Friday, November 14, 2025
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "MAGA Christians"
Isaiah's latest THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "MAGA Christians." Propaganda Pig Karoline Leavitt is in a panic, "Oh, Pam, I just read NYT's expose on Matt Gaetz's coke use and statutory rape. I was defending him November 21st. Am I going to hell?" AG Pam da Bimbo Bondi reassures, "Oh, Karoline, you know we're pharisaic. Just as surely as your child has a pig snout, you and I are going to hell." "Me too!" chimes in Matt Gaetz. Isaiah archives his comics at THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS.
The Snapshot
Thursday, November 13, 2025. Donald Chump knew. Let that register. And Donald Chump celebrated the 2017 holidays with . . . Jeffrey Epstein. So many thing emerging.
Adelita Grijalva, let's start with her. Yesterday, she was finally sworn in.
Finally? Annie Grayer (CNN) notes:
After 50 days of waiting, Rep. Adelita Grijalva was sworn into Congress Wednesday, bringing an end to a contentious chapter in the US House of Representatives that included a lawsuit and rising tensions inside the Capitol over her seating.
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“It has been 50 days since the people of Arizona’s 7th Congressional District elected me to represent them,” Grijalva said on Wednesday. “This is an abuse of power. One individual should not be able to unilaterally obstruct the swearing in of a duly elected member of Congress for a political reason.”
Immediately after being sworn in, Grijalva become the decisive 218th member in support of an effort to force the House to vote on the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein case files, an issue that has roiled the House and sparked division among Republicans. Hours before her signature advanced the effort forward, top Trump administration officials met with at least one Republican who had also signed onto the petition.
That was late in the day yesterday. A lot happened yesterday so let's go chronological for a bit and we'll mix in some videos with it. .
As Marcia noted last night in "Kim Davis and other Nazis," people who are not Nazis don't have to spend time denying that they're not Nazis.
Instead of releasing the files, Chump and his administration are trying to derail the Congressional effort to release the files. What's Fatty Chump hiding?
Travis Gettys (RAW STORY) reports:
President Donald Trump's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continued into his first term in the White House, so much so that Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump while the president was in office, according to newly released emails written by the late financier.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a new batch of emails Wednesday obtained from Epstein's estate, followed by the Republican-led panel's release of 20,000 additional documents, and one of those exchanges shows that he claims to have spent Thanksgiving 2017 – Trump's first as president – at his private Mar-a-Lago resort.
Epstein exchanged emails on Thanksgiving morning, Nov. 23, 2017, with Manhattan modeling management guru Faith Kates, who asked where he was spending the holiday.
If you've forgotten the lie, it has been stated that Chump broke off contact with Epstein in the '00s -- some saying 2004 and some saying 2006. 2017? That's a decade later and two years before Epstein died. The friendship clearly continued. How many US presidents do you think have dinners with convicted sex offenders?
At THE AMERICAN PROPSECT, Ryan Cooper writes:
Well, now we have it. On Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released another batch of documents related to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Among them were several emails about Donald Trump. One was from Epstein to his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell back in 2011. He wrote: “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [victim] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there[.]” (Excuse the spelling and grammar errors, that’s all Jeffrey.)
By now, we’re all familiar with what “spent hours” meant in the context of rich, powerful men and Epstein’s victims—particularly given the reference to ‘barking,’ which has to mean going to prosecutors or the media.
Cooper also pulls from TAP's previous Epstein coverage to note these ten stnd out pieces:
- 1992: Trump and Epstein are filmed partying together with young cheerleaders at Mar-a-Lago.
- 2002: Trump tells New York magazine: “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy … He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
- 2003: As part of an incredibly revolting book celebrating Epstein’s 50th birthday, Trump sends a birthday note with a hand-drawn note of a pubescent, nude female form, and a poem reading in part: “Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that? … A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday—and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
- 2008: Epstein is finally investigated for sexual abuse of minors. Then-U.S. attorney Alex Acosta grants Epstein one of the most bizarre sweetheart deals in American legal history, in which Epstein not only secretly pled to a much lesser charge of soliciting an underage prostitute, but also got all his unnamed accomplices immunized forever.
