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https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/los-angeles-pacific-palisades-eaton-wildfires-01-08-25/index.html

This is terrible!! The rich people house broke down and people are saying so much bad thing just because they think the rich people are demons! This fire is the worst one EVER!

It's never a good look when you attack a defenseless, senile old coot

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5074436-claudia-sheinbaum-trump-mexican-america/

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dove into President-elect Trump’s chatter of geopolitical rearrangement Wednesday, proposing a name change for North America in response to Trump’s musings about the Gulf of Mexico.

In a wide-ranging press conference Tuesday, Trump expounded on his aspirations of U.S. territorial expansion to Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal, and proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.”

Sheinbaum, in her daily morning press conference Wednesday, said the body of water shared by Cuba, Mexico and the United States is internationally recognized as the Gulf of Mexico, adding that North America was historically marked on maps as Mexican America.

“I mean obviously ‘Gulf of Mexico,’ the name is recognized by the United Nations, an organism of the United Nations. But next, why don’t we call it ‘Mexican America’? It sounds nice, doesn’t it?” Sheinbaum said, waving to a historical map projected on a screen.

“Since 1607,” Sheinbaum added, in an apparent reference to the map. “the Constitution of Apatzingán was for Mexican America, so we’re going to call it ‘Mexican America,’ it sounds nice, doesn’t it? And Gulf of Mexico, well, since 1607 and it’s also recognized internationally.”

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Meta removes so-called fact checking from their platform because it was proven to be politically biased and abused to erode trust and silence dissenting opinions.
Meta will democratize fact checking by using a "community notes" style feature, and all of their DNC think tank fact checkers are now out of a job.
Sorry, fake checkers. It's tent life for you now.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/meta-axes-third-party-fact-checkers-in-time-for-second-trump-term/
Meta axes third-party fact-checkers in time for second Trump term
Zuckerberg says Meta will "work with President Trump" to fight censorship.

Instagram announced the changes in a blog post and a video message recorded by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

"Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more. A lot of this is clearly political," Zuckerberg said. He said the recent elections "feel like a cultural tipping point toward once again prioritizing speech."

"We're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes, similar to X, starting in the US," Zuckerberg said. "After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. But the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the US."

Meta says the soon-to-be-discontinued fact-checking program includes over 90 third-party organizations that evaluate posts in over 60 languages. The US-based fact-checkers are AFP USA, Check Your Fact, Factcheck.org, Lead Stories, PolitiFact, Science Feedback, Reuters Fact Check, TelevisaUnivision, The Dispatch, and USA Today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/us/virginia-babies-icu-nurse-charged.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/us/virginia-babies-icu-nurse-charged.html

A Virginia woman was charged with child abuse on Thursday over her connection to mysterious injuries that appeared on a newborn in a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital where she worked as a nurse, officials said.

The woman, Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, 26, of Chesterfield County, Va., was charged with malicious wounding and felony child abuse, according to court records and the Henrico County Police Division.

The arrest came after the police began investigating three babies who were discovered with “unexplained fractures” in the newborn care unit of Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond in late November and December, the hospital said in a statement on Friday. The hospital said it provided footage to the authorities to help in their investigation.

If found guilty, Ms. Strotman faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for the felony child neglect charge and 20 years for the malicious wounding charge, Shannon Taylor, the Henrico County’s commonwealth’s attorney, said in a statement.

Ms. Strotman is being held without bond in Henrico County Regional Jail West. Her lawyer did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Saturday.

The hospital, which in the statement described Ms. Strotman as a former employee, declined to say when Ms. Strotman began working there. She received her nursing license in May 2019, and her certification is active, according to the Virginia Department of Health Professions.

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Buying and supplying items including food and drink could cost businesses as much as a fifth more this year, which they will pass on to consumers, according to the international trade association, which represents 64,000 member organisations in procurement and supply chains across 150 countries.

International shipping costs have been rising in recent months as global freight companies faced a string of challenges in moving goods around the world.

Tensions in the Middle East and attacks on vessels travelling through the Red Sea by Houthi rebels prompted many major shipping firms to re-route their vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, adding cost and time to journeys.

The prospect of Trump following through on his threats to impose tariffs of 10% on global imports into the US, along with a higher 60% tariff on Chinese goods has already prompted some companies to bring forward container shipments of goods to avoid such changes.

