- www.thedailybeast.com Trump Sends Traditional Unhinged Late-Night Thanksgiving Message
In a similar tone to his 2023 Thanksgiving message, the President-elect celebrated the season with a rant about “Radical Left Lunatics.”
Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide…
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Trump to name retired Army lieutenant general as special envoy for Ukraine and Russia
www.voanews.com Trump Nominates Defense Adviser Keith Kellogg As Special Envoy For Ukraine, RussiaU.S. President-elect Donald Trump on November 27 tapped Keith Kellogg, a retired Army lieutenant general who has long served as a top adviser to Trump on defense issues, as his nominee to be special envoy for Ukraine and Russia.
> President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will nominate retired Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg to serve as assistant to the president and special envoy for Ukraine and Russia.
- www.voanews.com Trump’s EPA pick vows to restore US energy dominance
Former Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency
> When U.S. President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Trump described him as a “True fighter for America First policies.”
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Group That Calls CO2 ‘Essential’ Praises Trump Energy Secretary Pick Chris Wright
> The head of the CO2 Coalition tells DeSmog that Wright agrees carbon dioxide is “not the demon molecule, it’s the miracle molecule.”
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Despite Biden’s promise to protect old forests, his administration moves to cut them down
> On Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden stood among cherry blossoms and towering Douglas firs in a Seattle park to declare the importance of big, old trees. “There used to be a hell of a lot more forests like this,” he said, calling them “our planet’s lungs” and extolling their power to fight climate change.
- www.pewresearch.org 2024 elections show more partisan splits between states’ presidential and Senate votes than in recent past
Four states that Republican Donald Trump carried in this month’s presidential election also elected Democratic senators.
> Four states that Republican Donald Trump carried in this month’s presidential election also elected Democratic senators. That may not seem like a lot, but it’s twice as many “mismatches” between states’ presidential and U.S. Senate results as in all Senate elections held in 2020, 2021 and 2022 combined.
- therealnews.com The bad, the worse, and the ugly: Trump's incoming cabinet
Billionaires, rapists, war hawks and crackpots are about to be in the driver's seat. Get ready for a bumpy ride.
> Billionaires, rapists, war hawks, and crackpots are about to hold the keys to power.
- theemancipator.org Could Florida colleges be the blueprint for Trump’s war on education?
The Florida GOP weaponized racism and antisemitism to reshape academic institutions, recent trends suggest “liberal universities” could cave to pressure.
> The Florida GOP weaponized racism and antisemitism to reshape academic institutions, recent trends suggest “liberal universities” could cave to pressure
- www.propublica.org How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress
The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the power to punish perceived foes.
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The women voters Democrats lost — and gained — offer clues for the next era of American elections
> Movement among two groups of women voters help explain Trump's new coalition and how inflation, education and gun violence will shape the political fights ahead.
- www.propublica.org Immigrants’ Resentment Over New Arrivals Helped Boost Trump’s Popularity With Latino Voters
Across the U.S., Latino immigrants who’ve been in the country a long time felt that asylum-seekers got preferential treatment. “Those of us who have been here for years get nothing,” said one woman from Mexico who has lived in Wisconsin for decades.
> Across the U.S., Latino immigrants who’ve been in the country a long time felt that asylum-seekers got preferential treatment. “Those of us who have been here for years get nothing,” said one woman from Mexico who has lived in Wisconsin for decades.
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Here’s what the Biden administration can do about abortion before Trump takes office
> The outgoing administration worked to secure abortion access, but it can do little to maintain those protections beyond January 20.
- www.technologyreview.com How Trump’s tariffs could drive up the cost of batteries, EVs, and more
The incoming administration’s hostile trade plans threaten to slow the shift to cleaner industries, boost inflation, and stall the economy.
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> The incoming administration’s hostile trade plans threaten to slow the shift to cleaner industries, boost inflation, and stall the economy.
- www.dropsitenews.com Tulsi Gabbard Would Be a Shock to the U.S. Intelligence System
Trump's nominee for Director of National Intelligence has a twisted history of dissent from the elite D.C. foreign policy consensus and neocon-style “war on terror” rhetoric.
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The Reckoning (Sam Harris)
samharris.substack.com The ReckoningDonald Trump has been re-elected President of the United States.
- apnews.com The story of how Trump went from diminished ex-president to a victor once again
With his commanding victory over Kamala Harris, Donald Trump has achieved a stunning political comeback that seemed unimaginable after his refusal to accept his loss in the 2020 election ended with his supporters violently storming the Capitol.
