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Flu activity is surging earlier than usual as an influenza A H1N1 strain with a new mutation spreads across the U.S. nbcwashington.com/news/natio…
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Democratic prospects improve by the hour in Alaska
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BBC News's Zoe Kleinman reports that NVIDIA's Jensen Huang was having an affair with a suspected Chinese spy.
And that President Trump knew about this a long time ago, and too no action.
My view:
What concerns me most is what Donald Trump did after he was warned. The New York Times reports that Trump was told last year that a suspected Chinese spy may have been targeting Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, and that he took no action.
Months later, Trump took Huang to China with him on Air Force One. Huang was advising the president on technology while Beijing wanted access to the powerful AI chips his company makes.
Huang has admitted the affair. Nvidia is investigating. Trump owes the public an explanation too. What was he told, and why did he still take Huang to Beijing?
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Nancie Michelle Givens, former executive director of the Arkansas Supreme Court’s Office of Professional Programs, faces 65 felony charges for allegedly changing bar exam scores—helping some applicants pass while potentially causing another to fail. She has pleaded not guilty.
This was more than tampering with scores. It was tampering with people’s futures.
Every affected applicant deserves the truth. Anyone wrongly denied a passing result deserves a meaningful remedy. And a position of public trust must never become a shield from accountability.
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It will be interesting, eventually, to learn which foreign politicians were paying for access too
Any special interest that hired @SusieWiles daughter, @KatieWiles0303, a lobbyist for Continental Strategy, “was getting a high priority" inside the WH, said @calleymeans.
“You pay Susie’s daughter, & it was openly discussed when they had a client.” nytimes.com/2026/11/06/us/po…
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Confirmed --this really happened. They were not authorized to do it and the purpose is unclear.
Let this sink in: ICE agents reportedly blocked the emergency entrance of a Los Angeles hospital for TWO HOURS, forcing ambulances carrying people who needed emergency care to go elsewhere.
This isn’t law enforcement. This is a reckless abuse of power that put innocent people’s lives at risk.
An ambulance entrance is not a political battleground. A hospital emergency room is not an immigration checkpoint.
And federal agents do not get to hold an entire community’s access to emergency medical care hostage.
Imagine being in an ambulance, fighting for your life, only to be diverted because federal agents decided their operation mattered more than emergency access.
Where is the humanity? Where is the accountability? And where is the line that these agents are no longer allowed to cross?
You cannot claim to be protecting America while putting Americans’ lives in danger.
This isn’t making America great. It’s making America cruel. And anyone defending this should be ashamed.
Peter Elkind retweeted
Cullen Davis, 93, identified by 3 witnesses as the man who killed a 12-year-old stepdaughter and his wife's 30-year-old boyfriend in 1976 has died. He was acquitted of the girl's killing in a trial where his defense attorney had a paid spy inside the prosecution, and was never tried in the man's death. At the time, he was the richest American to ever face a murder charge. He was found responsible in civil court. His cold, hard stare gave me chills when we rode together in the Oil & Gas Building elevator. May God have mercy on his soul. star-telegram.com/news/local…
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) told Fox News that Calley Means, a former Trump White House adviser who quit last month, laid out “in gory detail” concerns about levels of corruption within government, including corruption “within the Trump administration.” wapo.st/4zEL52U
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Great reporting by @nytimes. The US Commerce Dept was approving sales of Nvidia chips to companies in China which either did not exist, were on the sanctions list, and/or had ties to China's military. A brief visit by journalists in China found that two of the offices were just empty shells.
Was Jensen Huang a "victim" of a honey trap or was he just trying to make as much money as possible? Was his $25 million donation to Trump's ballroom the price of pay to play? In the US - China tech competition, has the Commerce Dept been co-opted by other interests? Here is a gift article which raises deeply troubling questions.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2026/11/07/busin…
Peter Elkind retweeted
NEW: Nat Sec Adviser Marco Rubio oversaw drafting of a highly classified memo this spring that the intel community assessed a woman who had established a close relationship w Jensen Huang was working for China's Ministry of State Security nytimes.com/2026/11/08/us/po…
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A tragic Texas story. An 11-Day-Old Baby Couldn’t Stop Bleeding. For Hours, the ER Didn’t Provide a Critical Vitamin Shot. propublica.org/article/vitam…
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Aren’t these the same associations that endorsed a racist?
Associations that represent the oil and gas industry are calling on Jon Rosenthal, the first Democrat on the Texas Railroad Commission in three decades, to govern fairly and predictably. bit.ly/4AbB8K1
Peter Elkind retweeted
Just stunning: With just one exception, Democrats are set to hold every single statewide elected office across Georgia, Texas, Nevada, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Ohio.
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang acknowledges that he had an intimate relationship with a business executive who US intelligence has determined to be a Chinese spy. @trippmickle nytimes.com/2026/11/08/techn…
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As a White House staffer, I knew very well that the Attorney General wasn’t my lawyer
In fact, if I violated the law, they were there to prosecute, not protect me
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Iranian American Legal Defense Fund tells Judge Reyes that govt was trying to—and may have—deported 10 or 11 Iranians to Iran early this morning in violation of her 10/15 order to provide 5 business days notice before doing so. ...
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