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The unexpected courage of Marjorie Taylor Greene
If you had told me two years ago that I’d sit down and write a piece giving Marjorie Taylor Greene credit for courage, I would’ve laughed you out of the room.

For years, I considered her one of my primary political opponents. I strongly disagreed with her positions, her rhetoric, her alliances, her entire brand. I said so publicly and often.

But reality is reality. And right now, in this moment, I have to say something I never imagined saying:

Marjorie Taylor Greene has become one of the most sincere, consistent voices for Gaza in the entire United States Congress.

Has she been perfect? No. Neither have you. Is she suddenly my political twin on everything? Of course not. But if I’m judging people by what they are doing right now about the genocide in Gaza, she is showing a level of courage that most Democrats won’t even approach and that a lot of Republicans are running away from.

She has been calling out her own party. She has been calling out the blind, cult-like loyalty to Israel. She has been demanding the release of the Epstein files. She has been voting and speaking against the very machinery her base usually worships.

And the cost of that is showing up in real time.

Trump turns on her — and unleashes the machine
In one of her posts this week, Marjorie Taylor Greene said something that stopped me in my tracks.


She explained that Donald Trump had just attacked her and lied about her — not privately, not as a disagreement between friends, but publicly, viciously. And she said the thing that “sent him over the edge” was her fight to release the Epstein files before an upcoming vote.

Read that again.

Not her opposition to Biden.
Not some personal slight.
Her demand to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein and his network — files that many of us suspect would implicate powerful people in both parties, including Trump himself.

She says Trump is fighting hard to stop those files from coming out. Harder, she points out, than he fights to help struggling Americans who can’t afford food, rent, or healthcare.

That alone is a scandal.

But then she goes further. In another post, she writes that private security firms are reaching out to her, warning her that threats against her are spiking — and that those threats are being fueled and egged on by “the most powerful man in the world.”


The man she supported. The man she helped get elected. The man she defended when almost every other Republican was running from him.

Now, she says, her phone is blowing up with warnings. She talks about past death threats against her, and against others, and how this rhetoric has already led to people being radicalized to commit violence.

And then she says the quiet part out loud:
This time, the threats are being fueled by the President of the United States.

Family, I need you to hear me:
When a head of state puts someone in his own movement in the crosshairs, for daring to stand up to him on Israel and Epstein — that is not normal politics. That is authoritarian behavior. That is cult behavior.

And she knows it. She says plainly: as a woman, she takes threats from men seriously. She says she now has a small understanding of the fear and pressure Epstein’s victims must have felt.

Think about how big of a shift that is for her. The woman who used to be the loudest megaphone for that movement is now saying, “I feel some of what the victims feel, and I take this seriously.”

That is not nothing.

We don’t have to agree on everything to tell the truth about this
Let me be clear so nobody twists my words.

I am not writing this as a blanket endorsement of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s politics. I still disagree with her on many issues that matter deeply to me. I am not telling you to become a fan, or to forget the harmful things she’s said in the past.

What I am saying is this:

When someone shows real courage, especially when it costs them everything, we should be able to say so.

When someone chooses truth over a cult leader, we should be able to name that as a good thing.

When someone crosses a line from “party before everything” to “country and conscience first,” that matters.

Politics in America has been poisoned by a sick idea: that if someone is your “enemy,” nothing they ever do is good, and if someone is your “hero,” nothing they ever do is bad.

That’s how genocides are justified. That’s how cults work. That’s how leaders become untouchable.

But I refuse to play that game.

In this moment, on this issue, Marjorie Taylor Greene is right, and she is paying a very high price for it. She is losing her chief ally. She is being targeted by her own base. She is receiving serious threats. And still, she is not backing down on Gaza, on Israel’s brutality, or on the Epstein files.

I don’t have to share her politics to respect that courage.

Israel First vs. America First — and Gaza as the line in the sand
What all of this reveals is bigger than one congresswoman.

It reveals the true priority stack inside much of the American right:

Israel first.
Trump second.
The donor class third.
America and everybody else somewhere way down the list.

If you’re doubting that, look at who gets attacked hardest. Is it Democrats who quietly sign off on aid packages to Israel? Not really. It’s Republicans who dare to say, “Maybe our loyalty should be to the American people first. Maybe we shouldn’t bankroll a genocide. Maybe the Epstein files should be released.”

