222 - 209 with two members not voting

 Result of mid-evening

VOTE TO

end 40+ day shutdown of

Federal Govt. (Executive

Branch bringing Senate

60 - 40 proposal to

435 member House of Representatives

(not all of them showing up to vote

in D.C.)

Ties are considered a "loss for the motion"

 216 - 216

means the Bill from the U.S. Senate fails . . .

Only 422 of actual 433 Members of the House of Representatives voted on key Procedural Motion to advance BILL from Senate (60-40 vote on their side of Congress)

 Where were the missing

11 non-voting 

Ds or Rs?

Not all of the 435 Congressional

districts have a Congressperson

to be at the House

tonight (11/12/2025, 8 - 11:59 p.m.)

KY and TX both have a missing

person -- one due to resignation

and the other to a Spring 2025 

death while in office. . .

Will this re-start the Government

after SHUTDOWN pass by a 

single vote margin?  

216 - 215 or even closer

218 - 217 ? ? ?

Longest "SHUTDOWN" - Congressional inaction - paralysis -- 42nd day 21 hours is Nov. 12, 2025, 8 p.m. Eastern

 see details (Subscription)

Politico.com/ news / 2025/11/03/

congress-longest-shutdown-record-00632927

The U.S. and the Middle East Peace Process : Nov. 15, 2025 broadcast lecture C-Span2 by James Stocker

Lectures in History:

Trinity College Prof. James Stocker

will relate US Diplomacy efforts 

before and during

1967 6-day War; 

1973 Yom Kippur War; 

2023 Israel-Hamas Gaza War

C-Span 2 : Saturday

Nov. 15, 2025 at 8 a.m. Eastern Time zone

Billionaire Jamie Dimon at White House Party for mega-donors (as LISTED from CBS News)

CBS NEWS list of the Wall Street

Tycoons:  Adena Friedman, Stephen Schwarzman,

Ted Pick, Larry Fink, David Solomon,

Jeffrey Sprecher, Ken Griffin, Mark Rowan,

Masayoshi Son

Billionaire members of Trump's Cabinet

Howard Lutnick, Scott Bessent 

Tonight

Nov. 12, 2025

Billionaire$

get the Steak & Lobster treatment

while

SNAP food bank recipients

get stiffed for entire month 

of November -- somehow even

the Supreme Court has been

pulled into that tug of war over

Executive Branch unwillingness

to fund this 11th month of 2025

for Food Stamp children, tweens,

youth, low-income families/elderly,

handicapped/Medicaid poor of

all ages . . .

$500,000 apiece_ (GOP Senators seek to write into law)

NBC News reported that Speaker JOHNSON (GOP- Louisiana)

only learned today (11/12/2025) of this $500,000

allotment/limit as far as 8 Senators getting to sue Fed. Govt.

for Jan. 6 Insurrection WireTapping. . .

_____________________________________________

 The Trump-endorsed measure passes 60 - 40

by the U.S. Senators

allows each of 8 GOP Senators to sue the 

Federal Govt. for invasion of their privacy

during Jan. 6 -- when FBI investigators sought

to trace calls made to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

during the horrifying events of Jan. 6, 2021.

$500,000 for each of the 8 =

$4 million total.

see further REUTERS dot-com

[exclusive subscription online

article coverage]

Sept. 23, 2025 voters in Arizona's 7th Cong. District finally get replacement deceased member of House -- changes # to fill 433rd seat

Sept. 23, 2025 was SPECIAL

ELECTION DAY -- to replace deceased House member.

The terminally ill Raul Grijalva was elected

in the 7th district by his constituents and supporters

over many previous terms / years  Election Day 2024.

However, he died of lung cancer at age 77

March 2025, leaving his seat in Congress vacant

until  a replacement / early Congressional race

could replace him -- 4th Tuesday of September following.

The elected replacement (Adelita

Grijalva) adds to the D

caucus, bringing the total number of

House members to 433.

NOVEMBER 12, 2025 a day for history books!

Adelita Grijalva, AZ -- GOP MAGA speaker of House faced her at swearing-in : NOW must deal with her 218th vote on EPSTEIN resolution must be voted up OR down

Johnson took a 54-day break from attending to duties

of the House Speaker and swearing in the Representative

for 750,000 citizens of Arizona -- they are not satisfied

with this lack of attention and their duly elected replacement

will see him "face-to-face" today

[ Nov. 12, 2025]

SEE The Hill dot-com -- Sept. 30, 2025

Oct. 2 4:21 p.m. posted as online article

5535581-house-democrats-call-for-grivalva-swearing-in/?tbref=hp

____________________________________

NY TIMES coverage of what it will take for

the discharge petition to force Speaker MIKE Johnson

to move the Grand Jury "evidence" out into the public

view -- NYTimes.com/live/2025/09/24/us/trump-news#democrat-arizona-epstein-files

UPDATE: Sept. 24, early a.m.

ABC News.go.com/politics/arizona-special-election-

house-tipping-point-releasing-epstein/story?id=128559777

_____________________________________________ 

House Speaker Mike Johnson

[2nd in Presidential Succession after VP Vance]

has a lot to decide when the Discharge Petition has the

support of 1/2 of House membership

politico.com

"How Arizona Voters are set to put Mike Johnson

in a corner" Sept. 23, 2025  -- voting officials will

let him know who is the replacement Congress Repr.

after death in March 2025 of longtime Dem. Lawmaker !

Pray for the survivors, injured : TURKISH military plane falls from sky over neighbor country GEORGIA_

FOLLOW-up

see Washington Post (online update)

11/12/2025

 Turkish military transport plane

crashed near the Azerbaijan-Georgia

border: a Turkish minister reported

11/11/2025

abcnews.go.com/

Breaking News

Situation Room: Trump 2.0 called a meeting with MAGA (including Lauren Boebert) to counter-act HOUSE of REPR. 218th vote on Petition to force EPSTEIN DOJ file into public view

 CNN.com

Nov. 12, 2025

TRUMP 2.0 is 

afraid how his MAGA base

will handle so much "Epstein

News" as will issue forth when

the House Resolution comes for

an up-down vote over making 

Pamela Jo Bondi's Dept. release

what she had "on her desk" this

winter : The Epstein Client List. . .

FLOTUS Michelle Obama : forthcoming book "The Look" (CROWN Publishing)

 More than a coffee-table tome

a tome revealing much about

POLITICS

less about FASHION

_________________________

Already an Amazon Best-Seller

Third installment in her

TRILOGY that focus on

Self-Realization

Pope Leo XIV met with Muslim figure -- Abbas / Abu Mazen of Palestinian territory in VATICAN CITY

Last Thursday

Nov. 6, 2025

NCR online dot-org

National Catholic Reporter

coverage:

ncronline.org/Vatican/pope-leo-

meets-palestinian-president-abbas-

discuss-urgent-need-gaza-aid-

two-state-solution

Besides visiting the Roman Catholic

pontiff, the Palestinian president

visited St. Mary Major - site of

the burial of Pope Francis and other

popes to pay respect to the deceased

former Bishop of Rome who died

Easter Sunday 2025.

Officially changing the "Pentagon" to "Department of WAR" as Trump-Hegseth have already announced could cost up to $2 billion (and must pass House & Senate)

 Earlier in 

2025,

Secy. of Defense Hegseth

(approved by Senate vote

50 - 50 - tie breaking vote

by JD Vance)

and Donald John Trump

began referring to the

DEFENSE DEPARTMENT

as "WAR" department without

proposing such a legislative

change via usual channels.  Such

a unilateral, unvoted-on matter could

cost $2 billion to meet the 

ideologically-extreme needs of

Pete Hegseth (former weekend anchor

of FOX NEWS) and #DJT.

