DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

“Absolutely Insane”: Pentagon Officials on Trump’s Military Deportation Plan (The Intercept)

Trump’s immigration crackdown is expected to start on Day 1 (Politico) Well, that’s what we elected him to do.

The Great Deportation of 2025 (Foreign Policy)

Trump’s threats of mass deportations lead to hard discussions for families (NPR)

Prosecutors oppose tossing Trump’s hush money conviction but are open to sentencing delay (Associated Press)

Trump ignores transition rules. It’s a ‘hostile takeover,’ ally says. (Washington Post)

The rule of law is already being undermined in the presidential transition (Alexander B. Howard/CIVIC TEXTS)

Biden Rushes $275M More In Weapons To Ukraine Before Trump Enters Office

‘100% on board’: Border state offers Trump massive plot of land to aid mass deportation operation (Adam Shaw/Fox News)

Italian village offers $1 homes to Americans upset by the US election result (Silvia Marchetti/CNN)

Team Trump Wants the Poor to Suffer to Fund His Tax Cuts for the Rich (Rolling Stone)  When did you ever get a job from a poor person?

L.A. Enacts Sanctuary City Ordinance to Prepare for Trump’s Mass Deportations

Pete Hegseth Scandal Is Rattling Trumpworld: ” People Are Upset About the Distraction” (Gabriel Sherman/Vanity Fair)

Trump’s corruption of the DOJ goes much deeper than Gaetz (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

House Republicans are playing the Trump card in committee chair races (Eleanor Mueller/Politico)  OH NOES!

Raimondo’s new mission: Leave no cash for Trump (Steven Overly/Politico)

Playbook: The real divide roiling Democrats (Politico)

Trump Tariffs Are Inflationary Claim The Experts, But…

Behind the Scenes at a Secretive Gathering of Rising MAGA Donors (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)  Duhn dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

Please, Mr. President, ditch this dreadful duo – Gabbard and Gaetz (New York Post)

MSNBC Says Trump Coverage Must Change, Be ‘More Focused On Democracy’

Past Nominees Have Been Undone by Far Less Than What Surrounds Trump Picks (Carl Hulse/New York Times)  But slurs and innuendo and ‘allegations’ won’t work with Trump.

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Now if you own stock in a company, and you read a report that the prospects for that company are not good, that the cash dividend that the company is expected to pay to stockholders is in jeopardy, you can get out. You can sell the stock and invest somewhere else.

Per the Social Security Administration, there are 184 million Americans now working and paying Social Security taxes. Per the above notice from the Social Security Trustees, all those 184 million ages 57 and below will get only 79% of their entitled benefits at retirement (assuming they choose to start collecting benefits at age 67).

Does any one of the 184 million have an option to say, “No, thanks, I don’t want to be part of this,” and get out? Certainly not. The government forces you to participate, allegedly for your own good. They decide; you obey. It’s a reminder of what President Ronald Reagan called “the most terrifying words in the English language: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

Social Security is a Ponzi scheme and always has been.

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Jewish patients coming to the University of California, San Francisco for medical care report hiding their identity, a senior faculty member at the school told the Washington Free Beacon.

The professor added that the public school has contributed to “an erosion of professionalism” and a “loss of the centering of the patient-physician relationship” with its activist teaching, per the Free Beacon.

The publication reported that a required, six-week medical “justice and advocacy” workshop taught that an anti-Israel protest on Nov. 16, 2023 — one that blocked the San Francisco Bay Bridge and prevented, among other vehicles, three UCSF trucks carrying organs to be transplanted that day — was a “‘direct action,’ akin to ‘sit-ins’ or ‘vigils,’ that disrupt ‘business as usual’ to ‘pressure targeted decision-makers.'”

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When Israeli soldiers began entering southern Lebanon as part of the IDF’s ground offensive, they encountered Hezbollah’s massive weapons stockpiles – most of them filled with advanced, recently produced Russian weapons, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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The issues arising from thousands of illegal immigrants pouring into Chicago from around the world have united many in the city’s black and Hispanic communities, who blame the government for the resultant social problems, including crime.