That’s the divide I was talking about in my earlier posts.

On one side, you have people who will sacrifice anything — their values, their integrity, their safety — to keep the money and weapons flowing to Israel and the secrets around Epstein locked away.

On the other side, you have people saying, “No. America first. Truth first. Our conscience first. End the genocide.”

And in that second group, strange alliances are forming — Muslims, Christians, leftists, conservatives, Black folks, white folks, people who never thought they’d stand in the same room, now finding themselves shoulder to shoulder because they cannot stomach what is being done to Palestinians in their name.

That matters more than we know.

What this demands from the rest of us
If a woman like Marjorie Taylor Greene — who spent years building her brand inside a Trump-worshipping, Israel-defending movement — can find the courage to break ranks on Gaza and on Epstein, at huge personal risk… what excuse do the rest of us have to be silent?

What excuse do Democratic members of Congress have, with safe seats and glowing press, to say and do less than she is doing right now?

What excuse do pastors, imams, rabbis, and community leaders have to bite their tongues while bombs are dropped on children and journalists, while men and women are raped and tortured in detention camps, while the most powerful government on earth funds it all?

They don’t have one. And neither do we.

Courage is contagious. So is cowardice. We are watching both play out in real time.

My hope, my prayer, is that stories like this push more people to choose courage — even if it means breaking with their own side, their own leader, their own comfort.
Shaun King

According to recent statements from U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, the Trump administration plans to require all approximately 42 million SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) recipients to reapply for their benefits as part of a major overhaul aimed at reducing fraud, waste, and abuse in the program.

Posts all over the net picturing the pres blowing somebody. One or two suggesting he may use a war in Venezuela to distract us from all that. I wish I had been born at some less bizarre point in history.

Trump Advised Republicans to Release the Epstein FilesOn November 16, 2025, President Donald Trump publicly urged House Republicans to vote in favor of releasing additional files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted sex offender. This marked a notable reversal from his earlier resistance to the measure, which had been driven by concerns over what he described as a "Democrat hoax" aimed at distracting from Republican successes like averting a government shutdown. Trump's statement came via a post on his Truth Social platform, where he wrote: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party."
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This makes me feel that they hsve cobbled together a version of the files that reveals little more than is already publicly known. - eb

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, standing in Israel, wearing a kippah, looks into the cameras and says:

“I wanted to come back here to Israel and let you know that I served you as the mayor.”

Not “I visited you.”
Not “I support you.”
Not “I stand with you.”

“I served you.”

He is not an Israeli official. He is not a dual office-holder. He is the mayor of New York City — home to 8.5 million people with their own needs, crises, and priorities.

And yet, he traveled to a foreign state and declared that his time as mayor was in service to them.

You don’t need a PhD or a law degree to know how outrageous that is.

Imagine Zohran Mamdani saying the same thing in Riyadh
Here’s the thought experiment that exposes how rotten this is.

Picture a year from now. Zohran Mamdani — the incoming mayor who just defeated Adams — travels to Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan, or Somalia, or any Muslim-majority country. He stands at a holy site wearing traditional clothing and tells reporters, “I wanted to come here and let you know that I served you as the mayor.”

We both know exactly what would happen.

Cable news would light itself on fire. Fox News would run the clip on repeat, demanding to know whether he is a foreign agent. The New York Post would print a new screaming front page every morning. Members of Congress would launch investigations into “Islamist influence” and “foreign infiltration.” Editorial boards would question his loyalty and call for his resignation. He would be buried in racist conspiracy theories about Sharia law and secret allegiances. The threats would start immediately. His political career would be in jeopardy before his plane even landed back at JFK.

The fact that Eric Adams can say this about Israel — and suffer virtually no political consequence — tells you everything about who is allowed to pledge themselves to a foreign state in America, and who is not.

Who are you elected to serve?
In theory, this should not be complicated.

When public officials in the United States take office, they swear an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution and to serve the people they represent. That’s it. They don’t swear allegiance to Tel Aviv, Riyadh, Beijing, London, or any other foreign capital.

Every mayor, governor, senator, and president has the same basic job description: put the interests of their constituents and the constitutional order first.

