8 times liberal media tried to ruin Thanksgiving, from ditching turkey to declaring ‘genocide’ remains on menu https://t.co/MYwm5jYRJZ

— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 24, 2021

CNN: “Former President Donald Trump said he was recently visited at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort by Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who was acquitted last week on all charges after fatally shooting two people and wounding a third during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last summer. ‘He called. He wanted to know if he could come over, say hello, because he was a fan,’ Trump said during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that aired Tuesday night.”

“Trump said Rittenhouse, 18, had left Mar-a-Lago ‘a little while ago,’ and Hannity had earlier said that his interview with Trump took place on Monday. During the interview, Fox showed a picture of Rittenhouse posing with Trump. ‘He came over with his mother. Really a nice young man. … That was prosecutorial misconduct. He should have not have had to suffer through a trial for that. He was going to be dead,’ the former President said.”

“The 17-year-old boy sees no one protecting the businesses and the people in his community, so he went down there and did it,” author and dilettante politician JD Vance tells creepy mall Dracula Sebastian Gorka.  “And instead of rewarding it, instead of saying ‘isn’t it good that this 17-year-old kid raised by a single mother made good decisions and is a positive force in this community,’ they slandered and lied about him.  They treated basic manly virtue as white supremacy, and I think you’re exactly right:  it’s not just about Kyle Rittenhouse.  It’s about what kind of men do we want to raise in our communities, what kind of virtues do we want our leaders to promote, certainly not the people who were burning Kenosha, Wisconsin down.  We want to promote the kind of virtues that exist in Kyle Rittenhouse.”

Pregnant Florida fatally shot in road rage incident she reportedly started https://t.co/ftvy2vUk5S pic.twitter.com/yRAfNzmf2g

— The Hill (@thehill) November 24, 2021

Associated Press:  “New coronavirus infections in South Korea exceeded 4,000 in a day for the first time since the start of the pandemic as a delta-driven spread continues to rattle the country after it eased social distancing in recent weeks to improve its economy. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said most of the new 4,116 cases reported Wednesday came from the capital Seoul and its surrounding metropolitan region, where an increase in hospitalizations has created fears about possible shortages in intensive care units.

“The country’s death toll is now 3,363 after 35 virus patients died in the past 24 hours. The 586 patients who are in serious or critical conditions also marked a new high. South Korea is the latest country to see infections and hospitalizations rise after loosening social distancing measures amid high vaccination rates. Cases are also climbing in the United States ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, while Austria entered a major lockdown on Monday as a virus wave spreads across Europe.

“Officials in South Korea eased social distancing rules starting this month and fully reopened schools on Monday in what they describe as first steps toward restoring some pre-pandemic normalcy. In allowing larger social gatherings and longer indoor dining hours at restaurants, officials had hoped that improving vaccination rates would keep hospitalizations and deaths down even if the virus continues to spread. But health workers are now wrestling with a rise in serious cases and fatalities among older people who rejected vaccines or whose immunities have waned after getting injected early in the vaccine rollout that began in February.”

Washington Post:  “The Republican National Committee is pushing back against a state party leader’s call for Ronna McDaniel to resign as RNC chairwoman over her outreach to the LGBTQ community. The episode underscores the tension between the national party and some influential parts of the GOP base — particularly Christian conservatives — on the issue of LGBTQ rights.

“In a statement to The Washington Post, RNC spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman John Bennett is ‘lying’ about the steps the national party plans to take as part of McDaniel’s recent move to form the first-ever ‘RNC Pride Coalition.’

“’Chairman McDaniel has made it abundantly clear that this does not mean we are advocating for any policy or RNC platform change — Chairman Bennett is lying and it is disgusting that he’d attempt to raise money off these falsehoods,’ Alvarez said. An Oklahoma Republican Party spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”

“We are in unchartered [sic] territory as a Nation. The November 2020 election was stolen. Our Country is divided in a manner not seen in over a century. Just last month, 56% of respondents agreed that ‘it’s likely that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election’ – a 5% increase since April 2021.1 The fault for this deepening divide lies directly with the federal and state public officials who not only abdicated their sworn duty to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, but in many cases actively sought to subvert it.”

“The Justices of this Court can no longer ignore what the public already sees – a time in history like that which Churchill once characterized as the gathering storm. Revelations of rampant lawlessness by officials in states like Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Pennsylvania (collectively, ‘Defendant States’) involving outcome-changing illegal votes appear daily than voters – just one of many examples of illegal votes. Under express Pennsylvania law, the election should not have been certified” and blah blah blah says MyPillow assclown Mike Lindell’s big 2020 election lawsuit which still hasn’t been filed for want of a state attorney general to join.

