Monday, November 24, 2025. Chump has psychotic break overnight, he continues to protect his Muslim extremist buddy in Michigan as his trolls lie that Marjorie Taylor Greene broke with him over the weekend because MTG supports Sharia law (again, MTG does not support Sharia law, that is the lie the Chumpians are repeating), is Ghislaine Maxwell leaking -- at Chump's direction -- info on the former prince Andrew, and much more.
This morning, Ben Meiselas addresses Chump's late night crazy.
That's an important video and it is clear that Chump is now just as crazy as his extreme supporters. Two have a radio program. I have o idea what channel I had to endure it in this morning's taxi ride.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the two dick jockeys insisted, broke with Chump because she supports Sharia Law. This is apparently the new talking point for the extreme crazy on the extreme right. She is a secret Muslim, the two fey men trying to act butch insisted. This is how they'll take over our county, the 'men' insisted and impose Sharia law. Chump is the only thing that will save us, they repeatedly stated.
Sharia Law? Best example of un-American law attacking our country and our rights is in Hamtramck. That's where Muslim Amer Ghalib has attacked the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. He's used his post as mayor to bring in something very ugly into the United States.
So, per the dick jockeys, he must be someone Chump opposes, right? Chump has nominated this trash and filth to be the US Ambassador to Kuwait. His hearing was a nightmare and the nomination is not progressing. Considering Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, you really can't make Amer the Ambassador to Kuwait when he insists that Saddam was a "martyr." He is the voice of hate and he's a radical who wants to destroy the country.
And Chump wants to make him the US Ambassador to Kuwait. He endorsed Chump in the 2024 election and that's why Chump hasn't focused on Michigan as he goes around from state to state destroying cities Michigan, especially in the Detroit-Hamtramck region, has a huge number of immigrants. But Chump and Kristi don't go there because, as a result of Amer, Chump carried that region in the 2024 election.
I don't spend my time worrying about Sharia Law because I don't think it could ever get a real hold in the US -- outside of a community of Muslim extremists (most Muslims in this country are not extremists) -- but I really don't think I missed some speech or press release Marjorie Taylor Greene gave or issued calling for Sharia Law. I really don't see that happening.
But this is how Team Chump works. They find the needy who will do their bidding -- in this case, two closeted gay men desperate to be accepted in MAGA and seen as straight -- and hand out the marching orders. Take Marjorie down with lies. That's what they're trying to do and that's why they're promoting these lies that Marjorie rejected Chump because she supports Sharia law (and she's joining THE VIEW -- they lied that was happening as well). The only Republican willing to support Sharia law would be Chump who is attempting to get the disgusting Amer Ghalib named US Ambassador to Kuwait.
And he's also refusing to send ICE to Hamstamck -- a city where 44.2% of the population was born outside of the United States. That's greater than the percent of the population of Los Angeles or NYC.
Elsewhere across the country, we see the appalling results of the Convicted Felon's return to the White House. Last week? A superior court judge and a court intern -- both American citizens -- found themselves harassed and bullied by ICE. Vic Verbalaitis (DAILY BEAST) notes:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents threatened a Rhode Island Superior Court judge and an intern after they botched a detainment operation on Thursday.
Outside the Licht Judicial Complex in Providence, Rhode Island, ICE agents briefly took a high school intern into custody who worked at the Superior Court, WPRI 12 News reported.
Courthouse security had noticed someone taking photos of the intern from outside the courthouse earlier that day. The individual, when approached, identified himself as an ICE agent before he was told to stop taking pictures.
The
intern, unsettled by the federal agents stalking him, was offered a
ride home by Superior Court Judge Joseph McBurney. However, ICE agents
surrounded the judge’s car and threatened to smash its windows if they
did not exit the vehicle.
The Superior Court’s head of security intervened, telling the judge and the intern to stay in the car.
The intern was briefly handcuffed and taken into custody by ICE agents, as seen in video from bystanders.
After an argument ensued, the ICE agents confirmed they had misidentified their target and left the scene.
The agents took him out of a vehicle that was being driven by Superior Court Associate Justice Joseph McBurney, who was taking the teen to school.
The agents allegedly ignored the teen, who insisted they were detaining the wrong person.
Agents restrained the teen’s hands behind his back and took him across the street.
