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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

🇷🇺 Russia warned of a nuclear response after Ukraine used US-made missiles. Ukraine reportedly used US-supplied ATACMS missiles to strike a Russian military facility in the Bryansk region, prompting Moscow to accuse the West of escalating the conflict. In response, Vladimir Putin signed an updated nuclear doctrine to include retaliation against aggression by non-nuclear states supported by nuclear powers.

🔪 A New York City homeless man went on a stabbing spree. Ramon Rivera, a 51-year-old homeless man with mental health issues and a criminal record, went on a two-hour stabbing spree, targeting individuals who were “alone” and “distracted.” Rivera murdered three people in total and now faces first-degree serial murder charges.

📩 An election official defied the PA Supreme Court to count illegal ballots. Diane Ellis-Marseglia, a Bucks County commissioner, voted to illegally count undated mail-in ballots in defiance of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling. Although Republican Dave McCormick had already won the Senate race, she defended her actions by claiming the violation was necessary to "get a court to pay attention.”

💻 Hack exposes sealed testimony against Matt Gaetz. ABC News first reported that a hacker accessed sealed documents containing allegations that Matt Gaetz had sex with a 17-year-old in 2017, including sworn statements, gate logs, and testimony from witnesses. When asked to comment, a Trump campaign spokesman said the allegations are “baseless” and that the “Biden Justice Department investigated Gaetz for years and cleared him of wrongdoing.”

WHAT WE’RE HEARING

• Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), after initially ducking a question on transgenderism, finally declared, “A man cannot become a woman.”

• Transgender-identifying Congressman Sarah McBride said the recent controversies are an attempt to “distract from the fact that [Republicans] have no real solutions” for Americans.

• Washington Post columnist Jenn Rubin claimed, “Republicans want to kill your kids.”

• Progressive commentator Cenk Uygur lambasted election forecaster Alan Richtman for getting the recent election wrong, calling him a “loser” to his face.

• JD Vance said he wants an “FBI director who will dismantle the deep state.”

IN THE LOOP

• Dr. Oz was selected to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

• Howard Lutnick was selected as the next commerce secretary, though he was vying for the treasury secretary position.

• CNN refers to these children's books as "conservative indoctrination" and part of a "right-wing children’s entertainment complex." Check out the Tuttle Twins for yourself.*

• Linda McMahon was selected as the next education secretary, though Trump says he is cutting the Education Department.

• House Democrats voted unanimously to re-elect House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

CORRECTION

In yesterday’s article, we stated that “other passengers on the train were defending Neely’s actions.” We meant to say that they were defending Penny’s actions in subduing Jordan Neely.

Corrections are included in newsletters for transparency.

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MIGRANT CRIME

Laken Riley’s alleged killer was given taxpayer-funded travel

The murder trial for Laken Riley’s alleged killer has begun, revealing new information that shows the true extent of the danger posed to Americans by the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policies.

Jose Ibarra — the man who allegedly murdered the 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student, is not only an illegal migrant, but is reported to have been a member of Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua gang, according to several sources within the Department of Homeland Security.

The Biden administration’s policies enabled Ibarra’s release into the US due to an apparent lack of bed space, despite ICE having 8,000 empty detention beds when he crossed the border illegally in 2022. Ibarra lived in taxpayer-funded housing at New York City’s lavish Roosevelt Hotel before requesting and receiving a free flight to Georgia.

This means that, just months before he allegedly murdered Riley, he was flown to Georgia on a “humanitarian flight” paid for by American taxpayers.

Prosecutors revealed damning evidence in court, including Ibarra’s DNA under Riley’s fingernails, proving she fought for her life, and his thumbprint on her phone, left during her desperate 911 call. Riley, who was jogging on the University of Georgia campus, resisted Ibarra’s sexual assault before he allegedly bludgeoned her to death with a rock.

While the media gnashes its teeth at the GOP’s victory in the 2024 elections, Riley’s murder highlighted the failed Biden-Harris policies that led to Trump’s sweeping win. The unprecedented wave of migrant crime was ultimately just one of the many tipping points for Americans to dump Democrats.

WASHINGTON

RFK Jr. has Big Pharma panicking

After President-elect Donald Trump selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the new Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), stocks in major drugmakers, otherwise known as Big Pharma, including Moderna and AstraZeneca, tumbled by as much as 8 percent…

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