Posts on Wednesday, January 8, 2025
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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.
WASHINGTON — Retiring President Biden became a great-grandfather Wednesday when his granddaughter Naomi gave birth in Los Angeles — with Biden announcing the “good news” as three large wildfires raged nearby. “The good news is, I’m a great-grandfather as of today,” Biden, 82, said during a briefing on the blazes in the Pacific Palisades, which have killed at least two people and left dozens more homeless. “I’ll remember this day for a lot of reasons,” the president told reporters at a Santa Monica fire station before declining to answer questions from the press about the natural disaster, which has destroyed
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls Out Fellow
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Democrats for Being ‘Too Reflexively Anti-Republican’ replies
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.
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
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.
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.
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,
“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.”
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,
President-elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated in less than two weeks, and confirmation hearings for his Cabinet picks are set to begin even before that. On Wednesday night, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) announced that Pam Bondi's hearings will take place on January 15 and January 16. Bondi was selected as Trump's pick for attorney general late last November, the same day that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) withdrew his name from consideration.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is blaming the raging California wildfires on climate change.
“80,000 people told to evacuate. Blazes 0% contained. Eight months since the area has seen rain. The scale of damage and loss is unimaginable,” the senator began before blaming the devastation not on poor fire management but on climate change. “Climate change is real, not ‘a hoax,'” he said, demanding President-elect Donald Trump to “treat this like the existential crisis it is.” (X)
Sanders made no mention of the fact that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) — who was not in LA but on a trip to Ghana
You love to see it.
LA’s Democrat Mayor Karen Bass got absolutely skewered by a reporter over her failed policies that led to dry fire hydrants and the most destructive fire in history.
Karen Bass slashed Fire Department funding by $17.6 million a few months before the fires erupted on Tuesday.
This is the most destructive fire in Los Angeles history and the city is not prepared to contain the fire because of Democrats like Karen Bass.Los Angeles firefighters couldn’t even battle the inferno because the hydrants went dry.
One of the leading issues that Americans voted Donald Trump back into office for was to close the southern border and deport millions of illegal immigrants that the Biden administration has allowed into the country. Trump and his Border Czar, Tom Homan, have plans to do just that. Already, blue cities and states have vowed to fight the incoming Trump administration's efforts. But while they fancy themselves as the "resistance," shelters in those cities and states are filling up not only with illegal immigrants but also rampant crime.
(X) Among those shelters are the ones funded by the state government and reserved for families in the blue state of Massachusetts.
Prepare to Be Shocked: Los Angeles' Fire
Chief Is a DEI-Obsessed 'LGBTQ' Woman
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Chief Is a DEI-Obsessed 'LGBTQ' Woman
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In perhaps the most unexpected, shocking revelation to come out of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, it turns out their Fire Chief is an "LGBTQ+" woman who is obsessed with DEI. Who could have possibly guessed that?
Of course, I'm being sarcastic given who's in charge. For context, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is currently on a taxpayer-funded trip to Ghana while her city burns. So yeah, her priorities are clearly in line. Crap, there goes that sarcasm again. nyway, meet Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley. She has been lauded by the press as the "first female and openly gay person" to ever hold the role.
For some 15 hours as wildfires spiraled out of control in Los Angeles, the public water system faced four times its usual demand, causing some hydrants to run dry and hindering the fight against the flames, local water officials said Wednesday.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was pushing water from aqueducts and groundwater into the system, but demand was so high, it wasn’t enough to refill three one-million gallon tanks in hilly Pacific Palisades that help pressurize hydrants for the neighborhood. They went dry on several occasions and at least 1,000 buildings were engulfed in flames.
That prompted a swirl of criticism on social media against
Los Angeles County Fire Department’s decision to donate surplus firefighting equipment to Ukraine in 2022 is being met with heavy criticism as California faces a barrage of wildfires in 2024.
With thousands of acres scorched, homes lost, and first responders stretched to their limits, the timing of this earlier “humanitarian” gesture has now come back to haunt the state.
In March 2022, the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD) joined a national effort to collect and donate surplus equipment and gear to support first responders in Ukraine.
