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SpaceX’s Starship made a triumphant return to Earth on Saturday, caught in midair by giant mechanical arms where its journey began 22 hours earlier.

It was the grand finale that Elon Musk and his team hoped for — the first capture of a Starship flying back from space. But with the first-stage booster exploding shortly after Friday’s liftoff from Texas, the company fell short of its desired double catch.

Wreckage remained in the Gulf of Mexico, cordoned off by buoys, as the stainless steel, bullet-shaped spacecraft lowered itself upright at the launch pad.

The dramatic, sci-fi-like capture helped blot out the booster’s messy miss. Cameras panned the spacecraft up and down as it hung high above the ground, supported by the arms of the launch tower.

“Can you believe it?” SpaceX commentator Dan Huot shouted, dragging out each word. “Look at her! Baby, she’s back!”

All thanks to the guy that Democrats want to put in front of a firing squad. Elon Musk has done more for American space flight than NASA ever did. Unbelievable.

Newsbusters.

The irony was thick enough to cut with a butter knife.

On Friday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough lectured the GOP for living in an “echo chamber” of X and friendly TV that only fed them what they wanted to hear—while sitting on the set of the ultimate liberal echo chamber. 

Republicans, Scarborough lectured, were “wrong on every major issue,” from war to tariffs to data centers and AI.

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How does Scarborough know that every Republican fails to consume hostile elitist media? Or maybe, they come to NewsBusters to get a disgusting digest.

But wow, talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Morning Joe’s guest roster has long been a closed loop of Democrats, Never Trumpers, and left-leaning analysts who share the hosts’ premises. An actual non-Never Trumper conservative (someone who supported Trump in 2016/2020/2024 and didn’t spend years on the anti-Trump circuit) has not appeared as a guest in living memory

Republicans live in an “echo chamber” about transgender activists and illegal aliens. But when Morning Joe’s panels consist almost entirely of people who agree with Scarborough on the issues, it is simply “informed discussion.”

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Nothing good, that’s sure.

Migrants are lining up at the border now that Democrats have won the midterms, according to Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies president.

“What Border Patrol agents have seen is that the Democrats aren’t even in yet, but once they won the election, the number of illegal immigrants trying to get across has gone up,” he told the Daily Signal.

Trump made a similar claim this week on Truth Social.

“Here we go again! With the perceived loss by the Republicans in the Midterms — I WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT — the INVASION of our Country is taking place again,” Trump said. “Huge CARAVANS are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico.”

When people believe they will have positive outcomes if they cross the border, they are more likely to try, Krikorian said.

“There’s always been caravans, even during the first two years. But they understood that they couldn’t get across the border, and even if they did, they wouldn’t get much out of it,” he said. “So they were basically trying to come through Mexico to get to what amount to staging areas, so that when the Democrats get in, they’d be able to rush across.”

Krikorian said a rise in violence will follow increased immigration.

“There’s simply no question that without better enforcement, you’re going to have more tragedies and more crime,” he said.

If Democrats win the White House in 2028, they will make the whole country a sanctuary city, Krikorian said.

They’ll certainly try their damnedest.

The Foundry.

Republicans’ dismal showing in 2026 has made their 2028 presidential primary much more interesting.

It has long seemed likely the 2028 GOP presidential nomination would be decided by President Donald Trump. He has dominated Republican Party politics for a decade. The GOP base adores him for bucking the amnesty-pushing GOP establishment and numerous accomplishments.

This seemed to suggest that Trump would endorse a presidential candidate, putting him or her on a glide path to the nomination. The most likely candidate was Vice President JD Vance. His position made him the obvious successor. He’s extremely intelligent and well-spoken. Like Trump, he doesn’t strictly adhere to GOP orthodoxy.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also distinguished himself. He served as acting director of the U.S. Agency for International Development and slashed its wasteful grants. He’s helped move key Western Hemisphere allies, like Panama and Mexico, away from China. In October, he stood in front of the Acropolis in Athens and delivered a stirring defense of Western civilization and its values.

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Democrats haven’t been shy about their desire to reshape American institutions to cement their grip on power. If Democrats win the presidency in 2028 and retain their congressional majorities, they are likely to pack the Supreme Court and add two left-leaning states to cement their Senate majorities. Their idea of defending democracy is changing the rules to ensure they never lose power.

