Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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TOP O' THE MORNIN'
Red-Hot at RedState
The Supposed Great Victory of Zohran Mamdani Stinks to High Heaven
The 2025 election of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York City is being promoted by the MSM and other Democrats as a huge event of great electoral significance in the United States. But they certainly aren’t showing a similar interest in the Mamdani campaign irregularities involved in manufacturing this victory, which makes the final results stink to high heaven.
'Shoot on Sight' in Chicago: The Price of the Left’s War on Law Enforcement
If the Latin Kings think they can intimidate the federal government, they’re in for a rude awakening.
AAG Dhillon Lowers the Boom on UC Berkeley After TPUSA Violence
Sounds like Berkeley has got a lot of explaining to do.
Trending Across Townhall Media
War On ICE Takes Disturbing New Turn
Say what you want, but ICE is getting the job done and cleaning up our streets in ways that anti-gunners keep saying they’ll do by restricting our rights. Funny how that shakes out, isn’t it?
Dems Shriek ELEVENTY! Republicans 'Destroyed Healthcare in This Country'
Republicans had nothing to do with any of this.
Tracking China in the Americas: Hongqi Bridge Is Falling Down — and Everything Else Is Too
This is why it's important for the United States to support democracy and Western values within the Western Hemisphere and build robust, transparent partnerships with willing nations.
This party is a mess. They’re once again not on the same page, and fury is starting to spill over. Who is the leader of this party? Not even Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) knows.
Why Is Bernie Sanders Always So Angry? X Has a Few Theories
Whatever the answer, be it failed political aspirations or just a simple case of plugged-up plumbing, one thing is for sure.
The next time you see Bernie, it will be with a clenched fist, screeching at the clouds.
WHAT'S ON TAP?
Today on Capitol Hill...
They're ba-ack. House members have returned to D.C. and will be voting sometime soon on the amended continuing resolution (H.R. 5371) to reopen the government. The Rules Committee met Tuesday evening to go over the measure passed by the Senate Monday night.
The Committee on Rules will meet today, November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM ET on the following emergency measure:
— House Rules Committee (@RulesReps) November 11, 2025
▶️Senate amendment to H.R. 5371 – Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026
The committee wrapped up in the wee hours of the morning with an 8-4 vote (along party lines) to advance the measure to the House floor. There will be a procedural "rule vote" before heading for a final vote sometime Wednesday afternoon or evening.
White House What's Up
President Trump is set to host a private dinner on Wednesday evening. (And might have to interrupt that to sign H.R. 5371 into law — we'll see.)
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will host a press briefing at 1:00 PM Eastern.
Keeping Up With the Cabinet
Dir. Office of Management and Budget - Russ Vought — Vought's efforts to defund/dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are proceeding apace.
SEE ALSO: The Schumer Shutdown Is On - Why Is the CFPB Still at Work?
Full Court Press...
The courts were mostly quiet on Tuesday, it being Veterans Day and a federal holiday. The Supreme Court did, however, issue a brief order in Rhode Island State Council of Churches v. Rollins (regarding SNAP benefits), extending its previously issued administrative stay through Nov. 13, while noting that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was not on board with this decision.
The high court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a trio of cases involving criminal procedure/sentencing:
- Fernandez v. U.S. — Whether a combination of “extraordinary and compelling reasons” that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(a) can include reasons that may also be alleged as grounds for vacatur of a sentence under
28 U.S.C. §2255. - Rutherford v. U.S./Carter v. U.S. (consolidated) —
- Whether, as four circuits permit but six others prohibit, a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act's prospective changes in sentencing law when deciding if "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warrant a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i).
- Whether the Sentencing Commission acted within its expressly delegated
authority by permitting district courts to consider, in narrowly cabined circumstances, a nonretroactive change in law in determining whether "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warrant a sentence reduction.
MORNING MUSING
It's become cliché — likening Republicans and their efforts at governance to Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the football. Time and again, Republicans have managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, failed to capitalize, failed to close the deal — yes, there's the fact that the GOP has to fight the legacy media at the same time it does battle with Democrat opposition, but that's baked in at this point.
We have seen a slight improvement of late — we saw Republicans remain steadfast (and unified) throughout the Schumer Shutdown. They voted to reopen the government over and over again and didn't cave to the Dem obstruction.
I'm generally one who subscribes to the notion of taking the high road: Play things by the book and find a way to succeed without breaking the rules (or laws). But I've come around to the notion of (within bounds) taking a much more aggressive, offensive (as in, on offense) approach.
We know the Dems are going to engage in shenanigans — Republicans don't just have to sit there and take it — in fact, they shouldn't. It's time (perhaps well past time) to flip the script on old Lucy Van Pelt. Rather than just hoping upon hope that she won't yank that football away again, it's time to pick her up and toss her in the pond. There are football tees, after all.
LIGHTER FARE
It's always the orange cat...
Nap hard, play harder..🐈🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/WiohNHh6Wd
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) November 12, 2025
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