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House Ethics report says Matt Gaetz paid for sex, including with an underage girl

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/23/matt-gaetz-ethics-report/

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The Mad King Zelensky, First of His Name and Ruler of Ashes rejected a Christmas ceasefire during an EU leaders summit he attended on Dec. 19. Half of his country is now without electricity due to his poor decisions.
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-inhumane-christmas-attack-ukraine-power-shortage-volodymyr-zelenskyy-energy-grid-drones/
Christmas attack on Ukraine leads to power shortages, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian president says Vladimir Putin “deliberately” chose Christmas Day to carry out the attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has condemned what he called an “inhumane” Christmas Day Russian drone strike.

“Every massive Russian strike requires time for preparation. It is never a spontaneous decision,” he said Wednesday.

The Ukrainian defense ministry said Russia launched 78 missiles and 106 drones, of which it shot down 113. Nonetheless, Zelensky said there were power “outages in several regions.”

“The targets are our energy infrastructure. They continue to fight for a blackout in Ukraine,” Zelenskyy added.

Ukrainian energy minister German Galushchenko said on Facebook that the transmission system operator took “the necessary consumption restriction measures to minimize the negative consequences for the energy system.”


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https://www.foxnews.com/us/hochul-slammed-saying-shes-made-subways-safer-same-day-woman-burned-alive-train

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/us/nyc-subway-fire-woman-death/index.html

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A study proved that most Americans think democrats are self righteous, fart-huffing weirdos. Even democrat voters think that.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/22/democrats-2024-election-problem-focus-group-00195806
New research shows the massive hole Dems are in
Even voters who previously backed Democrats cast the party as weak and overly focused on diversity and elites.

Democrats conducting post-mortems on their sweeping losses in 2024 are finding more reason for alarm. And the problem isn’t just Kamala Harris or Joe Biden.

In a trio of focus groups, even voters who previously backed Democrats cast the party as weak and overly focused on diversity and elites, according to research by the progressive group Navigator Research.

When asked to compare the Democratic Party to an animal, one participant compared the party to an ostrich because “they’ve got their heads in the sand and are absolutely committed to their own ideas, even when they’re failing.” Another likened them to koalas, who “are complacent and lazy about getting policy wins that we really need.” Democrats, another said, are “not a friend of the working class anymore.”

The focus group research, shared first with POLITICO, represents the latest troubling pulse check for a party still sorting through the wreckage of its November losses and looking for a path to rebuild. Without a clear party leader and with losses across nearly every demographic in November, Democrats are walking into a second Trump presidency without a unified strategy to improve their electoral prospects. And while some Democrats blame Biden, others blame inflation and still others blame “losing hold of culture,” the feedback from the focus groups found Democrats’ problems are even more widespread and potentially long-lasting than a single election cycle.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/missing-republican-congresswoman-kay-granger-81-found-living-in-dementia-care-retirement-community/news-story/e872f31ec83f45cd5b6da832534de07d

An elderly Texas member of Congress who has been seemingly missing from the Capitol for six months is now living in a retirement community that specialises in memory care — and even her family acknowledges she has exhibited possible signs of dementia.

Longtime Republican Representative Kay Granger, 81, has not cast a vote in Washington DC since July — despite the GOP’s super-slim majority in the chamber.

Questions about Ms Granger’s health caused massive uproar after The Dallas Express — which was founded by one of her political opponents — reported on Friday that she was living full-time in a memory care unit and was moved there after she was found wandering her neighbourhood.

Ms Granger did not run for re-election in November, but her disappearance is especially significant given the tiny majority Republicans hold in the House — and the massive votes that are taking place, including the government spending bill — in the waning days of her tenure.

However, her son told The Post that that claim was “a load of bulls**t” and that she moved into a condo in an independent living community because was getting bored and lonely in her Fort Worth apartment.

Three sources close to Ms Granger, including her son Brandon, her current spokesperson, and another source familiar have denied to The Post that she is living in the memory care unit. Her son was coy with The Post about whether she received care from that unit.

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https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/video-posted-x-shows-person-allegedly-spraying-bed-bug-flea-killer-spray-produce-food-valley-grocery-store/75-1ac0df37-9eee-4c4c-bc2f-77f7520e5488
unironically send him to what ever prison does the most rapes for 15 years and then give him the chair

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12/21 ................................................................................................ The world will never be the same after this day.

One of the most important buildings in Russia got attacked by an aerial strike orchestrated by the terrorist state of Ukraine.

https://www.terra.com.br/noticias/mundo/videos/videos-mostram-supostos-drones-ucranianos-atingindo-predio-residencial-na-russia,b581de681406d957b57870b51f9ad4efo3uujtw9.html

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14215027/case-family-tortured-masked-intruders-morales.html

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/third-spaces-and-gen-z_l_675ca0fee4b0a6324e3b58ad

Kayla Prowell, a 23-year-old from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, would really love a place to hang out, and ideally, not have to buy something to do so. Growing up in the South Suburb of Chicago, Prowell said it felt like there was no shortage of places to come together with friends. That was in part due to local politicians’ and community organizers’ efforts to keep kids off the streets.

“As I kid, I remember going to nature clubs, dance classes, knitting clubs, all after school,” she recalled. “I don’t know if it’s my increasing age or just a natural decline of shared spaces, but now it requires much more effort to find these kinds of spaces.”

“I’ve found myself making concerted efforts in adulthood to join clubs, go on Eventbrite, and more,” she told HuffPost. “I’m an avid QR code scanner when I see a poster for a community event, and I enjoy the YMCA.”

