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“It’s A Tinder Box”: GOP Members Consider Following MTG Into Retirement, Say White House Treats Them ‘Like Garbage’
“It’s A Tinder Box”: GOP Members Consider Following MTG Into Retirement, Say White House Treats Them ‘Like Garbage’
Following the surprise announcement by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) that she’s retiring from Congress in 42 days – claiming that President Trump and House Republicans have abandoned America First priorities, it appears that others within the GOP are looking for the exit as well.
According to Punchbowl News, they received several messages over the weekend from disaffected Republicans who may follow MTG’s lead.
One particularly pissed Republican told Punchbowl:
“This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. ALL. And Mike Johnson has let it happen because he wanted it to happen. That is the sentiment of nearly all — appropriators, authorizers, hawks, doves, rank and file. The arrogance of this White House team is off putting to members who are run roughshod and threatened. They don’t even allow little wins like announcing small grants or even responding from agencies. Not even the high profile, the regular rank and file random members are more upset than ever. Members know they are going into the minority after the midterms.
“More explosive early resignations are coming. It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower. Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out.”
The outlet does note that MTG has “never been representative of the House Republican Conference writ large,” and “clearly has a bone to pick with Trump and the leadership.”
While she denied rumors that her early retirement means she’s running for president in the next election, some have suggested that she may be running for Georgia governor.
Johnson, meanwhile, points out that they have “impossibly small margins” and say they’re doing the best they can with “the hand they were dealt.”
If Republicans lose another House member to death, retirement or illness, the GOP could even end up in the minority in 2026.
Punchbowl does the math:
Republicans have 219 seats and Democrats have 213. There’s a special election in Tennessee on Dec. 2 to fill former Rep. Mark Green’s (R-Tenn.) seat. Democrats and Republicans are pouring piles of money into that district, which Trump won by more than 20 points.
If Republicans win, their margin will remain the same after MTG’s retirement.
But Democrats will gain a seat in Houston at the end of January when voters choose the late Rep. Sylvester Turner’s (D-Texas) replacement. And on April 16, New Jersey voters will choose Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill’s replacement. That’s a seat that former Vice President Kamala Harris won by nine percentage points in 2024.
Let’s say Democrats are able to steal the Tennessee seat based on subpar GOP turnout — unlikely but possible — Johnson would have 218 members to Democrats’ 214. Texas and New Jersey would bring Democrats to 216. If any members retire or fall ill, Johnson would be sunk.
House retirements and resignations are common after holidays. How appealing is it to return to the Capitol when the House spends most of its time voting on censure resolutions or meaningless messaging bills?
Meanwhile, government funding runs out again Jan. 30, and House lawmakers are privately acknowledging that there will be another battle with the Senate. And with so many pissed off Republicans in the House, Johnson is facing a slew of discharge petitions on health care, Russia sanctions, and a likely DP to ban stock trading in Congress. Discharge petitions are notably how the rank and file lodge their complaints with leadership – and it’s so bad that Johnson has floated the idea of changing House Rules to make it harder to file them.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 11/24/2025 – 20:05
St. Charles North’s Haley Burgdorf is the 2025 Beacon-News/Courier-News Girls Volleyball Player of the Year
Last Friday, St. Charles North’s Haley Burgdorf took a visit to Penn State, which will be her college home, to watch a Big Ten match between the Nittany Lions and Michigan State.
As she took in the three-game sweep and hung out with her future teammates, one thing kept popping into her head.
“I was talking to all the girls and I was like, ‘I literally can’t wait to get there,’” Burgdorf said.
The 2025 Beacon-News/Courier-News Girls Volleyball Player of the Year doesn’t have to wait much longer. Burgdorf, a three-time player of the year, leaves for Happy Valley on Jan. 8.
For players of her caliber — Burgdorf, ranked 29th nationally, is the top recruit from Illinois for the 2025 class — it’s not uncommon to graduate early and get a head start on the college level.
Burgdorf made that decision shortly after she verbally committed to Penn State in summer 2024.
St. Charles North’s Haley Burgdorf (23) passes the ball after the host Hilltoppers during a Class 4A Glenbard West Sectional semifinal match in Glen Ellyn on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (James C. Svehla / The Beacon-News)
“I was always on the fence, even before recruiting started,” Burgdorf said. “The more I looked into it, I asked if there was a way I could graduate early. I had all of the credits.”
St. Charles North coach Lindsey Hawkins pointed out, in order for Burgdorf to have a chance to play as a freshman, this was the best decision.
“Not a lot of girls do it, but at that level, most of the kids have been going early and getting a semester under their belts training with the team,” Hawkins said. “It gives you the extra advantage of getting on the court as a freshman.”
That’s her goal — put herself in position to immediately contribute to a perennial national powerhouse program.
St. Charles North’s Haley Burgdorf (23) reacts after scoring a point against the host Redhawks during a Class 4A Naperville Central Regional championship match on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (Sean King / The Beacon-News)
After finally becoming the oldest player on the team as a senior, Burgdorf goes right back to essentially playing up a level, which she has done ever since she was 11 years old.
Only this time, she’s competing with other All-Americans.
“It’s crazy I have to start school all over again, but the mentality is when I get the opportunity to take it and be confident the whole time,” Burgdorf said. “You have to work for the position.
“Once they see I have it and know when they put me out there I can be a star, I’ll get a chance.”
St. Charles North’s Haley Burgdorf (23) bumps the ball against the host Redhawks during a Class 4A Naperville Central Regional championship match on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (Sean King / The Beacon-News)
Hawkins confirmed that Burgdorf shines brightest when faced with a challenge.
