headline number. Click the line for the poll.

Reuters/Ipsos, Nov 6-9, 1,705 adults — 32 percent of adults approve of the president's job performance, 65 percent disapprove, 3 percent skipped, including 50 percent who disapprove strongly; 21 percent approve of his handling of the cost of living, 72 percent disapprove; 25 percent approve of his handling of the economy, 67 percent disapprove

The season, behind the front: the president’s approval across 6 polls averages 33.67 approve / 63.17 disapprove (prior set 34.29).

Reuters/Ipsos — 32 / 65 · Nov 6-9 Economist/YouGov — 36 / 62 · Nov 4-6 FT/Focaldata — 34 / 59 · Oct 2-4 Quinnipiac — 34 / 61 · Sep 24-27 AP-NORC — 36 / 64 · Oct 8-12 Pew Research — 30 / 68 · Sep 28-Oct 4
percent of adults disapprove of the president's job performance, barely moved since before the votes were even counted · clear

Sun holds steady over the approval numbers three days after the election, where 65 percent of adults disapprove of the president's job performance against just 32 percent who approve, barely changed from the 64-32 split this same pollster clocked in the final wave before the votes were counted. His marks run colder still on the pocketbook, with only 21 percent approving of his handling of the cost of living and 25 percent on the economy overall. Bring sunglasses, this system hasn't broken since Election Day. Back to you, everybody. — Gordy

Reuters/Ipsos, Nov 6-9, 1,705 adults — 32 percent of adults approve of the president's job performance, 65 percent disapprove, 3 percent skipped, including 50 percent who disapprove strongly; 21 percent approve of his handling of the cost of living, 72 percent disapprove; 25 percent approve of his handling of the economy, 67 percent disapprove · the prior wave

The temperature is the day’s poll, not ours: the freshest public number on whatever the country was just asked, and it opens its own sources. The season — the president’s approval, averaged and dated — waits behind the temperature until a new wave lands.

The Stand-Up

Project 2025 is 29% done

23 of the 79 tasks on the board are in effect; 28 under way, 7 stopped by a court, 21 not started. 1 got done in the last 100 days; at that pace the rest lands in March 2042, 13 years after the term ends.

20252027202907920 Jan 2025: 78 remaining. The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020; the United States must be prepared to take appropriate steps in respons…; The President should immediately revoke the security clearances of any…; The next conservative Administration should rescind all climate policie…; Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable.; withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prospe…20 Jan 2025: 77 remaining. The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020; the United States must be prepared to take appropriate steps in respons…; The President should immediately revoke the security clearances of any…; The next conservative Administration should rescind all climate policie…; Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable.; withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prospe…20 Jan 2025: 76 remaining. The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020; the United States must be prepared to take appropriate steps in respons…; The President should immediately revoke the security clearances of any…; The next conservative Administration should rescind all climate policie…; Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable.; withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prospe…20 Jan 2025: 75 remaining. The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020; the United States must be prepared to take appropriate steps in respons…; The President should immediately revoke the security clearances of any…; The next conservative Administration should rescind all climate policie…; Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable.; withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prospe…20 Jan 2025: 74 remaining. The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020; the United States must be prepared to take appropriate steps in respons…; The President should immediately revoke the security clearances of any…; The next conservative Administration should rescind all climate policie…; Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable.; withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prospe…20 Jan 2025: 73 remaining. The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020; the United States must be prepared to take appropriate steps in respons…; The President should immediately revoke the security clearances of any…; The next conservative Administration should rescind all climate policie…; Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable.; withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prospe…21 Jan 2025: 72 remaining. The President should eliminate OFCCP by simply rescinding EO 11246.23 Jan 2025: 71 remaining. Prevent the institution of a central bank digital currency (CBDC).24 Jan 2025: 70 remaining. Protecting life should be among the core objectives of United States fo…27 Jan 2025: 69 remaining. Reinstate servicemembers to active duty who were discharged for not rec…12 Feb 2025: 68 remaining. the next President should immediately begin to undo those changes and d…14 Feb 2025: 67 remaining. Ensure that LNG export applications are reviewed and approved expeditio…18 Feb 2025: 66 remaining. Regulatory analysis and OIRA review should also be required of the hist…3 Mar 2025: 65 remaining. Repeal the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation rein…4 Mar 2025: 64 remaining. Of the utmost urgency is immediately ending CISA’s counter-mis/disinfor…21 May 2025: 63 remaining. Seek to terminate any unnecessary or outdated consent decree to which t…22 May 2025: 62 remaining. Eliminate Marxist indoctrination and divisive critical race theory prog…4 Jul 2025: 61 remaining. Re-implement work requirements. The statutory language covering food st…17 Jul 2025: 60 remaining. Several ORD offices and programs, many of which constitute unaccountabl…24 Jul 2025: 59 remaining. he will not sign an appropriations spending bill that contains a penny…7 Jan 2026: 58 remaining. Minimally, the next Administration should reform the Dietary Guidelines.29 Jun 2026: 57 remaining. The Supreme Court ruling in Humphrey’s Executor upholding agency indepe…29 Sep 2026: 56 remaining. Commence a new agency rulemaking process to rescind the current Adminis…11 Nov 2026: 56 of 79 remaining
  • Backlog 21
  • In progress 11
  • In review 17
  • Blocked 7
  • Done 23
  • Won’t do 4

The latest moves

Project 2025 is the Heritage Foundation’s 920-page plan for this term, Mandate for Leadership 2025. Every sticky note is a sentence from it, with the page number. A task counts as done only when a signed order, rule or law puts it in effect, and blocked means a judge has stopped it. The chart is how many tasks are left; the dashed line is the pace needed to finish by the end of the term. Sprint 7, day 61. The whole board.

“Count the times this page says "historic," then count the ones with a number next to them. The difference is the news.”
— Sal

FOUND 299 mass shootings, year to date, and counting. Owner not looking. Thoughts and prayers enclosed. — Classifieds

FOUND 35 unpermitted gas turbines, running in a Black neighborhood in Memphis. Cancer risk four times normal. No reward offered. — Classifieds

PERSONALS Deficit hawk, dormant eight years, seeks sudden urgency. Reappears only when someone proposes feeding children. No tax cut too large to overlook. — Classifieds

“The economy is historic, the process is ongoing, and the timeline is the timeline. Beyond that I refer you to the timeline.”
— Chip
The second winter, a man watched the pass. Salt came, and no cart brought it.
Enoch · the Ownership Desk

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