In China, mannequins are losing their jobs to humans. One retail store hired models to wear the clothes while walking on treadmills to help customers see how the clothes fit and move on a real person.
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📈 Inflation rose in the U.S. by 2.6% in October, up from 2.4% in September. Core prices, which exclude food and energy items, were up 3.3%.
🐿️ Peanut the Squirrel and Fred the Raccoon did NOT have rabies, according to the state’s reports, but the state of New York put them to death anyway.
📺 Oprah Winfrey says that reports that she was paid $1 million to endorse Kamala Harris are “not true” but SEC filings show that her production company was paid two payments of $500,000.
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A man was arrested on Tuesday for leaking documents showing Israel’s plan to retaliate against Iran.
According to The New York Times, “The official, Asif W. Rahman, was indicted last week in federal court in Virginia with two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. He was arrested by the F.B.I. on Tuesday in Cambodia and brought to federal court in Guam to face charges.”
The documents came from the showed Israel rehearsing maneuvers to strike Iran and preparing for another Iranian retaliation. The leak does not compromise any military personnel’s safety. It only appears to embarrass the United States for spying on Israel and prevents the U.S. from saying that it doesn’t know what Israel has planned. President Biden has previously called on Israel to avoid hitting Iran’s nuclear sites and its energy facilities.
The United States has whistleblower protections but Rahman is being charged with violations of the Espionage Act.
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Introducing The Department of Government Efficiency
President-Elect Trump announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head a new agency called the “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).”
This organization will, according to the announcement, “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.” It is a big and broad task – perhaps a little too big and broad – but would anyone that the government has not multiplied like Gremlins since Roosevelt’s first 100 Days? It’s a shocking beast and it is costing taxpayers to pay for government (and military) expansion.
Have you ever seen the movie Dave? The plot has a Washington outsider bring in a small-town accountant and balance the budget by cutting waste. Could that happen?
The President-Elect has also solidified the following Cabinet appointments: Congresswoman Kristi Noem has been asked to serve as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), veteran and Fox News anchor Pete Hegseth has been nominated as the Secretary of Defense. Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe as been asked to serve as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). William Joseph McGinley will serve as White House Counsel. Steven C. Witkoff was asked to be Special Envoy to the Middle East. Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee was appointed as the Ambassador to Israel.
There has so far been no formal announcement of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, perhaps because there was such outrage at the very notion. Let’s hope that was an urban legend because Rubio is an odious warmonger.
The President-Elect is also reported to be working on a Special Envoy to Ukraine to broker peace. The Zelensky regime was reportedly disappointed that Mike Pompeo will not get a diplomatic post because he has helped Ukraine sow so much violence in the past.
$3 million. You too can own a fully functional Batmobile for this amount. Wayne Enterprises is accepting pre-orders for the Tumbler, which will take about 18 months to manufacture. It will seat two people but it is not street legal.
$12.6 Million. That is how much Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has to pay a woman that it fired for refusing to take the COVID vaccine after the woman sued. The court awarded the plaintiff $10 million in punitive damages, $1 million in non-economic damages, $1.375 million in front pay damages and $315,000 in back pa damages.
15 years. That is the prison sentence for Jack Teixeira, the 22 year-old National Guard member who leaked classified documents about the war in Ukraine. President Trump should pardon him. His leaks showed Americans that the U.S. did have boots on the ground in Ukraine while the White House tried to lie about that. The U.S. was built on strong whistleblower protection laws.
The Guardian announced that it will no longer use X, formerly Twitter, and fired CNN anchor Don Lemon says that he is doing the same.
Darn, how will we cope?
The Guardian says that they “think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere.” They say that the platform is rife with “far-right hate” but don’t specify what that means nor do they provide examples.
Trust in the media has been plummeting. Will The Guardian’s refusal to engage in anything other than its own rhetoric help this?
Don Lemon launched a show on X after he was fired from CNN and leaked memos show that he demanded millions of dollars and a Tesla Cybertruck from Elon Musk, which he never got. I can unequivocally say that his X show is horribly obnoxious. He roams the street, bothering people to ask about their politics and then lecturing them about why they’re wrong. He says he will continue his work on YouTube and Facebook.
A mom was arrested because her 10-year-old son walked less than 1 mile to town on his own in a small town in Georgia. The government says that they will not prosecute her if she agrees to track her son at all times on an app.
A nosy neighbor called the police and police arrested and carted Brittany Patterson off to jail in front of her children. They say that they will not press charges if she signs a “safety plan.”
The plan requires Patterson to designate a “safety person” to be a “knowing participant and guardian” and watch over the children whenever she leaves home as well as requires him to track him on an app at all times. She refused because she wanted him to have age-appropriate freedom.
Patterson contacted a lawyer from ParentsUSA, a nonprofit that often provides pro bono legal help to parents wrongly arrested and prosecuted for child neglect. Legal counsel David DeLugas called the assistant district attorney (ADA) and was told that all criminal charges would be dropped if Patterson signs the plan. They also sent the boy a birthday card in the mail a few days later.
She refuses and the case is as yet unresolved. A GoFundMe has been established to help ParentsUSA cover the Pattersons’ legal expenses.
The best-selling parenting book Anxious Generation makes the point that children are “over-protected in the real world and under-protected online” and that they should not have smartphones until they are in the 8th grade. We should applaud this woman for giving her son freedom and keeping him off addictive technology, not punishing her!
What’s Trending?
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John Krasinski is trending because People Magazine named him the 2024 Sexiest Man Alive.
Krispy Kreme is trending because the company is giving away boxes of donuts for free to honor World Kindness Day. I think you’re meant to share them with friends because otherwise, that would not be a kindness to your blood sugar.
Whoopi Goldberg is trending because she said that she would leave The View if she had more money. Should we start a GoFundMe?
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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.
