Trump calls Somali immigrants ‘garbage’ as US reportedly targets Minnesota community

"They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you," he said. He called Omar "garbage" and said "we're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country". 

"These are people who do nothing but complain," he said. "They complain, and from where they came from, they got nothing … When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don't want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/trump-somali-immigrants-minnesota

 

BREAKING: Veterans from every branch are speaking out against Donald Trump

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EqV6Qms4NQ8

 

History Minute (042): More about how stable were the family relationships among the enslaved people

Quoting Zinn:

"Going through records of slave marriages, Gutman found how high was the incidence of marriage among slave men and women, and how stable these marriages were. He studied the remarkably complete records kept on one South Carolina plantation. He found a birth register of two hundred slaves extending from the eighteenth century to just before the Civil War; it showed stable kin networks, steadfast marriages, unusual fidelity, and resistance to forced marriages."

Excerpt From

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

 

Trump gets played like a fiddle #paulapoundstone #politicalcomedy #trump...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YGK2FliB1I4

 

Russia ‘ready’ for war with Europe, Putin says, as US peace talks end without progress

Kremlin aide says Ukraine crisis is no closer to resolution after Witkoff talks, as Russian president accuses European powers of sabotaging peace…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/02/witkoff-in-moscow-for-talks-as-putin-claims-to-have-taken-key-ukrainian-city

  

The human cost of Chilean salmon

The country is the world's second-largest producer of the popular fish, and the biggest supplier to the US, but its farms are beset by accusations of dangerous labour conditions, antibiotic overuse and ecological harm…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/02/chile-salmon-farms-fish-industry

 

Is abortion literally child sacrifice?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FGaQ_5Tkg0

 

Why doesn’t the Bible mention Israelites building pyramids? #maklelan3022

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/43yGFtisSE0

 

Scott Galloway on the rise of 'asexual, asocial males'

When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and the rise of Donald Trump…

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/03/scott-galloway-masculinity-crisis-notes-on-being-a-man

 

10 Red Flags To Help You Defend Yourself Against Scams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyRRdSSAV3U

 

Aftyn Behn shows us what happens when we fight everywhere. This is coming for MAGA

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RoMMI-twWE8

 

Surprisingly tough Tennessee election reveals House GOP has base problem - The Washington Post

Republicans face a dire predicament heading into the midterm year, with independent voters breaking away from President Donald Trump and a conservative base losing faith in the GOP majorities on Capitol Hill...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/03/house-republicans-base-problem/

 

How the dollar-store industry overcharges customers

A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs

 

The Bubble-Wrapped President

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lpIoPWacXLM

 

The Supreme Court will decide if Republicans must pay for DOJ’s incompetence | Vox

This matters because, as Texas Republicans were trying to decide whether to redraw the state's maps earlier this year, Trump's Justice Department wrote a letter threatening to sue the state unless it enacted an illegal racial gerrymander. The letter claimed, falsely, that it is illegal for a state to draw any map that includes a district where white people are in the minority, and two other racial groups make up the majority. DOJ told Texas that it must redraw its congressional maps to eliminate several districts that fit this description...

https://www.vox.com/politics/470984/supreme-court-texas-republican-gerrymander-inept 

 

Religious zealots want to launch a taxpayer-funded Jewish school in Oklahoma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5ZRAhsgK2I

 

The Universe's Expansion No Longer Makes Sense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUgqNu9cOEA

 

Why Life on Mars Will DOOM Humanity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuHrtlJPk3o

 

Evangelical Republicans Are Hateful Bigoted Morons #duet #religion

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZgdGeQkrcMo

 

Trump says he will repeal fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks in latest blow for pollution safeguards

Dan Becker, director of the Center for Biological Diversity's Safe Climate Transport Campaign, said that current efficiency standards have motivated automakers to produce cars that use less gas, saving consumers money at the pump. "Trump's action will feed America's destructive use of oil, while hamstringing us in the green tech race against … foreign carmakers," he added. "The auto industry will use this rule to drive itself back into a familiar ditch, failing to compete."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/trump-fuel-efficiency-rules

 

Former FDA commissioners condemn plan to tighten vaccine approvals - The Washington Post

They argued that his approach represents a major shift that could delay the arrival of vaccines better matched for evolving viruses, make it potentially prohibitively expensive for new shots to come to market and slow expanded approval of vaccines for more people...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/03/fda-commissioner-letter-vaccine-approval/

 

Millions of Americans with student loan debt are hanging on the edge of a cliff

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xszr8XrMuPY

 

Tomball Texas churches not no good #shorts

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aaNrEDQBUlU

 

Family of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint

The petition marks the first formal complaint over the airstrikes by the Trump administration against suspected drug boats, attacks that the White House says are justified under a novel interpretation of law...

