https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-pardons-rudy-giuliani-key-figures-involved-efforts/story?id=127367541

President Donald Trump issued a sweeping pardon to key figures allegedly involved in the plan to arrange an alternate slate of electors and "expose voting fraud" during the 2020 election, according to U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin.

Trump pardoned high-profile individuals allegedly involved in his attempt to overturn the election, including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Boris Epshteyn, John Eastman and Mark Meadows -- and 72 other individuals allegedly associated with the effort to challenge the 2020 election results.

The pardon, which Trump appears to have signed on Friday, covers each of the president's co-defendants who were charged in Georgia for a sweeping scheme to overturn election results.

The senate has reached a deal and the shutdown is ending tonight. Republicans are folding like lawn chars.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/09/government-funding-deal-on-track-to-advance-sunday-night-00644110
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown

Senators have reached a deal to end the government shutdown.

The agreement, which was negotiated in part by Sens. Angus King, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan as well as GOP senators, has “more than enough” members of the Senate Democratic Caucus to advance, according to two people granted anonymity to disclose the terms.

Senate Republicans are expected to support the agreement.

The Senate is poised to vote later Sunday night to advance the House-passed stopgap, which will later become the vehicle for the larger funding deal.

That vote would tee up consideration later this week of a legislative package that would fund the Department of Agriculture and the FDA, the Department of Veterans Affairs and military construction projects, and the operations of Congress, for the full fiscal year — the product of months of bipartisan, bicameral negotiations. All other agencies would be funded through Jan. 30, according to text of a continuing resolution released Sunday.

As part of Democrats’ agreement to end the shutdown, Senate Majority Leader John Thune is promising Senate Democrats a vote in December to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies that are due to expire at the end of the year short of Congressional action. Democrats will also get to determine what extension bill gets a vote.

The government-opening agreement also guarantees that federal employees laid off during the shutdown are re-hired and gives federal employees backpay.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/former-capitol-police-officer-a-forensic-match-for-jan-6-pipe-bomber-sources-say
The FBI, which failed to solve the case in nearly five years of investigation but indicated that it was closing in after Blaze News brought its investigation to intelligence sources, was feet from the Falls Church address of the pipe bomb suspect days after Jan. 6, according to the Blaze News investigation.

Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin realized Friday that he was doing surveillance next door to the woman now suspected of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber.

“The FBI put us one door away from the pipe bomber within days of January 6, and we were deliberately pulled away for no logical or logically investigative reason,” Seraphin told Blaze News Friday. “And everything about that tells me that they were involved in a cover-up and have been since day one.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/07/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage

The US supreme court on Friday is considering taking up a case that could challenge the legality of same-sex marriage across the country.

Hours after ruling that Donald Trump’s administration can block transgender and non-binary people from selecting passport sex markers that align with their gender identity, the justices are holding their first conference on the Davis v Ermold case. While their deliberations are typically kept private, the court may announce whether it will take the case as early as Monday.

The case involves Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who, in 2015, became a cause celebre for religious opposition to same-sex marriage after the US supreme court legalized the practice in the Obergefell v Hodges case. Davis repeatedly refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and, at the height of her fame, was even briefly jailed for contempt of court.

Two men, David Ermold and David Moore, sued Davis after she refused to give them a marriage license. After a trial, a jury awarded the couple $100,000 in damages. Davis appealed that decision, arguing that her conduct was protected by the first amendment’s guarantee of free exercise of religion.

The US court of appeals for the sixth circuit, however, rejected that argument in March of this year. Because Davis was operating within her capacity as a government official, she was not entitled to first amendment protections, the judges ruled.

BBC execs resign because the network was releasing cheap fakes of Donald Trump's speeches. The chair of BBC News acknowledged these cheap fakes and apologized after the executives tendered their resignations
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5598221-bbc-chair-apologizes-donald-trump-edit/
BBC chair apologies for ‘error in judgment’ in Trump speech edit

The chair of the BBC is apologizing for the way the broadcaster edited a video of President Trump speaking to a crowd of his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington D.C. before the attack on the Capitol that day.

Criticisms of the edit, which have led to the resignations of both BBC Director-General Tim Davie and the CEO of BBC News, Deborah Turness, has “also prompted further reflection by the BBC,” Chair Samir Shah wrote in a letter to British lawmakers this week.

“The conclusion of that deliberation is that we accept that the way the speech was edited did give the impression of a direct call for violent action. The BBC would like to apologise for that error of judgement,” Shah said.

The video in question, shown as part of a BBC documentary and highlighted in reporting by The Telegraph, depicts Trump saying “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.”

A complete video and transcript of the president’s remarks shows him urging his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” march to the Capitol.

Trump has celebrated the resignation of Davie and Turness and has ridiculed the BBC over the edit, alleging the episode is evidence of bias against him.

“I will personally ensure that the BBC continues to take the necessary actions in the future to ensure the BBC retains the trust and confidence of the public we serve,” Shah wrote in his letter. “There is an increasing need for the public to be informed in a way that is impartial, truthful and is based on evidence they can trust. That is the sacred job of the BBC.”

>Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-chicago

A border patrol chief claimed on Saturday that his agents came under fire in Chicago while conducting immigration enforcement operations, just two days after a federal judge said that he had lied to her about having been struck by a rock during a previous confrontation with protesters in the city.

Gregory Bovino, the border patrol chief and frequent Fox News guest who has become the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, said on social media that his agents had been “shot at”, and subjected to “vehicular assaults, physical assaults, impeding, violent mobs, vehicular blockades”, for a number of hours.

In a written statement, the Department of Homeland Security said that border patrol agents were “conducting immigration enforcement operations near 26th Street and Kedzie Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, when an unknown male driving a black Jeep fired shots at agents and fled the scene”.

The agency said that the “Chicago Police Department was called for assistance and cleared the scene. The shooter and vehicle remain at large, and this is a dynamic situation.”

Chicago police said they responded but found no signs of anyone having been struck by gunfire where the alleged shooting took place. “There are no reports of anyone struck by gunfire,” the Chicago police said in a statement.

According to the police, one officer was in good condition after being struck by a vehicle during the operation, and the driver was ticketed.