This initiative involved gathering items such as hoses, nozzles, turnouts, helmets, body armor, and other personal protective equipment to address shortages
The Necessity of Heroes
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Throughout human history mankind has either produced or imagined heroic men (and sometimes women) who fought not for themselves, but for their people. St. George killed the dragon, Joan of Arc held back the English, Davy Crockett opened the frontier. Sometimes these heroes were real, sometimes fictitious. Sometimes they were local, sometimes they took on epic proportions. America now needs such a hero -- we demonstrated that in this last election.
America has learned a difficult lesson -- we’ve lived through four years of leaderless abandonment. Like a lost dog, America has stumbled into fights, gone hungry from time to time, and felt ashamed of our national existence.
On Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central,” actor James Woods broke down in tears about losing his Pacific Palisades home in the Southern California fires, and his 8-year-old niece retrieved her piggy bank to help rebuild their house.
Woods said, “It was paradise. And our neighbors were, you know, we knew them all.”
Host Pamala Brown said, “You know now it’s all yeah it’s a reminder anything can be just taken away in an instant.”
Woods said, “But Sarah was on with her eight-year-old niece last night, and she came out. I’m sorry. Just, you know, one day, you’re swimming in the pool, and the next day, it’s all gone. But she came
Tommy Tuberville Reintroduces Measure
to Stop Biological Males From Competing
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to Stop Biological Males From Competing
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) announced on Tuesday that he is reintroducing the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, a measure aimed at preventing trans-identified males from competing in women’s sports.The senator’s announcement comes after a presidential election in which the issue of trans-identified athletes was a significant influence on the campaign. Amid national debate over gender ideology, the sports issue has often taken center stage, with critics arguing against biological males being allowed to compete with female athletes.
It wasn’t the most annoying segment CNN has ever done on the January 6 riot. Still, it circles back to the notion that this network, the Democratic Party, and liberal America writ large cannot get over the fact that a) Trump is back, and b) no one cared about this little riot. The network’s polling found that just five percent of voters had January 6 as their lasting memory of Trump’s first presidency. That same five percent are also addicted to huffing aerosols, or they’re mentally challenged.
An unidentified man was detained Wednesday after he allegedly tried to slip a machete and three knives into the US Capitol Visitor Center hours before President-elect Donald Trump was due to arrive.
US Capitol Police said they plan to press charges against the suspect, who was stopped at an X-ray scanner at the entrance to the legislative complex.
“During security screening at the CVC’s north doors, our officers spotted a machete in the man’s bag, stopped the X-ray machine, arrested the man, and secured the machete,” read a statement from the department.
“Three knives were also found in the bag, along with the machete. Security screening was temporarily stopped
Joe Biden once again made a crisis about himself.
Biden crawled out of his hole on Wednesday to join California Governor Gavin Newsom in a briefing on the wildfires raging out of control in Los Angeles.
Gusty Santa Ana winds are making it nearly impossible for firefighters to contain the fire.
More than 70,000 residents were evacuated as fires quickly spread through Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Altadena and Sylmar.
At least 2 people have died, many more are injured and the fire remains at 0% containment.
Elon Musk took yet another jab at Justin Trudeau after the disgraced Canadian Prime Minister tried to take a final stand against President-elect Donald Trump's rhetoric suggesting the United States could absorb the Great White North. Last month, Trump kicked off the entire controversy when he slammed Trudeau for bristling at his potential tariff threat to persuade northern leaders to tighten border security.
Trump joked, "If Canada can't survive without ripping off the US to the tune of $100 billion a year, then maybe Canada should become the 51st state, and Trudeau could become its governor."
Since that point, the 47th President has consistently chided Trudeau on social media.
It’s the year of our Lord 2025, which means we can leave the Constitution-threatening chaos of 2024 behind, right? Wrong!
Unless something is done to curb the democracy-destroying behavior of the Democrats and the deep state, the future of the country is still very much hanging in the balance. Thankfully, a new calendar and a new administration mark another opportunity for Americans to take back what is rightfully theirs. It won’t be easy. And unlike your New Year’s resolutions, these “ins and outs” should not be forgotten in a couple of weeks. But if they are executed correctly, it will be worth it.
