November 22, 2025
Immigrants
NBC News - A federal judge issued an order blocking the IRS from sharing taxpayer information with ICE.
Politics
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., announced that she is resigning from
her seat, following weeks of clashing with President Donald Trump, who
officially withdrew his support for the House member, once one of his
biggest allies in Washington.
Polls
Pew Research - Even as Americans increasingly turn to social media influencers and podcasts as sources of news, there has been little shift in how they prefer to get their information. Today, 44% prefer to watch the news, 37% prefer to read it and 19% prefer to listen to it.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans (63%) are highly confident that childhood vaccines are effective against serious illness. But there’s less certainty over whether these vaccines have been tested enough for safety (53%) and whether the vaccine schedule is safe (51%). The difference is largely driven by Republicans, who are divided between high and low confidence in vaccine safety.
As the holiday gift-giving season kicks off, the vast majority of U.S. adults (85%) say online scams are a problem on shopping sites, including 50% who call them a major problem. About a third of Americans (36%) say they’ve bought an item online that either never arrived or was counterfeit and was not refunded.
Trump and Mamdani find common ground
The Guardian - Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor-elect, walked out of their meeting on Friday afternoon with an unlikely alliance, agreeing to work together on housing, food prices and cost-of-living concerns that have defined both their political appeals to working-class voters.
“We agreed a lot more than I would have thought,” Trump said in the Oval Office, sometimes jumping in to shield Mamdani from aggressive questioning from the press.
The sit-down – which many had anticipated would be contentious, given months of intense rhetoric in which Trump branded Mamdani a “communist lunatic” – instead produced camaraderie, warm words and concrete pledges of cooperation between the Republican president and the self-described democratic socialist who secured a commanding electoral victory earlier at the beginning of November with over 50% of the vote.
“I feel very confident that he can do a very good job,” Trump said after the meeting, offering praise for his ideological opposite. “The better he does, the happier I am. I will say there’s no difference in party. There’s no difference in anything, and we’re going to be helping him to make everybody’s dream come true, having a strong and very safe New York.”
The president congratulated Mamdani on his mayoral victory, describing it as “an incredible race against smart people” – and the two politicians shook hands.
Trump added that he had already seen signs the young politician might surprise both conservative and liberal observers alike.
'You think President Trump is a fascist?': Donald Trump meets Zohran Mamdani – video
For Mamdani, the meeting represented vindication of his strategy to focus the discussion on economic issues rather than ideological divides. He described the meeting as “productive” and “focused on a place of shared admiration and love, which is New York City”.
“We spoke about rent, we spoke about groceries, we spoke about utilities, we spoke about the different ways in which people are being pushed out,” Mamdani told reporters after emerging from the Oval Office.
Trump added: “We had some interesting conversation, and some of his ideas really are the same ideas that I have.” He pointed to their agreement on lowering crime and building housing.
“We agreed a lot more than I would have thought,” Trump said in the Oval Office, sometimes jumping in to shield Mamdani from aggressive questioning from the press.
The sit-down – which many had anticipated would be contentious, given months of intense rhetoric in which Trump branded Mamdani a “communist lunatic” – instead produced camaraderie, warm words and concrete pledges of cooperation between the Republican president and the self-described democratic socialist who secured a commanding electoral victory earlier at the beginning of November with over 50% of the vote.
“I feel very confident that he can do a very good job,” Trump said after the meeting, offering praise for his ideological opposite. “The better he does, the happier I am. I will say there’s no difference in party. There’s no difference in anything, and we’re going to be helping him to make everybody’s dream come true, having a strong and very safe New York.”
The president congratulated Mamdani on his mayoral victory, describing it as “an incredible race against smart people” – and the two politicians shook hands.
Trump added that he had already seen signs the young politician might surprise both conservative and liberal observers alike.
'You think President Trump is a fascist?': Donald Trump meets Zohran Mamdani – video
For Mamdani, the meeting represented vindication of his strategy to focus the discussion on economic issues rather than ideological divides. He described the meeting as “productive” and “focused on a place of shared admiration and love, which is New York City”.
