Source: The American Conservative
by Peter Van Buren
“Jon Stewart joked Trump ‘already has the merch,’ referring to a red ‘Trump 2028’ cap. Steve Bannon keeps teasing ‘a plan’ to keep Trump in office. The Russian dissident and former chess champion Garry Kasparov warns of democracy’s demise. It’s a perfect storm of satire, conspiracy, and clickbait, but none of it adds up to a third term for Donald Trump. … Who knows what goes through Trump’s mind when he thinks of 2028, but we do know there is no way he is going to run for a third term. Three things make a genuine third-term bid for Trump impossible: the 22nd Amendment, the extraordinary difficulty of changing that amendment, and the legal implausibility of proposed way-out-there workaround schemes.” (11/17/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-third-trump-term-is-an-impossibility/
Source: Orlando Sentinel
“Paul John Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a German refugee camp a year after World War II ended. His family legally emigrated to the United States in 1952 when he was five. More than seven decades later, the 79-year-old Sanford grandfather – still a man without a country – found himself in legal limbo in the Alligator Alcatraz detention camp in the Everglades, [abducted] on a decades-old deportation order authorities had previously chosen not to enforce. … The retired optician, [abducted] late last month, was recently moved to the Krome Detention Center in Miami and has a bond hearing on Nov. 18. His family worries his health is failing while he’s in custody and fears for his future.” (11/16/25)
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/sanford-grandfather-born-in-refugee-camp-nabbed-by-ice-after-70-years-in-u-s/
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Explodes in Angriest Epstein Tirade Yet as Allies Visibly Panic.” (11/17/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/203262/trump-explodes-angriest-epstein-tirade-yet-allies-visibly-panic
Source: The Atlantic
by Gilad Edelman
“Conservatives have been complaining about media bias for decades, but Republican officials were long averse to interfering with the decisions of private companies. Then came the second Trump administration, and its willingness to wage cultural warfare in more intrusive ways. [FCC chair Michael] Carr’s role in that effort is not to tell networks what to air and whom to fire. It’s to get to the point where he doesn’t have to.” (11/17/25)
https://archive.is/J8bwZ
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“We are all owed a better explanation from the FBI and Secret Service about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump 16 months ago at a campaign rally in Butler, PA. The president himself remains unsatisfied with the answers he’s been given about the circumstances leading to 20-year-old Thomas Crooks climbing on a rooftop with an AR-15-style rifle and firing eight times at Trump, narrowly missing his head but hitting his ear. Crooks was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper, but not before he killed rallygoer Corey Comperatore, 50, and seriously wounded David Dutch, 58, and James Copenhaver, 75, who were sitting in the bleachers behind Trump. There is something very wrong with the official story and that invites conspiracy theories. The president demanded answers months ago. A man was murdered. What is going on?” (11/17/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/17/opinion/fbi-secret-service-butchered-the-thomas-crooks-case-and-invited-conspiracies-we-deserve-the-truth/
Source: Common Dreams
“Ecuador’s voters on Sunday delivered a major blow to right-wing President Daniel Noboa by decisively rejecting the proposed return of foreign military bases to the South American country’s soil—including installations run by the United States. Around two-thirds of voters opposed the measure with most ballots tallied, a result that was widely seen as a surprise. Voters also rejected a separate effort to rewrite the country’s progressive 2008 constitution, which enshrined strong labor and environmental rights. The stinging defeat for Noboa, an ally of US President Donald Trump, comes as the United States carries out an aggressive military buildup and deadly airstrike campaign in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific—and weighs a direct attack on Venezuela.” (11/17/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ecuador-us-military-bases
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Douglas Carswell
“The future for our state looks bright. In just the past five years, Mississippi has seen more economic growth than in the entire 15 years before that combined. We’re on track to phase out the state income tax entirely, allowing families to keep more of what they earn. Mississippi has attracted a surge of new investment, and for the first time in years, our workforce participation rate is finally heading in the right direction. Zoom out, and the picture gets even better. Contrary to the endless gloom from the pundits, the American economy has consistently outperformed expectations for decades. Since the late 1990s, the US has delivered strong, steady growth that few forecasters saw coming. But there is one dark cloud on all our horizons that we cannot forever ignore: US national debt.” (11/16/25)
https://fee.org/articles/those-dark-clouds-are-the-debt/
Source: ABC News
“A hard-right former lawmaker and admirer of U.S. President Donald Trump held the upper hand as Chile headed to a polarizing presidential runoff against a member of Chile’s Communist Party representing the incumbent government. José Antonio Kast, an ultraconservative lawyer opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage, appears to be in pole position after nearly 70% of votes went to right-wing candidates in Sunday’s first round, as many Chileans worry about organized crime, illegal immigration and unemployment in one of Latin America’s safest and most prosperous nations. … He came in second with nearly 24% of the vote after campaigning on plans to crack down on crime, build a giant border wall and deport tens of thousands of undocumented migrants. Jeannette Jara, a former labor minister in President Gabriel Boric’s left-wing government, eked out a narrower-than-expected lead with 27% of the vote.” (11/17/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/chiles-hard-holds-upper-hand-presidential-election-tense-127584418
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Airstrikes Pound Somalia, Civilians Reported Killed, Trump Suggests Talks With Maduro, and More.” (11/17/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok-OVdMGxOk
Source: Persuasion
by Jamie Paul
“By virtually any measure, trans activism has failed in the United States. It has proven itself a decisively losing electoral issue, been repudiated by the Supreme Court, lost the culture war, alienated a majority of society, and caused public opinion to turn against trans people. Trans activism ignited a trans backlash — one whose flames now threaten to consume LGBT rights more broadly. As a result, many political moderates are now quietly backing away from trans issues. Nobody wants to be burned again. But trans activism was only a losing issue because it was pursued by extremist bullies within the framework of a radical and authoritarian far-left ideology.” (11/16/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-manifesto-for-liberal-trans-activism
