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House Democrat Leaders Threaten Companies That Did Business with Trump Administration

House Democrat leadership on Tuesday came out swinging, threatening companies and government officials.

House Democrat Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar threatened to go after companies that did business with the Trump Administration.

“Americans sent Democrats to Washington at historic levels so we would help make their lives more affordable,” House Democrat Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar said.

“We are not shy to use accountability,” Aguilar said.

“We’re going to hold the companies, government officials, and Trump admin accountable for making life harder. Our committee chairs will have the tools to investigate corruption,” he said.

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Ottawa asked Parliament for another $24.4 billion the day after the budget

One day after Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s budget projected a $62.3 billion deficit, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals asked Parliament for another $24.4 billion in spending authority for the current year, through Supplementary Estimates (B), its second request this year for money beyond the main spending plan.

Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali tabled the estimates on November 6. They seek $22.1 billion in voted spending, the part MPs must approve, for 71 organizations, plus $2.3 billion in statutory spending, which existing laws already authorize.

The voted request alone is 9.2 per cent more than Parliament approved in the Main Estimates and the spring supplementary round combined. With this round, planned federal spending for the year reaches $538.3 billion: $263.7 billion voted and $274.6 billion statutory.

The Hill Times reported the $22 billion request the day it was tabled and highlighted the defence items.

The largest single line is $2.4 billion for Employment and Social Development Canada, described in the estimates as funding “to address short term funding gaps” in the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care system. The document does not say what the gaps are or why the $10-a-day program needs the extra money.

National Defence follows with $1.9 billion for the Program Icebreaker Project and $1.6 billion for the Enhanced Satellite Communications Project, Polar. Crown-Indigenous Relations seeks $1.2 billion for “the Federal Indian Boarding Homes (Percival) litigation” and $760.3 million for the Specific Claims Settlement Fund.

Seven regional development agencies share $841.2 million for the Regional Tariff Response Initiative. Health wants $821.6 million more for the Canadian Dental Care Plan, whose benefits the Auditor General found $1.1 billion over budget in its first two years, in a report tabled October 29. VIA Rail gets $615 million for operating and capital needs, and Canadian Heritage and Telefilm Canada get $600 million for “Canada’s audio and audiovisual sectors.”

Ukraine draws $403.4 million for Operation UNIFIER across National Defence, Global Affairs and CSIS, plus $300 million in “military aid to Ukraine” at National Defence.

Canadian Heritage asks for $4.4 million “to establish the Digital Safety Commission of Canada,” the regulator that Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, would create. Parliament has not passed that bill. It cleared second reading in the House of Commons on October 29 and is now before the Commons Canadian Heritage committee.

The Interim Federal Health Program, which pays for health care for refugees and asylum claimants, would get $349.8 million more. That single item raises Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s operating budget from $2.05 billion to $2.40 billion, a 17 per cent jump. The department is also moving $2.5 million to the Courts Administration Service “in recognition of immigration litigation pressures.” Separately, Employment and Social Development Canada asks for $69.9 million for the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

The Vaccine Impact Assistance Program would get $15.7 million in new funding, plus another $5.5 million moved over from the Public Health Agency of Canada’s grants budget. The agency took over the program, formerly the Vaccine Injury Support Program, on April 1.

Public Safety Canada asks for $75.8 million more for the Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program, the gun buyback, and the RCMP asks for $39.3 million for the Canadian Firearms Program, paid as contributions to provinces, territories and communities.

Canadian Heritage’s grants and contributions budget rises 41 per cent, from $1.75 billion to $2.47 billion. The Treasury Board’s transfer payment listing shows $441 million going to the Canada Media Fund, $67 million to the Canada Music Fund and $51 million to the Indigenous Screen Office. Heritage also asks for $30.1 million for Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy. Crown-Indigenous Relations asks for $1 million in “Funding to address Indian Residential Schools denialism.”

Veterans Affairs gets $34 million “to stabilize and modernize service delivery for Veterans and Royal Canadian Mounted Police current and former members.” Its $6.36 billion grants budget, which pays veterans’ benefits, is unchanged. Natural Resources Canada asks for $75 million for the Woodfibre LNG Limited Partnership contribution agreement, and Transport Canada for $91.9 million for the Electric Vehicle Affordability Program.

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Rachel Maddow of MSNOW Suggests Trump Will Start Putting Americans in Concentration Camps

During a recent appearance on the Daily Show, Rachel Maddow of MSNOW suggested that Trump is going to start putting American citizens into secret prisons with no access to lawyers or due process. In other words, concentration camps.

Even lefty Jon Stewart seemed a little put off by this suggestion, mumbling something like: You don’t trust the administration.