- 2011: Epstein sends the above email.
- 2016: Epstein claims in another email that he is hanging out in Trump Tower a week after the election.
- 2017: Trump nominates Acosta, who has no relevant experience, to run the Department of Labor, which he does until 2019.
- 2019: Epstein is finally indicted for sexual abuse. A few months later, he apparently commits suicide under the most suspicious circumstances imaginable.
- 2022: Maxwell is convicted of conspiring with Epstein to abuse children, and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
- 2025: Trump, back in office, fires the prosecutor who successfully prosecuted Epstein. His lawyers have a meeting with Maxwell. She subsequently says that Trump definitely didn’t do anything wrong, and then she is transferred to apparently the cushiest prison cell in the Western Hemisphere, according to a recent whistleblower report, which includes a service puppy.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:
Rollbacks include a rule that would have ensured workers with disabilities are paid competitive wages
Trump admin’s FY26 budget proposes a complete elimination of team that ensures compliance with disability protections
Washington, D.C. — In a new letter, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), along with Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), Chair of the Bipartisan Disability Caucus, and Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.) led 56 members of Congress in pressing Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer about the Department of Labor’s (DOL) dismantling of key disability employment protections. Secretary DeRemer’s rollbacks include regulations that prohibit discrimination by federal contractors, a proposed rule that would have ensured competitive wages for disabled workers, and funding to teams that enforce labor protections.
“(Y)our actions as Secretary of Labor represent the most significant retreat from opportunities for workers with disabilities and federal disability rights enforcement in decades,” wrote the members.
In July, Secretary DeRemer proposed a rule that would eliminate directives from Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, including hiring goals for federal contractors and data collection requirements to monitor compliance with disability employment objectives.
“This provision serves as a cornerstone of federal efforts to promote disability employment in the private sector…Without concerted action, a growing number of disabled people would be shut out of the workforce and increasingly reliant on social safety net programs,” said the members.
Eliminating data collection and measurable targets means there would be no accountability mechanisms to ensure private companies are complying with the law. This policy reversal would also run counter to the Trump administration’s goal of reducing government dependency and promoting workforce participation, and would likely reduce employment opportunities for disabled workers, increasing their reliance on government benefits.
Secretary DeRemer has also laid off nearly 90 percent of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, leaving only 50 employees to process thousands of federal contractor audits that affect millions of workers. President Trump’s FY26 budget proposes getting rid of the office entirely.
President Trump’s FY26 budget also proposes cutting the Office of Disability Employment’s budget by more than 20 percent.
“By cutting this office’s funding, your administration is decreasing the federal government’s leadership role in promoting competitive integrated employment at a time when such coordination is most needed,” wrote the lawmakers.
Secretary DeRemer is also undermining workers with disabilities’ fight for competitive wages. The Biden administration had proposed phasing out 14(c) certificates, which are waivers allowing employers to pay a wage lower than the federal minimum wage to workers with disabilities. In July, Secretary DeRemer abandoned this proposal, and the DOL continues to issue the certificates.
“This exploitative practice undermines the dignity and economic security of people with disabilities while creating perverse incentives for employers to segregate disabled workers in sheltered workshops, where most employees are people with disabilities,” said the lawmakers.
In July, the DOL also proposed eliminating equal opportunity regulations in registered apprenticeships, which combine paid job training with technical instruction, providing clear pathways to employment. Data shows that workers who completed apprenticeships saw a 49 percent increase in their earnings.
“The disability community deserves leadership that expands employment opportunities…you have instead continued a systematic dismantling of decades of bipartisan progress that has measurably improved employment opportunities and quality of life for millions of Americans with disabilities,” concluded the lawmakers.
The coalition asked Secretary De-Remer to provide clarity by December 11, 2025 on her decisions to eliminate the above protections and how the department plans to fulfill its legal obligations to workers with disabilities without those regulations.
Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) joined in signing the letter.
