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Nancy Pelosi announces retirement, will not seek re-election next year

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump endures DISASTER interview after blue wave election

The MAGA cult leader put on a brave, bronze face and met with Fox News' Bret Baier yesterday to discuss the GOP's absolute shellacking at the hands of Democrats Tuesday night. True to form, Donald resolutely refused to glance inward for even a moment of introspection and instead blamed the losses on the Republican candidates themselves for refusing to use "this new word called 'affordability.'" Okaaay. Trump even tried his hand at Jedi mind tricks. When Baier shared a message from a diehard MAGA voter in North Carolina pleading with the president to help rein in runaway cost-of-living expenses, Dopey-Wan Kenobi dismissed her concerns and claimed, "We've got prices way down." Who wants to tell him?

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Trump mocks JD Vance at breakfast with GOP senators, says he's always butting into conversations
Cosplay hillbilly JD Vance, who once called Trump "America's Hitler," was forced to just sit back and take it as his boss openly mocked him in front of his former Senate colleagues at a White House breakfast yesterday. Donald was waxing psychopathically, pining for a day when everyone in his administration would be too scared to speak, marveling how Chinese President Xi Jinping's underlings always kowtowed to their superior. The wannabe dictator then turned to Vance, who promptly stiffened. "Why don't you behave like that? JD does not behave like that. JD butts into conversations," Trump said as the room laughed. "At least for a couple of days, we'll keep you long-term, but a couple of days of that would be nice." Oh, schadenfreude, you old friend!

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Former school board president launches campaign to put a stop to Greg Abbott’s carnival of corruption

Gina Hinojosa for Governor: Gina Hinojosa was just an ordinary Texas mom — until Greg Abbott tried to close her son’s public school as part of his plot to turn our schools into for-profit schemes. Gina got involved in politics to fight back, her journey taking her to the school board presidency and the state legislature. Now she’s running to kick Greg Abbott out for good and put an end to his kleptocracy of MAGA extremism and flagrant corruption. Will you chip in to help kick-start her campaign?


House Republican says GOP lost big on Tuesday because its voters "are happy with what’s happening"
Yes, clearly. So great has America become (yet again!) under Dear Leader's steady hand, that Republican voters simply could not be bothered to stop enjoying their spoils and perform their basic civic duty to ensure more relentless winning! Whatever you do, Republicans, please do not look in the proverbial mirror and ask yourselves where things definitely went horribly wrong! You've got this. Clear heart, open mind!

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Senate to force vote on legislation to stop Trump from waging unauthorized war against Venezuela
Several Republican senators are voicing uncertainty ahead of a vote to block the Trump regime from taking military action against Venezuela, setting up a potential rebuke of the MAGA cult leader over the scope of his war powers. The White House, in an apparent push to get Republicans on board, has started sharing more information with Congress about the rationale for its extrajudicial killings of suspected drug smugglers on the high seas. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will brief lawmakers on Wednesday as senators weigh the bipartisan legislation. The Trump regime has killed at least 64 people in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean so far, with the president vowing to continue his illegal murder spree despite uniform opposition from Democrats and growing scrutiny from members of his own party.


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Trump campaign "Taco Tuesday" sombrero email misspells tacos

Look, there was a lot going on this past Tuesday, so it makes sense this didn't cross our desk until now, but the MAGA cult leader's crackpot campaign team sent a doozy of a fundraising email on Election Day, filled the lazy, racial stereotypes we've come to know and loathe from Donald — "I love LEGAL immigrants — especially Mexicans! ... They open very delicious restaurants." A smiling, AI-generated Trump decked out in a sombrero with something sorta resembling a toy taco in hand can be seen standing before a festive sign that reads, "TCOS." Ya know, there was a time when we might've quipped, "You can't make this stuff up!" But, it turns out, you most certainly can.


FAA cuts airline traffic in 40 markets over shutdown as Americans already face uncertainty over holiday travel plans
Your Republican government in (in)action! Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced — just in time for the busy holiday season — that the Federal Aviation Authority will cull flights in at least 40 major US markets as Donald Trump's dumbass shutdown drags on. And on. Duffy said the action would be taken at "high-volume" airports in order to maintain safety and that the decision "had not been taken lightly" — unlike, ya know, the shutdown itself.


Armed US immigration agents drive off with toddler after arrest of father
Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of a Los Angeles Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler, who is also a US citizen, in the backseat. The child’s grandmother said the incident had left the whole family shaken. "I am devastated by what has happened to my son and demand an explanation," she said at a press conference on Wednesday. The 32-year-old father was picked up during a major enforcement operation at the Home Depot in LA’s Cypress Park neighborhood on Tuesday morning. Later that morning, Maria Avalos, the 32-year-old’s mother, got a call from an unidentified number. It was agents with the US Border Patrol, asking her to come pick up her one-year-old granddaughter. "We didn't know what happened to her while she was in their care, and they wouldn't give us information about when my son would be released or where he was," Avalos said at a press conference on Wednesday. We call it fascism because it is fascism.


Planned ICE call center capable of fielding 7,000 calls a day aims to hunt down unaccompanied migrant minors
Quick reminder: nobody likes a tattletale.


US layoffs for October surge to two-decade high
Layoffs in October surged 175% from a year ago to 153,074. From the start of the year to October end, employers have announced 1,099,500 job cuts, a 65% rise from 664,839 in the same time period last year. So far this year, job cuts are at the highest level since 2020 when 2,304,755 cuts were announced through October... the last time Donald Trump was in office.


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More on Tuesday's big blue wave

Democrats sweeps ALL 30 House of Delegates seats in Northern Virginia, flipping 13 seats statewide
Mississippi Democrats break Republican Senate supermajority
Philly suburbs record highest off-year voter turnout since 2011
Democrats make history in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with two key victories over incumbent Republicans
Georgia elects its first Democrat to a non-federal statewide office since 2006
Progressives and Democrats win big in school board races across the country
Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps

Pieces de resistance

NBA team orders Trump to stop using its logo to troll Dems
"Release SNAP $": Protesters greeted Trump on his way to the golf course

And in other news

California Republicans sue over new US House map approved by voters
Putin demands plans for new nuclear tests after Trump’s comments
Mexico President Sheinbaum presses charges after street groping incident
New satellite images show scale of utter devastation after UPS plane crash

Hope...

One of the country's first "100% free full-service" grocery stores operates inside a Baltimore library: "No income requirements, no ID needed"
Philadelphia residents in Fishtown deliver food to neighbors amid SNAP benefits freeze
Long-term follow-up in babies born with "Bubble Boy Disease" still seem cured
Death row inmate who was never proven to have killed anyone gets clemency recommendation in Oklahoma

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