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(1:29) ARTICLE NPR – Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race, in a historic victory for progressiveshttps://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/nx-s1-5597788/election-results-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor

(2:05) ARTICLE NPR – Trump and Mamdani share a cordial White House meeting after months of trading attackshttps://www.npr.org/2025/11/21/nx-s1-5615169/trump-mamdani-oval-office-communist-socialist

(2:11) LINK Adam Friedland Show interview with Zohran Mamdani https://youtu.be/hsi5C_5HpoY?si=ZSHewEmBu6Tfyddw

(2:53) LINK Conservative Wind Podcast collection: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1857832?view=expanded

(3:48) TWEET Trump says “I am the affordability president”

(4:05) TWEET @atrupar reposts Harry Enten segment on rising costs https://x.com/atrupar/status/1992984895824552016

(4:40) ARTICLE Axios – The shutdown-imposed data gap could be permanenthttps://www.axios.com/2025/11/13/government-shutdown-bls-report

(5:33) ARTICLE Politico – It’s official: NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch will lead department under Mamdanihttps://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/19/its-official-nypd-commissioner-jessica-tisch-will-lead-department-under-mamdani-00658811

(6:26) TWEET @yousefmunayyer “Mamdani, regularly slammed for being a political novice, just pulled off an absolute political masterclass.”

(8:16) TWEET @qasimrashid “Find someone who looks at you the way Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani”

(8:58) TWEET @allie4tn “I don’t believe in coincidences. Trump dressed in very similar to a previous look of Zohran Mamdani today.”

(9:12) ARTICLE Associated Press – Mamdani goes to Washington: first face-off with Trumphttps://apnews.com/article/trump-zohran-mamdani-mayor-meeting-1770204af103afa00ee9b5d97cd401c7

(9:24) LINK Trump Mamdani meeting full video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDanzN1EUeE

(10:04) ARTICLE New York Times – Mamdani’s meeting with Trump scrambled the MAGA-spherehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/style/mamdani-trump-reactions-fuentes-bannon.html

(13:55) ARTICLE First Post – Kash Patel, Vivek Ramaswami and More: Why Republican Indian-Americans are coming under MAGA firehttps://www.firstpost.com/explainers/kash-patel-vivek-ramaswamy-and-more-why-republican-indian-americans-maga-fire-13949424.html

(15:40) LINK Trump Mamdani meeting full video (again) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDanzN1EUeE

(15:49) ARTICLE New York Post – Trump jokes it’s ok for Mamdani to call him ‘fascist’: ‘you can just say yes’https://nypost.com/2025/11/21/us-news/trump-runs-cover-for-mamdani-after-mayor-elect-asked-to-explain-if-he-still-thinks-president-is-a-fascist-you-can-just-say-yes/

(16:25) ARTICLE Al Jazeera – What does Mamdani’s win mean for the future of the Democratic Party?https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/5/what-does-mamdanis-win-mean-for-the-future-of-the-democratic-party

(16:30) ARTICLE NBC Washington – Democrat Jones wins Virgina AG race despite violent textshttps://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/democrat-jones-wins-virginia-ag-violent-texts/4011409/

(16:36) ARTICLE Rappler – Voter turnout hits 82.2% in 2025, a record high for midterm pollshttps://www.rappler.com/philippines/elections/voter-turnout-comelec-report-may-2025/

(16:51) ARTICLE NPR – Democrats’ 2025 election wins go beyond big races to places like Georgia, Pennsylvaniahttps://www.npr.org/2025/11/05/nx-s1-5599185/2025-election-results-georgia-pennsylvania-democrats-win

(17:04) ARTICLE Newsweek – Trump’s approval rating negative in 20 states he wonhttps://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-negative-20-states-he-won-11105027

(17:26) ARTICLE Mass Live – A new low: Trump’s approvals plunge in every major pollhttps://www.masslive.com/politics/2025/11/a-new-low-trumps-approvals-plunge-in-every-major-poll.html

(17:27) ARTICLE Reuters – Trump signs deal to end longest government shutdown in US historyhttps://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-house-vote-deal-end-longest-government-shutdown-history-2025-11-12/

(17:32) TWEET @angry_staffer “the White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.”

