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Thursday, November 12, 2026
Marco Rubio reportedly spent over $1.2m of taxpayer money traveling to son’s football games
Ethics watchdogs question necessity of the US secretary of state flying between DC and Gainesville so often…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/11/marco-rubio-travel-costs-university-florida-football
Parents sue to stop Washington state trans sports ban that could require ‘invasive’ genital exams
Doctors, teachers and parents have raised alarms about the potential of forcing girls to undergo genital exams, saying the enforcement mechanism was a severe privacy violation and would discourage all girls from joining sports. Proponents argue that the ban, funded by Brian Heywood, a conservative hedge fund manager, protects “fairness” in girls’ sports…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/10/washington-trans-sports-ban-lawsuit
Investigate Trump? The White House Says That Might Be a Crime. – Mother Jones
“The American people voted overwhelmingly for us to pass laws to root out corruption and abuse,” Garcia continued. “The Trump Administration continues to weaponize the government with threats of unconstitutional attacks on Congress.”
As Politico reported on Wednesday, courts have long given Congress broad power to investigate and have rejected arguments that lawmakers’ probes are merely politically motivated…
Election Deniers Are Using a Faulty Tool to Challenge Midterm Ballots — ProPublica
After the midterm, a Republican member of the election board in Forsyth County, Georgia, challenged dozens of ballots using information from a controversial data tool created by a member of Cleta Mitchell’s Election Integrity Network…
https://www.propublica.org/article/election-challenge-forsyth-county-georgia
Democrat Scott Colom to become first Black senator elected in Mississippi since 1874 after beating Cindy Hyde-Smith
Democrat Scott Colom defeated Cindy Hyde-Smith, the incumbent Republican senator, to become the first Black senator in Mississippi elected since Reconstruction, in a stunning upset after more than a week of vote counting in one of the country’s most reliably red states…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/11/scott-colom-mississippi-senate-race
John Kerry: America Must Now Follow China’s Lead on Clean Energy – Mother Jones
“[China] realized suddenly they had way too much dependency on oil and gas from other places, and they decided they needed to be independent. Other countries, since the war in Iran, and since the strait of Hormuz has been interrupted, have made a similar decision, and they’re moving independently. There’s been a massive uptick in deployment of renewables. Thank you, Donald Trump.”…
The new darling of the Democratic left is … Chris Van Hollen? - POLITICO
Van Hollen could be using his flirtations with a bid to influence some end-of-year decisionmaking. He is pushing Congress to cut off Iran war funding as they head toward a Dec. 11 government funding deadline, and he wants a provision mandating cooperation with Israel stripped from the annual defense policy bill…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/11/11/chris-van-hollen-senate-leader-01160588
Read the letter the White House's top lawyer sent Rep. Garcia over threats to investigate Trump | PBS News
"It appears Donald Trump has something to hide," Garcia said in a statement on Wednesday. "We are a co-equal branch of government and will not be deterred by baseless threats from a weaponized DOJ or from the President's lawyers."…
‘The world we know is over’ without urgent climate action, leaders tell Cop31
Hilda Heine, one of a handful of Pacific Island leaders to make an impassioned speech at Cop31 on Wednesday, told other heads of state that overshooting the 1.5C Paris temperature target would mean waves eating away their shores and floods that destroy towns, schools and hospitals…
‘Draft Marco’ effort grows on Capitol Hill after midterms bloodbath - POLITICO
A growing number of Republicans on Capitol Hill want to draft Marco Rubio for a 2028 presidential bid as they grapple with their midterms wipeout — and look beyond Vice President JD Vance…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/11/11/hill-republicans-rubio-vance-2028-01160686
Project 2025 had a plan to target federal data. The Trump administration obeyed
“If you are an administration that is focused on taking away people’s rights and on limiting people’s access to healthcare, then it follows you don’t want scientific evidence and data to be available to people. Because if you start chipping away at people’s faith in institutions, then you can fill the void with disinformation that’s really detrimental to people’s health and wellbeing.”…
Average US heating bills to rise 7% this winter nationwide – report
Nearly 5m households relying on heating oil could see 70% increases, as advocates call on Congress to provide relief…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/11/heating-bill-winter-price-increases
Trump Is Selling Early Access to Social Media Posts. The Gambit Is Starting to Pay Off. – Mother Jones
But all of this is, apparently, a bit of a sideshow. The company has a merger pending with a nuclear fusion company that will go up for a shareholder vote next month. If it passes, the president’s social media company will likely pivot to being a nuclear power company, with a social media appendage…
The Job Qualifications for Hegseth’s Military? Straight. White. Male. – Mother Jones
“Black service members and Black veterans understand that we are either not welcome or we will exist within a permanent hierarchy in which white men are at the top,” says Kyle Bibby, a former Marine infantry captain and co-founder of the non-profit Black Veterans Project. “Particularly straight white men.”…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/11/hegseth-dei-black-veterans-racial-disparities/
How Trump’s Dismantling of the VA Left a Veterans Hospital in Crisis — ProPublica
The administration has denied that it is hurting veterans’ care. “There’s actually an excitement about what’s going on,” said Collins, a former personal lawyer for Trump, in congressional testimony this spring. A spokesperson said the eliminated jobs for healthcare providers were simply “not needed.”
That is not what we have found. Over months of reporting, ProPublica has watched the East Orange VA Medical Center — a typical agency facility — spiral downward. The hospital and its affiliated facilities in New Jersey lost nearly a tenth of the staff they had when Trump took office…
https://www.propublica.org/article/east-orange-va-hospital-veterans-decline-new-jersey
The Democratic Tsunami Is a “Sea Change” for Reproductive Rights – Mother Jones
Reproductive rights leaders are bracing for Trump administration officials, who tried to defuse abortion as a midterms issue, to start becoming more aggressive. “Once the midterms are over and it’s truly lame-duck time,” one unnamed conservative told the Washington Sun last month, “we’ve heard the gloves will be off.” The FDA, for example, is widely expected to try to clamp down on abortion pills, while the Justice Department could attempt to revive the Comstock Act, the Victorian-era obscenity law that, if enforced, would amount to a nationwide abortion ban…
More and More Veterans Say Their Duty Is to Resist Trump – Mother Jones
McPhearson has traveled to city after city trying to make visible what he argues the Trump administration is working hard not to see: the people on the receiving end of American bombs…
Texas ER Did Not Provide Vitamin K Shot That Could Have Saved Newborn’s Life — ProPublica
A Risky Decision: When Baby Gwen was born, her parents decided not to have her receive a vitamin K injection, though it’s been standard practice for decades, and gave her drops instead.
Desperate Efforts: The emergency room doctor who first treated Gwen tried seven methods to stop the bleeding from her belly button before the baby was transferred to a hospital.
Questions of Treatment: The family filed a complaint against the ER doctor with the Texas Medical Board, which alleged she didn’t recognize that Gwen had vitamin K deficiency bleeding...
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-shot-texas-lonestar-emergency-room-nicole-malouf
Thousands without shelter face lethal conditions in storm-hit Gaza as they wait for 150,000 tents
Charities warn of lack of protection amid health fears for more than 940,000 displaced people living in flood-prone areas…
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