Trump's not only made it clear his administration is completly opposed to DEI, it's also completely opposed to DEscalation. Instead if things are simmering, they make sure to take it to a boil. Which is how we got to where we are today.

When he was asked if he threw “a canister of CS gas,” Bovino said he did not. “Okay. Why not?” he was asked. “You said canister. I threw two. That’s — that’s plural,” Bovino responded. Bovino also said he believed agents were justified in using tear gas in a residential neighborhood prior to […]

Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The Bolivian government has confirmed that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will return to the country "very soon," marking the biggest shift in Bolivia's anti-drug policy since the government of Evo Morales expelled the agency in 2008 […]

Colorado Judge Tells Immigration Agents to Stop Arrests Without Warrants. The ruling that immigration agents are acting illegally is the latest to rebuke the Trump administration’s tactics, but earlier orders have been blocked on appeal.https://www.nytimes […]

The whole point of this exercise was to get L.A. or Chicago or Portland . . . the list goes on . . . to exactly the point where D.C. is at today. And we know this because of how rapidly they decide to double down on the number of National Guard members there.

You knew this was coming. "The defense secretary said President Trump had ordered him to deploy 500 more troops to Washington."

Live Updates: Two National Guard Members Shot Near White House West Virginia’s governor said the Guardsmen had been killed, then backtracked. The police said one suspect was in custody. President Trump, who is in Florida, said the attacker also had been shot […]

(AP) Two National Guard members have died after bein shot near the White House, the state's governor says.

Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago The Trump administration has claimed the police were slow to protect federal agents on Oct. 4, but videos and audio show that their rationale conflates hours of events involving a shooting, a […]

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee set a Nov. 14 deadline for the appointment of a new prosecutor, so Pete Skandalakis, executive director for the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia chose to appoint himself rather than allowing the case to be dismissed. “Several prosecutors […]

After President Donald Trump’s reported intervention, Paramount Pictures is set to distribute Brett Ratner’s “Rush Hour 4,” a project that Hollywood had eschewed after earlier sexual misconduct allegations against the director […]

ICE detains woman with family ties to White House press secretary Bruna Caroline Ferreira, the former fiancée of Karoline Leavitt’s brother, was arrested on Nov. 12 and placed in detention in Louisiana. Jeffrey B. Rubin, Pomerleau’s law partner, used the term “Shakespearean irony” to describe […]

Supreme Court: Look, we've agreed to look at three cases involving him firing people, and this one is best handled after we decide the other two. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/26/perlmutter-copyright-supreme-court-firing/

Hed you won't see: Traitor leverages FBI control to investigate sitting members of congress he called traitors.

(WaPo) One of the guardsmen was in critical condition, the people said. By 3 p.m., D.C. police said they had one suspect in custody. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/11/26/national-guard-shooting-white-house-washington/

Two National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn’t known, AP source says https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-shooting-dc-c5785dd8920d2d1ac7d71fab769faf5f

"There is no realistic prospect that a sitting President will be compelled to appear in Georgia to stand trial on the allegations in this indictment,” prosecutor Peter Skandalakis wrote to the court this morning. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/26/georgia-donald-trump-electon-case-00669703

(CATO Institute)"5% of People Detained By ICE Have Violent Convictions, 73% No Convictions" "More important than the share of arrests is the absolute number of these arrests. By late July, ICE arrests of immigrants w/o criminal convictions increased by 571% from the weekly average to start the […]

I swear the only way this county can legit call it the "upper midwest" is by going continental. Without Canada the entire Great Lakes region becomes the north and if you've ever been there in Winter - yeah.

I'm so old I remember when Dems and Progressives bought that Sinema was on their side? Now? Sinema: "This is a disruptive administration. In Trump 1.0, he didn’t think he was going to win. When he did win, he gathered all the people around him & they were all normies. He hired all these normal […]

(1) the very LAST thing this administration should do is give all of America images of Sen. Mark Kelley back in uniform. Bring it.

No, Trump's dream for the White House grounds is NOT to make another Mar-a-Lago, and might not be the copy of the Kremlin in Moscow. The Kremlin in Kazan though . . . We let him get to the second half without checking him and that ballroom monstrosity will only be the start.

(don't worry, Trump knows how to fix the problem - tear down the White House and build a bigger, golden one. ) Trump’s desire to go big with the project has put him at odds with architect James McCrery II, the people said, who has counseled restraint over concerns the planned 90,000-square-foot […]

From the Department of Pushback - "Representative Eric Swalwell of California on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, claiming Mr. Pulte breached federal privacy laws by repeatedly disclosing documents intended to accuse prominent […]

I read this piece all about going to what I'd call an anti-vaxx/religious event. The author spent days watching, listening, letting people bend his ear with all kinds of nonsense. What the reporter said that stuck with me was the event was more about "giving testimony," concocting answers to […]

Society could have gotten better, the world smarter, more able to recognize when people trying to gain power are lying through their collective dentures if we'd all jumped on with the intention of learning things, starting with rudimentary ways of sorting the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Reminder to all who just set up a Mastodon account. Following accounts is the LAST order of business. The First order is to fill out your profile. The Second order of business is to write an #Introduction that lets everyone know more about you than the profile itself. Put the hashtag […]

This was NOT about removing "dangerous criminals" from the U.S. before they could do "dangerous" again. It was all about establishing dominance over the courts - and it's hardly the only time it's happened. Think about what was really said between Bove and Noem. Pretty sure it was more ugly […]

As a Washington Post subscriber, I'm being granted "early access to ripple." I've already had early access to ripple. As a teenager the swill nearly killed me.