>No video evidence has yet surfaced of the alleged shooting, but social media clips and news photographs did show heavily armed agents in camouflage, including Bovino, confronting protesters, deploying tear gas and detaining people in the city’s Little Village neighborhood.

YouTuber Tyler Oliveira said he will not release his documentary about India’s poop-throwing festival. He posted this on his X account two hours ago. Oliveira said he was doxxed and threatened by thousands of Indians after he filmed the event. He said people also targeted his family, turning his life “into a living hell." The festival he filmed is called the Gorehabba cow-dung festival, celebrated in Gumatapura village in Karnataka after Diwali.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us-streamers/tyler-oliveira-cancels-his-india-cow-dung-throwing-festival-documentary-after-growing-threats-and-massive-backlash/articleshow/125147011.cms

Kristi Noem reportedly tried to buy 10 engineless Spirit Airlines planes that airline didn’t own

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/kristi-noem-spirit-airlines-planes

The secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, reportedly authorized the purchase of Spirit Airlines jets before discovering the airline didn’t actually own the planes – and that the aircraft lacked engines.

The bizarre anecdote was contained in a Wall Street Journal report released on Friday, which recounted how Noem and Corey Lewandowski – who managed Donald Trump’s first winning presidential campaign – had recently arranged to buy 10 Boeing 737 aircraft from Spirit Airlines. People familiar with the situation told the paper that the two intended to use the jets to expand deportation flights – and for personal travel.

Those sources also claimed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials had cautioned them that buying planes would be far more expensive than simply expanding existing flight contracts.

Complicating matters further, Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time, in August, did not own the jets and their engines would have had to be bought separately. The plan has since been paused, according to the Journal.

Meanwhile, Democrats on the House appropriations committee said in October that during this fall’s record-long government shutdown, the DHS had already acquired two Gulfstream jets for $200m.

“It has come to our attention that, in the midst of a government shutdown, the United States Coast Guard entered into a sole source contract with Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation to procure two new G700 luxury jets to support travel for you and the deputy secretary, at a cost to the taxpayer of $200m,” Democratic representatives Rosa DeLauro and Lauren Underwood wrote in a letter to the DHS.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ghislaine-maxwell-prison-emails-minimum-security-bryan-texas-rcna242218
Within days of her arrival at a Texas prison camp in early August, Ghislaine Maxwell gushed in emails to her friends and family over the cleanliness and safety of her new surroundings.

“The institution is run in an orderly fashion which makes for a safer more comfortable environment for all people concerned, inmates and guards alike,” wrote Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting minors to be sexually abused by her longtime confidant, the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Maxwell’s unexpected move to the all-women’s Federal Prison Camp Bryan, which houses inmates convicted of nonviolent offenses and white-collar crimes in dormitory-style quarters, drew immediate condemnation from current and former federal Bureau of Prisons employees. They said it was very unusual for prisoners with sex offenses on their records to be incarcerated in such an unconstrained setting, indicating Maxwell was receiving preferential treatment.

Maxwell, 63, had been in a low-security federal correctional institution in Tallahassee, Florida, following her conviction in December 2021 on federal sex trafficking charges. FCI Tallahassee is more restrictive than a camp like FPC Bryan, where inmates have access to work programs, recreation and other activities and are often serving shorter sentences. Maxwell was moved days after meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July.

NBC News has reviewed emails Maxwell sent during her first few months at FPC Bryan, which were obtained by the House Judiciary Committee. The emails describe Maxwell’s relief at being in a calmer facility without violence, where staff was polite and the food was better. "My situation is improved by being at Bryan," she wrote in one email.

Elections for school boards and public service commissions aren’t as sexy as a governor’s race, but they matter — and Democrats swept them everywhere.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/wildest-democratic-victories-may-not-031729940


WASHINGTON – Everyone knows the headlines from Tuesday night’s Democratic sweep in the 2025 elections — governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia, a big redistricting referendum in California, Zohran Mamdani’s historic win in the New York City mayoral race.

But some of the party’s most astounding wins played out down lower on ballots, and they won’t get as much national attention. These were races for things like school boards, city councils, state legislative seats and an obscure public service commission. They may not sound as sexy as a governor’s race, but these are the elections most connected to local communities and reflective of how regular people are feeling there.

Here’s a look at some of Democrats’ wildest wins at the local level.

>School boards

There were lots of school board elections on Tuesday, in red and blue states like Pennsylvania, Washington, Kansas, Idaho, Colorado and Texas.

School boards are almost always elected in nonpartisan races. But candidates’ endorsements give voters a sense of their policy positions and their alignment with parties, and school boards have been dragged into ugly culture wars in recent years. That’s largely due to the far-right group, Moms for Liberty, aggressively recruiting its members to run for seats on school boards around the country to enact anti-LGBTQ+ policies in schools.

Two of Tuesday’s school board elections were in Bucks County, Pa., which was considered “ground zero” for right-wing groups’ takeover of school boards in 2021. A few years ago, conservatives on these boards in Pennbridge and Central Bucks districts were using their roles to pass policies targeting LGBTQ+ students and banning books.

https://apnews.com/article/serbia-kushner-trump-tower-special-law-69b8c6f0969b30b3911875c841f323b9

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian lawmakers on Friday passed a special law clearing the way for a controversial real estate project that would be financed by an investment company linked to Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner despite widespread public opposition and legal hurdles.

The project seeks to redevelop a landmark military complex in central Belgrade that was partially destroyed in a NATO bombing campaign in 1999, turning it into a luxury compound with a high-rise hotel, offices and shops.

The special bill was approved with a 130-40 vote in the 250-member parliament after days of heated parliamentary debate and street protests by opponents.

Serbia’s government last year stripped the complex of its protected status and signed a 99-year-lease agreement with Kushner-related Affinity Global Development, based in the U.S. But the project stalled after Serbia’s organized crime prosecutors launched an investigation into whether documents used to remove that status were forged.

While the pro-Trump populist government of President Aleksandar Vucic says the project would boost both the economy and ties with the current U.S. administration, the plan has met fierce opposition from experts because of the building’s architectural significance — and because it is seen a symbol of resistance to the U.S.-led NATO bombing, widely viewed in the Balkan country as an unjust “aggression.”