“We spoke about rent, we spoke about groceries, we spoke about utilities, we spoke about the different ways in which people are being pushed out,” Mamdani told reporters after emerging from the Oval Office.
Trump added: “We had some interesting conversation, and some of his ideas really are the same ideas that I have.” He pointed to their agreement on lowering crime and building housing.
Trump’s plan for Ukraine is a win-win for Russia
Nicholas Grossman, MS Now - It’s unclear if Trump administration officials genuinely think they could get Ukraine and Europe to surrender to the Russia-friendly deal they have proposed to end Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression. But after a year of leaning harder on Ukraine than Russia, it was unlikely the Trump administration would conduct a real pressure campaign against Moscow.
Instead, U.S. and Russian officials worked out a 28-point plan that calls on Ukraine to cede large swaths of territory — including some areas that Russia does not currently occupy — and permanently reduces Ukraine’s military capacity. Putin would merely agree to stop attacking and keep Russian troops out of a small demilitarized zone in areas Ukrainian forces withdraw from. Other rewards for Russian aggression include readmittance to the Group of Eight and an economic deal with the U.S.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the proposal as “an extremely difficult choice. Either the loss of dignity” — surrender to Russia — “or the risk of losing a key partner,” the United States. But with support from Europe, Ukraine will presumably reject at least parts of the proposal as nonstarters.
By talking directly to Russia without participation from Ukraine or its European backers, the Trump administration adopted Russia’s distorted frame of statecraft, as if Ukraine’s freedom is America’s to give away. MORE
November 21, 2025
Politics
Republicans against Trump - The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism. Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
NY Times -
President Trump plans to open 1.3 billion acres of U.S. waters to
drilling. It is one of his most significant steps yet to increase the
production of fossil fuels, as dozens of countries have been calling for
a phaseout of oil, gas and coal
The Hill - The Justice
Department reversed course late Thursday, alleging the full grand jury
did review the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. The
change comes 24 hours after lead prosecutor Lindsey Halligan told a
judge that all jurors were not privy to the final revised document
displaying his charges.
The DNC took out a $15 million loan, an unusually large amount of debt for this point in the political calendar.
Washington Post -
In a stunning and hasty reversal, the U.S. Coast Guard announced late
Thursday that swastikas and nooses are prohibited hate symbols — erasing
an attempt to soften their definition after the plan elicited furious
backlash... In a memo to Coast Guard personnel, the service’s acting
commandant, Adm. Kevin Lunday, said the policy document issued late
Thursday night supersedes all previous guidance on the issue.
New US rules declare decency infringes on human rights
BBC - Countries enforcing race or gender diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies will now be at risk of the Trump administration deeming them as infringing on human rights.
The State Department is issuing the new rules to all US embassies and consulates involved in compiling its annual report on global human rights abuses.
The new instructions also deem countries that subsidise abortion or facilitate mass migration as infringing on human rights.
The changes, which the State Department says are intended to stop "destructive ideologies", have been condemned by rights campaigners who argue the Trump administration is re-defining long-established human rights principles to pursue ideological goals.
The changes reflect a major shift in Washington's established focus on global human rights protection, and signal the expansion into foreign policy of the Trump administration's domestic agenda on issues that have become a lightning rod of division in the US over recent years...
DEI policies were designed with the objective of improving outcomes for specific racial and identity-based groups. Since assuming office, US President Donald Trump has aggressively sought to terminate DEI and restore what he calls merit-based opportunity in the US.
The State Department is issuing the new rules to all US embassies and consulates involved in compiling its annual report on global human rights abuses.
The new instructions also deem countries that subsidise abortion or facilitate mass migration as infringing on human rights.
The changes, which the State Department says are intended to stop "destructive ideologies", have been condemned by rights campaigners who argue the Trump administration is re-defining long-established human rights principles to pursue ideological goals.
The changes reflect a major shift in Washington's established focus on global human rights protection, and signal the expansion into foreign policy of the Trump administration's domestic agenda on issues that have become a lightning rod of division in the US over recent years...
DEI policies were designed with the objective of improving outcomes for specific racial and identity-based groups. Since assuming office, US President Donald Trump has aggressively sought to terminate DEI and restore what he calls merit-based opportunity in the US.
