Now that cartoon by Robert Leighton is spot on…especially when you consider the absolutely crazy ass shit Trump has done since the enormous pounding he received on Tuesday.
I see we’ve entered the “fuck everything” stage of things.
At the rate Trump is insane-posting, we're going to get a Truth Social post at 2 am announcing that he has asked Mayor McCheese to replace Marco Rubio as Secretary of State
Disgusting of NYT to describe the most criminal conduct of ICE and the massacre of boatmen on the high seas this way: “Mr. Miller has been the driver of the president’s most muscular actions” Muscular? Despicable spin. http://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/u…
Tiger-and Magpie Hojakdo, a traditional style of Korean folk painting, from the Joseon-period.
Trump’s elevation of Stephen Miller to Chief of Staff is dominating the news today. When I woke up this morning, it was almost the only story highlighted on Memeorandum.com. It certainly is a horrifying development, but I had assumed that Miller was already extremely influential in the White House. Perhaps Susie Wiles was more of a moderating force than I realized. In any case, Wiles is gone now and Miller has the top White House job. He also appears to be on friendly terms with First Lady Natalie Harp. He was seen hobnobbing with her as they made their way to Marine One on the way to Mar-a-Lago for the weekend. Here’s the latest on Miller elevation.
Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, is departing her role days after catastrophic Republican midterm losses in a seismic staff shakeup at the White House. She will be replaced by Stephen Miller, a longtime aide to President Donald Trump who orchestrated his hardline immigration agenda.
The move is the first major personnel shuffling after the midterms, and came after Trump voiced fury at the strategy that led to Republicans decisively losing majorities in the House and Senate, people familiar with the matter said. And the president signaled Friday it will not be the last, telling CBS News “I do” when asked if he intended to fire people.
“I love my Cabinet. I think they’re good. But I’ll be doing maybe a few changes. I don’t want to mention who,” Trump said.
Yet the decision to elevate Miller — one of the most powerful and controversial engineers of Trump’s second term — to the top staff position in the West Wing is a sign the president does not intend to fundamentally change his governing approach.
Trump said Wiles would move to his political operation, adding that she “has done an outstanding job.” And as he departed the White House for an event in Florida Friday, he praised Miller.
“Stephen’s been great, and sometimes in life, you gotta make moves,” Trump told reporters shortly after announcing the staffing shakeup.
“Stephen’s been with me from beginning. He gets it, very good politically, and he’s a very good man,” he added.
I guess so, if you like Nazis who look like Nosferatu. More from the CNN story:
Trump, who initially appeared unfazed by the results of the Tuesday night midterms, has become angrier as he’s watched coverage of the historic losses, according to the people familiar with his response. That sour mood has spread throughout the West Wing, which has become increasingly factionalized in recent days. Aides have described a workplace filled with tension and infighting, likening it to the “knives out” days of Trump’s first term, and Wiles’ departure will likely accelerate the shift in the balance of power in his inner circle….
By Japanese artist Kanako Oguma
As it became clear the president was unhappy with her, Wiles decided to resign, believing he should be able to tap someone to lead his White House that had his confidence, according to a person familiar with her thinking. Wiles had always said she’d remain at the White House until the end of Trump’s second term. But the person familiar noted that Wiles had a tough year personally, given her cancer diagnosis and treatment, saying: “It wasn’t worth her staying in a job Trump was making clear he didn’t want her in.” [….]
Since the midterm wipeout, Trump had heard from several allies and associates who urged him to make changes to his senior staff in response to the losses, a source familiar with the matter said. But the move nonetheless came as a shock to many in the administration, and multiple White House officials told CNN it left them concerned about the rest of Trump’s second term.
“Susie keeps the trains running on time. I don’t know what this looks like moving forward,” one official said.
Another Trump ally called it a “catastrophic loss” for the president.
I guess we’ll have to see how much more influential Miller becomes in the new job. Wiles reportedly didn’t get deeply involved in political issues. Miller will obviously push for more cruel immigration policies.
On Friday, the president ousted his onetime close adviser, Susie Wiles, from the role of White House chief of staff, replacing her with Stephen Miller, his deputy chief of staff. More than any other top adviser, Mr. Miller encouraged an aggressive flexing of executive power when Mr. Trump returned to office.
Mr. Miller has been the driver of the president’s most muscular actions, including the use of increasingly hostile tactics to capture immigrants across the country and the bombing of small boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean that he and Mr. Trump declared constituted a foreign invasion.
The president’s choice sent a clear signal about the posture he intends to strike in his final two years in office and how little he intends to alter his approach in response to the most decisive political rout in half a century. He also put on center stage a figure who had already been a galvanizing target for Democrats intent on using their new powers in Congress to check the administration.
Adult mackerel tabby cat arching its back and hissing alongside a small kitten, created by Korean artist Hyejin
In a social media post, Mr. Miller praised Mr. Trump as “the most transformative political leader” in U.S. history, saying that he had “single-handedly saved America from those who would destroy it.”
“The mission now is more clear than ever: Fight with all of our soul to support our president and defend this magnificent Republic,” he added.
People close to Mr. Miller said he had shown no interest in compromising with congressional Democrats and was ready for a fight over subpoenas and investigations that are expected to emanate from the Hill. His top priority, they said, is rebuilding the fractured MAGA coalition and pursuing policies that will energize the voters who elected Mr. Trump in 2024.
“Stephen is and always has been the eternal flame of the MAGA movement — putting the president’s words and policy into action,” Hunter Morgen, who worked as a deputy to Mr. Miller during the president’s first term and is now a lobbyist at Ballard Partners, wrote in a text message….
While Ms. Wiles made clear she did not consider her job to be protecting the country from the president, as some of his first-term senior aides did, Mr. Miller is far more willing than she ever was to push legal boundaries.
Adam Gabbatt at The Guardian: Stephen Miller, Trump’s incoming chief of staff, pledges ‘total devotion’ to the president.
Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s most controversial aide and the architect of his sweeping immigration crackdown, has lavished praise on the president after his appointment as White House chief of staff.
In his first public remarks since the move was announced, Miller – who begins the role on Monday – pledged “total devotion” to Trump amid concern the administration is now poised to double down on its far-right, nativist immigration agenda.