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5580613-pentagon-national-guard-quick-reaction-force-us-cities-trump-agenda/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/30/pentagon-national-guard-quick-reaction-force/

A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive reviewed by the Guardian.

The memo, signed on 8 October by Maj Gen Ronald Burkett, the director of operations for the Pentagon’s national guard bureau, sets thresholds for the size of the quick reaction force to be trained in each state, with most states required to train 500 national guard members, for a total of 23,500 troops nationwide.

As authority, Burkett cited Donald Trump’s August executive order that deployed the guard to fight crime in Washington DC. The same order required the secretary of defense to create “a standing National Guard quick reaction force … available for rapid nationwide deployment” in “quelling civil disturbances”.

> 11/6/2025
The first time I ever started a new thread because the old one was too successful… Feels Goodman…
> Top Headlines
Don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya!
> https://apnews.com/fd95c18815fdabdaabaf26b8c2f0bafc
Wielded immense power for decades!
> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/nancy-pelosi-house-retire.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE8.k9wV.HzGW_viCiRTe&smid=url-share
Is going to step down for a “new generation” (read: Mamdani…)
> https://www.sfgate.com/article/21143684.php

> Main Headline
Musk Makes More Money, Man - awarded 1 Trillion dollars!
> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/business/elon-musk-tesla-pay-vote.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE8.X9ul.66Oc5Shei8cd&smid=url-share

> More News
Medical emergency in the White House - from the picture Trump just stands there.
> https://www.the-sun.com/news/15452648
So much for antiNannyState Conservatives… Texas to ban tranny shows.
> https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/appeals-court-lets-texas-enforce-185339565.html
Self-driving taxi runs over beloved neighborhood cat.
> https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/06/robotaxi-runs-kills-popular-cat-greeted-people-a-corner-shop-24633938/
Astronauts trapped in Space because of “Mystery Object”!
> https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/06/astronauts-stranded-space-capsule-struck-mystery-object-24632143/

It’s usually Space Junk, r-right?!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/06/heritage-foundation-tucker-carlson/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/heritage-foundation-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes

The leader of the conservative thinktank behind Project 2025 apologized for supporting a white nationalist amid turmoil on the right over the mainstreaming of extremist ideology, but is resisting calls to resign.

Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, previously defended the former Fox host Tucker Carlson for having Hitler fan Nick Fuentes on his podcast without pushing back on his white supremacist views.

In leaked footage of a Heritage town hall from Wednesday, staffers largely said Roberts’s decision to align the thinktank with Fuentes was a mistake. “I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full Stop,” he told Heritage staff.

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/g-s1-96437/trump-immigration-judges-fired

For three immigration judges, the day took a similar turn.

Kyra Lilien, who was hired in 2023, was presiding in a courtroom in Concord, Calif., in July when she paused the hearing of an immigrant seeking asylum to read an email.

"I told them that we were not going to have a hearing because I had just been fired," Lilien said. Present in the court was a court interpreter and an attorney for the Department of Homeland Security. "They asked me if I was joking."

Anam Petit, who was hired as an immigration judge in 2023 after a career in immigrant defense, was sitting on the bench in her courtroom in Virginia's Annandale Immigration Court in September. It was her two-year anniversary in the position and she was between hearings when she got the email.
"My voice was shaking. My hands were shaking. My mind was racing. And I gave the decision and I dismissed everyone without mentioning anything," Petit said. One decision that day was to deny asylum, and the other was a partial denial, each for a different member of one immigrant family, she recalled.

Tania Nemer was hired as a judge at the Cleveland immigration court in 2023. She had about 30 or 40 immigrants, a DHS attorney and staff in her court one morning in February. She had just finished explaining rights and responsibilities to the group when her door opened and her manager asked her to come with him. She was later escorted out of the building.

Abandoning all pretense of wanting to help Americans in need or being forced to cut funding to food programs by law, Donald Trump has gone mask off and has taken the audacious step of actively working to prevent Americans from receiving SNAP benefits in defiance of a court order mandating the program be funded in full.
This occurs after Donald Trump's record breaking government shutdown (having broken his previous record) drags into it's 38th day

https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b

BOSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump ’s administration asked a federal appeals court Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly SNAP food benefits amid a U.S. government shutdown, even as at least some states said they were moving quickly to get the money to people.

The judge gave the Trump administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. But the administration asked the appeals court to suspend any court orders requiring it to spend more money than is available in a contingency fund, and instead allow it to continue with planned partial SNAP payments for the month.

The court filing came even as the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a memo to states that it’s working to make funds available Friday for full monthly SNAP benefits.

California and Wisconsin said some SNAP recipients already received their full November payments overnight on Thursday.

“Food benefits are now beginning to flow back to California families,” Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. A spokesperson for Democratic Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin also confirmed that full SNAP payments had gone through.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/11/06/more-than-1-million-jobs-have-been-cut-this-year-report-says/

Private and public employers cut 153,074 jobs in October, according to a report from career services firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a 183% increase from the month before and a 175% spike over the same month last year.

More than 1 million jobs have been cut so far this year, up 65% from the 664,839 announced in the first 10 months of 2024 and 44% more than cuts made in all of 2024.

The government, responsible for more than 300,000 job losses, remains the sector with the most cuts this year, followed by the technology, warehousing, retail and service sectors.

Job cuts have surpassed 1 million in a year only four other times in the last 32 years: 2001 (when the dot-com bubble burst), 2008 and 2009 (in the midst of the Great Recession) and 2020 (when the COVID pandemic struck).

Andrew Challenger, chief revenue officer and labor expert for Challenger, Gray & Christmas, blamed the adoption of artificial intelligence, federal budget cuts, lower customer and corporate spending and rising costs for the job cuts announced in October.

Last month brought the highest number of job cuts for any October since 2003, when large layoffs were announced in the telecommunications sector as cell phones gained wide adoption.