“She’s always been kind of an underdog trying to compete with older kids,” Hawkins said. “It wasn’t until her junior year that she was one of the upperclassmen. I think she has a mentality of, ‘Oh, you don’t think I can do it? Let me show you.’
“She’s always had a chip on her shoulder.”
It would be foolish to count her out. Burgdorf graduates as the best player in program history for the North Stars. A first-team all-state selection and two-time DuKane Conference Player of the Year, she finished her career with 1,658 kills, 758 digs and 162 aces, all program records.
“The likelihood of getting to coach that caliber of athlete again is unlikely,” Hawkins said. “It’s so rare. The person she is, my kids have such a special relationship with her. That’s been awesome.
St. Charles North’s Haley Burgdorf (23) puts away a kill past the block of Rosary’s Emily Eissens (6) during a nonconference match in Aurora on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (Mark Black / The Beacon-News)
“They’re already talking about how they’re going to Penn State to watch her play. It’s more than just volleyball. It’s who she is and what she means to my family. It’s definitely going to be hard.”
Burgdorf couldn’t ask for a stronger bond than she has with Hawkins.
“She’s someone I can always go to,” Burgdorf said. “She’s almost like my second mom.”
A trip to Orlando on New Year’s Day for the Under Armour All-American game will be the last hurrah before Burgdorf starts the next chapter of her journey.
“It’s sad,” she said. “I can’t believe I was a freshman four years ago. I can’t believe it’s ending, but I will definitely keep in touch.”
Paul Johnson is a freelance reporter for The Beacon-News.
CTU agrees to provide financial audits to congressional committee
The Chicago Teachers Union has agreed to submit complete financial audits to the House Committee on Education and Workforce following a probe by policymakers.
The Republican-led committee issued a letter Thursday to CTU President Stacy Davis Gates requiring the union to submit meeting minutes documenting any member requests for audits since September 2020 and all written requests for audits submitted since that time along with CTU’s responses, in addition to entire financial audits.
“We will respond to the House Committee on Education and Workforce and cooperate with any legitimate requests,” the union wrote in a letter shared with the Tribune. “We are confident that our responses will fully answer any legitimate questions and address the allegations contained in your letter.”
While CTU officials declined to comment on the matter, they made their response to the congressional committee available to the Tribune.
According to the committee’s letter, CTU leadership has not provided members with full audit records for more than five years, despite repeated requests for transparency. This omission violates the union’s bylaws, the committee wrote.
“Failure to disclose financial information strips dues-paying members of their basic right to understand how their money is spent,” the committee wrote.
Union members can access financial audits in various ways, including by appointment and through the union’s official membership platform, Memberlink, the union announced earlier this year.
The union emphasized this in their response to the committee, detailing other concerns they had about the committee’s letter. One of the main concerns for union leaders was that the committee’s inquiry mirrors allegations from a recent civil lawsuit against the union.
Beyond the immediate requests, the committee wrote that CTU’s response may help them better understand not only what is going on internally but potentially reform the Labor-Management Reporting Disclosure Act, since the committee has jurisdiction over it.
“Every dollar paid by workers should serve their interests, not those of a select few operating in the shadows,” the committee wrote.
After speaking with committee staff, CTU negotiated a new date for turning in documents. Instead of Dec. 8, the union will now have until Dec. 22 to file the requested information.
The committee did not specify in its letter what the consequences would be if the union fails to submit documents by that date.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/24/ctu-financial-audit-congressional-committee/
Los Eagles deben decidir si el coordinador ofensivo Kevin Patullo es el adecuado para el puesto
Por DAN GELSTON
FILADELFIA (AP) — Echa un vistazo a las transacciones en la NFL y podrías ver tantos coordinadores despedidos como movimientos que involucran a jugadores.
Este fin de semana, Las Vegas despidió al coordinador ofensivo Chip Kelly y los Giants de Nueva York cesaron al coordinador defensivo Shane Bowen.
Aunque apoyar que alguien pierda su trabajo puede ser de mal gusto, ha sido parte del ADN de los aficionados al deporte desde siempre, y el lunes, algunos fanáticos de los Eagles esperaban que el coordinador ofensivo Kevin Patullo se uniera a la lista de entrenadores despedidos después de uno de los peores colapsos en la historia de la franquicia.
Otra opción que podría calmar el descontento: despojar a Patullo de sus responsabilidades de mandar las jugadas. O cualquier movimiento que asegure que Patullo nunca tome una decisión significativa en la ofensiva después de que los Eagles se quedaran de brazos cruzados en Dallas y vieran cómo una ventaja de 21-0 se convertía en una derrota de 24-21 el domingo.
Los Eagles (8-3) no pueden correr con el balón. No pueden obtener producción de sus receptores élite durante los 60 minutos completos. Jalen Hurts ha sido el blanco de críticas anónimas dentro de la organización en parte porque sigue las llamadas de Patullo, y Patullo solo sigue el plan de juego y la estrategia del entrenador Nick Sirianni, mientras las posibilidades de los Eagles de repetir el Super Bowl parecen cada vez más condenadas.
Sirianni dejó claro el lunes que no ha considerado hacer un cambio con Patullo.
“Siento que tenemos a las personas adecuadas”, dijo Sirianni. “Como jugadores, como entrenadores, que han tenido éxito. Todos estamos buscando respuestas para hacerlo más consistente”.
Después de construir esa ventaja de 21-0 en tres posesiones, los Eagles solo lograron un primer down más hasta el cuarto período. La última vez que los Eagles desperdiciaron una ventaja de 21 puntos y perdieron fue en el primer juego de Andy Reid como entrenador en 1999 (lideraban 21-0 en una derrota 25-24 ante Arizona). En sus series después de ir adelante por tres touchdowns, tuvieron cuatro despejes consecutivos, un gol de campo fallido, un balón suelto y un despeje. Tuvieron 14 penalizaciones para 96 yardas.
