Disappearing Data; Presidential Death Threats November 21, 2025 Catherine Rampell at the Bulwark: In 1937, Olimpiy Kvitkin, a statistician, was executed by firing squad. His crime? Producing inconvenient census numbers, which showed the Soviet Union contained about 6 million fewer residents than Joseph Stalin had claimed, probably because of that teensy-tiny famine the country had just been through. Oops. We’re (thankfully) not at that penal stage yet. She details “Trump’s Trick for Eliminating Bad News.” (Spoiler alert: Just delete it.) Senator Elissa Slotkin: Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging. Here is my response [80 seconds]. Senator Chris Murphy: The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. This is not normal. We cannot allow this to feel normal. . . . Let this really sink in: The President of the United States just called for members of Congress to be executed. . . . [He] is engaged in the wholesale incitement, endorsement and rationalization of political violence in this country. . . . This is a moment for people to step up, for Republicans to step up, for business leaders to step up. Anybody who has a voice or a soapbox in this country needs to draw a line in the sand and say that it is not acceptable for the president of the United States to call for the murder of his political opposition. Trump Launches a $10 B Spying Operation Targeting American Liberals, Classifying Some As Pre-Terrorist. (Here’s the September 25 presidential decree that story refers to.) CNF CNF is holding an Extraordinary General Meeting December 10 to vote on a proposal by management to issue them a new class of shares effectively handing them complete control over governance. I’m voting NO.