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Lead: Goodbye, Farewell, Adieu

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President Biden released a farewell video from the Oval Office on Thursday. He warned of an oligarchy that is taking shape under the incoming Trump administration.

He said that the tech oligarchy the evolution of the “military industrial complex.”

“I’m equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech-industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country as well,” said the person who used big tech to censor Americans over true information.

He also spoke about the dangers of free information exchange.

“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit.”

Democrats are clearly afraid of a new era with less censorship and control. John Stuart Mill would disagree and so do we here at Redacted. Mill famously said that “in a free information exchange the truth will rise.”

Ceasefire in Gaza: On or Off?

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the ceasefire that was celebrated around the world yesterday is now on hold due to a “last-minute crisis.” The Prime Minister delayed voting on the deal and accused Hamas of “a last-minute blackmail attempt.” The Israeli government was scheduled to vote today. Al Jazeera reports that they may vote on Friday.

Netanyahu stalled the vote because Hamas reportedly objected to “a part of the agreement that gave Israel the right to refuse the release of certain Palestinian prisoners accused of murders.” Hamas denies this.

Israel did not slow up the attacks in Gaza in the wake of the ceasefire news. At least 82 Palestinians were reportedly killed on Wednesday, 30 of them killed after the ceasefire was announced.

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The Unpopular Left

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The Telegraph reports that “Left-wing parties are more unpopular now than at any time since the end of the Cold War.” The newspaper analyzed 73 democracies and found that “leftist parties suffered a record low average vote share of just 45.4 per cent in each democracy’s latest election.”

They explain it with this quote by an analyst at The European Council on Foreign Relations: “The globalisation-driven decline of organised labour, rising identity politics harnessed more successfully by the Right than the Left, and a general tendency among Leftist forces to fragment rather than unite.”

That’s willfully ignorant gobbledygook so let us take a stab at it: The left has championed war and crushed economies to do so, racism for the sake of antiracism, divisive identity politics, government spending that has crushed the middle and lower class, unquestioned biopharmaceutical power, destroyed women’s rights to single-sex spaces, promoted the agenda of perverts over science, lowered the standards of education thereby keeping the most disadvantaged people disadvantaged, allowed crime to run rampant, opened borders, trafficked children and sex workers under the nose of law enforcement, and censored and slandered anyone who pointed out any of the above.

Is it really such a mystery that the parties that did that are losing influence? GOOD riddance!

News By The Numbers

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46. That is how old the R&B singer Aaliyah would have been today had she not tragically died in an airplane crash in 2001 at the age of 22. To commemorate her birthday, Mattel released an Aaliyah Barbie doll for $55.

90. That was the age of legendary baseball announcer and former catcher Bob Uecker. He died today.

320 feet. That is the size of the New Glenn rocket that Blue Origin launched successfully from Florida in the early morning hours on Thursday.

Bird Flu Smells Foul 

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Doctors are wondering why the new strain of bird flu is so mild. According to The Telegraph:

“Since bird flu began spreading in the US, one question has been puzzling scientists: why are the farm workers who are catching it only suffering mild illness?

Of the 66 people infected in America this year, the overwhelming majority – more than 98 per cent – have suffered only from conjunctivitis, tiredness, and a sore throat.”

Since 2003, bird flu had a 50% mortality rate but only one person with pre-existing conditions in the U.S. has died with bird flu, not from bird flu. A new study shows that Americans may be having a lower immune response to this strain and they don’t know why. You would think this is a good thing but they’re saying it’s not because “each infection gives the virus an opportunity to better adapt to create more dangerous strains.”

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Lead: Ceasefire Reached?

Israel and Hamas have agreed “in principle” to terms of a ceasefire. According to CBS News, “a draft deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and hostage release has been agreed to in principle and, if all goes well, will be finalized by Israel and Hamas this week.”

The deal would call for Israel to withdraw from Gaza, which Israel has said repeatedly it does not want to do. As CBS News points out, the “implementation and enforcement would be left to the Trump administration. Privately, U.S. officials acknowledge this plan for governance is aspirational.” Meaning, Israel could say that they will withdraw but not actually do it. They have reportedly not held up their ceasefire deal in Lebanon.