“If it wasn’t for President Trump the United States of America would not exist right now,” Miller, standing alongside his boss, declared at an event on Friday evening. “This man saved America. He saved our military from collapse. He saved our economy from destruction. He saved our border from annihilation. He saved our country from threats at home and abroad which would have been the end of the American dream for ever.”
Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889) Cat with mouse
His appointment was unveiled after Americans punished Trump’s Republican party in this week’s US midterm elections, unleashing a blue wave that swept through parts of the country where Democrats have not won in decades.
As of Saturday morning, Republicans have lost seven seats in the Senate, and Democrats hold narrow leads in the two races – Alaska and Mississippi – that have yet to be called. Republicans have also lost 42 seats in the House of Representatives, and five governor races.
Despite this extraordinary array of losses nationwide – which senior Republicans including JD Vance have blamed on the Iran war and tariffs, key pillars of Trump’s agenda – Miller praised the president on Friday for having “saved the Republican party from the ash heap of history and has made it stronger, more popular and more resilient than ever before”.
Miller added: “It is the honor of my life to be President Trump’s chief of staff, and I swear to you, and I pledge to you, Mr President, my absolute loyalty, my unwavering commitment, and my total devotion to your success and the success of this country.” [….]
Miller’s appointment has been met with dismay by Democrats and some Republicans, with Marlin Stutzman, the Republican congressman from Indiana, describing the move as a “horrible decision” in comments to Politico.
Don Bacon, the outgoing Republican congressman from Nebraska, predicted that Miller will “have an antagonistic relationship with many”, telling CNN: “He cost us seats in Texas and Arizona by alienating many Hispanic voters who voted for Trump in 2024.”
In the days before MAGA’s midterm disaster, President Trump began complaining about his presidency. He felt stuck. The war in Iran wouldn’t end. Inflation wouldn’t subside. Little was going his way. But in the president’s mind, there was one exception: “Stephen is the only one who gets stuff done,” Trump repeatedly griped, a person close to the White House told us. “I need more people who get stuff done.”
Stephen Miller, one of the president’s hardest-charging and longest-serving aides, had managed to maintain Trump’s trust, even though he is the architect of the administration’s sweeping mass-deportation campaign that many in the GOP blame, in part, for the Republicans’ historic wipeout this week. Today, Trump announced that Miller would replace Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, completing his decade-long journey from congressional staffer to the most powerful aide in Washington.
Where Wiles served as something of a guardrail—making sure Trump was fully briefed and that he understood the risks and pitfalls of any decision—Miller has played the role of an accelerant for a president who already has rash tendencies. One issue on which Wiles and Miller seem to diverge: how to force journalists to reveal their sources in the government. Trump has pushed the Department of Justice to pursue criminal-leak investigations on national-security grounds, and there have been discussions in the White House and at DOJ about various tactics they could use—including arrests—as part of those efforts, according to three people familiar with the matter. Two of those people said that Wiles had pushed back. Miller, though, was in favor and insisted that it wouldn’t take long for journalists to give up their sources, they told us. A DOJ spokesperson told us via text that “this is absolutely false” but declined to elaborate. A White House spokesperson told us in a statement that unauthorized leaks will “NEVER be tolerated” and those responsible “must be held accountable.”
One person familiar with Trump’s decision to elevate Miller told us that the president wants somebody who “will crack skulls,” adding that Trump “doesn’t want to be reined in.” Another described Miller as someone with significant Capitol Hill experience who could manage the coming clashes with Democrats. White House officials have held high-level conversations in recent days, including with Miller, about areas where they can work with Democrats. But another person familiar with Trump’s thinking said there was no need for a chief of staff who could work the Hill to pass legislation, because nothing was going to get done. “The next two years are going to be nonstop political warfare,” this person told us—and Miller can be the face of that fight.
Cat and Yellow butterfly, Xu Beihong, Chinese artist
This is a very interesting article. I hope you’ll use the gift link to read the whole thing. Here’s just a bit more on Miller:
Miller has been with Trump from the beginning. He was an aide to Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who became the first senator to endorse Trump’s 2016 campaign. Before long, Miller was designing policy proposals—particularly those that reflected his hard-line immigration views—and sometimes appearing as a fiery warm-up act at Trump’s rallies. He co-authored the first term’s so-called Muslim ban, became known for his high-volume and belligerent TV interviews defending Trump, and was one of the few staffers to navigate the often-competing power centers in the dysfunctional West Wing. (In both terms, he has remained well liked by colleagues, who appreciate his straightforwardness and dry sense of humor.) Miller oversaw the writing of the speech that Trump delivered from the Ellipse on January 6, 2021, ahead of the Capitol insurrection, and his influence only grew during Trump’s four years out of power. Miller used that time to help write Project 2025, a playbook for Trump’s return to the White House that included a broad expansion of executive power.
At the core of Miller’s agenda was a sweeping deportation program. Masked ICE agents detained people in quiet neighborhoods and Home Depot parking lots, while Miller demanded that dramatic deportation quotas be met. Americans, polling showed, began to view the tactics as extreme, particularly after the killing of two Americans in Minneapolis early this year. Trump’s political team has privately blamed Miller’s aggressive immigration policy in part for the defeat on Tuesday, because violent ICE clashes and ethnic profiling on the streets have alienated both Latino voters and moderate independents.
Miller has already been operating as a de facto chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security and the president’s mass-deportation campaign. He hosts conference calls six days a week with top officials from agencies across the government who are enlisted to help ICE with the crackdown. Officials who participate in the calls say that Miller often berates staff who disappoint him or lack the information he wants. The White House press office promised in a statement tonight that Miller “will continue to deliver historic successes for the American people.”
And there’s this:
Recently, Trump had begun telling people close to him that he was considering changing his immigration emphasis, recognizing that although voters supported his tough border-security stance, ICE’s brutal approach to rounding up undocumented immigrants, including those who are not criminals, was provoking a backlash. Trump had begun to hear from business owners about their employees being deported, along with the nannies and tutors of friends, and he was open to pivoting. Miller, as his chief of staff, will now directly oversee the policy debate, a shift from his role as the resident immigration hawk in the White House.
Immigration policy definitely won’t get kinder and gentler with Miller in charge.
Industries that rely heavily on immigrant labor decried President Donald Trump’s promotion of his chief architect of deportations on Friday, just days after millions of Americans signaled anger about such policies.
The elevation of Stephen Miller to chief of staff, starting Monday, left some leaders of groups representing the agriculture and construction sectors gobsmacked.