Local citizens say that their neighborhoods are less safe, their schools are overcrowded, already scarce jobs are now even harder to come by, and the distribution of municipal resources favors illegal immigrants.

“My beef is with the government, not with the migrants,” said Hector, a Hispanic pastor from Brighton Park on the city’s south side.

“There are a lot of injustices. We do not see equality. The migrants are given everything. The money is coming from our pockets.”

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How did college go from being a guaranteed ticket to the American dream to leaving graduates ghosted for minimum wage jobs?

I’m more interested in seeing an Amazon truck (or the FedEx guy) than any of my neighbors.

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Last November, University of Minnesota vice provost Harvey Charles traveled to Guangdong, China, to tour Sun Yat-sen University, the Chinese Communist Party-controlled college known for its top business school. It marked the first time a University of Minnesota delegation had visited the school since COVID, though Charles made clear that any geopolitical tensions stemming from the pandemic did not weaken his relationship with his Chinese counterparts.

“We were received warmly,” he said, “and their desire to continue collaborating with us was as enthusiastic, if not more so, than prior to the pandemic.”

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Canadian authorities are battling a surge in ISIS-related activity, with young recruits lured through social media platforms like TikTok fueling a resurgence of the terror group’s influence, Breitbart reported.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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n the ongoing battle against antibiotic-resistant “superbugs,” researchers have uncovered an unexpected vulnerability that could change how we fight these deadly infections – and it all comes down to a microscopic competition for resources.

The discovery comes at a crucial time. Current estimates paint a grim picture: drug-resistant infections already claim over one million lives annually, with deaths projected to nearly double to two million per year by 2050.

However, a team led by researchers at the University of California-San Diego may have found a new way to tackle this crisis without relying on traditional antibiotics. Their research, published in Science Advances, reveals that antibiotic-resistant bacteria have an inherent weakness – one that might explain why these seemingly unstoppable superbugs haven’t completely taken over.

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It’s yet another reminder of the dark days of pre-Musk Twitter when social media was completely dominated by blue-check Karens and a vast army of San Francisco-based moderators. In the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory which was helped in large part by Elon Musk, high profile celebrities along with washed up has-beens are announcing their great exodus from X.

Destination? Bluesky, a social media platform which is trying to recreate the progressive cancel culture hellscape of 2020 Twitter. It was created by former longtime Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who later left the organization. The company recently reported an increase of 3 million users since October, rising to 15 million total users in November. Compare this to X with its reported user base of over 600 million and it’s easy to see why the political left was so enraged by the sale of the company to Musk with his abhorrent free speech policies.

It’s also hard to see how Bluesky represents anything other than a sweaty bubble of cope.

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Reducing body weight to improve metabolic health and related comorbidities is a primary goal in treating obesity. However, maintaining weight loss is a considerable challenge, especially as the body seems to retain an obesogenic memory that defends against body weight changes. Overcoming this barrier for long-term treatment success is difficult because the molecular mechanisms underpinning this phenomenon remain largely unknown. Here, by using single-nucleus RNA sequencing, we show that both human and mouse adipose tissues retain cellular transcriptional changes after appreciable weight loss. Furthermore, we find persistent obesity-induced alterations in the epigenome of mouse adipocytes that negatively affect their function and response to metabolic stimuli. Mice carrying this obesogenic memory show accelerated rebound weight gain, and the epigenetic memory can explain future transcriptional deregulation in adipocytes in response to further high-fat diet feeding. In summary, our findings indicate the existence of an obesogenic memory, largely on the basis of stable epigenetic changes, in mouse adipocytes and probably other cell types. These changes seem to prime cells for pathological responses in an obesogenic environment, contributing to the problematic ‘yo-yo’ effect often seen with dieting. Targeting these changes in the future could improve long-term weight management and health outcomes.

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(1) There is such a thing.

Google Scholar, a tool used by researchers around the world, was founded by two researchers. We started Scholar in 2004, physically delivering hard drives to the office (see fact number 2), and two decades later adding new AI features (see fact number 6). To celebrate 20 years of Google Scholar, here are 20 fun facts about its origins, how you can use it and what’s new.