Airports expect bad Thanksgiving weather
Newsweek - Millions of Americans traveling for Thanksgiving could face weather-related travel chaos, with an AccuWeather report warning of stormy weather that could disrupt flights across the country.
Thanksgiving travelers could endure delays as early as Saturday morning, AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski told Newsweek, as a storm system begins to impact the central and southeastern part of the U.S., namely Nashville, Charlotte, and Atlanta.
Thanksgiving is historically one of the busiest travel periods in the United States, with the American Automobile Association (AAA) expecting a record of nearly 82 million Americans to travel 50 miles or more in 2025. With so many travelers relying on both airlines and major highways, forecasts of multiple storms threatening key airport hubs across the country raise the prospect of widespread travel disruptions, delays, and cancellations during a holiday period synonymous with reunions and busy airport terminals.
A broad and dynamic storm system originating in the Southwest is forecast to impact the central, southern, and eastern United States through Thanksgiving week, according to AccuWeather meteorologists. Forecasters anticipate heavy rain, severe thunderstorms, and periods of snow that are likely to disrupt both roadways and air traffic in several major regions at the height of holiday travel demand. The busiest travel days, traditionally the Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving, fall in the forecast window for significant weather events.
Early in the week, heavy rain and mountain snow are predicted for California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, with snow likely in higher elevations and possibly affecting the I-70 transportation corridor. As the storm tracks east, major airport cities—including Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, and Little Rock—could experience flight disruptions from gusty thunderstorms as soon as late Sunday and Monday.
Thanksgiving travelers could endure delays as early as Saturday morning, AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski told Newsweek, as a storm system begins to impact the central and southeastern part of the U.S., namely Nashville, Charlotte, and Atlanta.
Thanksgiving is historically one of the busiest travel periods in the United States, with the American Automobile Association (AAA) expecting a record of nearly 82 million Americans to travel 50 miles or more in 2025. With so many travelers relying on both airlines and major highways, forecasts of multiple storms threatening key airport hubs across the country raise the prospect of widespread travel disruptions, delays, and cancellations during a holiday period synonymous with reunions and busy airport terminals.
A broad and dynamic storm system originating in the Southwest is forecast to impact the central, southern, and eastern United States through Thanksgiving week, according to AccuWeather meteorologists. Forecasters anticipate heavy rain, severe thunderstorms, and periods of snow that are likely to disrupt both roadways and air traffic in several major regions at the height of holiday travel demand. The busiest travel days, traditionally the Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving, fall in the forecast window for significant weather events.
Early in the week, heavy rain and mountain snow are predicted for California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, with snow likely in higher elevations and possibly affecting the I-70 transportation corridor. As the storm tracks east, major airport cities—including Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, and Little Rock—could experience flight disruptions from gusty thunderstorms as soon as late Sunday and Monday.
Immigration
NPR - A federal judge on Thursday ordered an end to the monthslong National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. to tackle crime, declaring that the use of troops was "unlawful."
It's the latest legal resistance against President Trump's troop deployments in American cities as a means to suppress protests, combat crime or safeguard federal buildings and personnel, including ICE agents.
It comes just days after a Tennessee state judge issued a temporary block on the mobilization of Guard forces in Memphis, which was activated by the Tennessee governor at Trump's behest. Over the weekend, the Defense Department ordered hundreds of troops to leave Chicago and Portland, Ore. as federal courts kept those deployments at a stalemate.
The Intercept - The Intercept has learned that ICE is now considering hiring private bounty hunters to locate immigrants across the country. Meanwhile, ICE is building a sprawling network of privately operated detention camps and prisons — even as our reporting finds that their existing facilities offer life-threateningly little medical care for detainees.
Occupy Democrats - A Chinese immigrant is found dead in ICE custody with his hands and feet bound in a “hog-tied" position and they’re insisting that it was suicide.
Donald Trump
NBC News - President Donald Trump said that he's "not threatening death" toward a group of Democratic members of Congress whom a day earlier he accused of "seditious behavior," which he said was "punishable by death."