Byeon Sang-byeok, Japanese artist, mid-18th Century
“When I got a text message, ‘Hey, have you heard about Stephen Miller?,’ my first thought was: Thank goodness he was let go,” said Chris Herr, president of PennAg Industries Association, which represents farmers and pork and poultry producers. Many of his members helped propel Trump to victory in 2024 but have soured on the president, as some farmers reel from the loss of workers to immigration enforcement, he said.
“The wild card now is what is the president going to do?” Herr said. “Is he going to be engaged, or is the Stephen Miller policy going to rule the day?”
Last month, more than 40 farmers and agricultural industry groups wrote to Trump and congressional leaders, warning that the immigration crackdown was hitting the nation’s food supply, hurting farmers and risking higher grocery prices. The letter marked a strategy shift for an industry that had been reluctant to publicly criticize the immigration raids, preferring to lobby the administration behind the scenes. About 66 percent of the country’s farmworkers are foreign-born.
“Time will tell if Stephen Miller continues to wreck the economy, destroy families, tarnish the Republican political coalition and obliterate Trump’s legacy,” said Rebecca Shi, chief executive of the American Business Immigration Coalition, a bipartisan group that lobbies for immigration reform on Capitol Hill, which organized the letter.
For months, immigration raids have targeted construction sites across South Texas, resulting in significant project delays and labor shortages that helped deliver Democrats historic victories up and down the ballot in the Lone Star State this week.
There’s quite a bit more commentary on the Miller appointment from business people at the link, and none of it is positive.
Several Republican lawmakers are fuming over President Donald Trump’s elevation of Stephen Miller to be his chief of staff.
“Horrible decision,” Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., told Fox News Digital on Friday after Trump announced his decision.
A Republican lawmaker who was granted anonymity to speak candidly said they were in “utter disbelief.”
Tensions were rising against Miller in the wake of Republicans’ terrible performance in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Multiple House Republicans who spoke with Fox News Digital just moments before his promotion said Miller, who spearheads Trump’s immigration policy, should be fired.
When later asked about his promotion, one House Republican who said Miller should be fired replied simply with a facepalm emoji….
The second GOP lawmaker told Fox News Digital that Miller ignored multiple warnings from House Republicans in the past, arguing that Trump’s immigration crackdown is what voters asked for.
Another Hojakdo Tiger and Magpie painting
“I’ve been in several group meetings where a lot of us have told him, ‘Your immigration enforcement policies are backfiring back home, our people are mad, our businesses are mad — even in deep red districts — and it is impacting not just the voters, but the donors, and everybody top to bottom,” that GOP lawmaker said. “But it looked to me like Stephen Miller was only after numbers … he would not listen to us.”
Other Republicans who spoke with Fox News Digital also criticized Miller but did not go as far as to say he should be fired.
“I think he’s greatly hurt the administration and cost us many seats on Tuesday,” retiring Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., told Fox News Digital before news of Miller’s promotion broke. “He took an immigration policy that favored the president 2:1 in the public, over-reached and made it 2:1 unfavorable.”
“Many Republicans don’t like him,” Bacon added when asked about his promotion.
President Donald Trump’s decision to make Stephen Miller the White House chief of staff followed a weeks-long lobbying effort from Katie Miller, his wife.
Katie Miller told people to call the president on her husband’s behalf if they believed that he was better than other potential successors to Susie Wiles, according to two people with direct knowledge of her role, who, like others in this story, spoke on condition of anonymity.
Some of the names Trump discussed privately over the last month were Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Steve Witkoff, the president’s special envoy, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Randy Levine, the president of the New York Yankees. Lee Zeldin and Sergio Gor were also floated, according to two people close to the White House.
One White House adviser, granted anonymity to speak about sensitive matters, said the prospect of Pulte in charge had alarmed many inside the administration…
Katie Miller’s persuasion campaign unfolded even as the White House furiously denied that Trump was considering replacing Susie Wiles….
Katie Miller’s advocacy in support of her husband intensified after the election. She made half a dozen calls to people close to Trump, including Scott Bessent and multiple people close to Vice President JD Vance, according to two people familiar with the calls.
Sorry to hit you with such a repulsive subject on the weekend. But we do need to know what we’re dealing with. Obviously, Trump is getting more delusional if he thinks listening to Stephen Miller will help him. I just hope he doesn’t put Miller in charge and focus full time on his decorating obsessions.
Take care everyone! At least we know we’ll have a Democratic Congress pretty soon.
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Good Day, Sky Dancers!
It looks like the chickens are either coming home to roost or scattering elsewhere. I really hope we can learn from this and move forward. It looks like we’re finally filling our governments, both federal and local, with the voices of We the People instead of a few inbred throwbacks to the Gilded Age.
The real first business of the House should be to get rid of Dark Money and the funding of politicians — and their appointments —that benefit from the corruption it causes. And in case you’re wondering, all the Republicans, Democrats, and Independents who voted for change shared one top motivating reason. It was the overwhelming Government Corruption that exists at all levels. The Trump Family Crime Syndicate was just so obvious it couldn’t be ignored by the vast majority of Americans.
The Trump Regime has many targets we must take down. You can smell the scent of Congressional hearings in the air. The first on the list is one that even Trump recognizes is a big liability for him and an opportunity to shift blame. The self-anointed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, sees the chickens coming for him. Between forcing Evangelical White Patriarchal Christianity on our military and getting rid of anyone who doesn’t match that wet dream, and mishandling the entire Iran War started by Israel debacle, he should spend the rest of his days sucking his thumb in a padded cell.
This analysis of Hegseth and the Democratically held House’s plan for him is from Greg Sargent, writing for The New Republic. “Transcript: Trump Shivs Hegseth in Weird Aside as GOP Knives Come Out. With Pete Hegseth on thin ice, Rep. Adam Smith, the next Armed Services Committee chair, explains in an interview how Democrats will work to end Trump’s illegal war—and defund it if necessary.” This is a very good start.
Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.
Donald Trump’s war on Iran played a major role in the GOP’s massive electoral drubbing this week, and as a result, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is in serious trouble. Donald Trump just defended him, but then in a strange aside seemed to suggest he’s vulnerable. Meanwhile, Republicans and Trump allies really have their knives out for Hegseth, and the campaign to remove him appears serious. He even faces an impeachment vote next week.
