Big changes to the agency charged with securing elections lead to midterm worries“DS worries that CISA won’t be involved” KEK

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) —Since it was created in 2018, the federal government’s cybersecurity agency has helped warn state and local election officials about potential threats from foreign governments, showed officials how to protect polling places from attacks and gamed out how to respond to the unexpected, such as an Election Day bomb threat or sudden disinformation campaign

The agency was largely absent from that space for elections this month in several states, a potential preview for the 2026 midterms. Shifting priorities of the Trump administration,staffing reductions and budget cuts have many election officials concerned about how engaged the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will be next year, when control of Congress will be at stake in those elections.

Some officials say they have begun scrambling to fill the anticipated gaps.

=“We do not have a sense of whether we can rely on CISA for these services as we approach a big election year in 2026,”said Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, a Democrat who until recently led the bipartisan National Association of Secretaries of State.

The association’s leaders sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in February asking her to preserve the cybersecurity agency’s core election functions. Noem, whose department oversees the agency, replied the following month that it was reviewing its “funding, products, services, and positions” related to election security and that its services would remain available to election officials.

Simon saidsecretaries of state are still waiting to hear about the agency’s plans.

“I regret to say that months later, the letter remains very timely and relevant,” he said.

An agency in transition

CISA, as the agency is known, was formedunder the first Trump administration to help safeguard the nation’s critical infrastructure, from dams and power plants to election systems.It has been undergoing a major transformation since President Donald Trump’s second term began in January.

Public records suggest thatroughly 1,000 CISA employees have lost their jobs over the past years. TheRepublican administration in March cut $10 millionfrom two cybersecurity initiatives, including one dedicated to helping state and local election officials.

That was afew weeks after CISA announced it was conducting a review of its election-related work, andmore than a dozen staffers who have worked on elections were placed on administrative leave. TheFBI also disbanded a task forceon foreign influence operations, including those that target U.S. elections.

CISA is still without an official director. Trump’s nomination of Sean Plankey,a cybersecurity expert in the first Trump administration, has stalled in the Senate.

CISA officials did not answer questionsseeking specifics about the agency’s role in the recently completed elections, its plans for the 2026 election cycle or staffing levels. They said the agency remains ready to help protectelection infrastructure.

“Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem,CISA is laser-focused on securing America’s critical infrastructure and strengthening cyber resilienceacross the government and industry,” said Marci McCarthy, CISA’s director of public affairs.

She said CISA would announce its future organizational plans “at the appropriate time.”

Christine Serrano Glassner, CISA’s chief external affairs officer, said the agency’s experts are ready to provide election guidance if asked.

“In the event of disruptions or threats to critical infrastructure, whether Election Day-related or not,CISA swiftly coordinates with the Office of Emergency Managementand the appropriate federal, state and local authorities,” she said in a statement.

https://apnews.com/article/election-security-cisa-2026-secretaries-state-midterms-6d18799c6c5fdd1bc001544b2dca12bf

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States left on their own

California’s top election security agencies said CISA has played a “critical role” since 2018 but provided little, if any, help for the state’s Nov. 4 special election, when voters approved a redrawn congressional redistricting map.

“Over the past year, CISA’s capacity to support elections has been significantly diminished,” the California secretary of state’s office said in a statement to The Associated Press. “The agency has experienced major reductions in staffing, funding, and mission focus — including the elimination of personnel dedicated specifically to election security and foreign influence mitigation.”

“This shift has left election officials nationwide without the critical federal partnershipthey have relied on for several election cycles,” according to the office.

CISA alerted California officials in September that it would no longer participate in a task forcethat brought together federal, state and local agencies to support county election offices. California election officials and the governor’s Office of Emergency Services did what they could to fill the gaps and plan for various security scenarios.

In Orange County, California, the registrar of voters, Bob Page, said in an email that the state offices and other county departments “stepped up” to support his office “to fill the void left by CISA’s absence.”

Neighboring Los Angeles County had a different experience. The registrar’s office, which oversees elections, said it continues to get a range of cybersecurity services from CISA, including threat intelligence, network monitoring and security testing of its equipment, although local jurisdictions now have to cover the costs of some services that had been federally funded.

Some other states that held elections this month also said they did not have coordination with CISA.

Mississippi’s secretary of state, who heads the national association that sent the letter to Noem, did not directly respond to a request for comment, but his office confirmed that CISAwas not involved in the state’s recent elections.

In Pennsylvania, which held a nationally watched retention election for three state Supreme Court justices,the Department of State said it is also relied more on its own partners to ensure the elections were secure.

In an email, the department said it was “relying much less on CISA than it had in recent years.” Instead, it has begun collaborating with the state police, the state’s own homeland security department, local cybersecurity experts and other agencies.

Looking for alternatives

Simon, the former head of the secretary of state’s association, said state and localelection officials need answers about CISA’s plans because officials will have to seek alternativesif the services it had been providing will not be available next year.

In some cases, such as classified intelligence briefings, there are no alternatives to the federal government, he said.But there might be ways to get other services, such as testing of election equipment to see if it can be penetrated from outside.

In past election years, CISA also would conduct tabletop exercises with local agencies and election offices to game out various scenariosthat might affecting voting or ballot counting, and how they would react. Simon said that is something CISA was very good at.