"I’m not threatening death, but I think they’re in serious trouble," he said of the Democrats, who had released a video urging members of the military not to follow illegal orders.
"I’m not threatening death, but I think they’re in serious trouble," he said of the Democrats, who had released a video urging members of the military not to follow illegal orders.
Ukraine
Axios - President Trump's peace plan for Ukraine includes a security guarantee modeled on NATO's Article 5, which would commit the U.S. and European allies to treat an attack on Ukraine as an attack on the entire "transatlantic community," according to a draft obtained by Axios' Barak Ravid....
Between the lines: The plan could open Trump to backlash with his America First allies, as it would effectively commit the U.S. military to defending Ukraine in the event of another war.
The intrigue: The 28-point plan U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll presented to Zelensky yesterday, which was obtained by Axios, says simply that "Ukraine will receive reliable security guarantees." But alongside it, the U.S. presented the Ukrainians with another draft agreement.
It states that any future "significant, deliberate, and sustained armed attack" by Russia on Ukraine "shall be regarded as an attack threatening the peace and security of the transatlantic community," and the U.S. and its allies will respond accordingly, including through military force. Go deeper
Bloomberg - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy agreed to work on a peace plan crafted by Russia and the US that would force Ukraine to cede key territory, abandon its NATO ambitions, and hold elections within 100 days. Greece’s prime minister called it “problematic” and the UK’s Keir Starmer said any proposal must have Kyiv’s consent. European leaders will hold a call with Zelenskiy to discuss the proposal.
Americans like vaccines
Axios - Poll after poll finds that majorities of Americans have a lot of confidence in vaccines. A Pew Research study out this week, for example, found that nearly two-thirds of Americans are extremely or very confident that childhood vaccines are highly effective at preventing serious illness. Just over half (51%) expressed confidence that the childhood vaccination schedule is safe, with another 23% saying they are "somewhat" confident.
Iowa City goes for free buses
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Nice News - From cost savings to environmental concerns, there’s much to be said for taking the bus. So, it’s easy to see why a growing number of cities are offering free public busing. Many of these initiatives are found in international locales like Luxembourg and Montpellier, France, but the concept has also taken root in Iowa City, a college town in America’s heartland.
The city of under 183,000 residents slashed bus fares in August 2023 as part of a two-year pilot program aimed at lowering emissions and encouraging more people to try alternative modes of transportation, per The New York Times. Although some community members were initially skeptical, it has since garnered immense support, prompting the City Council to extend the program for another year.
And the effect on the environment has been notable: The local government estimates annual carbon dioxide emissions in the city have decreased by 24,000 metric tons thanks to the surge in ridership. “The transit system is one of the greatest tools communities have to combat climate change and reduce emissions,” Darian Nagle-Gamm, Iowa City’s transportation director, told The Times. “You can make a pretty immediate impact.” Learn more about the program’s impact.?
How to deal with doubts about your therapist
Alice Rizzi - It’s not unusual to get a few sessions into therapy – or even more – and find that something doesn’t feel quite right. Maybe your therapist says something that doesn’t sit well with you. Maybe they don’t seem to ‘get’ you. You might leave your sessions feeling drained, or unheard. Or perhaps the doubts are quieter, but still you start to wonder: Is this person actually helping me?
Doubting whether your therapist is right for you can be uncomfortable and confusing, especially if you are new to therapy. You might feel guilty or disloyal for doubting them, or uncertain about whether your concerns are valid. But doubts are normal and worth paying attention to. In this Guide, I’ll help you approach them with curiosity and care so you can take the most informed next step.
As a clinical psychologist, I believe therapy should feel safe, supportive and genuinely helpful. If it doesn’t, it’s important to notice and honour your doubts. Sometimes talking about them with your therapist leads to greater clarity and connection; other times, your doubts help you recognise that a different therapist or approach might be a better fit. Either way, listening to these signals can guide you toward the kind of support you need to thrive.
