SHOCK TREATMENT: In a political shocker Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the Trumpiest of MAGA supporters in Congress, announced that she will resign in January rather than face the ire of the President following their political split over release of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation records and maintaining affordable healthcare insurance.

  Greene said she was incensed that Speaker Mike Johnson kept the House on hiatus for 54 days this fall while Republicans and Democrats battled over in the Senate about federal funding. “I raged against my own speaker and my own party for refusing to proactively work diligently to pass the plan to save Americans health care and protect Americans from outrageous, overpriced and unaffordable health insurance policies,” Greene said. “The House should have been in session, working every day to fix this disaster, but instead, America was force-fed disgusting political drama.”

  Moments after Greene made her announcement, President Trump told ABC News reporter Rachel Scott in a telephone interview that Greene’s resignation is “great news for the country.”

  Trump puts a positive spin on every bad development, but this is a major crack in the MAGA wall. He called Greene a “traitor” when she opposed him calling for release of the files on sex trafficker Epstein. She stepped over a Trump line when she called for Congress to fix healthcare. The President threatened to “primary” Republican candidates against her in 2026.

  Greene said last night that she loves her district too much to endure “a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president that we all fought for.” She said that she has faced “nonstop, never-ending personal attacks, death threats, lawfare, ridiculous slander and lies” throughout her career in Congress, which she joined in 2021.

  She predicted that Republicans will lose the mid-term elections in 2026. 

LOWER TEMPERATURES: After labelling the man a communist and despot, President Trump yesterday met with New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and came away saying, “I feel very confident that he can do a good job,” and that, “I think he is going to surprise some conservative people actually.”

  At least yesterday, the two backed away from their mutual antagonism. Mamdani when he was running said Trump was a threat to Democracy. “We agree on a lot more than I would have thought,”  Trump said. 

  The agreement might be about the cost of living and efforts to reduce or control it. Mamdani ran on specific proposals to make life easier for lower income New Yorkers. Trump ran for president on lowering the cost of living and so far has only succeeded in raising it. It might suit him to make an ally of Mamdani. And Mamdani has reason to be friendly with the president Trump who has threatened to send the National Guard into New York and deny billions of dollars in federal funding.

DRAWING LINES: The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court finding that the  Texas 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Trump likely discriminates on the basis of race. The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito remains in place while the court considers whether to allow the new map favorable to Republicans to be used in the midterm elections.

THE WAR ROOM: With setbacks on the battlefield and the eruption of a corruption scandal, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky now faces a critical decision for the future of his country as he considers  the new peace plan spawned by United States.

  The 28-point proposal favors Russia, requiring Ukraine to give up conquered territory and reduce the size of its postwar army by 30 percent while offering financial and geopolitical incentives to Moscow. Ukraine has previously rejected many of these conditions, but now the Trump administration is pushing for a response by next week.

  Speaking to his country yesterday, Zelensky suggested that he could lose the US as an ally if he does not acquiesce. He suggested that the US had threatened to withhold the assistance it still provides, reduced mostly to limited intelligence sharing.

  “Now is one of the most difficult moments in our history,” Zelensky said in his speech. “Now Ukraine may face a very difficult choice: either loss of dignity or the risk of losing a key partner.

THE REGIME:

— The average of dozens of polls watched by The NY Times says 56 percent of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s handling of his job and 41 percent approve.

— A professor at Drexel University tells the NY Times that the Environmental Protection Agency abruptly and without reason cancelled funding for her study on the relationships between heat, pollution and children’s health in New York State.

  “There was no warning, no conversation,” said Jane Clougherty, an environmental health scientist. She said that, , “Our early results showed that days with high air pollution and extreme temperatures did have more child emergency department visits.”

  Clougherty said, “We appealed the cancellation and got a response stating that the project wasn’t within the scope of the current EPA.

  The current EPA under President Trump is no longer in the business of protecting the environment or studying the effects of pollution, global warming, and climate change. President Trump says climate change is “a hoax.”

— President Trump said last night that he’s “immediately” terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota, 

THE SPIN RACK: A major emergency was declared last night at the Port of Los Angeles as firefighters fought a massive electrical fire on a cargo ship. — The first home has been rebuilt on the scorched earth of the Pacific Palisades fire that burned hundreds of houses.

BELOW THE FOLD: A nearly pristine copy of the Superman number one comic book issued in 1939, found in their mother’s attic in a stash of old comic books by three brothers in Northern California, sold at auction for nine million dollars.

  The previous record for that issue was $6 million. The news stand price in 1939 was ten cents. 

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