“We are starting to assume that some of those services are not going to be available to us, and we are looking elsewhere to fill that void,” Simon said.

(Sorry for all the red text but this is hilarious and welcome news. The DS are losing their minds.)

https://apnews.com/article/election-security-cisa-2026-secretaries-state-midterms-6d18799c6c5fdd1bc001544b2dca12bf

Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public

Only posting first page out of 6 or 7Seriously nauseating crimes at FB

Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated, according to a court filing unsealed Friday. In a plaintiffs’ brief filed as part of a major lawsuit against four social media companies, Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn that the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”

“You could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended,” Jayakumarreportedly testified, adding that “by any measure across the industry, [it was] a very, very high strike threshold.” The plaintiffs claim that this testimony is corroborated by internal company documentation.

The brief, filed by plaintiffs in the Northern District of California, alleges that Meta was aware of serious harms on its platform and engaged in a broad pattern of deceit to downplay risks to young users. According to the brief, Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed. According to the brief,the company failed to disclose these harms to the public or to Congress, and refused to implement safety fixes that could have protected young users.

“Meta has designed social media products and platforms that it is aware are addictive to kids, and they’re aware that those addictions lead to a whole host of serious mental health issues,” says Previn Warren, the co-lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the case. “Like tobacco, this is a situation where there are dangerous products that were marketed to kids,” Warren adds. “They did it anyway, because more usage meant more profits for the company.”

The following allegations against Meta come from the brief filed in an unprecedented multidistrict litigation. More than 1,800 plaintiffs—including children and parents, school districts, and state attorneys general—have joined together in a suit alleging that the parent companies behind Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube “relentlessly pursued a strategy of growth at all costs, recklessly ignoring the impact of their products on children’s mental and physical health,” according to their master complaint.The newly unsealed allegations about Meta are just one small part of the sprawling suit. (TIME filed a motion to intervene in the case to ensure public access to court records; the motion was denied.)

The plaintiffs’ brief, first reported by TIME, purports to be based on sworn depositions of current and former Meta executives, internal communications, and company research and presentations obtained during the lawsuit’s discovery process.It includes quotes and excerpts from thousands of pages of testimony and internal company documents. TIME was not able to independently view the underlying testimony or research quoted in the brief, since those documents remain under seal.

But the brief still paints a damning picture of the company’s internal research and deliberations about issues that have long plagued its platforms.Plaintiffs claim that since 2017, Meta has aggressively pursued young users, even as its internal research suggested its social media products could be addictive and dangerous to kids. Meta employees proposed multiple ways to mitigate these harms, according to the brief, but were repeatedly blocked by executives who feared that new safety features would hamper teen engagement or user growth.

“We strongly disagree with these allegations, which rely on cherry-picked quotes and misinformed opinions in an attempt to present a deliberately misleading picture," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement to TIME. "The full record will show that for over a decade, we have listened to parents, researched issues that matter most, and made real changes to protect teens – like introducing Teen Accounts with built-in protections and providing parents with controls to manage their teens’ experiences. We’re proud of the progress we’ve made and we stand by our record.”

https://time.com/7336204/meta-lawsuit-files-child-safety/

Ukraine and Western Allies Meet in Geneva to Discuss US Peace Plan1/3(Full gossip and innuendo article. England wrote it!)

Sept. 23, 2025

GENEVA (AP) — Top European and Ukrainian envoys conferred in Geneva on Sunday ahead of talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio over President Donald Trump's proposal to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The head of the Ukrainian delegation, presidential chief of staff Andrii Yermak, wrote on social media said that they held their first meeting with the national security advisers from the U.K., France and Germany.The allies have rallied around Kyiv in a push to revise the plan, which is seen as favoring Moscow.

“The next meeting is with the U.S. delegation. We are in a very constructive mood,” Yermak said. “We continue working together to achieve a lasting and just peace for Ukraine.”

Rubio was expected to join the talks together with Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff.

Before the meeting, Trump on Sunday used a lengthy online post to blast Ukraine for a lack of gratitude for U.S. military assistance, while notably shying away from criticizing Russia.

“With strong and proper U.S. and Ukrainian LEADERSHIP,” Trump wrote, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “would have NEVER HAPPENED.”

Trump also took a swipe at U.S. allies in Europe, writing,“UKRAINE ‘LEADERSHIP’ HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS, AND EUROPE CONTINUES TO BUY OIL FROM RUSSIA.”

After Trump's post, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was “grateful” for U.S.-led efforts on security and praised U.S. leader directly as talks continued.

“The leadership of the United States is important, we are grateful for everything that America and President Trump are doing for security, and we remain as constructive as possible,” Zelenskyy said in a post on Telegram.

In an earlier post,Zelenskyy also said that there was an understanding the U.S. would take into account “a number of elements” in a peace dealthat are important for Ukraine, but did not elaborate further.

“There have already been brief reports from the team about the results of the first meetings and conversations," he said. "There is now an understanding that the American proposals may take into account a number of elements based on the Ukrainian vision and are critically important for Ukraine’s national interests.”

Rustem Umerov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council and a member of Ukraine's Geneva delegation, wrotethat although the peace plan proposals were still be finalized, they included "many Ukrainian priorities.”