But we want to get into what the Democratic Congress can really do about Hegseth’s disastrous reign. So we’re talking to Congressman Adam Smith of Washington State, the incoming chair of the House Armed Services Committee. Congressman, thanks so much for coming on.
Adam Smith: Well, thanks for having me, Greg. It’s always a pleasure.
Sargent: So, on Hegseth’s tenuous position, ABC News’ Jonathan Karl spoke to the president and reported Thursday that Trump said, “I have every intention to keep him.”
But Trump said people unhappy with Hegseth aren’t contacting him, saying, “I get these calls about him. I don’t understand why.”
And Trump even admitted it would be easier to confirm a new defense secretary before Dems control the Senate next year.
Congressman, this is how Trump turns on people, with talk like this. You’ve been around the Pentagon a long time. How do you read it?
Smith: I think it’s 50-50 that Trump does get rid of Hegseth for the reasons you stated. And also because the Iran war has been a complete disaster. Trump needs a fall guy. And we all know Trump’s not going to take personal responsibility for it.
So Hegseth would be convenient, and deservedly so. Hegseth was a cheerleader for this and a lot of the disastrous decisions that have been made going into it, Hegseth has been right in the middle of. So I think that’s a distinct possibility.
The other thing to weigh here is that on Wednesday the motion by Congressman Massie is ripe for a vote. And by every estimation, it will pass and he will be impeached. And off that goes to the Senate. Then the Senate is legally required to spend all of their time dealing with that until it’s done with.
Sargent: That’s going to be quite a scene. And MS NOW reports that Trump has been asking allies what they think about Hegseth, and some of them are pushing for a replacement. One official says, “There’s a lot of people who want his scalp, and they smell blood in the water.”
This looks real to me, Congressman. What are you hearing from inside the Pentagon? Is there consternation?
Smith: Yeah, well, we don’t hear a lot from inside the Pentagon. I can tell you, from inside the military more broadly, yes. There are people who have been concerned with the way Pete Hegseth has been running the department. And it comes down to politicization of it, first of all.
And second of all, it’s become so much about personality. Look, there is a professionalism within the military. And that’s not that there aren’t people who serve in the military who don’t have strong political views one way or the other. There certainly are. But they’ve always put those aside in favor of the job, the mission, and working together.
Pete Hegseth has not done that. I mean, he’s had those two, you know, ridiculous forums where he brought every flag officer together to give a pep rally of sorts, in which he seems to be obsessed with physical appearance more than with actual results.
We’ve had the firings that, from what we’ve heard, in many instances people have no idea why they happened. Hegseth is the first secretary of defense ever to directly involve himself in mid-level promotion decisions, you know, to go in and cross off names.
So all of that, I think, has had a very negative effect on morale within the Pentagon. And look, none of this is to say that there aren’t some people, I’m sure, in the military who love Hegseth and love what he does. But dissatisfaction within the Pentagon about his leadership is high, from what we have heard, or what we’ve been told.
Sargent: I’m sure it is. I’m sure there would be a lot of people who’d like to see him go.
The Iran war has cost $47 billion so far. Trump is still talking about a major attack. Have you been briefed on what the attack is? Senator Murphy says it’s “insane.” Is he right?
Smith: Yeah, I mean, look, they haven’t briefed us consistently on this from the very start. They have been doing attacks in the last few days, last few weeks.
What isn’t widely understood is, for months now, we have been engaged in a major military operation to secure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Now, yeah, we’re up close to, like, 80 percent of traffic of what was there before the war. But it’s costing us an enormous amount of money to protect those ships coming through, and to bomb potential missile launchers and missiles that Iran’s trying to build. So it’s become very, very expensive.
As usual, there is more at the link. Some of the best news is the number of corrupt and political prosecutors who are leaving the building. This is from Matt Cohen writing for Democracy Docket. “Prosecutor leading Trump’s ‘grand conspiracy’ investigation into Democrats resigns.”
Jason Reding Quiñones, the top prosecutor investigating an alleged “grand conspiracy” by Democrats against President Donald Trump, has resigned.
As United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Quiñones was tasked with a wide-ranging probe into top Democrats and high-profile Trump foes who the president alleged conspired to sabotage his first term. The investigation also targeted officials who led the criminal investigation of Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Quiñones’ departure likely signals the end of the politically motivated investigation.
Another important resignation happened yesterday. This is from The Independent. “Trump’s ally and DOJ civil rights chief resigns after embarrassing midterm losses
Harmeet Dhillon resigns from Justice Department’s storied civil rights division after embarrassing GOP losses.” Alex Woodward has the story.
Harmeet Dhillon — who steered the agency away from critical missions like protecting voting rights, police oversight and combating racial discrimination during her 18 months at the Justice Department — submitted her resignation Thursday.
“She has defended the civil liberties of every American and enforced the law without fear or favor,” Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Thursday.
“The Department is grateful for her dedicated public service, and we wish her every success in her future endeavors,” he added.
Dhillon, an attorney who supported the president’s efforts to reverse his election loss in 2020 and joined his “election integrity” team in 2024, had refocused the Civil Rights Division to investigate what she called “woke ideology,” including transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports, “anti-Christian bias,” and institutions with diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, among other culture war issues that departed from the department’s core mission to combat discrimination and protect the rights of historically marginalized groups.
In her resignation letter to the president, Dhillon said she told White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in October that she was planning to leave the administration. “I resigned three weeks ago, and Susie asked me to please wait until after the midterms,” she told Fox News.
Further analysis of this horrible appointment can be found at Mother Jones. “The DOJ Official Who Spent 19 Months Terrorizing Colleges Is Resigning. Harmeet Dhillon turned the Civil Rights Division into a weapon against DEI, and she’s leaving after the GOP’s midterm rout.” This story is reported by Sonel Cutler.
Misery loves company, and for the past 19 months, American colleges have had plenty of both, largely thanks to Harmeet K. Dhillon, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, who has spent her entire tenure treating campuses like crime scenes.
Dhillon undid years of diversity, equity, and inclusion work at more than 300 colleges by launching aggressive investigations, lawsuits, and pressure campaigns. Now she’s leaving because she didn’t get a promotion.
Dhillon had become increasingly frustrated that she had not been promoted to a higher post, MS NOW reported. She told the administration before the midterms that she planned to step down after the election.
