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Republican led House and Senate committees will investigate claims DOD Secretary Hegseth ordered killing of people who survived initial attack on boat suspected of smuggling: "notable step by Republican lawmakers who have spent much of the year deferring to...Trump" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Republican led House and Senate committees will investigate claims DOD Secretary Hegseth ordered killing of people who survived initial attack on boat suspected of smuggling: "notable step by Republican lawmakers who have spent much of the year deferring to...Trump" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
They said they were rounding up the worst of the worst, but DHS "says it has arrested more than 4,000 people....publicly identified only about 120 of those as having a criminal arrest or conviction, some for major crimes...others for nonviolent offenses" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
DHS swept Chicago to get ‘the worst’ criminals. Many have no record.
Aggressive tactics in Chicago have been deployed in DHS’s “Operation Midway Blitz” to round up more than 4,000 people, only a small portion of whom have major criminal records.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
They said they were rounding up the worst of the worst, but DHS "says it has arrested more than 4,000 people....publicly identified only about 120 of those as having a criminal arrest or conviction, some for major crimes...others for nonviolent offenses" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
[Totally monetizing the presidency] All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
[Totally monetizing the presidency] All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Has he ever met a rich fraudster he wouldn't pardon? "Trump granted clemency to private equity executive David Gentile, who had just begun a seven-year prison sentence for what prosecutors described as a $1.6bn fraud scheme" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump grants clemency to executive convicted in fraud scheme – report
David Gentile had just begun to serve a seven-year sentence for role in $1.6bn scheme that defrauded thousands
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Has he ever met a rich fraudster he wouldn't pardon? "Trump granted clemency to private equity executive David Gentile, who had just begun a seven-year prison sentence for what prosecutors described as a $1.6bn fraud scheme" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"federal watchdog system at DHS that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention, has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to 'abuse people with impunity'" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn
Former oversight officials alarmed by dismantling of DHS system that oversees complaints about civil rights harms
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"federal watchdog system at DHS that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention, has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to 'abuse people with impunity'" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump sent federal troops to 'save' Chicago. The 'Midway Blitz' raids forced the Windy City to defend itself “We're living in a horror movie.... our most important systems are being razed to the ground. But...we have an opportunity to build something better” www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Trump sent federal troops to 'save' Chicago. The 'Midway Blitz' raids forced the Windy City to defend itself | CBC News
After the death of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk, U.S. President Donald Trump promised "to save Chicago" from crime and migrants. But in the wake of violent immigration raids, Chicagoans themselves are d...
www.cbc.ca
November 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Trump sent federal troops to 'save' Chicago. The 'Midway Blitz' raids forced the Windy City to defend itself “We're living in a horror movie.... our most important systems are being razed to the ground. But...we have an opportunity to build something better” www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
[An unexpected way ICE facilitates crime] Miami man who told his friends his girlfriend had been seized by ICE has now been charged with her murder www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Miami man who claimed his girlfriend was seized by ICE is now charged with her murder
Saul Garcia-Gonzalez reported his girlfriend Nerida Martel missing just days before her body was found
www.the-independent.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
[An unexpected way ICE facilitates crime] Miami man who told his friends his girlfriend had been seized by ICE has now been charged with her murder www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Trump takes advantage of his gullible fans every which way "Trump offered his supporters exclusive Black Friday 'deals' on MAGA merchandise-but they appeared to be more expensive than the regular prices listed on his website" When will they realize it's a con? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump touts Black Friday merch ‘deals’ - which cost more than original prices
The email touted a MAGA hat Christmas ornament for $37. Yet, on the official Trump Merchandise Store website, the same decoration costs $30
www.independent.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Trump takes advantage of his gullible fans every which way "Trump offered his supporters exclusive Black Friday 'deals' on MAGA merchandise-but they appeared to be more expensive than the regular prices listed on his website" When will they realize it's a con? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Strong in IN, the Ku Klux Klan as prologue to today's Christian Nationalists there and beyond- "far-right conservatives shrouding xenophobia and nativism in a particular brand of Christianity...restricting immigration, diversity and inclusion, and gender identity" www.indystar.com/story/news/i...
The Ku Klux Klan once ruled Indiana. Is its rhetoric returning?