In a blow to yet another right wing /news/ shill narrative, Donald Trump has officially declared he will block SNAP benefits despite a court order mandating he fund the program.
This announcement, coupled with his continued acknowledgement that Senate Republicans can and should use the nuclear option to end the shutdown right now, has left right wing shills scrambling for new talking points. It has also led to their all but abandoning the topic of the shutdown on /news/ over the last few days, a stark reversal from their previous campaign to make it the sole topic discussed on this board.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/snap-trump-food-shutdown.html

President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that the United States would not pay any SNAP benefits during the government shutdown, contradicting a court filing a day earlier by his administration.

Trump said that the benefits, which help feed 42 million Americans, will resume only after Democrats in Congress agree to pass a stopgap funding bill that would reopen the government.

The administration on Monday told a federal judge in Rhode Island that it would pay half of the costs of the SNAP benefits for November.

Trump on Tuesday said in a Truth Social post, “SNAP BENEFITS, which increased by Billions and Billions of Dollars (MANY FOLD!) during Crooked Joe Biden’s disastrous term in office (Due to the fact that they were haphazardly ‘handed’ to anyone for the asking, as opposed to just those in need, which is the purpose of SNAP!), will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before!”

The White House, when asked by CNBC for clarification on Trump’s statement given the court filing Monday, said, “Refer you to the President’s truth.”

https://apnews.com/article/sandwich-throwing-trial-justice-department-a2776c568a1ea4b8ce5b6af606669b63

WASHINGTON — The D.C. man accused of assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent with a Subway sandwich was found not guilty by a jury Thursday, the culmination of a three-month criminal case that was both an absurd spectacle and a deeply serious clash over protest and prosecution in the Trump era.

Sean Dunn, a 37-year-old Air Force veteran and former Justice Department paralegal, faced up to a year in jail for hurling what became known as the hoagie heard around the world. His acquittal following a two-day trial amounts to a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s immigration and crime crackdown in Washington, as well as another embarrassing legal setback for Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for D.C., whom he appointed.

Viral video from Aug. 10 showed Dunn shouting at the Border Patrol agent, Gregory Lairmore, before heaving a sandwich at his chest, running away and getting arrested after a brief foot chase. With anger brewing across the city over Trump’s takeover of city policing and deployment of the National Guard, Dunn quickly grew into a footlong folk hero and symbol of anti-Trump resistance.

Pirro’s office initially pursued a felony assault charge against Dunn, but a grand jury rebuffed prosecutors by declining to return an indictment. Eager to project the president’s tough-on-protest image, Pirro declined to drop the case and proceeded with a less serious misdemeanor charge that resulted in this week’s trial.

Prosecutors were gambling that jurors in liberal Washington would find that Dunn’s actions amounted to an “assault,” even though he was being widely celebrated and the case mocked as a joke.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/michigan-state-caught-mandating-dei-123027678.html

Despite pledging to eliminate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) mandates, Michigan State University (MSU) is still requiring education students to take a race-based course, according to internal documents obtained by Young Americans for Freedom (YAF).

The documents show that the course, TE 101: “Social Foundations of Justice and Equity in Education,” is a three-credit requirement for teacher preparation students.

According to the Fall 2025 syllabus, students are required to read We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love.

“In We Want To Do More Than Survive, Dr. Bettina L. Love brings her experiences as a Black queer educator, student, researcher, and community member to name the historical and dynamic systems of oppression that profit from the suffering of children of color,” the book’s introduction reads. “In particular, Love discusses the necessity to dismantle the educational survival complex that many students and teachers enact in order to survive the violent and harmful practices of the United States education system.”

The syllabus states that the course “explores the ways social inequalities, systems, and structures affect schooling,” according to YAF.

Following recent algorithm updates, there's a massive wave of banned accounts on ElonX, and anyone can be affected, doesn't matter if new or old accounts, if free or paid or with/without OldTweetDeck.
Oddly enough, this happened shortly after (((New York))).

https://twistedvoxel.com/massive-ban-wave-targets-oldtweetdeck-users-following-xs-crackdown-on-third-party-access/

Are you affected? Me has had two accounts, they're gone, feels like beeing blind and deaf, just like a NPC

>Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-chicago

A border patrol chief claimed on Saturday that his agents came under fire in Chicago while conducting immigration enforcement operations, just two days after a federal judge said that he had lied to her about having been struck by a rock during a previous confrontation with protesters in the city.

Gregory Bovino, the border patrol chief and frequent Fox News guest who has become the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, said on social media that his agents had been “shot at”, and subjected to “vehicular assaults, physical assaults, impeding, violent mobs, vehicular blockades”, for a number of hours.

In a written statement, the Department of Homeland Security said that border patrol agents were “conducting immigration enforcement operations near 26th Street and Kedzie Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, when an unknown male driving a black Jeep fired shots at agents and fled the scene”.

The agency said that the “Chicago Police Department was called for assistance and cleared the scene. The shooter and vehicle remain at large, and this is a dynamic situation.”

Chicago police said they responded but found no signs of anyone having been struck by gunfire where the alleged shooting took place. “There are no reports of anyone struck by gunfire,” the Chicago police said in a statement.

According to the police, one officer was in good condition after being struck by a vehicle during the operation, and the driver was ticketed.

>No video evidence has yet surfaced of the alleged shooting, but social media clips and news photographs did show heavily armed agents in camouflage, including Bovino, confronting protesters, deploying tear gas and detaining people in the city’s Little Village neighborhood.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/democrats-sweep-three-major-races-virginia-house-delegates

It was a big night for Democrats in Virginia.

Not only did the Democratic candidates sweep the state's three major races — governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general — the party also picked up 13 seats in the House of Delegates, giving them a hefty majority of 64-35, with one race remaining undecided.
The blue wave

Dig deeper:

This is a significant expansion of the Democrats' power in the state House, taking their previously slim 51-49 majority up.

Virginia typically swings between Democrats and Republicans, and the outcomes often serves as a bellwether to determine the electorate's mood going into the next election.

https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-not-available-2026-04f2d0c31bec80b55d122a0e76e08c36
IRS Direct File, the electronic system for filing tax returns for free, will not be offered next year, the Trump administration has confirmed.

