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📦 Amazon workers went on strike over failed labor negotiations so beware your Christmas deliveries!
🧠A teenage girl says that she suffered a traumatic brain injury and lost her peripheral vision when she was hit by a volleyball spiked by a trans-identified male playing on her high school girls team.
đź’€ Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has agreed to extradition to New York to face murder charges.
đź’° The Senate passed the 2025 National Defense budget, which has a price tag of $895 billion. It already passed the House so now it will head to the President’s desk and he is expected to sign it.
🌀 At least 45 deaths have been reported from Cyclone Chido in Mozambique.
🇷🇺 Russian President Putin says that he will meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky if Zelensky actually wins an election in Ukraine. Zelensky canceled elections to keep himself in power last year. President Putin also said he will meet with President-elect Trump any time because Trump did just win an election.
đź“ş Join us live for Redacted starting today at 4 PM EST we have lots to talk about.
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*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 5:00pm AM.
Lead: Budget Bounced Check
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The proposed spending package that would keep federal agencies funded through March 14 was killed on Wednesday after mostly Republican lawmakers rejected it for being so stuffed with nonsense.
Many say that Elon Musk had a hand in tanking it but his influence is certainly debatable. Senator Rand Paul says that Musk should be elected the House Speaker since there is no law that mandates the Speaker be a member of Congress.
Beyond Musk’s barage of X posts, several members of Congress were a hard no for many other valid reasons. Oddly few found spoke out against a provision to report on any company that tries to boycott Israel even though it is your constitutional right to boycott whoever the hell you want.
President-elect Trump also spoke out against it and demanded that Republicans put forth a “clean Continuing Resolution without all of the Democrat ‘bells and whistles.'”
So what now? The debt ceiling will be reached on Saturday if nothing happens so House Republicans need to scramble together a new bill. Democrats say that they will oppose it if it scraps any of their “bipartisan” wishes but didn’t say exactly what those things were.
They knew this was looming for months. They deserve coal in their stockings.
Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis will no longer be able to prosecute President-elect Trump for his election interference case in Georgia. The case will go forward, although how it will fare without her is a major question mark.
An appeals court ruled to disqualify Willis because she had a romantic relationship with her special prosecutor Nathan Wade. The President-elect’s team had fought a ruling that allowed her to stay on the case if Wade resigned and so do other co-defendants.
The ruling scolds Willis for the “unprofessional manner” during hearings but it does not go so far as to sanction her. She can appeal this decision to reclaim the case, which would delay the case even further. If she doesn’t, the case will fall to a new prosecutor who will have to decide whether or not to pursue the case. The case could fall away for the President-elect but the fate of the 14 other defendants is also uncertain.
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Biden’s Decline Is a Surprise To The Press
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The Wall Street Journal published a damning report about President Biden’s mental decline going back to the 2020 campaign! Why are they acknowledging this now after letting Democrats lie about it for four years!?
The WSJ spoke to over 50 people who acknowledge that the President has severe physical and mental limitations but say that he still kept the Democratic agenda on track.
“Presidents always have gatekeepers. But in Biden’s case, the walls around him were higher and the controls greater,” the WSJ reports. They say that “the ‘hand holding’ is unlike anything other recent presidents have had.” They say that this “insulated him from the scrutiny of the American public.”
No it didn’t. His decline has been obvious to anyone who can observe anything at all ever.
Aides say that they had to reschedule meetings because the President had “good days and bad days” and couldn’t take meetings on bad days. Some officials said “it often didn’t seem like Biden had his finger on the pulse.” The WSJ also reports that his team hired a vocal coach to “improve the president’s fading warble.”
This is a story that we were owed months if not years ago and Kamala Harris should have had to answer for it on the campaign trial. It’s a shame that we get it only when it costs Democrats nothing to admit it.
Karate Kid is trending because the trailer for the next film was released. “Karate Kid: Legends” stars Ralph Macchio, Jackie Chan and Bank Wang. It is due out in May of 2025 and the boys in this house are stoked.
Superman is trending because DC released a new trailer for the upcoming film due out in July of 2025. I was holding back until I saw Crypto! Now I’m in!
This video is trending of people at a Chicago airport fighting with Wet Floor signs.
News By The Numbers
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$10 million. That is how much Somali pirates are reportedly demanding for the return of a Chinese fishing vessel that they seized in late November. More than 18 crew members are on board.
200 points. That is how much the Dow Jones rebounded after a nosedive on Wednesday.
3.1%. That is how much the U.S. economy grew in the third quarter of this year, up from 3% in the second quarter.
Bird Flu “Emergency”
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California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a State of Emergency over bird flu. The State of Emergency applies to humans but no humans in California have been diagnosed with bird flu. Cows in California were diagnosed with bird flu.
One human in Louisiana was reportedly diagnosed with H5N1 Bird Flu. That person is 65 years old with underlying health conditions and is currently hospitalized and in critical condition. The CDC says that the “patient had exposure to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks” and that “no person-to-person spread of H5 bird flu has been detected.”
They go on to say that the “CDC’s overall assessment of the immediate risk to the public’s health from H5N1 bird flu… remains low.”
So Gavin Newsom, does “low risk” necessitate a “state of emergency”?
Doctors are warning of a ‘quad-demic’ of viral illnesses this winter. They say that this quad of viruses will include Covid, the flu, RSV and norovirus. Bird flu is not listed.
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