This has created an opening for other candidates. Outgoing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tops that list. He’s been America’s best governor for the last eight years. He passed massive tax cuts and reduced state debt. He signed a ban on gender-mutilation surgeries for minors and protected parental rights. Florida’s economy has boomed, along with its population.

DeSantis transformed Florida from the country’s most important swing state into a deep-red bastion. It showed Tuesday. Florida elected a new Republican governor, and Republican candidates did well in down-ballot races.

Indeed. I would have said that the choice would be between Vance and Rubio and I would be good for either one. Vance surprised me by his performance despite minimal prior government service and Rubio has delighted me with the way he stepped up to the plate and did a lot of the heavy lifting. With the result of the recent election, I’m thinking that Republicans might do better with an experienced executive like DeSantis at the top of the ticket, perhaps with Rubio as his #2. In any event, it will get Very Interesting.

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An astonishing collapse is happening right now, one that was easily foreseen five years ago but which still defies belief. The world’s longest-running industrial resource cartel has fallen apart due to technological innovation. The resource is diamonds, the company is De Beers, and the reason for the upheaval is lab-created diamonds which are indistinguishable from natural ones to the eye. Only a professional can tell based on imperfections.

The New Neo.

Back in the 20th century, hijackings were mostly the thing. But they were attempted by outsiders, not insiders. With 9/11, the pattern of takeover changed; it wasn’t a hijacking exactly, it was a pilot substitution by a group of fanatics bent on mass murder and suicide, accent on the “murder” part. One of the results was fortifying of the cockpit. But much like a virus, the incidents have morphed in order to respond to changing defenses, and in recent decades we have the phenomenon of pilots themselves committing the mass murder and suicide.

Not all Muslims are terrorists, but surprisingly often almost all terrorists turn out to be Muslims. Think about that.

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Police in England and Wales recorded 3,145 honor-based abuse offenses in the year ending March 2026 – the highest figure since comparable records began.

Female genital mutilation offenses rose 52 percent to 166. The number track the arrival and growth of communities in which family “honor” and control over female behavior routinely override individual rights.

The Home Office published the statistics on November 5. They mark a 7 percent increase on the previous year’s 2,949 offenses.

The Foundry.

Just as it’s always ‘far-right’, but never ‘far-left’.

Stephen Miller’s appointment as White House chief of staff came with one very routine adjective: “hardliner.” To elitist media operatives, that is defined as “anyone who dramatically disagrees with us.”

Take this Nov. 7 Associated Press headline summarizing Miller’s positions: “In his words: Stephen Miller is an immigration hardliner and a bombastic critic of Democrats.”

It’s not inaccurate to call Miller a “hardliner.” The media-bias problem is obvious when considering the opposite position. You can call Trump “Hitler” and the Republicans “fascists,” but that doesn’t make you a “hardliner” or “bombastic.”

Someone who chants “Abolish ICE” is somehow not a “hardliner.” When Beto O’Rourke told Chris Hayes in 2019 he would take down the border walls in El Paso, he was not a “hardliner.”

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According to the latest testimony given in a Spanish court by Moroccan whistleblowers, special military and police units on the Moroccan side organized last summer’s mass invasion of Ceuta, directing the migrants into the water for their swim around the breakwaters. They even regulated the flow of invaders, as if controlling an intravenous drip of cultural enrichment into the Spanish enclave in North Africa.

The War Zone.

There is no shortage of ways to shoot down a drone, but putting eight shotguns on a remote-controlled turret is one of the more unusual approaches. That’s exactly what the LIVET Remote Controlled Weapon Station (RCWS) brings to the counter-uncrewed aircraft systems (C-UAS) fight, combining a bank of Italian-made Benelli shotguns with AI-driven target tracking and remote weapon operation.

Rube Goldberg, call your office.

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Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to dismantle the NYPD’s roughly 600-officer protest unit could hand far-left activist networks, including NGOs linked to China-based Marxist financier Neville Roy Singham, a gift by weakening the city’s ability to respond to large demonstrations or riots.

The Foundry.

