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Monday, November 24, 2025

Trump to Designate Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Organization

A worthy designation for a malignant force on the world stage. This comes after Texas Governor Abbot did the same last week. Just the News: “It will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms,” Trump said. “Final documents are being drawn.” The president’s announcement came just days after Just the News published a long expose on the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities and growing concerns inside the Trump administration. Trump has been considering the move since his first administration. The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamist group founded nearly a century ago in Egypt but with chapters, parties, and affiliated movements around the world…. Hamas is also considered to be a branch of the MB, and other Muslim groups and organizations are closely linked to the brotherhood (Just the News).

Nigeria ‘Reeling’ After Mass Abduction of More Than 300 Children From Catholic School

The Catholic Herald: The abduction of more than 300 children and staff from a Catholic school in Niger State has renewed alarm over Nigeria’s spiralling security crisis and brought fresh anguish to families already living in constant fear of armed raids. The attack on St Mary’s School in the early hours of Friday is one of the gravest incidents in recent years, occurring at a time when the country faces intensifying violence across several fronts. Police said armed men stormed the boarding hostels shortly after 2am, when most pupils were asleep. They forced children and staff into the surrounding forests under the cover of darkness. The scale of the kidnapping became clear only after frantic parents rushed to the school at dawn. What followed was a scene of fear, disbelief, and the realisation that well over half the school’s population had vanished in a single night…. This is not the first time schoolchildren have been taken on such a scale. In 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from Chibok, many of whom remain missing. In 2018, 110 girls were seized in Dapchi; all but one, Leah Sharibu, who refused to renounce her Christian faith, were released (Catholic Herald).

US Reports Progress on Russia-Ukraine Peace Plan

Financial Times reports: US and Ukrainian officials reported progress in efforts to end the war with Russia after talks in Geneva, but provided no details on how some deep disagreements between Moscow and Kyiv were to be resolved. Speaking to reporters after a day of negotiations with Ukrainian and European officials, US secretary of state Marco Rubio said a “tremendous” amount of progress had been made, characterising it as one of the most productive days yet in talks. “I feel very optimistic that we’re going to get there in a very reasonable period of time,” he said (Financial Times). Niall Ferguson’s realpolitik: The best is the enemy of the good. Contrary to recent press speculation, the draft 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine is in fact a reasonable basis for negotiations. Journalists can gripe about it as they griped about the 20-point Gaza plan. But wars are not ended by op-eds. Wars are ended either by victory or by compromise. This plan affirms Ukraine’s sovereignty. It provides Ukraine with a US-backed security guarantee. It envisages Ukrainian reconstruction. Of course, the territorial terms and the amnesty for war crimes are hard to swallow. But if you want to take back territory and try Putin, you have to win the war. And realistically Ukraine has never been in a position to defeat Russia. The critics should also acknowledge that President Trump has taken some risk here (Ferguson).

‘Panic’ in Minnesota After Trump Ends Temporary Protected Status for Somali Immigrants

The flagrant abuse of the system has finally found a reckoning. Star Tribune: President Donald Trump’s plan to end Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota has sparked alarm and even panic among many in Minnesota’s Somali community, the largest in the U.S. The move could return hundreds of refugees to Somalia, putting them at risk of injury or death, said Abdiqani Jabane, a local immigration attorney. Although the majority of Somalis in Minnesota are U.S. citizens or lawful residents and not directly affected by TPS, fear within the community is real. Many Somalis are in “a panic” and some are even talking about leaving Minnesota for another state, Jabane said (Star Tribune). David Strom: Good, but I am afraid it is far too late to accomplish the task that was necessary…. Trump’s move is welcome, of course, but as with so many steps necessary to clean up the mess created by far-too-liberal policies over the years, it is much more difficult to fix a problem that is eating away at the foundation of our society than to prevent the damage in the first place (Hot Air). Christofer Rufo: Next: review all asylum, refugee, and citizenship applications for any hint of fraud or technical error; then initiate denaturalizations and mass deportations up to the furthest limits of the law. They have to go home (Rufo).

State Department Declares Mass Migration ‘Existential Threat to Western Civilization’

The administration recognizes that Western civilization is in an existential fight. From the State Department: Mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies. Today the State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration.…. Officials will also report policies that punish citizens who object to continued mass migration and document crimes and human rights abuses committed by people of a migration background. These issues have plagued citizens of Western nations for years: Officials will also report policies that punish citizens who object to continued mass migration and document crimes and human rights abuses committed by people of a migration background. These issues have plagued citizens of Western nations for years…. U.S. officials will now scrutinize policies in Western nations that give leniency to migrant crime and human rights abuses or that create two-tiered systems that prioritize migrants at the expense of their own citizens (State). Jim Ferguson in the U.K.: Rubio’s directive isn’t just aimed at Europe. It’s aimed at governments who put ideology above the safety of their own citizens. And right now, Keir Starmer is standing directly in the blast zone (Ferguson).