(17:40) ARTICLE ABC News – Trump hosted ‘Great Gatsby’ Halloween party hours before SNAP funding lapsedhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-hosted-great-gatsby-halloween-party-hours-snap/story?id=127091016

(17:44) ARTICLE Bipartisan Policy Center – Who is missing paychecks in the 2025 shutdown – when and where?https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/who-is-missing-paychecks-in-the-2025-shutdown-when-and-where/

(17:47) ARTICLE Wall Street Journal – Appeals court won’t let Trump administration limit SNAP benefits: ruling means administration will have to make payments unless Supreme Court interveneshttps://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/appeals-court-wont-let-trump-administration-limit-snap-benefits-5608b1d4?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqeiQx0MeW_IkAx61hgfSf7P-qCziVhureCFayc8cp_rgBBSPL4tGCDO&gaa_ts=69370fbe&gaa_sig=eYoR10zK29QUyiOW7KtZorLGlDNF-VnLgUUPTMlKibpQV-0nPeOJALzQkIZumBXvCsLoabB05QZgwdYb66vDfA%3D%3D

(18:29) ARTICLE Holland & Knight – Court of Appeals IEEPA tariffs, setting stage for Supreme Court rulinghttps://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2025/09/court-of-appeals-strikes-down-ieepa-tariffs-setting-stage

(19:03) ARTICLE Axios – Trump says GOP would never lose an election again if filibuster is eliminatedhttps://www.axios.com/2025/11/07/shutdown-trump-trans-voting-filibuster-republicans-hungary

(19:11) ARTICLE NBC News – Off-year election losses spark Republican concerns about redistrictinghttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/-year-election-losses-spark-republican-concerns-redistricting-rcna242129

(19:17) ARTICLE USA Today – Opinion: Seattle is latest to elect a socialist mayor, it’s bafflinghttps://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/12/01/nyc-seattle-mayor-socialism-communism-voters/87466673007/

(19:31) ARTICLE Maine Wire – Platner shows substantial lead over Mills despite mounting controversieshttps://www.themainewire.com/2025/10/platner-shows-substantial-lead-over-mills-despite-mounting-controversies/

(20:51) TWEET @AaronRegunberg reads quote from centrist Democratic strategist James Carville “It is time for the Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and unmistakable platform of pure economic rage.”

(23:26) TWEET @MaineStatePress “Multiple political sources now claim that advanced data-analysis tools, possibly including Palantir or similar AI-driver technology, may have been used to trace the archived account and compile identifying information linking it to Platner.”

(24:43) WIKI palantir (Tolkien) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palant%C3%ADr

(24:44) WIKI panopticon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon by Jeremy Bentham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham

(26:26) ARTICLE BBC – Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner apologizes for tattoo that resembles Nazi symbolhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxrqpl9elno

(27:38) ARTICLE Bloomberg – Why Maine voters haven’t cancelled Platner (yet)https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-24/graham-platner-tattoo-controversy-hasn-t-rattled-maine-voters-yet

(28:46) ARTICLE Portland Press Herald – Platner stands tall in the face of detractorshttps://www.pressherald.com/2025/12/02/platner-stands-tall-in-the-face-of-detractors-letter/

(29:23) ARTICLE NBC News – Democrats rebel after 8 senators vote to end the shutdown without ACA fundshttps://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/democrats-rebel-8-senators-cut-224928310.html

(29:42) ARTICLE BBC – Trump celebrates as Democrats face fallout from end of shutdownhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz917nvj7qeo

(30:32) TWEET Trump proposes his new healthcare “plan”, which is UBI

(31:37) LINK Conservative Wind Podcast episode 2: Left Derangement Syndrome https://www.patreon.com/posts/left-derangement-144518448?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

(31:56) ARTICLE NPR – Mitt Romney finally takes credit for Obamacare: it’s all politicshttps://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/23/451200436/mitt-romney-finally-takes-credit-for-obamacare

(33:31) ARTICLE MediaIte – CNN interrupts its report on Trump unveiling his new healthcare plan… to announce that Trump is not unveiling his new healthcare planhttps://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cnn-interrupts-report-trump-unveiling-215544947.html

