Posts on Sunday, November 9, 2025

What did Senate Democrats get out of the 40-day Schumer Shutdown? Nothing more than what they would have had with the clean continuing resolution. Chuck Schumer’s caucus threw in the towel last night, with at least ten Democrats plegding to vote to end the filibuster on the CR. The Senate will replace that CR with new language that would extend government operations until the end of January while negotiations continue on the FY2026 budget. Forty days ago, Schumer demanded passage of an extension of expiring ObamaCare subsidies, plus repeals of Medicaid changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill that eliminated coverage for illegal aliens.

HOUSTON, TX — Texas Governor Greg Abbott officially launched his campaign for a historic fourth term Sunday evening, delivering a fiery re-election announcement speech that doubled down on conservative priorities and praised President Donald Trump’s border policies. Speaking to a packed crowd at East River 9 Golf Course in Houston, Abbott unveiled a bold agenda focused on property tax relief, border security, and economic freedom. “Texas is the blueprint for America’s future,” Abbott declared, touting the state’s top rankings in job creation, business development, and innovation. “Since I’ve been your Governor, Texas is number one for new jobs, number one for the best state for doing business, number one

US senators reached a bipartisan deal on Sunday, November 9, that would resume federal funding and end a shutdown that has stretched to a record 40 days and forced many government operations to grind to a halt. The deal between Democratic and Republican senators – just the first step to halting the shutdown – came as authorities warned US air travel could soon "slow to a trickle" as thousands more flights were canceled or delayed over the weekend. Outlets including CNN and Fox News reported lawmakers had reached a stopgap agreement to fund the government through January after wrangling

A group of Senate Democrats have reportedly reached a deal with Republicans to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, but both of New Jersey’s senators are not on board. Senators Andy Kim and Cory Booker said in separate statements tonight that they oppose the deal, which entails a bloc of Senate Democrats voting to support a stopgap bill that funds the government through January 2026; it needs 60 votes to pass, a rule that has enabled Democrats to block prior bills for the last month. In exchange, Senate Republicans will allow a vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, a key Democratic priority,

A group of Democrats and one Democratic-aligned independent have helped clinch an agreement to end the government shutdown, saying they had secured a vote on the Affordable Care Act subsidies at the center of the standoff. The negotiators argued that Republicans’ “flat refusal” to move on Democrats’ earlier proposals made clear that “this is the best possible offer we could secure.” Here’s a look at some of those members, and their rationale for ending the shutdown. Four of them are former governors of their home states and none are up for reelection in next year’s midterms.

As more details of a deal to end the government shutdown come trickling out, so to do more Democrats come out against the deal. A handful of Senate Democrats are working with Republicans on a deal to end the shutdown and re-open the federal government, with a big part of that deal being a future vote on extending Obamacare subsidies by a year. But it appears that both the lack of an immediate amendment to the continuing resolution to extend those credits as well as progressive concerns about President Donald Trump's "authoritarianism" have progressive activists alarmed and progressive politicians quick to say "No."

It's easy, the week after an election where Republicans, frankly, didn't do so well, to feel a little put-upon. We shouldn't. This isn't the time to wring our hands, this is the time to spit on those hands and get to work. We lost a few elections in some blue states; disappointing, but not unexpected. The key thing now is to prevent the midterms from being a repeat of that. Take it, learn from it, keep moving. And a couple of recent polls give us both cause for hope and reason to be alert. On Friday, Politico presented

The United States federal government has been partially shut down for 40 days now. This thing has blown past all previous records. The Senate is deadlocked, unable to push the original continuing resolution, or CR, through to passage. What's more, the original CR is getting past its best-by date. The shutdown is starting to affect air travel and air cargo, among other things, and the Thanksgiving travel season is only a couple of weeks away. Democrats are holding this up in large part over COVID-era subsidies for the Obamacare program, which were slated to expire in any case at the end of 2025, years after the COVID mess ended.

