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  • Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro begins 27-year prison sentence for coup attempt

    11/25/2025 6:52:12 PM PST · by RandFan
    politico ^ | Nov 25 | By Associated Press
    BRASILIA, Brazil — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday started his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, to the surprise of many in the South American nation who doubted he would ever end up behind bars. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has overseen the case, ruled Bolsonaro will remain in custody after being preemptively arrested on Saturday. Supporters and detractors of the embattled leader have gathered outside the federal police headquarters since the order was issued, some calling for Bolsonaro’s release and others toasting to his imprisonment. The far-right leader had been under house arrest...
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    11/25/2025 6:01:02 PM PST · by luvie · 18 replies
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  • The road to the Chicago train fire attack

    11/25/2025 5:58:28 PM PST · by Rummyfan · 7 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 25 Nov 2025 | BYron York
    THE ROAD TO THE CHICAGO TRAIN FIRE ATTACK. On April 23, 2020, a man poured gasoline around the Illinois state government building in Chicago and set it on fire. The man, identified as Lawrence Reed, 44, was said to be angry because he had not received his monthly government Supplemental Security Income check. According to the Chicago news site CWB Chicago, Reed went inside the building, known as the Thompson Center, and asked a worker at a train kiosk where his check was. Reed left and came back about an hour later, asking the same thing. Then, according to CWB...
  • Author of Inconvenient Indian discovers he has no indigenous roots

    11/25/2025 5:35:19 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 34 replies
    BBC ^ | 11/25/2025 | Brandon Drenon
    An award-winning Canadian-American author whose career was tied to his apparent indigenous ancestry has recently learned that he has no Cherokee roots.Thomas King revealed the findings on Monday in an opinion piece published in the Globe and Mail newspaper. The announcement follows a mid-November meeting with King and members of the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds, a US-based group dedicated to exposing people who falsely claim American Indian heritage. The 82-year-old said he accepts the findings of a genealogist with the organisation but writes in the essay: "I feel as though I've been ripped in half.""Not the Indian I had in...
  • Ukraine says 'understanding' reached with US on peace plan, as Trump says his envoy will meet Putin

    11/25/2025 5:31:44 PM PST · by Mariner · 10 replies
    BBC ^ | November 25th, 2025 | Laura Gozzi
    Ukraine has said a "common understanding" has been reached with the US on a peace deal aimed at ending the war with Russia.The proposal is based on a 28-point plan presented to Kyiv by the US last week, which American and Ukrainian officials worked on during weekend talks in Geneva.In a post on social media, US President Donald Trump said the original plan "has been fine-tuned, with additional input from both sides".He added: "I have directed my Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with President Putin in Moscow and, at the same time, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll will...
  • Trump: Indiana Republicans to Take Up Redistricting in the Coming Weeks

    11/25/2025 5:13:26 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 3 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 25, 2025 6:15 PM | Dmitri Bolt
    It looks like Indiana's Republican-led legislature is set to consider redistricting in the coming weeks. President Trump posted to Truth Social:It looks like the Indiana Senate Republicans will be coming back in two weeks to take up Redistricting, a very important initiative to balance out the Democrats’ endless “Sue to Blue” and Census rigging strategy that has stolen seats from Republicans, and given them to Democrats who would not have them if they played fairly. Radical Left Democrats have rigged the game for a long time — Remember, until the GREAT Speaker Newt Gingrich, Democrats controlled the House for 40...
  • ‘Mamdani the Hater’ Slanders Jews and Judaism

    11/25/2025 5:08:43 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 2 replies
    The American Spectator ^ | November 24, 2025, 10:05 PM | Steve Postal
    Rioters outside Park East synagogue in New York recently chanted genocidal screeds such as “There is only one solution: intifada revolution” and “we don’t want no two states, we want all of it.”But rather than unequivocally condemn the rabid antisemitism inherent in the protests, New York City’s mayor elect Zohran Mamdani’s office chose to not only tokenize synagogues as “sacred spaces,” but to then also condemn the synagogue and its event guest, Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organization that strives to get Jews to move to Israel, as “promot[ing] activities in violation of international law.” (RELATED: The New York Times Sets a...
  • Chicago’s Marxist Mayor Brandon Johnson Says Imprisoning Violenct Criminals is ‘Racist, Immoral and Unholy’

