Republican support for Trump continues to splinter.

Trump and Hegseth may have crossed a line.

Bi-partisan support for investigations begins.

Last night, Senate Armed Services Committee chair Roger Wicker (R-MS) and the committee’s top Democrat, Jack Reed (D-RI), issued a statement: “The Committee is aware of recent news reports—and the Department of Defense’s initial response—regarding alleged follow-on strikes on suspected narcotics vessels in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. The Committee has directed inquiries to the Department, and we will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to these circumstances.”

One more thing.

How does Trump’s “full and complete pardon” of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández—convicted by a U.S. jury last year of conspiring to traffic cocaine into the United States—square with his claim that the killing of more than 80 fishermen in small boats off Venezuela’s coast since September is essential to his campaign to stop drug trafficking from South America?

Immigrants are the Trump target. A White Christian America is their goal.

Listen to Vance explain what Christians accomplished in the New World.

Next, Trump rants again on Thanksgiving, delivers more racism.

Here is historian Heather Cox Richardson’s description of Trump’s post above.

What followed was a screed that sounded like it was written by white nationalist Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, who is on a crusade to expel immigrants from the U.S. It was divided into two posts, with what seemed designed to be the second post published a minute before what looked like it was supposed to be the first.

In reverse order, then, the account claimed, falsely, that most immigrants are “from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels,” and that they are supported extravagantly by taxes paid by U.S. citizens. It blamed refugees for the nation’s “[f]ailed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits,” and used a slur to describe Minnesota governor Tim Walz, claiming he has done nothing to get rid of his state’s Somalian refugees.

The next post blamed immigration policy for eroding the U.S. standard of living, and announced a dramatic purge of immigrants from the country: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.”

The idea of stripping some of the country’s 24.5 million naturalized citizens of their citizenship changes the nature of what it means to be an American. As Faiza Patel and Margy O’Herron of the Brennan Center noted last month, from 1990 to 2017 only about 11 people a year lost their citizenship, usually for having hidden serious criminal activity or human rights violations in applying for citizenship. In contrast, observers today note that when Hitler came to power in 1933, the German government began to strip Jews, as well as Roma and political opponents, of their German citizenship, paving the way for the confiscation of their property, their rights, and eventually their lives.

Trump’s social media post went on: “These goals will be pursued with the aim of achieving a major reduction in illegal and disruptive populations, including those admitted through an unauthorized and illegal Autopen approval process. Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation. Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for—You won’t be here for long!”

The newest Trump trifecta.

1.More Trump lies.

About the shooter in DC.

About his own decline.

2. Trump “off the wall specials” continue.

3.Trump misogyny.

Trump tells one woman “quiet, piggy, and calls another “ugly.”

Here is a third.

What to expect in 2026.

Some places, women’s rights are being advanced.

Italy Passes a Femicide Law, Seeking to Prevent Violence Against Women.

Murders of women killed for misogynistic reasons will now be classified as femicide. Campaigners say a broader cultural shift is still needed.

It’s rare for Italian lawmakers from across the political spectrum to agree on anything. But on Tuesday, the lower house of Parliament unanimously ratified a law introducing the crime of femicide into Italy’s criminal code, punishable by life in prison.

From now on, the murders of women killed for misogynistic reasons in Italy will be defined as femicide.

The law’s proponents say the move, though largely symbolic, will make it easier to quantify and improve awareness about the scale of misogynistic violence in Italy. Of 73 women who were murdered in Italy in the first nine months of the year, more than half were killed by a former or current partner, according to the Interior Ministry.

As the votes were being tallied, members of the opposition jangled their house keys, a gesture honoring Giulia Cecchettin, a 22-year-old university student who was killed by her ex-boyfriend in November 2023.

Ms. Cecchettin’s violent death touched a nerve in Italy and amplified calls for a femicide law. Protests in her name often involved the jangling of house keys, a symbol of the fight against patriarchal violence, because, feminists say, in many cases, these crimes take place in a domestic context.

Filippo Turetta, Ms. Cecchettin’s ex-boyfriend, was convicted of her murder in 2024, and he is serving now a life sentence.

The new crime of femicide — which was adopted on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women — applies to murders where women are killed as an “act of hatred or discrimination,” or “an act of control or possession or domination.”

It also applies when a woman is killed because she wants out of a romantic relationship or in cases where there is an attempt to limit her “individual freedoms.”

