Karoline Leavitt Reveals Who Ordered Second Drug Boat Strike

Karoline Leavitt Reveals Who Ordered Second Drug Boat Strike

Karoline Leavitt revealed that it was not Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth who gave the controversial second-strike order on a Venezuelan vessel in September.

In the past I’ve wanted Stephen Miller to go to prison but I’ve changed my mind—now I want him to go to prison in Venezuela. - Andy Borowitz

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Ex-Defense chief Panetta says he doesn’t ‘think there’s any question’ second strike was war crime
• Congress raises alarm bells over Hegseth ‘kill them’ order
• Zelenskyy eyes talks with Trump on 'key issues' as Witkoff heads to Moscow
• Trump invites Israel's Netanyahu to White House, prime minister's office says
• Trump Grilled About Pardoning Ex-Honduran President: ‘Notorious Drug Trafficker’
• ‘Why Would We Pardon This Guy?’ GOP Senator Trashes Trump’s Pardon of Former Honduran President
• Bar Offering Free Drinks to Customers Helping ICE Moans About Backlash
• ICE arrests individuals at San Diego green card interviews
• Federal New Orleans effort may expedite deportations: Ex-ICE official
• White House doubles down on mass deportation pledge in wake of National Guard shooting

If we are at war, then Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. If we are not at war then Pete Hegseth is a murderer.

Not so friendly reminder - 

To all ICE Agents…

When Trump’s gone…

So is your job…

And your immunity. - Morgan J. Freeman

Apparently, The FBI Thinks Kash Is Koo Koo

Twenty-four active, veteran FBI agents detailed what they see as the many failings of FBI Director Kash Patel in a devastating 115-page report that is meant to be presented before the GOP-led House and Senate Judiciary Committees. The New York Post’s Miranda Devine, a reliable Trump backer, obtained a leaked copy of the report, which she published on Monday.

The report included the agents calling the FBI a “rudderless ship” and “all f–ked up” under Patel’s leadership, among several embarrassing anecdotes agents used to illustrate Patel’s poor leadership.

Republican Shenanigans

• ‘It’s a Disaster!’ CNN Data Guru Breaks Down Historically Bad Poll for Trump
• ‘Complete and Total Betrayal!’ Karoline Leavitt Blames Joe Biden for DC Shooting
• MAGA declares war on the Catholic Church
• 4 cases to watch as Supreme Court gears up for December session
• Alina Habba Booted From NJ AG Post as Judges Uphold ‘Disqualification’ Ruling
• Karoline Leavitt Explains Why White House Launched ‘Fake News’ Site
• Photos: White House reveals 2025 Christmas decorations

Reporter: You said that the follow-up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors? 

Karoline Leavitt: The strike conducted on September 2 was conducted in self-defense to protect Americans in vital United States interests

Aw, Ballroom Blues
President Donald Trump’s desire for a large White House ballroom has put him at odds with the architect, James McCrery II, who he handpicked to design it.

Literally everyone saw this coming.

Trump stiffed his contractors and then fell out with his architect because he refused to back Trump’s demand for a ballroom bigger than the White House. There’s almost no chance DC would grant permits for that.

And those corporate donations he keeps bragging about are just pledges, not real money. Taxpayers will end up on the hook one way or another. - Christopher Webb

Aug. 1992, William Jefferson Clinton and Jimmy Carter work on a house with Habitat for Humanity.

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Rock The Voter News

• Democrats begin congressional probe of Kash Patel's use of FBI Gulfstream jet
• Jeffries seeks to raise pressure on GOP centrists over expiring health care subsidies
• Tennessee special election emerges as unlikely House battleground
• Mike Fanone expresses belief that Trump will flee the country in a luxury jet after Democratic takeover

Biden Eagerly Anticipating Jake Tapper’s Book About Trump’s Mental Decline. - Andy Borowitz

Do You Have Your REAL ID?
Weeks after proposing a rule that could charge those trying to fly without a REAL ID a fee, the Transportation Security Administration says the same flyers can pay more than double for “a modernized alternative identity verification system.”