Presidential Medal of Freedom (list of recipients) 4 Jan. 2025 -- Jane Goodall received it along with these distinguished citizens from POTUS 46

George Soros

Magic (Earvin) Johnson

Jose Andres

Hillary (Rodham) Clinton

Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. (posthumous)

Bono

Ashton Carter (posthumous)

Michael J. Fox

Tim Gill

Jane Goodall

Fannie Lou Hamer (posthumous)

Ralph Lauren

Lionel Messi (absent due to scheduling)

Bill Nye

George Romney (posthumous)

David Rubenstein

George Stevens, Jr.

Denzel Washington

Anna Wintour

Funeral Service for Dr. Jane Goodall (author - wildlife conservationist) - TODAY : program-public affairs C-Span

c-span.org/program/

public-affairs-event/

jane-goodall-funeral-service/

668897

World-renowned ethologist & conservationist 

Wed. Nov. 12, 11:00 a.m. Eastern

at National Cathedral, Washington, DC

3101 Wisconsin Ave., NW

Officiants will be

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

and the dean of the Cathedral,

Randolph Marshall.

LIVESTREAM of the service

at cathedral.org/

about/service-info

ASL Interpreters : Trump has self-excused himself from simultaneous translation

 Since Jan. 20, 2025

TRUMP 2.0 administration has discontinued using

ASL Translators

Federal Judge Amir_ Ali ordered them to use

so as not to deprive deaf / hearing impaired

Americans to know what was being said

discussed

___________________________________

They sought on Friday Nov. 7 to appeal the

judge's order to immediately begin

to the U.S. District court of Washington, DC

NPR.org/2025/11/05/

nx-s1-5599118/

white-house-asl-deaf-

americans-sign-language-judge-order

Admissions by Trump 2.0 and Netanyahu [ Israel's P.M. Oct. 22 then self-admission POTUS 47 ahead of Nov. 2025 elections]

 Israel is NOT a protectorate of the

United States of America --

AP News platform coverage from

Press event he held with VP Vance

(October 22, 2025) in

Jerusalem.

_____________________________

On Monday Oct. 27 while traveling

between Malaysia and Japan,

TRUMP admits that 

he had undergone an MRI

scan . . . quickly changing

the subject to reporters only

admitting

It was Perfect

Those with him presumed that

he meant during his Walter Reed

annual physical (he has had 2 in

this calendar year).

No Official confirmation of his

deep vein thrombosis arterial

disease . . .

UPDATE: Nov. 2, 2025

#DJT MRI scan (yes, he admitted

having one)

thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5584101-

trump-mri-raises-questions-?tbref=hp

Trump - Kristi Noem to send Border Patrol to "Red-State" cities : Charlotte, NC and New Orleans, LA

Tuesday, Noem's lieutenant / assistant Secy. at

DHS / Border Patrol declined discussing

present or future operations

In Charlotte, violent crime

has decreased 20 percent

since last year according to

the police department.

In New Orleans, crime rates

have declined significantly.

week of Nov. 10 - 14, 2025

Netanyahu has been on trial for fraud since 2020

 Counts of 

Fraud

Bribery

Breach of Trust by an elected official.

The charges of corruption have split

the Israeli public.

ANYONE in Israel who seeks clemency

in Israel must formally request it. . .

Mr. Netanyahu did not formally ask

for a pardon.

Isaac Herzog admits that Trump 2.0 sent letter pressuring him to pardon accused Netanyahu before trial is done

 ISAAC HERZOG

is the President of Israel;

for him to pardon Netanyahu

before the trial has been completed

with full evidence presented would

be a travesty of justice denied . . .

nytimes.com/live/2025/11/12/us/

trump-govt-shutdown-news#israels-

president-says-trump-asked-him-to-

pardon-netanyahu-who-has-not-been-

convicted

In Epstein documents, released by House Investigations, "Trump knew about the girls"

 POLITICO

has this eye-opener piece of evidence that damns

the POTUS who has always lied about this :

"Jeffrey Epstein, in newly

released email, says Trump

'knew about the girls.'"

SOURCE:
House Investigation cmte.

Who was Edward McCabe, the "Black Moses"?

 Find out on

American History TV

c-span.org/history

Nov. 16, 2025

C-Span2

He tried to create a

state for black people

during Reconstruction --

interview with author

Caleb Gayle who has written

a book on McCabe

New York's 12th Congressional District [ seeking that open seat due to retirement ] : 32-yr.-old Grandson of JFK

 Jack Schlossberg

who grew up in the district

knows it will be a tough D primary in 2026

nytimes.com/2025/11/11/nyregion/jack-schlossberg-congress-run.html

The American Revolution - Sunday 11/16 (PBS limited series) - primetime each evening

 November 16, 2025

is the debut episode

of Ken Burns' The

American Revolution 

Subsequent episodes will

air over the next days;

it will be available to 

stream on the PBS website

and app.

pbs.org/ken-burns/the-american-revolution

Senator Shaheen knocks Rubio (Secy.State, AID ADministrator, Archivist, Nat. Security Adviser) for paying Equatorial Guinea $7.5 million to take Deportees not from there

 Jeanne Shaheen, former gov. & present Senator from New Hampshire,

(since 2008 elected from the Granite State)

criticized Marco Rubio (wears many hats for Trump-Vance)

for pay-off given to Equatorial Guinea (Africa human rights abuser/

pariah)  $7.5 million (far more than

its previous U.S. AID) to

take deportees not from its

own citizens/refugee/asylum

seekers.

nytimes.com/2025/11/11/us/politics/marco-rubio-equatorial-guinea.html

Lava Fountains reach 1,100 feet

 Kilauea Volcano

Hawai'i

US Geological Survey/service

as Breaking News to

abcnews.go.com/

A fragmentary Paraphrase - Explanation of events in GENESIS - EXODUS

 4Q422

[Cave 4 at Qumran Dead Sea

Scrolls archaeological site :

the one sorted and numbered #422]

Paraphrase of Genesis & Exodus

The Heavens and the Earth

and all their host He made by. . .

His work which He had done

and His Holy Spirit. . .

Every living creature and

what moves on the earth. . .

[tree] He gave dominion

to eat the fruit of the ground

with the exception of eating

from the tree of knowledge. . .

and he rose up against him

and they forgot. . .

with an evil inclination 

and for works of wickedness

. . .peace.

__________________________

and God saw that great, and. . .

the. . .righteous in his 

generation upon the earth. . .

with him God kept alive

. . .were saved on the earth

Noah and his sons, his wife

and the wives of his sons

from the waters of the Flood

and the birds. . .God shut

behind them. . .and commanded

him a [. . .] which was on

dry ground all . . .the windows

of heaven were opened and they

poured out rain on the earth

under all the heavens to

raise water upon the earth

forty days and forty nights

there was rain upon the earth

the waters were mighty upon

the earth in order to cleanse

sin and in order to make known

the glory of the Most High

He placed before him and it

illuminated the heavens.. .

the earth and. .. a sign

for the generations of

eternity, to.. . and no more

will there be a Flood 

to destroy the earth. . . the

fixed times of day and night

and luminaries to illuminate

heaven and earth. . .

the earth and its fullness

everything He gave to mankind

[part of Jeremy Lyon's 

Qumran Interpretations of 

the Genesis Flood (Pickwick

Publications, 2015)

Elizabeth Qaulluq Cravalho

U.S. Research official

E.Q. Cravalho

has resigned as a Commissioner

on the U.S. Arctic Research Commission

(USARC).  She had been in charge of

OVERSEEING the agency for the U.S.