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/02/trump-caribbean-drug-boat-attack-complaint

 

Japan Just Pulled the TRIGGER - Brace for Impact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vyBIVzXEDg

 

Trump Can’t Stop Falling Asleep at Cabinet Meeting & Goes Off the Rails in All NIght Posting Spree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EYlkd5cdpc

 

Inside Congress Live

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the committee's top Democrat, defended the former special counsel and his tactics in a statement and questioned why Republicans are insisting on having Smith testify behind closed doors. But he also criticized the phone record request targeting Jordan, which was issued before Smith was named to his post...

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/03/congress/jack-smith-subpoena-house-judiciary-00674387 

 

The REAL reason everything sucks now

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MYEAK-Uh-fo

 

Did RFK Jr remove prior authorizations? #healthcare #insurance #doctor

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HSUE_solY2k

 

RFK! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDHpbnbmaME

 

Class action lawsuit filed against 10 Commandments displays in Texas classrooms

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kKou9bbPS7s

 

Shocking News: Millions Could Lose Access to Their Credit Cards Starting next week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6vPHDtb-eo 

 

Trump: Jack Smith classified documents report should remain secret - POLITICO

President Donald Trump argued Tuesday that former special counsel Jack Smith's final report — chronicling the criminal case against him for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago — should never be made public...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/02/trump-jack-smith-classified-docs-report-00673178 

 

Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 3, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuQGUIDZJOY

 

 

Trump Berates Reporters, Gets Mystery MRI & Closes Border to (Non-White) immigrants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4STrDD7leEM

 

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab. — ProPublica

Stan Kroenke doesn't need federal help to make a business flourish. He is worth an estimated $20 billion, a fortune that has allowed him to become one of America's largest property owners and afforded him stakes in storied sports franchises, including the Denver Nuggets and England's Arsenal soccer club. 

 Yet Kroenke, whose wife is an heiress to the Walmart fortune, benefits from one of the federal government's bedrock subsidy programs, one that props up ranching in the West...

https://www.propublica.org/article/grazing-ranchers-public-lands-trump 

 

The FDA’s top drug regulator submits his resignation to the agency - POLITICO

John Crowley, president and CEO of the trade lobby group Biotechnology Innovation Organization, said in a statement that Pazdur's exit "raises serious concerns about the repeated turnover in key leadership" and risks U.S. biotech leadership as China seeks to compete in the sector...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/02/the-fdas-top-drug-regulator-submits-his-resignation-to-the-agency-00672818

 

Senate barrels toward failure on health care - POLITICO

"We're nowhere on health care," said one senior House Republican who was granted anonymity to candidly describe the situation...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/01/senate-barrels-toward-failure-on-health-care-00672273 

 

Trump makes DAMNING CONFESSION at Cabinet meeting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upaEcvZMaP8

 

Why it is important for babies to get medical interventions at birth.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uYzOHW_66Dw

 

Pope Leo warns against military action in Venezuela - POLITICO

The pope urged the U.S. to "seek dialogue" instead of pursuing a military incursion...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/02/pope-leo-us-venezuela-military-incursion-00672810 

 

Some store credit cards come with a 'nasty gotcha,' says expert

"Deferred interest is a really nasty gotcha, because a lot of people don't understand what it means," says Rossman. If you don't know the rules, it can end up costing you far more than whatever you saved on that initial purchase, he says...

