Thursday Evening 11/20/2025 Qnotables 4am Talking Points Live! 11/20/2025

In this stream we walk through 40 headlines that show where power is really moving behind the scenes.

We cover the widening Epstein network, including Trump calling Larry Summers “Epstein’s wingman,” Ron Wyden pushing JPMorgan over $1.2 billion in suspicious Epstein transactions, and new heat on Hakeem Jeffries for soliciting Epstein money years after his conviction. We look at big structural fights too: calls to abolish the Department of Education, Justice Gorsuch warning that a collapse in civics education is a “greatest danger,” Senator Mike Lee pushing a full gold-reserve audit, and California staring at another deep budget hole.

On the security and control side, we hit a Supreme Court ruling on the Alien Enemies Act, a federal judge blocking Trump’s National Guard deployment in D.C., ICE and state operations busting illegal truckers, an FBI reward for a global kingpin laundering tens of millions, and a “Skim Reaper” sweep pulling card skimmers off thousands of terminals. Overseas, we look at Putin’s visit to a forward command post, Netanyahu saying there will not be a Palestinian state even if it costs Saudi ties, Ukrainian leaks about a 28-point peace proposal, and a petrochemical blast in Venezuela.

We also dig into the civilian front: ADHD “drug cascades” for kids, RFK Jr. talking food allergies, England’s plan to genome-sequence every newborn, GLP-1 weight-loss drugs putting pressure on processed food, Minnesota’s welfare fraud scandal allegedly tied to Al-Shabaab, and an Australian residency scam industry insiders say they are ashamed of.

If you want the headlines laid out in one place, without corporate filters, this is your update.

Topics in this episode include:
Epstein networks, Summers, Wyden, Jeffries, and bank records
Ending the Department of Education and the shutdown “proof” argument
Alien Enemies Act, civics collapse, and constitutional lines
ICE sweeps, illegal truckers, Border and NC enforcement, Skim Reaper
Putin, Ukraine peace leaks, Netanyahu’s “no Palestinian state” line
Cheney funeral optics, Fauci, Maddow, and “sedition” rhetoric
ADHD meds, food allergies, GLP-1 drugs, and newborn genome projects
Minnesota fraud, Al-Shabaab, global money laundering and shell companies
Gold Reserve Transparency Act, Verizon layoffs, and the AI hype breakdown

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