Arctic (Alaska).

reuters dot-com (Exclusive online notification)

world/Europe/us-research-official-departs-trump-

overhauls-arctic-policy-2025-11-11/ 

Founding member of KISS (its Drummer)

 Ace Frehley

has died of blunt force trauma

injuries to his head from a fall

AGE 74

Oct. 16, 2025 at Morristown, NJ.

The glam-heavy metal-hard rock

group of the 80's was approved

by the Kennedy Center for

the Performing Arts to receive the

KENNEDY CENTER HONOR

this upcoming Sunday afternoon

Dec. 7, 2025.  All 4 original

members of the group were to be

honored.

The CBS traditional airing

of the ceremony will take place

on the Fourth Sunday of Advent

Dec. 21, 2025 [ a 2-hour musical

extravaganza also honoring

Michael Crawford,

Gloria Gaynor,

George Strait,

Sylvester Stallone.

Does the American Public agree a 90,000 square foot BALLROOM should replace the East Wing, as long as Private Donors (billionaires) foot the bill?

 Pollsters will be asking this

as well as other questions about

Trump-Vance initiatives once the

"Shut-Down" has been settled and

a New Federal Budget / Debt ceiling

are handled by the Executive Branch.

Who built on an East Wing to the White House (1600 Pennsylvania Ave., D.C.) in 1902?

 Theodore Roosevelt

PURPOSE: to facilitate

public entrance & in

wartime, additional

office space.  It also

hid the Emergency bunker

(PEOC) where Trump and

Melania hid during the

noisy unrest/

protesting going on during

May 31 - June 1, 2020.

They remained in a bunker

until the Secret Service deemed

it was safe for the couple.

VP Mondale died in 2021; VP Dick Cheney died last week Nov. 2025 -- what are their major differences? how differently will they be eulogized?

 After losing in re-election on Carter-Mondale

ticket in 1980, Mondale next ran for his party's nomination

in the 1984 Presidential election; he chose as running-mate

Geraldine Ferraro of NY (a congresswoman)

to historically bring a woman to the ticket as co-nominee.

WHEREAS, in 2000

Cheney accepted the VP slot after helping George W.

Bush narrow his VP selections down to one potential

successor : himself.  

___________________________________________

Which of these two political / business figures:

Who served as an Ambassador to Japan? Mondale did.

Whose spouse outlived him?  Lynne Cheney did.

Who was from the Midwest? Mondale hailed from MN

Who was from the West? Cheney born in Lincoln, NB but called

WYOMING home and served as Congress Repr.-at-large.

Mondale enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1951; Cheney got

a draft-deferment having a wife and 2 daughters to support

out of college / grad. school.

The Mondales had a daughter who died, Eleanor, in 2011.

In life, Dick Cheney called TRUMP a "coward" and a "threat to our Republic" : now 9 days after death announcement, Trump 2.0 remains silent/ remote from comment-revenge-retribution

 Other Republicans like

POTUS 43

George W. Bush and Speaker

of the House of Representatives

Mike Johnson of Louisiana

praise the late Dick Cheney

of Wyoming

nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/politics/

republicans-honor-dick-cheney.html

Who will sing the National Anthem?

 Today is Veterans Day;

the primary service that

remembers the 11/11/1918

Armistice will be at the

Arlington National Cemetery,

Virginia.

Laying a wreath at the tomb

of the Unknown Soldier will

be POTUS 47 Donald John

Trump.  Who will sing the

National Anthem?

Judge Dianna Gibson of Utah

 A UTAH federal judge threw out the map

drawn by Utah GOP MAGA lawmakers at the

state-level thereby adopting the alternate proposal

that would create a Democratic-friendly district for

a "new" Congressional district

AP News dot-com/ article/ utah-redistricting-congressional-

map-democrats . . . 6:27 a.m. 11/11/2025 posted online

League of Women Voters and Mormon Women for Ethical

Government drew up the alternate to the State Legislature-

approved GerryMander.

Body of one camper remains missing but for-profit camp plans to re-open next Summer

 Tragedy was 2 Counselors, 25 children's

deaths

July 4, 2025.

Directors of Camp Mystic, Texas

plan to re-open regardless of

lawsuits and complaints of

parents, relatives, survivors.

Mudslides, drowning as victims

were washed down the low areas

near a then-flooding deluge of

the Guadalupe River.

Parents and family of drowned Camp Mystic campers and counselors (5 children 2 others) sue Camp for "Negligence" on July 4 lethal flooding/mud slides

 Details of the Nov. COURT news (state court TX) in the

New York Times dot-com

2025/11/10/us

camp-mystic-lawsuit.html

2 counselors and a total of 25 

youth/children died when directors

and Exec. Director Dick

Eastland disregarded pleas_

for help and instead focused on

securing equipment of the

longtime Camp near Austin, TX.

July 4, 2025

House of Representatives to be re-started since Sept. 19 dismissal by Speaker of House

 TODAY:

11/11 will mark the return to work of

435 / actually a smaller #

paid Federal Legislators / honorable

members of the House to begin work

on legislation to relieve suffering citizens &

residents of the U.S.

Tomorrow, the Speaker has announced there

will be a vote on the Senate Measure that

continues the federal spending - taxing

functions.

Also, long overdue is the recognition of

Arizona voters who voted in Sept. 2025

to replace the late Repr. Grijalva, who had

died of cancer after a long illness.

Trump pardons Mark Meadows, felon at state level for Election Crimes, during Lawyer pardon-flurry this week

 Former Chief of Staff (Trump-Pence administration)

in place during final months -- he had double-voted

in Nov. 2020 election but was charged and convicted

Mark Meadows (former

Congressman, NC) in

courts of his state.

His assistant, Ms. Cassidy

Hutchinson, wrote a tell-all

book : Enough.

Trump 2.0 decided to dispel

all such facts of his crimes/

misdemeanors.

Longest shutdown in U.S. Federal Govt. history may end after 60-40 vote by 100 Senators (no tie-break required)

 Credit to

Senator John Thune, Senior SD Senator

Majority Whip

and the 8 members of the Dem. Caucus who

crossed over to the majority GOP : (1 was

Maine Independent Senator Angus King).

The next steps require House of Representatives

action which has been kept closed since Sept. 19, 2025

by

House Speaker

Mike Johnson (GOP - Louisiana).

He should also upon re-opening

the House allow for representation

by the U.S. Congressional district

voters in Arizona who 2 months

ago elected Rep. Grijalva.

