Day 322 Agenda - Resistance Kitty

America’s on Fire, the Supreme Court’s Holding the Matches, and Trump Is Out Here Calling It a Breeze

Ukraine Russia War

Volodymyr Zelenskiy Meets European Leaders in London for Peace Talks

European heavyweights — Keir Starmer (UK), Emmanuel Macron (France) and Friedrich Merz (Germany) — convened with Zelenskiy to hash out a U.S.-backed peace proposal for the war in Ukraine. The talks come amid rising tension over Russia’s advances and growing pressure on European nations to decide whether to back Ukrainian proposals. Many analysts view the summit as a pivot point: Europe is scrambling between war-fatigue, economic pain, and the moral imperative to stand with Ukraine.

Economy

U.S. Federal Reserve Meeting This Week — Markets on Edge

As policymakers ramp up for a critical rate-setting meeting, equity markets are riding high in anticipation of a likely 25-basis-point rate cut. That’s boosted stock prices — including a rebound in the S&P 500 — while sending the U.S. dollar into a slump against major currencies. If the Fed holds instead of cutting, analysts warn markets could get rattled — a potential blow to economic confidence at a fragile moment.

2025 Layoff Tsunami: U.S. Is Looking More Like the 1930s Than the Roaring ’20s

In 2025, U.S. employers have already announced roughly 1.17 million layoffs — the highest number of job cuts in a non-pandemic year in decades. That kind of mass unemployment doesn’t just rattle local job markets — it threatens to unravel entire supply chains, depress household incomes, and re-ignite economic instability on a national scale. It’s too early to say we’re back in depression-era territory — but at this pace, the social pain could rival anything since the 1930s.

Supreme Court of Gilead

Supreme Court of the United States Lets Stand Book Ban on 17 Titles in Texas Libraries

In a move that will alarm free-speech and civil-liberties advocates, the Court declined to hear an appeal challenging the removal of 17 books deemed “objectionable” — covering topics like race and LGBT identity — from a public library system in Texas. The books were stripped from shelves by local officials and a lower court had upheld the ban. With the Supreme Court’s decision, the removals remain legal — though the ruling applies only to the states under the jurisdiction of the relevant appeals court (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi).

The Supreme Court Just Gave Texas a Gift — But Elena Kagan Is Screaming “Hold Up.”

In a scathing 17-page dissent, Justice Kagan slams the Court’s emergency ruling that reinstated Texas Legislature’s newly drawn congressional map — a map previously blocked for likely racial gerrymandering. According to her (and longtime court-watcher Steve Vladeck), the majority didn’t just bend precedent — they rewrote the rules: shrinking the time before elections needed to apply “Purcell stability,” giving states more deference even when record shows race-based districting, and raising the bar for challengers with a new “unable to produce an alternative map” fallback. The upshot: the ruling doesn’t just benefit one state — it signals to all partisan-map makers that the Court is open for business.

Congress and Senate

Mike Johnson Braces for a Mass Exodus of House Republicans

According to Aaron Parnas, House Speaker Mike Johnson is reportedly preparing for a “mass exodus” — a wave of Republican lawmakers abandoning ship. With infighting intensifying, it’s not just about fractures; insiders warn this could rip the GOP apart before the next election cycle. Johnson’s grip looks shaky, and this could reshape the balance of power sooner than anyone expected.

Department of War Crimes

The Strike Was Dumb — The Strategy Vacuum Is Worse

The Contrarian breaks down why the Venezuela “second strike” fiasco isn’t just about a botched military hit — it exposes a White House running foreign policy like a reality-TV improv challenge. The piece argues that the real danger isn’t the strike itself, but the total absence of planning, discipline, or coherent strategy behind it. Instead of steady-state diplomacy or professional intelligence work, we get impulsive escalations, unclear objectives, and a commander-in-chief who seems more interested in theatrics than consequences. In short: the strike was bad, but the system that produced it is the real crisis.

Cheeto Von Shitzenpants

Trump Torches the Farm Economy, Then Hands Out Our Money to Call Himself a Hero

Trump is reportedly preparing a $12 billion socialist-style bailout for U.S. farmers — the same farmers his own tariffs just shoved into bankruptcy court and foreclosure hell. Classic Trump economics: light the barn on fire, hand out taxpayer-funded hoses, and then declare himself Firefighter of the Year. He blows up the economy with performative trade wars, triggers a farm-sector crisis, and calls the cleanup bill “winning.”