Then again, it could be the very idea of President Trump that forces Israel to comply. As Gaza reporter Muhammad Shehada put it: “the deal Netanyahu is about to accept now is the SAME deal Biden offered 8 MONTHS ago in May (& Hamas accepted on July 2). The only thing that changed is that Biden never pressured Netanyahu to accept. Trump now did & it worked instantly!”

Glenn Greenwald points out that the media is saying this without saying this with headlines like this.

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President-elect Trump says that he is going to focus on revenue from abroad instead of taxing U.S. citizens! This is bigly!

He calls it the External Revenue Service, as opposed to the Internal Revenue Service. Instead of, as he puts it, relying “on taxing our Great People using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS),” he wants to build the U.S. economy by collecting “our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources. We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying, FINALLY, their fair share. January 20, 2025, will be the birth date of the External Revenue Service. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

The average American pays the federal and state government the equivalent of the money they make between January and May of every year. That’s a depressing but true statistic. Even the IRS admits it on their own website! They call it Tax Freedom Day. It is the number of days an American has to work to earn enough to pay federal, state and local taxes. In most states, Americans have to work through mid-April but in high-tax states like New York, they have to work until mid-May just to earn enough to keep for themselves.

What if that were not the case? What if we could pay less because our government collects money by doing business with the world!? Who amongst us could possibly be against that!?

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Afghanistan Bombshell

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A new report shows that the U.S. has abandoned many Afghan citizens in third countries since it’s “chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.” These are people that the U.S. helped leave Afghanistan when the Taliban took over but then proceeded to drop them off in third countries, “some at prison-like facilities and many with no clarity about their prospects for resettlement.”

This comes from a report called “Challenging U.S. Expansion of Detention Practices.” The report claims that “at least 36 countries [are] arbitrarily [holding] tens of thousands of evacuated Afghans.” It says that “contrary to its public assertions, the Biden administration retains significant control over these sites and has allowed the inhumane conditions to persist and deteriorate.”

Does President Biden know this? On Monday, he bragged about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

“Today, I can also report to the American people [as] the first president in decades who’s not leaving a war in Afghanistan to his successor,” he said.

How can the U.S. court allies abroad if it allows them to language in prisons with “abysmal conditions”? The records describe “family separations, deteriorating mental health conditions, inadequate facilities and fears of forcible repatriation.”

News By The Numbers

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Four. That is how many times Tren de Aragua gang-member Niefred Serpa Acosta was arrested and released before he was arrested again for kidnapping and torturing a Colorado couple in December.

124%. That is how much rents in some Los Angeles neighborhoods have gone up as fire victims look for temporary places to stay.

5%. That is how much of its workforce Meta will lay off. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a company memo that 2025 would be “an intense year” and that the plan was to be “exiting approximately 5% of our lowest performers.”

What’s Trending?

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Daredevil is trending because Marvel and Disney released this trailer for the upcoming series.

Chicken broth is trending because Walmart recalled its own brand of chicken broth in 242 locations.

National Bagel Day is trending because that is today.

Red Dye Ban

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The Food and Drug Administration has banned Red No. 3, a food dye that is commonly used in candy, sports drinks, gum and cookies. It has been banned in cosmetics and topical drugs for 35 years but for whatever reason, it has been allowed to be in our foods.

The ban won’t take effect until 2027 so food makers have some time to reformulate their products. The FDA says that it is doing this because “two studies… showed cancer in laboratory male rats exposed to high levels of FD&C Red No. 3 due to a rat specific hormonal mechanism.” But, they say, that “the way that FD&C Red No. 3 causes cancer in male rats does not occur in humans.” Still, the Delaney Clause prohibits the FDA from authorizing any food or color additive that has been found to cause cancer in either humans or animals so they are using this as a reasoning to ban the product.

It is interesting timing. This dye has long been known to be harmful but the FDA has decided to do it in advance of the next Trump administration and the MAHA movement which has demanded a safer food supply. Is this a harbinger of what is to come and a willingness by the FDA to do its job now?

