USA Today:  “Billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have chosen a remote town in Wyoming to build a new small nuclear power plant intended to help replace the coal-fired plants dotting the state.  Pending federal and local approval, TerraPower will build the $4 billion, 345-megawatt facility at the Naughton Power Plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming, about 130 miles northeast of Salt Lake City, the company announced Tuesday.

“The relatively small ‘Natrium’ reactor is similar to those used in some U.S. Navy submarines, and is designed to be faster and cheaper to build, and safer to run, than traditional large-scale reactors. The project has broad support from Wyoming’s conservative political leaders and from the Biden administration. ‘The Natrium reactor is the future of nuclear energy in America. It makes perfect sense to have it in Wyoming, the energy capital of the United States. Wyoming’s economy will grow from having this groundbreaking technology in our state,’ U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, said in a statement to USA TODAY. ‘Our abundant energy sources including coal, oil, natural gas, renewables, and now nuclear power will continue to provide good-paying jobs. Americans across the country will depend on Wyoming energy for decades and decades to come.’

“Look, yesterday, that event, that–I’ll be honest, it felt like, um, it just felt like an event out of time,” MSNBC host (and Muppet wannabe) Chuck Todd comments about the infrastructure bill signing.  “That event might have been impactful in August or September or October. It feels more like an epilogue to the, ah, ah, to the ending of what’s going to — might not be a good story for Democrats in 2022.”

Two jurors holding decision up, outright citing backlash, per US Marshal in Kenosha

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 16, 2021

“Worried about media leaking their names, what will happen to their families, jobs, etc… Including doxxing threats from ‘anarchist groups’” adds the spiritual descendant of Joseph Goebbels.

Associated Press:  “Longtime California Rep. Jackie Speier, who first ran for office after surviving a 1978 ambush by cult followers that killed her congressman boss, said Tuesday that she would not seek reelection. The seven-term congresswoman’s decision to step down from a safe Democratic seat in the San Francisco Bay Area makes her the latest House Democrat to announce retirement ahead of a fraught 2022 midterm election cycle, a troubling sign for Democrats clinging to a narrow majority.

Speier said in a video message that it was an ‘extraordinary privilege’ to serve. But after nearly 40 years in public office at the local, state and federal level, it was time to step aside, she said. ‘It’s time for me to come home,’ Speier said. ‘Time for me to be more than a weekend wife, mother and friend.”

Speier recalled how she was inspired to pursue a career in public service after she accompanied her boss, Rep. Leo J. Ryan, on a flight to Guyana in a disastrous 1978 attempt to rescue 900 followers of the cult leader Jim Jones. Ryan was investigating complaints his office received about conditions at the jungle settlement established by Jones and his followers, known as Jonestown. But the trip ended in tragedy. Ryan and four others were shot to death on an airstrip by gunmen who were followers of Jones. Speier, who was 29 at the time, was shot five times, with bullets ripping through her arm and leg. Hours later, Jones exhorted members of his flock to drink cyanide-laced punch in a mass murder-suicide.

“Marjorie Taylor Greene just ripped into Kevin McCarthy for failing to punish the 13 House Republicans who backed the bipartisan infrastructure bill, saying the defections and lack of consequences are a sign of ‘weak’ leadership. ‘It’s a complete failure’. Greene also said the episode is hurting McCarthy’s chances for speaker and she needs to see changes before supporting him. ‘I’m going to be laying things on the table that I want to see changed over time, and then we’ll see what happens and see if anyone else is running,’ she said” reports CNN’s Melanie Zanona.

See, we had to add the word “verbal” to the headline because readers might initially take it literally, as Marjorie Taylor Greene likes guns perhaps even more than she likes cheating on her husband with a tantric sex guru, and some might believe she actually pulled one out and fired a round over Kevin McCarthy’s head. There’s a reason there are metal detectors outside the House chamber in the US Capitol and this psychopath is probably carrying whenever she’s not in there.

Must’ve been a powerful telepathic message from God the Sturgis, Michigan-area deer received to make him go ballistic like that. “Trevor, my child, the humans who seek your flesh for sustenance and your horns for chintzy chandeliers are my chosen creations, for I have blessed them with the sacred right to gun ownership in return for voting for the vessel of my will and my values, the true President Donald Trump. You are not safe and you will never be. Go now, for I will not save you from my red-hatted, camo-sweatpants wearing soldiers. You are on your own.” Read more at MLive.