Oligarchy

Venezuela, Trace Minerals & the Trump Jr. Pattern Problem

Venezuela isn’t just a foreign-policy flashpoint — it’s sitting on some of the world’s most valuable trace minerals and rare-earth deposits, the same resources driving a global scramble for strategic control. And here’s where the pattern gets uncomfortable: Donald Trump Jr. is tied to 1789 Capital, a firm now bankrolling a rare-earth startup (Vulcan Elements) that just secured massive backing from the Trump administration’s Department of Defense.

There is no confirmed public contract linking Trump Jr.’s ventures specifically to Venezuelan mines. But the overlap is hard to ignore:
– The administration is aggressively expanding U.S. rare-earth supply chains.
– Venezuela is one of the richest, least regulated sources of these minerals.
– Military “options” toward Venezuela are suddenly back on the table.
– Trump Jr.–backed companies stand to benefit from any new access to rare-earth extraction globally.

So while we can’t say a Trump Jr.–Venezuela mineral deal exists, we can say this: the incentives line up a little too neatly. When a government ramps up pressure on a resource-rich nation while insiders invest in the exact industry tied to those resources, suspicion isn’t conspiracy — it’s common sense.

Paramount Skydance Throws Down the Gauntlet — Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

Just days after Netflix clinched a deal for Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming and studio assets, Paramount Skydance fired back. On December 8, 2025, the company submitted an all-cash, $30-per-share hostile offer — valuing WBD at roughly $108.4 billion — and urged shareholders to reject Netflix’s $72 billion bid. Paramount argues its bid is cleaner and more certain than Netflix’s mixed cash-and-stock offer, and claims the sale process was tilted from the start. Now, the streaming war has escalated — and shareholders hold the cards.

Department of Injustice

Trump Could Be About to Pardon a Suspected Pipe-Bomber?

That’s Not a Warning — It’s an Announcement. Brian Cole Jr. — the man just arrested for allegedly planting pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC headquarters on the eve of Jan. 6, 2021 — is now under federal charges for attempted destruction by explosives and transporting bombs across state lines. Given how many Jan. 6-linked criminals got pardoned or had their sentences commuted by Trump earlier this year, a growing chorus is asking: is a pardon for Cole next? If Trump moves forward with clemency here, it wouldn’t just be about one case — it’d be a message: planting bombs on your way to overturn democracy doesn’t automatically mean you lose your “get out of jail” card under this regime.

The Resistance

EXCLUSIVE: ICEBlock App Dev to Sue Government Over Removal

ICEBlock — the anonymously crowdsourced app users depended on to flag nearby U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity — is back in the news. Its developer, Joshua Aaron, is suing top government officials over what he claims was unconstitutional pressure on Apple to yank the app from the store. The lawsuit argues that the removal violated protected free-speech and demands that authorities be barred from coercing Apple or other distributors to censor apps like ICEBlock. If you believe in community-powered alerts, anonymous reporting, and pushing back against overreach — this fight just turned personal.

West Moscow

Kremlin Says 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy “Largely Consistent” with Russian Vision

In a rare public olive-branch, the Kremlin — via spokesman Dmitry Peskov — said the new U.S. security blueprint under Donald Trump is “largely consistent” with Moscow’s own worldview. Peskov called the shift away from confrontation and toward “dialogue and good relations” a “modest guarantee” for continued talks over Ukraine.
It’s not every day you see U.S.–Russia diplomatic vibes — but this move just might make Europeans, Ukraine, and anyone vaguely opposed to Kremlin influence raise a collective eyebrow.

Epstein Trump Pedophile Files

11 days until the Epstein File Due Date

Special Announcement

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What We Are Watching Today

Call To Action

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- Approve the ACA credits
- Vote no on taking away IVF coverage for the military families.
- Vote Yes on limiting Trump’s war powers
- Impeach Hegseth and Trump
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Closing Rally from Resistance Kitty

Listen up, whisker warriors: the authoritarians are busy today — gerrymandering the maps, censoring apps, crashing the economy, and cozying up to dictators. But so are we. Every injustice is another excuse to sharpen our claws. Stay loud, stay organized, and stay terrifying to the people who fear accountability. The resistance doesn’t nap — and neither does this cat.

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