Thinking of how hard they went after Hunter Biden for something something using his family name to set up some meetings.

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.

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Open bribery by a foreign leader. The exact scenario that the Founders feared.

"no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"

General Accounting Office estimates that Trump will soon run out of fraudsters to pardon.

Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:

wapo.st/448fDw6

North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.

ICE today deployed its agents in Charlotte. The decision follows years of retaliation from federal authorities and North Carolina Republicans—ever since voters elected a sheriff who opposed assisting ICE in 2018.

Bolts reported on this dynamic in 2023:

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.

ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.

We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.

Breaking: A bipartisan group of 58 former state AGs filed an amicus brief in United States v. James.
“This prosecution targets every state’s sovereignty,” the state attorneys general write. www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul... (1/3)

In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Girl Vulnerable to Exploitation

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

97.4% of ICE arrestees had no criminal record. And Bovino is on TV threatening to detain 1,615 more. It is just a xenophobic terror army.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

This is the 21st time I’ve posted this Doonesbury so far.

WHN graphic with a pale, enlarged illustration of a SARS-CoV-2 particle in the background and the whn.global logo at the top left. A teal line reads: “This is the first of a series of posts on Long COVID by David Brasure.” Big headline in black: “COVID isn’t a cold. It’s cigarettes all over again.” Footer line: “The World Health Network is a network devoted to global compassion—working together to inspire collective action through science for a safer, healthier world.”

WHN graphic on a light background with whn.global logo top left and teal line: “This is the first of a series of posts on Long COVID by David Brasure.” Large headline: “People feel ‘fine’ … until they’re not. Every infection leaves a physiological footprint.” Body text: “Research continues to show that COVID can cause inflammation, microclotting, and tissue injury across multiple organs — even after ‘mild’ or asymptomatic cases. Like smoking in the mid-century, the harm isn’t always immediate. People lived their lives normally until, suddenly, they couldn’t. Your body is keeping score.” Footer line with WHN mission: “The World Health Network is a network devoted to global compassion—working together to inspire collective action through science for a safer, healthier world.”

We’re five years into the pandemic, and the science is telling a very different story than “just a cold.” COVID affects blood vessels, organs, metabolism, and cognition — and the impacts compound with each infection.

the Trumpoid aiming for the Guinness Book of World Records

Source of Shackleton-Shackleton connection: environmenthalfcentury.princeton.edu/research/202...

Six-million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica offers unprecedented window into a warmer Earth | Newsroom CORVALLIS, Ore. — A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica. The 6-million-year-old ice and the tiny air...

& yes, researcher Sarah Shackleton is distantly related to Ernest Shackleton

A tweet from Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis) reads: “Dr. Oz linking obesity to dementia while Trump’s slumped over at his desk is absolutely a choice...” Below is a photo from C-SPAN showing Dr. Oz speaking at the White House podium while Trump sits at the Resolute Desk, leaning back in his chair with eyes closed, surrounded by officials. The C-SPAN chyron reads: “TRUMP ANNOUNCES DEAL WITH PHARMACEUTICAL FIRMS FOR LOWER WEIGHT LOSS DRUG COSTS.”

The 2025 writers are trolling us.

SOLUTION:

CRASH Johnson' press conferences.
BRING Adelita Grijalva and a bible.
DEMAND he swear her in right there on live TV.

It's so simple. It'll either get her sworn in or make Johnson stop doing these fucked up lie-filled pressers.

The Online Journalism Awards – Honoring the Best of Digital Journalism The OJAs honor excellence in digital journalism around the world, with 53 awards across 23 categories.

Good starting place for surfing to solid content & some worthy independent news sources

There's your answer on MTG

The only thing surprising about this is that it's Kash Patel's FBI telling ICE agents to ID themselves when grabbing people off the street & disappearing them.

It’s so much easier to lie when there are no economic statistics coming out of the government.

Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.

"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."

Court,

Lindsey Halligan here. You are ordering things that are simply not going to happen.

Thought you should have a heads up.

Thimerosal 1

Las Vegas tourism down again in September with Strip revenue falling 5.5% Las Vegas tourism again lagged behind 2024 in September, this time welcoming around 300,000 fewer visitors largely due to “slower midweek volumes,” according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors…

I’ve been sounding the alarm for months – it continues.
The Trump Slump is hitting Las Vegas hard:
📉 Tourism down nearly 9%
🎰 Strip revenue down 5%
Nevada’s economy can’t afford this decline in jobs and visitors.

One fact I didn't know until just now is that Michael Bloomberg's net worth increased from $55.5 billion in 2019 to $106 billion in 2025. Doubled.

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.

Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.