• The Washington Post invented “kill them all” hit piece: Admiral Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley, U.S. Special Operations Command commander, testified before Congress behind closed doors yesterday, where he confirmed that he was never given a “kill them all” order or any no-quarter order. This should be enough to put this lie to rest and force The Washington Post to issue a retraction and apology to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Its story, originating with anonymous sources, was obviously unbelievable from the beginning, as evidenced by The New York Times and even ABC’s Martha Raddatz taking the time to set the record straight. Raddatz pointed out that the surviving narco-terrorists were not “clinging to the wreckage” but apparently attempting to salvage the drugs to complete their smuggling mission. She also noted that a JAG officer was standing by to provide legal advice throughout the mission.

• Grand jury rejects second James indictment: New York Attorney General Letitia James got more good news yesterday after a grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia, rejected indicting her over the revived mortgage fraud case. The initial case was tossed after U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled that Acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan had been unlawfully installed in her position and therefore lacked the legal authority to prosecute. Currie did not address the merits of the case against James, but it was a blow to the Trump administration, which could appeal the ruling. If they had been successful in obtaining a new indictment, it would have strengthened the legitimacy of their case against James in the eyes of the public. With this failure to indict, it’s also likely that former FBI Director James Comey, whose case was also tossed by Currie for the same reason, will not be re-indicted.

• Americans were lied to about Kirk: After TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, was captured and charged, it quickly became apparent both from his social media history and testimony from those who knew him that he held radical leftist views that motivated his actions. Despite this reality, a recent MRC poll found that just 24% of likely voters know that Kirk’s assassin was a radical leftist. The reason is likely twofold. First, the mainstream media intentionally avoided identifying Kirk’s killer as a leftist. Second, there has been a deranged effort by social media influencer Candace Owens to push outlandish conspiracy theories that call into question whether Robinson is actually Kirk’s killer. So, whether it’s coming from mainstream Leftmedia or a particular personality on the Right, there have been a lot of lies surrounding Kirk’s assassination.

• Trump’s border streak continues with best November numbers ever: Customs and Border Protection reported the best November numbers ever — just 30,367 encounters with unauthorized aliens. Border Patrol only apprehended around 7,350 illegal border crossers, and none of those were released into the country. Just 7,350 border crossers in the entire month of November is a staggeringly low figure compared to December 2023, when Biden’s Border Patrol was averaging 8,000 apprehensions per day. This is the 10th straight month in which fewer than 10,000 border jumpers were encountered, which CBP called an unmatched level of deterrence. Trump’s second term has recorded 117,105 apprehensions so far, fewer than the Biden administration’s monthly average. Illegal entry into the United States is quickly becoming a thing of the past.

• Duration of asylum work permits lowered: Donald Trump is serious about limiting unchecked immigration into the U.S. The immigration system was warped and twisted deliberately over decades, most egregiously by the Biden administration, so now Trump is tightening up all manner of immigration policy. Asylum seekers and applicants to other humanitarian programs used to be issued U.S. work permits valid for five years, which has now been slashed to just 18 months. This reversal of a Biden-era policy will allow the U.S. to vet and re-vet asylees and other immigrants more often, says Joe Edlow, director of USCIS. Edlow added: “All aliens must remember that working in the United States is a privilege, not a right.” The policy will go into effect today and, for now, will only apply to new work permits.

• Omar can’t explain fraud she enabled: “Uhhmmm, I think what happened, um, is that, you know, when you have these, kind of…” rambled Representative Ilhan Omar on the rampant Minnesota fraud perpetrated by Somalis in that state. Omar may have been so unprepared to answer because she never expected CNN’s Jake Tapper to ask her the obvious question: “Why [did] the fraud [get] so out of control in Minnesota?” Ilhan is herself a Somali immigrant, so she might’ve expected the question, especially since the new reports indicate that it was the bill she introduced, the 2020 MEALS Act, that led to $250 million intended to feed schoolchildren being pocketed by corrupt businessmen. One of those businessmen was Salim Ahmed Said, co-owner of Safari Restaurant, where Omar held her 2018 congressional victory party. Omar ended her rambling answer by reflecting blame onto her own bill: “The guardrails did not get created.”

• Ken Burns makes a correction: Ken Burns’s latest documentary, “The American Revolution,” includes several dubious woke-based narrative claims unsupported by the historical record. One of these “woke bombs” was so factually and historically inaccurate that Burns’s company, Florentine Films, issued a correction. Pushing a bogus sexism narrative, the documentary claimed that Revolutionary War heroine Margaret Corbin, who was famously wounded helping her fallen husband defend Fort Washington against the British in 1776, “would become the first woman to receive a lifetime disability pension, but at half the rate wounded men received.” The truth is that Corbin received exactly the same disability compensation as any disabled male soldier, which the 1780 Continental Congress set at “one-half of his monthly pay, from and after the time that his pay as an officer or a soldier ceases.” Florentine Films fixed the error for the master version that it will release to streaming services.

• NYT files lawsuit against the Pentagon over its restrictive press policies: The New York Times is suing the Pentagon over new press coverage rules, claiming, “If allowed to stand, that policy will upend the longstanding and ‘healthy adversarial tension between the government, which may seek to keep its secrets’ and ‘the press, which may endeavor to’ report them.” The filing asserts that the restrictions, effective since October, on reporter access violate the newspaper’s First and Fifth Amendment rights. Department of Defense officials are authorized to revoke credentials for “publishing stories that Pentagon leadership may perceive as unfavorable or unflattering,” the lawsuit states. Or to state the situation more fairly, the Pentagon can revoke credentials for publishing stories that are a threat to our national security.

• Job cuts hit 1.1M in 2025, highest since pandemic: The Challenger, Gray & Christmas consulting firm found that this year, companies have cut 1.1 million jobs. That is the highest number of jobs cut in a year since the 2020 COVID pandemic, and it’s only the sixth time in which more than one million jobs have been cut in a single year since 1993. According to the consulting firm, the two leading reasons behind these job cuts are Artificial Intelligence and economic factors tied to Donald Trump’s tariffs. In November, companies cited AI for 6,280 layoffs and cited tariffs for 2,061. Chief revenue officer for the consulting firm, Andy Challenger, observed, “Layoff plans fell last month, certainly a positive sign. That said, job cuts in November have risen above 70,000 only twice since 2008: in 2022 and in 2008.” The economy is shaping up to be the big issue in next year’s midterms.

Headlines

• DOJ sues six more blue states for hiding shady voter rolls from feds (PJ Media)

• Tim Walz promotes new Minnesota paid leave program open to illegal aliens (Washington Examiner)

• Mamdani to stop all homeless encampment sweeps in NYC (NY Post)

• Harvard Law prof who fired pellet gun near synagogue agrees to leave U.S. (NY Post)

• Americans made more than $1 billion in “Buy Now, Pay Later” purchases on Cyber Monday, and it only gets worse from there (Not the Bee)

• Netflix to buy Warner Bros. film and streaming assets in $72 billion deal (CNBC)

• Humor: Minnesota Vikings change name to Minnesota Somali Pirates (Babylon Bee)

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