State Dept. (2014 online article) From 1776 forward, the 13 colonies united take to gain INTERnational INDEPENDENT status among nations? [posted 4July2014]

Online posted article on the effects diplomatically of the DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE: The Declaration of Independence, 1776 By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking their independence. By declaring themselves an independent nation, the American colonists were able to conclude an official alliance with the government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain. Throughout the 1760s and early 1770s, the North American colonists found themselves increasingly at odds with British imperial policies regarding taxation and frontier policy. When repeated protests failed to influence British policies, and instead resulted in the closing of the port of Boston and the declaration of martial law in Massachusetts, the colonial governments sent delegates to a Continental Congress to coordinate a colonial boycott of British goods. When fighting broke out between American colonists and British forces in Massachusetts, Continental Congress worked with local groups, originally intended to enforce the boycott, to coordinate resistance against the British. British officials throughout the colonies increasingly found their authority challenged by informal local governments, although loyalist sentiment remained strong in some areas. Despite these changes, colonial leaders hoped to reconcile with the British Government, and all but the most radical members of Congress were unwilling to declare independence. However, in late 1775, Benjamin Franklin, then a member of the Secret Committee of Correspondence, hinted to French agents and other European sympathizers that the colonies were increasingly leaning towards seeking independence. While perhaps true, Franklin also hoped to convince the French to supply the colonists with aid. Independence would be necessary, however, before French officials would consider the possibility of an alliance. Throughout the winter of 1775–1776, the members of Continental Congress increasingly viewed reconciliation with Britain as unlikely, and independence the only course of action available to them. When on December 22, 1775, the British Parliament prohibited trade with the colonies, Congress responded in April of 1776 by opening colonial ports—this was a major step towards severing ties with Britain. The colonists were aided by the January publication of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense, which advocated the colonies’ independence and was widely distributed throughout the colonies. By February of 1776, colonial leaders were discussing the possibility of forming foreign alliances and began to draft the Model Treaty that would serve as a basis for the 1778 alliance with France. Leaders for the cause of independence wanted to make certain that they had sufficient congressional support before they would bring the issue to the vote. On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee introduced a motion in Congress to declare independence. Other members of Congress were amenable but thought some colonies not quite ready. However, Congress did form a committee to draft a declaration of independence and assigned this duty to Thomas Jefferson. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams reviewed Jefferson’s draft. They preserved its original form, but struck passages likely to meet with controversy or skepticism, most notably passages blaming King George III> for the transatlantic slave trade and those blaming the British people rather than their government. The committee presented the final draft before Congress on June 28, and Congress adopted the final text of the Declaration of Independence on July 4. The British Government did its best to dismiss the Declaration as a trivial document issued by disgruntled colonists. British officials commissioned propagandists to highlight the declaration’s flaws and rebut the colonists’ complaints. The Declaration divided British domestic opposition, as some American sympathizers thought the Declaration had gone too far, although in British-ruled Ireland it had many supporters. The Declaration’s most important diplomatic effect was to allow for recognition of the United States by friendly foreign governments. The Sultan of Morocco mentioned American ships in a consular document in 1777, but Congress had to wait until the 1778 Treaty of Alliance with France for a formal recognition of U.S. independence. The Netherlands acknowledged U.S. independence in 1782. Although Spain joined the war against Great Britain in 1779, it did not recognize U.S. independence until the 1783 Treaty of Paris. Under the terms of the treaty, which ended the War of the American Revolution, Great Britain officially acknowledged the United States as a sovereign and independent nation. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/declaration

When did the CEASE-FIRE of Armistice Day take effect?

Nov. 11 is Veterans Day, honoring Americans who 

have served their country in the armed forces. 

November 11 was originally called Armistice Day 

because it was on this date in 1918 the Allies and Germany 

signed an armistice agreement to end hostilities 

on the Western Front of the First World War.

By late summer 1918, the war had become unpopular among the German people, and it was also becoming increasingly clear that the military would not be able to hold out much longer against Allied offensives. In early October, at the urging of his cabinet, Chancellor Max von Baden sent a telegraph to American President Woodrow Wilson. The chancellor requested a cease-fire agreement between Germany and the Allies, based on Wilson's Fourteen Points address from the previous January. But Wilson refused to negotiate with a Germany that was not democratic, and didn't put much stock in von Baden's assurances that he was moving the country in that direction, especially after a German U-boat sank the Leinster, a British mail ship, killing some 520 civilians. Wilson angrily said he would let the European commanders end the war on their own terms, but that they would not negotiate while Kaiser Wilhelm remained in power. Wilhelm abdicated and fled the country on November 10, and the new civilian government quickly said they would sign an armistice agreement on whatever terms the Allies put forward.

Under the terms of the armistice, Germany was forced to evacuate all of its occupied territories on the Western Front and elsewhere within two weeks, and Allied forces occupied the left bank of the Rhine. The German military was essentially gutted of its supplies, equipment, and ammunition. In addition, Germany had to agree to accept all the blame — and pay all the reparations — for the war. German leaders felt humiliated by what they viewed as overly punitive conditions, but the country was in no position to do anything but agree to the terms. France's representatives, however, made it clear they thought that the terms of the armistice and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles were too lenient.

The armistice was signed outside Paris at 6 a.m. in the railway carriage of Allied commander Ferdinand Foch, and the cease-fire took effect five hours later: at "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."

written and narrated by Garrison Keillor for "Writer's Almanac" (American

Public Media, NPR)

on Nov. 11, 2015

War to end all wars

www.newsletter.americanpublicmedia.org/

Today is Veterans Day, honoring Americans who have served in the armed forces.


November 11th was originally called Armistice Day 

because it was on this day in 1918 that the First World War 

came to an end. The armistice was signed at 11:00 a.m. 

on the 11th hour 

of the 11th day 

of the 11th month of the year. 

After four years of brutal trench fighting, 

9 million soldiers had died and 

21 million were wounded. 

It was called 'The War to End All Wars' 

because it was the bloodiest war in history 

up to that point, 

and it made many people so sick of war 

that they hoped no war would ever break out again.

published / read over the airwaves of

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO's

"Writer's Almanac" by

writer-narrator Garrison Keillor.

on Nov. 11, 2010.

Deal reached Nov. 9 by U.S. GOP Senate leaders would reverse mass firings Trump initiated Day 1 of Shutdown

 AXIOS dot-com

Those government workers fired by fiat

of the POTUS and those on furlough would be

brought back with guaranteed back pay.

Project Athena

 Leaked plan for

space exploration - 

written by Jared

Isaacman :

further reaction of

scientific community

to this billionaire who

has already flown on

mini-space missions 

himself

scientificamerican.com

jared-isaacman

November 2025

(online article)

Thailand threatens to suspend cease-fire as land mine in volatile border area explodes

AP News (Monday 11/10 breaking news)

Last month in Malaysia the two warring nations

signed a U.S. brokered deal to cease hostilities

but that fragile commitment may be about to fold --

AP NEWS dot-com

article/thailand-cambodia-land-mine-border

This was one part of

Trump's "case" for the

Nobel Peace prize for

Dec. 10, 2025 presentation in Oslo, Norway. 

Drops of Jupiter : 25th Anniversary tour [ tickets on sale Nov. 14, 2025 ]

 Pop-Rock band

Train

will go on a 2026

25th Anniversary Tour of

the album "Drops of Jupiter"

including a stop at Clarkston,

Michigan's Pine Knob Music Theater

details

at MLive.com/ live-entertainment/2025/11/

train-unveils-drops-of-jupiter-25th-anniversary-tour-

coming-to-pine-knob-in-august-2026.html

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia -- 11/10 & 10/3 updates -- judge rules Todd Blanche was vindictively prosecuting the U.S. resident

ABC News dot-go-dot-com reports that the defendant has requested to

be deported with his American wife and U.S. Citizen infant to

Costa Rica (as he was born in El Salvador)

but the Pamela Jo Bondi team of Deportation

specialists has picked out a jail cell in

Liberia

ABC News.go.com/US/WireStory/

after-mistaken-deportation-us-asks-judge-send-kilmar-127393090

Nov. 10, 2025

nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/politics/abrego-garcia- vindictive-prosecution.html

"JUDGE find 'likelihood' that charges against Abrego Garcia are vindictive"

Federal Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw

of Nashville, TN ruled against the #2 at Dept.

of Justice, D.C. -- given prosecutorial duties

by Pamela Jo Bondi (Trump's Lawyer, Dept.

