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Week of November 16, 2025
"Quiet, quiet, piggy."
Ginger
11/23/20257 min read
Here goes...
1. Changing the name from Department of Defense to Department of War is not only a stupid testosterone-soaked vanity project, it will likely cost 2 billion dollars.
2. This is a good and short “cliff notes” version of the recent dump of 22,000 pages of Epstein files (from the Epstein Estate). It has the highlights. And by highlights, I mean deeply disturbing, nightmare inducing, lowlights.
3. Epstein survivors made this incredibly powerful video and it was played during a Sunday NFL game.
4. Remember last week when I went on and on about who the real “welfare queens” are? Well, I found this article from 2014 (it can only be worse now) that shows that Walmart costs taxpayers 6.2 billion in public assistance. Again, Walmart (and companies like them) are literally subsidizing their payroll costs with government assistance. Walmart actually TRAINS their employees how to apply for assistance. Oh, and guess what, they then make millions when employees spend the assistance in their stores!
5. Here is a really infuriating article showing just how much taxpayer money Trump is funneling to his allies and himself. I mean for the love of God, 50 million of your hard-earned money for frigging criminal Michael Flynn??
6. CNBC tells Trump economic advisor Mick – most punch-able face – Mulvaney to quit lying about prices going down.
7. He spent his entire campaign saying he would release the Epstein files. Then once elected he fought tooth and nail to keep them from being released. To the point of calling his own supporters stupid for not letting it go. Then when he realized he was losing, badly, on the subject and even Boebert and MTG had turned against him – he “always” wanted them released. It never ends.
This is utterly and truly ridiculous.
8. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have died because Musk and Trump and “DOGE” defunded USAID. Fourteen million will die unnecessarily by 2030. And Republicans, and Trump supporting good Christians, are just shrugging their shoulders over it. My grandparents worked for USAID. I’ll never get over this. It’s unforgivable. Because really, Trump is sending 40 billion to Argentina and spending 300 million on a ballroom, and 2 billion to change the name of a government department (and on and on and on). It’s just sick.
9. A new analysis finds NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, negatively affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.
10. I’m pissed. Just pissed. I need a doomscrolling break before I become positively homicidal. I love these kids.
11. GOOD NEWS ALERT: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed (after NPR sued) to reinstate $36 million in funding for NPR after dropping it due to pressure from Trump.
12. A female reporter asked Trump about the Epstein files and the President of the United States of America pointed his fat finger in her face and said, “Quiet, quiet, piggy”.
I’ll just leave this George Orwell quote here: "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.", Animal Farm.
13. Trump is using the Justice Department as his personal revenge machine. Career, non-partisan, experienced lawyers are resigning because of the extent to which Trump is demanding they compromise their ethics, integrity, and defy the law they were trained to uphold. This is an excellent article by The New York Times. More than 200 DOJ lawyers have been fired and thousands more have resigned (CNN).
14. This is a direct quote from Trump’s speech at the McDonald’s Impact Summit: "Skedaddle, that plane went pssh, when it drops a bomb it goes down very steeply, because that gives it a better angle and more speed for the bomb, very very heavy bombs, it goes PUM, skedaddle, that thing turned on its side, pwwh, now we have peace in the Middle East."
15. A Nebraska farmer asks pro-fracking committee members to drink the water from a fracking zone near his farm.
16. ICE are arresting people because they don’t “look” American, or don’t “look” like their last name sounds (in this case the woman is adopted, so…). You can thank the Supreme Court who recently said racial profiling is just fine.
17. Trump’s Department of Education is declaring a broad list of careers not “professional” anymore. The purpose appears to be to reduce the amount of grants or student loans one can get if you are pursuing one of those degrees. What career is no longer considered “professional”? Nursing, Physician assistants, Physical therapists, Audiologists, Architects, Accountants, Educators, and Social workers.
18. Trump just pulled a $197 million grant that Biden’s administration awarded to build a battery plant in North St. Louis, Missouri. This is funding approved by Congress (why does he get away with this?). About 1,000 potential jobs will be cancelled. Why? It’s pretty obvious. Trump hates Biden and is in the pocket of fossil fuel industry. Look folks, Trump is a bastard, but I guarantee you, renewable energy will win. It is our future, despite what Mango Mussolini wants.
19. A group of Dem law makers who are also veterans or in intelligence made a video reminding soldiers that they should not obey illegal orders and Trump flipped his lid. They clearly said ILLEGAL orders should not be obeyed and Trump posts that they are treasonous and should be arrested – that treason is punishable by death.
20. John Stewert helping Republicans decipher Epstein emails.
21. Oh hey, Jay Kudlow of Fox is now trying to tell everyone that “affordability is over-rated”. He is trying to tell everyone that the economy is booming. Okay.
22. Here is another “they’re eating the cats!” moment. None of this is true of course.
23. RFK Jr., Secretary of Health and human Sacrifice, had the CDC web site altered to imply a link between vaccines and autism.
24. Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, mother of two, daughter of Caroline Kennedy, cousin of RFK Jr.’s is dying of leukemia. (gosh this story is hard). She wrote a devastating essay about RFK Jr’s cuts to cancer research.
I don’t usually do this but RFK is an absolute nightmare, so here is a long excerpt from the essay (I do encourage you to read it all).
“I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government.
Suddenly, the health-care system on which I relied felt strained, shaky. Doctors and scientists at Columbia, including George, didn’t know if they would be able to continue their research, or even have jobs. (Columbia was one of the Trump Administration’s first targets in its crusade against alleged antisemitism on campuses; in May, the university laid off a hundred and eighty researchers after federal-funding cuts.) If George changed jobs, we didn’t know if we’d be able to get insurance, now that I had a preëxisting condition. Bobby is a known skeptic of vaccines, and I was especially concerned that I wouldn’t be able to get mine again, leaving me to spend the rest of my life immunocompromised, along with millions of cancer survivors, small children, and the elderly.”
“As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering.”
The whole article is a tough read.
25. Ugh. I can’t leave you with that. It’s too awful.
I’ll end with this, one of my favorite unlikely animal friends videos.
