Republicans lick him clean and congratulate him

https://newrepublic.com/post/190214/trump-defense-pick-hegseth-hearing-geography-question-asean

According to an eyewitness who photographed the start of the first fire in California, the Eaton fire in CA was likely caused by the state mismanaging their forest and their electrical utility companies. Southern California Edison has a monopoly as the only electrical provider in southern California.
This harks back to the 2018 Camp Fire when the state-sanctioned power company PG&E was found responsible for burning down an entire town of people
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/13/business/edison-power-company-lawsuit-eaton-fire/index.html
SoCal Edison blamed in a lawsuit for starting one of the Los Angeles fires

Southern California Edison, the electrical utility for Los Angeles, has been sued for its alleged role in starting one of the raging Los Angeles fires that have collectively killed at least 24 people and displaced tens of thousands.

Jeremy Gursey, whose house in the Altadena neighborhood was destroyed in the Eaton Fire, claimed in a lawsuit filed in LA County Superior Court Monday SCE was responsible for starting the fire – an allegation SCE has repeatedly denied. Local officials also said Monday they still have not determined the cause of the fires, although they are investigating an electrical transmission tower in Eaton Canyon as the possible origin site of the Eaton Fire, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Gursey cited as evidence photographs taken by Altadena residents Jennifer Errico and Marcus Errico, who at around 6:15 p.m. on January 7 captured a small blaze underneath transmission lines running through Eaton Canyon. The Erricos on Friday told CNN’s Anderson Cooper they had spotted the start of the Eaton fire.

“I saw a glow in the hillside right above our house, and as I got closer, I could see right across from us on the hillside in Eaton Canyon, there are a series of transformer towers with power lines stretching up into the mountains. And at the base of one, there was just a small ring of flames around the whole base.”

https://fortune.com/2025/01/13/steve-bannon-elon-musk-political-influence-personal-mission-trump/

President-elect Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon attacked Elon Musk and vowed to try and curb his influence over the incoming administration.
In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Bannon took aim at Musk’s views on the hotly debated H-1B immigration visa for highly skilled workers and the influence his companies exert over U.S politics. Bannon sprinkled in several personal barbs, alleging Musk had the “maturity of a little boy.”
“He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy,” Bannon said. “I made it my personal thing to take this guy down. Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”
The theme of the interview was Bannon’s displeasure over Musk’s proximity to Trump and his White House staff. Bannon said he wanted to limit Musk’s access to the White House in a second Trump administration, vowing to do so by Inauguration Day.
Bannon also questioned Musk’s presence in U.S. politics on the grounds that he was not born in the country. “He should go back to South Africa,” Bannon said. “Why do we have white South Africans, the most racist people on earth, making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States.”
Bannon and Musk did not respond to requests for comment. Musk has denied accusations of racism in the past, including as recently as last week. On Friday in replying to an X post about anti-white racism, Musk wrote that “racism of any kind is unacceptable, except when I do it..”

And he's not even president yet. Officials describing him as doing more for peace in the middle east in 1 day than Biden was able to accomplish over an entire year
Netanyahu describes it as "trump leaving him no choice"
https://legitgov.org/index.php/2025/01/14/trumps-mideast-envoy-forced-netanyahu-to-accept-a-gaza-plan-he-repeatedly-rejected/
Trump’s Mideast Envoy Forced Netanyahu to Accept a Gaza Plan He Repeatedly Rejected

Trump's Mideast Envoy Forced Netanyahu to Accept a Gaza Plan He Repeatedly Rejected By Chaim Levinson | 13 Jan 2025 | Israeli sources say that the involvement of the incoming U.S. administration, led by President-elect Trump's aggressive Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, revived hostage talks with Hamas. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's propaganda machine claims that Trump has left him no choice, what happens inside his coalition will determine whether the prime minister approves the deal

According to a Saturday, January 11 press release, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “held a discussion to assess the situation regarding the hostages and the missing with the defense minister, the heads of the security establishment, and with the American negotiators of both the incoming and outgoing administrations. At the conclusion of the discussion, the Prime Minister directed the Mossad Director, the Shin Bet Director, Maj.-Gen. (Res) Nitzan Alon, and his Foreign Policy Adviser, Dr. Ophir Falk, to depart for Doha in order to continue advancing a deal to release our hostages.”

The incoming administration was represented by President-elect was Steve Witkoff, who had just been appointed special envoy to the Middle East.

Two Arab officials told The Times of Israel that during the meeting, Witkoff pressed Netanyahu to agree to critical compromises needed for a deal. According to the officials, Trump’s envoy achieved more in one discussion to influence the prime minister than outgoing President Joe Biden had managed throughout the year.

