Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend

So DOGE cost-cutting cut thousands of jobs, wrecked lives and destroyed our nation’s safety net, but THIS is okay?

Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

Opinion | Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation

Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Trump’s Ukraine Peace Deal Appears to Be Translated From Russian Certain phrases in Trump’s proposed deal seem to be using Russian language.

WTF newrepublic.com/post/203517/... This is like a Maddow fever dream circa 2018

Journalists should ask him to specifically name these “Communist professors”. And when he refuses, press him on why not. People like Cruz get away w lies when journalists do not follow up.

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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

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They all better lawyer up in the next year and preserve their records.

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Trump’s Border Chief Framed Protesters for Violence. Then the Bodycam Footage Came Out. The Trump administration faced back-to-back rebukes in a pair of cases that challenged the president’s efforts to intimidate or terrorize deep-blue cities.

Bodycam footage reveals Trump border chief framed Chicago protesters for violence.
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EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.

MAHA

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Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

BREAKING: ICE Detention Crosses Record 65,000, October Arrests Top Record 40,000, Biggest Growth Among People with No Criminal History After over two months of no data, ICE's new detention numbers show a record 65,135 people in detention, biggest growth among immigrants with no criminal histories. GPS ankle monitors also grow to 35k.

ICE's latest detention data helps us understand what the agency has been doing with its massive windfall of funding
- record arrests: 41,641 in Oct alone
- record detention: 65,135 people
- 74% have no criminal conviction

See the data: austinkocher.substack.com/p/breaking-i...

Trump has always been attracted to stars. And cognitively impaired individuals have a hard time over-riding their base desires for cognitively demanding things like issues. Glad for Mamdani, but it’s problematic to have a US President in this state.

This is classic Trump. He is attracted to good-looking, magnetic people. He actually doesn’t care about (or maybe w his cognitive impairment can’t even process) the issues. I bet Trump likes Mamdani more than Vance.

A gunman tried to silence my wife in an extreme act of political violence.

Now, Trump has called for my execution because he didn’t like what I had to say.

Gabby and I know, when others try to silence you, you must keep speaking out — and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.

A member of Congress just filled out a threat report with the Capitol Police naming the President of the United States as the person making the threat.

Think of where we were on January 7, 2021 when the country overwhelmingly repudiated what had happened.

And think of where we are now.

All the rape, torture, and murder will be brushed under the carpet, a great lesson for any future war criminals.

Major measles outbreaks have repeatedly cropped up in the Southwest this year. Yet at IHS hospitals in the region, agency officials deemed “measles” and “immunizations” a "medium risk" in internal agency emails.

Staffers, including doctors, now need to get approval to use them in public messaging

Opinion | Trump Promised Lower Prices. His Policies Are Raising Them.

Does Trump Know the Price of Milk? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

There is no excuse for this sort of tweet from a President of the United States.

I am glad he is speaking out in this forceful and comprehensive manner. As his vote for the current head of HHS carried more weight (bc he is a physician), he should also start working toward the removal of the current head of HHS.

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. V • 1h X I'm a doctor who has seen people die from vaccine-preventable diseases. What parents need to hear right now is vaccines for measles, polio, hepatitis B and other childhood diseases are safe and effective and will not cause autism. Any statement to the contrary is wrong, irresponsible, and actively makes Americans sicker. We need to understand the real causes of autism. Studies show there's a genetic predisposition when a mom who's pregnant is exposed to environmental toxins which can increase a child's risk of autism. It's deeply troubling that, according to HHS officials, they appeared to have canceled hundreds of millions in research on autism genetics. Redirecting attention to factors we definitely know DO NOT cause autism denies families the answers they deserve. We had two children die and many more hospitalized nationally from measles this year. Louisiana is experiencing its worst whooping cough outbreak in 35 years. Families are getting sick and people are dying from vaccine-preventable deaths, and that tragedy needs to stop.

Senator Bill Cassidy, who voted to confirm RFK jr, just posted this.

“The Department of Education said what now? Nursing is ‘no longer a professional degree’? Tell that to the nurses who kept this country alive while half of Washington was playing political cosplay.

It is extremely troubling that a US Senator would be lobbying against due process—one of the cornerstones of the American justice system.

How Trump’s Transportation Department Is Loosening Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, soften or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines. Experts say the changes will cost lives.

NEW: ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, weaken or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines.

Experts say the changes will cost lives.

Stalled Contempt Inquiry Into Deportation Flights Springs Back to Life

Stalled Contempt Inquiry Into Deportation Flights Springs Back to Life www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

Exclusive: Cleta Mitchell, Activists Scheme to Bring Back One-Day Elections Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Cleta Mitchell and activists from a top anti-voting group with close ties to the White House met last week to discuss plans to push for severely limiting early and mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Bumping this great article again now that Judge Boasberg is reopening his contempt investigation into the El Salvadoran flights.

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

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