The left has spent years calling Alex Jones a dangerous conspiracy theorist. What is the difference between Alex Jones and Rachel Maddow? Other than the fact that the media takes Maddow seriously and that she makes a gazillion dollars a year for doing next to nothing, what is the difference between them?

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Stewart argued that those detained for immigration violations were being held “for things that are generally considered in our society, civil issues. These are not the worst of the worst.

“These are people who overstayed a student visa or are here on a green card but got a parking ticket, like ticky-tack s— that normally would be treated civilly,” he said.

Maddow acknowledged that other scenarios were possible but suggested that concerns about Trump’s new detention centers should extend beyond immigrant advocates.

“No, I’m sorry, with a president like this, if you give him seven to ten prisons around the country that hold 10,000 people each, where he can hold people without trial, without access to lawyers, indefinitely, you think he’s only going to leave immigrants in there?” she asked.

“I just don’t,” Maddow concluded. “I think that what they first do to immigrants, they want to do to the rest of us.”

White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital, “Jon Stewart is a talentless hack who clearly suffers from a severe and debilitating disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain and ruined his life to the point he has to compensate for his embarrassing inadequacies.”

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Trump Concedes Deportation Policy Was ‘Too Tough’ in First Post-Midterms Interview

President Donald Trump said his administration’s immigration policies “both helped and hurt” Republicans, following a monumental loss for his party in November’s midterm elections.

In a post-election interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes with Ross Douthat, Trump described his immigration strategy as “too tough.”

“I think it both helped and hurt,” Trump told Douthat on Sunday. “I think I got an A+ for closing up the border, I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out, but I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation . . . there is a large part of the country that thinks they should be put out, and there’s a large part of the country that thinks that they should be allowed to stay.”

The president also said, going forward, one issue he is willing to work with Democrats on is immigration, following Democrats’ gaining control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the midterms.

In discussing the possibility of an immigration deal with Democrats, Trump acknowledged the removal of illegal immigrants who had been in the country for years and held jobs. He floated the idea that those who have established themselves in the U.S. could be allowed to stay under some new form of legal status, calling a compromise of this type “doable” with Democrats.

Trump said people in the Democratic Party have already “called [him]” to say they would be interested in working with the administration to make a deal like this possible for these types of illegal immigrants.

“In some cases [these illegal immigrants are] paying taxes,” the president said. “There’s a large group of people that think they should be allowed to stay. . . . When you go into a hotel and you have a woman who has worked there as a maid, a cleaner, a waitress, a lot of good jobs. And all of a sudden they are being taken out of the country, it’s tough.”

The president conceded that many people on the “pretty far right” still support deporting every illegal immigrant in the U.S.

The Trump administration has long touted its aggressive deportation strategy, particularly through a pointed media campaign and hype videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers deporting illegal immigrants in the U.S.

Since the president took office, more than 605,000 people have been deported, with another almost 2 million more self-deporting, according to the administration’s numbers. For the first time in more than 50 years, the U.S. is experiencing a net loss in migration.

Upon initiating widespread deportations across the U.S., thousands of Americans began protesting ICE, especially following ICE’s deployment to sanctuary cities. These protests, and the related violence, increased the controversy of the entire operation.

During the 2024 presidential race, 41 percent of Americans said immigration was an “extremely important” issue, while today the number is 31 percent, according to Gallup.

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Attempted Forced Abortion in Washington Leads to Three Arrests

Three people in Bellingham, Washington, have been arrested in connection to the alleged secret drugging of a pregnant woman in an attempt to kill her baby in an abortion.

The Bellingham Police Department opened an investigation on October 20 after a woman reported that her former fiancé, 32-year-old Jean Brando Zintz, drugged her with abortion pills while she was sleeping to try to end her pregnancy, the Bellingham Herald reported.

Zintz was upset when he found out in March that the woman was pregnant, the report states, citing court records. His mother offered her $10,000 to have her baby aborted, and Zintz encouraged the woman to accept the offer, but she declined, per the report.

The woman began experiencing major medical complications early in the pregnancy, including prolonged bleeding and dangerously low blood pressure, court records show.

The woman told police she was so “out of it” at some points that she was unable to walk. She also told police she woke up several times with a white, chalky substance in her mouth.

In early October, Zintz’s brother, 30-year-old Michael Moises Montano, contacted the pregnant woman over Facebook Messenger and told her that Zintz “poisoned [her] baby” and drugged her by replacing her prenatal vitamins with abortion pills, court records allege. Montano alleged that Zintz would give her benzodiazepine, which can have a sedative effect, and then put the abortion pill under her tongue.

Montano told the woman his brother ultimately failed at causing an abortion because he only gave her the first of two pills needed to cause a medication abortion, according to the report.