“We appreciate our American partners working closely with us to understand our concerns to reach this critical point and we expect to make more progress today," he said.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/11/23/ukraine-and-western-allies-meet-geneva-discuss-us-peace-plan.html

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Ukraine and allies have ruled out territorial concessions

The 28-point blueprint drawn up by the U.S. to end the nearly four-year war has sparked alarm in Kyiv and European capitals. Zelenskyy has said his country could face a stark choice between standing up for its sovereign rights and preserving the American support it needs.

The proposal, originating from negotiations between Washington and Moscow, acquiesces to many Russian demands that Zelenskyy has categorically rejected on dozens of occasions, including giving up large pieces of territory.

The Ukrainian leader has vowed that his people“will always defend” their home.

Speaking before Sunday’s talks, Alice Rufo, France’s minister delegate at the Defense Ministry, told broadcaster France Info that key points of discussion would include theplan’s restrictions on the Ukrainian army, which she described as “a limitation on its sovereignty.”

“Ukraine must be able to defend itself,” she said. “Russia wants war and waged war many times in fact over the past years.” (She just lied. They are still bullshitting and lying.)

Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Saturday,Trump said the U.S. proposal was not his “final offer.”

“I would like to get to peace. It should have happened a long time ago. The Ukraine war with Russia should have never happened,” Trump said. “One way or the other, we have to get it ended.”

Trump didn’t explain what he meant by the plan not being his final offer and the White House didn’t respond to a request for clarification.

Rubio's reported comments cause confusion

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Sunday that Warsaw was ready to work on the plan with the leaders of Europe, Canada and Japan,but also said that it “would be good to know for sure who is the author of the plan and where was it created."

Some U.S. lawmakers said Saturday that Rubio had described the plan as a Russian “wish list” rather than a Washington-led proposal.

The bipartisan group of senators told a news conference that they had spoken to Rubio about the peace plan after he reached out to some of them while on his way to Geneva. Independent Maine Sen. Angus King said Rubio told them the plan “was not the administration’s plan” but a “wish list of the Russians.” (So Rubio sabotaged Trump)

AState Department spokesperson denied their account, calling it “blatantly false.”

Rubio himself then took the extraordinary step of suggesting online that the senators were mistaken, even though they said he was their source for the information.The secretary of state doubled down on the assertion that Washington was responsible for a proposalthat had surprised many from the beginning for being so favorable to Moscow.

On Sunday, the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said the peace plan appeared to be “almost a series of Russian talking points,” had made Europeans “feel like they’ve been totally left high and dry” and had led to “ferocious pushback.”

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner told ABC’s “This Week” that he thought Trump was “seeing this one-sided plan kind of blow up in his face.”

“My hope is he’ll come back and be a bit more reasonable," Warner said.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/11/23/ukraine-and-western-allies-meet-geneva-discuss-us-peace-plan.html

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Possibility for additional talks

Meanwhile. Turkish President Recep TayyipErdogan announced that he would hold a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. He said he would talk to the Russian leader about reviving a previous deal from July 2022that allowed Ukraine to safely ship exports of grain via the Black Sea.

The agreement stayed in place until the following year, when Putin refused to extend it,saying that a parallel agreement promising to remove obstacles to Russian exports of food and fertilizer hadn’t been honored.

“We had a grain corridor endeavor to open the path to peace,” Erdogan said, “Unfortunately we were only partially able to succeed. Tomorrow I will be asking Putin to revisit the endeavor.”

Erdogan's new diplomatic push comes just days after he met with Zelenskyy in Ankara.

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Davies reported from Manchester, England.

(https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/11/23/ukraine-and-western-allies-meet-geneva-discuss-us-peace-plan.html

President Trump please just Ukraine be cutoff now. No more support. They will never abide by the agreement,

Secretary of State Marco Rubio Holds a Press Conference from Geneva Switzerland During Discussions with Ukraine Officials

November 23, 2025 | Sundance |

Delegations from Ukraine and the USA have been holding talks in Geneva on a draft peace plan. No statement has been officially released, but Ukraine and Russia had received the draft 28-point plan aimed at ending the war. President Trump put the general deadline date of Thursday for review.

Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin has said the plan could form the basis of an agreement,but Ukraine and its European money laundering stakeholders have expressed concern. Giving a brief update during discussions, Secretary of State MarcoRubio said the US and Ukrainian teams had held “probably the best meeting” since Trump returned to office.

Negotiations continued all day with Secretary Rubio noting significant progress has been madeand talks will continue into tomorrow. Rubio noted, “we just need more time.” WATCH:

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been using his X Account all day to message with allies and “stakeholders” about the negotiations.Zelenskyy is the performative face of opposition to the peace agreementand leveraging external pressure to maintain a fight that domestically has lost significant support.

President Trump has expressed frustration with Zelenskyy’s intransigence; however, if the reporting is accurateZelenskyy has been informed this 26 or 28 point proposal is his last opportunity to negotiate in good faith before President Trump cuts off all assistanceto Ukraine. Secretary Rubio seems very optimistic.

WATCH LIVE: Rubio holds news conference amid Geneva talks over Trump's Ukraine peace planhttps://www.youtu.be/z4DF6w-Rmq0

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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/11/23/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-holds-a-press-conference-from-geneva-switzerland-during-discussions-with-ukraine-officials/

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Those reporters were annoying and disrespectful.

