Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company plans to expand its lending to commodities traders "dramatically" after extending ~$1.5B worth of credit to the sector (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11…
Germany plans over €11.5 billion in Ukraine aid for 2026, funding artillery, drones and Patriot air defenses: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/germany-plans-over-billion-in.html
On November 12, the Israeli government issued an order outlining plans to -- “expropriate” 450 acres of land from ancient Sebastia -- and the village’s entire archaeological park, which includes homes and businesses.
Israel’s seizure of the lands of Sebastia and the nearby village of Burqa will form part of a plan to create a “national park” for Israeli settlers -- on one of the most significant Palestinian historical sites in the West Bank out of 6,000 others.
Israeli settlers …
From The Walrus
This Is the Moment Canada Should Stop Playing It Safe
Real sovereignty starts with a little swagger
by Dan Gardner Updated 9:01, Nov. 13, 2025 | Published 6:30, Nov. 13, 2025
https://thewalrus.ca/this-is-the-moment-canada-should-st…
Is CeeDee Lamb playing this week? Cowboys' injury news is big update for Sunday Night Football https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/ceedee-lamb-playing-week-cowboys-inj…
President Trump renominates Sean Plankey to be the next director of CISA, which has been running without a full-time chief since Trump's return to office (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/13/sean-plankey-cisa-direc…
US plans to exploit Venezuela’s oil reserves could by 2050 consume 🔥more than a tenth of the world’s remaining carbon budget to limit global heating to 1.5C, according to an exclusive analysis.
The calculation highlights how any moves to further exploit the
South American nation’s oil reserves
– the largest in the world,
at least on paper
– would put increasing pressure on climate goals,
and risk plunging the globe further into climate catastrophe.
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YouTube TV plans to launch over 10 genre-specific, cheaper YouTube TV Plans in early 2026, including a Sports Plan featuring ESPN Unlimited and Fox Sports 1 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/youtube-tv-plans-ge…
Google plans to invest $9B in South Carolina through 2027 to scale up its Berkeley County data center campus and support building two sites in Dorchester County (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/…
Internal memo: in a first, Samsung plans to award shares and bonuses based on stock price to employees and will let staff get up to 50% of their payout in stock (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20