Source: Axios
“President Trump lambasted Indiana Republicans who resisted his pressure to enter the mid-decade redistricting war, saying any party member who votes against redistricting ‘should be PRIMARIED.’ Indiana marks the latest setback in Trump’s drive to lock in a GOP House majority through mid-decade [re-]gerrymandering — part of his broader push to expand Republican power state by state. Republicans have pushed through aggressive maps in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio. Democrats benefited from a court-approved map in Utah and their own partisan redraw in California. Indiana joins Kansas, Nebraska and New Hampshire, other Republican-led states that have resisted reopening their maps so far.” (11/16/25)
https://archive.is/khsSn
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Will Trump and the Pentagon Attack Venezuela?” (11/16/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM2xTyqW9YA
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“Thomas Jefferson understood what most people ignore today: Freedom demands a price: knowledge. Tyrants across history have weaponized ignorance for one reason: educated people argue. Ignorant people obey. They play whack-a-mole with control: When one tactic fails, they switch to another. Ban knowledge, then deceive, then outright lie. That pattern leaves us with one choice today.” (11/16/25)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/11/16/ignorance-and-freedom-cannot-coexist/
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“United States President Donald Trump has called on Congress to make public additional files related to the notorious late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in a reversal of his earlier opposition to the documents’ release. ‘House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide,’ Trump wrote late Sunday on his Truth Social platform. … Trump’s shift comes as a growing number of Republican lawmakers have joined Democrats to back legislation that would compel the US Justice Department to unseal all remaining Epstein-related records. Democrats and a handful of Republicans reached 218 signatures on Wednesday to force a floor vote on a bill to release the files within 30 days. The Epstein Files Transparency Act appears poised to clear the House of Representatives, although its prospects in the Senate remain uncertain.” (11/17/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/17/trump-backs-full-release-of-epstein-files-in-sharp-reversal
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“When taxes, spending, borrowing, inflation, and regulation increase, living your life becomes less affordable. When taxes, spending, borrow, inflation, and regulation decrease, living your life becomes more affordable. No Mamdani Magic Wand or Canute-like Trump decree can change those two facts.” (11/16/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20150
Source: Free Talk Live
“Epstein files released by House dems but not serious ones :: Caller points out AI is so good there’s no way to really know if something like a document is faked :: Trump to permit 50 year mortgages and portable mortgages :: Internet slop may push people into the real world :: Bonnie and Riley’s experiences with comparing themselves to others online :: US to go to war with Venezuela? :: Mayor of Albuquerque in favor of state-run grocery stores :: Fire departments can be run by the free market :: Turd wants men to be more like Humphrey Bogart :: Trump hard to figure out. He doesn’t make sense even to his own agenda :: Ways Trump has followed Project 2025 :: Trump blew up boats with Venezuelan kids on board :: Three reasons Mamdani’s state-run grocery stores wont work :: 2025-11-15 Hosts: Bonnie, Riley O’Bill.” (11/15/25)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/ftl2025-11-15
Source: Reuters
“A Bangladesh war crimes court sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on Monday, concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year. The ruling is the most dramatic legal action against a former Bangladeshi leader in decades and comes months ahead of parliamentary elections expected to be held in early February. … Hasina, 78, who has remained in India since she was overthrown in August 2024, challenged the legitimacy of the Tribunal in an email interview with Reuters last month.” (11/17/25)
https://archive.is/t5N7C
Source: Reason
by Matt Welch
“When the St. Petersburg Times first launched PolitiFact in 2007, its purpose was to assess the veracity of statements made by ‘members of Congress, the president, cabinet secretaries, lobbyists, people who testify before Congress and anyone else who speaks up in Washington.’ Fast forward to September 2025, and the trailblazing fact-checker has been reduced to informing us that ‘President Donald Trump is alive.’ Yes, and the sky is blue, and the day ends in y, even if some online randos may be memeing to the contrary. The trivial episode of Trump’s rumored demise illuminates what the future intersection of politics and information might look like. POTUSes and their handlers will go to fantastical lengths to lie about presidential health crises, history demonstrates; what changes over time is how they get away with it.” (for publication 12/25)
https://reason.com/2025/11/15/the-art-of-the-presidential-health-cover-up/
Source: Deutsche Welle [German state media]
“A Russian aerial attack on Ukraine’s southern region of Odesa has damaged port equipment and several civilian vessels moored at port, while causing fires at port and energy infrastructure facilities, Ukrainian officials said on Monday. One port suffered power outages following the attack, with technicians working to restore systems, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration Oleksii Kuleba wrote on Telegram … Russian missile strikes have killed at least three people and injured 10 more in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials say.” (11/17/25)
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-odesa-attack-sparks-port-fires/live-74772550
Source: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
by Drew Favakeh
“For years, there have been whispers that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had ties to key officials in the US and foreign governments, was involved with Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad. However, the Epstein/Mossad ties were often labeled by US corporate media as ‘unfounded’ … dismissed as a ‘conspiracy theory’ … or said to have been ‘largely manufactured by paranoiacs and attention seekers and credulous believers’ …. It’s true that far-right antisemites like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson have promoted a conspiratorial version of the Epstein/Israel connection as part of their bigoted, attention-seeking narratives. But recent investigations by Drop Site News into a major hack targeting Israel revealed that Epstein did play a significant role in brokering multiple deals for Israeli intelligence.” (11/15/25)
https://fair.org/home/emails-reveal-epsteins-ties-to-mossad-but-corporate-media-looked-away/
