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#10 Trump Pentagon Pick Had Been Flagged by Fellow Service Member as Possible ‘Insider Threat - Tara Copp, Michelle R. Smith, and Jason Dearen for AP News, Jon Nicosia, Jennifer Van Laar, Karoline Leavitt, Dr. Carol M. Swain, and Lacey on X
Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member due to a tattoo on his bicep that’s associated with white supremacist groups. Hegseth, who has downplayed the role of military members and veterans in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and railed against the Pentagon’s subsequent efforts to address extremism in the ranks, has said he was pulled by his District of Columbia National Guard unit from guarding Joe Biden’s January 2021 inauguration. He’s said he was unfairly identified as an extremist due to a cross tattoo on his chest...
#9 Joe Biden Authorizes Ukraine to Use US Long-Range Missiles to Strike Inside Russia - Anders Hagstrom , Andrea Margolis , and Jennifer Griffin for Fox News, Cenk Uygur, Wall Street Apes (community note), Jeffrey Tucker, Shawn Farash, and Roger Stone on X
President Biden has authorized Ukraine's military to use U.S.-provided long-range missiles on targets inside Russian territory, senior U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News on Sunday. The senior U.S. official said the weapons will mostly focus on the Kursk region of Western Russia. The decision was first reported by The New York Times. According to the official, Biden's decision was spurred by the Russian decision to invite 10,000 North Korean soldiers into the fight against Ukraine in Kursk...
#8 Pennsylvania Democrats Openly Admit to Counting Illegal Ballots in McCormick-Casey Race - Chris Pandolfo for Fox News, Elon Musk, The New York Post, AJ Huber, and Pennsylvanians for McCormick on X
As the contested Pennsylvania Senate race barrels towards a $1 million recount, Democratic officials in a few blue counties are openly admitting to counting disqualified ballots in defiance of state law and court orders. The Associated Press has called the race for Republican Sen.-elect Dave McCormick, who currently holds a 26,000 vote lead over incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. But Casey has refused to concede and insisted that every vote be counted. The close margin – within one percentage point – triggered an automatic recount under Pennsylvania law...
#7 Trump’s Choice for FCC Chairman Says Agency ‘Will End Its Promotion of DEI’ Next Year - Elizabeth Pritchett for Fox News, Neil Childon, Video Forensics, Brandan Carr (community note), and Harrison Berger on X
President-elect Donald Trump's pick for chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said early Monday morning that the agency's focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) will end next year. Brendan Carr, who currently serves as the senior Republican member of the FCC, posted a snippet of the agency's budget request for Fiscal Year 2025 on X, which stated that its second-highest strategic goal is promoting DEI. "The FCC’s most recent budget request said that promoting DEI was the agency’s second-highest [sic] strategic goal. Starting next year, the FCC will end its promotion of DEI," Carr wrote...
#6 ’Lines Are Drawn’: Onlookers Stunned as McConnell Reportedly Delivers Bad News to Trump - David McAfee for Raw Story, Eric Daugherty, Johnny Maga, Bill Mitchell, Dinesh D'Souza, Liz Churchill, Sean Davis
Donald Trump reportedly got a potentially devastating message from Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, and political observers are speaking up. Trump already announced he would be relying on recess appointments to get some of his cabinet nominees pushed through, but McConnell said on Sunday that such a thing wouldn't happen, according to a news report. Trump's controversial nominees include former GOP lawmaker Matt Gaetz, who has been investigated for drug use and allegedly having sex with a minor...#5 What to Know About Trump’s Energy Secretary Nominee Chris Wright - By Peter Charalambous, Matthew Glasser & Ivan Pereira for GMA, Chris Wright, John Strand, Stephen Stapczynski, Dan Pickering, and Alex Epstein on X
President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday that he has nominated Chris Wright, an executive of a fracking company who has fiercely criticized the existence of a climate crisis and the transition to renewable energy sources, to run the Department of Energy. "As Secretary of Energy, Chris will be a key leader, driving innovation, cutting red tape, and ushering in a new 'Golden Age of American Prosperity and Global Peace,'" Trump said in a Truth Social post. The Senate must approve Wright before he can assume his role. He has had a long history in the energy industry and has been outspoken about fracking. After earning a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 80s, Wright worked for several energy companies, many of which focused on gas production, according to his LinkedIn page...
#4 ‘We Made Some Mistakes,’ Trudeau Says as Canada Backtracks on Liberal Immigration Plans - The Economic Times, Breaking 911, govt.exe is corrupt, Stacey, and Republican Canadian Girl
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently addressed the rationale behind Canada's new immigration cap, acknowledging past missteps in the immigration system and unveiling a plan to address ongoing challenges. In a 7-minute YouTube video, Trudeau reflected on how certain actors in the immigration system had exploited vulnerable individuals, creating significant issues in the country’s immigration framework. "We made some mistakes," Trudeau admitted, referring to how certain bad actors, including fake colleges and exploitative corporations, took advantage of the system. He pointed out that these entities made false promises to vulnerable immigrants, offering easy pathways to citizenship or jobs that were never fulfilled. Trudeau emphasized that while Canada’s immigration system was designed to attract skilled workers and international students, it had been abused by those seeking to profit off of it...#3 FDA Moves to Pull Common Cold Medicine From Shelves Amid Concerns - Alexander Tin for CBS News, Amuse, HustleBitch, KOMO News, CNET, Tessa, and The New York Post on X
The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it would seek to pull a widely used ingredient in cough and cold medicines from the market, after the agency's scientists concluded that the oral version of the drug is ineffective as a nasal decongestant. The FDA's proposal comes more than a year after the agency's outside advisers voted against continued use of the ingredient, called oral phenylephrine, citing concerns with the initial data used to support its approval and new data questioning its effectiveness. A number of common over-the-counter nasal decongestants have relied on phenylephrine alone or in combination with other ingredients for years, including some cold and cough versions of Advil, NyQuil, Sudafed, Robitussin, Tylenol, and Theraflu...
#2 FBI Statement Regarding Offensive Text Messages - The FBI, FOX 32 News, Viva Sector, Breanna Morello, and Marcus Schuff on X
The FBI is aware of the offensive and racist text messages sent to African American and Black communities around the country and is in contact with the Justice Department and other federal authorities on the matter. The reports are not identical and vary in their specific language, but many say the recipient has been selected to pick cotton on a plantation. The text message recipients have now expanded to high school students, as well as both the Hispanic and LGBTQIA+ communities. Some recipients reported being told they were selected for deportation or to report to a re-education camp. The messages have also been reported as being received via email communication...
#1 A Systematic Review Of Autopsy Findings In Deaths After COVID-19 Vaccination - Science Public Health Policy and More, Peter A. McCullough MD MPH, McCullough Foundation, William Makis MD, Steve Kirsch, and Jonathan Cohler on X
Twice-Censored Landmark COVID-19 Vaccine Autopsy Study Republished After enduring relentless censorship by Preprints with the Lancet and Forensic Science International (Elsevier), our systematic review linking COVID-19 vaccines to death is now available for the entire world to read. A total of 240 deaths (73.9%) were independently adjudicated as directly due to or significantly contributed to by COVID-19 vaccination, of which the primary causes of death include sudden cardiac death (35%), pulmonary embolism (12.5%), myocardial infarction (12%), VITT (7.9%), myocarditis (7.1%), multisystem inflammatory syndrome (4.6%), and cerebral hemorrhage (3.8%). - McCullough FoundationAnd Now for Something Special 
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