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#10 Federal Judge Smacks Down California Gun Law, Calls It 'Repugnant to the Second Amendment' - Michael Schwarz for The Western Journal
The sovereign people had cause to rejoice Wednesday when U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney issued a temporary injunction blocking an odious California gun-control law that he called “sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court,” according to Fox News. California’s ponderous Senate Bill 2 effectively would have eviscerated an individual’s constitutional right to carry firearms by expanding the catalog of “sensitive places” susceptible to state regulation. Those “sensitive places” would have included nearly anywhere human beings go in public.
Marlene O’Mara, of Nashville, said she thought her daughter and granddaughter’s gifts delivered by Amazon had been stolen by real-life Grinches after they were nowhere to be found, despite a picture from a driver that showed it had been delivered. That was until she looked at her security camera footage, which showed her neighbor’s dog stealing the package off her porch after dancing around the delivery driver. The video shows the dog staring at the package for seconds before checking to make sure the coast was clear. After a quick sniff, the dog gently bites down on the package before taking off with it.
#8 Dr. Hatfill Publishes Devastating Paper on Malfeasance During COVID-19 - Wendi Strauch Mahoney for UncoverDC
Dr. Steven Hatfill believes the COVID task force misled Trump on the "proper pandemic response to COVID-19." While he believes Operation Warp Speed was necessary, it was not meant to ignore proper monitoring of the experimental mRNA vaccines. In a recent interview with Steve Bannon, he laments, "At any sign of adverse effects of any significant number, the vaccine should have been halted. They were so experimental. This was experimental gene therapy." "Not one person should have ever been given one injection," said Hatfill. "Of these messenger RNA quote pseudo vaccines, they never prevented infection. They never prevented COVID-19 transmission. They never prevented more serious diseases. There is no data to support that."
#7 Small Farmers and Ranchers are on the Verge of Being Intentionally Destroyed - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire
Did you know that in September 2022, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced they were spending $3.1 billion taxpayer dollars to implement a massive climate change initiative whose ultimate goal is to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions of American farmers and ranchers? Undoubtedly, the harm on the horizon set to befall America’s farmers and ranchers is extensive and not limited to this one initiative. No indeed. With the U.N. climate summit, COP28, now in the rearview mirror, over $7.1 billion in new funding commitments were mobilized for climate action. These commitments neatly align with ESG or Environmental Social Governance—the sinister ruse devised to create alliances between governments and corporations to exploit the lives of humanity under the disguise of equality and environmentalism.
#6 Newborns in NICU Celebrate First Christmas with Festive Photo Shoot - Jim Kukstis for 7News Boston
BOSTON (WHDH) - Newborn babies in the newborn intensive care units at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mass General for Children might not be home for the holidays, but the hospital is making sure their first Christmas is festive and bright. Brigham and Women’s littlest patients were dressed in Santa Claus and elf costumes for photos, a tradition that began years ago to make keepsakes for families. At Mass General for Children, infant patients donned party dresses and cozy hats to meet Santa Claus, with Dr. Kevin Raskin, chief of the Orthopedic Oncology Service at Massachusetts General Hospital trading his scrubs for red velvet to play the part.
#5 Florida Man Goes Fishing in Bass Pro Shops Pond, Flees with Live 50-Pound Tarpon - Rachel Tucker for News Channel 8
Florida officials are searching for a man who was caught on camera walking through Bass Pro Shops and holding a large fish in a net. The man walked out of the Fort Myers store with a tarpon on Wednesday, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. He was accused of entering Bass Pro Shops with a net and scooping the fish out of the tank. Bystander video provided by the sheriff’s office showed the man carrying the flopping animal through the sales floor, flanked by a woman and another man who was filming. The sheriff’s office is working with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) to investigate the alleged theft. According to FWC, tarpon are a protected species and, if caught in the wild, must be released.
#4 Gaming Stocks Plunge After Beijing Unleashes Surprise Crackdown - Tyler Durden for Zero Hedge
Video game and software stocks in China plummeted on Friday following the Communist Party's unexpected announcement of new gaming restrictions, reigniting fears that Beijing is resuming its crackdown on the internet sector. Bloomberg reports the country's top gaming regulator published draft rules designed to curb gaming addiction among users by limiting total money spent and online time. These so-called 'caps' on each player restrict the amount of time, ban rewards for frequent usage, and even prohibit content that violates national security. An intense selloff swept across China's largest gaming companies as concerns mount that the new rules would dent earnings.
#3 Biden to Commute Sentences of 11 Nonviolent Drug Offenders - Samantha Waldenberg for CNN
President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of 11 people serving “disproportionately long sentences for non-violent drug offenses” on Friday, according to a White House official. “I am commuting the sentences of 11 people who are serving disproportionately long sentences for non-violent drug offenses. All of them would have been eligible to receive significantly lower sentences if they were charged with the same offense today,” Biden said in a statement. The president is also pardoning “additional offenses of simple possession and use of marijuana under federal and D.C. law,” according to the White House.
#2 Rudy Giuliani Files for Bankruptcy Following $146M Defamation Award - CBS News
Former New York City mayor and Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy Thursday, according to a court filing. Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy less than a week after a jury ordered him to pay $146 million in damages to Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who sued him for defamation. He estimates his liabilities are between about $100 million and $500 million. The damage award was originally set at $148 million, but the federal judge presiding over the case later reduced it to $145,969,000. "This maneuver is unsurprising, and it will not succeed in discharging Mr. Giuliani's debt to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss," Michael Gottlieb, a lawyer for the two women, said in a statement.
#1 What to Know About the Colorado Supreme Court's Trump Ruling and What Happens Next - CBS News
An unprecedented ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that bans former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 ballot is unlikely to be the final word on the matter.
The court put its ruling on hold until Jan. 4, anticipating that Trump would appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, setting up a showdown to decide whether the Republican presidential front-runner can remain in the race just as primaries begin in early states.
The court issued several findings in its decision, including:
- The Jan. 6, 2021, riot was an an insurrection
- Trump "engaged in" an insurrection
- Trump's speech "inciting the crowd" before the riot was "not protected by the First Amendment"
- Colorado law allows voters to challenge Trump's eligibility under the insurrectionist clause
- The clause can be enforced without action from Congress
- The clause applies to the presidency
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