At a fiery TPUSA event in Oxford, JD Vance said he and his Hindu wife, Usha, raise their kids Christian—and added he hopes she will “eventually” embrace his faith, sparking strong audience reaction.
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Kash Patel’s Acts of Service The F.B.I. director isn’t just enforcing the President’s agenda at the Bureau—he’s seeking retribution for its past investigations of Donald Trump.

Kash Patel “had no real politics of his own,” John Bolton’s deputy said. “He’s always cultivated people that can help him get into the limelight, and Trump has supported him at every turn because he’s 100-per-cent sycophant.” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/PdYr3F

This is a really good piece. The best thing I’ve read in a while.

What does 15 look like? Teens and former child actors weigh in online after Megyn Kelly comments After commentator Megyn Kelly seemed to downplay the youth of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, former child actresses and current teenagers took to social media to express outrage.

After commentator Megyn Kelly seemed to downplay the youth of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, former child actresses and current teenagers took to social media to express outrage. n.pr/4o6Vfmi

You've probably seen Marjorie Taylor Greene on the airwaves denouncing the "toxic politics" in the United States. So, let's revisit the evidence of who helped make these politics so toxic.

WATCH:

How the right uses "gender ideology" to blame trans people for everything MAGA learned from global autocrats the language needed to push fear.

The right seeks to cast gender identity not as something you are, but as something dangerous that you believe.

There have been a lot of disgusting and surreal moments in the Oval Office over the last 10 months that disgrace the United States, but Trump publicly dismissing the brutal assassination of a Washington Post journalist as insignificant and blowing smoke up the ass of a despotic butcher is up there

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I'll be talking about #COP30, U.S. disengagement and the state of the climate crisis & climate action w/ Cory Smith and Hillary Howard of the @dcnewsnow.bsky.social #SunriseOnTheHill show tomorrow (Wednesday) morning live 8:30am ET
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Must-read piece about what is so fundamentally rotten about American "journalism" today..

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Personally, I'm...skeptical. Trump would really have to believe that congressional oversight is never going to return over the next 2 years, and that a Democratic administration will never be in power again, to think that a massive coverup like this would leave no digital traces *or* whistleblowers.

You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.

That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.

Wow.

BREAKING: House Votes to Release the Jeffrey Epstein Files, Humiliating Trump It’s an embarrassment for Trump, who had promised to release the Epstein files before then calling the scandal a “hoax.” A Trump official admits, “We lost this one badly.”

"Even within the confines of the cultish Trump administration, there was an acute level of self-awareness about how much of a knock [the Epstein] vote has been to the president’s iron-fisted control over his party."

Good reporting from @swin24.bsky.social and team:
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House and Senate both approve releasing the Epstein files by a near unanimous margin https://www.npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-5611438/epstein-files-bill-house-vote

Both the House and Senate have moved to send to President Trump's desk a measure that would compel the Justice Department to release its documents regarding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

🚨Utah, following Trump’s 2025 order, is building a fenced state compound to detain 1,300 homeless Americans, many by court mandate, behind gates they cannot leave. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/under-fede...

The House & Senate showed up and did our jobs today. Now, it’s time for Donald Trump and Pam Bondi to do theirs.

The message behind “quiet, piggy” was not subtle.
I decide who speaks. I decide what truth is. I decide whose pain persists and whose gets erased. I decide what women are allowed to ask me. I decide which crimes survive and which get swallowed in smoke.
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I'm going to laugh really hard if California successfully changes its election map in response to a Texas map that no longer exists. #TheArtOfTheDeal

They are still MAGA. They are just going to call it something else. The hatred, cruelty, and biogtry that attracted them to tRump are still there. They will just find a new cult leader to valid their evilness.

A tweet from “ThePatrioticBlonde @ImBreckWorsham” reads: “People are posting this all over social media. What a sad end to something we all worked so hard for. I never thought it would end this way.” Below the text is a four-panel collage: A red “Make America Great Again” hat on the ground, engulfed in flames. Someone holding several red MAGA and “Keep America Great” hats. Another burning MAGA hat on pavement at night. A MAGA hat burning in a dimly lit indoor space, with a flame spreading over it.

MAGA isn’t happy with the way things are going.

Trump administration announces dismantling of parts of the Education Dept. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to close the department, but only Congress has the power to do that.

The Trump administration is waging an illegal assault on public school kids.

Instead of working to lower costs, they're punishing students.

Linda McMahon knows she doesn’t have the power to dismantle the Department.

Only Congress can, and I will not let that happen.

Nearly a million K-12 students in Minnesota rely on funding from the Department of Education.

Trump’s billionaire-led administration is slashing resources for students in rural communities, low-income families, and those who need special education. Minnesota will fight back.

He. Is. A. Sociopath.

A reminder on the score here

Kimmel, ABC: 1
Trump, Fascists: 0

I don’t know why he’s surprised. I have been saying this for a while.
I knew they would start defending it.
Because after 10 years I know they have no low they can’t go to.

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Editorial Board. Hitler never called a female journalist a pig to her face. It’s time for these fascist comparisons to stop.

The Epstein files could be released today if Democrats would agree to remove all mentions of Donald Trump and create mentions of James Clapper and Adam Schiff. The fact that they won’t shows how unserious they are.

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For the first time, mosquitoes have reached Iceland, a clear sign of a planet in rapid flux. As the Arctic warms four times faster than the rest of the world, even the cold's last refuge is no longer mosquito free.
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