Senators have reportedly reached a deal to end the exceptionally long government shutdown, though details have yet to be released. Fox News reported the news on Sunday evening in an X post. “BREAKING: Republicans and enough Senate Democrats have reached a deal to end the government shutdown after 40 days, a source familiar tells FOX News,” the brief post stated. Enough Senate Democrats agreed to vote with Republicans to end the shutdown, according to the unnamed sources.

Nick Fuentes is a far-right extremist and white nationalist whose rhetoric and online organizing have made him one of the most visible figures on the far-right. Here is what to know about Nick Fuentes, including how he promotes antisemitism and his involvement in the America First and Groyper movements. Who is Nick Fuentes? Nick Fuentes, 27, is a white supremacist, Holocaust denier who hates Jews. Fuentes gained notoriety amongst the fringes of society as a freshman at Boston University, when he attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where hundreds of torch-bearing far-right demonstrators chanted “Jews will not replace us.”

When Sen. Elizabeth A. Warren recently traveled to the Big Apple to endorse New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, she was asked if overt socialism is really the best model for Democrats to adopt. “You bet,” she replied in her signature folksy style. The Boston lawmaker wasn’t just jumping on the sudden trendiness of socialism three-and-a-half decades after its near-extinction. With Senate fellow traveler Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Warren has been a catalyst for moving her party to the left since her first campaign in 2012. She and Sanders are, in many ways, the godparents of the self-avowed democratic socialists such as Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

The grand opening ceremony of a sprawling 150,000-square-foot “milestone for the global Shia Ismaili Muslim community and a transformative addition to the city’s cultural landscape” has opened in Houston. “The Ismaili Center opens in Houston — a first for the U.S.,” by Shafaq Patel, Axios, November 6, 2025: The stone tapestry, with its triangular patterns, illuminates at night and has shadows in the day. The Ismaili Center, Houston, an architecturally grand cultural and religious space and one of only seven worldwide, has completed construction and is opening to the public next month. Why it matters: The 150,000-square-foot center — the first in the U.S. —

In a series of statements from his Truth Social account, President Trump is recommending that congress bypass the subsides for insurance companies and instead send the funds directly to the healthcare consumers who can negotiate with their healthcare providers. (snip)NO MORE MONEY, HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, TO THE DEMOCRAT SUPPORTED INSURANCE COMPANIES FOR REALLY BAD OBAMACARE. THE MONEY MUST NOW GO DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE, TAKING THE “FAT CAT” INSURANCE COMPANIES OUT OF THE CORRUPT SYSTEM OF HEALTHCARE. THE PEOPLE CAN BUY THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER POLICY, FOR MUCH LESS MONEY, SAVING, FOR THEMSELVES, AN ABSOLUTE FORTUNE!!! PRESIDENT DJT

Tucker Carlson’s cozying up to Holocaust downplayers, Nazi apologists, Stalin enthusiasts, and rank antisemites – along with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ October 30 insistence that conservatism’s big tent is big enough to embrace those who hate Jews and fawn over murderous tyrants – widened a parlous rift on the right. (Roberts apologized to Heritage colleagues on November 5.) Much is at stake because Carlson is not some obscure crank but rather host of one of America’s top-ranked right-wing podcasts. And the Heritage Foundation is not a rinky-dink, fly-by-night operation but the nation’s largest, wealthiest, and most influential conservative think tank. Consequently, it is incumbent on President Donald Trump

Chicago’s public school bureaucracy has decided that the faith of a Bible college is suddenly disqualifying—and that should chill every freedom-loving American to the bone. In a lawsuit now drawing national attention, the Moody Bible Institute alleges that Chicago Public Schools barred its students from student-teaching positions because Moody’s hiring practices require faculty and staff to affirm a biblical statement of faith and live accordingly. In plain English: because Moody hires Christians to teach in a Christian school, Chicago says they can’t send their students to teach in public classrooms. Let’s be clear—Moody isn’t discriminating against anyone. It’s being discriminated *against* for daring to live out its faith.