I Fully Support Donald Trump Because the Alternative Is to Support a Republican

November 22, 2025 | Sundance |

When the Tea Party surfaced in 2010, the grassroots voter base (unvoiced in DC) did not have a figurehead.So, the UniParty apparatus weaponized the DOJ, IRS and regulatory agencies to target, divide and destroy us.

When the Tea Party reassembled in 2016, the grassroots voter base (unvoiced in DC) now had Donald Trump.So, the same UniParty weaponized the DOJ, FBI and Intelligence Community to target, divide and destroy him first (Spygate, Russiagate, Impeachments etc.), until they could get back to targeting us (Arctic Frost).

The difference between the Tea Party targeting in 2010, and MAGA targeting 2016-through today,is the pesky impediment called Donald Trump.

Review the 15-year history and you will see these commonalities, including DC’s use of Main Justice and the FBI.

The McConnell-minded Republicans were happy to see the Tea Party targeted in 2011/2012. The same is true for the targeting of MAGA in later years.

This core reality is why I support President Trump; indeed, I actually cherish his fighting for us, because the alternative is reliance on our Republican abusers.

Battered Conservative No More.

gadsden_flag.gifIn my opinion, the strongest, most based and unflinching MAGA-minded America-First supporters, are the people who bear the visible scars from the extreme Tea Party targeting.

Those of us who went through the furnace of frustration are forged with a unique type of resolve that will never stop supporting Donald Trump.

We can see through the UniParty tricks, schemes and Machiavellian constructs,and we trust nothing.

The DC guards weaponized virtue as an attack strategy. They use our love of country against us.However, one glance at the scars and that approach doesn’t work any longer….

….. and they hate us even more because of that.

That outlook brings me to a place of thankfulness.

I think most of us here realize we have a few years with a political leader in our corner;that means advocacy for our specific interests is on a diminishing timeline.

If we, well, really he, does not get that thing accomplished in the next three years, well, it’s unlikely to happen. That clock ticking raises the stakes for us and makes policy issues sensitive and urgent. This is an entirely understandable sentiment.

I fully support Donald Trump, because the alternative is dependency on a Republican.

Don’t forget to pray.

Today I pray for our nation. ♦ I ask that You give our President wisdom beyond his own understanding, and the courage to choose the right path no matter how narrow the gate. ♦ I pray for all in authority over us that You would give them grace and strength to stand against the temptation to use power as a weapon, but rather to carry it reverently as one would a child. ♦ I pray for the spiritual leaders of our country, that they would hear Your voice and know Your heart. ♦ I pray they would lead from their knees, and by that simple grace bring each one of us to our knees before Your throne. ♦ Have mercy on our nation Lord; In Jesus name, Amen

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/11/22/i-fully-support-donald-trump-because-the-alternative-is-to-support-a-republican/

This is a wake up call for all of us. Unless they are conquered, we are put back in chains!

Something Sketchy About Narrative Underway Against Deputy AG Todd Blanche

November 22, 2025 | Sundance |

Everyone knows I dislike Main Justice intensely. However,something just is not adding up about these hit pieces being promoted against Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and claiming investigations against Ed Martin and Bill Pulte.

Gateway Pundit has two stories HERE and HERE, essentially using the narrative engineering created by MSNBC’s “Fusion Ken” (Ken Dilanian) HERE. This entire storyline is big time sketchy, including the central character, Christine Bish.

The claim is that a federal grand jury organized by DAG Todd Blanche is hearing testimony against Ed Martin and Bill Pulte, following accusations of grand jury leaks surrounding the Schiff mortgage fraud case by both Martin and Pulte. As the story is told, a woman named Christine Bish is the person who tracked the issue and reported the mortgage fraud.

When an article includes the phrase,“Bish ended up covering her own costs to travel to Washington, DC, to share what she had uncovered involving Schiff’s alleged mortgage and/or election crimes,” you can be certain something sketchy is afoot.

Who exactly would Bish expect to pay for her travel costs?

MSNBC has this as written, “Christine Bish, a California realtor who was among the first to level allegations of mortgage fraud against Schiff,was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in Greenbelt, Maryland, she told MS NOW in a telephone interview. In lieu of testifying, she opted to sit down with a prosecutor and other federal investigators for an interview, she said.

Instead of focusing on the mortgage allegations, she said, the interview centered around her communications with Pulte, Martin and two other men who said they were investigating the issue.”

MSNBC narrative engineer “Fusion Ken” is called “Fusion Ken” because he worked with Fusion GPS to manufacture stories – things that could look a certain way if shaped corrected but are entirely false.

This story, written as a hit against Ed Martin and Bill Pulte,could just as easily be understood as federal prosecutors questioning the source of information to vet prior political contacts.

As I have noted from my own experience with DC federal investigators, they spend a ridiculous amount of time, effort and resources investigating the background of who brings them information, how the information was found and why the information is being brought forward.

Investigators don’t care what the information is; DC officials focus on how, why and who is behind it until they feel good about it;until they are certain they can defend themselves from accusations of political origins, and then they move forward to what the information is about.

If they identify a political origin or motive for the evidence or information,DC investigators and prosecutors will likely never act on the informationregardless of how accurate or devastating it is.The DC silos self-protect within this process.