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Lead: Trump’s Special Circumstances

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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 Truce

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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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California Dreamin

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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.

This comes as the state is accused of thwarting wildfire prevention projects near the Pacific Palisades “to protect an endangered shrub.”

Starbucks Kicks Out Loafers

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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.

News By The Numbers

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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.

What’s Trending?

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Carrie Underwood is trending because she confirmed that she will sing “America the Beautiful” next week at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration.

Deion Sanders is trending on speculation that he could become the next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

Patrick Mahomes is trending because his wife had a baby girl this weekend, the couple’s third child. The baby’s name is Golden Raye Mahomes.

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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.

News By The Numbers

13. That is how many Trump cabinet appointments will begin their confirmation hearings this week.

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…

Sam Harris is trending because he was a recent episode on Bill Maher’s show. The part that is getting the most attention is when he speaks of his ex-friendship with Elon Musk.

Candice Owens Under Fire For Journalism

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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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Lead: Los Angeles Is In Hell

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There are currently five major fires in the Los Angeles area and the destruction has been truly hellish.

According to the Los Angeles Times’ fire tracker, the Lydia fire is the most contained. The Palisades fire has destroyed over 2,000 homes, businesses and buildings and killed at least five people. It is being called “one of the most destructive firestorms to hit the region in memory.”

There is a lot of blame going around for Democratic leaders in the state who cut funding to the Los Angeles Fire Department, rolled back fire management programs, and scaled back logging, which could reduce fire hazards in the state. All of that is valid but authorities have not confirmed the source of any of the fires.

In Paradise, California, when authorities tried to mitigate fire risks with controlled burns, residents complained enough to halt the burns, according to national disaster expert and forest debris expert John Balobeck. He says that before California was so populace, these fires were regular and less consequential and even helpful to the forest fauna. But with the opposition to forestry and controlled burns and current draught conditions, fires like this are more devastating.

So is the blame game really all that easy? It’s not. Democrats don’t seem to have helped but they don’t seem to be the sole cause either.

 Grooming Gangs of No Interest

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Politicians in the U.K. voted not to set up an inquiry into a grooming gang scandal. Not interested really.

The scandal is this: recent data shows that “foreign nationals are more than three times as likely to be arrested for sexual offences as British citizens.” The government published this data, validating what citizens already knew. 364 British MPs voted against a measure for a new inquiry.

Conservative politicians asked for an inquiry but MPs voted it down because, they say, they already had several inquiries into this matter. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that more inquiries would only delay help for victims.

What inquiries is he referring to? This data is not new to the government, it is new to the public.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says that the government is running “a cover up” by refusing an inquiry.

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Trump’s Middle East Signals

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President Trump posted a video of Columbia professor Jeffery Sachs “sharply criticizing US Middle East policy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s role in leading the US into wars.”

Color me surprised. Sachs is one of the most informed antiwar voices on the Middle East and Ukraine and it is rare that leaders reference him.

In the video, Sachs calls Netanyahu “a deep, dark son of a bitch” who led the US into multiple follies in the Middle East and now wants America to fight a war with Iran on Israel’s behalf.

“Netanyahu had, from 1995 onward, the theory that the only way we’re going to get rid of Hamas and Hezbollah is by toppling the governments that support them. That’s Iraq, Iran and Syria. The guy is nothing if not obsessive.” He continues, “He’s gotten us into endless wars and because of the power of all of this in U.S. politics, he’s gotten his way.”

Sachs blames President Barack Obama for acting on behalf of Netanyahu by launching a CIA operation in Syria to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, ignoring intelligence that this would backfire with an Islamic Caliphate.

Does this mean that the President-elect will not pacify Netanyahu with American blood any more? Does this mean that he has real informed antiwar advisors? Could it be!?

Netanyahu has reportedly canceled his plans to attend President Trump’s inauguration.

What’s Trending?

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This video is trending of a ABC News anchor David Muir covering the Los Angeles fires with a jacket that was clipped in the back to make him look svelte. A national tragedy is no reason to look frumpy!

