Emails obtained by The Associated Press show that the Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House had been unraveling for years. Rahmanullah Lakanwal couldn't hold down a job and he flipped between long, lightless stretches of isolation.

The only thing Pete Hegseth shows any competency in is creating great exhibits for criminal investigations are trials.

#NEW: Indiana Republican state Senator Jean Leising’s (@sen_jeanleising) house was the target of a pipe bomb threat last night. She says political pundits are trying to pressure her on redistricting, but she remains opposed to redrawing the state’s map.

GEORGIA: “Assistant Secretary of the Georgia Republican Party and chair of the Georgia teen Republicans confronted by an unknown person while allegedly trying to meet an underage boy on a dating app— resigns from party leadership post.” www.georgiarecord.com/dirty-south/...

RT @Taniel:

Our system is broken. Medicare for All, now.

🔥KOH: “Republicans are flailing on “AFFORDABILITY” because they oppose the solutions… Dems raise the min. wage, push paid leave, cap prescription drug prices — Republicans vote no. Dems cut junk fees, Republicans bring them back. This is the story Dems need to be telling.”

When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not

“He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras.” Now Trump set him free. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Tuesday’s #TN07 contest “was never supposed to be competitive. It's the creation of Tennessee's Republican-controlled legislature, which drew its boundaries in 2022 by splitting Democrat-stronghold Nashville ..” @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Netanyahu asks for a pardon — and tells the people of Israel he’s doing it for them. 🙃 www.yahoo.com/news/article...

BASH: Trump is clearly very concerned about Central & South American presidents allegedly trafficking drugs to the US. So why is he planning to pardon former Honduran president who was convicted of drug trafficking? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Well, the particular circumstances of that I'm not quite aware of

Mark Kelly: "We have a president who doesn't understand the Constitution, who installed an unqualified secretary of defense. I cannot think of a secretary of defense in the history of our country that is less qualified than Pete Hegseth. He should've been fired after Signal-gate."

Markwayne Mullin: "The president and the secretary of war have been very clear. They're gonna use lethality against our enemies -- home and abroad."

Klobuchar: "If they don't want to do anything about people's costs and their grocery bills and their healthcare, and pummel them with these punishing Trump tariffs, then we will simply have to beat them in the midterms."

Markwayne Mullin defends Trump pardoning Honduran president who was convicted of drug trafficking: "What the president is doing is always calculated. I haven't had a direct conversation with the president about it, but I do trust his natural reaction and his approach to foreign affairs."

🇺🇸 SEN. KELLY: “We said something very simple and non-controversial, and the president said ‘hang them’ — Hegseth is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in our history, and the president doesn’t understand the constitution.”

WELKER: His asylum was approved in April on Trump's watch. Was there a vetting process in place? NOEM: The vetting process all happened under Biden WELKER: Are you saying he wasn't vetted? NOEM: Vetting happens when they come into the country and that was completely abandoned under Biden

WELKER: Will you deport people with pending asylum claims? NOEM: We will if they should be. Absolutely. Yes.

WELKER: Did you defy the court's order Madam Secretary? KRISTI NOEM: No. That's one of the things we continue to face in this country -- activist judges who are using radical decisions that have no standing and no grounds

National Guard shooting suspect radicalized in US, homeland secretary says reut.rs/49O8CV8

Kristi Noem refuses to directly answer a question about what Trump means by "remigration" -- a word that, as Kristen Welker notes, is often invoked by white nationalists in Europe

GEORGIA: Rodney Taylor, a double amputee barber here his whole life was 2 days away from getting new legs when Trump’s ICE goons grabbed him. He has been held almost a year, facing deportation to Liberia. What are we doing? www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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.

The investigators asked Clint Massie how many more girls in the church might come forward with stories about him touching or kissing them. “I mean, there could be hundreds,” he said.

BREAKING: Gaza’s Health Ministry said Saturday that the Palestinian death toll has surpassed 70,000 since the Israel-Hamas war began.

I maintain that if Democrats could learn to talk with one-half of the plain spoken moral sense of Republicans who have turned on Trump, like this Indiana Republican who refuses to redistrict on the president’s command, they’d win 400 electoral votes dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...

When an Indiana Republican calls redistricting “the president trying to save his own skin ..” 👀 @dailyjournal.bsky.social dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

Airlines around the world canceled and delayed flights heading into the weekend to fix software on a widely used commercial plane after an analysis found computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue aircraft last month.

This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs

Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm. When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others. She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license. By @maxblau.bsky.social

“.. Since late October, Republicans’ approval has dropped by seven points ..” @thehill.com thehill.com/homenews/adm...

In case you’re in the mood for some good news . . .

🚨 One of Donald Trump's biggest defenders from Texas won't be in D.C. after the new year. Troy Nehls becomes the sixth Texas Republican to announce they won't run for re-election.

Nothing proves the Trump administration is made of mean whims based on lies better than a president who is murdering people in boats "because I am so strongly against drug trafficking" pardoning someone who trafficked more drugs than a hundred fishing boats could carry. www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...

DOJ press release from 2024: Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses

“Additionally, I Will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that | greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly.”

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“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”

NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...

Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith: “In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’” open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

So the next time anyone tells you Trump is murdering Venezuelan fisherman because he cares about stopping the flow of drugs and terrorists into America… …kindly tell them to shove it. 3/3

Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras - convicted of drug trafficking and weapons charges Trump has also granted clemency to high level drug traffickers such as Larry Hoover, Alice Marie Johnson and dozens of others. 2/3

So far, Trump has pardoned: Changpeng Zhao (founder, Binance) - pled guilty to money laundering. Facilitated millions in transactions for terrorist organizations such as Hamas. Ross Ulbricht (founder of the Silk Road) - the dark web Costco of illegal drugs. 1/3

Unmanned vessel attacked Russian shadow-fleet tanker in Black Sea, Turkey says reut.rs/3MuTuSH

A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was deported to Honduras in violation of a court order.

A rare person of principle in the Republican party.