👨‍⚖️ Rupert Murdoch’s children challenged his bid to change his family trust to give control of his media empire to his eldest son. The younger three sued to stop this and they won in a Nevada court.
🇺🇦 Ukraine is reportedly considering cracking down on Telegram so that they can further control the information for its people. Relevant reminder: Zelensky is a dictator.
🇺🇸 President Trump called for an investigation into Iowa pollster Ann Seltzer for claiming that Vice President Harris would win the state. Free speech groups condemn this as a possible free speech violation.
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🏳️‍⚧️ The couple who run PinkNews, the world’s largest LGBT news website, have reportedly “been accused by staff of multiple incidents of sexual misconduct.”
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Lead: Israel Moves In “For Eternity”
Israel moved into territory in Syria now that the Assad government has ended and the international response to this is mixed.
Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar are all outraged but the United States says that it is a “defensive action.”
Israel moved tanks and infantry beyond the demilitarised buffer zone and the Egyptian government said that it condemned this “in the strongest possible terms” and that it amounted to the “occupation of Syrian land” and a “severe breach” of a 1974 armistice deal.
The U.S. State Department, however, said that “context” is important. Spokesperson Matthew Miller said this: “First of all, the Syrian army abandoned its positions in the area around the negotiated Israeli-Syrian buffer zone, which potentially creates a vacuum that could have been filled by terrorist organizations that would threaten the state of Israel and would threaten civilians inside Israel. Every country has the right to take action against terrorist organizations.” He insisted that the occupation was temporary.
Temporary is a relative word when it comes to Israeli presence. On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Golan Heights would be occupied by Israel “for eternity.”
Doesn’t it seem strange that the suspected shooter of UnitedHealthcare Chief Executive Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week was an anti-capitalist but found eating in a McDonald’s?
Police say that the suspect is 26 year-old Luigi Mangione. He is an Ivy League graduate with a high IQ and yet he left a trail of clues like Hansel and Gretel.
He left the scene of the crime on a traceable e-bike and was found at a McDonald’s with a fake ID and carrying the murder weapon, having written a whole anticapitalist manifesto against the American healthcare system. And he is model-handsome, prompting an unhealthy online fandom.
It just seems…hard to believe.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro warned against celebrating the killing and against idolizing Mangione as a hero. He also signed bombs to Ukraine so his moralizing rings hollow.
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TikTok has appealed to the Supreme Court to stop a ban on the app on U.S. phones and browsers.
Legislation passed by Congress and President Biden last year would make TikTok illegal in the U.S. It was past on the premise that China can use it to spy on Americans, even though lawmakers never proved this as a real threat. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act calls TikTok a “significant threat to national security” but ByteDance is arguing that this is a Trojan Horse of government control and unconstitutional under the First Amendment right to free speech.
TikTok lost its first appeal to this law by a vote by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit last week.
TikTok and its Chinese parent company are asking the United States government to take a closer look at legislation that could ban the social media platform in the states.
On Monday, TikTok and parent company ByteDance filed an emergency injunction, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review legislation that would ban the social media app if ByteDance does not sell the platform by Jan. 19, 2025. The injunction follows a vote by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday that supported the legislation.
Under the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, signed by President Joe Biden this spring, TikTok will become illegal for distribution in the U.S., if ByteDance does not sell the platform. The app will be illegal for distribution through the Apple App Store and Google Play and internet service providers will be required to make the app inaccessible on U.S. internet browsers.
This isn’t about whether or not you like TikTok. It is about what the U.S. government can and cannot ban and censor. The law gives lawmakers the ability to ban any “website” they don’t like. Pray that the Supreme Court saves us from it.
28 Years Later is trending because of this new Sony Pictures trailer, a sequel to the classic horror film about a zombie apocalypse.
Heisman Trophy is trending because nominations for the college football trophy were announced on Monday.
Quantum Computing is trending because Google announced its new Willow quantum computing chip.
News By The Numbers
$300. That is how much New York Governor Kathy Hochul wants to give New Yorkers to fight inflation. She must not study economics. The Covid relief payments are what started the record inflation in the first place.
2,200 acres. That is the perimeter and evacuation areas of the massive Franklin Fire in Southern California.
$72 million. That is how much money Fortnite will be refunding to users as part of a settlement over allegations of unlawful billing practices. The average customer will receive around $114.
President Biden announced a 10-year plan to revive Native Languages. Could this 10-year plan last about six weeks until the Biden Administration is over?
The plan is called the “10-Year National Plan on Native Language Revitalization.” It was announced at the Tribal Nations Summit on Monday. It denounces the forced assimilation of Native peoples and the loss of Native languages and calls for federal funding to support schools and teachers that teach Native languages, including Hawaiian.
The plan will cost $16.7 billion between 2025 and 2035 or $1.5 billion per year but the Biden administrations says that it is necessary to prevent the loss of 167 languages that are currently spoken by 2050.
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