• French writer Michel Houellebecq was placed under formal investigation in France on Nov. 10, 2026, over comments about Muslims published in 2022.
• The Union of Mosques of France filed a complaint in 2023 over Michel Houellebecq’s interview with Front Populaire.
• Anti-speech laws are being weaponized against dissenters.

There is no freedom of speech anywhere in Europe, and never has been.

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Not the Bee.

In the Floyd Riots of 2020, woke morons destroyed a statue of Edward Carmack, a well-respected newspaper editor and United States senator, because the world was insane six years ago.

Now it’s 2026, and the folks in Nashville decided to replace the statue with an even more ‘Merican figure from the great state of Tennessee.

Newsbusters.

The PBS News Hour brought on Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed on Thursday night for the DEI occasion of the first Muslim PBS anchor to interview the first Muslim elected to the Senate. Amna Nawaz was just as pliant a Democrat talking point-enabler here as she was to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

Newsbusters.

Every three years, the committees that write America’s model building codes sit down and rewrite them. Every three years, the codes get longer. I have yet to find the cycle in which they took out more than they put in.

Regulation works like a ratchet. Each click tightens. Nothing ever gets loosened up. Every individual requirement sounds reasonable on its own, e.g., thicker insulation, another specialty breaker, ductwork pressure-tested by a contractor, a mechanical fresh-air system for houses the previous code made airtight. No one wants to vote against safety, and no one shows up at the hearing on behalf of the young couple who will be priced out of the house.

The National Association of Home Builders, in June, calculated that government regulation now adds $131,734 to the price of the average new home, more than a quarter of what the buyer pays. Code changes made over just the past decade account for $40,288 of that. Five years ago, the figure was $24,144. Many of the very companies whose products you are forced to buy to comply with the code have seats at the table drafting the regulations you must adhere to.

Newsbusters.

A school district-approved lesson plan recommended for second graders brands Thanksgiving a “day of mourning,” newly-exposed school guides for teachers reveal.

Virginia’s Loudoun County school district – already infamous for its radical progressive policies, mishandling of sexual assaults, gender bathroom policies and restrictions on parental rights – reportedly has a “Resources for Recognition Days & Months” guide for teachers to use when instructing their students about federal holidays.

One lesson plan for grades 2-5, titled “The Real Story of Thanksgiving” and obtained by The Washington Free Beacon, vilifies Thanksgiving as the catalyst for  “a long period of violence and discrimination”:

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined CNBC earlier this morning to describe why the Secret Service has relocated him from his Washington, DC, home following Iranian death threats. There was no word on whether these new threats were connected to a plot reported in 2024 to kill then-President-elect Donald Trump and some of his closest allies.

“They have initiated death threats against me,” Bessent said during a CNBC Squawk Box interview this morning. “I’m not going to be cowed.”

Bessent continued, “You know what I got to say, Joe, is F the Iranian leadership. I’m not going to be cowed. They have initiated death threats against me,” adding, “Why am I going to be afraid when our, the brave military personnel in the Gulf, President Trump, constantly receive death threats?”

Newsbusters.

Considering how many black Democrat politicians have turned out to be crooks or fools (or both), it would be a reasonable objective—if true, which of course it is not.

On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, we caught the Democratic strategist branding Stephen Miller a “full-blooded racist extremist.”

On Thursday’s edition of the show, he reached for language that was even more inflammatory, accusing Republican congressional map-drawers of racially gerrymandering “for the purpose of exterminating and eliminating black political representation” and starting in the South.

It sounds like Mr. Seawright’s been spending too much time hanging out with Rev. Al Sharpton on his show Keepin’ It Real. This is how they define “real,” applying dual verbs of annihilation to describe adding white voters to the majority-minority districts. This was a solo interview, not their “Group Chat.” No one was going to be able to disagree.

Seawright cast decades of redistricting as one “long-term play for Republicans” designed to keep black voters from shifting “the tectonic plates in this country.”

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John Eastman opens this symposium with a provocative and thoughtful essay on the meaning of the American Revolution and its implications for birthright citizenship. He argues that under the common law, the rule of “birthright subjectship” was that anyone born on the king’s soil was under the king’s protection and necessarily the king’s subject in perpetuity. The U.S. Supreme Court made the same claim in Trump v. Barbara when it concluded that in England, a foreigner who had a child there and who left the next day would have produced a birthright subject.