(33:45) ARTICLE Bloomberg – Paul Ryan’s Roadmap was an epic fiscal failure: maybe he was never all that serious about fixing America’s problemshttps://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-11/paul-ryan-s-roadmap-was-an-epic-fiscal-failure

(38:35) ARTICLE Common Dreams, Trump claims Venezuelan airspace is closed in latest illegal ‘dangerous’ escalationhttps://www.commondreams.org/news/venezuela-airspace

(39:04) ARTICLE Popular Resistance – US media promotes military intervention in Venezuelahttps://mronline.org/2025/01/31/u-s-media-promotes-military-intervention-in-venezuela/

(39:38) ARTICLE Council on Foreign Relations – On regime change in Venezuelahttps://www.cfr.org/article/regime-change-venezuela

(39:47) ARTICLE AZ Mirror – With Adelita Grijalva, Southern Arizona constituents are finally represented after a record delayhttps://azmirror.com/2025/11/12/with-adelita-grijalva-southern-arizona-constituents-are-finally-represented-after-a-record-delay/

(40:03) ARTICLE The Guardian – Angry Democrats call on Schumer to resign after eight vote to end shutdown: some lawmakers and progressive groups blame minority leader after eight Democrats defecthttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/10/chuck-schumer-resign-calls-shutdown-vote-democrats

(40:44) ARTICLE The Guardian – Epstein emails: key takeaways from 20,000 pages of newly released files – convicted sex offender said Trump ‘knew about the girls’ and called president a ‘maniac’https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/13/epstein-files-key-takeaways

(41:40) ARTICLE BBC – Trump ally Margerie Taylor Greene to quit Congress after Epstein files feudhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qx1lenvjo

(42:08) ARTICLE New Republic – The surprising bill uniting MTG, Nancy Pelosi, Lauren Boebert and AOC: Representative Thomas Massie’s Epstein measure is producing a real show of bipartisanshiphttps://newrepublic.com/post/198237/donald-trump-epstein-files-thomas-massie-mtg-aoc

(42:15) ARTICLE Vanity Fair – It’s not just MTG: other Republicans in Congress are reportedly eyeing an exithttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/marjorie-taylor-greene-republican-congress-exits?srsltid=AfmBOop_h-wTdc3jS7W4Yzhk5g1GbN4IVaj_oPgztyUk9Isldy2_Sopu

(42:41) LINK Broken Wind Podcast episode Jerks Progress Administration, News Update, October 12, 2025https://www.patreon.com/posts/jerks-progress-141653573?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

(43:33) TWEET MTG expressed frustration at her party before resignation https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1975337063697555652

(43:44) ARTICLE Politico – Despite loss, Democrats overperformed in bright red Tennessee House racehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/despite-loss-democrats-overperformed-bright-025718038.html

(44:30) PIC campaign signs in 2016 said ‘the silent majority stands with Trump’

(44:45) ARTICLE Daily Beast – CNN’s data guru Harry Enten stunned by ‘shocking’ swing to Dems before midtermshttps://www.thedailybeast.com/cnns-data-guru-harry-enten-stunned-by-shocking-swing-to-dems-before-midterms/

(45:24) LINK Conservative Wind Podcast episode 2: Left Derangement Syndrome (again) https://www.patreon.com/posts/left-derangement-144518448?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

(46:45) ARTICLE Axios – “They hate us”: Democrats confront their own Tea Partyhttps://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/democrats-house-senate-tea-party-trump

() CORRECTION Fuentes is referring to JD Vance in this clip, but much of it still applies to Trump

(48:01) ARTICLE MediaIte – Nick Fuentes takes victory lap over JD Vance following Tucker Carlson interviewhttps://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nick-fuentes-takes-victory-lap-231549836.html

(50:27) LINK Conservative Wind Podcast episode 2: Left Derangement Syndrome (again) https://www.patreon.com/posts/left-derangement-144518448?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

(51:14) LINK TrueAnon Podcasthttps://podcast.trueanon.com/

(52:28) LINK Tranche Talk episode of TrueAnon https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-505-talk-144298953

(52:36) PIC Years of email exchanges between Epstein and Larry Summers leaked

(53:44) ARTICLE – Ex-Harvard president Larry Summers steps back from public role after Epstein email releasehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddr199d3z0o