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House Republicans pressed Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, about bias at FEMA after a supervisor directed staff to avoid helping Florida residents with signs supporting Donald Trump.

A FEMA supervisor, Marn’i Washington, told workers in a message to “avoid homes advertising Trump” as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida, to identify residents who could qualify for federal aid after Hurricane Milton, The Daily Wire’s Leif Le Mahieu reported. The directive reportedly prevented FEMA from offering post-hurricane aid to at least 20 homes displaying Trump signs or flags in late October and November.

Criswell announced that FEMA had fired Washington and claimed Washington acted on her own initiative in giving these orders. Yet Washington claimed that her directions were not an isolated incident. Sources inside FEMA have spoken to The Daily Signal and other outlets, also saying that the direction for FEMA staff to avoid Trump supporters was not an isolated incident.

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“If you’re a biological man, you shouldn’t be in women’s restrooms.“

That’s just common sense—and common courtesy to women. Yet Rep. Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, is being crucified by Democrat House members for wanting women’s spaces to be for women only.

“This is not just bigotry, this is just plain bullying,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., whined to Axios. A co-chair of the House Equality Caucus, Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., told Axios, “The cruelty is the point.”

Mace announced her resolution Monday, a couple months before Tim McBride, who wishes to be known as Sarah McBride, is slated to begin his first House term. (McBride announced he had “transitioned” while a student at American University in the 2011-2012 school year.) Mace’s resolution would require lawmakers and staffers to use bathrooms matching their birth sex.

Asked by reporters if her resolution was related to McBride, Mace said, “Yes.”

Another Fiasco for Trump as His Pick to Run Pentagon Suddenly Implodes (The New Republic) Say rather ‘crushed by the Narrative’.

Defense pick Peter Hegseth paid accuser to protect his career, his lawyer confirms (NPR) Knowing that all it takes is an accusation (Proof? Ain’t nobody got time for that.) to be destroyed.

Trump team weighs Pentagon pick after sexual assault allegation surfaces (Washington Poop)

Pompous ‘60 Minutes’ Smear Proves Team Trump’s Point About Skipping CBS

Lawyer tells ABC News his 2 clients told House Ethics Committee that Gaetz paid them for sex (ABC News) We lawyers call this ‘hearsay’ and there’s a reason it’s not admissible as evidence in court.

Trump’s War With the Press Takes a Terrifying Turn (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)  Yeah. He’s winning.

Palestinian Authority Mouthpiece Says Trump Is ‘Full of Racism’ But Can Be Manipulated

Top House Democrat: Gabbard ‘a national security threat’ to US (Tara Suter/The Hill)

Cabinet Conniptions: TV Journalists MELT DOWN Over Trump’s Cabinet Picks

Berkeley Communists Call For “Righteous Anger & Revolutionary Determination” Against MAGA 

How to Stop President-Elect Trump’s Potentially Abusive Domestic Deployments of the Military (Scott R. Anderson/The UnPopulist)

Health care organization launches ‘Stop RFK War Room’ (Megan Messerly/Politico)

Election Deniers? Same Left-Wing Group That Tried to Kick Trump Off Ballot Now Demands Recount

ACLU sues to get clues on Trump’s mass deportation plans (Russell Contreras/Axios)

Scoop: Trump personally squeezes senators on Matt Gaetz (Axios)

Bolton: Gabbard as DNI Should Give Relief to Russia, China

Trump Reminds Everyone: He Wants US Soldiers in US Streets (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)

Top Democrat on Ethics panel says she wants to publish Gaetz report (Nicholas Wu/Politico)

Republicans Who Voted for Merrick Garland as AG Complain About Matt Gaetz, Trump’s Choice  

Biden locks in $6.6B for TSMC chip factories, ensuring Trump can’t rescind CHIPS Act deal (Phineas Hogan/Arizona Mirror)  Gotta save that ten percent for the Big Guy.

Court Filings Place Matt Gaetz at a Second Drug-Fueled Party in 2017 (Jose Pagliery/NOTUS)  More allegations presented as if they were proof.