“Serving my country as AAG for Civil Rights has been the honor of a lifetime,” Dhillon wrote Thursday on X. “We ushered in the downfall of illegal DEI, we fought to protect women and girls’ sports, and so much more.”
She’s being modest. Under Dhillon, the Justice Department stopped investigating accusations of systemic racism or sexism and declined to investigate ICE officers’ fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this year. Tasked with protecting the rights of people with disabilities, Dhillon has also used the r-word in casual social media posts.
Dhillon also turned the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department—created to repair the injustices of Jim Crow—into a relentless legal sledgehammer aimed at universities with programs that uplifted marginalized groups.
Since starting the job in April 2025, Dhillon has bragged about opening more than 100 investigations into university admissions practices, accusing colleges of discrimination for maintaining race-conscious programs and of antisemitism for allowing pro-Palestinian activism on campus.
In a way, she was wildly successful. Since 2024, more than 300 campuses have eliminated DEI requirements, closed DEI offices, removed diversity statements from hiring processes, and changed or removed their DEI policies.
“She has corrupted [the Civil Rights Division’s] mission,” Vanita Gupta, a former head of the DOJ civil rights division under President Joe Biden, told the New York Times in August.
There will be more news undoubtedly, on what’s going on with Toddy Blanche’s massive political operation as AG. Kathryn Wilkens of MEDIAITE has this development concerning Blanche and possible impeachment motions. “Two House Democrats Advocate Impeaching AG Todd Blanche — And One Sees a Possible Path to Conviction in New Senate.”
Two House Democrats are already discussing impeaching Attorney General Todd Blanche following their party’s sweeping midterm victories Tuesday, with one suggesting there could even be enough votes in the Senate to convict him.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) told Mediaite founder Dan Abrams on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s The Dan Abrams Show that Blanche should be removed from office over his handling of the Justice Department.
The conversation followed Democrats’ crushing defeat of Republicans on Tuesday, which gave them control of both the House and Senate.
Abrams asked Johnson what the newly-empowered Congress could do to rein in the DOJ’s political retribution campaign.
“I personally believe that the offenses of Todd Blanche demand that he be impeached and convicted and removed from office,” Johnson said. “That’s my personal opinion. I think his efforts to undermine the rule of law can’t go unaddressed.”
Abrams then brought on Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC) and asked whether she agreed.
“100%,” Ross replied. “But I think we should start with Hegseth.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces a potential impeachment vote as soon as next week, with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) spearheading the effort.
“I can’t imagine we won’t have one,” she said, though, of a Blanche impeachment resolution.
Ross suggested the Democrats’ expanded Senate majority could change the calculus for convictions, noting that previous Trump impeachments failed to secure enough Senate votes.
And of course, Orange Caligula does what Orange Caligula likes best, besides checking out men’s butts. “Trump focuses on White House decor for second straight day in post-midterm remarks. The president signed a proclamation that he said would prevent major changes to the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room by future presidents without congressional approval.” This story is from NBC NEWS. Such an important task at hand that! Kyla Guilfoil has the lede.
President Donald Trump is using his postelection public appearances to talk about the lasting physical changes he hopes to leave behind at the White House.
In the two days since Republicans suffered massive losses in the midterm elections, Trump has spoken twice in public. Both times he focused on rooms and renovations at the White House.
On Thursday, Trump signed a proclamation that designates the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room as a national monument in an effort to block any significant changes to them by future presidents.
“We’re going to be declaring it a national monument, and we’re going to send it over to Congress to have it ratified,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “It won’t be able to be taken down, destroyed, touched or anything else.”
Trump, who later took questions from reporters about other topics, said any “major modifications” to the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room would have to be approved by Congress, adding that he hopes “the people in Congress will be smart enough not to let that happen.”
The White House has officially been a U.S. National Historic Landmark since 1960. Trump wrote in the proclamation that “the Oval Office merits specific recognition and protective management as a discrete historic structure of national significance.”
The signing ceremony came a day after Trump spoke to reporters at the construction site for the new White House ballroom he’s building. Even though it was his first time addressing the media publicly after the Democrats swept several seats in deep red states to secure control of Congress, he focused his comments on the ballroom.
“I’m doing it because the White House is the ultimate symbol of America and it’s got to be pristine — it’s got to be perfect,” Trump said, adding that he felt “it would be appropriate to have the media here.”
Wow, that really tops the nation’s problems and priorities, doesn’t it? So, what do we do with a problem like Elon? MS NOW reports that some Democratic Congress Critters have some ideas. “Democrats’ new idea for fighting Elon Musk’s influence is a good one. Closing the “Elon Musk loophole” is a smart way to advance the cause of cracking down on corruption.”
Zeeshan Aleem has the story.
Now that Democrats will have control of Congress, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., are reportedly looking to close what they call the “Elon Musk loophole.” It’s an idea that is worth serious consideration.
The lawmakers’ idea is to block titans of industry from trying to sway elections while benefiting from contracts with the federal government. Such a law wouldn’t end ultrawealthy donors’ ability to buy politicians, but it would at least block one of the most baldly unethical forms of political influence.
“If you ask the normal person on the street whether it reeks of corruption for a CEO or big corporate shareholder to spend boatloads of money to elect members of Congress who will then ratify billion-dollar federal contracts, I think almost every person would say that stinks,” Van Hollen told The Washington Sun last week.
It’s already illegal for federal contracting companies to donate to federal political campaigns, but the law doesn’t block donations from individuals linked to and profiting from those companies. As Government Executive reports, the new bill, called the Close the Campaign Cash-for-Contracts Loophole Act, “would also bar donations from officers of contracting corporations and their affiliates as well as anyone with at least 5% interest or share in the company.”
Elon Musk runs multiple companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, that have made billions of dollars from federal contracts. Those companies have helped make him the world’s richest person. But since he’s considered a separate entity from his company, he’s not constrained from making donations. And he’s made plenty of use of that freedom. In this election cycle alone, he spent close to half a billion dollars. According to The New York Times, Musk “has given more money during the midterm elections than any donor has ever spent in a single election cycle, apart from wealthy candidates who have funded their own runs for office.”
Again, I think getting rid of this kind of money floating around elections is a high priority. One more fromMother Jones. “America Finally Has the Votes to End the Electoral College, After more than 200 years, the midterm results could change how we pick presidents.” Pema Levy and Ari Berman share the lede.
