[FT] Nancy Pelosi, the first female Speaker of the House and a titan of Democratic party politics, will not seek re-election to Congress, ending nearly four decades of public service.
Pelosi, 85, announced her retirement in a video posted to social media on Thursday.
The former Speaker, who has long been seen as among the most influential members of the Democratic party, said she will remain in Congress for one more year.
But she added that she will not seek another two-year term in next year’s midterm elections.
The congresswoman was first elected to represent San Francisco in the US House of Representatives in 1987. She was Speaker of the House from 2007 until 2011, and again from 2019 to 2023.
Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi's decision to withdraw from her run for Congress is a major event for the country. US President Donald Trump stated this on Fox News on November 6.
Pelosi previously announced that she would not run for another term in the US Congress. This would make 2026 her final year in office.
"Nancy Pelosi's departure is a great thing for America," Trump said.
He also called her evil and corrupt. Furthermore, according to the White House chief, Pelosi only focuses on the bad things for the country.
Pelosi is a key figure in the Democratic Party and a prominent opponent of Trump. During the Republican's first term, she chaired the lower house of the US Congress.
In October, Trump reposted a video posted by US Vice President J.D. Vance on the Bluesky platform. The AI-generated video depicts the American leader in royal robes, wielding a sword. In the final scene, figures resembling Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer kneel before him.
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Retire no.
She'll just not seek elected office.
She has seen how Obama/Clinton and others do it, and will try to control things from behind the scenes and rake in $$$$$$$$$$ that does not fall under Oversight spying eyes.
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^^ Seconded
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A quarter of a billion dollars obtained from a career of "public service" and a stock.real estate portfolio benefiting from insider awareness and "acumen" in investment choices. Even the most partisan leftist has to privately raise an eyebrow at least!
[NYPOST] While Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has gotten the lion's share of the media attention these last several weeks, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg quietly sailed through his reelection bid, securing more than 70% of the vote.
Bragg's win reflects a bucking of what some might have been tempted to call a national trend of so-called ''progressive'' prosecutors around the country being made to suffer the electoral consequences of going soft on crime.
Recent examples include LA's George Gascon, Oakland's Pamela Price, San Francisco's Chesa Boudin, and Athens, Ga.'s Deborah Gonzalez, defeated in the wake of Laken Riley's murder.
Bragg has drawn an enormous amount of criticism since first taking office — largely in response to his infamous ''Day One'' memo outlining his vision for prosecuting (and not prosecuting) criminals in Manhattan.
Yet his 2025 vote total was more than three times the share secured by his closest challenger, Maud Maron, who received just 20% of the votes cast.
The question is: Why? And the answer is relatively simple.
Alvin Bragg's radicalism was overshadowed by misguided state-level reforms — and an even more insane mayoral candidate leading the ticket.
Bragg was able to effectively deflect when confronted with concerns about public safety by pointing to some of the more misguided criminal justice reforms enacted by Albany Democrats prior to his taking office — particularly the state's 2020 discovery reform, which Bragg sharply and repeatedly critiqued.
Between that, the 2020 bail reform, the 2018 juvenile justice reform, and the 2021 parole reform, Bragg had plenty of scapegoats to point to if ever he was accused of doing too little enforcement.
And the truth is, even had he wanted to be a true law-and-order DA, the reforms enacted in Albany would have prevented him from doing so effectively.
New mayor of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Dan Gookin: “"Christian conservatives are mindless, cult-member morons. They are white, racist supremacists. They can fuck themselves and go to hell.” pic.twitter.com/eyvFgsE8uU
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'Cult members' have closed minds much like the Mayor demonstrates. Strange that the "white, racist supremacists" were the ones who started in the nineteenth century to end slavery across the world. Meanwhile the godless socialists spend pretty much of the twentieth century expanding slavery across the world.
[X] How many do double duty as Black Bloc cadres, or are they all just getting paid by the usual Progressive NGOs to cosplay protesters? Also note that the camera never pulls back far enough to see whether there are as many as two dozen in the crowd, while the chant covers all the current hot buttons: ICE, trans, Gaza “genocide”, “war on science” (climate change), deportations, etc.
D.C. (Nov. 5) — Leftist protesters marched in the communist-organized "Refuse Fascism" direct action in the capital. pic.twitter.com/8IXevTBgyt
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I tried reading the Handmaids but I didn't get very far. It was like the old saying: That plot had so many holes you could drive a truck through it.
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It was explained to me that the story is in the 'submissive "thirst" fantasy' genre, like 50 Shades, which so many unhappy middle age white women get into. If looked at like that, coherent plot and story line isn't important; setting up scenes which trigger that thirst is all that matters.
Which makes a funny, as those are leather dog costumes for AWFLs.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
