Kirk Ellis

In Raleigh...

In case folks forgot what happened, Khashoggi entered a Saudi consulate in Istanbul to get a document so he could get married while his fiancée waited outside. He never left because he was murdered and dismembered with a bone saw inside the building. The US intel community said MBS ordered it.

Johnson’s victims, according to a pair of arrest affidavits, were the child of his now ex-girlfriend and a friend of the first child.

No one should gloss over how appalling this is. A president who feels this comfortable demeaning women, and so many others, is nothing short of embarrassing and shameful.

Or Jesse's Girl.

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.

By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.

"(Hitler's) feeling for men is not that they co-exist, but that they are capable of being arranged and standardized by a superior intellect...." - E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web

An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.

www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

Drew Barrymore in 1984

Drew Barrymore, recently

Born February 22, 1975, Drew Barrymore is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley’s age on the day ‘Cocoon’ was released. Congrats Drew! You’ve reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

A reminder of what their campaign ads looked like:

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"

It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility

GOP congressmen want the National Guard in Charlotte. Here's where violent crime is a bigger problem. Sure, the data can't always tell the entire story. But one representative who's asking for a deployment isn't suggesting the same solution for a more violent place in his own district.

Rep. Mark Harris wants the National Guard to help fight crime in Charlotte. Data shows that the more rural parts of his district have a higher rate of violent crime. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/republican...

The Epstein Files… otherwise known as the Trump Pardon List

Biscuit

Trump ‘Spent Hours’ With an Epstein Victim, Epstein Said What if Qanon was right?

If Trump was deeply involved with Epstein and the pedophile ring, what would he be doing differently to cover his tracks? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-spen...

I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

This is….INSANE. Like, more INSANE than regular insane.

From the making of THE LORD OF THE RINGS films: That’s Rivendell, brought to life in a parking lot. It’s shit like this that makes me scream about obviously intangible, nonsensical CGI environments in film that make it impossible to emotionally connect to what you’re watching.

Photographer unknown.

A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.

In times like these, links are needed because it's far too easy to throw up a faked headline. So I'm sliding in to assist with the receipts: www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

Trump: We gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It’s much better than the Congressional Medal of Honor because soldiers get the Congressional. And they’re in very bad shape because they're dead. She gets it and she's a healthy, beautiful woman. And they’re rated equal

Drama in a Time of No Consequences The Lowdown finds hope in a world where most crimes go unpunished.

wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out

www.vulture.com/article/the-...

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Two minutes silence (1928)
By Charles Spencelayh

Knowing this administration, somewhere a writer is desperately trying to figure out how to tell Lincoln’s story without including Black people

(pic taken yesterday on the steps of the memorial)

Well, that’s a new one.

Trump pardons top allies who aided bid to subvert the 2020 election Pardon recipients include Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman and dozens more.

Trump's pardon of allies who helped him try to subvert the 2020 election is important. It's a permission slip--no, it's an encouragement, even an order--to allies to be ready to try to subvert the elections in 2026, and 2028.
politi.co/3WN7A3T

Trump Preemptively Pardons Rudy Giuliani, Others Involved in Attempt to Overturn 2020 Election | National Review Trump also pardoned John Eastman, Sidney Powell, and dozens of other Republicans who came forward to act as alternate electors.

Perhaps better headline:

Trump preemptively pardons everyone planning on election subversion in 2026 and 2028.

www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-p...

Don't ask me for a fucking dime, in the Zohran for NYC fonts

These same bums will be asking us for cash at the next deadline; looking forward to sending this back to every Senate fundraising text

remember tuesday? that was 86 years ago