Tuesday’s wave election swept Democrats into power in Congress. But the most seismic result for American politics and democracy may come out of the battleground states where Democrats just won trifecta control by taking both state houses and the governor’s mansion: Come January, Democratic legislators will have the votes to elect the next president by the popular vote.
State lawmakers could circumvent the Electoral College by enacting what’s known as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Under the current system, each state gets a set number of electors, and the candidate who wins enough states to accumulate at least 270 electoral votes becomes president. This system allows the winner of the popular vote to lose, as Al Gore did in 2000 and Hillary Clinton again in 2016. But the NPVIC would bypass the Electoral College, with each state that enacts the compact awarding its electors to the winner of the national popular vote. The compact would only take effect once states representing a majority of electoral votes sign on, ensuring that the winner of the national popular vote becomes president.
In April, Virginia became the 18th state to join the compact, bringing the total number of electoral votes pledged under the proposal to 222. On Tuesday, Democrats took trifecta control of state governments in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada. That’s 61 electoral votes. Add in Alaska, where late-arriving votes are still being counted, and that’s 64. With Virginia on board, only 48 more votes are needed for the compact to reach 270 votes and take effect. The emerging math means there is a real chance that the next president is selected based on the national popular vote.
That would represent a sea change in American politics. The current Electoral College system violates the basic principle of one person, one vote. Instead of candidates being forced to campaign for every vote, millions of presidential votes in uncompetitive states are effectively wasted in a winner-take-all system. Politicians and donors pour billions of dollars into a handful of battlegrounds, while the votes—and concerns—of most of the country are ignored. “Under the current system, four out of five American voters are on the sidelines,” says Patrick Rosenstiel, a Republican strategist who is advocating for the compact. “Every voter should be politically relevant. Under the current system, they are not.”
So, elections have all kinds of ramifications. If we could really, truly rid the country of all the kinds of things that restrict our votes and democracy, I would be thrilled. Just call me a cockeyed optimist.
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I don’t know where to begin. Last night’s election results exceeded my wildest dreams. Trump is still in the White House, but Democrats will now control both houses of the next Congress. Democrats won races all over the country. With some races still undecided, Democrats now hold 54 seats in the Senate and 228 seats in the House.
After 11 long, horrible years, we finally have an opportunity to restore democracy in America. With control of the House and Senate, Democrats can restore the cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and Obamacare. They can investigate the blatant corruption that has been going on in the Trump administration. They can block Trump’s judicial appointments. They can get rid of his stupid tariffs. They could impeach Pete Hegseth and RFK Jr. Who knows? Some Senate Republicans might even vote to convict.
Here are just a few reactions from the pundits and knowledgeable observers.
The Democratic wave in the congressional elections on Tuesday amounted to a stinging rebuke of a deeply unpopular president after more than a decade in which he has dominated the national stage. More than any of his predecessors, Mr. Trump deliberately made the midterm contest a referendum on himself, only to pay the price.
The electoral backlash extended even into deep red states and indicated that Mr. Trump has lost his hold over the coalition that lifted him to the White House twice. Frustrated by high gas prices, an intractable war with Iran and allegations of flagrant profiteering by Mr. Trump and members of his circle, voters who previously took a chance on an outsider promising change either rejected his party or stayed home.
As of early Wednesday morning, the Democratic margin of victory in the overall national vote for House seats was expected to be about 13 percentage points, the largest that either party has lodged in a congressional election since at least 1976, according to estimates by The New York Times. It will dwarf even the margins that the Republicans won in their two big landslide victories of modern times when they defeated congressional Democrats when Bill Clinton held the White House in 1994 and Barack Obama was president in 2010.
Thanks to redistricting, that margin may not translate into as many seats as the winners gained in those watershed years. Gerrymandered House districts leave far fewer seats available for poaching by the other party than in the past. But the overall margin of Democratic victory indicates that while the president has two more years left in office and can still wield power to great effect, Americans are signaling the beginning of the end of the Trump era.
“It’s basically a repudiation of Trump and the Republicans and what they’ve done for the last two years,” said Douglas B. Sosnik, who was White House political director for Mr. Clinton and closely tracked the races this fall. “I do think starting tomorrow, we’re in this new phase and it’s a transition phase and it will last two years. And it will be much more volatile than the last two years.” [….]
Mr. Trump quickly tried to save face by insisting that the rout by Democrats was not really a rejection of him since he was not actually on the ballot — never mind that he told voters repeatedly to vote as if he were.
In the end, it wasn’t just a wave. It was a wipeout.
A Democrat won a Senate seat in Kansas for the first time since the Herbert Hoover administration. The party picked up Senate seats in Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina. Republicans even fell short in House districts in the South where they had tried to give themselves an edge by drawing new, gerrymandered maps.
A crowd reacts as Senator Jon Ossoff speaks at his victory party.Credit…Nicole Craine for The New York Times
The sweeping Democratic victories on Tuesday night offered a decisive rebuke to President Trump and his aggressive, often chaotic second-term agenda.
The party seized control of both houses of Congress. Voters rejected Republicans in conservative states that supported Mr. Trump by double-digit margins just two years ago, in places that had not seen competitive elections for major seats in decades.
Even some Democrats were stunned by the extent of their wins, which included defeating Greg Abbott, the three-term Republican governor of Texas; and Susan Collins, the five-term Republican senator from Maine.
“It’s a blood bath,” said Dan Sena, who was the executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the last Democratic wave, in 2018. “Democrats are going to be in power in places they haven’t been in power in decades.”
And so the era of one-party rule in Washington ended with a crash, as voters pushed back on high gas prices, an unpopular war in Iran and stubbornly high inflation. As Wednesday dawned, there were signs that the country was entering a new and uncertain political time, in which both parties would be forced to consider how to navigate a post-Trump political era.
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For years, Democrats seemed to compete on a smaller and smaller map, concentrating on fewer states, blue cities and diversifying suburbs and trying to cut their losses in rural America. But Tuesday’s results showed that the last two years had turned off voters even in deep red terrain. For Republicans, the losses were a generational defeat, giving Democrats a foothold from which to build a robust political operation in places that had been long out of reach.
In Seward County, Kan., a majority-Hispanic area, the Democratic Senate candidate, Adam Hamilton, won by double digits. Just two years ago, Mr. Trump won there by 40 percentage points.
In Iowa, a largely agricultural state, Democrats won the governor’s mansion and a U.S. Senate seat and flipped three of the state’s four congressional seats.
