Below are some headlines we may have missed. Please feel free to share your finds or talk among yourselves. Sunday’s blog has always consisted of missed headlines and a free chat! Enjoy what’s left of the weekend.
Comic Relief:
Updates:
Do I trust this recent transformation? Not yet Will I offer grace to those who want to be done with toxic politics? Even those who once reveled in it? Yes The road to redemption, however, is long and it must be travelled. For MTG, the road requires her to be truthful about J6 and her role in it.
— Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Broken Clock Alert:
Rep. Thomas Massie: "The president has been saying this is a hoax…Well, he's just now decided to investigate a hoax…If they have ongoing investigations, those documents can't be released. So this might be a big smoke screen…to prevent the release of the Epstein files."
— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) November 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Pasta at Twice the Price? Some Italian Producers Face Huge U.S. Tariffs.
More than a dozen Italian pasta makers, accused of dumping their product in the United States, face tariffs of over 100 percent.
Each day, as many as 20 trucks of semolina arrive at Garofalo, one of Italy’s largest pasta exporters. The ground durum wheat can come from anywhere in the world, but every other step in the process must happen in Gragnano, a town outside Naples where Garofalo is based.
In the humid and deafeningly loud factory, the wheat is mixed with spring water from the nearby Lattari Mountains, and the dough is pressed through bronze-edged molds. The bronze gives the pasta a distinctive rough texture that allows sauce to cling to it better, the mark of high quality.
It’s a process dictated by the local traditions that have earned Gragnano its reputation as the European capital of pasta and won it admirers from around the world.
Sunday Shows:
Ro Khanna: "He's sowing the seeds for his own lame duck presidency. He's out of touch with his own base. Don't ask me, just look at Rasmussen, People's Pundit. All these people that were on his side are saying, 'Mr President, what happened to you?'"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Chris Murphy on possible military strikes on Venezuela: "It's pretty clear it's just an effort to distract people from the rising prices and the Epstein scandal. No one wants a war with Venezuela … and by the way, it's wildly illegal."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Chris Murphy: "He wouldn't be going through all of this effort to try to stop the release of these files if he wasn't seriously implicated in those files. This is most likely the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the country. We know that b/c Trump is going to these extraordinary lengths"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Disgrace of the Nation:
Disgrace of the Nation
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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The Fascist Felon and His Brownshirts:
Can’t find “signature policy” in the Federalist papers, can someone provide a citation
— Ryan Teague Beckwith (@ryanbeckwith.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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KARL: To state the obvious, tariffs do raise prices on Americans despite what the president has said over and over again HASSETT: It depends
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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KARL: Tariffs have been removed from some food items. How soon do we expect prices on those goods will go down? HASSETT: The prices for those goods weren't necessarily going up just because of tariffs KARL: So they might not go down?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Kevin Hassett in response to a graphic showing that prices for 10 food staples are up: "Egg prices are down year over year. You could've put that in your chart."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true? HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart– KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Kevin Hassett on spiking healthcare costs: "Blame Democrats"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Craven Assholes:
Zero understanding of how risk pooling and insurance works.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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WELKER: Four months ago the DOJ said there was nothing to investigate and then hours after Trump called for an investigation, Pam Bondi said she was opening an investigation. Is that appropriate? BARRASSO: I think there's a lot more important things to talk about right now
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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