    11/25/2025 5:03:36 PM PST · by artichokegrower · 10 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | November 25, 2025 | Ben Kew
    Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has said that imprisoning violent criminals is racist and immoral.
  • In Texas case, it’s politics vs. race at the Supreme Court, with control of Congress at stake

    11/25/2025 5:00:03 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 1 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | Nov. 25, 2025 3 AM PT | David G. Savage
    The Supreme Court might allow Texas to use its new GOP-friendly map for the 2026 election. Federal judges blocked the new map from taking effect, ruling that it appeared to be unconstitutional. WASHINGTON — The Texas redistricting case now before the Supreme Court turns on a question that often divides judges: Were the voting districts drawn based on politics, or race?The answer, likely to come in a few days, could shift five congressional seats and tip political control of the House of Representatives after next year’s midterm elections.Justice Samuel A. Alito, who oversees appeals from Texas, put a temporary hold...
  • Trump brutally mocks ‘big, fat slob’ Chicagoi Gov. J.B. Pritzker during White House turkey pardon ceremony

    11/25/2025 4:55:05 PM PST · by PBRCat · 19 replies
    The New York Post ^ | November 25, 2025 | Chris Nesi
    “The mayor is incompetent, and the governor is … a big, fat slob,” he said with a comically-timed pregnant pause. “He ought to invite us and say, ‘Please make Chicago safe.’ We’re gonna lose a great city if we don’t do it quickly,” Trump warned. Minutes later in his remarks, Trump was in full comedian-in-chief mode, mercilessly trolling Pritzker while mocking Chicago’s soft-on-crime policies. “I looked at the various cases, granting mercy, discovering the terrible trauma that everyone’s going through, and I had a little bit of a Pritzker joke. I was going to talk about Pritzker in size, but...
  • After a week of censures, some in Congress are having second thoughts

    11/25/2025 4:45:36 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 7 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | 11/25/2025 5:00 am EST | Kadia Goba and Matthew Choi
    Censures were historically rare rebukes against lawmakers. But members of the House are increasingly using them in ways their peers say are political.Republicans and Democrats in Congress spent much of last week voting to formally reprimand each other, and both sides are tired of the back-and-forth.Congress voted on as many censure measures last week as it did during all of the 118th Congress. On Monday, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Washington) lobbed a disapproval measure against retiring Democratic colleague Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García of Illinois. The next day, Rep. Ralph Norman, who is running for governor in the state of South...
  • Santa Clara Valley Water CEO misconduct probe drags on

    11/25/2025 4:32:23 PM PST · by artichokegrower · 9 replies
    San Jose Spotlight ^ | November 21, 2025 | Brandon Pho
    A misconduct probe into the boss of Silicon Valley’s largest water supplier has dragged on for a year – with no answers as to what the agency has discovered — while he continues to collect paychecks. A Santa Clara Valley Water spokesperson has confirmed CEO Rick Callender is still on leave. But the agency won’t say whether the investigation has concluded, or how much public money the agency has spent thus far to both investigate and pay its leader.
  • The European Union votes to deepen defense industry ties with Ukraine

    11/25/2025 4:24:25 PM PST · by delta7 · 12 replies
    AP ^ | 25 Nov 25 | Sam Mcneil
    BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers voted on Tuesday to deepen integration of the bloc’s defense industry with Ukraine as a U.S. peace plan remains in flux and Russia’s unconventional warfare operations rattle the 27-nation bloc. European Parliament legislators voted 457-148, with 33 abstentions, to approve a 1.5-billion euro ($1.7 billion) program, with 300 million euros ($345 million) slated for the Ukraine Support Instrument. Raphaël Glucksmann, an EU lawmaker from France’s S&D party, said that the defense program “will enable us to build a more resilient and sovereign Europe” through partnering with Ukraine to build a cutting-edge military industrial complex....
  • Judge dismisses cases against ex-FBI Director James Comey, NY AG Tish James

    11/25/2025 3:09:26 PM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 13 replies
    NY Post ^ | 24/11/25 | Samuel Chamberlain, Josh Christenson and Priscilla DeGregory
    A federal judge dismissed the Virginia criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, finding that interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed to her position and “had no lawful authority” to secure indictments of either of President Trump’s longtime adversaries. The humiliating defeat for the administration came 11 days after attorneys for both Comey and James had argued that Halligan had to be confirmed by the Senate after Attorney General Pam Bondi used up her allotted 120-day interim appointment on Erik Siebert, who resigned Sept. 19 after Trump publicly...
  • Italian man accused of dressing as dead mother in scam to collect her pension

