🚨 Thieves – November 12 2025

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Lead: Supreme Court: No SNAP Payments During Shutdown

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The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration does not have to pay SNAP benefits during the government shutdown.

In a late-night order on Tuesday, the Court declined to intervene in a lower court dispute over whether the federal government must continue issuing food-assistance payments while agencies remain unfunded. The decision effectively allows the administration to suspend SNAP benefits until Congress restores funding.

Democratic lawmakers had argued that the administration has both the funds and the legal authority to keep the program running temporarily. The government countered that those appropriations have lapsed and that paying benefits without congressional authorization would violate federal spending laws.

This may not matter for long because the final executive measures to open the government are likely to happen on Wednesday, which will restore SNAP without fixing any of the obvious loopholes that have been exploited for years by SNAP recipients.

But it will matter if this becomes an issue again in February, when the government could easily shut down again now that the courts have decided the administration has no obligation to intervene.

The EU Builds Its Own Spy Agency

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While Americans realize how much damage the CIA has done to their lives and begin calling to abolish it, the European Union is saying: Ooh, let’s get one of those…

According to a report in the Financial Times, the European Commission under Ursula von der Leyen is creating a new intelligence unit inside the EU bureaucracy. It is basically a proto–CIA for Europe.

The office will reportedly pool intelligence from member-state spy agencies and coordinate analysis on foreign threats like Russia, China, and cyber warfare. Officials say the goal is to make the bloc less dependent on the United States for intelligence and more capable of responding to hybrid attacks on its own.

This new centralized spy hub would reportedly be managed by Ursula von der Leyen herself, an unelected bureaucrat who has faced multiple investigations for corruption and misuse of power during her tenure.

So let me get this straight. Europe, which spies on its own citizens, prosecutes speech, and wants to police their every cent of citizens’ spending, is going to use this power only for foreign intelligence? If you believe that, I’ve got a carbon credit to sell you.

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Epstein’s Israeli Spy Houseguest

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Newly revealed reports show that an Israeli intelligence officer was a frequent houseguest of the disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

According to Drop Site News, leaked emails and Epstein’s personal calendars show that Yoni Koren, a senior Israeli military-intelligence officer and former top aide to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, stayed in Epstein’s Manhattan apartment for extended periods in 2013, 2014 and 2015. That would be after Epstein had already been convicted and served prison time for trafficking young girls.

Koren’s visits to Epstein’s residence include two-week stays and even a ten-day stretch. During that time, Koren was still serving in or connected to Israel’s military-intelligence structures. The emails show wire-transfer instructions sent to Koren’s account via Barak, and curious errands involving hotel pickup packages and bank cards.

Koren, incidentally, had been tracked by the Obama administration as a person of interest. We learned that from Edward Snowden’s leaked information. So how did the U.S. government monitor this person in contact with known pedophile Epstein and what aren’t they telling us?

Do we still want to maintain that Epstein had no connections to Mossad or no international intelligence? Come on… How often are your houseguests Israeli spies that are tracked by U.S. intelligence?

Clearly there’s more to know but will we ever get to know it? Representative Thomas Massie’s Epstein Files Transparency Act is still stuck in Congress, despite his push for a discharge petition to force a vote. He says that a vote could happen on Wednesday.

The bill would require the Justice Department to release all unclassified Epstein-related records, but House leadership hasn’t budged. The longer it sits there, the clearer the message: someone doesn’t want those files out.

What’s Trending?

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iPhone Pocket is trending because Apple released these. They’re basically iPhone purses. They will go on sale on Friday and cost $149.95 for the shorter strap version and $229.95 for the longer strap version.

Toy Story 5 is trending because a trailer for the sequel was released on Tuesday. The film is due out next summer.

The Hongqi Bridge is trending because a newly constructed bridge in China’s Sichuan province collapsed Tuesday and the video is harrowing! There are no reported casualties or injuries because the flaws were discovered days before this happened thankfully.

News By The Numbers

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941,400. That is how many bottles of Costco Prosecco have been recalled because the “bottles can break or shatter.” Don’t people already know that?

900. That is how many Olive Garden restaurants there are in the U.S. and they will all be closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas.

15. That is how many babies have been treated for botulism from ByHeart baby formula, according to the FDA.

Mind Over Menopause: Hypnosis Works

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While the Trump administration is busy pushing hormone replacement therapy for menopause, a new study suggests you might not need Big Pharma at all. How about a little hypnosis?

A new randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Network Open found that self-administered hypnosis can significantly reduce hot flashes in postmenopausal women without hormones, prescriptions, or side effects.

Researchers studied 250 women who experienced frequent hot flashes. Those who listened to daily hypnosis audio sessions saw a 53% reduction in hot flash severity after six weeks, compared to 41% in the control group. By week twelve, that benefit grew to 61%, with participants also reporting fewer sleep disruptions and improved quality of life.

And no, this isn’t crystal ball witchcraft. Hypnosis in this study involved guided mental imagery that helps women place themselves outside the moment of discomfort, essentially training the brain to regulate its own response to heat and stress. I used something similar myself called hypnobirthing during natural childbirth, and I can tell you firsthand: it works.

So while the government’s busy rewriting the rules to make Pfizer and Novo Nordisk richer, science is quietly suggesting something radical: your brain might be the most powerful therapy you’ve got.

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