I would caution to wait this one out before coming to the conclusionthat Bill Pulte and Ed Martin are under grand jury investigation.

Something is very fishy about Christine Bish working so chummy with the notorious Fusion Ken. It would be interesting to find out how Ken connected with Ms Bish.

Suspicious Cat remains, well, increasingly suspicious.

(We have a totally fucked up nation and DC is the cause.)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/11/22/something-sketchy-about-narrative-underway-against-deputy-ag-todd-blanche/

Ty Cobb Holds a Press Conference Departing the White House

November 22, 2025 | Sundance |

President Trump delivers remarks to the assembled press pool, as he departs the White House for a meeting at Joint Base Andrews with golfing legend Jack Nicklaus. President Trump is restoring the recreational area at Andrews AFB, and Nicklaus will be designing a complete update to the golf course.

President Trump answers questions from the press pool as he departs, including questions about Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ukraine/Russia conflict, sending national guard troops to New York City and much more.

President Trump Gaggles with Press Before Departing the White House, Nov. 22, 2025

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https://youtu.be/NlFKWRF8K9w

Please note that on the MTG issue, President Trump notes the relationship she began with Thomas Massie is the issue that created the conflict between Trump and MTG.This point underscores the information previously provided about how Sea Island and ¹Ron DeSantis are the forward faces of the networks purposefully dividing MAGA. Thomas Massie has been working for the DeSantis crew for a while.

¹ Most people have not studied the political networks, nor mapped out the behavior of the political owners to see the RdS program as it has unfolded for years. At the core of the RdS owners stable is the Club for Growth PAC and their prior positioning for DeSantis to take the FL senate seat when Marco Rubio became Jeb Bush’s VP nominee. That’s why RdS registered for Rubio’s seat in 2015.

[Sea Island Backup] When the ³Jeb/Rubio plan failed in ’16, the after effect (yes, an actual long-term plan) was RdS leaving congress in ’18 to run for Florida Governor and then later for ’24 GOP nomination. [McIntosh and CfG always planned this.] RdS was always going to run in ’24; watching the ²journey makes the predictions easy. That’s how CTH predicted DeSantis 2024 run in ’22, when everyone else said, “no way.”

[²The RGA gave DeSantis $20 million in 2023 because the Republican Governors could not factually fund a ’24 GOP nomination run, but they could fund a reelection effort early, which DeSantis could then transfer to his leadership PAC]

[³When you hear stories of the Bush family (Rove/Murdoch et al) planning a comeback after MAGA, this is exactly what this crew is talking about. The horse you know as Ron DeSantis, is owned by Sea Island stables and trained by Bush Inc.]

In 2015, when CTH first came forward with full support for Donald Trump, I said Trump will win and he will be known as the Ty Cobb of American Presidents. In 2025, I respect and value this man for the same reason I did ten years ago.

I fully support Donald Trump, because the alternative is to support a Republican.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/11/22/ty-cobb-holds-a-press-conference-departing-the-white-house/

Anons the DS etc are trying to take Trump out and to prevent another MAGA leaders, we need to fight back with words etc.

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EU sanctions against Russia ‘failed’ – US Treasury Secretary Bessent

If something is done 19 times in a row, that means it is not working, Scott Bessent has said (KEK)

The restrictions Brussels has imposed against Moscow over the Ukraine conflict are ineffective, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told NBC News on Sunday. The official also criticized the bloc for pursuing the same strategy for 19 rounds in a rowand claimed the EU officials were essentially “funding the war on themselves.”

Last month, Brussels introduced its 19th package of sanctions against Russia, targeting banks, crypto exchanges, and Indian and Chinese businesses, as well as Moscow’s diplomats. Russia has repeatedly called Western attempts to put pressure on it in a bid to support Ukraine’s war effort futile and self-harming. The strategy also caused rifts within the bloc itself, with dissenting nations, including Hungary and Slovakia, urging Brussels to reconsider its approach and engage in diplomacy instead.

According to Bessent, the US combined its peace initiatives with “pressure” on Moscow.The EU nations were “the real laggards”in this regard, he said, recalling how the bloc’s officials informed him about their plans to introduce the latest round of anti-Russian sanctions.

In my mind… if you’re going to do something 19 times, you’ve failed.

Bessent also criticized the EU for its reluctance to follow the US tariff strategy on China and India and buying their products made of Russian oil. President Donald Trump had been particularly pressuring European NATO members to hit Beijing with sweeping trade tariffs, citing its continued purchases of Russian energy. The current US administration is engaged in what he called a “trade war” against China.

Washington also slapped India with additional 50% tariffs over its purchases of Russian oil. New Delhi denounced the move as “unfair, unjustified and unreasonable.”

Earlier this week, US Vice President J.D. Vance also criticized the EU approach towards the Ukraine conflict bycalling Brussels’ expectations unrealistic. “There is a fantasy that if we just give more money, more weapons, or more sanctions, victory is at hand,” he said.

In mid-November, US Secretary ofState Marco Rubio admitted that America was “running out of things to sanction” in Russia after Washington blacklisted oil giants Lukoil and Rosneft in a move he said was made at the request of Kiev and its backers.

https://www.rt.com/news/628266-eu-sanctions-russia-failed/

Report: President Trump to Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Foreign Terrorist Organization

Nov. 23, 2025

President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, according to a report.

