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A Hoover, Alabama zoning commission unanimously rejected a rezoning request Monday that would have allowed a Muslim K-12 academy to relocate to an office building in the Birmingham suburb, capping a contentious public hearing that packed roughly 170 residents into the room and erupted with heated testimony over concerns of growing Islamification of the area, 1819 News reports.

People are waking up.

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American military personnel have installed a high-tech radar system in Tobago, a move Trinidad and Tobago officials say is intended to strengthen surveillance of drug-trafficking activity in the southern Caribbean.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar confirmed that U.S. Marines set up the unit on the eastern end of the Crown Point runway at ANR Robinson International Airport, as reported by USA Today.

Tobago lies about 70 miles from Venezuela’s Paria Peninsula.

I’m sure the hose of U.S. taxpayer money they’re undoubtedly getting is very welcome too.

I’d love to have that duty station….

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday followed through on a pledge he made last week, announcing that he has “completely terminated” every action signed by former President Joe Biden using the autopen, declaring those measures null and void.

“Any and all Documents, Proclamations, Executive Orders, Memorandums, or Contracts, signed by Order of the now infamous and unauthorized ‘AUTOPEN,’ within the Administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., are hereby null, void, and of no further force or effect,” Trump said in a post to Truth Social.

“Anyone receiving ‘Pardons,’ ‘Commutations,’ or any other Legal Document so signed, please be advised that said Document has been fully and completely terminated, and is of no Legal effect,” he added.

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Great weapons that no one will see coming.

Record-setting personnel issues are marring Trump’s second term (Politico)

What Trump didn’t say — With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine, Ali Bianco and Rachel Umansky-Castro (Politico)

Top Trump negotiator retains partnership with Ukraine-sanctioned billionaire (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Trump says Hegseth denied issuing order to kill boat crew (Washington Post)

Damning report labels FBI ‘rudderless ship’ under Kash Patel — with him and Dan Bongino more concerned with building ‘personal résumés’ (Miranda Devine/New York Post)  “Goveernment service’ at the upper levels is always inevitably about resumé-building: Upper level jobs rarely last beyond two years, and always top out at four, because a new administration wants it’s own people in place. Exceptions to this rule (and every rule has exceptions) in the last decade can be counted on the fingers of two hands.

Despite Supreme Court Wins, Elite D.O.J. Unit Has Seen Mass Turnover (New York Times)  See above comment about resumé-building—the time to take advantage of ‘Supreme court wins’ for a lawyer is while they are fresh in everyone’s memory. “Law firm X is hiring attorney Y, fresh off of wins in the Supreme Court.” The career usefulness of a government job is a rapidly depreciating asset. The news would be that there isn’t mass turnover.

Lawmakers warn Hegseth may have committed war crimes following second-strike report (Jacob Wendler/Politico)  ‘War crimes’ is the New Nazi.

Watch: Unrepentant Trump Unloads On Fake News Reporters

Trump: Pro-crypto or Pro-crime? (Paul Krugman)  Paul Krugman: Evil or just stupid?

‘Time is not our friend’: Health care scramble begins amid mixed signals from Trump (Jordain Carney/Politico)  Imagine a world in which the health care industry is not depedant on ‘signals’ from a politician.

War Crime…or Murder? (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (Jennifer Rubon: Evil or just stupid?)

A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact (ProPublica)  They say that like it was a bad thing. It’s certainly a backhanded criticism of the Trump administration.

GOP lawmakers lack confidence in Trump’s plans to tackle costs (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)  More mind-reading from The Hill.

Former Trump personal lawyer Alina Habba is unlawfully serving as the US attorney for New Jersey, appeals court says (Kara Scannell/CNN)

Appeals Court Says Alina Habba Is Unlawful U.S. Attorney (New York Times)  I guess that’s the New Narrative.

The Democrat/Regime Media Plot Against Pete Hegseth Is a Joke (Kurt Schlichter/Townhall)

‘Inside NYT’s Hoax Factory’: Trump’s AI/Crypto Czar Dismisses Hit-Piece As ‘Nothing Burger’

When Participating in Politics Puts Your Life at Risk (Benjamin Wallace-Wells/New Yorker)  It’s all Trump’s fault because Orange Man Bad.

