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Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth bypassed the military's established merit-based promotion process, imposing new criteria that disproportionately disqualified women and people of color who had already been cleared for advancement, according to three military officials. A senior official told MS NOW that Hegseth's office orchestrated a deliberate screening process, compiling paper-only dossiers of internet search results that the affected officers could not review. Instructions about the new criteria were communicated by phone rather than in writing, leaving no written record of the directives. "I was like 'you gotta be kidding me,'" the official said. read more


The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Alexander Darchiev, Russia's ambassador to the US, abruptly up and died Wednesday at the age of 66. The diplomat had headed the Russian Embassy in Washington DC -- a front for Kremlin espionage -- since March 2025. No cause of death was immediately announced; the ministry only wrote that Darchiev "passed away suddenly." In March 2025, ICC-indicted war criminal Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Darchiev as ambassador -- a man known for his public denunciations of the West -- following Dummkopf Trumpf seizing power on 20 Jan 2025. Darchiev also once served as Russia's ambassador to Canada where the RCMP certainly kept a wary eye on him in Ottawa.

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The U.S. musician Macklemore has accused nine major U.S. arenas of refusing to host his Free Palestine benefit tour after they learned that all of the proceeds would support Palestinian causes. "Trying to silence us will only make the message louder," he said on Instagram. "They may own the arenas. But they do not own the people who fill them." The rapper held benefit concerts in Dublin, Paris, and London on October 26, 29 and 30. read more


NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) signed a landmark bill banning predatory investors from buying distressed NYC residential buildings. The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) is intended to keep housing out of the hands of predatory investors. Nonprofit owners are more likely to keep housing affordable and take care of tenants. The bill is part of a nationwide response to high housing costs, with cities and states trying to assert more control over corporate landlords and the housing market. Last year, good-for-nothing NYC Mayor Eric Adams vetoed a version of it. In Nov 2021, NYS Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani went on a hunger strike in solidarity with taxi drivers while NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) was stuffing his face with calzones and fending off charges of sexual harassment and lying about COVID deaths in NYS. This past April, His Honor declined a personal meeting with King Charles III, but happily rode the subway with the Irish PM during UNGA.

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    For Veteran's Day, hatemonger Bill Donohue vomited this vile screed: "It is not exactly breaking news to say that left-wing activists, pundits and intellectuals hate veterans. But it is something else again to read how radical elected officials and organizations react to Veterans Day. I asked the imbeciles on my staff to put together a summary of some of the more prominent haters." This white supremacist Catholic, who probably calls Jews "the Christ killers" behind their backs, slimed the "usual suspects," as well as new ones, particularly the DSA.

  • Registered Democrats made up the majority of GIs serving in WWII.
  • Devout communist Dashiell Hammett served in both WWI and WWII, while heavyweight boxer Jack Dempsey became a draft dodger during WWI. He then went on to become world champion, as well as a fabulously wealthy man. After WWII, double veteran Dashiell Hammett would be imprisoned for not coughing up the names of his friends to the notorious HUAC.
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    Because chanteuse Judy Collins "chose" Stacy Keach over musician Stephen Stills in the late 1960s, this song was a by-product of his lament: YouTube

    A recent OP I wrote discussed the racism that Joe Biden grew up in Pennsylvania: That Championship Season.

    That 1982 movie starred the late Stacy Keach.

    RIP and thanks for the memories.


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    Shhh. If you listen quite carefully to our fellow Americans below, you can hear them speaking. Listen carefully.


    "No Iranian ever called me n____r."

    "No Iranian ever fired me for being a woman."

    "No Iranian ever cut my SNAP benefits."

    "No Iranian ever repossessed my house or my car."

    "No Iranian ever deprived me of universal healthcare."

    "No Iranian aircraft carriers ever sent jets and drones to destroy my property."

    "No Iranian ever over-looked me for promotion because I was compassionate for my fellow man."

    "No Iranian ever killed 200 school girls in my neighborhood."

    "No Iranian ever orchestrated the greatest transfer of wealth from bottom to top in my neighborhood."

    Did you hear our fellow Americans?

    Good.

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    All excellent theories.

    Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his secure federal cell at MCC on 10 Aug 2019 (during the first Trumpf junta).

    Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced on 28 June 2022 (during the Biden admininistration).

    "Useless" Merrick Garland could have released those damnable files from 29 June 2022 to 5 Nov 2024.

    Instead, Merrick "the Meek" kept those files from SC Jack Smith (who had no "need-to-know" as he was overseas at the ICC when these two cases broke), as well as the rest of the public (including NYS AG Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg).

    SC Jack Smith would have had a field day exploring other avenues of approach to prosecute Dummkopf Trumpf, instead of the two narrow tracks given to him by USAG Garland (1) organizing the Jan 6 insurrection; (2) and hoarding classified materials.

    And Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's many victims would have been paraded around, providing lurid testimony about POTUS candidate Doofus Trumpf (R) to Congress and in NYS or Florida courtrooms.

    That would have made Trumpf's campaign from 29 June 2022 to 5 Nov 2024 to seize power a bit harder.

    My theory is that the AIPAC-laden cabinet of Joe Biden wanted the Epstein files -- a veritable Pandora's Box -- unavailable for public scrutiny in order to shield Israel's powerful tentacles in America through their two sayanims: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

    For example, Israeli ex-PM Ehud Barak inadvertent, yet embarrassing, exposure in the Epstein files occurred circa February to May 2025 during Trumpf's second junta, not during Biden's administration.

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