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Doug Jones will enter 2026 Alabama governor’s race Campaign paperwork is to be filed this week.

It’s official. @dougjones.bsky.social will run against Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/life/2025/11...

How Much is Wrong With the Comey Case? Andrew Weissmann Details the Laundry List "I think the technical legal term for what's going on is a shit show."

contrarian.substack.com/p/how-much-i... @weissmann.substack.com in especially fine form!!

‘Classic Donald Trump!’ Fox News’ Hugh Hewitt Praises Trump for Wild Execution Rant Fox News' Hugh Hewitt praised President Donald Trump for his wild Thursday Truth Social rant in which he suggested that six Democratic lawmakers were guilty of "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH...

www.mediaite.com/media/tv/cla... every fascist has his enablers

Pro-Israel Democratic group announces passing of founder * * *

Pro-Israel Democratic group announces passing of founder ... heartbreaking... a generous man, a mensch, a patriot. May his memory be a blessing. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

No Kings Alliance — No Kings Authoritarianism thrives on silence. The No Kings Alliance exists to make capitulation impossible—and resistance unstoppable.

Please join No King's "We Ain't Buying it" : www.nokings.org/alliance

Another Undaunted City Charlotte defends democracy and decency

In concert with magnificent displays of peaceful protest and community solidarity, state and local officials have been sending a powerful message they are prepared to defend their neighbors against the predation of an unhinged, racist autocrat and his underlings
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Maybe the stains wouldn’t come out

I went to Washington, and all I got was this president A cartoon by RJ Matson

I went to Washington, and all I got was this president
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The Traitor is TRUMP! Sen. Coons on Trump’s Calls for Execution and Friendships with Autocrats “This is putting at risk the trust between the American people and the military that we rely on to secure and defend us.”

The Traitor is TRUMP! Sen. Coons on Trump’s Calls for Execution and Friendships with Autocrats ...powerful response open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Being a motion to floor to condemn Trump’s insane words. Why is 25th A not on table?

This is why Charlie Kirk hysteria was utterly insincere. MAGA has no problem with political violence against its enemies

Bravo

Swalwell Could be a Worthy Successor to Newsom The existing contenders never caught on

Democrats are fully aware that whoever wins the governorship will become a key figure atop the Democratic Party. And that is why, as important as the California governor’s race may be for the state itself, the race has huge implications for 2026, 2028, and beyond.

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Swalwell Could be a Worthy Successor to Newsom The existing contenders never caught on

Swalwell, 45, certainly seems to possess the aggressive tactics and communication finesse found in a generation of younger Democrats who are seeking to take their place at the top of the party
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‘It’s as if Jesus Is Locked Up in Broadview’ A reverend violently arrested at Chicagoland’s ICE facility speaks out

contrarian.substack.com/p/its-as-if-... wonderful piece

YouTube video by Talking Feds with Harry Litman The Dog That Hasn’t Barked | Talking Feds Podcast

great fun with @talkingfeds.bsky.social and some of the smartest folks around youtu.be/LydUlCrmiuA?...

Who’s Running to Replace Jerry Nadler? 10 People and Counting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n... impressive field with true public servants

. By systematically engaging in selective and vindictive prosecutions, handing out galling pardons, and appointing stooges to the Department of Justice, Trump has underscored that the throughline is corruption of our legal system

Trump is in Full Retreat A scandal that he inflamed engulfs his presidency

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Admitting you got it wrong would be confession that you’r a patsy, a liar, or both, but it would also that you’ve hurt many Americans. No wonder MAGA Republicans would prefer the security of nonsensical lies to the gnawing discomfort that facts provoke.

Words & Phrase We Could Do Without The Epstein scandal...er...Trump coverup scandal

We should stop using the euphemism for an unspeakable crime and its vile, corrupt cover-up. This is the Trump pedophile document coverup.
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Words & Phrase We Could Do Without The Epstein scandal...er...Trump coverup scandal

The shorthand minimizes the underlying, horrific criminal enterprise, airbrushing out the victims and quest for justice. It shields Trump, Bondi, and DOJ from level of scrutiny. And it lessens pressure on congressional Rs to distance themselves from this travesty open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Words & Phrase We Could Do Without The Epstein scandal...er...Trump coverup scandal

the present scandal is not about Epstein, but rather about other men who may be named in the documents, the financial institutions that enabled Epstein, and most of all, Trump’s role in perpetuating the conspiracy of silence and non-accountability. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The House must vote to release the Epstein files Survivors are leading the call for truth.

The House must vote to release the Epstein files.. PLEASE read from the head of the group that put together that amazing PSA open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The House must vote to release the Epstein files Survivors are leading the call for truth.

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Senators distance themselves from controversial payout provision Only one Republican senator has public plans to sue under new legislative language House Republicans are now seeking to scrap.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11... what utter BS- repeal it

The Court recognizes that the relief sought by the defense is rarely granted. However, the record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding. Therefore, in this case, “the Court has before it a rare example of a criminal defendant who can actually make a ‘particularized and factually based’ showing that grounds exist to support the proposition that irregularities may have occurred in the grand jury proceedings and may justify the dismissal of one or more counts of the indictment.” See Naegele, 474 F. Supp. 2d at 10 (citations omitted). Accordingly, the defense request for all grand jury materials is granted.

A federal judge ORDERS the disclosure of James Comey's grand jury minutes to the defense, citing a "disturbing pattern pattern of profound investigative missteps" and casting doubt on Lindsey Halligan's declaration about the gap in the record.

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The Chicago Invasion After-Action Report ‘Blitz’ or FUBAR?

Instead of “blitz,” this might be better described by other military terms—FUBAR or SNAFU. The cost and human toll can be tallied in numbers of disrupted lives, of families torn apart, of wrongfully detained and terrorized people, and of traumatized children. contrarian.substack.com/p/the-chicag...

The Chicago Invasion After-Action Report ‘Blitz’ or FUBAR?

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The Chicago Invasion After-Action Report ‘Blitz’ or FUBAR?

contrarian.substack.com/p/the-chicag... How typical of thoroughly warped and cruel Trump regime: It chooses to sweep up and dump in the Broadview hellhole (which one judge said “shocked the conscience”) a father who lived and worked in America for 20 years and was tending to a seriously ill child.

The Chicago Invasion After-Action Report ‘Blitz’ or FUBAR?

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... Adopting a term (Midway Blitz) for its Chicago immigration operation that has its origin in the Nazi’s lightning-fast pulverization of Western Europe and destruction of civilian neighborhoods was a telling choice for the Trump regime