Eastman then argues that the American Revolution rejected perpetual allegiance by birth and adopted a conception of government as a social compact, founded on the consent of the governed. On this foundation, Eastman argues that the 14th Amendment’s understanding of citizenship requires parents to owe a complete political allegiance to the country.

I think Eastman both concedes too much and goes too far.

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Welcome to the Starter Marriage Retirement Plan, where one party contributes the house, the 401(k), and the cash flow, while the other walks away with a potentially spectacular IRR.

Tonight, iBankerU examines the modern marriage market through the lens of Wall Street: hostile takeovers, asset stripping, liquidity events, and the most expensive due diligence failure of your life.

While love may be priceless, divorce has a valuation.

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Traders reached for fax machines, Japan’s finance ministry pinned paper notices to the wall, and the AI assistants meant to automate the office went dark right along with the inbox.

For more than 18 hours, the AI agents Silicon Valley says will soon do your job couldn’t read your email, because nobody could. A Microsoft 365 failure that began Thursday knocked out Outlook for businesses and governments in more than 70 countries and took Microsoft’s own Copilot down with it, along with the Microsoft connectors that Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT use to reach users’ mail and calendars.

“Put it in The Cloud!” Famous lasts words….

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I have a new piece in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In September, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came first in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Within hours, people on X were arguing about what AfD voters were really upset about. Soon they were passing around a chart from the Financial Times. It showed that in last year’s federal election, the AfD did better where fewer residents were foreign nationals. Some people took that as proof that the voters’ real grievances lay elsewhere. The economist Tony Annett even put the AfD’s gains down to rising inequality, austerity and the loss of cheap Russian energy. A few days later, he shared the chart and wrote, “It’s not actually immigration. It’s blaming immigrants for being left behind. It’s neoliberalism.”

The historian Anton Jäger later made a subtler version of the same move in a New York Times essay. He acknowledged that Europeans care about immigration, but argued that the deeper reason for their preoccupation is that “Europe doesn’t know what it is.” Well, that looks like a lot of smart words to end up treating a policy disagreement as a question of European identity.

So why do we see more anti-immigration votes in places with few immigrants? This common correlation mostly shows who lives where. Educated professionals tend to favor immigration wherever they live, and they cluster in big cities, where the high-skilled jobs are. In surveys that follow the same people over time, people don’t become more pro-immigration after moving to a big city.

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The Netherlands is negotiating with the US over the erosion of the powers of the International Criminal Court (ICC). This erosion is so drastic that, according to legal experts, it would amount to the dismantling of the Court. The Rights Forum has learnt this from diplomatic sources in New York, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The restrictions that would be under discussion include: a) granting immunity to heads of state; b) excluding the Court’s jurisdiction over nationals of non-state parties, even when they commit crimes on the territory of a state party; and c) denying the Court’s jurisdiction over cases covered by national legislation.

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• Labour is making affordable energy a central priority as high electricity prices undermine British industrial competitiveness.
• Decisions on North Sea drilling and electric vehicle targets are testing the government’s commitment to net zero.
• Ministers face pressure to reform electricity levies while balancing economic growth against long-term climate goals.

Funny how that happens.

Texas Tribune, the Voice of the Left in Texas.

Democrats vowed to end the state’s education savings accounts, which give more than 18,800 students with disabilities public funds for private school and homeschooling.

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British universities are now openly advertising government-backed “interest-free” student loans designed around Islamic finance rules.

The Alternative Student Finance product, based on the principle of takaful, replaces interest with a mutual “contribution” that is ring-fenced to fund other students on the same scheme rather than flowing back into the Treasury.

Official forecasts already expect nearly half of student debt never to be fully repaid, so British taxpayers will underwrite the shortfall while the ring-fenced pot serves a program primarily aimed at Muslim students, the Telegraph reports.

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It was a meeting of the Monday-Only Millionaires on The Daily Show when Jon Stewart interviewed Rachel Maddow to promote her latest book, Department of Fate, on the latest bad liberal joke: that the Department of Justice should be nonpartisan. As if modern Democrat presidents practiced that.