Past iterations of Christian nationalism have spawned racism and discrimination, historians say.
www.indystar.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Strong in IN, the Ku Klux Klan as prologue to today's Christian Nationalists there and beyond- "far-right conservatives shrouding xenophobia and nativism in a particular brand of Christianity...restricting immigration, diversity and inclusion, and gender identity" www.indystar.com/story/news/i...
Our pro-Putin regime "Lobbyists and clergy with ties to the Russian Orthodox Church... staunch backer of...Putin’s war in Ukraine.... meeting with the White House Faith Office" Pro-Ukraine congresspeople call the group "key arm of the [Russian] war effort against Ukraine" thehill.com/policy/inter...
thehill.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Our pro-Putin regime "Lobbyists and clergy with ties to the Russian Orthodox Church... staunch backer of...Putin’s war in Ukraine.... meeting with the White House Faith Office" Pro-Ukraine congresspeople call the group "key arm of the [Russian] war effort against Ukraine" thehill.com/policy/inter...
CA Man locally known for working for ICE, apparently off-duty, arrested for pulling gun on Mexican-American "17-year-old was driving home after dropping a friend off down the street....'“ thinks he can now turn his own block into his personal ICE checkpoint'" thehill.com/homenews/sta...
thehill.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
CA Man locally known for working for ICE, apparently off-duty, arrested for pulling gun on Mexican-American "17-year-old was driving home after dropping a friend off down the street....'“ thinks he can now turn his own block into his personal ICE checkpoint'" thehill.com/homenews/sta...
Continuing threats of violence that help Trump's "priorities": Greg Goode, IN state legislator Trump called a "RINO" for not supporting Trump's redistricting election manipulation scheme, "swatted" www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Indiana Republican called out by Trump on redistricting is swatted
Authorities said sheriff’s deputies responded to the home of state Sen. Greg Goode’s after a false report of violence.
www.politico.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Continuing threats of violence that help Trump's "priorities": Greg Goode, IN state legislator Trump called a "RINO" for not supporting Trump's redistricting election manipulation scheme, "swatted" www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Former military officials' report "about the risks of politicizing the nation’s armed forces....warns that increasing domestic military deployments" eg, of national guard and removing senior military officers and legal advisers have made military appear partisan www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump has ‘blurred’ line between military and politics, ex-officers warn
Former leaders’ report cautions against politicizing armed forces as national guard deployments raise tensions in US
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Former military officials' report "about the risks of politicizing the nation’s armed forces....warns that increasing domestic military deployments" eg, of national guard and removing senior military officers and legal advisers have made military appear partisan www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ed Martin, tapped by Trump to investigate those who probed Trump's previous conduct, eg around Jan 6, accused by whistleblower of "'concealing and destroying' communications related to his work as head of the Weaponization Working Group" What would he be hiding? thehill.com/homenews/hou...
thehill.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Ed Martin, tapped by Trump to investigate those who probed Trump's previous conduct, eg around Jan 6, accused by whistleblower of "'concealing and destroying' communications related to his work as head of the Weaponization Working Group" What would he be hiding? thehill.com/homenews/hou...
Reminder: the Pilgrims and Puritans were "high-control radical Protestant doomsday groups." From them we inherited "knee-jerk anti-intellectualism, obsession with self-investigation, tendency to worship the wealthy, and desire for a strong man to rescue us" www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists
The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.
www.thenation.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Reminder: the Pilgrims and Puritans were "high-control radical Protestant doomsday groups." From them we inherited "knee-jerk anti-intellectualism, obsession with self-investigation, tendency to worship the wealthy, and desire for a strong man to rescue us" www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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New in PN: MAGA's Epstein gaslighting is unsustainable
"The Epstein files are a 'hoax,' Trump says — a lie made up by Dems to make him look bad. Yet somehow, at the same time, there’s nothing in them that could make him look bad — b/c if there was, Biden would have released them. So which is it?"
"The Epstein files are a 'hoax,' Trump says — a lie made up by Dems to make him look bad. Yet somehow, at the same time, there’s nothing in them that could make him look bad — b/c if there was, Biden would have released them. So which is it?"