You heard it on Scarborough! This version of Joe Biden – the bumbling and clearly over the hill version is the best version of Joe Biden – and Joe Scarborough supported his candidacy for reelection completely. Always remember that there were those who would do literally anything in order to keep Donald Trump from getting reelected. There was literally nobody who though that Joe Biden was still able to function properly in the White House, yet Joe Scarborough was willing to say loud and clear that this was the best version of Joe Biden.
Donald Trump hasn’t even retaken the office of the presidency yet, and he’s already drastically reshaping American foreign policy.
At a Tuesday press conference, which covered a wide range of topics, President-elect Trump announced that his administration would be renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.”
The once and future president also doubled down on his aims to acquire Greenland, retake control of the Panama Canal, and put pressure on Canada to change its trade relations with the United States One reporter asked Trump whether he would rule out using “military force” to take Greenland and Panama.
It’s Wednesday, January 8. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Coming up: How Canadians enabled Justin Trudeau’s failures, why nicotine is increasingly conservative-coded, and the end of wokeness at McDonald’s.
But first: Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are vibe-shifting hard.
If you ever needed more evidence that elections have consequences, look no further than what’s gone on at Facebook’s parent company in the past 24 hours.
On Monday came the news that Dana White, CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship, would be joining Meta’s board. A longtime friend of Trump,
President-elect Donald Trump blamed California’s Gavin Newsom for the ‘apocalyptic’ wildfires ravaging the Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles — claiming he chose to save an extinct tiny fish species, instead of sending more water to southern California.
Trump raged that the Democratic governor blocked an order that would have diverted more water from the much wetter north to the state’s parched regions “including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way.”
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi beat the S&P 500 by nearly 200% in 2024, continuing her streak of outperforming the stock index.
Pelosi’s portfolio grew 70.9% between Dec. 29, 2023, and Dec. 30, 2024, compared to the S&P 500’s 24.9% return for the period, according to financial data platform Unusual Whales’ 2024 Congress Trading Report. The former speaker’s 2024 investment results exceeded her stellar 2023 performance, when she secured a return of 65.5% — outperforming that year’s S&P 500 return of 24.8% by approximately 164%. (RELATED: Meet The 9 Lawmakers Who Out-Traded Nancy Pelosi In The Stock Market Last Year)
President-elect Donald J. Trump has warned that unless the hostages being held by Hamas are released by January 20, the day of his inauguration, "all hell will break out."
Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, is already in Doha, Qatar, negotiating. Not very astonishingly, the negotiations keep breaking down....
The question arises: why is Witkoff in Qatar negotiating? Negotiating for what? How many dead hostages for how many live Palestinian terrorists now in Israeli prisons?
Why is Trump's statement, "there will be all hell to pay," not, by itself, the negotiation? It seems that all Witkoff would need to do is detail every name, alive or dead;
What some see as a shot across the bow aimed at President-elect Donald Trump, Pope Francis announced Monday that left-wing Cardinal Robert McElroy of the Diocese of San Diego would be the next archbishop of Washington.
McElroy, 70, will succeed the retiring archbishop, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, 77, who shepherded the more than 600,000 Catholics who live in the nation’s capital region.
Gregory has not been afraid to oppose abortion in the public square, but angered some Catholics with his restriction on the traditional Latin Mass.
Body of an Israeli hostage is found in
Gaza, possibly alongside his son’s remains,
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Gaza, possibly alongside his son’s remains,
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Israeli soldiers recovered the body of a 53-year-old hostage in an underground tunnel in southern Gaza, the military said Wednesday, and the army was determining if another set of remains belongs to the man’s son.
The discovery of Yosef AlZayadni’s body comes as Israel and Hamas are considering a ceasefire deal that would free the remaining hostages in Gaza and could halt the fighting. Israel has declared about a third of the 100 hostages dead, but believes as many as half could be.