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/some-store-credit-cards-come-with-a-nasty-gotcha-says-expert.html 

 

Republicans threaten TN voters! What you gonna do TN?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v_NvoR08RSw

 

Israeli settlers attack and rob Italian and Canadian volunteers in West Bank

Group beaten in early hours of morning in village where they volunteered to help protect Palestinians from settler violence

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/01/italian-canadian-volunteers-beaten-robbed-israeli-settlers-west-bank

 

Trump’s pardon of Honduras’s ex-president shows counter-drug effort is ‘based on lies and hypocrisy’

Trump's astonishing intervention in favour of Hernández, who is known by his initials JOH, has baffled many observers, with one Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agent calling the move "lunacy". 

Why would the US president use his "war on drugs" as a justification for overthrowing Maduro – despite what many see as flimsy evidence that the Venezuelan leader really is a narco boss – while simultaneously offering a Get Out of Jail Free card to a man already found guilty of such crimes in a Manhattan federal court?…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/trump-pardon-juan-orlando-hernandez-honduras-former-president

 

Age of the ‘scam state’: how an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia

"It's quite unprecedented that you have an illicit market of this nature, that is causing global harm, where there's blatant impunity, and it's happening in this public way."…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/02/scam-state-multi-billion-dollar-industry-south-east-asia

 

FBI under Kash Patel has become ‘internally paralyzed by fear’, new report reveals

They accuse Patel of lacking the experience to lead the FBI and that managers will not take initiative without explicit direction for fear of being fired. Patel's first six months have produced a "troubling picture" of an organization described by insiders as a "rudderless ship", with two sources independently characterizing the director as being "in over his head". One stated he "lacks the requisite knowledge or deep understanding of all the FBI's unique and complex investigative and intelligence programs".

 One key accusation is that the FBI has become "internally paralyzed by fear". Managers are "afraid of losing their jobs", and "waiting on directions from the FBI director" rather than taking initiative, according to multiple sources...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/fbi-kash-patel-leaked-report

 

‘The Chinese will not pause’: Volvo and Polestar bosses urge EU to stick to 2035 petrol car ban

Volkswagen and BMW, Samuelsson says, "can do with they like", but if they take the foot off the electrification pedal, they will just widen the gap for China. 

"The Chinese will set up factories in Hungary and Slovakia, Romania … in low labour cost markets. I don't think it's possible to keep them out of the EU with tariffs. You just need to meet them face on and compete with them," he says...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/02/china-volvo-polestar-eu-2035-petrol-car-sweden-germany

 

Several protesters arrested after ICE raid thwarted in New York City

Similar recent actions by federal authorities elsewhere, including in Charlotte and Chicago, have been met with resistance by citizens opposed to the administration's escalating program of detentions and deportations…

https://www.teguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/new-york-city-ice-raid

 

National guard shooting suspect spent ‘weeks on end’ in isolation, emails show

The emails reveal mounting warnings about Lakanwal, whose erratic conduct raised alarms long before last week's attack. His behavior deteriorated so sharply that a community advocate reached out to a refugee organization for help, fearing he was becoming suicidal...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/national-guard-shooting-suspect-mental-health

 

Republican whose child has Down syndrome opposes redistricting after Trump’s ableist slur

Referring to how the president used an ableist slur to insult Tim Walz, the Democratic Minnesota governor, a day earlier, Bohacek's post added, "His choices of words have consequences."

"I will be voting NO on redistricting, perhaps he can use the next 10 months to convince voters that his policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/trump-indiana-state-senator-redistricting-vote

 

Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 2, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMzYZBrZSyc

 

Unlawful Orders (feat. Virginia Burger of POGO.org) (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Unjustified podcast)

The cases against Jim Comey and Letitia James have been dismissed by a judge who found that Interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed.

News outlets are reporting that President Trump is weighing removing Kash Patel from his position as director of the FBI, but the administration denies those claims.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the dismissal of Trump's 2022 lawsuit against Hillary Clinton et al, and allows the $1M sanctions fine to stand.

The FBI has opened an investigation into six members of Congress for reminding active duty service members and employees of the intelligence community that they do not have to obey illegal orders.

Plus listener questions…
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-uinkn-29183061

David Kirkpatrick on Trump’s Immense and Shameless Profiteering (Al Franken Podcast)

One of Donald Trump's most successful initiatives in his second term has been making himself and his family richer than ever. We're joined by The New Yorker’s David Kirkpatrick, who earlier this year wrote a piece outlining all the ways the legendary grifters have cashed in during Trump’s presidency.