And in South Texas, Democrats won three heavily Latino border districts that Republicans had redrawn to be more favorable to their party.
In many states, Democrats ran candidates who offered a decidedly different brand of politics from the “resistance” ethos that characterized their response to Mr. Trump’s first term.
Instead, they focused their message on the deep economic anxiety that has roiled the country, arguing that the president and his Republican allies were enriching themselves while ordinary Americans struggled. Survey after survey showed a majority of voters, and a notable share of Republicans, offering low marks to his signature policies: tariffs, immigration enforcement and the Iran war.
What happened last night was no ordinary election. It was a mass affirmation that most Americans still believe in our nation’s basic values, and a mass rejection of a movement that wants to destroy everything our nation stands for. And no, it wasn’t just economic dissatisfaction.
Yes, Trumpflation created by tariffs and the Iran debacle helped. But an election swung by public anger over high prices looks like 2024, when Trump won the popular vote by 1.5 percentage points. Last night Democrats appear to have won the popular vote by 13 -14 percentage points.
Amy Acton elected Governor of Ohio
What drove this amazing victory? Hispanic voters, who swung to Trump in 2024 in the naïve belief that he would bring prices down, turned massively against a regime that is arresting, imprisoning and deporting their friends and families. Blacks turned out in droves against a transparently racist party that is trying to take away their voting rights. Americans of every kind were repelled by the administration’s cruelty and its rampant, brazen corruption.
After 2024, large swathes of the elite rushed to prostrate themselves before Trump, somehow convincing themselves that the narrow defeat of Democrats in a year when incumbent parties were defeated almost everywhere heralded a permanent transformation of U.S. politics, that corrupt authoritarians peddling hate would rule forever. There’s a lot to be written about why oligarchs in particular were so willing to believe that small-d democratic values were a thing of the past — and one of the main things big-D Democrats need to do now is hold not just Trump’s officials, but also his enablers, accountable. But that’s a topic for another day.
The main point for now is that MAGA took 2024 as proof that Americans want fascism, and acted on that premise. But tens of millions of Americans in effect said, no, that is not what we want. That is not who we are.
The damage done over the last two years is incredible, and I don’t know how much of it can ever be repaired. But there is, at last, hope. For last night America showed that it is still America.
Gas prices, the war in Iran, data centers, health care: Americans have debated all of these subjects for weeks. But something more fundamental than control of Congress was on the ballot in these midterm elections. Americans were also voting to decide whether the United States, 250 years after its founding, would remain a democracy.
President Trump, who tried to overturn the 2020 election, did his best to manipulate this one too. Never before has the federal government demanded voter lists from states, and lost so many court cases in the process. Gerrymandering is an old tradition, but it has never before been directed from the White House. This put real pressure on state Republican leaders to redraw boundaries, in some cases with the deliberate aim of eliminating Black members of Congress. Once, the federal government helped state officials keep elections safe. This year it was the states that had to mount a defense against Washington to protect their constitutional right to run elections.
By now, most of us recognize Trump’s assault on elections as part of a pattern. Since he started his second term, the president has closely followed a playbook originally built by autocratic leaders in places like Hungary and Russia. He began with a full-scale attack on civil servants, universities, the legal profession, and scientists.
He appointed a conspiracy theorist to dismantle America’s public-health system and a narcissistic television host to run the most powerful army in the world. He used regulatory institutions to put pressure on journalists. He turned ICE into a federal paramilitary force. He let Elon Musk cut food aid and medical care for the world’s poor so abruptly and so incompetently that he wasted hundreds of millions of dollars and killed untold numbers of people in the process.
The White House oversaw assaults on America’s foreign broadcasters, cyber defense, counterintelligence. The president used the power of his office to earn money for himself, his family, and his business friends. He undermined America’s alliances, started a war in Iran, and prolonged the Russian invasion of Ukraine through diplomatic incompetence and possibly greed.
James Talarico wins Senate seat in Texas
Through this period of chaos and destruction, the Republican majority in Congress either cheered or remained silent. Instead of asserting the legislative branch’s right to check the president, control the budget, and investigate corruption, congressional leaders let Trump break laws and norms egregiously and continuously. They let the president not only impose illegal tariffs, and therefore raise prices for all Americans, but they also looked the other way when he and his entourage bet money on the stock market while doing so. They refused to block his reckless war in Iran, they refused to restrain ICE even after it killed Americans, and they refused to ask why Musk was given power over agencies that regulate his companies, or why taxes on the wealthiest Americans were cut even as poor Americans lost their health-care benefits.
The next Congress can change this trajectory. Newly elected leaders must not only investigate the president’s worst abuses of power and help Americans recover from his destructive policies, but also restore the health of the political system. We may need to rethink the role of institutions that the president has weakened, or write laws that stop people with deep conflicts of interest from making American foreign policy. We have to confront an AI industry that is unable to control its models, and a health-care system weakened by the president’s reckless policies.
That whooshing, gurgling sound you hear this morning is the power draining out of President Donald Trump’s White House.
The 2026 election results are an electoral humiliation unseen this century. They would be calamitous for any president.
They are even worse for Trump.
Trump is a singular figure in American history, a quasi-strongman leader whose particular brand of presidential power simply cannot coexist with the kind of rout his party faced last night.
Adam Hamilton wins Senate seat in Kansas
His fundamental theory of power is in ruins. The survival of his presidency now depends on him adapting to diminished circumstances in a way he has never done before.
The essential problem for Trump is that his favorite instrument of governing is fear. His second term has been a 22-month exercise in projecting invulnerability and ruthlessness, then presenting powerful people and institutions – even foreign countries – with a choice. Either live peacefully with Trump on his terms or prepare to suffer the consequences.
This proposition, imposed on the world’s largest companies and America’s wealthiest universities and oldest allies, has worked in Trump’s favor more often than not. Faced with a president returned to power from political exile, promising vengeance and brandishing the support of more Americans than had ever voted for him before, so many executives and diplomats and generals and prime ministers chose to submit.
This has been the defining dynamic of elite politics in this chapter of the Age of Trump. That is how Trump has wrangled lavish investment pledges out of foreign nations and tech giants, deterred corporate criticism of his agenda and raised money to fund a new White House ballroom, inspired the NATO secretary-general to call him “daddy” and assembled a gallery of rictus-faced billionaires at his inauguration.
