2025-11-04: BREAKING: Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful vice presidents in United States history, has died.
I guess now we'll find out, once and for all, whether George W Bush can speak.
2025-11-05: Zohran Mamdani was born in Uganda and became a naturalized American citizen in 2018. That means he is ineligible for the US Presidency. That's America's loss, but it also means we'll be spared an outpouring of bigotry and xenophobia if he did run for President.
2025-11-06: Breaking: "Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent."
nbcnews.com/politics/justice-d...
2025-11-10: News: "Senate Democrats cave, open path to reopening government despite getting no guaranteed deal on Obamacare subsidies."
Makes me appreciate all the more how Obama himself managed to get Obamacare through the Senate in 2010. Not even the Dems support it.
2025-11-12: Jeffrey Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct - The New York Times.
Not news to anyone paying the least attention to the news in the past ten years. A jury verdict in May 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing woman.
nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/poli...
2025-11-15: Marjorie Taylor Greene joins the (small, but growing?) anti-pedophile wing of the Republican Party.
2025-11-16: Texas has 32 Districts in 6A High School football, each sending 4 schools to the Playoffs. Of those 32 Districts only 3 had all 4 teams make it past the 1st round of the playoffs! District 7 is one of those. All 3 Richardson ISD schools in the playoffs from District 7 advanced.
2025-11-21: Paul Krugman on what's happening with the price of crypto: "Question: Is the ongoing plunge justified by fundamentals? Answer: What fundamentals?"
2025-11-21: I remember Americans were disgusted with Germans who tried to use the "I was just following orders" as a defense against charges of committing war crimes. Today, the German in the White House is calling for "DEATH!" to US lawmakers who remind our own service members that they don't have to obey illegal orders.
2025-11-26: Today's Nextdoor post whose blurb says nothing...and everything.
"Re: my comment on this post… Unfortunately, I have a neighbor..."
Would you click on that, or not?
2025-11-26: "Death threats and infighting are spurring House Republicans to contemplate whether they want to stay in Congress — or even leave early." | Axios
Anyone surprised by this wasn't paying attention in school the day they taught the French Revolution. The guillotines didn't stop with the king and queen.
axios.com/2025/11/25/congress-...
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