Alguien suele pagar en la NFL por este tipo de ineptitud. Sirianni degradó al coordinador defensivo Sean Desai a finales de la temporada 2023 antes de que finalmente fuera despedido. Así que el precedente está ahí. Es solo cuestión de cuándo Sirianni aprieta el gatillo antes de que la ofensiva, que combinó para anotar 26 puntos en los dos juegos anteriores, ambas victorias, no pueda salir de su bache y le cueste a los Eagles en la postemporada.
“Siempre estamos buscando respuestas”, dijo Sirianni. “Nunca estamos en asignar culpas. Se trata de buscar respuestas”.
Está funcionando
La defensiva tuvo sus momentos mientras intentaba valientemente mantener una ventaja de 21 puntos mientras Hurts y la ofensiva entraban en hibernación. Zack Baun recuperó un balón suelto, Reed Blankenship tuvo una intercepción en la zona de anotación, y hubo una buena detención en cuarta oportunidad con los Cowboys en la zona roja al final del juego.
Dak Prescott aún lanzó para 354 yardas contra la unidad de Vic Fangio, que solo pudo hacer tanto para evitar la derrota.
Necesita ayuda
Ver arriba. Si la ofensiva no mejora, los Eagles no repetirán como campeones del Super Bowl.
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Grupos médicos molestos por plan de gobierno de Trump para reducir acceso a préstamos estudiantiles
Por COLLIN BINKLEY y JOHN SEEWER
WASHINGTON (AP) — Una coalición de organizaciones de enfermería y otras también en el campo de la atención médica están muy molestas por un plan del gobierno de Estados Unidos que podría limitar el acceso a préstamos estudiantiles en algunos casos.
Bajo este plan, los estudiantes que cursen posgrados académicos en enfermería, terapia física, salud pública y algunos otros campos enfrentarán límites más estrictos para obtener préstamos estudiantiles federales, ya que no los considera títulos profesionales.
La reforma forma parte del “Proyecto de Ley Grande y Hermoso” del presidente Donald Trump, que fue aprobado por el Congreso.
Si bien hasta ahora los estudiantes podían pedir préstamos por la totalidad del costo de su título, las nuevas reglas fijarán topes con base en si dicho título se considera un programa de posgrado o profesional.
El Departamento de Educación define las siguientes áreas como títulos profesionales: farmacéutica, odontología, medicina veterinaria, quiropráctica, derecho, medicina, optometría, medicina osteopática, podología y teología.
Quedan fuera los programas de enfermería, fisioterapia, higiene dental, terapia ocupacional y trabajo social, así como áreas fuera del ámbito de la salud, como arquitectura, educación y contabilidad.
Aunque aún se trabaja en detalles del plan, los nuevos topes a los préstamos estudiantiles entrarían en vigor en julio del próximo.
¿Por qué ocurre esto ahora?
El gobierno de Trump dice que se necesitan límites a los préstamos estudiantiles para quienes cursan estudios avanzados para reducir los costos de matrícula. Cree que poner un tope los préstamos estudiantiles impulsará a las universidades que cobran matrículas más altas que el promedio a considerar reducir el precio.
Para definir qué se considera un programa profesional, el Departamento de Educación recurre a una ley de 1965 que regula la ayuda financiera estudiantil. La ley incluye varios ejemplos de títulos profesionales, pero agrega que no es una lista exhaustiva. La propuesta del gobierno de Trump, en cambio, establece que sólo los títulos detallados en la nueva regulación pueden considerarse títulos profesionales.
Una de cada seis enfermeras registradas del país tenía una maestría en 2022, según la Asociación Estadounidense de Facultades de Enfermería.
Los detalles del plan se definieron recientemente en un proceso de reglamentación federal.
Qué significa esto para los estudiantes
Algunos futuros estudiantes podrían encontrar que es más costoso o difícil obtener un grado especializado. Bajo el nuevo plan, los estudiantes de programas profesionales podrían solicitar préstamos de 50.000 dólares al año y hasta 200.000 dólares en total.
Otros estudiantes de estudios avanzados, como los de enfermería y terapia física, tendrían un límite de 20.500 dólares al año y hasta 100.000 dólares en total.
El gobierno de Trump dice que el impacto será mínimo
El Departamento de Educación informa que sus datos muestran que el 95% de los estudiantes de enfermería, por ejemplo, cursan programas que no se verán afectados por los nuevos límites. El departamento refirió que la gran mayoría de los estudiantes cursan programas que cuestan menos del límite de 100.000 dólares propuesto para los préstamos federales para estudiantes.
Los estudiantes ya matriculados en programas avanzados quedarían sujetos a los límites de préstamo actuales.
Grupos de salud afirman que cambio agravará escasez de personal
Una coalición de organizaciones de atención médica ha instado al Departamento de Educación a cambiar de rumbo, y argumenta que los títulos de posgrado en atención médica necesarios para obtener la licencia o la certificación deberían considerarse un título profesional.
También dicen que los campos que se excluyen son ocupados en gran medida por mujeres y tienen una alta demanda. Según un informe de la Oficina del Censo de Estados Unidos de 2019, las mujeres representaban aproximadamente tres cuartas partes del personal sanitario a tiempo completo y durante todo el año en el país, y representan una proporción mucho mayor en puestos como asistentes dentales y asistentes médicos.
Las organizaciones sostienen que poner un límite a los préstamos federales estudiantiles agravará aún más la actual escasez de personal de enfermería, obligará a los estudiantes a buscar préstamos privados más caros y pondrá en peligro la atención al paciente.
