Pink is the new pink, according to The Telegraph. They say baby pink is the trendy power color for women. As proof, they use this photo of Hillary Clinton from 1995.
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🔥 A new fire broke out in Ventura County, north of the Palisades fire, which is currently 17% contained.
❎ Michelle Obama does not plan to attend President-elect Trump's inauguration next week.
🏥 A hospital in Oregon is being sued because a man's face caught fire during a cancer removal surgery.
Apple is asking its shareholders to vote against a proposal to kill DEI programs at the tech company.
On Monday, the FBI said that there are no threats to President Trump's safety for his upcoming inauguration. And then it turned around and released a Special Counsel report saying that he was involved in criminal activity. Does anyone else see this contradiction?
How can they simultaneously impugn and protect the same person?
Special Counsel Jack Smith, who a court has ruled was inappropriately appointed, wrote in the report that the President should have been held accountable for "an unprecedented criminal effort to overturn the legitimate results of the election in order to retain power" but he would not be further prosecuted due to his presidential immunity. He makes it clear that he would move forward with prosecution if not for Trump's win.
President Trump unleashed a fury on his social media calling Smith a "lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election, which I won in a landslide. THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN!!!"
Hamas has reportedly accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire and now it is down to Israel to approve it. The deal would allow for the release of dozens of Israeli and Palestinian hostages.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says that he opposes this because he does not want Israel to release "terrorist hostages," nor does he want to stop the war and "[dissolve] its achievements." He calls this a "a catastrophe for the national security of the State of Israel."
U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a "rare rebuke" of Israeli policy towards Palestinians. He said that Israel must acknowledge that Palestinians will never accept “being a non-people without national rights”. He continued: “Israelis must abandon the myth that they can carry out de facto annexation without cost and consequence to Israel’s democracy, to its standing, to its security.”
Blinken will present a plan for Gaza in a speech to the Atlantic Council on Tuesday morning. It includes a path forward for the Palestinians after the war. Will permanent Israeli presence be a part of that plan? This has been Israel's number one demand for peace.
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As fires continue to ravage Southern California, Governor Gavin Newsom has committed $50 billion to "Trump-proof" the state. This is the first of its kind law that marks money for potential legal battles with the incoming Trump administration.
Governor Newsom plans to fight the Trump administration's deportation policies, even though it was recently discovered that an illegal immigrant was starting fires in Los Angeles. Newsom wants to protect that guy from any path to deportation. The new plan will fund grants for legal nonprofits and immigration centers.
“This funding agreement cements California’s readiness to serve as a bulwark against Trump’s extremist agenda,” said Senate Budget Chair Scott Wiener in a statement.
Starbucks does not want you loafing around if you don't buy anything. This is a reversal of their old "open door policy" which welcomed people to hang out in their stores and use their bathrooms whether or not they made a purchase.
Why would they do this? Because non-customers were making Starbucks extremely unpleasant for customers. Walk into any busy Starbucks bathroom and you'll ask no further questions.
A Starbucks statement called this a “practical step that helps us prioritize our paying customers who want to sit and enjoy our cafes or need to use the restroom during their visit. By setting clear expectations for behavior and use of our spaces, we can create a better environment for everyone.”
The open door policy was announced in 2018 when a video went viral of two Black men sitting in Starbucks without making a purchase. The blowback caused the company to close stores to talk to their employees about race.
Starbucks is also trying to get paying customers to stay longer by offering one free refill for iced or hot coffee for in-store orders.
9 centimeters. That is the length of a new species of spider in Australian that was recently named Hemsworth after Chris Hemsworth, the actor who plays Thor. It is a funnel-web spider. This species was previously known to be about 2.5 centimeters long.
46%. That is how many people in the world "have entrenched anti-Semitic beliefs," according to a new survey by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Their definition of antisemitism is…broad.
150. That is how many firefighters Ukrainian President Zelensky has offered to send to Southern California to fight the fires.