Trump can’t close the air space over Venezuela, but at the rate he’s firing FAA employees he will close the air space over the U.S. - Andy Borowitz

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Business/Tech News

• Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq sink, bitcoin plummets in downbeat start to December
• Steve Cohen, Bally’s, Genting Picked to Run Casinos in NYC
• Bitcoin drops as bearish sentiment grows
• Lilly Cuts Low-Dose Zepbound Price for Cash-Pay Buyers

Bono on Donald Trump: “America is the best idea the world ever came up with. But Donald Trump is potentially the worst idea that ever happened to America. He’s trying to hijack the idea of America. Wise people of conscience should not let this man turn your country into a casino”

More Airbus Problems

Airbus has identified an issue affecting “a limited number” of metal panels in its A320 passenger planes, a spokesperson for the company said Monday, just days after warning of another technical problem in its aircraft.

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

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Odd News

• Electric discovery on Mars! Scientists find tiny lightning bolts coming from Red Planet
• Europe could get 42 more days of summer by the year 2100 due to climate change
• Chernobyl nuclear fungus may shield astronauts from radiation in space
• World's shortest horse measures just 21.1 inches tall
• Man runs half marathon while wearing 137 T-shirts

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Alberobello, Italy is all spruced up for Christmas.

Peace.

Tis the time to be thankful...

 ...and I am thankful for you, each and every one of you.

I need a break from all this chaos so I'll be taking the week off, so should you, to enjoy life. Smell the roses.

Not to leave you empty handed, here are some of the memes I found. Some funny, some not so funny.

Happy Thanksgiving from Taco and me. I have fall leaves year round from my beautiful bushes.

Pura vida and peace.

Trump offers praise for ‘rational’ Mamdani in remarkable White House meeting

Trump offers praise for ‘rational’ Mamdani in remarkable White House meeting

President Trump on Friday offered praise for New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani after what the two called a “productive” meeting at the White House, a sharp shift from Trump’s previous attacks when he repeatedly derided Mamdani as a “communist.”

Mamdani knows how to ingratiate Trump and Trump bought it, hook, line, and sinker.

This year has been the longest decade in a century. - John Collins

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• 'Punishable by DEATH': Trump Floats Execution for Dem Lawmakers in Stunning Post
• Lawmaker Says She’s Received Hundreds of Threats Since Trump’s ‘Sedition’ Threat
• Fox’s Trey Gowdy Defends Trump for Suggesting Democrats Who Made Video Should Be Executed: ‘I’m Sure He Meant After a Trial’ 
• Gabby Giffords Denounces Trump Threatening to Execute Her Husband: ‘Dangerous’
• New Orleans braces for arrival of federal troops in immigration crackdown
• DHS: Charlotte immigration operation ‘not ending anytime soon’
• RI judge intervenes after ICE wrongfully detains high school Superior Court intern
• Feds to Drop Charges Against Woman They Shot, Accused of Car Ramming
• MAGA movement leans on protests against Claudia Sheinbaum to push for military intervention in Mexico
• 'International incident': 'Terrifying standoff' as US troops mistakenly invade Mexico
• Trump: Thanksgiving deadline for Ukraine to commit to peace plan ‘appropriate’
• TNT that Europe needs to defend itself is being used on Gaza, Polish MP claims

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.

Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it. - Captain Mark Kelly

Screw The Immigrants Sayeth The Trumpie
The U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday it plans to reclassify certain refundable tax credits as “federal public benefits," which will bar some immigrant taxpayers from receiving them, even if they file and pay taxes and would otherwise qualify.