An email sent Monday from IRS official Cynthia Noe to state comptrollers that participate in the Direct File program said that “IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026. No launch date has been set for the future.”

The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency was credited by users with making tax filing easy, fast and economical. However, it faced criticism from Republican lawmakers, who called it a waste of taxpayer money because free filing programs already exist (though they are difficult to use), and from commercial tax preparation companies, which have made billions from charging people to use their software.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who is also the current IRS commissioner, told reporters at the White House on Wednesday that there are “better alternatives” to Direct File. “It wasn’t used very much,” he said. “And we think that the private sector can do a better job.”

The Center for Taxpayer Rights filed a Freedom of Information Act request for IRS’ latest evaluation of the program and the report says 296,531 taxpayers submitted accepted returns for the 2025 tax season through Direct File. That’s up from the 140,803 submitted accepted returns in 2024.

Direct File was rolled out as a pilot program in 2024 after the IRS was tasked with looking into how to create a “direct file” system as part of the money it received from the Inflation Reduction Act signed into law by Biden in 2022. The Democratic administration spent tens of millions of dollars developing the program.

Last May, the agency under Biden announced that the program would be made permanent.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5594443-vance-pushes-back-snap/

Vice President Vance on Thursday pushed back on a federal court ruling that directed the Trump administration to make full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments for November, arguing the court should not be telling the president how to spend money during a government shutdown.

“It’s an absurd ruling because you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the middle of a Democrat government shutdown,” Vance said during a roundtable with Central Asian leaders at the White House.

“What we’d like to do is for the Democrats to open up the government of course, then we can fund SNAP and we can also do a lot of other good things for the American people,” Vance said. “But in the midst of a shutdown we can’t have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation.”

U.S. District Judge John McConnell earlier Thursday rejected the administration’s plan to provide partial payments without tapping additional funds, saying it failed to comply with his previous order.

The Justice Department said it would appeal the ruling, throwing the fate of SNAP benefits for millions of Americans who rely on the program into limbo.

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U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/u-s-hits-38-trillion-in-debt-after-the-fastest-accumulation-of-1-trillion-outside-of-the-pandemic

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the midst of a federal government shutdown, the U.S. government’s gross national debt surpassed $38 trillion Wednesday, a record number that highlights the accelerating accumulation of debt on America’s balance sheet.

It’s also the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pandemic — the U.S. hit $37 trillion in gross national debt in August this year.

WATCH: How debt interest is becoming a bigger problem for the U.S. government

The $38 trillion update is found in the latest Treasury Department report, which logs the nation’s daily finances.

Kent Smetters of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model, who served in President George W. Bush’s Treasury Department, told The Associated Press that a growing debt load over time leads ultimately to higher inflation, eroding Americans’ purchasing power.

The Government Accountability Office outlines some of the impacts of rising government debt on Americans — including higher borrowing costs for things like mortgages and cars, lower wages from businesses having less money available to invest, and more expensive goods and services.

“I think a lot of people want to know that their kids and grandkids are going to be in good, decent shape in the future — that they will be able to afford a house,” Smetters said. “That additional inflation compounds” and erodes consumers’ purchasing power, he said, making it less possible for future generations to achieve home ownership goals.

NEW ORLEANS — Immigration officials have deported a father living in Alabama to Laos despite a federal court order blocking his removal from the U.S. on the grounds he has a claim to citizenship, the man’s attorneys said Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick last week ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to keep Chanthila “Shawn” Souvannarath, 44, in the United States while he presented what the judge called his “substantial claim of U.S. citizenship,” court records show. He was born in a refugee camp in Thailand but was granted lawful permanent residence in the U.S. before his first birthday, according to court filings.

But Souvannarath on Sunday messaged his wife on WhatsApp and told her he was in Dongmakkhai, Laos, according to a screenshot she shared with The Associated Press. The message ends with “love y’all.”

“It is very unfortunate, especially for the children that we have together,” Beatrice Souvannarath told AP.

Emails, phone calls and text messages sent to ICE and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were not immediately returned.

The ACLU of Louisiana, which is representing Souvannarath, called the deportation a “stunning violation of a federal court order.” Before his deportation, Souvannarath had been detained at a newly opened ICE facility at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

“ICE just ignored a federal court order and tore yet another family apart,” said Alanah Odoms, executive director for the ACLU of Louisiana, in a statement. “This administration has shown it will ignore the courts, ignore the Constitution and ignore the law to pursue its mass deportation agenda, even if it means destroying the lives of American citizens.”

>https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/28/man-deported-to-laos-despite-court-order-blocking-his-removal-attorneys-say-00626802

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-inflation-treasury-tariffs-rcna241696
The Treasury Department said Monday that inflation "remained above the target of 2 percent in the third quarter," even as President Donald Trump and administration officials continue to assert that there is "no inflation."

Speaking on CBS News "60 Minutes" on Sunday, Trump said, "We have no inflation, we have no inflation."

Trump claimed that he had "already taken care of" inflation, calling 2% "the perfect inflation."

But inflation came in at 3% on an annual basis in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"Food prices for both groceries (food at home) and food services (food away from home) increased moderately in the third quarter," Treasury said in a new "Economy Statement."

The statement released Monday is a regular economic update prepared for the Treasury’s Borrowing Advisory Committee.

The committee consists of nonpartisan bond market executives from firms such as Citigroup, Pimco, JPMorgan and BlackRock, and provides input to the Treasury on government debt and financing issues.

A White House spokesperson did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the Treasury statement.

One of the major drivers of food inflation was record beef prices, due in part to lower herd counts.

"We're gonna get the beef price down very quickly. It'll be very nice, just like eggs," Trump said Sunday on CBS.

Overall, the Treasury Department said that "economic growth solidified in the third quarter with steady business investment and consumer demand."

The third quarter is considered the three-month period from July 1 to Sept. 30.

CEOs of retail and food companies have noted that while consumer spending overall continues at a decent pace, lower-income consumers are faring much worse than middle and upper income Americans.

“Traffic for lower-income consumers is down double digits,” McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski told CNBC in September. “We needed to step in.”

Researchers have discovered more than 111,000 spiders thriving in what appears to be the world's biggest spiderweb, deep inside a pitch-black cave on the Albanian-Greek border.