(54:27) ARTICLE The Crimson – As Summers sought clandestine relationship with woman he called his mentee, Epstein was his ‘wing man’https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/17/summers-epstein-wing-man-woman-described-as-mentee/

(55:42) ARTICLE New Republic – Trump obsessed over Project 2025 creator (Russ Vought) getting p*ssy at Mar-a-Lagohttps://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-obsessed-over-project-2025-154307701.html

(57:12) ARTICLE BBC – Trump rebrands Department of Defense as department of warhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr9r4qr0ppo

(57:19) WIKI the crusades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades

(57:34) ARTICLE Independent – ‘War criminal’ Pete Hegseth faces growing criticism from conservatives over ‘kill everybody’ strikehttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-war-criminal-conservative-criticism-b2877424.html

(57:40) WIKI No quarter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_quarter From wikipedia: Article 23 of the Hague Convention of 1907 states that “it is especially forbidden […] to declare that no quarter will be given”

(58:22) ARTICLE Time – Which countries have stopped sharing intelligence with US over boat strikes in Caribbean?https://time.com/7333231/countries-stop-sharing-intelligence-with-united-states-amid-boat-strikes-caribbean/

(58:29) ARTICLE Guardian – US strikes against boats in Caribbean ‘disregard international law’, French minister sayshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/12/us-strikes-against-boats-in-caribbean-disregard-international-law-french-minister-says

(58:52) PIC Pete Hegseth Deus Vult tattoo WIKI Deus vult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_vult

(58:55) ARTICLE Wild Hunt – Patel’s ‘see you in Valhalla’ tribute prompts confusion, debate and cringehttps://wildhunt.org/2025/09/editorial-patels-see-you-in-valhalla-tribute-prompts-confusion-debate-and-cringe.html

(1:00:47) ARTICLE Nikkei Asia – Strategic ambiguity on Taiwan, Trump stylehttps://asia.nikkei.com/opinion/strategic-ambiguity-on-taiwan-trump-style

(1:00:56) ARTICLE Wall Street Journal – Trump, after call with China’s Xi, told Tokyo to lower the volume on Taiwanhttps://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-after-call-with-chinas-xi-told-japan-to-lower-the-volume-on-taiwan-3af795d6?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdlwgRwdyeIVerIHYJ13RJqVCxxrt9L6qx27EKNuhD8dsezjh8qbt-4Mbqi4fs%3D&gaa_ts=6936d016&gaa_sig=WuutzIT9GJIDReDx5VOmLNIehQXdbe98wDh87TwQnL0x-vKsNzmiu8HfH-IgDB1Bdvna_1emnYZ9bgcRsMP45w%3D%3D

(1:01:45) ARTICLE New Republic – Trump’s Ukraine peace deal appears to be translated from Russianhttps://newrepublic.com/post/203517/trump-ukraine-peace-deal-russian-language

(1:02:06) ARTICLE PBS – As Trump pushes an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, he looks to his Gaza ceasefire playbookhttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/as-trump-pushes-an-end-to-the-russia-ukraine-war-he-looks-to-his-gaza-ceasefire-playbook

(1:02:40) ARTICLE Newsweek – Zelensky rebukes Trump’s call for Russian ceasefire to his facehttps://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-rebukes-trumps-call-russian-ceasefire-his-face-2037958

(1:02:45) ARTICLE Anadolu Agency – France, Belgium, Spain spend more on Russian natural gas than aid for Ukraine: Greenpeacehttps://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/france-belgium-spain-spent-more-on-russian-natural-gas-than-aid-for-ukraine-greenpeace/3703266

(1:02:48) WIKI Spain-Russia relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Spain_relations

(1:03:43) ARTICLE PBS – US now wants to reverse its boycott and join the G20 summit, South African president sayshttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-now-wants-to-reverse-its-boycott-and-join-the-g20-summit-south-african-president-says

(1:04:07) ARTICLE eNCA – US locked out of G20 leadership summit’s closing ceremonyhttps://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/23/g20-summit-closes-in-south-africa-after-u-s-absence/

(1:04:46) WIKI polarity (international relations) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity_(international_relations) and multilateralism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateralism

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