    11/25/2025 2:57:57 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 12 replies
    Euronews ^ | 25/11/2025 | Kieran Guilbert
    The 56-year-old former nurse is reportedly under investigation in northern Italy in a case that has been dubbed the "Mrs Doubtfire scandal". An Italian man has been accused of disguising himself as his dead mother— complete with wig, lipstick and jewellery — to fraudulently claim her pension, according to domestic media reports. The unemployed former nurse, who has not been identified, allegedly claimed thousands of euros in pension payments following the death of his mother in 2022, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported. Italian press dubbed it the Mrs Doubtfire Scandal, after the 1993 film starring the late Robin Williams,...
  • West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice agrees to pay more than $5 million in unpaid taxes

    11/25/2025 2:46:47 PM PST · by JSM_Liberty · 20 replies
    ABC ^ | November 24, 2025, 10:02 PM | Jay O'Brien and Lucien Bruggeman
    Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.V., and his wife have agreed to pay more than $5 million to the IRS in previously unpaid federal income taxes dating back to 2009, according to court records filed Monday. The West Virginia senator committed to paying that hefty sum just hours after the Justice Department sued him and his wife, Cathy Justice, on behalf of IRS tax collectors, who said they had repeatedly attempted to recover the unpaid taxes, but to no avail, according to a complaint filed earlier on Monday. “Despite notice and demand for payment of the assessments,” the suit read, “[Justice] and...
  • Mark Kelly fires back at Trump over military comments, says, ‘I will not be intimidated’

    11/25/2025 1:48:46 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 100 replies
    Fox News ^ | 11/25/25 | Marc Tamasco
    Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., appeared on MS NOW's "The Rachel Maddow Show" on Monday, where he responded to the Pentagon's announcement that it has opened a formal review into allegations of misconduct over a video calling on service members to "refuse illegal orders." On Monday, the Pentagon announced its investigation into Kelly, a retired Navy captain, and said it may call the senator back to active duty to face court-martial proceedings or other administrative actions under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). When asked by Maddow about the Pentagon's investigation, Kelly said, "Well, Rachel, I said something that was...
  • Death Penalty Sought for PA Man Accused of Raping, Killing 2-Year-Old

    11/25/2025 1:16:54 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 36 replies
    YourErie ^ | Nov 25, 2025 | Drew Miller
    Prosecutors announced they will be seeking the death penalty for a Pennsylvania man accused of raping and killing his 2-year-old son in August. The McKean County District Attorney’s Office announced the filing on Monday against 33-year-old Tyler Prescott of Bradford, citing four reasons that support the commonwealth’s first execution this century. That sentence, however, would hinge on Prescott being convicted of first-degree murder, which is the only crime that can be punished by death according to PA law, but also comes with an alternative sentence of life in prison. McKean County DA Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer said the Commonwealth will list the...
  • Tesla breaks Norway’s all-time annual sales record with one month to spare

    11/25/2025 1:05:58 PM PST · by SmokingJoe · 27 replies
    Teslarati ^ | 11/25/2025 | Simon Alvarez
    Tesla shattered Norway’s decade-old annual sales record this month, overtaking Volkswagen’s long-standing milestone with over one month still left in the year. Backed by surging demand ahead of Norway’s upcoming VAT changes, Tesla has already registered 26,666 vehicles year-to-date, surpassing Volkswagen’s 2016 record of 26,572 units. With November alone delivering 4,260 new registrations month-to-date, Tesla has cemented its most dominant year ever in one of Europe’s most mature EV markets. Model Y drives historic surge in Norway Tesla’s impressive momentum has been led overwhelmingly by the Model Y, which accounted for 21,517 of Norway’s registrations this year, as noted in...
  • <b>The Trump–Saudi Oval Office Performance:</b> Let us count the lies.

    11/25/2025 12:53:55 PM PST · by MacNaughton · 13 replies
    FrontPageMag ^ | 11/24/2025 | Aynaz Anni Cyrus
    On November 18, 2025, Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince walked into the Oval Office and treated it like a showroom floor. Every sentence was a sales pitch. Every claim was polished to sound like victory. And every lie was delivered with the confidence of people who assume the public won’t bother checking the fine print.What you’re about to read is a highlight reel of contradictions, fantasy numbers, selective memory, and the kind of strategic blindness that gets entire regions burned to the ground.They said the quiet parts out loud, assuming no one would connect the dots.So I did.Below is...