53%. That is the rate that homelessness spiked in New York City in 2024.

43. That is the age Kate Middleton turns today.

News By The Numbers

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22 years. That is how long ago these two child actors met on the film School of Rock. They got married last weekend.

$10 billion. That could be the amount of losses that insurers face from the Los Angeles fires, according to estimates by JPMorgan Chase.

Judge Rules for Women

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A federal court has struck down the Biden administration’s new Title IX rules due to a lawsuit from the state of Tennessee.

The Biden administration revised Title IX rules last year and it would have expanded access to female programs to men. It would have allowed men access to girls sports, girls locker rooms, girls dorms, girls scholarships, etc. It would have allowed for what was called “kangaroo courts,” or secret campus hearings that could punish anyone who was accused of violating regulations without a right to a fair trial. It was an antifeminist scam.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti sued and a federal judge ruled in his favor. The court ruled that the new Title IX does “violate the Constitution, and [is] the result of arbitrary and capricious agency action.”

The Trump-appointed Department of Education and the Justice Department is unlikely to further appeal the case meaning these rules will likely die here on the vine for the time being.

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Lead: Los Angeles Inferno

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The massive Palisades Fire in Southern California is burning at a rate of about “five football fields per minute” with no end in sight.

The fires are fed by the Santa Ana winds and dry conditions in Los Angeles and two more fires broke out in Los Angeles County on Wednesday.

Does Los Angeles have the support they need from their government? Well, you decide.

First, Mayor Karen Bass is on a foreign trip to Ghana and her constituents are understandably incredulous.

The fire hydrants are empty because Los Angeles refused to fill the water reservoirs. Angelenos were told just a few days ago that their water supply was good but that hasn’t helped this tragedy one little bit.

Residents are also wondering if their fire department has been a victim of DEI priorities. In 2022, the city council voted to appoint Deputy Chief Kristin Crowley, the first woman and openly gay person to lead the Los Angeles Fire Department. When she took the job, she said that her priority was “diversity” and “inclusivity,” while fighting “climate change.”

WEF is Panicking 

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The World Economic Forum says that “global collaboration” has “flatlined.” Meaning, countries are not using their cabal to collaborate.

The WEF published this statement in the wake of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation. We can’t help but wonder if they are panicked that their most powerful puppets are losing power. The Biden administration is outgoing, Trudeau is outgoing, Germany and France have had to shake up their governments in the wake of left-wing losses. How will they set their agenda without their favorites?

Børge Brende, President and CEO of the World Economic Forum, says that he is worried about “new governments” that are forming this year and their “agendas.” He says this has presented a “fragmented landscape.” Is “fragmented” a euphemism for “sovereign,” which the WEF has constantly worked against?

The WEF 2025 Davos meeting is scheduled to begin on the same day that President Trump is inaugurated, January 20. It will focus on “geopolitical shocks.” Like their chosen leaders losing elections?

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Trump’s Legal Manuever

President Trump is set to be sentenced for his bookkeeping case related to the payment to Stormy Daniels on Friday but he his lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to block the sentencing hearing.

“This Court should enter an immediate stay of further proceedings in the New York trial court to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government,” his lawyers argued.

His lawyers did not argue that the President’s Sixth Amendment rights were violated by this trial, which they were. His argument revolves around the office of the presidency. There is no guarantee that the court takes up this case to prevent the hearing but the judge in the case, Juan Merchan has indicated that he would not sentence the President-elect to prison time.

Meanwhile, the Special Counsel Investigation by Jack Smith has been put on hold for publication by a U.S. District Judge. The President-elect’s lawyers had argued against publication but so had the co-defendants who are still defending themselves. Publishing this before those people had a full right to a defense would be wrong, especially since they are still defending their not-guilty pleas.

Attorney General Merrick Garland opposed the ruling and says that it would like to release at least part of the report that pertains to President Trump. He has just days to do it before the President-elect takes office and he clearly wants to.

Fact Checkers Fact Checked

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The fact checking industry is in a panic after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he would phase out fact checking at Facebook in favor of Community Notes. Fact checking was big business during the authoritarian Biden regime and now that industry is in a panic.

