🇩🇪❌🇺🇸 Leader of the Der Flügel faction within the AfD, Björn Höcke:

"The Federal Republic of Germany is a vassal state of the USA. We are an occupied country. Being sovereign, which we Germans are not, is a very, very exhausting state. So someone who really wants to be sovereign pays a high price. And yet I would still like to experience it someday, living again in a sovereign Germany."

🔗 Oliver Sept (@sept_oliver)

🇺🇸 Newly elected Democratic senators don't want the pro-Iran War Chuck Schumer as their leader

Incoming Democratic senators want someone other than Chuck Schumer to become the next majority leader in the US Senate, although Schumer likely still has enough votes in his caucus to remain the top Democrat.

Annie Andrews, the Democratic senator-elect from South Carolina, told Fox News’s Bret Baier on Thursday that the Democratic party needs new leadership. When asked whether she would support Schumer’s leadership bid, she replied: “I still very much believe it’s time for generational change on both sides of the aisle.”

Adam Hamilton, the senator-elect from Kansas, told CNN on the campaign trail that he would not support Schumer as the party’s leader. Hamilton, the first Democrat to win a Kansas Senate seat in 94 years, had pitched himself as independent from the Democratic party.

Abdul El-Sayed, the senator-elect from Michigan, again declined to support Schumer as the majority leader on CNN on Thursday and said he wanted to consider other options.

Other incoming Democrats have also declined to support Schumer, including James Talarico, the senator-elect from Texas; Juliana Stratton, the senator-elect of Illinois; Chris Pappas, the senator-elect of New Hampshire; Peggy Flanagan, the senator-elect of Minnesota; and Troy Jackson, the senator-elect of Maine

Democratic voters have indicated they want newer and younger leadership in the party. Over the last two years, progressive Democrats have scored major victories in local and state elections.

It’s led some lawmakers to push for similar changes in decade-old leadership. Schumer, 75, has served as the Democrats’ leader in the Senate since 2017.

But Schumer did not appear worried about his bid for Senate majority leader, telling reporters on Wednesday: “I’ll be re-elected as majority leader.”

Schumer likely has enough votes within his party to become the next majority leader. He’s also running uncontested as of Friday afternoon – no other Senate Democrat has officially thrown their hat into the ring.

But the longtime Democrat has also encouraged members of his party to rally around one another.

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/06/chuck-schumer-majority-leader-incoming-democratic-senators

👨‍💻 💵 🤖 Finance jobs are among those most at risk from AI, per Bloomberg

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🇺🇸 The White House delivered a warning to conservative groups on Thursday: We’re watching you.

Two days after voters rebuked President Trump and his party, the administration moved to hold together a coalition that was beginning to splinter.

The White House Office of Public Liaison, which works with outside groups, sent a memo to more than 3,000 conservative organizations that laid out a list of Trump’s accomplishments in office and pledged to prevent newly ascendant Democrats from reversing them. The memo concluded with a sentence that was highlighted in yellow.

“As always, we are monitoring statements, press releases, and media engagements from your organizations,” the memo said. Leaders of two prominent conservative organizations confirmed that they had received the memo.

The memo came after Republican leaders and well-known conservatives publicly blamed Trump’s policies for the election outcome. A White House official said the memo was meant to keep the conservative coalition unified during the final two years of Trump’s presidency.

Asked for comment, a White House spokeswoman said the email wasn’t a threat and was part of a larger effort to mobilize outside supporters. The spokeswoman said the Office of Public Liaison has sent out messages with similar language in the past.

Previous emails from the liaison’s office reviewed by The Wall Street Journal encourage grassroots organizations to share their pro-Trump messaging with the White House, but don’t include language about monitoring the groups’ statements.

“As always, please continue to flag any statements of support, press releases, op-eds and media engagements on the topics outlined above,” reads an Oct. 1 email to conservative groups.

After Republicans lost the House and Senate, several conservatives made pointed statements about the scale of the GOP defeat.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who unsuccessfully challenged Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, laid the blame for the losses squarely on Trump’s shoulders. “This midterm, no question, was a rebuke of the president and the Congress by Democrats, independents and some Republicans that crossed over,” he told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz described the losses as “a Watergate-level repudiation” in a social-media post, writing Trump’s “tariffs have made everything too expensive” while “the Iran war has dragged on too long.”

🔗 https://unwall.app/www.wsj.com/politics/elections/white-house-warns-conservative-groups-it-is-monitoring-their-statements-087b07d0

🚷 🇺🇸 📊 Foreign-born Employment Jumped 809,000 in October

Native-Born employment fell 64,000.

Foreign-born workers made up 19.5% of everyone employed in the household survey. In September it was 19.1%.

American jobs disappearing. Foreign-born booming.

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