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Hakeem Jeffries sends a provocative shot across FHFA chief Bill Pulte’s bow The House Democratic leader referred to Pulte as “a malignant hack” and a “corrupt sycophant” who might be held criminally liable for his recent actions.

"Jeffries concluded, 'Pulte knows what he is doing is lawless... Accountability is coming. The statute of limitations is five years. Every single corrupt sycophant, including Bill Pulte, who continues to disgrace the law will have to answer for their actions'...”

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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr posted a screenshot of Trump’s post demanding that Seth Meyers be fired.

He really has learned nothing from the Kimmel episode, other than he got away with violating the 1A.

FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...

NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two newly hired senior FBI staff, exempting them from polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information, officials said.

Official U.S. Government account refers to its citizens as "imbecilic morons".

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Kyle Cheney on X: "NEWS: President Trump has issued a *second* pardon for Jan. 6 defendant Dan Wilson. Wilson, a militia member, remained in prison on a firearms conviction unrelated to the Capitol attack. But Trump's new pardon explicitly covers the gun charges. https://t.co/5DqOQp88G8 https://t.co/X4V9P7EeWF" / X NEWS: President Trump has issued a *second* pardon for Jan. 6 defendant Dan Wilson. Wilson, a militia member, remained in prison on a firearms conviction unrelated to the Capitol attack. But Trump's new pardon explicitly covers the gun charges. https://t.co/5DqOQp88G8 https://t.co/X4V9P7EeWF

A clear message to the MAGA-faithful about the value of loyalty & a disgraceful exercise of the power the Founders entrusted the President with to do justice. x.com/kyledcheney/...

I am well aware that they are and will continue to do massive damage to this country

but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not

So Trump has instructed Bondi to investigate Democrats in the Epstein files.

That is the illusion for his followers.

The reality: Now that an “active” investigation has been reopened.

They can withhold the files that mentions Trump +1600 times.

‘Riots raging’: The misleading story Fox News told about Portland before Trump’s call for troops ProPublica's review of months of Fox News coverage found the news network repeatedly provided a misleading picture of what was happening in Portland.

ProPublica's review of months of Fox News coverage found the news network repeatedly provided a misleading picture of what was happening in Portland.

Scatterplot showing large cluster of blue dots signifying the mention of Trump after the 2016 election Header: Trump In 1,670 out of 2,324 email threads

Trump was a subject in 72% of the Epstein email threads.

Data visualization by WSJ:
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To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Marge Greene comes back at Trump throwing haymakers. 🍿

“Weaponizing the DOJ” takes on a whole new level when you order investigations in order to reopen it so it’s no longer closed and you can claim you can’t release information because it’s an “ongoing investigation”

Study Finds COVID mRNA Vaccines Boost Cancer Treatment New research found that mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 could enhance cancer treatments and help patients live longer.

Researchers looked back at more than 1,000 cancer patients, including some who received a COVID mRNA vaccine around the time of treatment. Their findings excited them.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."

Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...

NEW: The DOJ is in settlement talks with Mike Flynn for $50M. They're robbing us blind. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

NEW:

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts

www.propublica.org/article/kris...

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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has stated that the US air strikes on “alleged” drug smuggling boats will be treated under international law as crimes against humanity.

Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.

“$170 BILLION for ICE. $40 BILLION for Argentina. $1 BILLION for Trump’s Qatari jet. $230 MILLION for Trump’s DOJ “compensation”. $200 MILLION for Noem’s jets… But nothing for health care?

This isn’t a question about what 🇺🇸 can or can’t afford — it’s about priorities.”

You know us. For years, you watched and listened to our coverage of the Chicago area. As journalists, we did our best to bring you accurate, objective information about the people, events and issues that mattered. We hope we gained your trust. So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong. The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done and what they may do in other cities. We are retired, but our colleagues who are still on the job have shown you a brutal and illegal campaign against fellow Chicagoans, mainly Latinos: violent abductions, gutting families, using tear gas around children, roughing up witnesses, ramming cars and even taking a day care teacher from her school.

"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."

Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...

Fact-check: true 😕

A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.

GRANTING PARDONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES RELATED TO THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION .....• - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation. Acting pursuant to the grant of authority in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential electors, whether or not recognized by any State or State official, in connection with the 2020 Presidential Election, as well for any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Blection. This includes, but is not limited to: • Mark Amick • Kathy Berden • Christina Bobb • Tyler Bowyer • Joseph Bxannan • Carol Brunner • Mary Buestrin • Darryl Carlson • James "Ken" Carroll • Brad Carver

Robert Cheeley • Kenneth Chesebro • Hank Choate • Jeffrey Clark • Vikki Consiglio • Nancy Cottle • James DeGraffenreid • John Downey • John Eastman • Jenna Ellis • Boris Epshteyn • Amy Facchinello • B111 Feehan • Carolyn Fisher • Harrison Ployd • Clifford Frost • Kay Godwin • Edward Scott Grabins • Stanley Grot • Rudolph Giuliani • John Haggard • Scott Hall • Misty Hampton • David G. Hanna • Mark Hennessy • Mari-Ann Henry • Durward James Hindle III

• Burt Jones • Anthony T. Kern • Kathy Kiernen • Timothy King •Trevian Kutts • James Lamon • Cathleen Latham • Jesse Law • Stephen Lee • Michele Lundgren • Meshawn Maddock • Michael McDonald • Mark Meadows • Shawn Mechan • Robert Montgomery • Daryl Moody • Samuel I. Moorhead • Loraine Pellegrino • Sidney Powe11 • James Renner • Bileen Rice • Mayra Rodriguez • Mike Roman • Rose Rook • Kelly Ruh • Greg Safsten • David Shafer • Marian Sheridan • Ray Stallings Smith III

4 • Robert F. Spindell Jx. • Shawn Still • Ken Thompson • Pam Travis • James Troupis • Kent Vanderwood • Kelli Ward • Michael Ward • C.B. Yadav This pardon does not apply to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. The Attorney General, acting through the Pardon Attorney, shall administer and effectuate the issuance of certificates of pardon to eligible applicants. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of November, in the year of our lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.

Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”

Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.

Notably, this pardon comes just days ahead of a Nov. 14 deadline for the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia to appoint a replacement prosecutor for Fani Willis, who was disqualified from pursuing the case.

Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.