However, pre-emptive measures such as stockpiling would only temporarily delay the impact of price rises, trade experts said, warning that any new levies could push up costs, disrupt trade flows, and spark retaliation against US exports.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/07/consumers-price-rises-trade-experts-warn

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The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism
https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/

The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are “abusing their position” by publishing content the group believes to be antisemitic, according to documents obtained by the Forward.

Employees of Heritage, the conservative think tank that produced the Project 2025 policy blueprint for the second Trump administration, said they plan to use facial recognition software and a database of hacked usernames and passwords in order to identify contributors to the online encyclopedia, who mostly work under pseudonyms. It’s not clear exactly what kind of antisemitism the Wikipedia effort, which has not been previously reported, is intended to address. But in recent months some Jewish groups have complained about a series of changes on the website relating to Israel, the war in Gaza and its repercussions.

In June, a panel of Wikipedia editors declared the Anti-Defamation League a “generally unreliable” source of information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, limiting when the organization can be cited in Wikipedia articles. And there was an outcry this fall among some Jewish scholars and pro-Israel activists over edits to Wikipedia’s entry for Zionism to add references to “colonization.”

Wikipedia has also recently drawn ire from right-wing figures including Elon Musk, the billionaire who has been by President-elect Trump’s side during much of the transition. Musk posted on X (formerly Twitter) in December: “Stop donating to Wokepedia.”

A Heritage Foundation spokesperson said she was not able to answer questions about the organization’s work related to Wikipedia, which editors it was seeking to identify or how it sought to “target” them. The Wikimedia Foundation, which provides the infrastructure for Wikipedia, declined to comment.

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https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c4gln8nlmz4o

Nigerian atheist wey dem just free afta serving more dan four years in prison for blasphemy, dey live for one safe house as im legal team dey fear say im life fit dey in danger.

Dem convict 40-year-old, Mubarak Bala for one court in di northern city of Kano afta, e plead guilty to 18 charges relating to one Facebook post wey cause gbas-gbos in 2020.

"Di concern about my safety dey always dey dia," e tell di BBC for exclusive interview as e dey chop im first meal as free man.

Nigeria na deeply religious society and pipo wey insult religion - weda Islam or Christianity – dey face discrimination.

Blasphemy na offence under Islamic law – Sharia - wey dey operate alongside secular law for 12 states in di north. Na also offence under Nigeria criminal law.

Bala, wey renounce Islam in 2014, say e get times during im imprisonment wey im feel say "e fit no come out alive".

E fear say guards or fellow inmates fit dey target am for di first prison e dey for Kano, mainly Muslim city.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/live/clyjmy7vl64t?

about time if you ask me personally

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The failed social experiment known as "progressive" has failed.
The progressive democrat wing has collapsed in America. The progressive wing of the Liberal Party has likewised caused it's collapse.
In 2025 North America will be under conservative stewardship and will see a return delivering it's residents from the chaos sewn by liberals back to the predictable, safe norm we had before progressives took over.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-pm-trudeau-announce-resignation-early-monday-globe-mail-reports-2025-01-06/
Canada PM Trudeau is likely to announce resignation

OTTAWA, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is increasingly likely to announce he intends to step down, though he has not made a final decision, a source familiar with Trudeau's thinking said on Sunday.
The source spoke to Reuters after the Globe and Mail reported that Trudeau was expected to announce as early as Monday that he would quit as leader of Canada's ruling Liberal Party after nine years in office.
The source requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Trudeau's departure would leave the party without a permanent head at a time when polls show the Liberals will badly lose to the official opposition Conservatives in an election that must be held by late October.
Sources told the Globe and Mail that they did not know definitely when Trudeau would announce his plans to leave but said they expect it would happen before a emergency meeting of Liberal legislators on Wednesday.
An increasing number of Liberal parliamentarians, alarmed by a series of gloomy polls, have publicly urged Trudeau to quit.
The prime minister's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular business hours.

It remains unclear whether Trudeau will leave immediately or stay on until a new Liberal leader is selected.

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https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/01/05/nyc-metro-north-rider-stabs-stranger-in-clash-over-loud-music-at-grand-central-terminal/
dems just put in congestion pricing in nyc because they want more American murdered on the shitty subway.
>Abdul Malik Little, 46 played loud shitty rap music on phone
>passenger told him to turn that gay shit off
>Abdul Malik Little, 46 stabbed the passenger who told him to turn his ass music off

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After the supreme Court has ruled affirmatively that racist policies are racist, even when racist against white people, McDonalds has decided to roll back many of its racist policies
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/06/business/mcdonalds-dei/index.html
McDonald’s is ending some of its DEI practices

McDonald’s is the latest US corporation — and among the largest — to back off some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, as a Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action and conservative backlash to those programs continues to lead businesses to reevaluate their diversity pledges.

