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The One Move That Tells Us How Crazy-Panicked Trump Is About Epstein LBJ used to have a bourbon with stubborn members of Congress. Trump locks them in the Situation Room.

The One Move That Tells Us HowCrazy-Panicked Trump Is About Epstein newrepublic.com/post/203207/... via @newrepublic.com

Opinion | Congress needs to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies now The shutdown ended after the Senate's GOP majority leader promised a December vote to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act. That's too late for many families.

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Military personnel seek legal advice on whether Trump-ordered missions are lawful Military service personnel have been seeking outside legal advice about some of the missions the Trump administration has assigned them. The strikes against alleged drug traffickers and deployments to...

More Military personnel are calling legal military non-profit agencies seeking advice for orders they received.
The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity.
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“We as Catholic bishops love our country and pray for its peace and prosperity. For this very reason, we feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignit... TikTok video by usbishops

Catholic bishops collectively taking to Tik Tok to decry the war on immigrants is very notable: www.tiktok.com/@usbishops/v...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Bondi Assigns Prosecutor to Look Into Epstein’s Ties to Prominent Democrats

Trump Administration Live Updates: Bondi Assigns Prosecutor to Look Into Epstein’s Ties to Prominent Democrats www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

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.

Public Colleges Face Financial Crisis as Federal Cuts, State Budget Pressures Mount Multi-billion dollar federal funding reductions and state appropriation cuts threaten university operations nationwide.

Public colleges and universities across the United States are confronting a severe financial squeeze as federal funding cuts, declining state support, and enrollment uncertainties converge to create what education leaders warn could be a prolonged fiscal crisis.

Latino Voting Group Sues Texas AG Paxton Over Voter Retaliation, Intimidation Efforts Read more here.

A pro-voting group working to increase Latino youth voter participation sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over his alleged attempt to dissolve the organization entirely. The group claims the move is meant to intimidate and suppress Latino voters.

I’m thinking they won’t. Since you sued to “undo” feeding them and fucked their healthcare premiums.

Thank you for reminding people about the Bsdd Street Neighborhood and it importance to the history of African Americans and Nashville.

Why JD Vance’s effort to blame immigrants for housing prices is a self-defeating mess The vice president claimed low-income immigrants are entering the U.S., becoming “servants” and buying up excessive amounts of real estate. Seriously?

JD Vance claims millions of struggling immigrants are entering the U.S. and becoming “servants.”

He also thinks they’re getting mortgages and buying up excessive amounts of real estate, driving up home prices.

It’s as if he’s not even trying to make sense anymore. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

The State Of The Civil War In Sudan : 1A The civil war in Sudan has claimed the lives of some 150,000 people.From the outside looking in, the story of the war is one of two competing generals, foreign involvement complicating matters, and ma...

This is an outstanding segment on what is perhaps the world's worst war-driven humanitarian crisis, which is woefully neglected. www.npr.org/2025/11/13/n...

UPDATE: After loud bipartisan backlash to a shameless provision that lets Republican senators sue for millions of taxpayer dollars for getting their phone records looked at, @MarshaBlackburn now supports reversing it.🤔

So if it isn’t reversed she won’t use it? #MarshaMoneyGrab

Economic promises helped Trump get elected. Now he has an affordability problem Americans are feeling the strain of high prices, even as President Trump tries to tout "record highs" in the stock market.

Americans are feeling the strain of high prices, even as President Trump tries to tout "record highs" in the stock market. n.pr/4r0zbwg

Sometimes we agitate in state courts. [Utah trial court strikes down gerrymandered map.] Sometimes we go to federal court. LWV v DHS. Yes, we are nonpartisan. But when we defend the US Constitution, we are defending the backbone of this country—for all. bit.ly/4g5RcEq

This little man is out of control.

I feel like I’m saying that all the time.

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Nov. 14, 1960 | Six-Year-Old Ruby Bridges Integrates Elementary School Amidst Riots Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

White Mobs Violently Riot Against Six-Year-Old Ruby Bridges Integrating Elementary School
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Fort Polk, Louisiana Leonidas Polk was an enslaver who bragged about whipping Black people.

Leonidas Polk is known to historians as "arguably the worst tactical or strategic military leader in the entire [Civil War.]" He was an enslaver who boasted about whipping Black people. His name was restored on a Louisiana army base earlier this year.

Here’s @RepTedLieu responding to @RepTimBurchett’s shenanigans

(In fairness Burchett probably doesn’t even know how anything works)

YouTube video by Katie Phang Trump Hit With MASSIVE Lawsuit Over Student Loan SCANDAL

Trump wants to stop millions of student loan borrowers who have worked for non-profits & other qualifying employers from Congressionally-guaranteed loan forgiveness.

@studentdefense.bsky.social has sued to stop Trump & Sec. of Ed. McMahon from targeting opposing politics.

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Trump’s Unpublished National Security Strategy Is Stephen Miller’s Far-Right Wet Dream The president’s new national-security draft document rants against migration and cultural “erasure” – and endorses far-right political parties abroad, sources tell Zeteo.

Trump’s Unpublished National Security Strategy Is Stephen Miller’s Far-Right Wet Dream
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The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now rewriting MAGA’s future
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A woman with long blond hair in a light yellow shirt stands in a yard with a big tree and gray wall. A headline reads: "The Shutdown Is Over. But for Federal Workers, The Anxiety Persists." Photo by Ariana Dehsler for The New York Times

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history has ended, but the uncertainty for federal workers is far from over. “Even with back pay, we’ll still be starting behind and playing catch-up for a while,” said one Veterans Affairs employee who was furloughed for weeks. nyti.ms/4i4bP56

Mark Wolf

Mark Wolf, a federal judge appointed by Reagan, is resigning after 40 years on the bench.

In an essay published by The Atlantic this week, he wrote, “The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable.”

House Republicans: how you vote next week will be on your record long after Trump is gone. 2028, 2030, and beyond.

Vote against the discharge petition and we will remind people every day which side of history you were on.

Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has referred Swalwell to the DOJ for a criminal probe, alleging mortgage and tax fraud on his Washington, D.C. home.

It’s the fourth time the administration has tried to use mortgage fraud against Democratic opponents. trib.al/iNCTPbG

My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?

Senator in 2010 deposition: 13-year-olds can consent to sex U.S. Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma testified as part of a civil case into an alleged sexual assault at the Baptist church camp he oversaw that he believed a 13-year-old can consent to sex.

Just throwing this out there for reasons

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Epstein accusers say they are compiling list of his associates Victims of the disgraced financier give emotional accounts of abuse in a news conference on the steps of the US Capitol.

The only reason we know anything about the Epstein files is because the survivors refused to give up.

This release is about the the bravery & tenacity of the survivors who continue to fight for justice in a system seeking to crush, silence, and erase them.