Justice, since Jan. 20, 2025).

___________________________________

BREAKING NEWS:

CNN reports that a judge ordered that the

Maryland man CANNOT be deported by DHS

and Kristi Noem/Pamela Jo Bondi until an October

trial -- CNN.com/

FURTHER UPDATE:

Monday 8/25, 9:43 a.m. Eastern

the Maryland man has now been taken into custody by

ICE (Kristi Noem, DHS Secy.); Noem announced he

is being processed for deportation. . .

___________________________________________

UPDATE: Saturday 8/23/2025

In a 7-page filing in U.S. Federal District Court,

lawyers for the Maryland man accused the govt.

of attempting to coerce him into a plea by

threatening to deport him to Uganda in Africa.

NYTimes.com/2025/08/23/us/politics/abrego-garcia-coercion.html

BREAKING NEWS (Reuters.com) : released

at 4 p.m. Eastern Time today FRIDAY 22 August, 2025

The Maryland man at the center of a legal

battle has been returned and will face charges

here relating to transporting migrants --

NY Times "Breaking News" 4 p.m. 2025/06/06

_______________________________________

UPDATE (April 17) - he has met in El Salvador

with Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen

(press service publicity)

____________________________________

at Oval Office Press Q/A, both Presidents of

U.S. and El Salvador shrugged their shoulders

as far as returning the Salvadoran man with a

U.S. family who was never charged with

being in a MS-13 gang and the Trump-Vance

officials admit they deported him in error.

April 14, 2025

_____________________________________

UPDATE: 9 p.m. April 10 (Thursday)

SCOTUS affirmed the Federal ruling that the

wrongly deported Mr. Garcia should in effect

be brought

Back FROM El Salvador prison where he was

wrongly airlifted into by the DOJ / DHS.

__________________________________________

Trump's Gulag Archipelago

and the case of the mistaken refugee / immigrant

LAST FRIDAY, April 4, 2025

Judge Paula Xinis of U.S. Federal Court of

Maryland ordered him returned to the U.S.

"There were no legal grounds whatsoever for

his arrest, detention, or removal"

SCOTUS will decide

if her order to return him

by 11:59 p.m., Monday

April 14, 2025 after 

their 9-judge review,

will effectively return

Mr. Garcia.

Bernie Moreno, used car dealer turned OHIO MAGA Senator, promised hope to 850-employee Paper Mill then failed to stop H.I.G. from closing

 Moreno even voted with "Big Beautiful Bill" of 2025

to give highly profitable benefits to Private Equity executives

nytimes.com/2025/11/09/business/ohio-paper-mill-private-equity.html

He got a 6-year-stint in the MAGA GOP controlled U.S.Senate, D.C.

with a 50.2% vote election result in Nov. 2024 -- never before having

held public office.

New owner of the paper mill plans to employ 70 workers . . .

Friends Book Sale - Nov. 29, 2025 - Lower Level Classroom

 Details :

"Friends Book Sale"

Niles District Library (Niles, Michigan)

11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Every purchase supports the

Library

and

the History Center.

Used / removed/withdrawn

FICTION &

Non-Fiction - a variety

Hardback & Paperback

ALL AGES WELCOME !

Final Saturday NOV. 2025 (Small Business Saturday) - Local Author meet -n- Greet

Nov. 29 (5th Saturday) 

Niles (Michigan) District Library

FREE - a library card is not required for

this event for readers from Grade School ages -

100+ yr-olds

"Small Business Saturday Author Fair" 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

nileslibrary.com/single-event/small-business-Saturday-author-fair/11-29-2025/

Don't forget to get the copies you buy signed!

Contribute to food pantries since Military families will soon be missing paychecks (mid-November 2025)

Front Page news / details

Deseret.com [ Salt Lake City, UTAH ]

Anxiety in the ranks:

Military personnel

likely to miss first

payday

Utahns urged to assist military

families by donating to local pantries

______________________________________

Tuesday 11/4/25

Trump threatens "no more SNAP payments

until shutdown is resolved. . . "

Rowan County Marriage License Clerk, rural KY will not get chance to have Obergefell v. Hodges overturned by Roberts SCOTUS court justices

 Monday Nov. 10, 2025

The required 4 justice minimum did not

call up the case by

Kim Davis 

who was jailed for 7 days

over not permitting a same-sex

couple to have a legally

permitted marriage license in

that county

_______________________

Her petition asking for immunity

over paying $100,000 for the

couple's emotional distress

and $260,000 in legal fees was 

denied; the couple had sued her

since her name was not on their

license.

Where will debate ("face-off") take place at mid-November 2025 in Grand Rapids, Michigan?

 Between

Robert P. George, conservative legal scholar

&

Cornel West, liberal philosopher

_________________________________

Register at Gerald Ford Library/Museum

website 

_________________________________

The Lit

61 Sheldon Blvd.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

49503

When was America at its "Best"? Debate between Cornel West & Robert P. George + When was it at its "Worst"?

 a Face-off : formal debate-dialogue

between two friends and ideological opposites

philosopher - - - legal scholar conservative spokesman

at the

Gerald Ford Museum (Grand Rapids)

Nov. 14, 2025 (Friday)

6:30 p.m.

REGISTER AT

fordlibrarymuseum.org/

events/cornel-west-robert-p-george-face

Recipient of the 2nd Epistle of John (Canonical letter in Greek New Testament 27 compendium): was ELECTA (Greek letters "blurred")

 Recipient of II John 

among the New Testament

canonical Epistles from the

Apostle JOHN :

was a woman in 

correspondence as a

church (EKKLESIA) 

member/leader.

The corroborating Ancient Christian

Commentary reference would be from

Clement of Alexandria on Epistles of John

who wrote :"2 John was written to a

Babylonian woman, by name Eclecta"

_______________________________

research now being published by BYU

professor and assistant

deseret.com/education/2025/11/08/

stunning-find-meet-the-missing-woman-

in-the-bible-found-by-a-byu-researcher

PHOTOS of pottery

and extant writings that

did not undergo textual

corruption and misreading

Obituary - - Vice-President of the United States (Jan. 20, 2001 - Jan. 19, 2009) -- Richard Cheney of Wyoming

 Dick Cheney

died Monday Nov. 3,  2025 in Wilson, WY

b. Jan. 30, 1941

First modern U.S. Vice-President not to express

desire for the Presidency -- he served in a number

of capacities including Chief-of-Staff for Gerald Ford,

38th POTUS

Defense Secretary

Congressman

had a post Vice Presidency of 16 years, 10 months

Heart Transplant recipient

Wealthy businessman from years of service to

Halliburton Corporation

Washington D.C. National Cathedral funeral for Dick Cheney (VP for POTUS 43) - Thursday Nov. 20, 11 a.m.