Imagine yourself walking down the street when suddenly you are approached by a beefy-dude who gets into your face and begins to aggressively force himself upon you. As you attempt to break away you find yourself surrounded by four other men, some who have completely covered their face behind a mask, and each of them yelling at you, taunting you, and wrestling you onto the ground to place you in handcuffs. This violent assault leaves you disoriented, traumatized and bewildered. You are aggressively thrown into a van, and taken away to a location which only upon arrival do you realize you are being detained and judged as an enemy of the State. Having lived peacefully and lawfully, having held a job, having begun the process that leads toward citizenship, you are now, with no due process of law cast into a hole, not allowed to call your family, your lawyer, or a friend. You are disappeared and have become subject to the lawless immorality that is readily, purposely and cruelly eradicating the customs, traditions and way of life that once made our nation a beacon of hope and light to all the nations.
What can we the people do about this immoral and egregious practice that is bringing shame to our beloved country? The Des Moines Indivisible Citizens Movement, those who organize democracy rallies at Big Catch Plaza, are joining up with a larger King County grass roots movement called The Whistle Warriors to develop and distribute whistles throughout our community. Our mission is to empower immigrant families and community residents with a simple, effective, community-supported tool for rapid alert, ensuring community safety and promoting neighbor to neighbor solidarity during times of ICE raids.
We encourage all citizens who witness these types of assaults to film the event, and to blow the whistle attempting to draw a crowd who can collectively document as many details as possible, texting the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) hotline at 844-724-3737. Our goal is to hold ICE accountable to the rule of law, and to protect as best we can those who have lived amongst us as friends and neighbors. Such nonviolent actions on our part carry the promise that “we the people” are present and observing as we insist on upholding our higher community standards of justice and decency, particularly from those who act in our name.
The whistles can be picked up at the Big Catch Plaza whenever we rally for a return to democracy with its promise of liberty and justice for all.
– Rich Lang
Des Moines Indivisible
When children began coming to his shop by themselves holding their family’s grocery lists, bakery owner Francisco Cuadra knew “things are getting bad.”
As Operation Midway Blitz’s trail bled from Illinois into Northwest Indiana neighborhoods, Cuadra, owner of Santa Maria’s Bakery in Hammond, said some of his customers became too afraid to go out and get bread and basic necessities, regardless of their citizenship status.
Cuadra has owned the bakery since 2010 but rising costs and dwindling customers have made him feel like the business is a “ticking time bomb.” Despite this, he keeps grocery and bread prices affordable and donates what he can.
When news of an ICE arrest at East Chicago’s La Rancherita bakery reached him, Cuadra knew his customers would feel even less safe patronizing his shop.
“(ICE agents) are not respecting people,” Cuadra said. “If you’re Mexican, they treat you like someone here illegally, it doesn’t matter if you’re here legally. They’re even snatching American citizens if they don’t have a ‘REAL ID.’ Which a lot of people don’t have yet because they’re waiting for their license to expire to get a new one. But the government is saying if it’s not a REAL ID, and they’ll detain you, because there’s no star in the corner. They say you have to have the star in the corner of it, or they’ll basically claim it’s not real, it’s a fake.”
A week of immigration enforcement activity across North Carolina culminated in youth-led demonstrations across Durham on Friday, as students and community members protested unannounced Customs and Border Protection and Immigration Customs Enforcement operations in the Triangle.
City-wide walkouts and an evening rally drew hundreds of Durhamites downtown. Students, workers and immigration-advocates alike demanded accountability from local and federal officials. But they vowed to continue organizing as uncertainty and fear surrounding “Operation Charlotte’s Web” continue.
CBP agents first entered Charlotte Nov. 15 before making an unannounced expansion into Durham and Raleigh Tuesday. The Department of Homeland Security has reported over 250 detentions across the state thus far.
For nearly four hours, a crowd of roughly 250 high school students gathered at the CCB Plaza in downtown Durham by the Bull statue to speak out against ICE and CBP agents targeting members of their community. They passed a megaphone from one person to another, voicing support for classmates who missed school this week as the presence of CBP agents left the city on edge.
The classrooms felt empty, they said. Durham Public Schools reported a nearly 30% absenteeism rate this week, accounting for 9,209 of roughly 31,000 enrolled students.
The demonstration came together in less than a week, growing out of a group chat of just 20 students who sought to take a stand against the immigration raid in their city. Both students from Durham and Chapel Hill were in attendance after they walked out of their classrooms around noon. Some DPS students took the “unexcused absence” to rally for their community.
This month, American-born Pope Leo backed the U.S. bishops’ recent decision to oppose indiscriminate mass deportations under the Trump administration. Local church leaders brought that message of migrant dignity to Colorado’s only federal immigration detention center.
Hundreds of people showed up to the event, called Immigrant Stations of the Cross. It was organized by the Catholic Committee for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and took place Saturday morning outside the GEO/ICE facility in Aurora.