So when Eric Adams says, as mayor of New York City, that he traveled to a foreign state to announce that he “served” them, it forces some very serious questions. What does he actually mean by “served”? What concrete actions did he take in office that were designed to benefit Israel? Did he shape policy with another country’s interests in mind? Did he direct city resources, relationships, or political capital to match that claim? Who paid for those trips? Who was he reporting back to? Whose approval was he really chasing?

There may not be a criminal statute that says, “You can’t utter that sentence on camera in Jerusalem.” Free speech is broad, even for public officials. But ethically and politically, it is a blaring alarm. At the very least, it is an admission that the mayor understands his role as being, in part, in service to a foreign agenda — and is proud enough of that to say it out loud.

Is it legal? Maybe. Is it corrupt? Absolutely.
By itself, what Adams said is unlikely to get him indicted. Politicians say reckless, offensive, ethically gross things all the time that don’t rise to the level of a crime. To break federal law, you’d need evidence that he acted as an actual agent of a foreign government — taking direction, receiving benefits, trading official favors, lying about it under oath. That’s the territory of FARA and other national-security statutes, and we don’t have that full evidentiary record in front of us.

But the absence of a ready indictment doesn’t mean this is nothing. It’s not nothing.

We know that Adams is on record saying he “served” a foreign state while holding public office in New York City. We know that he has traveled there multiple times and wrapped his political identity around that relationship. We know that he treats criticism of Israel as if it’s a personal attack. We know all of this is happening while New York is drowning in unaffordable housing, record homelessness, a humanitarian crisis among migrants, and a police force that already behaves like an occupying army.

Taken together, that paints a picture of something deeply corrupt — not necessarily in the narrow legal sense, but in the broader moral sense of the word. It suggests that, at minimum, Adams has understood part of his job to be advancing the interests of a foreign government. For an American mayor, that alone should be disqualifying.

Why Israel is the one exception
Eric Adams could not have made that same statement about any other country and stayed in office.

He could not stand at the Great Wall of China and say, “I wanted to come back and tell China I served you as the mayor.” He could not stand in Moscow and say, “I served you.” He could not stand in Riyadh or Tehran or Mexico City and survive the week politically.

So why is it tolerated — even celebrated in some circles — when the foreign country is Israel?

Because in American politics, Israel is treated not as a foreign state but as something closer to a sacred domestic project. It functions like a protected constituency with veto power over careers. Politicians act as if winning or keeping certain offices requires proof of devotion to Israel, as if it were the fifty-first state or an unofficial branch of our own government.

Question that relationship and you are smeared as anti-Semitic. Oppose Israel’s crimes and you’re painted as dangerous. Stand with Palestinians and you’re told you’re unfit for office.

But wrap yourself in the flag of Israel, brag about serving it, and somehow that’s “leadership.”

This is what people are talking about when they describe Zionist political capture. It’s not a shadowy conspiracy. It’s an observable pattern: one foreign state can demand total loyalty from American politicians, receive billions in weapons while committing genocide on live television, and have its flag flown on U.S. government buildings — and anyone who objects is treated as the problem.

In that environment, Eric Adams feels perfectly comfortable telling Israel, “I served you.” He knows which side of the double standard he’s on.

What Adams’ words reveal about Mamdani’s victory
In a strange way, hearing Adams talk like this clarifies exactly why Zohran Mamdani’s win was so important.

Adams represents the old New York: a city over-policed and over-surveilled, run for donors and developers, reflexively aligned with Israel no matter what it does. It’s the New York where you prove you’re serious by buying more cops, building more jails, and flying a foreign flag over City Hall while children starve in Gaza.

Mamdani represents something entirely different. His campaign was rooted in the idea that New York should be governed for tenants, workers, families, students, immigrants — not for developers, lobbyists, or foreign governments. He has been clear about Palestinian humanity. He has been honest about U.S. complicity. And he has been elected by New Yorkers who are tired of paying impossible rents while watching their mayor posture on the other side of the world.

Adams could stand in Jerusalem and say, “I served you,” and most of the media shrugged. If Mamdani ever said the same words in any Muslim country — “I served you as the mayor” — the media would try to burn his career to the ground. That contrast tells you everything you need to know about who is allowed to be loyal to whom.

Black, brown, Muslim, immigrant-background leaders are constantly interrogated about whether they are “really American,” whether they bring “foreign politics” with them, whether they might secretly serve another master. Meanwhile, Eric Adams can literally declare that he served a foreign state and still be treated as a legitimate, mainstream figure.