La Asociación Estadounidense de Facultades de Enfermería dice que, si se concreta la propuesta, “el impacto sería devastador en nuestra ya de por sí limitada fuerza laboral de enfermería”.
Dar a los enfermeros la oportunidad de continuar su formación y progresar en sus carreras ha atraído a los jóvenes a la profesión, comentó la enfermera Susan Pratt, quien también preside un sindicato que representa a los enfermeros en Toledo, Ohio.
Pero dificultar esto podría alejar a futuros aspirantes de enfermería, agregó.
“Es simplemente un golpe bajo”, expresó Pratt. “Cuando estábamos en la pandemia, los enfermeros se hicieron presentes, y este es el agradecimiento que recibimos”.
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Seewer informó desde Toledo, Ohio.
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Sondeos revelan más pesimismo entre hispanos en EEUU y menor aprobación para Trump
Por FERNANDA FIGUEROA
Mientras el primer año del segundo mandato del presidente Donald Trump llega a su fin, dos nuevas encuestas del Pew Research Center encuentran que los adultos hispanos están cada vez más descontentos con la forma en que su administración está manejando la economía y la inmigración, temas que fueron clave para los votantes durante las elecciones del año pasado.
Las encuestas, realizadas en octubre y septiembre a más de 5.000 adultos hispanos en Estados Unidos, revelaron que un año después de que Trump erosionó la ventaja tradicional de los demócratas con los votantes latinos, la mayoría de los adultos hispanos se sienten peor acerca de su lugar en el país y es más probable que estén preocupados de que ellos o alguien cercano a ellos pueda ser deportado, en comparación con principios de este año.
Disminuye la aprobación de Trump
Aproximadamente dos tercios de los adultos hispanos en general desaprueban el enfoque de la administración Trump hacia la inmigración, mientras que el 61% dice que sus políticas económicas han empeorado las condiciones.
Los votantes hispanos se inclinaron hacia Trump en las elecciones de 2024, aunque la mayoría aún apoyó a la demócrata Kamala Harris. Según AP VoteCast, el 43% de los votantes hispanos a nivel nacional apoyaron a Trump, frente al 35% en las elecciones presidenciales de 2020, que perdió ante el demócrata Joe Biden.
La gran mayoría de los hispanos que informaron haber votado por Trump en 2024 (81%) aprueban el desempeño del presidente, comparado con 93% que tenía al inicio de su segundo mandato. Casi todos los votantes hispanos de Harris desaprueban el desempeño de Trump.
Los hallazgos de Pew reflejan una encuesta de octubre de The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, que encontró que el 25% de los adultos hispanos tienen una opinión “algo” o “muy” favorable de Trump, frente al 44% en una encuesta de AP-NORC realizada justo antes de que el republicano asumiera el cargo en enero.
El cambio en la opinión subraya cuán preocupados e insatisfechos se sienten muchos adultos hispanos. Aunque muchos votantes hispanos se sintieron motivados por preocupaciones económicas en las elecciones del año pasado, encuestas recientes indican que este grupo continúa sintiendo un mayor estrés financiero que los estadounidenses en general.
Los votantes hispanos representaron el 10% del electorado en 2024, según AP VoteCast, y el número de votantes hispanos elegibles ha crecido rápidamente en las últimas décadas.
Aumenta la ansiedad sobre el lugar de los hispanos en EEUU
Aproximadamente dos tercios de los adultos hispanos dicen que la situación para los hispanos en Estados Unidos es peor que hace un año. Eso es más alto que en 2019, durante el primer mandato de Trump, cuando el 39% pensaba que su situación en Estados Unidos había empeorado en el último año.
De manera similar, 8 de cada 10 adultos hispanos dicen que las políticas de Trump les perjudican más de lo que les ayudan. Estas opiniones son más negativas que en 2019, cuando 7 de cada 10 dijeron que las políticas de la primera administración de Trump eran más perjudiciales que beneficiosas para los hispanos.
Los hispanos que son demócratas o se inclinan hacia el Partido Demócrata piensan abrumadoramente que los hispanos en Estados Unidos están peor, como grupo, que hace un año, pero también lo piensan el 43% de los republicanos hispanos y los que se inclinan hacia el Partido Republicano.
Amplias preocupaciones sobre la represión migratoria
En los últimos meses, las comunidades hispanas han sido un objetivo de la mano dura del presidente contra la inmigración.
Hoy en día, el 44% de los adultos latinos son inmigrantes, sumando 21,1 millones, según un análisis que hizo el Pew de las estimaciones de la Oficina del Censo de Estados Unidos con datos de la Encuesta de la Comunidad Estadounidense de 2024.
Ante el aumento de las redadas migratorias, el 52% de los adultos hispanos dicen que les preocupa “mucho” o “algo” que ellos, un familiar o un amigo cercano puedan ser deportados. Esto ha aumentado desde el 42% en marzo.
El duro entorno para los inmigrantes también ha afectado la forma en que algunos adultos hispanos viven su vida cotidiana: un 19% dice que han cambiado recientemente sus actividades diarias porque piensan que se les pedirá demostrar su estatus legal, y un 11% dicen que llevan documentos que prueban su ciudadanía o estatus migratorio con más frecuencia de lo que normalmente lo harían.