“I-I am… I’m moved,” said Father Luke Barder of St. Dominic Parish, his voice shaking. “I look at this crowd, and I know many of them, and I know many of them are all over the ideological spectrum. And it’s this one thing that’s uniting us, and that they’ve come, is a sign of hope for me.”
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila and Auxiliary Bishop Jorge Rodriguez participated in the closing prayer.
“I’m really inspired to see the Catholic community, Archbishop Aquila, Auxiliary Bishop Rodriguez, many clergy and laity stand together and say that the Church is with you,” said Thomas Weiler of the Catholic Committee for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Together Colorado.
The gathering directly referenced the U.S. Bishops’ Special Message on Immigration released this month by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which stated, “To our immigrant brothers and sisters, we stand with you in your suffering, since, when one member suffers, all suffer (cf. 1 Corinthians 12:26). You are not alone… We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people.”
The late pedophile and sex trafficked Jeffrey Epstein remains in the news. We're still waiting to follow Congress recently passed laws but, at THE NEW YORK TIMES, Anand Giridharadas weighs in on some of the e-mails already addressed:
At the dark heart of this story is a sex criminal and his victims — and his enmeshment with President Trump. But it is also a tale about a powerful social network in which some, depending on what they knew, were perhaps able to look away because they had learned to look away from so much other abuse and suffering: the financial meltdowns some in the network helped trigger, the misbegotten wars some in the network pushed, the overdose crisis some of them enabled, the monopolies they defended, the inequality they turbocharged, the housing crisis they milked, the technologies they failed to protect people against.
The Epstein story is resonating with a broader swath of the public than most stories now do, and some in the establishment worry. When Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, speaks of an “Epstein class,” isn’t that dangerous? Isn’t that class warfare?
But the intuitions of the public are right. People are right to sense that, as the emails lay bare, there is a highly private merito-aristocracy at the intersection of government and business, lobbying, philanthropy, start-ups, academia, science, high finance and media that all too often takes care of its own more than the common good. They are right to resent that there are infinite second chances for members of this group even as so many Americans are deprived of first chances. They are right that their pleas often go unheard, whether they are being evicted, gouged, foreclosed on, A.I.-obsolesced — or, yes, raped.
It is no accident that this was the social milieu that took Mr. Epstein in. His reinvention, after he pleaded guilty to prostitution-related charges in Florida in 2008, would never have been possible without this often anti-democratic, self-congratulatory elite, which, even when it didn’t traffic people, took the world for a ride.
The emails, in my view, together sketch a devastating epistolary portrait of how our social order functions, and for whom. Saying that isn’t extreme. The way this elite operates is.
Jason Linkins (THE NEW REPUBLIC) notes his concerns:
As I’ve watched the Epstein story unravel across the media—through the shouting of lawmakers and the flood of tawdry emails dumped in the press—I’ve not been able to ignore how it’s all one big pile of rot at the center of polite society. My TNR colleague, Matt Ford, expressed similar sentiments in a recent piece, confessing that the truly despairing thing about the Epstein affair was that the whole idea of civic virtue seems to have been murdered, and in its place, a culture of elite impunity has risen.
For my part, I’m less worried about whether some Democratic Party luminary catches an Epstein stray and more concerned about whether Democrats bungle the opportunity to attack these corrupt arrangements and the presidential administration that has made them its North Star. This iron is, at the moment, particularly hot. A fresh Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday found that Trump’s approval ratings had hit startling new lows, with respondents particularly “unhappy about his handling of the high cost of living and the investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.”
Epstein and the economy—these are the twin albatrosses around Trump’s neck. The question, however, is whether Democrats will have the stomach and the sense to exploit both avenues to Trump’s ruin. It may not seem like a problem, but Democrats seem pathologically averse to multitasking, which explains why they’re making the salience of grocery prices their priority to the exclusion of all other matters. So monomaniacal is this approach that at various times over the past year, Democratic lawmakers have called other concerns “distractions”—up to and including Trump’s rampaging paramilitary forces.
The two are connected. Epstein was the powerful and he counted out others in his class to protect him. He counted on politicians and celebrities and Noam Chomsky and others to protect and redeem him. If Brian Smith's son was guilty of pedophilia and sex trafficking, he wouldn't have gotten a sweetheart deal that reduced those actions to mere prostitution. Behind bars, Brian Smith wouldn't have been treated like royalty -- the way Epstein was and the way his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell is being treated.
And we see Chump, Epstein's roll dog, destroy the economy for the working class. We see costs rise and employment dive. He's not serving We The People, he's enriching the 1%.