That’s not only hypocrisy. It’s structural racism and structural Zionism working hand-in-hand.

So what do we do with this?
We don’t just shake our heads, tweet a joke, and move on.

We remember this moment.

We save the clip and the quote. We bring it up every time someone accuses a pro-Palestinian official of having “divided loyalties.” We bring it up when pundits try to paint Zohran Mamdani or any other Muslim or Arab-background politician as inherently suspect. We bring it up when people pretend that loyalty tests only run in one direction.

If Adams ever tries to reinvent himself as an elder statesman or moral leader after leaving office, we pull this tape back out and say, No. This is who you told us you were.

Because at the end of the day, his words are a confession.
He told us whom he was serving.
We should believe him.

It bothers me that people are focusing on Trump possibly having homosexual encounters, seemingly with an adult. That would be a private personal choice, in my book. That he has been accused of raping children should regain the focus.

Walgreens Takes $10B Buyout—Then Immediately Cuts Off Worker Benefits

BREAKING: Speaker Mike Johnson reveals the REAL reason why Trump suddenly "supports" the release of the Epstein files — and it's as sinister as we suspected.
They really don't want us to see what's in those files...
"So what am I to do in a situation like this? I call my counterpart in the Senate, Leader Thune and I talked through this with him and shared our deep concerns and of course they share those concerns as well," Johnson said at a press conference.
"And so I'm very confident that when this moves forward in the process if and when it is processed in the Senate — which there is no certainty that that will be — that they will take the time methodically to do what we have not been allowed to do in the House," said Johnson. "To amend this discharge petition and to make sure that these protections are there. The authors of the discharge did not allow us to do that here, that's the rules here but in the Senate they can correct it."
Translation: Republicans are going to bury this bill in the Senate. Yesterday, Trump surprised many Americans by stating that he would sign the bill to release the Epstein files if it hits his desk. Now we know why. He doesn't expect it to ever reach him.

In short, DJT wants ABC’s broadcast licenses revoked bc ABC reporter Mary Bruce directly asked the Saudi crown prince about Saudi Arabia’s role in 9/11, the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and Saudi's financial ties to the Trump family — DJT viewed the questions as humiliating, “insubordinate,” and disrespectful to his guest.
As Bruce pressed both DJT and Mohammed bin Salman on 9/11 victim protests, the Khashoggi killing, and whether DJT's family was doing business with Saudi Arabia, DJT repeatedly cut her off, shouted “Fake news… one of the worst in the business,” and accused her of embarrassing the prince.
His anger only intensified when Bruce later asked why he wouldn’t simply order the DOJ to release the Epstein case files; DJT snapped that it wasn’t the question itself but her “attitude,” called her “a terrible reporter,” and said ABC was a “crappy company” involved in a “hoax.”
That sequence — especially her pointed questioning of MBS in front of cameras — is what triggered DJT's demand that ABC’s broadcast licenses be revoked.
PROTECT MARY BRUCE AT ALL COSTS!
~Ms. G, J.D. ⚖️

