Trump punts; 'Bubba' bombshell; unlimited toilet paper; DHS rewrites American history; how to tell when you're being gaslighted.
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A batch of newly surfaced Epstein emails sparks Trump’s fight-or-flight mode, a diversionary DOJ investigation into the Democrats, and a Fox News crash out as pundits try to downplay the Epstein files. While rumors swirl about a jaw-dropping degree of closeness between Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart urges the GOP to hold their Epstein sleuthing to the same standard as their investigation into the QAnon Pizzagate conspiracy.
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Trump bows to reality in Epstein Reversal, beating a rare retreat. Faced with a mass defection on a bill to demand the release of the Epstein files, the president rushed to avoid an embarrassing loss, suggesting a slip in his iron grip on the G.O.P.
Trump’s Epstein files capitulation betrays a rare weakness.
Guess who’s not buying all those soybeans that Trump promised after his great trade negotiations? They promised to buy 12 million tons. They didn’t.
Dollar Menu loses its appeal as low-income Americans priced out of McDonald’s by soaring prices. Fast food has become so pricey that even items on McDonald’s “McValue menu” are too expensive for many low-income families
RFK Jr.’s buddies are back to undermine vaccines. The next ACIP meeting in early December will examine the hepatitis B shot and the childhood vaccine schedule.
DHS posts wild video rewriting American history. “America is not a nation of immigrants,” said DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Micah Bock, in a video posted to X. “We are a nation of citizens. And it is because of those citizens that we are an exceptional nation.”
Psyops: from dead babies to UFOs - the same pattern every time. How you can tell when you’re being gaslighted by the government or corporations. (Video)
Legal!
Judge orders grand jury material to be given to Comey, citing “disturbing pattern” of DOJ missteps.
Letitia James says mortgage fraud charges should be dropped due to “outrageous government conduct”.
Supreme Court turns down hearing cases on prison construction, school prayer.
Late Night:
Why is there a Late Night section? Because late night comedians, unfettered by institutional journalistic and corporate inhibitions, often provide observations and analysis that are more thorough and comprehensive than network or cable news. And the humor helps.
Epstein’s emails-Last Week Tonight (Video)
Jeffrey Epstein: Trump’s a bad guy | “Bubba” was neither a Clinton nor a horse | Trump: I don’t care.-Stephen Colbert (Video)
Trump faces Republican revolt over Epstein files and breaks up with Marjorie Taylor Greene.-Jimmy Kimmel (Video)
Trump attacks Greene and Massie amid MAGA civil war over Epstein scandal: A Closer Look-Seth Meyers (Video)
Keep scrolling down. Lots of interesting stuff in On This Day, Birthdays, and Deaths.
Quote of the Day:
I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.
--Wyndham Lewis (Wikipedia link)
(More Wyndham Lewis quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Apple Cider Day, Married to a Scorpio Support Day, Mickey Mouse Day, National Entrepreneurs’ Day, National Princess Day, National Vichyssoise Day, Native Women’s Equal Pay Day, Occult Day, Push-button Phone Day, William Tell Day, and World Day for the Prevention of and Healing from Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Violence.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
2003 – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4–3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.
1999 – At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapsed killing 12 students and injuring 27 others.
1997 – “Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture” album was released by Sony Music Soundtrax. (Video)
1996 – A fire occurred on a train traveling through the Channel Tunnel from France to England causing several injuries and damaging approximately 500 metres (1,600 ft) of tunnel.
1994 – The film “Star Trek: Generations” was released. (Video)
1993 – In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was approved by the House of Representatives.
1987 – King’s Cross fire: In London, 31 peopled die in a fire at the city’s busiest underground station, King’s Cross St Pancras.
1985 – The first comic of Calvin and Hobbes was published in ten newspapers.
1983 – The movie “A Christmas Story” was released. (Video)
1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children.
1963 – The first push-button telephonewent into service.
1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy sent 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
1959 – The movie “Ben Hur” premiered in New York City. (Video)
1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano met to discuss Benito Mussolini‘s disastrous Italian invasion of Greece.
1928 –Walt Disney’s animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, was released. (Video)
1903 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty was signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
1883 – In the “day of two noons”, American and Canadian railroad companies instituted four standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
1872 – Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women were arrested for voting illegally in the United States presidential election of 1872.
1863 – President Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg.
1803 – The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, was fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
1626 – The new St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome was consecrated.
1493 – Christopher Columbus first sighted the island now known as Puerto Rico.
1421 – St Elizabeth’s flood: A dike in the Grote Hollandse Waard in the Netherlands breaks, killing about 10,000 people.
1095 – The Council of Clermont began: called by Pope Urban II, it led to the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
401 – The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, crossed the Alps and invaded northern Italy.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
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Some Birthdays:
1982 – Damon Wayans Jr., American actor and comedian
1974 – Chloë Sevigny, American actress, model, and fashion designer
1970 – Megyn Kelly, American lawyer and journalist
1970 – Mike Epps, American actor and comedian
1968 – Owen Wilson, American actor
1960 – Kim Wilde, English singer-songwriter
1960 – Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
1953 – Kevin Nealon, American comedian and actor
1953 – Alan Moore, English author
1952 – Delroy Lindo, English-American actor and director
1946 – Alan Dean Foster, American author
1942 – Linda Evans, American actress
1941 – David Hemmings, English actor and director (died 2003)
1939 – Brenda Vaccaro, American actress
1939 – Margaret Atwood, Canadian author
1927 – Hank Ballard, American R&B singer-songwriter (died 2003)
1923 – Alan Shepard, American astronaut (died 1998)
1909 – Johnny Mercer, American singer-songwriter and producer, co-founded Capitol Records (died 1976)
1908 – Imogene Coca, American actress, comedian, and singer (died 2001)
1901 – George Gallup, American statistician (died 1984)
1899 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (died 1985)
1882 – Wyndham Lewis, English painter and critic (died 1957)
1836 – W. S. Gilbert, English playwright, poet, and illustrator (died 1911)
1810 – Asa Gray, American botanist and academic (died 1888)
1787 – Louis Daguerre, French artist, photographer and inventor (died 1851)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
Some Deaths:
2016 – Denton Cooley, American surgeon and scientist (born 1920)
2005 – Harold J. Stone, American actor (born 1911)
2004 – Cy Coleman, American pianist and composer (born 1929)
2002 – James Coburn, American actor (born 1928)
1994 – Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (The Cab Calloway Orchestra) (born 1907)
1978 – Jim Jones, American cult leader, founded Peoples Temple (born 1931)
1976 – Man Ray, American-French photographer and painter (born 1890)
1962 – Niels Bohr, Danish footballer, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1885)
1922 – Marcel Proust, French author and critic (born 1871)
1886 – Chester A. Arthur, American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States (born 1829)
(A more complete list of today’s deaths.)
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