Saturday Morning Notables! 11/22/2025 Qnotables 4am Talking Points Live

In this episode we break down the new push for a Ukraine–Russia peace deal on a Thanksgiving deadline, JD Vance’s red lines for any agreement, Moscow’s response, and the corruption cloud hanging over Zelensky’s top aide Andriy Yermak. We also look at former Austrian FM Karin Kneissl’s claim that EU energy policy is “illegal” under its own rules.

On the home front, we cover the Port of Los Angeles container ship fire, the shooting at the Concord, North Carolina Christmas tree lighting, and the shocking case of a convicted sex offender posing as a doctor inside an Arizona elementary school. We connect that to a wider struggle over power, law, and who really gets protected.

Then we turn to money and control: a historic global silver deficit, France–Niger uranium and electricity profits, and Minnesota welfare and food-aid fraud tied to allegations of funding Al-Shabaab. In the tech and media space, we dig into AI “mind-reading,” the funding behind the “Disinformation Dozen” campaign, the BBC’s credibility crisis, and a “Jmail” project that turns Jeffrey Epstein’s inbox into a public toy.

Finally, we zoom out to the culture war: Jonathan Haidt on liberal girls and mental health, Anthony Mackie on the “death of the American male,” Candace Owens versus the Macrons, and a human moment with movie night aboard the International Space Station.

Tell me in the comments: which part worries you most—war, money, or the fight over minds?