Observed Reuters legal correspondent Brad Heath “It’s missing a few things you commonly find in lawsuits, such as a plaintiff and lawyers” and “The claim seems to rely on an Electors Clause theory that the Supreme Court declined to hear last year and a state standing argument that it rejected when Texas sued. And until [insert Your State] agrees to file, the court wouldn’t have jurisdiction anyway… Lindell’s complaint appears to have been written by the same lawyer who drafted Texas’ failed Supreme Court election-overturning lawsuit” and last but not least “It claims that President Biden acted unconstitutionally by not fixing problems in the 2020 election, which 1) isn’t something the president can do; and 2) he wasn’t the president then.”

“Some of the organizers who planned the rally that took place on the White House Ellipse on Jan. 6 allegedly used difficult to trace burner phones for their most ‘high level’ communications with former President Trump’s team. Kylie Kremer, a top official in the ‘March for Trump’ group that helped plan the Ellipse rally, directed an aide to pick up three burner phones days before Jan. 6, according to three sources who were involved in the event. One of the sources, a member of the ‘March for Trump’ team, says Kremer insisted the phones be purchased using cash and described this as being ‘of the utmost importance.’ The team member said Kylie Kremer took one of the phones and used it to communicate with top White House and Trump campaign officials, including Eric Trump, the president’s second-oldest son, who leads the family’s real-estate business; Lara Trump, Eric’s wife and a former senior Trump campaign consultant; Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff; and Katrina Pierson, a Trump surrogate and campaign consultant.”

“The team member said Kylie Kremer took one of the phones and used it to communicate with top White House and Trump campaign officials, including Eric Trump, the president’s second-oldest son, who leads the family’s real-estate business; Lara Trump, Eric’s wife and a former senior Trump campaign consultant; Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff; and Katrina Pierson, a Trump surrogate and campaign consultant. The member said a second phone was given to Amy Kremer, Kylie Kremer’s mother and another key rally organizer. The team member said they did not know who the third phone was purchased for” – Rolling Stone

Associated Press:  “Faced with the rising cost of goods and freight, discount retail chain Dollar Tree said Tuesday it will be raising its prices to $1.25 for the majority of its products. Dollar Tree said the reason for raising its prices to $1.25 was not due to ‘short-term or transitory market conditions’ and said the price increases were permanent. The higher prices will also allow the company to cope with high merchandise cost increases as well as higher operating costs, such as wages, it said.

“'(Dollar Tree) believes this is the appropriate time to shift away from the constraints of the $1.00 price point in order to continue offering extreme value to customers,’ the company said in a statement. Dollar Tree was one of the last true ‘dollar stores’ after most of its competition had moved away from that price point.

“The company, which is based in Chesapeake, Virginia, said in September it was testing the higher prices at select stores. On Tuesday, it said it will introduce the new price point in more than 2,000 additional Dollar Tree stores in December and complete the rollout to all its stores by early next year. The company has about 8,000 Dollar Tree stores.”

Said the high school dropout to Seb Gorka on Newsmax “I am so thrilled at the jury’s verdict here. Now I do have some colleagues on the hill who have just like me offered Kyle Rittenhouse an internship in their office and Madison Cawthorn – he said that he would arm-wrestle me, for this uh, Kyle Rittenhouse internship, but… Madison Cawthorn has some pretty big guns and so I would like to challenge him to a sprint instead! Let’s make this fair” to which Seb Gorka, clearly kind of embarrassed by the QAnon fan Congresswoman’s obvious cruelty says “Uhhhh, how about I offer this – Allow me to arm wrestle him on your behalf. I love a good arm wrestle, I’d be happy.”

Madison Cawthorn is a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair and obviously cannot sprint. He can still beat up trees and visit Hitler’s secret mountain hideout. But sprinting isn’t happening.

“Republican Arizona Sen. Paul Boyer, best known for his role as the lone Republican vote against holding the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in contempt of a Senate subpoena for election equipment, is not seeking re-election next year. ‘But for the record, they’re stuck with me for another year. I’m not resigning,’ he said over breakfast recently after he made the decision. Boyer said a host of factors contributed to the decision, including anger at Senate Republican leadership (and Senate President Karen Fann specifically), disillusionment with the direction of his party and a decennial redistricting process that offered a natural splitting point.”

