Virginia mother of child who shot teacher sentenced to 21 months in prison (www.bbc.co.uk)
Deja Taylor was convicted on the relatively rare charge of owning a gun while being a cannabis user.
Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi Says He Was Radicalized by Gamergate (www.vice.com)
The man told jurors he spent hours listening to far-right podcasts before breaking into the Pelosi home and attacking the then-Speaker’s husband with a hammer.
Salman Rushdie makes rare appearance for ‘Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award’ (www.independent.co.uk)
‘I don’t feel at all mysterious. But it made life a little simple,’ Rushdie says about his mystery appearance
Poll: US Public Support for Israel Wanes as 68 Percent Call for Ceasefire (theblankpageofficial.blogspot.com)
https://theblankpageofficial.blogspot.com/2023/11/poll-us-public-support-for-israel-wanes.html
ExxonMobil to begin lithium extraction in Arkansas as officials hope for the start of a boom (fayettevilleflyer.com)
"They tortured him"; police used Taser on special needs teen for breaking window before shooting him (www.cbsnews.com)
CHICAGO (CBS) – It was a broken window complaint that led to a 14-year-old boy being shot by a police officer....
'They Want To Be The Gatekeepers': Car Dealers Are Stopping Customers From Buying EVs (jalopnik.com)
UK top court says a plan to send migrants to Rwanda is illegal. The government still wants to do it (apnews.com)
In a major blow to one of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ‘s key policies, the country’s top court ruled that asylum-seekers sent to Rwanda would be “at real risk of ill-treatment” because they could be returned to the conflict-wracked home countries they’d fled....
BBC Apologizes for Falsely Reporting Israeli Army Targets “Medical Teams” in Gaza (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
A BBC News presenter wrongly quoted a Reuters report about a key hospital caught up in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Salman Rushdie receives first-ever Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award (boredbat.com)
US destroyer shoots down drone flying toward it in the Red Sea, defending itself in uneasy waters (www.businessinsider.com)
How land theft worsens the climate crisis for Indigenous people (www.motherjones.com)
U.S. political violence driven by new breed of ‘grab-bag’ extremists (www.reuters.com)
Aldrich is an example of a new and troubling type of violent American extremist, according to law enforcement officials and political scientists: the grab-bag radical....
San Francisco homeless sweep was cheered on by the right. It was also illegal (www.vice.com)
Hundreds of unsheltered people living in tent encampments in the blocks surrounding the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco have been forced to leave by city outreach workers and police as part of an attempted “clean up the house” ahead of this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s annual free trade...
Trump goes all in on Nazi rhetoric, and the media gives him another free pass (thehill.com)
Republicans in Congress are throwing an institutional tantrum (www.salon.com)
Pastor John Hagee says an Israel-Palestinian peace deal will be the work of the anti-Christ (www.motherjones.com)
More People Are Watching Videos on Their Phones While Driving. Often, It’s Perfectly Legal. (www.vice.com)
Republican Senators Are Taking the Class War Way Too Literally (www.thenation.com)
[Illinois] Mayor resigns, hired weeks later [by village] in new job making 6x more (fox2now.com)
MARISSA, Ill. – An Illinois mayor who unexpectedly resigned from his elected post earlier this summer has been hired by the same village, making tens of thousands of dollars more in a part-time position.
Poll: US Public Support for Israel Wanes as 68 Percent Call for Ceasefire (theblankpageofficial.blogspot.com)
Energy Department tries to boost US battery industry with another $3.5 billion in funding (apnews.com)
The Energy Department is making a push to strengthen the U.S. battery supply chain, announcing up to $3.5 billion for companies that produce batteries and the critical minerals that go into them....
California program to lease land under freeways faces scrutiny after major Los Angeles fire (apnews.com)
The area under an elevated Los Angeles freeway that burned last weekend was a kind of open-air warehouse with businesses storing everything from wood pallets to cardboard boxes to hand sanitizer on lots leased by the state through a little-known program that now is under scrutiny....