In short, 24 headlines from the last 24 hours…[Breathe IN — exhale]
1. The only GOP 'no' on Epstein files, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA/ex-cop), has ties to cops accused of sex trafficking and incest; 1st wife accused him of holding gun to her head; 2nd wife says—owes $100k in child support
2. DJT signs bill forcing DOJ to release Epstein files w/n 30 days; AG Bondi power to protect vics; must turn over 100K pages + emails & internal comms, AND report redactions
3. Ex-DJT lawyer says Pam Bondi facing disbarment for supporting Comey case where grand jury never reviewed indictment; US attorney Halligan also at risk
4. Congress opens investigation after whistleblowers claims NJ group tried to harvest organs w/o consent AND from at least 1️⃣ patient showing signs of life; then deleted docs
5. Fox News Poll: WH is doing more harm than good on economy; 76% of voters view the economy negatively, worse than 70% who said the same at the end of Biden
6. In unhinged dissent for TX gerrymander ruling, judge lashes out at colleagues with personal attacks; pushes conspiracy that the ruling was a Soros/Newsom plot
7. Greystar, largest U.S. landlord, will pay $7M to settle lawsuits in 9 states over rent‑setting algorithms that drove up rents and worsened housing costs
8. Far-right influencer Laura Loomer warns GOP has a “Nazi problem,” citing podcasters, Gen Z glorifying Hitler & antisemitic scandals; predicts DJT losses.
9. DJT may owe Hillary ~$1M as 11th Cir doubts his 2022 RICO suit; court will decide if sanctions against him/Atty Habba stand; potential SCOTUS appeal
10. Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA; twin brother of the Ukraine-call whistleblower)— says DJTs 2019 call w/ Saudi Crown Prince after WaPo journalist killing was “as problematic” as the Zelensky call; demands transcript
11. Monarchs, FL manatees, CA spotted owls & N. Am. wolverines face heightened risk as DJT rolls back Endangered Species Act, slashing automatic protections for threatened species
12. DJT calls NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) a “Communist” in post announcing they will meet at Mamdani’s request; set for Fri. Nov 21 in Oval Office
13. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) refers ex-Jack Smith prosecutor Thomas Windom to DOJ for criminal probe, alleging obstruction of Congress in DJT investigations
14. “I’m ICE, boys” — ICE worker Alexander Back (41) told police; he’s among 16 arrested in MN sex trafficking sting for targeting minors; on admin leave pending investigation
15. GOP appeals court pauses Judge Ellis Chicago use-of-force limits on immigration agents, calling the order too broad; cautioned against "overreading" its stay; says it wants "more tailored and appropriate" order
16. Whistleblower says secret CIA report bragged about misleading Congress on Oswald in Mexico pre-JFK assassination; docs shows agency “sanitized” files to hide facts
17. Russian strikes kill 25 in Ternopil as leaked reports show US & Russian officials reportedly drafted a 28-point Ukraine peace plan that would force Kyiv to cede territory and limit their military
18. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) leads GOP push for unprecedented mid-decade census; says 2020 count was flawed, included noncitizens; and justifies a redo to adjust congressional seats
19. DJTs Labor Dept won’t release full Oct jobs report after shutdown(1st time in 12 years); unemployment and key data missing; only job creation figures will be out w/Nov report on 12/16
20. HOR unanimously votes to strip funding bill of $500k-lawsuit phone investigations provision; now heads to senate where Sen. Thune (author) won’t commit publicly to vote
21. 16y FBI Vet David Maltinsky [L.A. Field Office] sues Patel, Bondi, FBI and DOJ after being fired last month for displaying a “Progress Pride” flag at workstation (represents POC/LGBTQ+)
22. Reuters Special Report: 600+ Americans punished (fired, suspended, etc) in pro-DJT crackdown after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, including teachers and academics
23. Judge Boasberg (DC) to pursue criminal contempt inquiry into DJT over deportations to El Salvador after officials allegedly defied his court order not to
24. Judge asked Comey’s lawyer if he thought DJT's Pageant-Atty Lindsey Halligan, was acting as a “puppet” or “stalking horse” for DJT; Halligan tells NY Post “personal attacks don’t change the facts or the law"
That… was all from the last 24 hours;
Wed., Nov. 19th.
I’ve lost count of how many days I’ve done this now.
All I know is that your comments, insights, humor, rage, and curiosity keep this work alive. So, thank you for all of it; I see you. 🫶
The sheer volume of this chaos daily proves it’s designed this way to break our focus. Don’t let it.
Bc what I’ve learned as a teacher, lawyer, historian, and citizen— is that this storm won’t just test us, it will reveal us.
Every wave of absurdity asks the same quiet question: will you evacuate into submission, or ride it out to revolutionary change?
If you’re reading this—you’re riding out the storm, for now.
You showed up.
You questioned, stayed present; and you’re confronting the uncomfortable.
That is not small work; not in these times.
That is civic muscle being built one day at a time; give yourself grace for that.
Remember… you are not just spectators of history; you are the characters of its pages yet to be written.
I am proud of you for choosing at active role.
I am proud of you for choosing enlightenment over entertainment; engagement over apathy.
I am proud of you for refusing to let chaos turn you cynical.
That’s why I still do this every single day; bc I decided I was going to ride it out too.
Not because it is easy—but bc turning away now would let the storm decide who and what we become instead of us deciding it ourselves.
Thus, every morning; we ride at dawn over here✊😔
So, DEEP breath in… hold… release… 2x more… or… as needed
See you tomorrow!
As always… sources & links 📌’d in the comments.
~Ms. G, J.D. ⚖️

The Trump administration has reached a new agreement with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) that could unlock long-awaited student loan relief for millions of borrowers.

