James O'Keefe

OVERT ACT 125 In additional furtherance of the conspiracy, DEFENDANTS met on November 12, 2025 to discuss ways to wield official government power to prevent further news of the child sex trafficking ring from becoming public.

Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.

Maybe bsky.app/profile/dday...

Reminds me of Syriza's capitulation in 2015.

Cave bill text is out
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Trump has shown that he does not feel bound to congressional appropriations.

No deal is worth the paper it’s written on without changing that.

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542

Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224

King (ME) 202 224-5344

Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324

Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451

Masto (NV) 202 224-3542

Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

2/ The Senators who want to vote yes on basically any terms appear to be shaheen, Hassan, king and Fetterman. Slightly less clear but I think pushing that way are Peters and Durbin. You’ll note that four of these six are retiring. Others who seem on the fence include the two sens from Georgia and …

If Dems accept this deal, it will help the GOP cement the following ideas into the public conscience over the coming 4 weeks:

-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump

Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.

Can you imagine if today’s CNN existed, watching FDR’s second inaugural? Abby Phillips turning to Van Jones, and Jones explaining how FDR missed a real opportunity to reach across the aisle, by defiantly welcoming their hatred. Yeah …

Why America’s Government Shutdowns Exist and How to End Them One Legal Memo Created The Shutdown Era. Another Can End It.

Did you know gov shutdowns aren’t in the Constitution, any law, or Court ruling?
They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns.

What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:

As I wrote here masspirates.org/blog/2025/10...

The GOP wants the shutdown as a way to get government employees to quit and downsize the federal government further. Also, they never needed votes from Dems. to get a their spending bill passed.

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”

The result was “institutionalized hunger.”

@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This has not gotten much attention, but it should.

Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.

Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

#Massachusetts to resume full #SNAP payments today even as regime declares it would rather starve children than stop terrorizing American cities
www.universalhub.com/2025/regime-...

Yes, the Trump administration is eviscerating the due process rights of immigrants Part two of my response to Pirate Wires editor Harris Sockel's disingenuous defense of Trump's immigration policy

Also, it’s stories like this that make me all the more enraged at the hand waving from bullshit propaganda sites like PirateWires.

radleybalko.substack.com/p/yes-the-tr...

He Was a Beloved Dog Trainer and an Asylum Seeker. Why Was He Detained? The humans love him, and so do the canines. What happened when ICE took Seyre Mussa Traore away.

Maybe it’s the dog angle that hit me harder, but this story is crushing. They’re destroying people for no reason.

www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Fourteen suburban moms arrested in sit-in protest outside Broadview ICE facility The mothers sat in a circle on Beach Street on Friday to “demand an end” to the immigration raids that have swept through the Chicago area since the Trump administration launched “Operation Midway Bli...

This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area.

“We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”

Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped Publishing Workforce Diversity Data Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.

They're hiding the resegregation of the tech industry.

www.wired.com/story/google...

2009 was the opportunity for the Democrats to secure a majority for a generation. Instead, they bailed out the people who caused the financial crisis, made an economic stimulus that was too small and foamed the runway for Wall Street with $50 billion to keep banks from foreclosing on people's houses

It could have just said: "You aren't alone. Call 988. There are people there who can help." OpenAI wants the appearance of helping people without actually providing help, which costs money, and is like all the big tech companies.

What the fuck

Elon and Marco are genocidaires and I hope they are one day tried in chains at the Hague.

Rare truth from him as we do in fact have soybeans rotting away in silos at levels nobody's seen before

Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.

So their plan is to start cutting flights two and a half weeks before Thanksgiving.

I'm sure that will go great.

Daycares in our neighborhood are no longer answering their doors after morning drop-off. Parents have to call the daycare when they arrive and they let them in for pickup. It's insane how we live now.

Bit longer, but nowhere near as long as Crassus drinking molten gold.

We fought a revolution to end warrantless entry of private property. Grrrrrr.....