This headline from the New York Times is not comedy: “Meta Says Fact-Checkers Were the Problem. Fact-Checkers Rule That False.” One fact checking executive said he doesn’t “believe” they were “doing anything, in any form, with bias.” He fact checks with his belief? LOL!

The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) has reportedly convened an emergency meeting to figure out how to stay relevant and profitable. They said that Meta’s decision “disappointing and a backwards step that risks a chilling effect around the world.”

Now that X and Meta will no longer employ this industry, who is left? Google. They still employ the IFCN but for how long now that the industry is moving away from this model?

I wish I could pour a little out for this industry but….nope. They’ve squandered public trust by censoring true information and protected speech. They can pound sand.

News By The Numbers

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$40 million. That is how much Amazon has reportedly agreed to pay Melania Trump for a documentary about her life. It will reportedly feature President Trump and her son Barron Trump.

13. That’s how many weeks Melania’s newest book has remained on the New York Times best seller’s list.

3 days. That is how many days a dead man’s body sat in a tanning bed at a Planet Fitness in Indiana.  He went in for a tan on a Friday but wasn’t found until the next Monday.

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Girl Scout Cookies are trending because the organization announced its 2025 cookie season but two flavors will be discontinued: S’mores and Toast-Yay.

Zion Williamson is trending because he returned to the basketball court after a 27-game absence due to an injury. His team didn’t win his first game back but he put on a good show!

Sam Altman is trending. He is the founder of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. His sister filed a lawsuit against him alleging that he sexually abused her from the age of 3. He denies it.

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Lead: Facebook’s About Face

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Facebook says that it will no longer censor content in a 5-minute video by founder Mark Zuckerberg. He admits that Facebook worked with the Biden administration to censor content and create content rules and that cost the company dearly in trust and, more importantly, user engagement.

Zuckerberg says that he will get rid of the “independent” fact checkers because they have been too political and move towards a Community Notes system like X has. He also says that he will remove rules for posting about topics such as gender and immigration because those rules are “out of touch with mainstream discourse.”

Zuckerberg says that they will “bring back civic content,” meaning politics. He admits to having suppressed that content because he thought people wanted that to make them less “stressed” but now he feels differently.

He says that he will move his content moderation teams out of California to Texas. What does this say about California? That it is a place where there is a “concern about the bias of our teams,” he says. In other words, people don’t trust the state or anyone who lives there to be fair.

Lastly, he kisses the ring of the incoming Trump administration, saying that he will “work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more.” He admits that resisting government censorship has been “so difficult over the past four years, when even the U.S. government has pushed for censorship” and that this has emboldened other governments to go even further.” An admission of what we all knew: that the Biden administration was Orwellian.

Can anyone really trust Facebook to make this about face after having succumbed to such draconian censorship? And is it too late to save the platform from being for anyone but grandparents?

End of the Obama Era

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Vice President Kamala Harris made history as the first woman to certify the results of her loss of the American Presidency on Monday. It was her duty as Vice President to certify President Trump to his second term to a joint session of Congress. Al Gore did the same thing when he lost the office to George Bush Junior.

The New York Post calls this the “end of the Obama era.” By that, they mean “a kind of manifest destiny of the left, adopted in the second Obama term, that promises an ever-diversifying electorate would inexorably vote Democratic and must therefore be patronized with cartoonish appeals to identity and big government wardship.” The Obama era also led to open borders, a Green New Deal to appeal to environmentalists, a shadow government, massive cancel culture and accompanying online authoritarianism.

We celebrate the end of all of that IF it is really the end. But could it be? Or could this addictive power just morph into a new swamp under the second Trump administration? Who amongst us is holding our breath that all of this is actually dead? Some advice: Don’t do that.

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First Bird Flu Death

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The Louisiana Department of Health reported the first U.S. death from bird flu. This was the individual who was diagnosed with H5N1 Bird Flu in December. The person was 65 years old with underlying health conditions and had reportedly “had exposure to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks.” The CDC said that this person’s death was tragic but “not unexpected.”