The benefit of always responding to legitimate media inquiries by lashing out like an angry, petulant teenager who thinks they're better than everybody is a lot of people won't notice they're intentionally not answering any questions. You'd think parents with teenagers would spot it, but […]

Internal documents reveal the impact on crime fighting as the Trump administration diverts special agents to its mass deportation agenda. Among the key figures in the documents: Narcotics arrests fell by roughly 11 percent. Agents opened 15 percent fewer new investigations into narcotics […]

Arizona paper asks experts to evaluate Arizona Senator's remarks that simply re-state existing law. Not one considered them "seditioius." https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2025/11/25/mark-kelly-comments-military-orders-free-speech/87452330007

There is a Lowe's on State Line Road in Kansas City Missouri. "state line" is legit. The other side of the road is in Kansas. Anyway, it has this two story, mobile tower outfitted with like four cameras. It probably can record ever single car, license plate and face that enters the lot. Gee, I […]

It's laughable but sad. The ENT outfit that did three surgeries on the inside of my nose and sinuses just sent me a message suggesting I come in so they can get more of my insurance money before the end of the year. The sad part? That millions of Americans don't have health insurance at all.

Remember all those cool movies where a crack team of thieves devises a complex plan to pull off the greatest heist in history? Most rely on speed of execution - get out before the cops come. Some rely on stealth, diversion. Almost none of them include infiltrating and taking over law enforcement […]

(Video) Comey responds after indictment dismissal: "I am innocent, I am not afraid." (if your response includes an observation that you don't like Comey, you're missing the point) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmfKFuCB9V8

mainstream media isn't giving enough attention to the fact that rank & file Americans aren't giving enough attention to what mainstream media publishes. Since they won't do it, it's up to us to spread the word. Folks, it's ALWAYS been up to us. The buck has ALWAYS stopped at your own easy chair.

Difficulty with "word finding," is an early sign of #dementia, of #Azheimers. You can't come up with nouns, like trying to find "can," thinking it'll come to you as you start saying phrases that describe it. Your spelling goes too. Even simple words you never had a problem with before This is […]

If what it takes to get people to pay attention to something important is to say (often erroneously) that "this isn't getting enough attention in the MSM," y'know, at this point, I'm fine with that. Sure, it's manipulative, but if it gets people to pay attention and spread the word - so be it […]

I posted this gift link yesterday and - crickets. Folks, they talked to SIXTY PEOPLE WHO EITHER QUIT OR WERE FIRED FROM DOJ ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES, THEIR OPINIONS OF WHAT'S HAPPENING, MANY OF THEM DID IT ON THE RECORD. For chrissakes, these people put a target on their backs to speak their […]

It's interesting, isn't it, that suddenly our federal government is all "states rights" on abortion and education, but not on immigration, taxation or bribes.

Sen. Mark Kelley, who, along with several others basically reminded our nation's soldiers that they are duty-bound to NOT BREAK THE LAW, even if some superior orders the do exactly that. Hegesth says it just "confuses" soldiers and so he's got the FBI to investigate Kelley, the only one in that […]

Donald Trump explains his divorce from Marjorie Taylor Greene. Melania is not upset

(NY Mag) The Unraveling of the Justice Department. Sixty attorneys describe a year of chaos and suspicion. (gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/16/magazine/trump-justice-department-staff-attorneys.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k8.udks.uvcMGQf3QAWI&smid=url-share

RE: https://mstdn.social/@JamesWNeal/115605773878425576 https://punchbowl.news/archive/112425-am/

Anonymous R. Representative viaPunchbowl News). “This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. ALL. And Mike Johnson has let it happen because he wanted it to happen. That is the sentiment of nearly all — appropriators, authorizers, hawks […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

(National Association of Realtors) Highlights From the Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/research-reports/highlights-from-the-profile-of-home-buyers-and-sellers

People who never wrote letters to scientific publications are suddenly writing several a month - often within a few days of the article they're criticizing having been published - often on subjects so diverse they'd have to be a modern day Davinci to really know them all well enough to criticize […]

Somebody needs to ask Trump what percentage of fentanyl, cocaine, heroin and marijuana comes into the U.S. from Venezuela. You know, because we all need to know how much more drug trafficking will drop once the leaflets he's going to spend our money to drop convince the people to get rid of […]

The new “About This Account” feature, which became available to X users on Friday, allows others to see where an account is based, when they joined the platform, how often they have changed their username, and how they downloaded the X app. Upon rollout, rival factions began to inspect just […]