And that’s over now.
The breadth and depth of Republican defeats have shredded the aura of invincibility that any strongman needs: the sense that no matter what his adversaries do and no matter what the courts say, at the end of the day he will still be there, with the apparatus of the state in his grasp, and he will remember the names of his friends and his enemies.
With his political coalition in tatters and Democrats on the march even in Texas and Kansas and South Carolina, Trump doesn’t look so permanent anymore.
Compared to that shift, losing the House and Senate is almost incidental.
I hope that’s true. Read the rest at Politico.
For now, Trump isn’t trying to fight the election results. We’ll see if he sticks to that.
President Trump said on Tuesday night that he was “absolutely willing” to accept the results of the midterm elections, and was prepared to work with Democrats.
“We’ll, you know, look forward to working with them,” he said in a phone interview with The New York Times. “We’ll probably work something out.”
Mr. Trump blamed Republican losses on the fact that he was not on the ballot, and called his decision to go to war with Iran a “very wise decision.”
Troy Jackson defeats Susan Collins in Maine Senate race.
He said he had no regrets about endorsing candidates such as Senator Darline Graham, Republican of South Carolina, and Ken Paxton, the Republican attorney general of Texas, who both lost their Senate bids.
Mr. Trump spoke to The Times shortly before 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, while he was watching election results at the White House. Democrats were on track to take control of the House and the Senate….
In the short conversation with The Times, the president sounded subdued as he absorbed decisive Democratic wins across the country.
But he insisted that he regretted nothing about the first two years of his second term, despite the widespread Republican defeats. “I consider it to be the most successful two-year period in the history of any president,” he said.
Mr. Trump’s pledge to accept the results of the elections followed his sustained efforts over the last year to sow doubt about the security of elections. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security posted a series of social media messages vowing to arrest noncitizen voters, despite the fact that the administration had struggled to find them.
The president’s comments came after he huddled inside the White House’s East Room Tuesday night with some of his top aides, including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Attorney General Todd Blanche and Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, to watch the results come in. Some in attendance described it as a “dark” and “funereal” atmosphere.
With the midterms over, U.S. President Donald Trump is now a lame duck. Second-term presidents who lose control of Congress have to face the reality that the time for signature legislation or other domestic policy initiatives has passed. As they think about their legacy, lame ducks often turn to foreign policy, where the power of the presidency allows them to act unfettered by pesky domestic politics. It is not unusual for a lame duck to reach for a final, lofty goal abroad. U.S. President Bill Clinton, for instance, put great effort into trying to advance a proposal for a final settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the end of his presidency.
Trump’s lame-duck period will not be like those of his predecessors, however. He has already gone through what was widely considered at the time to be a lame-duck phase, between November 2020 and January 2021. He used it to contest the election outcome despite clear evidence that Joe Biden had won. Trump is the first president in the past 100 years to have served two nonconsecutive terms, and therefore the only American leader in living memory to have a second lame-duck period—this time lasting more than two years.
With Democrats soon to be in control of the House and the Senate, the threat of impeachment or investigations into the Trump family’s business dealings will likely make the president feel cornered and angry. And that’s what makes the remainder of Trump’s term so dangerous. A boxed-in Trump, with no obvious constructive foreign policy outlet to channel his energy, may well lash out internationally. And Congress, even if controlled by Democrats, will have little power over his day-to-day management of foreign policy.
There are plenty of ways Trump could act out: issuing fresh threats against Canada, launching new attacks on U.S. alliances, or colluding with Russia or China at the expense of Ukraine or Taiwan. But to turn those threats into policy would require serious effort, such as repositioning U.S. troops or painstakingly negotiating with other great powers.
So…that’s what’s happening today. There will be more assessments in the coming days. We’ll probably have to deal with more insanity from Trump. I doubt if he will really take this lying down. In the meantime, Democrats have won a huge victory, and we have hope that we can still save our democracy.
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The Trump Regime has many targets we must take down. You can smell the scent of Congressional hearings in the air. The first on the list is one that even Trump recognizes is a big liability for him and an opportunity to shift blame. The self-anointed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, sees the chickens coming for him. Between forcing Evangelical White Patriarchal Christianity on our military and getting rid of anyone who doesn’t match that wet dream, and mishandling the entire Iran War started by Israel debacle, he should spend the rest of his days sucking his thumb in a padded cell.
As usual, there is more at the link. Some of the best news is the number of corrupt and political prosecutors who are leaving the building. This is from Matt Cohen writing for Democracy Docket. “Prosecutor leading Trump’s ‘grand conspiracy’ investigation into Democrats resigns.”
Further analysis of this horrible appointment can be found at Mother Jones. “The DOJ Official Who Spent 19 Months Terrorizing Colleges Is Resigning. Harmeet Dhillon turned the Civil Rights Division into a weapon against DEI, and she’s leaving after the GOP’s midterm rout.” This story is reported by Sonel Cutler.
There will be more news undoubtedly, on what’s going on with Toddy Blanche’s massive political operation as AG. Kathryn Wilkens of MEDIAITE has this development concerning Blanche and possible impeachment motions. “Two House Democrats Advocate Impeaching AG Todd Blanche — And One Sees a Possible Path to Conviction in New Senate.”
Wow, that really tops the nation’s problems and priorities, doesn’t it? So, what do we do with a problem like Elon? MS NOW reports that some Democratic Congress Critters have some ideas. “Democrats’ new idea for fighting Elon Musk’s influence is a good one. Closing the “Elon Musk loophole” is a smart way to advance the cause of cracking down on corruption.”
Again, I think getting rid of this kind of money floating around elections is a high priority. One more from Mother Jones. “America Finally Has the Votes to End the Electoral College, After more than 200 years, the midterm results could change how we pick presidents.” Pema Levy and Ari Berman share the lede.
I don’t know where to begin. Last night’s election results exceeded my wildest dreams. Trump is still in the White House, but Democrats will now control both houses of the next Congress. Democrats won races all over the country. With some races still undecided, Democrats now hold 54 seats in the Senate and 228 seats in the House.A crowd reacts as Senator Jon Ossoff speaks at his victory party.Credit…Nicole Craine for The New York Times
Amy Acton elected Governor of Ohio
James Talarico wins Senate seat in Texas
Adam Hamilton wins Senate seat in Kansas
Troy Jackson defeats Susan Collins in Maine Senate race.
