Kira
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WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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Just as I predicted.
We just had our first snow. Soon there won’t be any lawn work, so there won’t be Latino men doing low-wage work standing outside that they can find by chopper & drone & direct Border Patrol from the air to the right house to kidnap men for gardening while brown.
We just had our first snow. Soon there won’t be any lawn work, so there won’t be Latino men doing low-wage work standing outside that they can find by chopper & drone & direct Border Patrol from the air to the right house to kidnap men for gardening while brown.
"Another source with direct knowledge said the number of Border Patrol agents currently operating in the Chicago area will go from 250 down to 100. But in March, that number could increase to 1,000 agents."
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
U.S. Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, fellow agents expected to leave Chicago soon
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin insists “we aren’t leaving Chicago,” but the feds' immigration campaign is expected to begin winding down. However, one source said they could b...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Just as I predicted.
We just had our first snow. Soon there won’t be any lawn work, so there won’t be Latino men doing low-wage work standing outside that they can find by chopper & drone & direct Border Patrol from the air to the right house to kidnap men for gardening while brown.
We just had our first snow. Soon there won’t be any lawn work, so there won’t be Latino men doing low-wage work standing outside that they can find by chopper & drone & direct Border Patrol from the air to the right house to kidnap men for gardening while brown.
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Former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon lays it out clearly:
There’s no path to peace – or a stable Gaza – without a reformed Palestinian leadership, a credible two-state process and an end to Netanyahu’s obstruction. 🗞️
There’s no path to peace – or a stable Gaza – without a reformed Palestinian leadership, a credible two-state process and an end to Netanyahu’s obstruction. 🗞️
The Gaza plan needs fleshing out quickly, writes a former Israeli security chief
Ultimately, explains Ami Ayalon, Binyamin Netanyahu will have to be gone for the vision to be realised
www.economist.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon lays it out clearly:
There’s no path to peace – or a stable Gaza – without a reformed Palestinian leadership, a credible two-state process and an end to Netanyahu’s obstruction. 🗞️
There’s no path to peace – or a stable Gaza – without a reformed Palestinian leadership, a credible two-state process and an end to Netanyahu’s obstruction. 🗞️
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“The Angus Kings, John Fettermans, Jeanne Shaheens, and Chuck Schumers will be remembered by the history books as craven appeasers, and nothing more. They do not deserve one moment of peace until good people can force them off a platform they do not deserve.”
Amen.
Amen.
In Chicago, the courage of good, everyday folks getting in the face of ICE/BP and fighting back is restoring my faith in America
In DC, the cowardice of Senate Democrats has undermined it, again
America needs a government as good as its people. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
In DC, the cowardice of Senate Democrats has undermined it, again
America needs a government as good as its people. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
A nation of heroes, a Senate of cowards | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, Cheney didn’t save us from Trump. He created him.
www.inquirer.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
“The Angus Kings, John Fettermans, Jeanne Shaheens, and Chuck Schumers will be remembered by the history books as craven appeasers, and nothing more. They do not deserve one moment of peace until good people can force them off a platform they do not deserve.”
Amen.
Amen.
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons
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November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Keep in mind, Trump's pardons meant that a great many Jan6 criminals didn't pay off their debt for ransacking the Capitol.
So these Senators are adding to the cost of Trump's attack on the Capitol even while taxpayers ALSO have to pay for his attack.
So these Senators are adding to the cost of Trump's attack on the Capitol even while taxpayers ALSO have to pay for his attack.
"The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight GOP senators to sue over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Keep in mind, Trump's pardons meant that a great many Jan6 criminals didn't pay off their debt for ransacking the Capitol.
So these Senators are adding to the cost of Trump's attack on the Capitol even while taxpayers ALSO have to pay for his attack.
So these Senators are adding to the cost of Trump's attack on the Capitol even while taxpayers ALSO have to pay for his attack.
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Comey’s reply brief in his vindictive prosecution motion lays out in a one-sentence nutshell why the indictment—alleging leaks to Richman “at the FBI”—appears to fail. See @annabower on dates Richman was “at the FBI”:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Comey’s reply brief in his vindictive prosecution motion lays out in a one-sentence nutshell why the indictment—alleging leaks to Richman “at the FBI”—appears to fail. See @annabower on dates Richman was “at the FBI”:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...
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This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
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it is almost as if someone was promoted beyond their ability
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
it is almost as if someone was promoted beyond their ability
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"The commander of US Southern Command, Adm. Alvin Holsey, offered to resign during a tense meeting last month with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ... after he raised questions about the legality of the strikes ... Holsey will leave his post in December, just one year into his tenure."
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"The commander of US Southern Command, Adm. Alvin Holsey, offered to resign during a tense meeting last month with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ... after he raised questions about the legality of the strikes ... Holsey will leave his post in December, just one year into his tenure."
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JUST IN: The Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago is expected to soon ramp down as Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino and many of his fellow agents prepare to move on to another city, Jon Seidel reports.
U.S. Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, fellow agents expected to soon leave Chicago
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
JUST IN: The Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago is expected to soon ramp down as Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino and many of his fellow agents prepare to move on to another city, Jon Seidel reports.
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That’s what the should have done in April. But instead, they continue confirming, passing budgets, and allowing unanimous consent to continue apace. Squandering every tool the minority has to slow the GOP’s continued insurrection.