Google Hosts Party for Democratic Operatives Plotting To ‘Resist the Republican Agenda’

Threats Of Violence Against Trump Voters Surge

Kash Patel would do ‘massive damage’ to FBI: Ex-agent (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)

Biden should order background checks of Trump’s Cabinet picks (Frank Figliuzzi/MSNBC)

The corruption of MAGA comedy (Alexander Karn/Salon)

The Trump administration’s next target: naturalized US citizens (Steven Lubet/The Hill)

Throwback: Trump 2.0 is boosting some old economic ideas (Politico)  Yeah, the ones that worked.

Recess appointments complicate Republican honeymoon (Washington Post)  What ‘honeymoon’? Republicans haven’t had a ‘honeymoon’ since Eisenhower.

Democrats Used to Praise Trump’s New Border Czar for His Effectiveness at Deporting Illegal Aliens

The narrowest of margins – How to think about Donald Trump’s narrow, narrow victory (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)  So narrow that he won the popular vote.

‘Morning Joe’ meeting with Trump was driven by fears of retribution from incoming administration, sources say (Brian Stelter/CNN)

Trump Confirms Plan to Use Military to Carry Out Mass Deportations (Arianna Coghill/Mother Jones)

Trump Confirms Plans to Use the Military to Assist in Mass Deportations (New York Times)  There’s an echo in here….

The Horror! ABC, CBS Scared of Trump’s Picks to Lead Energy Department, FCC

Sex abuse allegations against Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth only make Trump like them more (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  If you’re getting flak, that means you’re over the target.

Making cowardly Senate Republicans pay a political price (Jennifer Rubin/Washington Post)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

NY judge adjourns Trump hearing without explanation, delaying sentencing (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News)

Don’t let Matt Gaetz escape accountability – release the ethics report (Charlie Dent/MSNBC)

Fretting ‘Rule of Law’ With Trump Nominees, MSNBC Has Felon Embezzler As Guest

Gaetz, Gabbard and Hegseth are unqualified – Senate Republicans should reject them (Nick Akerman/The Hill)

Trump Defies the #MeToo Movement With Cabinet Picks Facing Accusations (Peter Baker/New York Times)  How dare he?

ACLU Sues ICE in Advance of Trump Deportations

N.Y. Prosecutors Oppose Dismissing Trump’s Conviction  Of course they do.

Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President (John Nichols/The Nation)  ELECTION DENIER! ELECTION DENIER!

ABC Joins Tattoo Smear Against Hegseth, NBC Mad He Wants to Punish Afghanistan Generals

Vice’s Hard-Right Turn to Trumpism (Nikita Mazurov/The Intercept)

A 2016 Replay? Trump Is Back in WH, and Guess What Google Is Up to Now

Trump Ally Claims Defamation by Lincoln Project

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The anti-Israel student group, Harvard Jews for Palestine, organized the protest against former Israel Defense Forces spokesman Ronen Manelis, who was speaking inside the Hillel. About a dozen agitators accused Israel of being a “terrorist state” and held banners with messages such as “Hillel Hosts War Criminals.”

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It was recently reported that corrupt Pentagon officials are “scrambling” to wipe all evidence of DEI before President-elect Donald Trump steps back into the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025.

Reported! That’s as good as proof to the Narrative Media.

Breitbart News wrote in its exclusive article that its sources stated that the Pentagon is in “absolute disarray” with “generals scrambling” because Trump plans to fire far-left senior military leaders who pushed DEI and other woke policies instead of taking care of combat readiness.

One source compared the organization’s situation to a hornet’s nest being kicked over, adding that “DEI pages are starting to disappear off the main websites.”

“They’re being archived as we speak. They are full-bore focused on cleaning up anything DEI-related,” the source stated.

Archived! DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE!