In a medication abortion, mifepristone blocks the action of progesterone, which the mother’s body produces to nourish the pregnancy. When progesterone is blocked, the lining of the mother’s uterus deteriorates, and blood and nourishment are cut off to the developing baby, who then dies inside the mother’s womb. The drug misoprostol (also called Cytotec) then causes contractions and bleeding to expel the baby from the mother’s uterus.

Montano alleged that his girlfriend, 30-year-old Ciara Miller, obtained the abortion pills and was paid by Zintz.

“Just know the truth,” Montano wrote, according to court records. “He tried killing your baby, and in the end your (sic) lucky because he failed and was planning something else entirely once and for all to get rid of you ‘the problem’ before it was to (sic) late and destroyed his life for good.”

Police arrested Montano on Friday. He is facing charges for complicity to attempted first-degree manslaughter and two counts of second-degree assault.

Police arrested Miller on Sunday afternoon, and she is facing charges for two counts of second-degree assault.

Police searched Zintz’s apartment on October 29, where they found drug-cutting agents, labeled containers for choline supplements with multiple pills, packaged and labeled misoprostol tablets, sleep aids, and drug paraphernalia, according to the report. They also found lab equipment, including a magnetic mixer and laboratory glassware.

Law enforcement, including the U.S. Marshals Service, arrested Zintz in Mesa, Arizona, on Sunday. He is awaiting extradition to Whatcom County, according to the report.

He is facing charges for first-degree manslaughter and two counts of second-degree assault. He is also facing charges for a protection order violation assault because there are two active domestic violence no-contact orders between him and the pregnant woman.

“The pregnant woman stopped communicating with Zintz in July, and her health has since improved,” according to the report.

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SOUR GRAPES: Florida Loser Angie Nixon Blames Her Loss on Lack of Funding From Democrat Leadership and Racism

Angie Nixon of Florida was not part of the blue wave election last week and she is clearly not happy about it.

She ran to the Don Lemon podcast to complain about the lack of funding support she received from Democrat leadership. She also blamed racism, because of course she did.

It can’t possibly be that people disagree with her ideas, or don’t believe she has the right skills for the job.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

ANGIE NIXON (D-FL), FORMER SENATE CANDIDATE: It is so wrong and disrespectful for people to not invest in black leadership. Like we, there were no, you know, I’m just going to say there were no black flip seats on the Senate side, like none. If [Mississippi Senator-elect] Scott Colom could have gotten a million more dollars early on, we would not be waiting right now for him to quote unquote win. We know he’s going to win.

If [Louisiana Senate candidate] Jamie Davis would have gotten 50, 500,000 to a million dollars, like in September, he would have won outright.

And so again, I don’t think, I think people want our labor. I think people want our labor. They don’t want our leadership. And we need to have a real long, hard conversation about how we show up, how we continue to time after time at the time show up for the party. And they don’t like in leadership, they don’t show up for our leadership.

I even, I even think about like, people are saying that I like statewide, I came in last as far as statewide, but that is because, you know, there’s racism within the Republican Party and there’s racism within the Democratic Party.

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Democratic Wave or Imperial Rebrand?: Time Will Tell

As a citizen and scholar, whose research, advocacy and moral framework have been dedicated to seeking justice and peace for the people of Palestine, Iran, Yemen and across West Asia, I find little cause for celebration in the recent Democratic Party midterm victories.

Political reveling makes sense if you trust the winning party offers a significant departure from the horrors of the status quo.

Applauding the Democratic Party means ignoring the ashes of Gaza, the massacre at Minab in southern Iran, and the violent legacy of 80 years of bipartisan U.S. foreign policy in the region.

When analyzing the unified bipartisan consensus that has governed U.S. policy in West Asia for decades, the apparent divide is exposed as mere illusion.  For those committed to international law, human rights and decolonization, a Democratic victory does not guarantee political reformation.  It is more likely to represent adaptation—a cosmetic shift in the stewardship of American empire.

Historical evidence demands a rejection of the conventional false binary political narrative that has framed U.S. elections:  the dichotomy between a unilateralist, militaristic Republican Party in opposition to a diplomacy oriented, human rights focused Democratic Party.  With regard to West Asia, both parties operate within a doctrine of institutional hegemony, military interventionism and colonial dominance.

While Republicans pursue aggression through overt unilateralism and unfiltered bellicose rhetoric, Democrats have executed similar policies behind a veneer of rules-based internationalism and institutional diplomacy.  The end result remains the same for the people in Gaza, Tehran, Beirut or San’a – structural violence, economic strangulation and military destruction.

The catastrophic legacy overshadowing Democratic leadership, past and present, makes it difficult for me to foresee, in the party’s electoral success, any departure from a foreign policy dictated by entrenched institutional systems.

