PJ Media,
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Matt Margolis
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Pete Hegseth will have enough votes to become Secretary of Defense, which is a tremendous victory for Donald Trump. The vote was 50-50, and Vice President JD Vance is expected to break the tie.
All eyes were on the votes by Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), as Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) had previously indicated they were going to vote against Hegseth. McConnell voted no, but Tillis ultimately decided to vote for Hegseth's confirmation.
"From the beginning, I have been clear about my position: if President Trump’s nominees were reported favorably out of the relevant committees, I would support their confirmation
NY Post,
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Natalie O'Neill
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Total space cadets!
Harvard University-affiliated astronomers announced the discovery of a new asteroid zooming precariously close to Earth — only to learn it was actually a Tesla sports car launched by Elon Musk as a publicity stunt seven years ago, scientists said Friday.
The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling through the final frontier roughly 150,000 miles from Earth, according to Astronomy magazine.
Its distance was closer to the planet than the moon— prompting the scientists to declare the asteroid had the potential to some day slam into Earth.
BizPac Review,
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Nicole Haas
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1/24/2025 9:03:07 PM
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The collective tantrum among federal employees who’ve been called back to their offices continues, and some oddly enough, take their grievances to social media.
In a now-deleted Reddit post, a presumed federal employee sounded off on the “irony” surrounding “Trump making” them go to work “in person.”
The reported DMV worker named Katie claimed that Trump and DOGE’s plan has already backfired because now all they do in the office “is yap” about all the changes being implanted by the new administration.
“All of this we are yapping more at work, trying to digest everything that’s going on, we cannot get any work done
Red State,
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Becca Lower
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On Friday, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ordered that members of the Oath Keepers group whose sentences stemming from Jan. 6 were recently pardoned or commuted by President Donald Trump be barred from the U.S. Capitol and an adjacent area, unless given permission from the court.
Among those affected is the group's founder Stewart Rhodes, whose sentence was commuted by President Trump, along with others who were pardoned; as my colleague Streiff noted, this was an adjustment from the policy promised on the campaign trail:
Releasing non-violent J6 prisoners was a campaign pledge.
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Splitting the prisoners into two groups and releasing them both,
Red State,
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Ward Clark
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1/24/2025 8:23:49 PM
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It's been a strange winter, not just here in the Great Land, but all across the United States. I'm not so sure the weather has been what you'd call normal anywhere in the U.S. this winter; it's either a deep freeze or unseasonably warm. Here, in our Susitna Valley digs, on this last Friday of January, it's not snowing, but raining. Yes, really - it's 41 degrees, according to our indoor-outdoor thermometer:
An unseasonably warm January will bring at least an inch of rain to almost all of Southcentral Alaska this weekend, with deep snow set to fall in the Talkeetna area.
PJ Media,
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Matt Margolis
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Pete Hegseth’s nomination for secretary of Defense has reportedly hit a new snag.
This confirmation was always destined to face fierce resistance, with Democrats offering unrelenting opposition and the media happily running interference with their smear machine. As we previously reported, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) have already announced their opposition to Hegseth’s confirmation, but a third Republican U.S. senator is allegedly joining them. [Tweet]
The Wall Street Journal has more:
Other than Collins and Murkowski, who are on the record as “no” votes, and McConnell, whose position is unknown, nearly all other Republican senators have said they plan to vote yes on Friday.
Breitbart 2nd Amendment,
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AWR Hawkins
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On Thursday, Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) blasted “unelected bureaucrats” who have targeted the rights of military veterans who use a fiduciary to help with their finances.
Crane was part of a hearing which he described as being “about whether or not unelected bureaucrats can strip away Second Amendment, God-given rights from our veterans if they need help managing or their assets.”
Veterans’ gun rights have been under threat for decades, first for those seeking mental help for the struggles they faced post-deployment and then, for allowing a third party to help them manage finances.
Regarding mental health: In February 2016, during the Obama administration, Breitbart News reported numerous combat veterans
Breitbart Europe,
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Oliver JJ Lane
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Intensifying talk in European capitals about sending peacekeepers to Ukraine’s front lines is welcome but it won’t work without American boots on the ground, President Volodymyr Zelensky says at the Davos World Economic Forum meeting.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has been at Davos this week drumming up support, but also attempting to ingratiate himself with President Donald Trump by acting as a conduit for America First messaging to European leaders. Nevertheless, Bloomberg reports the Ukrainian “bristled” at the suggestion the United States wouldn’t put boots on the ground in Ukraine to deter further Russian aggression.
The conversation follows months of talk in Europe, particularly in capitals like Paris, Warsaw, and London,
Breitbart Politics,
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Wendell Husebø
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House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) enlisted psychologists to help Democrats on the panel cope with President Donald Trump’s first week in office.
The recruitment of psychologists suggests that many Democrats have “Trump derangement syndrome.”
“This is only President Trump’s first week in office, and he’s already broken the House Democrats’ brains again. They’re already calling their shrinks,” Mike Davis, founder and president of the pro-Trump Article III Project, told Breitbart News.
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) mocked Raskin for needing therapy to overcome “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” saying:
Jamie Raskin has faced a difficult few months.
Breitbart Politics,
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Elizabeth Weibel
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President Donald Trump announced that he would be deploying the United States Army Corps of Engineers to North Carolina, highlighting how the people in the state need their riverbanks and roads fixed in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene’s destruction.
During a visit to the state on Friday, Trump admitted that he did not know “what took so long” for the Biden administration to address the destruction that communities in western North Carolina faced due to Hurricane Helene. Trump added that his administration would get them “the resources” they need and the support they deserved.
“We have a lot of things in mind,
NY Post,
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Priscilla Degregory
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Three federal judges in Washington, DC, reluctantly dropped the cases of several Jan. 6 rioters who were among the 1,500 protesters President Trump pardoned on his first day in office.
“No pardon can change the tragic truth of what happened on January 6, 2021,” said Judge Tanya Chutkan in a ruling Wednesday dismissing the pending case against, John Banuelos.
Chutkan — an appointee of former President Barack Obama — is the same judge who oversaw the 2020 election interference case against Trump, 78, before it was dropped by the feds when Trump was reelected.
Prosecutors moved for dismissal of the case against Trump since a sitting president receives absolute immunity from federal prosecution.
New York Post,
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Steven F. Hayward
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By now no one should be surprised at President Trump’s sweeping reversals of the conventional wisdom on everything from A (asylum) to W (wilderness access) — sorry, no executive orders affecting anything beginning with Z yet.
But in revoking President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 Executive Order 11246 that launched our decades-long imposition of de facto racial quotas under the euphemism “affirmative action,” Trump has gone beyond the boldest imagination of any previous administration.
A brief history: When the Civil Rights Act of 1964’s Title VII — the clause banning racial discrimination in hiring — was debated in the Senate, opponents charged it would lead to racial quotas.
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Moron!!!