11/24/25 ☀️ AM: … Happy Thanksgiving week.  We are only publishing AM editions through Wednesday.  Thursday and Friday are company-wide holidays. … MTG has never been representative of the House Republican Conference writ large.  She clearly has a bone to pick with Trump and the leadership.

The Trump Trade is Unraveling  —  What is Bitcoin good for?  It isn't money — that is, it isn't a medium of exchange, something you can use to make payments.  It isn't a hedge against inflation.  It isn't a hedge against financial risks — on the contrary, the price of Bitcoin has generally moved …

How Trump's 28-point plan for Ukraine shocked the world … By Friday, Zelensky was warning the Ukrainian people that Trump's plan — and the pressure he faced to sign it — had plunged Ukraine into one of the most difficult moments of its existence.  — Zelensky's participation by phone …

On Illegal War and Immoral Peace  —  Well, it's official: the Department of Government Efficiency, which launched to great fanfare early in Trump's term but which sputtered to a halt after the departure of Elon Musk, is no more.  Reuters reported this weekend that the administration …

Elon Musk's Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors  —  How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature  —  Over the weekend, Elon Musk's X rolled out a feature that had the immediate result of sowing maximum chaos.  The update, called “About This Account,” allows people to click …

Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for video urging troops to defy ‘illegal orders’  —  The Pentagon says that it is investigating Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona for possible breaches of military law after Kelly joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called for U.S. troops to refuse unlawful orders.

Trump administration formally designates Venezuela's Maduro as member of a foreign terrorist organization  —  The Trump administration could have expanded authority to take action against Venezuela starting Monday, as the US designates Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government allies …

More Republicans disapprove of Trump's economy  —  Voters increasingly disapprove of the way President Trump is handling the economy and believe his policies are raising prices, according to a new poll from CBS News/YouGov. … - A majority say his policies are raising food and grocery costs.

The Trump Mobile phone is nowhere to be found after months of delay  —  Trump Mobile has posted conflicting photos of the phone and scrubbed mention of its “Made in the USA” promise.  —  In June, President Donald Trump's two older sons held an event at Trump Tower where they touted …

A Disabled Child's Mom Reported Him Missing.  He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.  —  Emmanuel Gonzalez, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom's fruit stand in October.  Houston Police called ICE instead of reuniting them.

Thousands of arrests by Trump's crime-fighting task force in Memphis strain crowded jail and courts  —  A task force ordered by President Donald Trump to combat crime in Memphis, Tennessee, has made thousands of arrests, compounding strains on the busy local court system and an already overcrowded jail …

Abrego v. Noem: A Hearing Diary for Nov. 20  —  A live-blog of testimony and argument at the hearing at which Judge Xinis weighed Abrego Garcia's petition seeking release.  —  rparloff.bsky.social  —  Meet The Authors … On Nov. 20, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis presided over a hearing in the civil case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Scoop: Dems eye ranked-choice voting for primaries … - It's a tool that drew national attention when it propelled New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to a decisive primary win. … - Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Joe Biden pollster Celinda Lake, the nonprofit FairVote Action …

How Democrats are building their own digital media army … AUSTIN — Donald Trump's victory last November devastated the Democratic Party.  But it may have also invigorated its new media strategy.  —  As Trump and his allies prepared to retake the White House and supercharge its briefing room …

194. Another Bad Week for the Presumption of Regularity  —  Three different flashpoints highlight how much the Trump administration has done, in such short order, to undermine its own litigation efforts and to damage—perhaps irreparably—DOJ's credibility.  —  Welcome back to “One First …

This slap in the face to rural America is a chance to turn it blue  —  Democrats should be the party of aspiration — and talk like normal human beings.  —  Andy Beshear is governor of Kentucky and incoming chair of the Democratic Governors Association.  —  As we watch the consequences …

Former DOJ lawyer whose remarks about Epstein files were recorded sues over firing … Bondi fired Schnitt, the acting deputy chief of the Witness Security Program at DOJ, one day after his comments were posted online.  She cited his “publicly inappropriate comments that were detrimental …

Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards' Brutality Grows  —  As frustrations among corrections officers mount, abusive treatment of inmates is rising and becoming more vicious, records and interviews show.  —  Even in a system known for its brutality, what New York State prison guards …

Under Mike Johnson, a rarely used House tool has gone mainstream … Most recently, a bipartisan group used the maneuver to advance a long-stalled bill requiring President Donald Trump's administration to release information about the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise  —  The News  —  President Donald Trump has strong views about news media and an interest in asserting them; he's long claimed credit for ending the careers of journalists and comedians.

Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He's Right?  —  How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science  —  robert f. kennedy jr. somehow knew, even as a little boy, that fate can lead a person to terrible places.

Russian Unreality and American Weakness  —  Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history  —  The history of diplomacy is full of strangeness.  Touch the surface of the dusty books and peculiar characters spring forth to demand that their tales be heard.