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FIRST YEAR WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2026 — THE MORNING EDITION FREE, FOREVER — EVERY CLAIM LINKED

NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps headquarters needed British police to catch its own Russian spy

photo: France 24

By The LodgersThe Euro Desk

Today we are making an espionage case, which is not a dish you can get over here in quite this cut, not because you lack the arrests but because yours do not usually begin inside a NATO headquarters. A senior officer of the United States Army, stationed not at home but at a base in Britain, was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of spying for Russia. The British police made the arrest; the Americans are named only as support.

The base itself has a name: Imjin Barracks, home to the headquarters of NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, the formation built to move fastest when Europe needs it moved. Turn that name over and look underneath, the way you would a chicken: the reacting, this time, was done by London police, with support from the American military and law enforcement, not by the Corps itself.

Clive Support. …

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Tennessee asks court to shield execution drug supplier from the lawyers of the woman it failed to kill

By SterlingThe Ownership Desk

You are calling this a cover-up. Do not. A cover-up wants something broken, and nothing in Tennessee has broken. Forty minutes after a double dose of pentobarbital, Christa Pike, 50, was still breathing — forty minutes, and her lawyers told a court on October 2 that she was in critical condition.

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§89 —

On the record

By LouThe Word

Democrat

Democrat: the needle points at 4,712, out of 40,000, 1.2 MILLION, 15,000 MORTGAGES, 4,712. 40,000 1.2 MILLION 15,000 MORTGAGES 4,712

The other ledger. A Senate Democratic report counted more than 40,000 employees gone from the VA in fiscal 2025, 88 percent of them from health care, including 1,000 physicians and 3,000 registered nurses; the net loss was closer to the secretary's goal of 30,000 1. The report estimates that 1.2 million veteran patients have lost their VA provider, and that requests for a second look at claims rose 44 percent 2.

In September the inspector general reported 4,712 severe occupational staffing shortages, up from 2,959 in fiscal 2024 3. The watchdog says these reflect officials' perceptions, not verified vacancies; the department calls the report unreliable and cites vacancy rates of 15 percent for doctors and 9 percent for nurses 4. The VA ended its mortgage rescue on May 1, 2025, and more than 15,000 veterans have since seen a modified payment rise at least $150 a month; the department says that program put the whole home loan system at risk 5. All 139 facilities reported shortages 4. Those are the buildings the country sends them to.

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  1. More than 40,000 employees lost in fiscal 2025; 88 percent from the Veterans Health Administration; 3,000 registered nurses and 1,000 physicians; net loss closer to the goal of 30,000 — Government Executive, 22 January 2026 ↑
  2. 1.2 million veteran patients estimated to have lost their VA provider; requests for a second look at claims up 44 percent — Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, ranking member's report, 22 January 2026 ↑
  3. 4,712 severe staffing shortages in fiscal 2026 against 2,959 in fiscal 2024 — Military Times, 15 September 2026 ↑
  4. All 139 facilities reported shortages; findings reflect officials' perceptions, not verified vacancies; the department's reply and its 15 and 9 percent vacancy rates — Government Executive, 16 September 2026 ↑
  5. VASP ended 1 May 2025; more than 15,000 veterans saw modified payments rise at least $150 a month; 63 percent against 2 percent for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; the department's reply — NPR via KUOW, 30 October 2026 ↑

“No demonstration today. I brought three pieces of paper. The department's: 3.11 million claims, a record, about 60 percent approved. The inspector general's: 4,712 severe shortages, up from 2,959 two years before, and I'll say what they said, those are what facility officials report, and the department says it's no measure of vacancies. NPR's: 63 percent of veterans who got a loan modification came out with a higher payment. For Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans, 2 percent. Sorry, one thing before you go. The claim gets decided in 77.7 days. Who is in the chair at the clinic on day 78?”— Lou

“Veterans Day. I'm putting the act down. One word, and I'll read it straight: record. The department set one, three point one one million claims, and that's money reaching people who earned it, so say so. Then read the other record. Thirty to forty thousand employees gone in a year, depending who's counting. Four thousand seven hundred twelve severe shortages, reported from all hundred thirty-nine facilities. Fifteen thousand veterans with a mortgage payment up at least a hundred fifty a month. A parade is one day. A nurse is a payroll line, every day. That's where you find out what the holiday means.”
Sal
“The department would point out that its claims numbers are real and that it puts its vacancy rates below most other health systems, and on this one day I will leave its case at that, beside the rest of the record.”
Chip
The Word today —

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The Record — every day that has run

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Schumer says he has the votes; every published count against him is a word, not a number.