Yosef and his son Hamzah AlZayadni were thought to still be alive before Wednesday’s announcement,
Stark County school district pays teacher
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$450,000 in settlement over student name, pronouns replies
The Jackson Local School District in Massillon is paying a teacher $450,000 to settle a lawsuit over whether to call students by their preferred names and pronouns, which she said violates her religious beliefs. [SNIP] At the beginning of the 2022 school year, two students asked Geraghty to use first names that differed from their legal names to signify a gender identity different from the one they were born with, according to her complaint filed in the U.S. District Court of Northern Ohio.
One of the students wanted Geraghty to use different pronouns as well.
AG Merrick Garland intends to release
Special Counsel Jack Smith report on Trump
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Special Counsel Jack Smith report on Trump
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Attorney General Merrick Garland will release Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on the 2020 election interference case against President-elect Trump, according to a court filing. The Department of Justice told the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Wednesday that Garland intends to release Volume One of Smith's final report to Congress and the public, which covers the allegations that Trump attempted to illegally undo the results of the 2020 presidential election. However, Garland will not release Volume Two,...classified documents case against Trump, "This limited disclosure will further the public interest in keeping congressional leadership apprised of a significant matter within the Department while safeguarding defendants' interests,"
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) is coming under criticism for being on a trip out of the country as wildfires rip through parts of the Southern California city.
President-elect Trump adviser Richard Grenell ripped Bass for being “in Africa while our city is literally burning to the ground.” RNC Research, an X account managed by Trump’s team and the Republican National Committee, also called out the mayor’s absence. Tech mogul Elon Musk piled on, calling Bass “utterly incompetent,” and Rick Caruso, a real estate developer who ran for mayor in 2022 as a Democrat, called into local television station, pointing out Bass’s absence and saying the city
The liberal hosts behind “Pod Save America” trashed President Biden’s Washington Post op-ed about January 6 as “feckless” and blasted the Democrats for “performing virtue” after Vice President Kamala Harris certified Donald Trump’s election Monday.
“There’s like an entire language that Democrats just need to f–king throw in the trash about like ‘institutions,’ ‘democracy,’ ‘sacred this,'” said Jon Favreau, who served as one of former President Barack Obama’s speechwriters.
Biden warned on Monday that America risks a repeat of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot if the history of the day is forgotten, and called on the country to “commit to remembering” the incident annually.
Merrick Garland Fights to Release Jack
Smith’s Final Report After Judge Cannon
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Smith’s Final Report After Judge Cannon
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US Attorney General Merrick Garland is fighting to release Jack Smith’s final report after Judge Cannon issued a temporary injunction blocking it from public view.
On Tuesday Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily blocked Jack Smith’s report on his lawfare investigation into President Trump.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland previously said he would release Jack Smith’s final report on Trump.
Judge Cannon’s temporary injunction lasts until three days after a federal appeals court issues a ruling on a pending motion to block Jack Smith’s report in a case involving other defendants in the classified documents case.
Watch: Gavin Newsom Thanks L.A. Mayor
Karen Bass, Away in Africa, for Help by
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Karen Bass, Away in Africa, for Help by
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California Governor Gavin Newsom used an emergency press conference Tuesday to thank Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for her leadership “in absentia” during the wildfire crisis now enveloping the state after she phoned it in from Ghana, Africa.
The deadly infernos have burned through 5,400 acres and left at least two people dead. The devastating fires have forced more than 30,000 people to evacuate.“Thank you again to all of the folks behind me in the outstanding leadership of all the elected officials as well. And forgive me one point I’d be remiss — thank you to Mayor Bass who was on the phone immediately this morning… uh… making sure
The O’Keefe Media Group obtained a leaked memo detailing an unusual “presidential inauguration medical personnel support deployment request” for Trump’s inauguration. The Department of Veterans Affair insider told James O’Keefe that she has never seen a request like this before. [Snip] “What concerned me was that this has never been requested before, especially not from HHS,” an insider within the Department of Veterans Affairs told O’Keefe Media Group, revealing an internal memorandum requesting medical personnel ahead of the 2025 Presidential Inauguration. The documents, addressed to Dr. Paul D. Kim of the Veterans Health Administration’s Office of Emergency Management, detail a formal appeal for paramedics, emergency nurses, and doctors.