Republican Shenanigans

• Karoline Leavitt Tells Reporter Trump's 'Piggy' Insult Shows He's 'Respectful' by Being 'Honest to Your Faces'
• Forcing Epstein files vote emboldens some Republicans to go it alone
• Dem Lawmaker Accuses Karoline Leavitt of ‘Outright Lying’ About His Words
• ‘You Cannot Sit Here and Lie!’ CNN Anchor Calls Out Trump Fan in Heated Fracas
• Kaitlan Collins Rips ‘Extreme’ Trump Rant — Calls Out Stunning Briefing Scene
• GOP Senator Condemns Trump Admin Over RFK-Led Attacks on Vaccines
• MAGA Demands Answers Over Huckabee’s Meeting With Spy Who Sold U.S. Secrets
• North Carolina’s 2023 GOP-drawn congressional map upheld 
• Wall Street Journal: Failed Texas gerrymandering push ‘could cost’ Republicans their House majority

All these people who said they had no idea Epstein was a pedo yet Melinda Gates met him once and divorced her husband. - Laurie Kilmartin

If anybody needed more evidence of how politics have changed in America: Rachel Maddow was at Dick Cheney's funeral. - Peter Baker

Dear God, In Afghanistan, No Less.
No stranger to scandal, Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) just got his name in the headlines again, this time for reportedly getting caught with sex workers during a 2021 rescue mission to help evacuate Americans from Afghanistan.

Jimmy Kimmel to Trump last night: "I'll go when you go, okay? We'll be a team. Let's ride off into the sunset together like butch Cassidy and the suntan kid. [ Laughter ] And until then, if I may borrow a phrase from you: 'quiet, piggy.'"

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Rock The Voter News

• 86 Democrats Condemn Socialism as Zohran Mamdani Meets With Trump
• Top House Dem Says Trump Should ‘Keep His Reckless Mouth Shut’
• John Fetterman’s New Book Sold ZERO Copies in His Hometown’s Barnes & Noble

Can't believe that in 2025 we have to be telling people that vaccines are safe, slavery was bad and the swastika is a hate symbol. - Covie

What A Mess!
 A day after the Justice Department acknowledged to a federal judge that the full grand jury had not reviewed the final indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney overseeing the case abruptly reversed herself, insisting Thursday that the panel properly approved the charges as she tried to contain the fallout from earlier statements that risked imperiling the prosecution.

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Business/Tech News

• Vance pleads for 'patience' on economy in sharp departure from Trump's stance
• Facing inflation backlash, Trump reverses course on Brazil food tariffs
• Bureau of Labor Statistics cancels October inflation report due to shutdown
• Air traffic controllers and techs who worked through shutdown to receive $10K

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "I always say follow the money. And with Jeffrey Epstein, I really mean follow the money. Because here's the deal -- JPMorgan Chase -- yes, Jamie Dimon, I'm looking at you -- is Jeffrey Epstein's bank, a close personal relationship that spans years. Shouldn't this be in the JPMorgan Chase advertisements? ... I'd like to have Mr Dimon and some of those other bankers come in and under oath testify"

What Kind of Drugs Has Elon Given To Grok?

Elon Musk’s AI assistant Grok boasted on Thursday that the billionaire had the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history,” among other absurd claims championing its creator.

After the AI assistant praised Musk’s physique and claimed he ranked “among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton,” social media users quickly discovered that Grok was programmed to say positive things about Musk, no matter the topic.

OpenAI Reveals ChatGPT Primarily Used To Ask If Hot Dog Too Old To Eat. - The Onion

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Odd News

• While Grok Calls Him a Genius, Elon’s New Rocket Explodes While Just Sitting There
• Fresh ocean spray from Enceladus reveals its strongest signs of life to date
• Private mission to save NASA space telescope will launch in 2026 on a rocket dropped from a plane
• In 2026, Unique Mission Will Try To Save A NASA Telescope Set To Uncontrollably Crash To Earth
• New York woman's afro hairstyle is officially the world's largest
• Miss Mexico is crowned Miss Universe at a pageant where she stood up to a host's bullying

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Rome, Italy. Which reminds me, I am dying for a pizza!

Peace.