SOURCE:

USA TODAY (brief single sentence

details - specific)

It remains unclear whether the widow

and 2 daughters + grandchildren will get a

State Funeral where

he will lie in state at

the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol

ONLINE -- reporters

Natalie Neysa Alund

Mary Walrath-Holdridge

11:19 a.m. Eastern

Friday 7 Nov. 2025

Meeting between Trump and al-Sharaa : to revoke the "CAESAR" Act punishing al-Assad regime by act of Congress

In order to repeal the "Caesar Act"

which imposed sweeping sanctions

over human rights abuses by Bashar

Assad's government and security forces,

action by vote of the

HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES

and the SENATE must

pass and only then signed

by POTUS.

The Edmund Fitzgerald -- 50 years ago -- Nov. 9, 1975 : loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore

The doomed cargo ship

Edmund Fitzgerald

began its journey

2:15 p.m. leaving

Superior Wisconsin

intending to deliver

its cargo at Detroit's

Zug Island.

mlive.com/live/2025/11/

the-edmund-fitzgeralds-

doomed-journey-began-50-

years-ago-today.html

MICHIGAN Live! platform

Special prayers for the 29 souls lost (Edmund Fitzgerald cargo vessel) -- Univ. of Detroit Mercy Law Symposium / service

 Agenda

School of Law

Room 226, 9 a.m. symposium

Property theme

Later on Constitutional and State Law Theme

EUCHARISTIC Service at Mariner's Church

special ringing of the bell, 29 times again,

in memory of those lost in the ship sinking

at Lake Superior en route to Detroit, MI.

Mariner's Church of Detroit -- 50th anniversary of Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

TODAY

Nov. 10, 2025

12:10 p.m. Eastern

at the Church

special ANNIVERSARY

Eucharist service -- following

that at 1 p.m.

at Univ. of Detroit Mercy

Law School Symposium

exploring legal issues concerning

shipwrecks/ shipwreck preservation/

safety consultation / advocacy.

Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum : 50th Anniversary MEMORIAL of Edmund Fitzgerald for public

 2 p.m. TODAY Nov. 10, 2025

at Whitefish Point, Michigan

7 p.m. service this evening PRIVATE

for family/ relatives of the Fitzgerald's

crew.

_____________________________

mlive.com/life/2025/11/edmund-fitzgerald-

50th-anniversary-memorials-lighthouses-

churches-how-to-watch-livestreams.html/

Kash Patel, who made pledge to U.K.'s MI-5 and broke it / / / visited China to pressure them over Fetanyl shipments

BREAKING NEWS - Feb. 10

Reuters.com exclusive

FBI Director

Patel

visited China over subjects of

Fentanyl & Law Enforcement 

FBI Director -- developments

Nov. 10, 2025

world/Europe/kash-patel-fbi-mi5.html

U.K.'s intelligence had

asked director of FBI

for help and he failed

to keep agent in place.

Patel's inexperience, his

dismissals of top FBI

executives, and his shift

of bureau resources away

from thwarting spies and

international terrorist

detection and prevention

have heightened concerns

among U.S. traditional allies

that Trump-Vance are just

on the way to sole use for

investigation of partisan

opposition and "election

enemies"/conspiracy theories.

Documents reveal special treatment (w/concierge) and likely Trump commutation of her sentence

 Ghislaine Maxwell

associate and enabler

of pedophile billionaire

Jeffrey Epstein.

thehill.com/ Monday

Nov.10, 2025 early a.m.

Appeals court denies Trump's effort to stop SNAP Payment for November 2025

 DEVELOPING STORY

Nov. 9 - 10, 2025

washingtonpost.com/

[ subscription required ]

Nov. 2025 statistics

 day-by-day

11/1                3,489

11/2                2,434

11/3                3,486

11/4                1,114

11/5                    695

11/6                 1,045

11/7                 1,385

11/8                    732

11/9                    985

11/10                  887

Veterans Day      997

11/12                   879

11/13                    

Total for

NOV 1 - 30        18,179

Theodore Geisel - American author - illustrator -- NEW BOOK to be released 2025

UPDATE: New book by Dr. Seuss

Sing the 50 United States (2025)

Writer's Almanac (American Public Media: Garrison Keillor):

March 2 was the birthday of a man considered to be the most popular children's book writer in American history, the best-selling children's book writer of all time, and a man who revolutionized the way children learned to read: Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on this day in 1904. He's the author of more than 60 children's books, including Horton Hears a Who! (1954), One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (1960), Green Eggs and Ham (1960), Hop on Pop (1963), Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (1975), The Butter Battle Book (1984), and of course, The Cat in the Hat (1957).

He was the grandson of German immigrants, a lifelong Lutheran, a Dartmouth graduate, and an Oxford dropout. His mom was 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, a competitive platform high diver who read him bedtime stories every night. His dad inherited a brewery from his own German immigrant father a month before Prohibition began in the U.S., and eventually became a zookeeper who took young Theodor with him to work. The future Dr. Seuss grew up around the zoo, running around in the cages with baby lions and baby tigers.

At Dartmouth, he majored in English and wrote for the campus humor magazine. But one night he was caught drinking gin with some friends; since this was during Prohibition, it was an illegal act. The Dartmouth administration did not expel him, but as a disciplinary punishment, they did make him resign from all of his extracurricular activities, including the humor magazine, of which he was the editor-in-chief. From then on, he wrote for the magazine subversively, signing his work with his mother's maiden name, Seuss.

His mother's family pronounced it "Soise," the way it's said in Germany, but people in the States kept mispronouncing it Seuss. He eventually embraced the Anglican mispronunciation: After all, it rhymed with Mother Goose, not a bad thing for an aspiring children's book writer.

In 1937, he published his first children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, which he said was inspired by the rhythms of a steamliner cruiser he was on. He wrote the book, and much of the rest of his life's work, in rhyming anapestic meter, also called trisyllabic meter. The meter is very alluring and catchy, and Seuss's masterful use of it is a big part of why his books are so enjoyable to read. The meter is made up of two weak beats followed by a stressed syllable — da da DUM da da DUM da da DUM da da DUM, as in "And today the Great Yertle, that Marvelous he / Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see.

A big study came out in the 1950s called "Why Johnny Can't Read." It was by an Austrian immigrant to the U.S., an education specialist who argued that the Dick and Jane primers being used to teach reading in grade school classrooms across America were boring and, worse, not an effective method for teaching reading. He called them "horrible, stupid, emasculated, pointless, tasteless little readers," which went "through dozens and dozens of totally unexciting middle-class, middle-income, middle-IQ children's activities that offer opportunities for reading 'Look, look' or 'Yes, yes' or 'Come, come' or 'See the funny, funny animal.'"

William Spaulding, a publisher from Houghton Mifflin's educational division, thought that maybe a guy named Dr. Seuss, who'd published a few not-well-known but very imaginative children's books, might be able to write a book that would be really good for teaching kids how to read. He invited Dr. Seuss to dinner and said, "Write me a story that first-graders can't put down!"

Dr. Seuss spent nine months composing The Cat in the Hat. It uses just 220 different words and is 1,702 words long. He was a meticulous reviser, and he once said: "Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count."  Within a year of publication, The Cat in the Hat was selling 12,000 copies a month; within five years, it had sold a million copies.

If 1775's Battles of Lexington & Concord marked the beginning, when was the end of America's Revolutionary War?