The Biden-Harris administration did not simply miscalculate diplomacy; it actively embraced and underwrote what international legal bodies, human rights organizations and scholars worldwide have characterized as genocide in Gaza.

Most Democrats in Congress fast-tracked the shipment of munitions to Israel to carry out its devastating war on Gaza, rather than opposing it.

It is important to remember that it was Democratic leaders and representatives who stayed silent when:

  • President Joe Biden signed off on billions of dollars in unconditional military aid, transferring heavy weapons, artillery shells and precision-guided bombs to the Israeli regime that killed countless Palestinians and decimated civilian infrastructure across the Gaza Strip.
  • Democratic leaders repeatedly deployed the veto at the UN Security Council, neutralizing international legal mechanisms designed to enforce ceasefires and hold war criminals accountable.
  • The administration and party establishment sought to vilify and suppress student activists, scholars and dissenting citizens who demanded an end to American complicity in the destruction of Palestinian life.

A party that has, without conditions, armed, funded and morally shielded and enabled conduct that violates the baseline of human dignity cannot legitimately claim the mantle of progressivism, peace and democracy.

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Gene-edited food can reach your plate without a Health Canada safety check, but you’d never know it

Safe Food Matters Inc. and its co-founder, Mary Lou McDonald, have asked the Federal Court to strike down Health Canada guidance that lets many gene-edited plant foods reach the market without the department’s pre-market safety assessment.

The application, filed October 20, names the Attorney General of Canada. It asks the court to declare the May 18, 2022, Guidance on the Novelty Interpretation of Products of Plant Breeding unlawful and contrary to section 7 of the Charter, and to quash its key section.

The court has not ruled yet, but under the Food and Drug Regulations, a food is “novel” if it comes from a plant “genetically modified” to gain or lose a characteristic. Novel foods need Health Canada’s written clearance before sale. The 2022 guidance carves out an exception: if a gene-edited plant contains no foreign DNA and meets four other criteria, it’s not novel.

That means there’s no mandatory notification, no departmental assessment and no public decision.

McDonald says in the filing that she refuses genetically modified foods as a matter of health and conscience and “cannot reliably determine whether the foods offered to her are gene-edited.” She put it plainly: “the only filter I had to protect my health from GE food was transparency from Health Canada. That protection is gone.”

The applicants argue that a guidance document can’t rewrite a regulation. Health Canada says it still assesses all novel foods and has no authority to require notice of products it doesn’t consider novel.

Basically, disclosure is voluntary. Health Canada’s list of non-novel products names 25 products, 15 of them gene-edited, including tomatoes, potatoes, strawberries, corn and soybeans. The newest is dated July 31, 2026, and Canada doesn’t require labels identifying genetic modification or gene editing at all, unless there’s a health reason (like an allergen).

The same light touch now covers seed. Since May 2023, CFIA guidance generally exempts gene-edited plants without foreign DNA from pre-release authorization. In most cases, developers decide for themselves whether their plant is novel.

Who wanted it this way? Radio-Canada reported in September 2023 that access-to-information records showed a government-industry “Tiger Team,” including CropLife Canada, helped shape the approach.

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U.N. Bows Down to Iran: Appoints It to Key Committee Overseeing Women’s Rights and Counterterrorism

The U.N. General Assembly ignored the Islamic Republic of Iran’s appalling record on human rights to appoint it to a key committee Wednesday tasked with determining the globalist body’s priorities on everything from women’s rights to counter terrorism.

Iran received 144 votes in favor in a secret-ballot election, according to the voting results, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Critics, including U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer, were quick to point out the sheer hypocrisy of appointing the Muslim-majority dictatorship to such a committee.

“They are planning to elect the Islamic regime in Iran to a UN committee that shapes priorities on women’s rights and terrorism prevention,” Neuer said.

“This is a travesty of justice. … They massacred tens of thousands of people in January, [so] the notion that they would be named to this committee is an absurdity.”

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‘The View’s’ Sunny Hostin Marks Veterans Day by Insulting the Memory of Hundreds of Thousands of Americans

Leave it to “The View” to try to spoil Veterans Day.

ABC’s morning gabfest on Wednesday continued its practice of insulting American intelligence with co-host Sunny Hostin’s revisionist take on American history, dismissively discounting the contributions of hundreds of thousands of white Union soldiers who died defeating the Confederacy in the Civil War and ending slavery in the United States.

Because, by Hostin’s reckoning, the slaves “emancipated themselves.”

Oh, really?

According to the National Park Service, approximately 180,000 black men served in the Union Army during the war — about 10 percent of the force — with another 19,000 serving in the Union Navy.

Those are notable numbers, and not to be ignored, of course. But in what field of human endeavor are the contributions of 90 percent of the participants relegated to an afterthought in favor of 10 percent who also happened to be involved?

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