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The swindler-in-chief.

The House has voted to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history, sending the legislation to President Trump for his signature.

A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students. Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students. (Published Dec. 2024)

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There were literally congressional hearings where whistleblowers in the insurance industry cried while discussing being forced by superiors to repeatedly illegally deny payment for lifesaving care in the run up to the passage of the ACA. That’s what republicans want us to return to.

Yeah, man, because putting all the people who need expensive care in one pool has never blown up in an unsustainable, out of control spiral every time it's been tried. Even going down this road should get you yanked by a huge hook or sucked down a trap door you didn't know was there.

And what was Jeffrey Epstein's profession? AND WHAT WAS JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S PROFESSION KAROLINE??

Garcia: The emails we released today are disturbing. They clearly suggest that Trump may have spent significant time with one of the victims. You have another email that discusses Trump possibly knowing what was happening with some of the girls. It’s really disturbing stuff.

AOC: How can we, as members of congress, Republican or Democrat, vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people? That is what this legislation does. In fact, Senator Graham said he was going to seek well over $1 million from the American people, from this.

You tell 'em, Pete!

Boy do I wish I could have a chat with all the naysayers when I posited that Epstein was a dirt factory for Putin. How many times have we asked "what does Putin have on Trump?" www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Grijalva: That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files. Justice cannot wait another day.

JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday sent a letter to Israel’s president asking him to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a long-running corruption trial that has bitterly divided the country. https://to.pbs.org/47Nz9z3

BREAKING: Grijalva has signed the Epstein Files discharge petition. It doesn't appear that Mace or Boebert have removed their names.

REPORTER: Why'd it take so long to get sworn in? GRIJALVA: *gestures at Johnson* That would not be my question! MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I really like this lady

McGovern: Buried in this bill is a corrupt kickback for eight Republican senators, a million dollar payday funded by taxpayers, taken from the treasury and deposited directly into their pockets. What the hell is wrong with this place?

NEW: Trump, Blanche, Bondi and Patel are going to meet with Boebert. Maybe they’re going to pressure her to remove her name from the discharge petition? www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/p...

GOP Rep. Bacon: "I do think this was a PR disaster for the White House. When you tell everybody you're going to release everything, that you have the names of all the clients, and then you then you come back and say, 'oh, there was none.' This was a self-inflicted wound by the White House."

Don Bacon says he's going to vote yes on the Epstein files discharge petition

Bacon: "I think there's a little bit of a bubble with these tariffs and the sense that everything is going great. It's not. I think the elections from last week should be a wake up call for Republicans ... the affordability hasn't become better. Hiring numbers are down."

Irish watchdog opens content moderation probe on Elon Musk’s X

Key amendments GOP voted NO on: 1. Use $40B from Argentina funds to extend ACA tax credits for 2 years 2. Remove $500K lawsuit perk for GOP senators whose phones were seized 3. Block $350M taxpayer-funded ballroom #ProudBlue 📹 credit: Aaron Parnas ( @aaronparnas.bsky.social )

Rep. Robert Garcia says, "The survivors deserve the truth," and that the House Oversight Committee will release more documents "likely later today."

Democrats should subpoena 🤬 Wolff to testify to all that he knows, and can support with evidentiary proof, about Trump's knowledge of and participation in Epstein & Maxwell's horrific sex crimes. Michael Wolff Advised Epstein on How to Blackmail Trump share.google/WNTghLEjSWSL...

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The president of Colombia recalled his ambassador from the U.S. when the image was spotted in a White House photo, intensifying a growing rift between the two countries.

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NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

The American Alliance of Museums put out its annual industry snapshot and it's not great. Trump's targeting of museum programming had downstream effects and put a "chill on corporate philanthropy." n.pr/43lIZa7

The Capital Area Food Bank in Washington D.C., says it's allotted an extra 1 million meals for November, given the uncertainties about whether and when SNAP recipients will get their full benefits. n.pr/47z75Re

Since September, the Trump administration has carried out more than a dozen strikes on boats it claims are run by drug traffickers, killing more than 70 people. n.pr/4oUjxkV

Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices. n.pr/47QGKwH

The Arizona Democrat won her race in September, but Speaker Mike Johnson has waited to swear her in until today. Grijalva has vowed to be the decisive signature in a bid to release the Epstein files. n.pr/49gJtCg

The United Nations Mine Action Service estimates between 5% and 10% of Israeli weapons fired into Gaza in the past two years failed to detonate, and unexploded ordnance has killed at least 328 people. n.pr/49U4BOG

Thousands of protesters in Serbia symbolically formed a human shield Tuesday around a bombed-out military complex, vowing to protect it from redevelopment as a luxury compound by a company linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. https://to.pbs.org/47zMEDJ

In one 2011 email about Trump, Epstein wrote that “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump [sic]. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him ,, [sic] he has never once been mentioned.” www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

That happened on your watch, you toady. 🖕🏼

By sending us $2,000 to give to billionaire insurance CEOs, and by tripling the interest we pay to mortgage companies while he continues to limit what we can write off, he's effectively looting the treasury and using us a mules to launder the stolen money; funneling it to the wealthy.

notable but not surprising that Fetterman chose Fox & Friends as the place to promote his new book

Lavrov hints that it was the US, not Russia that wasn't ready for negotiations in Budapest: "We are also prepared to discuss with our American colleagues the resumption of preparatory work for the summit between the leaders of Russia and the United States that they had proposed"

CNBC: When do you we get the economic data releases? We're craving data, especially on jobs HASSETT: We're gonna be staring a little bit in cloudy weather for a while until we get the data agencies back up

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According to a Harvard CAPS / Harris Poll survey conducted November 4-6, 2025, two-thirds of Americans support aid to Ukraine and President Trump’s steps to end the war. Thank you, US! 🇺🇲🇺🇦 I know there are many true friends of Ukraine in the United States who firmly stand with us.