After weeks of hospitalization, the person has died in the hospital but the Department of Health still says that the general health risk to the public is low.

The CDC says that there have been “66 confirmed human cases of H5N1 bird flu in the United States since 2024 and 67 since 2022 [but] this is the first person in the United States who has died as a result of an H5 infection. Outside the United States, more than 950 cases of H5N1 bird flu have been reported to the World Health Organization; about half of those have resulted in death.”

The CDC says that no person-to-person spread of bird flu has been detected and that “there are no concerning virologic changes actively spreading in wild birds, poultry, or cows that would raise the risk to human health.”

What’s Trending?

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Hulk Hogan is trending because he was boo’d on the opening night of Netflix’s Monday Night Raw. He was arguably cheered as much as he was boo’d but the media is going with boo’d. Of course the show was live in liberal Los Angeles, California and Hogan heavily endorsed Trump during the election.  So there’s that.

Zendaya and Tom Holland are trending on rumors that they got engaged over the holidays after Zendaya was spotted with a diamond ring at the Golden Globes.

Greenland is trending because Donald Trump Jr. is visiting the country this week, fueling speculation that the Trump administration is interested in making Greenland a U.S. territory.

News By The Numbers

366. That is how many marathons a Belgian woman ran in 2024, which is one per day since it was a Leap Year. She is submitting her distance to the Guinness Book of World Records. A man in Brazil did this in 2023 for the male record.

$2.37. That is the payout some Verizon customers received from a class-action lawsuit. Don’t spend it all in one place!

$9. That is how much it costs some midtown Manhattan drivers to leave their parking garage due to complicated new congestion rules.

“Transphobic” Fashion

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The San Francisco Chronicle says that “transphobic apparel” is in fashion. What do they mean by that? Shirts that say “Save Girls Sports.”

The say that these shirts are “terrorizing the trans community” but are still selling like hot cakes. The word “terrorizing” doing some heavy lifting here. Seeing a shirt you don’t like is terror? Have these people ever heard of Guantanamo Bay!?

The push to wear the shirts comes from the common sense opinion that most people share: they do not want males to compete with girls in sports.

The Chronicle says that this is a crazy thing because “Studies of human genetics show that sex, like gender, is a spectrum, and the cases of female athletes like Algerian boxer Imane Khelif show that there are many, many ways a woman can look. On a basic level, not all cis women even have XX chromosomes, so these shirts make no sense.”

What rubbish. Gender can be performed on a spectrum but sex chromosomes cannot. There are rare genetic sex chromosome conditions but that has nothing to do with trans-identified male athletes in sports. There is an obvious advantage for biological males in sports. This is not terror. This is biology.

And if trans people can wear whatever they want, shouldn’t they let others do the same?

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Lead: Trudeau Resigns

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned today. He said he has fought for Canada since 2015 but the division in government has made it impossible to govern.

In resigning today, Trudeau nullified the need for an emergency meeting of Liberal legislators that was scheduled for Wednesday. Trudeau had managed to escape calls for his resignation before Christmas but he is expected to lose the next election badly. His popularity has plummeted in the wake of his authoritarian handling of the Covid pandemic and constant support of foreign wars and government expansion, which has tanked the Canadian economy.

The Prime Minister announced a prorogue, or suspension of government, until his party can announce a new leader, which he said will happen in March. However, this could be a ploy to deny Canadians an election, delaying the scheduled October 2025 vote for up to six months.

 Military Under Lockdowns

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U.S. military bases are under tightened security since the alleged attackers in two terror attacks on New Year’s Day were U.S. military members.

In Las Vegas, active-duty Green Beret Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger allegedly “drove a rented Tesla Cybertruck in front of the Trump Hotel, which then exploded, setting off fuel and fireworks inside the car.” In New Orleans, Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, “drove a rented truck into a crowd and opened fire on people before being shot and killed.”

Authorities say the two attacks are not connected.

The FBI says that the Jabbar crossed “state and international borders” to carry out this attack and that he used Meta smart glasses to map out the attack. The FBI’s video shows Shamsud-Din Jabbar wearing the glasses as he planted explosives around the city.

