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

In this report we cover a wave of breaking stories the corporate press would rather blur together or bury. We start with the Supreme Court strengthening deportation powers, backing the Texas redistricting map, and calling Florida’s COVID beach shutdowns a “physical taking.” We look at stepped-up ICE and border operations, new U.S. sanctions hitting Iran’s energy trade, Iranian naval activity near Bandar Abbas, and a major UK warning about a massive Chinese espionage campaign targeting thousands.
We dig into the global fight over Ukraine: a peace framework many say would leave Russia the “absolute winner,” new strikes inside Russian regions, and growing corruption probes that threaten Zelensky’s polished image. At home and abroad, we hit the MAGA fracture inside the GOP, DOJ chatter about Adam Schiff, street chaos in Chicago, and Brazil’s former president Bolsonaro being taken into custody. We also examine claims about Epstein’s financial networks, Candace Owens’ allegation of an assassination plot tied to Macron, BBC bias and complaints from parents, and George Soros being honored with a European civil rights prize.
Finally, we zoom out to the culture war and the psyche of the West: Jonathan Haidt’s warning that liberal girls are being trapped in disempowering narratives, J.D. Vance calling a Ukrainian “victory” a fantasy, and a State Department line that mass migration is an “existential threat” to Western civilization. Drop a comment: which story shows the real state of our civilization right now—the courts, the borders, the foreign wars, or the battle for minds?