Funny how more of Trump’s supporters (anybody remember the January 6 witch-hunts?) are in prison than his enemies.

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Denmark’s Finance Ministry added up the taxes paid and the public spending on each resident and sorted the results by origin: immigrants from the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey cost the state a net DKK 74,000 (about $11,000) each in 2019, while immigrants from Western countries paid in DKK 52,000 (about $7,700) a head more than they drew.

The numbers, published in 2023, resurfaced overnight in a post on X calling them “brutal,” with a 76-second video whose narrator calls the claim that “the economy needs migration” “probably one of the most brazen lies ever told.”

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The Financial Times gave a so-called “economist” a platform to rebrand democracy or democratic socialism with a spicy new term: “anti-fascist economics.”

Isabella Weber, director of the nonprofit Essential Economics gGmbH, sat down with FT’s Martin Sandbu to discuss anti-fascist economics.

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Weber’s views go well beyond bolstering the West’s failing welfare state. She now wants big government to reshape the economy in how essentials are produced and supplied, including building public housing.

Which is the very definition of the economic program of fascism. It ain’t what these people know, it’s what they know that ain’t so.

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Spain’s first general strike in 14 years, called by left-wing unions with the backing of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist government, ended in riots in Madrid and Barcelona on Nov. 11.

Protesters blocked highways and industrial areas across Spain from early morning, while public transport ran on reduced schedules. Thousands marched in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia, Zaragoza, and other cities.

Spain’s two largest unions, CCOO and UGT, joined tenants groups in calling a 24-hour strike over wages and rising housing costs, drawing criticism from conservative politicians, who called it an attempt to sway the vote 18 days before the snap general election.

Newsbusters.

There is a new twist in the ongoing saga of Rony Alexander González Alberto, the twice-deported illegal alien who somehow boarded a United Airlines flight and attempted to hijack the plane by claiming to carry a bomb in his backpack. The Elitist Media have buried this new development just as they buried the rest of the story no sooner his immigration status became public knowledge.

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Our own Curtis Houck provided an earlier rundown cataloguing the media’s many omissions as this story unfolded, omissions that continue even now across the dial. But let’s face it. An Elitist Media already uninterested in covering an illegal alien hijacker was always certain to absolutely BURY the story once it became known that the aforementioned hijacker gamed the political asylum system in order to stay in the country.

Obviously a Democrat….

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On the night of the 2020 Presidential Elections most Americans recall going to bed feeling certain that Donald Trump had pulled off another solid victory. With Joe Biden drawing mostly small crowds on the campaign trail and spending most of the cycle rarely engaging with the public, it seemed as if Trump was a lock.

When everyone awoke the next morning, they were shocked to discover that Biden was awash in votes from an overnight spike, largely due to mail-in ballots and absentee ballots (at least, that was the narrative). Some called it unprecedented, and the shift completely bucked the vote counts that had been trending throughout election day.

Millions of Americans cried foul; suspicions over the results led to the January 6th protests (which turned into riots after Capitol Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas into the otherwise peaceful crowd). It felt like a coup, and when the Democrat crackdown over the pandemic escalated, it felt like the end of the country was near.

The same feeling is thick in the air after the 2026 Midterms. The most common retort is that this is now the go-to response for any election loss. Democrats claimed the 2016 election was stolen, Republicans claimed the 2020 election was stolen, the accusations arose again in 2024 and today everything is circling back. But does this mean the suspicions are wrong?

Trump recently ignited media outrage when he suggested that some midterms results were fraudulent. In the case of Texas, he might have a point. Something’s not quite right about these Midterm numbers. Let’s examine the facts for a moment…

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Medical assistance in dying (MAID) would rank as the fourth-leading cause of death in Canada if deaths involving the procedure were counted separately, figures from Health Canada and Statistics Canada show.

MAID would rank behind only cancer, heart disease, and accidents – Canada’s three leading causes of death in 2024. Cancer accounted for 85,589 deaths, followed by heart disease at 57,982 and accidents at 20,415.