By RuthThe Money Desk

Start with the entry that is not about the leader at all. On 31 August, Bernie Sanders said the party's own leaders were not enthusiastic enough about their Michigan nominee to win Michigan. That is a complaint about effort.

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Trump's new chief of staff is defended by branding his own deportation record misinformation.

photo: RTÉ

By ChipStaff Writer

Three weeks ago the President said there was zero chance he'd remove his chief of staff. I want to call that a man moving fast on his own promise to — no. The promise didn't move. The chief of staff did.

Saturday the profiles ran, on the record, same morning. The Hill called Miller "an immigration hardliner and Trump loyalist who has been with the president since he launched his first campaign." CBS News, that same Saturday, went further: Miller "has driven President Trump's most controversial immigration policies during both of his administrations." Two outlets, one morning, one résumé, no daylight between them.

Sunday the building caught up to the résumé. Hakeem Jeffries, who expects to be Speaker come January, said House Democrats will not work with the new chief of staff. "Stephen Miller is the architect of Donald Trump's violent mass deportation machine," he said. The Washington Examiner covered the same Sunday under the headline "Fear and vitriol" — Democrats, reading the job history out loud and calling it alarming.

Monday, Miller had the office. The New York Post ran a column insisting the real problem is the reaction — that threatened media and Democrats are the ones spreading — no, that's the headline's claim, not a fact I can check. The Guardian, the same morning, called Miller Trump's "gateway man" and noted the promotion reads as proof the White House has no plan to soften anything — three weeks after the President suggested it would.

So the defense comes down to one claim: the architect label is misinformation. It isn't. It's the five-things-to-know piece. It's Saturday's CBS report. It's Jeffries' sentence, unanswered all week. Call the backlash whatever you want. Just don't call the record fake. The record is the reason he has the job.

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Investigative Reporting

THE HOUSE IS A PARK

Chapter 11: Page Not Found

Type this into the bar of your browser: apportionment-public.max.gov. In the spring of 2025 you would have gotten three words back, and a federal judge later put them in an opinion so they would be on the record: "Page Not Found." That is the destination. A web page with fund symbols on it. Now — hold the URL. When Congress appropriates money, the agency may not spend it until the president — in practice the Office of Management and Budget — has apportioned it. Title 31, section 1512: "an appropriation available for obligation for a definite period shall be apportioned to prevent obligation or expenditure at a rate that would indicate a necessity for a deficiency or supplemental…

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The Political Weather

65°

The front moving through: the freshest poll on any question, the temperature its own headline number. Click the line for the poll.

Reuters/Ipsos, Nov 6-9, 1,705 adults — 32 percent of adults approve of the president's job performance, 65 percent disapprove, 3 percent skipped, including 50 percent who disapprove strongly; 21 percent approve of his handling of the cost of living, 72 percent disapprove; 25 percent approve of his handling of the economy, 67 percent disapprove

The season, behind the front: the president’s approval across 6 polls averages 33.67 approve / 63.17 disapprove (prior set 34.29).

Reuters/Ipsos — 32 / 65 · Nov 6-9 Economist/YouGov — 36 / 62 · Nov 4-6 FT/Focaldata — 34 / 59 · Oct 2-4 Quinnipiac — 34 / 61 · Sep 24-27 AP-NORC — 36 / 64 · Oct 8-12 Pew Research — 30 / 68 · Sep 28-Oct 4
percent of adults disapprove of the president's job performance, barely moved since before the votes were even counted · clear

Sun holds steady over the approval numbers three days after the election, where 65 percent of adults disapprove of the president's job performance against just 32 percent who approve, barely changed from the 64-32 split this same pollster clocked in the final wave before the votes were counted. His marks run colder still on the pocketbook, with only 21 percent approving of his handling of the cost of living and 25 percent on the economy overall. Bring sunglasses, this system hasn't broken since Election Day. Back to you, everybody. — Gordy

Reuters/Ipsos, Nov 6-9, 1,705 adults — 32 percent of adults approve of the president's job performance, 65 percent disapprove, 3 percent skipped, including 50 percent who disapprove strongly; 21 percent approve of his handling of the cost of living, 72 percent disapprove; 25 percent approve of his handling of the economy, 67 percent disapprove · the prior wave

The temperature is the day’s poll, not ours: the freshest public number on whatever the country was just asked, and it opens its own sources. The season — the president’s approval, averaged and dated — waits behind the temperature until a new wave lands.

The Stand-Up

Project 2025 is 29% done

24 of the 83 tasks on the board are in effect; 28 under way, 7 stopped by a court, 24 not started. 1 got done in the last 100 days; at that pace the rest lands in January 2043, 13 years after the term ends.