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Still smarting from the loss of its access to Washington as President-elect Donald Trump gears up to reenter the White House, the Left’s cancel culture enforcer has trained its sights on Not the Bee, the real-news partner of the Christian satire site The Babylon Bee.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left smear factory that gaslights its donors and engages in routine defamation against mainstream conservatives and Christians, targeted Not the Bee after Tesla Founder Elon Musk purchased Twitter in 2022. One of Musk’s first directives at Twitter was restoring The Babylon Bee’s speech on the platform, and it seems likely he bought the social media platform in part for this reason. Twitter had silenced the Bee for the crime of disagreeing with transgender orthodoxy, one of the key issues on which the SPLC will brook no dissent.

In fact, this connection may explain a secondary motive behind the SPLC’s attack.

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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police thwarted an Iranian plot to assassinate former Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler, a noted Jewish human-rights advocate who has strongly criticized the Middle Eastern nation’s regime.

The Globe and Mail, quoting an unnamed source Tuesday, reported that the RCMP informed Cotler on Oct. 26 that he was under the threat of assassination within 48 hours by agents of Iran.

Law enforcement knew about two suspects, but it is not known if they were arrested or if they left the country, the source said.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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The second weekend following the election that rocked the world had football players in the end zone doing the now-famous Trump Dance. The UFC event that put together the fabulous five of the MAGA/MAHA/DOGE team culminated with the winning fighter giving his prize belt to Trump himself.

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You know all these stories because there has been a sudden and remarkable shift in American politics. The pronouns are disappearing from bios, major influencers are hiding, pollsters are resigning, and a different ethos is obvious in every town center in America, even in blue states. It’s as if a curtain has been lifted or a big weight has been pulled off the chest of the body politic.

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Will Trump and his new cadre of appointees succeed in ending the wars, closing the border, slashing bureaucracy, and ridding our food/medicine of poison? Or will he get rolled by the Deep State again?

Revolver News founder Darren Beattie and Grayzone Editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal dove deep into Trump’s cabinet in last night’s debate, hosted by friend of ZeroHedge Adam Taggart (who was kind enough to fill in for Judge Napolitano due to a last minute issue — please subscribe to Taggart’s YouTube channel to thank him).

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At least 42 companies in the Fortune 100 pay for employees to travel for an abortion in states where it isn’t available, according to a new report from the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Forty-two companies is likely an undercount because coverage for abortion travel is becoming standard in many health care plans for procedures not available nearby, according to the EPPC report from Alexandra Desanctis and Nathaniel Blake.

Two other corporations suggest they also provide abortion travel coverage.

Most of the companies that publicly affirmed coverage for abortion-related travel don’t provide public information on their child-care benefits.

Obviously, paying for abortions is cheaper than paying for child-care.

Nomad Capitalist. “Go Where You’re Treated Best.”

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There aren’t any new models available under $20,000 in the for American car buyers anymore, but emerging auto markets like India have plenty of cheap cars to go around. One of these budget cars just proved that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to be safe.

But you’ll still never see it for sale in the U.S., thanks to government regulations.

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A useful rhetorical power move in any conversation about the future is to nod sagely and say, “Well, of course, Huxley’s vision was more accurate than Orwell’s”. Not only does this tell your companions that you have read at least one book which does not feature regularly on the GCSE English syllabus, but the “hedonist nihilism” (in Christopher Hitchen’s words) of Brave New World permits plenty of opportunities for sneering at the less sophisticated with their diet of fast food and reality television.

But books from the past do not need explicitly to aim to describe the future to tell us something about the present. History may not repeat, but it does rhyme. What was relevant in decades past may still be relevant today. And so, allow me to offer an uber-power move for future dinner parties, “Neither Orwell in 1984 nor Huxley were particularly accurate, but Animal Farm was pretty bang on.”

The American Mind.

Democratic candidates in 2016, attacks from legacy left-wing institutions on Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, among others, have had an effect—but not one those institutions intended. Tech CEOs, it turns out, are moving sharply to the Right. Musk openly campaigned for Donald Trump, and Zuckerberg is supposedly penitent for his submission to the Biden Administration’s demands during COVID. Venture capital, the engine behind the tech industry’s dynamism, is moving rightward as a whole as well.