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La primera encuesta del Pew Research Center de 3.445 adultos en Estados Unidos, incluidos 629 hispanos, se realizó del 22 al 28 de septiembre de 2025 utilizando muestras extraídas del Panel de Tendencias Estadounidenses basado en probabilidad. La segunda encuesta a 8.046 adultos en Estados Unidos, incluidos 4.923 hispanos, se realizó del 6 al 16 de octubre utilizando muestras extraídas del Panel de Tendencias Estadounidenses basado en probabilidad y el Panel de Opinión SSRS.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Bolsonaro & Those Damn Indestructible Ankle Monitors
Bolsonaro & Those Damn Indestructible Ankle Monitors
The plot has again thickened, and got a bit weirder, in the arrest and trial saga of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison in September for an alleged coup attempt related to not accepting the results of the last presidential election.
We detailed Saturday that federal police rushed to his residence Saturday to take him out of house arrest, and initiated what’s being called a ‘preventative arrest’ – and he was whisked away to police headquarters in Brasilia. The arrest order issued from the country’s top court came hours after his ankle monitor was shown to be violated at 12:08am on Saturday. From there, authorities considered Bolsonaro a flight risk, explaining he is in close proximity to foreign embassies where he might try and gain asylum.
Bolsonaro was in court Monday for a full day of trial, part of what’s likely to be a lengthy appeals process, where he surprisingly confirmed that he did indeed tamper with the ankle monitor. His explanation got strange, telling the court that he suffered a nervous breakdown and hallucinations caused by a change in his medication, after which was fearful of the device as it might be ‘wiretapped’.
Assistant judge Luciana Sorrentino said following a meeting with Bolsonaro where she inquired of the incident, “he had ‘hallucinations’ that there was some wire tap in the ankle monitoring, so he tried to uncover it.” Sorrentino described further of the conversation that Bolsonaro told her he “did not remember having a breakdown of this magnitude in another occasion” and that it could be linked to a change in medication, but he insisted there was no intention of trying to escape.
The former Brazilian leader “said he was with his daughter, his elder brother and an aide at his house and none of them saw what he was doing to the ankle monitoring,” according to a court document which has been made public. “He said he started to touch it late at night and stopped around midnight.”
Photos released by the court show the ankle monitor’s cap heavily damaged, after he reportedly at one point took a soldering iron to it. According to The New York Times:
At first, Mr. Bolsonaro told the police that he had banged his ankle monitor causing it to malfunction, according to a report from the capital region’s prison authority.
But when an agent on the scene asked about the burn marks on the device, Mr. Bolsonaro admitted using a soldering iron to try to melt it. In a video of the exchange released by the authorities, Mr. Bolsonaro can be heard apparently telling the agent that he had started torching the monitor hours earlier.
His legal team has since claimed that “Bolsonaro would have no way of escaping” as he is “an elderly man who suffers from serious health problems.
However, Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has long been a political enemy (the US has even sanctioned him personally) as well as chief overseer of the case, described over the weekend, “He is located about 13 kilometers (8 miles) away from where the United States of America embassy lies, in a distance that can be covered in a 15-minute drive.”
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told a judge that medicine-induced paranoia and hallucination caused him to tamper with an electronic ankle monitor, court records showed, a day after police took him into custody out of fear he might flee https://t.co/UDE85hVyXg pic.twitter.com/cmCan0ehnS
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 24, 2025
There’s also the fear that the Embassy of Argentina would be open to helping him find safe-haven. But his legal team has said that he must serve his prison sentence at home as his severe health problems “makes his safe stay in a prison environment impossible.” President Trump has long decried the case as a ‘witch hunt’ while the Lula government has condemned Washington’s ‘interference’ in the internal affair.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 11/24/2025 – 19:40
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bolsonaro-those-damn-indestructible-ankle-monitors
US Rep. Lauren Underwood warns Chicago immigration crackdown not over as ICE plans major staff expansion
Republican President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the Chicago area may have ebbed in recent weeks, but U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood cautioned Monday against assuming the effort is over after she was granted special access to the federal government’s controversial immigration processing center in west suburban Broadview.
Opponents of Operation Midway Blitz, the chaotic and at times violent joint deportation mission carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, were heartened by this month’s departure of controversial Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino. But Underwood, the top Democrat on the congressional subcommittee that oversees the budgets for ICE, Border Patrol and other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, told reporters the officials she spoke with Monday “have not received any instruction around an end date.”
In fact, Underwood said, ICE is looking to “probably triple” the size of the staff at its Broadview processing center and Chicago field office “by January.” The agency also is “pursuing contracts for temporary office space,” she said.
Pointing to $150 billion allocated to ICE in the spending package Trump muscled through Congress over the summer, Underwood said that even if another government shutdown occurs early next year when the current funding deal runs out, the agency would “be able to hire and bring in these temporary structures to continue to grow immigration enforcement across our community.”
Underwood’s tour of the Broadview processing facility, which has been the epicenter of local protests over the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies and the subject of an ongoing federal lawsuit over the conditions inside, came after months of similar access requests from Democratic members of Illinois’ congressional delegation were denied. The four-term lawmaker from Naperville said she was the first member of Congress in “several years” to get a look inside the facility.
A class-action lawsuit filed in federal court last month described the two-story brick building on an industrial side street as a “black box,” where those taken into custody have been cut off from most outside contact and kept in dirty and unsafe conditions. After a judge earlier this month ordered Homeland Security to improve conditions, the number of people being held there dropped substantially, the Tribune reported last week.
U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood talks with reporters near the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Nov. 24, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
By the time Underwood arrived late Monday morning, no one was being held at the facility, with only a small contingent of security guards and the three ICE officials who conducted the tour present, she said. Underwood was told that the last person processed at the facility was overnight before she arrived, she said.
The congresswoman said she was told the facility was nearly empty because “they were updating their security systems and installing new security cameras.”
ICE did not respond Monday to questions about Underwood’s visit or her description of the agency’s future plans.
