TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.

I hope everyone understands that when this is all over, we the average Americans, are ones that will pay for the cleanup and the rich aren't going to pay for shit. 🤷

NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

Here you have Sec Lutnick as Commerce Secretary and his oldest son, Kyle Lutnick, involved in exactly the same AI data center deal. Dad as government official. Son as financial deal maker--earning the family-controlled company millions in fees. Both this summer.

Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, heir to the throne of Saudi Arabia and current de-facto ruler of that kingdom, whose word is law and power is unquestioned, is visibly like “whoah dude, dial down the authoritarian thing a bit”

Trump defends Mohammed bin Salman over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi: "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman... Things happen... He knew nothing about it." A US intelligence report concluded that bin Salman personally "approved an operation" to "kill or capture" Khashoggi.

What's amazing here is that MBS looks more uncomfortable about the direction the conversation took than Trump does.

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

Chomsky’s position on Epstein is that the American public is getting a seriously distorted version of the evidence available, emphasizing alleged rape of children and downplaying or ignoring the crucial U.S. role, direct and indirect, in the torment that children have suffered.

Donald Trump visited Jeffrey Epstein’s house for the articles.

Let me be clear—House Democrats have been the ones pushing to get the Epstein files out. We’ve been calling for truth and transparency while Republicans drag their feet and play politics. But thanks to House Democrats, the truth’s coming out, one way or another.

Not to mention a foul reference to his 20 year old girlfriend that he then “gave” to Donald.

WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Welcome to “justice” in Donald Trump’s America.

"Eight Senators who caucus with the Democrats joined Republicans to end the government shutdown, not in victory, not to secure healthcare for millions, but to hand President Donald Trump and his morbidly rich cronies a gift-wrapped political win." #Pinks www.commondreams.org/opinion/schu...

I’m grateful that folks are starting to see SNAP benefits back on their EBT cards. Trump will do anything to keep Minnesotans hungry, we’ll keep doing everything we can to keep them fed.

TRUMP IS STARVING AMERICANS.

That a Reagan judge would give up his lifetime appointment willingly because he feels a future GOP president has rendered that appointment meaningless in the midst of an authoritarian speedrun is quite remarkable:

Trump also just released the guy who lied to the FBI about the Bidens taking bribes. He has ties to Russian intelligence — and Trump’s businesses. Again: The law does not apply to them. newrepublic.com/post/202897/...

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

A Border Patrol agent who shot a woman five times on Chicago’s Southwest Side later bragged about his shooting skills to friends: “I’m up for another round of ‘f--- around and find out.’” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

New goal: live life in such a way that hard-right chuds call for a "moment of silence" at my most notable successes.

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

There it is.... Trump has achieved what Joe Biden had fear...🇺🇸 America's debt reaching $38 Trillion💵! 5 years ahead of Biden's prophecy! Auditing $1 Trillion💸 in 2 months is just 🧠 dead!

Its his main priority?! When inflation is out of control and he is taxing the shit out of Americans?

He doesn’t plan on leaving. We will kick him out.

This is who Andrew Cuomo felt comfortable joking around with.

New in PN: Trump shits on us. Why doesn’t the media care? "Millions exercised their rights & Trump’s response was burying them in virtual feces. At best it's juvenile; at worst an ugly attack on the democratic spirit. Either way, it’s very offensive. You’d think journos would want to talk about it"

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov and his guests insisted that Ukraine should not be allowed to exist, "If there is no Ukraine, there is no problem." Solovyov's main concern was how to control and "reeducate" millions of Ukrainians. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNZs...

Apparently the bullet came from the barrel of an ICE agent’s gun, shot by the ICE agent

Ordered to lie, fired when he refused. My thoughts on the 60 Minutes interview of former DOJ attorney turned whistleblower, Erez Reuveni, and why any prosecution in the Trump Regime must be viewed with skepticism, if not outright disgust. youtu.be/GJcXaI7IeH8?...

Russian propagandists praise the complete compliance of "their guy" Trump: Did he impose sanctions? Of course not. Were any new weapons delivered? No. via @juliadavisnews.bsky.social youtu.be/WiXq-Trl1pU

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

I spent years investigating senior-level corruption and misconduct at the Department of Justice. In 2019, Mr. Trump appointed me inspector general at the Interior Department, a position I held until January, when he fired me and many of my counterparts in other .. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Next his private equity pals cash in! * Investigate suspicious multi-million-dollar payments Epstein received from wealthy financiers like Leon Black. * about Epstein's use of now-sanctioned Russian banks for millions in wire transfers, which appeared correlated to moving women around the world. 🌎

Paul Ingrassia has called for reparations from the descendants of slaves to slave owners. You read that correctly.

“The pattern is one that involved modeling agencies around the world serving as fronts for human trafficking…This may very well be what Trump is trying desperately to keep quiet in the DOJ’s Epstein files.” tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-transnat...

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Trump Tells the Navy to View Half the Country as the Enemy newrepublic.com/post/201373/... via @newrepublic.com

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is everything Trump hates. A woman who stands up to powerful and corrupt men and demands that people have the right to vote in a democracy. Bonus Trump-hate points that she’s Latino. Congratulations María Corina Machado! #FDT

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

Bailing out Bessent’s Buddies’ Bets on Argentina open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Rep. Jamie Raskin has sent letters to four of the nation's largest banks demanding information related to "more than $1.5 billion in suspicious financial transactions flagged by the banks tied to sex trafficking crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and their co-conspirators."