Elaine Miles was walking to a bus stop in Redmond to go to Target, she said, when four men wearing masks and vests with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement label stepped out of two black SUVs ... read more
When a presidential administration abruptly stops releasing the most important economic indicators " GDP, inflation, jobs, consumer spending " Americans must ask a blunt question: What are they trying to hide? Over the last two months, the Trump administration has done something no modern administration has dared: it cancelled or delayed a series of essential federal economic reports. These include the GDP estimate, the monthly CPI inflation report, major consumer spending data, and the October jobs report. Some cancellations appear unprecedented. What makes the pattern even more suspicious is the timing. The same White House that rushed to celebrate the flattering September jobs report is suddenly silent now that signs of economic cooling are emerging.
Companies that have collaborated with immigration enforcement agencies in various ways to aid Trump's mass deportation initiative"whether through allowing ICE to raid their parking lots, taking on contracts with DHS, or a variety of other actions"are starting to feel the rumblings of a consumer revolt. Home Depot is possibly the most visible case after the company's parking lots became a familiar setting for shocking viral clips and local news segments depicting federal agents' aggressive attempts to apprehend unsuspecting day laborers. The home-improvement chain now faces the prospect of a national boycott. But that's not the end of their troubles: A particularly headline-grabbing protest was staged last weekend at the Home Depot in Monrovia, California, a location picked because it's where Roberto Carlos Montoya Valds, 52, from Guatemala died on the freeway after being hit by an SUV while running from an ICE raid.
"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims," the New York Times reports. "David Gentile, 59, a onetime resident of Nassau County, N.Y., had reported to prison on Nov. 14, and was released on Wednesday." Mr. Gentile and a co-defendant, Jeffry Schneider, were convicted in August 2024 of securities and wire fraud charges, and sentenced in May. Unlike a pardon, the commutation granted to Mr. Gentile will not erase his conviction. Mr. Schneider, who was sentenced to six years, does not appear to have received clemency from Mr. Trump read more
Donald Trump's administration promised that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would save America trillions by slashing federal contracts, eliminating "waste," and shrinking the federal workforce. In reality, we got hack squads of political enforcers who rummaged through government systems, torched veteran-owned business contracts, fired thousands of veterans from federal service, and dismantled Department of Veteran Affairs programs designed to protect both veterans and taxpayers. So it's fitting, if tragic, that DOGE has itself been dissolved eight months before its chartered end. Named after Elon Musk's favorite cryptocurrency, DOGE was never about efficiency. It was the shotgun marriage of Project 2025 and "We need something for Elon to do." America's veterans paid the heaviest price for this Frankenstein's monster, which spent months clumsily strip-mining the federal government in order to make the rich richer. read more
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WSJ today. Multi-billion $$ business deals between Russian & American billionaires that forces Ukraine to give Russia more land, & make Ukraine a Russian vassal state. Greed trumps Ukrainian sovereignty. Churchill & Reagan are turning in their graves. wsj.com
9:46 AM Nov 29, 2025
Putin's orange bitch has a 25% approval rating from independents.