Trying to conduct proper oversight with little staff present and no one being held at the facility was “challenging,” Underwood said.
Nevertheless, Underwood said she saw only three showers and eight cots available in a facility that at times has held more than 100 people. The facility has no vendor providing food service, with meals purchased from sandwich shops and big-box retailers, she said, and there likewise is no one under contract to provide medical care.
“They had one package of Huggies, they had some sanitary pads for menstruating women, and they had foot powder,” Underwood said.
The Monday tour, led by Sam Olson, outgoing director of ICE’s Chicago field office, was arranged through Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s office, Underwood said.
While the congresswoman intends to return to Broadview and has requested a tour of all other Homeland Security facilities in Illinois, the department only committed to Monday’s visit, she said.
“The way that immigrants and U.S. citizens have been treated here is unacceptable, and it doesn’t make us more safe,” Underwood said.
Despite her position on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Underwood said Monday that she did not know what Operation Midway Blitz has cost taxpayers to date.
Underwood’s visit came on the same day new data was released detailing the federal government’s immigration enforcement actions nationwide over the past two months, the first update since before the record 43-day shutdown that ended Nov. 13.
As of Nov. 16, ICE was detaining 65,135 people, an increase of nearly 5,400 from Sept. 21, the last day of available data prior to the shutdown, according to an analysis from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC. Among that net increase in detainees, 97% had no criminal conviction, not even a minor traffic offense, indicating that “during the government shutdown, increasingly ICE targeted individuals with no criminal history,” according to the analysis.
In addition, “despite the enormous increase in the resources and government personnel devoted” to immigrant removal operations, there has been only a 7% increase in deportations since Trump took office compared with the last full year of President Joe Biden’s administration, the analysis showed.
“The Trump administration continues to conceal most concrete details about its immigration enforcement activities — both on the level of resources the government is devoting to this effort as well as who it is targeting and has actually removed,” TRAC said in a report released Monday.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/24/rep-lauren-underwood-broadview-visit/
Insurrection Chic
Insurrection Chic
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,
Is Jeff Davis the Model?
Who is the real, or fictional, inspiration for the new insurrectionary wing of the Democrat Party?
The fictitious Hollywood insurrectionist, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “James Mattoon Scott” (Burt Lancaster), who in the 1964 film Seven Days in May attempted to overthrow the presidency?
Or perhaps Jefferson Davis? He ultimately ordered the attack by South Carolina state forces against the federal garrison at Fort Sumter, which ignited the Civil War.
Or is the better inspiration the “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door?” Alabama Governor George Wallace likewise vowed to use his state’s law enforcement to nullify a federal law.
Yet how odd that the left, which had lectured us so often about a January 6th “insurrection”—a charge that not even the Javert-like special counsel Jack Smith ever lodged against Donald Trump—now talks frequently about the proud nullification of our nation’s federal laws.
The New Confederacy
Democrats weirdly boast of the subordination of the Constitution to international statutes. Our governors and mayors in blue states and cities take neo-Confederate vows to oppose the national government’s right to protect its own property, to direct its own employees, and to enforce our shared federal laws.
Over a decade ago, some 600 “sanctuary cities” declared that they were immune from the full enforcement of federal law. They further boasted that they would not hand over illegal aliens, detained by state or local authorities, to federal agents.
These were strange threats. Not long ago, at the 1992 and 1996 Democratic conventions, liberal grandees like Bill and Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi had vowed to stop all would-be illegal aliens from unlawfully entering the U.S. Apparently, they all flipped to open borders when spiraling numbers turned the undocumented into a new Democratic constituency.
Moreover, being the left, their loud nullificationist vows were, of course, purely political and never principled.
Once, an exasperated Arizona governor, Jan Brewer, had beseeched the Obama administration in vain to enforce its own federal laws at the southern border. In frustration, she finally sought ways to use her own state’s resources to do what Obama refused.
And the reaction of the Obama administration?
It was certainly not gratitude for Brewer’s efforts to enforce federal law. Instead, the Obama crowd sued her. It successfully sought out left-wing judges to stay her state’s efforts.
How strange that our current “principled” district judges once ruled that states could not interfere with federal border policing—even in cases where the federal government was illegally refusing to enforce its own laws.
But now they’ve become neo-Confederates who routinely favor states blocking the federal government when it is finally fulfilling its constitutional duties.
Of course, if any rural red county decided that it could nullify the federal government’s laws governing handgun registration or EPA regulations, the projectionist left would deem them insurrectionary new Confederates and send in the FBI.
Coup Bluster
In Trump’s first term, some retired four-star admirals and generals—Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice be damned—talked of a sitting U.S. President Trump leaving office, the “sooner the better”—whatever that meant. Others libeled him as a “liar” and “Mussolini,” his policies comparable to those of the executioners at Auschwitz.
Some retired lieutenant colonels in 2020 even publicly advocated using military units to confront presidential security details. Did they want an armed showdown to forcibly remove Trump from the Oval Office? And in their madness, they bragged about the purported greater lethality of their army friends to defeat the president’s supporters or security details: “Trump’s little green men, so intimidating to lightly armed federal law enforcement agents, step aside and fade away, realizing they would not constitute a good morning’s work for a brigade of the 82nd Airborne.”
Do we remember the Obama-era Pentagon lawyer who, eleven days into the first Trump administration, speculated in print about how to remove an elected President Trump? She offered up the choices of Trump removal by either the 25th Amendment, the impeachment process, or a military coup: “[A] possibility [for removing President Trump] is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup…”
We also remember Gen. Mark Milley, the recent Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
He once apparently diagnosed Commander-in-Chief Trump as unhinged.