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A Georgia appeals court on Monday canceled oral arguments that were scheduled for next month on the appeal of a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump and other defendants had asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to hold oral arguments in the case, and the court had set those arguments for Dec. 5. But in a one-line order with no further explanation, the appeals court said that hearing “is hereby canceled until further order of this Court.”

A Fulton County grand jury in August 2023 indicted Trump and 18 others, accusing them of participating in a sprawling scheme to illegally try to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Four defendants have pleaded guilty after reaching deals with prosecutors, but Trump and the others have pleaded not guilty.

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In other words, perfect little Democrats.

Thousands of American kids are being sent to camps run by a Chinese influence and intelligence agency that promote Chinese Communist Party propaganda and even train some children to act like “Little Overseas Chinese Police,” a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

The Chinese government advertises the “Root-Seeking Summer Camp In China” as an opportunity for ethnically Chinese children living in the U.S. and other countries to immerse themselves in the Chinese language and culture. However, a Daily Caller News Foundation review of Chinese government announcements and the program’s website discovered the camps are overseen by a Chinese influence and intelligence service.

The program not only exposes participants as young as 10 years old to CCP propaganda, but some even operate like boot camps run by officers from the People’s Liberation Army and the Ministry of Public Security, Chinese government social media posts reveal.

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My, what a surprise.

UPDATE: “SHALL NOT BE COUNTED”: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Orders Rogue Officials To Stop Counting Illegal Ballots

UPDATE: Pennsylvania Officials Openly Admit to Trying to Steal Senate Seat

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Two parents in Lacey, Washington, were arrested for allegedly attempting to kill their 17-year-old daughter after she refused to marry an older man in an arranged match, police said.

According to police, Ihsan Ali and his wife, Zahraa Ali, were charged with attempted murder for the attack, which took place outside Timberline High School, where the daughter, who was not identified, is enrolled.

In charging documents obtained by the New York Post, the daughter said that “her father had recently been threatening her with honor killing for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man in another county.”

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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UnHerd.

Today the cultural gap in America is not a function of geography but of education. A certain level of education — basically a bachelor’s degree — is now required to advance significantly in society. We may forget in our little university and urban cocoons but only a little more than a third of adult Americans have such a degree. When I looked up the percent of Manhattanites with a university degree, which I assumed to be a little less than 50%, I discovered that it has risen to nearly 70%. It is only 23% in the Bronx. I had no idea.

I’m surprised it’s that high in the Bronx. I’d have guessed 10%, maybe.

And the consequences of this gap are not just economic. University does not only provide training for entering lucrative professions, it also socialises students into new styles of living, as Tocqueville called it, that are vastly different from those of the less educated. Graduates come out of the university with different ideas about how to comport themselves in public and at work, what to eat, how to entertain themselves, how many children to have and how to raise them, how to manage money, and how to take care of their health. Even the typical bodies of our cultural classes are notably different today.

Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment (Peter Baker/New York Times)

Trump Team Is Seeking to Ease US Rules for Self-Driving Cars (Bloomberg)

NARRATIVE ALERT: Slotkin Decries ‘Politicization of the Military’ on ABC This Week

Dems Are Trying To Push Through Extreme Leftist Judicial Candidates Before January

Republicans suddenly think the economy’s great and the election wasn’t rigged (Politico)  No, they don’t.

Playbook: Heritage comes out of the bunker (Natalie Allison/Politico)

‘PICK ONE’: Regime Media Openly Scheme to Pressure Senate GOP on Trump Cabinet

Pompous PBS: Trump’s Cabinet Picks a ‘Rogues’ Gallery,’ Including Russia’s ‘Girlfriend’ Gabbard

13 things everyone should know about Pete Hegseth (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Trump’s immigration crackdown is expected to start on Day 1 (Politico)

Trump’s Impossible Task: Delivering for the Working Class and Billionaires (Joshua Green/Bloomberg)

Matt Gaetz feels the heat (Rachael Bade/Politico)

“Republican Caesar” – Legacy Media Meltdown Over Trump’s Triumphant UFC Appearance

The Verge Editor-In-Chief Nilay Patel breathes fire on Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s Big Tech enablers (Oliver Darcy/Status)

Trump confirms he will declare national emergency to carry out mass deportations (Ivana Saric/Axios)  Well, it is a national emergency.