When I speak to a potential therapy client for the first time, I always tell them: fit is paramount. ‘Fit’ refers to how well a therapist and client match in ways that foster trust, progress and wellbeing. It’s not about whether your therapist is perfect (no one is), but whether you feel seen, heard and supported in the ways that matter to you. More
Doubting whether your therapist is right for you can be uncomfortable and confusing, especially if you are new to therapy. You might feel guilty or disloyal for doubting them, or uncertain about whether your concerns are valid. But doubts are normal and worth paying attention to. In this Guide, I’ll help you approach them with curiosity and care so you can take the most informed next step.
As a clinical psychologist, I believe therapy should feel safe, supportive and genuinely helpful. If it doesn’t, it’s important to notice and honour your doubts. Sometimes talking about them with your therapist leads to greater clarity and connection; other times, your doubts help you recognise that a different therapist or approach might be a better fit. Either way, listening to these signals can guide you toward the kind of support you need to thrive.
When I speak to a potential therapy client for the first time, I always tell them: fit is paramount. ‘Fit’ refers to how well a therapist and client match in ways that foster trust, progress and wellbeing. It’s not about whether your therapist is perfect (no one is), but whether you feel seen, heard and supported in the ways that matter to you. More
Trump is taking aim at state AI laws
The Hill - President Trump is taking aim at state AI laws that his administration sees as threats to the growing industry and the U.S’s ability to dominate it.
The clash with state legislatures has long been brewing, as statehouses have forged ahead with efforts to rein in risks from the rapidly developing technology while the Trump White House decries excessive regulation it argues could stifle AI innovation.
However, even as the president largely focuses on laws from liberal states, the move is likely to anger both Democrats and Republicans, who previously found common ground in opposing a preemption push by Congress.
The clash with state legislatures has long been brewing, as statehouses have forged ahead with efforts to rein in risks from the rapidly developing technology while the Trump White House decries excessive regulation it argues could stifle AI innovation.
However, even as the president largely focuses on laws from liberal states, the move is likely to anger both Democrats and Republicans, who previously found common ground in opposing a preemption push by Congress.
Drug boats from Venezuela are mainly moving cocaine to Europe, expert say
NBC News - President Donald Trump and his Pentagon chief say U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats in waters off Latin America are saving lives by preventing narcotics from reaching America’s shores. But drug cartels operating vessels in the Caribbean, where roughly 50% of the airstrikes have taken place, are mainly moving cocaine from South America to Europe — not to the United States, according to current and former U.S. law enforcement and military officials, as well as narcotics experts. And the deadliest drug of all, fentanyl, is almost exclusively smuggled over land from Mexico, the officials and experts say.
Word
Liz Cheney: “I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending
the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but
your dishonor will remain.”
Ghislaine Maxwell
National Memo - Newly released emails from Ghislaine Maxwell – who was deceased child predator Jeffrey Epstein's chief accomplice — show that the special privileges she's receiving in prison even include "secretarial services" from the facility's highest-ranking official.
The Atlantic's Isaac Stanley-Becker reported Thursday that he pored through dozens of emails that Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee received from a nurse who worked at the minimum security prison camp in Bryan, Texas (northwest of Houston) where Maxwell was transferred earlier this year. While NBC News reported on some excerpts of those emails, Stanley-Becker wrote that the most notable details had "not previously been reported."
According to The Atlantic journalist, Maxwell's emails were "notably free of regret, remorse, shame [and] self-doubt." He wrote that they provide a window into the "relatively comfortable life" of the woman serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping Epstein groom and exploit underage girls. One of Epstein's victims recalled that Maxwell was "more physically abusive" than Epstein.
Among the extensive privileges being exclusively granted to Maxwell include her being allowed to have visits in private in the prison's chapel, rather than in the facility's designated visitation space. She's also been allowed to have an unlimited supply of toilet paper, whereas other inmates are only allowed two rolls per week. She and her legal team are provided with "drinks and snacks" when visiting her. Additionally, prison warden Tanisha Hall has allowed Maxwell to bring in "private electronic equipment."...
The Atlantic's Isaac Stanley-Becker reported Thursday that he pored through dozens of emails that Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee received from a nurse who worked at the minimum security prison camp in Bryan, Texas (northwest of Houston) where Maxwell was transferred earlier this year. While NBC News reported on some excerpts of those emails, Stanley-Becker wrote that the most notable details had "not previously been reported."
