🚨 Empty Silence – November 06 2025

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Lead: Trump Tries to Reclaim MAGA After a Bloody Night

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President Trump published several videos on Wednesday to proclaim that “our movement is far from over” and that “the best is yet to come.” It reads as an attempt to downplay Republican losses in this week’s elections and reclaim control of the MAGA movement.

Conservatives and independents made it clear this week that their 2024 support for Republicans came with demands and Republicans have NOT delivered. As Representative Thomas Massie put it, if Republicans want to stop losing, they should “quit covering for pedophiles, put America before Israel, put farmers before corporations, quit funding wars abroad, reduce spending to control inflation, quit attacking independent voices.”

The Trump administration is not likely to do any of those things. That much is clear from the first few seconds of this video, which shows President Trump walking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Maybe that explains why some are saying his approval is down 50% among 18–29-year-olds since the start of 2025, although we couldn’t find the source beyond Nick Fuentes.

It’s starting to feel like the pro-Israel lobby no longer enjoys a free ride in the Republican Party and this week’s elections proved it. If President Trump can’t break with this group, he risks losing his leadership of the MAGA movement.

Will someone else step in or will something new be born from the vacuum? Rumor has it that Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene may be eying a run for President in 2028 and we’d definitely be here for that.

Shutdown Takes Off—Flights Don’t

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The FAA will slash 10% of all flights in 40 major cities starting Friday due to the government shutdown. This will amount to approximately 44,000 flights per day just before the holiday season. Bah humbug!

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy says the move is “proactive.” There’s a shortage of air traffic controllers, and the few who are still working haven’t been paid since October 1.

Proactive, of course, is one way to describe grounding the country’s travel industry before Thanksgiving. Another might be: inevitable. You can only expect so many people to guide metal tubes through the sky on empty stomachs and IOUs before something gives.

If the shutdown isn’t resolved soon, expect cascading delays, cancellations, and finger-pointing. Congress may be comfortable flying private, but the rest of America is about to spend the holidays grounded and increasingly pissed off.

Got an old car collecting dust? Turn it into something good.

The Politics of Silence

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The English Premier League will stop holding moments of silence to honor global events.

The league held a “working group” and the group agreed that these gestures were “becoming too commonplace but also inconsistent.”

Some events that the League has held silence for in recent years include: earthquakes in Morocco, flooding in Libya, October 7, the Russian military operation in Ukraine, the terror attack at the Manchester Synagogue, and more.

The Telegraph reports that “tensions caused by protests around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have undoubtedly been a factor in football receiving clearer guidance.”

Now I get it!

Some warm-blooded players probably wanted to honor the dead Palestinians and since global powers can’t let that happen, they’ll just stop honoring everything altogether. Got it.

That tells us what we need to know about these gestures: they’re made to manipulate you and in so doing, they honor nothing.

Red card. Eject!

News By The Numbers

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83. That is how many years Lyle and Eleanor Gittens have been married. They were awarded the title of world’s oldest married couple by Guinness World Records on Wednesday. They were married in 1941.

41%. That is how many Americans say that “Israel has too much influence over U.S. policy, and view accusations of anti-Semitism as an effort to stifle opposition,” according to a new Rasmussen poll.

14%. That is how much DoorDash stock was down on Wednesday due to disappointing Q3 earnings.

Amazon Picks a Fight With Your AI Shopper

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Amazon is suing Perplexity.AI because its new Comet browser can use AI to make purchases on behalf of its users. Why does Amazon care if you have an AI bot do your shopping? Because Amazon can’t control or harvest your data, that’s why.

This is an important consumer-rights case. The crux of it is whether you have the right to delegate your online actions to an AI agent or whether the Amazon platform owns every click you make inside its walled garden.

Amazon argues that Perplexity’s browser violates its Terms of Service by accessing customer accounts through automation, calling it “unauthorized activity” that threatens security and data integrity. It also threatens their ability to upsell and track you!

Perplexity says the opposite: users willingly give consent, the agent acts only on their behalf, and Amazon is trying to outlaw digital competition to protect its advertising monopoly.

Either way, this could define the future of how we interact with the internet—whether you can have your own AI shopper, researcher, or broker working for you, or whether every task you perform online must still be mediated by corporate gatekeepers.

We should note that Perplexity is a Redacted sponsor but given the stick-it-to-the-man nature of this case, we’d support them anyway. If I want AI to do my shopping, no one should get to tell me that I can’t!

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