Friendly with ‘Fascists’? Joe and Mika Meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago!

Gaetz pick raises fears that Trump will seek ‘retribution’ on political foes (Peter Stone/The Guardian)  Which, of course, has never happened before.

‘Epic battle’: Insiders warn Trump determined to win new Senate’s first ‘political crisis’ (Adam Nichols/Raw Story)

Trump Stands by Defense Pick Who Says Encounter With Woman Was Not Sexual Assault (Maggie Haberman/New York Times)

’60 Minutes’ Opening Prompts MAGA Meltdown (Ron Dicker/HuffPost)

Think You’ll Be Targeted by the Next Trump Administration? This Lawyer Has Some Advice. (Ian Ward/Politico)

MSNBC’s Maria Hinojosa Urges Biden to Pardon Illegals Before Trump Takes Office

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Views on Vaccination ‘Dangerous,’ Says His Ambassador Cousin (Noah Weiland/New York Times)

The NY Times Finds Scared New Yorkers After Trump Win: ‘People Raged or Wept Openly’  They did the same for Reagan.

Hilarious! Mourning Joe and Mika Kissed Trump’s Ring at Mar-a-Lago on Friday (David Strom/HotAir)

Hegseth In Extramarital Affair With Baby Mama 3 When Accused Of Rape (NewsHound Ellen/Crooks and Liars)

CNN Host Michael Smerconish: Nasty Anti-Trump Media Bias Had a ‘Boomerang Effect’

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said Monday that nearly 100 humanitarian aid trucks headed for Gaza were “violently looted” over the weekend.

Welcome to the Turd World. Be careful not to step in the diversity.

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The once and future president, Donald Trump, has already begun the gargantuan task of selecting staff for his incoming administration, but he should also keep an eye out for specific woke bureaucrats to fire as soon as he enters office on Jan. 20, 2025.

Trump didn’t just win the Electoral College on Nov. 5; he won the popular vote. He has a clear mandate to take charge of the federal government and root out the woke elites who pull the strings in Washington, D.C.

My research for my forthcoming book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” highlights four key bureaucrats to whom Trump will likely deliver his iconic line from “The Apprentice”: “YOU’RE FIRED!”

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California is where freedom goes to die. Its annual legislative orgies consist of politicians stealing billions of dollars for special interests and finding exotic new things to ban.

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A California health department poured millions of taxpayer dollars into anti-police groups over the last year for projects ranging from COVID-19 treatment to coaching teens on social justice activism, a Washington Free Beacon review of state grant spending found.

The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), which runs the Golden State’s Medicaid program for some 15 million residents, or a third of the population, doled out nearly $2.4 million to the anti-police groups. Recipients include the Anti Police-Terror Project, an Oakland-based police abolition group, and several organizations that joined its defund the police coalition, such as Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice.

DHCS, which has a $164 billion budget and a staff of nearly 4,700, promises “to use our state’s tax dollars as effectively as possible.” The grants, meanwhile, were awarded during the 2023-24 budget year, as California faced a $22.5 billion shortfall. A DHCS spokeswoman said the department wouldn’t be able to provide a response before “the middle of next week.”

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On November 16, 2023, just before 8:00 a.m., hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters formed a human chain across the San Francisco Bay Bridge, blocking all westbound traffic and trapping tens of thousands of vehicles in a five-mile backup.

Among those vehicles were three trucks associated with the University of California, San Francisco, health system. Each was transporting organs that were set to be transplanted later that day, and the couriers, who had budgeted just 30 minutes of travel time, had their arrival delayed by nearly four hours.

The holdup forced UCSF to postpone pressing operations and put organ recipients at greater risk. “Every minute of time on ice is hard for the organs,” Garrett Roll, a UCSF transplant surgeon, told the San Francisco Chronicle at the time, adding that organs function less well for patients the longer they remain in transit. Twenty-six demonstrators were ultimately charged, eight of them with felonies.

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A head election judge serving in a Minnesota township has been charged with two felony counts for allegedly letting 11 people vote without being registered.