According to The Atlantic journalist, Maxwell's emails were "notably free of regret, remorse, shame [and] self-doubt." He wrote that they provide a window into the "relatively comfortable life" of the woman serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping Epstein groom and exploit underage girls. One of Epstein's victims recalled that Maxwell was "more physically abusive" than Epstein.
Among the extensive privileges being exclusively granted to Maxwell include her being allowed to have visits in private in the prison's chapel, rather than in the facility's designated visitation space. She's also been allowed to have an unlimited supply of toilet paper, whereas other inmates are only allowed two rolls per week. She and her legal team are provided with "drinks and snacks" when visiting her. Additionally, prison warden Tanisha Hall has allowed Maxwell to bring in "private electronic equipment."...
California ex-police chief tells of colleagues’ racist harassment
The Guardian - The embattled former police chief of Vallejo, a San Francisco Bay Area city that has attracted national attention over police violence, has said that he endured a steady procession of racist remarks from colleagues and online harassment and threats that ultimately led him to resign.
By the time Chief Shawny Williams tendered his resignation in 2022, he said he had received a slew of threats – at his office, at his home, and in his email inbox. Most demanded he step down. But even after resigning, the threats still came by mail to his home and a second property he owned outside the state.
“They were hostile, toxic,” Williams testified in a deposition on Wednesday. “I had safety concerns.”
Williams made the statements as part of a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Vallejo police department brought by Deyana Jenkins, whom officers pulled from a car and tased during a traffic stop in 2019. The incident occurred months after six Vallejo police officers shot her uncle, Willie McCoy, a 20-year-old rapper, 55 times while he was asleep in his car. The killing attracted widespread attention and thrust a spotlight on the department’s use of force.
By the time Chief Shawny Williams tendered his resignation in 2022, he said he had received a slew of threats – at his office, at his home, and in his email inbox. Most demanded he step down. But even after resigning, the threats still came by mail to his home and a second property he owned outside the state.
“They were hostile, toxic,” Williams testified in a deposition on Wednesday. “I had safety concerns.”
Williams made the statements as part of a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Vallejo police department brought by Deyana Jenkins, whom officers pulled from a car and tased during a traffic stop in 2019. The incident occurred months after six Vallejo police officers shot her uncle, Willie McCoy, a 20-year-old rapper, 55 times while he was asleep in his car. The killing attracted widespread attention and thrust a spotlight on the department’s use of force.
Meanwhile. . .
NBC News - An original copy of the first edition of the first "Superman" comic from 1939 — which had been lying undiscovered in an attic for decades — was sold at auction for more than $9 million, thought to be highest price paid for a comic book.
NPR - A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences quantifies how little plastic a marine animal has to ingest for it to be lethal. For an Atlantic puffin, it takes less than three sugar cubes’ worth of plastic
Climate change
NPR - The planet has warmed about 1.3 degrees Celsius, according to the World
Meteorological Organization. Communities are already experiencing more
severe storms, flooding, and heatwaves. Scientists warn that when the
planet heats up beyond 1.5 degrees, there could be massive,
self-reinforcing changes that could have devastating impacts worldwide.
These changes are sometimes referred to as climate tipping points. They
can unfold over decades or centuries and may be partially reversible.
But they all have enormous and lasting implications for life on Earth.
Here are some of the most important and well-studied changes:
💧 Coral reefs have been dying around the globe. They are very
sensitive to heat, and their loss would destabilize many countries.
Numerous people rely on them for food, income and livelihoods. Marine
life that can only be found on these reefs would be at risk of
extinction.
💧 Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could melt and result in the rise of sea levels around the world.
💧 Permanently frozen ground in the Arctic is thawing, which can cause the land to sink, resulting in cracks in the foundations of buildings, buckling of roads and the kinking of pipelines.
💧 Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could melt and result in the rise of sea levels around the world.
💧 Permanently frozen ground in the Arctic is thawing, which can cause the land to sink, resulting in cracks in the foundations of buildings, buckling of roads and the kinking of pipelines.