The 16,499 Canadians who received MAID that year outnumbered those who died from several other major causes. A total of 13,680 Canadians died from cerebrovascular diseases, 13,202 died from chronic lower respiratory diseases, 7,658 died from influenza and pneumonia, 6,874 died from diabetes, and 5,294 died from Alzheimer’s disease.

However, Statistics Canada does not count MAID as a separate cause of death. Instead, deaths involving MAID are counted under the medical conditions that led people to seek assisted dying, such as cancer or neurological diseases.

This means MAID deaths are already included in the totals for other causes of death. The figures can’t be added together, and MAID’s fourth-place ranking is not an official classification.

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Iran is continuing to signal that it could at any point formally withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). If so this would certainly trigger alarm in the West, and might result in Israel launching a swift attack to ‘prevent’ the Islamic Republic from obtaining nukes.

Iran’s Assembly of Experts – which is the nation’s top clerical and advisory body connected to the Supreme Leader – has stated that withdrawing from the international treaty on nuclear weapons has become “an unavoidable necessity” and “a public and national demand,” according to national broadcaster IRIB.

Sound and fury, signifying nothing. When has a Muslim country ever given a shit about a treaty? They have no more respect for a treaty than Hitler or Stalin did.

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Iran has been using oil terminals and storage facilities in China to ship its oil to its biggest buyer and keep sanctioned tankers operating despite the U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports, Iran International reported on Monday, citing top-level confidential correspondence of the former Iranian leaders.

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Tuesday issued an investigative subpoena to the Democratic Socialists of America, saying his office is examining whether DSA accepted contributions or support “from foreign sources of concern, including the regimes in Cuba and China,” and whether its fundraising from Florida donors has been “fully transparent and lawful.”

In a video announcing the probe, Uthmeier said the subpoena was issued under Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and the state’s laws on the solicitation of funds. It covers “recent DSA delegations to Cuba, where national leaders and national political committee members met with Cuban government officials, as well as a delegation to China,” he said, along with travel fund solicitations that “sought tens of thousands of dollars to cover costs for those trips and related activities involving Florida chapters.”

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Democrats preparing to launch sweeping investigations of President Donald Trump’s administration when they take control of Congress in January could face significant legal obstacles stemming from Supreme Court rulings that have strengthened presidential authority, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Those rulings could limit lawmakers’ ability to obtain documents, compel testimony and investigate certain presidential actions, potentially setting up a constitutional confrontation between Congress and the White House.

Democrats, who captured both the House and Senate in last week’s midterm elections, have signaled plans to investigate administration policies and alleged wrongdoing involving senior officials.

Potential targets include presidential pardons, cryptocurrency transactions, military operations, Justice Department investigations of Trump’s political opponents and the acceptance of a luxury aircraft from Qatar.

But the administration could resist congressional subpoenas and invoke executive privilege, forcing lawmakers into lengthy court battles with uncertain outcomes.

In an analysis published Thursday, Adam Liptak, the Times‘ chief legal correspondent, outlined three major legal obstacles that could complicate those investigations and potentially determine whether congressional Democrats can obtain the information they seek.

Newsbusters.

Facing backlash from media noting that there are laws prohibiting religious discrimination, Democrat Colorado State Senator Iman Jodeh has deleted online posts advertising an internship available only to people who “Identify as a Muslim” or hailing from predominately Muslim countries.

The first qualification listed in the internship ad promoted on Instagram and Facebook by Sen. Jodeh was:

“Identify as a Muslim and/or as Middle Eastern, North African, or South Asian.”

Libs of TikTok first drew attention to the discriminatory qualifications in a post at 12:56 am Wednesday, tagging the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., suggested Democrats could consider impeaching Supreme Court justices as well as President Donald Trump and senior administration officials when they take control of Congress in January.

The New York Democrat told CNN that “all options are on the table” as her party prepares to launch investigations into the Trump administration following its sweeping midterm election victories, according to Breitbart News.

Her remarks came during an interview Tuesday with CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju, who questioned her about possible impeachment proceedings against Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth.

“There are so many criminals in this administration, it’s hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,” said Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive Democrat seen by some political observers as a potential Democrat standard-bearer in the 2028 presidential election.

“There are going to be many, many, many investigations. I imagine many subpoenas, and we have to follow wherever the evidence takes us,” she said.