After Cyprus, Malta and Croatia, Italy is now the fourth European Union country to have introduced a legal definition of femicide in its criminal code. According to the World Bank, France, Spain and Portugal also have laws that address femicide.

The femicide law was spearheaded by the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s conservative coalition. Its introduction “sends a strong message of social condemnation against this phenomenon,” said Giulia Bongiorno, a lawmaker from the League, a party in the governing coalition.

The law also sends a message to men who committed femicide that they would pay for the crime in full, Ms. Bongiorno said. “There’s no law that eliminates violence, but this is a good deterrent,” she said.

Critics say that the law does not go far enough. Deeply rooted chauvinistic attitudes in Italy have heightened the challenges of addressing violence against women — so campaigners say the law should be accompanied by better education about gender issues, as well as better training for prosecutors and law enforcement to deal with domestic abuse.

The government, they say, has not allocated the funds that would make such education and training possible. Frustrated by the law’s limitations, one national anti-violence network run by women’s organizations, D.i.Re, pulled its involvement in parliamentary hearings to discuss the bill.

“It’s important from a symbolic point of view that a law of this type has been passed,” and that it passed unanimously, said Laura Onofri Grisetti, the president of Se Non Ora Quando (If Not Now When) in Turin, a network of women’s rights committees.

“But then, as we’ve been saying for many years, laws are not enough if they are not supported by other tools,” she added.

“We come from an atavistic culture in which patriarchy exists, and we see it in many contexts of society,” handed down from generation to generation, Ms. Onofri said.

Groups like hers have been going into schools for years to promote “a culture of respect” toward women but such efforts were hardly entrenched in the national curricula, as they should be, she said.

Valeria Torre, a professor at the University of Foggia, said that only by giving women greater access to the labor market, offering working women greater support and reversing one of the most imbalanced gender wage gaps in Europe, can disparity be overcome. “Incarceration should be the last tool not the only one,” she said.

She also believed that the law would face legal challenges in court because the definition of what constitutes femicide was “too vague” and “hard to prove legally” while criminal law needs “very clear concepts.” (New York Times)

Robotaxis.

A friend told us that her daughter in San Francisco insists they use a Waymo whenever they take their grandchild across town—no Ubers, no city taxis, and no rental cars with either grandparent driving.

Waymo — the autonomous-vehicle company — just received its first permit to test self-driving cars in Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn.

There are legislative ways to go in New York and elsewhere, but expect driverless cars to soon be here.

Remember most crashes today are caused by human errors. Take a deep breath and look for driverless cars in the future.

Cars with drivers are less safe and so last century.

Robotaxis are spreading across the U.S.

Hailing a taxi in some parts of America comes with a growing chance that when the car arrives, no one will be behind the wheel.

Why it matters: Once the stuff of science fiction, robotaxis are now regularly plying the streets of Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco, and will be coming soon to at least a dozen more cities.

The big picture: A flurry of expansion announcements, mostly from Waymo, the industry's 800-pound gorilla, would lead you to believe robotaxis are everywhere.

In L.A., Phoenix and San Francisco, that might be true, but elsewhere in the U.S., robotaxis are still pretty much a novelty.

Uber customers in Atlanta or Austin can set their preferences for a robotaxi, for example, but the number of cars is limited, meaning they'll have a longer wait.
Where it stands: Alphabet-owned Waymo is driverless in five cities, with 15 more markets coming in 2026 and beyond.

Uber and Lyft are gradually adding robotaxis from Waymo and other partners to their ride-hail networks in select markets.

Tesla has small robotaxi fleets in Austin and San Francisco (with human safety monitors riding along), and Phoenix is likely next. CEO Elon Musk has big expansion plans, but the goalposts keep shifting.

Most other players, including Amazon's Zoox, Toyota-backed May Mobility, Hyundai-owned Motional and Uber-backed Nuro, are in various stages of testing.

What to watch: Waymo's expanding service areas now include airports in San Jose, Phoenix and, soon, San Francisco.

It's starting to offer high-speed freeway trips for some users in San Francisco, L.A. and Phoenix.

💭 Joann's thought bubble: A lot of people still have reservations about self-driving cars, but most who try them come away impressed.

My own excursion across L.A. in a Waymo earlier this year made me a convert.

I felt safer in the Waymo than I did in the back seat of an Uber weaving through traffic. Plus, I didn't have to make unwanted conversation!(Axios)

Enjoy the rest of your Thanksgiving weekend. See you on Tuesday.

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