Representatives Alma Adams (D-N.C.), Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), Donald Beyer (D-Va.), Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), Nikki Budzinski (D-Ill.), André Carson (D-Ind.), Judy Chu (D-Calif.), Angie Craig (D-Minn.), Danny Davis (D-Ill.), Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), Mark DeSaulnier (D-Calif.), Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), Dwight Evans (D-Pa.), Cleo Fields (D-La.), Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Julie Johnson (D-Texas), Bill Keating (D-Mass.), Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), Greg Landsman (D-Ohio), Summer Lee (D-Pa.), Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), John Mannion (D-N.Y.), Sarah McBride (D-Del.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), Gwen Moore (D-Wis.), Kelly Morrison (D-Minn.), Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Emily Randall (D-Wash.), Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.), Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Dina Titus (D-Nev.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and Jill Tokuda (D-Hawaii) joined in signing the letter.
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Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Cupid Killer Kim Davis" went up last night. The following sites updated:
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Cupid Killer Kim Davis"
Isaiah's latest THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Cupid Killer Kim Davis." No, that's not Chris Farley in a ratty wig. The ugly thing explains, "It's me Kim Davis. I oppose marriage equality. Marriage is sacred that's why I've divorced three times and married four times. Shocked, right? How did someone as fat and ugly as me manage to land even one man?" Isaiah archives his comics at THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS.
The Snapshot
Wednesday, November 12, 2025. Chuck Schumer should step down as Senate Minority Leader, none of Chump's security appointees have any experience and it shows, Senator Elizabeth Warren warns a bout the ticking time bomb on student loans, and much more.
Let's start with angry e-mails. I don't look at every video that goes up here. A number of you are upset. I looked at the video after I read some of the e-mails and you are right to be upset. I didn't stream it before I posted it here and I didn't watch that program last night. The host is a smart person so I had thought he wouldn't dig himself deeper. The majority of Democrats disagree with him. We discussed this yesterday. My plan was to note -- as I did yesterday -- that he was wrong. And then I posted him this morning. Because he's smart. Or usually is. I had moved on and thought he would too.
He didn't move on and he got insulting with people who disagree with him. That's just stupid. Grasp that he's going on about Chump calling Americans fools while this host is doing the same thing as Chump. Those of us who disagree with him, he says in the video I wrongly posted here, are focused on feelings and not facts.
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Again, I thought he was smart enough to move on. Every host on his network knows Chuck Schumer betrayed the American people and they noted that on their programs.
I like the host. He's very smart. Again, I thought he would have moved on but instead he dug in deeper. In the future, he won't go up here automatically.
We don't have time to cover all of this. So let's deal with just one spect: We are focused on feelings and not facts!
That's his accusation. His false accusation.
He believes it's true.
Okay.
If it's true, how are you helping anyone?
Because, guess what, MS NOW host, people vote on feelings. They are more likely to vote on feelings than on facts. That's reality.
And when you sneer at voters -- and viewers -- that they are feelings based and not fact based -- how are you different from Chump calling Americans fools?
He's not going to win on this topic. He needs to leave it alone and stop returning to it.
Ezra Levin? More Democrats agree with him right now. He's also been on MS NOW this week and we've noted it. We haven't noted his Jim Acosta appearance so let note that this morning.
Ezra Levin speaks for more people than a host trying to sugar coat the betrayal. It is a betrayal and it feels like one because that's what it is. Defending Chuck for the betrayal? You're just running off viewers. We're not stupid.
And this nonsense argument the TV host is making goes like this: Schumer had no power or influence and couldn't -- in effect! -- herd cat and Schumer should remain Senate Minority Leader!
He has no power or influence? But he should remain the leader? That makes no sense at all. He's inept and he's had eight years, time to go.
At this late point,, you're either defending the people or you're defending the politician. I don't have time to waste defending inept politicians who betray the people and I'm betting that feeling is much more common among voters than the TV host's opinions -- which, though he tries to deny it, also stem from feelings.
My apology to community members for posting that. I hear you on this and, again, no more automatic posting for that host.
On Schumer, Alex Shephard (THE NEW REPUBLIC) writes:
What was this all for?
A few days ago, that question would not have been difficult to answer. The government shutdown was about cuts to Obamacare subsidies that were poised to cause the cost of health care to skyrocket for millions—and that would likely destroy the Affordable Care Act itself. It was about an increasingly lawless and authoritarian administration that had simply stopped participating in normal politics, preferring instead to deploy armed goons in communities across the country. It was about fighting back against a rogue regime to the enthusiastic hurrahs of a base that only last week came out to the polls to deal a hammer blow to the GOP.
