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Stephen Miller, reactionary ideologue and white supremacist, promoted head of Trump administration Really just for the headline. Take note, American corporate news sewers.

We swept the 2026 elections - and that means making sure our electeds take action, so call them constantly! (thanks to https://www.5calls.org/ )

• Investigate the FAA outage thoroughly. Publicly.
• Oppose harmful provisions in the Bipartisan Affordability and Jobs Act
• Oppose Danielle Thumann Severs for FCC Commissioner
• End the War in Iran and iImpeach or demand the resignation of Hegseth and Miller.
• Stop the corrupt Russian Diesel Deal
• (Federal and State) Publicly investigate the figures in the Epstein files

Find your rep: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Senators: Schiff: 202-224-3841 Padilla: 202-224-3553 (Fresno 559-497-5109 and Sacramento 916-448-2787)

Governor Newsom: 916-445-2841

#politics #democrats #democracy #California #santaclara #USPol #CAPol

Trump says he offered White House press secretary job to Dana White

Petition Calling for House Speaker Other Than Hakeem Jeffries Hits 1 Million Signatures | Common Dreams Make It So

To counter the apparent unwillingness of the mainstream press to give the Green Party of England & Wales the coverage its five Parliamentary seats deserve, I'll be publicising more of their statements in the future. So, here's Siân Berry who holds the party’s Work and Pensions brief, on the proposals to revive cuts to disability benefits (albeit reframed to make them look 'better' to Labour MPs). #disability #politics #greens

The problem in discussions of youth unemployment & NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) is the assumption that the blame for their plight lies with them; if only they'd get their act together, they'd find jobs & other opportunities. However, actually the UK's labour market is managed to keep a relatively high level of unemployment to reduce wages, firms don't train because of cost-cutting & entry level jobs are falling due to AI! Stop the victim blaming! #NEETs #workers #politics

Trump orders DOJ to look into Democrats for 'threatening' people WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump ordered the US Justice Department on Saturday to look into Democrats for “threatening a lot of people” with impeachment and other ​forms of punishment, saying in a social media post that their actions amount ‌to a “criminal act,” without providing evidence. Democratic candidates routed Trump’s Republicans in midterm elections on Tuesday, giving them control of Congress starting in January. Party leaders have promised to reassert Congress’ oversight of the executive branch once ​they are in power by holding hearings and conducting investigations into Trump administration actions. In ​his post, Trump accused Democrats of sending “threatening letters to many people, all innocent.” Members ⁠of Congress have released copies of letters seeking documents on matters such as tech company donations ​for the large ballroom Trump is building at the White House. Trump’s post also referred to Democratic ​Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, who suggested in remarks last month at the University of Chicago that Congress should investigate people who have enabled Trump’s policies.

After the Midterms, the Average Age in the Senate Falls to 63 Incoming senators are nearly 15 years younger than departing ones, on average. But the chamber’s overall age isn’t shifting much. Nov. 7, 2026Updated 3:17 p.m. ET When the new Senate convenes in January, it will welcome some (relatively) young new legislators. A few are even millennials, including James Talarico of Texas, 37, and Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan, 42, two Democrats who may have energized young voters to turn out. But their effect on the average age of the Senate — which has crept up over the last few decades — will be small. The senators of the 120th Congress will be less than a year younger, on average, than the Senate’s current members were at the start of the 119th Congress two years ago. That’s because so many sitting senators are old, and getting older. These numbers assume that Mary Peltola and Scott Colom will win their races in Alaska and Mississippi; they were both ahead in the vote count Saturday. (If both lose, the Senate’s average age will land at 63.6.)

Armed man arrested near White House after saying voices told him to kill Trump

Trump replaces Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff

Dominicans call for a community vigil following ICE raids in Puerto Rico: “Silence is not an option” The Fuerza del Pueblo Party on the island will gather tomorrow, Sunday, on Borinquen Avenue in Barrio Obrero

Chuck Schumer Is on Track to Become Senate Majority Leader After Election Blowout Last year, Democratic interest groups and voters berated Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, for backing off a spending fight with President Trump rather than forcing a government shutdown early in his term. Activists called for Mr. Schumer’s ouster. Some Democratic lawmakers seethed. Protesters jeered outside his Brooklyn home. The outcry reached such a pitch that he postponed public appearances to promote a new book he had written and hunkered down amid questions about whether he could continue as the Democratic leader. Twenty months later and in the wake of a sweeping electoral victory he engineered and funded, Mr. Schumer’s aides say he has locked down another term in that post, having secured commitments of support from enough Democratic senators to be elected majority leader in a private vote scheduled for next month.