ABC reports that he had traveled to Egypt and Canada in 2023 and left a video for his family admitting to having joined ISIS. Jabbar was shot dead during the attack so investigators are piecing together clues but authorities still insist that he acted alone. Will those Meta glasses tell the same story?

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Get Ready For The New Pandemic

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A new virus is spreading in China called HMPV, the human metapneumovirus. Although images of Chinese people in masks are trending, sparking fears of a new pandemic, the Chinese government said that this is a normal winter occurrence.

The CDC concurs. The agency says that their data shows “HMPV to be most active during late winter and spring in temperate climates. HMPV, RSV, and influenza can circulate simultaneously during the respiratory virus season.”

Chinese Spokesperson Mao Ning said that in China, the HMPV “appears to be less severe and spread on a smaller scale compared with the previous year. I can assure you that the Chinese government cares about the health of Chinese citizens and foreigners in China. It is safe to travel in China.”

HMPV has infected fourteen children in China, sparking fears that this outbreak would cause wider panic than Covid-19 because of its ability to infect children.

News By The Numbers

Five. That is how many living U.S. presidents there are and they will all attend the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter on Thursday.

$3 million. That is how much the Mike Evans from Tampa Bay Buccaneers earned in bonuses because he surpassed 1,000 yards in catches this weekend for the 2024-2025 season.

$8 billion. That is how much the Biden administration says that it will give Israel in a proposed arms deal that would “include munitions for fighter jets and attack helicopters as well as artillery shells, two sources with direct knowledge.”

$450,000. That is how much a school district in Ohio has to pay a teacher that it forced to resign because she refused to use a transgender student’s preferred name and pronouns after the teacher sued.

What’s Trending?

Jonathan Van Ness is trending for wearing this to the Golden Globes. He is probably best known for being a hairdresser on Queer Eye and being the hairdresser of Dylan Mulvaney.

NFL Draft Order is trending because next seasons draft order was announced. The team with the worst record in the previous season gets first draft pick and this year that team was the Tennessee Titans.

Grand Theft Auto 6 is trending because someone from Rockstar Games posted an image indicating that the game could be released in 2025 after fans were speculating that it would be launched in 2026.

Nikki Glaser is trending because she hosted The Golden Globes and people seemed to really like her.

New Jersey Teachers

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In New Jersey, teachers no longer have to pass a basic literacy test to get the job. This is from Act 1669 that went into effect on January 1.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed this into office in the state budget. New Jersey residents did not get to vote on it.

The bill says that anyone seeking a teaching certificate does not need to “complete a Commissioner of Education-approved test of basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills including.” So what is the certificate for if you don’t have to qualify for it? Just a way for the government to collect fees for a document?

Legislators argued that this test was unnecessary if teachers had already finished their university requirements and they said that this would increase the diversity of the teacher pool. Which is the racism of low expectations, indicating that people of color can’t be expected to pass standardized test.

Erika Sanzi, a former educator and opponent of this says that it is a way for the National Education Association (NEA) to increase their number of due-paying members.

“These are low-rigor tests. We’re not talking about the LSAT here,” she says. “The fact that the failure rates on these tests have been so high for so long, that is a problem. That’s really an indictment of not only of the education system that these aspiring teachers are coming out of but the colleges of education that give them a degree even though they’re not remotely qualified.”

New York, California and Arizona have made similar moves dropping basic requirements for teachers.

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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.

 Fani Willis Disqualified 

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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.

What’s Trending?

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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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Lead: Budget Unbalanced

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A handful of House Republicans are saying NO to the proposed spending package that would keep federal agencies funded through March 14. Lawmakers are debating this because the government is once again about to hit a debt limit on Saturday.

The proposed bill is 1,500 pages long and includes all kinds of non-emergency payments including $130 billion to renew the Farm Bill, $100 billion in disaster relief, $10 billion in stimulus for farmers, $8 billion to replace the Francis Scott Key Bridge, etc.