What is there to say now that eight Democratic moderates—with the barely disguised backing of party leader Chuck Schumer and all-but-certain coordination from some of the Democratic senators pretending to have been against the decision—voted to reopen the government in exchange for practically nothing? A few days ago, the Democrats had all the leverage in the world. The Republicans had none. It didn’t matter. The Democrats bailed out Trump and his Capitol Hill supplicants. They threw millions of people under the bus. For what? They protected the filibuster so they wouldn’t be tempted to use it to make people’s lives better the next time they take power. Besides that? Nothing.
There are many villains here. Abigail Spanberger, the newly elected governor of Virginia, went on Meet the Press to give political cover to the renegades, undercutting her party, and demanding that they reopen the government—her interview was shared widely with her fellow Democrats. (Shivving her party after they’ve won an election is something of a Spanberger special.)
The New Hampshire delegation should be singled out for special excoriation—the retiring Jeanne Shaheen, along with Maggie Hassan, led the negotiations with Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and the independent (and probably retiring) Angus King. They were joined by another soon-to-depart colleague in Dick Durbin, two others whose terms run until 2030 (Jacky Rosen and Tim Kaine), and one who is John Fetterman (John Fetterman). Underlining every comment they have made to the press is a staggering admission of their own sense of helplessness.
You may have looked at the Democratic response over the last 40 days as a party that was finally standing up for itself. There is every indication that this caught Trump entirely by surprise, the fact that Senate Democrats were suddenly vertebrates. But since Republicans and the president were moving no closer to a deal, Senate Democrats decided it was time to give up. “Most of us here … have voted repeatedly with the Democratic strategy,” Kaine said. “But after 40 days, it wasn’t gonna work.” Angus King, meanwhile, put it even more bluntly: “Standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work.” (“Standing up to Trump” was previously thought to be the single biggest reason to elect opposition senators. King offered little detail on how he and the Democratic caucus will redefine their duties in light of this new mission.)
The biggest villain of them all, however, is someone who cast a kayfabe vote against the deal on Monday. No one bears the weight of the failed shutdown as much as Chuck Schumer.
His “no” vote is particularly galling because it leaves only two options on the table. The first is that the eight Democrats who broke away from their party did so without his knowledge or consent, a conclusion that could only suggest that Schumer has lost control of his caucus. The second is that the moderates were negotiating with Schumer’s knowledge, approval, and encouragement and that the “no” vote was just to conceal that—and maybe as a kind of consolation prize to the other Democrats in his caucus. This suggests that Schumer has lost any ability to organize or think politically or strategically. Regardless of the reason, he needs to step down immediately.
Multiple Democratic House members have called for Schumer to step down from his leadership position, including Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Mike Levin (D-CA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). Democrats in other positions across the country have criticized the capitulation, including the governors of California and New York, Gavin Newsom and Kathy Hochul, and the mayor-elect of New York City, Zohran Mamdani.
Immediately after Democratic senators folded, the progressive movement Indivisible launched what it said was the largest primary campaign it has ever run since forming almost a decade ago. “We need you in the fight for a stronger, better Democratic Party willing to defend our communities, our rights, and our democracy from the fascist threat of the Trump regime,” the group said on its sign-up page. It called on everyone who is “fed up with being failed by our leaders again and again” and wants to “elect the fighters we need in this moment.”
MoveOn, Our Revolution, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee also have called on Schumer to resign.
Last week, President Donald Trump had what was arguably the worst week of his second term. And though the hits to him and his agenda came on several fronts, they had a unifying theme: affordability, as in the lack thereof.
A mini-blue wave swept the off-year elections on Nov. 4, and the dominant force behind the wave was Americans’ intense, lasting discomfort with how much things cost. On Wednesday, during oral arguments at the Supreme Court, conservative and liberal justices expressed skepticism of the administration’s arguments that the president’s tariffs, which the justices widely agreed raised costs, were legal. Trump made things even worse for himself by first treating affordability as a surprising new issue: The Democrats, he told Fox News on Wednesday, “have this new word called ‘affordability,’ and [Republicans] don’t talk about it enough.” Then, a day later, he didn’t even “want to hear about affordability.” As MSNBC’s Steve Benen cataloged, Trump’s dismissal of cost-of-living concerns was accompanied by an avalanche of wrong numbers, including gems like “Energy costs, as and [sic] example, are plummeting.”
