Source: Quillette
by Claire Lehmann
Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, podcaster and influencer Candace Owens has floated a succession of conspiracy theories implicating everyone in the murder, from the Israeli government to Kirk’s own organisation, Turning Point USA. This week, her speculation reached its apogee when she suggested that Donald Trump himself was involved. In a recent broadcast, Owens linked the commemorations of Kirk’s death to a supposed plot, remarking that ‘when they give you a holiday and a boulevard … they definitely killed you.’ Owens’[s] wild theorising isn’t an anomaly; it’s part of something older and darker. There’s a distinctly medieval quality to much of the conspiratorial right—a world animated by unseen cabals, moral corruption, and divine punishment disguised as politics.” (11/20/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/11/20/the-new-medievals-candace-owens-charlie-kirk-conspiracy/
Source: ABC News
“Spain’s Supreme Court on Thursday found the country’s attorney general guilty of leaking confidential information about the boyfriend of a leading conservative politician and government rival. The court banned Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz from his post for two years. The decision is a blow to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who defended García Ortiz during the monthslong investigation and court case. García Ortiz was accused of having leaked an email to journalists with personal information about Alberto González Amador, when the businessman was under investigation for alleged tax fraud. That tax inquiry remains open.” (11/20/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/spains-attorney-general-guilty-leak-tax-fraud-case-127708282
Source: Politico
“Trump’s teetering economic message.” (11/20/25)
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL7437293066.mp3?updated=1763617280
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“Donald Trump may not be able to remember what things were like five years ago, when he handed the economy and the country to Joe Biden, but it is important that the rest of us do. As in so many other areas where Trump tries to turn reality on its head, he pushes the story of Biden inheriting a great economy, which he then wrecked. The reality is the opposite, Biden turned around an economy in shambles due to the pandemic, and handed off an economy that was widely touted as the envy of the world.” (11/20/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/20/inherited-economies/
Source: Quillette
“When the Danish scholar Bjorn Lomborg published The Skeptical Environmentalist in 2001, the reaction from the environmental establishment was not debate but an attempted excommunication. Scientific American devoted a special package to attacking the book as biased and error-ridden. Union of Concerned Scientists accused him of misrepresenting science and overstating good news. … Two decades later, the world looks more like Lomborg’s spreadsheets than like the early-2000s apocalypse rhetoric.” (11/20/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/11/20/a-vindication-of-bjorn-lomborg/
Source: Washington Post
by Marc A Thiessen
“Tucker Carlson’s effort to bring neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes into the mainstream of the conservative movement is not only morally reprehensible, it is a path to political suicide for the right. Those defending or excusing Carlson’s sane-washing of Fuentes need to ask themselves a simple question: Do they want to be a majoritarian movement or not? Conservatives cannot build a lasting majority without appealing to minority voters — and that won’t happen if they embrace White nationalists.” (11/20/25)
https://archive.is/4s3Wp
Source: Fox News
by Nicole Parker
“It is sad to say, but what Americans have been seeing unravel before their eyes in recent weeks with the revelations of Arctic Frost and other FBI-related scandals are not the least bit shocking to me. In fact, it validates what I detail in my book The Two FBIs: The Bravery and Betrayal I Saw in My Time at the Bureau, which was published by Broadside Books on November 11. I was humbled to personally be invited to the Oval Office last week to meet with President Donald Trump, who endorsed my book. I loved being an FBI special agent for over a dozen years and considered it a sacred responsibility and mission.” (11/20/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/i-saw-the-two-fbis-up-close-one-protects-america-other-protects-itself
Source: The Hill
“The U.S. added 119,000 jobs in September as the unemployment rate rose to 4.4 percent, according to data the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released Thursday, more than six weeks after it was initially set to be published. The September jobs report, which was delayed by the federal government shutdown, captured the U.S. labor market before the 43-day funding lapse rattled the economy. … While the September jobs gain was far greater than economists project, the BLS revised the August jobs data down from a gain of 22,000 to a loss of 4,000 jobs. The agency also knocked down the July jobs gain from 79,000 to 72,000, shaving off a combined 33,000 jobs over two months.” (11/20/25)
https://thehill.com/business/5614582-us-jobs-report-september/
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“MAGA vs. America First: The Split Deepens.” (11/20/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2711-maga-vs-america-first-the-split-deepens/
Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen
“The suggestion that we should not discuss the controversial topic du jour is now often defended with claims about how it is uncivil or disrespectful to disagree with anyone or to bring up controversial issues that are sure to encourage disagreement. Despite the popularity of this view, it is a mistake. Not only is the avoidance policy a fool’s game, destined to fail regardless, but it is also misguided from the outset. … The reason the animosity festers is that if you refuse to allow yourself to disagree with someone, you’re essentially accepting that they are not capable or worthy of honest discourse.” (11/20/25)
https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/how-to-talk-politics-at-thanksgiving
