17+ hour, 34+ min ago (579+ words) Comey, James Cases Dismissed A federal judge dismissed the criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James after finding the prosecutor who brought the cases was not lawfully appointed. Posted by OCUser at 01:20 PM | 15 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | BREAKING: Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.[image or embed] #1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-24 01:06 PM | Reply Trumpets personal vendetta just blew up in his face. Ms Halligan shoulda bought better insurance. And now she faces her own legal fees and eventual disbarment. Hope she bought insurance for that. #2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-24 01:12 PM | Reply The question now is, were there other cases for which interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan was the lead prosecutor that are now at risk…...

10+ hour, 20+ min ago (652+ words) DOGE 'doesn't exist' with Eight Months Left on its Charter One of Trump's biggest initiatives, establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency, has has ended in a spectacular failure with the Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor confirming that DOGE no longer exists. Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 08:33 PM | 14 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114. This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE [image or embed] #1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-24 02:04 AM | Reply While I may agree that DOGE, the entity that Pres Trump put into place to destroy our government, may no longer exist. I also ask, how many people that DOGE put into place within our Government still hold their positions? #2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-24 02:06 AM | Reply Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left…...

17+ hour, 24+ min ago (575+ words) U.S., Ukraine Made 'Meaningful Progress' on Peace Plan The U.S. and Ukraine made "meaningful progress toward aligning positions" on President Trump's proposed peace plan during their talks in Geneva on Sunday, the two countries said in a joint statement issued by the White House. Posted by Corky at 01:30 PM | 6 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | European leaders responded to the 28-point peace plan and unanimously reaffirmed their support for Ukraine. Any peace plan must be fair and sustainable -- made with Ukraine and for Ukraine. Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. #StandWithUkraine[image or embed] "The White House issued a statement after Sunday's talks concluded, saying: "Ukrainian representatives stated that, based on the revisions and clarifications presented today, they believe the current draft reflects their national interests and provides credible and enforceable mechanisms to safeguard Ukraine's security in both the near and long term....

13+ hour, 20+ min ago (245+ words) Guardian editorial: The Kremlin has barely lifted a finger in recent days. It hasn't needed to. The 28-point US-Russia peace proposal, leaked to the media last week, has thrown Washington, Kyiv and European capitals into disarray, creating precisely the conditions Vladimir Putin has long sought: a negotiating table sharply tilted in the Russian president's favour, with Ukraine cornered into weighing terms it cannot accept and the threat of losing its most important ally hanging over its head. Guardian editorial: The Kremlin has barely lifted a finger in recent days. It hasn't needed to. The 28-point US-Russia peace proposal, leaked to the media last week, has thrown Washington, Kyiv and European capitals into disarray, creating precisely the conditions Vladimir Putin has long sought: a negotiating table sharply tilted in the Russian president's favour, with Ukraine cornered into weighing terms it cannot…...

19+ hour, 23+ min ago (622+ words) North Carolina Republicans Worry About Trump Immigration Raids Some North Carolina Republicans are worried President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown in the battleground state could backfire. Posted by LampLighter at 11:30 AM | 10 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Every story on Page One in Charlotte is about ICE/immigration: @charlotteobserver.com[image or embed] #1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-23 10:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1 Yeah, that seems to be the overriding problem with the messaging by the Trupm admin. "Worst of the worst?" Perhaps that refers to the masked, unidentified ICE agents swooping down and taking away, in unmarked vans, American Citizens. Worst of the worst, indeed. #2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-23 10:25 PM | Reply As I said on another thread, short sightedness is rewarded immediately. After effects be damned. Democrats could not pay enough for that publicity that is handed to them on a silver…...

11+ hour, 23+ min ago (135+ words) Brazil Defied Trump and Won In July, Mr. Trump sent an angry letter to the current Brazilian president, Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, demanding that the authorities drop charges that Mr. Bolsonaro had attempted a coup. Posted by reinheitsgebot at 07:30 PM | 2 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Just months ago, President Trump sent a letter to the Brazilian president, Luiz In'cio Lula da Silva, demanding that the authorities drop charges that Jair Bolsonaro had attempted a coup. Now, Trump has all but admitted defeat, Jack Nicas writes in a news analysis. nyti.ms/4irUaEA[image or embed] LAME PEDO DUCK WALK #1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-24 04:37 PM | Reply #2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-24 06:29 PM | Reply...

20+ hour, 20+ min ago (243+ words) Rand Paul Predicts GOP Fracture over Venezuelan Strikes Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday warned that President Donald Trump's focus on Venezuela may lead to a "fracture" among those who were drawn in by his campaign promise of avoiding foreign wars. Posted by Dbt2 at 10:33 AM | 6 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | President Donald Trump has said he believes Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's days are numbered, and that land strikes inside Venezuela are possible.[image or embed] Anytime I see Rand Paul's name, I wonder where the lawn mower dude is. Yeah, that's me. Violent socialist. #1 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-23 08:06 PM | Reply #1 Has he gone all electric now? Or is this more a Caligula spectacle? #2 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-23 08:10 PM | Reply Especially one that may be started by Pres Trump. #3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-23 08:11 PM | Reply Yet another ------- moron who believed an obvious conman,…...

14+ hour, 23+ min ago (251+ words) Surprising Issue Driving a Wedge Between Trump and MAGA Base President Donald Trump faces an unexpected rift in the MAGA movement as Republican officials from statehouses to Capitol Hill warn his full-throated embrace of the tech industry's artificial intelligence boom risks undermining Americans' economic security and exposing their children to new harms. Posted by LampLighter at 04:30 PM | 4 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | This past week, the White House explored using an executive order to quash state regulation on AI. The president has trumpeted the billions of dollars in investments flooding into the technology, which has propped up U.S. economic growth this year, as evidence his plan to reboot the American economy is working. #1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-24 12:12 AM | Reply So the gold trinkets that the tech billionaires seem to give Pres Trump seem to have a negative effect upon the…...

12+ hour, 21+ min ago (398+ words) Trump to Immediately End Protections for Minnesota Somalis Posted by Dbt2 at 06:32 PM | 4 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn't have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay [image or embed] "I am a citizen and so are (the) majority of Somalis in America," Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Somali, said in a social media post Friday. "Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn't have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate." Still, advocates warned the move could inflame hate against a community at a time of rising Islamophobia. "This is not just a bureaucratic change," said Jaylani Hussein, president of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on…...

9+ hour, 22+ min ago (559+ words) Two Texas Men Indicted in Plot to Take over Haitian Isle for Slaves Gavin Rivers Weisenburg (21) and Tanner Christopher Thomas (20) have been charged in relation to a plot that included invading an island off Haiti, murdering the men on the island, and using the women and children as sex slaves. Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 09:31 PM | 7 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged. n.pr/4puzyhb[image or embed] This idiotic and perverse plan is right out of the 19th-century "Knights of the Golden Circle" or the Eugene O'Neill play "The Emperor Jones," but far, far worse. 87,000 to 20,000 residents live on Gonave Island and the well-armed and desperate Haitian gangs have not yet seemed to penetrate the island. After conviction, the sentencing judge should throw…...