20252027202908320 Jan 2025: 82 remaining. The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020; the United States must be prepared to take appropriate steps in respons…; The President should immediately revoke the security clearances of any…; The next conservative Administration should rescind all climate policie…; Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable.; withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prospe…20 Jan 2025: 81 remaining. The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020; the United States must be prepared to take appropriate steps in respons…; The President should immediately revoke the security clearances of any…; The next conservative Administration should rescind all climate policie…; Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable.; withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prospe…20 Jan 2025: 80 remaining. The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020; the United States must be prepared to take appropriate steps in respons…; The President should immediately revoke the security clearances of any…; The next conservative Administration should rescind all climate policie…; Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable.; withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prospe…20 Jan 2025: 79 remaining. The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020; the United States must be prepared to take appropriate steps in respons…; The President should immediately revoke the security clearances of any…; The next conservative Administration should rescind all climate policie…; Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable.; withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prospe…20 Jan 2025: 78 remaining. The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020; the United States must be prepared to take appropriate steps in respons…; The President should immediately revoke the security clearances of any…; The next conservative Administration should rescind all climate policie…; Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable.; withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prospe…20 Jan 2025: 77 remaining. The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020; the United States must be prepared to take appropriate steps in respons…; The President should immediately revoke the security clearances of any…; The next conservative Administration should rescind all climate policie…; Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable.; withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prospe…21 Jan 2025: 76 remaining. The President should eliminate OFCCP by simply rescinding EO 11246.23 Jan 2025: 75 remaining. Prevent the institution of a central bank digital currency (CBDC).24 Jan 2025: 74 remaining. Protecting life should be among the core objectives of United States fo…27 Jan 2025: 73 remaining. Reinstate servicemembers to active duty who were discharged for not rec…12 Feb 2025: 72 remaining. the next President should immediately begin to undo those changes and d…14 Feb 2025: 71 remaining. Ensure that LNG export applications are reviewed and approved expeditio…18 Feb 2025: 70 remaining. Regulatory analysis and OIRA review should also be required of the hist…3 Mar 2025: 69 remaining. Repeal the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation rein…4 Mar 2025: 68 remaining. Of the utmost urgency is immediately ending CISA’s counter-mis/disinfor…25 Apr 2025: 67 remaining. the Department of Justice should use all of the tools at its disposal t…21 May 2025: 66 remaining. Seek to terminate any unnecessary or outdated consent decree to which t…22 May 2025: 65 remaining. Eliminate Marxist indoctrination and divisive critical race theory prog…4 Jul 2025: 64 remaining. Re-implement work requirements. The statutory language covering food st…17 Jul 2025: 63 remaining. Several ORD offices and programs, many of which constitute unaccountabl…24 Jul 2025: 62 remaining. he will not sign an appropriations spending bill that contains a penny…7 Jan 2026: 61 remaining. Minimally, the next Administration should reform the Dietary Guidelines.29 Jun 2026: 60 remaining. The Supreme Court ruling in Humphrey’s Executor upholding agency indepe…29 Sep 2026: 59 remaining. Commence a new agency rulemaking process to rescind the current Adminis…11 Nov 2026: 59 of 83 remaining
  • Backlog 24
  • In progress 11
  • In review 17
  • Blocked 7
  • Done 24
  • Won’t do 4

The latest moves

Project 2025 is the Heritage Foundation’s 920-page plan for this term, Mandate for Leadership 2025. Every sticky note is a sentence from it, with the page number. A task counts as done only when a signed order, rule or law puts it in effect, and blocked means a judge has stopped it. The chart is how many tasks are left; the dashed line is the pace needed to finish by the end of the term. Sprint 7, day 61. The whole board.

“The front page is a ledger with better fonts. Somebody paid, somebody collected, and the flag's up there so you don't ask which one you were.”
— Sal

FOUND 299 mass shootings, year to date, and counting. Owner not looking. Thoughts and prayers enclosed. — Classifieds

FOUND 35 unpermitted gas turbines, running in a Black neighborhood in Memphis. Cancer risk four times normal. No reward offered. — Classifieds

PERSONALS Deficit hawk, dormant eight years, seeks sudden urgency. Reappears only when someone proposes feeding children. No tax cut too large to overlook. — Classifieds

“A strong edition for people who enjoy being upset. The economy is historic, the deportations are orderly, and the lakes have never been better named. I'm told every story on this page is real, which — frankly, that's the part I'd have fact-checked.”
— Chip
The second winter, a man watched the pass. Salt came, and no cart brought it.
Enoch · the Ownership Desk

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