“The birth of his first son in 2019 and the death threats he received in the past year for standing up to the lie that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election in Arizona also played a significant role, he said. After voting against a motion to hold county supervisors in contempt and possibly jail them, Boyer had to get police protection and he and his young family had to temporarily leave their home. He still receives threats that he forwards on to police. ‘I had to put security doors on my home because of some of the threats I was getting. Nobody should have to have that worry just because of a vote you’ve taken or didn’t take,’ he said” – Arizona Agenda.

Reuters:  “The Weeknd’s hit single ‘Blinding Lights’ has ousted Chubby Checker’s 1960s hit ‘The Twist’ as the all-time No. 1 song on the Billboard single charts. Billboard said on Tuesday that the Canadian artist’s single had spent 90 weeks on its Hot 100 chart. It was also a top 5 hit for 43 weeks and a top 10 hit for 57 weeks.

“Billboard said the long chart run had earned ‘Blinding Lights’ the title of No. 1 song on its Greatest Songs of All Time Hot 100 Chart. Checker’s ‘The Twist,’ which launched a new dance craze, was awarded the title in 2008 after separate chart runs in 1960 and again in 1962. The decision is reached by factoring in total weeks on the chart as well as exact chart positions.

“The American singer’s website has for years highlighted the honor of ‘The Twist’ being the No.1 song of all time. Checker, now 80, still performs around the United States.”

Screen recording of a since-deleted tweet of Christian Walker’s “mood right now”.

Reuters:  “The Taliban administration has released a set of restrictions on Afghan media, including banning television dramas that included female actors and ordering women news presenters to wear ‘Islamic hijab’. Afghanistan’s Ministry of Vice and Virtue set out nine rules this week, a Taliban administration spokesman said on Tuesday, largely centred on banning any media that contravened ‘Islamic or Afghan values’.

“Some edicts were targeted specifically at women, a move likely to raise concerns among the international community. ‘Those dramas…or programmes in which women have acted, should not be aired,’ the rules said, adding that female journalists on air should wear ‘Islamic hijab’ without defining what that meant.

“Though most women in Afghanistan wear headscarves in public, the Taliban’s statements that women should wear “Islamic hijab” have often in the past worried women’s rights activists who say the term is vague and could be interpreted conservatively.  The rules drew criticism from international rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW), which said media freedom was deteriorating in the country.”

Associated Press:  “CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies recklessly distributed massive amounts of pain pills in two Ohio counties, a federal jury said Tuesday in a verdict that could set the tone for U.S. city and county governments that want to hold pharmacies accountable for their roles in the opioid crisis. Lake and Trumbull counties blamed the three chain pharmacies for not stopping the flood of pills that caused hundreds of overdose deaths and cost each of the two counties about $1 billion, said their attorney, who in court compared the pharmacies’ dispensing to a gumball machine.

“How much the pharmacies must pay in damages will be decided in the spring by a federal judge. It’s the first time pharmacy companies completed a trial to defend themselves in a drug crisis that killed a half-million Americans over the past two decades. The counties convinced the jury that the pharmacies played an outsized role in creating a public nuisance in the way they dispensed pain medication into their communities.

“’The law requires pharmacies to be diligent in dealing drugs. This case should be a wake-up call that failure will not be accepted,’ said Mark Lanier, an attorney for the counties. ‘The jury sounded a bell that should be heard through all pharmacies in America,’ Lanier said. Attorneys for the pharmacy chains maintained they had policies to stem the flow of pills when their pharmacists had concerns and would notify authorities about suspicious orders from doctors. They also said it was doctors who controlled how many pills were prescribed for legitimate medical needs. CVSHealth, Walgreen Co. and Walmart Inc. said they will appeal.

The Daily Beast:  “MyPillow chief and 2020 dead-ender Mike Lindell has long promised that he would file an election-fraud complaint with the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning. But now he claims to have missed that goal because he was silenced by Republican National Committee Chairperson Ronna McDaniel. It was a last-minute pressure campaign orchestrated by the RNC and McDaniel that prevented his case from moving forward and ‘saving the country,’ Lindell now alleges.

“’We believe that they have reached out to multiple [attorneys general] and put pressure on them, not to sign the Supreme Court complaint,’ Lindell said Monday on his evening livestream, this time from aboard his private plane as he scrambled to lock down the signatures required to file his complaint with the high court. With a poor WiFi connection marring his live-streamed rant, Lindell blasted McDaniel, alleging she orchestrated a vast Republican conspiracy against him when she finally acknowledged late last week that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

“‘How dare the RNC try and stop this case from getting to the Supreme Court. Shame on you, RNC! You are worse than Fox [News] now!” he stated, referencing his claims that the cable giant has silenced him. “You can’t tell me why Ronna McDaniel, the head of the RNC, made a statement saying Biden won three days before this Supreme Court complaint was supposed to go to the Supreme Court. … What about the timing of that, America!; he continued. ‘Why would she say that at that moment in time? She didn’t have to say that. What, is she trying to get more donor money? Is she trying to get donor money from Democrats? She is as RINO as they come!’ McDaniel did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment.

