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#10 California Will Spend $2.5 Billion to Help the Los Angeles Area Recover From Wildfires - Sophie Austin for AP News, Gavin Newsom, Elex Michaelson, Washington Times, and Fox 11 Los Angeles on X
California will spend $2.5 billion to help the Los Angeles area recover from recent deadly wildfires under a relief package signed Thursday by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Newsom signed the laws after the state Legislature approved them with bipartisan support earlier in the day. The measures include $2.5 billion for the state’s disaster response efforts such as evacuations, sheltering survivors and removing household hazardous waste. Lawmakers also approved $4 million for local governments to streamline approvals for rebuilding homes, and $1 million to support school districts and help them rebuild facilities...
#9 Constitutional Amendment to Allow Trump Third Term Introduced in the House - Dan Mangan for CNBC, Eric Daugherty, Republicans Against Trump, No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen, Conservative, and Mario Nawfal on X
A Republican House member introduced a resolution Thursday to amend the U.S. Constitution in order to allow President Donald Trump — and any other future president — to be elected to a third term in the White House. Trump “has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to accomplish that goal,” said Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee, who proposed extending the current maximum of two elected terms. “It is imperative that we provide President Trump with every resource necessary to correct the disastrous course set by the Biden administration,” Ogles said in a statement...
#8 Congress Passes Laken Riley Act, Trump to Sign into Law - Brooklynn Robinson, Paul A. Szypula, Tracy Beanz, Senator Katie Boyd Britt, and Senator Ted Cruz on X
On Monday, January 20, 2025, the Senate passed The Laken Riley Act, named for the 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student who was murdered while going for a jog on her college campus. Her murderer, Jose Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, entered the U.S. illegally through El Paso, Texas. Prior to Laken's murder, Ibarra had a series of run-ins with law enforcement. In August 2023, he was arrested in New York for driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle with a child inside. This arrest led to him receiving charges of reckless endangerment of a child. However, Ibarra was released before immigration detainers could be issued. Months later, in October 2023, Ibarra and his brother Diego were cited for shoplifting in Athens, Georgia, after stealing from a Walmart. Jose Ibarra's failure to appear in court resulted in a bench warrant for his arrest in December 2023, just months before he murdered Laken...#7 Trump Signs Order to Declassify JFK, MLK and RFK Assassination Files - Alexandra Hutzler for ABC News, Real Alex Jones, Jess Fields, Mike Benz, and End Tribalism in Politics on X
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify files related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King. "That's a big one," Trump said as put his signature to the order in the Oval Office. He asked an aide standing nearby to give the marker to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who he's nominated to be secretary of Health and Human Services. Trump has long vowed to make the information public. He released a trove of documents in 2017 related to the 1963 killing of John F. Kennedy but left some of it redacted based on recommendations from the CIA and FBI...
#6 States are Destroying Forests and Killing Wildlife to Build Solar Farms - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards For the Highwire, James Melville, Anna Matson, and Not the Bee on X
As some states in the nation race to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050—no doubt in line with the deep state agenda to confiscate individual freedoms under the guise of climate change—Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law insists that solar panels reduce carbon emissions more per acre than trees. The university continues to...#5 MAHA? Junk Food and Seed Oil Lobbyist Tapped for Top USDA Position - Donald Shaw for Sludge, Toby Rogers/Thomas Massie, Anna Matson, and Truth Shack TM on X
In his big inauguration day speech at Capitol One Arena, President Trump declared that we will “Make America Healthy Again.” The next day, his administration named a career junk food lobbyist as chief of staff to the federal agency that oversees the nation’s food and nutrition guidelines. Kailee Tkacz Buller has been chosen for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) chief of staff, where she will be the right-hand woman for the agency’s secretary—expected to be Brooke Rollins—and help implement policies, manage staff, and assist in messaging. Tkacz Buller, a USDA alumni from the first Trump administration, has most recently worked for the seed oil industry lobby as President and CEO of the National Oilseed Processors Association (NOPA) and the Edible Oil Producers Association (EOPA). Prior to joining the first Trump administration, she was a lobbyist for top junk food industry lobbying groups, the Corn Refiners Association and SNAC International...
#4 Mississippi Bill Would Create Bounty Hunter Program to Hunt Undocumented Migrants - Bonnie Bolden for Clarion Ledger, Purple Gimp, Mario Nawfal, and JOSH DUNLAP on X
A new bill in Mississippi, if passed, would create a bounty hunting program to hunt down undocumented migrants. DeSoto County District Attorney Matthew Barton announced the proposed legislation in a news release. House Bill 1484 would create the Mississippi Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program if the state passes it into law. State Rep. Justin Keen from DeSoto County authored the bill. Both men say this fits with immigration policy changes endorsed by President Donald Trump...
#3 Transgender Inmates Panic as Donald Trump’s Executive Order Sends Them Packing to Men’s Prisons - Shawn Cohen for dailymail.com, Libs of TikTok, Oli London, and Charlie Kirk on X
Hundreds of transgender federal prisoners are living in fear after a 'roundup' that will send them packing to men's lockups following a day-one executive order from President Donald Trump. Now lawyers are desperately trying to find a way to fight the order, saying the prisoners will have 'a target on their backs' as they move in with hardened male inmates. 'It's going to be incredibly dangerous,' attorney Moira Meltzer-Cohen told DailyMail.com. Meltzer-Cohen represents Donna Langan, a transgender woman who underwent a sex change in federal prison. She is serving a life sentence for bank robbery as a member of the neo-Nazi Aryan Republican Army...
#2 Trump Pardons ‘Peaceful’ Pro-lifers Imprisoned for Protesting Outside Abortion Clinics - Diana Glebova for The New York Post, Bevelyn Williams, Steve Friend/Kyle Becker, A-A-Ron, Portland Moderate, and Little One on X
President Trump pardoned nearly two dozen pro-life activists Thursday who were convicted under a federal law of illegally trying to block abortion clinic entrances or otherwise keep women from undergoing the procedure. The pardons, Trump said in the Oval Office, will go to 23 “peaceful protestors” who were prosecuted under the Biden administration. He did not reveal the names of those who will be pardoned.
#1 Ex-Politico Reporters Reveal Editors Quashed, Slow-Walked Negative Biden Stories ‘With No Explanation' - Joseph A. Wulfsohn and Hanna Panreck Fox News, KanekoaTheGreat on X, Jonathan Turley, and Glenn Greenwald/Harold Hutchinson on X
Two former Politico reporters spoke candidly about efforts made by their bosses to either slow-walk or completely quash their reporting on the Biden family during their time at the news outlet. Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri, now journalists for Axios and Puck, respectively, reflected on their time at Politico on Palmeri's "Somebody's Gotta Win" podcast. Caputo called out Politico's "ill-fated headline" downplaying the Hunter Biden laptop scandal during the 2020 election...
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