The Trump family has long been associated with shameless cash grabs, but we have reached new levels of corruption by using his office for their money-making schemes: international real estate deals, Trump-branded merchandise, and cryptocurrency.

David lays out the long list of ethical implications involved and calculates the staggering amount of money Donald Trump and his family have made off of his presidency.

READ David's piece “The Number” in The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number
Interview: 

https://youtu.be/zjm-RAJ1E2I?si=f95phgoGRB--DKZY

The Court Case That Could Blow the Roof Off Political Spending (Andrew Seidel; One Nation, Indivisible podcast Episode #040 )

There’s so much to cover. Andrew dives into Trump threatening the lives of Democratic lawmakers and veterans; Trump’s awful, piggish misogyny and the White House coverup; and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s apologies tour. But that’s not even the biggest news because a court is hearing a case that could blow a hole in American democracy bigger than Citizens United. Plus, a win at the Supreme Court and some fun facts about the First Thanksgiving.

Rolling Stone op-ed.
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-sg9ur-28f31217

Trump’s False Drug Claims & Illegal Orders #paulapoundstone #trump

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9HJOrXxfZB4

Did Egypt actually record the 10 Plagues?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcWxmg4-88Y

 

Costco sues Trump admin for tariff refunds before Supreme Court ruling

Costco sued the Trump administration to get a full refund of new tariffs it paid so far this year, and to block those import duties from continuing to be collected from the retail warehouse club giant as a Supreme Court case plays out...

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/costco-sues-trump-tariffs-trade-supreme-court.html 

 

Robert Ingersoll The Logic Christianity Could Not Answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c81cKUuK4M

 

Trump Lies About Aftyn Behn and Gets Caught #Trump #PaulaPoundstone

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pWvB79xwLBg

South Park: Pete Hegseth Is A "F***ing D**che"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6qQatj3oxY

 

20 iPhone Annoyances and How To Fix Them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBYfkf08mu0

 

On the reliability of the Bible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlddFoXHE3I

Johnson Amendment under attack by Christian nationalist effort

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CSCJ1gYGzaI

 

Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead

Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/01/global-health-hiv-aids-funding-cuts-infections-prevention

 

Thoughts on Trump crypto and AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4HqBzLHxZs

 

Trump’s hate-filled rant ignores facts on immigrant crime and economic benefits

In the wake of the deadly Washington DC shooting, Trump claimed immigrants are 'destroying everything America stands for'. Here's what the data shows…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/29/trumps-hate-filled-rant-ignores-facts-on-immigrant-and-economic-benefits

 

Texas Is GONE? Mass Resignations SIGNAL Major GOP Wipeout! #gopchaos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQZFa_Ps4uQ

 

'You can't shoot people who have surrendered': Concerns about possible war crimes grow after strike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIyt3ZXW0j8

 

The Bible isn’t the word of God #maklelan3018

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EYYnFwlG-Kw

 

LIVE DEBATE [God is Imaginary] 11-5-2025 | DZ Debates

"YOUR god is fiction....mine is rock solid."

Interview: 

https://www.youtube.com/live/bYcKxL5ZyX0?si=WOuVxPY0KMMG29Ed

History Minute (041): The Pilgrims and Puritans did not come to America for religious freedom.

As explained by Constitutional scholar and author Andrew Seidel, the Puritans and Pilgrims did come to America to escape persecution, but not to establish religious freedom. Rather, they came to establish theocracies where their religious beliefs could be enforced by the government. They were intolerant of any religious views that didn't align with their own, to the point of persecuting and executing people with differing views. And they also gleefully committed atrocities against native peoples in the name of their religion. 

When it came time to write the Constitution, these are the very examples that the Founding Fathers looked  at and said this is no way to run a country, and that they deliberately avoided. That is why the Founding Fathers wrote the U.S. Constitution to keep religion separate from government.

And by the way, as far as persecution goes: Who was persecuting them in England? Other Christians.

