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A little over two weeks after endorsing his rival on Election Eve, President Donald Trump will welcome New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office on Nov. 21.

Trump is going to get SCHOOLED on class, wit, and intelligence. Trump with his 2nd grade way of speaking and juvenile behavior that only flies with MAGA. Their sit-down is scheduled for 3 p.m. ET, according to the White House. It is currently listed as being closed to the press. That's the sad part. Perhaps the White House is trying to avoid Zelenskyy's style fiasco or another embarrassment like of MBS that happened yesterday with ABC News courageous reporter Mary Bruce.  

My advice to Mamdani before meeting Trump:

* Tell President Trump, "Do not stop me from making NYC Great Again,"

* Don't cut off the federal funds which is a fraction of federal taxes New Yorkers pay.

* Show the President little gratitude by saying "Thank you for endorsing Cuomo!"  

President Donald Trump and his merry menagerie that inhabit the White House have had a couple of exciting weeks bringing “peace or pieces” to half the world while also pulling back the curtain on what that naughty character Jeffrey Epstein just might have been up to while spending hundreds of millions of dollars setting up venues for screwing and filming fifteen year old women being sexually abused. And it was all funded by Jewish billionaires and plausibly Mossad to benefit Epstein and his “clients” including possibly Bill Clinton and Donald Trump himself as well as good old Israel.

The so-called Gaza ceasefire was not a genuine cessation of hostility, but a strategic, cynical shift in the Israeli genocide and ongoing campaign of destruction.

 Starting on October 10, the first day of the announced ceasefire, Israel transitioned tactics: moving from indiscriminate aerial bombardment to the calculated, engineered demolishing of homes and vital infrastructure. Satellite images, corroborated by almost hourly media and ground reports, confirmed this methodical change.

I’m sure my mom was proud to see me as the closing speaker at the No Kings Day rally in San Diego. While she couldn’t be there physically, she joined me in a symbolic manner:  I brought with me the American flag that draped her coffin. I received the flag at her funeral, held with full military honors, recognizing her service as the first woman ever to join the US Coast Guard.

No Kings in San Diego was a helluva party, 50,000 celebrating — while at the same time fearing for — that delicate thing called democracy. A thousand American flags fluttered. America at its best. Hell, it could turn you into a patriot. I’m sure mom, a union organizer, schoolteacher, rights activist, and anti-fascist super-patriot, would have loved it.

Frederick Douglass would not have. I could see his ghost, with that astonishing mane of hair, shaking his head.  

Douglass, once enslaved, but by 1848 an international bestselling author, was one of the few men to sign the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, the foundational document of the movement for women’s rights.

But Douglass famously warned the women warriors:  

We start GREEP #247 with our Laureate MIMI GERMAN’S poetic Hallelujah for last week’s honored guest, the new US Rep Adelina Grijalva, on the brink of changing the world.

From Waldport, Oregon we hear from organizer TONY & Mayor HEIDE LAMPERT in the midst of an anti-Trumpian fight for democracy itself.

We link them to former Charlotte Mayor JENNIFER ROBERTS of the Carter Center, herself fighting for democracy against Border Patrol fascists running rampant in Charlotte, NC.

From HARTZELL GRAY we meet an extremely articulate & powerful GenZ rising star now running for Congress & a better world in Kansas City, Mo.

We’re then honored by the presence of the great RAY MCCLENDON with an in-depth report on the critical RICO case against Trump for the attempted theft of Georgia’s 2020 election.

From JOMAR LLOYD, of Food & Water Watch, we get the latest on the Renew Act now being proposed in Maryland to study damage done by fossil fuel burners & then to mandate polluters to pay into a state fund to support remedial action through an update infrastructure.

“Syrians are nasty people.”

This ancient Roman graffiti was found during World War II etched on a rock in Syria by a friend’s father who was soldiering in the British Army. Not much has changed since the 1st Century AD.

Syria continues to be a danger and headache to its own people and neighbours. Its only time of relative peace - if one discounts the murderous Mongols and Crusaders - was during the centuries of Ottoman rule when the Turks allowed Syria’s 20-odd different peoples to do their own thing and worship their preferred gods.

Modern Syria used to be the beating heart of the Arab world. A centre of deep cultures, dazzling architecture, bizarre cults, strange religions and rich farmlands. Damascus rivalled Cairo as the capital of the Mideast. Created by French imperialists after World War I, the modern state of Syria became very important due to its vital geographic importance. Syria bordered on newly created Iraq, Jordan and Palestine - which would later become, in part, the Jewish state of Israel. Syria and Egypt were historic rivals who have warred over Syria across the centuries. Napoleon saw Syria as the key to the Mideast.

The world knows that Donald Trump is an ignorant fool, a narcissist, a misogynist, a criminal, and more. Many American’s know that Elon Musk stole the election for him. Nonetheless, many still support him despite the fact that he raped a 15 year old girl, one of many children forced to participate in his depravity. It is also abundantly clear that this was an Israeli extortion operation intended to control American foreign policy.

I dedicate this question, which is at the core of the book with which I am struggling, to Donald Trump.

When we think of power, the word itself commands that we carve the concept into something isolated and wieldable: a sword, a gun, a scepter. Power means power over. There is no basic concept of power – no word for power in the English language – that also means collaboration, collective participation: people working together, individually empowered at the same time that they are part of a larger whole.

Israel launched an airstrike on a densely populated Palestinian refugee camp Ain al-Hilweh in southern Lebanon late Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding nearly 70 more, according to Lebanese Health Ministry.

Paramedics and people rushed to the site of an Israeli strike located in a crowded area between mosque and football pitch in the refugee camp, for a search and rescue efforts.

The Israeli military said, without providing any evidence, that the strike targeted a Hamas "military compound" allegedly used for training fighters.

Names of the martyrs of the Ain al-Hilweh massacre. Date, November 18, 2025:

1- Martyr Muhammad Khalil

2- Martyr Ahmad Othman

3- Martyr Jihad al-Sidawi

4- Martyr Amjad Khashan

5- Martyr Bilal al-Natour

6-Martyr Youssef Shamma

7- Martyr Ali Ibrahim

8- Martyr Hussein al-Shouli

9- Martyr Obaida Ghoutani

10- Martyr Mustafa Ghoutani

11- Martyr Daniel Ghoutani

12- Martyr Mahmoud Muhammad

12- Martyr Ali Hamad