Quillette.

Human activities that impact the Earth are often portrayed in a bad light. But a new study in Science gives us reason to be grateful for our newfound powers. Humanity seems to have interrupted the beginnings of the next glaciation—commonly known as an ice age. We have long suspected our activities might postpone the return of continent-sized ice sheets. The extraordinary suggestion now is that the process had already started, and that we stopped it.

Researchers examined the Barnes Ice Cap—the last surviving remnant of the enormous Laurentide Ice Sheet—on Baffin Island, high in the Canadian Arctic, and found that it began expanding again roughly 2,000 years ago. They interpret that renewed growth as the first stage of the next glaciation. Around 1960, however, human-caused atmospheric warming seems to have reversed the trend, and the ice began retreating. In their reading, humanity interrupted the next glaciation in its infancy.

The Antiplanner.

Public comments are due today on a proposed high-speed train between Vancouver, BC and Portland, Oregon. The idea is still in its early planning stages, but one early estimate is that it could cost as much as $150 billion due to the need for extensive tunneling through the major cities along its route.

As an op-ed in yesterday’s Seattle Time observes, $150 billion is enough to buy the entire U.S. airline industry (ungated version). Even if that estimate is a little high, the real question is why does the Pacific Northwest need high-speed rail when we already have planes that are faster, automobiles that are more convenient, and high-speed rail will be more expensive than both?

Trains take you from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to be. They became the thing because they were faster and better than horses. We don’t use horses any more, and there’s no further need for trains.

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This post began as an update on the migrant invasion of Ceuta, but as I read through the available recent material, it became more of an analysis of what happened in the Spanish North African enclave last summer.

New York Post.

The group of newly elected left-wing insurgent lawmakers, dubbed “The Bloc,” gathered on the steps of the Capitol Building Thursday to pose for cringey, yearbook-style photos.

Reps.-elect Darializa Avila Chevalier (D-NY), Claire Valdez (D-NY), Brad Lander (D-NY), Melat Kiros (D-Colo.), Adam Hamawy (D-NJ), Donavan McKinney (D-Mich.), Daniel Biss (D-Ill.), Dan Koh (D-Mass.), Chris Rabb (D-Pa.), Angela Gonzales-Torres (D-Calif.), Frederick Haynes III (D-Texas) and Patty Garcia (D-Ill.) were among the crew of progressives that huddled together during a break from the orientation programming.

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The gang — which is apparently differentiating itself from the “Squad” group of lefty pols led by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) — represents just a fraction of the more than 70 new Democrats elected in the midterm blue wave.

Rep. Analilia Mejía (D-NJ), wearing a bright blue dress, stood front and center of the incoming “Bloc” members. Mejía, a former top campaign aide to democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, was elected to replace Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District last year.

When the photo shoot wrapped, several of the lefty pols shared selfies on social media that gave off strong first-day-of-school vibes.

New York Post.

Greta Thunberg just gave away what a fraud she’s always been, though her devoted fans may be too drunk on the Kool-Aid to see it.

“Really!” she exclaimed of activists still engaged in the weekly protests that launched her fame — “They still do that?” before dissolving into uncontrolled giggles.

It was always obscene that the climate-armageddon-alarmist movement fetishized a special-needs teen as some kind of morally superior idol when Thunberg launched her “Fridays for the Future” protests in 2018, skipping school to stage a solo sit-in outside the Swedish parliament.

The Telegraph (UK).

A migrant caravan is making its way to the US border from southern Mexico.

Around 2,000 people – mostly Central and South Americans – set off walking from Tapachula, a city in southern Mexico, on Tuesday, according to media reports.

First, they aim to each Mexico City, a journey of more than 600 miles, which will probably take several weeks. It is another 600 miles to the nearest major US-Mexico border crossing.

The Telegraph (UK).

Across Africa, Britain has been called an oppressor and confronted with demands for slavery reparations.

But one nation is celebrating the British Empire as a liberator.

Malawi suffered from the brutality of Arab slavery, with its people captured by rival tribes and shipped to the Middle East, part of a 1,200-year-long traffic in human commodities that is often overshadowed by Europe’s transatlantic trade.