‘Kill Them All’ Sums Up Trump’s Policies Perfectly (Asawin Suebsaeng/Zeteo)

France & UK Still Insist On Sending Troops To Ukraine, In Effort To Sabotage Trump Peace Plan

Morning Digest: A major election year is unfolding in D.C. as the city is besieged by Trump (The Downballot)

War Department: WashPost ‘Falsely Quoted’ Hegseth on Narco-Boat Strikes  As they do.

Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention. (The 19th)  Not a word about her being here illegally and therefore a felon. Giving birth to a defective baby apparently absolves all sins.

Schumer: Trump pardon of former Honduras president ‘truly disgusting’ (Al Weaver/The Hill)

Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders (New York Times)  If you’ve got Trump Cooties, the Narrative Media will slime you every day.

ICE coming for Minneapolis after Trump targets Somalis (Brittany Gibson/Axios)

Why Trump’s Presidency Is All But Over: James Carville (Erkki Forster/The Daily Beast)

Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)  Many of them are.

Trump, 79, Can’t Keep Eyes Open in Marathon Cabinet Suck-Up (David Gardner/The Daily Beast)

It’s time to talk about Donald Trump’s health (again) (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)  Nothing else is sticking, so we’ll throw this against the wall and see what happens.

A sickening moral slum of an administration (George F. Will/Washington Post)

The New York Times Busts WaPo Over Bogus Hit Piece On Hegseth

Judge Halts Trump Bid to Cut Medicaid Funds to Planned Parenthood

A Few Bad Men (Paul Waldman/The Cross Section)

Ilhan Omar Argues She Should Be Able To Stay In Horrible Country She Hates (Babylon Bee)

Minnesota Added To Trump’s Third-World Travel Ban (Babylon B ee)

Newsbusters.

My, what a surprise.

Newsbusters.

What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems?

On Monday, news broke of another passenger set on fire in New York City’s subway — though this story wasn’t all it seemed.

The homeless man who at first said he was the victim of an attack turned tight-lipped when police pressed him about what happened.

Had he set his own clothes ablaze to attract attention?

In the wild environment our subways have become, a malicious attack or a madman’s self-inflicted injury are both all too believable.

Newsbusters.

Tuesday’s CBS Mornings was the only (and first) flagship morning or evening newscast to mention the special election in Tennessee’s Seventh Congressional District to fill an R+10 seat, but the kudos should stop there as the two-minute-and-25-second piece was a puff piece for far-left Democrat — State Representative Aftyn Behn — by ignoring any number of incendiary statements she’s made that include her hatred of Nashville….which is part of the district.

“Voters in Tennessee have an opportunity to send the Trump administration a very strong message today. That’s because there is a special election to fill a congressional seat in the Nashville area. The President won the district a year ago by a wide margin but this race is very close after last month’s elections….A lot of people are watching this one,” co-host and Democrat donor Gayle King began, greasing the skids for her fellow leftists.

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Most glaring with Valdes choosing to ignore Behn as having said she “hates” Nashville. Our friend and former NewsBusters intern, Greg Price brought that old clip to light on November 19.

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Pfizer’s experimental influenza vaccine will not receive approval absent new data proving that it protects seniors against the flu, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration suggested in a new interview.

CNBC, a Voice of the Crust.

Michael and Susan Dell announced Tuesday that they have committed $6.25 billion to fund investment accounts for some 25 million American children.

The couple’s donation will be the largest ever devoted to American children, according to Invest America, a nonprofit advocacy group partnered with the Dells.

“It’s designed to help families feel supported from the start and encourage them to keep saving as their children grow,” Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies

, told CNBC in an interview. “We know that when children have accounts like this, they’re much more likely to graduate from high school, from college, buy a home, start a business and less likely to be incarcerated.”

The Dells’ commitment goes hand in hand with a new federal government program that allows parents to open tax-advantaged investment accounts for children under 18 with Social Security numbers. Under the federal program, U.S. citizens born from the beginning of 2025 through 2028 will receive a federal grant of $1,000 to seed those so-called Trump accounts. Parents will be able to open and contribute to these accounts starting on July 4, 2026, with IRS guidance yet to be issued.

Dept. of Justice.

A man in Fort Worth, Texas has been federally charged for threatening to build a bomb, conduct a suicide attack, and kill Americans and others, in a video shared on TikTok, X, and Facebook, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould.

Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, 30, a citizen of Afghanistan residing in Fort Worth, was charged by federal complaint with the offense of transmitting a threatening communication in interstate commerce related to threats he made on a November 23, 2025, video call, which was recorded and posted to multiple social media accounts, including TikTok, X, and Facebook. According to the complaint, the video shows Alokozay angrily gesturing and speaking Dari, a language commonly spoken in Afghanistan, while interacting with at least two other males on a video call.

As alleged, Alokozay threatened to conduct a suicide attack on the other participants on the call, as well as “infidels” and Americans. He claimed he would build a bomb in his vehicle and talked about a particular yellow cooking oil container favored by the Taliban in building improvised explosive devices (“IEDs”) in Afghanistan. Alozokay stated the Taliban were dear to him and that he came to the United States to kill those on the call. He also claimed he wanted to conduct a suicide attack on Americans. According to the complaint, Alokozay stated he was not afraid of deportation or getting killed. A screenshot of a social media post that shared Alokozay’s November 23, 2025, statements is below:

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Last May, two brothers allegedly bound their 18-year-old sister in packing tape, gagged her, and drowned her in a swamp. This was an honour killing, motivated by what the girl’s brothers saw as her ‘westernisation.’ During the trial last week, WhatsApp messages revealed that the family’s main grievances were the fact that she had refused an arranged marriage, had a boyfriend, and had stopped wearing a headscarf. “There is no other solution,” one of the brothers wrote in a message. The girl’s own mother said that she was “a disgrace to the family and deserves to die” and should be “wrapped in a shroud.” In a secretly recorded conversation, one brother said he believed the family had been humiliated by the girl’s behaviour, and the only way out was her death.

This happened not in Nigeria, Pakistan, or Iran, but in the Netherlands. Ryan Al Najjar was allegedly murdered by Mohamed Al Najjar, 23, and Muhanad Al Najjar, 25, in the Oostvaardersplassen nature reserve in Flevoland, 75 miles away from their home in Joure, Friesland. The killing is thought to have been ordered by their father, who fled back to his home country of Syria following his daughter’s death and has since remarried.

Police had been monitoring Ryan due to previous reports that she was in danger at home, but this protection ended shortly before her murder. In 2023, she had fled from the family’s house barefoot, telling neighbours that she thought her father might kill her. As a result, she had been given some police protection and was taken to a secret location, but she eventually had to return home.

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Last year during sweeping British protests triggered by the stabbing murders of three young girls at a dance recital by the radicalized 17-year-old child of Rwandan migrants, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley threatened to have American citizens “arrested and extradited” to the UK for “stoking racial violence” (i.e. pointing out that third world migrants and often the children of third world migrants are a societal net negative and should be deported).

The event sparked a series of thousands of arrests of UK citizens for crimes as meager as posting memes online and hoisting British flags in the presence of immigrants. In the past year at least 12,000 such arrests have been made in the name of “quelling hate speech”, an ill defined violation based on arbitrary guidelines and left up the whims of leftist bureaucrats.

No US citizens have been extradited, likely because the action would start 1776 Part II and a handful of armed Americans delivered on a Carnival Cruise Liner would end up conquering the UK in a week or less.

However, it would seem that the British authorities have decided to take out their frustrations on their own citizens who dare to visit the US to enjoy some of the freedoms they don’t have at home.

A British IT consultant was arrested by West Yorkshire Police after posting pictures on LinkedIn of himself holding guns during an American vacation. Jon Richelieu-Booth, 50, shared the photograph taken at a Florida homestead on August 13. The post sparked a 13-week ordeal, which began with a police warning at his residence. Officers cautioned him about online content and its “potential impact on others’ feelings”.

You can’t make this shit up.

Wally is my hero.

Newsbusters.

Whether it’s MSNBC or MS NOW, this network fully supports the disruption of border enforcement. They hail it as “nationwide resistance.” On Sunday’s The Weekend: Primetime, they promoted an effort in New York City where a crowd of anti-ICE activists tried to stop federal agents from exiting a parking lot.

Or as Palestinian-American community organizer Murad Awawdeh of the New York Immigration Coalition declared, they were “putting their bodies on the line to defend their neighbors.” Illegal immigrants are commonly described as “neighbors.” How dare they deport the “neighbors.”

Co-host Elise Jordan asked Awawdeh, a former president of the Muslim Democrats of New York, if these were “spontaneous protesters” or did they get a call, leading him to explain,

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

A Bangladesh court has sentenced British MP and former minister Tulip Siddiq to two years in jail, in a corruption case involving the alleged illegal allocation of a plot of land.