Just the News reported Sunday that the president said,“It will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms. Final documents are being drawn.”

The U.S. Department of State lists Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) on its website.

“Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) are foreign organizations that are designated by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended. FTO designations play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the terrorism business,” the agency said.

Among those groups are Antifa, Tren de Aragua, ISIS, Boko Haram, and Hamas.

The News article said the president has been considering designating the Muslim Brotherhood as an FTO since his first administration.

“The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamist group founded nearly a century ago in Egypt but with chapters, parties, and affiliated movements around the world,” the article said.

In June, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) filed legislation to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as an FTO, Breitbart News reported at the time:

“The Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t just support terrorism, it inspires it,” said Mace. “President Trump was right when he said the Muslim Brotherhood is a threat to global security, and it’s long past time we call them what they are: terrorists.”

This bill activates critical national security tools, including financial sanctions, asset freezes, travel bans, and targeted law enforcement to dismantle the group’s operations in the U.S. and abroad, a press release from Rep. Mace’s office notes.

The Muslim Brotherhood has historically been linked to radical Islamist movements, with affiliates fueling terrorism and undermining key U.S. allies, the congresswoman highlighted.

More recently, the Department of Homeland Security(DHS) confirmed that a British journalist suspected of being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood was in ICE custody and facing deportation, Breitbart News reported in October.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/23/report-president-trump-to-designate-muslim-brotherhood-as-foreign-terrorist-organization/

NFL’s First Transgender Cheerleader Says Panthers Fired Him Because He Is Trans

Nov. 23, 2025

“I was cut because I’m trans,” Lindsay claimed in an Instagram Live video, according to Blavity. “I don’t wanna hear nobody saying ‘She didn’t wanna come back.’ Why the hell would I not wanna come back to an organization that I’ve been a part of for three years?”

Lindsay says he is “devastated,” “stung,” and “hurt” by the firing, but is not necessarily attacking the Panthers.

“I love them, I appreciate everything that they’ve done for me,” Lindsay said of the team.

Lindsay joined the TopCats cheer squad in 2022 and spent three seasons with them. But earlier this year, the cheerleader and trans trendsetter said he would not be returning next season.

“I’m happy because I was able to break down that door and tell people, ‘Hey, we are not just sexual beings,'” Lindsay said back in 2022. “‘We are actual human beings who want to better ourselves.’ I felt like, why not tell the world: ‘Hey, listen, this is a great accomplishment.'”

Lindsay says he is not ready to step out of the spotlight just yet. He is preparing to run for the global transgender pageant, Miss International Queen. And he is also preparing a documentary about his life in the NFL.

“Being in the NFL was a stepping stone to get me where I need to be,” Lindsay told Outsports in August. He also said hopes his story encourages younger people to go for it, ““and not let anyone stop them from reaching their goals.”

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2025/11/23/nfls-first-transgender-cheerleader-says-panthers-fired-him-because-he-is-trans/

Former Phoenix TV Anchor to Do Time for Role in COVID Loan Fraud Scheme

Lowell Cauffiel23 Nov 2025

A former Phoenix TV anchor could spendthe next ten years in federal prison for her role in a $63 million COVID-19-era loan fraud scheme she allegedly engineered with her husband.

On Friday, a Fort Worth, Texas, judge sentenced Stephanie Hockridge, 42, a popular KNXV anchor turned “entrepreneur,” to 120 months in the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. Some convicts, however, can shorten their time by being model prisoners.

The convicted former television presenter will join at least two other high-profile criminals housed there when she reports to the facility on December 30.

The minimum-security federal facility is the current home of Jeffrey Epstein collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell, biotech company fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, and Real Housewives reality star and wire fraudster Jen Shah.

Shah, however, will reportedly be released from the lockup on December 10, before Hockridge arrives.

The judge also ordered Hockridge, who anchored the news at the ABC affiliate for seven years, to pay nearly $64 million in restitution and serve supervised release for two years following her prison term.

A jury in June found Hockridge guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud but also acquitted her on four separate accounts of wire fraud.

Hockridge and her husband, Nathan Reis, founded a company in April 2020 called BlueAcorn to ostensibly help small businesses and people access the popular federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans during the downturn caused by the COVID pandemic.

Federal prosecutors alleged the couple faked “payroll records, tax documents and bank statements” to get larger loans for certain PPP applicants. Then, they charged borrowers a kickback based on a percentage of the loans funded, according to court documents.

In total, the Scottsdale company processed more than $63 million in bogus PPP loans, according to federal prosecutors.

Hockridge, who was also a former reporter for CBS radio in London, claimed that her actions were a “sincere effort to support small businesses” in dealing with the government bureaucracy in an era of “unprecedented need,” according to the New York Post.

But a congressional inquiry reportedly found that BlueAcorn often failed to properly vet applicants and charged success fees to borrowers, which violated Small Business Administration rules.

In December of 2018, her ABC affiliate marked the anchor’s departure from the station with the headline, “Thank you! Stephanie Hockridge marks last day ABC15.”

