Source: The UnPopulist
by Molly Reynolds
“The shutdown is testimony to how a subservient legislature makes governance dysfunctional.” (11/12/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/founders-would-be-horrified-by-congresss
Source: United Press International
“A political consultant and former chief of staff for California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been indicted on accusations of skimming campaign funds from former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. Federal prosecutors said Dana Williamson, 53, of Carmichael, Calif., was arrested Wednesday morning. A 23-count federal indictment was then unsealed, charging her with a slew of conspiracy, fraud and other charges. … Federal prosecutors allege that Williamson and the co-conspirators diverted about $225,000 in funds from the dormant political campaign. The indictment also accuses her of filing false tax returns for more than $1 million in business deductions for private jet travel, luxury hotel stays, home furnishings and designer handbags.” (11/13/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/11/13/Dana-Williamson-charges/9751763011477/
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Zionist Are Turning Democrats into Communists and Pushing Republicans Further Right.” (11/12/25)
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ily Somin
“The Trump administration’s claims that illegal migration and drug smuggling qualify as an ‘invasion’ or a ‘predatory incursion’ under the Alien Enemies Act go against the major questions doctrine.” (11/12/25)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/11/12/the-alien-enemies-act-and-the-major-questions-doctrine/
Source: The Dispatch
by Scott Lincicome
“Zohran Mamdani’s recent victory in New York City’s mayoral race has sparked a debate about whether the city’s billionaire class will abandon Gotham once and for all. … Since Mamdani’s big win, some of those billionaires have already walked back their threats, and several commentators have gleefully noted that the rest of the city’s elites need — or simply love — NYC too much to abandon it for greener, cheaper pastures. Yet this focus on the city’s billionaire class mostly misses the point. Aside from the most extreme and unrealistic of Mamdani’s wealth-confiscating plans, the flight risk arising from his proposals was never about billionaires; it was about their employees — the higher-earning New Yorkers who can’t easily absorb the higher costs and greater inconveniences that Mamdani’s plans will produce but can move to places, near and far, where life is a little easier.” (11/12/25)
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/capitolism/mamdani-policies-taxes-wealthy-child-care/
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“The party that cries wolf is at it again. Democrats are back in Congress after their shutdown to launch another anti-Trump hoax. This time, it’s not a fictional ‘pee tape’ but the old Epstein horse they keep flogging. On Wednesday, House Oversight Committee Democrats selectively released three emails among 23,000 handed over by the estate of the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein to try to implicate Donald Trump, yet again, in Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls. Of course, the Oversight Dems, who include such adornments to Congress as Jasmine Crockett, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, left out crucial information that exonerated the president, instead claiming that the emails ‘raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.'” [editor’s note: Devine’s picture should be in the DSM next to “Trump Devotion Syndrome” – TLK] (11/12/25)
Source: Fox News
“Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday that an individual attempted to confront Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba on Wednesday night, ‘destroyed property in her office’ and then ‘fled the scene.’ ‘Thankfully, Alina is ok,’ Bondi added. ‘Any violence or threats of violence against any federal officer will not be tolerated. Period. This is unfortunately becoming a trend as radicals continue to attack law enforcement agents around the country.'” (11/13/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-seeking-suspect-attack-us-attorney-alina-habbas-office
Source: ABC News
“Classes and transportation in Bangladesh were seriously disrupted Thursday as ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her former ruling Awami League party called for a nationwide “lockdown” in protest against her trial over last year’s protests that left hundreds dead. Hasina faces charges of crimes against humanity involving a crackdown on the student-led uprising that ended her 15-year rule in August 2024. She has been in exile in India since then and has not been seen in public or online. A special tribunal in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, is expected to announce a verdict against Hasina on Monday, chief prosecutor Tajul Islam said during a news conference Thursday.” (11/13/25)
Source: The Dispatch
“Save Our Universities! | Interview: William Inboden.” (11/12/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/save-our-universities-interview-william-inboden/
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“During the recent government shutdown, the temporary interruption of benefits to 42 million food stamp recipients was hyped as practically the greatest human rights violation of our time. A Nation magazine headline howled: ‘The United States Is Letting Its People Starve.’ But the delayed payments had scant impact in part because many states offered supplemental benefits, many recipients had leftover benefits on their Electronic Benefit Cards (EBTs), and because vast numbers of food pantries and other private charities provided relief. Democrats accused Trump of ‘weaponizing hunger.’ But the real problem is that politicians going back more than half a century have weaponized dependency to destroy limits on government power.” (11/12/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/11/12/food-stamps-and-the-federal-war-on-self-reliance/