Public notice for the pending FTO designation of Cartel de los Soles. Document is slated to be published on 24 November at which time it will take effect. Next week we will likely see a considerable ramp in military activity, with strikes possible on land targets in Venezuela.

What a piece of …

Next time vote the courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...

Yes

“You can’t not consider the issue of immigration as a child well-being issue.” Immigration enforcement fuels mental health crisis among children of immigrants, @jenniferchowdhury.bsky.social reports. Many of these children grow up carrying invisible scars that resurface later in life.

It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.

Civil disobedience is not an act of disruption. Civil disobedience has a focus and purpose. It is a direct call for justice and immediate correction. We are losing what is left of our democracy. Civil disobedience cannot succeed unless we prioritize a general call for the cessation of injustice.

This is a tragedy of erasure. It is what Orwell warned us about. In Russian-Occupied Mariupol, Everything Ukrainian Must Go www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...

U.S. officials and lawmakers are increasingly concerned about a meeting last month in which representatives of the Trump administration met with Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian envoy who is under U.S. sanctions, to draft a plan to end the war in Ukraine.

Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?

His is heartbreaking 🙏 www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

"The "conflictedly connected" American Jews ought to have far greater political representation than they currently do. Drowned out by bellicosity on the right and ostracized by some would-be allies among progressives, [they] have effectively been rendered invisible." www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

This is Jack Schlossberg's sister? And Caroline Kennedy's daughter? What tragic, awful news. I can't get past the paywall but this excerpt conveys the gist of the article. Olivia Nuzzi enabled this psychopath and was rewarded with a great job she doesn't deserve while good people are dying.

Alito, Thomas certainly, to a lesser extent John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett are fellow travelers of Opus Dei which has had a predominant influence in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025. Kevin Roberts is the president of Heritage and definitely is an Opus Dei member or at least fellow traveler.

After talking to Rubio, Sen Rounds announces that the 28 point plan was a Russian document, not a US document.

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"I'm ICE, boys." Really isn't the flex the ICE auditor thinks it is. Especially not this guy. Recently arrested in Bloomington, MN. He propositioned what he thought was a teenage girl for sex. It was the cops, and they managed to put this sting together in 3 days. Netting 16 ppl. #SheShed

New: A child (of U.S. citizens) is pepper-sprayed by immigration agents near Chicago. "Trump and Stephen Miller lack the empathy and the imagination to picture themselves fleeing a troubled country with their wife and children to escape poverty and drug violence." All links/subscriptions are free.

For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.

Hey folks: For those who missed it, here's a link to this morning's "What the Heck Just Happened? With Heather and Joanne" AND NO I DIDN'T GO FOR A RUN www.youtube.com/watch?v=etZz...

New: "You know Trump is worried when he calls intellectual powerhouse Lauren Boebert to the Situation Room to talk her into removing her name from a petition that would force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. Our blubbery loverboy’s got a situation, all right." Free links/subscriptions.

It's one thing to exhibit a lapse in judgment. It's quite another to spend an entire decade talking yourself and your colleagues into a hostage situation with a demented 79-year-old toddler.

I love this.

This lawyer was right: these strikes in the Caribbean violate U.S. and international law. These illegal strikes WILL make Americans less safe – by creating made-for-TV propaganda for our adversaries and by making our allies less likely to work with us.

The French had some good ideas as to how to deal with politicians that felt they were above the law

US Secretary of State admits that the "28 point plan" for peace in Ukraine was a Russian document. From Sen King: "The leaked 28-point plan, which, according to Sec Rubio, is not of the administration's position--it is essentially the wish list of the Russians."-PBS

There was never any doubt that goal of Trump 2.0 was revenge. The blueprint is Project 2025 and the first mission was DOGE-move fast and break things. Second: install sycophants in key positions Unfortunately too many voters were oblivious to all of this

"Members of both parties have stepped up the use of censure resolutions as a partisan political weapon." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...

I think everyone involved in this needs to be vaccinated multiple times

Do the damnedest thing, Marge. Read out all those Epstein file names during your last days in Congress. Put em all on blast on your way out.

Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."

I agree. Right now no one cares about the emergencies happening because they are in a crisis for survival. We really could use this all tied up neatly in a bow for people in a way they can understand. Short and simple because they don’t have time for deep dives.

Trump’s Proposed Ukraine ‘Deal’ Is a Disgrace www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

New statement from US official, when asked about US threats to cut off weapons to the PURL program and intelligence sharing: “It was strongly implied to the Ukrainians that the United States expects them to agree to a peace deal. Any changes will be decided upon by POTUS himself.”

“Plead the Fifth” regarding what?? Maxwell has exhausted her appellate process. SCOTUS has rejected her. Regardless, she lied with Todd Blanche so her credibility is dogshit unless you get someone like former AUSA Maurene Comey in there to question her. www.politico.com/live-updates...

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Pete Buttigieg would be a good DNC spokesperson. He would do a GREAT job of going around the country, being on TV all the time, and putting out Dem messaging on EVERY issue. He would be an excellent counter-Leavitt. And we NEED one. He should be holding regular press conferences and putting

This 2006 piece by @normornstein.bsky.social on the guy who's now Marjorie Taylor Greene's Chief of Staff is a must-read today. Ed Buckham was Tom Delay's Chief of Staff. You can't read the MTG tea leaves without reading this first. www.aei.org/articles/rea...

"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends." The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...

Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."

This young man has it exactly right.

I was honored to speak at a conference “Intent to Destroy: Confronting Russia’s Campaign to Erase Ukraine & Its People” at Georgetown. The mere suggestion of amnesty for Russia's war crimes and genocidal actions against Ukrainians, contained in Trump's 28-point plan, is an unconscionable obscenity.

Just as an aside. ADHD is an ADAprotected category. Adults with ADHD may unintentionally offend co-workers by interrupting frequently, talking too much, being too blunt, or not listening well. As with all ADA-protected conditions, the burden of accommodation is on the organization or employeer.

When the president of the United States says you’ve committed sedition and treason and amplified calls for your execution… Impeachment now.