I could point out that it takes one mouse click to prove that consumers’ electricity bills have gone up 5% over the past year while overall inflation is up 3%. But, in fact, no clicks are necessary. Trump, whose political instincts are rarely this far off, is making a big, basic mistake: telling people they’re better off than they know they are. As Axios summarized the situation: “You can’t convince Americans your economic policies are working if they’re paying 20% more for a cup of coffee.” Especially when that price is largely a function of the 50% tariff you levied on Brazil (with which, for the record, the U.S. runs a trade surplus).
Trump also keeps banging on about $2-per-gallon gas prices when no states are posting costs anywhere near that number. The national average Tuesday was $3.07, which is admittedly down from a year ago. By roughly 2 cents.
Grasp what all he knows and has covered up. He is 'the deep state' he used to decry. Who is his girlfriend, by the way? Marni Rose McFall (NEWSWEEK) reports:
Let's wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:
Borrowers who earn income-driven repayment cancellation after decades of payments could be hit with tax bills as high as $10,000
“The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service should move immediately to avoid this financial disaster for working-class Americans.”
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, led her colleagues in a letter urging Secretary of the Treasury & Acting IRS Commissioner Scott Bessent to use the IRS’s existing legal authorities to stop the looming “tax bomb” facing borrowers who obtain income-driven repayment (IDR) discharges of their student loan debt. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate HELP Committee; Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.); Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.); Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.); Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.); Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii); Cory Booker (D-N.J.); and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) joined the letter as well.
In 2021, Congress passed into law a provision excluding student debt cancellation from taxable income. As a result, borrowers who received student debt relief after years of repayment were not faced with high and unexpected tax bills.
However, that provision is set to expire at the end of this year. Absent action from President Trump or Republicans in Congress, this expiration will mean that borrowers on IDR plans who have legally earned debt cancellation after 20 or 25 years of repayment will be hit with significant tax bills.
“If neither the Trump Administration nor the Republican-controlled Congress act soon, families who earn student debt cancellation after paying their loans for decades will be hit with surprise tax hikes—as high as $10,000 in many cases—starting next tax year,” wrote the senators. “The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service should move immediately to avoid this financial disaster for working-class Americans.”
New data from Protect Borrowers reveal that a typical family headed by a borrower receiving IDR cancellation (i.e., a married parent with two children earning $50,000 a year) could see their tax bill spike by $8,789. A similar family making $40,000 a year could shoulder a net tax increase of $10,295. Lower-income borrowers and borrowers with children would likely be forced to pay the most, as they stand to lose access to critical programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit and the refundable portion of the Child Tax Credit.
In their letter, the senators laid out the legal case for the Trump administration’s options to defuse the IDR “tax bomb.” In particular, they argued that the insolvency exclusion, scholarship exclusion, and general welfare exclusion were all options to declare IDR discharge as non-taxable income. The senators also noted that, in 2020, the Trump Administration delivered similar relief to recipients of closed school discharge and borrower defense to repayment, excluding those discharges from taxable income using its administrative authorities.
“By punishing IDR beneficiaries with massive tax bills, the federal government undermines the very purpose of the IDR program and reneges on its promises to borrowers,” the senators concluded. “Instead of compounding this problem by denying legally owed IDR discharge to borrowers, the Administration can and should deliver certainty and relief to these families as soon as possible.”
“President Trump and his allies in Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to cut taxes for billionaires while hiking taxes for thousands of student loan borrowers who have earned debt relief after paying for decades,” said Persis Yu, Deputy Executive Director and Managing Counsel for Protect Borrowers. “This tax bomb will force working families to trade their crushing student loan debt for a crushing tax debt. We applaud Senator Warren for taking the lead and demanding the Trump Administration take immediate action to protect these borrowers from being needlessly pushed further into debt. Policymakers must address this tax bomb before it is too late.”
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