Thieves are stealing millions in cargo from American trucking companies every year, beleaguering an industry already reeling from a string of horrific highway crashes. A pair of highway truck crashes, caused by Indian nationals who entered the country unlawfully, sparked national outrage over trucking regulations and prompted the Trump administration to issue sweeping restrictions on commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) for illegal migrants. Trucking experts point to a combination of mass illegal immigration and lax vetting procedures as the recipe that not only attracted unqualified migrant truckers, but also a significant uptick in freight thefts. “The unprecedented influx of unvetted foreign individuals into our trucking industry has precipitated a national security crisis,”

Perhaps the greatest fallacy of the whole "our diversity is our strength" nonsense is the idea that people from Third World, or even post-Stone Age, low-trust societies can successfully set aside their culture and upbringing to function as members of a modern nation where their neighbor is a fellow citizen and not prey. Once upon a time, our education system was at least as devoted to developing citizens as it was to gender pronouns. Teachers took kids from rural Sicily, Jews from the ghettos of Poland and Russia, the kids of sharecroppers and coal miners; in fact, they took all comers and turned them into Americans

Jay Jones made history this week as the first person to be elected attorney general of Virginia after fantasizing about murdering a political opponent's children and urinating on Republicans' graves. So it makes sense that Jones would seek the counsel of another Virginia politician who knows what it takes to overcome a scandal involving moral depravity. (Step 1: Refuse to step down. Step 2: Be a Democrat.) Jones announced Thursday that former Gov. Ralph Northam (D., Va.) was among the "distinguished and experienced leaders" who would serve as co-chairs of his "Standing Up for Virginians" transition team. Northam is best known for surviving a racism scandal

Democratic officials are reportedly hampering a Justice Department investigation into an individual believed to have doxxed and stalked White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. The case centers on 66-year-old Barbara Wien, a retired professor and activist. She is accused of posting flyers in Miller’s Virginia neighborhood that listed his home address and referred to him as a “Nazi.” The flyers claimed Miller is “wanted for crimes against humanity” and displayed a QR code linking to an activist Instagram account. [Tweet] Video footage captured Wien making a gesture toward Miller’s wife,

Target wants its employees to spread some holiday cheer — whether they like it or not, according to a report. The Minneapolis-based retailer issued a new directive mandating in-store workers smile and make eye contact and either greet or wave to any shopper that comes within 10 feet, according to Bloomberg News. If a customer steps within four feet, then the service rep is instructed to ask whether they need help or how their day is going, the new guidance said. Major retailers like Walmart and Disney have long used similar customer-greeting rules that require employees to smile, make eye contact and offer assistance when guests come within a set distance.

With the election of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York, much conversation has been made of his appeal to “affordability.” As I’ve written previously, this is a noble conversation, but one that has been dishonestly framed (by Democrats and media) to date. [snip] First let’s look at the role that government has already played and its effect on affordability. What areas in the economy have seen the greatest increase in costs for the consumer? Education, housing, healthcare, and food. ronically, these are all areas of the economy that the government has interjected itself in the form of subsidies, regulations, government-backed loans, and transfer payments.

You’ve never heard of Joe Tache, but chances are that over the next year, you will hear a little more about him for all the wrong reasons. Although the 30-year-old Northeastern University graduate is running for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts to unseat incumbent Democrat Ed Markey, we surprisingly know very little about him at this stage. According to his website, he is running as a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL). He’s a bearded Millennial who favors Malcolm X-style glasses. He’s been “a youth worker, community organizer, and socialist based in Boston. For over ten years, Joe has been part