The "extraordinary" colony consists of a colossal web in a permanently dark zone of the cavern, according to a study published Oct. 17 in the journal Subterranean Biology. The web stretches 1,140 square feet (106 square meters) along the wall of a narrow, low-ceilinged passage near the entrance of the cave. It is a patchwork of thousands of individual, funnel-shaped webs, the researchers noted.

This is the first evidence of colonial behavior in two common spider species and likely represents the largest spiderweb in the world, said study lead author István Urák, an associate professor of biology at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Romania.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/worlds-biggest-spiderweb-discovered-inside-sulfur-cave-with-111-000-arachnids-living-in-pitch-black

https://www.uknip.co.uk/news/uk/uk-news/swedish-court-sparks-fury-refugee-rapist-wont-be-deported-because-assault-too-short/

Rapist of 16-Year-Old Girl Allowed to Stay Despite Conviction

A Swedish appeals court has caused uproar by ruling that Yazied Mohamed, a 19-year-old Eritrean refugee convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl, will not be deported. The shocking reason? The assault was deemed “too brief” to qualify as an “exceptionally serious offense.”

Mohamed attacked Meya Åberg in September 2024 while she was walking home through a pedestrian tunnel in Skellefteå, after missing her bus following a shift at McDonald’s. He grabbed her phone, dragged her into the tunnel, and raped her—until she managed to break free.

A measles investigation amid a large, ongoing outbreak at the Arizona-Utah border has hit a roadblock as the first probable case identified in the Salt Lake City area refuses to work with health officials, the local health department reported this week.

There have been over 150 cases collectively across the two states, mostly in northwestern Mohave County, Arizona, and the southwest health district of Utah, in the past two months. Both areas have abysmally low vaccination rates: In Mohave County, only 78.4 percent of kindergartners in the 2024–2025 school year were vaccinated against measles, according to state records. In the southwest district of Utah, only 80.7 percent of kindergartners in the 2024–2025 school year had records of measles vaccination. Public health experts say vaccination coverage of 95 percent is necessary to keep the disease from spreading in a community.

While the outbreak has largely exploded along the border, cases are also creeping to the north, toward Salt Lake County, which encompasses the city. Utah County, which sits just south of Salt Lake County, has identified eight cases, including a new case reported today.

>https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/measles-outbreak-investigation-in-utah-blocked-by-patient-who-refuses-to-talk/

Abandoning all pretense of wanting to help Americans in need or being forced to cut funding to food programs by law, Donald Trump has gone mask off and has taken the audacious step of actively working to prevent Americans from receiving SNAP benefits in defiance of a court order mandating the program be funded in full.
This occurs after Donald Trump's record breaking government shutdown (having broken his previous record) drags into it's 38th day

https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b

BOSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump ’s administration asked a federal appeals court Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly SNAP food benefits amid a U.S. government shutdown, even as at least some states said they were moving quickly to get the money to people.

The judge gave the Trump administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. But the administration asked the appeals court to suspend any court orders requiring it to spend more money than is available in a contingency fund, and instead allow it to continue with planned partial SNAP payments for the month.

The court filing came even as the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a memo to states that it’s working to make funds available Friday for full monthly SNAP benefits.

California and Wisconsin said some SNAP recipients already received their full November payments overnight on Thursday.

“Food benefits are now beginning to flow back to California families,” Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. A spokesperson for Democratic Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin also confirmed that full SNAP payments had gone through.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/06/judge-doj-boeing-00639589

A federal judge on Thursday granted a Justice Department request to dismiss a felony case against Boeing tied to two passenger jet crashes that killed 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas OK’d the DOJ’s motion to dismiss the case. The Trump administration sought the dismissal after it struck a non-prosecution agreement in May with the aerospace company — less than a year after the plane-maker had agreed to plead guilty as part of a deal with the Biden administration. The charge was conspiracy to defraud the government.

Some victims’ families had opposed the move to drop the case, but O’Connor, a President George W. Bush appointee, in a 10-page order Thursday granted the motion because the government “has not acted with bad faith, has given more than mere conclusory reasons for its dismissal, and has satisfied its obligations” under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/layoffs-us-october-surge-two-decade-high-challenger-data-shows-2025-11-06/
U.S.-based employers cut more than 150,000 jobs in October, marking the biggest reduction for the month in more than 20 years, a report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas said on Thursday as industries adopt AI-driven changes and intensify cost cuts.

Tech firms led the job cuts in the private sector, followed by retailers and the services sector, the global outplacement company said.

Cost-cutting was the top reason for the layoffs in October, followed by artificial intelligence, while "DOGE Impact" was the leading reason for job cuts in 2025.

The layoffs in October surged 175% from a year ago to 153,074. From the start of the year to October end, employers have announced 1,099,500 job cuts, a 65% rise from 664,839 in the same time period last year.

So far this year, job cuts are at the highest level since 2020 when 2,304,755 cuts were announced through October.

"Some industries are correcting after the hiring boom of the pandemic, but this comes as AI adoption, softening consumer and corporate spending, and rising costs drive belt-tightening and hiring freezes," said Andy Challenger, chief revenue officer for Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Not only did individual companies announce large layoffs in October, but a higher number of companies announced job cut plans, Challenger said, tracking nearly 450 individual job cut plans in October compared to under 400 in September.

Any economic data from private sources will be on investors' radar as official data continues to be absent with the U.S. government now entering its longest-ever shutdown.

>Party A gets elected
>They start acting like retards
>Temporarily align myself with party B because they say they’ll give me a voice
>Party B gets voted in
>They start acting like retards


https://www.wnewsj.com/2025/11/07/veterans-day-events-planned-across-clinton-county/

It's a tale as old as it is preventable. While Republican incompetence and indifference threatens the lives and livelihoods of American citizens, it falls to Democrats to step in and protect the people.
As Republicans continue to hold the nation hostage with a government shutdown on track to cross the one month mark and the President Trump remains focused entirely on his new ballroom in between cognition tests, Democrat governors are working overtime to pick up the slack.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/gov-tim-walz-announces-emergency-food-shelf-funding-amid-shutdown/

>The federal government shutdown entered its 27th day Monday, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers without pay — and threatening to cut off food assistance for thousands of Minnesotans by the start of November.

