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December 4, 2025
After Proposition 50 passed, which sliced up GOP congressional districts in California, Rep. Darrell Issa said he wasn’t leaving.
After Proposition 50 passed, which sliced up GOP congressional districts in California, Rep. Darrell Issa said he wasn’t leaving.
“I’m not going anywhere. I’ll continue to represent the people of California — regardless of their party or where they live,” the 72-year-old Republican said in a statement sent to SFGATE after the Nov. 4 vote. “I’m not quitting on California. And neither should anyone else,” he reiterated at the time.
With the passage of Prop. 50, California’s congressional districts are now completely rearranged — and five heavily Republican seats have been changed to favor incoming Democratic challengers. For Issa, who was first elected to Congress in 2001, his post-passage statement was a reflection of how consequential the redistricting ballot measure would be to the longevity of his job.
Yet despite having insisted he was “not going anywhere” just one month ago, Punchbowl News reported on Monday that Issa is planning to leave California politics –– and is toying with a congressional run in Texas next year instead.
Darrel Issa considers running for office in Texas due to Calif prop 50
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/darrell-issa-considers-run-in-texas-21221313.phpAfter Proposition 50 passed, which sliced up GOP congressional districts in California, Rep. Darrell Issa said he wasn’t leaving.
After Proposition 50 passed, which sliced up GOP congressional districts in California, Rep. Darrell Issa said he wasn’t leaving.
“I’m not going anywhere. I’ll continue to represent the people of California — regardless of their party or where they live,” the 72-year-old Republican said in a statement sent to SFGATE after the Nov. 4 vote. “I’m not quitting on California. And neither should anyone else,” he reiterated at the time.
With the passage of Prop. 50, California’s congressional districts are now completely rearranged — and five heavily Republican seats have been changed to favor incoming Democratic challengers. For Issa, who was first elected to Congress in 2001, his post-passage statement was a reflection of how consequential the redistricting ballot measure would be to the longevity of his job.
Yet despite having insisted he was “not going anywhere” just one month ago, Punchbowl News reported on Monday that Issa is planning to leave California politics –– and is toying with a congressional run in Texas next year instead.
December 4, 2025
recently released from prison for sexual assault, man slaps woman's backside. ARRESTED
December 3, 2025
It frustrated her that she was unconscious at the most crucial moments — as the surgeon removed each cancerous mass. What if the surgeon said something important, a stray comment that no one bothered to tell her about after the anesthesia wore off? She decided to record her next surgery, on March 7, 2022, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the renowned Manhattan hospital.
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The surgeon removed part of her lung. She did not get around to playing the recording until a few weeks later. Though the audio was muffled, she could follow some of what the surgical team was saying before the procedure began. Someone was going out for coffee — did anyone want something from Starbucks? The conversation then shifted.
“ — still has man parts.”
It seemed to Ms. Capasso that they were talking about her genitalia.
On the recording, the health care workers express a variety of opinions about transgender identity more generally. “Not that it’s not right, but — ” one person can be heard saying. “I don’t get any of it,” another says.
And in the middle of the conversation, one person suggests updating Ms. Capasso’s medical file. “Yeah, it needs to say ‘male,’” the person says.
Ms. Capasso said it appeared that hospital staff had in fact changed her electronic medical records, all while she was unconscious.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/nyregion/transgender-patient-records-during-cancer-surgery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.LmoG.ZKU_j3WH4zPy&smid=url-share
Transgender woman records conversation of surgical staff that occured while she was unconscious
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/nyregion/transgender-patient-records-during-cancer-surgery.htmlIt frustrated her that she was unconscious at the most crucial moments — as the surgeon removed each cancerous mass. What if the surgeon said something important, a stray comment that no one bothered to tell her about after the anesthesia wore off? She decided to record her next surgery, on March 7, 2022, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the renowned Manhattan hospital.
_____
The surgeon removed part of her lung. She did not get around to playing the recording until a few weeks later. Though the audio was muffled, she could follow some of what the surgical team was saying before the procedure began. Someone was going out for coffee — did anyone want something from Starbucks? The conversation then shifted.
“ — still has man parts.”
It seemed to Ms. Capasso that they were talking about her genitalia.
On the recording, the health care workers express a variety of opinions about transgender identity more generally. “Not that it’s not right, but — ” one person can be heard saying. “I don’t get any of it,” another says.
And in the middle of the conversation, one person suggests updating Ms. Capasso’s medical file. “Yeah, it needs to say ‘male,’” the person says.
