BREAKING: Johnston Press, Edinburgh HQd owner of @thescotsman @ipapernews @yorkshirepost +200 local papers is set to go into administration.
Its board has filed intention to transfer assets to new company owned by its bondholders.— Douglas Fraser (@BBCDouglasF) November 16, 2018
News Letter publisher, Johnston Press, to file for administration as part of rescue plan aimed at ensuring its survival: https://t.co/tfcaLuTa9U pic.twitter.com/h2wMgaaSPk
— BBC News NI (@BBCNewsNI) November 16, 2018
Statement from Johnston Press via @PA pic.twitter.com/pb3GvQumX5
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) November 16, 2018
Getting messages of support&concern(&in case of some idiots, glee)about News Letter,our wonderful title,est 1737. We're in good health&v profitable. JP,who own us,had debt diffs,which management say will be addressed by new deal. BNL will be world's oldest daily for while yet! pic.twitter.com/1b5SKHPGmK
— Ben Lowry (@BenLowry2) November 16, 2018
Newspaper group which owns News Letter and Derry Journal goes into administration https://t.co/gppXgZdcOs pic.twitter.com/nzfdM0Gvjs
— Belfast Telegraph (@BelTel) November 16, 2018
Ugh – horrible mismanagement in a declining market putting The Scotsman and The Yorkshire Post into administration, important press institutions withering away . Dire https://t.co/gY0qi7sWGF
— emily bell (@emilybell) November 16, 2018
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BREXIT BRITAIN
But before we get into that shit, here’s the other shit we’re in, which for many people is kind of more important shit than any of that other shit…
UN special rapporteur speaks on poverty in the UK. Should be a massive story. Has been utterly swallowed, like everything, by the interminable black hole that is Brexit pic.twitter.com/GlocPp9eBp
— Alan White (@aljwhite) November 16, 2018
Despite the media and DUP’s obsession with Brexit, in my constituency people are much more concerned with the impact of Universal Credit, lack of housing and 2 year hospital waiting lists. #themiseryofpoverty https://t.co/JaBn0WMMXQ
— john kyle (@cllrjohnkyle) November 16, 2018
Ok, off you go…
I don’t think I’d ever heard the word ‘shitshow’ until about September, now I seem to use it on an hourly basis #ShitShow
— Andrea Catherwood (@acatherwoodnews) November 16, 2018
The Brexit fantasy goes down in tears — May and the Europeans both knew that Britain couldn’t afford to make a clean break. Which, of course, raises the question of what the point of the exercise of sabotaging UK future was to begin with.https://t.co/ZlX3eYNYXl
— Alfons López Tena #FBPE (@alfonslopeztena) November 16, 2018
TELEGRAPH: Brexit ‘ultimatum’ lead story #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/b8nO9BLFD1
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) November 16, 2018
‘May’s Brexit is dead – a Final Say on the deal is the only route out of the chaos’ https://t.co/Zh1bPkLqHi pic.twitter.com/mn7rP3iwmE
— The Independent (@Independent) November 16, 2018
This looks like a ‘50s British comedy on @TalkingPictures about an evil racing driver and his devious mechanic/butler pic.twitter.com/xrpvNlfkzH
— Rick Burin (@rickburin) November 15, 2018
Boris Johnson ran for mayor twice as a socially liberal, pro-immigration, pro-Single Market politician who was at home with diverse modern Britain.
Now look at him. pic.twitter.com/I6TPtyglIj
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) November 16, 2018
Brexit #dkpol pic.twitter.com/o6y3YF9ZrH
— gro høyer thielst (@grothielst) November 16, 2018
The new Brexit 50p coin … pic.twitter.com/ohZF7ZcbFu
— ToonTone100 (@Toontone100) November 16, 2018
Ex-Trump strategist Bannon says EU is trying to thwart Brexit https://t.co/hVwEPFErZa
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) November 16, 2018
Britain and America, Brexit and Trump, are inextricably entwined. By Nigel Farage. By Cambridge Analytica. By Steve Bannon. By the Russian ambassador to London,
@carolecadwalla in @NYRDaily
To keep up this story https://t.co/q4rFh5cwF4 https://t.co/yxmh9b6yb7
— Dial M for Mueller (@DialMueller) November 16, 2018
Brexit is such a mess: a struggling PM, a withdrawal deal nobody will agree to. Pff. Let’s see how things are going in America…. pic.twitter.com/Z2t8NUbYid
— Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) November 16, 2018
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TRUMPWORLD
Stacey Abrams: "To watch an elected official who claims to represent the people in this state baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people’s democratic right to vote has been truly appalling. So let’s be clear: This is not a speech of concession." (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/n4jyBXIFTG
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 16, 2018
Good call. Losing the Georgia governorship isn’t the last chapter of this saga. https://t.co/b3sG8f3VIE
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) November 16, 2018
Source: Trump legal team balked at some questions from Mueller https://t.co/bBVfmiqOtK @PamelaBrownCNN reports @TheLeadCNN
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 16, 2018
After a lull before the midterms, the Russia probe has returned to the forefront of Washington conversation and cable news chyrons.