Several Republicans have said that they will not support this. A short list includes: Rep Keith Self, Rep. Nancy Mace Rep. Wesley Hunt Rep. Kat Cammack Rep. Andy Biggs Rep. Bob Good Rep. Paul Gosar Rep. Ralph Norman Rep. Tim Burchett Rep. Chip Roy

And of course Rep. Thomas Massie who warned about this December 20 deadline as a ruse to rush through a sham of a bill. He said this in September. He’s not a psychic, he’s a well-worn cynic and it’s high time we listened to him!

Speaker Johnson is promoting this bill as if this is the last time he’ll ask this of Congress since we will have a Republican-controlled Congress sin 2025. Rep Massie’s response is thus: “US foreign aid spending is like watering the neighbor’s yard while your house is on fire.”

The Killers

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Luigi Mangione was charged with murder as an act of terrorism on Tuesday for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is working to extradite him from Pennsylvania to New York.

Glorifying Mangione’s capitalist vengeance is a problem in the public square. A recent Rasmussen poll finds that “27% believe it was an understandable reaction to the high cost of health care in America. Another 12% are not sure.”

That means that nearly 40% of people either understand murder or are not sure if murder is bad when it comes to “social justice.” That’s how the Bolsheviks worked folks. That’s not good.

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Nigel Farage

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Can Elon Musk do for Nigel Farage what he did for President-elect Trump? By that we mean boost his candidacy in England with donations and endorsements?

The Telegraph reports that Musk may donate $100 million or £78 million to Farage so that he and the Reform UK party defeat both Labour and the Conservatives, which would position Farage as the next Prime Minister. Farage fueled these rumors with this post showing his recent visit with Musk at Mar-a-Lago.

A donation like that would be the largest in UK history. Would it even be legal for a U.S. citizen to donate to a U.K. politician? No, it’s not. Musk would have to give Reform money via the British branch of X, he could not do so personally.

An alignment with Musk is an indirect alignment with President-elect Trump and his policies and many Brits, Europeans and Canadians alike are searching for their Trump-like candidate amid raging crime, inflation and mass immigration. But does the world want a kingmaker in Elon Musk or would it be better for each country figure to figure out their own winning nationalist strategy? (Note: nationalism is NOT ethno-nationalism so stop calling it racist.)

Farage’s path to Downing Street would be a steep climb but stranger things have happened.

What’s Trending?

Arnold Schwarzenegger is trending because he posted this image of himself playing Santa Claus for an upcoming Christmas movie. It will be called “The Man with the Bag” and it has no release date.

Steve Harvey is trending because he fake died on the internet. That means that there were rumors of his death but they are not true.

Herschel Walker is trending because he was named by President-elect Trump as the ambassador to The Bahamas. He is a former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL star. He is also a recent college graduate, finishing his degree this week at the University of Georgia 42 years after quitting college to play in the NFL. The Bahamas have been without a U.S. ambassador for more than a decade.

News By The Numbers

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$3.99-$10.49. That is the price of the various offerings for Taco Bell’s new tortilla chip-breaded Crispy Chicken Nuggets. They also have three new dip pairings: the “exclusive new Hidden Valley™ Fire Ranch Sauce,” and brand new signature Bell Sauce and sweet and hot Jalapeño Honey Mustard Sauce. They go on sale Thursday.

$2 billion. That is how much the U.S. Navy “wasted” on four aging cruisers because of “poor planning, lax oversight and an unwillingness to hold private-sector contractors accountable for mistakes,” according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. Boy that makes me feel like crap for having just paid my quarterly estimate.

98%. That is how many members of the Starbucks Union voted to authorize a strike if they can’t reach wage agreements with the coffee chain.

Disney Ditches Woke Show

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Disney’s Pixar has pulled another transgender storyline from a show, this one called “Win or Lose.”

The show is about a middle school softball team and it features the backstory of one player per week. The show had planned a story line for a transgender child but scrapped it in the wake of backlash to woke entertainment.

This follows Disney’s canceled plans to include a transgender child in a show called “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.”

A spokesperson for Disney confirmed this and provided the following statement to The Hollywood Reporter: “When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline.”

Way to catch up, Disney!

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