Beware falling iguanas in Florida! The cold front in the Southeast has caused iguanas to pass out and fall from their trees. Professionals say to leave them alone because they’ll be fine when the weather warms back up.
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🇯🇵 A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit southwestern Japan, triggering coastal tsunami warnings on Monday.
🇲🇽 Hundreds of tourists were evacuated from Puerto Vallarta on Sunday morning due to a 6.2-magnitude earthquake.
🇺🇦 President Biden says that a $500 million weapons package to Ukraine is the last of his presidency. He was set to meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky last week but canceled the meeting due to the Los Angeles fires.
🤣 Harry and Meghan released a statement saying that they are “deeply” concerned that Meta will no longer fact check. Okay.
💫 A “once-in-a-lifetime” comet will be visible today in some places. Researchers call it the “sun-skirter.”
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Lead: Arson in Los Angeles
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California cannot deport the man who was arrested for setting fires in Los Angeles, even though he is reportedly an illegal immigrant.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) identified the man as Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva, a Mexican national who is in the United States illegally. He was tackled by Southern Californian residents as he was trying to start fires with a blowtorch last week. Arson has been a problem as criminals try to expand fires for more burglary opportunities.
Sierra-Leyva is being held on a felony probation violation but since California is a sanctuary state, ICE told Fox News that they don’t expect to detain him for long. According to The New York Post, “The Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed an ordinance in November that prohibits the use of city resources and personnel to carry out federal immigration enforcement.”
The suspect will appear in court today but Los Angeles Police Department Divisional Chief Dominic Choi told The Daily Wirethat they don’t have enough evidence and probably cause to charge him with arson, despite VIDEO of him holding the blowtorch.
Can California’s liberal policies fail any harder in full view?
Who is Under Fire?
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The wealthiest Los Angeles residents have reportedly hired private fire fighters to protect their homes at a rate of $2,000 per hour because their city cannot be relied upon. This is what it has come to for the most privileged.
Private firefighting companies exist to help state and local governments but also take “on call” services too. They have their own “water supplies, trucks, hoses, fire-quenching chemicals, and other industrial-grade equipment.”
The question is: Why doesn’t Los Angeles have those things too? California officials say that they will look into the reasons that the Santa Ynez Reservoir had been empty for months, leaving them without 117 million gallons of water that they sure did need to fight these historic fires.
Governor Gavin Newsom said that all reservoirs were full but NBC reporter Jacob Soboroff called him out on that lie.
“That’s exactly what triggered my desire to get the investigation to understand what was happening with that local reservoir,” Newsom replied.
Los Angeles officials held a press conference on Sunday and were asked repeatedly if they were worried about an incoming Trump administration. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said that she wasn’t worried about it and had positive calls with the President-elect but the press kept pushing to root out drama.
The mayor tried to assure residents that they would be focused on rebuilding once the fires were put out.
“We need to cut through the red tape that has always been a problem…to get the rebuilding process started.” Mayor Bass said.
She is taking new heat from The New York Times because she had promised not to travel abroad if she was elected mayor but of course she was caught breaking that promise last week while on a trip to Ghana when the fires broke out.
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Trump’s Felonies
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President-elect Trump was sentenced in the trial involving his payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels meaning that he was convicted of felonies but will not serve jail time or pay any fines.
The case ends there for prosecutors and the judge unless President Trump appeals, and we should hope that he does so that none of us are ever convicted without knowing the crime, a clear Sixth Amendment violation.
The president-elect was prosecuted for concealing a crime but was never notified what that exact crime was during his prosecution. His lawyers asked the prosecutors for a Bill of Particulars and the judge denied that request. It wasn’t until the day before the trial that the prosecution landed on a crime and that was problematic, according to constitutional scholar Professor Jed Rubenfeld because the jury did not even really have to agree on that second crime.
The case was full of irregularities such as a judge who had a personal conflict and a clear case of selective prosecution given that Hillary Clinton made a similar bookkeeping entry for the Steele Dossier but was never charged.
This is not a partisan take. It is a constitutional take. And yet the jury convicted and the judge sentenced.
President Trump’s legal team relied on Presidential immunity to stop this sentencing, and the Supreme Court denied to stop it late last week and not the 6th Amendment violation. Many were surprised that Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the liberal justices to deny his request to halt sentencing.
So will President Trump leave it there? If he doesn’t appeal, there are certain civil liberties he would be denied such as owning a gun or traveling to some countries.
939. That is how many incarcerated men and women have reportedly volunteered to help fight the Los Angeles fires. This is part of a volunteer program run by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). They do get paid but not as much as the professionals that they fight alongside. Also, how can we be sure that this is voluntary?
400 million. That is how many people are expected to participate in the 45-day Maha Kumbh Mela festival in India this week, which is reported to be the “largest gathering of humanity.”
What’s Trending?
The book “Inner Excellence” by Jim Murphy is trending because Philadelphia Eagles player A.J. Brown was filmed reading it on Sunday at the playoff game. He says that he brings it to every game “to refocus and lock in despite what may transpire in the game good or bad” but this was the first time he was caught by the cameras.
Khabib Nurmagomedov is trending. He is a Russian mixed martial arts fighter. He was escorted off of a Frontier Airlines flight because someone was “not comfortable” with him “sitting in the exit row.” Many online are speculating that he was targeted because he is either Russian or Muslim but the flight attendant doesn’t say specifically why others are “not comfortable” with him in the video.
Rory Sykes is trending because he died in one of the Los Angeles fires, according to his mother. He was a child actor in the U.K. His mother says that he died in a cottage on the family property but the post is…strange. It is full of product placement and in the post about her son dying, she mentions that he died in his cottage which was “decked out with all the latest apple gadgets,” and that she tried to put the fire out but there was no water in her hose. She told Australia’s 10 News First that he told her to leave him there so she did because she had a broken arm. Huh…
Candace Owens says that she has been threatened with litigation by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron because she has evidence that the First Lady is a biological man who raped President Macron when he was 15 years old.
This post has over 12 million views on X and Owens’ name has been trending all weekend in France. She says that the Macrons are trying to get X banned in France to prevent the release of damning evidence about the Macrons.
“It is my belief that the Macrons somehow became aware that we are weeks away from releasing an explosive piece about Brigitte Macron,” she says.
She claims that a French reporter has given her evidence about the Macrons and that her planned expose was for the end of January and it will still be published.
The letter is full of more oddities such as the assertion that the President’s relationship with his wife when he was 15 was legal, even though it would not have been, if true. She was in her 30s and his teacher when they met. The age revelation is enough to bring up questions that should have been asked a long time ago, whether or not the First Lady is a man.
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This newsletter is written and researched by Natali Morris. Please feel free to reach Natali at [email protected] for any editorial feedback.