In August, Reis, 47, agreed to a plea of conspiracy to commit wire fraudand faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2025/11/23/former-phoenix-tv-anchor-to-do-time-for-role-in-covid-loan-fraud-scheme/

UK Study to Give Puberty Blocking Drugs to Children as Young as 10

Kurt Zindulka23 Nov 2025

More than a hundred children as young as ten years old will be subjected to clinical trials of transgender drugs in Britain,despite the government blocking puberty blockers for general use.

Last year, a review from leading paediatricianDr Hilary Cass found that transgender medical practices were “built on shaky foundations” and that Britain’s socialised healthcare system should not hand out puberty-blocking drugs to minors over safety concerns. The left-wing Labour Party government agreed and barred the practice for children.

However, the Cass review also left the door open for further medical trials to be conducted, paving the way for an upcoming study of 250 supposedly transgender children between 10 and 15 years old after receiving regulatory approval this week, The Times of London reported.

According to the paper, over half of the children will be provided with drugs for up to two years to suppress their natural development, like periods, breasts or facial hair. Their brain development and other indicators of health will then be monitored and compared with those of the children who did not take the drugs in their early adulthood.

The King’s College team claimed that the study was necessary to provide allegedly trans children with the “information that they need to make informed choices about their care”.

The study’s leader, Professor Emily Simonoff, noted that parents will need to provide consent throughout the study.

However, she acknowledged that the study could have long-term negative impacts on the children involved, including potential impacts to their fertility, mental development, and bone structure.

Yet, Professor Simonoff said that trails would test to see if they would be offset by reduced anxiety and depression with a “better alignment between body features and long-term identity”. (Give the Xanax Not puberty blockers assholes!)

The study has sparked swift backlash, including from the political and medical communities.

Biology in Medicine doctors campaign group, Dr Alice Hodkinson, said: “There is already clear evidence of harm, and there is no ethical justification for subjecting another 200 children to puberty blockers.

“We urge NHS England to stop placing children in harm’s way and to prioritise rigorous analysis of the cohort of 2,000 children who have already received puberty blockers.”

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss said, “Just when you think transgender ideology has been vanquished, it rears its head again. Doing this to children is evil. It should be a crime.”

In a letter to Health Secretary Wes Streeting, independent MP Rupert Lowe called on the government to step in and halt the trial, expressing “profound concern, and frankly disgust, regarding the decision to authorise a new clinical trial administering puberty-blocking drugs to children”.

“This is a deeply unethical experiment, one which must be immediately halted. We cannot further expose children to such harmful medical interventions. This trial is not safe, and it is certainly not ethically defensible. No child is born in the wrong body. To suggest otherwise, in any way, is a wildly irresponsible abuse of power and authority. Normalising this attitude, at all, is immoral and dangerous.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/11/23/uk-study-to-give-puberty-blocking-drugs-to-children-as-young-as-ten/

I’ve lost all respect for the medical community, they willingly break their vow, ==Do No Harm”! World wide.

DOJ Staffer in Texas Arrested on Terrorism Charges After Doxxing Federal Agent During Raid

23 Nov 2025

A U.S. Department of Justice employee has been hit with state terrorism charges afterallegedly doxxing a federal agent during a border raid.

This week, investigators with the Cameron County District Attorney’s Officearrested Karen Olvera De Leon on charges stemming from a criminal indictment. Olvera De Leon is an __employee with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas in Brownsville___ and is charged with one count of terrorism and one count of tampering with physical evidence.

According to information provided to Breitbart Texas by Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz, the case began on June 9, when federal agents conducted a raid in Brownsville.During the operation, bystanders began recording and livestreaming.

Various social media users began commenting on one of the livestreamswhen one of the commenters made what authorities considered a death threatagainst the agent being shown in the video.Moments after, another commenter revealed the identity of the agent in the video.

The doxxing triggered a federal investigation, where authorities were able to track down and identify the commenter as Olvera De Leon. According to Saenz, Cameron County investigators arrested Olvera De Leon after determining that she was the one who had doxed the federal agent.

Jail records at the Carrizales Rucker Detention Center in Cameron County revealedthat a local judge set a total bond for Olvera at $20,000 personal recognizance, meaning that she did not have to post a bondand was released with her signature, but if she fails to appear in future court dates, she would be responsible for paying the bond amount.

The doxxing case in South Texas comes at a time when federal agents, particularlythose with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Border Patrol, have been the target of numerous attacksand threats over immigration enforcement actions.

In July, just one month after the doxxing case in Cameron County, a lone gunman in tactical gear stormed a U.S. Border Patrol building next to the McAllen International Airport, Breitbart Texas reported at the time. In that case, the gunman fired numerous shots at law enforcement and into the building. McAllen Police and Border Patrol agents clashed with the gunman and eventually killed him. One police officer was wounded in the shootout.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/11/23/doj-employee-charged-with-terrorism-over-doxxing-of-federal-agent-during-raid-in-texas/

(A woman knows the agent and doxed him? Freaking sick people out there. And she worked for TX DOJ!)

Mamdani Says He Still Thinks Trump Is a Fascist

Pam Key23 Nov 2025

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he still believed President Donald Trump was a “fascist” after their Oval Office meeting.

Host Kristen Welker said, “In that press conference with President Trump, a reporter asked you whether you believe that President Trump is in fact a fascist, a word that you’ve used in the past. You were about to answer. Then, President Trump sort of jumped in. And he said, ‘That’s okay. You can just say yes. It’s easier than explaining it.’ So,Mr. Mayor-Elect, just to be very clear, do you think that President Trump is a fascist?”