Andrew also provides suggestions for how to discuss this topic with others over the holidays without causing tension. 

Hear the details starting at 45:50 in this podcast:

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-sg9ur-28f31217

Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 1, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXhh4FuMGE0

 

Trump’s FATAL MOVE could CRASH EVERYTHING

Max from ‪@UNFTR‬ breaks down the pressure building behind the scenes in the financial markets as the plumbing of the system broke down again heading into the Thanksgiving holiday. Kevin Hassett has emerged as the leading contender to run the Federal Reserve despite a lightweight resume and troubling economic positions. And the Democrats released a major analysis on the Trump family crypto grift.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULJc0reSqXA

 

Electricity prices jump after Trump rejects disaster aid for Michigan utilities - POLITICO

The president denied the state's request for federal aid to rebuild power lines after a fierce ice storm last March, a move that could force thousands of rural electricity customers to pay the entire tab...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/30/electricity-prices-jump-after-trump-rejects-disaster-aid-for-michigan-utilities-00665572 

 

Lawmakers warn Hegseth may have committed war crimes following second-strike report - POLITICO

Democrats and even some Republicans said Hegseth's orders may have been illegal if a report on his commands to kill survivors of a boat attack are true...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/30/war-crimes-hegseth-venezuela-strikes-00671160 

 

Experts say strict new FDA protocol for vaccine approval is ‘dangerous and irresponsible’

"[Prasad] says he has evidence that this vaccine killed 10 children, but that's not the way it works," Offit said. "If you think you have an extraordinary claim, you should back it up with extraordinary evidence. He should have submitted it to an excellent journal where it can be reviewed by subject matter experts who can say, 'Yes, this is clear evidence,' then it can be published. That's the way it works."…

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/29/regulator-fda-stricter-protocols-vaccine-approvals

 

How the Trumps are turning power into riches

Kristofer Harrison, a senior foreign policy official under President George W Bush who now runs an anti-corruption organisation called the Dekleptocracy Project, is among those accusing the Trumps of operating a "pay to play" system that benefits those who do business with the president's family. Such an approach could be manipulated, he said, especially by rival powers such as China. He said: "Trump has made authoritarians' wildest dreams come true."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/30/all-the-presidents-millions-how-the-trumps-are-turning-the-presidency-into-riches

 

Law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US

"The federal administration has been so negative to clean energy that people have thought 'OK what can we do at the state level?' and this has been one of those things. 

"There's real momentum behind this now. In states where electricity is more expensive, in particular, I think we will see market forces really carry this far."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/30/balcony-solar-power-states-laws

 

‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival

In 2022, the Biden administration earmarked billions of dollars to help revitalize and strengthen former coal communities. The objective was to lay down building blocks for the region to transition from extractive industries like coal and timber to a hub for solar and other advanced energy technologies, with a view to long-term economic, climate and social resilience. 

But on his first day in office, Donald Trump scrapped Biden's clean energy and environmental programs, which he lambasted as woke, anti-American liberal hoaxes...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/29/trump-coal-country

Yes, American Christianity Is Cruel On Purpose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd76uNMpXIc

 

Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn

The federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention, has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to "abuse people with impunity", experts warn. 

Former federal oversight officials have sounded the alarm at the rapid dismantling of guardrails against human rights failures – at the same time as the government pushes aggressive immigration enforcement operations...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/30/us-watchdog-human-rights-department-homeland-security

 

OUTDUMBING a MAGA Moron

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JI3UqP3ejBU

 

Donald Still Can’t Answer a Simple Question #PaulaPoundstone #DonaldTrump

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tCYaiSGXfTI

 

Billionaires Losing Privilege Is Not the Same as Being Poor

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AOJuzUznnk4

 

Senate committee vows ‘vigorous oversight’ of killing of boat strike survivors - The Washington Post

The head of the Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee has pledged "vigorous oversight" after a Washington Post report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all crew members during the first U.S. strike against suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean earlier this year...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/29/hegseth-caribbean-strikes-kill-order-reaction/

FDA claims COVID vaccine contributed to the death of at least 10 children

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VtYwWkmBgoA

Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters, historian says

A historian who spent more than a month in Gaza at the turn of the year says he saw "utterly convincing" evidence that Israel supported looters who attacked aid convoys during the conflict. 