>In response, Gov. Tim Walz announced $4 million in emergency state funding to support food shelves across Minnesota. The one-time funding aims to fill the gap as federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits are set to end if the shutdown continues.

>"This is meant to be a bridge," Walz said during a news conference at the Open Door Pantry in Eagan, Minnesota. "It will not make up and backfill everything that is going to drop off starting on Saturday."

>The funds will come from the Department of Human Services' emergency services account and the Family First Prevention Services Act. The state will distribute the money through Minnesota's existing food shelf network. Each food shelf and tribal nation will receive a base amount of $5,000, and additional funding based on local need.

>More than 440,000 Minnesotans rely on SNAP, according to state data. Of those, 38% are children and 18% are seniors. Walz said about 9 million visits were made to food shelves statewide last year.

Advocates Warn of ‘Forced Labor’ Camp for Homeless People in Utah Designed to Enforce Trump Order

https://www.commondreams.org/news/utah-homeless-internment-camp

In an effort to fulfill President Donald Trump’s executive order on homelessness, Utah is building a massive facility that housing advocates warn will function as an “internment camp” where the unhoused will be subject to forced labor.

Last month, Utah’s homeless services agencies came to an agreement for the state to acquire a nearly 16-acre parcel of rural land in the Northpoint area of northwest Salt Lake City to construct the first-of-its-kind facility, which is slated to have 1,300 beds.

The genesis of the project began in July, following Trump’s “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” executive order, which threatened to withhold funding from states and cities unless they criminalized homeless people camping on streets and ordered the attorney general to expand the use of involuntary civil commitment for adults experiencing homelessness.

Despite a large body of evidence showing their effectiveness at curbing crime while keeping people off the street, the order also required the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to end its support of “Housing First” policies that provide unhoused people with homes without the requirement of behavioral health treatment or sobriety.

Less than a week after Trump’s homelessness order, Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, as well as the state Senate president and House speaker—both Republicans—sent a letter to the state’s Homeless Services Board, which was created last year following a legislative push by the Cicero Insitute—a far-right think tank that has proposed aggressive measures to criminalize homelessness and which has had major influence over Trump’s crackdown on the homeless during his second term.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyk3qzq7k7o

Online porn showing choking to be made illegal, government says

Online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation is to be made illegal, as part of government plans to tackle violence against women and girls.

It follows a review which found depictions of choking were "rife" on mainstream porn sites and had helped normalise the act among young people.

Both the possession and publication of such material will be a criminal offence, under amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill currently going through Parliament.

Online platforms would also be required to proactively detect and remove such material or face enforcement action via media regulator Ofcom.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said the change would make choking in pornography a "priority offence" under the Online Safety Act, putting it on the same level as child sexual abuse material and terrorism content.

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said: "Viewing and sharing this kind of material online is not only deeply distressing, it is vile and dangerous. Those who post or promote such content are contributing to a culture of violence and abuse that has no place in our society.

Conservative peer Baroness Bertin warned earlier this year that there has been a "total absence of government scrutiny" of the pornography industry.

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Mamdani makes me SICK. He couldn’t run a popsicle stand but he conned enough New Yorkers to vote for him!
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Dick Cheney died.
> https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/dick-cheney-death-obit

Dick Cheney was terrible as Vice President - definitely the one pulling the strings of George W. Bush…

the coping continues

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mike-johnson-says-americans-side-195746811.html

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) went on a tirade against the media and Democrats after being confronted with an uncomfortable poll Monday revealing which political party Americans blame for the long-running government shutdown.

Johnson appeared on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show” to further blame Democrats for the shutdown, spurred by an impasse over Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

He accused blue states of abusing government programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which Cain described as a “political football.”

The host went on to show Johnson an NBC poll that revealed 52% of voters blame President Donald Trump and Republicans for the shutdown, while 42% blame Democrats. He asked Johnson, “Why would the polls look like that when you are clearly voting to continue to fund the government [and] Democrats are not voting to continue to fund the government?”

“Well, for one thing, the polls are all over the place,” Johnson said. “I mean, CNN was reporting just on Friday of last week that Republicans were winning this as if it was some sort of political game. The only people who lose here are the American people.”

Trump, who usurped Congress’ spending power and made a shutdown deal nearly impossible, told CBS’s Norah O’Donnell in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday he “won’t be extorted” by Democrats demanding to negotiate extending ACA subsidies.

He further blamed Democrats for the shutdown Tuesday on Truth Social, stating that he won’t give out even partial SNAP benefits until the party agrees to reopen the government. (His press secretary later said the benefits would be sent out.)

https://www.financial-world.org/news/news/financial/29419/us-debt-hits-381-trillion-as-interest-costs-jump-past-medicare-and-defense/

U.S. debt hits $38.1 trillion as interest costs jump past Medicare and defense

America’s red ink is piling up at a historic pace. As of Oct. 31, the national debt stood at $38,108,930,250,279 — up about $30.4 billion in a single day and far beyond the roughly $907 billion level four decades ago. Interest payments have already overtaken Medicare and the defense budget, turning borrowing costs into one of Washington’s biggest bills.

The orange retard just turned the entire US economy into a fucking burrito
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/business/k-shaped-economy
This burrito is everything you need to know about America’s economy

Fact 1: America’s economy and stock market keep growing, buoyed by robust consumer spending and AI mega-growth.

Fact 2: Hiring is at a standstill, inflation is rising, loan defaults are abundant and Americans give this economy a near-record-low rating.

Confused? To understand how both of those things can be true, consider the burrito.

Chipotle on Wednesday reported miserable earnings and cut its sales-growth forecast for the third-straight quarter. The culprit: Young and lower-income consumers (Chipotle’s core customers) are cutting back on their spending, and they’re starting to skip the guac.

Chipotle CEO Scott Boatwright on the company’s earnings call: “We’re not losing them to the competition; we’re losing them to grocery and food at home. And so, that consumer is under pressure. It is one of our core consumer cohorts. And so, they feel the pinch and we feel the pullback from them as well.”