9 January 2025

17 year old white American teenage boy Gavon Ramsay murdered and raped the corpse of 98 year old white woman Margaret Douglas.

https://eu.beaconjournal.com/story/news/crime/2018/11/02/teen-pleads-no-contest-in/9336890007/

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/family-worries-new-law-paves-a-road-out-of-prison-for-convicted-killer-of-98-year-old-woman

https://medina-gazette.com/news/255601/case-of-wadsworth-teen-convicted-of-murder-recounted-on-national-tv/

https://medium.com/@novjmohio/my-name-is-margaret-douglas-and-i-was-murdered-at-98-79087dcaeb01

https://eu.beaconjournal.com/story/news/crime/2018/11/02/teen-pleads-no-contest-in/9336890007/

https://www.oxygen.com/an-unexpected-killer/crime-news/margaret-douglas-murdered-by-gavon-ramsay-for-sexual-thrill

https://eu.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2021/03/18/new-show-details-murder-wadsworth-woman-hands-teen/4732854001/

Zuckerberg admits during a three hour interview that the Biden administration regularly tried to censor speech on Meta
Biden administration officials would call Meta's team and "scream at them and curse" at them demanding they remove memes and "humor and satire".
Zucker stated "the Biden administration also tried to censor anyone who is basically arguing against it."
Zuckerberg stated that if when they didn't comply with the Biden administration, they would launch "brutal investigations" against the platform. This is consistent with their policy of lawfare.
https://www.newsweek.com/mark-zuckerberg-unloads-biden-white-house-joe-rogan-interview-2013394
Mark Zuckerberg Unloads on Biden White House in Joe Rogan Interview

Mark Zuckerberg unloaded on President Joe Biden and his administration during a surprise appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast that was published Friday.

Zuckerberg attacked the White House over the way senior officials pressured Meta to moderate content on its social media networks, part of a scathing interview just 10 days before Biden is set to leave office.

Newsweek reached out to the White House via email for comment.

Zuckerberg also spent a chunk of the interview airing his grievances with President Biden and members of his administration, whom he claimed "would call up our team and scream at them and curse" over COVID-related posts they wanted Meta to take down.

He recalled running the company during the pandemic, saying that he gave deference to the government and public health authorities in the early days of the health crisis because he was "sympathetic" to concerns about misinformation.

"I deferred too much to the kind of critique of the media on what we should do."

Things reached a head during the Biden administration's vaccine rollout, according to the Meta chief, who said while he agreed that the vaccines had more positive than negatives, the Biden administration "also tried to censor anyone who is basically arguing against it."

https://nypost.com/2025/01/05/us-news/madman-accused-of-two-nyc-train-stabbings-is-busted-carrying-large-knife-sources/

A subway maniac with 87 prior arrests was just busted for two transit stabbings — carrying the “large knife’’ he allegedly used in the violence, police and sources said Sunday.

Jamar Banks — a 52-year-old with a long rap sheet and history of mental illness — was nabbed by the NYPD Warrant Squad around midnight at the 219th Street station in The Bronx and brought to the NYPD’s Transit Bureau District 2 in Manhattan, police sources said.

He was carrying what had been described by police as a “large knife,” which he allegedly used in last week’s attacks, sources said.

Banks was last busted in November — twice for petty theft — and released with summonses to later appear in court, sources said.

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

https://ground.news/article/a-9-year-old-came-to-arizona-to-get-a-trump-tattoo-heres-what-happened

With a little more than a week until his inauguration, Donald Trump and his team are trying to plan the executive orders that will fulfill his campaign promise of closing the U.S.–Mexico border and implementing mass deportation “on day one” — a task that comes with complications.

For months, Trump and his team have been looking for ways to bypass the traditional immigration legislative process to close the border and deport millions of undocumented immigrants. But as January 20 draws closer, it’s unclear if they can succeed.

Trump is reportedly considering invoking Title 42 — the public health order that allows authorities to block people from entering the United States to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

Re-instating Title 42 would effectively shut down the border by preventing migrants from certain countries from entering the U.S. — but it would also require Trump to identify a communicable disease that poses a threat to U.S. citizens.

Trump and his team of loyal anti-immigration advisers, such as Stephen Miller, used Title 42 during the Covid-19 pandemic to expel people from entering the U.S.

The team has spent the past few months trying to identify a disease that they can use, according to The New York Times. Should they fail to find one, they could make a broad claim about possible unfamiliar diseases, though it’s unclear if that would hold up in a court.

While time is running out to iron out the complications of immigration-related executive orders, Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, has reportedly begun trying to manage expectations with Republican members of Congress.

>https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-trying-seal-border-while-231857125.html