Announced last week, the agreement allows the Department of Education to resume processing forgiveness for borrowers enrolled in Income-Contingent Repayment (IDR), Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) programs — especially those who’ve been chipping away at their loans for more than two decades. These programs will remain in place until 2028, when they’re expected to be phased out under President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.”

Trump is calling for the six Democratic lawmakers who urged the military not to follow any illegal orders to be arrested, and he’s reposting replies saying they should be hanged and calling them terrorists.

Cheney's funeral's today.
"O, spare me, Lucifer!--
Where is it now? tis gone: and see, where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!
Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!
No, no!
Then will I headlong run into the earth:
Earth, gape! O, no, it will not harbour me!
You stars that reign'd at my nativity,
Whose influence hath alotted death and hell,
Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist,
Into the entrails of yon labouring clouds,
That, when you vomit forth into the air,
My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths,
So that my soul may but ascend to heaven!

[The clock strikes the half-hour.]

Ah, half the hour is past! 'twill all be past anon.
O God,
If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul,
Yet for Christ's sake, whose blood hath ransom'd me,
Impose some end to my incessant pain;
Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years,
A hundred thousand, and at last be sav'd!
O, no end is limited to damned souls!
Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul?
Or why is this immortal that thou hast?
Ah, Pythagoras' metempsychosis, were that true,
This soul should fly from me, and I be chang'd
Unto some brutish beast! all beasts are happy,
For, when they die,
Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements;
But mine must live still to be plagu'd in hell.
Curs'd be the parents that engender'd me!
No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer
That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven.

[The clock strikes twelve.]

O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,
Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell!

[Thunder and lightning.]

O soul, be chang'd into little water-drops,
And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!

[Enter Devils.]

My God, my God, look not so fierce on me!
Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while!
Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer!

Rubia Garcia II
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⚠ In short, 24 headlines from the last 24 hours…[Breath in — let it out slow…]
1. The U.S. Coast Guard (falls under DHS) will no longer label the swastika, noose, or Confederate flag as hate symbols; reclassified as “potentially divisive” starting 12/15
2. DJT accused 6 Dem lawmakers of "seditious behaviour, punishable by death", after they released a video urging US service members to refuse unlawful commands
3. Press Sec Karoline Leavitt/House Speaker Mike Johnson defend DJTs remarks; say DJT doesn’t want members executed, just “trying to make a point”… which apparently prompted:
4. Al Green (D-TX) vows 5th attempt to force House vote to impeach DJT (before Xmas)
5. JPMorgan Chase hid Epstein’s $1.3B in suspicious transactions, guiding withdrawals & ignoring red flags; Sen. Wyden (D-OR) drops report and calls for full Congressional probe
6. CA group ‘805 Patriots’ plans unsanctioned “MAGA Invasion” at Disneyland on Feb. 28, 2026; aiming to “trigger liberals” and rally conservative families
7. White nationalist Nick Fuentes is exposing GOP civil war: Groypers v. Mainstream Conservatives, Heritage v. Intercollegiate Studies Institute; Carlson only fueled divide; ‘We look like clowns’
8. DJT STOPPED NY county & state judges from leading citizenship ceremonies, canceling many swearing-ins; BACKLASH pushed USCIS to reverse and resume naturalizations
9. CDC website has been changed to reflect RFK belief that vaccines cause autism, defying decades of science; career staff, medical groups, & Sen. Cassidy (R-LA; who voted to confirm him) condemn it
10. Ex–congressional staffer(R), Natalie Greene(26), charged for faking violent politically motivated attack [paid someone $500 to cut her up] then claimed assault in park; faces up to 10 yrs
11. DJTs Pageant-Atty Lindsey Halligan attempts to backtrack; files 5-page court notice calling her failure to present final indictment to full grand jury a “clerical inconsistency”
12. Agent bragged: "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes;” damning evidence forces DOJ to U-turn, ask Judge to drop charges on 2 Chicago protesters (1 shot) accused of “ramming” CBP agents 10/4
13. G20 Billionaires in the world’s leading 19 economies made $2.2T last year; enough to lift ALL the world’s poor out of poverty [3.8B people costs $1.65T]
14. Epstein's brother believes DJT delayed release of files bc ‘there's things in there he doesn't want people to see;’ says that Jeffrey spoke with DJT AFTER 2016 election; ties later ended
15. DJT issues EO eliminating Brazillian tariffs on fruit juices, sugar, beef, coffee,etc; effectively removes most of 40% duty in an attempt to lower U.S. grocery prices
16. Judge orders DJT to end unlawful DC NG deployment, ruling the president can’t unilaterally use troops for local law enforcement; 21-day stay allowed for appeal
17. Walmart Inc. (world’s biggest retailer) moves stock listing to the Nasdaq, the largest defection in the NYSE’s history; Nasdaq trading begins 12/9; cites “technology-forward approach”
18. DOJ, FBI begin probe of top DJT officials Ed Martin & Bill Pulte for allegedly interfering in investigations of Schiff & James; subpoenas issued amid misconduct
19. ICE says a “system crash” on 10/31 erased 2 weeks of Bridgeview, IL detention videos; coincidentally 1 day after a 10/30 lawsuit alleging detainee abuse was filed
20. U.S. measles cases skyrocket to 1,730; ~6 times 2024’s 285 cases; 92% of cases are unvaccinated; 3 deaths reported; highest # of cases since declared eliminated in 2000
21. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), former DJT impeachment manager, announces run for CA governor; focusing on high costs, homes, jobs, and opposing DJT
22. Netflix, Paramount, and Comcast submitted bids to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery; Paramount, led by David Ellison, has tried repeatedly, but no deal closed; considering all bids
23. DJT announces new offshore oil drilling in CA and FL, sparking potential clashes with FL GOP; leasing in fed waters now includes auctions for up to 6 leases off CA, 21 off AK, 2 in Gulf
24. 1st ever bombshell report details how CBP secretly monitors millions of US drivers via predictive intelligence flagging “suspicious” travel; stops, searches, arrests occur using cameras disguised as road equipment