State and local voting officials preparing for midterm election manipulation
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Official disease website now says link between vaccines and autism can not be ruled out but scientists say they didn't change the site
NPR - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website now says a link between vaccines and autism cannot be ruled out. This is a reversal from the agency’s longstanding position that there is no link. This message aligns with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s opinion that vaccines are dangerous.
CDC scientists say they didn’t change their website, and the Department of Health and Human Services wouldn’t divulge who ordered the adjustment to the wording, NPR’s Pien Huang tells Up First. There is no new scientific evidence to support the claim of a link between vaccines and autism. Huang notes that it is interesting that a headline on the CDC’s webpage still states that vaccines don’t cause autism. However, there is an asterisk next to this statement, which explains that the agency will not remove it due to an agreement with Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who provided a key confirmation vote for Kennedy to become the HHS secretary.
Senate and House GOP leaders no longer on same page
The Hill - Friction is emerging in the once unified GOP relationship between Speaker Mike Johnson (La.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (S.D.).
The two congressional leaders have been visibly out of sync in recent days on a bill to release the Jeffrey Epstein files and on an electronic records seizure law that could enrich senators while drawing a hostile reaction from many House Republicans.
The dynamic is bringing classic House-Senate tensions out into the open, and it’s putting the Speaker in a position of having to defer to the upper chamber — even though it is Johnson who has a more publicly close relationship with President Trump.
And it comes as the two leaders face serious challenges on other legislative issues, including how to address ObamaCare subsidies that expire at the end of the year; passage of the National Defense Authorization Act; and another looming government funding deadline in January that could lead to a second shutdown in a matter of months.
Johnson told reporters Wednesday night that he has “a very good relationship” with Thune.
“We have different processes and procedures in the two chambers, and sometimes we all get frustrated by that, but it’s not personal,” Johnson said.
After a rebellion in the House forced Johnson to bring the Epstein Files Transparency Act to a vote Wednesday, Johnson spent nearly 20 minutes in a press conference in the hours ahead of the vote detailing his concerns with the bill, even though it got a face-saving endorsement from Trump. Johnson argued it needed fixes for how it handled sensitive victim information and the possible release of untrue allegations about other individuals in relation to the financier and sex offender.
The two congressional leaders have been visibly out of sync in recent days on a bill to release the Jeffrey Epstein files and on an electronic records seizure law that could enrich senators while drawing a hostile reaction from many House Republicans.
The dynamic is bringing classic House-Senate tensions out into the open, and it’s putting the Speaker in a position of having to defer to the upper chamber — even though it is Johnson who has a more publicly close relationship with President Trump.
And it comes as the two leaders face serious challenges on other legislative issues, including how to address ObamaCare subsidies that expire at the end of the year; passage of the National Defense Authorization Act; and another looming government funding deadline in January that could lead to a second shutdown in a matter of months.
Johnson told reporters Wednesday night that he has “a very good relationship” with Thune.
“We have different processes and procedures in the two chambers, and sometimes we all get frustrated by that, but it’s not personal,” Johnson said.
After a rebellion in the House forced Johnson to bring the Epstein Files Transparency Act to a vote Wednesday, Johnson spent nearly 20 minutes in a press conference in the hours ahead of the vote detailing his concerns with the bill, even though it got a face-saving endorsement from Trump. Johnson argued it needed fixes for how it handled sensitive victim information and the possible release of untrue allegations about other individuals in relation to the financier and sex offender.
November 20, 2025
Texas governor declares Muslim group "a foreign terrorist organization"
Independent UK - Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the US, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a 'foreign terrorist organization' and a 'transnational criminal organization'.
He stated this proclamation would allow the state to attempt to shut down the group and prevent it from acquiring land within Texas.
The Muslim Brotherhood was also included in this designation. However, neither CAIR nor the Muslim Brotherhood are officially designated as foreign terrorist organisations by the US government.
He stated this proclamation would allow the state to attempt to shut down the group and prevent it from acquiring land within Texas.
The Muslim Brotherhood was also included in this designation. However, neither CAIR nor the Muslim Brotherhood are officially designated as foreign terrorist organisations by the US government.
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