'Panic, Hubris, or Ineptitude': DeSantis'
Grand Jury Exposes Massive Deception in
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Grand Jury Exposes Massive Deception in
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A Florida grand jury investigation ordered by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis reveals a "pattern of deceptive and obfuscatory behavior" by pharmaceutical companies and federal agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings of Florida's 22nd Statewide Grand Jury and their forward-looking recommendations highlight concerns about vaccine safety data, the effectiveness of lockdown measures, and captured regulatory oversight. Citing the grand jury's findings, DeSantis noted in a social media post on Tuesday:
"these sponsors have taken in billions of taxpayer dollars for creating and selling their vaccines; they cannot be sued if something goes wrong with them;
American Voters Sharply Split Over Trump’s
Proposed Transgender Ban In Military:
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Proposed Transgender Ban In Military:
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Among President Trump’s promises during the 2024 campaign was to “medically discharge” transgender men and women from the U.S. military. But would Americans support such a move? A plurality of voters say no, revealing a deep political split over the issue, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
While no specific proposal has yet actually been put forward, the national online I&I/TIPP Poll asked this question: “News reports suggest President-elect Trump is considering an executive order to discharge all transgender service members and ban future enlistments, potentially affecting 15,000 active personnel. Do you support or oppose this plan?”
President-elect Donald Trump filed an emergency petition to the United States Supreme Court Wednesday morning in an effort to block his sentencing in New York v. Trump.
Judge Juan Merchan set Trump's sentencing in New York v. Trump for Jan. 10 after a jury found the now-president-elect guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree, stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's investigation. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges and has appealed the ruling but was rejected last week by Merchan.
Zuckerberg goes full Musk
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The first week of January laid a thick layer of ice and snow across Poca, West Virginia, and much of the rest of the eastern United States, as the weather returned to normal. (Snip) After Trump’s second re-election, the world is returning to normal, not that I care much about the rest of the world.
President Trump’s anticipated return to power is only half the reason the world has changed for the better. The other half is the end of the FJB presidency, which showed the true goal of the American left is destruction.
Liz ‘Pocahontas’ Warren Pens 33-Page
Letter Ranting at Pete Hegseth, Defending
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Letter Ranting at Pete Hegseth, Defending
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Monday sent a 33-page rant to Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth defending the Biden administration’s woke policies in the military and expressing concern that he would reverse them if confirmed.
In a letter sent to Hegseth on Tuesday and made public, Warren — who lied on teaching applications about her race — expressed concerns about Hegseth’s views opposing Marxist-based diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and wokeness in the military, and concern that he would actually implement President-elect Donald Trump’s policies at the Pentagon.
Los Angeles-area firefighters claim they are running out of water as they battle the growing wildfires in the area.
"The hydrants are down," one firefighter said over the radio, according to the Los Angeles Times.
"Water supply just dropped," reported another one.
Former LA mayoral hopeful and billionaire developer Rick Caruso backed the claims made by the first responders as his staff reported to him from the Palisades Village in the Westside neighborhood.
"There's no water in the fire hydrants," Caruso told the outlet. "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."
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday announced the arrest of seven foreigners -- including two Americans -- whom he accused of being "mercenaries" trying to prevent him from being sworn-in for another six years in power. Maduro said the Americans, two Colombian "hitmen" and three "mercenaries" from the war in Ukraine were involved in plotting unspecified "terrorist acts" ahead of his planned inauguration Friday. "I am sure that in the next few hours they will confess," Maduro said in a broadcast on state television, before declaring a mass deployment of police and military across the country.
Thanks to Donald Trump’s revolutionary campaign strategy of near-exclusive focus on internet media, Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, and self-immolation, the dominant ninety-year run of the self-styled “mainstream media” ended with the 2024 presidential election, alongside its legacy of being the cheerleaders and propaganda arm of the American Left and an increasingly radicalized Democrat Party.