Saw this on Facebook. Lost the link.

She was 11 years old when the bomb went off. By 26, the FBI had made her one of the most wanted fugitives in America. Her crime? Refusing to accept what everyone said couldn't be changed.
September 15, 1963. Birmingham, Alabama.
Angela Davis heard the explosion from blocks away—a sound that would define the rest of her life. Inside the 16th Street Baptist Church, four girls she knew were preparing for youth service. Denise McNair. Cynthia Wesley. Carole Robertson. Addie Mae Collins. The KKK's bomb didn't just take their lives. It drew a line in history.
Most children would have learned to live with fear. To accept that this was simply what it meant to be Black in the Jim Crow South. To understand that some things couldn't be changed.
Angela Davis learned something else entirely.
"I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change," she would declare. "I'm changing the things I cannot accept."
This wasn't a slogan. It was a battle plan.
By 25, she was teaching philosophy at UCLA—not the abstract kind that lives in textbooks, but the dangerous kind that asks why the world is broken and who benefits from keeping it that way. She had studied under Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse in Germany. She had joined the Communist Party USA. She worked with the Black Panthers in Los Angeles. She believed knowledge was a weapon, and she was teaching others how to aim it.
The powerful noticed. Governor Ronald Reagan and the UCLA Board of Regents fired her—first for her Communist Party membership, then for "inflammatory language" when courts forced them to rehire her. Reagan vowed she'd never teach in California again.
But Davis's real trouble was just beginning.
In 1970, she became chair of the Soledad Brothers Defense Committee, advocating for three Black prisoners many believed were being scapegoated for organizing inside prison walls. When a courtroom escape attempt went tragically wrong and guns registered in her name were used, Davis was charged with murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy—despite being nowhere near the scene.
She didn't wait for a system she didn't trust. She went underground.
Within days, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover placed her on the Ten Most Wanted list. For two months, she became a ghost while the world rallied around her name. "Free Angela Davis" echoed from Oakland to Moscow, Paris to Havana. John Lennon and Yoko Ono wrote her a song. The Rolling Stones dedicated "Sweet Black Angel" to her fight.
When federal agents finally arrested her in New York City in October 1970, she had already transformed from fugitive into symbol—proof of what happens when the powerful feel threatened by someone who refuses to stay quiet.
She spent 18 months in jail. Eighteen months of isolation designed to break her spirit. Instead, she read. She wrote. She organized. Even from inside a cell, she refused to accept the unacceptable.
On June 4, 1972, an all-white jury acquitted her of all charges.
Many would have disappeared into quiet relief after such an ordeal. Davis walked straight back into the fire.
She returned to teaching, eventually becoming Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Cruz. But her classroom had no walls. In "Women, Race, and Class" (1981), she pioneered intersectional analysis before the term became common, showing how racism, sexism, and capitalism weren't separate problems but intertwined systems of control.
In "Are Prisons Obsolete?" she asked a question most considered unthinkable: What if the answer to mass incarceration isn't better prisons, but no prisons? What if cages don't create safety but perpetuate the violence they claim to prevent?
She co-founded Critical Resistance to dismantle the prison-industrial complex. She traveled the world, teaching that freedom isn't granted from above—it's built from below through sustained, strategic struggle.
For over 50 years, Angela Davis has proven that resistance is not just protest—it's an art form requiring three elements:
Discipline: Every action calculated. Every argument built on scholarship. Every movement rooted in historical understanding.
Intellect: Ideas become weapons when you understand the systems you're fighting—their history, their function, their weak points.
Relentlessness: Through administrations that tried to destroy her, through decades when her ideas were dismissed as too radical, she never stopped demanding what seemed impossible until it became inevitable.
She understood what most people miss: You can wait without surrendering. You can persist without complying. Patience and acceptance are not the same thing.
"Injustice survives through acceptance," she reminds us. Silence allows brutality to continue. Confrontation—thoughtful, strategic, sustained—is what forces change.
This is why her words echo through every generation. Why protest movements rediscover her wisdom. Why young activists paint her quotes on walls and chant her principles in streets.
Because she gave us permission to stop accepting.
The civil rights activists who refused the back of the bus. The prison abolitionists who imagine a world beyond cages. The workers who strike for dignity. The students demanding climate action. Every person who has looked at injustice and decided, "No. Not anymore."—they all carry forward what Davis began.
She proved that change is not permission granted from above. It's a duty claimed from within.
The powerful don't surrender power because we ask politely. They change when resistance becomes too costly to ignore. When the old order becomes impossible to maintain.
Davis understood this from the moment she heard that explosion in Birmingham. From the moment she saw what hatred could do to four innocent girls. From the moment she decided acceptance was not an option.
The world moves forward because someone, somewhere, decides to stop accepting what should never have been tolerated in the first place.
That someone can be you.
Angela Davis spent her life showing us how. Not through rage alone, but through disciplined study. Not through individual heroism, but through collective organizing. Not by demanding everything immediately, but through relentless, strategic, intelligent resistance that never stops, never compromises, never accepts the unacceptable.
Her most famous words aren't just a quote. They're a declaration. A challenge. A responsibility:
"I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I'm changing the things I cannot accept."

I have a question: How the hell do you ‘accidentally’ storm a beach in Mexico?

No.. it’s not lost on me she's resigning THE DAY she qualifies for a pension (at 62). You have to serve in congress 5 years. She was sworn in January 3, 2021.
Grifters gonna grift, beloved.
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Power to the People ☭🕊
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Mamdani, AOC, and Bernie are not playing 4D chess. They are simply fulfilling the role they have chosen to play—which is to funnel the left into a capitalist & imperialist party that fights AGAINST socialism. They are making sure socialism never materializes in the imperial core.

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Hakeem Jeffries just voted to condemn socialism. Not the genocide in Gaza. Not the unconstitutional ICE raids. Not his colleague who was texting with Epstein during a Congressional hearing - ******* Socialism.

Now is EXACTLY the time to primary Hakeem Jeffries.

Hamas warned U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff that it could end the Gaza ceasefire after Israeli forces killed multiple terrorists attempting to breach security lines, according to a Saturday report from Saudi state-owned Al Arabiya.

“The agreement is over and [Hamas] is ready to fight,” sources told the Saudi outlet, according to The Jerusalem Post. The terror group added that the ceasefire must be mutual and that “Gaza will not become another Lebanon.”
An American source told Israeli news site Walla that Hamas “has made it clear that it will not be able to accept any more Israeli attacks.”