The company in a statement Monday said it is sunsetting its specific diversity goals, including requiring its suppliers to commit to certain DEI targets. And it will stop participating in external surveys that measure corporate diversity.

McDonald’s is also changing the name of its diversity team to the Global Inclusion Team — a common practice for many other companies that have rolled back diversity pledges.

“This name change is more fitting for McDonald’s in light of our inclusion value and better aligns with this team’s work,” McDonald’s said in the statement.

But the company said it has not abandoned its mission to maintain a diverse workforce. Instead, McDonald said that it will continue to support practices that foster inclusion in the workplace and across its operations, and it will work with its suppliers and vendors to discuss diversity and inclusion practices.
The company said its new position was driven by a recent Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action and other corporations reevaluating their diversity initiatives. Online pressure, legal threats and customer opposition have led many companies, including Walmart, Ford, Harley-Davidson, John Deere and others to make changes to their DEI initiatives.

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After meeting with Trump, Zelensky puts his faith in trumps strength, and believes trump is strong enough to end the hostilities in Ukraine "quite quickly", but believes a longer term peace may require more than one day
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-trump-zelenskyy-a80e4d3498692218f40a42bc3718c7c9
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is “strong and unpredictable,” and those qualities can be a decisive factor in his policy approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

However, Zelenskyy said it won’t be possible to end the almost three years of war in one day, as Trump claimed during his election campaign that he could do.

“The ‘hot’ stage of the war can end quite quickly, if Trump is strong in his position,” Zelenskyy said in a Ukrainian television interview late Thursday, referring to fighting on the battlefield.

“I believe (Trump) is strong and unpredictable. I would very much like President Trump’s unpredictability to be directed primarily toward the Russian Federation,” Zelenskyy said.

Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, hasn’t publicly fleshed out his policy on Ukraine.

Zelenskyy is eager to guarantee that Washington’s support keeps coming, and he met with Trump in New York even before the U.S. presidential election in November.

Russia controls about one-fifth of Ukraine, and capitalized last year on weaknesses in Ukraine’s defenses to slowly advance in eastern areas despite high losses of troops and equipment. The war’s trajectory isn’t in Ukraine’s favor. The country is shorthanded on the front line and needs continued support from its Western partners.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-pm-trudeau-announce-resignation-early-monday-globe-mail-reports-2025-01-06/

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Chuddies btfo are literally exploding and crying.
Meet your next Medal of Freedom recipients: Hilary Clinton, George Soros, Liz Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, and George Romney
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/04/hillary-clinton-george-soros-and-denzel-washington-will-receive-the-highest-us-civilian-honor.html?&qsearchterm=Hillary%20Clinton,%20George%20Soros%20and%20Denzel%20Washington%20will%20receive%20the%20highest%20U.S.%20civilian%20honor
Hillary Clinton, George Soros and Denzel Washington will receive the highest U.S. civilian honor

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Democratic philanthropist George Soros and actor-director Denzel Washington will be awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor on Saturday in a White House ceremony.

President Joe Biden will bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 of the most famous names in politics, sports, entertainment, civil rights, LGBTQ+ advocacy and science.

The White House said the recipients have made “exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors.”

Four medals are to be awarded posthumously. They are going to Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act; former Attorney General and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy; George W. Romney, who served as both a Michigan governor and secretary of housing and urban development; and Ash Carter, a former secretary of defense.

Kennedy is father to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for health and human services secretary. Romney is the father of former Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, one of Trump’s strongest conservative critics.


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After it was announced Genocide Joe Biden would give Soros the country’s highest civilian award, MAGA figures such as Steve Bannon and Elon Musk torched the president for giving a jew like Soros the medsl. Musk stated that it was a disgrace, after G.O.A.T. Potus tRump had given the medal to such deserving jew recipients Rush Limbaugh, and Miriam Adelson.
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/nikki-haley-says-trump-inauguration-cant-come-soon-enough-after-watching-biden-give-george-soros-medal-of-freedom-slap-in-the-face/