The mainstream media can trace its beginning to Franklin Roosevelt. It was given birth with the passage of the Communications Act of 1934 and the creation of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
‘Thank You, Dr. Fauci’
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“A high-stakes docu-thriller” is a P.R. caption for the ironically named Jenner Furst documentary, Thank You, Dr. Fauci. No Thanks, Dr. Fauci or Goodbye, Doc would be a more straightforward title. After all, if a large number of the right people were to view the film, it would change Anthony Fauci’s public reputation from the courageous voice of science to a mendacious bureaucrat whose reckless obsession with genetically altered vaccines paved the way for a devastating pandemic. But as Furst implies, the likelihood of that reversal of fortune is slim, since the same tech, pharma, and political powers that successfully squashed the truth
President-elect Donald Trump declared on Tuesday that he would rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.”
Trump revealed his vision for rebranding the gulf during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago. (X Video) “We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,” Trump announced.
“The Gulf of America; what a beautiful name, and it’s appropriate,” Trump added. “And Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country.” Trump’s announcement comes as he has recently focused on nearby territories and the U.S.-constructed Panama Canal.
The Washington Post lost more than $70 million dollars last year and rather than trying a course correction, they doubled down on woke. One of their cartoonists recently resigned because Jeff Bezos nixed her anti-Trump cartoon that also criticized her own paper.
Now the paper is laying off dozens of staffers. It turns out decisions have consequences.
Like many other liberal media outlets, the Washington Post has become a captive of their most far left readers. They can’t triangulate politically because they would lose the last group of readers that they have left.
Now that DEI is on its way out (with some major holdouts like Costco and Disney), something intelligent should replace it.
With our culture's fondness for acronyms, we need a new one such as MCF. It's not enough to say just "Let's go back to the way it was" because too many people don't remember or never knew how it is supposed to be.
We need hiring and promotion based solely on Merit, Competence, and Fairness.
Frigid air that normally stays trapped in the Arctic has escaped, plunging deep into the United States for an extended visit that is expected to provoke teeth-chattering but not be record-shattering.
It’s a cold air outbreak that some experts say is happening more frequently, and paradoxically, because of a warming world.(snip) “There’s a climate change signal in that,” Francis said.
The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world, which means the difference between temperatures up north and down south are shrinking, Francis said. Arctic sea ice is shrinking,
Roughly 30,000 Los Angeles residents — including celebrities — have been ordered to evacuate their homes as a wildfire engulfs the ritzy Pacific Palisades and some have stepped up to help emergency responders clear roads blocked by abandoned vehicles Tuesday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency after touching down in the area and meeting with first responders fighting the blaze that has torched more than 2,900 acres into Tuesday night, according to CalFire.
“By no stretch of the imagination are we out of the woods,” Newsom warned as winds up to 100 mph are expected to increase overnight across the tony enclave — including regions that are “abnormally dry,”
Of course, I’d rather have Dr. Mehmet Oz in the US Senate than Democrat John Fetterman, but this guy has been a surprise. He speaks his mind, has unwavering support for Israel, and does not care if the progressive Left hates his guts. With Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin departing the upper chamber, Fetterman might be the only voice of reason on the other side of the aisle. On Fox News’ Bret Baier’s show, the Pennsylvania Democrat had reasonable takes on the issue of Greenland and the nominees of President-elect Donald J. Trump, which will likely anger liberals. Fetterman was a guest along with colleague Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL).
CNN Data Analyst Shows How Little Voters
Cared About January 6th as a Political
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Cared About January 6th as a Political
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CNN’s data analyst Harry Enten recently looked at how much voters cared about January 6th as a political issue and the numbers were stunningly small.
Democrats and the media, including a lot of people at CNN, thought this was their ace in the hole in November but they chose poorly because voters did not care. People were much more concerned about the border, inflation, and other serious issues.
This is why people like Sunny Hostin of The View look especially foolish when they try to hype Jan 6th as some sort of historic tragedy.
The only tragedy is the people who have been withering in jail over this for years now.