Siddiq, who serves as an MP for Hampstead and Highgate in London, had denied the allegations and the trial was conducted in her absence.

The court also sentenced her aunt, ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to five years in prison. Last month Hasina was sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Dhaka for crimes against humanity over a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.

On Monday, Rabiul Alam, the judge of Dhaka’s special judge’s court, said Hasina misused her power as prime minister, while Siddiq was guilty of corruptly influencing her aunt in helping her mother get a piece of land in a government project. Siddiq’s mother, Sheikh Rehana, was given seven years in prison and was considered the prime participant in the case.
Last week a group of leading lawyers including a former Conservative justice secretary told Bangladesh’s ambassador that the trial against Siddiq has been “contrived and unfair”.

Hasina has been in exile in India since she was ousted by a mass uprising last year. The trial and others against her were conducted in absentia.

Welcome to the Turd World. Be careful not to step in the Diversity.

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The Two percent inflation target—monetary policy’s sacred commandment for three decades—has become structurally impossible to achieve. Not because central bankers lack skill, but because every attempt to hit the target destroys the financial architecture that previous monetary expansion built. This is the endgame of central planning: a system that cannot tolerate its own success criteria without collapsing.

In fact, having a two percent inflation rate means accepting that your money will inevitably become more and more worthless year after year.  That’s like accepting the fact that you have a disease that makes you less and less healthy year after year. The end point of either process is obvious and accepting that as a normal state is stupid.

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Germany’s military and political establishment is quietly preparing for what it now openly warns could be the gravest threat to Europe since the Cold War: a potential Russian attack on NATO by 2029.

The assessment, revealed in a detailed Wall Street Journal report, underscores how profoundly Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine shattered Europe’s decades-long confidence in stability and exposed the continent’s chronic neglect of defense.

Two and a half years ago, a dozen senior German officers gathered inside Berlin’s understated Julius Leber Barracks to draft a classified 1,200-page war plan known as Operation Plan Germany, or OPLAN DEU.

New York Post.

More Americans are wising up to the fact that higher education has become a raw deal for all too many young people.

A new NBC News poll finds that a full 63% of voters believe a four-year college degree now isn’t worth it, since many students graduate with “a large amount of debt” but no “specific job skills.”

That’s up markedly from 2013, when a majority took the opposite view, as 53% called a degree “worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime.”

That was the case for generations of Americans, who saw college as a key step to higher-paying jobs and a better life: “Upwardly mobile” was almost entirely synonymous with “college-educated.”

But over the last few decades, the dynamic has shifted: Far too many college degrees guarantee nothing … except onerous debt.

The Telegraph(UK).

British workers who are sensitive to rejection and criticism can sue for disability discrimination, according to a tribunal judgment.

Ryan Toghi claimed he had “rejection sensitivity” as a result of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and won a disability discrimination case against Lidl after he was disciplined.

He is in line to receive compensation after successfully suing the supermarket chain at Cardiff Employment Tribunal.

He won unfair and wrongful dismissal, unfavourable treatment because of “something arising in consequence of disability” and failure to make reasonable adjustments.

Mr Toghill began working as a shift manager at the store in Newport, South Wales, in October 2019. He was promoted to deputy store manager in June 2022.

The tribunal heard Mr Toghill is classified as disabled because he was diagnosed with ADHD in May 2022.
A judgment said he experiences “rejection sensitivity” causing him feelings of extreme anxiety in social or work settings.

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A school once attended by Samuel Pepys has proposed renaming one of its houses because of his “abusive and exploitative” behaviour towards women.

Hinchingbrooke School in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, has five houses named after famous people connected with the area, including the 17th-century diarist and Oliver Cromwell.

Parents of its pupils have been told that recent research into the writer’s behaviour revealed “actions that were harmful, abusive and exploitative, especially in his relations with women”.

As a result, the secondary school has suggested a consultation over renaming Pepys House, in a move that has left some parents furious at attempts to “erase history”.

Hinchingbrooke is associated with the Earl of Sandwich, Pepys’ patron. The heir to the Earldom is styled by courtesy Viscount Hinchingbrooke.

Trump gave Maduro ultimatum to flee Venezuela as land operations loom: report (Emma Bussey/Fox News)

EU tells Trump: You can’t pardon Putin for war crimes in Ukraine (Tim Ross/Politico)

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A 34-year-old nun in Zagreb is recovering in hospital after being stabbed several times on Friday, November 28th, in what early reports suggest may have been a religiously motivated assault.