Timothy Michael Scouton, 64, faces with one count of neglect of duty by an election official and one count of accepting the vote of an unregistered voter, KSTP reported.

According to a criminal complaint filed Friday, officials started to investigate after Hubbard County Auditor Kay Rave wasn’t able to find any completed voter registration forms among the ballots and other materials that were returned by Scouton, who had acted as head election judge in the Badoura Township precinct on election night.

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The red-area members of President-elect Donald Trump’s America are increasingly disenfranchised by being the governance of Democrat strangleholds their deep-blue states like California, Illinois, and Oregon.

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Depending on who you listen to, talk to, or follow, in its first full week, the Trump team is either playing an incredible game of 3D Chess, or is playing the equivalent of 52-Card Pickup with the nation.

Trump transition team compiling list of current and former U.S. military officers for possible courts-martial (NBC News)  A good idea, but it will never happen.

Trump’s early moves show he wants to disrupt government and exact retribution (Dan Balz/Washington Post)  And who could blame him? The proglodytes are just squealing because he’s using their own playbook against them.

Trump’s shock-and-awe approach to transition is both shocking and awful (David Smith/The Guardian)

Democrats Propose ‘Shadow Government’ To Oppose Trump’s Cabinet

FLASHBACK: Media Mocked & Belittled Trump’s 2016 Cabinet Picks, Too

How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world (Carole Cadwalladr/The Guardian)

Donald Trump Is Already Starting to Fail (David French/New York Times)

Secret Trump voters have post-election coming out party (Erica Pandey/Axios)

Haitian immigrants flee Springfield, Ohio, in droves after Trump election win (Stephen Starr/The Guardian)

DOJ and FBI officials reach out to lawyers as potential Trump revenge prosecutions loom (NBC News)

VP rejects: The Trump administration takes shape (Politico)

Enough – For the past decade, as Donald Trump has risen in political stature … (Roxane Gay/New York Times)

In Donald Trump, the morality of civil society has been abandoned (The Guardian)

Donald Trump’s Cabinet of Wonders (David Remnick/New Yorker)

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Donald Trump’s transition team is making a list of senior military officers who oversaw the disastrous 2021 withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, and considering the possibility of court-martialing them for their failings, according to two sources cited by NBC News.

“They’re taking it very seriously,” said a source who claims to have knowledge of the initiative. The most notorious incident of the chaotic withdrawal was the Aug. 26, 2021 suicide bombing at Abbey Gate, just outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Thirteen US service members and more than 170 Afghan civilians were killed. In the following days, a US airstrike intended to kill the leader of the Islamic State instead killed 10 innocents. The rapid collapse of the US-sponsored Afghanistan government allowed enormous quantities of US weapons to fall into the hands of the Taliban.

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Officials in Bucks County, Pennsylvania are openly disregarding a state Supreme Court ruling prohibiting them from counting provisional ballots missing a signature, as Democrats and Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) challenge Republican Senator-elect Dave McCormick’s election victory.

Bucks County Board of Commissioners Chair Robert J. Harvie Jr. (D) and Vice Chair Dianne Ellis-Marseglia (D) are plowing ahead with their count of the illegal ballots that are missing signatures in one of two places, which officials have referred to as “block two” and “block four.” The third commissioner, Republican Gene DiGirolamo was the lone dissenting voice.

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“I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country,” said Ellis-Marseglia in response to the illegal count, adding “People violate laws anytime they want. So, for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention. There’s nothing more important than counting votes.”

UPDATE: Bucks County: Diane Marseglia, Felon or Moron?

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A year ago this month, I was able to rid my left-wing college of liberal gender ideology. In January, President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Party have a historic opportunity to do the same for the entire nation.

Final victory against the woke mind virus is possible. I know, because I did it myself at just 19 years old.

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In the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, Portion 72, Verse 1, it says that if someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first. And this has always been the guiding philosophy of Israel’s armed forces and its intelligence community, particularly the Mossad, which has resorted to targeted assassinations to thwart what they perceive to be threats to the state of Israel.

Damned straight.