2013 - September 4 (ON THIS DATE IN 1783)

Noticed in "Writer's Almanac" (American Public Media: Garrison Keillor): 

 The U.S. War of Independence officially ended on September 3 in 1783 

with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The war, which began at Lexington 

and Concord in the spring of 1775, had more or less been over for two years, 

since Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown, but the American Navy 

continued harassing the British. And by the time the treaty was signed, 

the American fleet had captured dozens of British ships. 

The treaty required Britain to recognize the independence of 

the United States and to cede all lands east of the Mississippi to the U.S.

Rockefeller Center

The Rockefeller Center "holiday tree"

has arrived in New York -- it will be

lit later this month.

The 2025 tree measures

75 feet tall.

David Grann

America's BOOK CLUB

author David Grann ( Killers of the Flower Moon )

will be guest on C-Span

6 p.m. Eastern

HOST of the book club (video program)

is David Rubenstein;

the two will also visit the vault of the

Folger Shakespeare Library, D.C.

Litmus Test

 MSNBC dot-com

Sunday Nov. 9

Dick Cheney's Nov. 20, 2025 funeral will serve as a

Litmus Test

for members of Trump's

GOP; Cheney was not

a moderate by any sense of

that word.  His unapologetically

brutal positions on national

security and the wars in Iraq

and Afghanistan have earned

a "split" with Donald John

Trump.

______________________

AUTO PEN

Trump himself didn't sign

the exec. order for the lowering

to half-mast of White House

flags once Cheney's death had

been announced.

Nov. 9 service at Cathedral : Honoring the 250th anniversary of Marine Corps Service

 Sunday NOVEMBER 9, 2025

4 - 5 p.m. at the National Cathedral, D.C.

this service offers civilians, service members,

and their families the chance to pause in prayer

and pay tribute to the Marines who have given

the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

cathedral.org/calendar/annual-marine-corps-service/

You may watch this via Livestream

Ahmed al-Sharaa

President Al-Sharaa to visit U.S. 

after meeting Donald John Trump in Saudi

Arabia in May 2025 where Trump unilaterally

announced that he would be lifting sanctions

that had been in place for decades.

NOV. 9, 2025

AP News dot-com

sharaa-syria-washington-visit-trump

________________________________________

The de facto leader of Syria has declared himself

President and Ruler -- head of the government

on Jan. 29, 2025.

That abolishes the previous

Constitution / Parliament and 

will mean rounding up those who supported

the former Ba'ath Party.  NPR reports that

there will be an interim legislative council

until a NEW constitution is ratified.

29 Jan. 2025

UPDATE:

nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world/Asia/ahmed-al-shara-

syria-president.html

Holocaust deniers / denialism have a new "Poster Boy" : Nick Fuentes

American Jewish Committee

ajc.org/news/

who-is-nick-fuentes-

and-why-is-his-antisemitism-

dangerous-for-america

In 1926, how many Coolidge-George Washington coins struck by the U.S. Mint?

 1,000,000

of the half-dollars were struck :

860,000 of them were returned and melted.

1776 - 2026 : coin showing POTUS

HISTORY:

a coin for the year 1926 showed 

then-current POTUS

Calvin Coolidge

in profile alongside

GEORGE WASHINGTON

______________

proposed by Treasury

department is new coin

with Trump 2.0 Profile

(two-sided coin with

both sides HEADS,

second with Fist raised)

displaying mottoes:

LIBERTY

FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT

Shipshewana, IN (little town in N. Elkhart IN County) - switches holiday lights on Sat. Nov. 8

7 p.m. annual "Lighting Ceremony"

for

Shipshewana, IN

businesses and residences.

abc57.com/news/annual-lighting-

ceremony-in-shipshewana

18th annual parade and light

switch-on exactly at 7:00 p.m.

Mark Leibovich : Dick Cheney didn't care what you thought, making him a pariah for the MAGA Right and for the far-left in 2025 America

 The Atlantic (upcoming

print, current online

article)

Dick Cheney didn't

care what you thought:

the former VP's

indifference to approval

made him a boogeyman

for the left and the right

. . .In life or death he

wouldn't have care much

either way. . .

Christkindlmarkt Nov. 28 - December days of Advent season [ Frankenmuth, MI ]

 November 28, 2025 up to Dec. 31

Frankenmuth, MI

will be the location for an upcoming

display - retail event

Christkindlmarkt

at Harvey Kern Community

Pavilion, 601 Weiss Street

details at;

M LIVE dot-com/news/saginaw-bay-city/

2025/11/frankenmuth-christkindlmarkt-

returning-soon-for-2025-holiday-season.html

[ opens Nov. 28 all weekend until Nov.30 ]

Friday 4 - 9; Saturday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

frankenmuthfarmersmarket.org

Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (Sat. 11/8/2025)

 Nov. 8, 2025

Outkast

Soundgarden

Cyndi Lauper

The White Stripes

Joe Cocker

Chubby Checker

Bad Company

Targets of revenge & retribution : Trump's Atty General picks Jason Quinones to go after Obama intelligence official and retired CIA director

UPDATE:

Pamela Jo Bondi picks as her key prosecutor

to go after Jan. 2017 (8 years ago) officials

who inquired about ties between Trump-Pence

campaign and Russian operatives.  Focus for

now is DNI Clapper's document which

MAGA seeks to get revenge and retribution

for such investigation / inquiry.

Jason Quinones is a Southern District

Prosecutor in the Palm Beach, FL area

[where Mar-A-Lago is located]

_________________________________

Subpoenas expected to be issued

mid-November 2025

 James Clapper

John Brennan

_____________

current DNI Gabbard

prepared order of subpoena

for Pamela Jo Bondi . . .

Nov. 8, 2025 (Saturday before

Veterans Day 11/11)

no word lately about how

soon John Bolton will

be in court receiving

excruciating treatment for

the world to see . . . (he was

National Security Adviser who wrote

damning tell-some-not-all

book of Trump 1.0 inattention

to foreign policy consistency)

The Room Where It Happened

_______________________

Turkey Day

 Thanksgiving Day

NOV. 27, 2025

some require early fee to guarantee

T-shirt, team OK for some;

HERE ARE a number of sponsored

events to run ahead of your

Banquet / Feast =

Faith Mission Turkey

Stampede  (Elkhart, IN)

Portage IN 25th Anniversary

Turkey Trot (5K, 1K for kids)

Culver Turkey Trot 5K

Niles, MI YMCA Turkey Trot

(5K, 1mile, 10K)

Valparaiso Turkey Trot

John E. Banuelos - who fired a gun outside Capitol in Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection / / / now faces kidnapping & assault charges in Utah his home

 Coverage of the Trump-pardoned violent offender at

nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/capitol-riot-defendant-

arrest-kidnapping-assault-banuelos-rcna242764

40 yr. old who resides in Utah

made the criminal acts while visiting relative in Chicago, IL

He had also stabbed a man lethally in Summer 2021.

Speaker Pelosi (now just a Repr. from San Francisco, CA) retires at age 85, 38 years as a Congresswoman [ will not seek re-election ]

 Called "The Democrats' Legislative Mastermind"

by

The Nation - reporter/editor Joan Walsh

see thenation.com/article/politics/nancy-pelosi-retirement/#

must subscribe - only 3 free articles per month

not since LBJ was there such

an effective House or Senate

leader who got legislation to

a President's desk (Obama era

and Biden (2021-22).