Ms. Capasso said it appeared that hospital staff had in fact changed her electronic medical records, all while she was unconscious.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/nyregion/transgender-patient-records-during-cancer-surgery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.LmoG.ZKU_j3WH4zPy&smid=url-share
December 3, 2025
"No, no, it’s not tariffs,” Lutnick said when asked whether President Donald Trump’s import duties explained Wednesday morning’s report from ADP, which revealed an unexpected 32,000-worker drop in the labor market.
That decline, a sharp turnabout from October, was led by businesses with fewer than 50 workers, which saw their payroll numbers sink by 120,000. Larger businesses, meanwhile, reported a net gain of 90,000 workers.
“Remember, you had the Democratic shutdown, right? And what do you think happens to small business? The people who do business with the U.S. government, they know they’re not getting paid, so they sort of slow down their projects,” Lutnick said.
“So you saw a little bit, even, of construction small business down. So the Democratic shutdown hurt the numbers,” he said.
Bad jobs report caused by "Democrat's shutdown", deportations -- not tariffs, Lutnick says
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/lutnick-jobs-tariffs-shutdown-immigration-adp.html"No, no, it’s not tariffs,” Lutnick said when asked whether President Donald Trump’s import duties explained Wednesday morning’s report from ADP, which revealed an unexpected 32,000-worker drop in the labor market.
That decline, a sharp turnabout from October, was led by businesses with fewer than 50 workers, which saw their payroll numbers sink by 120,000. Larger businesses, meanwhile, reported a net gain of 90,000 workers.
“Remember, you had the Democratic shutdown, right? And what do you think happens to small business? The people who do business with the U.S. government, they know they’re not getting paid, so they sort of slow down their projects,” Lutnick said.
“So you saw a little bit, even, of construction small business down. So the Democratic shutdown hurt the numbers,” he said.
December 3, 2025
See every angle of Trump's nap / cabinet meeting
Lol...at link..
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/see-every-angle-donald-trump-093741728.html
December 3, 2025
No human being should be called "garbage." But Trump's second term is trashing our country
In the Cabinet Room yesterday, President Trump said that Somali-Americans are “garbage” and that he wants them out of the United States.
No president has ever spoken like this to the American people. Not one. We’ve had good presidents and bad presidents. Great leaders and party hacks. Crooks, liars, and lechers; brave heroes, visionaries, kind men. None of them were saints; each brought to the office their unique strengths—and their inner demons, too.
But all of them, to one degree or another, sought to maintain a sense of decency and dignity in the only office designed by our Founders to represent the whole American nation. That high honor chastened most of them in their rhetoric, inspired some to soaring leadership, and drew at least an outer boundary of public speech for presidents.
This ethic of presidential rhetoric isn’t some prissy, schoolmarmish rule. It is a quintessentially American act of respect for the people of this country, an acknowledgment in the semi-formal diction of public pronouncements by presidents that the power any president holds does not, in fact, belong to him. It’s ours. He works for us.
But Donald Trump is a megalomaniac, and he acknowledges no boundaries. That is disgraceful, of course. It is also dangerous—and exhausting. We are all living inside the mind of this broken, ferocious man.
© 2025 Terry Moran
548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104
Posted today in substack. Sorry..no link
Terry Moran "We are all living inside the mind of this broken, ferocious man"
Dragging America Down to His LevelNo human being should be called "garbage." But Trump's second term is trashing our country
In the Cabinet Room yesterday, President Trump said that Somali-Americans are “garbage” and that he wants them out of the United States.
No president has ever spoken like this to the American people. Not one. We’ve had good presidents and bad presidents. Great leaders and party hacks. Crooks, liars, and lechers; brave heroes, visionaries, kind men. None of them were saints; each brought to the office their unique strengths—and their inner demons, too.
But all of them, to one degree or another, sought to maintain a sense of decency and dignity in the only office designed by our Founders to represent the whole American nation. That high honor chastened most of them in their rhetoric, inspired some to soaring leadership, and drew at least an outer boundary of public speech for presidents.
This ethic of presidential rhetoric isn’t some prissy, schoolmarmish rule. It is a quintessentially American act of respect for the people of this country, an acknowledgment in the semi-formal diction of public pronouncements by presidents that the power any president holds does not, in fact, belong to him. It’s ours. He works for us.
But Donald Trump is a megalomaniac, and he acknowledges no boundaries. That is disgraceful, of course. It is also dangerous—and exhausting. We are all living inside the mind of this broken, ferocious man.
© 2025 Terry Moran
548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104
Posted today in substack. Sorry..no link
December 3, 2025
Another Trump pardon to make Trump look less guilty
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump pardoned Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case on Wednesday, citing what he called a “weaponized” justice system.