The attack took place in the Malešnica district of the Croatian capital, where Sister Marija Tatjana Zrno was reportedly struck in the abdomen with a sharp object. She managed to walk back to her convent before receiving emergency treatment at the Sisters of Charity University Hospital Centre. Hospital officials confirmed her injuries are not life-threatening.

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The following video features recent remarks made by a Japanese lawmaker named Mizuho Umemura about the demand by Japanese Muslims that they be allowed to establish Muslim cemeteries, in accordance with Islamic rules about the burial of the dead. She is speaking on the floor of the House of Councillors (Sangiin), the upper house of the National Diet. Ms. Umemura is emphatic that Japanese customs and hygiene practices must not be altered to suit a foreign religion, and that Muslims must cremate their dead like the Japanese do.

The issue highlights the importance of cultural confidence, which Japan displays in abundance, in contrast with the West, whose slavish knee-jerk response is that Muslim demands must always be accommodated. Anyone who objects is deemed xenophobic, Islamophobic, racist, fascist, etc.

Eighty years ago the Japanese were defeated in the Second World War, yet their cultural confidence remains strong. The Western allies won that war, but have very little cultural confidence. It’s a striking contrast, and the reasons for the difference are presumably complex — “cultural Marxism”, the Frankfurt School, the Long March Through the Institutions, etc. Yet the results are undeniable: the West is generally unwilling or unable to stand up for its traditional cultural practices, which must be deconstructed to accord with the needs of newcomers.

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A Swedish government review has found that thousands of people linked to gangs in Sweden have been drawing income from the country’s benefits system for years, creating what authorities describe as a reliable, legal-looking revenue stream for criminal networks.

According to findings prepared under the state’s organized crime framework, about 4,000 individuals known to police for gang affiliation have been receiving sickness benefits, sick pay, or job-seeker support. Combined payments across the group are estimated at 3.6 billion kronor (€327.5 million) over time, enough to provide what officials call a “white” income even when illicit earnings fluctuate.

It effectively means that law-abiding Swedish taxpayers are inadvertently subsidizing criminal gangs through the benefit system, providing them with a safety net income that enables them to continue operating.

Newsbusters.

When you’re on Team MS NOW, you think there’s nothing funny going on when Jim Acosta starts lecturing about civility in press briefings. During his time at CNN, Jim Acosta may have been the rudest White House reporter in modern history, but only with one president. On Saturday’s Velshi, substitute host Charles Coleman welcomed in Acosta and fellow White House screamer April Ryan.

Coleman asked for Acosta’s reaction to how White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt excused Trump trying to silence a rude reporter with a “Quiet, Piggy.” Typically, the liberal journalists think you can exhibit maximum rudeness to Trump – like calling him Hitler – but he is now allowed to be rude in return. But his strategy in response – for the anti-Trump press to stop covering Trump until he behaves – would be a huge win for the White House.

Acosta insisted that any boss in any newsroom would be fired for being this rude to a female reporter.

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In a recent analysis gone viral, financial blogger Michael W. Green traced how modern American families can earn anywhere from $40,000 to $100,000 and still fall further behind. The argument is devastatingly simple: the mathematical parameters defining “poverty” are built upon a benchmark drawn in 1963, multiplied by three, and only lightly adjusted for inflation. Everything else—childcare, healthcare, housing, transportation, and the structural design of the welfare state—has transformed beyond recognition. The result is a system in which the official poverty line tells us less about deprivation than it does about starvation. And once you trace the math, the inescapable metaphor emerges: America’s working households require escape velocity to break free from the gravitational well of modern costs of living.

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President Donald Trump said Sunday his administration intends to maintain a pause on asylum decisions for “a long time” after an Afghan national allegedly shot two National Guard members near the White House, killing one of them.

When asked to specify how long it would last, Trump said he had “no time limit” in mind for the measure, which the Department of Homeland Security says is linked to a list of 19 countries already facing US travel restrictions.

“We don’t want those people,” Trump continued. “You know why we don’t want them? Because many have been no good, and they shouldn’t be in our country.”

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When the Department of Transportation’s September 29, 2025 emergency rule exposed 200,000 fraudulently issued non-domiciled CDLs—many held by individuals with no legal work authorization—most of the trucking industry braced for a painful but necessary correction. The U.S. Postal Service did something far worse: it threw a tantrum and refused to comply.