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) recently won reelection, but his victory speech has drawn criticism. Video footage shows Frey speaking to a crowd in Somali and appeared to thank those who voted for him, addressing “the great people of Minneapolis,” Fox News reported Saturday. “And I say that very intentionally, because no matter where you are from, Minneapolis should be a place where you are proud to call home,” he added. However, social media users criticized Frey’s use of the foreign language, one person writing, “How embarrassing. This is America.” "This dude faked cried at Floyd’s funeral, got booed out of his own town, threw his cops under the bus, & is now

The stabbing attacks in the UK involving migrants underscore the political dilemma facing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. What should the Labour Party stand for? Muslim advocacy groups are deeply embedded in progressive NGOs, parties, and activists in the UK; 86% of Muslims voted Labour last election. Starmer is part of the problem because he cannot undermine his own coalition. Red or green? This conflict of interests creates a strategic problem for Labour and the Western progressives. If it challenges its Islamic partners, it weakens itself. But if it abets Islam, Labour may lose the support of the native populations, fall, and become a junior partner to Muslims.

In more innocent times, teenagers became notorious at various times for swallowing goldfish, seeing how many people they could stuff into a phone booth (look it up, kids), and smoking lots of hash. Now, the latest teen craze has a decidedly more sinister edge: over the last few days, Muslims in their late teens and early twenties have been arrested in Michigan, New Jersey, and Washington state. All of them were at various stages of the planning of jihad mass murder plots. The plots largely revolved around rich kids with plenty of time on their hands and a newfound, brightly burning hatred. Nineteen-year-old Milo Sedarat,

Thanks to the good work of Blaze Media’s Steve Baker, we now have a plausible suspect in the January 6 pipe bomb plot, a former Capitol Police officer and reportedly a current CIA associate by the name of Shaun Rae Kerkhoff. “While nothing is 100% certain and everyone is innocent until proven guilty,” Baker posted on X, “gait recognition software identified a 94% match. Video proximity tracking and human analysis by federal intel sources take it to what I’m told is a 96-98% certainty.” [snip] the conspirators did not anticipate Harris being at the DNC. Her presence there complicated everything.

In a series of statements from his Truth Social account, President Trump is recommending that congress bypass the subsides for insurance companies and instead send the funds directly to the healthcare consumers who can negotiate with their healthcare providers. I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people,

Every one of us has done it, even if it’s just for a fleeting second. It crosses your mind. You have some symptoms that could be anything from a headache to brain cancer, and at some point you doom out, staring at the list of symptoms, thinking that cancer doesn’t care who you are, anyone could get it. You think you’re being reasonable, after all. “Who am I to think I’m immune?” Right? Then, having deemed yourself reasonable and rational to boot, you click back to your search results and check another website other than WebMD just to be sure. Something a little more academic, more…medical. More professional.

TAMPA - Four people are dead and at least 13 are injured after a man crashed into an Ybor City business early Saturday morning, according to officers. The Tampa Police Department said they arrested Silas Sampson, 22, on multiple charges after the massive deadly crash. Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw says this began at 12:30 a.m. Saturday morning when officers spotted two vehicles racing near Hanna Avenue and Nebraska Avenue in Tampa. They proceeded westbound on Hillsborough Avenue when one of the vehicles drove onto I-275 Southbound. TPD's air unit tracked it as it then exited downtown. Florida Highway Patrol troopers joined in and tracked the vehicle to Nebraska Avenue

There is a problem here in the United States, and that's if liberty were to fall here, there's nowhere to go. There's no escape route for those of us who don't want the government to take everything from us, up to and including our guns, which is why so many of us have a line in the sand that cannot be crossed. And I don't see there being anywhere to go anytime soon. Too many other nations that are supposedly free really aren't, and the trend internationally is for more regulation of everything and a complete and total lack of gun rights.