Supreme Court Blocks Lower Court Ruling That Had Invalidated Texas Redistricting Plan

The block by the Supreme Court is temporary—but it does give us an indication of the disposition of the majority. AP: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas’ 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Donald Trump likely discriminates on the basis of race. The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito will remain in place at least for the next few days while the court considers whether to allow the new map favorable to Republicans to be used in the midterm elections…. The new redistricting map was engineered to give Republicans five additional House seats, but a panel of federal judges in El Paso ruled 2-1 Tuesday that the civil rights groups that challenged the map on behalf of Black and Hispanic voters were likely to win their case (AP).

Nine Shot in Chicago as City Enters Holiday Season

The victim who died was 14 years old—and all the victims all were between 13 and 17 years old … and Mayor Brandon Johnson assures Chicagoans that the city is safe. Fox 32 Chicago: On a night when Chicagoans were celebrating the start of the holiday season, chaos erupted after two shootings left one teen dead and multiple others injured in the city’s downtown. The two shootings happened just an hour apart on Friday night, according to the Chicago Police Department. Officers responded to the first shooting a little before 10 p.m. in the 100 block of N. State Street where they found a large group on the sidewalk. They heard gunshots and saw the large group begin to flee the scene…. Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd Ward) reported on social media that “300 juveniles” were “rioting” in the Loop at the time of the shooting. He also said CPD officers were “attacked and injured with mace and stun guns” leading to one officer being hospitalized… (Fox 32).

With Midterms Approaching, GOP Ought to Ignore the Lunatic Fringe and Focus on Low-Propensity Voters

Don’t worry about a crack-up of the MAGA coalition. Worry about getting low propensity voters to the polls next year. That’s the basic argument from political strategist/consultant Patrick Ruffini: While we’ve seen high propensity Trump voters go from a high of 99 percent approval in February to 90 percent in October, low-propensity Trump voters went from 94 to 78 percent approval in that time period. The mirror image is true of Harris voters. Any support Trump had at the beginning of his term was situated in the more movable low-propensity bloc—and has since been cut in half…. The group I am defining as “low-propensity” here will probably make up something like a third of the midterm electorate. The share of right- and left-leaning voters within this cohort matters a lot. And so does persuasion. In fact, it may be all that matters in dictating the midterm outcome — given that the super voters are overwhelmingly likely to vote, and we already know who they will vote for. For the low-propensity voter, these answers are far from known. And that’s why you should focus on them a lot more than elite media drama about a “MAGA crackup” (Ruffini).

Motherhood Making a Comeback Among Young Conservative Women

“Family is central. Children come first.” The Wall Street Journal looks at the beautiful rebellion of a growing number of conversative young women: For generations of women, the logic has seemed airtight: Focus on a career in your 20s, and worry about starting a family once you are established in a job…. Isabel Brown, 28, didn’t want to wait. She married last year and had a baby this year. She’s now building her career as a conservative activist, hosting a podcast for conservative media company the Daily Wire and speaking on college campuses as a representative for Turning Point, the youth organization Charlie Kirk co-founded. Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, now leads the organization and is amplifying a message especially resonant for young conservative women: Family is central. Children come first. “Young people are realizing that our lives are going to be so much more meaningful if we have a family to share our success with from the start,” Brown said. She and other conservative women talk about timing family and work as “seasons” of life. The term is from the biblical passage Ecclesiastes 3:1: “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven” (Wall Street Journal).

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‘The Greatest Sentence Ever Written’

As our nation approaches our 250 year–celebration Walter Isaacson looks at this fine sentence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” …. Franklin, Jefferson, and Adams understood balance…. Their goal on contentious issues was not to triumph but to find the right balance, an art that has been lost today. Compromisers may not make great heroes, Franklin believed, but they do make great democracies. By writing about “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” they helped define what became known as the American Dream, which is that we should be a land of opportunity for all…. If you play by the rules, there should be good jobs at good wages, decent schools, safe streets, and—most important—the prospect of an even better life for your children. At the signing of the Declaration, John Hancock wrote his name with his famous flourish. “We must all hang together,” he is said to have insisted. Franklin replied, alluding to what would happen to them if their revolution failed, “Yes, we must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” As Franklin pointed out, our life-or-death challenge as a nation, whether it be in 1776 or 2026, is this: When there are so many forces dedicated to dividing us, how can we best hang together? One way to do it is by reflecting and giving thanks for our fundamental principles, the ones proclaimed in that sentence worth remembering (Free Press).

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