Saturday Evening 11/15/2025 Qnotables 4am Talking Points Live!

Former Fed officials breaking ethics rules, new Epstein links in Congress, and street protests breaching Mexico’s National Palace set the tone for this rundown. We hit Thomas Massie’s China votes, new Amelia Earhart records, the emerging “Epstein funded Bitcoin” narrative, and a U.S. subcritical nuclear test in Nevada. In Europe, questions swirl around von der Leyen’s hidden Pfizer texts, while Ukraine’s corruption scandal deepens and gold crushes Bitcoin as 2025’s top asset.

On the domestic front, we cover New Jersey’s push to force DEI content into homeschooling, expanding facial-recognition vans in the UK, and a major design flaw in the Tor network. We update you on Iran’s tanker seizure, a thwarted Ukrainian plot in Russia, Israeli settlers torching a West Bank mosque, and a deadly blast on the India–Pakistan border. There are new concerns over a bird-flu strain not seen before in humans, plus SpaceX’s record-setting dual launch and the Space Force’s “Vector 2025” roadmap.

We also track VP Vance’s motorcade crash and John Fetterman’s recovery, Trump’s war with the BBC and break with Marjorie Taylor Greene, Taiwan’s latest U.S. arms package, and Melania Trump’s “Fostering the Future” initiative. Finally, we look at Rep. Luna’s bill to repeal the Patriot Act, fresh declass fights over “Obamagate” and the Russia probe, and growing skepticism of Wikipedia’s neutrality straight from Jimmy Wales himself.