The president has expressed concerns that Mueller is closing in on his inner circle, including potentially his eldest son https://t.co/sJmBnbEg4s
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) November 16, 2018
Whatever you may think of Julian Assange, prosecuting him has important press-freedom implications, as @ggreenwald lays out here. https://t.co/ycgbm4IcXN
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) November 16, 2018
Why would President Trump risk adding to Mueller’s obstruction inquiry? Because there are bigger things at stake for him. My column on an epic clash: https://t.co/EILkhHS97K
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) November 15, 2018
Why is Trump asking around about Pence’s loyalty? https://t.co/RHmWjnOmC3 @kaitlancollins @JamalSimmons @seungminkim @BillKristol discuss @TheLeadCNN
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 16, 2018
Trump is now 0 for 2 in front of judges he has appointed. The guardrails are holding — so far. https://t.co/R6FLR4Qo84
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) November 16, 2018
President Trump: "We want total freedom of the press. It's very important to me. It's more important to me than anybody would believe. But you have to act with respect. You're in the White House." https://t.co/KI8IwTjvh4 pic.twitter.com/lD9YYCiVXD
— The Hill (@thehill) November 16, 2018
This is astonishing. It's as though thousands of career DOJ officials spoke with one voice: this guy does not represent us. https://t.co/Vc8n454AAb
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) November 16, 2018
Kellyanne Conway changes Twitter bio after husband calls Trump admin "a shitshow in a dumpster fire" https://t.co/xFsCbBbZJl pic.twitter.com/E13xek9K9E
— The Hill (@thehill) November 16, 2018
"We’re part of the master race": White county official under fire over comments to black woman https://t.co/rCCLcH6KW6
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 16, 2018
There are some things that you just need to repeat a few times and leave it at that:
"Trump blames forest poor management on the California fires, says if forest areas had been raked out, 'you wouldn't have the fires.'"
If the forests had been raked out. https://t.co/jucCCRhQlk
— Stryker McGuire (@StrykerMcGuire) November 16, 2018
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WORLD
The death toll from the devastating Camp fire rose to 63 Thursday, while the number of people reported missing jumped to 631, authorities said. https://t.co/FWO0HLcUIS
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) November 16, 2018
Paradise, CA.
We mourn with you. We stand with you. pic.twitter.com/Lq5e81Py28
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) November 16, 2018
NEWS: The CIA has concluded that the Saudi crown prince was responsible for Jamal Khashoggi's death. Trump has been briefed. But he keeps asking where the body is — and is skeptical. latest w/@shaneharris & @gregpmiller: https://t.co/2vuK4EfDjW
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) November 16, 2018
Remember when out Secretary of State flew to Saudi Arabia to laugh and smile and shake hands with a man who'd just murdered a Washington Post columnist?
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 16, 2018
Take Five: From Black Friday shoppers to #Brexit wreckage, world markets themes for the week ahead https://t.co/snWzj1u3Ie pic.twitter.com/VD74MjZqoW
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) November 16, 2018
Finally…
William Goldman, August 12, 1931 – November 16 2018
Outlaws. Journalists. Dentists. Pirates. Rodents of unusual size. True love. Not just your ordinary, average, ho-hum run of the mill scriptwriter.#rip pic.twitter.com/45mwUjl7G2
— GEEKchocolate (@GeekChocolate) November 16, 2018
The great William Goldman, my dear friend of 40 years, passed away this morning at the age of 87. All he did in the same career was write "The Princess Bride" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and the screenplay for "All the President's Men." And that is the short list.
— Mike Lupica (@MikeLupica) November 16, 2018
Losing Bill Goldman made me cry. My favorite book of all time is The Princess Bride. I was honored he allowed me to make it into a movie. I visited with him last Saturday. He was very weak but his mind still had the Goldman edge. I told him I loved him. He smiled & said fuck you.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) November 16, 2018
What an opening. RIP, William Goldman. pic.twitter.com/M7zbZJNUhv
— Chris Evangelista (@cevangelista413) November 16, 2018
The Overnight Note 