Trump, who has argued that his own legal troubles were a partisan witch hunt, said on social media without presenting evidence that Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, were prosecuted because the congressman had been critical of President Joe Biden’s immigration policies.
Trump, a Republican, said in a social media post that Cuellar “bravely spoke out against Open Borders” and accused Biden, a Democrat, of going after the congressman and his wife “simply for speaking the TRUTH.”
Federal authorities had charged Cuellar and his wife with accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for the congressman advancing the interests of an Azerbaijan-controlled energy company and a bank in Mexico. Cuellar is accused of agreeing to influence legislation favorable to Azerbaijan and deliver a pro-Azerbaijan speech on the floor of the U.S. House.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pardon-cuellar-45a47bc329bec820cd19c087b20fca19
December 3, 2025
00:00 - 2:15: Introduction
2:15 - 2:57: Life inside a detention center
2:57 - 3:40: 'Where is my father?'
3:40 - 7:16: When small towns become financially reliant on ICE
7:16 - 9:17: Three main ways ICE acquires detention space
9:17 - 12:08: Due process in ICE detention
12:08 - 14:01: Operating a private detention center in rural America
14:01 - 16:00: Reuniting after months of separation
16:00 - 17:36: Financial costs and expansion of detention
17:36 - 19:26: Life after detention
19:26 - 20:31: Responses from private prison operators and credits
Like many of the other men on his flight from Miami to Albuquerque, Jose Ventura Rubio never expected to find himself in an ICE jail in rural New Mexico. Ventura Rubio had tried to enter the country in mid-February after flying from Honduras to Miami, thinking his green card was still valid. He didn't realize he had failed to maintain a residency requirement that made him vulnerable to deportation.
Under previous administrations, Ventura Rubio likely could have made his case in immigration court while living and working at home. But President Donald Trump has made detention the default for tens of thousands of people fighting immigration cases.
It's also created a scenario where a growing number of US communities are convinced their financial survival depends on locking up immigrants.
Struggling small towns are at the center of Trump’s mass deportation campaign, spearheaded by ICE. In one rural New Mexico county, officials say they are grappling with the tradeoff presented by the financial benefits and human cost of being an “ICE town.”
Read how much Ventura Rubio's detention and deportation cost here: bloom.bg/49QmBtC
&list=TLPQMDMxMjIwMjVG0s7TFWyyiw&index=9
How Trump's Deportation Campaign Is Reshaping Small Town America ("depending on human suffering to survive")
00:00 - 2:15: Introduction
2:15 - 2:57: Life inside a detention center
2:57 - 3:40: 'Where is my father?'
3:40 - 7:16: When small towns become financially reliant on ICE
7:16 - 9:17: Three main ways ICE acquires detention space
9:17 - 12:08: Due process in ICE detention
12:08 - 14:01: Operating a private detention center in rural America
14:01 - 16:00: Reuniting after months of separation
16:00 - 17:36: Financial costs and expansion of detention
17:36 - 19:26: Life after detention
19:26 - 20:31: Responses from private prison operators and credits
Like many of the other men on his flight from Miami to Albuquerque, Jose Ventura Rubio never expected to find himself in an ICE jail in rural New Mexico. Ventura Rubio had tried to enter the country in mid-February after flying from Honduras to Miami, thinking his green card was still valid. He didn't realize he had failed to maintain a residency requirement that made him vulnerable to deportation.
Under previous administrations, Ventura Rubio likely could have made his case in immigration court while living and working at home. But President Donald Trump has made detention the default for tens of thousands of people fighting immigration cases.
It's also created a scenario where a growing number of US communities are convinced their financial survival depends on locking up immigrants.
Struggling small towns are at the center of Trump’s mass deportation campaign, spearheaded by ICE. In one rural New Mexico county, officials say they are grappling with the tradeoff presented by the financial benefits and human cost of being an “ICE town.”
Read how much Ventura Rubio's detention and deportation cost here: bloom.bg/49QmBtC
&list=TLPQMDMxMjIwMjVG0s7TFWyyiw&index=9
December 2, 2025
Florida charter school company run by GOP figure leaves parents frustrated: "They dropped the ball"
GOP run charter school is just way to get public dollars into rightwing pockets.
December 2, 2025
'Green River Killer' Gary Ridgway reportedly in end-of-life care
Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer and one of America’s most prolific convicted serial killers, is receiving end-of-life care in a Washington state prison, according to five sources with knowledge of his condition who spoke to KIRO Newsradio in recent days. We're following this developing story here: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/gary...
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