Spectrum News: “The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack has not yet subpoenaed any sitting members of Congress, but it has left the door open to do so. One of the lawmakers who could receive one is Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. For months, Jordan has not definitively answered how many times — and when — he spoke with President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, when the U.S. Capitol was attacked by Trump supporters on the day Congress was scheduled to certify Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election. …

“In an interview with Spectrum News on Nov. 18, Jordan said his office has not received any requests. He wouldn’t commit to cooperating if it does. Jordan was asked, if the committee does reach out and request anything, would he be open to providing it. ‘Depends what it is,’ Jordan said. ‘I mean, I’m not going to answer hypothetical questions, but I just think this is a complete sham, what these guys are doing.’

“In a separate part of the interview, Jordan was asked if he checked exactly how many times he spoke with Trump that day and when. ‘Nope,’ Jordan said. He was asked if the committee asks him to provide that information, would he be open to sharing phone records. ‘Same response I gave you before,’ Jordan said. ‘This is a total political committee.'”

Space.com:  “A weird quantum effect that was predicted decades ago has finally been demonstrated — if you make a cloud of gas cold and dense enough, you can make it invisible. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used lasers to squeeze and cool lithium gas to densities and temperatures low enough that it scattered less light. If they can cool the cloud even closer to absolute zero (minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 273.15 degrees Celsius), they say it will become completely invisible.

“The bizarre effect is the first ever specific example of a quantum mechanical process called Pauli blocking. ‘What we’ve observed is one very special and simple form of Pauli blocking, which is that it prevents an atom from what all atoms would naturally do: scatter light,’ study senior author Wolfgang Ketterle, a professor of physics at MIT, said in a statement. ‘This is the first clear observation that this effect exists, and it shows a new phenomenon in physics.’

“The new technique could be used to develop light-suppressing materials to prevent information loss in quantum computers. Pauli blocking comes from the Pauli exclusion principle, first formulated by the famed Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli in 1925. Pauli posited that all so-called fermion particles — like protons, neutrons and electrons — with the same quantum state as each other cannot exist in the same space. Because at the spooky quantum level there only are a finite number of energy states, this forces electrons in atoms to stack themselves into shells of higher energy levels that orbit ever farther around atomic nuclei. It also keeps the electrons of separate atoms apart from each other because, according to a 1967 paper co-authored by the famed physicist Freeman Dyson, without the exclusion principle all atoms would collapse together while erupting in an enormous release of energy. These outcomes not only produce the startling variation of the elements of the periodic table but also prevent our feet, when planted on the dirt, from falling through the ground, taking us tumbling into the Earth’s center.”

“Donald Trump may be a teetotaler who promised not to monetize his stint as America’s 45th president, but a new bar in his Trump Tower is now selling a $45 cocktail called Forty-Five, as well as drinks named after features of the White House. The 45 Wine and Whiskey Bar, which opened in the past few weeks, sells specialty drinks called The West Wing, Rose Garden and The FLOTUS. At $25 to $29 apiece, they’re not exactly priced for the people, though they’re a bit cheaper than the Forty-Five, which contains Wyoming whiskey, demerara and orange bitters, along with a Trumpian side of Diet Coke and beef sliders. The motif permeates every inch of the place. On the wall hang photos from Trump’s presidency, including one of him in the Situation Room, watching the raid in which U.S. forces killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi” – Forbes.

“The Select Committee is seeking information from individuals and organizations reportedly involved with planning the attack, with the violent mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6th, or with efforts to overturn the results of the election. We believe the individuals and organizations we subpoenaed today have relevant information about how violence erupted at the Capitol and the preparation leading up to this violent attack. The Select Committee is moving swiftly to uncover the facts of what happened on that day and we expect every witness to comply with the law and cooperate so we can get answers to the American people” said January 6th Select Committee Chairman Rep Bennie Thompson announcing the subpoenas for Proud Boys International LLC, the leader Enrique Tarrio, Oath Keepers and their leader Elmer Stewart Rhodes, Robert Patrick Lewis of the 1st Amendment Praetorian.