Schumer and co. simply aren’t up to meeting the moment.
Schumer and co. simply aren’t up to meeting the moment.
Now that Dems have capitulated, at the very least they should now make every future extension of funding contingent on Trump following the law. Any lawbreaking must be met with: No more votes from us, period.
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
That’s what the should have done in April. But instead, they continue confirming, passing budgets, and allowing unanimous consent to continue apace. Squandering every tool the minority has to slow the GOP’s continued insurrection.
Schumer and co. simply aren’t up to meeting the moment.
Schumer and co. simply aren’t up to meeting the moment.
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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On MSNBC, @alivitali.bsky.social just said her reporting is that the Traitorous 8 kept Schumer in the loop through their negotiations with the devils. As we suspected. Schumer is complicit and must go.
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
On MSNBC, @alivitali.bsky.social just said her reporting is that the Traitorous 8 kept Schumer in the loop through their negotiations with the devils. As we suspected. Schumer is complicit and must go.
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“Such denunciations of antisemitism by Republicans and conservatives are all to the good. But something important is missing. These figures omit any accounting of the prime force fostering a political climate in which all forms of hatred flourish: Donald J. Trump.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/right-wing...
www.thebulwark.com/p/right-wing...
Right-Wing Critics of Antisemitism Keep Weirdly Mum About Trump
But this fish rots from the head.
www.thebulwark.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
“Such denunciations of antisemitism by Republicans and conservatives are all to the good. But something important is missing. These figures omit any accounting of the prime force fostering a political climate in which all forms of hatred flourish: Donald J. Trump.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/right-wing...
www.thebulwark.com/p/right-wing...
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I guess I need to add that pundits have to get out of a normal democracy mindset too.
It’s been a decade of democratic backsliding, and nearly a year of rapid descent. Writing as if it’s 2013 or 1995 is out of touch. Either ”I have my head in the sand” or “I like this but won’t say so directly.”
It’s been a decade of democratic backsliding, and nearly a year of rapid descent. Writing as if it’s 2013 or 1995 is out of touch. Either ”I have my head in the sand” or “I like this but won’t say so directly.”
Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset
By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it
www.arcdigital.media
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I guess I need to add that pundits have to get out of a normal democracy mindset too.
It’s been a decade of democratic backsliding, and nearly a year of rapid descent. Writing as if it’s 2013 or 1995 is out of touch. Either ”I have my head in the sand” or “I like this but won’t say so directly.”
It’s been a decade of democratic backsliding, and nearly a year of rapid descent. Writing as if it’s 2013 or 1995 is out of touch. Either ”I have my head in the sand” or “I like this but won’t say so directly.”
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No, false.
This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking.
No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did.
Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.
This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking.
No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did.
Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
No, false.
This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking.
No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did.
Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.
This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking.
No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did.
Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.
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"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn"
Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?
Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?
"Investors have been selling off the debt of US tech heavyweights, showing how jitters over Silicon Valley’s boom in spending on artificial intelligence have spilled into the bond market."
Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market
Debt issued by groups building data centres has been hit in recent weeks
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn"
Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?
Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?
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Precisely. As a world “leader” the U.S. is done for decades.
In a White House meeting with civil rights leaders in early 2021, President Biden recounted his first trip to Europe. Biden he announced to them, “America’s back!” The European leaders said “yeah, but for how long?”
They were skeptical.
In a White House meeting with civil rights leaders in early 2021, President Biden recounted his first trip to Europe. Biden he announced to them, “America’s back!” The European leaders said “yeah, but for how long?”
They were skeptical.
There's arguably no effective way for any future administration to undo the strategic damage being done to the U.S.'s relations with these and other states.
No matter what we do, the U.S. will be seen as an untrustworthy, craven & mercurial "partner"—something simply to be endured or hedged.
No matter what we do, the U.S. will be seen as an untrustworthy, craven & mercurial "partner"—something simply to be endured or hedged.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Precisely. As a world “leader” the U.S. is done for decades.
In a White House meeting with civil rights leaders in early 2021, President Biden recounted his first trip to Europe. Biden he announced to them, “America’s back!” The European leaders said “yeah, but for how long?”
They were skeptical.
In a White House meeting with civil rights leaders in early 2021, President Biden recounted his first trip to Europe. Biden he announced to them, “America’s back!” The European leaders said “yeah, but for how long?”
They were skeptical.
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The Democrats in the Senate who handed the GOP a lifeline with the shutdown cave in stopped a massive Trump cave in that would have happened sooner rather than later. With the busiest flying season approaching, Trump desperately needed a deal. Sadly Democrats gave it to him.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The Democrats in the Senate who handed the GOP a lifeline with the shutdown cave in stopped a massive Trump cave in that would have happened sooner rather than later. With the busiest flying season approaching, Trump desperately needed a deal. Sadly Democrats gave it to him.
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It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
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///BREAKING/// Controversial Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and a surge of agents appear to be leaving Chicago within days as "Operation Midway Blitz" winds down after two months, sources tell the Tribune.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
///BREAKING/// Controversial Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and a surge of agents appear to be leaving Chicago within days as "Operation Midway Blitz" winds down after two months, sources tell the Tribune.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...