Boatwright said the company’s customer surveys showed many believed Chipotle was no longer affordable. People in households that bring in less than $100,000 a year drive about 40% of Chipotle’s sales.

Another problem: 25- to 34-year-olds, who make up 25% of Chipotle’s sales, “pulled back meaningfully.”

Donald Trump continues to showcase his literal history making incompetence and inability to lead by breaking his own record for longest government shutdown in US history

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisdobstaff/2025/11/05/government-shutdown-makes-history-tracking-the-economic-impacts/

The government shutdown has officially entered its 36th day, becoming the longest federal funding lapse in U.S. history—surpassing the 35-day shutdown that took place during President Donald Trump’s first term in office.

Millions are feeling the impacts: SNAP benefits used by roughly 42 million Americans will only be partially funded for November. Beyond the recipients themselves, even a short lapse in benefits could slow consumer spending—the Department of Agriculture estimates that every $1 in SNAP benefits generates $1.50 in economic activity.

Meanwhile, the usual holiday travel anxiety looms even larger this year. Nearly half of all major air traffic control facilities are facing staffing shortages, according to the FAA, while a shortage of TSA agents has led to increased security wait times at major airports. On Tuesday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that U.S. air travel would see “mass chaos” if the government shutdown goes on another week.

The economic impacts of this record shutdown have only deepened the longer it has dragged on—especially for small businesses. For each business day the government is closed, small businesses nationwide are unable to access $170 million in SBA-backed commercial loans, according to Forbes Research. Meanwhile, applications for new loans aren’t being approved, putting applicants’ plans on hold.

Nonprofit organizations are also feeling the crunch. Housing programs, hunger-relief networks, medical research grants and other institutions that depend on federal partnerships face uncertain futures until the government reopens, writes contributor Alexander Puutio.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/06/judge-doj-boeing-00639589

A federal judge on Thursday granted a Justice Department request to dismiss a felony case against Boeing tied to two passenger jet crashes that killed 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas OK’d the DOJ’s motion to dismiss the case. The Trump administration sought the dismissal after it struck a non-prosecution agreement in May with the aerospace company — less than a year after the plane-maker had agreed to plead guilty as part of a deal with the Biden administration. The charge was conspiracy to defraud the government.

Some victims’ families had opposed the move to drop the case, but O’Connor, a President George W. Bush appointee, in a 10-page order Thursday granted the motion because the government “has not acted with bad faith, has given more than mere conclusory reasons for its dismissal, and has satisfied its obligations” under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.

Grrnold gRumpf endorses Cuomo. As a contrarian dRumpf hating little shit, I can no longer vote for any Democrat.
Thanks, Cheeto Fuckface!!


Trump tells New York ‘you must vote’ for Cuomo
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/trump-cuomo-mamdani-new-york-mayor.html

President Donald Trump on Monday night explicitly called on New York City residents to vote for Andrew Cuomo over Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the mayoral election.

Trump’s endorsement of the independent candidacy of the former New York governor Cuomo came on the eve of the election, where Curtis Sliwa is the Republican nominee, and where the Assembly member Mamdani has consistently held a solid lead in polls.

“A vote for Curtis Sliwa (who looks much better without the beret!) is a vote for Mamdani,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

“Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice,” Trump wrote.

“You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job. He is capable of it, Mamdani is not!”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/uk-spy-chief-warns-of-ai-danger-though-not-disaster-movie-doom/ar-AA1OB8UI?ocid=BingNewsVerp

AI like Grok will tell you when asked sneakily as a hypothetical like for a story, how to cook things like drug resistant bacteria at home to kill very many hundreds of millions! Will also give ideas for smaller scale chemical attacks and things you have not seen and people for some reason seemed to have avoided!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2025/11/02/bessent-says-some-sectors-of-economy-are-in-recession/
Topline

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday he believes some sectors of the economy are in a recession or at risk of one, blaming the Federal Reserve for not cutting interest rates fast, just one day after newly appointed Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran warned of high interest rates triggering a recession in an interview with The New York Times.

Key Facts

In an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Bessent said he believed the economy was in a “transition period,” noting that the Trump administration has cut government spending, which he blamed for high inflation after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bessent told CNN’s Jake Tapper he believes “we are in good shape,” despite some sectors of the economy being “in recession,” which he blamed on Federal Reserve policies.

The treasury secretary gave the housing market as an example, insisting “if the Fed brings down mortgage rates, they can end this housing recession.”

What We Don’t Know

The status of the economy remains largely unclear based on available data, since the Bureau of Labor Statistics stopped collecting and publishing data during the ongoing government shutdown.

Billionaire Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering before president freed him last month

Trump says he doesn’t know who crypto tycoon is despite having pardoned him

Billionaire Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering before president freed him last month
Oliver Milman
Mon 3 Nov 2025 15.15 CET

Donald Trump has said that he doesn’t know who Changpeng Zhao is despite pardoning the billionaire founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance in October.

The US president was asked in a 60 Minutes interview that aired on Sunday why he pardoned Zhao, who is also known as “CZ”, for enabling money laundering despite him causing “significant harm to … national security” according to federal prosecutors.

“OK, are you ready? I don’t know who he is,” Trump told Norah O’Donnell, the host of CBS News’ 60 Minutes. Trump added that he did not remember meeting Zhao, had “no idea who he is” other than being told that the multibillionaire crypto boss was a victim of a “witch-hunt” by former president Joe Biden.

In 2023, Zhao pleaded guilty to charges that he broke rules designed to stop money laundering – after Binance allegedly failed to report suspicious transactions with organizations including Hamas and al-Qaida.
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Trump pardons founder of Binance, world’s largest crypto exchange
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Zhao apologized, paid a $50m fine and had served nearly four months in prison before being pardoned by Trump, with the White House saying he was prosecuted due to Biden’s “war on cryptocurrency”.

Trump has said he wants the US to be a leader in cryptocurrency and Zhao, in thanking the president for his pardon, promised on X to “do everything we can to help make America the Capital of Crypto”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/03/trump-changpeng-zhao-cz-pardon-crypto