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Texas National Guard troops expected to leave Chicago and return home, source says | CNN Texas National Guard troops are expected to leave Chicago and return to their home state very soon, a source familiar with the planning told CNN, after weeks in limbo as a court battle played out over...

Good news: A source tells CNN that Texas National Guard troops will soon leave Chicago. They had been put on hold while the Supreme Court considers Trump’s bullshit claim that he’s addressing an emergency.

Pete Hegseth ‹ @PeteHegseth Follow OPERATION ROUGH RIDER = Freedom of Navigation for U.S. ships OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER = Obliteration of Iranian nuclear sites OPERATION SOUTHERN SPEAR = Destroy Narco-Terrorists killing Americans @POTUS Trump means business — and the world knows it. Peace Through Strength. 7:16 PM • 11/14/25 • 2.5M Views

I’m beginning to suspect all of the men in the Trump administration are impotent.

Justice Department quietly replaced 'identical' Trump signatures on recent pardons President Donald Trump is facing new scrutiny over the use of a replicated signature on several recent pardons.

Trump's new autopen scandal. Every accusation is a confession.

Trump has conned tens of millions of people after Fox News and other disinformation softened them up. But he’s actually a terrible liar who always tells on himself. And it’s clear he’s terrified now that the Epstein files and his old sex predator friend Ghislaine Maxwell will reveal the ugly truth.

They're in on the corruption. They fed their ethics into the wood-chipper.

Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal

This coming week, Trump will host Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi leader who approved the murder and dismemberment of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Not coincidentally, the Saudis are working on a new business deal with the Trump Organization.
It's blood money – or bonesaw money.

U.S. Attorney Under Pressure After Order to Investigate Democrats

The New York Times is being either naive or dishonest in suggesting it's possible for prosecutor Jay Clayton to operate ethically under Trump's order to target Democrats. Clayton would have quit already – or never taken the job – if he had principles.

Trump Escalates Pressure on Venezuela, but Endgame Is Unclear

Anyone who thinks the current version of the United States is a force for good in the world has not been paying enough attention.

Retired journalists raise the alarm about state sponsored terror in Chicago "It is without precedent that the biggest names in Chicago journalism have come together to condemn a public action"

Jennifer Schulze's latest newsletter highlights how some of the biggest names in Chicago TV journalism over recent decades are stepping up to denounce the Trump regime's assault on Chicago. These trusted voices can make a difference. @newsjennifer.bsky.social

Mr. Clayton, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission who spent nearly two decades at the white shoe law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, enjoys a reputation in New York legal circles as a widely respected lawyer.

U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton is Trump’s enforcer in New York. He’s taking on the bogus investigation of Clinton and others, corruptly ordered by Trump. Yet the NY Times says Clayton “enjoys a reputation in NY legal circles as a widely respected lawyer.” Which says something about NY legal circles.

Greg Sargent is one of the clearest thinkers on Trump's ongoing construction of a dictatorship. Everyone who cares about defending democracy and decency should give him a Bluesky follow, read his New Republic writings and listen to his podcast. Highly recommended.

Of course, Mike Johnson is a key officer in Trump's Mafia.

At Trump’s urging, Bondi says US will investigate Epstein’s ties to Clinton and other political foes Acceding to President Donald Trump’s demands, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says she has ordered a top federal prosecutor to investigate sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Trump political foes, ...

We’ve had criminals in the White House before (Nixon and Watergate, Reagan and Iran Contra, Bush II and Iraq), but never have we had such a thoroughly corrupt presidency, a Mafia presidency, whose only motives are grift and revenge.

ICE and Border Patrol aren't preventing violence in Chicago. They're creating violence in Chicago.

We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.

Have you seen our viral new database? COURIER created an easy way for you to search all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.

(Note: Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.)

Seems fine to me.

You disgusting old meat sack, there isn’t fucking wiggle room when it comes to pedophiles. This is like saying “Well, if the bullet was 2 inches to the right it wouldn’t have killed him, so it wasn’t technically murder.” Twisted-ass weirdo. And screw News Nation for putting Prof. Perv on the air.

The Trump regime has declared war on the American people.

Disgusting.

The president of the most powerful nation on Earth is so terrified of the tales that an imprisoned sex trafficker can tell that he plies her with a comfort puppy and custom meals and is holding out the prospect of a pardon.
77 million people voted for this.

Just asking the question, as Republicans like to say.

Why would a president keep open the possibility of a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell if he wasn’t a sex predator whose worst crimes remained secret?

In July, an FBI memo about the Epstein case said: “We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
But in a desperate deflection today, Trump ordered AG Bondi to investigate Bill Clinton. She got right on it.
These people make dirt look clean.

WaPo should apologize for endorsing Pam Bondi There were plenty of red flags before she became Trump’s fascist enforcer.

While we're noting how ethically bankrupt Pam Bondi is, let's remember that the Washington Post endorsed her for attorney general. I wrote about this in April.

Bondi responds to Trump social post by saying she’s assigned a prosecutor to go after Clinton.

Pam Bondi on Feb. 21: Epstein client list is “sitting on my desk right now.”
Bondi’s DOJ on July 7: There’s no client list. As for other Epstein files, “no further disclosure would be appropriate.”
Trump on Nov. 14: Investigate Bill Clinton over Epstein.
Bondi, also Nov. 14: Coming right up, boss!

It's all about the clicks.

That's a good summary.

Nuzzi, Haberman, and becoming the story It’s better for journalists to cover the famous than to be the famous.

I wrote about Nuzzi's unethical conduct a year ago in my Stop the Presses newsletter. It's free, so take a chance and subscribe.

The author will get attaboy messages from NYT editors for attracting so many clicks.

It's a gift non-link. I'm doing you a favor by not linking to that piece of crap.