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Yonette Joseph
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NYT editor/shape shifter.

“I am alive, and drunk in sunlight.”
-George RR Martin, "A Storm of Swords"
ICE detained the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew amid the Trump administration's ramped-up immigration enforcement efforts, NBC News reports www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's relative detained by ICE
The mother of Leavitt's nephew is subject to deportation, sources said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A Year Later, Donors to Trump’s Transition Come to Light
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
A small cadre of politically vulnerable Republicans in Congress is breaking with the party to push for the extension of health care tax credits for a program the G.O.P. reviles www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Once Foes of Obamacare, Some Republicans Push to Protect It
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta,
with an estimated population of nearly 42 million, is now the world’s largest city, soaring past Tokyo www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/j...
Move aside Tokyo, the world has a new largest city
With an estimated population of nearly 42 million residents, Indonesian capital Jakarta soared from 33rd place to surpass Japan's Tokyo, according to a new United Nations report.
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
He has lost weight. In 2020, Trump tipped the scales at 244lbs, a weight formally deemed obese for his 6-foot-3 frame. This year, Trump’s physician said the president weighed 224.

Trump frequently muses about the effectiveness of weight-loss drugs, but his doctor has not said if Trump takes one.
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue, Dozing at an Event in the Oval Office: Trump, 79, Is Showing His Age 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Robert Dear, the man who was charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 because it offered abortion services, has died in federal custody

apnews.com/article/plan...
Man charged in Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting dies in federal custody
The man charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 because it offered abortion services has died in federal custody.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The new drug prices were made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act, which President Biden signed into law in 2022 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
U.S. Announces Negotiated Prices for 15 Drugs Under Medicare
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
In City Hall Housecleaning, Mamdani, Set to Be Sworn as Mayor of NY on Jan 1, Asks 179 Adams Staff Members to Exit

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
In City Hall Housecleaning, Mamdani Asks 179 Adams Staff Members to Quit
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Indiana Republican Lawmakers Are Poised to Vote on Redistricting After All www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Indiana Lawmakers Are Poised to Vote on Redistricting After All
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The 2026 Putin calendar is out, people

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
The New Putin Calendar Is Here: ‘A Man for Every Season’
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Reposted by Yonette Joseph
The White House denied that Donald Trump was considering removing FBI Director Kash Patel following a report that the president is weighing his ouster amid a string of controversies.
White House Denies Trump Considering Ouster of FBI’s Patel
The White House denied that Donald Trump was considering removing FBI Director Kash Patel following a report that the president is weighing his ouster amid a string of controversies.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue, Dozing at an Event in the Oval Office: Trump, 79, Is Showing His Age 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Huh.

Witkoff, Trump's envoy, Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump, Bloomberg reports

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukra...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Richard Branson announced the death of his wife of 35 years, Joan Branson 🎁

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Joan Branson, Richard Branson’s Wife of 35 Years, Dies at 80
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
A political scientist who studies Iranian elites and political factions, the professor was in the US legally on an H-1B visa, which employers use to hire foreign workers with specialized skills www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Iranian Professor in Oklahoma Released 3 Days After His Detention by ICE
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Reposted by Yonette Joseph
"Dogs don't bark at parked cars" is an all-time great line
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
So this thing was full of errors.

The Trump administration claimed the police were slow to protect federal agents on Oct. 4, but videos and audio show its rationale conflates hours of events involving a shooting, a protest, a car crash and a police radio call. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
(AP) — FBI seeking interviews with Democratic lawmakers over the video urging troops to refuse illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Reposted by Yonette Joseph
Rush Hour 4 is reportedly a go at Paramount – after Trump intervened on behalf of the movie.

Brett Ratner, accused of sexual misconduct by several women, will bring the franchise back to the big screen
Rush Hour 4 in the works at Paramount after reports of Trump intervening
Brett Ratner, accused of sexual misconduct by several women, will bring his hit franchise back to the big screen
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Washington's mayor, Muriel Bowser, will not seek reelection www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
President Trump is considering ousting Kash Patel as director of the FBI, MS NOW reported on Tuesday

www.ms.now/news/trump-k...
President Trump may have had enough of Kash Patel, according to sources
The president is weighing whether to oust the FBI director after scrutiny of Patel's stewardship of bureau resources, including his girlfriend’s security detail and use of a government jet.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
EPA will abandon a Biden-era air pollution rule that the same agency previously said would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths
The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer defend Biden-era limits on fine-particle pollution, which causes heart and lung disease.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
lollls
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM