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"He showed a generation the way to happiness and freedom." americanmind.org/salvo/charl… Charlie Kirk, In Memoriam americanmind.org/salvo/charl…

CO State Senator Iman Jodeh (with Rep. Yara Zokaie) posted a flyer for a paid ($1,000 stipend) legislative internship in their offices at the CO Capitol for the 2027 session, run through the MENASA & Muslim Joint Legislative Caucus. The first listed qualification is: “Identify as a Muslim and/or as Middle Eastern, North African, or South Asian.” This is a public legislative office using state resources for a staff/intern position. CO’s Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA, C.R.S. § 24-34-402) prohibits employers, including the state and its political subdivisions, from refusing to hire or discriminating in employment because of religion, national origin, or ancestry. Paid internships are covered. Federal Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 likewise bans discrimination on the basis of religion and national origin. Harmeet Dhillon is correct that the practical way to challenge it is for someone outside those categories to apply; rejection (or a clear policy that deters application) creates a straightforward discrimination claim under state (and potentially federal) law. Public officials openly advertising “must be Muslim or North African/MENASA” for a paid job in their Capitol office is straight-up illegal discrimination. They’re doing it in plain sight because they think the rules don’t apply to them.

They want cheap illegal labor and they’re willing to threaten the White House to keep it. Enforcing the law isn’t harassment, and businesses don’t get a veto over immigration enforcement because it raises their labor costs.

There is a narrow but real window, and Thune is using it. Ds flipped the Senate in the midterms and take control in early January. Until then, Rs still hold the majority and the calendar. Thune has made confirming Trump’s remaining judicial nominees the top priority of the lame-duck session. On Nov. 11 he filed cloture on a batch of district-court nominees (including Bennett, Coker, Reardon, and Ballou) after earlier filings on others already on the calendar (Cook, Domenico, St. John). His office has said floor votes are locked in for every federal judge currently available for confirmation, with more to be added as the Judiciary Committee advances them. Grassley is accelerating the pipeline, holding extra hearings and reporting nominees out faster than usual. About 23–25 judicial nominees are still pending overall; roughly 56–57 Article III judges have already been confirmed in Trump’s second term. Bottom line: the ones already processed or near the finish line can be confirmed before the gavel changes. Not every pending name will make it, but the current push is real. The clock is running.

The Rs House passed the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act on Veterans Day after months of delays and Democratic opposition. The bill is a large package of more than 60 measures covering veterans’ health care, benefits, caregiver support, and survivor provisions. It includes the Major Richard Star Act, which ends the offset that prevents certain wounded warriors from receiving both military retirement pay and VA disability compensation, along with the Love Lives On Act, which removes the remarriage penalty for surviving spouses, and expanded access to mental health and substance-use treatment. Ds opposed the package, arguing that it funds new benefits in part by changing how the VA rates tinnitus and sleep apnea for future claimants. House D leadership had urged a no vote. The measure had already been pulled from the floor once in July after it lacked the votes to advance. When it returned on Veterans Day, Rs brought it up under a voice vote; no D demanded a recorded vote, and it passed. The bill now moves to the Senate, so we will see... Democrats cry foul after Republicans fast-track partisan veterans bill: ‘Dirty tricks’ thehill.com/homenews/house/6…

Warsaw, Poland in the evening 11/11/2026. Sea of people with Polish flags. 123 years. The country didn't just lose territory. Three empires split it up and they were trying to erase it. No flag, no language in schools, no army, no government. This march is the most basic form of patriotism there is. Loving the country that was literally taken from Poles for 123 years.

They are trying to make it sound like a pathology. The 123 years is the part that makes it different from most countries. In Poland, "love my country" is a choice that has to be made every generation, because the country has been told it doesn't exist so many times that the memory is fragile. So Polish ppl march and sing the anthem and make sure the next generation knows the country was here.

🇵🇱 Beskid Zywiecki, Poland: Polish Highlanders (Górale).

Today at Arlington: Trump called Jack Myers out by name, asked him to stand, and described the Dachau mission as Myers "coming face-to-face with the evil he risked his life to destroy." The clip that's circulating shows the 103-year-old nearly leaping out of his seat when his name was called. He's now a great-great-great-grandfather. He's one of the last living people who was in the Bulge and in Dachau. Not a historian. The guy who was 19, who left home, who didn't speak about what he saw for half a century. He turned 103 in June. He sang the National Anthem at Camden Yards for the Orioles' America 250 celebration in July. He was honorary marshal at the Brunswick parade. He sang it again at the Martinsburg parade on Saturday. He spoke to students at schools in Washington County yesterday, telling them, "We had to win that war; that's all there is to it."

🇵🇱 Nov.11 - today’s Independence March in Warsaw was large, one of the bigger recent editions, and people turned out in significant numbers despite overcast, chilly conditions. It is the annual event marking the 108th anniversary of Polish independence (1918). This year’s slogan was “Polak w Polsce gospodarzem” (“A Pole is the master/host in Poland”). President Karol Nawrocki participated and was at the front of the column, which stretched more than 3 km. Organizers claimed roughly half a million (some statements higher, up to around a million). There were anti-Tusk banners and chants at the march, and it served in part as a show of opposition strength amid disputes over the Constitutional Tribunal, immigration, and other issues.

🇵🇱 Poland, November 11 - Poland's National Independence Day, celebrated every November 11, shines as a radiant symbol of unyielding national spirit and honoring the triumphant rebirth of sovereignty in 1918, after 123 grueling years under the boot of foreign empires.

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🇵🇱 The Independence March 11/11/2026

'NATO 3.0' reference is the more interesting part of the post, that's the framework for shifting NATO from a deterrence alliance to an active defense/industry integration model. And Poland is positioning itself as the Eastern anchor of that model. As to the permanent US base in Poland - It was given a green light from the Pentagon. Kosiniak-Kamysz said it explicitly: "The final decision will be made at the White House in early December." The details still missing: 🧭 No location confirmed. Four candidates: Wrocław, Szczecin, Bydgoszcz, Poznań. 🧭 No force size confirmed. Polish proposal: ~4,000-5,000 at the permanent base, plus 10,000-11,000 rotational. Total ~15,000. 🧭 Poland is offering to pay for the infrastructure: 15-17 billion zloty (~$4.5B). 🧭 Construction would take at least 3 years after approval. 🧭 Nawrocki has already embraced the name "Fort Trump." So it's a strong signal, not a signed document. But the December date is the one both sides are working toward.

Poland: Tuesday, November 10: 🏛️The Supreme Court ruling: The Professional Liability Chamber annulled both suspension orders from the Tribunal issued by Korwin-Piotrowska on October 30. Both Święczkowski and Sochański are legally back in their roles. The ruling came after the court initially declared itself incompetent on Nov. 6, then reversed that position on the 10th. 🗣️ Tusk's announcement (same day): At a government meeting on Nov. 10, Tusk said he would receive for publication in the official gazette a resolution from the General Assembly of the "sham" tribunal (the Korwin-Piotrowska-led version). He called it "the first publication of a decision by this body in many years" and described the tribunal as "a properly constituted important state body." So the Supreme Court says the suspension was illegal, and that same day Tusk is celebrating the output of the tribunal that was created by that very suspension. And the pro-government judges have already refused to recognize the Supreme Court ruling. The country is supposed to be celebrating 108 years of sovereignty, and the government is in an open constitutional fight with its own Supreme Court. Nawrocki had given Tusk until Nov. 11 to back down. He didn't. What now? Two claimants to the Tribunal presidency. Two sets of rulings. Neither side can force the other to step down. The Tribunal can't arbitrate itself because the Tribunal is the dispute. And neither Tusk nor Nawrocki has a reason to blink before the 2027 elections. November 17 is the next knife fight. If they vote to lift immunity, Święczkowski gets arrested and the crisis goes from constitutional to criminal. If they don't, the standoff grinds on until the suspension expires, the next General Assembly, or the election. polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2026…

Wedn., Nov. 11 is Poland's National Independence Day (Narodowe Święto Niepodległości). 108th anniversary of Poland regaining sovereignty in 1918 after 123 years of partitions. The big context: it's landing four days after the Kraków shooting. Kraków mayor declared a period of mourning until November 11, so the mourning period ends the same day the country celebrates independence. That's going to make the tone of the Kraków ceremonies very different from normal. The government confirmed the Independence March in Warsaw will NOT be banned despite the shooting. After communism in Poland fell in 1989, Independence Day was restored as a national holiday. The march was never a state event. It is a patriotic demonstration: "Poland for the Poles" isn't a racial slogan. It's "we were erased once. We're not doing it again. And the sovereignty angle is real and current. The EU "ever closer union" push is happening now, while Poland is standing in the square singing the anthem. The fear isn't hypothetical. It's a legal document being drafted in Brussels right now.

The right pick for the job. The job for the next two years isn't governing. It's fighting. And Jordan has spent the last 5 years on exactly the two committees that will be doing the fighting: Judiciary and Oversight.

That's not a policy disagreement. That's a guy who got primaried using his last act in the old Congress to make sure his name is in the Hegseth story. And the Ds in their new majority? They'll file their own. They'll hold their own hearings. They'll do the whole thing on their own timeline. But the GOP House just made it clear: this isn't a bipartisan accountability effort. It's a Democratic project.

Kupec's point is the strongest structural argument in the entire impeachment debate, and the data backs it up on every level: The notification happened. Rubio called all 8 members of the Gang of Eight on Friday night, Feb 27, before the strikes began Saturday. Reached seven. The eighth, Jim Himes, didn't pick up. The formal 48-hour War Powers notification was submitted March 2. Trump personally briefed Congress in person on March 4. Rubio, Hegseth, Ratcliffe, and the Joint Chiefs Chair all sat in the same room on March 3 and answered questions. The administration's position, stated by Rubio on the record: "We notified the Gang of Eight. We notified congressional leadership. There's no law that requires us to do that [before the fact]. The law says we have to notify them 48 hours after beginning hostilities. We've done that." So the "they didn't tell Congress" frame is factually wrong. They told Congress. The question is whether telling is the same as asking permission. And that's where the 50-year constitutional fight lives. No Secretary of Defense has ever been impeached over this. Not Rumsfeld. Not Gates. Not Mattis. Not McCarthy. Not Esper. Not Austin. Not Hegseth's predecessors in any administration that conducted military operations without a formal declaration of war. Iraq 2003. Afghanistan 2001. Libya 2011. Syria strikes 2017. Yemen drone campaign 2002-2025. None of them produced a Sec.of Def. impeachment. And that's the structural point Kupec is making. The WPR dispute is a constitutional question between two branches. It's not a criminal question. It's not a "high crime or misdemeanor" in the Article II sense. It's the same fight Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Obama, and Trump all had with Congress, and the resolution was always political, not judicial. And the guy who executed the order has never been the one who answers for it. The president takes the political hit. The SecDef doesn't. Ds are asking for something that has never been done, on a legal basis that has never been settled, against a person who has never been the target, for a dispute that has been running for 53 years across both parties. That's not accountability. That's a first. And firsts, in this context, are the tell. And Ds already openly admitting the quiet part: this isn’t about evidence of criminality. It’s about using the impeachment process as a political weapon to settle a policy score.

Crow won CO-6 with 65.7%, fifth term, locked in. He's been a solidly safe seat for 8 years. The 6th district is D+11. He doesn't need to be loud to win in Aurora. But loudness is what gets you a committee chairmanship, a leadership role, or a 2030 Senate run. And the Hegseth impeachment is the single highest-visibility issue in the new Congress. Crow jumped on the impeachment wagon the day after winning re-election in CO and has been hitting every TV show that will have him. He’s trying to turn state-level name recognition into a national profile. The whole push is just a political game for him. Jump on it early, jump on it loudly, and your name is in the headline before the committee assignments are even done.