Hakeem Jeffries Approval Rating Worse Than Mike Johnson as Democratic Voters Rebel - Newsweek Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, also a New York Democrat, had the worst numbers of the four congressional leaders, 24 percent approval against 54 percent disapproval. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, had the lowest approval at 21 percent, but fewer voters disapproved of him at 46 percent.

MAGA pastor calls for 'another January 6' after humiliating loss Republicans across the country are not taking their historic midterm beatdown in stride, and according to a recent report from Right Wing Watch, a notably MAGA-linked pastor has taken his despair a step further, calling for “another January 6.” Lorenzo Sewell is the leader of 180 Church, a non-denominational Christian church based in Detroit, and has become increasingly connected with GOP and MAGA politics in the last several years. In 2024, he was a guest speaker at the Republican National Convention, and in 2025, he conducted one of the benedictions at Trump’s second-term inauguration. Recently, reports have even suggested that he is considering running for public office himself as a Republican. Right Wing Watch’s report this week also described Sewell as “an ardent stolen election conspiracy theorist whose obsession with exposing alleged voter fraud has become too extreme even for the Trump White House.” Now, his rejection of election results that are unflattering to Republicans and the MAGA movement has continued, as during an appearance on the “FlashPoint” podcast after the midterm blue wave, he once again called the elections fraudulent and suggested Trump’s followers should rise up against them. Sewell’s argument for why fraud must have taken place in the midterms echoed the common right-wing misconception about elections, often lampooned with the phrase “land doesn’t vote.” Often, conservatives might share electoral maps of certain states with more counties colored red, and argue that this must be an indication that the state should elect Republicans in state-wide races, despite the fact that Democrats tend to win counties that are more heavily populated, giving them the edge. …

White House and DOJ considering arresting journalists over leaks and Stephen Miller is all aboard the plan: report The White House and Department of Justice have reportedly been discussing potentially throwing journalists in jail to reveal the identities of leakers and fresh White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is behind the plan. In an Atlantic report about the exit of Susie Wiles from her chief of staff role at the White House, it was revealed that a plan to jail journalists is in consideration in the administration. Wiles reportedly pushed back on such a plan while Miller gave it his endorsement. According to the report, which cites multiple people familiar with the situation, Donald Trump has been pressing the DOJ to pursue criminal cases against people who leak information to the media on “national security grounds.” Various “tactics” have been discussed, including arresting journalists to push them into revealing their sources.

Trump’s grip on his party is in question as Republicans reel from the midterm wipeout

After the US midterm rout of Trumpism, the world struggles to trust America again For Joe Reeve, the midterm afterglow faded fast. The London startup founder was among the wave around the Trump-weary world awakening to the stunning news that Americans had sharply rejected President Donald Trump’s fist-in-the-eye stewardship of the United States that had started a war with Iran, forged no peace in Ukraine or the Mideast and made gas and food so expensive. Voters, Reeve saw online, had flipped control of both houses of Congress, handing the power to check the president to his rival Democrats. American democracy, 250 years on, had survived the Trump era. But a deep and profound distrust of the United States had survived the vote, too. And from national leaders to aspiring American immigrants, no one seemed confident that change was afoot.

Rep. Lauren Boebert trails Democratic challenger and is running out of ways to make up gap

Buc-Ee's CEO Said He Didn't Want To Operate In Blue States, And Now There's Stores In At Least Five More - Jalopnik

Lauren Boebert Cries Election Fraud as She Trails Behind Democrat Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert’s campaign said that it was “investigating some very unusual voting patterns,” as the MAGA congresswoman was on the brink of losing her reelection bid. As Democrat Eileen Laubacher’s lead over Boebert grew slightly Thursday in the race to represent Colorado’s 4th District, Boebert’s campaign released a statement suggesting foul play. Scott Gessler, the attorney for the campaign, claimed that the votes had been “trending” in Boebert’s favor since election night, “consistently lowering the margin under one percentage point.” “We are investigating some very unusual voting patterns and expect this election to head to a recount, one way or another,” Gessler continued. As of Friday morning, Laubacher was still leading Boebert 48.75 percent to 47.94 percent, with 97 percent reporting. The two candidates had a margin of 3,069 votes, more than three times the automatic recount threshold of 921 votes. Boebert’s campaign could still choose to pay for a recount.