“The House will vote tomorrow on a resolution that: CENSURES Rep. Paul Gosar and REMOVES him from Oversight Committee, per source familiar” reports Politico’s Heather Caygle.

The Guardian: “In the pitch dark, Jason Bullard adroitly shoulders his rifle and levels it at the object. ‘That looks like one!’ he mutters. It turns out to be a fuse box. Another candidate, again aimed at with the gun, reveals itself as a rock. In this town besieged by armadillos, anything with a passing similarity to the armored nemesis is under suspicion. Bullard, an affable man in a camouflaged shirt, with a sonorous voice and prodigious beard, has rapidly gone from never seeing an armadillo in his bucolic corner of western North Carolina to killing 15 of them last year. In just the last two weeks, he has dispatched eight of the animals. Homeowners, perturbed at their lawns being torn up by the newly arrived mammals, handing him $100 for every dead carcass he produced.”

“But armadillos have wreaked such horticultural havoc that dozens of people in and around Sapphire, North Carolina, now have Bullard on a retainer, allowing him to prowl around their properties at night, armed, in the hope of shooting the culprits. The task has been learned hastily on the job. The standard .22 rifles Bullard used on the first armadillos didn’t seem to kill them outright. One of the creatures bounded away in a freakish, kangaroo-like hop, leaving an astonished Bullard flailing. The armadillos give off a sort of loamy grey color at night, a shone light absorbed by their bodies, rather than reflected in their eyes. ‘It’s like hunting aliens,’ said Bullard, who is more used to hunting feral pigs. ‘We know nothing about them. We can’t seem to kill them easily. They show up unexpectedly. And their numbers have just exploded.'”

“Wendy Rittenhouse issued a message on behalf of the Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Fund Tuesday as the jury in her son’s case continued deliberations. ‘Both the prosecution and my son Kyle’s defense team have finished their closing arguments and I am beyond nervous,’ she wrote in the email. In the email, she asked for donations to pay for legal costs. Legal costs for the month of November are expected to be $110,000. ‘We have been fighting an extremely uphill battle from the beginning, but with the support of thousands of our fellow Americans we have put up a big fight'” – CNN

Atlanta Journal-Constitution:  “Investigators believe a deadly shooting Wednesday night at a condemned DeKalb County condominium complex is connected to the kidnapping of 1-year-old Blaise Barnett.  Aziz Hassan, 60, was killed just before midnight Wednesday, nearly 24 hours after Blaise and his family’s Ford Explorer were taken from their home in Clarkston, and 12 hours after the SUV was found abandoned in tall bushes at the Brannon Hill complex. Another 12 hours would elapse before the child was found safe Thursday afternoon and reunited with his mother.

“Two people, 38-year-old Delarius Miller and 34-year-old Santana Miller, are facing murder charges in Hassan’s death. According to Channel 2 Action News, they were among a search party that went door to door in the complex late into the night. The Millers are cousins of the child’s father, Xavier Barnett.  Their relationship to each other was not disclosed.

“‘Investigators believe the motive for the shooting is related to the kidnapping of the 1-year-old boy,’ DeKalb police spokeswoman Michaela Vincent said in an email. ‘There’s no evidence to suggest that Mr. Hassan had any involvement in the kidnapping of the 1-year-old.’  Investigators believe Delarius Miller was at a Brannon Hill condo “with several others” when he shot Hassan at 11:40 p.m. Wednesday after a dispute, according to Vincent. Hassan died at the scene, and police detained both Delarius and Santana Miller during their initial investigation. Only the man was arrested Wednesday.

Completion of Birmingham's Northern Beltline has been a priority of mine since I was elected to Congress, and new funding for the project has now passed. See my full statement here: https://t.co/07X52VfnJ6

— Gary Palmer (@USRepGaryPalmer) November 15, 2021

Palmer put out a statement saying “Democrats have been in disarray and arguing amongst themselves for weeks over the specifics of these bills. The fundamental problems with both bills haven’t changed. Our economy is struggling, and our national debt already presents a serious national security threat, but the Democrats have shown they are willing to recklessly push through a bill that costs over a trillion dollars” on the night the infrastructure bill passed the House.