…In the book, Filiu describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting aid convoys. These permitted looters to seize huge quantities of food and other supplies destined for desperately needy Palestinians, he writes. Famine threatened parts of Gaza at the time, according to international humanitarian agencies…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/29/convincing-evidence-israel-backed-aid-convoy-looters-in-gaza-historian-says

 

They tried to overturn the 2020 US election. Now, they hold power in Trump’s Washington

Those who tried to overturn the 2020 election now occupy key federal roles, shaping rules and sowing doubt for 2026…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/29/2020-election-deniers-trump

 

College student deported when flying home for Thanksgiving, despite court order

A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/college-student-deported-boston-flight-thanksgiving

 

The people fleeing climate breakdown

Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer capture the families, farmers and fishers who have been forced to leave their homes by extreme weather – and the landscapes they left behind. Introduction by Dina Nayeri…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/29/people-fleeing-climate-breakdown-in-pictures

Flooding death toll tops 350 as rescuers struggle to reach worst-hit areas

More than 300 people killed on Indonesia's Sumatra island with 162 reported dead across Thailand…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/29/indonesia-and-thailand-flooding-death-toll-tops-350-as-rescuers-struggle-to-reach-worst-hit-areas

 

ROCKING NEW TUNE - Cant Blame Me For their Asylum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAn2bCdWm2A

 

Weekly Roundup: Kristi Noem Implicated, Erika Kirk’s Love Language, and Bill McKibben on the Tragedy of American Christianity (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad and Dan are back from the American Academy of Religion conference in Boston and kick off this episode with some love for the folks they met there before diving into a wild week in American politics and religion. They start with the viral moment between Erika Kirk and JD Vance at a TPUSA event, unpacking the media frenzy, the rumors about Kirk’s political aspirations, and what this says about the internal dynamics of a GOP that’s trying to blend celebrity, piety, and power. From there, they break down the Department of Justice’s statement implicating Kristi Noem in deportation flights and what that level of entanglement means for accountability within the MAGA movement.

The second half of the episode takes a thoughtful turn as Brad and Dan dig into Bill McKibben’s essay “They’re Doing to America What They Did to Christianity,” exploring how nostalgia and selective memory shape everything from Christian identity to policy debates. They look at why both right wing and progressive versions of Christian nationalism are so dangerous, how civilizational populism reshaped politics during and after the Obama years, and why the GOP still has no coherent healthcare plan. Despite the heavy topics, the hosts offer reasons for hope with updates on recent legal wins, global news like Bolsonaro’s sentencing in Brazil, and reminders of why staying engaged matters.
Interview: 

https://straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/weekly-roundup-kristi-noem-implicated-erika-kirks-love-language-and-bill-mckibben-on-the-tragedy-of-american-christianity/

Short Weekly Roundup: Donald Trump is the Anti-Christian President (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

In this episode of ‘Straight White American, Jesus,’ Brad Oishi discusses the Trump administration’s paradoxical treatment of Christianity. Highlighting the arrest of Christian clergy during a protest at the Broadview immigration facility, Oishi critiques the administration’s selective support for certain Christian ideologies while persecuting others. He explores the historical prominence of Evangelical Christianity in American politics and critiques the intersection of this with Trump’s deportation policies. Oishi underscores the dangers of Christian nationalism, emphasizing how it prioritizes a narrow interpretation of Christianity, leading to broader socio-political ramifications. The episode also touches on the broader implications of these actions, including upcoming ICE raids on Spanish-speaking churches and the administration’s fragility amidst ongoing controversies.

Interview: 

https://straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/short-weekly-roundup-donald-trump-is-the-anti-christian-president/

Trump order to keep Michigan power plant open costs taxpayers $113m

Critics say JH Campbell coal-fired plant in western Michigan is expensive and emits high levels of toxic pollution…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/trump-michigan-power-plant

 

Leaked files show far-right influences among Project 2025 applicants | Project 2025 | The Guardian

Applicants reportedly cited Nazi theorists and other extremists as inspiration for Trump administration roles…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/project-2025-heritage-foundation-hack