MAGA's Epstein gaslighting is unsustainable
To believe anything they say requires a complete suspension of common sense.
www.publicnotice.co
November 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
New in PN: MAGA's Epstein gaslighting is unsustainable
"The Epstein files are a 'hoax,' Trump says — a lie made up by Dems to make him look bad. Yet somehow, at the same time, there’s nothing in them that could make him look bad — b/c if there was, Biden would have released them. So which is it?"
"The Epstein files are a 'hoax,' Trump says — a lie made up by Dems to make him look bad. Yet somehow, at the same time, there’s nothing in them that could make him look bad — b/c if there was, Biden would have released them. So which is it?"
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Media need to report on this as they report on other baseless claims of the antivax movement, bc the lunatics are running the asylum at the FDA.
The institution is compromised. Make it clear who made this decision and how little work they showed *in the headline*. Don’t confuse the public further.
The institution is compromised. Make it clear who made this decision and how little work they showed *in the headline*. Don’t confuse the public further.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Media need to report on this as they report on other baseless claims of the antivax movement, bc the lunatics are running the asylum at the FDA.
The institution is compromised. Make it clear who made this decision and how little work they showed *in the headline*. Don’t confuse the public further.
The institution is compromised. Make it clear who made this decision and how little work they showed *in the headline*. Don’t confuse the public further.
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When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
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I’m old enough to remember… oh never mind. These hypocrites don’t give a damn about their hypocrisy. They spend years falsely accusing various members of “the left” of doing what they have absolutely no problem and no shame doing themselves. The “censorship industrial complex” scam.
The White House web site now includes a "media bias" tracker with a leaderboard and an offender hall of shame. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I’m old enough to remember… oh never mind. These hypocrites don’t give a damn about their hypocrisy. They spend years falsely accusing various members of “the left” of doing what they have absolutely no problem and no shame doing themselves. The “censorship industrial complex” scam.
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Real photo.
So yes, this pic (and the enlargement) was taken today.
Yikes!
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Yikes!
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November 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Real photo.
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When an ICE agent fired the tear gas canister, it hit 55-year-old nurse Vincent Hawkins in the face, shattering his glasses and concussing him.
As he was rushed to the emergency room, he wondered if he'd ever see through his left eye again.
As he was rushed to the emergency room, he wondered if he'd ever see through his left eye again.
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
When an ICE agent fired the tear gas canister, it hit 55-year-old nurse Vincent Hawkins in the face, shattering his glasses and concussing him.
As he was rushed to the emergency room, he wondered if he'd ever see through his left eye again.
As he was rushed to the emergency room, he wondered if he'd ever see through his left eye again.
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Hegseth’s foolish threat to investigate Sen. Mark Kelly for urging military to refuse illegal orders is more sickening in light of his illegal order to “kill everyone” after two wounded men survived his first military strike. Hegseth must be held accountable.
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Must Pete Hegseth Be Investigated Now?
A Saturday Prompt
www.americaamerica.news
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Hegseth’s foolish threat to investigate Sen. Mark Kelly for urging military to refuse illegal orders is more sickening in light of his illegal order to “kill everyone” after two wounded men survived his first military strike. Hegseth must be held accountable.
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Obvious war-crimes=red line? Senate and House "Republican-led committees...will amplify their scrutiny of the Pentagon after...report revealing that DOD Secretary...Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all... aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Congressional committees vow to boost oversight in killing of boat strike survivors
The Senate and House armed services committees’ pledge followed a Washington Post report revealing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered that a U.S. strike leave no survivors.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Obvious war-crimes=red line? Senate and House "Republican-led committees...will amplify their scrutiny of the Pentagon after...report revealing that DOD Secretary...Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all... aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Impeach the ghouls.
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Impeach the ghouls.
Retired judges warn that the rule of law is unraveling "warn that Trump’s clashes with judges echo how leaders in foreign countries sought to undermine...their courts" [Hungary to Israel] 'All you have to do is look back on what occurred in Nazi Germany'" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Retired judges warn that the rule of law is unraveling
In interviews, former state and federal judges describe the consequences when the rule of law begins to falter, warning that democracy’s guardrails may already be weakened.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Retired judges warn that the rule of law is unraveling "warn that Trump’s clashes with judges echo how leaders in foreign countries sought to undermine...their courts" [Hungary to Israel] 'All you have to do is look back on what occurred in Nazi Germany'" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...