KLAS: “A Las Vegas man charged with forging his dead wife’s signature on her ballot, mailing it in and then claiming it had been stolen, has agreed to plead guilty. Hartle is the chief financial officer at Ahern Rentals, which hosted a rally for former President Donald Trump last September and was cited for violating coronavirus protocols. The umbrella company hosted a QAnon conference in October at the Ahern Hotel off the Las Vegas Strip.”

“Jurors in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse have asked the judge for extra copies of the jury instructions. Judge Schroeder said the jury asked for copies of pages 1 through 6 of the jury instructions, and were provided 11 additional copies, according to the courtroom pool reporter. Pages 2 through 3 focus on the self-defense and provocation instructions. Page 4 of the jury instructions focuses on crimes requiring intent to kill. Pages 5 and 6 focus on the first count of first-degree reckless homicide for the fatal shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum” CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz reports.

AP: “A Connecticut man charged by state police with threatening Gov. Ned Lamont on Twitter said Tuesday that his words were being blown out of proportion and that he had no intent to harm anyone. Troopers arrested Jonathan Wright, 41, of Waterford, on a second-degree threatening charge Monday in connection with an Oct. 23 tweet posted in reply to a tweet by Lamont. He posted $30,000 bail and was ordered to appear in New London Superior Court on Nov. 29. According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Wright was upset because he heard government leaders put COVID-19 patients into nursing homes, which had sickened elderly residents, and he wanted officials to be held accountable. ‘You are scum living on borrowed time,’ Wright’s tweet said.”

“‘President Trump knows what you did to the elderly Covid patients that were sent to nursing homes. All is known and you will meet your maker courtesy of a noose and a trap door. Treason=DEATH.’ Wright said in a phone interview Tuesday that what he meant was Lamont, a Democrat, should be charged in the criminal justice system and if found guilty should get capital punishment. ‘I just said something stupid and it’s being blown way, way out of proportion,’ Wright said. ‘I had no malicious intent. I didn’t want the governor to die. Does that sound like I’m going to do it? People don’t walk around with nooses and a trap door… This is an absolute nightmare.'”

We are pleased to present the official photo of the nine current judges of the Supreme Court of Canada. #SCC #cdnlaw https://t.co/fliexEpkLt pic.twitter.com/tzUqazaD5T

— Supreme Court of Canada (@SCC_eng) November 16, 2021

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“With the Beijing Winter Olympics just three months away, the Biden administration will soon have to make clear whether it plans to send an official delegation to China. But sooner rather than later, according to several sources familiar with the plans, the White House is expected to announce that neither President Biden nor any other U.S. government officials will attend the Beijing Games. This diplomatic boycott is intended, the sources say, as a way to respond to the Chinese government’s human rights abuses without impacting U.S. athletes” – Washington Post.

USA Today: “The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general “declined” to investigate the conduct of mounted Border Patrol agents during a September confrontation with Haitian migrants at the Mexican border near Del Rio, Texas, the agency said.

“Two months after the incident, DHS said Tuesday that the incident, which drew widespread condemnation, is the subject of a separate agency inquiry headed by the Office of Professional Responsibility. The investigative update comes after Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told a House panel in September that an investigation would be completed within days.

“According to the DHS statement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection initially referred the incident to the inspector general, adding that the agency watchdog ‘declined to investigate and referred the matter back to CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility. … OPR then immediately commenced investigative work, including its review of videos and photographs and the interview of witnesses, employees, and CBP leadership,’ DHS said. ‘OPR has followed customary process in its investigation of this matter.'”

The dirty tricksters at the Michigan Department of Health sent a deceptive mailer to make it look like Trump and other MAGA heroes endorsed the COVID-19 vaccines! Even if he did and they used verbatim quotes from them in the text it still feels like they’re lying to people! That’s not right! It’s not fair and balanced either because they didn’t send one that says anything about what Biden said about vaccines, because if they show his quotes on it, Michiganders can make an informed decision on whether that cancels out Trump also being pro-vax. Read more at the Detroit News.