Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, angling for future arms sales
The fastest way to fortify Taiwan’s military is by directly shipping U.S. arms,
a process known as Presidential Drawdown Authority, or PDA.
The Biden administration approved three such packages for Taiwan while in office, alongside another round of long-term military aid, totaling more than $2 billion.
Trump has promised a more transactional U.S. foreign policy and does not support sendin…
“First time a duke has lost title in more than a century, says historian”
“The last time a dukedom was taken away from a senior royal was more than 100 years ago…That was in 1919, when Prince Charles Edward – one of Queen Victoria’s grandsons – lost the title of Duke of Albany for fighting on the German side during World War One”
Charles should have asked old Andy to publish his rolodex too.
#EpsteinFiles #Epstein #PrinceAndrew
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgw31y75ywt
A 'scandal' is someone getting blind roaring drunk in public. MBS had the guy butchered...
Saudi crown prince to visit US for first time since Khashoggi death
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/saudi-crown-prince-to-visit-us-for-first-time-since-khashoggi-death.html
A profile of Aaron Parnas, a news influencer with 4.3M followers on TikTok and 600K subscribers on Substack, whose audience is valuable for top Democrats (Liz Skalka/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/aaron…
Tim Sweeney says Fortnite will not return to iOS in Japan in 2025, as Apple is "charging a competition-crushing 21% junk fee on third-party in-app payments" (Tim Sweeney/@timsweeneyepic)
https://x.com/timsweeneyepic/status/2001494517996732598
Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, angling for future arms sales
The fastest way to fortify Taiwan’s military is by directly shipping U.S. arms,
a process known as Presidential Drawdown Authority, or PDA.
The Biden administration approved three such packages for Taiwan while in office, alongside another round of long-term military aid, totaling more than $2 billion.
Trump has promised a more transactional U.S. foreign policy and does not support sendin…
Now we have the final accounting from the Congressional Budget Office:
DOGE didn’t just fail to cut spending
—it presided over spending increases that exceeded even pre-DOGE projections.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/14/musk-p
An interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's new Content Signals Policy, which lets sites fine tune how their data can be used by crawlers (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/inside-the-web-i…