So Milley took it upon himself to warn his communist Chinese counterpart that during any existential crisis, the People’s Liberation Army head would be first contacted by Milley—if Milley ever felt Trump was too erratic to be obeyed (in Milley’s nonprofessional medical judgment).
So Milley reported his call as follows: “General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”
Milley apparently also decided that he was exempt from obeying federal laws.
As JCS chair, he also violated laws governing the chain of command. He unlawfully directed regional commanders to report to him first, should they receive a direct presidential order deemed lunatic by Milley. Yet the legal chain of command mandated that subordinate theater commanders report to, and receive presidential orders via, the Secretary of Defense.
Later, ex-generals like Milley and John Kelly routinely and emphatically blasted ex-President Trump as a “fascist.”
“Fascist” was just the sort of dangerous hyperbole that the left so often has warned us can prompt the unstable—like a Thomas Crooks or Ryan Routh—to emerge from their creepy shadows to “save the republic.”
Fort Sumter?
Democratic officials are also currently calling for organized and state-sanctioned opposition to the federal government, in near-Bleeding Kansas or Fort Sumter insurrectionary fashion.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson claims he will use his city resources to actively thwart ICE duties. In deranged fashion, he threatens to call in the UN to prevent federal law enforcement. He apparently treats the Constitution as nothing, as if Johnson were elected not by fellow citizens but by global voters from Iran to North Korea.
Johnson’s idiocy is no mere boast: when a trapped convoy of ICE vehicles was recently besieged by violent protesters, local Chicago-area police were told to stand down and let ICE fight its own way out.
In Portland, the local police sometimes advise violent Antifa-related protesters on strategies for their anti-ICE street activities, presumably to help them avoid arrest.
Consider the blather of the increasingly disturbed octogenarian Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
She recently boasted that “Trump is ‘a vile creature, the worst thing on the face of the Earth.” Then she doubled down and giggled that she “could have done much worse.”
But what exact epithet could Pelosi mean that is “much worse” than “vile” and “the worst thing on earth”?
The ‘vilest creature in the cosmos’?
Pelosi, remember, as Speaker of the House, set an embarrassing historic precedent by tearing up on national television the State of the Union address of the President of the United States when the text, as is customary, was ceremoniously presented to her by Trump. Should that now become a normal part of all SOTU addresses?
Recently, in a veritable paean to Jefferson Davis, Pelosi warned that federal agents might be arrested on her home turf if her state officers determine whether their enforcement of federal law violates California statutes.
If Pelosi’s confrontation materializes, will they use force?
Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani has boasted in the past that he will soon override federal law as mayor of New York and arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he arrive at the UN headquarters in New York.
But what if the federal government says, “NO!” Will Mamdani then call in the NYPD?
Note, Mamdani did not issue a comparable threat to the communist Chinese UN delegations, whose government oversees a million Uyghurs in work camps, nor to the Nigerians who have allowed Islamic terrorists to kill over 150,000 Christians, nor to Vladimir Putin, who invaded Ukraine, causing over 1.5 million casualties in the greatest European slaughterhouse since World War II.
Instead, Mamdani appeals to a superior “international law.” In his unconstitutional mind, world law supersedes his own government’s constitutional authority.
As a de facto insurrectionist, Mamdani would claim that international human rights activists, or the International Criminal Court (?), deserve greater legal authority inside the U.S. than do Americans’ own elected federal government.
All that nonsense sounds like infamous Confederate Attorney General Judah Benjamin, who often bragged about how insurrectionary states could legally ignore federal authority.
Military Resistance?
Yet the most recent and dangerous example of insurrectionary nullification is an inflammatory video issued by Democrat and veteran politicos.
In it, Democratic lawmakers and veterans Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Sen. Mark Kelly, Rep. Jason Crow, Rep. Maggie Goodlander, Rep. Chris Deluzio, and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan appeal to U.S. soldiers to “disobey” their superior officers’ orders if, in their own legal opinion, they feel the orders are “illegal” by contravening the Constitution. How or why, they do not say.
Are we then to imagine an insurrectionary fantasy of 1.3 million active-duty soldiers, now each acting as his own lawyer, questioning daily orders from their officers? Not one of these elected officials provided a single instance of any past Trump order or Pentagon directive that would serve as an example of their nullificationist dogma.
When these Democratic officials also appealed to federal intelligence officers to likewise disobey orders, should we laugh or cry?
Did any of these moralists ever issue such a video when the Obama- and Biden-era Directors of the CIA, FBI, and National Intelligence all admittedly lied under oath?
How about when “51 intelligence authorities” deliberately lied in an open letter to the American people on the eve of the 2020 election to help elect Joe Biden? Or when the FBI agents worked with private social media to suppress the news?
In the video, did these officials mean that soldiers should resist presidential orders to employ federal troops to quell domestic chaos and rioting?
Lots of presidents have done just that from the Civil War to the present.
Would they have urged U.S. soldiers to disobey any order in pursuance of the use of force without congressional approval?
If so, why didn’t they damn past presidents like Harry S. Truman, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, who all directed the military to act abroad without the approval of Congress?
How about Barack Obama’s serial use of Predator assassination drones that, on at least one occasion, blew up an American citizen?
These sanctimonious Democrat officials did not outline any possible scenarios for their advocacy of insurrectionary disobedience—because they had no example to draw on.
Nor did they dare reference in any detail Articles 90 and 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which explicitly spell out when, in the rarest of cases, a soldier can disobey an order.
The officials had no concern that their video was endangering thousands—if someone might take their advice and, without cause, disobey an order, putting lives at risk, well beyond their own careers.