It's an abuse of power and he's involved in both. It's an abuse of power and both expose him for the liar that he is.
This is also an attack on women and girls -- something the GOP is infamous for. Chump thinks he has nothing to hide, Rachel Louise Snyder (NEW YORK TIMES) notes:
Mr. Trump is right. He has nothing to hide because he stands to lose nothing. Whatever exists in those files surely will not be enough to wrest him from his perch. At least not yet. Even those who have shown some remorse — Larry Summers, for example — took years. Other men named, like Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, Noam Chomsky and Michael Wolff, have sought to distance themselves from Mr. Epstein or have not responded to press requests.
We’ve been here before. For so many, the Epstein saga echoes a once-hopeful #MeToo movement, when it seemed possible to reform the male-dominated systems that kept women down. The movement led to a handful of convicted men, but also fed a colossal backlash that reminds us how our country has never adequately protected women. The backlash also, arguably, contributed to the second election of Mr. Trump, who has overseen an era that might be unique in its willingness to sacrifice democratic institutions and American norms to control women.
As I write, there is a White House proposal that aims to lower the Office on Violence Against Women’s stature within the D.O.J. and cut its shoestring budget by nearly 30 percent. This would devastate shelters, advocacy programs and violence prevention measures, and escalate the danger for victims of intimate partner and familial violence in all corners of the country.
At the same time, a report on violent deaths of girls and women from 2014 to 2020 noted that laws constraining abortion providers were associated with a 3.4 percent rise in the rate of homicides related to intimate partner violence. We are being killed for our own lack of choice. An estimated one in 20 women in the United States gets pregnant from rape or sexual coercion, which equates to a whopping six million women with violence-initiated pregnancies. Six million. Two-thirds of the women who became pregnant from rape were injured during their assaults.
Again it goes to who has the reigns of power. Again, it goes to a pattern of victimization which those, like Chump, who stood by Epstein have practiced their entire lives. Their sense of entitlement allows them to harm others -- especially others with no power.
If you're wanting primary sources -- if you're wanting to read the e-mails yourself and not just depend upon reporting, James West (MOTHER JONES) notes:
Earlier this month, the House Oversight Committee released a flotilla of Epstein emails—more than 20,000 in total. The revelations created a tidal wave of news. In perhaps the most famous email, Jeffrey Epstein claimed Trump “knew about the girls.” Epstein also called Trump “the dog that hasn’t barked” and alleged that Trump had once spent “hours at my house” with a sex trafficking victim.
A trove of that size would ordinarily be difficult and time-consuming to sort, but this digital dump was especially cumbersome: packaged in oddly titled folders, and tossed with a random assortment of unsearchable detritus and system files.
What if you were able to just… read them like emails?
That’s the simple premise behind “Jmail,” a re-skinning of the documents programmed to look and feel like an everyday Gmail account, with all the design details impeccably parodied and emails displayed in sequential chains, just like your own inbox. It even includes a working search function. Its release this week created it’s own internet storm.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Ron Wyden's office:
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ron Wyden today asked U.S. Coast Guard officials to join him this Sunday morning, Nov. 23 at the Newport Municipal Airport to provide him and this central Oregon Coast community answers about the relocation of a Coast Guard helicopter essential to local public safety.
Wyden wrote in his letter to Admiral Kevin E. Lunday, Acting Coast Guard Commandant, that he would like that Nov. 23 airport meeting with a Coast Guard representative to happen before his annual open-to-all Lincoln County town hall scheduled later that day in Newport.
“On November 12, 2025, I wrote to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Noem and you seeking timely answers about the recent change in Coast Guard assets. To date, I have not received any answers or updates from the Coast Guard or DHS,” Wyden wrote. “That ongoing silence about a decision that carries life-and-death consequences for Oregonians and visitors to this community is unacceptable to the people I’m proud to represent.
Wyden reiterated in today’s letter that the Coast Guard station in Newport serves the city and the central Oregon Coast as an essential safety net for the state’s fishing industry, coastal visitors, and local residents with boat crews and a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew that’s long been a proven lifesaver in search-and-rescue operations.
“Newport residents and small business owners remain extremely concerned about how this move threatens search and rescue operations, considering that the next closest helicopter appears to now be more than 90 miles away in North Bend, Oregon,” Wyden wrote. “The fishing community in Newport is understandably worried that if someone in the cold water of the Pacific is in need of immediate rescue, the Coast Guard crews nearby will not have the necessary assets to save their lives.“
The entire letter is here.
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