Nancy Pelosi of California

Hostilities between Taliban (Afghanistan rulers) and Pakistan's government

 REUTERS intl. news platform

is reporting that the

Afghanistan-Pakistan

Peace Talks have

collapsed even if

the cease-fire end to

violent warfare continues.

reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/

afghanistan-pakistan-peace-talks-

collapse-ceasefire-continues-taliban-say

Photos of Trump asleep during MEETING inability to stay awake in Oval Office -- very soon he will meet with Saudi Prince Nov. 17 - 19, 2025

CNN (Sunday 11/9/2025) : "IMAGES OF TRUMP

EYES CLOSED DURING EVENT SPREAD ACROSS

MEDIA" 

COVERAGE of the nearly 80 year-old POTUS

struggling to keep eyes open / remain alert and responsive /

daytime meeting requirement for concentration - rational

participation for mental health and logical question raising

and assenting to action required during and after his

signing of Executive Orders . . .

Washingtonpost dot-com

ONLINE (Nov. 8 coverage

by Reporters DAN DIAMOND

JM RIEGER)

PUBLISHER is Jeff Bezos

Nick Fuentes' plan [ WIRED contributor explanation]

 read the details at

www.wired.com/

" For years, influencer

Nick Fuentes was too extreme

for MAGA.  Now he's working 

his way into the mainstream

and he has a plan for his secret followers

to seize the levers of power"

David Gilbert online article

[subscription] - Sept. 2025

Fuentes has contempt for his

committed followers -- calling them

Groypers.

White Supremacist Ideologues

Christian Nationalist self-described

as "America Firsters".

after a decade of livestreaming

hate-filled diatribes, the death

of Charlie Kirk has accelerated

the venomous attacks of Fuentes

Who was buried in 1924 in the crypt of the Bethlehem Chapel inside National Cathedral, D.C.?

 Former President

Woodrow Wilson

who is the only President

buried in the National 

Cathedral (Episcopal

Church) in NW District

of Columbia.

Architectural Critic : "Trump's to-be-realized Vision of Mar-A-Lago ON THE POTOMAC" may be realized at record development rate"

 Michael Kimmelman

Nov. 8

arts/design/east-wing-ballroom-trump.html

Discusses

Marbled Bathrooms (Lincoln bedroom)

Triumphal Arch

Giant gilded Trump Ballroom . . .

contrasts with original POTUS

George Washington's resistance to

building a presidential palace

that echoed VERSAILLES.

Other presidential "Re-Modelers"

included Thomas Jefferson,

Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt,

FDR, Truman, JFK

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper rules against ED. Secy. Linda McMahon for politicizing Telephone messaging

NBC NEWS

concerning AFGE employees

(Federal Union of workers)

nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/

education-department-shutdown-emails-

unconstitutional-judge-rules-rcna242653

Friday Nov. 8, 2025

House of Representatives last in session for a vote of any kind Sept. 19 -- 51 days later, House Republicans begin anxiety attack

 THE HILL dot-com

"House Republicans grow anxious

about Speaker Mike Johnson (R - Louisiana)

and 51-day shutdown of Federal government /

agencies / pay for Air Traffic Controllers"

Did Usha Chilukuri work for SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts?

 Yes,

2017 - 2018

as a clerk.

Previously she clerked

for Brett Kavanaugh

when he was on the Court

of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

She was once a registered

Democrat (political party).

Usha Vance (Second Lady) has used her legal expertise / SCOTUS clerk backgd. when reviewing a Ukraine Treaty

According to Jonathan Karl's

Retribution, Mrs. Vance did

take a look / review a bilateral

minerals agreement with Ukraine

in a West Wing office, despite her

having no role in the U.S. Security

Council (a greatly diminished set of

advising staff for a normal Presidency).

Her husband (college / law school

sweetheart) asked her to do that when

a legal opinion was needed immediately

and no other staff apparently on hand.

How many vice Presidential wives/ First Gentleman are alive in Nov. 2025?

in POTUS 41 - George H.W. Bush - Quayle 

Marilyn Quayle survives

 widow of VP Cheney is

Lynne Cheney

________________

"Tipper" Gore survives

(1993 - 2000)

________________________________

Dr. Jill Biden

(2009 - 2016) also First Lady

(2021-2024)

______________________

Karen Pence (2017 - 2020)

had also been Gov. of Indiana

"First Lady" from 2013 - 2016

______________________

First Gentleman 

Douglas Emhoff (2021 - 2024)

______________________

Current "Second Lady"

Usha Chilukuri Vance (2025 )

who moved into the Naval Observatory

without a pre-inaugural tour invitation

from Harris-Emhoff family; she 

married JD Vance in 2014 in a

joint Hindu / R. Catholic set of nuptials.

Surviving Vice Presidents "Club" -- how many will attend Nov. 20 funeral of deceased VP - - Richard Cheney at National Cathedral ? ? ?

Dan Quayle (POTUS 41)

Al Gore (POTUS 42)

Joseph R. Biden (POTUS 44)

Mike Pence (POTUS 45)

Kamala Harris (POTUS 46)

incumbent VP is "JD" Vance

_______________________

oldest to youngest on Nov. 7, 2025

Joseph R. Biden b. 1942 age 82 yrs. 10 months

Dan Quayle b. 1947 age 78 yrs. 9 months

Al Gore b. 1948 age 77 yrs. 7 months

Mike Pence b. 1959 age 66 yrs. 5 months

Kamala Harris b. 1964 age 61 yrs. 1 month

JD Vance b. 1984 age 41 5 months

________________________

Dick Cheney died this week at age 84 and 9 months

in Wyoming (undisclosed location)

His funeral arrangements and burial location are

as yet unpublicized

Access Israel's Purple Vest Mission -- Program next Thursday 11/13/2025

 Delegation leader

Karin Wasserman

The PURPLE VEST MISSION

provides life-saving support

to people with disabilities during

wars or natural disasters.

@ Jewish Federation, S. Bend, IN

Thursday Nov. 13, 2025

7:30 p.m. reservation required.

Visit website http://TheJewishFed.org

sponsored by Kurt and Tessye Simon foundation

Church of Jesus Christ (LDS) takes a stand

The Mormon Church (Deseret News, Salt Lake

City press release)

will not use A.I. to create

images of Jesus Christ or_

to prepare conference talks.

APOSTLE tells the LDS

/ Salt Lake City, UT reporters/

editor on "Front Page" news!

Nov. 6, 2025

Peter Thiel - - - obsession with the anti-christ [ he opposes regulation of A.I. ]

 Discussion in Deseret online platform

Salt Lake City, UT

media news / features / op-eds

Peter Thiel, tech billionaire who was

a mentor for JD Vance, in Conference keynote

speeches links the NT concept of "antichrist"

with his personally advantageous opposition

and dislike to Governmental programs / strategy

to regulate A.I. (artificial intelligence).

deseret.com/opinion/2025/11/02/peter-thiel-antichrist-revelation-ai/

Valerie Hudson of Texas A & M (Bush School of Government & 

Public Service)

Federal Court (Eastern VA) : defendant Letitia James asks judge to dismiss Trump Dept. of Justice charges over mortgage charge

Attorney General (state of New York)

Letitia James told a 

Judge (Eastern District

of Virginia) in Federal

court that the charges brought

by Pamela Jo Bondi 

should be thrown out because

they are the product of Trump's

vendetta against her.

Friday Nov. 7, 2025

Separately she is also challenging

the appointment of Lindsey

Halligan as a prosecutor for this

Eastern Dist. of Virginia jurisdiction.