What the Democrats did not say is that they cut the video to implant a false narrative that Trump was on the verge of issuing unconstitutional orders, and they were encouraging mass and politicized disobedience, after the previous failure of the shutdown, mass street protests, attacks on ICE agents, and Tesla dealerships.
The New Secessionists
Leftists are now back to the same old, same old incendiary conspiracies and paranoias of Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, removing Trump from the ballot, impeaching him twice, indicting him 91 times, raiding his home with armed FBI agents, plotting stealthily to record him to invoke the 25th Amendment— and all the dangerous and often illegal ways it has sought to destroy a political opponent by any means necessary.
We certainly are in dangerous times. But the crisis is one of the left’s own making, in overtly inciting the country to a virtual rerun of 1861.
What else is urging American soldiers to defy the orders of their superiors without citing a single specific cause?
How about claiming by fiat that entire cities and states are immune from federal jurisdiction?
What about threatening to use state officers to arrest federal law enforcement officials?
Withholding local police help and thus endangering federal agents at the hands of violent protesters?
Making a mockery of the Uniform Code of Military Justice?
Advising violent protesters on how best to demonstrate against federal officials without being arrested?
Subordinating U.S. federal law to global legal authorities?
Using city resources to help illegal aliens evade federal law enforcement?
Arresting a foreign official with diplomatic immunity and under federal legal protection when he enters a local jurisdiction?
Freelancing by sidestepping the legal rights of the Commander-in-Chief and instead phoning to tip off an enemy general?
The common theme?
The desperate left feels the more insurrectionary tensions they can gin up, the more that the ensuing domestic crises hurt an elected president whom they loathe.
They assume they are exempt from following the law because they believe they are our moral and intellectual superiors.
And so for the next four years, they will once again insist they can ignore or violate with contempt any federal law they please—as the nation is heading toward widespread civil insurrection of the left’s own neo-Confederate making.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 11/24/2025 – 19:15
‘Nothing but the best’: Marist’s Savanah Weathers is 2025 Daily Southtown Girls Volleyball Player of the Year
In her last match for Marist, senior right-side hitter Savanah Weathers helped the RedHawks win their second straight Class 4A state championship.
It was a great way to go out, for sure, but reality is finally setting in.
“I’m going to miss the girls because I’ve played with a lot of them since I’ve been playing club volleyball,” Weathers said. “Playing alongside of them is something I’m really going to miss.
“It’s the connection that we all have.”
On her next journey, the 2025 Daily Southtown Girls Volleyball Player of the Year will have at least one Marist connection. Weathers is heading to NCAA Division II Davenport in Michigan.
Waiting for her there will be Maddie Berry, the RedHawks’ setter last season and the 2024 Daily Southtown Girls Volleyball Player of the Year.
Marist’s Savanah Weathers (10) and Elayna Davidson (5) go for the ball against Benet in the Class 4A state championship match at CEFCU Arena in Normal on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. (Rob Dicker / Daily Southtown)
“I’m looking forward to playing again with Maddie,” Weathers said of Berry, who had 902 assists in her first year in college. “When I visited there, it had the same vibe as Marist.”
Weathers, Berry’s soon-to-be roommate, put up some strong all-around numbers for Marist (36-5) this fall. She finished with a team-high 262 kills, adding 235 digs, 87 blocks and 26 aces.
The 5-foot-8 Weathers and 5-4 Berry may not be the tallest players in college, but they could be a potent tag-team again.
“Maddie is already tearing it up there and there’s no doubt Savanah will do the same,” Marist coach Jordan Vidovic said. “I’m a little biased toward undersized players, having been one myself.
Marist’s Savanah Weathers (10) swipes the ball across the net for a kill against Normal Community during the Class 4A Bradley-Bourbonnais Supersectional on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)
“I like to see them get recognized for their impact. Both are absolute dream players, and you will see the results start to show in college.”
Vidovic confirmed that Weathers worked hard and sometimes wanted to overwork.
“Up until the final practice before state, she constantly was doing everything she could to give herself the best chance to succeed,” he said. “She was taking extra reps on her swings. She was getting extra reps the day of practice on the day of the championship game.
“It got to the point where I had to stop her and tell her we didn’t need to jump anymore. She would leave nothing to chance.”
Marist’s Savanah Weathers (10) saves the ball against Mother McAuley during a nonconference match in Chicago on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)
Weathers comes from an athletic family. Her brother, Jonah, a two-sport athlete at Marian Catholic, is playing baseball at Logan. He plans on heading to Louisville after his sophomore year.
Savanah grew up playing baseball against boys and softball. Volleyball eventually won out.
“I really don’t know how I got involved in playing volleyball,” she said. “I told my parents I wanted to play. We’re a family with basketball and baseball players.
“But I randomly took an interest in volleyball. Maybe I saw it on TV.”
Once she started playing, she was hooked.
“It’s a super high-energy sport,” Weathers said. “Just being able to hit the ball is my favorite part. I love jumping and being able to kill the ball.”
Marist’s Savanah Weathers (10) and Cassidy Cage (23) go up for a block against Mother McAuley’s Keira McQuillan (10) during a nonconference match in Chicago on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)
Winning isn’t too bad either.
Last season, the RedHawks took nine losses into the playoffs and still won the state title. This season, they had five losses but swept seven playoff matches in two games, including revenge wins over Mother McAuley and Benet.
“I remember the beginning of preseason last year, we all had a super-close bond,” Weathers said. “This year, the group of seniors that we did have all came from the championship team, so we all know what it felt like. We had the goal of going downstate and winning it again.”
After winning back-to-back gold medals together, Vidovic offered up perfect praise of Weathers.
“Savanah is nothing but the best,” he said.
Jeff Vorva is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown.