Online communities just don’t cut it anymore, Prowell said. She wants IRL.

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https://nypost.com/2024/12/20/us-news/luigi-mangione-stayed-at-same-nyc-prison-as-sean-diddy-combs/
Biden is going to pardon SBF for sending money to the dems and diddy because biden and obongo went to diddy parties.
At USP Florence ADMAX, McVeigh and Nichols were housed in what was known as "bomber's row". Ted Kaczynski, Luis Felipe, and Ramzi Yousef were also housed in this cell block. Yousef made frequent, unsuccessful attempts to convert McVeigh to Islam.[87]

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Scores of people were injured and at least two people, including a small child, were killed on Friday after a car ploughed into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in the eastern German town of Magdeburg, in what local officials are describing as a terror attack.

At least 68 other people were injured, including 15 who were left in a critical state, according to the city government.

In the attack, a black BMW drove straight into the crowd at the Christmas market, travelling at speed for 400 metres in the direction of the town hall, according to eyewitnesses cited by the broadcaster.

Videos posted on social media showed a dark-coloured car driving into the crowds at high speed. Several media outlets showed the videos in their coverage, but the authenticity of the footage has yet to be officially confirmed.

Emergency workers were seen treating victims on the ground at the market, surrounded by blood. Makeshift tents were erected at the site. Witnesses reported hearing cries and screams. The operator of a food stall on the market described the scenes as “reminiscent of a war”.

Source for the article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/20/death-and-injuries-in-germany-as-car-ploughs-into-crowd-at-christmas-market

Full video:
https://x.com/i/status/1870199670342897997

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https://www.ft.com/content/35f490c5-3abb-4ac9-8fa3-65e804dd158f
https://archive.md/qe2PJ
Donald Trump’s team has told European officials that the incoming US president will demand Nato member states increase defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP, but plans to continue supplying military aid to Ukraine.

The US president-elect’s closest foreign policy aides shared his intentions in discussions with senior European officials this month, according to people familiar with the talks, as he firms up his policies towards Europe and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
During his White House campaign, Trump vowed to cut off aid to Ukraine, force Kyiv into immediate peace talks, and leave Nato allies undefended if they failed to spend enough on defence — spooking European capitals.

But in a boost for allies deeply concerned over their ability to support and protect Ukraine without Washington’s backing, Trump now intends to maintain US military supplies to Kyiv after his inauguration, according to three other people briefed on the discussions with western officials.
At the same time Trump is to demand Nato more than double its 2 per cent spending target — which only 23 of the alliance’s 32 members currently meet — to 5 per cent, two people briefed on the conversations said.

One person said they understood that Trump would settle for 3.5 per cent, and that he was planning to explicitly link higher defence spending and the offer of more favourable trading terms with the US. “It’s clear that we are talking about 3 per cent or more for [Nato’s June summit in] The Hague summit,” said another European official briefed on Trump’s thinking.
Nato allies are already in discussions about increasing the target to 3 per cent at that meeting of leaders in June, but many capitals are concerned about the difficult fiscal decisions that would be required to do so.

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How the white house tricked Democrats into believing Biden was mentally fit for 4 years. Really, democrats just believe whatever their party tells them even if that means disbelieving what they see with their own eyes.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/biden-white-house-age-function-diminished-3906a839
How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge
Aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted. The administration denied Biden has declined.

During the 2020 presidential primary, Jill Biden campaigned so extensively across Iowa that she held events in more counties than her husband—a fact her press secretary at the time, Michael LaRosa, touted to a local reporter.
His superior in the Biden campaign quickly chided him. As the three rode in a minivan through the state’s cornfields, Anthony Bernal, then a deputy campaign manager and chief of staff to Jill Biden, pressed LaRosa to contact the reporter again and play down any comparison in campaign appearances between Joe Biden, then 77, and his wife, who is eight years his junior. Her energetic schedule only highlighted her husband’s more plodding pace, LaRosa recalls being told.
The message from Biden’s team was clear. “The more you talk her up, the more you make him look bad,” LaRosa said.
The small correction foreshadowed how Biden’s closest aides and advisers would manage the limitations of the oldest president in U.S. history during his four years in office.

To adapt the White House around the needs of a diminished leader, they told visitors to keep meetings focused. Interactions with senior Democratics and some cabinet members—including powerful secretaries such as Defense’s Lloyd Austin and Treasury’s Janet Yellen—were infrequent or grew less frequent. Some legislative leaders had a hard time getting the president’s at key moments, including the U.S.’s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan.

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It's not just an American thing. It happens to black people everywhere
https://nypost.com/2024/12/22/world-news/swedish-rapper-gaboro-shot-dead-in-parking-garage/
Swedish rapper Gaboro fatally shot in parking garage, disturbing footage reportedly shows

A Swedish hip-hop star has been reportedly shot dead in a car park with disturbing footage of the apparent killing emerging online.

According to the BBC, citing several Swedish newspapers, rapper Gaboro was gunned down in a parking garage on Friday night in the city of Norrkoping, southwest of the capital Stockholm.

In the disturbing video spreading across social media platforms, a person carrying a handgun and seemingly wearing a bodycam video could be seen firing multiple shots inside a parking garage, hitting a man as he attempted to run for his life.

The rapper was heard saying “I beg you” before he was shot multiple times.

The rapper – real name Ninos Khouri – was unable to get away from his shooter with police later confirming that a man in his 20s had been found injured at the scene and was later pronounced dead in hospital.

Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported that police would not confirm if the video was related to the shooting, but said it will be examined as part of their investigation.

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