Townhall,
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Matt Vespa
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Joe Biden is mentally cooked and almost out the door, but he had to do what presidents do during these natural disasters. The wildfires engulfing Los Angeles County is the second inferno Biden has dealt with. He led Maui burn to the ground and took his sweet time visiting the island, whose residents endured the worst wildfire seen in almost a century. The president was briefed on the raging wildfires that have so far killed at least two people, destroyed over 1,000 buildings, forced 70,000 from their homes, and charred close to 30,000 acres. None of the fires have been contained (via CBS News):
Gateway Pundit,
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Ben Kew
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Republicans in Congress are already getting to work on trying to implement Donald Trump’s agenda.
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) this week put forward a joint resolution seeking to limit the number of terms members of Congress can serve.
Under the terms of the amendment, U.S. senators would be restricted to two six-year terms and representatives in the U.S. House to three two-year terms.
According to the resolution, the amendment would take effect within seven years of being approved by Congress and ratified by the states.
New York Post,
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Alex Oliveira
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass became stone-faced when confronted by a reporter as she returned to America to find her city burning Wednesday.
“Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while their homes were burning, and do you regret cutting the Fire Department budget by millions of dollars madame mayor?” Sky News reporter David Blevins asked as Bass waited to deplane.
“Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?” he added. (Photos) Bass — standing a few feet away on the plane’s ramp as she awaited clearance to leave — stared blankly as Belvins questioned her, refusing to provide an answer or even acknowledge his presence.
Gateway Pundit,
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Mike LaChance
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Add this story to the ‘Trump was right again’ pile.
Just three months ago, when Trump appeared on the Joe Rogan Podcast, he talked to Joe about the ongoing issue of water dispersal in California and about how the state could stop wildfires by clearing dead trees from forests.
He suggested that the state actually has more than enough water to deal with these and other issues such as farming, but progressive environmental policies are standing in the way.
Transcript via the American Presidency Project:
Gateway Pundit,
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Christina Laila
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1/8/2025 11:36:27 PM
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Eco-terrorism?
A new fire erupted in the Hollywood Hills near the “Hollywood” sign Wednesday evening.
There is a mandatory evacuation for Runyon Canyon and the Hollywood Hills. (X) The new fire dubbed “The Sunset Fire” came out of nowhere and exploded. (X Video)
Aerial view of the new Hollywood Hills brushfire: (X Video) Runyon Canyon is on fire
(X Video) Numerous fires have been burning in the greater Los Angeles area since Tuesday and are still at zero percent containment.
The Western Journal,
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Ben Zeisloft
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1/8/2025 9:46:45 PM
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New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined a growing number of Democrats who are seeking to work as much as possible with President-elect Donald Trump in his second term.
Ocasio-Cortez, who belongs to the progressive faction of her party in Congress, said in remarks to Punchbowl News on Wednesday that she will support policies from Trump that align with her beliefs.
“The reason why I think oftentimes Democrats occasionally lose elections is because we’re too reflexively anti-Republican, and that we don’t lean into an ambitious vision for working-class Americans strongly enough,” she told the outlet.
Fox News,
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Emma Colton
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1/8/2025 9:42:45 PM
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President-elect Trump, during his first administration, put Gov. Gavin Newsom on notice for his handling of repeated wildfires in the state, years ahead of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires currently raging.
“The Governor of California, @GavinNewsom, has done a terrible job of forest management. I told him from the first day we met that he must ‘clean’ his forest floors regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists, DEMAND of him. Must also do burns and cut fire stoppers,” the former and upcoming president posted to X in 2019.
“Every year, as the fire’s rage & California burns, it is the same thing-and then he comes to the Federal Government
New York Post,
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Diana Glebova
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1/8/2025 9:00:56 PM
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum clapped back Wednesday at President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to rename the Gulf of Mexico — saying the US should actually be called “Mexican America.”
Trump, 78, announced Tuesday during a Mar-a-Lago press conference he had ambitions to rebrand the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America.”
In response, Sheinbaum, 62, showed off a 1607 map with the Gulf of Mexico being identified as such and North America labeled as Mexican America. (Photo) “Why don’t we call it Mexican America? It sounds nice, no?” asked the Mexican leader, apparently in jest.
Gateway Pundit,
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Jim Hoft
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1/8/2025 8:51:05 PM
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As wildfires ravage Southern California, homeowners in Pacific Palisades find themselves grappling with an unbearable reality: their homes are burning, and their insurance policies—once their safety net—were canceled just months ago by State Farm.
In a move justified by the company as a strategy to avoid “financial failure,” State Farm canceled over 72,000 homeowners’ policies statewide, with Pacific Palisades—a now-charred affluent neighborhood—bearing a significant brunt.
James Woods, a renowned actor and Pacific Palisades resident, summed up the community’s frustration on social media.
“Actually, one of the major insurance companies canceled all the policies in our neighborhood about four months ago,” he wrote.
Breitbart Politics,
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Kristina Wong
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1/8/2025 8:49:08 PM
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President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday sarcastically thanked President Joe Biden for leaving him “no water” in fire hydrants amid devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, and “no money” in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
He posted on Truth Social, “NO WATER IN THE FIRE HYDRANTS, NO MONEY IN FEMA. THIS IS WHAT JOE BIDEN IS LEAVING ME. THANKS JOE!”California businessman and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso first said in an interview on local news that the Pacific Palisades area — which is ground zero for one of the fires — had no water in the hydrants at the moment,
New York Post,
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Jared Downing
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“The hydrants are down,” a firefighter said over the radio, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Another chipped in: “Water supply just dropped.”
Fire crews were forced to watch as entire blocks of the Pacific Palisades — one of the most scenic and celeb-packed neighborhoods in LA — were incinerated in a matter of hours late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
“There’s no water in the fire hydrants,” Rick Caruso, who owns the Palisades Village mall in the heart of the devastated area, fumed to local media. “The firefighters are there, and there’s nothing they can do — we’ve got neighborhoods burning, homes burning, and businesses burning. … It should never happen.”
New York Post,
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Steve Helling
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Chris Nesi
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1/8/2025 8:27:13 PM
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A trio of raging wildfires reduced entire Los Angeles neighborhoods to ash and gutted historic Tinsel Town landmarks — with one blaze becoming the City of Angels’ most destructive of all time less than 36 hours after it began.
The indefatigable Pacific Palisades inferno carved a path of devastation in western LA County Wednesday, a densely populated area containing some of the most coveted real estate in the country, including multimillion-dollar celebrity homes.
The blaze claimed more than 1,000 structures and devoured nearly 16,000 acres by early Wednesday evening as it burned completely out of control, edging perilously close to quintessential LA touchstones like Sunset Boulevard,