Mamdani said, “And after President Trump said that, I said, ‘yes,'”

Welker said, “So you do?”

Mamdani said, “That’s something that I’ve said in the past, I say it today. And I thinkwhat I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement about the politics that has brought us to this moment. And we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an affordability crisis for New Yorkers.”

Welker said, “You’ve also said in the past that President Trump has engaged in a, quote, attack on our democracy. You’ve called him a despot. Do you still believe President Trump is a threat to the democracy?”

Mamdani said, “Everything that I’ve said in the past, I continue to believe.”

(I’m pretty sure this will come back to him in the worst way possible to MamDani. He could have just said, I’d prefer not to answer. Trump isn’t fooled by this fool. And there were reports the Federal government was investigating his eligibility to be in the U.S. MamDani just burned up any good will he’ll get from Trump. But Trump can go back to calling him a Communist now.)

Zohran Mamdani says he still believes Trump a ‘fascist’ after meeting: Full interview

In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani describes his “productive” Oval Office meeting with President Trump, during which the president offered warm praise — but says he still views Trump as a “fascist” and a “despot,” even as he plans to work with the White House. Welker announced him as if he was the next King of England

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https://youtu.be/NG_jqzRi0mo

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/11/23/mamdani-says-he-still-thinks-trump-is-a-fascist/

GOP Rep. McCaul Calls on Trump to ‘Tone Down the Rhetoric’

(The Uniparty unites in their hatred and disrespect of President Trump and the Commander in Chief!

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said President Donald Trump should “tone down the rhetoric” against Democratic lawmakers over their video telling military members about refusing illegal orders.

Partial transcript as follows:

MARTHA RADDATZ Good morning, Congressman. I would like your response to the video itself that Senator Slotkin and the others put out?

MCCAUL: Well, I don’t speak for the president in terms of hanging members of Congress. But I will say these orders that they’re talking about, in my judgment, are not illegal orders to follow. They are orders based upon Article 2 self-defense of the Constitution to stop a threat, in this case, the threat of drugs coming into our country and killing Americans.

And so, you look at it from that perspective, there are no illegal orders to follow here. In the event, Martha, if an invasion does take place down in Venezuela against Maduro and we see perhaps the toppling of governments, which we saw many decades ago from what they call the gringo down in Latin America, that would trigger a War Powers Act response by Congress. We would have 60 days if the conflict is still ongoing to determine whether a declaration of war is warranted or an authorized use of military force.

RADDATZ: And Congressman, I want to go back to the video and them talking about don’t follow illegal orders. And the president’s response, threatening death, threatening to lock them up, put them in jail. These lawmakers now have 24/7 increased security. What would you say to President Trump about these threats that are continuing?

MCCAUL: My advice, though not on his White House, but I would tone down the rhetoric and tone down the theme here. I would emphasize more what I discussed, and that these orders are not illegal. I mean, they have been sent down on a mission to stop drugs from coming into the United States. And if that means, you know, taking out ships through our aircraft and our air force, then so be it. I — again, I think the orders are legal. That’s the issue.

(It’s time to kick McCaul the drunk out of Congress, when he cannot understand that an intentional insurrection statements by lawmakersHow none of them seem to know the severity of what the Dems didthis is fucking crazy republicans think this is acceptable. But McCaul has always hated Trump!)

Go and listen to the stupid thing he says, RINOs just can’t condemn the left, Congress is a nuthouse or weaklings.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/11/23/gop-rep-mccaul-calls-on-trump-to-tone-down-the-rhetoric/

PM Starmer Suggests Prince Andrew Should Testify in U.S. over Jeffrey Epstein

Breitbart London23 Nov 2025

LONDON (AP) –

Pressure is increasing for the former Prince Andrew to give evidence to a U.S. congressional committee investigating the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after Britain´s prime minister suggested he should testify.

Keir Starmer declined to comment directly about King Charles III’s disgraced younger brother, but told reporters traveling with him for the Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg that as a “general principle” people should provide evidence to investigators.

“I don’t comment on his particular case,” Starmer said. “But as a general principleI’ve held for a very long time is thatanybody who has got relevant information in relation to these kind of cases should give that evidence to those that need it.”(WTF?)

The former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor,has so far ignored a request from members of the House Oversight Committeefor a “transcribed interview”about his “long-standing friendship” with Epstein. Andrew was stripped of his royal titles and honors last month as the royal family tried to insulate itself from criticism about his relationship with Epstein.

Starmer’s comments came after Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the committee’s ranking Democrat, and Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, a Democrat from Virginia, saidAndrew “continues to hide” from serious questions.

“Our work will move forward with or without him, and we will hold anyone who was involved in these crimes accountable, no matter their wealth, status or political party,” they said in a statement released on Friday. “We will get justice for the survivors.”

(The Gay Guy that leads the UK government, that hates women, wants to send Andrew to confess his own crimes. That’s what it sounds like. Everyone knows Andrew wasn’t at all innocent.)

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/11/23/pm-starmer-suggests-prince-andrew-should-testify-in-u-s-over-jeffrey-epstein/

Video of Starmer entering the G20 conference