Is there anything left to say about the Heritage Foundation’s pre-Halloween melodrama? It was quite a scary show. I am confident that when Kevin Roberts, president of that venerable bastion of conservatism, got outside his morning egg on October 30, he had no inkling that his two-minute and thirty-nine-second video clip would precipitate a seismic detonation that would rock the foundation and monopolize the news cycle for days. The main purpose of the video, Roberts said, was to reaffirm that the commentator Tucker Carlson “remains and always will be a close friend of the Heritage Foundation.” This came on the heels of Carlson’s long interview with Nick Fuentes, the obnoxious twenty-seven-year-old

Zohran Mamdani is starting to exemplify the old saying, "A cheetah does not change his spots." The self-proclaimed Democrat Socialist mayor-elect of New York City has already made statements that have even some Democrats, like former Obama administration green energy czar, and current CNN host and commentator Van Jones, questioning how much of a 180 he has done since the results came in on Election Day on Nov. 4. And it's not like Democrat leaders don't know what Mamdani is all about, as we wrote just days before the off-year elections, with Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) decrying making the extremists in his party the face of its future--

The UNDP's own auditors uncovered more than 100 investigations into fraud, bribery, and "ghost projects." If corruption could flourish under nominal Iraqi government control, imagine the diversion potential in Gaza — where much of the terror regime remains intact. Earlier UN experiments, such as the Oil-for-Food scandal, showed how -- when oversight is weak and politics trumps accountability -- "humanitarian" programs become self-enriching rackets. For years, Hamas forces have been filmed confiscating relief shipments directly from UN trucks and warehouses. It is not chaos; it is a business model.

As awful as the mayoral election outcome was for sensible New Yorkers, misguided Washington Republicans plan to use the results as a club to further punish the city. If they succeed in hitting Gotham with enormous financial penalties for electing socialist radical Zohran Mamdani, the GOP wackos will end up penalizing all 8 million New Yorkers, including the 1 million who rejected Mamdani to vote for other candidates. The efforts also could turn Mamdani into a martyr, which would boost his popularity and inspire far-leftist copycat candidates across America. Another unintended consequence of the daffy congressional effort could be the death of the election chances of one of their own.

Zohran Mamdani’s victory-lap speech Tuesday night reeked of Vladimir Lenin after Russia’s 1917 communist revolution. But instead of commanding a Red Army, the mayor-elect should be aware he will be facing lots of red ink. That’s on top of some very strict and sensible financial rules put in place some 50 years ago — just in case a deranged Marxist ended up running New York City. Yes, socialism can sound rousing when it’s pitched by a skilled orator. Mamdani spoke of soaking the rich — failing to mention, of course, that they’re already paying some of the highest taxes in the country.

Iran is set to turn off the water in several regions, including Tehran — as the country falls into the grips of its worst drought in decades. The Islamic Republic announced it would be shutting off its water supply on Saturday night due to the mounting crisis which will see the capital dry up — with officials contemplating evacuating it, Haaretz reported. “We are forced to cut off water supply to citizens on some evenings so that reservoirs can refill,” Energy Minister Abbas Alibadi said on state television Saturday. Alibadi suggested that Iranians install pumps to compensate for the lack of pressure and supply gaps.

I confess to a bias against political think tanks. If candidates can’t figure out what they believe in and why they do, armies of bow-tied college grads aren’t the answer: Better candidates are. I feel the same way about campaign consultants. You need people to keep track of filing requirements, but not how to answer reporters and constituents. You know where you’re going or you don’t belong there, even if grifters are happy to sit in a D.C. office placing ads no one watches to get 15% placement percentages on top of their salaries. It’s a well-funded racket.

Some spouses of foreign workers on the controversial H-1B visa may lose their work permits after the Trump administration changed employment rules. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Oct. 30 stripped holders of the H-4 spousal visa — thousands of whom are estimated to live and work in the Bay Area — of the ability to receive automatic extensions for their work permits when their renewal applications have been submitted but not fully processed by immigration authorities. Previously, foreign citizens on the H-4 and certain other visas could have their work permits automatically extended by 540 days if their permit applications were submitted on time but expired while still being processed.